skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question "now that you're here, what would you do if the buses disappeared" does not accurately account for people who made the decision to live further away from work because they know there is an employee-sponsored bus to shield them from the economic and time consequences of their actions.

The question that is not asked by this article is "would you have moved to the city if there were no buses?" It's an important distinction.
Markets function without a 'market maker'. ex: Berkshire Hathaway Class A.
Very very cool! Interested? Read 'Moonwalking with Einstein'

I recall being surprised (the whole class) by a surprise test for some people who wanted to study us. We had 5 minutes to memorize 50 random words. I just read Moonwalking with Einstein so I learned how to use loci. The average that people could recall (N=25) was around 20 words. I was able to recall 49! 49! That's almost perfect! I was pretty fucking baffled. I still know most of them ...

A JAMAICAN person jumped off a RAMP on the TITANIC and then flew in to SPACE on the ISS where he saw a DOG which was playing the VIOLIN which then bit TESLA, GHANDI was playing CHESS and then the iss crashed down into MILAN which was covered in a huge OMELET, we flew over mount FUJI and ... etc

Bolded words are words that were on the list. It's pretty awesome for hardcore memorization!
How many desalination plants can you build and operate on $xx,000 * the population of Bel-Air a year?
Thanks, but that leaves doubt whether you wrote a decimal or thousands separator.

It is close to 5000 liters.
One possibility is that it's not actually being used for anything. A broken pipe could leak that much water, and depending on the local geology it might reach the water table without anyone noticing.
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Unlikely; as demonstrated in the documentary movie Signs, they don't really like water. Perhaps it's a defense system.
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It isn't really THAT much. After doing some short math it is about on par with a 10-12 acre farm growing corn (not a big farm at all).

The farm does produce something, however...
That was a private API -- not sure what Apple used it for, since GarageBand was using accelerometer from what I could tell.
Hm..... There's only two studies in Cambodia, though. One of them apparently had a faillure rate of about 17%, which makes me think the other study had a failure rate of about 5%, to get a median of ~12% seen in the graph. Couldn't the high failure rate in Cambodia just be an artifact of an outlier study? Nearby Laos also has a low failure rate. Unfortunately, I don't see Thailand on the list, which would be another nearby country to compare with...
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I applaud Mr. Coward for trying to stand up to the institution that is motivated by money and not academic performance. An institution that has blinded themselves to what education is supposed to be all about.
Mr. Coward - if you are reading this: You can't succeed in your effort alone. If students like you as much as you say they do, you must rally them to your cause. Get the student council involved. You must get as many of these students and their parents involved and hopefully several of these parents hold political power or donate large sums of money to the institution. If you have the hard facts to support your argument, you must get the media involved as well. Trust me on this - you must make this bigger then it is and begin to get the higher ups concerned about not only money, but their reputation. If you do not get the students involved, you will lose.
I was a graduate student at a large, respected University, and taught every semester for years. I had a great reputation among the majors who sought me out for their lab TA. However, when freshmen started coming in less and less prepared but with increased feelings of entitlement and the thought that there is no need to work hard for a good grade, my test means for my non majors course started declining. The institution wanted me to dumb my non majors course down and I resisted telling them that there are more students coming into this University that just don't bother working hard and expect to get a passing grade anyway. My means were fine years before and if anything, my teaching had gotten better and my tests had gotten slightly easier. I resisted, but I knew that I would never be able to survive in that environment without tenure. So, I changed my career path.
I would have been a great teacher and I do miss teaching. But the system is currently designed to stamp out those who do not conform no matter how successful they are with their students.
The masculine form is traditionally used as the unmarked form when the gender is not known, it is not assuming any gender. And again, arguing over that while it is not even anywhere near the point we're discussing makes no sense. Although we lately have seen the emergence of gender neutral pronoun, it is rather unpleasing to use "he/she" is an informal discussion forum when the unmarked form meaning is well understood and has been for centuries.

As for the rest, what was meant higher up was that from the justice point of view at this stage of a case, whether the rape happened or not is not known nor required to make the decision, a complaint has been made and it is the job of the state offices (both police and justice) to ensure the case can go through unimpeded.

As such, the question asked clearly meant "if you make an accusation of rape against you, how much should the state be willing to pay to see the case go through if the person you accuse makes it difficult / what is the maximal amount after which they should stop".

Now, maybe english is not your first language, because this was sincerely very clear and evident that this is what was meant in the message.

Whether the person was really raped or whether that person makes it up does not change that amount, since the state does not know at that point and the amount is spent in order to see the case go through to figure it out.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364477
I don't understand why Brazil in that map is shown as having plugs of type either K or I (the purple one). I have never seen these here.

Now, as for the special local mess that we love, types A and B are sort of "legacy" ones and you would find them mostly in power extensions cords and such so people could use imported American electronics in the past. It wasn't even unusual for people to take the ground pin out of type B plugs so they would be compatible with other "regular" A plugs.

Pretty much everyone has used (or still uses) types C, E and F in Brazil. I would dare to call these de facto standards here. But as the article says we have officially adopted IEC 60906 and as such every new building, house or whatever that has been built in the last few years have this plug everywhere. Not everybody likes them (engineers!) but I think most of the folks in the country simple don't give a shit.

The thing is that some places [1] mention this standard is type N, but I have been to Switzerland and all my Brazilian IEC 60906 plugs worked 100% in every single try across the country so I would like to know how compatibles are types J and IEC 60906 (well, type N?). They seemed absolutely compatible in every way to me.

PS: I have never seen type O in Thailand myself, but perhaps in touristic areas they simply use worldwide known plugs instead or just leave some adapters around? IIRC most of the time I would find the European types of plugs there.

[1] http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/
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I was at EMC for a while too (actually I was at DataDomain which later was bought by EMC) and I feel like there were a lot of storage related startups that chipped away at the best talent that EMC and NetApp had.
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Perhaps they're growing alfalfa in their yard. Then its ok to use that much water right?
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The person emptying the complimentary bowl of lollipops into their bag isn't breaking any law, but they are breaking social expectations and making things worse for everyone else.
Not necessarily.

Current prevalence of resistance to artemisinin is mostly due to what happened shortly after the drugs discovery. That is, wide-spread single-mode-of-action use. This was due to uncontrolled over-the-counter use in South East Asia, which in recent years has been curtailed.

While this still happens, the WHO has gotten much much better at making sure combined therapies are used, which is the essential bit to controlling resistance.

The only tool we have to combating biological resistance (in any organism) are combined therapies. Doing so hijacks the mathematics of natural selection to make it almost impossible to evolve resistance (given high enough stacks of modes-of-action and complete treatment courses).

As the graph in the article shows, artemisinin resistance is still mostly contained to where it originally evolved (cambodia). Given careful management, we can expect slow spread, if any at all.

Fighting malaria isn't a one-punch win. It is a marathon, but one that we are very slowly winning. The disease is trending downwards and we are finally making in-roads into the most endemic regions. This slow reduction in the disease burden worldwide makes resistance harder and harder for the parasite to evolve.

Drug resistance is deadly serious, but I'm not as pessimistic as this article. Given proper tracking of resistance, and management, we'll easily have several more decades of artemisinin use.
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2220218/ethernet-switch/...
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You don't. But then again why would you - that shareholder gets no services from the UK government so there's no moral case for them to pay tax to a foreign country.
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Although I absolutely agree that Internet vigilante culture is a bit out of control, I'm not sure what else could be done here. There have already been numerous reports of Oprah getting tankers to deliver water to her home, little significant action taken to respond to the drought because apparently California all of a sudden decides that government has limits, and people who live in that neighborhood are not going to respond to anything but ridiculously steep rate increases. Sometimes people do douchbaggy things that are completely legal. Public criticism of their actions is fair game IMO and is also perfectly legal.
That's not what the article was about.
I agree. After all, it's not as if this property owner isn't paying for the extravagant water usage.

And if you think that $90,000/year isn't enough to reimburse society for this water usage... raise the damn prices. And if you think raising water rates would unfairly hurt the poor... take the increased revenue and hand it out as a per-capita water tax rebate.
The user in question was stated by LADWP to be a residential user, ruling out the Bel Air Country Club and the city itself.
For an Eastern flavored version of Stoic philosophy, take a look at the short Dao De Ching:

http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm

Many of the passages out of the Dao De Ching have a striking similarity to passages in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
Governments make complicated tax laws because of constant attempts to make the tax system 'fair', where fairness is a pretty vague concept and can be interpreted many ways by different people and parties.

There are lots of economic arguments for very simple tax systems that prioritise revenue collection over other things. But a lot of people would see them as "unfair" and therefore unjust.
Probably referring to people who are vendors typically in shopping malls and other busy areas since there can be more Israelis doing that kind of work.
I don't really like the faux-investigative tone of the article either, but it's misleading to accuse him of calling for vigilantism. He drove around a rich neighborhood, concluded that he would not be able to knock on anyone's door and talk about water, and then suggested a tiered tax system so that luxury use of water is discouraged, while also noting that there are additional externalities such as runoff that aren't being accounted for.
> Bart and Caltrain don't connect and don't schedule together.

Not sure about scheduling, but BART and Caltrain they connect at the Millbrae Transit Center.

> Amtrak and Bart and Caltrain don't connect.

As noted above, BART and Caltrain do connect. Amtrak and BART connect at the Richmond and Oakland Coliseum stations. Amtrak and Caltrain connect at San Jose Diridon Station (which is planned to also get BART service with the Silicon Valley BART extension.)

BART, Caltrain, Muni, and eventually California High Speed Rail -- among other transit systems -- are all planned to connect at the new Transbay Transit Center in SF, as well.

> Tickets between Bart and muni have no discount

Untrue; BART to Muni transfers have a discount (or, in some cases, are free): https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/muni/fares.do
I'm not sure you could easily find one LP willing to put up $400 million for a fund that, according to the article, will potentially make more than 1,000 investments. AngelList, because of its platform, obviously has a way to deploy this capital more efficiently than a typical firm, but these types of small early-stage investments are still fraught with challenges and I think sophisticated domestic LPs who have experience in venture capital would be very skeptical.

As the WSJ article implies, CSC may have certain motivations that a domestic LP wouldn't, such as a desire to get capital deployed outside of China. And fast.

Personally, this looks like dumb money hoping AngelList can turn it into smart money. It could very well distort market for early-stage startup investments, but it isn't likely to change the way these investments tend to behave in terms of returns.
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I don't believe most of these numbers. I'll be back later with a spreadsheet

Why am I being downvoted? Seriously, this math calculates to me differently in my head - so I am going to put a spreadsheet together to see if these costs are real.

Ill assume the avg salary stated above, plus the hours and schedules.

I can't believe that some beat officer is going to inflate costs 2x for doing reporting. I HIGHLY doubt there is that much paperwork for a simple shift change.

Further, the "cost" could be highly falsely inflated to justify the stopping of guarding Assange as they may see it a waste - and want to inflate how much waste there is so as to get easy agreement that "its not worth it"
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And yet, if you punch them in the face for it, you'll be arrested for assault.

If you think that wasting 36k gallons of water a day should be illegal, write to your representative, don't go looking for private citizens to "make an example of".

In the end, you'll be the bad guy, and the law will still say it's legal to waste that much water.
This is a terrible analogy, the water in this case is paid for by the consumer.
My wife ran billing for a water utility. Typically issues like this are multi-family units with leaks. A running toilet costs like $2,500/quarter.
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures standardized using thin spaces as a thousands separator and either a period or comma for a decimal separator.

I recommend not adopting the mindset of using a comma or period as a thousands separator, as all it will do is lead to confusion depending on which country you're in.
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-> A June 1 story by the Center for Investigative Reporting did not reveal the name or address, because the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power refused to turn over that information.

No, I'm pretty sure they're prohibited from doing so by law.
The site was my wife and my first attempt at using Ghost. It's a great platform and a refreshing departure from the Wordpress ecosystem. I'm looking forward to making more sites with Ghost.
Should call this practice "auto-doxxing"
Worst reply ever.
"it's not as if this property owner isn't paying for the extravagant water usage."

That's kind of the problem though, he isn't. Water is notoriously subsidized. It's hard to make the case that 12 million gallons of clean water would only cost $90k. The system kind of has built into it this spirit of "everyone needs clean affordable water". There was no limit put in place, so there's some people taking crazy advantage of it.
I agree. If it's an issue, just implement a tiered system that charges extremely high rates for extremely high usage and be done with it... That's basically what Las Vegas does and it seems to be quite effective.
I don't think he is saying that at all. Of course Apple is going to use every loophole they find. They are a business and that business is making money. The only way to fix it is to remove the loopholes.
You're committing the Tu Quoque fallacy. Also, questions are not arguments.

Did you mean to say, that actually instilling a sense of civic responsibility in foreign nationals is easy? If so, please argue this case.
I'm guessing it is in reference to the folks who work at the booths found in the hallways of shopping malls. AFAIK, those who own those stands prefer to hire good looking young people with a lot of hustle. A lot of Israelis taking a gap year after the army coincidentally fall in that bucket
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> Although we lately have seen the emergence of gender neutral pronoun, it is rather unpleasing to use "he/she" is an informal discussion forum when the unmarked form meaning is well understood and has been for centuries.

Singular "they" works wonders.

> Now, maybe english is not your first language

Only non-programming language, actually.

> because this was sincerely very clear and evident that this is what was meant in the message.

I disagree, and that was the entirety of my point here.
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For a less sensational perspective: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2015/10/lopez_looks_for_bi...

The columnist, Steve Lopez, is known for these populist stunts. Sometimes, as in this case, it's kind of entertaining, but there's often little substance there. This is captured in the link above, by a very seasoned independent observer of LA, calling the above a "column gimmick."
I may be wrong but I think due to Prop 218, it's illegal for municipalities in California to charge more than the "actual cost". For one thing, this means that tiered water pricing will always get challenged.
You gotta imagine it from an old-time SF residents perspective, though.

A lot of people have seen their friends get pushed out by the rent situation, and slowly, places like the Castro are becoming less beacons of the gay pride community and more like another up-and-coming hip place to be.

It's not intolerance to be annoyed by it, a lot of the residents of the city loved the city for its culture but now there's so many tech bros in the land that the culture is being displaced.

The world's in flux, so tough shit, but as both a native to the area and a tech worker, in my opinion, this city is becoming less open minded.
> The syndicate leads take the carry and do most of the due diligence...

What leads you to believe the syndicate leads are doing real due diligence?
That may be true, but something something shareholder value trumps all.
Some of these characters are hitting a little too close to home.

What a great read.
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If I am	to teach children to program in many languages (say, C, C++, JS, Py, Lisp), it is easy to get away leaving them with syntax to memorize. What kind of computation or tool is best expressed/built using each of these, which make learning a meaningful exercise?
That even makes more valid point that since VAT in Europe is European customer's contribution, it should stay in Europe.
But this is not true, is it? Corporation tax is on profits. Companies price things at the price that maximises revenue. Since corporation tax does not affect revenue, it is not a variable in their pricing calculation.

A low corporation tax is valuable because it attracts foreign businesses, but that is necessarily zero-sum.
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Agreed, which is hardly his/her fault, but rather California/LA politics' fault.

Raise prices, or put a multi-tier pricing, or whatever; but harassment for social engineering's sake is creepy.
I hate to make you feel old, but 1990 was 25 years ago.
A tiered rate system fixes this entirely IMO. Las Vegas does this and it seems quite effective:
http://www.lvvwd.com/custserv/billing_rates_thresholds.html
I'm by no means an expert in the subject, but what you say sounds suspiciously similar to a perpetual motion machine.
Tiered water pricing is likely unconstitutional in California.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drough...
Hm... My guess is one of those houses over there with the vineyards, then.
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A PDF version of this study can be downloaded here: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/30/65
A fascinating book. I have a paper copy published by Watchmaker Publishing and available on Amazon [1]. The drawings in the book are the original edchings, not re-drawn and coloured as on the web site.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1603863117
Often people feel morally obliged to avoid doing something for the common good. But as soon you charge a fee people will assume that that fee reflects the social cost and maybe start doing it a lot more.

http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what...

Either don't charge money for something and use suasion to get people to use too much or charge enough that you're happy that they use as much as they can afford.