skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$700,000 per unit? Or even $100k? For "affordable" housing?

Meanwhile, in Mississippi.... regular brand new houses (not "affordable" housing) are actually affordable at $150k, or less than a down payment in any west coast US city.

https://www.zillow.com/ms/new-homes/

Or check out a brand new 2200sq ft house in Indiana for $200,000 that would sell for about $2.5 million in the Bay Area, or about $1.5 million in Seattle or Portland

https://www.zillow.com/community/harrison-lakes/2095745355_z...

Sometimes I wonder why people aren't more willing to move to new states. I realize that Indiana and Mississippi aren't particularly "cool" and certainly not trendy, but what matters more in life? Being in a trendy spot, or actually being able to afford a reasonable lifestyle?
There is AKS[1], which is deterministic and polynomial time. The most common need for a primality test is the generation of RSA keys, where a mistake will result in a key that almost certainly doesn’t work (I.e. you can’t decrypt encrypted data even if you have the correct half of the key). For these cases a faster probabilistic test is still the most popular.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
Like Detroit?
There are houses way cheaper than those in Indiana in Costa Rica. Why arent people moving from Indiana to Costa rica??? I dont get it!
That would be an unmitigated disaster. For a start, what is the value of all rental properties in the bay area? Lets say it is 15%. So the government either needs to come up with 15% of the value of ALL rented houses, or steal them in some unfair way. And can I claim my kids and wife live and own their own houses? What if they are 15? Can I own 5 houses? Starting this alone would be a massive disaster - either economically (fair price paid), morally (lets steal rental properties) or pragmagtically (can we guarantee people won't cheat?).

If by a miracle this hump could be got over, it would also lead to massive problems of supply. 100% of new developments having to be sold to owner occupiers, or be paid for by the government, would make it hard to impossible for either side to build much more supply. I can't start a new development unless I am sure I can sell 100% to owners, or the government buys some of the units. Hello massive corruption!

Lastly, https://pics.me.me/the-30-second-guide-to-government-spendin... is an example of how people buy. A Government run rental market would have ridiculously impractical houses, as now governments would have the ability to manipulate the housing market for votes. "X government built practical, affordable no frills units, but you hate them. We'll build you all places you love". Disaster number, what, 7?

It is just a disaster from every possible, conceivable angle.
Their support is horrible. I’ve gone 100% Lyft and haven’t looked back. The drivers are happier and the support is better.

My Uber incident involved my driver running out of gas on the way to the airport. Like as a PROFESSIONAL driver, knowing how much gas you have is pretty important. Even asking me to stop for some would’ve been better.

Uber support told me they were sorry and only refunded that ride, not the one I had to hail and pick us up on the side of the highway at 4am(which kept directing the driver to a road along side since they don’t expect you to need a pickup on the highway, the first car gave up after driving in a circle and the second I had to explain to what was going on and he was cool though.) in freezing Seattle weather while having to rush through the airport to get our flight. Pretty much told me tough luck and it’s not their fault.

I hope Uber fails.
> Even in high priced areas there are always parcels ripe for redevelopment.

Please tell me where these are, I’d love to know so I can redevelop them and make a few million.
Hah, I was really asking what you meant, not trying to chide you about about terminology. Makes sense, thanks.
You might think we mostly don't need to send secure messages, but remember, Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack (BCP-188):

https://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp188.txt
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE
I also think that with tree shaking and last-mile minification being more common these days, auditing might not be as daunting as it seems.
Perhaps it's part of "Security Update Developer Beta 2018-001", which I saw appear on my 10.12 box yesterday. I can't find any info about what's included in it though. :(
You may want to check out a project called Wooey. It's a drop-in-and-go frontend for your scripts kind of like Gooey[1], but web rather than native focused.

[0] https://github.com/wooey/Wooey
[1] https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
Median income in the SFBA: $96,677
Median income in Mississippi: $36,919
Hope so. Met and chatted with Al Worden while on a NASA tour a few years back. Really cool experience. (although was Apollo 15 command module pilot so went to the moon, didn't walk on it).
I wish the NPM community would grow some humility and learn some lessons about how the debian environment was built. Have sane licensing that allows mirroring, have crypto-hash of packets. Have open governance.
ESC _ or M-_ does work in vi mode though (and does the same thing as ESC ./M-.). Search for "yank-last-arg" in the bash manual.
Have you used Signal recently? It’s quite robust IMO, from texting to calling and everything in between. My initial reaction to the GP post was not unlike yours, but as I read on I find myself agreeing with him. Going through my email records, a vast number as he said, are automated or transactional. The only real exceptions are from older relatives sending Facebook crap, or occasional indications to and from friends who don’t use messaging apps to read a particular article or study.

Worse it’s pretty much impossible to teach people don’t want to learn how to try and make email less insecure. By contrast I found it very easy to turn people onto Signal and similar applications.
What if it encrypts user data?
Fab isn't the real issue. ARM Holdings doesn't have a fab. They license IP in HDL form to people that have fabs. And those people with fabs would like not to pay license fees. So why do they pay? Ecosystem.

So let's say your team has what it takes to design and validate the HDL for a processor microarchitecture that implements some un-encoumered ISA with performance that is attractive and a sufficiently short errata list. Then published the HDL under some free-as-in-speech license. You still have to get gcc, llvm, and gdb to support you, at a minimum. And then you want the hardware debugger people to support you. They will support you if you get enough users, if you get enough support from tool makers you will get users. The trick is not running out of money before the ecosystem spins up and your competition releases a more attractive core.
Interior finishings are what permit a developer’s marketing team to use the word “luxury,” not an interestingly sized component of construction costs or market value.
Actually, there is a slight problem, in that many people will be able to hear the inverter.

It's tough to make a completely silent inverter that works near the peak of human hearing sensitivity. It can be done, but it's likely to be more expensive.

Going all the way to 20 kHz+ is probably the best strategy. LEDs can be driven well into the MHz range, but if you go too high, RF emissions compliance starts to become a problem.
Yep, only authors who are good about using `npm version` and pushing the resulting git tag to origin are going to have the proper linkage.
>If someone cannot handle themselves, maybe they shouldn't be given a subsidized unit in a fancy expensive city

If you think about it in another angle, the governments aren't subsidizing to help the tenants as much as they are subsidizing the companies that have to hire people at not executive or programmer wages.

I mean you might get a few people who are willing to commute 4 hours a day, but certainly not enough to satisfy SV's needs. I doubt a company would pay their janitorial staff enough to live there without being forced.
I'd be surprised if they ran a thorough security audit on all code they import, but I'd rather believe they do.
Oh I need to add 10 domains to this list.
For what it’s worth, the U.S. is built on the strategy of pushing people who grew up on a piece of ok land onto shittier and shittier land to make way for settlers, until the displaced people are in such remote, harsh places that they can barely survive.

So there is precedent for what you’re proposing.

But the argument against it is that people have some sort of right to remain in their “homeland”. And that a
city whose “native sons” can’t afford to live in it isn’t a healthy city. That a healthy city has places for both rich and poor. For owners and operators. For speculators and locals.
Indeed, we are not at a stage yet where pointing "less technical users" to our website is very useful, since the main take away for those people is "stay tuned".

We hope to be able to change this as implementations progress.
Another obscure readline feature is that ~/.inputrc accepts key sequences bound to arbitrary (quoted) macros, including macros that contain more key sequences.

# a basic macro that types "foo" bound to META+"f"
"\ef": "foo"

The cool part is that bash recursively checks the macro output for more key sequences. For example, I use these standard bindings:

# <META>-k
"\ek": shell-kill-word
# <CONTROL>-y
"\C-y": yank
# <SHIFT>-RIGHT
"\e[c": shell-forward-word
# <SHIFT>-LEFT
"\e[d": shell-backward-word

...which are used by these macros that use s-LEFT and s-RIGHT to move the current command-line argument one position left or right:

# <SUPER>-LEFT
"\e[D": "\e[d\ek\e[d^Y"
# <SUPER>-RIGHT
"\e[C": "\e[d\ek\e[c^Y"
# ^ ^ ^ ^
# | | | > yank
# | | > shell-forward-word
# | > shell-kill-word
# > shell-backward-word

(the actual key sequences depend on the terminal. Check with C-v <KEY>)
This is in contrast to a cartoon collection released semiannually (Soviet/Russian cartoon studio) until 2000 that looked exactly like the first 1960s release. All are available on their YouTube channel.
In Chile we have an incremental building program: you get half a house constructed and finish the other half by yourself. The cost per unit was less than $10k in 2002.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/half-a-house/
that is, in fact, the king james version.
In Brown we trust, along with Scott Wiener; these are the only two politicians doing anything to address housing prices. In San Francisco, the Mayor's Office of Housing (SFMOH) has created a complicated program of silent second liens to enable 'low' and 'moderate' income residents purchase regular condos at below market rate. Units built strictly for income bands and subsidized, or 'affordable units', run into a problem of funding; it is either developers who elect not in include below market rate units (BMR) and pay into the fund or churches building their own structures such as Mercy Housing.

But what about the land? I don't think that has to be the major cost, at least in San Francisco. There are a plenty of vacant lots owned by the city, and in a recent case the feds sold land for $1 to the city for pre-fab condos near the court house for 'formerly homeless'. Indeed, if you have an apartment, you are no longer homeless.

