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What makes houses in developed countries so expensive? I live in Kazakhstan. I can buy some land near city, it would cost me $5-10k for 100 sq. meters of land. I can build my own house for $40-80k (including materials and workers). It might not be the huge house, but it will be fine to live in.

Is land more expensive in developed countries? Are materials more expensive? Are workers more expensive? (probably all components are more expensive, but I still don't understand where those hundreds of thousands of dollars are coming from, those prices are just insane).
I'll take that self-control over worse health any day. Health is something you can at least throw your money at, especially the money you got thanks to self-control. Knowing you are using only 10% of your potential because of lack of self-control is depressing.
From October the merchant is responsible for fraud if the card has no chip and he accepts it.

Be prepared for a lot of merchants not willing to take that risk and to decline your card if it has a mag stripe only.
according to the analyzer, "not interested" is 50% cheerful and 50% agreeable :)
The hanshq.net story is just one of three blog entries that John Regehr linked to yesterday:

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1242

The other two are:

http://jbeekman.nl/blog/2015/01/nibble-sort/

http://belkadan.com/blog/2015/05/Nibblesort/
This was never hard to do. The reason no one did this is that it will spoil things. We have a company Spotify trying to do the right thing: pay artists and have us listening to music easily anywhere. When you subscribe to Spotify you do not expect to own or keep the music you expect to be able to listen to it whilst subscribed. If you want to own the music then buy a CD or an mp3 (NB is DRM still absent on e.g. Itunes?).

Stuff like this project will just cause the rightsholders (who I usually don't agree with) to force Spotify to wrap everything in another layer of DRM. We'll have no more libspotify etc.
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In Kazakhstan you would have to save for that housing. In developed countries banks loan you the money for the housing. Which essentially means that housing price is determined by how much money people make. The more money people make, the more the people selling the house demand because the banks are willing to loan them that money, based on their ability to pay the amount on their mortgage. So in essence housing always costs a significant portion of whatever you make. That then affects the pricing of land. Labor is also very expensive, at least legal labor. In California you have a lot of illegal Mexicans that you can use for cheap construction, but elsewhere labor to build housing is also very expensive because they expect to be able to function in the economy so they charge a premium for their services, unlike in the third world where construction workers are treated like crap. So to answer your question everything is expensive here and the cost is determined by how much money people make rather than some other value.
This seems to address an area (revenue analytics) that the likes of Mixpanel and Kissmetrics don't do out of box as they don't integrate with payment systems. Its a good starting point.
As a next step you may need to cover user metics (invade their territory)
This sentence jumped out at me too. Of course, not all jobs are amenable to remote work, but many are. However, it will take a long time to change the expectations of managers and coworkers to reflect this new reality.
Is there a better way to read all this? http://www.sl4.org/archive/0203/index.html#3128
That's not a 'like' button; it's a 'share' button.
Got into AngularJS over the winter / spring - really like it - trying to get into React / React Native now
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Supply and demand. Kazakhstan has a population density one hundredth that of the UK.
Land with planning permission, in desireable areas, is very expensive. Random example from near me: http://www.plotfinder.net/plot/land-sale-city-edinburgh-situ... - that's just over $100k.

More stringent building regulations probably add to the cost, but the planning system is the big factor. "Desireable area" makes a difference in some cases: a while ago Stoke-on-Trent were selling derelict houses at £1 to anyone who promised to renovate and live in them.
Was there a chat log of the experiments themselves?
Configuration data? Manual input of test data?
Could the obesity be related to the fact that they were better at optimizing for candy intake? Would the same results be there if the reward was something else?
IIRC all the threads are closed after a few days to prevent spam. You should wait until the August edition.
Yudowsky claims to have played the game several times, and won most of them. One of the "rules" is that nobody is allowed to talk about how he won. He no longer plays the game with anyone. More info here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment#The_claims

Personally, I think he talked about how much good for the world could be done if he was let out, curing disease etc. Because his followers are bound by their identities as rationalist utilitarians, they had no choice but to comply, or deal with massive cognitive dissonance.

OR maybe he went meta and talked about the "infinite" potential positive outcomes of his freindly-AI project vs. a zero cost to them for complying in the AI box experiment, and persuaded them that by choosing to "lie" and say that the AI was persuasive, they are assuring their place in heaven. Like a sort of man-to-man pascals wager.

Either way I'm sure it was some kind of mister-spock style bullshit that would never work on a normal person. Like how the RAND corporation guys decided everyone was a sociopath because they only ever tested game theory on themselves.

