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Me too. I'm actually in Europe, only lived in Canada, but I was inspired by this guy: http://www.buzzfeed.com/drewphilp/why-i-bought-a-house-in-de...

So I looked around a bit... the problem is you can often get a cheap house, but only if you take over taxes on the property, which are often multiples of the value of the house as they accumulated over the years. And then there's annual property tax which are really high.

I don't exactly know why... But I've seen houses which get taxed on a value that's 5-10x the value of the house. And beyond that, the tax rate is often 3x higher than other cities.

So you might have a house that's worth just $20k, but then it's valued-for-tax at $100k, and you pay 4% on that. So you're paying $4k in taxes or 20% of the house's value every year. It's insane.

And it's keeping people out. I for one am not interested in paying $10k in old taxes for a cheap home I have to completely newbuild, and then pay taxes on it as if I was paying rent on top of a mortgage.

But it's probably a goldmine for any company with a 50-year vision who can get economies of scale on things like construction, and can negotiate huge tax-relief deals, e.g. waive old taxes and waive taxes the first 5 years etc.
> I would argue that no permission should be "implied". For each example you list in that category, I can find an argument to not make it implied.

I'm sure you can. But ultimately it is losing battle.

When you turn something which 99.99% of normal apps require into a "permission" it isn't really a permission at all. Just an obstruction which teaches the users permissions can be safely ignored (i.e. stupid permissions hurt good permissions).

If a user ONLY gets a permissions pop-up when it actually matters they're far more likely to take it seriously than if they get it every time and 9 times out of 10, it is just nonsense (e.g. Reddit app needs internet access, store accounts, SD card write, etc).

> Likewise if you are concerned about privacy and want to know when an app connects to the internet and thereby automatically reveals your location, possibly usage pattern, etc.

Without getting boringly into the intricacies of Android's underbelly, even without the "internet" permission (which is now standard with higher API levels anyway), you can connect to the internet through other APIs and inform a server that you exist.

Literally an app with zero permissions on Android can make API calls which let a server know they're installed at that IP address.

The internet permission was just a good example to throw into the set because Google already moved in the direction of effectively removing it. Now they just need to do more permissions in a similar vein.
Programming can be gruntwork. Programming can be highly disciplined engineering. Programming can be math. Programming can be artistic expression.

The beauty and curse of working with bits is that they're as flexible as you want them to be.

Programming satisfies part of my desire for artistic expression. I don't plan on quitting until I'm dead - I'm more passionate about computing, from high level abstractions and algorithms down to individual lines of code, at 39 than I was at 19 or 29. And I know a lot of people older than I who are way better than I am, and just as gung-ho as they were 20 or 30 years ago.
Almost all public auctions I know of do not allow loans at all.

You usually need a cash downpayment to even bid, and proof of funds in bank to participate.
It can be seized (or a lien placed) by the city or state for not paying property taxes, or fines from lack of upkeep.
Although I grew up in New England with its excellent fall colors, I'm currently far away. Watching this was a touching reminder of Autumn back home.
He may just want to play simcity IRL ...
There is a reason why the companies/.gov agencies that need it still go with Blackberry for security purposes.
Proposed Minnesota crowdfunding legislation available to fork on GitHub
...which is a member state of the EU
NetBeans is still using insecure Maven, downloading from HTTP. Vote to fix it
The harsh reading given to Frieden's statements in that video is exactly what I mean by chickens running at axes.

He wasn't very clear there. But the CDC statements have been reasonably consistent and clear, especially in the face of the ridiculous questions they get from reporters. A softer reading is that transmission from an asymptomatic person who is later found to be infected is not believed to be possible at the time they are asymptomatic. Health workers with exposure should still, out of an abundance of cation, avoid contact with large groups of hard to trace people.
"face it" as if my comment implied that Android users are entitled to it? That's just the attitude I would expect from an Apple fanboy.
> Do you have any thoughts on how a junior engineer can improve their ability to write maintainable code?

Think of your code like an essay. Write comments on the motivation for decisions you make, not just what the codes does. Think of the exercise not as trying to just produce writing code, but to make the next person reading the code feel like they were with you the whole way, making decisions together, working out problems on a whiteboard.

