skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is this really different in other countries? I would say the numbers also apply for Austria. Although 300k is probably more the lower bound. Even if you built the house yourself in the rural area of the country. Austria already has a higher number of freehold property compared to Germany.

IMHO much of the difference between countries in this regard can be explained by tradition, history or population density.
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Or you could buy 2-3 20 year old Civics/Camrys, use one as the primary and cannibalise parts from the others to keep it going

That probably works better if you don't put a value on your own time and have the tools and facilities to do heavy repair, I think most people would be better off buying a better car than trying to transfer parts from the donor car(s) to their commute car. Assuming they even have a place to park the donor car.
Omnigraffle 2 should still open in iOS11:

https://support.omnigroup.com/ios-11/
It doesn't activate unless you look at the lock screen, so you can just refuse to look at it?

https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-faceid-security/
Scott Aaronson estimated the strain if you were 1 AU away from one of the previous BH mergers detected by LIGO and found you would only be stretched by about 50 nm (about a thousandth the width of a human hair). So you'd need to be very close indeed to feel something.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-gravitational-wave-feels...

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2651

The alternative take is that LIGO's detectors are unfathomably sensitive, detecting when its ~4km arms stretch by just 10^-19 meters. That's a 10,000th the width of a proton, where the proton is just a 100,000th the width of an atom, and the atom is about a 1,000,000th the width of a hair.
Congrats on the Vespa release, it looks phenomenal!

Generally when you disclose something (like the fact that you run the open source process at Yahoo) that's a disclosure, rather a disclaimer.

A disclaimer might be considered the opposite "I don't run the open source process at Yahoo, but...", or, more commonly, "IANAL".
Well they know a new one comes out every year so they would have to be willfully ignorant to not know that and that it have a chance of breaking behavior.

If they want to charge for new versions it would only be fair if they at sales time gave a time range for how long they were going to support current versions.
This is not just about the choices available to Facebook in this situation. The better question is how we can change the economy to distribute not just money but opportunity more evenly. That is what is at issue here.

The differential value software engineers create over janitors is not because of their intrinsic worth but because of their position in the economy. There is no reason to think engineers should be more entitled to the surplus value they produce than the support workers who are equally essential to the process.

Saying "this is just how supply and demand works" is a refusal to think.
Funny, me too!
> It requires you to look at the phone to unlock. Close your eyes or look away and it won't unlock.

Yeah, I'm going to say that this is an absolutely unrealistic expectation to have of someone who's just gotten detained and is concerned about having the contents of their phone viewed by law enforcement.

"Make sure that you don't open your eyes at any point in the direction where they might be holding your phone" is completely unactionable.
> you can keep on living there when you're not needed and there's tons of people waiting in line for your spot who're willing to do it for less

That "need" is supplied by Facebook, et al, who have this race to provided the most "perks" to their employees.

And at a certain point, you're going to find there are less and less people willing to "do it for less" due to simple economies of scale, cost and time.

And (hopefully) the bubble will burst.
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Commented out code, is not a comment about the code. It's just someone not clearing their trash.
From an observational astronomy point of view, perhaps the most interesting thing about the report is that by including the Virgo detector with both LIGO detectors, the uncertainty in the direction the gravitational wave event was reduced by a factor of 10! The "error ellipse" on the sky is now ~60 square degrees as opposed to ~600. This makes it much more feasible to do rapid observational follow-up with other observatories at all wavelengths (radio, optical, X-ray, etc.), to search for the counterparts.

Many observatories like the VLA, Chandra, Fermi, Gemini, have a rapid response trigger for the detection events, where within minutes they will stop their current operations. Observations in the EM spectrum are crucial for learning about a huge number of questions in astrophysics, like what kinds of galaxies do the merger events originate from, where are they located in those galaxies, how does the luminosity decay at different wavelengths, etc. It will be seriously exciting when the first counterpart is discovered!
I thik basing this on PostgresSQL was wrong now and believe that a meaningful approach at creating a Vespa alternative yourself is basing this on a Content-Adressable-Storage[1] and adding a DB-Layer ontop (ie. using AUFS).

It would have following properties: decentralized, distributed, resilient, highly-available, software-defined storage & retrieval system.

According to http://vespa.ai/#featurematrix:

FEATURE	VESPA	ELASTIC SEARCH	RELATIONAL DATABASES
ACID transactions	•••
Optimized for analytics	•••	••
Optimized for serving	•••	•	••
Scalable	•••	••	•
Easy to operate at scale ••	•
Text search	•••	••	•
Machine learned ranking	•••	• 2.1.2) - 2.1.4)
Middleware logic container •••	1.4)
Live reconfiguration	•••	1.2)

And yet I've to admit that even if the Github repository looks quite chaotic, making an alternative, even using existing technologies would be big feat.