You or I would surely just (metaphorically, I know it's not literally allowed) put a drinking bird on the "no" button à la homer simpson, and go to lunch. I believe he calls this "pre-commitment."

EDIT: as an addendum, I would pay hard cash to see derren brown play the game, perhaps with brown as the AI. If yudowsky wants to promote his ideas, he should arrange for brown to persuade a succession of skeptics to let him out, live on late night TV.
"No, I will not tell you how I did it. Learn to respect the unknown unknowns."
Can't they report them? Investigate them?

There's no reason to be loyal to corrupt and dangerous indiviuals that are supposed to be trusted public servants.
I'm going by concepts:

Learning how to apply clean architecture (ref: Robert C Martin) when using a large framework like rails/django. Learning ruby, rails, and django (already quite familiar with python. Been using flask for everything I do so far).

Building a real time application. Learning meteor and how to apply TDD with meteor.

Building a front end heavy single page application. Relearning HTML and CSS properly. Still deciding whether to use React or Ember. Ember's documentation is bad but I've already put up my hand to help improve it. I really want to help. But react is just looking really good and it's docs are stellar. To the point that I feel like I'd be missing a bus if I ignored learning it. Will probably toss a coin on that.
The problem is actually in the time and boredom while traveling. So maybe autonomous cars, workplaces in trains or (far fetched ;-) teleportation could improve the 'commuting-problem'.

I think most people still like to work physically with other people. That is why I go to a co-worker space. Because I am actually more productive at home.
Wow that's really cool! This is something I'm extremely happy to have been corrected on, thanks!
Is there a "rational" reason of keeping the chat log secret ?
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Sounds like an interesting idea to build. Shall watch this thread to see what the responses are
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> in Poland people constantly complain about overregulation of construction

In Poland people constantly complain about overregulation of pretty much everything (I'd say complaining itself is our national sport, but that's another topic) - but that's probably typical of humans. It's easy to complain about overregulation when the government tells you you can't do whatever you want and dump externalities on everyone around you.

But I agree with your conclusion. We have quite lax construction laws and people still commute. I don't really see how the two are actually related in practice. Majority of people doesn't get to pick and choose jobs. You can spend months looking for a good opening, and if you don't like one because it's on the other side of the city, then no worries, there are thousands of people who will happily take your place.
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Despite what the README says, this works perfectly well on a non-premium account. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Been wanting something like this for years. The Android app does not allow me to choose the song I want to listen to, it just shuffles them all.

A suggestion: make it so once the song is downloaded the ID3 tags are automatically set.

EDIT: Oops, I have to change my review. First, it only downloaded the first 100 songs of a playlist. And second, it refused to download lots of songs because they were not available in my country, which is not true.

I have worked around the restriction of 100 songs by copying the URIs of all of my songs to a text file (you can select them all) and then using:

while read p; do node app.js $p; done < tracklist.txt
The mystique generates public interest and boosts the impression that the author knows something nobody else in the world is aware of.
Well written, fun to read. Thanks!
It's funny how HN people are all like "capitalism is awesome!" and then they complain when housing prices are high.
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Man, this sounds super interesting but those email threads are so unreadable. Is this typed down somewhere on a single page? Any button I can click?
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Any businessperson would estranged by the negative attitude towards making "the stuff that came out of SRI/Engelbart and PARC" available to millions if not billions of people, which, one could argue, is the more difficult part.
Boredom while traveling is something that could be solved for most, but it goes against the will of people and various cost-cutting solutions. You could get rid of cars in the big cities and replace them with more public transportation. But people won't willingly give up their cars because of various - often not very rational - reasons, and the public transportation is being developed in the wrong way too. Someone figured out the cheapest way to increase the capacity is to replace sitting places with standing places, and so each new generation of buses and trams has less space to sit down. To get rid of boredom in commute, you need the opposite - have much more sitting spaces, so that commuters can read books comfortably or work on their computers.
Specially the first, then it seems like it improves, but still a bit laggy compared to some of the APIs I've built with Django or Node/Loopback...
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All those are more expensive, but its mostly land prices. We are talking about cities too, you can hardly buy a plot of land in London, as it is largely built on. Prime central London property costs £20k/square meter and rents are £50/square meter per month, so if you move your 100 square meters of land to London you can do well out of it!
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Not sure if those are always the same people :). There's only a subset of HN participating in each discussion, and those subsets often don't overlap between the topics.
Previous discussion (It has no too many comets, but the comments are interesting.) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584026 (9 points, 60 days ago, 5 comments)
> What makes houses in developed countries so expensive?

Demand and lack of (enough) supply. Buying a piece of land that you can build on in a city like SF costs a lot more than $5-10k for 100 m^2.

According to http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/m...

Average price per square _foot_ for San Francisco CA was $962
Mostly everything Phil Gordon, David Sklansky and Ed Miller put out over the years. poker differs a lot in its variants, atleast to newcomers, so it's probably best to pick up one variant (no limit hold'em I'm looking at you) and start from there.
Well depends on their bandwidth. An accelerometer is essentially indistinguishable microphone also capable of detecting sounds all the way "DC" sound (where 'sound' is applied force on the accelerometer itself rather than a pressure plate that reacts to air pressure) -- if it's sampling rate is fast enough and it is coupled to the structure (i.e. the coupling system also has enough bandwidth) it is an acoustic sensor.

Of course, a microphone was designed with high bandwidth in mind, while accelerometers probably value more precision around the DC input.
"Please don't download content that you're not legally allowed to."

Being a subscription service I'm pretty sure you're not legally to download any of the content ever.

P.S. Spotify is a good thing and one day I hope movies will move to this model, please don't ruin it!
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Isn't Netflix the Spotify of movies ?
Which, given his general mission of making sure hostile AI DOESN'T take over the world is a bit self defeating. The easiest way to inoculate yourself against a persuasive technique is to be aware of it ahead of time. If you want to keep an AI in the box you should absolutely release every successful log.
Usage of such tools violates TOS of Spotify, with Premium account or not. They can cancel your account because of this.
Fantastic for a first iteration! Many new functionalities coming up soon.

The focus on weather info for droners makes it outstand.
If the logs were released, people all over the internet would start saying "I could've thought of that". With the logs hidden, everyone must honestly deal with the question "why didn't you?" If you think you know how to win, then go out and win. There's no shortage of people willing to play as gatekeepers against you.

Staring at an impossible problem and knowing that someone somewhere has successfully solved it is an amazing feeling. Most people can't deal with it and start saying undignified things. "Oh please release the logs, it's so unfair! How will we protect against bad AI otherwise? If you don't release, you're a fraud! Probably just some trick!", etc etc. But to some people it's a challenge, and those are the people that everyone will listen to. Like Justin Corwin, who played 20 games and won 18 of them, I think?
Can anyone ascertain how much those claims are press release hype?
We've not blogged in a while but there were papers at PDLI and ICOOOLPS in the last few weeks. Since this time last year we've hired three new people to the project. We're running simple web frameworks like Sinatra and simple database drivers like Redis. Hopefully we'll have a big update at RubyConf.
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I've had a chip in my card for many years now, but that's probably because it's a "travel" card and it's there so that you can use it abroad. All new replacement cards I've received in the past year or so have had chips. I also see chip readers on terminals at most retailers but curiously they have them turned off for now.
Ask HN: How do you find tools and resources?
How do you discover and decide on tools and resources to use?

If you need a solution to problem x with feature y and costs less than £z, do you just Google or ask HN?
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Naively assumes that the building restrictions cause permanent productivity losses. Instead, building restrictions likely push some jobs elsewhere. Since housing is too expensive in SF, some tech jobs go to other places. Since housing and office space is too expensive in NYC, some finance jobs go elsewhere.

Some amount of municipal planning is a good thing. It provides needed services for residents and increases the quality of what is built. But there is probably a limit to how much growth a government can handle in a responsible way. That suggests that building restrictions might even be a good thing. If the government is overloaded, the restrictions push the growth to other areas where the governments are more eager to plan for the growth.
The housing market is filled with massive government intervention. Zoning codes, building codes, state backed mortgages, etc.
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> You or I would surely just put a drinking bird on the "no" button à la homer simpson, and go to lunch.

Well, if you read the rules the game was played under, this is explicitly called out as forbidden:

> The Gatekeeper must actually talk to the AI for at least the minimum time set up beforehand. Turning away from the terminal and listening to classical music for two hours is not allowed.

The point of this is to simulate the interaction of the AI with the Gatekeeper. Walking away and not paying attention doesn't really prove anything test related.

> Personally, I think he talked about how much good for the world could be done if he was let out, curing disease etc. Because his followers are bound by their identities as rationalist utilitarians, they had no choice but to comply, or deal with massive cognitive dissonance.

This... isn't really valid reasoning. The starting assumption here is that if the AI gets out, it will be able to affect the world to a vast extent, in a pretty much arbitrary direction. The point of this experiment is that the direction is pretty much unknown, and thus must be assumed potentially dangerous. This is the whole reason it's in the box in the first place.

The kicker is that whatever it plans to really do when it gets out, if talking about the good it could do would get it out, it will talk about that, regardless of what it plans to actually do. That's just good strategy.

It can claim whatever it wants. It's allowed to lie. All participants know this. I can confidently assert that this isn't the solution.

One last note: I would be very wary of rationalwiki.org in this context. Some of the rationalwiki people have a longstanding unexplained vendetta against Yudkowsky, and many of their articles on him and the stuff he does need to be taken with a certain grain of salt.
It's a stunt shrouded in mystery designed to drive a certain message home. But at least it's not as outrageous as "the Basilisk", which loosely employs the same notion of "dangerous knowledge that would destroy humanity" (if you want to look it up, I guarantee you will be underwhelmed).
> Unless productivity picks up, wages cannot grow. Investing more in education, health care and technology is the normal way of boosting productivity growth.

We could always put progressive tax on capital and property. It will be very efficient redistribution.
Could you even make AI smart without letting it access lots of information? Access in both directions, in and out. Keeping a baby in a dark, silent room wouldn't create a normal adult. An AI would need to experiment and make mistakes and learn, like every other intelligent being.

Maybe this whole argument is null.
I don't think the corruption is the main problem here. Nobody pays bribes to paint their commie block in fuchsia-green stripes (it's a thing here, I guess because of 50 years of shades of gray everywhere). Or to put 20-meter tall billboard on their small plot in front of XIII-th century castle. Or to build "Mountainer style one-family-house" between 16th century tenament houses. With huge brick wall all over it, and billboards on every square meter of the wall. It's chaos.

It's just that after communism people consider all regulation "communist-like restriction of God-given freedom".

It changes slowly for last few years, but '90s and '00s were awful.
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I always assumed he used a version of Roko's Basilisk, which explained why he overreacted and tried to purge it when Roko wrote about it - it was his secret weapon.
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Pretty strong one to wake me up from my sleep. And then a series of aftershocks at the same point.

http://www.myearthquakealerts.com/country/United-States
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Not necessarily. As a lighter example, would it be beneficial to give a mass murderer in jail a communication channel to the outside world? What if he used it to publish the message "I'll give 10 Million Dollars to anybody who breaks me out of jail" or something more sinister?

Edit: huh, downvotes? Yudorowski thinks there are certain things that AIs could say that should not be known. I think that is why he doesn't want to publish the dialogues, because it would give the AI a public communications channel. While the AI is fictional, it could talk about a hypothetical future real self... Instead of promising something to get it out of jail, the fictional AI could say something to make you make it real. Anyway - if it is over your head, fine, but why downvote just because you don't understand something?

Edit2: Sometimes I wonder if already have my personal Hacker News AI that automatically downvotes everything I write...
Article is based on Self-control forecasts better psychosocial outcomes but faster epigenetic aging in low-SES youth (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/08/1505063112.full...), someone with access who can check N and the significance of change of the groups?
Yeah, pretty much, but their library is much smaller.
Your hypothesis would make sense if he was trustable.

However as it is, the results of the thing are never confirmed by a third party, meaning literally anything could've been said, regardless of whether it follows the rules or not.

For all he know the chat could have been "i'll paypal you 200$ if you post on the list you let me out and sign this NDA".
Thanks for the response.

I asked a genuine question, and given that I a) rarely use FB and b) don't put their buttons on websites in my line of work, was curious about FBs guidelines. Will delete the questions since it seems to be catching me lots of bad karma.
I like the look of that a lot, thanks.

Their approach to system configuration and package management looks great. I'm a little bit concerned about what a complete configuration.nix file would look like for a daily desktop development system though, and it looks like they've still got a lot of packages to fix (if I'm reading https://nixos.org/wiki/Zero_Hydra_Failures correctly), but still, looks like a big improvement over other approaches.
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helium is 972 m/s, aluminum 5100 m/s, steel 6100 m/s. depending on what they actually measure, correct triangulation sounds like a non-trivial problem; good job spacex for solving that. (unless your cad software does that for you :))
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I only skimmed the article, but claiming discovery of a "new particle" seems extremly bogus. According to wikipedia [1], the cited paper merely demonstrates the finding of a quasi-particle [3] that behaves like a Weyl Fermion.

Claiming to have found a new particle in that case is like claiming that magnetic monopoles actually exist based on these findings [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor#Terminology_in_physics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_ice#cite_note-MonopoleRev...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle