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> There was a problem, though, beyond the physical security protocols at the G-Research office: The company scrambled the code that ran its trades, specifically to prevent it from being copied. So Xu built a decompiler that could translate it.
> Devices will be expected to run this kernel; to make that happen, vendors will provide a set of kernel modules to add the necessary hardware support. Getting there will require the upstreaming of kernel symbol namespaces among other things.

Google should go one step further and require upstreaming hardware drivers.
Technically it is an ethnicity but the South American population does have a larger percent of assimilated natives than continental Spain and a long history of a caste system which put born natives lower in the hierarchy than those born in Spain which could arguably make them a more divergent set of genetic traits being messily correlated. One can argue about the name but "Hispanic" is a workable proxy for the broad brush of 'everything below the continental born caste'.

Of course if you want to talk genetics instead of silly human labels you look at the actual contents of their genome.
Does Pixel work with upstream kernel? Does it use many blobs? Sony Xperia XA2 looks interesting, but not sure how usable it would be with upstream kernel and Mesa.
Do you remember how you found it?
> All insurers have to do is to pool risk and diversify across geography.

Not all insurers are nation-wide.
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> I can’t fathom how it leads to needing to break Apple up?

Apple the device company is quite different from Apple the media company. Spotify competes with the former on an unlevel field.

Agree, though, that the case for breaking up Facebook, Google and Amazon is more urgent.
Two earlier posts of hers that got a lot of commentary on HN (2016).:

Why not string theory? Because enough is enough.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11885036

and

The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238197

Very similar theme of lack of verifiable theories.

I wonder what the experimental physicists have to say about this topic? I feel like theories are also driven by new observations. However the observations that the theorists have to go on are very indirect compared to those of 100 years ago. "The mass of this galaxy is out by x percent" isn't doesn't give many clues as to what's wrong.

Compare that to observations of Mercury's orbit that happened 2 centuries before Einstein published his Relativity theories. ( http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/EinsteinTest... )
I don’t and nobody I know does either.
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> solve the problem locally in a "humane" way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area

I agree with this idea, but i was shocked to see that San Francisco is a net-exporter of homeless people. That really points to some other root cause.
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But do they pay proportionally more, matching the impact?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240811
I’m definitely not a FB fan but the amount of anti FB articles coming out this past week feel excessive.
You only say that so we'll have a Jefferson Starship.
Eh, berlin is a city with the housing capacity in multiples of its population. You dont need to put any ceiling on rents to have them down.
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I've never heard anyone attribute the GD to people so rich they crashed the monetary system.
While probably true that headline feels waaaaaayyyyyy to simple.

1. There are a lot of viruses.

2. There are a lot of different forms of cancer.

I nowhere near understanding the complexity of this (it's not my field), but this headline just feels way to simple.
They might not be part of the moneyed and politically connected elite but by their presence at MIT they are certainly part of the elite.

Let me just say if someone did the dome hack at my alma mater 1) nobody would get the reference 2) the perpetrators would be expelled or criminally charged.
Really, housing is where capitalism breaks down.
It's come a long way and this is yet another interesting feature Django is incorporating. I hope it injects the fresh blood they're after.

Did anybody else feel inspired by a 'rapid web development' platform in 2005? https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/08/02/0051258/django-pyth...
I received this same email on my gmail account at 12:06 AM EST.
>> "crank out another one similar to the last one"

That's because they can't stand up a micro-service or API to crank those things out.
The insurance business model is not about distributing costs from high risk customers more evenly with low risk customers, but in distributing costs more evenly between unlucky customers and lucky ones [1]. After all, most insurance companies will access the risk of their customers and assign premiums accordingly - your insurance premium is the expected value of payouts, plus overhead, plus profit.

Wildfires can destroy large swaths of land, and they are certain to occur every year, but not at every susceptible house. My mother has lived in a house in a high fire risk area of Northern California since the early 1980s, but her particular neighborhood hasn't burnt. Neither has the houses of my father-in-law, grandma-in-law, and two brothers, which are all in similarly high risk areas of Nor-Cal. Likewise, in March, nobody would have predicted that Paradise, CA would all but be destroyed, nor would they have predicted the damage in Santa Rosa the previous March. But we could still have concluded that those areas are at risk.

An insurance company can assign a value to your property (in fact, they probably already have), can estimate the probability of loss due to forrest fire, compute the expected value of payouts, add overhead, add profit, and sell you a policy. Damages are correlated on a local level, but not on a statewide level - that there was a fire in Paradise, CA doesn't increase the odds that Quincy or Fort Bragg will experience a fire too this year.

With fire damages in the tens billions per year but maybe only millions of insured to spread around the cost, people might not like the resulting premiums, but they can choose to lower their risks (and hence insurance premiums) or roll the dice.

[1]: And in managing the large pile of money you need to have on hand in case you end up with more unlucky customers than expected.
I too would explore this if there was a way that didn't require me to create an account.
The middle ages didn't have much of a banking system, nor did they have a fiat money system. There wasn't a system to crash. Besides, feudalism isn't capitalism.

The Guilded Age saw an enormous growth in the middle class.
If California was a nation state it would rank 6th in the world
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/american-state-bigger...

The media and Hollywood create a pretty weird perception of California, the climate, geography and economy is very varied.
I just got this as well, around 11 EST. It's oddly plain-looking, and the capital A in Amazon.com is unique as well. Still, it appears to have come from the correct domain.
The part about the OECD was interesting. I can see the argument that Western countries could be at a commercial disadvantage vs. Russia and especially China. The so-called BRIC countries should somehow be encouraged to cooperate.

http://www.oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/
If I remember right, this is also the second largest YC acquisition of any kind :)
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It's a controversial topic. They frequently rise rapidly and disappear just as rapidly.
Gods in America is done really well. I also enjoyed listening to the Game of Thrones series on the way to and from work every morning for like 8 months. Gave me something to look forward to in the morning.
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Flood insurance is provided by the Fed, and heavily subsidized by the taxpayer aka you and I.
I lived the first 22 years of my life in Northern Virginia before moving to California. Let me tell you the things I don't miss:
1) Freezing winters with snow and ice
2) Scorching summers
3) Hours-long drive to the beach
4) Lack of vegetarian food (though that's been changing in recent years!)
5) The politics (extremely politically driven people from the entire spectrum wind up in the DMV).

Of course there's plenty I miss, but just depending on what you value the DMV is not that much better than California.
Very much so. Worked on a system that coordinated vehicle registration for car fleets - it ended up being built into a system for repossession of cars from payday loan defaultors.

That triggered my move to education and medical software.
Of course, if you shake a bottle of Benzene, you can hear the Benzene ring ;)
I wonder if the continued use of Trac and a mailing list in a modern, Github-centric world is holding back contributions, perhaps even more so than the need to reshuffle responsibilities among existing contributors.

Consider that if a Django user wants to contribute with an account they're already logged into, the only thing they can see is https://github.com/django/django/pulls - a wall of structure and external references, with no clear way to suggest features. To the community's credit, people gently redirect "stray" pull requests to the proper channels, but this still has to feel like a form of rejection to well-meaning developers!

Compare this to https://github.com/facebook/react/issues and https://github.com/rails/rails/issues - inviting colors, a clear way to raise issues one click away from the codebase itself, centralized discussion of those issues, automatic links between PRs and issues. Nobody is left behind; any suggestion can become a discussion with decision-makers in place. This is what the modern developer has come to expect.

I love Django as a framework - it's a set of abstractions that make a ton of sense together, but simultaneously are much more explicit and easier to dive into than Rails. I can command-click my way through the entire stack in VS Code and know exactly what's going on; when there's a customization to make, there's almost always two or three hooks I can use to make it happen. And it pains me that there seems to be a fear of change and a fragmentation of contributor tooling that's holding it back from evolving. I don't know that Trac -> Github is the best path, but I hope that this is the first of numerous innovations that the core and board intend to discuss earnestly over the coming years.

EDIT: As I consider what I've written above, I'm thinking about a concept of TTFK - "Time To First Keystroke" that's intended as part of a contribution. Once you start writing an issue or coding a PR, assuming there's a clear path for it to get accepted, that first keypress is the start of an avalanche that gets obsessed developers deeper and deeper engaged. But if you look at the README on https://github.com/django/django , count how many clicks it takes, and words to read, and new platforms to join, until you can type your first character on a non-documentation feature request. It's not a fun number. Process/triage is great, but you have to have a way that someone's unstructured contribution can gain structure over time without requiring them to retype it or jump through hoops.
time for Mojang to add the Wombat to Minecraft
Golf, making math/dead baby jokes, buying textbooks and never reading them, playing a musical instrument, writing fiction.
Beats sleeping on the street. If single room occupancy hotels or flophouses hadn’t been zoned out of existence there’d be many fewer homeless in the US.
why do we put all the blame on the match lighter?

Because we know how to effectively employ "scapegoating" to hide our own misdeeds.
Kindly keep the conversation productive - I don't tell my relatives to abandon the Florida they dearly love when hurricanes strike, even though we both know they'll just strike again and again. They have their reasons for loving and rebuilding the place they call home.

Instead, I wish them the best of luck repairing their homes and send my condolences (occasionally monetary aid).
Or just stop subsidizing them. In the short term, it's more suffering for the poor, but in the long run, it's fewer people born into multi-generational poverty traps and into communities where they learn to become dependent and game government programs, because the dominant source of income is unconditional social assistance programs provided at the taxpayer's expense.
I switch back and forth between brain.fm and mynoise.net. They both work great for different moods and levels of fatigue or distraction. Some days brain.fm is all that gets me working.

I don't pay any attention to their claims. The music works as stimulating, non distracting music without becomming monotonous.
Only Me and later had SFP/FP.

I know because people used Back Orifice to clean out these folders and brick relatives’ machines :)
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Yea, verily.

I spent nearly 6 years homeless. I'm currently in an SRO. It is like a million times better.
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The reason Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not on campus is the locals had become concerned when one of their rocket engines exploded :-)
Here's an excerpt from the executive summary:

>>Over the past three decades, local barriers to housing development have intensified, particularly
in the high-growth metropolitan areas increasingly fueling the national economy. The
accumulation of such barriers – including zoning, other land use regulations, and lengthy
development approval processes – has reduced the ability of many housing markets to respond to
growing demand. The growing severity of undersupplied housing markets is jeopardizing
housing affordability for working families, increasing income inequality by reducing less-skilled
workers’ access to high-wage labor markets, and stifling GDP growth by driving labor migration
away from the most productive regions.

Other relevant excerpts:

>>Researchers examining proxy measures – including the
prevalence of zoning and land use cases in state courts, which correlate strongly with static
indices of housing barriers and supply constraint surveys – have found that barriers to housing
development increased rapidly from 1970 to 1990, and continue to increase through the present
day.
2

...

>>Though popular coverage of these challenges has been most focused on the Bay Area, Seattle, and major
East Coast cities, Los Angeles provides a clear illustration of the impact of the primary barrier to
development – restrictive zoning. In 1960, Los Angeles was zoned to accommodate 10 million
people; after decades of population growth and increased demand, the city is today zoned for
only 4.3 million people.9

...

>>In just the last 10 years, the
number of very low-income renters paying more than half their income for rent has increased by
almost 2.5 million households, to 7.7 million nationwide, in part because barriers to housing
development are limiting housing supply.11
Since 1960, the share of renters paying more than 30
percent of their income for rent has more than doubled from 24 percent to 49 percent.12 And over
that time, real household income increased by 18 percent, but inflation adjusted rents rose by 64
percent.

...

>>A recent
study noted that in theoretical models of mobility, economic research suggests our Gross
Domestic Product would have been more than 10 percent higher in 2009 if workers and capital
had freely moved so that the relative wage distribution remained at its 1964 level.
21 Most of this
loss in wages and productivity is caused by increased constraints to housing supply in high-
productivity regions, including zoning regulations and other local rules.

So to summarize, economists have observed an increase in zoning/land-use restrictions since about 1970. They attribute the rise in the proportion of income consumed by rent to these restrictions on housing supply growth.

They conclude that absent zoning and other restrictions on housing supply expansion, the US would have less income inequality and a significantly higher GDP.
This is really unrelated to anything else in this thread and it could just be trolling but... Are you kidding?

Maybe you've always grown up in nicer areas than I have and don't realize how bad it can be. Sure, rent in Michigan is cheap, near Detroit - which is appealing all the way up till there's police tape in your backyard from a shooting. You pay less taxes and you feel it every morning when you drive to work, because the roads are less maintained than the flavor of the week JavaScript frameworks from 2012, which BY THE WAY you almost certainly will need to drive to work in Michigan, since the jobs tend to be far away and public transport would be great if it were supposed to be the punchline to a joke. The restaurant scene in NorCal is not the best in the world or country, but unless you want Mediterranean food it's nearly unilaterally better than anywhere I've been in Michigan. Michigan does not have the harshest winters by far, but I'd almost rather choke to death in smoke than deal with another Michigan winter, sliding around on the ice trying not to crash my car while freezing my ass off. Speaking of which, How about Michigan car insurance? It's pretty hard to put into words how godawful the car insurance situation is, but I paid more than double for worse insurance in Michigan and that's reason enough to hate it.

Wildfires are terrible. Homelessness is bad. But the rent prices, well, they're high for a reason; it's a great place to live despite all of the setbacks. And maybe there's a better set of trade-offs elsewhere in the U.S., but I get the opportunity to work with some of the best engineers I've ever met and that's pretty hard to find anywhere else.

So yes. It is a bummer when the rent comes out of my paycheck each month, it is upsetting when I hear the death tolls and see the wildfire smoke. But, I also remember where I came from and frankly I'm choosing to stay for now.
Received the same email at 23:57:10 EST, Passed SFP, DKIM, and DMARC.
Well. In a way.

I work for one of the big video game publishers. If you believe the internet we slaughter puppies and are the cause of all unhappiness in the world.

The actual work is gruelling, frought with long hours and very challenging. So when you finally get your ducks in a row after countless hours of overtime and stress to see the public’s reaction is heartbreaking.

I regret working on games, but the technical challenges are stimulating enough that I continue to do it.
I have some ideas about how to improve that. But will probably be a little while before I can do anything with those ideas, since right now all my Django-related time is going into the governance proposal.
> I can remember Ryan pestering me to take more vacation time

This is a very low bar for caring for an employee.
I thought the reason Hollywood was in California is because of the wide range of climates and shooting locations. Beach, farm, desert, and alpine, all just a few hours drive away. We're a bit short on tundra, though.
Low alpha solder used to come from lead ballast lost at sea. This was supposedly a valuable resource for deep sea treasure hunters.
If you haven't heard of the Cromemco Cyclops camera [0], it was the first commercial all-digital camera using a digital MOS area image sensor. A digital camera that used a RAM chip for its sensor!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Cyclops
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I work as a game programmer. I'm one of those kids who grew up playing now "classic" games wanting to become a game developer themselves.

Every time I'm in a corporate game development gig I have regrets, because instead of working on a game I could personally appreciate I end up working on copycat mobile games; poorly designed games; games with no creativity behind them. Working on a game I would never consider playing myself, a game I would never recommend to a friend.

The best gamedev experience I had was working on an indie title with a very small and tight team. But that enterprise went bankrupt and the team disbanded.

Hope to bring that back someday, but lack the discipline at the moment.
I live just a couple of miles from the Hayward fault which is "scheduled" to unleash an M7 earthquake any day now. My insurance costs (which includes earthquake and fire) is about $25/month with a $500 deductible. If a $25/month charge is "untenable" I think people have bigger financial problems than affording insurance.
Yes, but I'd say the GP comment broke that same rule as well.
That "that" refers to the implied product of 16% times $20 trillion. It's meant to provide an order-of-magnitude notion of what rampant organized crime could cost an economy, so that people who had previously read "costs of such bureaucratic monstrosities is in the range of hundreds of billions, whereas the benefit is a few orders of magnitude lower" could more usefully think about what the benefits of crime reduction really are.
> need to be complex so the supporting company can sell software and support contracts.

I think it's more likely due to the need to solve everybody in the world's use case. Yours is just a convenient (for some) side-effect.
Just to chime in that it works great for me. Was skeptical at first and assumed it was just a placebo effect.

If so...then I’m fine with that too. It helps me fall asleep on the sleep mode and it helps me focus on the focus mode.
This is actually far cooler than the headline suggests.

There's already a fair bit of work into engineering a virus to kill cancer. This research is about getting that virus to also induce an immune response to kill other cells that have been recruited to support the cancer in the body.
I worked on the back end system that allowed record labels block their content on YouTube. I thought I was going to be working on a system to help indie record labels distribute their content. I lasted 9 months.
Horse racing?
Or, maybe 9 just isn't enough to get an idea of the other 900,000,000,000,000,000,000... planets.
Please don't take an HN thread further into pointless flamewar. This is a classic of that hellish genre.
The reports I've seen all give a very high average spending level for tourists. I don't think there's any credible argument that they don't inject massive consumer spending into the local economy.
I agree. I only posted it as a talking point.
It's kind of like what happens with the people who invest in startups... the founders who fit the investors' conceptions of what brilliant people look like get funded. It's also a big problem in philanthropy and why many times it's better to have (even slow and inefficient) government depts with set criteria and review processes deciding who gets funding.
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