skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my family had a house in Forest Hills Gardens (NYC) that we were selling in early '07 listed at $4.5mil. August-September of that year happened and we had to take an immediate $2mil haircut (eventually more like a $2.4mil one). Luckily it was owned since the 50s and not some crazy leveraged investment vehicle.

It still took an additional 6 years (roughly) to sell, but throughout that whole process, 99% of the potential buyers, including the eventual purchasers, were Chinese nationals. I lived in that house and met everyone that came through (including the time Anna Chapman came through to show the house...wow).

There's an entire class of real estate here that just has no market without Chinese money coming in.
Agreed. Deliberately ignoring history is deliberately ignoring all sorts of vital context behind all sorts of factors and variables and decisions. History is also necessary to extrapolate trends and predict future effects.

As the saying goes: "those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it; those who do know history are condemned to watch everyone else repeat it".
Nothing; this is what I was going to suggest. If you are the sort of person who is wealthy enough to cause housing prices to inflate to the point that it becomes a national crisis, I would be rather surprised to learn that you are NOT buying your real estate through a local shell company of some sort.
Looking at it from the outside it does seem to be some contempt towards Catalan people, like referring to them as polacos (Polish, I guess because the speak “weird”). It also feels like when Catalan governments have tried to discuss the model of autonomy/government and the relationship between central government and autonomous governance and there’s an almost childish reaction from the central government.
Your users (those with 4 x 30" monitors like me) will be firing you as well. It isn't my fault that Nvidia makes superior GPUs and writes shit software :)
What's the point of liberalism if everyone does not get to express themselves?
It isn't, but being a professional does suggest a basic level of respectfulness and composure. Going on a profanity-laden rant against a popular vendor and its users would seem to fall short of that.

On the other hand, a polite refusal to support EGLStreams may not have moved the needle enough to reach the front page of HN.
I don't think they'd be selling controlled substances but who knows...
Good luck commander
This is much better than the least likely consipiracy: Kennedy's head just inexplicably exploded on its own.
Americans are told they have to accept unlimited immigration and everything good and bad that comes with it. Not sure why NZ should be any different.
I live in the city but "country first" is exactly the right way to go. Internet service in Australia outside the cities is absolutely terrible. It would be a game changer for the whole of Australia if Internet was first class everywhere.

Then it truly wouldn't matter where you lived for certain classes of work.

And regarding cost, well I think this is precisely what the government should be spending OUR money on.

They make such a huge song and dance about $49Biliion for the NBN, but the government is desperate to throw our money at companies. Have you heard ANYTHING about the $50Bn tax cut the government has given to companies? http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/mal...
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I use 4 displays, 3x 1080p and 1x 4K. I'm happy to lose users who don't do their research and misportray the superiority of Nvidia, though.
So you define volunteers as unprofessional by definition. That doens't sound right.
I would argue that zoning laws are not infringing on your rights as a property owner, no more than property taxes are an infringement. They are conditions of property ownership you agree to when proceeding with a transaction to acquire property.
The offline world would then be on par with the online world when it comes to targeted pricing.
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Cool idea. Needs a demo to show how it actually works and not just for decoding messages. Like what's the use case.

Also, all those trademark symbols makes this look comically unprofessional.
There are 6 vacant homes, with often rooms plural, for every single homeless person in the US.
Amazon doesn't need to make money on it, though. They just want to dominate every aspect of everyone's retail existence. I'm sure they're perfectly happy to make zero profit for a long while and figure it out later, when they're the only ones left in business.
I don't see how captchas are "fundamentally cracked" if they only claim a success rate at best around 2/3rds. Nor do they give an explanation for what they mean by fundamentally cracked.
Sadly, the machines I don't want people running commands on happen to be also the machines I don't want to rm -rf everything on as well.
This [1] is the article they're citing. Note that a cursory search turns up similar claims from back in 2013; it might be worth waiting for someone with more experience and less bias to express their opinions before dumping your captcha-related stocks.

[1]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/10/26/scien...
Regardless of my thoughts on Twitter as a product, I'm glad they're profitable and might be around for a while.

They've released a lot of good open source software - their Scala stuff is great, and it seems like the company allows and even encourages their engineers to not only open up their code, but also gives them the time to document and help the community.
This is an extremely biased and misleading take on the situation.

Look at premises passed when the LNP came into power.

https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-ro...

Total activated in mid 2014, ~250k. That is completely nuts, you make it sound like this was a steady ship the LNP tipped over.
Clipboard auditors, gotta love 'em.
Not a technical person here.

I just check my personal site with this tool and see that is possible know that I use Google G Suite.

Is no way to opt out this? I'm more vulnerable to an attacker, right? They can try to login to my account on gmail.com.

I thought that for not using an email address like @gmail.com, etc. I had the advantage of hiding my login page XD

Maybe I'm a bit paranoid. Sometimes I have the idea that the Internet is not well designed from the ground up for privacy in mind. Recently I check the product Hotjar [0] and was amazed how creepy it is, you can see screen recordings of the users interacting with your site, where are they from, and more. I made a video about this [1]
(spanish). Why by default the Internet is like that?, all those features should be opt in imho, with user consent. What do you think?

Excuse me if my wording is not perfect, my english is not the best :)

[0] https://hotjar.com

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDgybTvnhjY
The fix is to stop printing so much money it's basically free to borrow. These people aren't buying houses with their own money - it's all OPM.
Haha, I'm actually aware of that gardening meme, but it looks like I could very well be wrong about the avocado ban. There was a legitimate largscale theft of avocados in recent history, and I was sure from that I had learned it's illegal to begin growing your own. I did a quick Google search and can't find a source for that. It may be a totally erroneous idea, or it may be related to difficulty getting permits to grow them commercially.

As for family court, you know in NZ it is a frequent but macabe quip: it is easier to kill your wife than divorce her? People say that for a reason, and people don't just light themselves on fire so easily.
Clearly you haven't heard of leaflet if you're complaining about maps. It's dead simple and has a beautifully elegant API.
Can someone ELI5 why one would want sway vs just using i3?
I do CUDA work (OpenCL is close, but not nearly as powerful) along with run big monitors. I've done my research, and there is Nvidia, and inferior options.
So here's my tale of what happened:

Party A was in power, and having infighting problems. Party B was headed by an absolute arse of a man, who used the tactic "Say No! to EVERYTHING". Didn't matter how benign or banal, the opposition party would say no. A flagship policy like the NBN was particularly focused on - and if you look at interviews with the opposition communications minister at the time (now our prime minister), it was clear that he was toeing the party line and didn't think changing the policy was a good idea.

Fast-forward to the next exection, and Absolute Arse gets into power. Turns out he can't govern at all (despite 20 years on the front benches) and he definitely isn't going to backtrack on something he's attacked so routinely. He's kicked out by his own party. At this stage, the NBN has been gutted, and its doom is sealed.

In steps the comms minister as the new PM, but he is now beset by factionalism. He knows what a turkey the NBN is, but he doesn't have the political power to do an about-face on his party's policies.

In short, we're fucked. By the time any other party can get in, the NBN will be 'mostly complete'. The most annoying thing is that the folks who really need good internet is business, not residences (think graphic design, medical imagery, etc), and the party that fucked the NBN is the 'party of business'. Enterprises can already dictate their own network backbones, but small-to-medium businesses cannot.
I would expect professionalism from someone I'm paying. I don't expect professionalism from someone who's basically giving me free stuff.

If someone offers to paint your fence for free, and your fence has some really nasty angles at some point, would you say the volunteer was unprofessional if they said "yeah I'm not going to paint that part"?
I believe this is a much better solution to the problem, but I don't think it should have anything to do with whether or not a buyer is a foreigner.
> For my part, I'm dropping all wires and switching to 4G/LTE, where I can stream 4K content, get decent uploads and still pay less than I would on the National Broadband network.

If everyone does that you'll be lucky to stream youtube videos at 240p. Wireless bandwidth is inherently shared between everyone, wired is dedicated.
Where do you get your cheap 4G/LTE?

Best I can find is prohibitively expensive, especially if I wan't to stream 4K content...
The manifesto talks about networked home directories; has anyone used AFS/Coda/InterMezo and can they speak to how the experience compares to NFS?
Before you can say that a 66% success rate isn't good enough, you need to compare it to the human success rate. I barely get 2/3 myself.
This is a non sequitor. The “nobody likes high rises” argument is about the people who don’t want to look at high rises. Obviously their aesthetic satisfaction is more important that others having places to live.
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If democracy can't stand up to a laughable idea then it was a nice run. If we start taking away fundamental human rights the moment we hear some words we don't like, they probably deserve to destroy our democracy.
Tasmania got very lucky with the rollout, we are mostly covered with FTTP, Fixed Wireless and only some FTTN.

We are also lucky enough to have a local business (Launtel) pushing the constraints of the NBN by offering Gigabit at prices that aren't unreasonable ($14.50/day). They are treating it as a new pricing model, why bill the same as ADSL when there are no costs associated with setup and plan changes? They are billing daily which allows more flexibility meaning you could spin up a connection for a day (At an Airbnb for example) or change speed depending on your usage.

