skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Prices are dropping around the country.

> London prices are forcing people away from living in London. Businesses are moving away.

Wouldn't this force prices higher across the country?

As someone living in Bristol, I have to say that there's been a (noticeable) influx of people from London, and that this is what I believe has forced local prices up to the point where many can no longer afford to stay.

Friends of mine, who are local (I am an Essex import), have scattered as far as Darwen and Bournemouth.
It's not really a privacy thing, the problem is that people consuming the SSN (banks and such) treat it as authentication.

That forces individuals to treat it as sensitive information.
"There's a reason that most people don't want to admit that 2008 was the housing bubble popping and instead insist that homes are "finally returning to their true value"."

It may have burst in the US, but certainly nowhere else
What you're describing seems to be a natural process through which people try to cope with the new reality. New social norms are created and enforced to make people avoid one another's past timelines, and market forces emerge to make search engines rank more recent pages higher. It's all part of our natural response to what makes us uncomfortable. We respond in such a way as to restore comfort, because being creepy is neither polite nor profitable.

What that doesn't fix, however, is the fact that old information is still out there, on somebody's server, every bit unchanged and ready to resurface at a moment's notice. Sometimes the old information is just a statistic in the grand scheme of Big Data. Other times, it can be very specific, such as the one-liner that allowed the Feds to attribute to Ross Ulbricht the very first mention of Silk Road on the open Internet.

Computers aren't learning to forget, they still remember everything. We're just training ourselves to pretend that computers are just as forgetful as we are, because it's a comfortable thought. The problem, of course, that collective games of make-believe have a tendency to break down at some point.
No, this takedown clearly states the claim that the mentioned projects infringe their rights by making copyrighted material (illegally) available to others.

Attached as Exhibit A is a series of screenshots taken from within the applications of each Project that includes images of copyrighted works available through the Projects.

and

The Projects blatantly infringe the MPAA Member Studios’ copyrights and countless other copyrights. Indeed, copyright infringement is so prevalent within the Projects that infringement plainly is their predominant use and purpose.

However, I too am surprised that this is enough to get a repository taken down, since the infringement obviously is not in the contents of the repository itself, but rather occurs solely when building and executing them. But then again, I hardly know anything about U.S. law...
This is awesome. As a beginner when it comes to writing shellscripts, this is my new jshint equivalent.
I am totally onboard with better self-moderation tools; I'm a proud user of BlockTogether and theBlockBot, they've made Twitter almost 100% more pleasant to use than it was before.

I've even had some ideas myself on apps that might provide better platforms for some, I just haven't got the chops to pull it off yet. In particular I think we need more platforms that allow public address without the implicit expectation that doing so makes you open season for every anonymous troll on the internet.

I think that services as well can do a better job turning all this 'big data science' to problems like this; it doesn't take a genius to realize that if a Twitter account pops up with no followers and its first few dozen messages are all loaded with invective and little else, maybe that account wasn't made in good faith.
And they can be banned with a real cost to the owner. The decision about whether or not particular things cross the ban line is separate from the design of a system that imposes a real impact when the ban occurs.

Also in the context of harassment they can be blocked by the person being harassed
On the other hand, the Soviets managed to build a class of attack submarines using titanium hulls:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine
I think Reddit is really interesting in this respect - you have pro skub and anti skub subreddits sitting side by side. Yes, they get caught up in downvote brigading and whatnot, but battles aren't the status quo like on twitter.

On reddit, the subreddits you subscribe to are your choice, but if the groups of users on twitter are homogenous enough then I wonder if you could automate siloing of users. People with correlated behavior get moved into their own silos and then if you or other users in your silo block a person, they don't show up in your feed.
Interesting way to go from problem to solution ... not sure if I can apply it (I don't think of my diet in terms of "I need x grams of protein today") but I bet there are people who do.

I think it would communicate better if it explained why "linear programming" is interesting here, and briefly what it is, rather than just linking to Wikipedia. Also, there are a lot of basic typos, you should run a spell-checker or something.
It is somewhat inevitable, but the problem we see here, I believe, is about the magnitude of this rise. I don't believe housing should be a _completely_ free market : investors should be regulated out of the tense areas (except of course for new developments).

Investment in older buildings in tense areas, combined with wealthy buyers who neither live in nor rent their property, are pushing prices way beyond acceptable ranges. I don't know about London, but in Paris for instance, 20 to 30% of the flats in the center districts are empty.

When young professionals and less fortunate people are struggling to find housing and putting more than 40% of their income into the rent, I believe those 30% of empty flats are unacceptable and the owners should be taxed out of them.

There are plenty of legitimate vehicles for investment, but already-built real estate is definitely not one of them. Such investment is not productive for the economy as a whole and is not much more than generational ransoming.
Java to Objective C tool
The Tall Tower
Or, said another way, Scala now officially runs on both the JVM and in the browser.
Still if you need all three together, that's potential 3-cache misses instead of 1.
> Would probably be better to spend developer time on more aggressive preloading then.

That should be considered regardless, it's not an either-or situation.

> If there are 30 items visible in the master view, and each is 1 kB of JSON, then just load the 30k of JSON in the background (after a delay, of course).

I said simple app, not completely trivial app! :)
Yes, that important. But not necessary navigation per se, but fluent keyboard input.

See how, for example, Trello has implemented keyboard input. User can add multiple items to a list without raising hands from keyboard.
That's exciting. I have worked extensively with Scala during my Master's project. What I'd really like to know is what this means in the context of the current trend of JavaScript (both client and server-side).

I'm currently working exclusively on MeteorJS, Node.JS and Angular and fail to see the relevance other than porting Scala applications to the web and making Web App development easier for developers familiar with Scala. However, without the kind of structure and inherent capabilities that a MeteorJS or DerbyJS offers, what's the USP here?
This looks very helpful: bash scripts are notoriously difficult to get right. I wish it'd suggest best practices like `set -e` and the like though.
> Functions that take a callback argument are called asynchronous functions.

Just to nit pick... Passing a callback to a function as an argument doesn't magically make that function asynchronous, in JavaScript. For example:

var block = function(callback) {
while(true) {}
callback();
};

Only those functions that are implemented asynchronously (such as Node.js' fs.readdir, from the article's example) will actually be asynchronous.
Yea. However, wouldn't you think that the current trend in JavaScript makes this a confusing endeavour in terms of what the end result really is?
I get your overall point, but in turn you've overlooked the Relationship layer - basic compassion means that the victim gets to make the call as to if something hurt them.

If someone is stabbed, do you require empirical measurements of their injury before you accept their pain?
We were promised paperless offices decades ago and we're still nowhere close. Right now we can barely get video-conferencing done properly. Hence, I doubt VR will help us anytime soon.
This is why, increasingly, my view is that people should be in charge of their own data, and only what is specifically required to complete a transaction should be disclosed.

How to implement that technically becomes an interesting question, but between pocket spies with storage measured in tens of GB to TB, and various forms of key authentication, it seems that there are several possible options.

The whole discussion above regarding the false crime of "identity theft" (it's impersonation fraud facilitated by the data holder's negligence) is another point of increasing frustration for me.

I've been having a few related discussions with David Brin (a data cornucopian) on Google+. Brin, hardly to my surprise, responds with extreme derision.
I do agree with you that it can be picked apart but it is very hard to do with simple rules.

Society does have problems with it in many areas but most noticeably to me around the intersections of race, religion and politics. Can criticising the Israeli government be anti-semitic? (It probably can be but the accusation is levelled as a defence against normal criticism). At what point does criticism of Islam or particular practices become problematic, Islamaphobic or racist? There isn't a clear line that everyone can agree on.

I think we probably agree on the answers we would like for these things and especially our views about "those still desperate to defend the right to an audience for invective" but it isn't always easy to set rules and operate systems to keep it working.
Yes, because they are beliefs. We believe c is everywhere what it's measure to be here, but do we know that? If we don't know that for sure it's knowledge. Any sentence that we take as knowledge is a subspecies of a larger group called beliefs.
With the current prices just with a gun pointing to my head, I would agree to buy a house in Australia as investment.

With the money needed to buy a crappy flat, you can buy a luxury house in a lot of places around the world. Prices are crazy.
I tend to measure things in disposable income: how much money I have left over after paying the big bills. And this is a fairly absolute measure, rather than relative to living costs, as I spend much of my disposable income on stuff that costs similar amounts no matter where I live.

50k is a mediocre salary, mind.
You'd be surprised how prevalent fake identities are in this business.

Years ago, I owned a lot of domains. Some very good ones, in fact.

I had someone approach me to buy the domain, claiming they were a tiny 2-person startup.

Some Googling and talking to friends who owned domain names revealed that they were actually representing Microsoft.

It's very common for even multi-billion dollar corporations to pretend to be broke students/entrepreneurs/non-profits to get cheap prices on domain names.
Doesn't "losses from a crash outweigh the benefits of lower prices" depend on who you're talking about?.