While doing this, don't be afraid of honesty, don't be afraid of verbosity, and always have empathy for the next person reading your code.
The Missing Maps initiative aims to chart slums around the world
It's unlikely they'll "just let them rot away", but I'd imagine "document preservation" is far from the highest thing on Rome's list of financial priorities. So if you want something new and exciting done, they need to find cash from somewhere - asking those interested in the documents seems a reasonable way to do that.
I can recommend John Cook [1], and I am also available [2].
[1] http://www.johndcook.com/blog/consulting/
[2] jack@realmode.com
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> I've also heard about Rackspace but that seems more complex to setup plus I couldn't find the pricing on their site

Rackspace Mail costs $2/mailbox/month. It comes with 24/7/365 phone/chat/email support and a 100% uptime SLA. The product began as MailTrust, a separate company Rackspace acquired, with over 2M users (now over 3M).

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/pricing/

They host all the mailboxes on my domains for a couple bucks a month. I don't use their webmail, just IMAP (Thunderbird/K9). There's nothing complex to set up for e-mail; I don't know about calendar or contact syncing since I don't use those things.
> even if the chemical weapons found were not as massive as you expected

'Even if the promises were only comparable to the reality by exaggerating by many orders of magnitude'

> there is still enough evidence there to believe that the invasion was undertaken in good faith.

No there's not. Did you miss all the research into how Cheney's people spun the evidence and used unreliable defectors to make up a narrative and bully dissenters? Also, is this really what you're reduced to arguing: 'yes, maybe they were completely wrong and I'm desperately equivocating on the term 'WMD' - but at least Bush invaded in good faith!'?
Chrome reports Google Calendar Gadgets page infected with malware
I have notified the google team, but as expected, no changes have yet been made.

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/gadgets/event/

It must be an iframe issue that is not really a problem. When I go to that page using the latest chrome ( Version 38.0.2125.104)

http://i.imgur.com/BLbBfqG.png
While we are at it, here is a good piece by rms: https://stallman.org/facebook.html
It was once supported in Android to do that but it was an masked feature. They quickly realized that most apps weren't made with fail over in place and they would simply crash so they removed it completely.

It's sad that they took that decision but what's done is done...
I was also self-taught and it took a good 2 years for me to get to the point to be able to write maintainable code. Here are the lessons I learned, in no particular order:

1.) Read your code after you write it. I do this via git diff --cached. It's amazing how many bugs you catch this way. Be critical of variable names, code layout or confusion, lack of documentation. It's basically doing your own code review. Is it documented? Is it tested? Does it make sense logically? Is it easy to read?

2.) Document stuff. Fluff documentation is even fine to start with, you'll eventually learn to separate the important documentation from fluff. Ultimately you need to get to the point of the "why" code does what it does, not the "what" it does. "What" it does should be evident by the code itself and the variable names/etc.

3.) Plan ahead. I don't mean pseudo-code per-se...more thinking or writing down how code will fit together. Mind mapping is great for this, particularly with a white board or tile. I have a Galaxy Note that I bought partially for this purpose and use Papyrus for it now. Basically, how do the abstractions and parts fit together? Is it logical? Not everything requires a whiteboard, but a few minutes of thinking ahead can help spaghetti code a lot.

4.) Learn different programming paradigms. OO style can quickly become un-maintainable even to pros. I suggest learning functional programming in a language like Scheme/Clojure, Lisp, or Erlang. I now pick up a new language every year in different paradigms...not so much to learn the language or to brag, but to learn different way things can be architected, and the way other languages do things.

5.) Do refactor. Outside of budget constraints, don't be afraid to rewrite code that doesn't seem to flow properly.

You mentioned sitting with a senior dev...that was pretty huge for me too, even in limited times. (I'm not sure I'd pay for it, but it did cut the learning curve down quite a bit) Having someone do code reviews of your code that knows what they're doing and invests time in it is helpful too. I've found though that not every Senior dev is good at reviewing code or teaching...

Sorry, I don't have any actual resources for this other than well structured code like Django (mostly) or sqlite. I now have a B.S. in CS and I don't really think they teach this well in schools either. Patterns will only get you so far in OO too...generally, trying new languages, reading code, and refactoring has made the largest impact on me.
The story continues: after that court case, Apple added a special, obfuscated 'stolen from Apple' icon to the firmware, in case they ever had to go to court over something like this again. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Stolen_From_Apple...
For counterfeit/illegal property? This seems reminiscent of the guy who bought cocaine from his dealer, found out it was cut with flour, then tried to file a police report. I'd think you've had a tough time convincing a judge that you genuinely believed the chip/board you bought from some shady seller on eBay based in China for pennies on the dollar was a legit product.

