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I reflexively downvote the game of life. I have never heard of a single useful application or analogy of “finite automata.” Yes, there are speculations about extremely small Planck lengths, by no new physics has panned out. Finally I am sad that one of the greatest computer scientists and polymaths, Ed Fredkin, got sucked into this. We all have weaknesses.
No, the article is about millennials, who in past generations would have bought a house by now, but in this generation generally have not. As they say, a 27 year old today is half as likely to own a house as they used to be. This page has a chart showing how home ownership has decreased for under 35s. https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/data/housing/
Why not invest in <5 year US Treasuries?

Approximately same security, higher yield than savings accounts. (Asuming you're not going through the gymnastics / risk to balance across reward savings accounts)
Our team has had great success with Elixir over the last year and ported core node services to it over the last few months. We are very happy with the results. There are some things we haven't been able to do with it, like intensive data processing (for which Python is still used), but if those libraries existed we would switch our Python services ASAP and be an entirely elixir backend.
It does not seem so according to their whitepaper, which I downloaded today. Unless this is out of date. They also describe the prekey mechanism used in Signal, WhatsApp, Wire etc as experimental and unreliable, which is an interesting assertion to make given the success of the protocol underpinning these clients.
*inhert

That's the only dead-sure way our for our generation (in Europe) to get into the same financial situation our parents have been in.
Define healthcare. If you want to follow the traditional path of getting a medicine degree as I did( currently 2nd year in a hospital, the system in my country is different so I don't know exactly how this translates into USA terms), I can tell you right now that the day to day life can actually be really satisfying depending on the choices you make inside. Every specialty( assuming you even chase one) has a unique way of thinking and many many sub-specialties inside where you get to wrestle with the current cutting edge problems. Then of course there is research( poorly paid for the cost) that's it's own thing. So 1) you are postponing your decision until you have more data to decide and 2) you still keep yourself open to many possibilities from more practical specialties like the various surgical ones to more theory-heavy ones like pathology/ID/hematology or being buried in a lab( microbiology etc) to a medium in between( cardiology) or even a more humanitarian one( psychiatry). Each with their own unique feel and algorithms. Ultimately you will still have to choose between what you like and what's important. I am lucky that I like something I consider also extremely important( cardiology). Then you can choose if you want to have a broader view of the subject or specialize a lot into something and becoming the best on it( extra specializations e.g. arrythmiology etc). Ultimately whatever one might choose will always have a very strong feedback loop of improving other peoples' lives and the value of this can't be overstated. Plus the pay is good.
The youngest millennials are probably still 10 years removed from being able to even afford a house.
I write it down on A4 paper, often with diagrams. When I have time to develop the ideas, I make few skethches some of them to be thrown away.

I put them to a ring binder together with project notes, specs etc. Works well with note block papers with holes or classic papers & hole puncher. Ocassionaly I review the content of the ring binder, throw away outdated stuff and make note of forgotten ideas worth developing more.

I like Feynman problem solving strategy: keep two or three problems in back of your head and when you encounter interesting method, try applying it to the problems you keep in your mind.
No, it isn't. It starts with China, thousands of years ago.
What is the difference between allocating memory right when the program starts with malloc and using the same size in static unitialized byte arrays?

There are differences of course, but that memory can be used in the same way, and so memory pools are orthogonal to how the memory is aquired.
and probably a portion of that luxury is stuff like cleaners and other labor saving services which means that a lot of time that was spent on non remunerative work is now spent on the work.
Just wait long enough, it'll warm up. Or slide into the ocean. 50-50.
Zoning / development incentives in many places is such that houses of the size typical decades ago can no longer be built.

Having twice a big a house doesn’t help if you can’t afford the 35% price increase.
For starters, you can copy sim card, entirely.

About practice - one of Telegram users was comprised using his phone number, because russian government just ordered to mobile operator to do this. It was much more simple than copying sim card :)
LG unveils 88 inch 8k OLED screen with in-display sound
For the same reason (complicated changing UI etc) do not use any special apps. But the standard Notes app on Mac OS or iOS works just fine.
Buying a home isn't universally difficult across the entire country. It's more that many millennials choose to start their careers in expensive metros like NY, SF, and LA because that is where the jobs are but where a median salary won't be enough for you to save the ~$200k cash to buy the median home in those areas in a reasonable amount of time. There are a lot of programs that allow you to put less than the traditional 20% down for a home (I believe I read a stat that only 55% or so of homes are bought with 20%+ down payment), but again the issue is that a seller is going to view you as less competitive if you offer < 20% and will have a harder time having your offer accepted if there are multiple offers.