Initially I would've chosen PostgresSQL as a base, but the "HA-Layer" is something that shouldn't be decoupled and not a later thought. That's why CAS is a much better form of integration. Also integrating the PostgresSQL Engine into a zfs kernel extension ie. would be a mess. And integrating the database engine into a a distributed p2p algorithm would only add compatability issues an no real advantages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Op...

PS: Clever aquisition by Docker! "Infinit.sh is a content-addressable and decentralized (peer-to-peer) storage platform that was acquired by Docker Inc." And in my eyes one of the best implementations and easiest targets that allow adding a database-layer ontop.
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Type theory is much less than "correct by construction" formal methods. Type theory is great at preventing a whole class of bugs (an operation on a value for which that operation doesn't make sense). But it's inadequate for the larger problem, of whether the operation is the correct one.

Formal methods can ensure that the code matches a formally written spec, for all the aspects of the code that are covered by the formal method. Note well: That's not all aspects of the code. And you have the little problem of (correctly) creating the formal spec. This move the problem up a layer, but the problem doesn't go away.

Even given a formal spec, though, it's my impression that formal methods are s l o w. Does anyone have data on this?
> Point two of the GOV.UK design principles is to do less: https://www.gov.uk/design-principles#second .

Or, in full: "Government should only do what only government can do. If we’ve found a way of doing something that works, we should make it reusable and shareable instead of reinventing the wheel every time. This means building platforms and registers others can build upon, providing resources (like APIs) that others can use, and linking to the work of others. We should concentrate on the irreducible core."

Slightly different than the title.

Can't do privacy because the principle says "Do Less"? Why do anything?
Hacker News lacks bookmarking functionality, so upvotes are used as "save for later read" feature.
How Silicon Valley utopianism brought you the dystopian Trump presidency
There are better doors out there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk48kU6fGWc
That's just a side effect of him trying to fit the entire USA diplomacy into his head, which has approximately the same capacity.
That may be an explanation, but it's not a justification. Why don't these people own the land they live on? Keep asking why a couple more times.
Why Kevin Durant Invested in This Healthcare Startup – Lively (YC W17)
My friend, a salary of 180k is in the top 20% of salaries in the bay area for engineering positions. Exceptional principal engineers may hit 250-300k/yr but there are very few such positions to compete for.

With stock grants? Maybe that's taxable. But uh, wow. It's not "well beyond 6 figures."
> It doesn't activate unless you look at the lock screen, so you can just refuse to look at it?

Have you ever been detained?

As far as I'm concerned, "refuse to look at it" is useful as a prevention tactic as not having any lock at all.
It's because people are voting up the title thinking it is an anti-American article,

It seems like you are projecting here. Do you have evidence to support this belief?
Just guessing here, but veins and blood flow are visible in infra red [1]. A color camera can also measure pulse using small color variations.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pulse-detection-wi...
Probably opens a "file://..." then. Go docs run their own embedded server, they don't need one, just to be precise.
Great explanation.

Although I'm more curious about the mining process and how public/private keys are used.
It's almost as if success is not purely a function of talent and capital. Who knew?
In professional engineering the accountability comes with a stamp, and a professional ethics requirement to report up the chain if a critical problem has been found that could impact public safety. This includes whistleblowing if management ignores the problem.

There are clear guidelines as to what types of products and services require a p.eng.'s stamp. There are also many professional engineers out there who's stamp has never touched ink. For example, the engineers drafting and churning out spreadsheets in the engineering sweatshops aren't accountable for the safety of the product, you'll have one or more engineers providing their stamp for that group's work.

If we were to implement a similar model on software development, most developers would not have personal liability for work they do e.g. for a company or open source project. What is needed is better classification of software products/activities that require a software engineer's stamp[1], and a corresponding professional association.

So no, developers should not be accountable. However, certain safety-critical products - where safety can be defined in various ways expanding the current relatively small set of NASA, aviation and health-care software -
need engineers overseeing design, development, and QC to be accountable.

And yes, this means that the self-taught developer, no matter how talented, will not be able to release certain types of software without some sort of oversight.

[1]As a side-note - not everyone can call themselves an 'engineer' in other fields without the proper credentials and professional membership. I see developers calling themselves software engineers all the time though they don't have the chops. This would, of course, need to change.

