skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this may be in response to the whole San Francisco being the most expensive place to live. In that thread, people are arguing whether it's more expensive to rent or buy.

I've looked at this many times, and I have done A LOT of research. Ultimately, buying may not be more better than renting, and vice versa. It really depends. The NY Times has a very good Buy vs Rent calculator:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

I highly suggest using it to determine whether to buy or not. The biggest problem, though, is there are some assumptions that need to be made that can drastically affect the outcomes. Most importantly: average annual appreciation in rents and home prices. Another is average annual returns on investments and rates of inflation.

The best way to figure these out are to find historical data. I use Redfin to look at houses currently on the market and prices sold 20 to 30 years ago. I also go to the local city hall to look at housing records. For rents, I do a lot more analysis. Anyways, the bottom line is, housing prices should not and usually DO not appreciate faster than inflation. More specifically, median wage growth. And why is this? Because if housing prices increased faster than wage growth, even by 1%, then after 40 years, housing would no longer be affordable. I don't see why people have such a hard time understanding this. I personally like this blog:

http://michaelbluejay.com/house/appreciation.html

He also has a really good buy vs rent calculator with some decent assumptions. You will want to check regional differences, because, obviously, SF and NYC are places that may differ a bit in terms of appreciation and inflation rates. Anyways, I would suggest anyone who is interested in the buy vs rent argument to read that, and then look at their local appreciation rates for housing prices/rent. Assume 2.5% inflation. And then, make a very conservative estimate on the returns of their portfolio (4%). I would then plug and see what the calculators say. I like Michael's calculator more than the NY Time's calc, by the way:

http://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html

It goes past 30 years.

Also, if you're making an apples to apples comparison, I've found that typically, buying is way better than renting. However, if you're making an apples to oranges comparison, renting a 1/2Br apt. vs buying a 3Br house, it usually always turns out that renting is better than buying. I've done this calculation many times, and invariably, that's what I've learned.
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Tangentially related: https://twitter.com/fisa_court
I disagree, though I admit I'm doing so from a position of ignorance. Which means, I'm probably about to say something incorrect or misinformed. If you can clarify where I've gone off the rails I'd greatly appreciate it.

> The key thing to understand is that the FISC court is not making law. It is interpreting the government's powers under existing law.

By my understanding, the same could be said about any court in the country. Rulings from the judicial branch are almost always matters of public record. Why aren't the rulings on the law from this court matters of public record?

> This is a process the executive regularly engages in: it asks itself, is this activity legal?

This is where I think I fundamentally misunderstand you. Is the FISC a part of the executive branch? I understand it to be a part of the judicial branch. If it's part of the judicial branch it seems the executive isn't asking itself whether the activity is legal. If the FISC is a body of the executive branch then this makes much more sense to me.
>with regards to foreign affairs and war.

And if the NSA could confine themselves to foreign affairs and war, I expect a lot more people would be willing to give them a pass. But instead, what we're seeing instead is that information obtained under the auspices of "foreign affairs and war" is being shared and used both domestically, and internationally; and in cases that are clearly beyond the scope of "foreign affairs and war"

>It's not at all controversial, legally, for the NSA to assert that 4th amendment protections do not apply to communications that cross the border.

Maybe not, but it is definitely illegal for CBP to search electronic devices without reasonable suspicion; so as long as were here, we may have a good look at that as well.
@swanson Can we exchange E-Mails? I was planning to do something like that, but with going a step further, by eliminating the E-Mail client and replacing it with the required transport-protocols for xmpp and building a smart architecture around it with a QML UI.

I am really really frustrated about E-Mail!

I have multiple E-Mail addresses, lots of HAM, zero SPAM (no spam filter). The UX is bad, not touch friendly, slow, repetitive. Ugh.. I don't know where to start complaining, but I have tried many many E-Mail clients, they all suck more or less. Only Sparrow was ok, but it's a) for MacOnly b) Google will probably close it.

I have hundreds of RSS Feeds in Thunderbird letting it become a real resource hog. I use thunderbird for that because of better tagging and search support. I symlinked my Windows and Linux thunderbird profiles so that they are synced. (Need Windows for some CUDA and other 3D dependant stuff only :/ )

Caveat: I can't start before August due to my thesis.
I knew nginx was good for high loads but wasn't sure why and for what else. Makes sense, thanks a lot for the explanation.
Great point. As co-founder of Scripted, I whole-heartedly agree.

I think Leah is great -- I've never met her but have heard and read good things. However it's hard to be one size fits all anymore. Craigslist and oDesk may be the last two marketplace leaders without single focus.
I'll have to sign up for Lob's API to try it out. That price point is quite different.

I didn't mean completing missing info, I meant a real time client-side autocomplete widget as you type the address akin to what you'll find on Google Maps. I don't see that on Lob's demos -- I don't think they expose enough data for it through the API.

