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Baltimore has endless rows of empty buildings. Over 30,000 last I remember. But except for the homeless, housing is not a problem in Baltimore; houses sell for as low as $10K, $20K, $30K. Nobody is buying them (or at least at a very slow trickle). Yet we still have various activist groups talking about the problem of gentrification.

One interesting thing to note is how racially divided the city is. There are five or six majority white neighborhoods in the city, surrounded by majority black and latino neighborhoods. Those majority white neighborhoods expand a little bit every year - sometimes just becoming more dense, but sometimes the boundaries expand. When that happens it creates a sort of new market - new stores with higher prices, homes converted to apartments with higher than average rent.

At the same time, it also pushes out traditional "black culture" businesses - babershops and hair/nail salons, liquor stores, takeout food, dingy bars. These businesses are the social gathering places for black people in the city, and when they disappear, so does the presence of black people in daily life. There are other issues that come up too, like strained tensions over an increase in (arguably hostile) police activity around majority-white populations. Even as new businesses come into the neighborhood, you don't see an increase in jobs for people who already lived there.

It's easy to see how the people moving in are not there to help the impoverished existing residents. And it is true that rents do gradually increase. But at the same time, crime does reduce, and more money is invested in the local community.

I haven't seen anyone pushed out of their home due to rising rents around Baltimore, mainly because we have so many god damn empty homes. But could it happen in a crowded neighborhood? If they are renting, abso-fucking-lutely; rents have been raising in neighborhoods around here for years, with one landlord turning the building over to another and raising the price.

The question isn't whether this happens, but what happens to the people once they have to move out. Where do they go? Do they have to start at a new school, find a new job? Are they now far away from their families, some of whom they might be supporting, like the elderly or people who need stay at home child care? And can they even afford to move, if their home was multi-generational and they don't have the funds to buy a new one? These are the questions the article doesn't address.
buy real ingredients and cook your own food. stop giving these people money. eliminating sugar from pre-made food is a battle you can't win.
Assembla indeed offers hosted Perforce, (and hosted Git, and hosted Subversion, and even all three in the same workspace) but only as part of their collaboration suite. To get your money's worth, you'd also have to buy into their wiki and ticketing system (which does integrate into whatever repository you choose) and planning tools.

Which aren't bad, but may not be what you're looking for.
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Trust yourself that you can make your own, delicious, low-effort bread. I produce 2-3 loaves a week, and the effort involved is maybe 30 minutes each time. The cost, barring additional ingredients (usually egg), is close to a dollar per loaf, and you can make exactly the loaf you're in the mood for.

As long as you don't find a way to kill the yeast, even your bad bread will taste better than store bought bread.
Keep the forever-stamps for a couple of years and return everything using a postal meter. Forever-stamp arbitrage should be full of all kinds of win.
Here's the original paper by Kreuger and Harris that this article is built around:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2015/12/09-moderniz...

The authors propose a new employment category: Independent Worker. The authors calculate that there are currently ~600,000 independent workers in the US (0.4% of total employment).

In our proposal, independent workers — regardless of whether they work through an online or offline intermediary — would qualify for many, although not all, of the benefits and protections that employees receive, including the freedom to organize and collectively bargain, civil rights protections, tax withholding, and employer contributions for payroll taxes. Because it is conceptually impossible to attribute their work hours to any single intermediary, however, independent workers would not qualify for hours-based benefits, including overtime or minimum wage requirements.
Same. I'm continually disappointed at how hard it is to find decent bread back home (US), and how expensive it is when you do. Cheese, too.

I know we've supposedly got some of the lowest food prices in the developed world, but buy like-for-like with a typical (say) Parisian's shopping basket and I bet we don't do so well.
Risk adjusted ROI. The bond market is the classic example, if you look at the class of bonds paying 10% vs 2%. If your risks where in line with the 10% bonds, but the payouts where inline with the 2% bonds it's a low ROI investment.

Now, looking ahead you don't know what the risks are. But, you can examine the ROI for 1990 investments and you can see which 2010 investments have already failed.
Deplorable clickbait journalism here. This piece over simplifies issues, uses a misleading sensational headline and then flat out gets the issue wrong because the author has no real understanding of the issue he is attaching.
Gentrification is is no myth. Residential displacement does occur when existing apartment buildings are torn down to clear sites for new development and rising rents in housing stock that remains prices out local residents. Longtime residents who live on fixed incomes can be forced out of their homes due to rapidly rising property values and taxes. The author fails to explain the primary reason why the Columbia studies authors found reduced displacement in some areas. RENT CONTROL. What the data demonstrates is not that gentrification is a myth but that reasonable government actions can mitigate the worst negative impacts of new development. But then how many shares and clicks would that headline generate.
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"The meaning of nationalism (and tribalism) is not clearly defined"

Wikipedia would have been helpful: "[Nationalism] can be expressed as a belief or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with or becoming attached to one's nation." "Tribalism is [...] a way of thinking or behaving in which people are more loyal to their tribe than to their friends, their country, or any other social group."

