skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suburbs?

There's a lot of this, yes. And the suburbs aren't necessarily very suburban: I live in a 30 floor condo tower in Burnaby, and within 2 block radius there's a dozen similar towers and twenty more 30-60 floor towers in various stages of zoning hearings (8) / building approval (7) / digging big holes (2) / towers going up (3).

There are two major phenomena at play in Vancouver:

1. Across Metro Vancouver, the supply of land for single family detached houses is very constrained; this is pushing prices of detached houses up dramatically.

2. The City of Vancouver proper is very hostile to development, due to a toxic combination of NIMBYism, height restrictions to maintain "view corridors" of the nearby mountains, and social activists who think that building more housing will somehow make housing less affordable.

But if you're willing to live in a condo and you don't mind living a 20 minute train ride away from downtown, the cost of housing is far more reasonable than hysterical media reports would have you believe; and unlike detached houses, prices of condos have barely kept up with inflation over the past decade.
I can't name any. I'm stuck on the image of a cartoon frog hitting a mosquito with its tongue.
Voice recognition API
Excellent idea... some notion of a review session would be nice.
Aside from what other posters have said (a better way to do this would be to note in the report the exclusion of certain data, and why it was excluded), the way they purged the listings is particularly damning:

"No similar event took place in other cities in North America or elsewhere."

If this were them legitimately cleaning up their listings, and not misleading regulators, you'd imagine they'd have taken similar action across their entire database. The fact that they only "corrected" their NYC listings before releasing their NYC report is rather telling, assuming that the data presented here is correct.
It's not bad. He could have used better direction.

It does have one of my favorite technology hobby-horses - clean water. We don't think about how recent it is. We may or may not realize how dangerous not having it was.

I hate to say this, but Burke is simply a better performer and Connections was more of an outlier because of when it first showed.
I always thought that it would be nice to dial a number and record a transcript of the meeting.

Also, there are only so many kinds of meetings so have templates for agendas could be useful. Status meetings, company/departmental meetings, company notification meetings(manager tells employees about talking points and answers questions), come to a decision meetings, kick off meetings, etc.

Also, some meetings could be done through other means. document with a quiz(I'd rather read talking points then meet about them). Q/A documents.
It will also improve our society after you and your outdated and obnoxious business model become history.
"GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart — and we have the full inside story" http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-..., HN discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
Is the BBC news site any good? I used to use it a lot in its old form, when there was less whitespace and more content. When I look at it now it seems like there's barely anything there. Most of the stories appear to be videos, which I rarely bother watching.

One of the (paper) publications I most enjoy reading is Private Eye, which has a very messy layout with virtually no whitespace, is mostly black and white and has lots of information.
I grew up in the region and went to school there. Left for Ottawa. I'd say most of my friends left. I still read the Georgia straight and follow the news. It is kind of home after all but one I will never go back to.
I'm an Engineer working in finance and a couple of my medical doctor friends refer to me as the 'inteligent' in the group.
Submitting bug reports to Apple is about as fruitful as playing tennis with the pacific ocean.
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You can do that right now with Love2D and a stub game loop that sources the actual implementations every second or two.
maybe they should do like kickstarter did and convert to a public benefit corp.
I met about 400+ girls last summer and I became very good at texting.

Rule #1, never get mad or upset at them by text. Ever.

Rule #2, never appear weak or unsure. Never qualify what you say.

Rule #3, girls 99% of the time respond but people get busy. Sometimes I want to respond to a text but I want my mind to be more clear or I get distracted. Or you just don't feel so social. Or you are depressed, sick, busy etc. Some are in school and working. Some have boyfriends.

Sometimes girls don't respond until the next day and occasionally they don't respond at all. But then just wait and in 1 or 2 weeks, send a friendly photo, casually invite them to an invite or say a funny joke or observation.

People get busy and a lack of response means nothing.

Also I like to invite them places or tell them what I am doing. But going out is a lot of energy and money. And some don't like crowds.

So at some point, you should be direct, or ask them on a proper date or what not. But never confide via text how much you like someone, unless you already hooked up.

And sometimes I'll send a dangerous text, like I told this girl to call me whenever she felt like being "dirty" with a bit of provocative language. She did not respond to it. But she responded and I just push forward. Never look back, never apologize (generally speaking).

There is no such thing as a friend zone. You can be just friends but occassionally flirt and don't diminish yourself as a sexual being. Lack confidence? Work out, take a class.

And if you don't look like Brad Pitt or aren't noticeably rich, the girls might not stumble over each other to get to you.

But you can get them. Girls don't know what they want, they are easily persuaded and lazy. (This goes for all people.)
I could say a lot about the quality of education: the lack of a challenge, the boringness of the one-size-fits-all curriculum, etc. But boredom isn't that big of a deal. I made up for that by studying what I wanted to outside of school, instead of doing homework. Even with the vindictive teachers that made homework 30% of the final grade, it was still cakewalk to pass their classes without doing a single assignment.

The real root of the reason school was a living hell for me was the bullying. We all like to tell kids that "the teachers will help you", but they either don't care or feel they can't do anything. Either way, the net effect is they are completely useless. We tell kids, "it builds character!", but that's nonsense. I don't care if it is the secret to my success, I'd rather be average today than to have experienced a tormented childhood. Those were formative years, and those scars run deep.

The worst mistake I ever made was deciding I wouldn't be a part of that Lord of the Flies bullshit. I kept thinking it'd get better as we got older, but it only got much worse. I never stuck up for myself, never learned how to fight, never worked out to become stronger to defend myself. And that's easily my biggest source of regret. Every day my mind recalls terrible memories from those days, and I find myself constantly thinking, "if only I had fought back here or done this there ..."

Bullying mostly targets the gifted, but it would help everyone if we took it seriously, instead of just saying, "well I went through it and lived; so the next generation can too!"

Also, it's bordering on a different topic, but bullying very much extends to the home as well. Abusive parents, siblings, etc. Some kids have literally no escape from it for 18+ years.
It's not that simple. There may also be covert channel traffic that you don't see, encoded in packet timing. You can only use maybe 1% of "carrier" throughput. But that's easily enough for text messages hidden in HD video streams.
Dropbox to offer EU data center
In my experience, there is a bit of hardware (which was the root cause in the articles case) between SSL termination and application servers. So even using encryption, you are still vulnerable.
If someone texts me and it looks like they are looking for 1. an immediate response 2. that's not either "yes" or "no, then I simply call them. Call me old, but I'm not going to sit there trying to type out War and Peace on a keys measured in millimeters.

I'm not worried about intruding with a "rude" call. If they're texting in a situation where they're expected to be paying attention to something else, then they're already the ones being rude.
Bayesian logic is arguably less useful for other people.

ex: If I read someone train of Bayesian logic from 1940 it's almost useless to me.

It can also be harder to combine information from multiple sources. AKA Study A is used as a prior in B and C's studies, I need to only count A's impact once.

However, it's arguably much better for making decisions.
I would love to know what the reasonable approach would be ideal from the people talking bad things about GitHub. If they responded to issues right away people would complain too.

It's not easy to come up with a solid plan for new features and improvements, specially in a company this big (that has a lot going on as we all know).
What? You think they're going to get that list of complaints and start smashing some code? That letter is not even 1 month old.
I can kinda understand the frustration but keep in mind that there's a lot of other things to handle, it's more complicated than that.

In the meantime if you're really struggling, there are other great options available out there like BitBucket and GitLab.
Gerrit does this as well.
Asking the real questions are we? Ha!
I disagree. I do not think Kanye/Reuters/Trump/Chipotle/Intel would bat an eye to pay for the privilege to get a message out to millions of users.

These individuals and companies are not looking for direct ad revenue from their tweets, as most Youtubers are from their content. Twitter power users are looking for indirect returns on their fame/infamy in the form of increased brand awareness and the ability to have highly visible, public conversations. In the case of the large corporations, they are also able to provide better customer feedback and support.

Reuters perhaps is looking to drive traffic to its website, but it will have to spend on Twitter if it wants to compete w/ other news outlets.

Twitter has the ecosystem, and now the ecosystem is as big as it will ever get with no added users over the last quarter. Charge the influencers and brand managers for the privilege of using the communication channel, just as a TV network charges companies for ad slots.
Simple D3js heatmap
This is exactly my fear as well. I really, really like how simple GitHub issues are. While I have some very minor quibbles, I'm also afraid that change here will end up being worse, not better.
Yes :P
Yeah, how dare you take your time to respond to non-paying customers.
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garbage collection and a language that doesn't run as fast as performance minded C++ are not going to be used in hardcore game programming. You don't have control over the memory allocation or layout. For non native game programming there are many many choices.
Google Safe Search, please block the entire download.com domain. That would be hilarious!
The lost Death Star prop
Can you give me an example of soft real time game that isn't hurt by the presence of a garbage collector?
This is why I "friendzone" all of my female acquaintances at first. We keep in touch, get to know each other, if something happens happens, if not all good.
So you put your efforts on market trending topics.

I can understand.

Money surrounded culture does not exclude those that don't have the money, they are simply part of the game.

This doesn't solve any problem I have currently or I cannot solve using tools I've already tested on my usage, but I hope you had fun writing the software and sharing it.
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Haha - I had to do a double take to make sure it was actually aws site and not a prank...
If they have a culture of "only catering to the big corporate players" like a lot people have been saying, it'd be hard to change momentum. They probably also had to do a lot of internal discussions about how they would address this, and what changes they wanted to make. They also had to be careful about how they responded, for fear of making things perceptibly worse.

I have no insight into their internals, but, IME, getting that many people, especially upper-management to adjust focus is a long, slow process. I'd guess it just took a lot of time to get coordinated.
If I was in the position I was 35 years ago about to start a PhD in Chemistry (I decided just to stick with programming) this is exactly what I would focus on. It's not easy (though a lot easier today than back then) and might take a long time to make it comprehensive, but eventually you are going to have computers deciding on what you should focus your human-powered chemistry on. That to me would be a fascinating thing to work on.
would like to know this too, also is there anyone doing something similar to tomnod?
If it makes you feel any better, if you fight back you will get hit harder.
Virtual ethernet devices, which are used in some container deployments (you / your ops team probably know if you're using them), do not check TCP checksums. This appears to be because the original programmer was thinking about applications on the same machine communicating across virtual ethernet devices, but the optimization also affected traffic from a physical network that was routed onto a virtual network.

If your physical network corrupts data, TCP is supposed to notice the checksum mismatch and drop the packet, and wait for it to be retransmitted. Because of this bug, Linux's TCP implementation was not validating checksums, which allowed corrupt data to reach the application.

This requires a faulty physical network, which is rare but nowhere near nonexistent. (The kernel is not introducing corruption to these packets.)
> The level of blind

Is just as high if not higher for a nontechnical user to use Linux. Sure they can look at the source code, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to make sense of it.

What if they try to solve a problem themselves? Googling it will land them on any number of blogs or forums where people post cryptic instructions or link to bash scripts that might as well be black box binaries from their perspective.
I'd like to just see a return to homesteading period. If a property goes unused / unoccupied for a year, anyone can move in. No more land squatting to drive up real estate prices and use it as a store of wealth.

Yes, this kills real estate as a long term investment. No, that is a good thing, we should collectively much rather see capital invested in the stock market rather than being thrown into precious metals or property as a store of value.
use romana.io instead of veth
This is the best response I've seen so far. Real estate is actually a great export for cities and countries, at least properly considered: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/billion_to_one/2013/1....

Seattle has a bunch of similar articles about "outsiders" supposedly driving up housing costs. Which is absurd: steel frame construction and elevators are very old technologies that allow humans to build just about as many housing units as can be desired.
Not really, depending on what type of text it was she'd reply instantaneously. Also, honestly in this day and age is it really appropriate to take at minimum 4 days to respond to a question from your "significant other"? That is not normal. Everyone is always on their phone, like she was. In any case, regardless of whether she was faking it or not, it's difficult to maintain a relationship with someone who is always either unavailable or unreliable. Eventually I start to mimic their stiffness despite how well intentioned I may be and how petty I may think my actions are.
It does mention toggling off the veth device "checksum offloading" as a valid workaround.
> At the end of the day, online businesses serve things to customers just as venues serve performing acts and stores sell goods. There is some expectation of due diligence over what they provide.

Devil's advocate: where does this line start and stop?

I'm not advocating for download.com. Stores aren't held responsible for bad products. Physical stores like Walmart and Target as well as digital entities like Amazon and Newegg have shelves full of products designed to break under minimal use, high markups for mediocre products, and products that have been cleverly advertise to look better than exected. This is not completely analogous to serving malware, but the onus is not on the store to vet the products before selling.

Why should download.com be held responsible for hosting crapware when we don't hold stores pushing goods liable for selling us gold-painted trash?
It took GitHub's support exactly 82 days to respond to my issue[1]. In the end, I literally had to ask a GitHub employee on his AMA to look up what the hell is going on.

[1] https://blog.r3bl.me/en/worst-support-experience-ever/
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I try to get them to vote for someone that can inch us to the future they want to see.

I don't mean to get too political. But I want to point out the widespread fallacy that our increasing scientific understanding of the world around us will somehow enable us to engineer a better social order.

Things like society and the economy are emergent phenomena. They're incredibly complex, involving (literally) countless forces that tug at various phenomena in unforeseeable ways. Because of their distributed nature, it's impossible for any entity to have access to the entire set of data that the system is operating on, and thus impossible to direct it with any confidence. And because of its vast interconnectivity, its also impossible for us to make changes to its infrastructure without changing the effects of those forces.

The complexity of these things is no less than the complexity of the human organism. It seems pretty well accepted that it would be absurd folly to engineer changes into that organism; even tweaking around the margins is fraught. We should be every bit as wary of meddling with the operation of our society or economy.
> All you need to do is ban general purpose computing first.

And while we're at it we can prevent traffic accidents by banning the wheel and prevent heart disease by banning food.
It's an interesting idea and I agree with the argument.

Having been one of those 'gifted children' and gone to gifted schools where I wasn't challenged, I think this is a good idea.

I basically never had to put any effort in until my last year of high school and completely breezed through my education. Once I hit university and couldn't get away with that anymore, I was totally unequipped to handle continuing my education or holding a job that matched my capabilities. I hit a wall of failure pretty hard.

It probably took me another 7 years after that to get my life together where I had the habits to try and achieve things through consistent effort.

And yeah, all of the depression, anxiety and substances abuse that you would expect happened too.
Council tax in the UK is not really comparable to property taxes in other countries like the US.

It's a highly regressive tax, and utterly negligible when considering prime real estate in areas like London.
I moved to Berlin recently from Sydney. My rent is 60% of what I was paying in Sydney, and for a nicer apartment. I can't believe more people aren't moving here.

(Maybe I shouldn't say so. Keep the secret to those who know.)
To my ear, Connections hangs on the conceptual nail that that future is already being formed and nudging people towards it may or may not have any affect. It nearly screams "change is like a lightning bolt but one that may take a long time."

It's one of the most Whiggish-progress things I can think of. For me, this is Useful because it makes it less frustrating when I try to advocate for change. The last 200 years are vanishingly close to inexplicable in terms of the rest of human history.
I think the transition would be pretty tough to make. If they did it quickly, they would be hammered by investor lawsuits. If they do it slowly, their stock price will fall enough that somebody would likely buy them.
> The way to authorise online transactions is with a piece of paper with 100 codes printed on it (TAN list). This was a shock, but it's apparently common here.

This is what I've had with all European banks. It's simple, secure and always in your wallet. What's the method you are accustomed to in the UK?

Some banks do an extra validation step in case of unexpected transfers (such as a large sum, or a new foreign destination account) by sending the required TAN index by SMS. You'll then look up the matching TAN from your list an put that in.
Subuser is not a revolutionary peice of software. You are right that it is a LOT like a zip file or tar.gz file full of bundled dependencies. It is, however, a big improvement on just that. Subuser contains the subusers, so they cannot mess with the rest of your system, making a lot eisier to trust those bundled dependencies. It also provides some rather primitive update mechanisms for those bundled dependencies. But it's main advantage is the containment and the "blank slate".

In the future, I would like to expand on the vision, to include the ability to do deduplication, so that all those zip files with bundled dependencies take up less space. And deduplication done right, will save bandwidth too. Indeed, when you have these "deduplicated zip files", with deduplication done algorithmically, you'll save even MORE space and MORE bandwidth than with a traditional dependency resolving file manager. Take for example debian. Debian uses packages. These packages have dependencies. The dependencies are shared. This saves space over a case where you have a bunch of zip files with unshared dependencies. But when you update a dependency, even if only one line of one file has changed, that dependency must be downloaded completely anew. But with algorithmic de-duplication, updating one line of one file means you only have to download one line of one file anew.

Space savings are there for a similar reason.
They're both minimalist which is going to lead to a lot of design convergence.
Why have taxes at all if rich people always find a way around these things? Or laws, for that matter?
Exactly what I was thinking: The BI article lit a fire under their arse and this is a quick scramble rather than a long-considered response.
Why even one? It's 2016. What's going in there? An Ez-Bake Oven? (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml)
You'll never compete in the next revolution with books. Too slow; need a publisher on your side; the govt has all the electronic communication and can react/communicate instantly.

No, its about an escalating war and going back to bow and arrow is not going to win. Witness the Maginot Line in WWII etc.

Modern e-communications are available to folks of almost every wealth - witness in Africa that most banking is done on phones! Its a tired old argument that only the rich worry about computer tech.
We're willing to gratify ourselves, while withholding the gratification of others?
If you rely on the TCP checksum to protect your data you are delusional anyways. The TCP checksum is a simple additive checksum that is very weak and cannot detect wide classes of data corruptions. It is is well known that it won't catch many problems, with classical papers describing this. All it can do is to catch very obvious "big" mistakes.

That is why link layers always have other stronger CRCs too.

This is actually one of the better reasons to always use TLS. Yhe MAC authentication it uses is much stronger.
> Don't use the TAN list!

What's behind this recommendation?