skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pedantry in this thread is really disheartening. I thought it would be obvious that I was using made up numbers for the sake of simplicity but that the underlying idea is the same.

Storing any amount of money for the amount spent is better than banking none of that money.
I know this, but it's not that simple either.

Long term renters do put work/money into their apartments. My mom has put probably twice that into the NY apartment she's been renting since 1970. She did work that the landlord was unwilling to do or do quickly (we were repeatedly flooded out by our hoarder upstairs neighbor in the '90s and the landlord dragged their feet on repairs because they wanted a rent controlled tenant out).

When you say you put $40k in work into your house and got $3k more than you paid for it, are you saying that you got $43k over your purchase price? If not I think we need to take another look at your accounting process here: a) the $40k is optional and b) if I'm right about your math, a bad investment.

Not trying to be rude. If it comes off that way, sorry.
You are both correct. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution
Lightsail has an interesting approach to the storage problem - http://www.lightsail.com/blog/making-economical-clean-energy...
Try changing your perspective. See each 50 bucks as an opportunity to do something of benefit to you, rather than focusing on wasted time of life.
Considering the hole is non-structural and it's more than halfway through the original planned mission duration, those wheels look fine to me!

I wouldn't mind seeing the progression, though, since they say it's accelerated recently on the rough terrain.
I don't see a way of fighting back other than rent control.
The damage is done. Rent is beyond ridiculous. Oh yea, there's no bank loyalty anymore. There all thieving bastards. Shop around for the best interest rates(I know
there dismal). Look at the fees their charging--close your account if necessary. I've noticed people
stay with the same banks, and Insurance companies for years?
Out of some kind of loyalty? When it comes to making money, and investments; some investments are more moral
than others. If you are a thieving Landlord(meaning you
are gouging your tenants) I honestly don't know how you
sleep at all--

P.S. If you live in a detached "mother in law unit" in
San Anselmo, CA.; you have rent control. Look into it.
If your Landlord has been overcharging you take them to
court and get all your over payments back.
I think you're right. My friend has been keeping me in the loop of his process of buying an apartment in Copenhagen (okay, Amager). When he explained the deal to me, I was thinking "oh my gosh, that's crazy, I would never want to do it that way" but every year he meets with the lending bank and refinance in both their and his favor every time. It's worked out to be a pretty good deal for him so far.
This is sounding less and less like just plugging GWTs BigInteger implementation into Dart, which is exactly my point when I said you must know the difference.
Apparently it also calls home with encrypted data: http://bbs.weiphone.com/read-htm-tid-7417919.html
At least an understanding of:

* Newtonian mechanics

* Multivariable calculus

* Ordinary differential equations

* Basic functional programming, Scheme, SICP

* A developed discipline for reading higher level mathematical material, including new notations and ideas
10$ is the cash asset. The big picture demands that you look at all the assets/liabilities/revenues/expenses. It's far from being that straightforward if you take into account net equity over time, risks, cash flow, depreciation, what-ifs, etc.
> Perhaps an alternative to sha1(ip+port) could be some form of cryptographic signature scheme, where the NodeID is a public key or hash of a public key

What stops me from creating 10 million keypairs and spamming them in to the DHT?
As long as you're going to use amorphous group affiliations to create an ad-hominem attack, let me do the same: "AnotherDesigner"
Renting is disparaged in the U.S. because of the assumption that anyone who can own a house, will. It's actually not a great economic move unless you plan on living in a place for over 10 years. Commissions and repairs will eat you, unless the price/rent ratio is really out of whack.

On one hand, I viscerally hate that this is happening. It's shitty that the financiers (through wacky adjustable-rate mortgages, pump-and-dump games against the housing market, etc.) have taken communities and houses away from people. The "American dream" game is pretty rigged. On the other, I'm not surprised.

