skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure governmental actions have been one part of the causal chain, but only one of many.

In San Francisco, government action has been the sole source of increase in the on-paper value of rental properties for at least the past five years. Every other action taken by any landlord has -in comparison- so little effect as to be unnoticeable. Because of this, many landlords make the entirely rational business decision to do absolutely nothing to increase or maintain the value of their property. It's not like they need to compete for tenants.

> The fact that the building stands ready, not decrepit enough to bring down the general attractiveness of the area, is partial credit to the landlord and her choice of tenant.

You don't seem to understand two things:

1) The rental market in San Francisco. In the past five years, SF's population has increased by ~50,000 people, but only ~7,500 new housing units have been built. [0]

2) The fact that any landlord can recover 100% of the damage done to their property from a tenant.

> Might the rent-control laws have had something to do with it too?

In San Francisco? No. New construction is not covered by rent stabilization regulation. [1] In regards to temporary demolition of rent controlled housing to make way for denser housing, the Trinity Place project has set a really good precedent. [2]

> (After all, zoning laws aren't easily effectively changed on an area that's already filled in.)

The major zoning issue in SF that blocks new construction is building height limits. So much of SF is not permitted to have buildings higher than three or five stories. Note: This is not because of seismic concerns, this is because of "neighborhood character" concerns. [3] We're not talking about constructing heavy industry in a residential zone. We're talking about building taller residential buildings in a residential zone of a thoroughly urban environment.

[0] http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/04/sfs_population_is_g...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371695

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161813 (See footnote zero attached to that comment.)

[3] Neighborhood character concerns are very valid. However, at some point you have to ask yourself, "Which does more violence to the character of my neighborhood? Requiring someone to pay at least $36,000/year to rent a slowly decaying "one-bedroom" apartment, or installing several carefully planned and architected ten-story apartment buildings?".
Please take a moment to actually read the Data Protection Act 1998.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29

75 matches for 'offence' on that page.

Sections 61 and 47 are particularly relevant. European data protection legislation really does have teeth, though the Commissioner has to have the will to use it.
if it's outside of your control, what good does complaining do? try action instead. find a mission in life.

this entire mindset reeks of external validation-seeking. if you think people's sexiest list is going to stop you from getting your desired results, then it most certainly will.

i'm sorry to be such a bro, but i suggest you go lift. it will help clear your mind of such petty nonsense.
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Neat, but this adds very little to my existing workflow. bl.ocks.org is just a frontend to gist.github.com, so one can create a gist (working in your preferred $EDITOR and $BROWSER), then changing the appropriate part of the URI when sharing with others.
Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan
Or some sort of equivalent like al Qaeda leadership. What in the Drone Papers suggests otherwise.
How many civilian deaths are "too many"?
Gems of Wikipedia
Switzerland's deflation is unique in that it's the result of their currency drastically gaining value on the currency of their neighbors. It's more of a price adjustment and doesn't really show the signs of a deflationary spiral... Domestic goods still increased in price, as did housing, but imported goods brought down basket prices.
Inflation/deflation is just one of many factors that affect the health of an economy, sure. But on a micro level, deflation is very bad for anyone with debt in the deflating currency. In countries where that class includes a large portion of the population, deflation is bad for the economy as a whole.
Segregation is often self-imposed. As an Asian-American, I often can't relate with white people. What they worry about and enjoy do nothing for me. This started from a young age (what is allowance? what is getting grounded? hobbies?) and although I have many close white friends, on a whole they are the minority in my friend groups. The only way this segregation has to do with race is that stereotypes are exactly that, true for a distribution. Another way to say this is that people I end up relating well with tend to come from the same experiences (namely that of growing up Asian-American).

In addition, I'm often super surprised at these comments. The US is many orders of magnitude less accepting of racism than Europe. Europeans on the whole speak freely of their negative opinions of Muslims and gypsies. In the US, any comment mentioning race carries immediately with it a negative connotation. This is exactly why it is the breadstuff of comedians. There is no humor in something that is simply accepted as "truth" as much of European racism is.

I hate speaking anecdotally, but just as a credit to my experience with racism in Europe as an Asian-American, my time there was filled with experiences ranging from ignorance to aggressive defensiveness. Most of this can be explained away as just inexperience due to Europe's immense racial homogeneity. Often they would treat me as a fob which was an acceptable assumption. But this just goes to show how behind Europe is in the racial conversation (they don't even have racial experiences!)
Listen, I love me some good ole fashioned hate-filled ignorance just as much as the next American, but whoa nelly. You're making some crazy assumptions about the ethnicity and lifestyles of people based solely on what they look like and that's pretty fucking racist.
This text is on the form you use to choose an individual:

"We'll do our best to match you up again on your new booking, but please understand that as an independent contractor, it is up to the discretion of the professional to accept or decline your booking. In the event we cannot match you, another professional will be assigned."

If you don't like that deal, don't take it. But don't be all pissed off when they do exactly what you agreed to.
The natives ate fish too, so they would have seen that as well. I recall reading about it in this book:

http://amzn.to/1kJ7A0G
In the context of preparing for nuclear war you kind of had to be on some level cold and calculating about millions of deaths. Deterrence only really works if both sides know the other will retaliate, or at least remains unconvinced that the other wouldn't. The military had to plan for the worst and with nuclear war the /best/ outcome is millions dead and some swaths of land are unusable long times.
First, I am not a lawyer, and you should probably consult one if you're worried.

Second, I would "cease and desist" running that service (as stated in the letter), be it a torrent proxy or whatever. It's possible for files you torrent to be traced to you (it's traceable at the ISP level.)

That settlement letter is very curious, although accessing it may constitute a form of receipt - and be somehow binding.

Talk to a lawyer. Also I'm sure others on the web have been hit with this sort of thing before.
Who knows, but the USS Jimmy Carter certainly can...
Windows 10 Universal apps

Visual Studio 2015, C#, XAML, TFS
>'People's Sexiest Man Alive' is white 30 years running

It sounds like an interesting study to see how the local tabloids pick their
"sexiest" choices. Does Lativia's "People" equivalent proportionally reflect their population demographics over time? What about China? Nigeria? Brazil?
This is repeating points from other replies, but it has to be said again that much of the passive-safe design in a BWR/PWR has to do with the fact that it will melt down (rather than go prompt-critical and explode) even when every cooling system fails, since the coolant itself is what allows the reaction to continue.
Reading pop-archaeology online (mainstream articles, not journals), I find they frequently seem to overreach in what can be inferred by some small find or, just as often, what they did not find at some small site.

Find one badly preserved jawbone of a humanoid and immediately we have a new species, without consideration that it might be deformed, juvenile, or from a population with unusual genetics [0] [1] (edit: see Pygmy peoples for example of Homo sapiens sapiens with unusual genetics [2] [3])

All to often they jump on what is not present in one place at one time and make wild assumptions. No fish at one refuse pit of one settlement could be explained by many different things and might not apply to a wider population.

Maybe I am just overly skeptical ....

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis#Pathological...

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34192447

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples#/media/File:Afri...
> While the part of Europe I come from is completely white for various reasons, nobody really cares about race.

Maybe because in a homogeneous society, there's no reason to talk about race.

> Then you come to the US and it's all about race race race and more race.

Maybe because unlike the parts in Europe that you mentioned (which were completely white), there are different races here.

> You are born with your race and you can't change it. You are born with your class, but you can change it. Focus on that part.

People here are NOT discussing race because they want to change their races. They are discussing race because just like sexism, homophobia, etc, racism against anyone (even if they're doing well professionally) is something to highlight, acknowledge and work towards getting rid of.

I'll certainly want to be in a country that actively talks about race than a country that doesn't. If you think not talking about race means there's no or less racism in Europe, then just look at soccer / football.
> That's an interesting physical phenomenon, but lots of materials have unusual physical properties under extreme pressures.

This is not interesting for its practical applications.

Rather, this is interesting for the new science and new ideas it illuminates. By understanding how this works, the ideas can maybe be replicated by other materials that don't require extreme pressure.
Curious to know how you handle dependencies between services. For example, say you have a User service, I could imagine creating a client library for interacting with this service (the library being responsible for knowing where the http end point is, serializing/unserializing JSON into domain objects, etc.). Then any service wanting to interact with the User service just adds this library as a dependency.

Along those same lines how do you deal with fetching of domain objects and associated relationships from these services? For example, let's say in one instance you want a user and their manager and in another instance you want a user and their manager's manager and so forth for any relationship that a user might have (that the User service is responsible for).
I would love for you to cite where in the Drone Papers it says that the 'unintended targets' were 'foot soldiers' instead of civilians.

Of course, you can't; since the military automatically classifies any "military aged males" as combatants unless it can be proved otherwise (and there's a huge conflict of interest for them both militarily and politically if they do declare they killed a non-combatant).
Sad and disappointing that online harassers can now set the agenda of a major conference and censor those topics that they don't approve of. This will only encourage more threats and harassment.
"just as easily" is an interesting phrase to use here. I have to assume that your day job does not involve building browsers.
My takeaway from this article is amazement. Amazement that the New York Times is trying something new. I applaud them for that.

The Tribune Company is about to sell its Michigan Ave building since its bleeding cash. They established a venture fund a few years ago but last I heard hadn't invested yet since they hadn't found anything worth an investment.

In an industry full of failing companies it's delightful to see one Titan try to stay relevant.
It wasn't so much that the technique is still the same that struck me, so much as that the technique, and the technology to fabricate using it, existed 3500 years ago!
You don't have a large agency signed up, you have an individual at a large agency. Maybe they're junior and don't have purchase authorization? Maybe they are evaluating alternative products? Maybe it takes months for them to get a purchase order approved and they just needed something right away?

Two consecutive trials seems fairly light in terms of abuse. If the service is useful and they start using it with more clients, it'll quickly become impossible to continue the trial abuse - they'll either sign up or go away.

If your company is small enough that you notice (and get annoyed by) one user running two consecutive trials, it's small enough that you can reach out to the individual(s) involved and try to turn them into evangelists for your service inside their large agency. Or if they are knowingly abusing the service, the personal e-mail may put them off.

This is how the agency I'm at discovered and ended up paying for Bitbucket, BrowserStack, Trello, Slack, DeployHQ, etc. - someone on the dev team finds a new service, passes it up to his/her tech lead, who convinces management it's worth investing in the Enterprise plan when it becomes essential to the functioning of the company.
Unfortunately the laws of war aren't very helpful. The deaths just have to proportional to the military value of the target.

That's a long way of saying "it depends." Killing 1 civilian might be too many to kill a foot soldier at a Taliban camp in the tribal region of Pakistan. Ten thousand might be fine if it meant saving Afghanistan from Taliban rule, as long as that as low as coalition forces could keep civilian deaths.
I think I'll stick with my slim jims
> You expect me to believe that Butterball sold at walmart is the highest quality?

On average? Sure! Mass produced food standards are actually pretty strict. Violations happen in bespoke/small batch/local farms too, but are not very newsworthy because they only affect small numbers of people.

> Who paid for this site?

https://www.clearlabs.com/about

Don't see too much sketchyness; they claim to have funding from Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and HBM Genomics... All SV area companies.

Seems to me more like a well architected viral campaign designed to fund their kickstarter project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/906785694/clear-food-yo...
Power wants more excuses to collect DNA, at some point I bet the angle will be "to prevent illegal mods".
Even the intended targets are intended on the basis of tenuous guesses. An armchair guess about the nature of unintended targets is just about substance-free.
One of the things that concerns me about this debacle is that ongoing CISA controversy will eliminate the possibility of legislative support for information sharing for good. I appreciate that there are privacy concerns in CISA, however, it is very important to the security field that sharing of intelligence indicators become more plainly safe from a legal perspective.

'Indicators' usually consist of information about external actors and organizations that are relevant to intrusion detection, for example, the most common types of indicators are domains used for C&C and hashes of malicious files. It is difficult to construe a privacy violation from these types of indicators. There are concerns about certain providers who may have indicators relevant to their users - for example, some providers might share the names of otherwise legitimate user accounts which have been compromised as these are often used to send spam that ought to be blocked. However, in general, cyber intel indicators do not involve sensitive information about users.

Right now a great deal of organizations are not participating in public or private threat information sharing because of concerns over liability and compliance, and this significantly impedes defense by letting threat actors get away with infrastructure and tool reuse that ideally should reveal them. These acts originated as an attempt to correct that. It looks alarmingly like many advocacy organizations want to keep it this way for good.

I don't want to be painted as anti-privacy and I would say that I'm not, but the principal goal of this legislation is not to send your data to the NSA, it's to help me do my job. I hope that the internet community will have the foresight to try to resolve the specific problems with current legislation, and not to entirely prevent information sharing.
For information, this "news" is two months old. One of the multiple articles on this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28058-warmest-ever-su...
I use webcomponents (specifically Polymer stuff), and all I do is just roll together all the components I'm going to need for an app in one big concat-and-minified file. You don't have to fetch a gazillion components, any more than you have to fetch a gazillion .js files - cat, minify, gzip works on webcomponents as well. Plus, as other people mentioned, http2 solves this problem as well.
A beautiful visualisation of world's economy
Watch how measles spreads when kids get vaccinated–and when they don't (dataviz)
Then, they shouldn't assign a cleaner and notify the customer who is assigned, as it essentially sets customer expectations that are inconsistent with their TOS.

