skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All statistics point to it being false.

From the financial post (https://business.financialpost.com/real-estate/perception-of...):

A study from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation released Wednesday found that 68 per cent of Vancouver respondents, 48 per cent of Toronto respondents and 42 per cent of Montreal respondents believe foreign buyers are having "a lot of influence" on their markets and are driving up home prices.

The insight into perceptions around foreign buyers that 30,000 respondents in the three cities shared with the Crown Corporation between September and mid-October is in stark contrast with recent data from Statistics Canada showing foreign buyers only own 4.8 per cent of Vancouver properties and 3.4 per cent of homes in Toronto.

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The truth is that we're house horny enough to not need any outside help to increase the price of real estate. According to Statistics Canada, 69.0% of households are owner (https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-014-x/99-0...). While anecdotal data can be comforting, the data doesn't support the thesis.
$700 or so which is double the 2015 average price and accounts for the Halvening
I can't read minds, but I would think it's a party decision. One member of the party knows what the consequences (and benefits) of a law like this are, so all other party members "choose" to vote the same way as what everyone else in the party is voting.

I'm sure whoever is proposing the law knows precisely what they're doing: making Apple and co. choose between money or values.
They'll lose business:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-11-30/encryption-bi...

I suppose they could always go offshore.
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Australia has no privacy protections (and is the only Five-Eyes country where this is the case). There's no need to get a similar law passed in New Zealand, the Five-Eyes agreement allows for intelligence analysis to be outsourced. Basically Australia will now be used as a way to subvert the privacy rights of all other Five-Eyes countries -- including countries where such analysis would violate their laws.

The most disgusting thing is that our opposition government voted for this shit. What a fucking joke.
Unless your a bad guy who just uses a program on your own computer to do the email encryption preserver...
It is unusually bad. Loaded with javascript on, and after just scrolling and reading, it's up to 633 http requests and 6+MB to show an article: https://imgur.com/a/u0UZswK
They will get fined very heavily and thus will be forced to add backdoors or go out of business. The government claims that what they want aren't backdoors (they use the term "backdoor" to refer to a 0-day in possibly the most disgusting Orwellian doublespeak I've seen come out of this government in an attempt to avoid criticism) but that's simply false.
My workload in college was insane. For one of my semesters I had zero social life and slept a day out of two, one out of three near the end. It was awful. I didn't have a job and lived with my parents who handled food too. Not many people made it through. Was a shitty community college. I would have had an easier time at MIT, heh.
Do you have an old car or are you a pilot?
Or, you know, China could get rid of one of the US's spies there too. It's not like we don't do espionage... We're probably the best at it given what Snowden showed us...
We found we got a nice boost in call quality when we moved to from hangouts to slack. zoom.us is also good.
All those miles are recorded, fuzzed and replayed in simulation, where they've driven over 5 billion miles. I assume they retest all the miles + fuzzed versions on every version release.
Signal and Allo actually have a similar number of installs, they're both in the 10-50m installs bucket in the Play store.

I use Signal, but it's fine at best, but it's not really going to break out of it's niche.
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> "Written laws ... independent of legislation" doesn't make sense. What are you trying to say here?

You're right, it doesn't. That's what happens when you truncate a quote to completely remove the context.
I'm no Musk fan but he opened up all the Tesla patents so other manufacturers can use their intellectual property.

Maybe he had ulterior motives... Don't know. But opening up patents is certainly the opposite of squashing innovation.
They worry that they'll be wedged on national security if they vote against it and then there is an incident. Their opponents will aggressively label them soft on terrorism and the 'reason' the attack couldn't be stopped.

Meanwhile, if they vote for it, they annoy the few people paying attention or who have strong feelings about it. Low risk in the short term.
The "existing standard" is whatever configparser accepts. configparser is part of the standard library. Different versions accept different things. The setuptools documentation covers higher-level things like key names. That isn't what they're trying to standardize.

The last sentence you quoted explains why they picked "pyproject" instead of "setup". It isn't why they picked TOML.
One of the absolute top features of Hangouts is indexing chats into your Gmail search results. And yet here goes Google yet again applying the foot gun to a useful feature. Do they buy bullets in bulk or something?
No. My point is that I'm every bit of society we consider sleep as something you can cut as opposed to something critical. Yes my examples were different, but they have the same root cause: quality of sleep isn't considered a big deal.
The Seagate 8TB has an AFR of around 1%, this is not only really good, but also makes any anecdotal evidence from a consumer quite useless.
Wouldn't a federated solution be better though? After all email and SMS are decentralized, albeit somewhat archaic.
This is what I see at the first link when I search for "Google Meet" (url is: https://meet.google.com, which seems like it's a reasonable point of entry URL for the product): https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7

It's not a good web page. Clicking the "Learn more" link takes me to a help page telling how to join a meeting...but, not much about what Meet is. It can be inferred, but it's also not a good introduction to Meet. I have now figured out what Meet is, but not why I would prefer it over Hangouts. It appears to be the same thing, only "for business" (and with a price tag, but no promise that Google will stop surveilling my every action online...which is really the one feature I'd absolutely be willing to pay for).

