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"The world divides into facts. Each fact can be the case or not the case, while everything else remains the same."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein
You could say the same about Austin. If you lower you costs in housing, in Texas you'd pay less in property taxes, so you save twice (more discretionary plus a lower tax bill) In San Jose, it doesn't matter how cheaply you live, your income is still taxed at the same rate and things still cost the same. And the cheapest San Jose place would still be far more expensive than the cheapest Austin place.
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It's a matter of perspective. On the one hand you're right that it's sheer demand that is a big part of the problem in London. On the other hand it is obvious that everywhere in the UK has serious restriction of supply, because house building has been less than half of what's necessary for many decades, house prices are spiralling, and median house price to income ratios are double now what they were 15 years ago (again, that applies to all parts of the country, even unfashionable places far away from the capital [1]).

Obviously there's the issue with green belts, but even beyond that there's massive potential for increasing the housing density of outer London. Both because of its current low density, and because a lot of the existing housing stock is made up of grey suburban estates which would be more or less unmourned if redeveloped. Look up 'densification' for more information.

Also, of course, it is important to try to reduce demand by making the Northern cities an alternative centre of gravity (HS2, HS3, new local powers for unified city mayors in Manchester and Birmingham, and so on).

[1] - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
I'm thinking more about the patterns and structure; e.g. Angular gives off those familiar Enterprise Java vibes...
Definitely. Cheers for the link!
You could disable CAPTCHAs for Tor at any point, but don't, presumably because there actually is a lot of scraping and other abuse coming through there. I don't think replacing reCAPTCHA is going to make Tor users magically happy. They will just complain about whatever alternative is used.

One thing you could look in to (email me if you'd like more info on this) is the notion of using Bitcoin-based "anonymous passports". The idea here is that someone sacrifices some Bitcoins to miner fees in such a way that they effectively mint themselves a certificate over a public key, without paying a certificate authority. Seen one way, the block chain itself is the CA.

Once such a certificate/"anonymous passport" has been created the owner can sign challenges with it to prove ownership, and if the user is observed engaging in abusive activity it can be blacklisted - forcing another sacrifice of money if they want to keep going.

The downside of this is that of course it relies on Bitcoin. However, there's a whole army of people working on the problem of obtaining bitcoins. There are local traders. There are Bitcoin ATM's being deployed throughout the world. If you want a private way to demonstrate some sacrifice of effort or wealth I don't think there's a better alternative.

Currently there's no convenient GUI for making these certificates. If a major provider like CloudFlare were willing to get behind the concept, such a GUI could be easily built though. For instance I could add it to Lighthouse, which is a cross platform Bitcoin wallet app that specialises in smart contracts.
Anyway Druid is by MetaMarkets, Netflix is one of the users
A good example on how bad quora is.

The top current answer is basically

> there is no way to cheaply make more

Which applies to anything in existence, everything will run out, hence a pointless waste of time statement that moronic philosophers pull out when they are ignorant on the topic.

Later links are more interesting, like -

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/27/what-grea...
I'm actually amazed that he reached the age of 75! I didn't know people could become that old back in those days. Was he an exception?
So the question is, how much does that Mountain View place cost today? You don't need 1 million to buy a decent house in Austin. In SV/San Fran, good luck.
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I had no idea his models are considered marginal. To be honest his contributions to learning are much more effective and applicable than all of today's computational neuroscience. We need more people with his theoretical insight, to make sense of current data about how the brain works. I wonder if one day the lines of artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience will converge.
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The point of COL is for comparison. As long as the factors are equally applied, then the value of COL averages still make comparisons valid.
I'm next to straight underground line going right to my office.

'Just go to Reading' was exactly my point. In order to save enough for a basic housing in London, my quality of life have to drop significantly for years to come. Yet I'm considered to be 'rich' by HMRC. (Practically, this'd mean switching schools for one of my children, and waiting forever for free timeslots in nearby nurseries for another - while saving maybe extra £5-6k/y in rent, which is peanuts when counting towards possible mortgage).

Avg. house prices in my current ward are ~$750-900k for a 3bd terrace. That's ten years of my net income - and you don't have to work for that! Just sell a house you bought 15 years ago for a fraction of this cost - and here you go. Sure, you'd have to rent - just as I do. Yet, all those people are not considered to be wealthy (and they aren't, with many of them struggling with today's job market), and not taxed on the wealth they hold.

So, for me - it's all about taxation and government imposed incentives. If they want to put a leash on a younger britons generation and then pass it to Chinese landlords - they're on the right track.

