skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the price has gone up so much, there's a financial incentive to build more until supply matches demand and prices drop to previous levels.

> These properties are barely fully booked during the summer months or holiday/peak seasons, and are empty for weeks at a time in the winter and off-seasons.

> This is such a waste and hugely frustrating for folks who live and work in these communities trying to find accomodation.

A lot of people get a lot of joy out of holidaying somewhere like Scotland in the summer. When there are limited houses and a lot of people who want to use them, there will always be winners and losers. Is it really so implausible that for a house in a scenic rural area, a succession of people renting it for a week or two each over the summer might end up getting more out of it (between them) than someone wanting to live and work in it for a whole year?
My guess is because takes more words to say what they really mean, numbers with only two large prime factors.
Male doctors are disappearing from gynecology. Not everybody is thrilled about
In the UK buyers generally just see the structure and pay for what they think its worth, they tend not to think about the land (and whatever value it might also have) it sits on. Perhaps the exception to this would be garden size if the property isn't a flat (apartment).

The reason for this is that it's pretty damned difficult to separate the two, especially physically. Planning laws generally discourage complete demolition of dwellings unless they're pretty much near collapse or there's been a fire that's gutted the place or in more extreme circumstances perhaps all or part of the house has fallen into a sink hole.

In the UK, residential property (the structure bit) is, and has for a long time now been seen as an appreciating asset/investment. As I already said earlier, property here, if lived in and sensibly maintained, isn't considered something that "wears out" like a car body.

It sounds like you're not from the UK so maybe all this is an alien concept.

Edit: I forgot to mention that things get a wee bit more complex, especially in England and Wales because whilst you might own the structure, it's quite common that don't own the land it sits on. This is known as a leasehold, as opposed to a freehold where you the purchaser own the land as well as the building. Buyers of properties that are leasehold purchase their dwelling (typically with a mortgage) but also pay an annual ground rent to the leaseholder by way of a very long term lease (say 99+ years). Once upon a time the ground rent on the lease hold used to be a nominal amount of money, say GBP100/year. However...capitalism being capitalism, it's becoming more common for leasehold ground rent to be seen by certain investment houses as a nifty way of getting paid for doing bugger all. This can and has caused annual ground rents to increase to quite piss-taking levels.

There are some attempts to get parliament to reform this leasehold situation after it was found that new-build housing estates were being sold to buyers on a leasehold basis but the leasehold condition is not made clear to purchasers. It's sneaky, and another way for house builders to extract another bundle of cash by selling off new-build estate leaseholds to some offshored company for a tidy sum leaving the buyers high and dry. It's often possible to buy out the leasehold, but even in the first year of ownership the cost can be prohibitive, especially after shelling out for your new house. It's not unheard of for leaseholders to charge say GBP5000-7000 in the first year and then double the cost each year afterwards, often locking buyers into the leasehold until they're able to sell the property. Then there's also problems and costs associated with renewing a leasehold, but that's a whole other expensive and morale sapping thing.
Harsh. Nothing about this post implies a monetization play. The whole point of Keybase is identity verification. How is it not a natural evolution for them to explore trusted cross-border, multicurrency transactions?

That's not to say you even have to use a payments feature if it's integrated into the primary Keybase application. You don't have to verify ownership of a domain or register a Bitcoin address, but both of them are options in Keybase right now.
Hmm, I don't see anything in there related to skill acquisition in younger vs older people, I'm afraid. Most of the links are about skill acquisition in general, and how the brain changes. One is to a Google book that won't show the page (I don't know why, it says the page is unavailable), and the last link is a teacher saying he guesses children learn more quickly because they're more plastic (but I guess they learn faster because they have more free time/willingness to practice)...
You know what is even better? A SQL database. Very simple and you can do almost anything with it. Also very proven technology.
Where would you leave to, and more importantly where would you invest the windfall? All asset classes are expensive at the moment...
Yes there are fewer choices, but that would change if more people were buying them. I found mine at Micro Center.
I found some discussion of copyright infringement by imitation here: https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&con.... [0] In general it seems to be fine to photograph the same object as an earlier copyrighted work, as long as "original aspects" are not copied such as lighting or placement of the subject. The lighting is different here, though the placement barely differs. There's also not a clear "first" since the photographs were taken almost simultaneously. I think at the end of the day, a judge would chock up any alleged infringement as de minimis. [1]

This also brings to mind the image of paparazzi or sports photographers all in a narrow press area rapidly shooting off pictures. I don't think any of them have had trouble selling their photographs to agencies despite being in the same location and capturing the same subject simultaneously.

[0]: Kogan, Terry S., "How Photographs Infringe" (2017). Utah Law Faculty Scholarship. 20.
https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/20

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis#Copyright
A fluff-free guide to pre-freelancing
Maybe we should build/design houses more like commercial construction. Build the structural components of the house to last a long, calculated amount of time, then build the other pieces with the expectation that they'll be modified to keep the usability current.
Yes, you are right, didn't see that. So one is exactly 1ms and the other just 0.625ms.
Might it be because Slack is free and hosted for you?
The blockchain hype is crazy.

My favorite truism that I see people spouting is that Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies are) is worthless, but blockchain is a huge innovation.

Little do these people understand that the true innovation is Bitcoin's proof of work as a consensus mechanism with the economic incentive of mining. Most of these "blockchains" are just distributed databases, which are not trustless, decentralized etc.
The real threat of quantum computers is not the testing of prime numbers, but the factoring of semiprime numbers (numbers that have two distinct prime factors). The difficulty of taking a semiprime number and extracting it’s prime factors is considered an extremely hard problem, and this assumption of difficulty underpins nearly all of our modern cryptographic systems. If it were trivial to factor a large semiprime, one could intercept/hack all credit card transactions. This is the quintessential problem that quantum supremacy raises, and the most publicized; OP was remarking that the journalists likely meant to talk about this threat, but somewhat sloppily wrote prime instead of semiprime.
Right - that was my point to the parent who said "it's scary they [Mercedes] didn't figure that out" (that there was a unit change, and thus proceeded down the road of "must have been a rollback"). I was trying to get across that simply making the assumption that mileage going down implies a kilometers-to-miles conversion in reading is ripe for abuse, and so Mercedes would have to assume a rollback first and investigate.
i have been looking and looking but can't find good streams or videos of people coding in a lisp (e.g., common lisp) or a smalltalk. this is really disappointing because i would love to see these (supposedly) more dynamic environments at work. i would also take any SML or f# videos as well.

there is a korean guy on youtube who does some live coding in common lisp for music and visuals, which is really cool, but that's all i have found.

any suggestions?
From idea to no monetization plan in 3 days
I started startakitchen.com as a way to aggregate a bunch of stuff about cooking supplies, recipes and instructions. It was well received on the cooking subreddit - but I don't know how to turn it into a simple idea that can generate revenue. Anybody have any ideas to expand on this?
Well yeah, that was the point: "While there exist a number of high-level, Flask or Django like frameworks that abstract away most of the fun about this, we will opt for using the slightly lower-level hyper library to handle HTTP..."

You should check out Rocket or Actix-Web or Gotham for something a bit more higher-level. Also know that it's Rust we're talking about - it's an expressive languages, but it's also a systems language, if you want something you can toss in a breakpoint and start introspecting or experimenting you'll probably want Ruby or Elixir.
That would be fun to watch, but to be overly pedantic about it, it will take a computer with hundreds of qubits to break current public key encryption.
Should startups launch with an iPhone or android app?
Rift patch
In 2011 there were 34000 homes in Manhattan that were absentee owned or rented. That's a lot, but not in comparison with the size of the city.

Also, the population in Manhattan has been going up since 1980, so it can simultaneously be true that there are more people living here and more vacant investment properties and hotel rooms.

I doubt we're in any danger of Manhattan emptying out in the next few hundred years from anything other than a nuclear attack or climate change.
Surely not the last time a pointy haired boss got his/her way to the doom of everyone else involved.
Stellar is a postgres database under the hood and its just the stellar concensus protocol (SCP) that determins which queries/transaction to apply to your database in tandem with all the other nodes
Not really. You’ll still get the hot water there considerably faster.
That's good, but honestly I feel like Lego are maybe one of the best uses of plastic. High tolerances, resistant to wear and pretty much infinitely resuable (across literally generations!).

Where plastic is a much greater issue is when it's disposable, like in say the clear plastic bags that the legos in the box ship in.
Whoa, that seems like a very strong claim claim and is contrary to my understanding. I know that instrumental variables can be a powerful approach, but it's not always easy to find a good instrument. And you can try to control for confounders, but it's hard to convince yourself you've gotten all of them. See, for example, https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04692 where standard controls were of limited efficacy and it's only when they include an additional 3,700 controls that things start looking up.

Then there are things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_identification_probl... and whole books like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(book) examining the problem and its' difficulty.

