skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't know what your point of comparison is, but my wife and I have been looking at buying or renting a bigger place (new baby) and all the stats I see when looking at places indicate purchase pricing going up at about double the rate of rental prices (often 5-7% YoY rent increase vs 10-15% YoY purchase price increases).

This has been the case for the last couple years at least. What do you attribute the discrepancy in rent increases vs purchase price increases if not for rent controls?

Do you know nobody living cheaply with an old contract that they would never get today, and that their landlord can't increase to market rate? Cause I know loads such people and this would not happen in a place without rent controls.
the possibility that gut microbial response ... might cause the differences

This will eventually be proven to be a significant factor, IMHO.
Funny, I perceive work in tech as having too much interaction! It definitely depends on your personality, but I have yet to encounter the magical "no interaction" software engineer job.

Just when you get in a good zone, there's some developer meeting or someone needs some information from you. Workdays spent lonely in front of the computer are rare and almost like vacation :-D

PS. I'm a woman, but I think this affects both genders, as it's more of a personality factor (my husband is the same).
In addition, how does it do on Germany's high-speed highways? They have a number of unlimited speed highways, great for high-performance BMW's and Audi's but probably not great for battery powered cars.
And then of course there is the fact that they basically built their profits on cheating the emissions systems of Europe and North America as an organized crime body

https://www.thelocal.de/20170721/german-car-giants-secretly-...

And used slave labor.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-car-maker-audi-reveals-n...

I think I'll stick to Tesla who probably won't have a perfect record across its history, but certainly is trending better than german automakers that lie, cheat and kill both in the past and currently.
I read this on my Lumia 925, which I continue to build apps for. I have a newer android phone for testing and building apps, but the wp is still my day to day phone. I think there will continue to be a niche market for wp, for the people that love it, and that see it as a superior UI.

IOS and android are the future, but WP is vinyl
Oddly enough some complexity also helps with adoption.

I one time, long long ago, put a many page html website in a torrent (I'm guessing 2007)

site name

-index.html

-other-files

--c.css

--j.js

--banana.html

--kiwi.html

Then I publish a new posting by making a new torrent.

site name

-index.html

-other-files

--c.css

--j.js

--banana.html

--kiwi.html

--pear.html

The fun hax of it was in that the new torrent has mostly the same files and mostly the same directory structure with the same name top folder. All torrent clients I tested wont complaint until you try overwrite something with something else. Javascript populated the index. The hypothetical user would simply add an rss feed to their client for site updates.

Some technically unsophisticated thought it was weird to browse html from their disk. A maybe-solution (that I've never implemented) was to have a domain redirect to the file path. I can think of a bunch of ways to do that.

Anyway, the point I wanted to make: It involved insufficient work to brag about and those who knew were not impressed by the obvious. I suppose any torrent client could implement it very easily but with lack of bragging and lack of awe it didn't amount to anything.

The only fun thing accomplished in the project was to de-paginate torrent websites so that they have a few thousand entries per page. (Replace the link to the torrent page with a magnet uri.) Then I made a search feature that would xhr load each page looking for the keywords. Like the dumbest search engine possible. It did work surprisingly well. The local file system is not impressed by multiple multi mb file requests. Javascript indexOf worked fine with very large strings at time time. I just chop out a sub string large enough to include the result and split that into an array on the "<tr>"
All I want to say is something off topic,but the only vacation I've had away fro m the kids and with my wife was a week in Budapest, and I miss it. Such a beautiful city, so romantic...and I rode the metro everywhere.

ahh Budapest.

:-)
I agree. Also, consistent, sub 1% innovation is very important, but people like to forget that and (over-)value the 10X or "disruptive" innovation everyone keeps talking about recently.
Oh yes, you are right on the usage of the screen. I only use spoken directions while driving and those work fine, but right now Carplay only allows audio apps.
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> Re: collecting data. They will never do it. The cannot because the law does not allow it.

Have you followed the news regarding German automakers and the law? As far as Germany is concerned, they are the law (as in OEM lobbyists literally writing the verbatim law texts that affect them).
The traditional car companies will catch up with them (Apple was 5 years ahead of the competition at the time of the iPhone too for example), but by then Tesla will have over 50% of the world's battery production, and guess what all electric cars need? Batteries, and lots of them, and they will need to be replaced every 7-10 years.

Tesla right now does pretty well as a car manufacturer and the Model 3 will probably do well too, but by 2025 when the established car companies (like the German ones) have caught up, unless Tesla innovated far beyond those, it'll be a marginal car company - but a huge battery and energy company, as well as a "fuel" company with their supercharger networks.
That is interesting. Yeah it can be a wise move to allow limited criticism, since (1) I think they realize some criticism can be beneficial to fix faults of the government, and (2) it helps provide the appearance that the people are in control of the government. There is also strategic ambiguity in not having to obey a "hard and fast law as to how they censor", since the government can censor in what it deems the most pragmatic manner.

"They know that 99% of their population will not be able to read it". But in my experience in China at summer programs in universities, I found that almost all university students (at least in Beijing & Shanghai) can read English. I suppose they will of course prefer to read Hànzì.
Ask HN: How do you find developer talks?
Is someone out there curating content for developer talks and/or marketing?

Subscribing to youtube channels can be cumbersome, and not everything is on YouTube. It'd be nice to browse all the good talks in one place. I'm thinking of building that place, but maybe I'm missing a piece of the internet and someone has already built that?
Well I'd say tips are common - but in the ballpark of 5%-10%, and also usually no hard feelings if you don't tip or just round to the nearest EUR.
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Frontend vs backend, basically. Why is there so much attention on JS framework of the month, and so little on the classic Java back-ends that fuel them all with data (for example)?
$10/day is $300/mo. Per line. A lot of people, especially people in China, can't afford that.
Tesla and Elon Musk are not the same entity.
Tesla is controlled by a board of directors unlike SpaceX it's a public company.
Elon Musk took the reign because he had the vision, if his ideals will eventually come to an impasse with Tesla's financial future he can be just as easily removed.
Tesla opening its patents and IP was more than just sharing it was a brilliant move to prevent a future patent war in the EV space that could put Tesla at risk by claims brought forth by the car behemoths, now it's much easier to claim previous work.
A single company cannot corner the market and its unrealistic for Tesla to have 50% or more of the EV market in the long term but if you think they are OK with just packing it up and going home as long as some one else picks up the tortch you really do not understand how companies work.
If anything it looks like Tesla wants to evolve into being a service provider in the automotive space, batteries, charging networks, auto-pilot tech and many other technical solutions on top of having a production line.
Heck I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla drops car production completely in 10 or so years if they can corner the battery manufacturing and automotive charging market.
If you're interested, the old way was to have an explicit -dbg package which often had to be requested, but now they can mostly autogenerated into -dbgsym packages. These are also uploaded to a separate archive these days too to keep the mirror sizes down.
> ...and have the option to borrow against or sell their shares if desperate for cash.

Do you want to fast track privatization of all public infrastructure for pennies on the dollar? Because that is how you get it.
Either way they'll win - make batteries at cost for their own cars, or sell batteries with profit for other manufacturer's electric cars. They also win in goodwill. And with the supercharger network, which I'm sure they'll open up (if they aren't already) to all electric cars. How much does a charge cost there?
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I reguarly drive rentals from all German premium brands. All their navigation is good, but the VW/Audi navigation system stands out. It has the cleanest interface and displays exactly the information you need.

Also, the VW/Audi system that offers route changes around traffic jams is the most transparent.

Years ago, I would navigate using my smartphone. Haven't been doing that though. The only thing I am missing is voice input for addresses.
This wasn't predominant in rural areas; it became necessary in cities/towns where sewage wasn't kept out of drinking water sources. If your water is unsafe, beer or ale becomes your standard beverage (except when the water is boiled, e.g. for tea or coffee).
I understand that it's good to have cover for this sort of thing.

I think the line is pretty grey though.

One analogy is telling a company that their front door is unlocked.

Another analogy is going into an unlocked front door, and going deeper into the building, and then reporting to the company that you could, in fact, get to classified information from this door.

IRL Pentesters get permission before trying to sneak into buildings, so there's some argument for it being the same for these sorts of things.

EDIT: I 100% think that users that are acting in good faith shouldn't be thrown in prison. This case is a pretty good example of this
We always used to go up to Torch Lake during summer when I was a kid. Collected a bunch of these. The easiest way to find them is to bring some water with you and go for a walk on a rocky road, and pour the water on likely rocks. The water makes the pattern much clearer and fewer people look for them on the roads.
You would be surprised how long lived some code is. I used to work on codebase that was started during 70s and currently working on codebase written around 1995 - 1998 and maintained until today.

There is wast amount of code used daily that is decades old, especially if those systems are not user facing.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Toyota Prius. Yet, German manufacturers have no competing product to offer: cars with electric components are those at the high end of the price list, totally overpriced. And when you ask the salespeople, they will tell you in all honesty to better NOT take that hybrid because of the questionably quality.
Cars like the Renault ZOE, Kia Niro, Hyundai Ioniq and a lot of other types show that you can make a hybrid/electric car at reasonable prices and good reliability. The German manufacturers seem to have nothing learned from it yet. This summer, the new fully-electric Smart comes out. Range: 120km. Who needs that shit? They say "most people don't drive more than that to work every day". What a bad excuse! They had that 5 years ago. Yet people love their Teslas because they don't have to think about charging every few kilometers. Buy a regular Golf: 17.000€. Buy a plugin-hybrid Golf (one of the very few German offerings): 35.000€. Clearly a sign they try to ride a dead horse. Invest now - live off the scaling effects tomorrow! Something that seems unthinkable in a traditional shareholder-value driven industry like the German car industry, that prides themselves to be at the forefront of technology, yet don't want to stop depending on 130 year old technology. Do you know what Mercedes began to offer in the year the Renault ZOE came out? They were proud on their brand new Mercedes G AMG65 with 12 cylinders. A 32 year old car that (almost) no one needs nowadays.

Look at the (German) Audi website. They have their G-Tron initiative. Looks quite impressive, next to their E-Tron stuff. G-Tron is CNG gas... they are just using the old engines further, branding them as "green" somehow.
> I don't know why computer people's category theory always looks so foreign to me. Sometimes I feel like we're in completely different worlds with vaguely similar-looking language.

Well, another way to think about it is that we are using the same language to talk about very different things. For example, in homological algebra you are always working in (at least) a pointed category. In computer science a lot of the things we are interested in are already reflected in the partial order induced by a category (i.e., subtyping). If your category has a zero object the latter is trivial and so we're pretty much never looking at pointed categories.
haskell's pretty cool, i guess. sometimes looks like an inscrutable APL descendant with all those wacky operators.
So many tools to do the same thing, huh? :) I'll look into this...
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Well, they are paying lip-service to electric cars now. I am, however, still rather sceptical: these companies have so much baggage, it remains to be seen if they're capable of such changes.

They are, for example, extremely enamoured with whatever tech someone who is now in power masterminded 20+ years ago when he came through the ranks. If every road everywhere were to move underground, they'd still install windshield wipers, if that was the CEO's specialty at some point. Just look at their obsession with Diesels, with got quite close to sinking VW, and may still spread to others (Mercedes seems to have done much the same).

But they'd be the best windshield wipers, ever. Obviously.

The move to electric means they can throw away around half their technology. Make that 70%+ if they're also self-driving. Just the difference in weight, and where the components are mounted, means you're redesigning everything.

I'd also fear that consumers will regard "electric car" as a separate, new category, where the formerly most-regarded manufacturers are suddenly the old guard. For Tesla, or tech companies like Apple, this could be a window where they can capture mindshare.

All that at a moment where they're financially hurting from the Diesel affair, with the next (a cartel) just being reported now. With their dominant position in bot the industry and the country, they've had a decade+ of growing complacent, creating somewhat-corrupt structures, and laughing at the competition that may be eating their lunch, soon. Meanwhile, the car is no longer the status symbol it once was. In their home market, young people no longer buy cars. A 2-digit % of them doesn't even bother with a driver's license anymore. When you do use a car, the brand isn't that important anymore–both because of the loss in status, but also because cheaper foreign brands have come a long way. (Except US cars, obviously. Those are still a tasteless abomination)

(I'm German, btw)
It takes some time to wrap your head around the blockchain, first you have to understand Bitcoin , then you will have no issues understanding Ethereum. But I tell you one thing, once you understand it, you will not stop thinking about it.

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I imagine Teslas perform well, I've seen a few on the autobahn, but battery life will be limited somewhat at very high speeds, which is why I imagine they limit the top speed of the Model S. Autopilot is all very well, but on two-lane autobahns, where the speed disparity between lanes can be very high (Lorries in one lane, overtaking in the other), one needs to be fairly vigilant.
No I do not know.
The problem seems to be that we've invested far too much federal money into projects that have to be maintained by local sources of funding. Big federal grants for development that will not produce enough tax revenue to offset the externalities and infrastructure costs that are required to maintain that development are just albatrosses around states and cities' necks.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborh...
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Yeah it's more about being willing to cannabalise their existing product lines in favour of EVs, and throw away decades of internal combustion engine (and the associated paraphernalia) know-how, in favour of something new. Pretty terrifying for an incumbent car maker.
Because you are a slave Neo ;-)
I'm a 20-something Australian who is possibly the only 20-something Australian I know who at one point had a chequebook.

The only time I've found cheques useful outside of paying for my rental bond (for which you need a bank cheque anyway) is when I've had to pay for something by posting in a form, and I don't feel like writing down all my credit card details on paper and having them stored rather insecurely.

The only other relatively common uses of cheques I hear of here are using bank cheques to exchange money when privately selling a car. Other than that, cheques are dead. As they should be.
Why would the randomness in unit tests affect the binary? RNGs are invoked when the tests are run, not when they're built, and anyway, test code shouldn't be part of the final binary.
Hungary, bad child of the EU? Oh, I know what you are getting at. No, they are actually the last sanest in the western hemisphere. A country should do what it's best for itself and not have some supposed authority tell it what to do!
Poland, bad child of the EU? Oh, I know what you are getting at. No, they are actually the last sanest in the western hemisphere. A country should do what it's best for itself and not have some supposed authority tell it what to do!
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I dream about blockchains. Yeah it's true, not only the technology is interesting but also the community and all the ecosystem behind cryptocurrencies.
As a non-American, it surprises me greatly that a restaurant that doesn't take credit cards would happily accept a cheque of all things.
Probably by stopping a lot and moving very slowly. Pedestrians and cyclists will soon have the upper hand by a huge margin once they figure out that autonomous cars will never run them over and they can herd those cars like a border collie with sheep.
Many animals do, especially clay compounds that absorb toxins.

Even parrots have been observed eating clay soils in the wild.
I remember a chap who enjoyed driving around the US for days. Then when on the Dutch road he was completely worn out after 2 hours explaining there was way to much going on for his taste.
this reminds me of a dark joke.

a rabbit was detained by the secret police. the interrogator asks him, "what are you?" the rabbit says, "rabbit"

They torture, beat, and electrocute him for days.

Then, the interrogator asks him, "who told you you're a rabbit?"
I use make to pre-compile markdown into HTML for a static website.
Maybe they could use some threatening instead of a proper report. Go to a public spot, open up a Tor browser, then report the vulnerability. Something like this:

"I have hacked your system, accessed <this information> and modified <that bit of data>, using <this procedure>. You have <this time> to send <this much> Bitcoins to <this wallet>, or I <copy or trash> your database. Thank you for your attention."

Maybe they will panic strongly enough to actually do something about the issue.
1780/2816 links being reachable is actually much higher than I'd expect over 12 years. I'm not sure if that's what I would have predicted from the outset.
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Exactly, but who's going to use a system that gives you the very true feeling that you could do its job much better?
> The average developer salary in Germany isn't that much different from the average in the US as a whole.

I think you'd be surprised. Can't find a good source now, but last time I checked US average is roughly double Germany & UK.

> The ridiculously low rates programmers get in the financial industry in London

The finance industry in London is one of the few markets outside US that are comparable with US in salary, particularly contractors - £800/day is not uncommon for finance devs.
Cards still don't mean your balance is up to date though - did your credit card payment get taken yet, are there any pending transactions? Okay, that's the balance, but what bills are still due to be taken by direct debit, and are there any standing orders?

Using a card isn't some magic solution for someone struggling to manage their personal finances.
We are a after-thought, something that is fired and forgot about. But to be fair, most Car-Makers have that ingrained into there production cycle (same in the US)
When you test for a vulnerability, many times you don't know whether it actually works unless you go "deep into the building".

In this situation, it would have been difficult to report the parameter tampering without verifying that it actually worked (there're systems that pass params back and forth without apparent use, but they throw an error when client and server states don't match) - and, most probably, the report would have been ignored without the verification.
And this is just the beginning.
But the common person cannot. Also you are looking at the best universities of the country in Beijing and Shanghai. And as you stated, they still will prefer to communicate in their own tongue.
For many consumers (including the USA), Coke has HFCS instead of sucrose.
> Volkswagen is investing heavily in batteries and reportedly working on its own factory.
> Batteries are a commodity once production is established.

I would like more info on what it takes to establish battery production for the output of millions of cars (especially in terms of resource availability and timescale for the big players). Pretty much all the articles I saw skip this point all together.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly when I read that part.

It's not news, companies go away because they make repeatedly bad changes, one after the other, thinking they're doing the best ones.

I think German automakers are simply too late for the Tech train. Don't get me wrong, they'll sell lots of cars in the near/far future, but they'll probably become a "commodities" type of industry, like Oil.
A very rare case (especially for Microsoft) of the "If it ain't broke" rule.
The blue shell is only annoying for try-hard ultra-competitive weenies, who really should be playing serious racing or even simulation games instead.

Mario Kart is a fun party game, not some ultimate test of skill.