And this is where we start talking about the real expense -- union labor. The pre-fab units clock in at under 250k each, but they are built over in Vacaville with non-union labor. Anything else needs highly paid craftsmen which goose a market rate unit over 700k+. If the lot needs to be abated for pollution, usually for former gas station sites, the price goes even higher plus delays. Want steel framing for going over 7 stories? The price goes up. Not that SF Planning's zoning will allow 7 stories, even near BART.

The solution to affordable housing is to just build more housing -- just regular housing. Built it tall, 100 stories or more, and right on top major transportation lines like BART stations -- on all 4 street corners. We'll need to overcome labor costs and zoning before we can get there.
So has npmjs.com been hacked or what?
Then suddenly he said, “I have it! We are going to swim all together like 0.1% of the biggest fish in the sea!”

~ Leo Lionni, Swimmy
I bought the Clockwork Orange soundtrack when I was a teenager, and it took quite some time for me to appreciate _Timesteps_.

(IIRC there are at least two versions of the soundtrack, with various tracks added or missing. Caveat emptor . . . but I cannot find any of Wendy's music online to purchase or stream now anyway).
I remember watching the STS-1 landing on TV. Young was supposed to stay inside for something like 45 minutes for overly-conservative safety reasons. He broke that rule, hard. He was out after after a few minutes, dancing around on the tarmac, fist-pumping the air (at the shuttle) out of sheer joy at having landed what he clearly thought was a wonderful flying machine. It was like watching a 5-year-old on Christmas morning.

He loved his job.
Since I didn't see it with a quick look, why call it bleve? Given the logo it's clearly a reference to Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion, but that seems an odd choice of name with no relation to the project. Do you just like fire?
People have been gravitating to bigger cities, and one factor that's driving it is two earner households. It used to be that if the husband had to move for a new job, he'd pick up the family and go. This is much less possible than before, since the wife needs to find a job too. If both of them work in specialized occupations, only big cities are likely to have appropriate jobs for both. This makes land in larger cities at an increasingly large premium.
Starfish eating Great Barrier Reef alarm scientists
It was a pile of twaddle in 1995, and it still is.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but if some giant corporation is going to buy Docker, Inc. then I really, really hope it's Microsoft. An Oracle acquisition would be an absolute nightmare.
These are all enthusiast-oriented, not something you'd find in a retail store. At least one can only be ordered through a group buy on budgetlightforum.com right now, though a retail offering will come in the future.

* BLF A6 (AKA Astrolux S1)

* Astrolux S41/Manker E14

* BLF X5/X6 (AKA Astrolux S2/S3/SS)

* Emisar D4, D1, D1S

* BLF Q8

* BLF GT

* Convoy S2+/C8 (new firmware version)

These don't all use the same firmware, but they all use an open-source firmware with high-frequency PWM, except that I think the BLF GT does not use PWM. A number of expensive custom lights use these too; those often focus on metalworking and exotic materials.

Firmware sources available here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/t...

I own an Astrolux S41 (Nichia 219B), Astrolux SS (3A) and a semi-custom light I assembled using the A6 and Biscotti firmwares by ToyKeeper. I plan to pick up the Emisar D4 (Nichia 219C) and D1S (5D).
They could(should?) implement edit distance checks on all new packages against existing packages. If the name is too similar to an existing package name it requires approval.
Signal != Signal Protocol. I like Signal and prefer it to the other applications, but Wire (for instance) does not need your phone number.
Immediately seeing "Hodling Allocations" did not inspire confidence in the site.
> Most email clients are searchable-archive-by-default.

That's a feature, not a bug. A "secure" messenger I can't search my entire locally stored archive of can't replace my usage of email.

I agree with the premise that something that works like email but secure might do better to not start with email as a baseline. But that doesn't mean it should throw out the most critical properties of email in the process.

> Everything that makes email effective in the real world makes it inhospitable to secure messaging. We should stop trying to push this particular boulder up this particular mountain and instead just get people to adopt serious secure messengers.

We also need to build serious secure messengers that are "effective in the real world" in the same way that email is. That doesn't mean they have to build on email.
Take a bay area income and telecommute from the south and you're really living large.

But really, even at the much lower income levels of the south the money goes so much further.
Passerines (songbirds) are more closely related to parrots than parrots (and songbirds) are to falcons.
There's a great reddit post where an LA architect specializing in multifamily residential units explains why all of the new units being built in LA are luxury condos instead of low cost housing.

tl;dr: city specific zoning laws.

To be fair, the post is specific to LA, but it makes me wonder what legal hoops developers have to jump through to build in other cities and how expensive those hoops are.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar...
I would also hope for and expect this to be communicated ASAP from the NPM org to its users.

