skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tokyo: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c....

Houston and Dallas: http://time.com/80005/why-texas-is-our-future/ or, somewhat less usefully, http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/31/why-is-aus....

The big problem is zoning: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/r... as it was implemented in the '70s: http://www.amazon.com/Zoning-Rules-Economics-Land-Regulation...

By the way, there is much heat in discussions about housing prices and urban development, but very little light and much misunderstanding. A good rule of thumb is simple: If you don't see any reliable sources being cited, there's a good chance that the assertions aren't true or don't encapsulate the most important parts of the supply-demand picture.
Smartphones shouldnt be trusted in such a scenario. Many journalists will use them anyway. In that scenario, Apple is probably better since they're not a surveillance company and it's harder to load malware.
Illuminating list of lessons learned:

1. typically incumbents cannot utilize new business opportunities although they have the best resources to do it,

2. as a startup, never make yourself dependent on the incumbent’s new businesses and/or their legacy IT,

3. if you want to bring new to the market, you need ways to bypass the incumbent companies in the industry,

4. find a new business model wherein although you would target also incumbents, something that can disrupt the model to buy and use your service,

5. customers that have less risk in their business don’t mean you have less risk in your business.
Prophet: forecasting at scale – Facebook Research
People looking after the Web PKI aren't interested in adding trust for such a root which doesn't deliver any new value to their ordinary users. The US Federal Government is about to try this too, and I predict they'll struggle to jump all the hurdles (this isn't the FPKI, that's separate). You can get an existing CA (or more than one if you're paranoid) to write you a name-constrained subCA certificate today instead.

This will cost a lot of money, but if they're pointlessly running a TLD then SAP is already burning money, presumably they can just fork a few million extra onto the bonfire.
Apple patented MagSafe and how it works, specifically. This doesn't preclude other magnetic breakaway cables if they don't work exactly the same way as MagSafe.
Early study suggests new opioid is non-addictive, works only where it hurts
For now yes. We are overdue for a magnetic field reversal so this would be a very helpful tool in our planets arsenal
Trilogy – the database testing framework
I think for most vegetarians it's the capacity for suffering as we know it from ourselves.

Of course plants have defense routines that harvesting might trigger, but only for stones I'm rather sure they don't care if I smash them or not and I can't eat those.

Everybody draws some line somewhere, for most this is not eating humans and hopefully not just to avoid prision or the danger of beeing eaten themselves. For some it's hunting themselfes so there is no unnecessary suffering, for others it's another compromise between comfort and ethics.

In any way I think most of these thoguht-through positions make sense and they all aim to reduce suffering, which I see as a very good thing.
And Linux too since Dec 2012.
Or, you know, given how wed conservatives have been to the Evangelicals, you tend not to vote for people that tell you you're a sinner and demonize your lifestyle. Homosexuals similarly vote more Left than Right.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742102
As a founder of a company I would gladly buy chromebooks for all employees if it would solve my security problems.
Sadly, I don't think today there's one solution that addresses everyone's needs, balancing dev requirements with security (and I don't think here will be one so soon):

1. We are a company that develops for iOS, so we have Apple computers and laptops... Nothing to be done about that.
2. We are on AWS, switching to Google Cloud is definitely not for everyone, definitely not just for this feature.
3. Even if we had not been developing for iOS, some developers really value working on a MacBook, and in a highly competitive recruiting market, that's a factor, and not an insignificant one.
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Where are you going?
> Yes, but you're implying "predictive" means 100% accurate.

No, I'm not. Or I didn't intend to, in fact I intended quite the opposite. I completely agree that "wrongness" is relative. "Wrongness" could be more accurately described as the amount of variance in a predictive model plus that model's divergence from reality.

My point was that all models and predictions are statistical/probabilistic, but not all have even the same order of magnitude of error. For shorthand, we pretend that models with very low variance/error are "exact" solutions, but in actual reality, they are not, they are just solutions that have a negligible error rate for the purpose at hand.

I am not implying anything like "well, psychology and physics both have probabilistic models, so they're equally valid". Their variance and error rate are very far apart. I agree physics is very predictive and has high accuracy but it is still probabilistic.
This is encouraging. Even if this particular drug doesn't work well, the concept of constructing pH-activated drugs that target inflamed tissue has potential.
EDIT: If this was crowd-funded (to help pay for the expert's time), I'd be happy to contribute.

The reputation of this page emphasizes (epitomizes?) a need the public has: An authoritative, accurate, comprehensive, usable security guide for non-technical end-users.

* Authoritative: There are too many pages, apps, and too much advice like the parent. Most end users - even most IT professionals, IMHO - have no good way to differentiate between good advice and bad. The solution is for one source of advice to become authoritative; i.e., it needs to be endorsed by people respected in the IT security industry and by names the public recognizes (e.g., the NY Times, ACLU, NRA, etc.). Its authority must stand out from the rest, and in a way the general public recognizes (endorsements on HN don't work), or it becomes just another voice among many.

* Accurate: Written by true IT security professionals who do real homework for it. Not IT pros or devs who read about security and have some sense of it. Not even by cryptographers who don't know the implementation side.

* Comprehensive: A one-stop shop. Otherwise, it loses authority and usefulness.

* Usable: Something non-technical end users can grasp and implement, as easily as possible. The harder it is, the fewer people will use it and the more people will misuse it (i.e., misunderstand it and make mistakes). 'Easily' also means affordably; telling everyone to buy iPhones may not be realistic.

Personally I wouldn't mind a guide for technical users, but that is a very secondary concern.
I had a similar story with the Spectrum; they had industrial action and wound up not shipping. My dad cancelled and bought a Commodore 64. I think I dodged a bullet there (although I'm sure the Spectrum would have been interesting).
Good advice but this is a little dubious "For other internal communication use Slack". Use slack because it is beautiful and free, not because of security
> By default the ribbon is hidden: http://i.imgur.com/5hxOIcb.png

You have to expand it and be faced with that hodgepodge of cluttered buttons to perform many functions. Even with it collapsed, it's still 4! toolbars (counting the buttons in the title bar and the ones in the bottom status bar) and a menu (?) style that is inconsistent with many other built-in Windows apps.
The delay in the click sound is so annoying.

Edit: only delayed in Safari.
Thanks for mentioning property tax, one issue that is sadly overlooked in practically every discussion. In Germany there's a small initiative of cities and citizens that aim to restructure property taxes to actually incentive productive use of land: http://www.grundsteuerreform.net/ (unfortunately only in German)

Basically it aims to remove all taxes on buildings and _only_ tax the property it's on, at a rate that is propertional to the value that society (the people living in the city around the property) and the city itself (through infrastructure) provide to the property.

The tax would then strongly encourage productive use of the land instead of speculating with it.
> APFS (not AFS) is the default in IOS

Well, it will be when that beta iOS is released.

Besides, it makes sense for any sort of file system to be released first in such a limited manner.
True, but those are functional systems. While we don't have a serious C# OS.
Good question, let me give it shot:

Gambling, you bet (might win or lose) on something very random (dice, roulette wheel).

Speculating, you bet (might win or lose) on something "economic", "business"-like.

Those two terms have a connotation of imprudence (at least for me): You might win, but that's because you're lucky, not because you're smart. And you might lose.

If you invest, you try to take luck out of it as much as possible, for example, by investing in something that you have a very deep understanding of, or investing (unleveraged) very broadly in the market.

It's basically a continuum, with investing on the lower return, lower variance, less luck, more prudent end of things, and speculation at the other end.
This was my first try: http://imgur.com/a/EQsm8

I guess I should not buy lottery tickets today
1) Apple has shown substantial backbone in fighting against the US government when pressed to exploit a phone.

2) The other choice is a device made by a Chinese or Korean company with a semi-open operating system made by a US company.

3) Either device will have a totally closed baseband chip.

4) Deploying and maintaining secure Linux environment on a Laptop is a full time job that requires expertise journalists don't have.

5) Open versus closed source is a red herring. Everyone is using pre-compiled binaries.
The conciseness is fascinating. One of the common criticisms of combinator style programming is the difficulty of making good error messages, or generally making small fixes in the pipeline that can't be expressed using the abstraction (i.e. the current compositional context). A concrete example I have is in Haskell when you develop pure code and you can't easily debug with a few print statements (more so since it's a lazy language).

I think this criticism definitely applies in the real world of ever-changing programs without a very clear scope. I assume your focus is more on the academic / "poetic" side of things, but nevertheless: How did such concerns influence the development of your compiler? How usable is the compiler from a dfns programmer's perspective?

And since APL is a very special beast: How transferrable is your style to writing a compiler for a more conventional language (for instance, procedural), especially ones with irregularities and such?

(I apologize if these questions are covered in the video. Haven't finished it yet)
Given that Apple spent a lot of money last year resisting USG efforts to decrypt their smartphones, it would seem they're an especially trustworthy steward.
And why european primary internet exchange point is here? Because this city is an international financial center https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798598 I've been there. Men and women in suits leaving work at 8 pm. Heartquaters of some big German banks etc. International buisness center.
That may have once been the case, but not anymore. Almost all companies have some sort of affirmative action hiring process that is rigged against white men. I see tons of job postings where women and minorities are "strongly urged to apply." That's kind of wording makes it sound like a white man would not be considered for the position.
That Lycoming paper is great, btw!
Why marketers shouldn't buy data
Why do programmers where headphones?
Blockchain to fight the corruption
Best idea I've seen in years on space solutions, specially at colonization. No marketing bullshit, just plain science. And it may be the first practical step on terraform a planet before we try to colonize it.

"While it might seem like something out of science fiction, it doesn't hurt to crunch the numbers!"

Now we need those numbers.
> I have a security review for a news room coming up, and I plan on sharing this blog post with them

Isn't there something more professional and accurate available? I fear there is not.
Yet another "multitasking monolithic kernel based x86 targeting operating system" isn't that useful. Something new would help. A fast microkernel. A hypervisor that runs containers. A kernel with better security for IoT.
> and talking through the problem aloud to someone can give you new ideas/solutions you hadn't even considered

I have found that you can also do this by talking out loud as if you were talking to someone. You won't get the other person's perspective but for some reason your brain becomes more critical of its own thoughts
My suggestion is to install Ubuntu or a derivative, and for development you should use VMs or containers to keep your system clean, if you use VM then you can move your dev setup to a different OS too.
Because you can copy paste commands from Arch wiki and install Arch does not mean you should do it or make you a experienced/advanced Linux user.
But the OP doesn't go around saying one branch of smart phones are the best of a bad bunch - he goes around saying that they are good. How does he know? Is he better as reverse engineering than everyone as the NSA put together? (And that's not even taking into account all the potential wrench attack targets at a large US company?)
I particularly found the "x has given up" quickly followed by "but Electron apps are making Windows better!" to be quite odd.
> I have to turn off gatekeeper to run unsigned apps.

Right-click on the unsigned app and select "Open". You only need to do this the first time you run the app.
Now imagine every race car driver on the Internet was saying "you should be driving a race car, your Nissan is just a toy".
I wouldn't hire a frontend-only guy instead of a qualified developer, for the same reason I wouldn't hire a guy who can only mount wall outlets instead of a qualified electrician. Everything he didn't care enough to learn is a risk.
And actually, at some level, it is. If ASM is the right level of abstraction for your core problem, using ASM to solve the problem is probably infinitely more simple than using Scala to implement ASM semantics.

But saying that you can easily edit ASM in Notepad is not what I am saying above. If you write your Scala code correctly, then with some Scala code, you can easily write it with Notepad as well.

However, as you continue to add complexity, ASM begins to be the wrong core abstraction, and begins to have usability issues that make it very difficult to edit in Notepad. How would you easily deal with refactoring in Notepad with ASM? Changing a single line Scala function declaration is probably a lot easier in Notepad than changing 10 - 20 lines of ASM enforcing a given calling convention with various elements. Thus, many people who write ASM make heavy use of macros to improve the usability of the syntax.

However, it is fundamentally easier to edit a single line of ASM than a single line of most of the Scala I've seen. But the ASM line isn't doing enough to make that editing efficiency pan out.

It's not a single absolute, it's an aesthetic and a design trade-off happening at multiple levels that has to balance a number of factors that are not easy to measure. However, the simplicity of editing is a secondary metric that can assist in this, the same that line count or token count can help us to understand the "complexity" of a code base.

To take a more specific example, as the distance between call sight and definition sight of a given name increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to use Notepad to make edits surrounding those two related points in the code, because Notepad is a poor tool for traveling far distances through code. Thus, notepad and other editors like it will generally encourage you to avoid putting your call sites and your definition sites so far apart from one another in the code base that you cannot get from one to the other easily.

In my case, the distance between call site and definition site in my core compiler is usually less than 10 lines, and more normally just a single line. There are a few that would be one click/page away.

So again, I'm not saying that you can determine code complexity solely from Notepad ease of editing, but that Notepad has a simplifying effect on the code base, and is an useful metric for evaluating complexity.

And as for your specific example, if you take a programming written in Scala, and a program written in ASM, that do the equivalent things, I think most people would find the Scala program easier to edit with Notepad than the ASM program, until the point where the ASM program is very small, at which point the ASM program would become the favorite, most likely.
This view really bothers me. The generally reported "unemployment" figure in the media does have the problems you mention. But the US Gov't through Bureau of Labor Statistics puts out all the numbers you say are being hidden. More numbers than a typical person has time to consume in it's entirety.

They're just not termed "unemployment", it's labor participation rate or sometimes U-7:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

or other flavors:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

Now I'd agree it is a terrible shame that political and business news media almost completely ignore any introspection in the labor stats of this area.
Isn't it Wear not Where? or do I miss some sort of joke/thing?
Fiat supply is infinite. Give the banker overlords your labour. Now.
Java – four reasons to use nudge4j
Sorry to hear about your divorce. And I know it's painful and you may not want to talk about it, but something stuck out at me, and if you'd like to elaborate I'd be very interested in hearing more:

> she resents having to continue on her career path and not being able to be a stay-t-home mom

If you're already covering the majority of the household income with the SaaS while your wife is in grad school... why does she have to continue grad school and her career path?
Germany has less Apple interest than the rest of Europe: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/germany
All these benchmarks seems to fail in the regards that whenever they spin up a VM, the performance will vary hugely depending on the host machine's hardware and capacity. If they want to do it right, they need to spin up atleast 100's of them by regions, at every single hour, and then maybe, just maybe, you can get some kind of an accurate measurement.
We've asked you before to stop posting ideological, inflammatory comments here. If you do it again we will ban you.
Your read is generally correct. When Vix started their explicit mission was to focus on analysis rather than reporting. They figure (correctly, it seems) that people don't really want new facts so much as they want to know if/how/why these facts matter.

Edit: word salad
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Why is @discardableResult used here?

https://github.com/ArtSabintsev/Guitar/blob/0dc71e9dea5ba975...
Something so refreshing about this unapologetically 1996 styled web site and vast amount of incredible content. This is a great find.
They shouldn't have access to card number and CVV either way because usually they are not PCI-DSS certified. Stripe handles that in an iframe (requirement of PCI). CVV cannot be stored at all even by Stripe.
Please don't go on about downvotes. It's off-topic and breaks the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795199 and marked it off-topic.
Politicians who want to gut the EPA aren't unaware of the effect that will have. They are just trying to stuff their wallets and they don't care about the effect. Sending them to Shanghai would not solve this problem.
If I would be able to downvote you, I would. My benchmark/review is about hourly billing providers where I am able to spin up a server within a minute, which is not the case for your company. You are simply one of the 10000 companies that offer regular Virtual Private Servers.
(Edited to explain about v509v3 name constraints)

That's not a TLS extension, it's two separate things you've linked

The first thing is a standard feature of X509v3, which doesn't help you at the root because although root keys are distributed in the form of x509v3 certificates for convenience, they aren't really treated as certificates, after all you're trusting them, if you can't trust the root then Game Over. We use these name constraints all the time, they often protect a corporate subCA.

The second thing is a proposal to Mozilla policy from 2015, ie, if it was implemented, this would be a change to the behaviour of Mozilla's TLS client, most specifically Firefox.

It isn't currently being discussed by m.d.s.policy, the group which decides Mozilla policy. If you care about Web PKI policy m.d.s.policy is basically the only place you can influence it, everybody else of any significance makes these decisions in private (e.g. Microsoft, Apple, Oracle) or takes their cue from m.d.s.policy (most Free Unices, more obscure browsers).
Loginwalled now, even bouncing via google from an incognito window.
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Based on the drawing that they made the size is at least 1-2 diameters of mars (but there is no field there?). Since the diameter of Mars is ~4000mi that would >10,000km at 5mT.

So with the mentioned 1-2 Tesla starting field, we end up and a cube law reducing the strength 200x at 6 times the distance, and a 1.5km moment. That would require at least 2-3km^2 of 1T magnets. Ignoring the support structure that would have a volume of ~10^10 cm^3 and weigh 100ktons, but only cost $100B on Earth at todays Samarium Cobalt pricing, if the market wasn't highly distorted.

Sounds more reasonable...
Which phone do you use that's too secure for the NSA to hack?
Confirmed. Just look at the account info.
I've seen this advice before, but people need a better option:

1) Chrome over Tor? I've read that they don't integrate well (but I know very little about it).

2) Chrome to a (secure) VPN? How does a typical end user find a secure VPN?

3) ?
not a joke, i think, just an example of the quality of medium articles.
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