Next, they make it worse by charging a fee for the pleasure of being disappointed. Pretty bad customer experience.
Since it's on GitHub, you could fork the repo, add any resources, and submit a merge request! Or create an issue that brings the omission to everyone's attention.
It's entirely possible to have a professional relationship with your co-workers without them being your friends. I get along very well with my co-workers on a professional level (e.g., I'm always there to help if asked), but I socialize with only a handful of them, and very few know anything about my personal life.
You could do the same with the C64 (probably quite a few other 80's home machines). The ROM's were bank-switched in, and if you want to you can copy the ROM into RAM and switch out the ROM banks. Quite a few extensions made use of that.
Also see https://github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papers which includes a lot of research applicable to NLP.
The thing is that those are not small statistical disagreements.

The maximum tsunami+tide they designed for was 5m. Design parameters said that you should have a wall 2x what you think you need so they built a 10m (about 30 foot) wall.

Two independent teams came up with realistic tsunamis near that 10m wall (one over and one under), so they should have changed their wall requirement up substantially. But they argued themselves into believing that 6m was a realistic maximum then did nothing.

Their estimates were also out of line with actual tsunamis experienced elsewhere. Tsunamis in recent decades from earthquakes similar to the ones that they knew could hit the area have ranged from 3-30m. Even a 7.0 earthquake managed to create a 12m tsunami in New Guinea.

The actual tsunami was 13m.

The most telling point is how the response afterwards has shown lessons not learned. For example The United States National Research Council of the National Academies had a 21 person panel conduct 18 months of interviews with a wide variety of technical experts on how the disaster could be prevented here. NOT ONE of the members of the panel or the people interviewed was an expert on tsunamis. The author's of the paper clearly believe that if you're studying the aftermath of a tsunami, you should at least talk to someone who studies tsunamis...

If the paper is correct, it is a question of time until somewhere in the world we have another entirely preventable major disaster because local officials underestimate tsunami threats that current knowledge is more than sufficient to predict. Of course enough things can go wrong that the next big disaster won't be that. But that preventable disaster is coming...
Here you go.[1]

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation...
>I would love for you to cite where in the Drone Papers it says that the 'unintended targets' were 'foot soldiers' instead of civilians.

I didn't imply the Drone Papers said any such thing. I said it's what you expect from a drone program.

But while you are on the subject, the numbers in the Intercept piece suggest 10-20% civilians casualties in Yemn and Somalia.

And it states that 70% of those occur when there is a targeting fuck up. That suggests that accurate strikes leave relatively few dead civilians.
Web component APIs and HTML imports are mostly orthogonal, except that HTML is a nice way to package HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

You can inline your custom element definition just like you can inline anything else.
If a GUI, for me the key aspect is drawing each state on paper first.. this is key. Others have commented on the plethora of options vis-a-vis where to go next..
Separation of concerns and better variable scoping as well. In a webcomonent inside a shadow dom, you can do something like input id="mainInput" or some other generic-named DOM id, without worrying that some other third-party library or component will create another node with the same id.

Similarly for CSS selectors and class names - I mean, BEM and SMACCS and stuff are cool and all, but it's also nice to know that my CSS styles won't leak outside the component, so I can just do div class="main" or something and not worry about how other developers name their classes on other branches of the DOM.
Does anyone know if there is a place that we can read about first hand accounts of the trials and tribulations of white people in Japan? Are there special slurs especially for white people?
This is brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
> Can you imagine if, every time something new happened in Syria, Wikipedia published a new Syria page, and in order to understand the bigger picture, you had to manually sift through hundreds of pages with overlapping information?

That is exactly what Wikipedia does. It works well because most readers are not looking in an encyclopedia for information on yesterday's events.

Likewise inverted pyramid works well because it simultaneously satisfies the needs of new readers who need the most important details at the top and repeat readers who can quickly scan the short paragraphs for new information. I despise new-style live streaming because it is so awkward to read; I have to read backwards, bottom-to-top, and the most important details are often in the middle.
I just used to use a pair of scissors...
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Know thy enemy:

https://torrentlawyer.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/ceg-tek-dmca-...

https://torrentlawyer.wordpress.com/tag/ira-siegel/

And yes. VPS's almost always store your files in a way that anyone with root to the host can look through your files. They often have automated systems that search everything you store for "bad" files and won't hesitate to contact you when found.
I got you fam load this as an extension https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/9a4d9e648eb11aab394e
A perfect summary for why one should not join a startup
We software "engineers" would still find ways to write shitty software to totally negate the benefits.

"Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh"
Or have plans to have backup power airlifted into place.