None-the-less, someone will try I'm sure. Then everyone can enjoy the $5 check they get in the mail 1 year later.
Will do. Point about NFLX wasn't the drop -- stocks go down and it's almost always stair-steps up, elevator down. It was that literally just days before ER CNBC put an analyst on TV crowing about $600 PT. How many millions of dollars did that person lose for the total viewership of CNBC and other outlets that carried her advice?

You read an analyst report from Goldman saying "we like apple going into the fall, you should buy apple." This is back when Apple is $500-600 a share. That's just the worst advice. You know what would be a lot better for a small investor? If you're bullish on Apple, go buy the at-the-money call spread. It will cost you a fraction of the share price and let you capture $5, 10, 20+ in upside if Apple moves up (depending on how much you want to pay for the spread). Anyway, this is obviously a subject I'm passionate about :)

Congrats again, guys. Enjoy the spike today, HN front page is still the 52 week high on all of our traffic charts!
It seems obvious to me that too high taxes are the real problem here.

If the tax rate makes owning a piece of property unsustainable, then no matter what your political-economic beliefs you have to agree, right?

I say this as a supported of property taxes (as a stand-in for ground rent owed to the true owners of the land, the commons. Read up on Georgism or Geolibertarianism to understand what I'm talking about).
This is just in time. When everyone but the clergy forgot how to read those, they are putting 'em online. I especially like Old Slavonic ones, where notation for numbers is purely alphabetical with tilde. A+B is not boolean there. It returns Г, meaning V.
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Growing Up Sexually in Europe (2002)
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Well yes, but both are because America exports its problems.
I attended a session at Simon Fraser University once earlier this year, hosted by Samsung. Those guys, including a product guy, made it pretty clear that the development work happened in their Greater Vancouver R&D lab, not in Korea. So....
Funny and informative at the same time.
I hope whomever bought it was not planning on reselling the properties piece by piece on ebay and other places. A lot of these types of homes are sold that way to someone that is like wow I can buy a house for $1500! Then they realize there is nothing they can do with it, and it actually costs them a lot of money in taxes and upkeep, and abandon it.

Hey they could have had a sports stadium for just $500k more: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000360831/article/ponti...
If you don't pay property taxes on a house you own outright, the local govt can and does seize it. Repossessed isn't the right word but in the end, it would be resold and the gov't would make more money from it as well as new annual cycles of taxes. If you buy property and squander it or not keep it up to zoning regulations you can also lose property you own to the local govt. It's not repossessed by a bank, it would be more like a land seizure.
I work on that robot. There has never been a serious attempt to use an oculus to control it. Also, Daniel did not build any part of that robot and is trying to take credit for other people's work. The BBC refuses to contact the Robotics Institute at CMU or Astrobotic to verify any details in the story.
Haven't they cancelled that feature? I remember getting an e-mail

http://consumerist.com/2014/06/16/paypal-discontinues-mobile...
True, sort of. But the contrary point is that they want to discourage e.g. people from New York buying some home for $10k out of pocket, not doing anything with it and hoping to flip it in 20 years, as in any big city a plot like that alone is worth $50-60k. Demand is great, but you really want to get people to actually live there, too.

Haven't heard of any requirements for a plan, can you elaborate? Afaik, you own the plot and can leave it shitty if you want as long as it's not a safety hazard.

> Often buyers are legally required to rehab these homes to bring them up to code. In Detroit, buyers are required to sign Affidavits of Compliance Responsibility, which obligates them to make repairs outlined in an inspection report. Only after that can a certificate of occupancy will be issued, which makes the house legal to live in.

Found this, seems to only apply for a certificate of occupancy (meaning you could let it sit as a long-term investment hoping the rest of the city improves to the extent your property value rises enough to make renovation an easy profit) not sure if it's what you're referring to.
I'm torn about this takedown. Until today I had no idea it was based on prior work.

If they left the comic up but clarified what it was inspired by it would definitely help the Postman estate.

The conversion rate of "Do yourself a favour and read Neil Postman's words in full. Purchase a copy of Amusing Ourselves to Death new/used (aff)" must be a rounding error on 0.
I agree but the outrage narrative here is high and will probably always be. The truth is pretty much any cloud service hosted in the US is accessible in some way to US intelligence. The cloud migration isn't stopping nor is FISA ever going away, especially when we just watch the Canadian parliament almost get shot up. While its important to bring these messages to the masses, it seems that the masses have long reached an outrage exhaustion.