Anyone who is hitting their late 20s/early 30s and living in SF, for example, knows how many "going away" parties you end up going to of friends who've been here a few years, married/thinking of kids, and planned their escape so they have a chance of buying a home in less expensive metro.
Non-principal = all the interest you've paid.
Cool, thanks José, that helps indeed. The multi-core DX stuff sounds interesting even on its own, production code aside. I hope to check it out soon!
I think it depends on the carrier and the adversary. For example, a government could ask the carrier to give them a copy of traffic to your number, or to cancel your number, or to let them send data as you.

This is already "practical" if you have a capable enough adversary; for example, there have been reports of attackers subverting SMS-based 2FA.

https://www.google.com/search?q=attacks+on+sms+2fa

This could be based on cooperation of the carrier, or perhaps SS7 attacks, or IMSI catchers.
You seem to be responding to the title, not the essay.

Dyson describes the theory as "simple and intelligible" once you accept the concept of fields, which was very much foreign in Maxwell's time.
The parent post was talking about using malloc once at the start of the program, are you talking about defining that with your linker script?

Also if the goal is to get one chunk of memory with a single call, why use malloc at all? Why not use the direct memory mapping command?
You can, just more work. If you're saving for a smaller downpayment, it might not be worth the effort for 50 basis points.
Was hoping chessboard QR codes when I saw the title
IMHO every government should put easily affordable housing among its top priorities together with easily affordable professional education - these are the essentials they should care about.
This is not FUD. Telegram HAS NO ENCRYPTION. Telegram stores all messages on the server in plain-text mode. Even whatsapp doesn’t do that.

Which means we must trust Telegram developers to not sell out our data to corrupt law enforcement agencies.

The service is free. Which means they would need to get profitable. Which means they would parse the chats or are already doing it.
Further: a bunch number of open-source crypto projects received OTF funding. It was the policy of RFA to fund improvements and assessments in secure messaging and privacy technologies in general.
Sound Recorded by Sickened Cuba Embassy Staff Was Just Crickets
>I am also going to explore the titular subject of this article, “Do blind technology consumers get what we pay for?”

This just seems like such an obvious ‘no’ to me, that I lost interest in reading the article at that point. Blind users obviously pay for a huge amount of features they can’t use, that were made for non-blind people, and have a disproportionately small amount of features tailored for their use. Unless the blind consumer market becomes bigger than the non-blind market, I’d expect this to always be the case.
Doing this really drove home how neurotic and generally distracted I had become. I'd do some reading at lunchtime and by bedtime couldn't recall much of it at all. I don't know for sure, but it really felt like my memory was being thrashed by the music, websites, podcast, etc that came between lunch and bedtime.
You might want to try with hashbrown too; there’s an open PR to replace HashMap’s guts with it, but there’s also a crates.io package so you don’t need to rebuild the stdlib yourself.
This is a nice kickstart for something that has been on my todo list for a while.

Cashflow forecasting is important for my family budget and my small business. My cashflow fluctuates quite a bit. Some months I'll bring in 90k, some months nothing. I have really high expenses for such a small business because I travel and pay contractors.

So far I've been doing this by hand, and trying to use features in Xero, plus a few expensive tools online that integrate with Xero (which do not deserve a free advertisement so I won't name them). I finally figured out if I want cash flow forecasting done right for me I'm going to have to do it myself.
When you inflation adjust some of the values in question, it corrects much of the fake gains in real-estate.

For example the UK's GDP per capita has increased by ~120% since 1993. Median incomes in the UK have likely doubled or nearly so since the early 1990s. A lot of that is inflation, just as is the case in the housing price increases.

The US median family income has nearly doubled since the early 1990s - before you account for inflation.

If you take the median new home sale price in the US, and adjust it at 3% annual inflation over the last 15 years, housing prices are not much higher than they were in 2003. There has been maybe at worst a 10-15% real increase in housing prices in 15 years. Factor in the relative scarcity of construction since the great recession, due to fear, and that one issue alone can easily account for 100% of all real housing price gains re the national median.

The primary problem of the last 15-20 years for the average person, both in the US and most of Europe, are that the central bank inflationary (currency & debt debasement) programs are outpacing the rate of income gains. The US saw an epic standard of living debasement with an extraordinary destruction of the dollar from 2001-2008. That's the US Government spending + Fed causing that harm.

Google these: Czech GDP, Poland GDP, Russia GDP, Colombia GDP, Bolivia GDP, Turkey GDP, Indonesia GDP

Now, did Czech GDP really increase by ~300% (lol) in seven years, from Jan 2002 to Jan 2009? From $67b to $235b. No, obviously not. You'll see similar hilarious GDP gains in most every other nation at exactly the same time - when priced in dollars.

