skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> changing "score something 'out of your league'" to, e.g., "meet someone 'out of your league.'" I'm not sure why people see this as so hard to swallow.

The use case for language is this: You have a picture or idea in your brain that needs to be transmitted over ASCII into my brain. The conventional symbol set for this use case are English words. A priori we received a dictionary of words and their meanings that we assume is identical to all parties. Trouble is that it isn't. IF and only IF the goal of BOTH parties is to reproduce the original message with highest possible fidelity, then the receiver will obtain a copy of the transmitter's dictionary, and use the updated definitions to reproduce the transmitter's message.

However if the goal of the receiver is to discredit the transmitter or distract from the point being made, then a great tactic, akin to DNS hijack, is to push onto all receivers an alternative dictionary to the one used by the transmitter. In this case the alterative dictionary elicits outrage, discrediting the transmitter, and hijacking the original discussion.

CNN, for example, their goal is NOT to reproduce with high fidelity what congressman X said, rather, their goal is ___ (insert: make it more entertaining, make it more newsworthy, make it click-bait suitable, keep viewers watching, attract ad dollars, curry political favor, drive their own agenda, etc). In addition to pushing an alternative dictionary, they can reinforce with cutting phrases out of context, using selective historical imagery and video, bringing 'experts' to present their views.

In summary I feel that HG was using an alternative dictionary attack (akin to DNS hijack), to distract from the substantive content in the OP.
Who's going to volunteer porting, say, Wine's 4000 line autotool script[1] to CMake, exactly? You, maybe? (I'm not being sarcastic, if you actually came up with a patch it might be considered...)

[1] http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/0f8a0fd4002f9d5d1...
Or stop buying certain things. In America, at least, political decisions are not made with the interest of the average citizen in mind. There is a strong corporate interest in getting you to buy stuff as often as possible and that heavily influences government policy. That is not to say that reducing consumption would not have a significant impact on the prosperity of the average citizen.

I'm of the opinion that the effort should focus on making the re-use of materials profitable. Charge people by weight for what they throw away and provide a financial incentive for re-use/re-cycling of everything from food scraps to aluminum cans and you'll find that your trash disappears from the curb long before the garbage truck comes.
The bizarre part to me is putting the right hand side of the graph up first. If the left side was first, I wouldn't have commented.
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I can't answer that, but I can add that it is quite common in London too. I can see the allure of the "park my millions in property in the world financial capital" investment strategy, but I don't get the Vancouver version. That's not meant as a slight on Vancouver.
You're right, I should have said "isn't widely done as a full offset". You see watered down versions, but a true Pigovian tax would be priced to offset 100% of the negative externality.
Thanks for the feedback. The JSON structure is something we will refine, and right now we wanted to have very explicit rules and not too complex configuration settings. But we will evaluate this along the way, and I like your example :)
Man, lots of parallels to game-dev here. You see an almost similar problem, albiet that it means the average career is ~3 years instead of being a geographical migration.
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Very obnoxious. It's embarrassing to see a community I respect so much acting so childish ...
Taxation based on consumption is a horrible idea, because it impacts the people with low incomes much more than the people with high incomes. Everyone must spend a fraction of their income on consumption merely to exist. The poorer you are, the larger that fraction. Which means that a tax based on consumption is in effect a form of progressive taxation turned upside down where you pay less the more you earn.
To add: the designer of the system explicitly pointed out the system was intended to be ruled by the majority:

"It is a global distributed database, with additions to the database by consent of the majority, based on a set of rules they follow"

Link: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
> It's only missing critical mass

As somebody who loves Gitlab... no, what it's missing is Github's reputation of lasting uptime reliability. If they get it to the point where people trust it to always be up to the same extent as Github, the rest will follow.
The key point you are missing is that housing is being bought almost entirely by people who do not live there and never will, either as investment vehicles, or a way to safely move money out of china (real estate is one of the few things china allows Chinese citizens to invest in outside of china). They have no incentive to even rent, because of both frozen value property taxes, and the house generally forming a small part of their total wealth, generally being held as a rainy day nest egg. There are entire city blocks of high rises in Vancouver that have no lights on at night, no traffic in the morning, and no cars in their parking lots. Your entire post addresses arguments nobody made.

But if you had read the article you would already know that....
You can require presence in the country to a homestead exemption. If you aren't in the country for a large amount of time (say, 180 days) you don't get your exemption. Between that and having it only apply to a single property the incentives to park cash in an empty Vancouver apartment are diminished.
I usually don't like forced scroll myself, but I have to say that I'm personally satisfied with the results of this site.

But I hear you and when the site goes from landing page to real website we will make sure to have a nice scroll experience for everyone :)
The dark side of online poker or the commoditization and weaponization of big data
If your point is "genetic modification is no more dangerous than normally-occurring mutations", then I did.
> HITEC was part of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" [1] following Hurricane Sandy.

No, Sandy was in 2012. HITECH was part of the ARRA, more commonly known as "the stimulus package".
Not having to add autotools to a BuildRequires is nice, but hardly the end of the world as a package maintainer. I agree though, the contents of the repository at a git tag is not necessarily a source DISTRIBUTION - which is what most people who are compiling your software would want - especially when many of them probably don't know the autotools incantations required to generate the configure script.
Take note, Auckland. The same dynamics exist there.
You can see a list by scrolling through:

https://github.com/blog

One of the more obvious things is that running a huge, popular app is non-trivial, particularly if your users do things which get e.g. governments to attack your site.
I'd like to see presidental debates revolve around a pull request :D
They certainly are in plenty of neighborhoods - especially compared to other cities in China. The thing is that despite the tall buildings there isn't actually that much supply on HK island itself because it's so tiny. Still, I think there's a much bigger range relative to overall quality of urban life compared to, say, SF. And things get a lot more affordable across the harbor in Kowloon and in the New Territories. Though, even there it's probably not cheap compared to most cities in mainland China.

I'm far from an expert on this though, and maybe I'm off base here. I've just spent time there and looked at real estate and been struck by how not impossible it was to find reasonable places at reasonable prices compared to the Bay Area.
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Making it easy to publish should not be a main objective for a package manager. Things like maintainability and security are more important.
> any fundamental differences between sandboxing of every thread in chrome and what electrolysis is doing?

Chrome does process-per-tab more or less. Current plans for e10s are to start with just 1 content process and see how that can be increased later.

So basically e10s does not suffer per-process-overhead as chrome does. For now.
I used to work in the Vancouver film industry. I remember an interview with some of the Stargate people where they laughed at the fact that most of the CG guys working on the shows final years (SG Atlantis) were in diapers when SG1 started. As soon as the novelty wore off and they wanted pay, everyone left. Anyone who thinks actresses age quickly in Hollywood, look at the teenagers who work in CG.
It breaks the back button.
> As a general rule, if management expects results without giving you the tools for the job, ask yourself whether you really want to be in that job, and start looking for alternatives.

Well the hard part here is determining if lack the tools due to management disorganization or due to my own lack of skill or intelligence. I have already left the organization.

> you _can_ estimate things correctly once you have the context

Maybe my problem comes down to not recognising when I lack a piece of context or being stubborn enough to get it.
Except it's been this way for 30 years. Vancouver house prices have always been higher than Ontario, even back in the 80s when I lived there. So speculation is one thing, but 30 years isn't speculation. And back then they were saying it was foreigners too, especially from Hong Kong. But it's 30 years later, and the house prices haven't abated at all. That isn't speculation, that's a permanently high prices.

When my parents bought their house there it was $275,000 it was almost 75% higher than our house in Toronto. And they sold it for $1,300,000 a few years ago. Crazy, but it's only annualized 6% over 25 years, less than the stock market (but higher than normal real estate I'm assuming). However it's prime Vancouver real estate with fantastic schools, a case could be made that it's worth it if you compare to San Francisco.

The only difference is that no one knows where the money is coming from for the last 30 years. There is no industry in Vancouver, except tourism and the average salary is ~60k.
Or rather, will be, by 2020.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/congress-passes-p...
When white men with great credentials, skills and experience have their résumé thrown in the waste bin because a company has to meet "diversity quotas", then yes there is a problem. Discrimination is being battled with discrimination, with the exclusion of qualified people based on their race and gender - which is the original problem to begin with, just turned on its face.
You might enjoy this then:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d

In there you'll find ~/.emacs/init.el which parses ~/.emacs/init.md which is a markdown file containing both documentation and executable Lisp.

There are other files in separate directories/packages, but I like the idea of placing everything in one readable file:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md
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This goes for Canadian employers in general, not just those in Vancouver. I'm not sure how they expect to retain talent when they offer on average about half the salary of similar positions in the US when adjusted for currency (and I'm not even talking about SF... Seattle is a 3 hour drive from Vancouver and moving there can easily double your salary with a comparable cost of living), especially since the barrier to entry into the US is practically non-existent for citizens.

Understandably, employers in Canada want to save money by competing only with their Canadian neighbors in terms of salaries, but this attitude seems extremely shortsighted to me, and results in a vicious negative feedback loop: companies offer lower salaries -> low availability of higher tier talent -> companies under-compete -> companies can now only afford lower salaries -> rinse and repeat. I believe this has been having a profound effect on competitiveness of the Canadian tech industry as a whole (see Blackberry/RIM as a prime example of this phenomenon).

As a recent Waterloo grad, I've witnessed the brain-drain first hand. Everyone I know from school who's any good has left for lucrative US positions, and I'll probably be joining them soon.
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> What I don't get is the repulsion people here seem to have with the simple idea that the state is entitled to evidence

I don't think many people have any significant objection to the state acquiring evidence, as long as proper procedure (warrants/etc) is followed.

While the repulsion is primarily over breaking encryption (key escrow nonsense, etc) and the damage that would cause, there is another problem with the Government's desire for "access" that I haven't seen much in the reprisal of the Crypto Wars compared to the previous round in the 90s.

The government is implicitly demanding additional work be done on it's behalf. Managing a key escrow system (or part of it) isn't free. There is a labor cost and a cost in damage to a business's market position and reputation (their product will be seen - rightly - as less valuable).

A warrant isn't a guarantee that a search will produce the desired evidence. It is unreasonable to demand that we (everyone, before any warrant is involved) should change our behavior and try to preserve evidence or compromise our own security to make it easier for the government at some hypothetical time in the future.
There's a large existing Chinese population and Canada has a stable legal system (e.g. no worry for property rights). Seattle has a similar phenomenon, though not as extensive because there is more local competition. NYC has one with Russia (though that is diminishing thanks to cheap oil).
I did this same exact thing for a short period, except I used our company admin (with her permission). I thought it would be neat to have a face for support via email and chat and if you called us you'd most likely be greeted by her as well.

It was hard to believe how many people wanted to chat, get a walk through of our product or have a call until they got handed off to a male in sales or support. So many no shows for meetings.
> Traditional hash tables are imperative data structures, and Lisp code (or Scheme code, at least) typically does not use them because of this.

I don't understand that.

> Association lists, which can be represented as literals, are persistent and provider faster lookup, despite being {snip}

Those look like like they could be useful, but I don't see how they can replace hashmaps --- for one thing, they allow duplicate "keys" (the first element of each pair).

I'd use a lisp, and don't mind the lisp/parens syntax, but to be useful for me it must provide easy access to and use of hashmaps and sets.
because most of them are from china, and vancouver is on the west coast, has a large ethnic chinese population, and is for all social and economic intents and purposes the same as the US.
Between Hound and Travis... I don't really see a use case for this... yet.
You're probably right about the attitude, but you can disable this feature pretty easily.
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Linux Max - 872 MiB

Windows Max - 1,108 MiB

OSX Max - 1,694 MiB

Something Funny is happening with OSX to spike the memory usage to those levels.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/401h2o/hosts_fil...

apparently no
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If I am talking to my PM I will say,
"It will take me an hour to fix that. But I'm working on project XYZ right now so it will be sometime next week. If you need me to do this first though, just let me know."

Because to me part of being a PM is deciding project priority.

In room painting analogy, "Painting the bedroom will take about 2 days of work. But I am working on the kitchen cabinets which will take at least 2 more weeks. Do you want me to stop that to work on the bedroom so you can move in your bedroom furniture first?"
I'm glad to hear that you get our message! The 'magic' branding is there because everything is done automatically (i.e. it's a cloud service) without the need to install anything on the client side.

And we love magic ;)
Yes, which makes sense physically. If the earth's rotation slowed by a constant velocity, in order to damp that motion the mirrors would have to displace themselves in the opposite velocity. Of course, there's no room for them to do so, so damping such low frequencies is not possible.
see the 5th and 4th amendment
Incidentally, there is also a lot of game dev in Vancouver.
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You are probably agreeing to it by accepting an EULA?
If that were the case, why hasn't contempt of court ever required a jury trial?
As I said, the alternative is not a C array.
Neither is C style malloc and free are used in games. If you want a discussion - argue over what I've said or ask questions if you don't understand something. Otherwise have fun with your own mental image of game programming yourself.
Your analogy hits a snag here:

> In the meantime, the co-op grows 10-fold, but the contract with the management company doesn't change (somehow, let's just assume the co-op doesn't require active management, they just need guidance occasionally or something)

The question isn't what a "normal management structure" would cost. It's what the affiliated entity would normally charge in the market for the same service. Vanguard's sells its investment management services to the mutual fund at cost because it's owned by the mutual fund. It wouldn't do that otherwise.

So to make your example comparable, the co-op buys the management company, and makes it operate at zero profit. So the question is: would the management company be happy making zero profit if it weren't owned by the co-op? The answer is: probably not.
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Their is no "supposed to" in Bitcoin. Its an experiment that went totally insane. It does not have any way of finding agreement that ankered within the blockchain. The potential value that could be destroyed is so big that it compels people to find some kind of agreemnt.

Newer blockchains are already learning from these problems and are innovating. Bitshares for example has the goverment structure built in, most of the paramaters can be chainged by voting.

Now that does not make it democracy as we know it, because the power of the vote is based on how much stack you have. Its essentially a company with stack holders.

Doing a democracy as we have it in real live will be hard because of the identity problem.

Bitcoin need some way to resolve these conflicts and if possible root the choices in the blockchain itself.

This issue really forces you to think about how we make choices in groupes, and what is "fair".

Their is a lot of research on this in political economics. James Buchanen had interesting things to say about the Economic of Club and the Economics of Constitution.

I also recommend,"Choosing in Groups: Analytical Politics Revisited"
It's not very welcome when it's this complicated. Injecting social artifices into something as seemingly simple as text communication is frustrating. How often do any of us think about the emotional impact of the timing of a text message in any other context?
Thanks for the details! This is basically what Vijay and I were guessing by the fact that the MTU is something less than 1500 on Google Compute Engine.

The demonstration that Vijay added to the post was done on Google Container Engine, using Kubernetes. The packets were sent corrupted using netem. We tested a few configurations and were unable to get corrupt packets to be delivered to a Google Container Engine instance, so I agree with your assessment. Most importantly: it appears that the Container Engine TCP load balancer drops corrupt packets from the public Internet.

However: If someone is using some weird routing or VPN configuration, it might be possible (but this seems unlikely). Notably: I seem to recall that if you send corrupt packets to a Compute Engine instance, they are received corrupted (through the Compute Engine NAT). So if you used your own custom routing to get packets to a Google Container Engine application, this might apply. But again, you would have to really try to have this happen :)
I will try to make it more visible, thanks!
You don't have to tax food, or children's clothing, or books or etc.
Yes, I suppose adding 1 programmer to a team of 2 would be the same as adding a manager who increases each programmer's productivity by 50%.

Likewise for a team of 10 programmers, you can either add another programmer or a manager who increases existing productivity by 10%.
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I wouldn't mind at all if the municipal recycling program took my recycling, sorted it, and routed the less valuable materials straight to the landfill based on current market conditions and analysis of all the criteria mentioned in the OP (cost of new materials, cost to recycle, carbon footprint, etc.). I put it out in one unsorted cart regardless and they have to sort it either way.

It has crossed my mind that they may already do this, either on the sly or per a policy in some terms I haven't read.

If they had more flexibility with the economics, maybe they could stop charging residents $6/month (the fee in my city for recycling pickup) to feel like we're doing the right thing.
I'm exactly in the same type of relationship problem, except she is the one working.

I'm currently trying a behavioral cognitive therapy, so far it's working a little better than whatever else I tried with psychiatrists.

What is making me hold to life, is to try to do some stuff I know how to do: programming, etc at a minimal pace and scale (I have this small video game project I'm trying to do). Even though it won't solve my problems (or at least immediately), I still believe in what I do or can do, and it prevents me from giving up everything.

If you have skills and like to do certain things or if you are attracted to certain things, go do them, it's not a waste of your time, even if the task seems daunting or hard. In a way, you can reason it as being some kind of possible contribution to society, and for me that's how I maintain a minimal amount of self-esteem.
What about the 10,000 other products that people throw away?

There's a TV that was thrown into the woods down the street from me. One of those large tubes. It'll be there for years.
Nah. I am probably the best possible person to make this kind of mistake with. I am not grudging, I have excellent family support -- when I am suicidal, my sons make sure I am not left alone -- and I explain certain kinds of things well.

Take a break until it smarts less, but don't swear off nontechnical discussions for all time. :-)

Have a great day!
Beyond being annoying in the extreme, this surely must run afoul of the advertising source's rules. I couldn't even finish reading the page because the ads kept popping up and distracting me!
Oh, I saw what you intended in your original post. I was just amused at how poorly you phrased it.
I imagine prices will stay the same and the ISPs will just eat up what we used to pay in tax.