skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/canadas-hous...

The following chart is drawn from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’s International House Price Database. It’s an index (100 = prices in 2005) of real, or inflation-adjusted house prices, and it drives home just how much more inflated Canadian house prices are than at the U.S. bubble’s peak. The chart also includes Japan and its mammoth housing bubble of the 1980s—which is more akin to what’s gone on in Canada.

> Housing is nowhere near that expensive. You can build a brand new mansion for less than that.

I doubt you can build any house, let alone a mansion, anywhere in Canada for that price. At least anywhere a person would want to live. From what I've read, permitting alone would cost that much in Vancouver before you even break ground.

> Canada is lagging behind the US in average home price. As shown above, the average US home price is $5,000 more.

I wonder if this is apples vs apples? Is "home" the same for both? Also, one has to consider earnings - affordability is what really matters (well, to local buyers anyways).

Housing in all of Canada has been in a massive bull market for 20 years with the only noteworthy correction being the short pause after the 2008 crisis. Based on local earnings, a house is going to be historically expensive anywhere, and batshit insane in some places.
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WaPo bases its argumentation on the Berkeley study.
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I doubt anybody would give 100k euros. What is more likely to happen is that they would want equity in some company, a seat at the non existent board table, some wild eyed exit plan 3 years down the line and if they don't get their 20% ROI within the first year they'll be staging a minority shareholder revolt and possibly a lawsuit due to mis-management.

For 100K I will gladly sidestep all those problems and self-finance.
Electric transportation is not just cars to get to work. If 8 billion people all rode bicycles 100% of the time, you still need oil to grow and transport the food. Without any oil, most of them would still perish. Oil gets more expensive over time without new technology.

You're trying to downscale the problem, but you do not eliminate it that way. Our population numbers are oil-supported no matter how we live. The moral imperative is to make them something more renewable-supported, before it is a crisis. Just because the crisis is many decades out does not make it less moral. We still need new technology, or else.
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I'm not going to even address whether drinking and swearing in the office should or shouldn't be allowed - it's irrelevant. Walmart basically decided that they wanted to buy Jet because Jet had capabilities and talent that they wanted in order to compete with companies like Amazon. It's a major failure on Walmart's part to either not discover, or not understand, that those capabilities and talent exist within a specific corporate culture. The fact that they think they can change it without impacting what they sought to acquire indicates a real lack of understanding of corporate culture.

You don't need to drink and swear in the office to do what Jet does, but Jet was built with that as part of its culture, and changing it is going to impact its workforce. Don't acquire a startup for the value of the startup-y things that it's done unless you're in it for the whole package. Otherwise, license what Jet does or become its customer/client in some other way.
> This reminds me of: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refut...

What an excellent essay. I especially liked:

> There are many “questions” that are pretty much settled – evolution, global warming, homeopathy. But taking these as representative closes your mind and gives you a skewed picture of academia. On many issues, academics are just as divided as anyone else, and their arguments can be just as acrimonious as anyone else’s. The arguments usually take the form of one side publishing a study, the other side ripping the study apart and publishing their own study which they say is better, and the first side ripping the second study apart and arguing that their study was better all along.
My take away has been that it is not clear beyond doubt that higher minimum wage is better in the long run. If both the studies had agreed that it is better, yes, it makes sense to enthusiastically adopt it. However if studies have results that dont match, then I think there is a reason for caution.

As far as what I understand, only Seattle adopted higher minimum wage, now many people with that minimum wage can get services (may be not directly, but in the supply chain) from other states which don't have the minimum wage which can give the impression that their life has improved. However, if the whole country adopts it, the parameters of that might be different.

I hope somebody sheds a light on wage dilution as well. If somebody was incentivized to learn a skill that pays them 20$ an hour, will that incentive still be there?
You can also make it up by decreasing your profit margin.

Which one happens will probably depend upon the competitiveness of the market in question.
Sigh, quoting from an earlier comment I made here: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648745)

It is true that if you assume your client app is not important that a CP system is the right choice. And I would also say this /was/ true up till about 2004 when Gmail was released. But it definitely stopped being true in 2007 when the iPhone was released and you started having installed apps.

Since then, users have slowly grown to expect both mobile apps and SPAs to work regardless of whether the servers work, regardless of load balances, regardless of connectivity.

If you look at the market trends, things are increasingly going in this direction. From self-driving cars, to IoT devices, to drone delivery, to even traditionally server-dependent productivity tools like gDocs and others - people need to get work done even if the internet to your server doesn't exist.

Will banking applications still need mostly server-dependent behavior? Yes. Is CP still important? Yes. But it is biased to say that CP systems are better. Choose the right tool for the right job. CP systems are definitely the right choice for a strongly consistent database, but they aren't the right choice for everything. My database is an AP system, but it should not be used for many apps out there. Neither of these are "better", they are just tradeoffs you have to decide upon.
That's a good point, industrial machinery is very expensive, smart industrial machinery is extremely expensive.
It was already too late for The Guardian's credibility when they reported that Mark Duggan was 'unarmed' before the 2011 riots.

Here's their apology: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/201...
I didn't find anything in the article that indicated that the decision was a "big mistake", just that some employees were annoyed. Did this affect their employee turnover? Productivity? Any objectively measurable effect at all?

I don't necessarily agree with the decision one way or the other, but this article seems like its pushing a narrative with very little evidence to support it either way.
True. It almost seems that science and research as a whole is increasingly just a channel for pushing an agenda. I don't think we've advanced much in that regard. Anyone can fund a study and twist it to support their agenda or just not publish it. Then the media gets ahold of it and cherry picks what they want and use questionable headlines.

In many cases it results in consumer confusion and serious health issues (sugar vs saturated fat war you noted).
I stand corrected. I was in fact thinking of the watt/hour price, not the install price.

At a price of 1 to 2 cents per kwh, that comes out to about 177 to 354 times cheaper than what I'm paying for electricity from my electric company.
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> CP systems can be made to be highly available in practice.

Yes don't, if you happen to have Google's level infrastructure. Complete with private fiber connection down to GPS synchronized clocks in your data centers. Otherwise sometimes you don't have a choice. Now I am not being sarcastic as I understand Google offers Spanner as an API in GCP so you could technically do that by paying for it.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/

Also in general it is important to keep in mind that keeping consistency in a large distributed system is fighting against the laws of physics. There is nothing wrong with fighting them, and it sure is fun to do but it takes effort and money. Often is possible you can architect your solution to work with eventually consistency. There are CRDTs and other things that can help there. Eventually consistent system have also been around for a while so it is not a totally new and uncharted territory.

The bottom line is consider the underlying assumptions. What is true for Google maybe not be and probably isn't true for your use case.
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Exactly. You could rewrite that for any cultural norm.

"I legitimately don't understand the odd obsession outside the US with banning guns. Do you arbitrarily categorize certain tools as 'bad,' then you ban such tools in a lot of everyday circumstances, and therefore such tools are made pointless."

It's even funnier, because in most countries hate speech is a criminal offense. The US has the least censoring of speech of any country I know of.
Ask HN: How do you deal with “Not happy, but maybe I'll regret giving it up”?
Based on this xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/1768/

(Original title, trimmed by the limit: How do you deal with a
"I'm not really happy here, but maybe this is the best I can expect and I'll regret giving it up." situation?)

What is your thought process when dealing with a supbar situation and calculating risks to change it? Whether being a dead end job, a tiring relationship or a wrong life choice previously made?

What steps you approach to know if you are making the most promising decision?
It's not even all that reliable, plenty of times it will vomit 5 to 10 parts in one go because they got clumped together somehow and when one falls the rest will too. I've tried to improve on this by using a slide towards the second belt and this works sometimes but not always. Still plenty of 'multipart' images.
I like Kraken myself. If you are interested in a lot of altcoins, try Poloniex, although they haven't got the best reputation.
> A group of enemy soldiers shutting down a hospital would be met with outrage and military backlash. A group of hackers shutting down fifty hospitals is met with jokes about outdated operating systems and derision towards IT directors.

The problem with this analogy is that, while an attack by a group of enemy soldiers is easily attributable to a specific nation, cyberattacks can be carried out by pretty much anyone; and it's not easy to say with confidence that a specific government organization orchestrated the attack.

I'd be more inclined to compare this to a terrorist attack at an airport carried out by someone who managed to get a homemade bomb past security by simply slipping by while no one was looking. Outrageous, sure, but not necessarily easy to attribute to a specific nation, and probably preventable had security measures not been wholly inadequate.
I think you're missing the point.

The authors of NumPy (and other scientific software) have made it possible for many, many people to do better, faster research, and their career trajectory ought to reflect that contribution.

Right now, it does not.

The NSF will certainly give you money to develop asymptotically faster matrix multiplication algorithms. They are much less interested in funding efforts that save an equal amount of researcher time by writing clearer documentation. Tenure committees would rather see 10 papers or 100 citations than a thousand pull requests, even if the last has a much bigger impact on the state of the entire field. If the authors of NumPy were totally rational, they would have written just enough code and documentation to publish something like "NumPy: A Python library for linear algebra" in the Journal of Statistical Software (or something), then moved on to something else entirely. All the work beyond that (assuming it's not supporting a future paper) comes at the expense of their academic careers. People certainly do it anyway--sometimes out of pride, or a sense of helpfulness--but they're certainly not rewarded for it.

They could be though. Funding agencies could give grants for the on-going development and maintenance of software that helps their grantees. Universities could consider contributions to the broader community as part of their hiring and promotion process, and so on.

The odd part is that this would probably be more cost-effective too. Even a $10M/5 year grant is just a drop in the bucket compared to what all NIH/NSF/etc grantees pay for Matlab or Prism licenses.
D-Edit was already around when I got to PARC in late 1983. The first thing I worked on was an Emacs in Interlisp-D.

I think ITS Emacs (written in TECO) had paren matching before the CADR Lisp machines (what you call Zmacs, but it was EINE originally).

The first Emacs written in Lisp was Multics Emacs (written by Bernie Greenberg) and it had paren matching when I used it but that was 81/82 timeframe.

What do you call paren matching by the way? Emacs always had structure navigation (c-m-F/B and c-m-U etc) in which case that support went back into the 1970s.

(BTW the first Emacs-like editor for the lispms was EINE (Eine Is Not Emacs); it was replaced by ZWEI (Zwei Was Eine Initially). Look at a German dictionary if that is not funny. IIRC Zmacs was a renaming by Symbolics as part of their efforts to move beyond the AI lab implementation (While LMI/TI continued to sync back to the AI lab sources).
By leaving earlier i meant the job as a whole, because on average people that tend to isolate themselves from the team are less invested in the vision of the product and the team, which is why founders usually do these crap events (which i hate too). Not saying this is the case for you, it's just what i've seen in the past.

I am definitely not extroverted, i get nervous before meetings and team building events and they drain a lot of my energy and concentration during the day. It's just when working remotely for years, sometimes i didn't talk to anyone for days and that can get unhealthy after some time. I also just enjoy discussing technical issues with coworkers.

Not saying you are doing it wrong, god forbid. In my early thirties now I definitely would not work 12-16hour days anymore as an employee without being a shareholder though.
This is likely why they have the, "please don't" shut down your site" line in the letter. A dodge to shift their original intent away from that kind of liability.
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I have no strong opinion about the alcohol rule. Personally, I don't drink at work (or work functions) as I have seen the deleterious effects of same. Feels like a liability issue as well.

I'm also super-supportive of a harassment policy that prohibits language that is used to harass, be it "profanity" or not. (case in point, many people don't consider the R word to be an official profanity, but I will object to its casual use every time, as it is pretty terrible).

All that said, I swear in general, because profanity is really interesting. I moderate my language around people who object to it, sure. But I also do things like use words that sound "dirty" but are not in fact official profanities, or perhaps are marginal. Referring to someone as a "turd hurler", for example, skirts the line. I find it an interesting challenge to develop insults that can be applied to a specific person without pulling in old racist / imperialistic / patriarchal (&c.) tropes.

Further, actual semiotic disruption is also fun. I've trained myself that the phrase "man cave", for example, is a profane reference to a portion of a gentleman's anatomy. "Let me show you my man cave" is a much more hilarious and interesting phrase these days. The creation and evolution of profanity as a socially-negotiated construct (especially those profane words that are titillatingly transgressive but not so inherently evil that they mark one for immediate ostracizing) is pretty amazing.