I understand they are all using the same data -- are they using the same tool/algorithm for it?
I think a point you may not be considering is that the reason why they use these paramilitary squads for stupid shit is not just to have fun, but instead to justify the purchase of all of this gear and training in the first place. If you never use the stuff then it stands to reason that it may not make the budget in the future (assuming budgeting competence).
You know... you'd think that a bunch of commenters like yourselves would be able to spot a self-aware (and brilliant) act of trollery. And I do mean that in the best possible way. Here's to you, Marco, you magnificent bastard. It obviously worked!
> In Go:

len("нєℓℓσ") // 12, because there are 12 bytes
utf8.RuneCountInString("нєℓℓσ") // 5, plz kill me i am an abomination

I'm not sure I understand your objection. Bytes and UTF8 characters are different things, and you can't abstract away the difference. There are also times, perhaps the majority of times, when you will need the byte count of a UTF8 string. That means you need at least two different length functions for strings and they need different names.

Shouldn't UTF8-specific things live in the utf8 namespace? Some programs won't need any string handling, after all, and it would be a waste to include code they never used.

Assuming you can allow the utf8 namespace as sensible, would you feel better if there was a RuneLen() function aliased to RuneCountInString()?

If you are that upset about it, then my suggestion is to explain your rationale and submit a patch[1] to provide the alias. It's not like it would be hard to code. Perhaps you might convince people and get it in the next release.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html
The lonely pretty girl syndrome and invite-only websites
The solution here (if you want to solve this) is go work there!

Apply for jobs at clueless government agencies and solve the problem from the inside. Not just this agency, FBI, NSA, CIA - all the agencies you love to criticize.

Regulatory capture also works in a different way: The people who are most interested in something are the ones who will work on it. So environmental boards (for example) get "captured" by environmental extremists since they are the ones most motivated to run. Then you get stupid laws like banning plastic bags in favor of environmentally worse paper.

This is probably not the best option for a young "hotshot", but if you are a bit older and want more stability in your life go apply at exactly the place you most criticize.
Is it possible that at least some of the high-profile "DDOS" attacks on Mt.Gox that took place earlier this year[0] were actually attempted RC4 attacks? There would have been a payoff worth the effort. I checked, and indeed Mt. Gox was using (and still uses) RC4[1]:

0. https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130404.html

1. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18863/how-secure...
New development is usually more expensive because: a) supply is legally mandated to be low, so only the most profitable per-unit housing is built, and b) what new units are permitted to built are required to be large because housing (especially in CA but pretty much everywhere) pays less in taxes than it consumes in municipal services, especially public schools.

As a consequence of b), the types of housing that are widely allowable are small (0-2BR apts/condos) that families with > 1 child won't live in and large houses. If prices are high enough, sometimes townhouses are allowed. One interesting observation is that the only high density housing being built in most suburbs are senior housing, which are aimed at people ages 55+ and have covenants in place preventing anyone under 18 from living there. Ergo, guaranteed no school children and therefore the cost to serve is more inline with taxes paid.

I would love to buy a 4 or even 5 BR condo because I want to live somewhere dense and I don't care about a yard, but in order to do that I'd have to buy 2+ condos and combine them. Yikes.
If you're just dealing with US Postal Addresses, personally I would just go straight to the source: https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/address-informa... (also free).
I think Win8.1 preview SChannel already have RC4 disabled by default.
I have updated the blog post with a more secure way of installing docker.
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I'll take a stab:

No court in the US is meant to make law. All legislative powers under the Constitution are vested in a Congress of the United States.

What Rayiner is referring to is the inability of the FISA court to create precedent that binds on any other court in the country. The FISC can't overturn any law of Congress or rule it unconstitutional. Moreover, as an instrument of Congress operating outside of Article III, Congress can settle any dispute with FISC by abolishing the court. It cannot do that with other federal courts except in extreme circumstances.
Where's your data to back that up? I see something very different.

NTDOY, Net income, JPY (Billions), as of March for each year:

2004: 33.2
2005: 87.4
2006: 98.4
2007: 174.2
2008: 257.3
2009: 279.1
2010: 228.6
2011: 77.6
2012: -43.2
2013: 7.1

(data from morningstar.com)

The end of 2006 was the launch of the Wii, the end of 2012 was the launch of the Wii-U. The DS launched at the end of 2004 (the DS lite mid 2006). Nintendo is in unprecedented financial trouble. It doesn't mean their dying by any means, but considering that an increasing number of next gen. console competitors are headed to market over the next year, it's hardly enough to say "Nintendo has been on the ropes before, they'll pull through!" They've never been on the ropes this badly.
His was only ZIP Codes. USPS only publishes ZIP Code updates once monthly, if I recall right. Technically they are copyrighted by the USPS and you are supposed to obtain a reseller license to publish official ZIP Code data.

