skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the 50% "empty homes premium" excludes furnished properties, which means in practice almost all STR and 2nd-home properties escape it, so it doesn't really benefit councils like Cornwall that have a large proportion of such properties. The requirements are "unoccupied and unfurnished for 2 years or more" [1].

It seems more effective as an anti-blight law than anything else, encouraging people who have completely empty and unused property to sell it to someone who will do something with it. It's also supposed to target pure investment properties that people haven't even bothered to furnish, like those said to be owned by Russian oligarchs in London. Although I wonder if it will be effective there, since an investor can simply hire a company to throw some IKEA furniture in the apartment.

I'm not entirely sure if those were the goals, or if it started out life as a stronger proposal that ended up watered down. As is it's a bit confusing, since it seems to have a pretty narrow range of application that's easy to dodge.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/council-tax-empty...
Ask HN: If you had a free month to learn something new, what would it be?
I agree with you on all those fronts. All three should be free, without harassment.
Which email provider allow opening an account from a known tor exit node ?
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If you view human beings as perfectly rational machines then dress codes make no sense, but that's not what we are. Dressing formally puts you in a different frame of mind. It reminds you that your work is serious and that different standards apply to how you act and talk than in your casual personal life. If you dress to work the way you'd show up to a dive bar, then you're that much closer to behaving like you do at a dive bar.

Economist Tyler Cowen makes another good argument for formal dress: it is a vehicle for social mobility.[1] In a society that values formal dress, you can signal your intent to move up the social hierarchy by how you dress yourself. If you want to become an elite, then dress like one and people will take you seriously. But when the elites adopt casual dress in their professional lives, what is left are much more subtle and hard-to-adopt class signifiers: manners of speaking, interests, childhood experiences, travel, etc.

Yet another problem is that dressing "smart casual" is actually more difficult and expensive than wearing a suit. A suit is a great equalizer. A $2000 suit is not all that different than a $300 suit. And you can very easily get away with having only two or three suits. But smart casual is much more difficult, subtle, and expensive to pull off.[2]

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/wearing-casual-clothes-at-wor...

[2]http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/05/inf...
Nobody mentioned s-expressions, and there's more to lisp syntax than that. The s-expressions have to mean something, and it is at this level that usability is made or broken.

Scheme is beautiful, but it sacrifices usability for purity. Common Lisp, on the other hand, is usually held to be both "ugly" and "better for real work(tm)".

Here's a nice blog post that highlights the practicality issue with Scheme's design.

http://arcanesentiment.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/if-scheme-were...
So remote into your work system. Isn't that the solution to all the things listed above?
> worked
Ask HN: US laws affecting private user data?
You collect user data for the purpose of offering a service or selling products through a website. Depending on the nature of the business the range of info collected can span a wide range:

Name, email, driver's license, social security number, credit cards, bank account/s, address, phones, etc. In other words, personal and financial data.

A year later a user decides to close the account.

What laws do we have in the US regulating what information can be kept in a database, in what form and for how long after an account is closed?

Or perhaps, more generally, regulating a request from a user for the deletion of said information?
For Go:
https://tio.run/##S8//X5CYnJ2YnqqQm5iZx5WZW5BfVKKglJZbovQ/rT...

BTW Do we really need ~540 bits (~90 chars of base62) to identify permanent link?
>I don't know how people find the time for a drug addiction,

It's not a case of "finding time". It's a case of escape aka I need this to cope. With that mindset there is definitely time.

One of the reasons why I stay away from drugs...that's a rabbit hole I don't want to go down.
In many mountain towns (like the one I just relocated from), supply is more or less permanently fixed due to constraints on land and water.

Often they are bordered by Federally or state owned land, and have limited supplies of water due to the simple fact that they are on top of a mountain and there is only so much water in the natural aquifers.

Building taller buildings and using water more efficiently will only get you so far...
Do you know people who run it? Doesn't seem very popular. The prices are pretty expensive with their in my opinion bad limitations on their plans. Limiting by number of password seems lame. Their allowance of a lot of shared users might be good but I'm not completely sure what that means.

Not sure why anyone would use them over Lastpass or 1Password.
If it's too much for a content, how about a link to a source that articulates your point? I'm sure many people would appreciate more complete information.
Have you seen the rise in house prices around most of the western world over the last 30 years? In particular in cities and high demand places? Growth in supply is a fraction of the increase in demand.
In this case a "suit salary" would be lower than a non-suit salary, so I don't get it.
I don't see a ban on private communication being fundamentally more immoral.

In the US it would be, since one is Constitutionally protected and the other isn't. That doesn't mean we can let our guard down, of course.

