skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF has, finally, after decades of underbuilding, allowed some modest increase in the supply of multi-family housing units: https://sf.curbed.com/2017/5/4/15543668/san-francisco-new-ho.... Oakland has done the same. The story above is about single-family units, and there is effectively almost no undeveloped space within commuting distance of SF / SV for additional single-family housing units. SF and SV are likely substitutes for renters in the area.

Seattle has some similar problems: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut... although less severe; about 60% of Seattle is still zoned for single-family housing alone: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/06/21/25230243/poll-fi..., which exacerbates its housing crisis.
so at what point does a quantum computer's ability to factor large number threaten RSA (since RSA relies on prime factorization being extremely cpu intensive)?
they were experimenting on and measuring emotions directly

Every change to an interface can potentially affect the emotions of users, whether or not you try to measure it.
I can't remember, has Apple bothered enabling thread-local storage in its clang distribution yet?
Money is not the objective of growing a big business
Very cool news. It's always exciting to see Keybase introduce new features, and the thought process behind them is usually pretty interesting to read.

There's definitely a very real need for an anchored cryptocurrency that isn't a huge scam like Tether. It's cool that Stellar seems to solve this in a way that doesn't require me to hand over all of my trust to the currency creator.

Also, that FAQ was awesome.
Apple's lead is already significant. Did you look at the benchmarks in the article? The iPhone transcoded the video in about 28% of the time!

If anything, Apple continues to pull away from Qualcomm with each generation. They have a serious emphasis on performance that Qualcomm just doesn't seem interested in matching. If you cold get an A* chip in an Android phone it would be a hot commodity for the top end models.

Ultimately it doesn't matter though. You can only get A* chips in iPhones and non-A* chips in everything else. There is effectively no competition here at the chip level.
#5 was just about client caching. Yes it is true a naive graphql implementation can make multiple db queries which can create a performance concern, but there are ways to mitigate it with various tools, or with clever structuring of the schema.

Its an artifact of being able to define an individual, independent resolver for each attribute. The advantage of this though is that it makes it easy to stitch together multiple data sources into one schema, so GraphQL shines especially as a wrapper, or as a query layer on top of a non-relational data store, like Mongo or Dynamo
There was an attack against the Proton network
NYC is our city. It's for everyone. If the wealth is too concentrated there, split it up. You'd want to turn my hometown into some kind of apartheid disneyland for the rich.
Is your browser so out of date or you dont like storing your cc info? As much as i remember few years ago chrome asked me already if i want to save the cc card i entered into the form for future use.
Apple's LLVM and Clang from Xcode 9 are based on version 4.0 of the main LLVM/Clang. You'll need at least LLVM/Clang 5.0 for more C++17 compatibility.

To be fair, modern C++ support is not a priority for Apple, their efforts are more toward Swift.
Interestingly enough:

https://appsumo.com/kingsumo1-black-friday-2016-offer/ - the 2016 sale says "free updates for life"

https://appsumo.com/black-friday-kingsumo-personal-2017/ - the 2017 black friday sale suddenly does not have that (seem like here they already knew they will sell SaaS soon, but this is rare on appsumo to not promise updates for life, most probably overlooked this)

All AppSumo lifetime deals include all future upgrades (unless they clearly specify its 1 year licence or so), this is the general expectation, and that's the point of it.

Many deals are kinda broken and unusable at the point of their sale, but people will buy they in hope they will become great in future. Yes its kinda like beta versions.

This is happening time and time again ... many AppSumo deals changed dramatically and the lifetime deals are still honored, some even change their pricing models completely, but in some shape or form, the lifetime deals are still honored. It's basically early funding and exposure (more importantly).

When I bought Mailshake it was pretty basic, but damn, they still keep adding features. They could have done the same and say, hey, if you want the new Zapier integration, you gotta pay for it, but they dont do that, because they set certain exepcation with lifetime licence.

The point is that this didn't go as expected.
Luckily, the joint I've got to deal with, the worst case is that the bread would end up inside the faucet and might require a bit of cleaning. Seems like just running some water through it aught to dissolve the bread and let things carry on. I'll use crappy white bread to make sure it's easily dissolvable :)
Is this tested with Jepsen?
That list of history reading appears depressingly Euro-centric. At the very least, China and India have significant written history too.
why is nobody here speaking about the basic attention token?

https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Have there been changes to Stellar to address the topology trust issue that `nullc brought up in the linked thread?
> Philosophy is not different from other areas of study in that respect. Post-grad physics is very different from undergrad physics too.

> A general way to consider the difference between undergrad and post-grad flavors of an academic discipline is that undergrad is primarily about learning how to apply what is known, while post-grad is primarily about exploring the unknown to create new knowledge.