Wasn't Blackstone the pinnacle of prestige in private equity, though? I can't imagine them retaining that after going all in on the new suburban slumlord game.
I suppose that means 7.1 won't be released until they've fixed it. It's so unimaginably stupid that they didn't wait until 7.1 was released so that the general public could get the bug fixes and performance improvements in that release and a jailbreak as well.
I'm fairly certain that when they describe an #2) Orchestration / Experience APIs they mean queries that return heterogeneous data, that one endpoint could retrieve the results of doing many queries, with many data types ie: GET /dashboard.json, retrieving all the resources used to assemble your dashboard page.

This is very much different than the normal REST philosophy of returning only homogeneous results. Much more RPC-ish.
You're the one making the unfounded assumption that mortgage and rent are the same price. Imagine if rent was 10% cheaper: you would bank much more money, in a much more liquid form, than having a mortgage.

Honestly I downvoted your earlier comment specifically because of your edit saying that it doesn't matter if equity is 900/1000 or 10/1000. It matters a hell of a lot. Only a fool* would avoid putting 900/1000 into equity, with an effective 'rent' price of 100 if they move out after a few years. But there are real decisions to be made if just about none goes to equity.

*assuming they expect to live in one place for a while
I have the opposite opinion. Writing comments for (in-person) interviews is silly and a sign of wasting time. Interviews in general are not designed to check your coding style, but your ability to solve problems, whether they be reasonable or not.

Your comment is a little bit along the lines of, "if you the candidate didn't use a versioning system, I wouldn't hire him". It's just not what is being tested.

Now, if it was a "here are some problems, solve them and get back to us" type of interview, then sure, I would agree with you.
Interestingly, I bought a house to rent in 2011, with cash and fixed it up and filled it. This year, I have spent more than six months trying to get financing on it from the major commercial banks. I am closing soon, but it was a MAJOR hassle.

What I have found,
There is a near conspiracy level arraignment between banks to completely undervalue the properties, give higher interest rates, require a greater stake, and lower the borrowers acceptable debt-to-income ratio.
I had three appraisals come in, the bank appraisals were all manipulated and internally inconsistent, and LOW. The independent appraisal I had done came in rationally.

When I was house hunting (both in 2009 and 2011), my wife and I would break into the empty foreclosed homes to tour them and inspect them for damage. No one, realtors or bankers, would ever respond to calls regarding the properties, no offers were ever responded to by the banks.
All of these properties in our neighborhood were eventually sold, and to big investor groups. They are now predominantly rentals.
Our experiences at the time showed what we perceived to be a fixed market where the realtors were holding out to sell to their friends. Now we realize that they were holding out for the institutional buyers.
No conspiracy necessary. Just lots of little biases.
On its own, I can't treat this article as credible. The compensation lawyer presents the strongest possible case for his clients, and the journalist is clearly glossing over a great deal in order to get the juiciest quotes.

From what little details are given, it sounds like the crew of the Reagan suffered from some kind of gut infection, not radiation poisoning. That would explain why they were denied port entry at Guam, and so on.

I live on the fringe of the area where contamination from Fukushima can be detected. To my knowledge, doctors haven't noticed anything unusual yet, and believe me people are watching. Still, the article sends a chill...
As someone that lives in Mass (which is in New England) and purchased them in 2011 See http://benjamin-meyer-home.blogspot.com/2011/08/solar-panel-... looking at my data i'll be breaking even in about 3 more years (about what I planned which was 4-5 years). And this takes into account the fact that SRECs are worth a bunch less than when I started.
>You could just stop staring at your iPhone before you fall asleep?

There's this big problem with technology - particularly common with people that is not familiar with it (looking at you @aroch) - where people think that you should adapt yourself to the technology around you where it should always be technology the one that should adapt to your lifestyle.

If you cook something and it tastes like shit, do you eventually become used to the taste of shit? or do you find out what happened and cook in a way that relates more to the kind of flavors that you want?
Fascinating, this type of programming has always interested me (as I was a desktop developer who moved to the web) but not something I think I'd want to do (the stress alone must be horrific when you work on any mission critical/safety critical software).
Well, I wouldn't want to walk around outside with levels at 300 times what is "considered safe".

