skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only true when price-to-rent ratios are abnormally low. It shouldn't be true most of the time: why would anyone own?

On a per-month basis, renting should be more expensive than owning, especially when taking into account tax deductions that favor owning. The upside of renting is that you didn't have to unload a down payment and can in turn invest that money in something that gives higher rate of returns than property.

Generally, renters pay more per month before opportunity costs are taken into account and less so (possibly even strictly less) when opportunity costs are taken into account.
Doesn't "there is no chutzpah defense" imply that he is guilty of a range of other things - then not yet determined in court?

And does it really work that way? You can be entrapped so long as your defense has no chutzpah?

Isn't it the case that law enforcement can be guilty of entrapment AND the defendant guilty of a crime? Hasn't this been established many times before? Wouldn't this exclude 'chutzpah' arguments?

I'm not sure that this really replies charitably to the premise of the discussion - i.e. that there was coercion. According to your argument nothing short of law enforcement physically forcing someone to take an action would be entrapment; so long as there are choices - even bad ones. Nor was there a reply to the fact that the hitman wasn't his idea.

It seems to me that those wishing the justice system overlook these issues already had decided on DRPs guilt and were convinced to get it at, even if that meant sacrificing due process and papering over it.

DPR can be behind bars - I don't care. But due process is something that even those wishing it were ignored for this conviction rely on and need, even if they don't think so.
Sure, that wasn't rust's main goal. I did the app in rust simply because I had time to do that and wanted to get more comfortable with lifetimes. (they're in my nightmares now)

But honestly, I came away surprised how good the experience was. I wouldn't start a big team project in it (at least not until more common middleware is available and some higher level frameworks), but when rust 1.1, or 1.2 lands I'll definitely consider it for http microservices or RPC endpoints.
There is this script I worked on to help doing that:

https://github.com/whyrusleeping/git-ipfs-rehost
haha, thanks for the chuckle :) (and I agree, it is interesting!)
You're not missing anything. This is what transactions are for. If you need to make multiple changes to a database and you need all of them or none of them to happen, you need a transaction.

Don't know what they're teaching the kids nowadays that they would let money be moved around without using transactions.
Hmm.. Rust was created to support the new browser, browsers mainly manage DOM objects.. I wonder why you are using a legacy garbage collector in order to handle primary tasks rather than having that part of your core design?
If torrenting is "stealing" then so is this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Mus%C3%A9...

Torrents very rarely contain "full quality" media anyway. If you're watching a film at 720p and it was filmed in 4k you're getting less than half the film.
Something like this, or another service with a large corpus of recent spam, seems preferable to seeking it out. The latter will not give you the kind of spam that arrives at harvested emails.
TREC has a spam corpus albeit dated at this point

http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus/

92k messages, 52k of which are labelled as spam messages in the 05 corpus. Totals 300mb or so
Why was it cringe-worthy?
I'll take that step back as not to exploit my kids' generation, thanks.
Sign up for every retail coupon/rewards program. My wife does this, gets 50+ spam emails per day.
also being an volume ad middle man in the industry, I can bet what the top comment was referring was price.

adx is the cheapest, because it's the worse. your ad will be seen by users in spots previously occupied by "the banks hate this guy" kind of click bait ads. which have ridiculous ctr!

everyone I run experiments there I keep getting calls from clients to take their ads out of some and some sites before brand sees it. it's a nightmare.
My father has an email account hosted by Verizon with the domain @gte.net. General Telephone & Electric merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to become Verizon.

My father's @gte.net email delivery has recently become spotty. After hours of phone calls with Verizon, no one at any level of support can seem to find the old GTE mail servers.

Some Googling for smtp.gte.net found this IP address, 207.115.153.29, which seems to respond to pings but not smtp traffic.
jsPDF has a method called `addPage()` which adds a new page
Unfortunately, for those of us in San Francisco, the FHA loan maximum is nearly $400k shy of the median priced home.
this is one of my greatest gripes with academics

pedantry directed ridicule

this same essay could have been written exactly as is but with the tone of 'you are so right, here are some examples' but instead he chose to try to make a fan feel like an asshole..

this is my biggest problem with degrasse tyson.. he goes out of his way to make himself a public figure in science but uses the information he has accumulated to make people think they know so much less than he

a perfect example was when he visited the daily show, twice, and complained, jokingly, that the earth was spinning backward in the opening graphic

that graphic was made by some artist and now tyson is using his acquired information to ridicule the individual's effort

if you are knowledgeable then use that knowledge to lift people up

how can we have a graphic of the earth spinning backwards?

perhaps the camera has a capture rate that makes the earth appear to spin backwards, like car tires in films..

or maybe you could talk about geosynchronous orbit and angular momentum and really make people think you know more than them all the while lending excuse for why the earth is spinning backwards..

isaac, you got called out on some stupid thing you said out of a myriad of other entertaining things you have said, have some grace.. or at least a sense of humour
I think the generally accepted practice is to go bug hunting when the organization has requested it (e.g. bug bounty programs), or report a bug if you stumble upon it without really searching.

Imagine going door to door checking your neighbors' houses to see if their doors are locked. Sure, you're "helping them out" by testing for a common vulnerability, but it's very difficult to distinguish between a good samaritan and a someone with malicious intents who had second thoughts or was concerned about being caught.
> Sure you can look at machine code generated from a virtualized language but I'd have a tough time understanding it in the context of the whole runtime, let alone being able to practically do anything about it.

It is no different than using -S and check what happens for several code patterns.
> Exciting to see someone that remembers all those good, old systems! I've been studying them in recent years to solve modern problems that... they already solved

I saw a presentation from one of the VPs of Cray at ORNL. He spoke on the current wave of GPGPU and how similar it is to the old massively vectorized architectures in supercomputers (in particular Cray ones, since he was from Cray) from the late 70s through the early 90s. Apparently they've been able to leverage a lot of their old code in the Cray compilers for their newer GPGPU features.
React.js Markdown Editor Component
So, the university was asking for it?
"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt." said Horace, in 20 BC.
You know, some of us don't do webdev.
A personal anecdote: I recently visited my doctor for an annual physical exam. Since my last visit, I adopted a vegan diet void of animal products and proudly announced I've never felt better, how my skin and mood improved, etc. But to my surprise, the doctor was dismayed. "No bacon?", she cried. I affirmed she wasn't joking, and decided not to question her further. On my way out, she reminded me I should think about eating meat "for protein" - an absurd argument, considering there is no shortage of protein in a proper plant-based diet.

The apparent contradiction was confusing. After all, even I know nutrition isn't found in steaks, fish tacos, grilled cheese sandwiches, bacon omelets and glasses of milk. I went home to learn more and found nutrition is regarded as more of 'soft science' in medical education today. Suffice to say, doctors don't have all the answers, or even most of them. Many are presumably ignorant altogether.

And if the inane imprisonment, torture, rape, mutilation, and murder of tens of billions of helpless animals every year doesn't make you want to cut out meat from your diet, I recommend looking at the overwhelming evidence pointing out a plant based diet is ideal for human health and the environment. Here is a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-F8whzJfJY
> having to serve more than two decades in prison is any kind of justice for any kind of non-violent crime

Bernie Madoff got 150 years.
robustness and feature parity

Some features aren't worth having parity with, or at least need to be well rethought - and Felker has had a good track record with the latter in terms of thread-local storage, UTF-8 and other properties, so I'm looking forward to how the musl community settles the question of name directories.
Like with all other Google services you should be able to get your data out using the takeout service.
Careful. Human biological response is sufficiently well understood to permit the design of antibodies (which are grown in fermenters) that treat the symptoms of disease (RA, for example). There are decades of successful pharmacological research based on receptor targets, signaling pathways, etc.

However, your point is valid in that knowledge of, say, digital engineering is easier to understand and investigate as the systems are simpler. Those who are successful in the tech field should keep this in mind when they talk of disrupting fields involving wet-ware.
For me it's strong static typing, control about memory layout of you data, memory locality (arrays are arrays and not linked lists in disguise, you know what goes on the stack and what's on the heap, etc), support for bit based operations (which Rust lacks a little as there's not bitfields), deterministic memory management and a few things I didn't think of.
Hey am I not allowed to be a bit sarcastic? So many tumblrinas use that word they've killed it's meaning.

Don't blame me, blame social justice warriors.
Some would say Scala is not a "web language" either, but I think Play Framework developers would disagree. The rules of the game are not as clear as they used to be. For instance - web frontend is being dominated by JS frameworks and all the backend does is handling REST calls. I would argue that when you need scalability/performance/reliability, when milliseconds start to count - static languages make very much sense and when Rust can offer a comparable performance with C - it looks a very appealing option.
The answer, as the author points out, is yes. You can get them out via Google Drive. The author also thinks that Google is doing something bad by compressing a large uncompressed RAW file to 2mb, but that's the tradeoff you get for asking for unlimited storage from the service.

Google clearly states that photos synced to Google Photos with unlimited storage get compressed a lot. On the other hand, if you pay Google for more Google Drive space and use Photos to sync your images there instead, there is no compression.
PhantomJS is a full web browser that just happens to output PDF's. This is a library to create PDF's with it's own layout model that shares nothing with HTML. Much simpler and low level.
If you are going to go the home ownership route, by all means avoid the 30-year fixed mortgage -- even with lower interest rates.