And our First Amendment and Fourth Amendment are no help to the Australian people at all, sadly. They will have to stand up for themselves on this one, and I hope they do.
There is a shortage of water, though, unless you solve desalination and pumping it up the several miles of elevation...
then how would a relativist, as you describe it, justify the forms inherent in this vegetable.. i mean, what's the 'culture' of vegetables?
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I use 1PW since I'm already on it. It does involve copy pasting stuff over to it and my own organization of tags etc
Note that I made a different proposal above the quote.

I think SPAs are either fundamentally dishonest engineering, in the same way that a microwave wrapped in artificial wood veneer is (and a stainless steel microwave is not) or should result in such a template. If you really think that this is too much, IMO you should not make an SPA in the first place.
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Honest question: how old are you?

If you're even the slightest bit concerned with anything anyone is wearing, then you need to focus on something else.
Auditing, perhaps? If someone manages to enter on a stolen passport I'm sure they'd like to be able to go back and see what image was captured and why the system returned a false positive.
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http://www.dsprobotics.com/applications.html

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synt...

http://rawkes.com/articles/an-introduction-to-noflo-and-flow...

Please. Stop. Typing.

How much of your coding is spent on syntax, structure, and scope - jobs that the computer often does much better than you? What benefit is there in typing out the same loops and so on over and over and making people read your code in order to figure out what the structure should look like?

The reason people drew flowcharts by hand and then typed out programs was because the computers couldn't interpret complex diagrammatic programming in real time back in the 70s. This has changed, but people are still typing and think that color-coding and autocomplete are pretty snazzy features in a modern IDE.
When pushed into a corner and/or under huge pressure people make decisions that solve the short-term issue...but at a cost.
Lie! Now any would be culprits if you are actually targeted will go after the wrong thing.

I answered publicly because I don't put my few most important info into my password manager I have mentioned here (or do I?) - 2 main emails, FB, main bank accounts, main brokerages. Few most important SSH keys and pws. Anything else getting taken would suck, but I don't think too much harm can as long as the above are safe. Maybe I'm being myopic.
Classes taught me in one area. Student-organized study groups, living with classmates, taking part in on and off-campus programming competitions, and working on side projects with the people I met at school taught me in other areas. Both were part of "college", to me; I wouldn't have done all the campus-life stuff if I hadn't been there.

CS itself was always presented to me as the science that acts as a basis for the more practical engineering side of things. It was supposed to be the theory underlying the practice. That's what I paid for, and that's what I think I got (with the remainder of my experience being what I made of it). So, college could've been useless crap. For me, it wasn't.
Here you go: http://bfy.tw/CrF0
>The 'Aa$1' is to ensure satisfaction of stupid password rules on various websites.

"Your password is too long"
The majority of Idaho is, but Boise is not.

Source: I've lived in Boise all my life.
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Aw. Cute.

For a good sense of what's happening now, see this walk through Harajuku at 2160p.[1] At that resolution, all the clothing details are visible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQ4YDH3g80
Lastpass. Not super convinced their security is bullet proof, but meh close enough
In the example I gave the hashes don't fit on GPU's and for your hash table lookup you would need ~64GB of ram to do the hash table lookups. You can scale this across multiple machines but even the ideal case of 2 lookups to main memory * 100^14 is slow and thus expensive.
"Threatening an immediate ban" is not accurate. I led with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776923. The commenter responded with "I wanted to started this flamewar", which they subsequently edited to say "didn't wanted" (presumably this was a language misfire). Moderation replies can indeed look pretty bad when the comments to which they're replying have been edited to say the opposite of what they originally said!

When I showed up the thread was already full of angry arguments about Hezbollah and 9/11. Perhaps you haven't seen those comments? Some of them are probably flagged by now.
I scolded all the users who were doing this and ended up banning the worst couple of offenders, so there shouldn't be any question of favoritism here. And yes, obviously the original comment wasn't nearly as toxic as the ones that followed.

What you guys seem to be missing is that the comment that sparks a flamewar is responsible for what it sparked. It's not as if these dynamics aren't well understood and predictable. The provocation wasn't intentional (that's why I led with saying "I'm sure you meant well"), but it was negligent, and commenters here—all of us—need to learn not to do that. I've had to learn this myself, it took me a long time, and I haven't mastered it yet.

You guys are right about one thing, though: I haven't done a good job of explaining how I intervened in the thread, to judge by how much pushback my comments received. When that happens, I take it as a sign of something wrong in my approach. In this case the reason is that I was running out the door on my way to a workshop, and moderation in haste is never a good idea. Now I'm running back to the same event (late!) so my last half-dozen comments may not be much better, but I hope I've at least given more background explanation.
I understand why you don't want to go digging up information to link, especially if using a phone. In this case, I think sharing a little truth about LastPass may benefit our community.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/security/2017/0...
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In a free nation, demand can only be controlled through restriction on immigration and birth rates. For the USA that means demand is a national policy issue. It cannot be managed by cities or states. All cities and states can do is manage supply to meet demand.

But for addressing your concern this is good news: "before people either do or don't come up with a consensus on what society and growth should look like."

Unless there is a dramatic shift in policies to allow MASS immigration or everyone starts breeding like rabbits in the USA, we do not really have a problem here where our urban spaces will develop into unpleasent places. In fact it's actually the underinvestment in our urban spaces that precisely creates many of the issues people connect to cities.

Cities and states need to address the supply and infrastructure problem to allow people to live affordably, with a good standard of living, in the places that they want to live.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/security/2017/0...
Good to keep your boss on his or her toes too
Lucene is the standard. Companies have an upfront investment in it, and it would cost them more to change then to not change. If this is a business thing, you need to find the company that has thousands of Lucene instances and try to convince them that they will gain a measurable benefit.

How to convince people when you have invented something big?

You need hand them a peice of paper that says:
This [existing setup] costs you $5000/mo.
This [resindb] will cost you $200/mo.

If you can directly show a financial benefit to your buyer it becomes a no brainer for them. It's something many (especially SAAS) founders get wrong.
Watch I guess, Patek trumps Rolex and so on...
These kids can't see the forest for the trees.

All the software is getting slower and more incomprehensible, and they think it's getting better.

P.S: Voting on HN does nothing to change anyone's mind. If you don't reply, you're basically just saying "nuh uh!".
Is your recommendation of 1Password contingent on any particular set up (like only using a "local vault" and not their cloud solution)?
Wouldn't SpaceX most likely not be around, at least not close to where it is now, without NASA being such a big source of money?
Middle click? Or command-click on MacOS?
Haha we'll put!
Imo jinja2 and Mako are the best template systems for python - both have their own strongpoints.
I'm old enough to not care sometimes and to play the game sometimes and to know the difference

Tell a suit wearer that they should dress casual tomorrow and they'll say OK. Tell a geek they have to wear a suit tomorrow and they'll freak out. Now tell me who cares more about clothes?
Yes, all of those are reasons. None of those reasons apply if users wwant something understandable, maintainable and secure.

Separation of concerns is a thing that can help designers, no?
Just because /etc/passwd can be read doesn't mean there is no sandboxing - it's just not too restrictive, probably to allow many programming languages to run (bash is one of languages after all - so process execution has to be allowed). Just having access to /etc/passwd doesn't mean the service is hacked. Check other tools like this like ideone, they allow you to read /etc/passwd as well.

Try running `ps aux` for instance and notice that you can only notice runner's processes. Try writing a file in your home, and notice that it doesn't persist between runs. Run a process in background, it doesn't stay running. Essentially every change to the runner (account on which scripts are running) is undone after provided script is done running.
I think your first argument about sustainability has a key issue: An enormous proportion of Earth's current issues are historic in origin. The population explosion is a result of rapid development in SE Asia and Africa - developed societies hit steady state populations and actually shrink without immigration. Climate change is extremely real and dangerous, but ultimately historic. A society starting fresh from our current level of development, particularly one populated primarily by explorers on a foreign planet, will carefully find and account for externalities like damaging emissions. Automation-derived unemployment is the most historic crisis imaginable - the result is unalloyed paradise if you don't have a suddenly penniless underclass to account for or a societal structure obsessed with puritan work ethic.

Your argument about new resource growth is interesting, but misses A) the previously mentioned steady state populations of developed society disproves the 'population explosion' and B) the enormous efficiency gains we'll reap from expansion to new worlds.

For me at least, the drive to expand isn't Malthusian, it's roughly cultural. If you buy into Hirschman's Voice and Exit dichotomy[0], a frontier provides the ultimate exit to society's current structure. We're observing the effects of a voiceless society with no exit right now, and it's far from good. The last great round of expansion birthed all sorts of new societal structures, some of which ultimately out-competed those of the old world and now dominate this world.

Lastly, beyond the social/cultural effects of the frontier, this frontier in particular is going to be really, really good for our technological development. The absolute quantity of resources available to us will only grow as n^2, but specific resources will grow by unimaginable factors within that. Platinum group metals will plummet in price[1], orbital manufacturing will enable amazing new materials, and built-in-space orbital structures are too transformative to even try predicting [3].

It's possible (though I don't buy it) that Earth society is unsustainable and doomed. Whether that's true or not, I think it has little bearing on our ability to create a 10,000x smaller society off Earth (1mm humans to start), and I think such a parallel society off-Earth would be enormously helpful in making Earth sustainable. Both through the effects of a frontier, and simple technological advancement.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-space-mining-as...
[2]: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...
[3]: http://madeinspace.us/archinaut/
I still prefer making a proper cheese sauce: roux, add milk (béchamel), add cheese. Pour over boiled and drained macaroni, then bake.

I'll sometimes also long cook broccoli and diced garlic, mush that all up with a fork, then add it along with the cheese sauce to the noodles before baking. Years ago that was the only way to get my son to eat his broccoli. :-) (Aside, you can peel and dice the stems and cook them in too.)

However, I have a family recipe that's a bit different: boil and drain macaroni, mix in a container of cottage cheese and one or two eggs along with as much shredded cheddar as you like, then bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes.
Ehh. Every boss I've ever worked for after my initial out-of-college gig has known that I interview regularly, once every quarter at least; it was never anything personal or because of dissatisfaction, just "I like networking and I like seeing how the trends in the market are evolving". I usually didn't wear a suit to those, though, for the other reason: tech people get weird about well-dressed people and think they're "fakes" or whatever.
success? what does that even mean?
https://www.hg.org/ecommerce-law.html

https://www.state.gov/privacy/

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/identitytheft...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/anonymization...

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/empty-promises-privacy...
Oh god, no. I don't know if I'm missing something but pug has been single handedly the worst templating engine I've ever seen. Why would you want to write some cryptic template that somehow gets turned into HTML?
> if we can't figure out how to build a long-term sustainable society here on earth, there is no way we're going to be able to build a long-term sustainable society on the moon

I have to ask, what do you mean by sustainability here? Biological life has existed on earth for about 2 billion years, the human race for a million years and civilization for thousands of years. So in what sense is life on earth not sustainable, and what would have to change for you to consider it sustainable?

In the ultimate long run life anywhere isn't sustainable; the sun will eventually die and then the universe itself will experience heat death. So what's your cut off?
I'm floored. This is a very significant loss, not just for her family and friends but for the entire field of mathematics. The subject has been set back for years.
"Been an engineer for 25 years now, and so far I have not seen any fundamental changes in programming itself."

It's pretty surprising and to me a little disappointing how much programming has stayed the same. There is just much more tooling.
Just pay more than your competitors! I'll dress in a fucking clown suit if you pay me the right price.
Sustainability also equals controlling population growth. It means following Japan's lead into stabilizing population growth --even taking it into decline and into a sustainable population.
You realize that Google doesn't distribute OS binaries to OEM's, correct? So why are you using Windows as an example? Each OEM downloads the Android OS source, adds their modifications and builds their own OS. How is Google supposed to modify or update an OS not built by them?
I wish it had a satilite only mode though. Satalite data is updated /way/ more often (twice a month or so for many places.)
Hey dang, may we please have a black bar? Maryam was a massive contributor to mathematics, and we've already seen multiple threads hit the front page about her passing. It would seem she deserves the honor.
I rely on Hollywood for 2-hour doses of entertainment, not for facts or nuance or historical context from which the real world is best understood and discussed.
This is the first time I see this package description format.
The leading de-indented dots make me nervous.

That being said, I agree with the idea that things have changed a lot and tooling has become a lot better.
> This isn't really about money "floating to the top;"

I don't think anyone disputes that the vast majority of growth in the economy has gone mostly to the top 20%, how can that not affect the other 80%'s ability to purchase a home?

And at least in much of Canada, it is the price of the underlying land that is going up, if land gets zoned for a multistory skyscraper, the land value immediately adjusts to consume the majority of the "value" created from rezoning.

Millennials are having to spend an increasingly large percentage of their money on housing, a much higher percentage than prior generations, especially on a $/sqft basis (if you want a place where there are jobs). And this is on top of the massive student loans needed just to get any kind of job > minimum wage.

EDIT: Just finished that 2nd article, it is an absolutely brilliant overview of the hypocrisy of well to do "Liberals" that absolutely infuriates me. Thanks for the link.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
Are salaries in IB tech on that level today? I doubt even a senior quant hedge fund / HFT firm developer makes anywhere near the quoted $400k.
Yes, same here, FF 54.01 (64 bit) on Arch Linux.
What's up with the navigation? Horrific on mobile.