skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same is happening in many other countries (housing in my country is similarly overpriced related to income), and I have the same problem - I'm renting, and housing is getting more expensive every year (as well as rent).

I believe prices are cyclical and we should expect a "down" period, but when it will happen is always the question :) .

Most economists believe cycles are almost inevitable, but "On average, upturns last more than downturns" and "the amplitude of upturns is also larger"

Some googling found for example this paper, which includes Canada:

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2011/wp11231.pdf

It warns of "slow nominal price adjustment" during downturns, which is my experience as well (prices trail reality by 1-2 years during a downturn).

So, you have to understand your reality, if you need a house in the next few years, they're not going to get any cheaper. If, OTOH, you can wait out the cycle and save money, you can probably make a good deal later. That is, unfortunately, not a choice for most of us.
If Snowden deflated your balls because you had testicular cancer, would he be a true Patriot?
I know one specific individual who had two hundred million dollars in cash back in the early zeroes. While he kept it invested it was not hard at all for him to liquify it.

You'd think this guy would own a lot of stuff but really he didn't. I had quite a hard time figuring out what he found rewarding from all that money. He wanted more of it, but I don't have the first clue as to why.

He drove a very modest car, his office was a complete shithole. I never visited his home but expect it was modest at best.

This fellow was, in the strictest sense of the word, "honest", I mean he didn't steal his money at gunpoint, or sell drugs.

There are a lot of people like him. I expect he would come to regard long-term investments as - for whatever reason - preferable to the commodities he usually traded.
Because it isn't worth it, basically. It's a relatively simple economic decision - making a text only backup version takes time, programming, adds an extra possibility for failure, etc. etc. - and the people who want a text only version are an extremely small minority.

I know that sounds a little heartless and "not caring about the web", but it's the reality.
No, just no. You're asking people to act weak and unstable. You're promoting a path that leads to unconscious confidence in decisions you make.

Every decision is wrong, but it's your job as the one who has their shit together in the shit-storm to choose the least fucked up choice.
The perfect job interview
I'd say that the whole problem of having short-term tenants is precisely that you're pretty much forced to come up with 'a single set of rules' to force them to behave, due to transitory and impersonal nature of it.

The organic nature of case-by-case resolution of issues pretty much requires a long-term tenant that has some for of long-term relationship to the property and neighbors. Social pressure and personal responsibility come into play.

It's the difference (roughly) between a teacher-student and a parent-child relationship. In the former case, the (usual) lack of personal ties requires explicit rules. In the latter case, a lot of rules and conflict-resolution is more organic and case-by-case.
Who ever read the "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" might have some idea about how people are over-confident that they can judge something, or give grades, that are correct, unbiased, and so on... and how that is a big... hum... lie.
> If your ops environment is underdeveloped, it'll hurt bad.

This is what PaaSes are for.
That's because IE is unpredictable in every aspect ! :D
Will Colombia stop fighting coca by spraying glyphosate?
helppier.com 'Need help' is not that helppier!
> It's better in the long run as you can compere results across cohorts fairly.

But cohort size changes (the number of babies born can differ substantially year over year), which impedes comparability.
Venom Vulnerability: Amazon and Google Compute Engine Safe. DigitalOcena Patching
> including your own ageing, will have behaved as though time really was running slower.

This. This is what I wanted to confirm, thanks. Is there any experiment or some paper which proves this?
https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

Windows 7's share has increased by 2-3% in the last three months. I think it's probably upgraders since XP has decreased by ~ the same amount, and XP users are far more likely to be enterprise.
Will I be able to register a *.ee domain name?
Mortality is a feature: without it evolution wouldn't work and we wouldn't be here. Evolution requires offspring which are not identical to parents, and with a bias where more the more fit are more likely to survive and reproduce. Without death you have no selection, and no passing to the next generation to keep ratchetting the process forward.
Yeah, Murray Sperber called it the “faculty-student non-aggression pact" - “Professors don’t ask much of their students and students don’t ask much of their professors".

And a newer book called "Academically Adrift" found that students aren't learning much in college.

How do they get away with all this? One explanation is the signaling theory of education. A degree (and the prestige/selectivity/reputation of the school and program) is a proxy (signal) for IQ plus an indicator of persistence (toughing it out to make it through a degree program).
MIT doesn't really have "tough" grading per se, it has a lot of tough courses that are graded by mastery of the material. If you've chosen an appropriate major for yourself, you'll be getting mostly As and Bs. This eliminates dire competitive stresses that prompt sabotage in other schools, and encourages helping out each other. There's also a committee watching out for abuses by professors that would go so far as taking a class away from one if he thought there was cheating and decided to punitively grade as a result (although they're more focused on demanding too much, e.g. too lengthy finals, or otherwise too much required stuff at the end of term).

For freshman, it was graded pass-fail for the first year when I attended back in the '80s, now just for the first semester; that's more to ease the transition than anything else, and "hidden", unofficial grades are kept in case you need them for e.g. medical school applications. And the reported GPAs treat an A as 5.0.

Some figures for applications, as of some years ago, I think more people are applying now: 13,000 applications, but MIT has a high bar in terms of being able to do the general requirements of a semester of math past the AP Calculus BC sequence, one term each of mechanics and E&M calculus based physics, and other stuff like chemistry and a lab. So no legacy admits per se, instead the admissions office identified 3,000 applicants who they thought could "do the work", then constructed a class of ~1,100.
This Startup Wasted a Whole Lotta Money on a Conference
+1 Seems pointless if it doesn't.
Damage is not necessarily a bad thing. A doctor damages your tumor when they remove it.
You realize this is officially abandoned right?

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?54595-I-want-...

&tldr; Epic saw the Unity thing and went 'nope; not unless you make it free forever'.

(Also, don't bother. It doesn't work with the most recent version of the engine either)
Einstein may have been unclear that to get so much as that one arc second of displacement, you have to point the scope right at the edge of the sun.

One can see venus with the naked eye during the day - but not when it is near the sun.

I expect that a red filter would get rid of some of the scattered atmospheric light. A telescope should be able to see some of the brighter stars during the day.

But to get the scope so near the edge of the sun that you can measure that arc-second displacement, you'd have quite a lot of sunlight entering the telescope. The atmospherically scattered light in that region is quite intense.

One can use an "Occulting Disk" but they are of limited effectiveness. When the sun is in the sky, hold your hand out at arm's length, then block the sun with your thumb; you'll see that the skylight is quite bright around your thumb. That's not from the solar corona - not much of it - but from atmospheric scattering.
2.13%, 2.19%, 2.26% is what worries me. They dropped dramatically in the same period of last year. From March, they are slowly creeping up.
> without death you have no selection

Hang on. Birds that have evolved ludicrous tails aren't doing that because it helps them not die, but because it helps them breed.
>If people don't like culture, that's fine

I thought the whole point of the modern humanities is that culture (or at least western culture) is evil and oppressive. In my experience the average humanities course is not concerned with "culture" in the "cultured" sense of the word, which I assume is the definition you were using. The university I attended recently dropped all the Greek, Latin and Classics courses, for instance, and fired (negotiated generous early retirement packages with) all the staff who had taught them.
One might think it funny that he didn't write in English, or have someone translate it, but back in those days most scientific papers were in german. English wasn't in widespread use until after the war to end all wars.
As an old joke (a ha-ha only serious joke) goes, closures are a poor man's object orientation, and object orientation is a poor man's closure. Going on the list of languages you have above I'll take it from the object orientation side of the argument. Object orientation works by binding functions to data; the data is persistent for this instance of the object (in the sense that the data remains available as long as the object does) and can be manipulated by the functions bound to that data. Closures on the other hand bind data to functions; so the function is always callable but the data is bound to this instance of the function. So you can have many instances of a function each with it's own data bound to it. In most languages that support closures functions are considered a "first class" data type; i.e. individual functions (and the data bound to them) can be passed just like variables (sometimes with caveats depending on the implementation). Typically this comes hand in hand with "anonymous" functions; functions that don't have an entry in the symbol table, i.e. they don't have a name in the function / object namespace.

If you truly want to understand how it works then you'd probably want to write a compiler that supports closures; you'd then need to cover issues like how to allocate functions on the heap, the difference between locally allocated (typically on the stack) data bound to functions and globally allocated (typically on the heap) data bound to functions.

The second part to closures is understanding the theory, or the why and the high level functionality that it enables, such as callbacks with state or interactions with the likes of recursive (y-combinator like) functions.

EDIT: minor grammar fix
Yeah but he's not the pope.
One of the interesting things about developing medical devices is the formal recognition of this process. During development, you must perform and document risk analysis - some of this is pretty dry, but part of it is a session of what-if where you need to look at the worst possible outcomes for you system, used properly or not. Often this is quite eye opening.

If there is an adverse event, or interaction reveals that one is possible, you'll do corrective-action/preventative-action analysis and depending on the severity you may need to inform you entire user base.

