skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like people are already doing that: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/30/why-investors-are-shorting-ca...
I really don't know of any specific cases either, but it does seem to be a fear that is perpetuated regardless.

Regardless it's just seems like there's so many opportunities to create legal trouble by giving a reason, and almost no reason against saying nothing.
Cynically, I feel the motivating factor is separating old wealthy people from their wealth before their heirs get ahold of it, and who, being much younger, will not spend it on health care.
I honestly feel recycling is wasted effort. It's largely a way of buying off our existential terror with publicly visible pious busywork. Rubbish which actually makes it to landfill, as a problem, is not the big one or even in the big few. Rubbish that does not, which ends up as polluting litter or in the sea, is a larger problem but one recycling completely doesn't address.

So far as I'm concerned, what a landfill is, is a resource mine we don't yet have the technology or desire to exploit. A bit of futuristic technology, and we could be disassembling it for gold, iron, rare earths, hydrocarbons, etc. It's not gone, but it's put aside. And putting things aside can be fine if you come back for them.
What evidence is there that foreign ownership is a major problem? I've heard plenty of anecdotes, but no actual data. I do know that Vancouver real estate agents are milking the "yellow peril" for all it's worth. "Buy now before China owns all of Vancouver!".

It's pretty easy to find them. Google 'Andy Yan'; he's an economist at UBC who did the most recent study.

Suffice to say, Canadians are doing what American's did in the early 2000's. They are going into a crazy amount of debt to buy housing, which is only pushing prices up even higher.

Vancouverites are going into unsustainable debt, but at this point mostly for condos, which remain expensive but affordable. The detached house market is long past being affected by CHMC policy and borrowing rules; not even doctors and lawyers can afford the $5-6 million dollar homes that are such a big part of the market here, not even with leverage.

This is part of what I try to tell people when they say that the Vancouver housing market is a 'bubble' - it isn't a bubble because it isn't being driven by leverage; it's being driven by regulatory differences in Canada and China; China has a punishing inheritance tax, and Canada has the most lax rules in the OECD for importing money and buying real estate. There simply is no 'bubble' here to burst. That's not to say that the situation isn't extremely unstable, but without leverage this simply isn't a 'bubble'.
"All-in" means total compensation (stock and bonus included), not just salary.
Facebook is entrenched still, because they deliberately tried to avoid the mistakes that MySpace and Friendster (et al) made. They grew and expanded, changed their feature set to ensure that Facebook had everything your average person needed. GitHub haven't been doing that so much, but hopefully this response is the beginning of a change in that direction
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I donated all my CDs to the local library, but I don't know if they put them in circulation.
In case of discrimination alegations (race, disability and veteran-related matters in the US), the burden is on the accused to provide proof of non-discrimination.

In this case, the usual practice for proving innocence is to show that the statistical distribution of hires is similar to the statistical distribution of applicants. For example, if I had 50% latino applicants, 50% of my hires should be latinos.

That being said, the sort of publicity these issues get mean that companies try really hard to steer clear of any discrimination accusations. It's a delicate problem to handle.
There are all kinds of problems with trying to do any kind of survey. When doing a survey of people who are homeless, those issues are no doubt compounded. Here is a link from within this article concerning how we count "the homeless": http://sfist.com/2015/01/20/at_last_count_there_were.php

And the short version is they literally hire people to count all the homeless people they SEE. Presumably without doing any follow up to validate.

I have been homeless for over 4 years. Many people do not assume that I am when they first meet me. They have to see me repeatedly before they figure it out. I don't look obviously filthy, unkempt, etc. So I and others like me would likely be missed by a count of this sort.
Well, correct. There are lots of other expensive things you can buy which don't have any issue with price increases no matter now many people want to buy. Boats, for example. If lots of people start buying boats, then the number of boats being made increases, but the price of boats doesn't really change.

We can build units quickly and relatively cheaply (certainly the cost of building has fallen over time, certainly on a like-for-like quality basis. As you say, steel frame buildings with lift access can create housing units quickly and cheaply.

The issue is restrictions on supply caused by government policies and nimbly-ism, plus a general desire to shelter parts of the community from market forces.

It wouldn't matter how many Chinese investors wanted to buy apartments if supply kept up with demand.
The cynic in me (which is all of me) doesn't think it's an accident that it keeps getting portrayed this way. Same with a Bloomberg article the other day.
Sorry facts are offending people.

http://www.bls.gov/cex/anthology/csxanth8.pdf

Anyway looks like a 60:40 split between men and women for buying vehicles from 1991-2000. However, there is a much more stark difference in the types of vehicles bought. If you are mostly selling used vehicles then most of your customers are men.