For me this has to be looked at from the point of who it affects the most. A person that already has a house is much better suited to "take the hit" of property prices than someone that doesn't have one (in general terms). Obviously you have to manage it, but in the end you should strive to protect those that are more vulnerable.
From TFA: "Dr Kim has produced a material which has the strength and the lightness of titanium alloys but will, when produced at scale, cost a tenth as much."
"Perl 3000" then! That should do it!
Interesting approach! However, as stated on the website, doesn't that lack of a UI port make it a pretty half-baked approach.

I understand of course that the way UI is coded in iOS is very different from Android.

I can see this is a far better approach than Cordova & PhoneGap in that I can just port the logic across from my Android app. I have always hated the Cordova approach and found it nothing better than a glorified hack.

Even so, while this approach should save dev time considerably for startups like ours won't it also complicate the dev cycle in terms of writing device independent logic?

Another question. Is it a two way tool? Will it convert my Objective C code to Java?

Also, your GitHub README is incomplete. Would like to see some proper examples.
The real problem with shell scripts is that they usually tie together a few external commands and tend to pass information around using the filesystem.

This, together with poor error handling is a recipe for disaster: Problems with permissions, insufficient disk space, etc. Instead of stopping when encountering an error, most shell scripts will happily continue break at some other point in time (or worse - destroy valuable data).
You should redirect from easypost.co to easypost.com.
I understand the minimum amount for protein while building muscle and the maximum amount of carbs for keto, but shouldn't the general use-case be to keep the amount of calories in check per meal?

Making a meal consist of 1400 grams of carrots because there was an automatic ceiling on chicken due to protein seems silly.

Seems like its a good app, but it needs sane defaults.
There are many fields in Science. It's one thing to say if we build this bridge this way it will resist to an earthquake of this magnitude, and another thing to say x years ago there was a population of humanoids that did this and that. In the second case our explanation (composed of a set of sentences which are beliefs to be proved as true) is constructed by inferences from our observations (facts): this tool, that wall painting, whatever.
I _can_ comment on all the other statements cited on that page. But others already did, so why should I repeat more of the same?

"This is [harassment]" meant all of it, incl. the one I referred to (and a bunch of others that may be angry disagreement, but are not violent, and not necessarily harassment). Comes to show that the definition of harassment isn't as easy as "here's a list".

Since you asked so nicely, to give you a comment on all those other posts, let me stick to those who are unquestionably harassment - those containing threats of violence and death (I just don't feel like arguing about a more precise definition with a random internet stranger right now):

It's kind of amazing how limited the vocabulary and breadth is in those statements. It's essentially the same 4 or 5 insults and threats reiterated again and again and again, with the most variability in the order of words - any resemblance of grammar is obviously optional in the first place.

So when I first saw that collection (a couple of days ago, so I'm not rage-struck anymore - maybe that explains why I'm not joining the chorus), I was considering if some trolls created tons of throwaway accounts and dug deeper - those are accounts that are primarily used for other purposes, with a wide range of profiles: old accounts, new accounts, students, adults across all professions (as per their bio). All of them with "normal" posts before the one listed there, and after.

So trolls creating throw away accounts are out. Since the accounts are still in regular use, it also doesn't look like a massive take over.

So there are really two options:

1. these accounts are taken over in some non-intrusive way by aggressors (eg. cross site scripting, reuse of simple to guess password)

2. people across the board (all ages, all professions, all sexes and genders) share such an annoying conduct[0], and it's likely that in your/my/anyone's neighbourhood there are a couple of such people otherwise living normal lives.

So, people are monsters, and there's no clear marker to pinpoint them except their conduct.

What else is new?

[0] I do assume that except two or three deranged people, they leave it at verbal threats like these - which doesn't mean that this is okay, individually or collectively.
Besides showing some crass personal flaws, it's just as frightening for the target since they can't know what's real and what's "for show". There's also a real risk that the truly deranged feel encouraged by so many people who seem to be alike on the surface.
How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
Where did you download the Skype installer from?

It is malware quite likely and can be undone. If you could share the link of where you downloaded the Skype dmg I can try and give you a fix.
I've always understood the statement "The US has no culture" as meaning that the speaker thought the citizens of the US weren't "posh enough" in some manner or other.

I imagined it was probably something terribly elegant and refined like eating breadsticks with a knife and fork.
It appears I stupidly downloaded it from here:

http://skype.download-for-mac.com/

I wasn't really paying attention at the time.

Would be great if you could help, thanks!
As am I. Over the last few years I became an Apple fanboy but ever since Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has been moving in the right direction (apart from the start menu thing ofcourse)

Too bad MS has such a bad rap.