At first this sort of thing can feel process heavy and unwieldy, but I quickly came to appreciate the way in improved the actual engineering and made you think about system design in particular, useful ways.
Why is emacs on this list?
It is an operating system, not a text editor.
You might as well put Windows 8 on the list.
says 'server offline' in Melbourne, Australia
It's a system that's based on trust, but the auto-update that is active in WordPress has saved millions of sites of getting hacked in the last few weeks: https://ma.ttias.be/in-defence-of-wordpress/

As soon as something major breaks by those auto-updates, the trust is over and a lot of users will disable it. That would be a shame indeed, because besides a couple of WSOD's some users may experience, it's an extremely powerful feature.
I recall visiting eastern Oregon just before the crash, and there were places in Prineville selling for more than that. Sure, they were big, and fancy, but... Prineville. It was mind boggling.
The positions are interpolated from trajectories which are updated at fixed interval trough an Ajax query.
Those tools already exist -- platforms as a service. Heroku pioneered them and you can get on-premise installations of Cloud Foundry or OpenShift to play along at home.

I've worked on Cloud Foundry and basically it makes deployment a non-issue. Here's how you deploy the service:

cf push the-microservice

And if you need 100 copies:

cf scale the-microservice -i 100

Or maybe 2 copies with more RAM:

cf scale the-microservice -m 4G -i 2

Need to update it?

cf push the-microservice

You see where I'm going here.

I know it's fun to play Dr Frankenstein and hand-roll your own devops system. I've seen systems built out of 3 layers of Jenkins servers, two running Puppet, emitting timestamped RPMs played on fresh VM images. I've seen people use rsync, I've seen them use git, I've seen all manner of clever hacks and they all have the same problem.

You marry this system of deployment and upkeep and now you own it. Forever. By yourself. Then the genius who wrote it leaves, and you're stuck with a system literally nobody else uses.

There's no advantage to writing your own PaaS. Just use one off the shelf.
Another example would be the passenger pigeon. Went from plentiful and delicious food staple to extinct.
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So before we had ie8 because it was the latest supported by Windows XP, now we get it because it's the one included in Windows 7. Oh, the irony.
Windows 8 will run on anything that ran Vista and does not require UEFI. Placing a sticker proclaiming Windows 8 certification or something like that on a new computer requires UEFI.
What's the MVP?
Hi, I am a lawyer and founder of FeedLEX (feedlex.com ). The idea behind it is to provide curated legal news at one place for Indian citizen. We are trying to build certain tools apart from FeedLEX but Lack of funding and being technologically naive, I am facing lots of problem in developing a proper web portal to shape my true idea. We are looking for funding and people from technology background to join us.
My point being that I know quite a lot about relativity. Not just that I know about it but have quite a deep understanding of it.

I know quite a lot about Einstein as a person.
it's a shame opensignal isn't more like openstreetmap with its dataset.
I'm doing this right now and am on project #2. I'm charging $3k for an MVP also delivered in 2 weeks. My number one regret is not charging more. Even after negotiating feature sets and getting things down to bare minimum, $3k is not enough.
Offline Wifi packs (w/ maps!) is one of the top priorities on our development roadmap
Interesting article, but they could have said what they wanted to say in 1/3 the number of words.
When we visited Portland a couple years ago, my wife's comment was "gritty city with low-quality housing stock and no obvious economic base". I said "everyone is in the business of selling food and beer to everyone else".
I vote bubble.
Building Successful Mobile Apps – The 7 Steps
That is the hardest part of teaching for me. After a semester of working with students. I am looking at a spreadsheet assigning them semi-arbitrary values. Grades are not fair. I give a lot of sub-grades on assignments and projects in an attempt to correct for error but I still don't feel great about the signal to noise ratio there.

The only thing I grade on is an ability to communicate mastery, rather than mastery itself. There is not much I can do about that.
Have you built an adder out of logic gates? For me that was a good exercise in bridging the gap between "piece of electronics that I understand" and "component that does computation".

Quantum computation is the same. You figure out how to build gates (there are dozens of competing ideas), and then it's just plugging them together in the right way.
Is there a rating in the app that says "% of people who were actually able to get online".

I've been to many places where they say there is "WiFi", but it's either not free, difficult to get on, or only free for certain people.
yes, usually you end up a lot of MVC on both the front and back end.
I have a great job with great pay, and even I'm getting priced out of the market. My wife often wonders where all of the millionaires come from (and living in Philadelphia, surrounded by rich towns in NJ and PA, I wonder the same thing, too) because that's the base-line to afford a decent apartment in the city or detached house with a bit of land in the burbs that can hold a family of four.

All that, and Philly has actually remained somewhat flat in housing prices when compared to the likes of NY, DC, and in this case, Portland.