The practice of researching physics is very different from the practice of teaching physics, sure. But it's the same "physics"; graduate physicists would be happy for their discipline to be judged by undergraduate physics (and undergraduate philosophy does include Aristotle, Aquinas and all that).
Tangentially related, taking a Geiger counter on a trans-Atlantic flight is a pretty good time [1]. Some good low-dose radiation data we have comes from flight crews.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2014-05-17-radiation-on-fligh...
I did a walking tour of the lower east side last year. It was run by the "tenement museum" (which is much more interesting than I expected.).

http://www.tenement.org

It turned into a talk about housing, and housing prices (we had a california developer on the walk and some english people adding perspective).
I’m missing the piece between the dwave and programming in ternary. Ie the dwave acts as a neural network - you “program it” through finding novel applications of its architecture to problems. (Its hardware being a specific form of neural network, a Hopfield network.) Ternary programming seems to be an attempt to implement general processing on top of a neural network, ignoring the relationships between the qbits.
Is there a macOS equivalent?
> The web contains hundreds of trillions of webpages, and most of it is unindexed.

any reference to this number?
> I get not throwing grandma out of the $250/month 4BR she’s been living in for 50 years, but it means something like 200,000 rent-controlled/rent-stabilized units are also raising everyone else’s rent by decreasing inventory.

So you're saying that affordable housing is preventing housing from being affordable? LOL.

> The endless red tape in new construction makes non-luxury bulidings unprofitable. Want cheaper rents? Fast-track approval for new apt buildings.

Luxury buildings are more profitable because rooms are more spacious (literally requires less construction), you need to make fewer sales to make the same revenue (in a 10 story building you sell 40 condos instead of 80) and buyers are more financially stable (each sale is easier). Removing red tape has nothing to do with that.

There's certainly lots of red tape in NYC construction, but I see zero evidence that there is more red tape with non-luxury construction. This is just a ridiculous HN meme at this point: every problem is caused by regulation and the only tool we're allowed to use to solve problems is incentives. I, for one, am deeply skeptical that making things cheaper for rich people is a good place to look for solutions to the problems of the poor.

More to the point: none of what you've said means that AirBnB isn't to blame for the lack of affordable housing in NYC. NYC housing is a complex market, and a lack of affordable housing has more than one cause. The article presents its evidence why they think AirBnB caused the problem. Simply presenting alternate causes doesn't mean AirBnB isn't a cause, because I think we can agree there is more than one reason that housing prices are high in NYC.
FontSwipe: Tinder for Fonts
Ash HN: How much would you pay for.?
I'm building an app to give designers, developers, marketers or anyone the ability to create a directory scaffold for their project whatever that could be. I'm looking into monetising it by selling a long term subscription as there are running costs with the settings for the "templates" being saved in the cloud and wondered what people would think is a fair price on a monthly, annual or perpetual basis?
Looks interesting.

One small piece of advice. Get rid of the three small steps selling point. From a developer perspective, you think you're explaining that the concept is simple and easy to use. From the end user stand point, they go: ugh, multiple steps. The end user's brain begins to shut down and moves into rejection mode right then and there. Steps = hassle, memorization, fear of screwing a step up, complication. It doesn't matter how many steps.

So in the three simple steps section:

Header: How Ottomon Works [have that be the bold text]

Drop the three simple steps part.

Under the header, turn it into two actions, even if in your mind it's really three steps. It's:

Place QR Code <-> Scan QR Code

If you need to include text about communicating with the owner of the code, put it in the last segment about scanning the QR code.

It's not: step 1, step 2, step 3, step blah.

It's: place codes, scan codes.
would it make more sense stop the switch in Novemeber to stay in Eastern Standard Time and get rid of Eastern Daylight Time entirely?
> continuos boom for 20 years
Well, at a guess, you need at least as many qubits as there are bits in your key?
> outside of tech often don't know about the data collection to quite the extent you're talking about and don't care

Quite, but some of those very same people who don't care will call it creepy when they are on the receiving end of a retargeting campaign. Of course some don't care, or just find it funny. That's how I've got dragged in to those occasional conversations - typically a friend is spooked at the fact suddenly, somehow, as if by magic, the whole internet has decided they want to see ads for Gibson guitars, everywhere. Maybe they mentioned them in a FB comment a few weeks previously, or visited a review site with tracking etc.

I put it to you that they don't care because they have understood the transaction as one of £1 for a bar of chocolate. I give you some photos and emails in exchange for chat and service. "Who cares if Google/FB/NSA know when I have pizza" and so forth.

What they haven't (and yes, I realise I'm stretching this analogy far beyond breaking point) realised is buying that bar of chocolate results in the shop photocopying all their mail, weighing them, planting a bug to listen in to later conversations and having an employee follow them everywhere for the next few weeks - just in case they express another interest in chocolate.

> discomfort that didn't seem to persist, given the person's behavior didn't change at all.

I think network effect can cover most of that - continue to use Facebook because everyone they know is there, whilst having a vague perception that Facebook doesn't have their interests at heart.

It's still valid for them not to care, of course, but I think a much more honest explanation from the services of the extent they track, and what they can achieve in aggregate, is called for. I think that because people are still surprised by retargeting and similar techniques, and often describe it as creepy. I'm surprised that they're still surprised, to be honest, given how long it's been going on.

So clearly there is still some significant dissonance out there.
Off topic but can we drop the "I am not a lawyer" thing in forums?

It is not necessary. Do you really think your random internet comment will be considered legal advice?
Lego will sell its first sustainable pieces later this year
Okay, but like operationally, what does that even mean? How do we establish a legal definition of what "your data" even is?

When we talk about "big data" and data collection, the vast majority of what we're talking about basically just boils down to web logs, and derived data that's inferred from those logs. So is an entry in a web log that corresponds to something you did now your property? Is anything someone writes down about me now my property? If I walk in a store and the store owner writes down that I was there, is that my property?
The odd thing about the current market, compared to the previous periods of rapid appreciation in the Bay Area, is that few of the current owners seem to be cashing out and leaving. This is causing the inventory issues.
At least until the iPhone's battery wears down
It's a pity there's no C/C++ example as well (maybe with openssl?) For low level comparison
I don't see enough info in the article to conclude what happened. But I have a hypothesis.

I bet they use certificate pinning.

Process A launches process B and checks against a pinned certificate. This is even more secure than just using the windows code signing stuff.

Problem is, when their cert expired, they were supposed to renew the same cert. Instead, somebody got a new one and signed the build of process B.

The device automatically downloads process B, but then the certificate pin check fails when it tries to launch it.

All the security guides that tell you to do certificate pinning need flashing neon signs explaining this problem. You can't pin certs if you intend to ever change certs.
This is really just re-labeling the numbers for time. So now, 9 am is called 10 am.

Alternatively, they are forcing people to wake up earlier but this effect may not last for long. By 'earlier' I mean it in the sense of our biological clocks.

There is something about people who push for permanent daylight savings. They are usually morning people who can't seem to (or want to) understand that what works for them is not necessarily what works for everyone. Many students especially are hurt by early schedules because that causes them to not get enough sleep.
Why we had a free plan and why we dropped it
It's not exactly year over year, it's compared to December 2017 which was the previous high for median prices.
> Whatever one thinks of Google, it's hard to not agree that they take security very seriously

I completely agree. Don’t think I stated otherwise?

Anyway, I find it hard to believe for any browser to untrust Google’s intermediate CA. And more so for Global Sign.

That said I recon that especially if Chrome started distruating Google CA that we all heard about it ;)
I haven’t tried this, but the docs mention an interactive mode. I assume this would be a more vim-esque prompt mode.
"...or graphics code you are constantly told "just express what you want to express directly, and the system is smart enough to do things as efficiently as possible"."

Who is saying that? I've worked in video games for 18 years and never heard that. In fact, anyone who said that would get puzzled and suspicious looks. We generally use a very C-like variant of C++.
Birth rates are slowing. Build the houses all over the city so you don't have concentrated poverty. If you have too much poverty in your city, then it's time to start redistributing wealth more generally.
That does seem a bit painful to me. Maybe it will get better with some Rust macro DSL though...
I see the similar behaviour with measurement on scales though. There is this need to make it EXACTLY 2.50 pounds. If it is 2.52, well that just unacceptable, and the seesaw of removing and adding begins.
I'll admit, I occasionally fall into this trap until I consider what the consequences are (pretty much nothing in terms of what I'm baking, but a decent waste of time).
4. Chinese populous resigns themselves to the eluded-to fact that Apple's devices will not offer privacy from the state even though it's only iCloud that we presume to be affected; consumer buys domestic device that is easier to spy on