Japan is just lucky that 95% of the radioactive release from the meltdowns was blown out over the ocean, otherwise a much larger fraction of their island would have become useless for agriculture. If the earthquake occurred during the fall, the winds would have been generally off the ocean.
"I don't see Roberts embracing a reading of the state secrets privilege that essentially makes these sorts of constitutional claims unreviewable."

Roberts didn't seem all that interested in Amnesty vs Clapper, which, while not a state secrets claim, is, IMHO, not going to be all that wildly different in terms of ideological breakdown.

In fact, they even went so far as to say "Second, even if respondents could demonstrate that the targeting of their foreign contacts is imminent, they can only speculate as to whether the Government will seek to use §1881a-authorized surveillance instead of one of the Govern- ment’s numerous other surveillance methods, which are not chal- lenged here."

Which is just, IMHO, beyond throwing the government a bone and going whole hog into crazy land on government surveillance.

I'm aware of the aftermath of the oral arguments/opinion on clapper, and I could see SCOTUS taking something on because the government kinda screwed them on parts of the opinion, but I have a lot of trouble believing the court is going to be all that receptive, state secrets claim or not.
Those would do more than fine. If you go with lenovo they have a very good warranty with accidental damage protection for a couple hundred dollars for 3 years if you're worried about build quality (I think you have to buy from the lenovo site though).
Well in theory you can store data for anything in a DHT, not only an infohash. So you could have your program query the DHT for the key "MySoftware-Latest" and store under that key the infohash for the latest version.

I don't know how much flexibility there is in popular DHT implementations as to what you can store for a given key, and you will need a server of yours to continuously refresh the data and keep it alive in the DHT.
I don't know about buying a 'house', but I think owning land is a key component to achieving wealth, provided one buys at the right place and/or time and that one can also afford to sell it when the time comes. Unlike gold or BTC, land is a limited resource that actually has intrinsic value- especially in countries that grant ownership of resources.

Even buying a primary residence is a reasonable path toward wealth if one plans well and is willing to sell and move somewhere cheaper when the time comes.
It seems like so many people fail to realize how much property taxes can add up too?
It is amazing, but the diodes down my left side hurt all the time.
Async is an important category that deserves better coverage. Fundamentally, REST and the alternatives (SOAP, etc.) are all RPC protocols. They may make use of the RPC nature of HTTP or maybe like XML-RPC they shove another RPC layer on top. A remote procedure call sounds like the simplest component of a remote api, but it is not. In RPC you make a request and wait for a reply.

But with async, you send a message and that is it. This can be implemented on top of HTTP RPC such as with Websockets, but the HTTP layer is unnecessary. Messaging using the AMQP protocol is a nice alternative. You can open a socket and hold it open for sending and receiving messages. When you send a message, it can be received by an MQ broker like RabbitMQ for guaranteed delivery to whatever internal service(s) need to process it. And when some kind of result needs to be sent back to the message originator, the socket is open and ready to receive it. For those things where the app needs RPC, it is simple to send a message and wait for a reply message. But when all you need is a notification going out, or coming in, that works too.

While MQTT and ZeroMQ and others could be used, it would be nicer if the Internet standardized on AMQP at a known port (just like HTTP) and even included the use of an MQ broker with all the optional services (topic queues, persistence, guaranteed delivery) that can be provided.
Germany's already getting a lot out of the source with terrible insolation.

Temperate areas would need to lean on storage more. As generation efficiency increases, storage losses matter less. As storage technologies improve, poor insolation matters less.

But sure, someone invents a nice kitchen-sized baseline reactor that anyone can run, then this microgrid movement really takes off. Probably not in the next couple weeks. ;)
Not really. DHT servers must accept unsolicited incoming connections, which requires port forwarding. The problem as I see it is really dynamic IPs.