It's crazy to me how much you have to make to put a decent roof over your family's head anymore (in a decent school district to boot).
It's not not just MOMA, but any corporate website. The assumption of "oh, they're on the corp network, they must be a googler" has been removed.
> I would rather have private companies holding the records than government for reasons that should be obvious

They are certainly not obvious to me. With government, there is a democratic oversight, you can (at least in theory) vote to have these records destroyed or stop collecting them and so on.

However, when private company does it, what kind of control do you have over them? Especially if they are 3rd party.
Talk to Jim Johnson. I don't have his contact info but he does direct mail in the san francisco bay area.

It has been well-documented for decades that conference attendees are poor sales leads.

There are many good ways to obtain sales lead though. Tell Jim I sent you.
Indeed - and an unawareness of fallibility or medical arrogance is a huge warning sign.

Many in the medical fraternity bury their mistakes, not admit to them.
The Mathematics of Marriage and Love
If this approach doesn't work, consider one or more small volunteer projects (maybe for non-profits) so you have a portfolio to share. Good luck!
The only direct measurements of relativistic effects have been in the nanosecond range, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experime... - not a scale on which you could measure human ageing.

But it's really just utterly implausible that it would happen any differently, because biology is just (complex combinations of) ordinary physical processes that follow the ordinary laws of physics like any other. Compare e.g. http://lesswrong.com/lw/hq/universal_fire/
My unconference epiphany: How one event changed my life
This could be automated. A very simple computer with a SATA port and a USB label printer should be able to neatly print a tag with relevant drive data for every drive it sees through the SATA port.

At least the human error part would be mitigated. With some clever connector design, I guess a drive could be labeled in 5 seconds or less. If you do it for all drives before mounting, you'd get a single standard label for every unit.
So your phone can't connect to the internet at all without wifi? You should get that checked out.
highly reccomend reading Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and software. The author basically starts from how a telegraph works and extrapolates modern computing from that starting point. Great read, and helped me understand exactly what you're referring to, understanding classical computers down to the metal.

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Homeless Lawyer Secretly Lived in Public Defender’s Office for 5 Months
Not the answer to the question, but that particular site is somewhat (a little of the text and one or two images) readable without the JavaScript if you turn the styles off.

I've just tried it with JS, actually it's a very little of the whole content.
contestants are required to turn in their source, rather than compiled code

If there's nothing about the language in which the source must be written in but only that it compiles to JVM bytecode that meets the requirements, I'd be very tempted to write most or almost all of it in bytecode... java.lang.ClassLoader is allowed and it provides some useful methods for that purpose. ;-)

At each block’s exit, a checkpoint is injected with the block’s total cost. During live execution, these checkpoints increment the AI’s internal total bytecode counter. If at any checkpoint the running tally exceeds GameConstants.BYTECODE_LIMIT, the AI’s execution is halted and execution of the next robot’s AI begins.

That sounds to me like it might be possible to squeeze in some more extra instructions at the end.
It is very distressing to me that Frequently Asked Questions documents, quite commonly answer questions without regard to whether they are, in reality, frequently asked.
Hope the "not" doesn't get smudged off.
Reining in sprawl is probably a good thing, but US cities are very much 'not dense'. Increasing density would help with supply. It also makes a place more friendly to walking, cycling and public transportation if done in the right way. Compare and contrast the average European city with someplace like Portland.

Not everyone wants dense, but I don't think someplace like Portland is going to turn into Hong Kong over night, or ever, really.

I'm currently in Boulder, interviewing and looking to relocate here, and this place has the same problem in spades.

It's really an "iron triangle" situation:

* A. Cheap housing.

* B. A desirable place to live.

* C. No growth (be it outward or upwards).

Pick two. Places like Boulder seem to be opting for B and C, but then wring their hands about the lack of diversity. They've also created a situation where a lot more people are driving into town from further out where it's still affordable, rather than living closer and riding bicycles or taking public transportation.
My favorite is Louis Savain, who would go full mad scientist when his theories were challenged and even laugh like Mandark in his correspondence. Example: http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/Insan...
Arizona City Using Fake Cactus to Hide License Plate Cameras
Hackers are draining bank accounts via the Starbucks app
or even potentially the counter goes back up for each mach. A single-match move would mean no change in the counter, while a combo move would drive the counter back upwards
There was an attorney in santa cruz, california who specialized in pro bono work for the homeless, most commonly when they were prosecuted for camping within city limits. That law was passed in the 1950s to encourage tourists to rent hotel rooms rather than camp on the beach.

He was unable to pay his bar association, so some judge paid it for him.

The name of the judge was never disclosed publicly. I'm not real clear how we know that it was a judge. I expect that had the judge claimed credit publicly, he would have been obligated to recuse himself when this attorney appeared before him.
Cool, thanks. I learned something new :)