skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to fix the country then remove all limits, let developers develop whatever and whereever they deem there is demand.

That's a bad idea, too. For example, in Fremont right now, there's a development that was built without being placed in a school district. So the students who will live there have no real school.

Also, there are serious environmental impacts that need to be considered every time you build a new housing unit.

Outlawing zoning completely is a bad idea too: you'll end up with housing units built next to noisy factories or smelly plants, and then the people in the new houses will complain to get the factory shut down, even though the factory was there before they were, and it was making noise when they moved in.

Furthermore, when you build new housing, you need to consider how those people are going to get transportation, water and electricity (and heating in most places). You can't just throw up a housing unit anywhere and expect those things to be built magically.
The audio clip from the Lafayette city manager smears BARF by implying the group is trying to destroy the Bay Area's wilderness.

In actuality, the efforts over there involve a large area of land that Lafayette wants to use for a single-family-housing development, whereas BARF believes that state law requires it to be used for apartment buildings.

Also, if you want to preserve the region's wilderness, the last thing you want to do is obstruct housing density in the urban center. That just pushes people to sprawl outward into the surrounding countryside.
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> If the city needs more taxes to pay for infrastructure they should raise their local income taxes.

Difficulty: Not every locality is allowed to impose an income tax.

Example: Seattle is having what one might charitably call an infrastructure problem due to its massive population growth. Washington State does not permit an income tax at any level and further imposes some rather stout limits on the amount of any other taxation.

Follow-up: What now? Washington State voters--to change the law would need to pass at a state level, including in an inevitable referendum--have repeatedly turned down both an income tax and repealing tax limits. In fact, they do the exact opposite and vote in more draconian limits (which, because the drafters of the initiatives are usually either poorly-informed or paid initiative campaigners who want initiatives to keep going to the ballot, keep getting tossed by the state Supreme Court as of late but the earlier ones stand).
Well, that's the thing. Simple code is hard to write. It's easy to end up with a convoluted mess, because often the first version is just the programmer implementing their thought process as they think through the problem.

It's rare that people get the chance to go back and fix up the code once they have a better understanding of the problem.
> it's not a white paper, it's a full scientific publication.

I believe the parent referring to the common usage of "white paper" to refer to B2B marketing materials that are not often written in an academic style.

I was pleasantly surprised to find this was a self-published scientific article and not what I and dekhn usually think of when we hear white-paper.
Adding a variable is creating state. Defeating "past tense without state."

What you described, has ever, has recently seems like classical finite state machine.
foldl1 (+) ?
That is a cool idea. It never occurred to me to make it interactive. How would you imagine that interactive mode would work?
Not necessarily -- you can have the really big decisions made by consensus in a horizontal fashion while still delegating much of the decision-making power. No one's arguing that everyone in the organization sit down for every decision. There's no need for everyone in the organization to sit down and decide whether candidate X is a good hire (though that might work just fine for really small teams). Delegate as much authority as possible to the actual experts in the domain and the stakeholders of that decision. As decisions affect more and more people, figure out ways to involve everyone in that decision making process in a horizontal rather than a vertical way. Asking "Who's responsible making sure the code is high quality and we're not taking on too much technical debt? or "Who's responsible for making sure we're in legal compliance?" or "How are you going to resolve a disagreement about which vendor to use for XYZ" is a different question entirely than "Who's in charge of everything?"
We don't have to remove all limits; we can get a ton of benefit just by adjusting the stupid ones.

For example, the ones that require seas of single-family houses around most of San Francisco's major transit hubs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/3qu9uv/i_made...
> If your argument is that we shouldn't be calling the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia "gender apartheid" because it isn't really all that bad, then you're just flat out wrong.

I don't think that anyone argues about shades of wrong here. The argument is about the word "apartheid" because it actually denotes something much more exact than "being a dick to some group of people".
Why would I need to purchase or develop additional property?

He supports my right use the house I purchased (next door to his) in any way I see fit.

So, If I have 8 families living in a single family home, there may be some sanitation and parking problems.
Well, not actually a IDE, I still use Emacs to create my IPython Notebooks in Jupyter.

