skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should add that I find data quite convincing. I hear arguments like the one you state but I don't find them convincing.

This is for several reasons:

1. Saudis feel quite unwelcome in the US, and prefer to buy homes in London.

2. New York is so far that a Chinese billionaire would prefer something on the other coast. Especially in Canada where they don't have to pay taxes on worldwide income if they establish residence.

And without data, this is just an impression based on fragments of articles. I still haven't seen data for the Chinese buyers in Vancouver, and that is a far easier case to make.
A primary residence is not by definition an investment. It is a depreciating asset, but that does not mean it is an investment. The reasons for having one or more homes are not primarily or always to generate a return or income.

It is possible to use your primary residence as an investment, but everyone still needs a place to live, so it is also a form of consumption.

If you want to consider it an investment by definition, then you should actually explain how it is an investment.
> The gel is a mix of progestin and testosterone,

This will end very badly
Postgres: Not Your Grandfather’s RDBMS
Why not move the Auth to the code instead? Add one middleware just.
Nice ageism there at the end
Have you listened to the "Why React" video? He says there, repeatedly, that, quote, "For now, it's enough to know that the virtual DOM helps make React work a lot faster than vanilla JavaScript". How can anyone make such a statement and expect to remain a credible source of information? I mean, even if you are targeting complete novices, how?!
I'm not saying anything should be taken away from anyone. Just taxed. Taxed enough to encourage you to do something with the property you sit on. Like ensuring you rent it at full capacity or sell it if it's not worth renting (because of tax).

Tax is so low right now that you can sit on whole lot of properties for years and not even bother to rent them and still not loose much money.

That seriously harms others and should be at least effectively discouraged.
General Motors president to control Cruise self-driving unit
The investors probably just want a slice of Asana, and feel like $1.5b is a good price
Well, some famliarity with the hardware doesn't hurt. Years ago when I studied the Linux kernel myself, I started with qemu, and the gdb stub, and walked line-by-line through the boot process.

But as others suggest, taking an older version, or even simpler unices(xv6,netbsd) might be easier.
I did exactly this (well, "refreshed" vs. bought, as this is a company machine).

Could not be happier. Linux works great for what I do, I have a decent KB, no touchbar, no olympic sized trackpad that just gets in my way, actual PORTS I can use, *nix OS... totally happy.
>Go doesn't actually have async support

I usually phrase this part of Go as: no async/await, it only has threads. But no thread handles. Everything is potentially parallel under the hood and all coordination requires external constructs like WaitGroups / chans / etc.

async/await has major complications like changing call syntax through the whole chain, so I actually prefer it this way. the lack of thread handle objects (e.g. a return value from `go func()`) is strange IMO tho.
If anybody empathizes with the post, what helped me was volunteering. Helping others and working with a group to help others gives me a lot of appreciation for all the little things that I have. Also, going out of my way to make someone else smile helps me stay happy. Compliments are a great way to start, I was inspired by a cool article about giving the perfect compliment - https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a6271/how-to-complimen...

Being nice to others in a genuine way builds trust. And building this trust in people around you can help dissipate some of the emotional pain.
An investment is an entity you allocate capital to, to enable wealth creation. e.g. A baker buying an oven.

Speculation is allocation of capital to an entity because you believe you or someone else will need it in the future. e.g. A banker buying a baker's oven.

A primary residence is at best an investment (you need to live somewhere to earn an income), a second residence is purely speculation.

The housing market is highly highly leverage with the median ratio ~= 14:1 [1]. Since small changes to the amount of money inflated by commercial banks and the Federal Reserve can have extreme consequences on prices, it's highly inadvisable to speculate in highly leverage markets.

[1] 7% median down payment, 1/.07~=14 https://www.attomdata.com/news/mortgage-and-finance/q3-2017-...
Seems there could be a cost/benefit analysis here.
Ten times faster than python might be sufficient for some applications given the potential for much faster deployment, regardless of whether handwritten C might be faster.
People should remap it anyways. The escape key is the farthest away key, yet it's the most frequently used key. I have it to `jj`.
"As far as I can remember -- my entire adult life ..."