That's a representation of the destruction of the US dollar over that time, by the US Government and the Fed. You can also see it represented in eg oil, gold and many other commodities priced in dollars. So you can imagine the destruction of the US standard of living that occurred at the same time, which has now given us Trump as President and an endlessly pissed off electorate. The US isn't unique however, France is partying right now to that exact same situation, decades of real stagnation against horrific government and central bank policies that are wiping out average people.

Good luck seeing wages keep up with the destruction the monsters in DC have been causing via real inflation. Most of the real estate price gains over the last 20 years in the developed world are fake, they're nothing but inflation. The problem is that wages are not keeping up with that inflation.
I think you should go for it. I have a 2015 model, and it’s a tad jittery! My friend’s 2018 kicks it ass and I’m a bit envious! But I still love my 2015.

If you have the 2000, it’s a great little machine. You have my blessing.
This is the big discussion right now, it definitely seems like some sort of downturn/correction is coming within the next 18 months. We'd like to buy within the next 5 years but are willing to stretch it out to a max of 7 (we've decided that no matter where we go we'll end up in a high CoL area). So for now we're keeping a chunk of our savings in the market and will keep an eye on asset allocation and continuing to re-evaluate our risk tolerance and the market.
> Build you own Mint

> Fancy interface is out of scope for this demo.

OK.
Important emphasis on the quotation marks around the word standard. From the readme:

> But this isn't a real web standard!

> Of course it's not! The style laid out here is not affiliated with any official web standards groups, which is why this repo is called standard/standard and not ECMA/standard.

> The word "standard" has more meanings than just "web standard" :-)

I’m not a fan of the naming, but I could also be biased because I disagree with some of the formatting rules.
Is it so hard to start a decent school in whatever an area when there is demand?
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Below that, you have 20-50 year olds.
Above that, you have 50-80 year olds. Let's pretend 80+ doesn't exist for the sake of argument.

Perfect random distribution would be 50%.

But it's not random. A 50 year old obviously has more wealth than a 20 year old (unless the 20 year old's parents die early and they inherit a wad; which is unlikely given that most don't inherit much, and their parents don't die when they're young).
The App Store MacOS version of Telegram offers end-to-end encrypted chats.
This is Awesome!! Is the first word after the price the category, the latter description? Can you quote multi-word categories or something, if you had those? Eg "Store Credit"?
You may need to prepare the input - isolate the parts you want read, blank out all other, remove the background color, table borders, graphic elements. Convert to greyscale/BW. Then apply OCR
Nice examples and readme. But the question I keep asking myself is why add 4k to a bundle, or spend extra time leaning this package - when it seems like it is replicating a very common “map filter reduce” pattern.

Overall nice package, I just could not help but wonder that perhaps I am not your intended audience, given I think the better use of time is to learn the built-in js “map filter reduce”

To summarize, can you give a motivating example of when and why would would reach for THIS tool in the readme?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18837561
Rich Hickey has some fantastic talks: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits

My favorite is https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...
According to many, health is where the next big thing will be (rationale: health is what people say they value most, and the numbers agree: the fraction of income spent on health increases).

So, if they manage to make the watch a ‘necessity’ in the health market, it can become very, very big.
At what point is genuine mass market remote working likely to happen? In the software world (not a great mass proxy) it is still a rarity, but it's there and growing.

That (and frankly only that) is the real threat to one way house price bets - at least imo - other views gratefully accepted
Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs
The population has been growing at a much faster rate in Florida than the average for the United States, so prices probably won't go down very much in attractive places there, either.
Or the Iraq intelligence operation, which led to the Iraq war and a lot of the present-day instability in the region. There was wrong intelligence that was believed-in, and right intelligence (claiming there were no massive stockpiles of WMDs) that was dismissed [1][2].

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9...
[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/...
Nothing you can't do in an afternoon of work if you're holding them until maturity.
I'm not, but they were. But it was not discussed openly in print at the time, and so must be inferred.
> Making the older generation a class of rentiers who maintain their standard of living off the backs of the young.

Isn't this the natural way of things? People work and raise children ("living off their backs"), become too old for modern jobs and start living off the backs of the young. Hasn't it always worked this way?
I agree and believe that it's harder to maintain a dynamically-typed codebase, but Elixir has a well-thought-out gradual typing solution: typespecs ( https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/typespecs.html#basic-types ). This builds on Erlang's Dialyzer tool and is supported by editor plugins like VSCode's ElixirLS extension. In practice, you do get instant typechecking while you code, if you write down the typespecs properly.
Not sure if it's the right place/occasion to ask...

