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This isn't the right way to look at a home purchase. Seems like it was written by someone who hasn't bought a house.

Homes go up in value, so in the long-run you tend to make money or at least break even. A lot of this depends on how into "keeping up with the Jones" you are. If you remodel your house a lot, need the latest and greatest garage door opener and bathroom sinks... yeah, you're sinking money into the property that you won't ever recover through sales. BUT... that's OK! Because it means you have the house you always wanted, and y'know... we only go around once.

Buying vs. renting. Guess what, you're going to spend money putting a roof over your head. That's life. Does it cost more to buy or rent? Over 5 years? 10 years? 30 years? In the long run it's almost always better to buy. But short term, if you know you're only in a city for 5 years... maybe just rent. That's fine. No harm no foul, you're advancing your career... or just living. Don't fret it too much. If you're happy, you're happy.

What do you need? Do you need a house with lots of bedrooms for your kids / family? Do you need a year for your dogs? Do you need quick walking access to the coffee shop near the train station? There's no right answer, buying vs. renting... for people who move every 2-5 years, pretty much works out even. (Having done both I can say from experience that buying just ties up a lot of your savings and keeps you from being able to spend it.)

Anyway a house is not "years of life" -- it's something you live in for years of your life. You can buy as an investment... and you'll make money. You can trade up ever 2 years... and it's probably better to just rent. Roots are great as long as the local economy is doing well, but if it's not... hey, you've gotta move to keep ahead. Plenty of ways to get ahead in life, a house can be one, or moving city to city as a consultant is one. There's no wrong answer.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ripple/usd

The Ripples are worth more now. A lot more.
Usually beer is along the back-wall of every single US 7-11 I've entered. Cigarettes are behind the counter, by law.
The binary kernel in the ISO seems to certainly be a derivative work of Linux, but only the copyright owners whose code is included in that binary kernel would have standing to sue about this. That means parties like Linus Torvalds, Intel, LSI, and many other companies and individuals. And clearly so far those copyright holders haven't seen fit to sue about it.

It seems fair to anticipate no law suits since as far as I'm aware kernel developers have never filed a law suit against companies committing really blatant infringement. Most of the action there seemed to come from the BusyBox project.
I wrote my own lightweight framework -
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One thing the article doesn't mention is the use of obscure words in dish descriptions.

Am I more or less likely to order something that contains endive, or is a ponzu? I don't know what either or those things are, so I'd have to whip out wikipedia to find out. Based on your leanings you're either way more, or way less likely to order something that you've never heard of before.

In my case it's more, though the internet tells me that endive is licorice-flavored cabbage which sounds disgusting so...
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"Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
I've moved from environmental biology to biomedical biology in my career. Certainly biomedical types don't care much about classification. But that's because they traditionally only deal with humans, rats, monkeys and mice. But classification really matters once you get beyond that. Hell, biomedical science is having a crash course in classification due to the current interest in the microbiome. It really matters if a bacterium is a Firmicute or a Bacteroidetes.
"a mote in god's eye", one of his many collaborations with larry niven, is excellent.

"oath of fealty" is another good one that should appeal to the hackernews crowd.
> particularly of those small, fast elusive ones you barely glimpse

How is taxonomy going to help you if you don't get enough identification time and don't have enough herpetology to identify the snake's species and genus in the first place? The vast majority of people don't use taxonomic terms: "Doctor, can you help me? I have a canis familiaris bite..."
Not a single Mr. Robot reference here? I'm disappointed.
Chaos Manor.
S100 Bus.
Wordstar.
Parallel port.
Reviews of stuff he used every day when writing sci-fi. (The Mote in God's Eye).
Dictators need collaborators too, as far as I know. I can't imagine anyone single-handedly taking control of a country's government and operating it without help.
Well, I have already put some extra work in making jupyter notebooks look good when exported as html (for example - http://abhirag.in/articles/train_of_thought_1.html). I am planning to use Idyll for d3 plots and such, but thanks for the idea, exporting to markdown and then using Idyll was something I hadn't thought about.
I grew up on his sci-fi books. The Mote in God's Eye, to me, is the best science fiction I've ever read.

Lucifer's Hammer was way up there and hit close to home (being in California and all).
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Nice project, good work!

What is Barter? Why is it not described on the site?

It would be useful to list the number of users each project has.

It would be useful if you (eventually) split the list by price.

I don't have any money but I'd be interested to look at the new offers up to 1000 usd others might limit their interest to things over 100 k.

I will probably forget to visit your site. You should have a box where one can get an email with new projects from X to Y usd.

And an rss feed or json api that can be configured similarly.

http://borderline.biz/rss/0-1000

http://borderline.biz/json/10000-100000
etc

Have endless auctions, take 1% deposits for bids, let the thing run until the developer accepts a bid.

Have a widget with the highest bid for the project for the developer to embed in his project, linked to bl.

Give each project its own page/permalink on the website.

Good luck
The Shannon-Hartley theorem is your friend. The theoretical maximum data rate of a channel is the product of bandwidth and SNR. With a sufficiently low data rate and/or a sufficiently wide bandwidth, we can effectively communicate at well below the noise floor.

There are many propagation modes to choose from. HF frequencies (~3MHz to ~30MHz) will propagate via the skywave mode, bouncing off charged layers in the ionosphere. By using codings with extremely low data rates (JT65, QRSS), amateurs routinely make contacts over thousands of miles on a fraction of a watt. Unfortunately, this mode relies on sunspot activity and we're currently at a minimum in the solar cycle. Frequencies below 3MHz will diffract around obstacles and follow the curvature of earth; unfortunately an efficient antenna at these wavelengths is enormously long, so a small system would have absolutely vast antenna losses. NVIS propatation is usable between about 3 and 8MHz, although you're limited to about 600km in a single hop. Multi-hop propagation is possible, although the path loss increases exponentially. Satellite is the other obvious propagation mode and is surprisingly accessible to amateurs.

Solutions to the Shannon-Hartley equation that involve very wide bandwidths are sadly underexplored by the amateur community, because of an FCC requirement to use the narrowest possible bandwidth and the relatively meagre frequency allocations available to amateur operators. The extraordinarily wide bandwidth of a modern direct-conversion transceiver offers some tantalising possibilities.
It's illegal in France: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/french-shocked-...

and I'd guess more places in Europe also.
I didn't see any remote openings on the site- should this be listed as remote?
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Nice notebook more railways around the world should be using notebooks.
Shitier may be orthogonal to denser.

But to your point, if denser is so much better, will increased density lead to lower prices, or just create more demand and keep prices the same?
The author really took the phrase "it takes 2 data points to create a trend" to heart there.

I'm also not a fan of the map on that page. They visually overweigh the closing bootcamps against open ones, when really there were 2 companies that closed many locations.
Neither do all of my friends. All that's required is having parents that want to help you get a house.

For instance my girlfriend makes twice the money her parents ever did. She still couldn't have afforded the full down payment on her house without a 4% loan from her mother as they were entering retirement. This arrangement ends up being beneficial to all parties.
True with those examples. I live 20 minutes out of Seattle. I have hundreds of restaurants, every movie in theaters, hundreds of dance clubs/bars/social clubs within a 20 minute drive.

I can't get a well-paying job, or access to any of the above without being close to the city.
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As joeriel pointed out, MFA stands for "Made For AdSense".

To elaborate just a bit, these are web sites whose sole purpose for existing is to display ads. Instead of the "traditional route" where site owners decide to show ads on their existing sites to generate a few bucks of revenue, somebody sat down and started coming up with a list of ideas or topics for web sites to create just to display ads. Think "we need some ads on the site" versus "we need some content to wrap around the ads".

If you've ever gotten a phone call from an unknown number and typed it into Google in an attempt to find out who was calling, well, you almost certainly found several examples of these sites right there on the first page of the results.

These sites are usually low-quality and light on the content -- which is very often just some existing data they've found (e.g., gathered from public datasets or scraped from somewhere else) and dumped into an SQL database in order to generate 100s or 1000s of "dynamic" pages. Many times they're based on some "long tail" search terms/keywords.

There are exceptions, of course, but I think you get the point. Personally, I hate these types of web sites; there's enough "shit" on the Internet already.
> The nature of law and precedent is that unless the FSF or SFLC sue Canonical Ltd. soonish for their distribution of OpenZFS Linux modules, their assertion that the GPL doesn't generally apply to kernel modules will become legal precedent by default.

Huh? Are you sure you aren't confusing copyright (which is automatic on creation of a work and requires no defense) with trademark (which requires a filing and which does require an affirmative defense)?

Now, you may lose certain damages because they passed out of statute of limitations because you didn't sue for copyright infringement if made aware of it. However, you don't lose the copyright and can sue for damages still in range and in the future.

Besides, in the case of ZFS, who is going to sue? Linus doesn't care. Canonical doesn't care. Illumos don't seem to care.

So, the only people who might care and have standing are Oracle, but bringing such a lawsuit won't get them money, so Larry doesn't care.

So, basically, Canonical can continue distributing it since nobody cares.
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But didn't you have to provide your SSN to them? That would seem like a huge risk to give your SSN to some paralegal somewhere or some Wordpress plugin and MySQL unsecured database right?
Ask HN: Where does the evil go?
Today's world seems peaceful and kind, however, where does the evil in humankind go? I am just curious, anyone pondering on the same question?
> Let's hope that's not literally the encryption key, but the alternative -- it's a token used to lookup the key in their database -- would completely defeat the purpose of encrypting the PII with a PBK in the first place?! And, even if it was the literal encryption key, when you change or update your PII, if they don't also keep it on their side, how would they update their secondary encrypted PII record?

Without having looked at the actual implementation, here's one option that could work: Upon account creation, the server generates a key pair and a random string - the recovery code. The server stores the public key and an encrypted version of the private key, with the encryption key being the recovery code. Any changes to PII can be encrypted using the public key. The server does not need to store the recovery code (which would beat the whole point of this exercise). Instead, it can simply attempt to decrypt the PII with the user-provided recovery code, and if it succeeds, the server knows the entered recovery code was valid.
It is not nonsense, and Sun went out of its way to make sure that the CDDL and GPL are incompatible.

So, all the ZFS on Linux users are okay until Oracle sees money in suing them.
I didn't realize my google doc was shared on hacker news :).

Can you summarize what is said by Laurie Williams?
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His sci-fi and computer skill were renowned. The world will be a lesser place with out him.
TFA shows that in well over 50% of the land mass of the continental US, houses can be bought for 1 year of median wages.

Living on minimum wage is hard anywhere. The question is -- is it OK if there is 5-10% of the continental US where it's impossible to live on minimum wage? I think that yes that's probably OK...

Is it OK that for some [relatively small number of] cities, that median wage feels like minimum wage? Why is that a problem when people have the choice to live there or not?
I'm not sure this would work in practice. The story is what matters, not the visuals. Valvrave is good, Code Geass is amazing, but Girls Und Panzer sort of sucks. Yet it looks visually similar.
>The state exists as the means for ensuring positive societal outcomes

This is the moral basis for outcomes like, snuffing out a person for selling loose cigarettes. In the end, the privileged get away with infractions that hurt people en masse, and the disposessed get punished for offending the sensibilities of those who get to define "positivity" on behalf of society.

I'd respect the state position more if there were well defined metrics for "greater utility" and a stronger non self regulating mechanism for accountability, instead of the dogmatic principle that voting constitutes consent.
That isn't new and it only applies to very specific cases: student debt is one of a very short lists of debt that aren't cancelable via bankruptcy.
I don't think you should leave with any proof of who you voted for. I'm worried that it could be used by people to influence elections by paying for receipts from certain candidates or by punishing people who are not able to produce the correct receipt.

I think we should return back to paper ballots. When there are witnesses to elections, I don't think any of them are qualified to judge if an election has been done in a honest fashion. This would require experts on the voting equipment where they can guarantee that it has not been tampered with and that is too high a burden and something that complex can not be trusted.
RE: $6 bread.

Cheap bread is an issue with the poor. It's increadiably unhealthy.

But it tastes great, is cheap and keeps kids happy but doesn't have the stigmata of lets say ice cream which is as bad.

I think if you are paying $3.50 you probably are having healther bread. $6 as well.

You 'could' produce cheap healther bread in bulk, but we are not. So expensive is healthy can be a good proxy on diet.
This assumes the highest good is to maintain the previously defined delineation of governmental branches.

Some of the legislative branch dysfunction is due to interference from the same corporate interests they should govern.

Corporations are able to DoS their oversight.

You are correct there will be unexpected messiness. The question becomes whether our current trend is sustainable over the long term; many believe the second order effects cannot be worse than the path we are currently on.
First, the article is from a consultancy. Not even one that specialises in restaurants, but one that specialises mostly in retail it seems from their website.

Now their arguments:

> Consider the following example from a restaurant in New York. The sweet spot contains two expensive seafood platters (plateaux de fruits de mer). With the added illustration and a touch of color, these items are designed to draw attention to themselves.

This part is correct. They obviously want to bring attention to their seafood choices.

> You can probably guess that these platters bring in higher profits than some of the other menu items.

This part is so far off it's not even funny. Seafood isn't cheap. Seafood platters don't have good food cost. There's no starches, no vegetables to balance the cost of the protein. The point of drawing you to these items is because seafood itself is a draw - it's the draw that brings you into the restaurant itself. And hopefully you get some bubbly, maybe some sides, or maybe you're just having oysters before your steak and red wine.

> Price It Right

You don't say...

Anyhow, restaurants are about hospitality. There's no funny psychology. Yes you want nice menus and yes you want nice descriptions. You want to bring in diners who order a bit of everything, with some alcohol. You cater to some tastes, offer new tastes, bring in novel items, at the end of the day you do want balanced ordering though, so as to have minimal spoilage. Your concept, decor and cuisine should differentiate, prices should reflect your market, but again, there's no funny business as far as menus go. Simpler is better, menus with less than 15 items are in vogue right now.

As for broadening my horizon - 10 years of high end cooking, 5 years serving and bartending, and I went to school for econ/business. I'm obviously here to learn about things like programming and technology, and I'd pretty good with both of those, having done CS courses and used various stats packages and languages throughout school. Restaurants do embrace modernity (POS systems keep track of sales mixes, and we'd examine them every single day, keep track of various trends, including past years, etc...), but what they don't embrace is leeches like consultants who prey on the mom and pop diner who aren't savvy enough to know the difference.

Also, the article was a pretty sad analysis of menu development and pricing. Might as well have been an ad in the corner of an industry magazine.
I believe it's so as to navigate the complicated evidence exclusion rules. The other option would be to require the jury to ignore some evidence after having heard it (which they already do sometimes when they don't catch it earlier) - but the general assumption is that it'll still have an effect then, and that's unfair.
Not sure why anyone would buy abandoned projects that are finished. Unless I guess you have a client looking for the same thing.

To me, "abandoned" spells "confirmed failure". Or "solutions in search of problems".
RIP Jerry.

May you be able to lift all the computers now.

(I should explain for those who are unfamiliar with the reference: one of Pournelle's Laws was "Never trust a computer you can't lift.")

And now my personal JP story... The one time I met Jerry Pournelle was when we peed together.

I was in the men's room at one of the West Coast Computer Faires when Jerry walked in and used the urinal next to me. We had a nice little conversation while we did our business.

And thankfully for me and the other men nearby, even though Jerry was quite tipsy on that good convention beer, he never lost his aim!
Lol never pay ransoms how about never secure so much data with out of date technology that makes it easy to steal to save money or never sell stocks with inside information. Equifax might not even exist after this leak so as Ross Ulbricht once said if the company will be bankrupt you might as well try paying the ransom. The mouse has already finished his milk, cookie, and everything else that he can and is now asking for a napkin there is nothing left to take from Equifax.
Tulsa is alright. It feels like a 'big small town'. I do have to say that this is honestly just limited to the white neighborhoods.
>The heavy-lifting in e.g. TensorFlow is done in C++. Bindings to Python make sense because it is one of the few sanctioned languages inside Google, and it is widely used outside of Google and easy to pick up.

That's exactly the same as with numpy. I'm not sure what your point is. C++ is also one of the few sanctioned languages inside google, as is Java.

>Not all data is a good fit for Numpy: some data is non-numeric or not a homogenous array.

I'm curious what kind of data you're working with that can't be represented and effectively transformed in a tensor (numpy array).
This would indeed work! I'm still studying their code for handling the recovery key, but as of yet I haven't found any asymmetric encryption of PII.

It does look like they are using the recovery key as a second password, and running it through scrypt to verify it, but I haven't traced past that point yet, and Ruby is not my first, second, or 3rd language.

From what I can tell, they do the same key derivation process as with the primary password, but then also encrypt the secondary 'cek' with another key -- perhaps just HSM(R) -- so they can get back 'cek' without needing the token. But I'm not sure I'm reading it right because there are variables called things like 'encryption_key', 'encrypted_code', 'encryption_code', 'encrypted_key', 'encrypted_password', 'personal_code', 'raw_personal_code', 'code', 'hashed_code', ahhhh.....

If there's one good thing to say about all this, the fact it's open source and I can even look at it all, and open issues on GitHub against the US Government's code for authenticating citizens... well just that is pretty awesome.
Why the fuck do we need to vote on machines, anyway? I don't understand this.

Many other countries use paper ballots, including highly developed ones (e.g., France, UK...)
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Wake up and do something that seems difficult absolutely immediately. Make your bed, cold shower. Like taking cold medicine, do it all at once, quickly, get it out of the way and finished.
> We already destroy the environment to extract dollars, but now with cryptocurrencies, we actually have to destroy exponentially more raw energy to fuel the monetary system itself.

What did you mean by "extract dollars"?

Also, the digital transfer of money throughout the globe and even just domestically requires a significant amount of processing (which requires raw energy) by many different entities. It makes me wonder if a transaction within a cryptocurrency payment system is actually more or less efficient, even with all of the miners.
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If there were a $17 billion judgement against a $17 billion company, it would not sell for $17 billion.

It is also unlikely a $17 billion market cap = $17 billion in assets during an emergency sale. Especially with the shadow of a $17 billion judgement that could encumber the acquired assets.

It's bad business to acquire assets from someone with a judgement against them, unless you're getting a great deal.
Visa and MasterCard don't issue credit cards, don't provide credit, don't have your personal information, and don't provide personal information to credit agencies. They are just the network that connects card issuing banks and merchant acquiring banks to process payments.

Your contract is with your card issuer, who provided your personal information to the credit agencies. But you probably agreed not to sue them as part of your agreement when you asked them to issue you a card.