The rate of change is very low, maybe a dozen changes per month at most. It wouldn't be unreasonable, depending on the app, to keep it reasonably up to date.
Relevant video of Christopher Hitchens being voluntarily waterboarded: http://youtu.be/4LPubUCJv58
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>Video sourcing via location information->Aggregation and distribution.

Checkout my project at www.ommageo.com (beta) in this space
I'm betting on the latter, and like gin & tonic with a spritz of bitters.
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Because you can still use a driverless car to go anywhere your manual car can?

(see also: DUI checkpoints)
For taxis? Hybrid and gas?

.... Y'all don't think Elon would eat this up?
But this one is an App™ !
While true, I think we are closer to the cusp of transplant organs being manufactured than we think, rather than just swapped out like a car battery like they are today.
This, is basically I always think whenever I see these F2P games.

It's just so frustrating that I can't just pay for the game -- it is getting worse the point that if you don't get those in-app purchases, then these obnoxious ads start popping up on me (I guess to offset the cost that I'm not paying to get their coins or whatever), which basically does not motivate me to buy stuff, rather it just goes straight to uninstall...

Maybe I'm getting old...
As of today, yeah it'd eat your battery alive. However, unlike something that spins a motor or shines a light the essential work involved may be low enough that even without advancements in battery technology it may become feasible or even trivial.
Regarding you point on peak demand, I would expect that any 'autonomous taxi service' would use demand based pricing to mitigate the impact of peak hours. Essentially this means, that for a lot of people, the cheapest way to get to and from work will still be public transportation/biking/walking (at least during peak hours). Of course, if autonomous vehicles become cheap/ubiquitous enough, at some point along the price curve, it would make sense to have a ton of extra capacity to satisfy peak demand. Also, car sharing services would add another factor into the equation. Taxi companies would need to be profitable, whereas car sharing companies would only need to return enough value to the individual car owners to convince them to participate (i.e. participating in the service does not necessarily have to be 'profitable' for the owner, it just needs to offset enough of their costs to convince them it is worth it).

On your point about sprawl, I can just as easily envision the opposite happening. As car ownership becomes less of a necessity, I do not need to worry about a garage or parking when considering where to live. Additionally, I don't think that autonomous vehicles will necessarily make car use cheap, I think more realistically, the marginal cost of driving (i.e. cost per mile) will still be a non-insignificant amount, but the convenience will increase dramatically (especially for people who do not own cars), but I imagine commuting an hour to work each way using an autonomous taxi service will still cost you a pretty penny (partly due to the demand issues mentioned above). Also, long commutes still suck, even if you aren't driving the car. I participated in carpool for a year (one hour each way, my car was too crappy, so I never drove, just pitched in for gas), and I was able to get some work or reading done, but I still hated it.
That would be 160,934,400 vehicle/kilometers and 804,672 vehicle/kilometers respectfully.

'Cause comparing 1m kilometers to 100m miles is a silly thing to do when you can actually compare the same unit of measurement.
Yes, stone will last longer, simply because it doesn't get eroded by the elements as quickly as possible. But it's also simply not usable as a construction material for bridges beyond a certain size and span, because it's only good under compression and even then its own weight starts to become a limiting factor as you get larger.

By the 1940s, a stone bridge that might take 100 man-years of labor to create could be replaced by a bailey bridge that goes into place overnight. I'm sure if we wanted to create a bridge that lasts 300 years, we could dedicate more resources to it, but it would be grossly wasteful to do so - you don't know how long the current requirements are going to even be relevant. It's better to build a bridge that lasts for 50-60 years, and have the option value of replacing it with a better structure down the road.
I'm particularly fond of the attention they paid to hand-drawing the symbol, it certainly seems simple and quick.
http://imgur.com/bVZqzJB
Or... use Docker!

Seriously, Docker is perfect for creating a sandbox with all dependencies to help new users get up and running quickly and safely. Every project should come with a Dockerfile and/or Vagrantfile.
Reminded me of the first arch bridge in the world to be made of cast iron, built in the 1770s and still standing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Bridge
Sure. But your perspective rejects the premises of Rayiner's initial comment, so repeating it more emphatically as you did upthread is problematic.
2. Easier said than done if you are not a developer/programmer

3. Start-up experience is crucial for college developers and recent grads who are developers. Even though you feel hurt from it, you did a good service because of it. There are some lessons you can only learn from a start-up.

4. 2011:
For the United States, there are 1,336,300 programmers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The United Kingdom has 333,000 "software professionals," according to the Office for National Statistics.

In Canada there are 387,000 people working in IT according to Statistics Canada.

Japan has 1,016,929 people working in "information services" according to Official Statistics of Japan

It's not all that easy to find a good developer, and a specific one say to make a specific database schema is even harder.
Its a good swag at effects. I doubt you'd get the cities to 'give back' the space on the streets but it would change how new cities are built. Given how reasonably efficient self driving cars are now, I'm kind of surprised there isn't a move on to make a self driving 'truckway' up and down the state at least. Its got to be easier than hiring drivers and the equipment re-use is huge. Adding technology along the roadbed for extra safety, getting trucks out of the current population on highways, etc etc.
They're not universal, but they're essentially so; pretty much everyone who's used C(++), Java, C#, ... has seen && and ||, and knows what it is. And people who've only used languages with 'and' and 'or' will only take a few minutes to get up to speed (they have the option of spending longer complaining about it if they want).
This makes casino look much better then...

With casinos, at least you can convert in-store purchase back to real currency...

Not only you can't do that with in-app-purchase, it often won't survive game uninstall/reinstall, let alone renewing to new device...
Whatever they do about one case doesn't tell you much
It's things like these that are illegal in a SOPA[0] nation

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Autocra...
Does Go really not have tuples? (Aren't multiple return values tuples?)
Meet the new boss, same as the old.

http://williambowles.info/spysrus/cia_australia.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
hah, yeah I agree with lstamour, that's what I wanted to link too. WebComponents are THE HIT! I translated many W3C specs into German some months ago for a friend's thesis and these people literally know the future of the web.

Comparing today to what is possible with WeComponents and CORS and WebRTC is like comparing the Stone Age with 2045. Ok enough enthusiasm, now let's all get back to work again.
If you buy $1 million servers, a whole lot of things needs to go bad in whole lots of ways that would likely take own large numbers of those 2,000 servers too. I'm not so sure I agree with the notion of going for those big servers myself, but having had mid range servers from a couple of the big-iron vendors in house, here's a few of the things you can expect once you tack a couple of extra digits on the server bill:

- Servers that phone home; sometimes the first you know of a potential problem is engineers at your door come to service your server.

- Hot swappable RAID'ed RAM.

- Hot swappable CPU's, with spares, and OS support for moving threads of CPU's that are showing risk factors for failure.

- Hot swappable storage where not just the disks are hot swappable, but whole disk bays, and even trays of hot swappable RAID controllers etc.

- Redundant fibre channel connections to those raid controllers from the rest of the system.

- Redundant network interfaces and power supplies (of course, even relatively entry level servers offers that these days).

In reality, once you go truly high end, you're talking about multiple racks full of kit that effectively does a lot of the redundancy we tend to try to engineer into software solutions either at the hardware level, or abstracted from you in software layers your application won't normally see (e.g. a typical high end IBM system will set aside a substantial percentage of CPU's as spares and/or for various offload and management purposes; IBM's "classic" "Shark" storage system used two highly redundant AIX servers as "just" storage controllers hidden behind SCSI or Fibre Channel interfaces, for example).

You don't get some server where a single component failure somewhere takes it down. Some of these vendors have decades of designing out single points of failure in their high end equipment.

Some of these systems have enough redundancy that you could probably fire a shotgun into a rack and still have decent odds that the server survives with "just" reduced capacity until your manufacturers engineers show up and asks you awkward questions about what you were up to.

In general you're better off looking at many of those systems as highly integrated clusters rather than individual servers, though some fairly high end systems actually offer "single system image" clustering (that is, your monster of a machine will still look like a single server from the application point of view even in the cases where the hardware looks more like a cluster, though it may have some unusual characteristics such as different access speeds to different parts of memory).
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The genesis of this entire thread is Nintendo admitting HD was harder to do (more expensive) than they expected. 2013's positive number seems to indicate they're close to getting a handle on it.
Sadly, I don't run a company, and I'm not in charge of anything high status or visible. I do performance optimization and design threading infrastructure to dramatically improve the experience of writing high performance system software. I think this is pretty valuable, but there's no way to put it that seems high status to non-computer people.

Should I just quit and start a company selling shit because that'll look better to everyone else?
"The Justice Department filing also, however, suggests the Obama administration is taking steps to make the court more transparent."

Wait, it's a court. How does the executive branch have any sway over how a court manages itself? Unless it's a captive court ...
> I think it was found that looking at cat picture increased motivation?

The motivation to kill more cats? :P
Why all those extra characters? :)

$('div[id^=TB_]').hide()
True that they're still essentially distributed systems on the inside, but the typical bandwidth can often be orders of magnitudes higher, and the latencies drastically lower when you need to cross those boundaries, and for quite a few types of apps that makes all the difference in the world to how you'd architect your apps.
FISA court Twitter account [parody]
Why would you have a drawer full of harddrives when, with the aid of a screwdriver, you can have a fridge door covered in magnets!