I'll just reiterate that Google is bad at branding and marketing.
Australia has effectively no free speech or privacy protections, and so it's very likely they'll get big companies to play ball. The US ran into trouble for a variety of reasons but it wasn't an "in principle this is untenable" problem (and let's not forget the "export" encryption has caused problems for many years thanks to the US policies).

I am quite worried about free software that implements encryption. As an Australian, I'm quite concerned that software I've written and is free software will be asked to be backdoored by the Australian government. I'm small fish, but if I was a GnuPG developer I'd be more worried -- will GnuPG even accept my patches anymore given my nationality?
Biological clock aside, the kids might not be able to sleep earlier. Can't go to sleep before 7 if the jack hammers are going on until 7, for example.
You're onto something. This should be a chart though, and encompass the whole scope of Google's attempts at messaging over the years. Plot out all the bundling (Hangouts & G+) and unbundling (Allo's features -> Messages) like xkcd's movie narrative charts: https://xkcd.com/657/

At any given moment in time, Google's messaging attempts look silly and confusing, but imagine seeing it over time - it'd look downright insane.
Duo has at least 10x more installs on the Play store, it's pretty clear that Duo has succeeded, while Allo has failed.
We got him
The S in IoT stands for security.
Making a note of this, didn't know about the target flag, thanks !
Good grief. It seems like they are doing everything possible to not make something as good as Apple Messages. Data chat without a phone number, interoperability with conventional SMS and the ability to start an instant FaceTime. And with Group FaceTime, it’s even more compelling. You can even do audio only or start a real phone call or send a video or audio message, all in one place. Other than org politics, I can’t understand why Google messaging services are a convoluted mess. I need a flowchart just to understand it all.
Genuine question here, as I've read both the post and all the comments here and I still can't figure this out: Does this blog post say google's consumer text messaging strategy is now "send an email?"

I read the post as saying Messages is for Android consumer text messaging, Duo for cross-platform consumer video, and Hangouts for enterprise text and video. That doesn't seem to leave anything for friends doing text chat outside of Android.
I did explicitly say "interesting" miles, but we shouldn't mix up Phoenix miles with New York miles or Canada miles. No one claims they are ready to run anywhere in the world, but they have enough miles in Phoenix that they're confident they've seen almost all interesting miles there.
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I use hangouts as my primary communication app with my spouse on desktop and android, and have since the google talk days. Will this no longer after the change and if not what is the replacement?
Not sure about the US, but in the UK where I have more experience having my stuff stolen, if you rob a house and the door is locked it is a far more serious crime than if the door is unlocked. Big reason people made sure to lock their doors in my neighbourhood growing up since 90% of the yobs would just check if doors were locked, not actually dare to break in.
Oh my god - Google really has the worst product management etiquette in the world.

It’s not hard. Look around you for what works and what doesn’t and copy that.

The post is also confusing and hard to get the bottom line out of it. Just write “we are killing Allo”.
I personally think we still would have an unacceptably large problem w.r.t. climate change regardless of what happens in the USA

It might be too late now, but the US has set the example & led the way for the rest of the world on certain things for decades. Soft power. We can do it again, but we have to lead from the front.
I think it's more "send an sms". I could be reading this post wrong though.
Dunno, don't have kids. I just know I see the little kids walking around with their parents whenever I'm unfortunate enough to have to be out that early, and I assume hundreds of 9 years old didn't all have to go to a birthday party at 7 am all at the same time.
We recently switched to using poetry over pip and virtual envs. All the additional tooling poetry provides is amazing - actual dependency resolution, script entry point, building, version bumping, publishing. The author is awesome too. Also making python3 tooling possible on python 2/3 packages. I'd highly recommend trying it out.

Pipenv on the other hand was not only slower, but _failed_ to actually resolve our dependencies correctly. Additionally, it was slower. And looking up the issues, I can echo that the development team seems a bit defensive and dismissive.
I don't work at Facebook, but Facebook rented multiple floors at my last office building. It didn't help that the employees were by-and-large thoughtless and rude (spreading out in elevators if they were in groups to discourage people from piling in, rushing to get through a door in front of somebody carrying a bunch of stuff just to make them stop and then not holding the door--extremely consistently), but nobody was too worried about making sure they were out of earshot before wondering aloud if they enjoyed making the world worse.
Power tends to corrupt.
That doesn’t count all of the iOS people that also use Signal. I use Signal and Apple Messages and didn’t even know Allo existed. I have a perhaps irrational fear of using messaging from Google or Facebook because they have lost my trust.

Why would anyone invest in a Google messaging system when Google is prone to kill it off randomly?
What’s wrong with iOS Messages? I can text literally everyone I know. I don’t even know what it does under the hood.
It's based on a delusion of centralized control. It does not require maliciousness, simple-minded benevolence leads to the same thing. There's a problem that exists, and they need to solve it, so more control can only help - or so the thinking goes.

Plus, a law like this only really sets the stage for future actions. If it turns out those type of actions are unnecessary or have detrimental effects, the capability can be restrained in the future! And it is true that the egregious totalitarian scenarios we're thinking of won't be done immediately. The frog will just slowly boil over time as the invasive behavior is normalized and gradually used for more and more routine policing.

It takes a very principled stance to assert that the unenumerable harm such laws do to the future outweighs the immediate threat of the day. Which is why totalitarian laws such at this gain more ground after violent media spectacles.
I agree with you, but a hardware specific messaging app is just stupid.

As you can tell by the length of my last post, thinking about this situation has got me upset.

So upset, that right now I've decided to launch a non-profit, open collective organization called OOMA. Only One Messaging App.

OOMA will be comprised of the millions of people who are annoyed and upset at the result of tech companies competing for our communication. We are taking things into our own hands. We are agreeing to switch to ONE service, for ALL of our messaging needs. All of us, all over the world, all at once.

We are going to do 5 things, in order:
1. Choose a switch date.
2. Define a spec for the "perfect messaging app" (encryption, licensing, finance model, features, tech, etc.)
3. Invite companies to pitch their app, and/or secure funding to develop our own to spec.
4. Spread the word.
5. Make the switch.

I'm going to prepare a marketing web page and (ironically) a discord server right now. At the very worst it's a fun side project and way to express my anger.

EDIT: OOMA server is live. If you think an app is not the solution, come tell us why: https://discord.gg/CmdgUp
I don't know anyone who uses it as their casual messaging client, and I've never used their mobile app. But looking at it now it looks decent, and if they wanted to they could probably match their competitors pretty quickly, if they're not already. The rest is mostly marketing, I'm thinking they could use their reputation as a reliable long term partner to their advantage, and maybe promise to not use peoples contacts to sell ads.
if someone messages you and doesn't have a lot of the friends you know, then don't respond. then don't respond, agree. because it's one way
Isn't index funds risky for living off year-to-year returns given they have up to 50% drops occasionally? Especially if you assume up to 15% return which sounds super optimistic too me.

E.g. You would have made 0% return off the S&P500 between March 2000 and March 2013. That's 13 years! That would burn through 5,2 million off your capital at your expense rate of 400k
TIL the word "whiteanting". Supremely useful, I'll have to remember that one.
You've gone through some serious mental gymnastics to justify your lack of action, but it's clear that you know that Facebook is making you worse than you're making Facebook better. Rest assured that there are companies where you can work on interesting problems without facilitating genocide.
We (Australia) are doing this mostly as a five-eyes partner on behalf of the US to support their intelligence efforts.

This is the price we the Australian people pay for:

1) The promise of future protection by the US in the event of a war (hmmm I wonder who will start it) [1]
2) In theory better terms of trade (ok, after lots of haggling) [2]
3) Access to exclusive visas w/ the US (ok, not so exclusive if Ireland have their way). [3]

Worth it?

[1] https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/the-miscalculation-that-could-escalate-into-war-between-china-and-the-us/news-story/c597fe4fa7ea9e7a9929b4258625bd19
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-10/malcolm-turnbull-donald-trump-working-tariff-exemption-agreement/9534984
[3] https://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/what-is-e3-bill-what-would-it-mean-for-irish
Her Moab 240 pace wasn't actually that competitive, the exception is she didn't sleep.

It will be interesting to see what this does to the sport, if it ends up becoming as much about performing for days without sleep as being physically capable of running 200+ miles.
900KWH / (400WH/kg ) =2250kg > 2 ton for battery ?

That seem to be non trivial amount of weight.

I am curious how that compare to weight of typical fuel + engine for a small plane.
I use a caribiner and a belt loop. I think a bracelet would be a pretty great form factor for a key fob.
> "send an sms"

I guess that's better than telling people to fax 8 track tapes, but not by much
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I think it's about time that we Australians had a discussion about a constitutional bill of rights (modelled on Switzerland ideally).

The common argument against this is that common law protections would be strong enough to make it unnecessary, but that's ignoring that governments can pass laws that end up invalidating older common law protections. And as we've seen in the past decade, our government (both Labor and the Liberals) have been slowly degrading our rights -- they effectively suspended habeas corpus in 2005. From memory, there are even restrictions on how much you can tell your lawyers about you being tried for terrorism!

A constitutional referendum is going to be a very hard fight. But I think that the Australian public could see the problem if we compare ourselves to other nations -- the "it's all for national security" argument is specious given that we can show evidence of many countries which have such protections and still have national security protections.

One of the most concerning things is that the canonical example that motivated this bill actually includes a presumption of guilt of the person being investigated. That's a great start...
Hangouts integrates your Google Voice and Google Fi texts right into web pages like GMail, contacts, etc.

And this works even if your phone is off, lost, broken, or has no service. Hangouts also works on any device with an internet connection if you log in. You can text and call from your number on literally any device just by signing into hangouts. None of the multitude of other redundant Google messaging products does any of this. Even their official replacement "messages" only works if your phone is on and has service.

You don't even need a phone to call and text from a laptop through GMail from your phone number. That functionality will be lost.
Given that these NCs are generally negotiated as part of the sale of the company I don't really see a problem. If what you're being offered isn't worth agreeing not to compete then keep negotiating or walk away.
FWIW, women beating men in ultra-marathon length events isn't a new thing. Pam Reed won the Badwater Ultramarathon[1] outright in 2002 and 2003.

More insights on this topic can be found here:

https://trailrunnermag.com/people/is-women-winning-ultras-ov...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon
The meat of the bill is the ability to issue three sorts of notices to service providers (which only need have some incidental presence in Australia to be served, like for example a company owned storefront):

Technical Assistance Request - a non-compulsory request to provide requested information they have access to;
Technical Assistance Notice - a compulsory version of a Technical Assistance Request, to use a capability that the recipient already has to obtain data;
Technical Capability Notice - a compulsory instruction to develop a new interception capability.

So it doesn't constrain the way you can build products (now or in the past), they're instead just going to require your assistance to attack the targeted endpoints if that's the only way in.
You can attach zip files containing anything you want on Bandcamp. I put a few Serum presets in one EP.
In my humble opinion swappable batteries on an airplane would run afoul of the maintenance regulations that require an A & P to perform and sign off on changes to the aircraft.
It's hardware specific! Most of the planet is on Android. If there is a way to do iMessage on Android, I can at least say that not many people know how.
The PoC is mostly correct, but basically is testing for a side effect of the fix, not the presence of the vulnerability. Either which way it's probably still useful, but since we are all geeks here might as well talk about the minutia.

The PoC basically tests that if you create a websocket request that results in non-101 response the socket is closed by the server. That is a side effect of the fix. The way the proxy code works is that on presence of the Upgrade header it first hijacks the HTTP request and dials the target. It then starts a copy loop but reads the first bytes into a http.Response. If the response is not 101 it will exit.

The a side effect is that it just so happens to be that because the connection is hijacked the golang server will not reuse the TCP connection and will close it. But according to the HTTP spec that TCP connection is still valid for reuse so the server does not have to actually close the connection (but it happens to). Where this PoC could fall apart is if you are running kube-apiserver behind a particularly pedantic LB (ALB might apply here). Most LBs will not reuse any TCP connection that had an Upgrade header in it, but if they are smart and read the response they can if it didn't result in a 101. From that perspective a load balancer (or reverse proxy) is not obligated to close the TCP connection to the client.

To fully test the vulnerability you need to find a pod you can exec to and another pod on the same node you are not authorized to exec to. First send a malformed pod exec and get the open socket. Then send another request using the kubelet API to exec to a pod you are not authorized for. Then see if you get a valid response (which I believe is a callback URL for the actually tty stream).

The PoC is still basically valid because it could just give you a false negative that you are vulnerable (not a false positive all is swell).
This is exactly the reason. It's one of the many risks of having a de-facto two-party system -- if you piss off the other guy's base you'll lose the next election. As I've said for many years, we need much stronger third parties in Australia. Personally, I think problem is that there's too much political apathy.
Also, hospitals typically won't tell you how much something will cost, so you can't shop around even when you are willing to.

Also sometimes hospitals will lie about what they will charge -- happened to my daughter regarding her appendectomy. Should count as fraud.
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