...

"I don't know what the reason is, but I would love to read a truly satisfactory explanation for this."

Well, it did just happen ... bay area housing, for instance, plummeted from 2007 to 2011. This was neither a slight blip or a "slowdown":

https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/case-shiller-refl...

Note that mid-range homes dropped, in their index, from "220" to "125" (give or take).

How long have you been an adult ?
Every storm is perfect
AFAICT they don't.

I haven't looked at the details of Lambda Layers yet, but I wonder if they might help with this? Build an authentication layer that you can bundle with all your ALB Lambdas.
Your primary residence is not an investment. It's a place for you to live. It usually makes sense to buy even if you would lose money over time simply because you'd likely lose more from paying rent. Being able to sell your house for more than you paid for it at some point in the future is a nice bonus if you were fortunate and it appreciated above inflation over that time period, but this is by no means guaranteed, and you shouldn't count on it.

The average American loses money on real estate once you factor in inflation, property taxes, interest, and maintenance. Yes, we hear all sorts of stories about houses appreciating six figures per year in the Bay Area but that is very, very far from the typical American experience.
When we sit adults down to do low-grade, menial clerical tasks for eight hours a day with minimal breaks, what do we expect?
Dancing Sign up button is really off-putting.
This is what you call "a woman who does not understand how SMV and MMV works like"
People dont like those definitions but they are so true it hurts.
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Probiotics Found to Be Ineffective for Easing Symptoms of Kids' Stomach Bugs
>It is just not my impresion that men who hop relationships look all that better. The comitted ones are not ugly ones.

There are plenty of good-looking men in committed relationships. You're reading the relationship in reverse. It's not that "men who hop relationships look all that better". It's that better-looking men can hop relationships.
When I left the UK I had 5 weeks. When I started as a junior dev I had 5 weeks!
I quit a job which took me from SF to the penn on 101. There were slowdowns at the 280/101, airport, 92, 84, university, oregon, etc... sure off peak is different, but that’s nin commute hours. The traffic going north has similar slowdowns. Now, there are a few exceptions here and there like if you’re going from Hillsborough to some parts of sandhill and such, but the longer SF-valley and Valley-SF is clogged during commute hours.
If by "valley" you mean Palo Alto, yeah you'll be ~at the speed limit all the way.

101 South backs up from around Mountain View in the morning, in my experience. Not as bad as 101 North during those hours, but the 101-S traffic had a large effect on my last job search.
Basically a solved problem now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18563267.
It probably says something about the state of things that from this statement I genuinely can't tell which school of thought you're coming from, since each one says this about the others.
I can't imagine fighters using the existing version for an extended period of time while engaged as some sort of AR tool (see around corners etc.). However, maybe they'll produce a "military spec" version that does just that. Maybe they will be able to toggle on/off like night vision to reduce fatigue.
New York City’s highest-earning official is a debt collector
For sure people want to go to the coastal cities.

I think the missing component of the demand side is the prices of these places. Even with bank bonuses, the numbers are so astronomically high you have to wonder how so many people can afford them.
That's just historic leases and options to extend running out. Lets presume the commercial leases on storefronts are 10 years with an option for another 10. The holdouts that you are seeing signed leases in 1998-1999. They are still paying 1998-1999 rents with a slight YOY escalation. That's how Pearl River Mart was able to afford its place. 1999 that section of Manhattan was a dump.

Here's a walk down the memory lane:

* In 1997 my girlfriend at the time bought a two floor condo in Park Slope (2,400 sq feet) for $220,000. Her friends told her that she overpaid.

* In 1999 a friend of mine had her generation skipping trust buy two buildings in Soho next to each other for $1.27M. They had to modify trust documents because with that buy trust was over exposed to real estate.