I am really looking forward to Windows 10. Pity they aren't doing enough for the power user & workstation user though - all that touch readiness is of no use to me cause I still use a desktop I built myself.
More U.K. Companies Identifying Security as a Major Risk, Uncertainty
You can still use all of your favourite JS libraries in Scala similarly to how one can can use Java libraries on JVM.

http://www.scala-js.org/doc/calling-javascript.html
Not the parent, but my biggest issue with arrays and nested objects is this:

Most JSON arrays come in the form

{
"objects": [{"foo": "bar"}, ...]
}

Instead of `[{"foo": "bar"}, ...]`. So I need to create a temporary struct, it would've been nice to be able to provide a starting point or similar. Like `json.UnmarshalFrom(data, &foos, "objects")` (hmm, this gave me an idea!).

Another example is this:

type Address struct {
street string
city string
}

And I want to parse that populate that struct with the data from

{
"name": "John Doe",
"address": {
"street": "Some street 1",
"city": "Footown"
},
...
}

Again I have to use temporary struct.
Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension
MiG-25 is short range interceptor, pretty much useless for anything but defense against bombers.
This remembered me of a nobility title scam coming from Scotland.

In Scotland for some weird combinations of their laws, and UK laws that I don't remember properly anymore, anyone can get a "nobility" title by owning land there, except UK laws say nobles are only those that can be peers in the parliament (House of Lords), and that scottish title is NOT one of them.

Some scammers then sell those titles attached to a square foot of land, and charge crazy prices (ie: much, much, much more than buying a square land of foot yourself in Scotland), then claim the buyer is an actual noble (like I said, the buyer isn't, although the title IS legitimate, in UK it does not count as a nobility title)

People that work with actual nobility title frequently get annoyed with those scammers and try to convince UK government to shut them down.
Giving Drone Industry Leeway to Innovate
Committing ignorance can be read as trolling and dangerous, so problem-solving by forcing a win-lose memory process, ends by repressing asking to account for any deeper empathic accuracy of a real stable log.

What genius is let go is if we can design a system that lets users filter, and share filters, without categorically/deleteriously removing parts of people's real life data we have trouble with.

If we want to wholly deal with safety, sanity, abuse, pain, and words we equate power to record, we need to be able to read and write by sorting with due diligence enough to keep every end together, every bit of speech a turn worthy of ID, and then let users tool ways to filter, tag, label, and identify problems openly.
I just wanted to respond to point number 1. I was home schooled in third grade and in sixth grade. Both years I would spend no more than three hours a school day learning stuff. Upon enrolling for a private school in the fourth grade I went from being recognized as an average student in the 2nd grade to scoring head and shoulders better than anyone else taking the standardized test going into 4th grade. Needless to say they didn't require me to participate in the end of 5th grade years testing to enroll in the 6th grade.

So, at least in my experience, when you're devoting one on one time with a child, it takes far less time to teach them as you can craft the teaching style to fit their needs.
50k is a 90th percentile salary for the UK as a whole and competitive for non-London non-senior management software dev jobs.
101 Brazilian Apps to Have on Your Mobile Device
Docs & INSTALL are in there. Should have written a better README though. Just tried it on some old android app code and it crashed.
Google’s Self-Driving Cars + Ad Network = Free On-Demand Transportation?
Drones are everywhere — even on rugs
Agreed. £10,0000 would have been the correct way. Or 10,000 GBP.
That's very vicious PR to me. By acknowledging some guys thre were hacked too, they implicitely say that : "we're in the same boat, anthema and their customers, we'll fight together". Which, at least for me, is completely wrong. They fucekd up and they put the customers in the siht.
Who's Using Big Data in 2015? 3 Big Data Use Cases
I think blaming banking deregulation for making housing an investment is a pretty difficult case to make.

Negative gearing, and the flight to safety by overseas investor do have significant impact though.

I suspect many people who think that governments should act to try to cut prices miss the fact how hugely unpopular this would be with the majority of the population.

Many (most?) people have the majority of their savings tied up in a family house and rely on rising prices as retirement savings. That's worked well for the past 60 years or so, and there is no real structural reason why it needs to stop (in Australia anyway).
It is one thing to run short benchmark on laptop. Other thing to sustain load 24/7 with demand spikes and hw failures.
No, but a bank (either local or foreign) has a duty of care to ensure that a loan will not be used to finance an investment that potentially violates local or foreign laws placing said loan at higher risk of default.
It makes sense if they would like to throw the buyer off the scent and suggest it is a UK-centric service.

But a bit non-sequitur with the rest of the email - American English spelling and while Bill is quite common in the UK, Jarrett is an unusual name there.
Very nice, but it's missing units in Results.
Beware, pop-over with no close button once you scroll down the page.