This is all in beta for them at the moment and only available in Tasmania. Here is a speedtest I ran yesterday from my home FTTP connection https://www.speedtest.net/result/6738001151.png
almost as talented as seedfeeder:

NSFW!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedfeeder
You know, I'm tired of being respectful and composed while others are walking all over me. If Nvidia doesn't care enough about the OS I bought their card for, fuck them, they suck, and I'm not buying another one of their cards again. I'm tired of being polite and not rocking the boat while I'm being taken advantage of.
Hey thanks for the feedback! Definitely will add a video shortly just putting it out there to get great feedback like yours.
You're on the money, but just a bit out of date. We have a (very) new far-right party called the Australian Conservatives now. The creation of a former Liberal party senator.
it is certainly a barrier, but if sellers recognize that sales over bitcoin has lower costs (cost of fraud) - certain items should show up on these marketplaces and people knowing about that tech will be really happy to get bargains... or so it should work :)
Sway uses Wayland, which is shiny and new and fast.

i3 uses X11, which is old and crusty and not particularly fast.
Maybe to compete against Express Scripts and drugs stores, to a degree, but a by-mail pharmacy has a very steep hill to climb in terms of in-person/telepresence pharmacist expertise.
Sway [1] is a tiling Wayland [2] compositor [3], in case anyone was lacking context.

[1]: http://swaywm.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager
Why are your morals the ones that deserve free speech?
What I'm describing is a generalization since you asked about the differences in risk between renting and ownership.

It sounds like you have taken a series of (wise) steps to significantly limit your exposure to the risk involved with property ownership. This doesn't make the rule invalid though it makes you the exception to the rule.

> In really really the worst case, you move to that lower cost flat and have bank take away your flat (since you aint paying mortgage it is theirs).

In the event of the real estate market tanking, like it did in 2008, this is not what happens in a worst case scenario. You are still liable for the cost of the mortgage you owe, if the property loses more value on the open market than the amount left that you owe on the mortgage you can't just give back the property to cancel the mortgage. You might owe $300k left on the mortgage (because you originally bought the house for $500k for example) but now the property is only selling on the market for $250k. In this scenario you can't "give back" the property because even then you still owe the bank $50k. If you can't pay, you must declare bankruptcy in addition to losing the property. So now you have no home and also your credit is so destroyed that landlords refuse to rent to you. This is a very real scenario and happened to a LOT of people during the US real estate crisis.
Why? It already cost foreigners NZD$30,000 in extra foreign buyer approval fees (no guarantee) which was a cash cow. This will kill that cash cow. The best thing about NZ has been immigration. This is just going to funnel money to large construction companies building apartments, and turn NZ in to an apartment farm.
SirCmpwn has a patreon. If you feel the need to help pay for him to develop a feature, you can. He can't maintain everything especially with the hardware working against him.

https://www.patreon.com/sircmpwn
This is a great summary, and a large number of people I know are doing exactly this. Using 4g since the 4g network in major cities on Telstra is extremely fast, and fits their lifestyle (really just using phones at home, or a hotspot in a pinch).
That link is talking about the effects an LVT would have on unused land that's being held for appreciation, and land that's being held as an investment. I'm talking about landlords renting property to tenants. Increasing the taxes on the landlord increases their cost, which would force them to raise the rent they charge. This is just like anything else that would raise their costs: higher insurance rates, increased maintenance costs, increased homeowners fees, etc.
LA housing is, by Australian and even Auckland New Zealand standards, super cheap.
> No Conservative party in Australia AFAIK

There's the Family First Party, who merged with Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives. There's also the Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile).
What is the point of making it permanent? If you want to increase the daylight after the workday, then just make working times one hour earlier, instead of changing the clock.
> the only way to build is up, which is expensive, requires a lot of capital, and is risky by itself

inherently more risky than building up in any other city, like NY or HK?
But you’re not actually leaving earlier, it’s the exact same point in time whether you call it 6pm EST or 7pm EDT.

Not trying to be patronizing as I realize you are not dumb and know this but I’m explaining the disconnect between sides of this argument.
Yes, every city where rents are high (so skyscrapers are economically viable) should be skyscrapers as far as the eye can see. The person who has the most stake in the land is the one who owns it, and that person should absolutely have the right to build a skyscraper on his land if he so chooses.
I strongly recommend the book "Reclaiming History" by Vincent Bugliosi. It took me over a year to read on and off. It's a national treasure and I wish it could be made freely available online. It's over a thousand pages and includes a CD with thousands more pages in footnotes and endnotes.