* In 1999 apartments on Broome St in Soho were lofts with the kind of showers one would expect in the third world countries. 5-6 artists would live in one because they split 3000 sq foot one floor apartment 5 ways for a grand total of $1200/mo.

Residential leases are simply too short which is why we do not see the massive spikes in rents as the lease is being re-negotiated the way we see them in commercial real estate.
> but most of this limited pool knows they are desirable and do not really want to get bogged down with a family.

My friends who enjoyed dating for fun, found they had trouble with it, because most guys were looking to commit - they weren't too interested in merely flings.

But this is anecdata, from Europe, so it may have limited applicability.
It's a shame that vacation isn't as easily negotiable as salary. I'd take a 10% hit on salary for every week of vacation.

Hell. I'd take a 10% hit on salary for a week of unpaid vacation.
We already have that. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Reuters, and The New York Times. Add HuffPo and Breitbart if you like.
So much this.

On top of that, railroads (the actual rails and public transport lines) also tend to be a somewhat natural monopoly, so even the high profit lines veer towards minimal service and maximal price.
Imagine a brand new developer who started learning JavaScript as their first programming language one month ago. A nice hand-holds video might be perfect for them.

Also, not going to judge a super experienced developer if they just prefer videos for whatever reason.
"Think differently"
Most neighborhoods aren't like that, by the way. None of the ones I typically frequent anyway.

As for there being many businesses starting all the time, that's a good thing. It means the city's economy is vibrant, and less profitable businesses are turning over to make room for ones that can be more profitable. Neighborhoods that only have the same businesses that have been there forever generally aren't doing very well economically-speaking, as they haven't been able to attract investment or growth.
Higher interest rates are fine if you're looking to buy, more expensive money means cheaper housing. That's what's happening here. People forget that interest rates aren't _normally_ 0% as they've been for most of the past decade.

Losing the SALT deduction really burns, though. That's new.
Yes, the layered approach will always consume more bandwidth unless you just happen to hit the case where your transaction is read-only and the layer process is colocated with the storage server where your data is.

The upsides far outweigh this downside in my opinion. The fact that writes are buffered locally before committing the transaction (improving latency) is probably enough by itself to overcome that downside.
Here is why you should charge more (for your product, time, service, whatever). Payless is a low budget shoe chain and opened a fake high end boutique and put in their $20 shoes:

> One shopper spent $640 for a pair of boots, which represented an 1,800% markup.
One major factor in the rise in prices is the view of "Property as investment." This is a broad category encompassing "Flippers," investors, and other people not necessarily looking to actually live in the property they've bought. This also includes a humongous contingent of Chinese speculators ( https://www.businessinsider.com/china-investors-inflating-ho... ). The real reason they're investing and speculating, however, is two-fold, and has nothing to do with the real estate market as a thing.

Wealthy Chinese families want to get their money out of China, and thus, overseas real estate is a good way to bank that money outside of the Chinese economy. Couple that with the fact that foreign investors bringing over $500,000 to the United States basically buy citizenship. So, if you're a Chinese family with a factory, and you want your kids to move to the US, go to American colleges, etc. You buy a $650,000 property in Vegas, or SF, or wherever, you send them over, they reap the investment benefits, and get fast tracked to citizenship. Plus, your investment always goes up because the American real estate market always goes up, right?

Well, tariffs and the coming trade war mean those exact types of investors are now pulling out, selling, leaving... That sort of behavior ran us right back to the brink of another bubble bursting, but it slowed a year or two ago and now we're seeing the resulting cooling of real estate markets.

This citizenship loophole was what Jared Kushner's people were giving seminars on in China, presumably to help sell newly made suburban homes over $500,000 to foreign investors. ( https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/06/news/jared-kushner-nicole-f... )
Before 2007 for sure, but I didn't realize there was this sustained drop after 2007. I thought it was a temporary bounce.

Thanks for showing some data!
It seems like "you can always find meaning in anything you do" turns the sentiment back into being about YOU, which is what OP seemed to be lamenting in the first place.

As you expressed, you see the task as "find meaning in yourself," a concept that can maybe be expressed as "meaning comes from within." This sounds nice! I think what OP was getting at is that this perspective has two problems: 1. It requires you to produce your own sense of "meaning" (whatever that means) that is self-satisfying, AND that works well in the society/community in which you exist; and 2. it is fundamentally self-centered. A hypothesis could be that this perspective seems to most frequently result in a failure to find "meaning" (probably better called "contentment") in anything.

As OP said, faith/religion traditions tend to hand you a set of pre-defined "here's what's meaningful" morals, and these also tend to be skewed towards group value instead of just self-satisfaction. When handed this outlook on meaning/morals, it seems possible there might be benefits - not having to come up with a self-fulfilling sense of meaning that also meshes with broader society, as well as a focus on being useful to the community instead of just yourself.

I personally find the whole "be yourself" / "do what you love" dogma-du-jour to be terrible, and prone to actually resulting in depression and shame. It is at the same time selfish, and self-sabotaging.
Religion and conservatism is really good groundwork for those who aren't exceptional. Hard to say if the world is a better place with religion in it but it's easy to say that some people's lives /are/ better because of it.
As an employee, do you have an equity package? If so, are you worried at all that these new unicorn-status investors will have priority pay-out over your equity if the company doesn't have a $1.5B exit?
It is absolutely within parents' rights to give their property to whoever they want - as long as the child pays the income tax on the money that fell from the sky.
It's Manhattan. They'll put up seawalls.

Queens and parts of Brooklyn are likely out of luck, but Manhattan will be protected.
So if you have on the flag more that one red star you are by definition excepted from communist or socialist measures? The world is more gray than black and white and USA has its share of socialism in it.
If you are in this situation, if you have 20 minutes, watch 4 vidoes:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DaveRamseyShow

This man specializes in this.
I think the Russian interference increased the gain in the echo chambers, which made things worse, but not qualitatively different. (Though enough gain can make things qualitatively different, once the gain exceeds unity...)
Wouldn't you (if you were Chinese) rather go to Canada so you don't pay taxes on your worldwide income?
QEMU Advent Calendar 2018
women like aging white men because of our sweet dad bods, lawn mowing skills, and obsession with sports.
Right, 64-bit Windows has 32-bit int and long and 64-bit long long (LLP64) while 64-bit unixes generally have 32-bit int and 64-bit long/long long (LP64).
Seconded if I was lured back to London id get a Brompton ideally on the tax efficient ride to work plan.
> I think Manhattan real estate is overpriced. The price should be lowered.

NYC isn't a centrally managed economy. Things are worth precisely what people are willing to pay for them. There's no way to force prices down.

And you thinking it's overpriced doesn't matter when others are willing to pay those prices. Clearly that means that price is accurate, you're just not willing to pay it.
Which would you choose instead? To default to 32 bits (even on 64 bit systems) or to default to 64 bits (even on 32 bit systems).

Defaulting to 64 bit math on 32 bit systems will have a huge performance penalty on generally the slowest/oldest systems where this penalty is least desirable. It's not clear to me what the benefit to this would be for most programs.

Running 32 bit ints on 64 bit systems will cause problems handling large arrays on systems with a lot of memory. I think it also complicates generating efficient loop code, although C++ gets around this with signed integer overflow being "undefined behavior".

Of course Go has int64 and int32 types if you want to use them (and all conversions require explicit casting), but the default type for array lengths etc is the platform native type. But what is the better alternative?
This is an inevitable feature of the perfect terminal. The alternative is showing the binary contents of the image file in ASCII, which is always undesired.
IMO: very much still half broken. Calling functions is still experimental[1] and in my experience has yet to work even once, there's no display formatting options (afaik) so you are often looking at a chunk of bytes instead of something useful (after diving several times more layers deep than other debuggers require), and you pretty often can't view memory that's in scope at another call stack location without going to that location. All of which gives you a pretty crippled experience, especially as it makes conditional breakpoints extremely limited in use.

