skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that is a recent development which the jury is still out on.

I'm just saying for most all of computing history (besides a few perverted niches), we've thought of the data on the device is accessible by the person who has the device. So this attack just puts us back at the traditional expectation - a place that a large amount of people would actually just prefer to stay.
I think I've explained myself quite well in the thread. My personal, subjective conclusion is of dishonesty. I cannot give you an objective measure, the evidence is in this thread and you can draw your own conclusions. Being a generally good person who is trying to put food on the table for their family is not mutually exclusive with lying and resorting to questionably ethical means of doing so.
> phone manufactures would struggle to make a halfway-decent operating system

They'd have bought from one of the other mobile OS vendors(Symbian, MS) or made their own (Nokia w/Maemo). It could be argued that Google distributing Android for free(so as to ensure the continued dominance/inclusion of Google Search) did set the smartphone industry back. Who the hell wants to compete against free? Even more so when that "free" is coming from a XXX billion dollar company.
Which is maybe why MS gave up on mobile OS, or Symbian no longer exists or Maemo.

> you're forcing the companies to follow a set of rules to use your product

...and Europe found those rules broke the existing law.
Yes I have five Rhode Island Reds and four Dominiques. They are all hens. They reached adulthood this year, each bird lays an egg every 1-2 days.

So far we have only been doing the eggs but expect them to stop laying when they reach 3-4 years old. This is my first flock so I don't really know yet. I am not sure if I have the guts to prepare a bird for meat.
Are people framing that as a reason for preferring dividends over buybacks? I can see it as a potential negative from the perspective of the working class, but this article certainly isn't making that argument.
Stock buybacks, borrowing, and dividends are all ways of paying for capital. They should all be taxed at the same rate.

Whether or not stock buybacks should be prohibited, they should not be encouraged by tax policy.
What a hilarious statement to make.

Sure a website from 1996 will look the same. It will also have no accessibility, work terribly on mobile, be largely like reading a Word document and have none of the interesting features of modern web sites. Your world is not the world most people want.
I totally disagree with this. A company holding cash is a moral hazard for board members and executives because it’s so easy to extract. Company profits should be paid out or invested quarterly. It’s not pumping the price, it’s just giving the shareholders what they own.

Here’s an example. Board members invest in a startup and then use the cash to purchase it at a much higher valuation. In a cash deal, nothing gets reported. If the company uses stock for the transaction, they would have to report it to the SEC as a distribution to an insider. Other than this, there is basically no good reason to use cash for acquisition versus stock equivalent.

That’s just one example, but a very common one.
I guess this would explain the low quality of Windows updates recently. Almost every patch Tuesday we patch, and then something that should have been caught by Microsoft QA breaks.

The increasingly low quality of Microsoft products makes it hard to use in the enterprise.
You aren’t allowed to charge extra for a subscription in an app in the App Store.
Ah yes, the classic (incorrect) xenophobia response; "It's those foreigners ruining our country". Lets all blame the symptoms for causing the disease!

The real (and only) reason is a mismatch of supply and demand. Mostly supply though. Localities pass very strict real estate policy which prevents construction, which lowers supply, and so naturally prices go up.

Tokyo japan somehow is able to house 11 million people, at reasonable costs. What do they do differently? Allow construction and have intelligent zoning.

If cities like SF/NY/etc were allowed to build, prices would come down, and those foreign investors would be revealed for the nice people that they are - ones paying property taxes to a country they don't live in.
I'm reminded of the story of Abe Wald: https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...

He ran a statistics office during WW2, and collected data on surviving airplanes. To paraphrase his findings: reinforcements don't go where the bullet holes are. They go where the bullet holes _aren’t_.

Similarly, when none of these mistakes killed the company, so to the extent that all companies are the same model of airplane flying in unfriendly skies, they shouldn't consider these mistakes necessarily existential.
But the problem is if everyone is waiting for tomorrow to spend who is working today?

P.s. Houses are a consumer
HomeSeer is also very good.
Thanks so much for creating these side projects, I've always admired the effective simplicity yet functionality of your code, especially Craft. Glad to hear you are as efficient with time management/life as your code :).

For anyone interested, last year I've taken fogleman's Craft and ported it to run in the browser using WebAssembly and emscripten: https://satoshinm.github.io/NetCraft/. It can be used with a Bukkit plugin to provide an interactive web-based interface to (a small section of) the world in Minecraft server. Have not worked on it recently, but could be a fun project to develop further, for all the open source contributors out there. I tried to merge most of the open pull requests and other forks of Craft, but life has gotten in the way...
It's because in most of the world, housing and RE is an investment first, and housing second.

The negative effects of this are masked when you have abundant supply, like in random suburbs in the midwest, but shows its ugly side when supply is constrained and the investment aspect far outweighs the utility people gain from using it as a house.
Oh my yes.

I signed up for a Microsoft Developer Network subscription, only $2000 per year, and they sent me just about every product they made, on CD-ROM.

The Windows 95 CD ROM had a script that would write out the set of floppy disks. It was a long and tedious process, but to keep you entertained, you could watch the Weezer music video that sprawled across the unused hundreds of megabytes of the rest of the CD. If you had a workstation powerful enough to handle video.

(I used those floppy disks to load up Windows 95 in a virtual machine on a Mac. Connectix Virtual PC, soon afterwards aquired by Microsoft. I started the boot process once it was installed, then I had to go to a meeting. Came back about 30 minutes later, just in time to see the boot process complete and display the Windows 95 desktop.)
If the dollar value of your holdings appreciates by 7% each year and you sell 4% of your holdings each year (by dollar value), you can keep selling indefinitely. (This is, incidentally, exactly how retirement accounts work.)
You should email employees and engineers from Aut Veh startups and see what they did or what they are looking for. The udacity Autonomous nanodegree gives an idea of what skills are relevant, but you have to see/learn what skills are they looking for enough for them to actually hire you. I completed a masters degree from a good university and did some research in machine learning. I think an advanced degree helps with credibility as well.
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By no means is all (or even most) foreign investment stolen money (though there is a lot of corrupt money sloshing around, including a lot from China).

However, even just “middle class” millionaire foreign investors parking money in international real estate is highly problematic for the places where the houses are.

As an example, my parents live in a quiet suburb of Los Angeles, and recently a few of the neighboring houses were bought by foreign investors. Maintenance has all but stopped. One house was rented long-term to a group of college students who used it as a party house. Tenants move in and out of those houses within a year or two instead of staying long term. Any communication goes through a scummy property management company.

If a critical mass of houses get like that, the neighborhood becomes a much different place. Everything becomes transactional and low-trust. The only way to get stuff fixed is by filing formal complaints or threatening legal action. Minor problems just pile up because it’s not worth the trouble. People stop caring about making things pleasant, or even making them work. Remote owners and management companies are just there to make a buck, and tenants are just temporarily stopping through for a place to sleep while they work out something more permanent elsewhere.
It's an op-ed, you only have so many words. Here's a much longer article on the same topic written by one of the authors of this op-ed: https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity
Maybe you're thinking of the triode, which AT&T did have a monopoly on around 1915, when they deployed the first transcontinental long-distance service using vacuum tubes to boost the signal. They bought deForest's patents and filed many more of their own on amplification circuits.

They had direct-dial long-distance by 1951, using relays and tubes.

The transistor started making a difference in telephony with the release of the 1ESS switch in 1965. But transistors were a commodity by then.
I read your comment as responding to dman under the assumption that he was arguing (1) this taxation scheme qualifies as "double taxation" under some notable definition, (2) double taxation is wrong/bad, and therefore (3) this taxation scheme is wrong/bad. I think in fact he is not claiming any of these, he's just explaining how the incentives faced by the actors drive their behavior.

If you were not actually arguing along these lines and were merely correcting his terminology without rebutting his main point, I would have expected you to preface your comment to this effect, e.g., "Not disputing your point, but technically this doesn't qualify as 'double taxation' because...".

Apologies if I've misinterpreted.
I agree that this is mostly how Apple views things, but what you said doesn't contradict the post you replied to at all. He is a developer whose livelihood is dependent on Apple, and he is tired of being jerked around. Just because Apple doesn't prioritize his problems doesn't make that untrue.
I was very loosely following the bitfi drama on twitter - and it seemed like the same day that the bitfi devices actually arrived to the public people were posting exploits (as i recall)
I guess you could argue that increases in rent increase the spending power of landlords benefitting from it, who now spend more money on goods, which in turn energizes the economy etc etc. I have no idea how that actually plays out in the real world. The whole "trickle down" theory seems very ideologically charged.
Real wages have been stagnant for decades, while corporate profits have skyrocketed.

So I'd say an obsession on the middle class getting screwed is not exactly misplaced.
Are you in the US?

It seems like it may be possible to live on the bug bounty rewards in places with cheaper cost of living, but you would need to get, like, 10 $5,000 bounties a year to survive in the US wouldn't you?
There's a difference between high income and wealthy. If you're wealthy, and you retire, you may not have a current ordinary income, so that any LCTG is all within the 0% rate; if your total taxable income is less than $38,600 for single filers, or $77,200 for joint filers; in connection with the standard deduction of $12k or $24k. If you make assume no other income, that's just about $50k or $100k of untaxed LTCG, in addition to whatever returned capital you need to spend.

The trick is somehow the popular media has changed the word wealthy to mean high income instead of, you know, having wealth.
Google tried to change China, but China may end up changing Google
> speculated stock prices

Speculation drives stock prices to where they ought to be. The whole point is to look for overvalued and undervalued stocks.
I've been reading articles like this on HN for the last 10 years. I no longer know what to make of them.

Ideologically, I'm opposed to the Chinese government and always felt they deserved to fall, a little like the USSR. The idea of political incarceration sickens me to the soul. So the articles delighted me, a shameful delight in another's misfortune.

But these articles come out promising a herald of an imminent decline and they still climb.

Now I have a grudging respect for their emergence, and a less rosy view of the virtues of Democracy, after it did little but cause misery in much of Iraq, Afghanistan and Russia.

Perhaps this time China will finally succumb to its prophecised doom. More likely, I suspect, I will be reading on HN about another compelling portent of China's imminent decline in a year's time.
You won't believe what happened next.
I guess what we're seeing here is a developer/development-first ideology versus a platform-first ideology.

Should the developer/development have to resubmit to the benevolent platform? Or should the platform have to support the development that has occurred?

I don't really care, but I know that I'd rather develop somewhere where my contributions aren't under constant threat of being wiped off the landscape.

Again, good luck with the other thing.
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It took Facebook months to ban this shady app after Cambridge Analytica
However, efficiency should be secondary to ease of reading/writing and validity of the program (wrt target application) for most programs (obviously efficiency is a primary concern for certain embedded domains, network applications, and game engines).

The nice thing (from my view) about functional languages (particularly those of the ML family, but also the logic languages like Prolog) is that the semantic distance between specification and implementation is very short. This means you can rapidly describe your problem domain and translate that to a reference implementation.

If performance is critical, you can then work on improving the efficiency of this implementation, or write the program (or parts of it) in a separate language. When it comes time to verify the second program (with a larger semantic gap between specification and implementation) you can run both, ignoring timing, and observe whether they produce comparable output (within whatever constraints you need for your application, so equal or within some error bound).

When your specification changes, you can modify the reference implementation first (where reasoning about the problem ought to be easier) and then work on your deployed system. This does introduce overhead in that you're maintaining two systems, but if you're doing good V&V you're already building a comprehensive model of your deployed system. Why not have a model that can generate your test procedures and target results for you rather than hand building everything?
The issue with applying an evolutionary metaphor to programming languages is that Natural Selection will thins a population by culling based on some environmental event, which means that what one might rationally consider to be "fittest" is not what will be selected.

So, the language may be well-strucuted, concise, extensible, etc. but natural selection may depend, for example, on availability for mobile platforms. In which case, languages that flourish on mobile platforms (e.g. browser-resident JavaScript) will survive that measure of "fitness".

The same is true in biology. What may seem well-formed, robust, and inevitable is meaningless to the process of natural selection. Nature randomly and arbitrarily chooses what those species that are fittest.

People too often mistake "survival of the fittest" to mean "survival of the most beautiful" or "survival of the most logical" because they consider existing species as fit by applying post hoc ergo propter hoc logic.
Buzzfeed news is ... surprisingly good. The Buzzfeed name is just associated with painfully stupid content.
Android isn't truly open though. Sure, the AOSP is. However, before Gingerbread there were still a lot of advantages reserved for those who entered a commercial relationship - for instance, access to the Google Apps (mail, calendar, chrome).

Post-Gingerbread, Google has put the vast majority of their development into the Google Play APIs, which are not open and are only available to partners. This means that use of things like chromecast (for instance) are restricted to apps distributed through the Play store, and handsets running partner builds of Android.
Or if PHP were built into browsers, we'd all be using PHP.
The phenomena described are not new; this article could have been written 2, 3 or 5 years ago, when property values had already risen to levels that meant most couples have no hope of ever buying a basic apartment in the city where they work.

The title is a little strange: avocados have been a luxury item for as long as I've been in China. A single, medium-sized avocado usually costs between US$1.50 and $2.00. Avocado toast isn't a staple like it is in SF.

And, anecdotally, I've seen more cocktail bars and craft beer places open than I've seen close.
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This is really important, but too anecdotal.

The story was written before Alibaba's Q2 results were out, and says that if Alibaba is down, there's real trouble. Those results are out now, and Alibaba does not seem to have had a bad quarter.
"You just need to connect the key to your account" is the onerous part, though. Google doesn't require a phone number or whatever, but you have to click through like four pages to get to it.
I've, anecdotally, personally seen a very similar pattern with San Francisco office real estate as well.
The issue I have is that, by ignoring the just scales that equal temperament is an approximation of, you ignore the fundamental mathematical foundations of tonal music. Without that, there are a lot of things you can't say about equal temperament, and the things that remain are kind of superficial.
There are still folks doing it full time in expensive cities.

The main aim of the game is to have extensive infrastructure and code to do asset identification & delta. When Facebook puts a new host live without ACLs, you’ve gotta wake at 3am and hit it.
>>> Which services do these stores offer that warrant them to receive up to 30% of sales.

Tooling? Network effects? Security? Distribution?
Art poster of contemporary software distributions as floppy-disk sets:

http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-pos...
My wife is Chinese. My parents split their time between the USA and Mexico (where my father is a university professor). I have friends from all over the world and American friends who have moved all over the world, and I love traveling and interacting with foreign tourists. I’m as big a fan of international migration as you will find anywhere.

The problem is not that foreigners are bad people (I’m sure most real-estate investors are “nice”), the problem is housing used as an investment vehicle. With the increasing ability for people to move money around the world, more housing than ever in world cities is becoming a magnet for remote investment. Foreign investors exacerbate problems which already existed.

In particular, large-scale and absentee landlords (including those living in the same country) cause more problems than small-scale local landowners, because they don’t have the time or resources to form local relationships, tend to care less about the property or the local environment, and are not as accountable when they act badly. This is just as much true when it’s Americans buying large amounts of property in whatever other country, or buying property in other cities within the same country.

I agree that a significant (but ideally gradual) drop in housing prices based on changing zoning laws and increasing housing supply (and ideally changing the tax structure, starting with e.g. repealing CA Prop. 13) would solve some of these problems. (Among other things, they would make housing an unattractive remote investment.)
Its the prep time. ICBM's have to be fueled or their silos opened or the launchers positioned, etc. That can take hours. The F-15 antisat missile[1] is pretty quick but the plane still has to get up to altitude and do a tricky maneuver to launch it.

I am not a policy expert by any means, I just remember all the consternation over systems which shorten the time between being ready and killing some strategic asset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
You've fallen into the trap of believing that there's only one way of doing things - the preposterously expensive way that's promoted in lifestyle magazines.

How much does it cost to learn to sail? If you take a Yachtmaster Offshore course, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $15,000. If you show up at any marina and look keen, someone in need of crew will take you on board and show you the ropes for free. Many people have sailed around the world at almost no cost by crewing on other people's boats.

How much does a sailing boat cost? A brand new 50 footer with all the trimmings will cost you upwards of $400,000. You can buy a rough little boat and properly fit it out for bluewater sailing for about $20,000. It'll be ugly, it'll be cramped, it'll have faded gelcoat and threadbare upholstery, but it'll safely take you across oceans. That's not a trivial sum of money, but it's well within reach of most skilled professionals. If you look after it, you'll be able to sell it for close to what you paid for it.

What are your other costs? Mainly food, running repairs and mooring fees. If you want to do everything in five-star luxury, expect to spend about $80,000 over the course of a circumnavigation. If you don't mind sleeping at anchor and eating from dented cans, you could easily circumnavigate for under $8,000 - less if you avoid the Panama Canal.

There's a widespread belief - particularly in America - that adventurous lifestyles are the exclusive domain of the gratuitously wealthy. The reality is very different, especially if you're young, childless and have marketable skills. Even if you're none of those things, your options are far wider than you might imagine as long as you're willing to think creatively and live modestly.

https://www.amazon.com/Voyaging-Small-Income-Annie-Hill/dp/1...
I think the money typically goes to the city, which controls both the speed signs and (at least somewhat) where cops are stationed. So its the typical US thing where there's technically no corruption but, huh, that is a bit of a conflict of interest, isn't it?

I've been in the car for 3 tickets, and I'll include one more I recently heard about from a family member. In one case, the driver took a turn on red at 2am when the streets were completely empty. In another, there was a very large and steep hill, and the driver didn't break sufficiently to not go over the speed limit. (The road was straight and the visibility was perfect.) In another, the speed limit quickly changed from 35mph to 15mph for no apparent reason.

In all these cases, these drivers weren't putting anyone in danger. I don't think the cops were waiting in these spots by coincidence; I think they were trying to make money for the city.

In the fourth case, the driver sped on a windy street, and totally deserved the ticket.
> So the Medicare tax would have to increase dramatically, but the Medicare tax is pretty regressive.

So, if you need to change it anyway, make it less regressive at the same time.
> Some people joke about eating meat instead of tofu, as American tariffs have made imported soybeans more expensive.

When the imports get more expensive because of tariffs it's by definition the tariffs imposed by importing country, i.e. China in this case.
At least those are not done through the exploitative appropriation of the surplus value produced by the worker.