I was a die hard conspiracy believer because I grew up in a household where my mom lived through the assassination and she had nearly every conspiracy book available around the house. After reading Bugliosi's book I am absolutely now convinced that Oswald did it alone. Bugliosi's book absolutely devastates all of the conspiracy theories.

I can confidently say that these files will uncover nothing to "prove" otherwise.

There is no evidence that anyone other than Oswald killed the president. Full stop.

If you search around for interviews online with Bugliosi, you can get a feel for the breadth and depth of his work.
Can't such a story be written pretty much any time?

When landlords can't find people to pay the rent, they'll lower the price (relative to inflation).

Inequality on the other hand leads to speculators usurping the use price of houses and other things for investment purposes.

That was the real cause of the financial crash, not NINJA loan recipients as many conservatives have claimed. Remember all those seminars on how to "flip your house"? Many of those speculators declared bankruptcies.

These days, though, speculation on that scale can only be done by the top percentiles of people.
So a bloody bolsheviks style revolution is ok as long as they do it inclusively?
It’s amazing to watch all this happen on the consumer end but how
many more industries can they really do this to? Is Bezos not essentially setting up his successor for failure by turning Amazon into a conglomerate with razor margins in so many areas?
Hell no there should be no compensation; the entire goal of the government should be to crash prices hard and if increasing density achieves that by simultaneously increasing supply _and_ decreasing values due to people having to see higher density property then that's a double win.

As an aside, apartments can be awesome, precisely because of the services that higher density housing allows. I own and live in one in the Melbourne CBD, I have amazing views, no need to drive for any services (groceries, doctors, liquor stores, restaurants, cafes and more in the same block). While a house might be tempting in some ways it terms of convenience it would inevitably be an enormous step backwards.
Yeah razor thin margins is barrier to entry that amazon sees as an opportunity not a threat.
It is an off handed snark based on the not terribly subtle difference between "not a professional" and "unprofessional" which I feel perfectly validated making because Sway isn't a volunteer effort, it is an (un|insufficiently) paid effort, which is also not a very subtle difference.
Wow. Just wow. My advice is buy cheap real estate and start an internatianal incubator. The weather alone should keep people indoors and focused... only half joking!
And similarly, a condition of living near other people is that you must accept the presence of other people and infrastructure designed to accommodate them, even if you’d rather it wasn’t there. If you don’t want to be bothered by evidence of human habitation, move far away from the nearest human.
While the badges can get to be overkill (like in uBlock's case), I think having a small number with useful information (dependency status, code coverage, etc.) is helpful when quickly assesing a project.
Ask HN: How does online game bots intercept packets?
I'm not trying to make a bot. I just want to know for educational purposes.

For bots and scripts on games like league of legends, you have to be able to intercept packets and send your own. I can't seem to find tutorials on that aspect. I've tried using keywords such as tcpdump and wireshark, but no good results. What are typical ways to read packets from online games and send them back?
There was the Australian Democrats. I’m still tempted to see if I can resurrect them.
It's one thing to be a jerk to Nvidia, which seems justifiable. It's another thing to be a jerk to Nvidia users who may simply be unaware of the harm their GPU vendor has done.
The OP mentioned living in them, so the reply was on point - clearly some people _do_ want to live in them. I love my apartment, but would admittedly be less keen on suburban apartment living as the convenience factor would probably not be so hot.
Captchas are useless for their intended purpose if a bot can get it right better than every other time.
Yeah this is spot on.

Other comments are blaming the Liberals, but the reality is if you are an effective leader trying to create a huge infrastructure project that you care deeply about, you need to come up with a solution that will last through a change in government, with aligned economic and political contingencies. If you are just governing for fun then you do what Rudd did. It always lets you blame the next government though, as he is doing now.
LED bulbs have been a godsend for me. About 12W of LED light roughly replaces a 100W incandescent bulb. This means that given a light socket rated for a 300W maximum, I can plug in a tree of Y-splitters and 25 LED 100W equivalent bulbs. The amount of light is glorious :-)
shaddup, cuck.
Tell the Chinese to get the hell out of NZ. They don't have reciprocal laws. Glad to see this finally happen.

Vancouver is a disaster. Glad to see right wing nationalist young leaders in the west. Poland, NZ, Austria, and many others.
Being able to build a high-rise on your property increases its value. So sell out and move to the hicks if you don't like living around people.