Although it has and allow the creation of extensions which provide a lot of usefull features. In this version, the nbextensions are introduced as python packages, so that they're even easier to use/install.

The best thing with Jupyter Notebooks, is that one can write text with markdown, show formulas with LaTex (using MathJax), show code inputs and outputs in REPL-style, all together with possible Bash use, other languages' snippets, and nice cell %magics.
How did you get all the services into docker, process-wise/socially/politically? Is your place really small? Or did every team buy into the idea? Or did someone dockerize everyone else's services?
There's just no impressing you, eh?
Pretty much the only zoning needed is low noise and high noise (airport, late night music venues, etc). All the other things that tag along with zoning are not needed. The only reason for noise zoning is to prevent people from moving next to an existing high noise activity and pushing it out.

Zoning laws effectively turn into a tax on new comers to an area as things like "protected views", height restrictions just add to the cost of housing and running a business. Also these laws reduce density which makes having good public transportation harder and means you have to commute more to your job.

Permitting could be more streamlined, but should be required for any non cosmetic change as people try to cut corners to save $0.50 that can easily kill someone.

Disclaimer: I own property next to a large airport.
Depends on your time scale I guess. Arguably class and racial segregation are highly linked in the US and is the primary way that racial disparities continue to be reproduced so persistently. See, for example, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018211
A modern school can be built in a couple days with modern portable classrooms: http://www.modulargenius.com/portable-classroom.html
Here are some popular and excellent podcasts that have great production value:

https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

http://freakonomics.com/archive/
One problem is that one need not be particularly racist for segregation to occur spontaneously:

http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...
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anyone can move in to those places if they have the money and the property is for sale. your restaurant idea is actually happening in some parts of south and east los angeles, illegally - i've seen youtube videos documenting the phenomenon.

having said that, i don't think those existing homeowners would be any more willing to let white extended families move in and open up burger joints downstairs either.
i miss This Developer's Life. :(

I wonder what happened to Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman that they decided to end it.
For sure I do. I'm just trying to further theorize why many websites do not link externally. Short-sightedness is the best I can come up with.

Is it fair to say that most popular news websites tend to link more often to themselves than external sites? Recently I've noticed more are linking to primary sources, but it wasn't so common as recent as 2 years ago, in my recollection.
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Do you honestly believe that the majority of people (hell, even 10% of people) could explain it to even the level he did? It's still a layman's level -- his response is clearly over-simplified and I doubt he could show the math behind any of it -- but it's far and above what the average person could tell you about the subject.
Just FYI women can vote in Saudi Arabia but only for municipal elections and only since 2015: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15052030
It's fundamentally wrong to have non domain expert, "generic" devs. To be effective your devs need to become domain experts in whatever they are developing
Yikes. Sorry about that, something went wrong with my init scripts and our server rebooted earlier. It's up again and I'm looking into the problem.

Our blog posts in particular:

https://paragonie.com/blog/category/security-engineering

A reading list we maintain for application security (and some crypto stuff):

https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec
Well given that I'm South Asian, I don't think their race is an issue to me personally, and people in Vancouver who've brought this problem up are the most racially progressive bunch there is (including a huge native Chinese population that has been there for decades). Chinese money is flooding in because of issues in the Chinese investment market and they are increasing their investment in the SF market too now.

The by-product is that the demand side is doubled up! Protectionism doesn't work, so what do we do? I'm firmly in the 'Build More' category but this one problem, I'm not sure how to solve.
Why do you hold the assumption that code can be made much simpler than it is?

I've done many years of programming and wrote some bigger programs from scratch by myself. Almost always the actual code is far more complicated than one would assume it should be. And it's not because it's of low quality. It happens that writing something nontrivial that works in the real world requires all the details, checks and abstractions it contains.

If you were in school recently, maybe you were lead to think that programming is an extension of math, where everything is pure, simple and provable. But it isn't - programming is much messier.
I agree people should know that eventually, but I'm suspicious that they really need to know it first, or even early on.