If you are pushing new vehicles and leases, it shifts more in favor of women.
I'm confused as to why you keep bringing terrorism up. I haven't brought it up once. I am not especially concerned with terrorism, and I'm not especially concerned about identity theft --- at least, not to the point where I think we need to address it with regulation on consumer devices.
Definitely agree. I have a project that has iOS, server, and android reopos and it'd be nice to have there be some notion that they're related, maybe even have issues sharable? Though I guess that could get really messy.
Google didn't specifically recommend reapplying when they rejected me, but they did solicit me to interview again a couple years down the line. They rejected me again, and that time the recruiter did say "I hope you'll still consider applying to Google in the future". Why would I? I paid several hundred dollars for the privilege of applying the first time, and history strongly suggests that they're not going to take me.
I think a lot of the disappointed comments are understandable here. (obnoxious or not).

I know I personally expected one of either to happen

1. Github responds in 2-3 days with the EXACT response they made.

2. Github responds in 1-2 weeks with a concrete plans that addresses at least some of the concerns the original letter addressed.

They basically did the bad combination of both.

One of the things that frustrates me the most about companies responding to feedback is "We have it planned" and "we don't have an exact timeline".

More than anything I really dislike the "stay tuned". I don't want to stay tuned, you should either tell me when to expect it or I will tune out (and I think that's what most people think).

To me, this is a non-response.

I like Github, I use it every day.
I don't have any plans to move away from Github.
If I had a project that I felt wasn't fit for Github, this response would not change anything for me, I would still likely research for alternatives.
Just a small clarification, both Bitbucket Cloud and Server have Projects[1] that allow you to organize related repositories together.

[1]: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/projects-79249795...
Nitpick: absence of evidence is evidence of absence.[1] But it is not evidence for just anything...

[1] http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html
I don't understand why everybody keeps talking about the "average home price" and comparing it to salaries. Homes in good neighborhoods in Vancouver are nowhere near that price unless you want to live in a little mansion. And I'm fairly certain that the median salary is largely comprised of the service industry.

The other thing I keep seeing is "in Quebec it's much more affordable..."

Yes, and your salary would be much lower and your taxes higher. Apple and oranges?
Commoditised manufacture, inventory management, and shipping are pretty much precisely the opposite of software development.

Or: your entirely counterfactual counterexample rather neatly proves my point.
Feuding neighbor turned Airbnb renter asserts renters' rights, refuses to leave
How can I understand my weaknesses at the last interview if you didn't tell me what they are in the first place? Surely you don't expect me to improve upon a total lack of feedback?

I used to worry about blanket rejections. Not any more. They're not actionable, so I ignore them.
I do not know what you do in the gym but the delta between resting and lifting seems way too high for lifting and even a moderate warm up.
NFL paying Neurologists fit data (OTL investigation)
I think... it's a collaborative mood board? Did I get it right? Hmm...
I agree.

As someone currently losing weight, my fitbit is pretty invaluable to me. I track every single thing I eat and drink. My fitbit then automatically tracks my walking/ running, and subtracts those calories I burn from the food tracker.
> Bakersfield, as far as I know, has no rent control, so there is an argument that this is essentially a rounding error.

Bakersfield is also a terrible place to live, from what I hear.
Obligatory links to relevant posts:

"You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform" http://qntm.org/calendar

"So you want to abolish time zones" http://qntm.org/abolish
It's only 30-40 years if you go in and flatten it. Even in the northeast, as cold as it is, you can cut over the same piece of woods every 5-10 years, if you're the tiniest bit selective about it.

In the South, they have tree farms growing fast-growth eucalyptus hybrids that they can turn over even faster.
See: any case where anyone has had voice mail entered into evidence against them --- which is something that has happened many times.
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> Interesting, I didn't know that most appliance production happens in Poland.

From what I've read, their weight and bulkiness makes shipping from Asia to Europe costly, and this negates the potential gains from moving production to say China.

> Obviously there will always be a cheapest place to manufacture things, but seeing the difference from when things were manufactured "in-house" in the US years ago and how they function now, it's night and day.

I think these two events have a common root cause - the corporations have been trying to squeeze more and more profits, esp. since the seventies, which resulted in both sending production abroad and amping up planned obsolescence. As a counterexample, Russian appliances from the USSR era were actually pretty solid, with a lot of them going on for 20-30 years without repairs. It wasn't caused by rigorous manufacturing standards and QA (as the were both terrible/borderline nonexistant), but by good, simple designs which had longetivity as a design goal.
Renters pay property taxes, too - indirectly through their landlord.
Wait a minute, 1 candidate out of 5 wasn't eager to hear about the technical feedback? Any idea why?
From your comments, I take it you have some idea of how misogynistic Saudi culture is. Then take a step back and appreciate the effort he's putting in to change that.

Also you're welcome to criticize his actions and even his lifestyle, but the clear ad hominem in your comment is against the HN ethos.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, this happens all the time: for instance, it has happened every time an answering machine tape has been entered into evidence.
There is a very enjoyable irony to the notion that you would accuse a community of groupthink for a perceived lack of accepting your opinion as the one true way.
Actually I think for my use case Apple Photos is the better option. Comes installed on my iMac and iphones. Family sharing, and has a more tiered approach to pricing (I don't need 1TB right now) - $0.99 for 50GB/month.

Apple Photos uploads things automatically every time, face tagging, place/moments tagging automatically, it rocks. This HN thread was amazing, I found Apple Photos!
Another case of money influencing research. Glad to see OTL doing a public service and showing the NFL's association with the studies they hide behind
Ubiquitous Internet access keeps the elderly better engaged with the world.
This may be what it takes for me to stop hating developing email templates. Will definitely check this out!
> It's no longer considered an appropriate place for candid conversation.

So what are they using instead? Whatsapp? Other messaging app? Instagram?
I heard that these studies are, like all social studies, to be taken with a grain of salt. They don't replicate well.
You envision some perfect censorship filter. What if reality differs from your ideal?

What if, miracle of miracles, you and I disagree on what should or should not be censored? What if Twitter straight up abuses this power? Either way, the result may be fewer users, and this could hurt Twitter as a business.
5 non-health tech stories you should care about this week
100% agree, this is why I doubt the number. I'm moving more, since I'm not in the house, and I'm walking around the city and taking the bus.

No warmups, just straight lifting weights (bench press, deadlifts, squats, plus a few accessory exercises), and stretching.

There is the delayed caloric burn that occurs from weight lifting, but I doubt the Fitbit is accounting for that.
There's good and bad in most people, and most people do good and bad things on a daily basis, let alone over the course of a lifetime. It's quite possible he mistreats his servants and maims animals, but also intends to donate his fortune at a future unspecified date. (And if you wanna talk concrete - he did send a large cheque to the mayor of NYC immediately after 9/11 that was ultimately refused for political reasons).

I don't know the Prince at all except for the occasional news article (including the one you've linked, coincidentally), but my objection was to GP's blatant lumping in him him with the rest of the Sauds (some of whom are undoubtedly very bad), and how that's acceptable because he's, well, a Saud.
Exactly the same here. I think it's not really "being a dick", but just a dissonance between how the different types of people operate. I'm usually so passive that any sort "No, I want my free time after work" feels rude, and I'm probably not very good at being assertive and nice at the same time yet, haha.

The other developers always seemed to get the message that when I said "Maybe... I'm not sure if I have the time for it... I can see...", I really meant "No, but please don't make me say no.", while anyone else hears it as "Cool, he said he would see if he has the time for it" and then follow up with me a few days later "Did you make time for that project?"

I'm making an effort to flat out say "No" more often, but it's nice that other people are also beginning to realize that I only mean "Yes" when I actually use the word "yes".
Yes. I think the grandparent comment was disputing `effort', not intensity of exercise.
> I'm sure you know the stock phrases.

I think it has more to do with feeling like a dick and not wanting to say No explicitly because it causes emotional discomfort. So you procrastinate to avoid that discomfort.

I'm sure you've heard of the concept of "fade out" in dating. Same thing.

I know on a logical level that this makes me a dick and that I shouldn't do it. But on an emotional level, it's so much easier to avoid making an implicit decision explicit.

That said, I hold everyone who's ever followed up of their own accord in very high regard. If I don't say anything for two weeks send me an email.
The use cases for Grid are pretty broad, we've seen people use it for a visual personal journal to storyboarding games and movies to architects planning projects with their clients.

It's light weight organization for visual thinkers that you can invite anyone too, and we've seen it used most heavily amongst those in the creative industry.
I've been watching Josh iterate and build Grid over the last 2-3 years.

If I recall, Josh originally worked at Microsoft on the Excel team, and has a deep understanding of how tools can be construed into other use cases like project management and organization.

I bet it feels great to finally get this out the door and am looking forward to trying it.
Yes, impossible to say what it is about.

The animations below the video are a little more helpful. Apparently you can import images from a number of sources and arrange them into categories.

But why they write "multi-player system"? Is is a game or a design tool?
In addition, even if there is a real effect here, it is so small, and the interactions so complex, that it's probably useless.

For example, even if this neanderthal gene happens to causally affect depression by 1%, that pathway might be something like

gene => slightly wider shoulders => that body structure is slightly more or less likely to lead to certain life outcomes, like marrying early or getting promoted or getting targeted by pickpockets => change in depression risk

As a result, the gene might currently lead to a 1% increase in depression risk, but in a few years it might do the opposite, if things change in the surrounding culture and those intermediary steps behave a little differently.
Google Photos is OK so I don't mind Picasa going away (I hadn't used the desktop app in years).

While having services cancelled is troublesome, for photos I have my smartphone backup up everything to Google Photos, Microsoft Azure, and Dropbox. Copy the eggs and store in three different baskets.
The FSF has had this 1987 newspaper article on their web site for a long time:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html

There's also a psychology experiment in which people who were paid to argue for a position reported less belief in it afterward compared to people who argued for it for free (but I don't remember the citation). Apparently all of these things may be described as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
People are bringing this up to say that it could annoy many users and chase them away, as well as limit their user growth, not that they don't have the right to do it. Bad business decision, in other words.
Perfect timing, we just started building a system for this at a hackathon in the past two days, hopefully we can use this instead.
Why does / did the Canadian government let so many Chinese come in and buy property like that?
It is not a misdemeanor to be caught without your unexpired passport, citizen.

https://www.us-immigration.com/blog/dont-let-that-green-card...
That's like trying to move a fully locked-in AWS service to your own hardware. Probably all of its dependencies are Google cloud infrastructure and you have to rewrite the client layer to replace them with anything open.
I think that's the complaint though: Why take a perfectly fine working desktop application, move it to the web, then remove the desktop side?

Presumably, if I wanted the web version, I would have started with the web version.
> fantastic search

Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails).

Hilariously bad.
Are you on MLS? Base house price west of Cambie is $2M (and it goes soooo much higher). Base house price in the rest of Vancouver is $1.5M. Base house price in Burnaby is now $1M. In Poco/Coquitlam/Port Moody you can find a few 'gems' for about $800k. I think the person you were responding to was pretty much spot-on.

I make about 100k. I've had job offers for Quebec that are 100k. Seriously - there's absolutely no payscale advantage or allowance for living in Vancouver. And provincial taxes in Quebec aren't much different at that tax bracket either.
Ask HN: Government law as code?
I'm curious if there is research, startups, open-source projects, etc., pertaining to this topic which has intrigued me for a while.

Law and code are very similar conceptually it seems: they outline variables, environments, conditions, then execute procedures. The big difference being computers do one, and people do the other. Politics discusses this notion of "efficient" government and I want to take it even further. I'm curious about a world where, let's take property taxes for example, we can search repositories for every implementation (procedure/function) of property tax law (code) in a given country (within all states/counties), and not only see it publicly (open source), but be able to use the code for testing (how effective is this "algorithm" for a given outcome?), RFC's, forking across localities, tweaking, and all the other processes that work so well in software design.

Efficiency and smart management in software is modularization, clear roles for parts, and easy ways to plug things together (and avoid NIH syndrome) I feel like (in a programming analogy) every single city/county/state rewrites everything scratch all the time!

Of course maybe these are just different mediums that allow for very similar processes and I'm just amazed by that. But I can't help but think there is something here.

So here's the question: If in the future, a very progressive group of technophiles wanted to start a new country from scratch on a moon or space station somewhere, do you think they would do everything on a github style medium with software design type methods? Should they? Could they? Do you always need humans to enforce/interpret the laws?
Thanks for your work on this. Been immensely helpful for this newb.

One piece of advice, I would ensure QA tests include checks to make sure that the skip function works. When the ggplot package was updated, the update broke the Getting and Cleaning data module, the ggplot units. The questions were not answerable and the skip function didn't work either.

You are the reason I was able to pass the R programming unit, John Hopkins Coursera. Thank you sooooo much.
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Those GlassDoor salaries are cash. Stock and bonus add another 50-100%. My anecdotal experience with Vancouver is that some employers will throw you 15%, on a good year.

Microsoft pays a bit less, but also employs ~30,000 people in the area.
I think a label like "currency" attempts to oversimply bitcoin. There is obviously a bigger speculative component to it than most currencies. "Investment" may not be an appropriate term either.

However, I find value in bitcoin because it is relatively independent of inflation and market cycles. Notably, it seems to have an inverse relationship with oppressive currency controls (e.g. greece, venezuela). I suppose, in that way, you could consider it an investment in personal sovereignty.
Ok, we changed "Free Internet" to "Free Basics" in the title above to avoid ambiguity.
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