So lets say you buy a $200K house on a 30-year, 20% down. If you take the monthly payments, plus property tax and insurance, you could pay down a 90 - 100K condo within 5 years. Then sell it and use that as a down payment on a $160k house (so again borrowing only 60K) and pay that off in anther 5 years. By years 11-15 you could live in a $200 house and have it payed off in 5 years, instead of starting off with that house and having only half the mortgage payed down by then.

The best part of this, is you are protected from the market going up or down. So say the market tanks, and your initial house loses value after 5 years. The worst thing is that you are living in a paid off house. The best part -- the next house you wanted to move up to is probably cheaper as well, so it balances out. And if the market goes up, well that means that you can sell your initial house for much more, increasing the down payment on the next bigger house.
You might throw up a little bit if you ever saw a piece of Bitcoin exchange software.
Which doesn't address the point at all.
https://google.com/takeout - Yep, still has photos capabilities
I uninstalled Photos right after I installed it. Why? Because as soon as you install it and you open it, it starts to indiscriminately upload all of your photos to Google's servers.

Now, I get that this is supposed to be a "cloud service" and whatnot. But I'd prefer if it was very clear when I choose to upload them to the cloud, and I'd also prefer to pick and choose which photos go into the cloud by default. If people want to upload everything by default to Google's server, that should be an opt-in feature.
see the big picture.

every ad networks have fraud.

fraud causes ctr to not equal advertiser profit.

advertiser pays less and less for ads that do not create profit.

you get less and less for your site.

fraudsters get more bots and keep their earning stable while prices goes down.

back to step one
> what are some of the things that make a language more suited to systems programming rather than web

the answer was to what qualities make a lang suited for systems programming not just specific to Rust
realtor.com spam ignore and move on
Many people do need a thicker skin.

The people whose home addresses were published, along with death threats of unknown credibility (i.e. they could be credible, they could be jokes, how can you tell at a glance?) don't need a thicker skin; the rest of us need to make sure that menacing behavior doesn't happen.

It's all fun and games until the death threats/doxxing happen. (That's where we go from actual civil or uncivil discourse, which should always be ok, to something that's never appropriate/ok.)
Sadly applicable to all manner of topics...

And there truly is a XKCD for everything.
No, I was referring to Jordan M's other health problems which went well beyond 'overweight', to how the Australian teen had multiple drugs in his system, the lack of autopsy and other relevant documents, and to several other issues raised in Ulbricht's lawyer's original filing criticizing the health issues. I would pull it up out of PACER but I don't feel like spending $3+ again to go through the docket and find the full filing again.

tptacek, if you're going to act like an expert on this case, you should read all the documents, not just the indictment and one or two of the shorter things.
Adapton: Composable, Demand-Driven Incremental Computation (2014)
So... did anyone else try to rm -fr /?
Nobody used the words "unthinking" or "faith", or anything remotely resembling them. Nobody said it was ideal to be uncritical of scientific results, only that it was rational. Rationality is not binary, at least as it appears to be used in a charitable interpretation of the commenter's position. It can be more rational to be uncritical of scientific results (which we can define for the sake of argument any way we like, but probably involving peer review and replication) than to be uncritical of unscientific pronouncements.

Given the available time and energy (or lack thereof) for most of us to examine every scientific result in detail, it can even be more rational (as in best allocation of personal resources) to accept some scientific results uncritically than to study them in detail. I'll note that I would argue for tentative acceptance, with growing confidence over time myself, but the original statement isn't wrong. It's just being interpreted through different vocabularies.

P.S. This next part is not a response to you specifically, just a general comment. I'm really disappointed by the polarizing tone of this thread, the uncharitable readings of others comments, the implications of guilt by association, and the emotionally motivated downvote brigades. HN used to be better; we've discussed this essay before and it wasn't nearly so bad. So I'm disappointed, and I'm disappointed in myself for participating, but feel I must because of how much I like the essay and how important it is for people to understand the concept of the relative wrongness of science.
Side note: Under the hood, PhantomJS uses wkhtmltopdf. You can probably save yourself some overhead using the wkhtmltopdf binary directly.
Very few foods are unequivocally bad. The FDA shouldn't tell people in general to avoid calorie-dense diets...they have to figure out how to tell just overweight people to avoid calorie-dense diets, because if they accidentally tell an athlete, or a nursing mother, or someone with ALS, they could end up doing them a lot of harm. And they can't tell people in general that lots of Tomatoes or Spinach are good, because some people would end up with Barrett's Esophagus, Acid Reflux, or Kidney Stones.

The problem the FDA has with regulating unhealthy food is similar to one the EPA has with regulating CO2, because the goal isn't complete avoidance, it is maintaining a safe equilibrium. But with the EPA, they have all the tools at their disposal to monitor the environment (and we are so far gone at this point that there is little risk to treating all CO2 like a bad thing). The FDA still has to rely heavily on doctors and other health professionals to make recommendations on top of their recommendations, because they don't have the tools to monitor health.

Maybe devices are what we actually need. A device that could monitor someone's actual health and diet and provide daily recommendations would be an amazing thing for the FDA to work towards.
pdfmake is actually built on top of pdfkit.
From what I have observed it seems that in less desirable areas renting could be more expensive than buying as everyone has _some_ money for rent (especially if there is some social security that helps) but no one wants to buy in a bad area.

On the other hand there is an upper limit on rent as wages only go so high, and landlords often enjoy the high income and don't see a need to sell. People who have plenty of money and really want a nice place are willing to pay extra, so for high quality real estate buying can be more expensive than renting.

Most importantly though there are ways to buy real estate cheap, and if you "buy retail" or believe the numbers you read in listings you may be the sucker in the biggest deal of your life. Chances are everyone you're dealing with in a real estate deal is super professional and extremely experienced. Price is "var", not "CONST".
I think he means bad in the sense of "8:1 compression means poor quality photos which shouldn't happen for a photo site" rather than bad in the sense of "google is doing something wrong, immoral or illegal".
Rhetorical, hard to prove definitely. I wonder will we see more posthumous exhonorations of people that got the death penalty out of this.
> The indictment is the whole premise of the trial.

No, the indictment is simply the initial document filed years ago which started the case and the specific charges can be, and were (right up to before Ulbricht's sentencing, even, where I believe some charges were combined or something) amended and strategies changed. You seem to think that indictments are immutable and all you have to do is quote a line from it, but you are not a lawyer.

> That's not only false, it's pretty much the opposite of what happened: not only was evidence of the murder-for-hire scheme formally introduced at trial, but it was ventured at trial, in a manner that put a part of the prosecution's case on the line for it.

The prosecution did not introduce the murder for hire and during the trial, as I already quoted, explicitly disclaimed that it was trying to do so and that they were only talking about other things like control of Bitcoins.
A web application to build your Blog on GitHub
Yes, absolutely. I don't agree fully with the statement that set off this whole flame war. It is a very low bar, but my point is that many bars are even lower.
Actually, there is a setting in Google Photos (at least the web interface) which lets you choose between "High quality" and "Original" (Menu -> Settings).

"High quality" recompresses large files, but gives you unlimited storage space for these recompressed files.

"Original" doesn't recompress or alter the files at all, at the expense of using your Google Drive/Email/Storage space.

I'm not necessarily on board with auto photo backup (I don't completely trust it - some photos should just remain private), but I like that they give you this choice.

What I really (really) hate is that they've moved the delete button. It's no longer a button on the toolbar at the bottom (on the Android app), it's in the menu and labelled "Delete local copy". I take a lot of throwaways while trying to get the right shot - deleting photos is an every-day part of my workflow (I delete more than I keep). This has now gone from one quick tap to three (there's a confirmation dialog when you finally click the delete button). This is a very frustrating change.
(Seattle-only) Californians are moving in and buying up all the real estate.

That would work as a scare tactic anywhere in the West. Sometimes it seems like Denver is populated mostly by Californians.
Here in Barcelona, Spain, we normally have to do a deposit of normally 2 to 5 months and depending on your contract and share some communal costs such as garbage collection etc (might be included in price already). There could be 1 month more if it was contracted using an agency.
If you rob a bank for $10,000, and later give the money back, it doesn't eliminate the bank robbery charge. Probably doesn't even reduce the sentence.

The writer has admitted to a felony (several felonies, actually) in his post.

That may be a stupid law for events such as have been described, but it is the law in the United States.
the cloud only exists because storage is cheap.

it should actually kill the cloud because storage is cheap. but all cloud providers go out of their way to make their platform painful to use without their cloud.

Apple makes backing up photos with iphoto annoying. Google makes backing up photos via an app much easier than via usb or rsync on your home network... etc
Because someone could have exploited this en masse, sold these cards, etc. Even if that didn't go far they'd have to rewrite their software/service, hire some people, refund money to people because they had to cancel their gift cards, etc. Plus damage to the brand and future profits.

They could actually be lucky to just be out a million if this had been properly exploited.
Anyone who finds this interesting should also check out http://terralang.org
Heathrow (and perhaps UK airport security as a whole) is also more restrictive in my experience than US/Canada/Schengen airports, so there's another point for the train.

(Seized contact lens solution bottle, I'm looking at you!)