My early coding years were spent typing in BASIC game programs from magazines (wumpus hunters represent!), tweaking them, and later making up my own. There was a lot of theory that I could have benefited from, but I never had the motivation to learn it until later, when learning the theory solved problems I had actually experienced.
Watching dozens of videos of Americans answering geography questions would lead me to disagree with you on what the average person knows about quantum physics.
One solution is to replace elections altogether and instead institute a lottery system pooled from the general population with term limits at various levels of government.
"But so long as everyone followed other laws"

Would you agree that the population density of an area has some correlation to the crime in that area?
While this seems planted and trite (much like the "because it's 2015" answer), I have to confess that I don't get quantum computing.

A qubit can hold multiple values, it seems. Okay, that's a data density improvement (presuming a quibit is as dense as a traditional bit). How does that improve computing power (especially by the many magnitudes)? Do you multiply a qubit of infinite values against a quibit of infinite values and have all possible results? I just don't see the bridge from data density to a revolution in computing power.

Note that I'm not saying this as a cynic. I know that this is happening, and a lot of very smart people are excited by it. I just have never seen an explanation that bridges data density to calculation speed.
This. In the "Haskell" episode of Programming Throwdown, they don't actually start talking about Haskell until 37 minutes in. ARGH.

http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2014/07/episode-35-haske...
You're not going to find a list of these types of improvements that will apply directly to what you're working on, but any intro to UX book should help you get into the right mindset to identify them on your own. Design of Everyday Things is a good start for somebody with no knowledge at all of UX.
The inventory is rotting? Laughable. The Mission Capable Rates are in the 80-90% range. There haven't been "factory resources" for parts in decades, and yet the fleet still manages to fly at a high rate. CAD Files? Factory Tooling? You have very little understanding of how aircraft maintenance in the Air Force works. Ever heard of a sheet metal shop? Those dudes can make anything.

An A-10 flight hour costs <8K. Source: I managed a $54M, 7200 hour A-10 flying hour program. I have flown A-10s for 18 years.
SV is becoming a real estate business instead of tech. When you have 50% or more of salaries spent on rent or mortgage then so much of the revenue generated is just lost into real estate instead of innovation growth, investment and R&D.

I don't understand why FB, Apple, Google, etc. do not lobby hard the local cities and push to build 100,000 new units. It'll bring the rent or house prices down and it will allow many new startups to afford local hires or bring developers over here.
Well, the time stuff has to do with Clojure's different ref types (Ref, Atom, Var, Agent...) combined with the persistent data structures.
It's not. You're probably doing it wrong.

http://jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html#new-to...

use something like:

>pip install jupyter -U
Try thinking a long the lines of "get the ball rolling", when designing interfaces where some regions must start from a blank slate, e.g. use placeholders, prompts, etc.
Political optics.

The Saudi Arabia fan club in the US is pretty small. Most American voters are either apathetic or antipathetic about Saudi Arabia.

Suppose Congress passes this bill and American voters say, "Great. That's fine with me. Let's sue these Saudi Arabian funders of terrorism."

And now Obama vetoes it. How's that going to make him look to American voters? "I wonder why he did that? Looks pretty suspicious to me ..."

Plus, how's that going to reflect on the Democratic presidential candidates?
How do you ensure it sells for $40k and the person that buys it lives in it (not renting or sub-leasing for a profit)?
I can put cameras outside of my home, I can have cars towed away, I can find the ripped up bill in their trash bag that tells me the perpetrator is John Q. Badguy.

But that is neither here nor there. My desire for comfort is nullified when it's being weighted against someone's human rights.
Here's an uncomfortable thought: an effective 1-to-1 mapping between men and women probably doesn't exist.

The fact of the matter is that women are primarily interested in a top smaller percentage of high value men (this is called hypergamy). This smaller group of desirable men would most like to have multiple mates (this is called polygamy). Marriage, and the accompanying culture and customs, 'corrects' this by trying to create a 1-to-1 mapping. Both extreme strategies described are traditionally shamed and discouraged.

Why? Because marriage (monogamous long-term bonding) is good for society. It incentivizes the largest amount of people to be productive, and reduces civil unrest by distributing sexual access to women across as many men as possible. For more on sex and society, check out J.D. Unwin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Unwin

Now, how this relates to dating difficulties. The fact of the matter is that people become unhappy in a relationship of any kind when they think they are getting the short end of the stick, and could be doing better. They'll rationalize it six ways to Sunday, "my partner doesn't understand me", "my partner smothers me", "they don't do enough chores", "we don't understand ourselves", whatever, but at the end of the day they think they ought to have a better mate, and are fed up with their current one! And oh golly gee, look at the easily accessible options out there. Swiping for a new novel partner is so much easier than building anything substantial. Plus they might be better in bed.