Changing taxation alone can drastically shift the power balance between landlords and tenants to ease underlying supply-demand issue.
Javascript is as much of a bytecode for the web as Java is a bytecode for the JVM.

It is not.
Where would we be if we could only execute Java on the JVM? Clojure and Scala transpiled into Java? Can you imagine how terrible that would be?
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Maurice Audin was a young Mathematician who died in 1957 in Algiers under torture by the French Military because he supported the Algerian independence cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Audin
To quote my own answer on that question:

No: we will never run out of helium, it's just a question of price (which is likely to go up).

There is a method of actually producing helium: as a product of nuclear decay, smaller quantities of helium (He) could be made in nuclear power plants.

Nevertheless, as @ghshepard says, in the short and medium-term supply will simply come from other natural gas fields if/when the price goes up.

The Helium-scarcity misunderstanding is the same as with almost every other historical feared resource depletion. At current prices and production methods, supply is finite, but at higher price points, new production methods become economically viable.

A higher helium price means two things: reduced demand by shifting to substitutes and increased production by using more expensive production technologies (and of course, if the price goes up more people will try to innovate cheaper solutions).

Today helium is practically free. While we would never run out of Helium, it is not unlikely that at some point prices may go up for a while. That, however, is not really such a big deal.

http://www.quora.com/Are-we-really-running-out-of-helium/ans...
Well, I guess jailbreaking does not qualify as easy, does it?
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Looking at SF would be very interesting since being in the bay area I have the choice of both SJ and SF
I wouldn't be surprised if London came out bottom.

Anecdotally, salaries are lower and rent higher as compared with both NY and San Francisco. Taxes are obviously higher as well.
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They complement each other. Druid is "only" a real-time data storage for events and fast aggregation. This is a complex event processing engine, which would store its stuff in druid.
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It's google. By this point, if anyone is really surprised they hate privacy, they have clearly been living without any internet or newspaper access for the last 10 years.
Because UK uses a stupid system of surge pricing for their trains. Rather than a flat rate for a journey, you will pay more the closer it is to the departure and the busier the route is. So even if you buy a ticket 6 months in advance, a Monday morning ticket to London is going to cost you 100 pounds+, depending where you are travelling from.
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You and I have vastly different definitions of "free", I think.
Rare earth metals were talked about in a similar manner very recently. Other sources were found, and as a result, the alarm eased. One thing about rare earth metals is that they can be a byproduct of metal production, but this process is often ignored because the cost of the additional step can be more expensive than the resulting output.

One thing people seem to not know is that helium is a common discarded byproduct of oil extraction. Nuclear fission in the earth's core produces it, and it gathers in porous underground oil reservoirs. I'd bet my life that as prices of helium go up, these deposits get more attention paid to them.

I'm not convinced that a shortage of helium will be a crisis.
Full of Dutch nationals, not Chinese. Also, it's unlikely that "Russia" took it down, they merely supplied the weaponry to a bunch of incompetent hotheads who accidentally shot it down.
...And conservation/re-use. Right now, scientists just let the stuff blow off into the atmosphere during experiments because it's basically free. Increase the price, and it's worth modifying the experiments to reuse their Helium.
However, this requires actually looking at the data and the conclusions drawn from them and not just the conclusions. In many cases, this is not done at the beginning.
Re: "Asian cultural issues" and the tired old Malcolm Gladwell line about South Korean culture being unsuited to the cockpit, this post demolishes that pretty thoroughly.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/culturalism-gladwe...
* I've stayed in youth hostels in regency houses in London that housed maybe a hundred people. You do realize that they could all fit more than one family?

* Not every house in London is one of those, and there are PLENTY of eyesores that could be demolished and replaced by desperately needed social housing if the politics of London weren't driven by servicing the whims of the ultra-wealthy.

Nobody's going to cry about replacing these eyesores with something affordable:

http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/15/onehydepar...

Or these:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london...
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Do you mind clarifying your question? If by "Turtle Programmer" you mean your typical business software developer I.e. the 9-5 type, not the type of Si valley startup type then yes, for every one of the "hip" rapidly evolving and changing always-on-top-of everything type of programmer there will be 10 of your normal "Turtle Programmers" grinding away every day making everything from your banking systems to your cloud server are functioning correctly. Depending on what languages you know, your worth may be different, if you are well versed in COBOL then congrats! You are the minority of programmers whose average salary can be anywhere from 100-400k a year. COBOL programmers aren't as cool or as hip as other developers e.g. Rust developer, but thanks to the laws of supply and demand, demand for COBOL programmers have skyrocketed in recent years due to the amount of COBOL code that have been written and the dearth of new COBOL programmers.
"simply are not as interested in working quietly with numbers as men are"

That's frankly a ridiculous statement in this context. Women are en masse working quietly in writing, music, painting, knitting etc. There's also plenty of women medical research, chemistry and economics. I also know of more women with a "profile in the community" in electronics than I do in software, which is probably less social than coding.
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It is also much more reasonable, as memory is usually the bottleneck anyway.
10Gbit/s full TX wirespeed smallest packet size on a single CPU core
> The government would be rightly accused enslaving millions of citizens through control of the drug supply.

Have you accused Switzerland of enslaving its citizens lately? Because they've been doing just that for years.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-12-19/swiss-drug-addicts-giv...
...and who could resist repeating a meme that libeled Glenn Beck, using his own style of rhetorical insinuation? Hoist by his own petard, as it were.
Similar concerns were raised when China embargoed rare metals. In reality, the industry adapted smoothly and it's not the topic anymore.

And yes, strictly per economic theory (which is very practical) we will never run out of Helium. Just the price will rise up to the point when alternatives (and a research into) will became economical.
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Not sure about the rest of the unis down south, but I definitely remember Cambridge and Oxford have some sort of "college" system which had no real relation to your subject (i.e. you could read Philosophy at Foo College, Oxford, or Bar College, Oxford). Maybe someone oxbridge-y can clarify.
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Ask HN: What type of Bootstrap visual editor do you use?
I am a terrible front-end web developer, I find it easier to visualize everything and create mockups in winform than coding it by hand. Just wondering what type of visual editors do you guys use if you need to quickly create a web UI? Here's a list of interesting ones: http://tutsme-webdesign.info/best-bootstrap-visual-editor/
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How do you explain this?

http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2015/

And weren't both Malaysian disasters the result of foul play?
That's true. These for example:

* http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...

* http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gender...

* http://www.lpfi.org/sites/default/files/tilted_playing_field...

* http://qz.com/143967/the-tech-industrys-woman-problem-statis...

* http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man...
who has time for these articles??
The sqllogictest suite (https://www.sqlite.org/sqllogictest) only has to be run on all the various servers when the tests themselves change, in order to validate the tests. Otherwise, those tests only need to be run on the system under test, since the tests themselves contain the correct answer to check against.

The sqllogictest suite takes about 15 minutes to run three times against SQLite (once with all optimizations turned on, and twice more with various optimizations turned off) on a fast machine.
Can someone explain the numbers,

I see averages of $100K/year for developers and then keep hearing of freelancers raking $150-$200/hour ($300K/year).

How can this be ?
Which is of course no answer at all.

Their own explanation for wasting hundreds of thousands of man-hours on a "quirky and flawed" separate compiler, linker, assembler, runtime, and tools is because they absolutely needed an implementation detail that is completely invisible to programs and which they are now replacing because it wasn't a good idea in the first place (segmented stacks). And it's worth writing out a 1000 word rationalization that doesn't bother even mention the reason that implementation was necessary in the first place, to better run on 32-bit machines. In 2010.

Or they say that they had to reinvent the entire wheel, axle, cart, and horse so that five years later they could start working on a decent garbage collector. Never mind that five years later other people did the 'too hard and too slow' work on LLVM that a decent garbage collector needs. What foresight, that.

That's not sense, that's people rationalizing away wasting years of their time doing something foolish and unnecessary.
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Yes, element wise, why anything else? Different lengths are not equal; if capacity is externally visible, then that needs to be part of the compare.

As far as the whole ownership issue, that's a bit more than just ==, isn't it? Equality was the only thing I was questioning.
"Many good programmers have a certain arrogance"

No, I don't think so. Or at least it's not needed to be a good programmer. It's just that if you also have other qualities people don't have to excuse your behavior by how good a programmer you are.
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Would love to see Philadelphia included in such a calculation.
It looks like Privdog which was bundled with CIS didn't have the vulnerability (it was an older version of Privdog) but if you downloaded it from the website you would have had the new version (Privdog v3 or later) which would have had the vuln.

If you're running the version of Privdog which came with CIS could you check the version of Privdog ?

Badfish shouldn't have failed for you with the bundled version, but if it did that's probably something that needs to be looked at more deeply.
If producer kills the product or goes out of business whatsoever, you're
grounded. You may even be unable to migrate data to other system or migration
could be very, very painful.

You most probably won't be able to integrate it with any of your systems
except maybe for big, very expensive ones that happen to be popular.

> Not to mention it would have been tested better.

Except when it wouldn't. I've seen such cases, and they are not that rare when
it comes to systems that are not general purpose.

To all this add the fact that by buying a system you totally loose the control
over bugs in it. You may be hit by a subtle bug that is a show-stopper for you
and the producer may refuse to fix it, claiming it to be low-impact.
Indeed. This requires to explicitly talk about who owns a given computer. There's a good case for trusted computing in your car, or on an airplane, or in a power plant. But if you want to use it in consumer equipment, we need to fight the urge of companies to be the owners of computers. You also have entertainment industry that wants to own your computer.

That's what the whole War over General-Purpose Computing is about. And I fear that we, private individuals, may lose it.

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
It is not missed at all. But the reality of discrimination at a young age is no excuse for not fighting it in software companies, where women constantly report hostile working conditions.

The article you linked to is quite good, but it ignores the very real decline over the past few decades[1] in women participation in software relative to other professions.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...
Do you think they'll stop at Blogger or will they ban adult content from YouTube too?
When Intel say they have 52nm wire pitch, this means that they produce wires that are 26nm wide, with 26nm distance between wires. Producing wires that are thinner, or that are closer together, is unreliable.

That said, they are probably able to position those wires at a higher precision. Without being involved in the manufacturing myself, I deduce this mainly from looking at optical proximity correction[1], for example, it's clear that the final masks used for production have more detail. Another indication is the fact that different masks seem to be aligned to basically nm-level precision (otherwise, the different parts of transistors and the vertical interconnects (vias) between wiring planes would not match up properly). The photographs one sees of the final product also indicate this. This means that the location of wires could theoretically be controlled very precisely, but for a mixture of wavelength and other (chemical? surface tension?) reasons, the size of the wires cannot be made smaller reliably.

I'd be curious to know how precise this alignment really is, and I've never seen numbers for it, but it must be incredibly precise. Given that a large part of it can be done optically, this is not even that surprising, compared to some of the other magic that's going on here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_proximity_correction
Ask HN: Co-Founder buying equity at later stage?
This is probably a very basic question but I'm at a loss and I couldn't find the answer via google (not a native english speaker):

I'm a technical co-founder with currently 25% equity.
The other non-technical co-founder holds 75% equity.

The non-technical co-founder brings money (about $60k for manufacturing) and connections.
I build an online shop from scratch / backend / support / etc.

We agreed that I may "buy back" 5% of the equity in three years,
raising my equity to 30%.

Obviously I would only pull this option if the company is growing as expected.

However, we haven't yet decided on the price for these 5%.

How would we go about calculating the price for these 5%?
Is this a fixed price at the time of signing the contract
or a relative price to turnover/sales?

Any pointers / comments are very much appreciated!
Meh, BBC Bait Click alert.

The title makes the impression that this is about 'all' ad blockers. But to quote from the actual article:

"PrivDog has been found to compromise a layer of the internet known as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) - used to safeguard online transactions.
It follows the discovery of a similar problem with Superfish, software pre-installed on some Lenovo computers."

I stopped reading after that. BBC should know better. Ah LOL who am I kidding. But just to be clear, I am pointing at them, not you per se, tomtoise.
I somewhat agree and consider moving to TypeScript a bit risky as it seems like it'll end up a niche but I do think sensibly added typing code improve JavaScript. I want better tooling support, refactoring support, intellisense...and languages like Dart/TS seem to me to have shown its possible to do this without throwing out the dynamic aspects.
Its important to look for supporting evidence and gather facts. Yes you're right the masses still believes everything they see on TV and other officially controlled media. The more time someone believes something, the more time it takes to break him out of it.

As for conspiracy theorists these people generally have had atleast 1 experience in the past, where they had picked the right trail and were mislead. These guys generally tend to negate everything they get from mainstream sources and continue to advertise their version of events. I am not saying they are wrong or right, its just psychology. Most of these guys just need a single clue to say to themselves, "You see, i was right".
Both of those rates are real (I have, in fact, had exactly that salary and charged exactly that rate at different points in my career), but freelancers don't make $300k per year in any but the rarest cases. Part of their pay derives from the volatility of their work. Freelancers don't work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week - they work on whatever schedule they can according to the volume of projects they pull in. Generally, the total number of hours adds up to much less than that for a salaried worker, so the overall pay would be comparable.

Naturally, the range for freelancers varies much more widely, with the most active freelancers making serious money, and the least just scraping by.