skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many places in the US there are two issues:

-The max quality or size of rental properties is not that high, you may not be able to rent a nice freestanding house in some places because culturally speaking, people with more than $X usually buy.

-Landlord-tenant law may be very favourable to the landlord and not to the tenant. That motivates people to buy rather than rent and deal with shitty landlords.

In addition to that, people like being able to invest their time and money into improving their home to just the way they like it.

Having a long term place that is "home" is very important and comforting to many people. There is a reason that residences have all kinds of special legal protections and treatment that commercial real estate doesn't neccesarily have.
> You can have metaprogramming, but it's not the same level by any means.

In the languages I've mentioned it is as the same level. Here are some examples - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3125375

> Take Perl, for example. You can't have robust metaprogramming on a language with an undecidable grammar

I'm referring to Perl6 here which is (intended to be) self hosted via perl6 grammars & also comes with hygienic macros:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules#Grammars

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Macros

While perl5 won't get this good you'll be surprised what metaprogramming can be done with it.

NB. For an example of macro-like things here is a list of CPAN modules that make use of Devel::Declare - https://metacpan.org/requires/distribution/Devel-Declare?sor...]

> Read through the above link and you'll see the difference.

I have and I remember reading it back in 2005 :) This doesn't affect the list of languages I mentioned earlier.
Quote and use screengrabs or short clips sure. 100% of your 'commentary' is composed of the original material, questionable imo.
Sure, but even if we're talking one-off: "senior" people are paid perhaps 4x as much as "junior" people, but few companies will ever (IME, and I'd be very interested to hear counterexamples) raise you to 4x what you started on.
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If the UK as anything like Sweden and if my circle of friends and acquaintances are in any way representative, I'd estimate at least 70% of people without a license have a TV.
This is interesting! I'm inspired to do the same (videotaping) to promote my dating website http://www.ngajakjalan.com (for Indonesians). Like, I talk to random girls I meet on the street (or shopping complex).

Some questions for those who have tried this kind of thing:

1. Obviously you should conceal your camera. Any suggestion on how to do this? I'm thinking of using my iPod's camera. Put in my shirt's pocket while the camera is on with the lens facing forward? Or use special camera for this purpose?

2. Is it legal to record and publish it on YouTube? How to make it legal? Blur the person's face?
Thanks for the link. The parallels are interesting.
If number of users was equivalent to quality you would be correct. But it isn't. Under your argument, Wal-Mart is a purveyor of family heirlooms.
The FAQ (at the bottom of the page) reveals that.
This is not true in every case, it's magical thinking.

You can make a rational calculation of what works out better using local rental rates vs property prices (sometimes one of them is grossly out of proportion to the other), applying a liquidity and mobility premium and your expectations of what the rental and property markets will do long term.
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I'm looking to make a simple Gist like application that tracks revision history as well. It's for a specific use case, but I'm sure it could apply in other places as well.
That's a brilliant joke.
Contrast = 0. Hipster.
At a "saving" of almost £100 that does seem by far the most likely explanation.
Python? Try to subclass an int in Python, and see that it is not as OO as you think.

Ruby is more OO then Java for the reason you give, still there are primitives but they have a thick OO-coating so you are less likely to notice they are 'different'. Try subclassing a Fixnum -- it works! But Fixnums have no 'new'.
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A quick review shows that you do indeed ask a lot of questions. Some have attracted a good number of karma points so this would imply that the more interesting ones are getting the attention they deserve.

Of course, time of day can have an impact - if a lot of submissions turn up on the new page at the same time then yours can sink below the fold before it gets much attention.
I'm just laying out the schematic for a GPIO board that includes a 4x20LCD display interface, two mains relays, two opto-isolated mains power sensors, a real time clock chip and interface to some one-wire temp sensors.

The Pi is going to be the master controller for my central heating system. There will be a Web interface and I hope to implement something with a service such as Google Latitude so I can have a 'back from holiday' mode where the system knows when I'm, say, back within 25 miles of the house and fires up the heating and water again.

That's my fun project for when I have some spare time.
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> Mortgage rates are lower than rental prices in many places,

its unlikely that mortgage payments are lower than rent - otherwise, it'd be better to pay the mortgage than renting! You would buy a place, and rent out a room or two, and have the rent income plus your own money to pay the mortgage.

I m not against renting - but i just don't want people to think that a mortgage is some baggage that they are better off not having, and instead just pay rent. I want people to make the smartest choices, so that the only way rent rises is because costs to build houses rise, not because the landlord got greedy. To me, rent is like a tax on being alive.
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Why would someone pay for a TV license at all in that case?
Well here's a thought:

Perhaps he himself should pack up and leave?