That said, it's mostly just half, before it was like 3/4 or worse. It has improved in stability (I haven't had it randomly disconnect at all since late Go 1.9 days, but I haven't pressed it hard at all either) and GoLand's integration works well and is mostly fast. It just can't do anything except set breakpoints and view memory.

[1]: https://github.com/derekparker/delve/blob/master/Documentati...
It's easy to blame other people. The fact of the matter is, my generation drinks the "quit your job, sell everything, and boat around the world to find yourself" kool-aid because they like it.

Even here we'll get a few blog posts a month from a one-man-show who's just got their start-up off the ground -- or alternatively, the one that's just burst into flames.

It's the same story. "I keep putting all my money into lottery tickets hoping to make it big, with no plans for what to do when I don't." No one tells us to romanticize it. We're not ignorant of the risks. And yet, we still do.
> To what extent are people really deciding for themselves when they think they're deciding for themselves?

To no extent. All decisions are made with some outside influence. This is true now and has always been true. Unless you live as a hermit your thoughts are influenced by other members of society.

> If freedom is our highest ideal, how do we empower the maximal amount of people to make decisions for themselves without these influences?

We don't. How can you eliminate outside influence if you are under outside influence yourself?
It’s less of a bubble and more of a trend of increasing inequality. It seems like the prices can’t possibly go any higher, but then more wealth gets consolidated into the top 1%, and the top 1% itself expands in terms of absolute numbers.

San Francisco and Manhattan (as well as most of Western Brooklyn) are almost exclusively for those who the media would call “elites”. This wasn’t always so. Go back to the 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s and the population of these areas is much more diverse. You’d think prices can’t possible go higher, but income inequality is actually increasing—so they can. In 10 years there will probably be zero market rate properties in either San Francisco or Manhattan under $1 million. It’s already a rarity, but soon it will actually be non-existent. And unless things change in another decade that bar will be $1.5 million, and so on.
> When did we start talking about the majority of the population?

Why wouldn't we be? If a few people choose to live in a virtual desert, that's their problem. What's important is what's available to those who lack the means to make such choices. I used to be one of those people, but even when I lived in one of the densest most blighted parts of Detroit it wasn't hard to find little pockets of green. Again, follow the dog walkers. They know.

And since you seem so determined to control the focus to what suits you, let's not forget that the original question is whether people need lawns specifically. You haven't even addressed that point. A lawn is an artificial environment, barely more natural than a wood floor or deck. Most people don't even use theirs, except occasionally during child-rearing years. They just pump them full of herbicides and insecticides, deplete often scarce water supplies with their sprinklers, waste tons of energy raking leaves, etc. Are you going to start making the case that having "a place to stand" (as whatshisface originally claimed) is worth all that?
Listen to Jordan Peterson on this topic...
I've been a windows user since 3.1 on a 486 and i've abused the hardware and software installing all kinds of dubious devices and software and I don't recall having a unrecoverable or unrepairable problem because i could always open my computers and replace whatever part was damaged or backup-restore in case of software problems, now having to replace a laotop for a dirty keyboard seems outrageous to me, but I don't blame Apple, it's like going hiking with a pair of Armani shoes and complaining because they're uncomfortable and break easily.
Consistent terminal colors with 16-ANSI-color Vim themes
Since 2008, QE has put a lot of cash in the pockets of the upper middle class and above. They then faced double digit inflation on the goods they are the typical buyers of, tuition fee, bug cities real estate, stocks, etc...
The go runtime can execute any binary, but the lamda is controlled via go rpc, which uses go's custom binary serialization. I couldn't find any implementations of gobs in any other language when the go runtime was announced.

I hope this runtime API is a simplification of the go rpc api