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Anecdote: This is exactly what my wife and I did, we bought a house 30 minutes away from where I worked in a smaller town because we could afford the quality of house that we wanted, and it was quite a nice house, but the town had basically none of the amenities that it turned out we really wanted. Turns out we'd much rather live in an apartment in a bigger city, despite having 3 young kids. As the kids get bigger we'll certainly end up in a house again, but our search criteria will be much different the next time around.

We realized our mistake fairly quickly though and luckily were able to sell our house at a price so that we broke even on the whole deal, but it was definitely a valuable learning experience.
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Reminds me of chatting with a director level manager at a fortune 500 firm. He was on vacation between assignments. When I asked why he was being reassigned he said the company moves them around every 2-3 years.

Another example friend lives in a small rural town. The county sheriffs department rotates deputies every two years. Because the deputy needs to be willing to arrest respected members of the community for drunk driving and not be taking bribes from the local meth dealer.
They do, but that 1200 sqft 2br might be sold for a cash offer of $160k, not $40k after a few weeks on the market like it was a few decades ago.
>> "perf. is fine for most web apps for example."

That same argument is made for Ruby and look at how many people leave due to slowness
As a matter of practical politics, that actually seems to be what the goalposts are. It might be better if things were different but in practice that's the standard a self driving car is going to need to meet to be accepted and allowed on the road.
I've used inspectors on both of my home purchases, and both times it was a major lifesaver. The first one caught that the house had a leveling issue (and had us bring in a foundation repair company to measure) and the second one caught a dead heater and a hole in the roof.

That being said, I always hire my own certified home inspectors. Both my spouse and I have enough understanding to know when an inspector is blowing smoke and when they are looking at a real issue, and we monitor them while they do the inspection. A home inspector can't go into details on an issue - that isn't their job - they are only there to tell you what experts you need to call in during your option period.
If dang asks you to do something politely, there's a good reason for it.

You can find out more about him here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
The only useful result of standups that I ever saw consistently was when people spoke up about tasks they were blocked on, and cross-team collaboration allowed a pathway towards a solution to be established more quickly and smoothly than if the exchange had occurred over email or Slack.

Aside from that, the only purpose of a stand up that I experienced was to posture ones self and otherwise waste company time.
The controller was more than $200, the control panel is around $550.

I didn't itemize the rest because I don't have the time to list it all. The roof rack and hardware cost around $1000. There are a lot of individual items that cost around $100, (eg starter battery isolator relay, breaker panel + breakers). Heavy gauge cables are necessary and expensive. All the small things add up.
Interesting. It seemed to be independent library before. May be shoving it inside JVM lead to more usage finally.
Rain has always provided a strong boost to my mood. The sound and the way everything looks during/after a good downpour is incredibly relaxing.

I grew up in an area with frequent rain though so that's more of my default weather than other people I imagine.
For instance, there have been many times where I've worked on a task or a set or related tasks for weeks or months, simply because the tasks required a lot of forethought and careful planning.

That would raise immediate, massive, flashing red alarm bells in my teams!

I understand that different environments have different requirements, and different teams have different needs though.
Tesla autopilot needs all the short term crutches it can get.

Supposed to be fully autonomous since, what, 18 months ago? How about that SF->NY demo?
I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.
Things being recognised and never/rarely acted on is better than them going unrecognised entirely. At least in the former scenario, there's a shared awareness of the problem.
This is what scares me about the push for universal health care in the US. For the majority of the hacker news crowd with employer sponsored care, they'll see a regression to the mean and poorer overall care. I do think there needs to be an option for the poor, but not at the expense of world class care with no wait times.

This is all anecdotal, but here is my experience with the Canadian system:

1. Uncle died of cancer and waited 8 months for chemo and never got it.

2. Almost no family doctors are taking new patients in Vancouver. You can't see a specialist directly unless referred by a family doctor.

3. When mother in law needed a breast scan, we called like 10 different hospitals to ask if they had a breast MRI machine because the wait times were so long and we only found 1 machine.

4. She was also mis-diagnosed with asthma for 3 years because they didn't have the diagnostic tools. We sent her to an allergist in the US and it turned out it was allergies. We've taken to seeing doctors in the US to get referrals to specialists in Canada.

5. Wouldn't let a friend see an OB until 23 weeks and she was bleeding. Friend didn't think it was a thing and we were appalled.

6. Grandfather was mistreated for a low platelet count.

7. No private rooms - if you're deathly ill you're in a hospital bed next to others who are deathly ill.
Supposedly Apple will match up to 100% after several years of employment. Tim Cook is above the catch-up age so he can throw in $24k/year and I would imagine he is doing that, he can definitely afford it. So maybe Apple really doesn't do 100% or Cook isn't throwing as much into his 401k as he could be. He makes more in one year than most people have in their 401k when they retire.
In the same realm, check out LÖVE, a Lua framework for making 2d games for most platforms. It's similarly simple to use but does not come with a built-in graphics or audio editor.

https://love2d.org/
And upstream issues such as this one should be fixed in upstream not patched endlessly with every other distro. That's the approach promoted by Arch Linux.
Find a website design you like. Find a comic / movie / art piece you like . Smash the two color scheme / designs aesthetics together . Most creativity is smashing together previous stimuli into new things. Creative people can just do it a lot more easily and unconsciously like a muscle reflex

Edit: lol even one of the other repliers is called ‘pixelbash’
YES! (says someone who didn't borrow a penny for college because it was $900/yr)
First off, thank so much for your feedback. I'm truly happy that you think it can make a great impact! :) On the other hand, pricing is something that I will definitely be taking a look into soon: for now, I just wanted to launch, so I made it per seat with 1 plan, no fencing of features at all. Entreprise/business (lots of seats) is on the roadmap, let's talk so we can workout a discount for now. Please send me an email at jp at standups.io Thanks :)
They should partner with Let's Encrypt! This is great.
You can pay off enough to not need PMI, and in many areas the house value increasing will help you.
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> he said somthing like 'well if thats what your offering thats what it's worth'.

The appraisers real job (when a mortgage is involved) for the bank is to assess the best offer they could get besides yours, since the bank wants to know what the property would sell for were your unable to pay the mortgage.

Presumably, if you are buying the house, you are (exceptions clearly exist, this is a simplified model) the most interested buyer, they really should be looking as to what the next most interested buyer would pay.

With large enough markets and commodity properties, which probably account for most housing sales, it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that the difference between those two is negligible, though, so I can see how it becomes a default approach.
BikeShedding: I have a large vertical monitor and spent a minute or two trying different combinations of enter and shift+enter before finally noticing the search icon on the opposite corner of the screen, this is one aspect of material design which I don't understand
Of course if you're a first time homebuyer who has been previously renting you won't have any relationships with painters, contractors, or handymen...
Alcohol is a solvent. It dissolves stuff. Sometimes that is helpful in the workshop where you can see what you are doing. The same can't be said about inside your own head even though our ancestors have been experimenting for millennia.

Anyone done comparison studies with the Muslim world?
I hear the phrase, "Not as well built as before" a lot when it comes to housing, and I just dont' understand why that is always assumed. Modern building codes are updated based on sound science and testing. Talk to folks who have houses down in the Corpus Christi, TX area after the recent hurricane. Basically the newer the house the less damage incurred.
There are no practical electric buses. The bus itself is on the Chevy C4500 chassis with a diesel engine.
it would be interesting if contracts(legal ones) had version control.

Here's a base contract 1.0.0 and you can fork it and add/subtract sections, change wording etc.
Ah, the famous indie games like CS:GO, Crusader Kings 2, Borderlands 2, Dota 2, Total War: Warhammer and Tomb Raider 2013.

To be clear, there's a bunch of great games which don't support Linux, but a good amount of non-indie games actually do.
Three days ago, my wife and I (late 20’s) walked away from our second house contract. We felt a deep sense of relief.

The first contract went belly-up when we got a phone call from our lender the day before closing: “there is a cemetery on the property.”

It turns out some people were buried under the carport a few decades ago and we were told we would have to dig them up.

Who am I supposed to call and ask: “hi, can you help me move a body?”

As you may imagine, we walked away.

The second house was going along swimmingly until the HVAC inspector said that our ducts had asbestos tape on them and needed $4-6k in remediation, plus a rotten bathroom. The sellers claimed they didn’t have any money to fix it, so we left that contract as well.

Needless to say, buying houses isn’t my favorite activity at the moment.
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I'm in Scotland. Seller provides a home inspection, done by an independent company. I don't have any reason to believe that the surveyor the seller hired is hiding information from me, and if they did, that would be fraud (and an expensive legal pursuit).

Compared to England, where every prospective buyer has to pay 3-400 pounds for a survey, as no bank will give a mortgage without one, I prefer having the seller provide the survey.

However, the surveys are useless themselves. None of the reports I viewed had any information I didn't see myself in the property, and as I was looking at victorian tenements, they all have warnings about pointing, flat roof, old guttering, which are present in _every_ 150 year old stone building...
You arrive and(generally) go straight to the office. You want your employee to be rested and productive.
I just bought a house 2 weeks ago. Mortgage is $1200, rent for an apartment with one less room and no yard for the puppers is $1300...plus extreme competition for that rental. Buying a house was pretty much a no-brainer for me this time around.
Spot on. As if by magic my appraiser came up with the exact dollar amount agreed to in the purchase price. And this is in a historic neighborhood where every house is truly unique so comps are almost useless.
rather than going person-by-person.

Better still for us has been going task-by-task rather than person-by-person. Look at everything which is in progress, get a quick update on it, move on. Five minutes tops, everybody is up-to-date, issues flagged.
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That's interesting. I was asking MMcM about the Plasma TV yesterday.

It's running on MINITS right? I have been trying to assemble a MINITS but there has been some problem with missing symbols and whatnot.

But maybe it'll work eventually, and then we'll have another nice TV system with SUPDUP graphics and Chaosnet connectivity.
Seems great if you are comfortable with Jekyll. If not, find one that you grok and go from there.
It depends if you want the Chinese or the west spying on you. I'd go with the China.
>But better knowledge will always be important for social mobility, at the very least via earning more money.

College doesn't only improve your income via teaching you valuable skills that demand a higher wage on the job market. It also tells employers that you're the sort of person who can successfully get through college, and employers rightfully discriminate based off this signal.

Furthermore, there's a selection effect too. Colleges don't necessarily make their students better, but can often simply find better students. If you took Stanford and replaced 100% of the instruction with putting the admitted kids in a room together, the "graduates" would end up out-earning others simply because of the kind of person that they are.

There's some debate about the relative sizes of these three factors, but it's my opinion that the human capital theory is a relatively small portion of it. Under 20%, I think.
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I believe companies can add more to the 401k than what the person contributes.
I think there are 4 areas:

- City center

- Neighborhood

- Suburb

- Country

At least that's the case here in Portland. My preference is Neighborhood or Country. The problem here is that the houses in the country are almost as expensive as the ones in the city center. The houses themselves aren't extravagant either, it's mostly because they come with 10+ acres of land.

Portland has great neighborhoods, but they're also drastically different from one another. A super nice house in a far east neighborhood might be $500k while the same house in a more desirable neighborhood could be $1m. Neighborhoods change quickly though, so I imagine much of the remorse from millennials is coming from moving to the suburbs, and not necessarily the less desirable neighborhoods (as they have hope those will gentrify).
At least 20 years...
Generally it is to ensure their employees are well-rested ahead of the important meeting if it is a very long flight. Add in frequent flyer programs to reward an employee’s airline loyalty, and many business class seats are free upgrades for the employee. After a while, it really becomes a consolation prize.
Google, Yelp, Lyft, and Uber all benefit from network effects. Many businesses do not. E.g. if you're selling books, the fact 200 other people bought the book doesn't make the book more useful to purchaser 201.

If you don't care about network effects, why is competition a problem?
> "airplanes can sometimes make a emergency water landing..."

But in those events the planes have transponders/beacons that will tell you where they are. Remember with MH370 the pilot disabled it and then, to the best our knowledge, pointed the plane at the water.
This looks like a really cool premise. Decentralized signatures for certs seems like a no-brainer solution to cert/DNS hijacking (maybe I'm missing something?).
https://gir.me.uk/ - static site built with Metalsmith - full marks on PageSpeed :)
I haven't tried to use it, but in case it's helpful, these would be the features I would want: jot down notes before record, allow preview and then re-record, allow saving text notes with the video, allow tagging people if you need them to see a stand-up (ex. to ask for help), be able to see who has viewed your stand-up, and a minimum stand-up time. Slack integration would be great too, as each recorded message could pop into a slack channel when ready (I don't know how notifications work right now)
You could probably require the plug leads to have rubber coating on 80% of the plug material, and recess the actual contact points slightly farther back into the receptacle, which would emulate the British plug somewhat, but good luck getting anything like that past the lobbying of groups who often cut a tiny hole in one or both blades just to save fractions of a penny per plug
I experienced this firsthand in Westwood (LA) of all places. If you moved from the dorms to off-campus apartments, chances were one or two ISPs would have a monopoly on your building. In my case the "lesser" of two evils was Verizon DSL @5m down/768k up at around $52/month. (IN 2015!!!) A short walk from "the birthplace of the internet."

A stark contrast with the hand-me-down internet in the dorms (I was getting >500mbps down, >200mbps up out of the wall via standard cat5e to my desktop).
Love this site! Watched a couple of the videos too, and you've got some great visualizations. I know you said that you're not great at explaining what you've done with words, but having a couple of lines that express to me (especially as a non-expert) what your contribution was for each video would serve you really well: i.e. the videos look cool, but I don't know what it was that you did that was hard.
Yeah, they turn it on and cold air blows, check box.

Not as many will tell you that the AC unit is 26 years old and likely to die soon. In my experience you have a 50/50 shot of them actually telling you that, but my sample size is very small.
Many of them leave to a BEAM language actually, for speed reasons.
Right. Or you give people the capacity to make their own choices (and make sure the market can function as properly, which is non-trivial).

Any kind of goods/services delivery removes people's capacity to make their own choices.
That's exactly what happened in Europe. The old ones were as dangerous as the ones currently in use in the US. They managed to make the transition in a way that was backward compatible.

Here in the US we did change our plugs, by introducing polarized plugs. We don't have to be change-averse.
I'm happy to have a public system to raise the baseline and to act as a safety net as long as there's still a private system and employers still provide insurance.
In my team, we have it early in the morning, so we can overlap with India. Folks in US have rest of their day for work, whereas folks in India do the standup at the end of the day just before going home.
compared to other CEO compensations, that's actually pretty low compensation comparatively (from this analysis of Fortune 100 CEO compensations: https://craft.co/reports/fortune-100-ceo-salaries)
Co-worker here. Doing the PDP-10 side.
Yes. And that is a feature in my view.

You should read some of Larry Lessig's work on this topic. If every law was enforced strictly to the letter, the world would be a very different place than it is now. You would get a ticket for going 0.1 mph over the speed limit. You couldn't spend $1 over your credit limit on your card. Your landlord would penalize you for being 1 day late. Every cancellation policy at every hotel would always be rigidly enforced.

The point is lowering the cost in the common case while still providing recourse in exceptional circumstances. That, in my mind, is still a huge net positive.
Got a VA loan but payed the down anyway to avoid PMI. Interest on VA is pretty low and it's awesome to get the initial balance down a little.

Paying a little more per month toward the balance is also a great way to save. Bad idea to base home-buying choices merely on what payment you can afford to pay every month.
Rain is my favorite. Certainly the biggest thing I miss since moving out of Seattle. Rain is so peaceful and refreshing. Also, watching it rain through a window in a dark room, wrapped in a blanket, is possibly coziest thing in the world :)
He said it is "equal to" not that it accounts for. I believe the analogy is valid, though can be easily misleading.
From their website, looks like they eventually went back to something close to the original design (and which, really, looks even more like underpants now):

https://rjmetrics.com/
> Only downside is replacing things that seem to break all the time when you own a home :P

The nice thing is that you can choose to fix them yourself and save money. You can also use that as an opportunity to upgrade them and do the job right.

Once or twice a year, go through your house and check on the major parts like appliances, fixtures, etc. Make a list of what is due to be updated or repaired soon so you can save up money and do some research. Determine what is in your wheelhouse of what you can fix and what you need to call in a contractor for - personally I'll do appliance repair or drywall all day, but I refuse to go climbing into trees to prune them. Aim to buy good replacements - avoid fancy (easily broken) features, but splurge to get better made stuff. Don't be afraid to use quality non-oem parts either, since they are much cheaper and usually still very good. Youtube is a godsend for a lot of repair jobs.
I would think, arguably, the private jet itself is less safe than commercial, but I don't have any stats to back that up.

When you add in personal safety (from other passengers), maybe for a high profile person, the private jet is safer.

And obviously it's good in the interest of efficiency.
Electricity is highly fungible. Just include the cost of the transmission losses in the price, as is done everywhere that prices aren't being dictated by law. (And regardless, on the scale of 50 miles these are small.)

It is not the job of local municipalities to decide whether Bitcoin transactions are worth the cost of electricity. How could they possibly have the expertise to decide questions like that?
Yeah, that definitely makes sense, and I agree.

At the core, Federacy is a marketplace, and the surest way for us to constrain the transactions will be to make it difficult for startups to extract a lot of value. We’ll have to work hard on the tools (reputation, vetting, etc), for startups to trust and work with really talented researchers.

Not quite as important, I think, but also interesting is what tooling we can build to let researchers focus on the work they enjoy, and that adds the most value for startups. If we can make the reporting process more intuitive, they can focus more on research -- and less on writing traditional pentest reports.
The thing is that MRI Ruby is effectively single-threaded (unless you use things like concurrent-ruby which aren't that performant anyway) and threads can be blocked waiting for I/O, in fact they do most of the time, and is in I/O where Erlang really shines thanks to BEAM's nature of lightweight preemptive processes.
I've read an argument recently that the lion's share of the increase in longevity throughout the 20th century in America is almost entirely due to better hygiene at the personal and civil infrastructural levels, with a bit coming from antibiotics as well.

Doctors and the rest of modern medical care have provided some increases in the quality of life and certain treatments (i.e. orthopedics) are undeniably better but this doesn't do much to increase lifespans.

I believe this was from The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Gordon.
Exactly. I think it's easier describe wealth in terms of time (yours and that of others'), not income.
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