After all he is the one with trust issues in the workplace.
I thought they had already stopped broadcasting analogue TV signals
The two aren't even remotely related. Being gay is a strictly individual choice that has no effect on the employee's performance or that of other employees. Sleeping with the spouse of a co-worker immediately and intimately involves the co-worker and is devastating to them. I don't even begin to see how you could compare the two.
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For me reading the sentence felt like someone was shouting all the "ADS" at me. Just as obnoxious as many ads themselves.
1. Mono-tasking. Really, this can't be emphasized at all. Right now I'm on HN, The Verge, Reader, my blog etc.. but when I work, everything (including email, funny remarks from the guy next to me) is muted. Oh, I work in chunks and that's why it's okay to mute everything else for that brief time..

2. Work Editorial: As a writer, a content editorial has helped AMAZINGLY. You can apply that elsewhere too.. start with a set of 3 tasks with 3 chunks of time and 2 breaks between them. Work editorial is like planning. Nothing new.. but it's a hack I desperately need. I guess many will do too.
If you're perfectly happy with your old trusty 65" 6k 3D TV with MegaHypervison 2, why would you want your grandkids to force you to upgrade to a new 110" 12k TV with SUPER3D-doublePlus and MegaHypervison 4? You'll probably mainly just be using it to watch your silly old movies and TV shows that are only in a pathetic 4k resolution and don't even use MegaHypervison 2 let alone MegaHypervision 4.
The problem Eliezer tried to highlight is that sloppy thinkers and/or people with no desire to understand the truth of a given matter will tend to look carefully for biases in arguments they don't like, while not applying the same scrutiny to the arguments supporting their position. To some extent, it's problem common to all of us - we tend to be more sceptical about things we don't agree with than with the ones we like. But some people exhibit this very strongly and they will surely hurt themselves more, the more ammunition they have.
Agreed that it'll be discussed, but that's a hell of a precedent: outlawing legal transactions between private citizens in any specific currency.

Given that Citizens United held that money is speech, it seems there would be an obvious first amendment challenge to such a law. Not that I'd expect equal legal treatment for corporate super-PACs and a bunch of scruffy hackers.

Bitcoin is doing very well. MtGox has ~300K USD being exchanged every day - that's at least that much worth of transactions in BTC (might be more depending on the rate bitcoins are recirculated). There are a LOT of different things one can buy with it. There's a real, boring, everyday economy going on. The value has doubled in the past year - there was a 40% drop in Aug12, but it recovered a third of that the very next day and since then has steadily grown back to that high. It's not bullion or anything, but neither is it crazy: in fact it's been a bit boring, and that's a very good thing in a currency.

Smartphones are slowly taking over the world, as once they're as common as featurephones are now - say 5 years tops? - bitcoin becomes very useful in economies without proper banking systems, which is to say a whole lot of them!

Even if the US manages to outlaw it, it's hard to see how they can stop it.

EDIT:
http://blockchain.info/charts/output-volume suggests total transactions are 1.9M BTC, which would be 27M USD, per day. Wowsers.
Why? If it’s working why change it? It only costs money and you will buy something that is more complex and breaks more easily. If you don’t particularly care about TV or the image quality, why wouldn’t you?

(During the last thirty years of their marriage my parents had two TVs, both CRTs. Just now they bought a new plasma TV. They never buy the cheap stuff, but they always try to use everything for as long as possible, a philosophy I’m also quite fond of. Nevertheless I’m not holding my breath for this new TV also lasting 15 years. The guy my parents bought it from – a nice gumpy old fellow, excellent electrician but no longer really fitting into this world – was pretty pessimistic about the prospects of this TV lasting any more than four, five years. Oh, and this thing is a computer. You can access the internet and install apps and all that crap. Nothing my parents will ever use, but if you buy a good panel that’s what you get. If you want it or not. At least it works perfectly fine as a dumb monitor for the cable box. Another of these unpleasant things of the modern age. However, I wonder what happens when Panasonic stops updating this TV, should it last that long, which it probably will. Suddenly having an old TV is no longer harmless.)
Because they lessen the likelihood that the licensing folks are going to be knocking on their door.
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Perhaps the intention was to say "dynamic, interpreted" languages, rather than "high level"..
Perhaps the idea is that they are less likely to get a visit from the TV License inspectors if they have a B&W license vs no license at all?
I don't see how screwing around has anything to do with professional conduct.
"This further increases the ability of Stanford to keep its student body composed of financial elites--while touting its "generous" financial aid policy."