I'd love a web application that gives me a one page financial dashboard with:

- bank account balance

- credit card balance. Due date

- list of unusual transactions I should review

- all my bills in one place, with amounts due and possibility to click through to see details

- list of upcoming schedule payment (ie mortgage, gym membership, phone service) with alert/notification of one will bounce (ie: funds insufficient so I can transfer money to the right account)

- upcoming financial obligations

Is there such a thing? Ideally self hosted.
Are you able to find book keepers and CPA's who can deal with this easily? How do you sync data with them and control access? I have a contractor that helps me with invoicing, a book keeper, a CPA, and a partner. Not sure how this would work.
The past decade I have worked about 24 hours or 3 days a week, only making more hours (or full days) when it could not be avoided.
I would advice this to everyone.
The US government should stop offering subsidized mortgages with Fannie and Ginnie and mortgage interest tax deductions (less of a problem now). All of these contribute to drive up home prices, under the guise of helping people own homes.
More work? Simply park it in one of (yields as of Dec '18):

* VMRXX - Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund, ~2.4% yield, fully taxable

* VUSXX - Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund, ~2.2% yield, no state tax

* VMSXX - Vanguard Municipal Money Market Fund, ~1.6% yield, no federal tax

* VCTXX - Vanguard California Municipal Money Market Fund, ~1.5% yield, no federal or California tax
Deploy a Docker Swarm Cluster on GCP with Terraform
Working on an “open blog” site for sharing audiobook reviews and resources
Yeah I agree it's a bit idiosyncratic.
The decrease in interest premiums (on max 1M -> 750k principle) and state property taxes (10k cap) would seem to be a net negative for people sitting in expensive homes, which seems like it would prod to some sales and downsizing around NYC and SF.
I think your post should highlight the main idea: Telegram stores all messages in plain-text on the server. Even whatsapp doesn’t do that.

Seems to me like the “end to end” was an afterthought. Just to claim that they can encrypt messages. While 99% of messages are stored right there, and we must trust telegram not to give that data to anyone. Why should we?
My personal laptop and desktop are on btrfs and my work laptop and desktop are still on extra; I haven't noticed any difference between how well it syncs between those sets of machines. In fact, after the initial setup of it on a Digital Ocean VPS (20 GB is enough for my uses), it's been virtually the exact same experience as Dropbox for me; the initial sync on each my my machines too roughly the same amount of time as the Dropbox sync did, and every change since then has been essentially instantaneous to my other devices. As an Arch user, it's actually easier to install than Dropbox (nextcloud-client is in the main repos, whereas Dropbox is only in the AUR), and the Android app has also worked perfectly for me. Assuming you're okay with a bit of upfront cost to get the server set up (I basically just followed the Arch wikis and then used Let's Encrypt for the TLS certificate) and the cost of a VPS, I'd highly recommend it for people who want filesystem sync'ing for non-ext4 on Linux.
I switched from software generally to software for energy. I had a software job and my friends were always making fun of me for working for "the man", i.e. banks and large consumer product companies (Coke, McDonalds, etc.). So I sat down and looked at all the major industries that seemed to help people and that I could have an impact in as a software engineer. I figured I'd try energy first, since climate change was probably the worst thing happening at the time, and I took a 1 year contract to build an app for utilities. 6 years later I'm still working on it, training another generation of engineers. So hey, it worked out.

The nice thing about work skills is that they're frequently portable. So if I had to go back in time and give advice to old me I'd say: don't worry, just work in some industries where you think you can do things that are important to you. And while you do that you'll be building your skillset. For me, it was my software skillset, but I've also learned some stuff on raising funding, event planning, budgeting, accounting, hiring. It also doesn't hurt to save money.

Good luck! Have fun!
I see. The poster above says value has gone up, but that says nothing of the floor in prices, which is also rising even if at a different rate. The end result can still mean more people priced out of the area and harder times for those in it.
I'm German (which has inheritance tax) living in Austria (which doesn't due to the country's biggest publisher wanting to avoid inheritance tax after the unavoidable). Let me tell you, if inheritance tax is a topic for you family you are either stinking rich or bad a planning (i.e. gifts within the family) long term.
Ask HN: How do you get feedback on issues with physical products?
I currently work as a product manager for a tech company, and our tools for gathering feedback from users are great, and a huge part of the job.

However, I've been thinking about physical and hardware products lately- specifically how we could solicit feedback and triage issues that customers have. Has anyone tried anything that worked for them? Could be a process, a tool, etc. just looking to understand current practices.
Just over half of 35-44 year olds have a house or share it with their partner (which includes a lot of the previous generation as well as 'millenials') so it's a stretch to say most.

The figure for 25-34 year old families is 25%. Twenty years ago the figure for the same age group was 45%; it was a clear majority less than 10 years before that. That's what the UK housing debate is about.
Why wouldn't they convert the houses to rental properties and keep the passive income while downsizing?
My only complaint is having to manually bind methods in the constructor. I understand why it's necessary but it is tedious. I suppose the answer is to just use TypeScript but we are talking about ES6 here.