None of these in itself implies that it also has to bear a negative emotional charge of any kind. I think you're confusing nationalism/tribalism with xenophobia.
It also should have been in focus.
As the essay I linked to discusses, there are more aspects to redlining than just loans (though that is where the practice gets its name). In any case, it's all part of the same racist attempts to keep people segregated. At least in the USA, you can't really separate gentrification, redlining, and other housing problems.
It's interesting but they could have given more details into the features, types of models they tried, how successful it is etc etc. right now it just reads as "we used ML to fix a problem we have".
I appreciate the thoughtful response. I understand the argument you're making about economic signaling, and indeed YC(b)'s milquetoast declaration of encouraging women and minority applicants would be a cheap sop to political correctness. But I think you elide an important point, which is that YC(a)'s signaling, though expensive, is also motivated by political correctness. In other words, you've tweaked two variables, when in fact only one has changed; a more accurate rendering is

YC(a) is serious about being politically correct, while YC(b) merely cares about appearing to be politically correct.

Political correctness is common to the two cases for the simple reason that YC(a) would inevitably help wealthy, well-connected female and black/Latino founders to the exclusion of, say, poor, less-privileged Asian founders. It's hard to explain this behavior in humanitarian terms, but it's easy to explain in political terms. Nobody gets in trouble these days for expressing the sentiment that we need more women, blacks, and Latinos in tech, no matter how rich and well-connected they may be.

The only other possibility I can think of is that YC(a) genuinely wants to help especially deserving founders, and such founders are so overrepresented among women and blacks/Latinos that specifically targeting those groups achieves the goal well enough for YC's purposes. In other words, the cost of reaching such founders may be so much lower when targeting specific self-identified groups that it's worth the minor cost of helping the occasional privileged member of one of those groups. Still, it's hard to avoid the observation that this policy is generally aligned with political correctness, which would appear to justify some skepticism.

(My guess is that YC's policy isn't Machiavellian in the least, but it works adaptively because of a political environment in which explicitly helping women and blacks/Latinos is strongly favored both by custom and by law.)
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don't forget - people don't cook food anymore. i cook dinner every night (usually roasted vegetables and some protein) and i'm seen as some kind of weirdo.

some people get offended if you ask them if they know how to cook. i don't know how american culture got to this point. it's insane.
Sum types are how Result/Option/Maybe/Either are typically implemented. The type system guarantees that inhabitants of the type contain exactly one success value xor one error value, and that accessing the value requires handling both cases, which is checked at compile time.
How so? Each new "investor's" sticker goes to "pay off" a previous one, and then they are in turn "paid off" with the stickers from two new "investors."
It is, but for it to work you have to give the appearance that it is actually working for a long enough period of time. That requires exponential grow or most people reinvesting returns (so they don't realize there's no actual money to pay them back).

If you give the returns immediately (the two stickers) with no option to reinvest, the ponzi scheme is going to run out of steam very quickly and there's no way this is going to attract a lot of people.

In summary, this is a Ponzi Scheme, but not one that has a lot of chance of being sustained for very long.
Just be careful with these "give an animal schemes" Some of these schemes in Niger have lead to massive over grazing by goats and desertification.
When Kirk says "more power" and Scotty says "you cannot change the laws of physics", maybe Kirk should listen. But instead Scotty is forced to do something unsafe.

This is a metaphor for any engineering department given unrealistic performance targets. Engineers find solutions, so make sure they are targeted at the right problems.
There are a couple great bits in that article, but this is one I've seen as a trend:

"Under an employment model, by contrast, the company has a much more reliable and knowledgeable workforce, one that can be held to a specific standard of quality and a more consistent schedule."

Home Depot learned a similar lesson in the 2000's - http://archive.fortune.com/2008/09/18/magazines/fortune/fort...

Employee morale is critical in service-oriented jobs.
"Would you believe it if you received a letter from
Mercedes Benz informing you that you had won a lucky draw
and your gift was a “FREE INSPECTION!!” but in actual fact
they intended to replace your turbocharger without
informing you? These and many more shocking practices were
carried out in absolute arrogance and with a view to keep
the third rate quality of Mercedes Benz Cars a secret."[0]

>My personal suspicion goes way beyond VW in this case.

You're right. Automotive companies are pretty notorious for these kinds of things.

Edit: Formatting, typo

[0]http://www.thetruthaboutmercedes.com/home.html
I have. Pretty much you already have to have the whole implementation in your mind before you write a single line of code. Shouldn't be an issue since you should cover that exact implementation in your uni algorithms classes. Well I've worked with Java since 07, so perhaps writing the implementation its a bit more intuitive for me. I do agree that timing is tight so writing unit tests wouldn't even a consideration.
I bought scan of chili the other day. 16 grams of sugar! I was stunned.
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> High frequency trading gets shat on frequently. It's stupid. This is only a tool that evens out price differences across geological distance.

1. That's a valuable evening out prices may be a valuable function, but one reason HFT gets shat on is because of the enormous effort put into attempts to arbirage over shorter and shorter time intervals. How does society actually benefit if the prices are equalized over a 1ms interval vs a 1s interval?

2. There are other, more parasitic HFT strategies than arbitrage. One I read about consists of the HFTs putting small tripwire sell orders on some exchanges to detect buy activity, then front running big orders by buying up all the stock on other exchanges and offering it at a higher price. The HFT performs no function besides inserting themselves as a middleman. It's like being on Amazon, clicking buy on a $10 item from seller A, then either having your order fail or be filled by seller B (who themselves just bought from seller A) at a higher price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
I would add Ruth Millikan's work. "Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories" is her masterpiece, but way out of depth for a beginner ("out of depth" in philosophy meaning most people are likely to be bored, confused, or dismissive yet with the right background the book is amazingly exciting, insightful, and valuable). "On Clear and Confused Ideas" is more approachable and has been made available for free online now.
http://web2.uconn.edu/philosophy/department/millikan/clearct...
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That isn't actually surprising. There's no reason to think any of the effects are cumulative in any way.
Why is Mozilla wasting time on this useless stuff?

What they need to do is work on their browsers, and specifically:

1. Ship Electrolysis ASAP, so Firefox is once again as technically good as Chrome and others

2. Add support for syncing with Chrome and IE if possible, to smooth transition for mainstream users

3. Fund Servo as much as possible, and get it ready to ship it in both desktop and mobile browsers as soon as possible

4. Get the marketing people to work on a strategy to market Servo to get the #1 browser market share spot again

5. Stop eroding their reputation with dumb stuff like the Pocket and Telefonica integrations. If they do something to make money, clearly state so and make sure it's harmless to users and trivially disabled. Then, market their reputation as a trustworthy non-profit much better.

If they REALLY want to do a mobile OS, just work together with Cyanogen on an Android distribution with added/better HTML app support, instead of inventing their own crappy thing.
He was definitely ahead of his time in some ways. He predicted and distilled the creed of reactionary fundamentalism in Call of Cthulhu.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- The Call of Cthulhu
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Looking to start developing content for our website to improve our SEO. However, just wanted to see if there's anyone out there who's outsourced their content marketing and has it been worth it?
Most of the firms I worked for rested orders for days or weeks. Having to rest orders for a second would not materially change their trade other than make them slightly less likely to get into the top of the book, thus increasing the spread.
Depends on the timezone. But you know, everything is relative...
You have to read carefully to find critical opinions on his blog.
Another one where he had to admit the sneaky choice of a 16 to 64gb storage (for obvious $$ reasons).

"But I don’t understand why the entry level storage tier remained at a meager 16 GB. That seems downright punitive given how big panoramic photos and slo-mo HD videos are, and it sticks out like a sore thumb when you look at the three storage tiers together: 32/64/128 looks natural; 16/64/128 looks like a mistake. The original iPhone, seven years and eight product generations ago, had an 8 GB storage tier. The entry-level iPhones 6 are 50 times faster than that original iPhone, but have only twice the storage capacity. That’s just wrong. This is the single-most disappointing aspect of the new phones."

http://daringfireball.net/2014/09/the_iphones_6
I'd love to read that report. There are a few close ups of pages in the video. That guy has one of the most interesting jobs!
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Zero. The Wendelstein stellerator is not intended to be energy-generating; I don't think they even intend any fusion ever to happen in it.
Terrible headline.

They found that Chinese children who were adopted into French-speaking families processed language in the brain more like Chinese/French bilingual children than like French monolingual children.
Free market capitalism is not going to give me a non-x86-based PC ecosystem even if I want it, because not enough other people want it to justify the required investment. Of course for say $30G/year one could get it, and you can get whatever bread you want to for much less, but perhaps for more than you'd like to. In other words, you either need to be in the majority or to spend a lot to get what you want from a market.

Which doesn't sound that great if you didn't live in a centrally planned economy where you can't buy woolen socks nor wool so what you do is you buy a woolen sweater and you make woolen socks out of that. That's the sort of unarguably idiotic waste of resources that free markets eliminate. Of course it's easier to appreciate that if you've spent thousands of hours queuing to buy some bread, any bread, than it is when the bread you can most easily buy doesn't taste as you'd want it to.
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Some quick remarks:

1. "aftermath"? We are not post crises yet. Look at the economic performance of the Netherlands or Finland during the last year. And of course the south is still unable to employ a lot of the youth and Greece is worst than ever.

2. "Far-right" is not a good description of these parties. They are anti-immigration. That is the only thing they have in common. They disagree on other issues.

3. People turn to these parties because like in the US, the political landscape in Europe has shifted to the right, economically. A blatant example of this is that both the center right and center left are fully supportive of TTIP. The only other notable alternative besides the anti-immigration parties is the Greens but the Greens are highly opinionated about many things that tends to turn people off. Plus they have been there since forever and not achieved much so people do not see them as "change".

4. "The typical political reaction to financial crises is as follows: votes for far-right parties increase strongly, government majorities shrink, the fractionalisation of parliaments rises and the overall number of parties represented in parliament jumps. These developments likely hinder crisis resolution and contribute to political gridlock. The resulting policy uncertainty may contribute to the much-debated slow economic recoveries from financial crises."

Way to spin that into a bad thing! A more decentralized more democratic government is a good thing. Less incompetent and corrupt members of the central parties that contributed to the crises through their mismanagement is also a good thing.
In Santa Clara county, yeah. The fee is 2.38%. Which is a terrible financial decision unless you're using it to get bonus points (and you pay the balances in full, right away).
Linked lists are certainly one of the easiest structures. For me, it's strictly a time thing here. An hour? Maybe not needing List<T>? With one of these, doable, though I'd still argue it's a bad interview. But the short time plus extra requirement seems really unreasonable.
I wouldn't say insignificant. To fully appreciate some of his works, the reader needs to understand the racist mindset he had and the larger fears he was playing off of that stemmed from racism.

Do dismiss his flaws would be a disservice for readers and his works alike.
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Valve is bonkers
Do they still even make Mickey Mouse cartoons? He really seems like nothing more than a logo and mascot at this point.
You go to when the country got a democratically elected government.

As for nationalisation is certainly a violation of rights do you hold that all eminent domain is a violation of rights? IE if the government wants to build a road and uses compulsory purchase orders it's a violation of rights?
Not sure how well the second gen supports appengine. With 1st gen you could ask the database to follow an appengine app so they are both in the same cell. I also don't see how to allow connection from appengine apps I only can select IP addresses. Are these unnecessary now?

Also curious about the on demand option. I had it in 1st gen but its gone now. I can only select Always on or Never. I had a large database that I only used for a few hours per month. I'd love to migrate to second gen but if its always in it might make it much more expensive.

At last I tried to perform an export from 1st gen into 2nd gen and I'm getting server errors will try again later.
Your ability to reverse engineer a binary isn't "theoretical", nor is it hard. These programs haven't been obfuscated.

The hard part of evaluating cryptographic messaging services isn't binary reversing; it's that evaluating cryptographic constructions is hard. The flaw we're discussing today in Telegram is evident from the documentation, but despite the fact that every cryptographer who has commented on Telegram has had nothing but bad things to say about how it does crypto, nobody connected these particular dots.

Crypto is hard. Next to crypto, reversing a program compiled with a normal compiler is just a speed bump.
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Labor has linear returns. Capital has compounding returns. They're different. We should tax consumption instead, but the current tax distinction isn't madness.
Great essay. I've often seen condescending patronizing critical essays trying to establish that H. P. Lovecraft was a juvenile hack at writing. This essay establishes that he is capable of sardonic evaluation, probably even self-criticism. Moreover, this essay is written in a modern language, which shows that the (to some, grating) archaic tone of his stories is a conscious choice.

It was due to this essay that I came to hear about Arthur Machen, and Algernon Blackwood.

As for Lovecraft's fiction, it seems to me that he passed away as he was maturing as a writer.

Had he (or Edgar Allan Poe) lived longer, wonder what great works they might have been able to bring into this world!