Updated to change asterisk to brackets
I'm definitely not going to complain about the GDPR and while I expect 2018 to be mild when it comes to enforcement I'd hate to be the company they are going to use to make an example out of in 2019 or so given the per instance fines.

That can put even large players instantly out of business, so better take it serious. The GDPR, unlike its predecessor, does not require per-country ratification and it has some pretty serious teeth.
>And this is coming from a leftist who left his own home town because it got overrun by rich kids with daddy's money and expats. I didn't like it either. But I also saw that I was not entitled to hand outs in order for me to live in the most prime location in the country, because everyone wants that and that just does not work, as much as we want it.

You're not a leftist. You're as bourgeois as they freaking come, dude.

But hey, surely with the shiny new open borders y'all left-neoliberals will put in, middle-class Americans can move to Mexico, where there will be tons of manual labor jobs with no safety standards, just like everyone remembers!
And indeed there are many ways to do just that, regulations, licensing, patents.
Sounds like a data point in favor of the "the standards are inadequate and Apple does some extra work" hypothesis.

Let's hope Apple can feed some of this back into the standards organization.

Apple's efforts with standards committees has historically been so-so -- neither bad nor good, seemingly mostly reflecting the interests of technical managers unless there was a specific strategic need (e.g. USB committee, Qi), and never with a coherent commitment.
> While using my Nikon DSLR I won't turn it off at all until I'm done for the day and that seems to barely affect the battery.

FYI, for the most part Nikon DSLRs are always 'off' until you hit the shutter or some other button. The on/off switch just disables all the buttons so you don't accidentally hit anything. This is why people measure DSLR battery life in shots taken, not time with the camera on.
Much like Intuit.
It would seem to be extremely difficult for them to compel you to aim them at a fixed point in space.
err, one can favorite articles and comments...
My local church is setting up a ton of people from Tijuana who work menial jobs and came here with no money. They help anyone who asks with deposits, transportation, job hunting.

The truth is, moving can be cheap, very cheap, and if you live somewhere with a low price of labor, it's profitable to drum up that kind of support.
Real real-time embedded systems, low-level operating system components, etc. are some kind of things that GC languages exclude completely, so by definition, the subset of "system programming" set is eliminated from use with ie. Go but not from Rust. Consequently, Rust has wider class of systems which makes it a true system programming language as C and C++.
Well no, the company would still be a net positive to the employee. Without the company, the employee would be making an even lower wage or unemployed.
Prop 13 and the resulting lack of liquidity in the housing market applies everywhere in California.

There are multiple causes in play in the Bay Area specifically, of which Prop 13 is merely one.
>I still wish it had an "unlock under duress" mode

I has something else: Don't unlock under duress. You press one of the buttons five times, and the police or a robber can't use your biometrics to unlock it.

It's not the same thing as what you're looking for, but interesting still.
Nope, no evidence at all. Instinct, yes. Am I wrong? Maybe. I don't think so.
They're trying to expand their campus. They wouldn't do that if it wasn't going to improve their bottom line. Facebook engineers have asked Zuckerburg if the company could subsidize their housing. Employees are leaving because of this problem. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/27/silicon-a...
This is my first ever comment on Hacker News after reading it for years... Inspiring article. This is one of the tenets I’ve built my ‘career’ on. For me, constantly trying new things is not only a necessity in business, it’s something I can’t live without in life, because it’s so exciting. It’s utterly possible to ‘Fail Upwards’ and you can do what Amazon does, with very little resources too. I bring many ideas to life, a huge proportion of them don’t make tons of money, but that’s mostly not my metric of success. Living a life less ordinary and being creatively fulfilled are some of my primary drivers. I encourage anyone to try more of their ideas - and if you’re interested, my books and speeches cover this area of ‘constant innovation’ too - just Google ‘Shed Simove’. Post over. Cherry popped. Xxx
Why would they waste their time? They already have a speech recognition platform, it's called android.

Amazon is wasting money on hardware because they missed out on mobile and with echos they're hoping to be there when the NLP catches up.
There is no company in this case. The code was developed in-house by the New York City medical examiner's office.
> If you build a house or an office building, your engineering is regulated. If you build a doghouse or an office filing cabinet, it isn't.

A filing cabinet must be fit for the purpose it is used, or there will be liability incurred. OSHA would frown on keeping hazardous chemicals in your filing cabinet. Software should also be fit for the purpose it is marketed and used.

There are many kinds of paper, but paper being used improperly, by storing a list of credit card numbers on it, is quite similar to how many pieces of software are written.
Although I agree with comments that this particular article meanders and could have been more focused, what stunned me was not the idea presented by the article, but how much more verbose and lengthy articles like this were 25 years ago.

I am all for brevity and often skip to the TL;DR summary of long posts, but sometimes I think we have taken brevity too far. Not all ideas can be distilled into PowerPoint bullets.
Moving requires a massive amount of privilege in the first place:
- Money to fund the logistics of moving (van, first month's rent, etc)
- Money to cruise on until you get a job in a new location
- Money to transfer all of your life-stuff to a new location (internet, cable, power and water, etc)
- Building on the last point, a high enough credit score to be able to get power, water, cable, etc in a new place without putting down a deposit
- Ability to take time off work to interview, IF you're lucky enough to be in a position where you can job hunt while still being employed full-time
- Reliable daycare where you are moving TO- daycare is super expensive and often times daycare has waiting lists so you can't just plop your kid down somewhere else.
- No ties to the area you're leaving- so no elderly parents to take care of, no family network to leave behind, etc

And on and on and on. Saying "Just Leave" is like saying "Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps!". If you're already working 60 hours a week and barely scraping by, how in the hell are you going to find the time and the money to uproot everything and move?
Well there is something, you can close your eyes at least.
Glass was innovative and ahead of it's time but that being said it feels like Google (and Apple for that matter) are falling into the risky playbook of mirroring other companies' ideas and assuming their scale will take care of the rest
That used to be true but HN has had a bookmarking feature for a while now.
Google's Driverless Car (2013)
Do. Or do not. There is no try – Object#try considered harmful
But their strategy was still go to after the high end market, instead of try to target the low end market and go up.
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On a recent vacation I found myself leaving my 70-300mm on my dslr for times I need reach, and using my iPhone7+ for other shots. Worked out pretty well.
Yeah. The inability to move is actually a huge friction to life and the economy. People are not able to go to where the jobs (or where they can afford a comfortable life) and companies aren't able to get the people they need.

We should seriously have a discussion about government-subsidized moves.
No offense to you, but I am getting really tired of luck-driven nihilism.

Survivorship bias doesn't mean everything is hopeless, it is just a reality you should hedge for.
Google responds to Apple's intelligent tracking prevention
You don't think they should be worried at all about the Echo platform?
You turn it off until it's been confirmed secure again. This is not much different from any security issue in software -- you disable the functionality until it's secure again.

The only risk is if somebody cracks the entire FaceID model and Apple cannot fix it in software. But even then, you would still disable FaceID and either return your phone or wait for a recall.
I do wish more people had this attitude. There's enough other things to fight about than who uses what code.
I don't know... you can still find a lot of writing like this today. It just doesn't usually make its way to a viral spread. Lots of long-form articles exist that go on and on and on.
"If a periodic statement shows an unauthorized transfer made with a LOST OR STOLEN DEBIT CARD"

That's very specific. When it comes to check fraud, I'm going to trust the guy who has spent his career working with the FBI on check fraud.
Well many of the people displacing residents don't "own" the land either. They can just afford crazier rents. The distinction between whether someone is renting or owning has little bearing on where someone considers "home".

See: entitlements people feel about going back to "homelands" in the Middle East, or to Europe after the war. These are not people that owned land, and yet we still feel morally responsible to help them return to their original homelands.
The new Google Home Mini is smaller than this device. They started later than Amazon but they've made a huge amount of progress in a year and aren't really that far behind anymore. In fact in some areas Amazon is playing catchup (such as multi-user voice support)
Ok, I'll bite. Is this actually a thing??

> You texted that dude about the weird thing you like to do with silicone ice trays and that admission will remain in the bowels of the Match Group forever.
I agree with your sentiment, but historically your Grand-x father potentially got sold out in the Highland Clearances by his clan leader and then emigrated to Canada/US. This made way for sheep (lots of Scotland is still relatively underpopulated) and the head of the clan probably blew the money on a town-house in London.

People have roots, but they often get pulled out.

See John Prebble - the Highland Clearances 1963 - ISBN-13: 978-0140028379 "‘Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today’ The Times.
Do note that matrix.org is the homepage for Matrix, which is more about the protocol itself. https://riot.im is probably more relevant for design / UI / UX work.

Note that they will need UI/UX experience more and more as time goes on, especially if Purism's Librem 5 is fully funded.
Define “liveable”. Then ask yourself why you defined it that way.
Love this idea. And doing it with your face allows much easier plausible deniability over something with your hands/touchID.