This is kind of related to my own walmart experience. As a teenager, I worked for a warehouse club (pace) which was bought out by sam's, the walmart of warehouse clubs. Suddenly I had to cover my earrings with a bandaid (as I was male with earrings, and such couldn't display such a terrible thing to the clients). I quit instead, but spent a lot of time thinking about dress codes since - they (and fashion in general) are another fascinating (and frankly under-appreciated by the tech crowd) channel by which meaning is negotiated. I may think a dress code is stupid, but the person who puts stock in it is instead thinking I think that person is stupid. Which isn't my intended meaning, but communication is a two-way street and only possible when both sides understand the shared context.

Anyway. It's possible to ban a list of words, but it is not feasible to ban profanity as such. It is a far better strategy to build a code of conduct that is predicated on respect and mutual support. Ban harassing and insulting behaviors, rather than certain words, and you'll show that you care about the central concept rather than the surface features.
You hear voices while you dream.

In my dreams, other people talk without me controlling what they say, so obviously they have their own internal voice independent of mine, yet they all live in my mind. (People I know tend to act like I'd expect them to act. They're the embodiement of my perception of them in real life, but autonomous.) I've always found that strange that people could live in my head during dreaming.

What's more, I sometimes dream of people doing creative things or creating stories. Yet those things obviously come from my own brain. I can't figure out how my brain does it. It's smarter than my conscious self.
Only stupid decisions.

Especially in hindsight.
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Consider them public domain, if you want high res versions to print then just drop the .small. from the image filename and you should be good to go.
And they probably had far less shielding than an earth based vehicle would need.
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Is this just an article based on the (already posted) vault7 trove of documents?

Because it seems to be a lightweight blog post based on an already old leak, without much analysis.
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> The larger and more global (and soon, interstellar)

Soon, interstellar? That's...optimistic, to say the least.
Haskell has a LLVM backend as well.
Mozilla people for some reason feel they can criticize their own company publicly.

That just isn't done elsewhere. You criticize internally and form a front to the outside. Meanwhile, Mozilla employees cry for their own CEO to be fired. That's just insane and wouldn't fly elsewhere.
You're saying that like it's a bad thing, but so long as each new study is honest criticism of the previous study or brings new information to the table, that sounds like exactly how big questions like this should be handled.
The problem is that 100k is nothing when building machines for professional/industrial use. Cost of material and various prototypes adds up quickly.
no. the mind, when at ease - when you truly do not try to think a particular thing - will do its own thing. just like when you're dreaming.

deep neural networks have no trouble producing random but coherent content, either.
Hopefully this will lead to less complacency, and an increased interest in and more funding for security. In the long run, hopefully infrastructure like this will become more hardened and less susceptible to such attacks.
There was a really good article in Medium about this.[0] Basically the Blue Apron model is too easy to duplicate. As more competition enters the space, the higher the costs for recruiting new customers, to the point where it's no longer profitable.

0. https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-f...
Nice to finally see support for non-blocking I/O.
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> I'm sickened by my "pro science" party

They aren't any more "pro-science" as any other party. For instance, it's notable how the science of biology has been excluded from women's and gender studies university programs for many years now.

Like any other political group they will use what they can to advance an agenda with whatever tools are out there. If they need science for one argument they'll use it while conveniently avoiding it for others. If you need "morality" for one you use it when convenient and avoid when not. It's all politics that do this unfortunatly.
Fantastic! Knowing a little bit about the law can really help you out in modern life (one could say unfortunately).
Except it's already like that. If we don't pay workers a living wage they have to use our social safety net programs, such as food stamps. Those programs are funded by the tax payer. So basically the tax payers are already subsidizing companies like Walmart so they don't have to pay a full living wage to their employees. If those companies paid them a full wage the taxpayers would pay less for social welfare programs. I'm also not that sympathetic to the plight of companies like McDonald's when it is earning in excess of $4B in profit in a year.

Obviously, what counts as a fair wage will depend on the local cost of living.
The results the commenter was referring to is the fact that prior studies found good results with minimum wage within the restaurant-worker class, and so did this new study. But the new study found that looking at a larger superset of these workers showed poor results for minimum wage.