This just isn't true. The student body has a diverse range of incomes, and the financial aid policy is indeed generous sans quotes. The aid packages of Stanford and its peers made them cheaper than in-state tuition minus financial aid at the University of Texas for me.

There is considerably moral hazard in allowing students to omit the financial information of estranged parents. People would "disown" their children to get free tuition.
It's arrived:

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/m...

Same story I submitted yesterday : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030906
If that kinect is at the back as I guess it is, then you'd need to add another one at the front to capture your movement properly.
Being nitpicky, it's licenses, not TVs, so the number could be higher. 13,000 households claiming at least one B&W and no colour.
If I download a fresh version of rails from http://rubyonrails.org/ is it vulnerable to this?
Would he not be better off spending 100 days making his product more fundable?
There are also people(and I assume an increasing amount) who have a TV but don't watch live to air telly (and so don't need a license).

As the numbers increase due to better on demand service, I'm betting the television license rules will change.
They have, at least in the great majority of the UK.

You can get set top boxes to receive digital transmissions if you don't have a suitable TV. I'm sure these would work with a B&W TV if you wanted. I believe some groups (the elderly?) were offered subsidised set top boxes.
An irrational sense of not cheating quite as much. A vast overestimation of TV Licensing's ability to detect you - something like correlating cable/satellite subscription databases with license payers list (as if paying for cable, but claiming to own a BW TV set isn't a red flag) and the nefarious detector vans.
I expected it to make at least some changes to the icon like makeing it 3D for android or putting it in a box for iOS. My expectations were wrong :-)
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They have converter boxes. But as other commenters pointed out they may not actually have b&w sets but have merely "forgotten" to upgrade their licenses (at a savings of 100 pounds per year).
The language in that article seems to suggest that they're about to launch an offensive against the BW license payers.
>It's not reasonable to tell young people (or any people) that their goal should be to find a job so they can be self-sufficient and they can support themselves financially.

It's quite correct to tell any given young person or group of young people to do so! That doesn't mean that it works as a policy prescription.

To take your musical chairs model a bit further: I might like there to be more chairs, I'd like that quite a lot actually. It'd be great to get youth unemployment down. In the mean-time though, you bet I'll be working on my musical chairs strategy, and if anyone asks me for advice I'd tell them to do the same. Will that fix the lack of chairs? No, of course not. It will keep me comfortably housed and fed though, and while that is not the only thing I care about it is rather important to me.

Would a degree from Yale have value if everyone got in? Much less.

Would I advise an individual who got accepted to go? Yes of course I would.
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The first movie I saw in HD was Bond's Casino Royale.
And somehow I noticed something I've never seen before. Every new shot I had the feeling you could read the expression on the actors face of an "aaand action!".

So maybe too real isn't fun to watch unless it's an documentary?
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Thanks for this reminder. Yesterday I went through all the apps that matter to me but today I fixed all the apps on the box.
Boy did I pick the right week to leave my last job.
Year 8 is too late
Kids aged ten years plus written off in the digital world, unless they have learned basic computing they are passengers on the digital road
What action will the conference take based on any immediate information or do you mean the information will go on the site?

Broken links etc. is probably in the operational category although a validator is a better solution for that issue. Logging errors and maybe tracking accesses to ensure every page is being reached can be done by realtime operational stats and doesn't contradict this article.
Where I live you'd expect at a minimum a month's notice from either party (in the contract); 3 months is reasonably common. That's not a long time to wait to leave (and you can reduce it by mutual agreement; most companies will be happy to let you leave earlier once you've handed everything over), but it gives you at least a little time to hit the ground running. As someone who's currently going through the legally-required consultation process prior to redundancies immediately after getting a mortgage, had the company been able to simply say "nope, you no longer have a job, don't come in tomorrow" it would've massively screwed me over. (Of course, in a world where that was a possibility my actions would have been different).

As for hiring mistakes, thee months' salary (you're allowed to simply pay an employee for their notice period if you don't want them coming in) is not a huge expense compared to the cost of hiring them in the first place.

So yeah; I would never work for a company that wanted to be able to fire me without cause at zero notice, and I'm willing to put up with having to give notice myself as a cost.
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I'm 40 y/o no liabilities, career US diplomat 9 years, former army infantry officer, lived in 5 countries, Berkeley-Harvard grad, blah, blah, blah...Desperately trying to get back to San Francisco and find gainful employment but my skill set (diplomacy and guns) aren't really in high demand there.

Hence, I "suck" because I have no updated tech skills. Built websites back in 1999-2000 using FrontPage and Dreamweaver so I have capacity for tech.