In any case, this wouldn't stop an adversary acquiring a lot of IP addresses for a short period of time. Bitcoin is immune to these kinds of attacks because it requires proof of work, which you can't just fake.
Probably mass hysteria. It seems unlikely that the captain blithley ignored basic safety measures, and the symptoms reported in the article are not typical for radiation sickness.
The symptoms are credible, but the NY Post is not. It's like claiming the Daily Mail knows what the real effects of immigration are in the UK.
Minor nitpick: "Port Gatekeeper to iOS" doesn't make much sense; the built-in FairPlay DRM and code signing stuff is already a "gatekeeper on steroids". It's exactly the type of protection that a jailbreak would work around.
The meta-operators remind me of adverbs in J
Though what you describe covers only the code. The design is just as big a part of the picture and is just as much involved in the verification, revising, reviewing and testing.
And at least one of the protesters broke a window on the bus. Again: how many windows did Ghandi break?
There is much more to it than getting hardened electronics. For example, I was talking with some Westinghouse engineers and the biggest problem with the robots at Fukushima were the cameras. The radiation crazes the lenses and you become blind.

Search and rescue is a hard problem and is terribly underfunded. It is also funded in a way that makes long term improvements hard. There is very little money until there's a disaster, then there is a ton of cash you have to spend right now.
As long as you ignore the many thousands of dollars you paid in transaction costs to get the place. And potentially the many thousands you pay in opportunity cost if the house keeps you from moving when you otherwise would.
Wouldn't it be amazing if wealth were a product of your own labor and not of your ability to stake claims and extract it from other peoples' labor?

If wealth from land ownership is all about location and timing, then you have insane advantages like being lucky enough to be born before the next schmuck who wants some land.

Come to think of it, if you really wanted to invest in your future generations' future, one of the best investments you can possibly make (albeit risky) is to stake claims on the Moon/Mars/Asteroids/etc. I totally need to rethink my position on Plantary Resources and Deep Space Industries.
if you're IQ is as low as that sentence seems to indicate ... please don't. Thanks (faggot).
7 Reasons the TSA Sucks
I wanted to post this as a link, but it always went [dead] (assume cracked.com is blocked for some reason). Still, great article: http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-reasons-tsa-sucks-a-security-experts-perspective/
And labor.
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The ease with which many consumer devices can be bricked by firmware updates is really ridiculous, though. You don't need full hardware redundancy to virtually eliminate them, just a redundant OS partition and a little sane engineering. At that point, any bricking is almost certain to be the result of an actual hardware failure, which is its own problem.
Not a joke.

Think of it from the perspective of a kid. Do they want to be a scientist? What is a scientist? (Or, equivalently, the parents of a kid might ask this question.) And they see this list. I'm sure everyone on it is smart, well-meaning, hard-working, and indeed their work is probably of more benefit to society than the vast majority of others. So far, so good.

But with the exception of the cloning guy, I don't see anything inspirational on that list. I don't see anyone working on quantum computing or AI, solving a long-standing math problem, or examining the gravitational constant to an exceedingly fine degree, or examining cosmic background radiation for any kind of communication pattern (which we might expect to if our universe was a simulation and the outer universe wanted to communicate with us).

And of course this ignores really really cool things like, basically anything and everything that would make colonizing Mars a reality (and that's an extremely broad category of stuff, actually, since "getting there" is really only the first problem among many).

Now, you might criticize my list as being arbitrary, and that some people would find "colonizing mars" about as yawn worthy as doing an ethnographic study on sociologists in the field. But frankly, I think that's silly. If popular entertainment is any measure of what the public finds inspiring, then exploration of space, genetics, AI, etc are all quite well-represented.
UPS's Holiday Shipping Master, Scott Abell: They Call Him Mr. Peak
Restore and wait for an open source jailbreak not compiled by scumbags.
My sources say the spacewalk finished early as Mastracchio was feeling unwell, the issue with the spacesuit was found after the EVA finished. Just remember that spacesuits are amazingly complicated devices.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/12/spacewalkers-first-pu...

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33535.msg11...
This is just some fancied up bashrc.

A (much) better alternative would be to install zsh with oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh).
Sure, better let somebody else's kids take care of the shitty work.

I agree wholeheartedly.
Spain privacy watchdog fines Google for breaking data law
I think you're correct

And in some places there are 'fixed' mortgages that have some form of inflation adjustment
HN's front page sometimes has a flow to it for some stories. If a big comment thread starts about the wisdom of rewriting software, often someone will submit Joel's "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" [1]. More recently, if someone proposes a cracking contest, you'll get "The Fallacy of Cracking Contests" [2]. etc.

So my question is, this sounds like it's part of some thread or other; what is it?

"What is the context of this post?" is a completely different question than the more-often-asked one "What is this doing here, by which I passively-aggressively mean this shouldn't be here?", but I understand the confusion (no sarcasm, I really do). thisiswrong's reply is what I was looking for.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932648 ; see tptacek's top-level post
They wouldn't wait, they'd preform an emergency re-entry on one of the Soyuz (there's normally two docked these days). Even if there was only one Soyuz the ISS can run automatically with the MCC controlling all functions for a while.
>In this case they probably just weren't ordered to built a system that can provide clean water in case of the ship being covered in radioactive snow.

I think it's even more likely that they weighed the advantages and disadvantages of each system, and decided that a waste heat desalination system would be a _much_ better fit then a huge, expensive, high maintenance RO system.

My point was simply that this was almost certainly an informed decision, not an oversight (or just 'following orders').
If the homeowner gains $10 (or whatever) in equity over a certain period, that means he can break even renting the property he owns for $10 less than if he didn't have that gain. So competitive rental rates will tend to be somewhat cheaper than the cost of ownership. If it's cheaper by $10, renting and owning cost the same.

Your math example is silly on two counts. (1) you simply assume the rent and mortgage cost exactly the same, when they generally don't. (2) you ignore the downpayment. A renter doesn't have to make a huge downpayment, so if s/he has the money to make one, that is valuable flexibility - one can easily use that money in an emergency and can profit by investing that money in the meantime.
Yep! I did take a look at oh-my-zsh but decided not to go that route, I didn't like the aesthetic of many of the themes and Bash is capable of a lot of zsh's features now.
Majority of Web Sites Blocked by O2 Parental Controls?
yes it has. they were the first very high traffic ipv6 freebsd service. they discussed this at eurobsdcon.
Oh My ZSH works very well for me. Love it
This is really, really old news, and the headline is, if not exaggerated, entirely premature.

Yes, some companies have been buying single family houses by the truckload and turning them into rentals, but whether the model can be successful on such a wide scale remains to be seen. There are a number of major challenges, and the treatment of the publicly-traded companies in this space makes it clear that investors are well aware of them.

One of the companies mentioned in the article, American Homes 4 Rent, is publicly-traded[1] and raised far less in its IPO than it had intended in its original prospectus[2]. Similar companies, Silver Bay Realty Trust and American Residential Properties, are also publicly-traded[3][4] and currently trade well below their IPO prices.

Another company mentioned in the article, Colony Capital LLC, operates its rental venture through Colony American Homes, which pulled its IPO earlier this year[5].

Turning single family homes into rentals on such a large scale may prove to be a wildly successful business, and some of the issues raised by this article, such as the impact on the housing market, are worth discussing, but it's a shame that the article sports a baitlink title and gives the impression that there's no risk to the investors playing in this space.

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=amh

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-31/american-homes-4-re...

[3] http://www.google.com/finance?q=sby

[4] http://www.google.com/finance?q=arpi

[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/05/us-colonyamericanh...
Not everybody has the option of running a UNIX clone..