@seldo, I understand that you don't want to disseminate misleading info, but an abundance of caution seems warranted in this case as my understanding of the incident lines up with what @yashap has said. If we're wrong, straighten us out --- if we're not, please sound an advisory, because this is major.
Your argument is for the equivalent of new Indian reservations. The poor people moving into these houses will tend to be ethnic or racial minorities. There will be no jobs in that area, and no access to transportation, and definitely food deserts, and no education, etc etc etc etc [include an 'etc' for every service needed for a population of humans in a modern western society]. It will be harder for people to live, and the neighborhoods therein would crumble from a lack of access to important resources.

The other thing the argument does is assume we have an "expensive land" problem. We don't. In most cases it's construction costs that are unacceptably high, not land costs.

In Philly and Baltimore, the situation is the same as described in the article. The estimates for building new low cost housing are up to 10 times the cost for private development, so it does not get built - and the land goes back to private developers, and sold to the wealthy. This has been a constant issue for as long as I have lived in these cities.
Increase taxes to build affordable housing. Hand the contract over to a developer. Developer builds $700,000 units. The model is not economically sustainable. Increase taxes. Rinse repeat. Now even the middle income people can't afford to buy a $300,000 house, and have to move into the affordable housing. Housing developers are living like kings.

Welcome to the USA, where taxes are spoken for before they are even levied.
Good point. I’ll talk to some guys and we’ll turn off the World Wide Web tomorrow. Fun experiment but there were a few security bugs (fixable, but why spend the time?) and, most importantly, @mulmen didn’t like it too much.
Hyperloop at 750MPH would drastically solve this problem using the solution you described. Build feeder cities in a 750 mile radius.

I mean that's Miami to NYC in less than 2 hours.
Considering almost every human I know uses Reddit in some capacity (technical and non-technical), that's pretty likely.
You're right. One would imagine a site called City-Lab would put some effort into answering the question they open. But the most we get is "Perhaps the central problem of housing affordability is one of scale"

If this is what we get as an answer to such an important question, I can't really trust them to really be forthright when it comes to understanding the issues of cities. When people complain about the media, this is the kind of sloppy thing people complaint about.
Once I had the fortune to meet and be interviewed by John Young for a position. He was a pioneer in space travel and led humanity forward, yet he was most humble and self effacing in person. It has been many years, but that short period still stands out for his grace and kindness.
May he rise in peace.
And hope that humanity builds on his legacy to explore farther and faster.
let COUNT=COUNT+1

is all you need
The problem is absolutely land prices, but there is something we can do about it: get rid of our draconian anti-density zoning.

The commonly perceived idea that land prices invariably increase when upzonings occur is only true in the context of how they occur today: very slowly, in extremely limited numbers, after years of lobbying the government for changes. Land prices are determined by their highest best use, and right now, with extremely scarce housing supply, that highest and best use will always be the most dense possible development imaginable. But that isn't guaranteed to be true.

What would happen if all of the land was developable at density? It certainly wouldn't be scarce, and with heavily increased competition it likely wouldn't be very profitable to build either. Seattle's 83 sq miles of land, at the midrise levels of central Paris, would accommodate 4.6M people, 25% more than the entire 8000 sq mile metro region currently houses. It would take an inward migration of several millions of people before the highest and best use of most land parcels would be to build extremely densely everywhere. There just would not be enough demand to justify midrises everywhere.

So while most centrally located land (like the handful of neighborhoods directly adjacent to downtown) might result in land price increases (because dense developments can actually attract enough demand to fill them), it would likely end up with lower land prices in neighborhoods further out like Beacon Hill or Ballard.

So if you want to lower the costs of affordable or transitional housing development, you gotta do the same exact thing that you would do to lower the prices of market rate housing.
I can attest to the OLED burn-in. My three-year-old Samsung Note 4 has a very noticeable bar across the top, from the dark status line above what is usually a light background on everything else. I guess the rest of the screen is what is burnt in and the status bar area is closer to its original state.

I don't notice it most of the time, but it really stands out on anything full screen. I think I would be rather annoyed if a three-year-old laptop did this.
Can you mention which OS didn't get early enough warning? I'm sure there is some niche ones which may miss out but they are usually not the target of hacking either. And many of the derivative Linux distributions don't do active kernel development and just compile the stock kernel or derive from Red Hat, Ubuntu or others. The more people that are informed early, the more likely it will leak out early.
I wrote a gruesome wang tile implementation for dungeon crawl: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/d0efa662383971e981fb52f8...

In addition to color it supports 'oriented colors': blue+ matches blue- for example. This allows graphical manipulations of the art assets to be reflected in the tile structure.
I note that the INIT line appears 30 seconds after decompression.

Ultimately you don't really need anything initialized to have a working system.
One problem is that the marginal cost of adding another floor increases as you get taller and taller, because you need to install more infrastructure, like elevator shafts, in the building to support them. That also means less usable space per floor. Building taller, at least megatall, is hardly free.

http://voxeu.org/article/tall-buildings-and-land-values
Yes, but doesn't the repeated application increase the probability again? How is this bringing it closer to 0%?