I need structure to my studies, not really good at independent study - would DBC be a good way to pivot back into tech?
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In Sweden you have to pay if you own a TV capable of watching live to air telly, irregardless of if you actually do or not. So unless you physically remove the relevant electronics, you need a license, even if you're only using it as a large computer monitor.
Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) node. This type of project described here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2...
Don't need the portability and I'm cheap and IRLP is proprietary so might go with this instead:
http://www.qsl.net/k0kn/cm108_mod.html
I use SuperGenPass, it's comparable and requires storing no state, thus nothing to lose or back up.
Actually in this case there is a reason: power usage

I don't know how much energy an old vacuum tube TV consumes but it doesn't seem to be a small number. Also the CRT uses a lot of energy as well.

(at least all B&W TVs I saw used vacuum tubes, as some of the (old) colour TVs)

I'm not advocating for a 60' TV with bells and whistles, a 22', 24' LCD simple TV should be fine
This poster is using bad service she received into SEO juice for herself, while robbing another company of further business. Because I find this practise distasteful, I won't be using refer.ly. On the other hand, I would wait and see if Betapunch learned their lesson, and will use them. The person who posted this is too clever for her own good.
What some people may miss is that the concept of "relevant data" depends heavily on the end user. Good dashboards provide not only vast data, but good tools to let the users do their own analysis.
No, rails-3.2.11 has fixed this vulnerability.
Makes me wonder how sensitive the vans are. The other methods you quoted seems to be much more accurate

(not to mention seeing varying shades of light behind the curtain)
I'm not going to enter a language flame war, but I was quite impressed by n64js. http://n64js.blogspot.co.uk/
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They don't know the limit but they can try to put a hold and the CC company approves it or not.
The TV licence inspectors are employees of whichever private company the contract is with at the time (Capita last time I checked, but that was a while ago). As such, they have no powers beyond those of any other citizen; their doorstep tactics are essentially to ask if they can come in, ask to look around, and try to catch people out in conversation.

The web has numerous examples of people with no TV, who have told the relevant body this, and yet nonetheless receive an endless stream of threatening letters. The letters tend to follow the same pattern; polite reminders to harsh reminders to threats of discovery and huge fines, and then back to polite reminders again. Essentially, their model is to assume that anyone without a TV is lying, and does have a TV. It's probably quite effective and certainly a lot cheaper than trying to keep track of who actually doesn't have a TV.

So, if you've got a TV (that you use to receive broadcast transmissions - you don't need a licence just to own the TV, you need it for some of its possible uses) in the UK and you have no TV licence, you can be pretty sure that you can ignore the letters and, should a private citizen working for Capita come to the door, you need not answer or let them in or even talk to them. The only way they could demand entry would be with a suitable court document and accompanied by an officer of the court (who frankly has better things to do with his time), but to get that document they need reasonable evidence, and simply not having a TV licence is not actually considered evidence of illegally using a TV to receive broadcast transmissions.
Or they are just language pedants incapable of connecting with a human story.
> it is evident that Nokia is performing Man In The Middle Attack for sensitive HTTPS traffic originated from their phone

I took this statement at face value, and interpreted it to mean that Nokia was "MITMing" end-to-end SSL connections from the phone to the endpoint.

If I understand you correctly, and using the VNC analogy, in actual fact the SSL connection is being initiated on a Nokia server by a browser I am running remotely via my phone.

And while Nokia does in fact see the decrypted data coming out of the SSL pipe on their server, before they send it to the phone, this would always be an obvious consequence of running a browser to a SSL website via a VNC connection.

So the above claim is either a falsehood or at best misleading. Torch extinguished (for now).

> btw your idea of how SSL works is not entirely correct

I certainly don't claim to have any expertise in SSL, but this did surprise me somewhat. I assumed that when Chrome tells me that "The identity of this website has been verified..." that it had in fact contacted a CA and validated the cert. I might have to read up on this a bit more.
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I think PoC might depend on ruby >=1.9.3 because ruby/hash:Foo syntax is a newish feature. Commit where it was introduced: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/8cd2bf072180a9f733ac06db...

There are at least two YAML parsing libraries (psych/syck) and they both have different behaviours as well.

But a lot of rails 3.x apps are going to be running 1.9.3
A partially-sighted TV license for a B&W TV is £25, compared to £75 for a full colour one. Ebay has quite a few B&W TVs available for £5-10.

There are 360,000 people registered as partially-sighted in the UK, although around a third of those are over 75 (and so get a free license anyway). I imagine this must count for a fair proportion of those 13,000 TVs.