Now this kind of thing has reached the level of self-promoters, authors, etc all of whom want a cut of the outrage pie before it complete dissipates, the same way breathless exposes of the horrors of the Bush administration were hard sells by the time of his second term as outrage exhaustion was quickly met during his first.
Not necessarily. Tilting the substrate platform lets you build more complex shapes without support material.
Another perspective on the author's previous work: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I remember back in the day you used to be able to build gcc with various other compilers to bootstrap yourself. I think gcc now requires gcc features, so you're in the same boat.

But anyway, the comparison isn't very good because haskell/gcc don't develop sudden security vulnerabilities that instantly turn existing binaries unusable for getting new ones.
I'm far from what I would call a senior engineer (or a engineer at all), but the times I've written the most readable and maintainable code were when I write first what the program should do in comment form and then completed it with the corresponding code.

This way you force yourself to think outside your programming language and also forces you to write the corresponding comments.

I think this has a name as a methodology but cant remember it.
Each home = $500. There is more than $500 of materials in each home. Aveerage home has 200-300lbs worth of copper. Each home gets destroyed. I am calling it right now.
...and put that driver on Windows Update?

No.
It is still pretty new, yes, but it seems to work well (see for example https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/unity-games-in-webgl-owlch... ), and it's been one of the most-asked for features by Unity users on their forums.
Mission Driven Companies Do It Better
Citation needed for the vatican being a stupidly well off organisation. Preferably in terms of its annual budget (rather than capital assets, which would be a silly way to pay for this).

And even well off institutions have priorities. I suspect "digitising historical manuscripts" is pretty low on the priority list of the Holy See. Given that the Holy See would prefer to fund other things, this is a pretty reasonable idea. If people fund it, then they'll do it. If people aren't interested enough to fund it, then they won't.
Nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a Fugazi is?

Sorry, I can't resist.)
"Chance favors those with a prepared mind" is grammatically correct and sounds just fine, it's just not as pithy as the original. You could also say "Chance favors prepared minds".
This assumes that each home has not already been stripped of copper, which is not the case. Most of these homes are bricks and wood.
If you have headaches everyday, ibuprofen is not gotta cut it, you should have a doctor look for a tumor. Likewise, if the cerebral region responsible for releasing Dopamin and Serotonin, or whatever else is not functioning as intended in depressive people, would shrink, like an untrained muscle, supplementing with medication only helps so far, when it doesn't stop the shrinkage. I say shrinkige, because I don't know a proper explanation, mind you. Now, if there is nothing else to doctor about, it's well better than nothing, but it isn't the end of the story. Yes, lack of exercise can lead to a weak body, which feels uncomfortable, sports are a great way to exercise thought as well.

> think that they deserve it due to some unknown choice they made and should have to deal with the consequences

That's the conservative approach. If the depression comes from social interactions, there has to be another side of the coin, this is it.

> Honestly, even if it was "cheating" to take a pill

In the context above, it's a masquerade and can make the interaction even more difficult, because besides the obvious symptoms, there are probably others as well.

Also, a certain fear of medication based on ignorance is there, I won't deny that I don't know.
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How would that work with the App store now, since you can dynamically link to frameworks?
'Kidnapped' Russian hacker to be traded for Snowden?
The API has been "adapted", and the new data separation will be "analogous", but it appears that it's an adaptation of the current AOSP/Google cryptography to fit a similar need, not a direct contribution from Samsung.
Well this is very strange. Language shouldn't matter so much. Eventually you will use the same function name for any language. Whether it's c++, c# or f# you will use same functions e.g. `setActorLocationAndRotation` so I didn't get that.
Property taxes in Detroit are surprisingly expensive.
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>>"Web programming is not programming" is another matter, but that's not actually what was said.

Actually, it was. If you read the rest of the parent's comment, he completes that sentence with: "...and sure as hell HTML/CSS is not programming."

So it's pretty clear from the way the sentence is written that the parent has clearly established some sort of hierarchy in his mind, and what he actually meant was, "web programming is not real programming."
Only the distribution, and even then only if the firmware is eligible for copyright protection. Purely functional configuration data like vendor and product IDs aren't copyrightable.
Which you can also resell. You could even scrap the ovens for money and water heaters. There is far more motivation to wreck it than upkeep it. All those houses are goin doooown.
Do you guys have an API for queries?
Trains in most European countries will do the same. What's the deal?

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2013/10/25/amtrak-dea...

http://www.sncf.com/fr/presse/fil-info/changement-heure-hive...

http://www.zeitumstellung.de/bahnbetrieb.html

http://m.sbb.ch/news.newsdetail.2012-10-2510_1.html
This is great. I started watching pretty late into the stream, though. Will the videos be archived and available after the event?
Hacker houses! Turn Detroit into a tech meca