5. Surveillance state mission accomplished!

I don't know, I suppose when you insert a state actor, it's the conspiracy equivalent of Godwin's Law.
Crypto Offerings Slowly Grow Up
i thought it was old news that google isn't cool any more
I feel like there's a very real synergy possible here. Keybase has a solution covering security, identity, chat and multi-device usage that could be very interesting when combined with a crypto-currency like Stellar Lumen. I wonder what they have in mind in terms of features. Any guesses?
Nevermind, turns out I can't read straight.
What does it mean to be a feminist coder in 2018?
How was a comment that says “no one deserves to have a spouse die” injecting politics?
Anyone buying into that hellstorm is just the next greater fool.
Yeah, I feel the same. I felt way more attached to the runs in FTL and excited for every new game.
Chances are the next macOS upgrade will come with an Xcode upgrade which usually comes with an llvm/clang upgrade... but I do agree with you.
I think that the number of neurons is not the single parameter to take in consideration. At birth the brain is a kind of "soup" made of disconnected neurons - except a small kernel structured during the pre-natal life for basic managementof organs. Then repeated external stimuli create connections between neurons, stronger and more complex, leading to a functional brain with memory, "computing" capacities, redundancy, associative capacity. An old brain loses neurons, more and more, but thanks to brain's plasticity and permanent stimuli, it can keep most of its capacities for a long time. The problem is that the small hippocampus is a bottleneck. When it begins to be buried below beta-amiloid and tau-protein, the rest of the brain is still functional but no more reachable. It's the end.

It's how I see those things. What do you think of that?
> Systems of Record

OLTP

> Systems of Engagement

OLAP
I’ve really been enjoying ‘Into the Breach.’

I wonder how much of the interface choices were driven by portability to iPad and especially mobile.

FTL (which is superb) is too complicated visually to port to a phone. It works well on an iPad, but having played on both the iPad and desktop I can see that they needed to make UI tweaks for the iPad to make it work.

This new game is an 8x8 grid though, so it’s easier to imagine it as a mobile game.
For me, vim is so integral now to my dev workflow that being able to work in a single environment is great.

I don't really use and cli tooling for DB access and querying, now being able to use a vim pane as my query entry is really nice - no switching back and forth between various applications.

An interactive prompt would be pretty nice though, agree with that.
Easy to blame a detailed study with tons of data and not my ideological preconceived complaint that I haven't bothered to look up the data on.
Contract law usually doesn't allow for lifetime contracts because people can't consider such a long timespan logically. Rent control is the same thing. It forces a contract with on going payments and services with no end date. Is there any escape clause?
Last time Keybase came up I made sure to post about how great using it is and that I am super-duper enthused about Keybase. I entreated 'malgorithms to let me give him money for Keybase. And I have recommended Keybase to a ton of people and a bunch of my clients, using it in a bunch of workflows. Now those people and those clients are going to have cryptocoin bullshit stuffed into a work tool?

Thanks, Chris. You're doing a great job of making me look like an asshole for believing in you guys.

I don't want your "monetization plays" and my clients don't either. Giving you guys money for Keybase is infinitely preferable to having cryptocoin crap, Stellar or otherwise, being jammed into a tool I use for work. (Or anything else, really, that I ever have to touch.) And I feel like a sap for being an enthusiastic user of Keybase and recommending it to people when this sort of garbage is coming down the pike.

I am really, really disappointed.
I'll never understand why I can't pay Google and Facebook $20 to $50 per year to simply respect my privacy and not give me advertisements. I can't imagine they make more than this off my viewing behaviour (especially as I use adblock)
I am in no way in my element with quantum computing. I'm trying to dip my toes in as an amateur.

I still often get a little turned around in the [what appear to be] subtle differences between Qubit operations and ternary operations.

At a naive level, they appear to be the same—three possible states: 1, 0, indeterminate. This however isn't quite true. I hope somebody who's better educated can weigh in, but it seems that a Qubit is actually flat to the user in that the user can only ever see one of two visible states at the point of observation, where with ternary operations the user can actually see one of three differing states.

I'm not yet familiar with the DWave platform, but it certainly appears as if that would be a good thing to know in the coming years...
Only the Chinese users data is transferring to Chinese servers, not all of iCloud.
AirBnb not just hikes rent prices, it hikes real estate prices as well because it is a way to offset mortgage payments. It effectively brings down mortgage interest rate. Have some free money? Get a mortgage and put the property on AirBnb. We know what happens when this type of thinking scales out.
> after this I added the account name to all emails I sent

Good takeaway: If you're using $randomThirdPartyAuthentication, then you should make it clear to the user how he's actually authenticated with you (in emails, but also the website, if sessions are long-lived).

A few years ago I accumulated a few stackexchange accounts because it wasn't quite clear what SSO was used, so I ended up with one account for each...
The question is, how many other such tests should there be, and what if you’ve missed one?
> If the demand for drug fighting just lost 90% of it's target, why do we need so many drug fighters? In terms of a real war, if an army just decimated 90% of it's enemy, it's time to send some troops back home.

Well, those people wouldn't be jobless as there are (serious) drugs to fight: Heroin and cocaine. But, that would be against the imperial interests of the USA, one powerful agency in particular. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

[3] https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-becam...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Tra...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockbu...