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It's maddening that property owners can vote against new construction, when they have a deep conflict of interest. The community may require housing, but the homeowner has an interest in seeing housing prices go up forever.

It's similar to this ridiculous notion that expensive housing is a good thing. We give absurd tax breaks to homeowners (why can't I deduct the lost interest on my rent?), and people lament falling house prices, as though homelessness were desirable.

Couple all that with building codes that make it illegal to build modest (small with no parking) housing, and you have a situation where it's impossible for most people to live in a city.

The above issues don't apply everywhere. London, thankfully, isn't dumb enough to go for parking minimums, and doesn't offer a tax deduction on mortgage interest. The general forces at play (landed incumbents voting to screw over the young) are much the same, though.
Yeah, After posting to Hacker News, the web-app got serious traffic. Try refreshing, it'll work.
Using, a free Heroku Web-App. That obstructs the traffic.
Also, why only turn off pings when you are about to land, and not flying over china-pakistan-india mess?

Because this is where you can bury your evidence real deep.
An allergist I spoke to said that the recent explosive increase in child peanut allergies has them examining the possibility that some recent change in the ingredients in some medication, or possibly a food, given to pregnant moms or babies or toddlers is somehow tricking the immune system into an extreme reaction to peanut proteins.

I realize that my recollection here amounts to an uninformed rumor, but my point is that there may be some, possibly very minor, mystery ingredient that has recently been added or substituted for something else in some food or medication, that just happens to have the right chemical structure to trigger a crazy mal-adaptation in a new immune system. If so, identifying it might require years of detective work.
On the other hand you can sell your flat for a higher price in the future.
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"Are there no prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
"And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

This isn't JUST about privileged young would-be urbanites having to live a few stops further from Shoreditch. It's about having a city that isn't just a playground for the rich but that has a healthy mix of professions and lifestyles.
I do. Though I think it's something curable by rejection therapy, given by the popularity of urinals in public places. Anyway, I keep thinking about a different but related thing.

Are you, or were you ever religious? A lot of people are, and probably majority were in the past. Pretty much every mainstream religion teaches that there is an all-seeing god who watches you all the time. And that includes being watched while in toilet. Or while in bed with your spouse. So I wonder - if people were used to be watched by an omnipotent god, how is that different from being watched by omnipotent cloud?

For the record, I haven't in any way made my mind about the issue. I am just exploring the concept that maybe we don't need as much privacy as most think we need, and maybe it would be better for the whole mankind to limit those expectations.
I'm leaving London with my girlfriend in a week, to move to Edinburgh. Been here seven years, both on a good salary, yet we live in an impoverished area and would never be able to afford to buy a decent place to live even where we are now. Edinburgh offers us an objectively better standard of living in every measurable aspect except proximity to Europe. I won't miss London.
Interestingly I discovered that a former colleague of mine actually does this. He'd considered buying a property in London and managed to find a number of of houses in Murcia (Spain) which cost the same as his deposit in London would have been.

There is a slight twist which enables this international "commute" however. His job has involved being on-site in with a client (in Scotland) for the last while, so even if he lived in London he would've been put up in accomodation anyway. So in reality his Spain->UK\UK->Spain round trip only happens once a week, but technically he's still doing an international commute :)

edit: Tidied up the rambling sentences
> 2 bed flat in zone 4 that will leave me and my gf with a 300k debt.

Sounds like you got lucky then.
Interesting article. Was at a talk at CCS last year by a guy from Samsung who described how they are using TrustZone in recent Samsung devices. I think Intel's SGX stuff looks even more useful though.
The reasoning is as follows:

1. An attacker can't MITM everything, all the time. Perhaps he can, but it would create unwanted attention

2. Thus, a visitor will usually not be a victim of MITM during her visits

3. When an attack occurs, the certificate pinning will make it visible.
I lived in Edinburgh for eight years, it's a beautiful place and you'll love it there. If you're into beer, check out the Blue Blazer - it was my favourite bar.
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I spent my childhood in London, moving overseas after graduation - not financially motivated. With two kids now I often entertain ideas of moving back, primarily because it really is an amazing city and because of the opportunities my children would have.

Unfortunately, even with the handsome salaries senior devs earn I cannot see how I could possibly pay rent and support children.

So I often wonder where all this money is coming from? If a salary many multiples the average would not cover living costs, who is pushing up prices? Who is buying these houses?
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The cost of living in London is insane and it is a really interesting thought experiment. A lot of my friends are moving out of the city and I can't see myself staying here more than another year or two.

But for some context, West Hampstead is a fairly nice suburb on three different train and tube lines.

The rent for a one-bed flat is high as they are bid up by couples who are both earning. You are at a big disadvantage looking on your own. In my experience there is not much difference between prices for a one or two bed flat.

I think a big problem is the price of national rail transport into London from the commuter belt. It can easily cost £4,000 a year for a season ticket, wiping out most of the saving on rent or mortgage payments compared to living in the city.
FYI, something about this page is bringing my iPhone 5S to a crawl. Safari routinely stops responding for 10s at a time. Is it the graphs?
I don't want to spoil the book too much for myself, but from a cursory check I infer that this comment was meant to be a criticism.

My point is, if one stops treating the vague notion of "privacy" as some kind of end-goal and focuses on costs and benefits, it seems reasonable that we might be losing more than we are gaining as a civilization by fighting for as much "privacy" as possible.
Sorry, I don't know London, but I'm trying to understand your situation.

You have a mortgage for around 1.5k for the next 25 years, shared between you and your gf for a flat with a spare bedroom close to the centre of London ?

Sounds rather affordable, what am I missing ?
> ban any previous Oculus Rift support in the Steam store

Users would riot. Clearly Valve must look for ways to give itself an edge, but taking away features is a recipe for bad PR.

I do hope Valve can pull it off, though. They deserve a shot, after how their relationship with Oculus went.
So what? Kind of useless article, nothing new.
Thanks, wasn't aware of that. Though from quick testing, the output of `ss -nlp` seems entirely unreadable compared to `netstat -nlp`.
Similar situation in Munich! The only one who can afford to live here - with average salary - is the lucky one whose parents are ready to help with a donation of 200,000€. For the rest they will take a loan at the bank...
Here are two good articles about SGX[1][2].

[1] http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/08/30/thoughts-on-intel...

[2] http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/09/23/thoughts-on-intel...
There is no AI and other stuff this article talks about. It's just google cookies and nothing interesting about it http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-no-captcha-problem.h...
Hehe, no problem. Thanks for the feedback.
You can also buy them on the stock exchange for less than $10 in transaction fee, and I think the minimum there is a lot less than $1000.
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You can't get to the truth from science. You can only build a model of reality.

The degree with which that model corresponds with reality is a measure of truth, for some definitions of truth. But it's still always a map, a projection from reality according to some set of rules. It never actually is reality.

The thing that science cares about is building a better model of reality. Better models mean better predictions and better storytelling. The former is highly useful. The latter, I'm not so sure. Convincing storytelling can elevate a model higher than it's worth. There's a lot of storytelling in macroeconomics, and similarly in evolutionary biology's just-so stories.

I wonder if viewing science through the lens of "true" stories about reality, rather than as a ratchet for generating more precise predictive models, encourages overweighted stories too much.
The pickled plum flash drive mentioned in the article looks like something straight out of a Cronenberg movie: http://fakefoodjapan.com/products/umeboshi_pickled_plum_larg...
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You are underestimating how creative children are. I used to get a lot of Lego sets as a kid, and they would get assembled and then disassembled within two days max. And yes, I can confirm that a Lego Technic excavator with an electric motor and pneumatic controls can be used to make a dinosaur(and then to make a city block. And a spaceship. And a train.).

And in fact, it looks like Lego company is encouraging you to experiment too - look at the Lego Movie sets. Every single one uses weird, "specific use" pieces which are used for something completely different than what they were originally intended for.
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the issue here is that we use pre-measured GSS (http://gridstylesheets.org/) on the site for perf reasons, and the intrinsic sizes of things were measured using the defaults. We could probably detect that you're overriding them and switch off the pre-measurements in that case. I'll talk with the GSS devs.
Only neither is new. One is several decades old and broken, the second is newer but still almost a decade old, and we know it does work and what it fixes...
> Imagine one day when we've automated the world and the only reason humans have to do any work is so that robots can prove they're human. This whole thing is ridiculous.

... did you just solve the whole problem of on-going automation? Capitalism is saved! We will all work as CAPTCHA breakers. ;).
A quick google reveals the answer, but this article would benefit from "A PE file is ..." in its introduction. Maybe it's expected that the target audience already knows this info however
How can rail transport be that expensive? (I'm genuinely asking)
My argument is not that heroin gets people off meth, because it doesn't. My argument is that heroin junkies look for a way to get high when the cops have halted the heroin supply, so the heroin junkies take meth cause it's cheap and available and thus they become meth junkies.

In the nightclubs the partying folks want to get high but the cops have killed the ecstasy supply, so the party crowd try meth cause they want to have fun and get high, and become meth junkies.

At the universities the students want to smoke pot and listen to (what, Pink Floyd?) but having a puff is illegal, there's no pot cause it's hard to get cause it's against the law, but hey this guy has some meth, that'll get us high, and hey, meth can't really be all that bad can it?

My other argument is that drugs cost money, so how do junkies get money? They steal it, break into houses, mug people and do hold ups. Cut out the crime, just give em the drugs for free.

Drugs aren't crime, they're just sad ways for lost people to try to cope.

I'm advocating harm minimisation.
My argument is not that heroin gets people off meth, because it doesn't. My argument is that heroin junkies look for a way to get high when the cops have halted the heroin supply, so the junkies take meth and become meth junkies.
I might even incorporate the request rate into a bot detection algo, maybe have it trigger temporary hellbans.
I’m curious how Europe’s tech hubs (specifically London, Paris, and Berlin) compare to U.S. cities.

I suspect Berlin would compare quite favorably, despite the relatively high German tax rate. I moved there 18 months ago and currently pay €500 ($565) for a one-bedroom apartment in a nice part of town (Prenzlauer Berg). In San Francisco, I paid 5X that for a studio apartment in Hayes Valley.
I also left London recently, although I moved due to the weather.

For every 29-year-old graphic designer who moves to Cambridge to buy a family home, there's a 22-year-old who's just started their career who's willing to live in a bedsit in Wood Green (as, coincidentally, I did at 17, trying to break in to the big city).

You're meant to get older, and move out of the city. Circle of (urban) life. Give it 50 years, and Reading will be a suburb of London, rather than just a commuter town, CrossRail will have priced out current residents near the stations, and the city will keep trundling on.

That you see yourself as being one of the "original" residents doesn't give you some inherent right to below-market-prices in property. That the same graphic designers and digital media folk who priced families out of Brick Lane are now feeling the same effects of the gentrification cycle they were part of is not meant to be a surprise.

I hear Peckham is the up-and-coming part of town at the moment, but there's no damn way I'd live there, just like I wouldn't have lived in Brixton or Isle of Dogs 15 years ago. But give it 15 years, and you won't be able to afford in Peckham, either...
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So you have your (possibly tainted at the binary level, see "Reflections on trusting trust") compiler, let's call it [A].

You take source code to a compiler [GCCsource], which for the purposes of this we'll say we can trust (because at least we can read the source, IOCCC notwithstanding).

The problem is that if you Compile [GCCsource] with [A] to make [GCCWithA], [GCCWithA] may be tainted if [A] is tainted.

The fix is to make GCC produce reproducible builds.

Then you compile [A]([GCCsource]) -> [GCCWithA] and the critical step is this:

[GCCWithA]([GCCsource]) -> [GCCWithAWithA].

If [GCCWithA] makes reproducible builds, then [GCCWithX] should make bit-identical outputs with [GCCWithA]. If it doesn't, then you can tell that there are shenanigans going on.

So you do

[A]([GCCsource]) -> [GCCWithA]; [GCCWithA]([GCCsource]) -> [GCCWithAWithA]

And then

[B]([GCCsource]) -> [GCCWithB]; [GCCWithB]([GCCsource]) -> [GCCWithBWithB]

You compare [GCCWithAWithA] with [GCCWithBWithB].

Now you've upped the bar. Not only does an attacker have to put a backdoor in the GCC binary, but now they have to do it to Intel's compiler, and any other compiler capable of compiling [GCCsource]. If the attacker doesn't catch all of these compilers them in exactly the same way, then it will result in a difference to the output.
> and you have a situation where it's impossible for most
> people to live in a city

Except for - of course - the 8m people who do
In Zuerich maybe, I rented 3.5 room apartment in Adliswil for 1.970 CHF last week.
Close to nature, and for me close to office since my company in in Binz.

Moved away from crowded Berlin, no regrets.
Request rate is definitely one thing you can limit, but it's tricky when attackers potentially control large numbers of IP addresses.

There's an annoying triangle here: wanting to preserve privacy (== unlinkability), machine-independence, and "working well for good traffic with limited resources, as well as blocking attackers with substantially more resources". Ideally it is "choose zero", I'd be happy if the state of the art were even at "choose one".
I just bought a 2 bed terrace in zone 4 for 280k, its not cheap but there are some places that are a lot more affordable (especially if you don't mind going south of the river)
a) People who don't need to support children

b) Landlords, who rent the houses to people who can't afford to buy, but can afford rent
You're essentially saying what I was saying. That Turing tried to throw metaphysics out of the window in favor of a practical approach (behavior-based = fooling a human).

As for public perception of consciousness or "thinking", time estimations are usually quite sketchy.
Also European here. You might not have tried the right peanut butter. Many big-name brands add sugar and salt, and also palm oil (to prevent separation). If you try peanut butter that's actually just 100% peanuts (you'll know if you have to stir it first) then you might have a different experience. Or you might not.
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Because the rail tracks were laid down a loooong time ago, and are surrounded on all sides by expensive property. This means limited capacity, ageing infrastructure, and unceasingly increasing demand.
"even with the handsome salaries senior devs earn"

People working at Google etc think they're paid handsomely, but in reality in London they are paid a fraction compared to what you can get in the financial sector.

This article and the comments here talk about software developers and graphic designers, and the reality is there's a whole community above you earning much more. That's who's able to buy the houses.
I'd say it takes a different kind of creativity. One is not necessarily better than the other, they're just different.

If you got bored with plain blocks and had to "spice things up" with custom pieces, it means you had plenty of plain blocks at your disposal. That's how I like my Lego sets, too. A large number of plain blocks with a few custom blocks here and there. Not custom blocks galore like some of the newer sets tend to be.
There is no definite proof of Turing committing suicide, and there is enough evidence suggesting otherwise, not to presume this was the case.
> Isn't truth the only thing science cares about?

Not really. Truth is what math cares about. In science, there is no truth, there is just what is measurable, but that's just a proxy for reality, not the objective truth. Then you work with whatever measurements you have and try to predict more measurements.
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Wish I could upvote twice. Very important insight, and one that is constantly missed in gender discussions. One shouldn't expect any change downstream to suddenly cancel out the effects of something high upstream. BTW. the huge skew at college level seems to be a result of a skew in as early as high-school, or maybe even earlier. [0] has an interesting discussion on the topic.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...
I love to hear a comparable argument on NYC.
I don't give a shit, you don't give a shit, most of us who have our heads screwed on right don't give a shit.

Unfortunately, however, plenty of shrill, god-fearing think-of-the-childrens do give a shit, and will hold your "sins" against you.

Just hope that they're not going to be making major decisions about your life.
OK so I've read it. Slices sound exactly like one would guess, using the word from other languages. A view into an array.

So exactly why are they not suitable for equality? Even that article starts with "Slices are analogous to arrays in other languages". Please elaborate on this basic thing.
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Of course it could. If only say 4% of their workforce was women before, and this increased to 8% after stripping out gender identity, then that is a huge increase (double) the amount of women. This is because women are being hired at the rate of 10% (using your figure), which would increase the number of women dramatically over time.

I agree that if the initial starting proportion was 10% (again assuming your number is correct) then gender stripping should make no difference - just pointing out that unless you know the starting proportion then the OP's statement is perfectly valid.
I think this article was just debunked here yesterday as generalizing from few selected anecdotes.
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Wow, what a great read. Nice work.
>That you see yourself as being one of the "original" residents doesn't give you some inherent right to below-market-prices in property.

It speaks volumes that you implicitly put the rights of Russian oligarchs and Arab oil barons to buy property (which they often leave empty) above those of the working and middle classes of London.

I'll come back to London when they start taxing the wealthy again. Until then I'll watch from afar as every last drip of culture and life is squeezed out of every community by rising property prices.
I commuted between London and Berlin for a decent amount of time, and I certainly remember having more money then compared to now when I live in London fulltime.
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Unfortunately, we have a very limited local talent pool, and we are looking at recruiting remote staff. We have extensive experience working with freelancers, so there isn't so much of an issue with the management side of things. What I am having a hard time finding out about is what are some effective ways to hire permanent staff for remote work, and how to pay them, dealing with Social Security payments, PAYE etc. when you work cross-border with someone. does anybody at HN have any experience with hiring and paying for example US staff from an EU location?
I would be cautious making assumptions like that. Interests rate have been very low, at times negative even, for a long time.
Thanks! I'm pretty familiar with Edinburgh already but haven't seen the Blue Blazer. I'll check it out.
Reported on the (BBC) radio news this morning, but without the warnings in the web article, which say 'don't try this at home' and that kids under 5 shouldn't be given whole nuts as they're a choking hazard (yes we can guess that, but people sometimes don't).
For those who don't know, there are several executable formats where smaller programs can be written. For instance, a .COM executable (a legacy format now [2]) can be written in just 20 bytes [1].

In the case of the Portable Executable (PE) format, 97 bytes is certainly an impressive feat.

[1]: http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=225&t=The_Smallest...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file
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