Can you explain what you mean?
> AI is being overused

double-checks URL bar to make sure he is still on HN

Downvote me all you want but I think the tech sector is currently suffering a veritable Machine Learning craze.
The parent of the comment I replied to was talking about a timestamp server. I was explaining what that meant and why it was using it. I don't know what the actual issue is with the Oculus' handling of certificates and whether it was a code signing certificate or not.
It's unsurprising that negative views of Paul Graham are downvoted here, but this is a very worthwhile point. There is nothing "objective" about writing in a bland, unornamented style, or about treating complex problems as if they were syllogisms. Fans of Paul Graham's writing are often like the inverse of undergraduates who revere "difficult" writing for its own sake; both mistake a choice of style for a virtue of thought.
That's part of it, but there is also a genuine issue of AirBnB owners running unlicensed hotels that impose negative externalities on the community (e.g. not being checked for bedbugs as frequently as a hotel should, providing a place that wanted criminals can hide out without having their IDs checked, evading taxes...)
Licensed: A Ruby gem to cache and verify the licenses of dependencies
My impression was that involved a great deal of trust, and if they breached that trust Apple wouldn’t hesitate to smite them. Recording people’s mic seems like it’s pretty harmful to the iPhone brand... But you are right, this could be happening today, and Apple is giving them too much trust, and the smite-ing is yet to come.
Keybase is also an identity tool, and I see value in having proof of identity when making crypto transactions.
IWD: Being a Woman in Tech at Condé Nast
I like Silicon Valley because it is full of people from other parts of the world ie very cosmopolition. That’s why property prices are high too.
Tesla Model 3 review: Learn to love the road again
Wow. Get a helmet folks. If you have any experience in this industry, you’ve seen this before and know how it ends...
Been digging https://vx-demo.now.sh/ so far. Helpful enough to remove boilerplate, but still control how things render to achieve the desired visualization.
The thing I love the most about Stellar is how its founders want it to become "the SMTP of payment". It's kind of amazing we still haven't such kind of protocol widely available, and have to rely on private companies like Paypal, Stripe or any bank's IPN to send money on the internet, decades after its creation.
Realistically, how is it any different than any of these types of tools? How does Subform differ from Webflow and why should Webflow users switch? Or is it more of a "hope the customer doesn't know the other options yet" approach?
Why someone use this kind of chat? Same Slack, Hipchat it's look to me like expansive irc.
And this "blog post" is more Stellar commercial.
Another overrated as hell indie game with bad pixel graphics. Between this and Celeste its getting annoying.
PII, Personal Identifiable Information, is the phrase I know for this.

I'd like to see a requirement for all companies receiving PII to issue an account of how they use it and who it's sold to, those receiving your PII would also have an obligation to notify you, and offer access to the same audit data (how they're using it, who they got it from, who they gave/sold it to).

Legit companies would then leak information, by design, showing companies using/selling your data without notifying you.

Real fines like those anticipated in the GDPR would be needed to encourage companies to adhere to the legislation.

/ifiwereemperoroftheworld
I mean... "crypto" !!!
Can you imagine what cryptographers had to witness every day for a couple of years now, while the term was increasingly skewing towards a completely misleading meaning?
That's why it's hosted on github. To quote the 5th line:

> ...make your change to this file and open a pull request!
I've been convinced by Mazières and the Stellar team

As someone who's been in the cryptocurrency space for a long time I can guarantee you got swindled. Countless investors I have seen move to centralized "blockchains" due to buzzword powerpoint presentations and floating_nodes.jpg bootstrap landing pages.

This is no different than what current financial institutions do other than a new UI.
Isn't it the same use case as having say SQL Server Management Studio? You get nice syntax highlighting and your Vim dev environment for modifying SQL then you can run the script and see the result and edit, rinse, repeat
I'm not so sure that your recommendation is the reason why you look like an asshole at the present moment..
To be frank, you should feel like an idiot. This was entirely foreseeable and people have been warning you not only about Slack, but about proprietary software and vendor lock-in for _literally decades_. Try not to make this mistake again. Advocate for free and open source.
> This is always such a stupid argument. Zoning and regulations are not about what is there, its about what you WANT to be there. If you had supply issue in an area full of flats, and you said "all buildings from now on have to be at least 2 stories high", 100% of buildings could not be built today. But you're trying to make things better.

If what you have now is worse than you think it should be then the argument isn't valid, agreed. But if you think the way the place is now is pretty good - if the things that are now illegal are the same things that set this place apart from other cities - then the argument makes sense.
Bah, if I had my way, I’d like to be one of those first contributors the rest gets built upon.
"Blockchain" has come to designate a very well defined concept: any technical and financial construction designed for speculative investment in unregulated securities out of reach of traditional authorities, usually having a very shady, deflationary or ponzi-like economic structure and strong money laundry potential.

There is nothing fundamentally novel in distributed databases or their application in finance, we knew how to build "blockchains" since the 70`s. Satoshi's proof of work chains were the first anonymous implementation and that's what started the "crypto revolution".
Interesting! I have a question about how it works in practice: In the US, there are often extra considerations beyond the offer price. For example, someone paying in cash can typically offer less than someone who needs a mortgage, due to the lower risk of the offer falling through. Or I might bid less, but require that an aging roof be replaced at the current owners' expense. How do they deal with that in the Netherlands?
And that’s JUST because of rent control

Not wage stagnation or cost of living increases, or AirBNB (oh wait)

Just rent control

So let’s screw the people relying on it because in some narrow context about screwing others (that never happens otherwise in the economy!) rent control is bad

There are hacks and patches all over “the system”. That’s called free market making agreements as needed when needed, IMO

Just because when quantified some story is told that seems off to external players doesn’t mean it’s anyone’s concern but the parties directly involced
Exactly! That's the best part. :)
Reality may or may not be discrete, but what is a discrete value is the output from a digital camera, so in case of photographs your argument does not hold.

In other words, two photographs off by a planck length will generate the same set of pixels.
Assembly Programming and Colour
Did riak fold? I'm pretty sure Basho is alive and well.
> Can you tell me who else will pay my advertising bill, because it can be a complete money pit and getting someone to pay for it without using revenue from customers would be great. Let me know bub.

Not sure if your question is rhetorical or what. When you say "who else will pay "my" advertising bill". Who's "you" in this context? Are you a company, and consumer, what?
I followed these steps: https://www.reddit.com/r/IntoTheBreach/comments/80nt36/i_hav...

Works perfectly.
Looking at the code there's some thought of allowing both SQL Server and Oracle.

He only just released it today so there's time to add the others.
It's always interesting to me that a progressive city, like Seattle, has a bunch of people who proudly push a protectionist/exclusion stance similar to the anti-immigration stance on the far right.
"The answer to this is to do human rate limiting"

So, PRs then?
The study was about chronic pain. The vast majority of low back pain, for example, resolves itself over a few weeks. Often the last "treatment" is awarded the "cure".
Preprocessing attacks on the discrete-log problem
About the same here in Seattle. It makes saving for a down payment even more depressing.

I don't understand who is able to buy these houses when my partner and I can't as software engineer + physician assistant. Maybe it's just because we're not willing to decrease or dip into our retirement savings and we have no help from parents.

I just don't feel comfortable taking out a jumbo mortgage. Even though we could make the numbers work, I'm not confident either of us won't burn out from our stressful careers.
Similar to Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

Any time a question has a "shouldn't", the answer is usually no.
I really like that the game is digestible in one night or two.

It really shines on replayability with new types of units that dramatically change the way you strategize.
Note this is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 based Galaxy S9, and not the Exynos 9810 based one. As far as we're aware, the Exynos based one is the quicker one (though obviously that's of little relevance to countries which aren't getting it!).
What do you mean by "maximise resources", currently Western Capitalism is working towards wasting resources and externalising costs, and marginalising resources, that's going to break with massive environmental and social consequences.
The analysis in the original link has much more data than a Zillow search. I’ve actually never seen a realtor report with that much information.
It's a bit silly, right? Like, LEGOs are already sustainable because they are so long lasting.

If there was one good use left for petro-chemicals, this is kind of the case. Ultra-durable products that can be reused infinitely. It seems like growing, harvesting, and processing plant materials would be more resource intensive.
That's great--but I don't care about what value you see when making cryptocurrency transactions. I care about the security and uptime of my services, which is why we started using Keybase in the first place.

If they wanted to build some whateverthing that leverages Keybase for identity? Sure, go nuts, I think it's silly but it's not my time. But injecting it "into their apps"? No. These are tools for production, for me, and were developed with certain explicit and implicit promises. I see cryptocoin junk being shoved into production tools as a break of those promises.
I've never encountered it, and I'm a homeowner in the Netherlands. The sealed bid auctions I've seen were all regular ones were if you are the highest bid you have to pay that price.
Really interesting concept. What's stopping me from bidding an absurdly high amount, knowing that I'll win and only pay as much as the second highest bid? I guess I'll have to be the only one trying to do this for this to work?
What I can't fully get my head around is how defensive people get about things like Hibernate. I've tried it out, and it doesn't do much for me, but it doesn't really get in my way, either; I can work just as fast with Hibernate as I can with JDBC. I think part of the reason for that, though, is that I can work at either level; I can work out in my head what Hibernate is doing and work with it rather than against it. Somebody higher up retorted with, "why not just write your own web server?" Indeed, why not? I've done it for relatively simple REST-API type cases; as long as you don't need a lot of the more complex HTTP cases like continuation messages, caching, digest authentication and redirects, why not? It's nice to have everything under your control and it's almost definitely faster than any third-party solution that's going to have been written to deal with dozens of corner cases that aren't relevant to what you're doing.