This is especially true of women, who, by pure numerical inevitability, largely marry below what they would prefer. We know that women initiate most divorces too, at ~70% (fun fact: among college-eduated couples, that number rises to 90%). A smaller amount of men end up locked to one person too, when they know in another world they could have more mates. Such are the sacrifices for the monogamous society - often referred to as patriarchal, because women are more sexually restricted.

So in conclusion, what bothers me about articles like this, who delve deep into rationalizations instead of simple mate value and attractiveness, is the implication of a 1-to-1 mapping between men and women. Is there a 'Soul Mate' for most people? Probably not.
Challenges of micro-service deployments
I had the same thought. Are there any advantages to the user in having it be a separate site?
The Chinese people who are buying up houses aren't buying them to live in, they're buying them just to speculate. The owners stay in China. It would be just as bad if they were from another country, it's just that they happen to be Chinese.
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in the US it's called a metric ton.
Well colour me unimpressed. It has had idiot-proofing for ages. There is no defense against an idiot who manually disables all the safeguards - this is very different from a whine of "Noooo saaaafeguaaaaards!" (what do you think that -f does? Hint: the long form is --force)

Also, who accidentally types --no-preserve-root, a 19-character typo in a 30-character command, on top of yet another typo, either of which is idiot-proofed ?

I call an absolute pile of bullshit on that story.
Actually, what Avi has demonstrated in this article is that XFS is the only filesystem that executes it mostly asynchronously.

Before we got started with the implementation of the I/O Scheduler (which we eventually wanted anyway for prioritization), I saw await time as reported by iostat as bad as 7s (truth be told, those weren't the best disks in the planet).

That was basically XFS sleeping during io_submit due to the problem I have briefly mentioned in this article, with the allocation groups.

If you limit the amount of requests the filesystem is consuming, then it is gone to the point that we started focused our attention in other areas. But it still has a couple of places in which it will resort to synchronous behavior.

No Linux filesystem can execute io_submit completely asynchronous.
The Canadian media is highly supportive of Trudeau at the moment and, with the exception of more reputable periodicals like the Globe and Mail and the National Post, are taking every opportunity to gush.

That said, Trudeau has shown a significant capacity to leverage those around him to display competencies he wouldn't have on his own.
Sure but that doesn't stop the government from charging me (the sender/receiver) with illegally encrypting communication which the bill looks like it could provide. It's a political problem because NO ONE should be charged with using math. When you consider how badly all computer crime laws are enforced, I think that fighting the bill via political methods is the only safe way forward.
It still is the case... Trust me
Women in Saudi Arabia live absolutely shitty lives at the hands of their male oppressors and the parent isn't disputing that. That doesn't make it apartheid.

The only purpose of trying to redefine apartheid to refer their situation is because it's a scary word that has more universally negative connotations.

"Women in Saudi Arabia are currently the victims of an ongoing genocide"

A genocide of their freedom and liberty as individuals.

We can do better than this kind of rhetoric -- it's already horrifying on its own, there's no point in trying to associate it with other terrible, unrelated acts in history.
That does not seem to be available on Yosemite 10.10.5. But then again, I use a Hackintosh.

However, TFA for Apple Accounts have been available for some time. I think I turned mine on a few months ago.
> Do you multiple a qubit of infinite values against a quibit of infinite values and have all possible results?

The accurate answer would be "no", or at least "thinking that way will lead you to believe that they're more powerful than they are".

In particular, quantum computers won't allow you to solve NP-hard problems in less than exponential time, not unless there's something we're missing in the math.

That said? Since I don't have the chance to describe it better right now, you can start off by thinking "sorta, yes".
Thanks for sharing your work.

Would you consider adding a "gaming" category?

Can you change the subscription confirmation email subject to include your site's title?

From "Confirmation instructions" to "PodcastRank Confirmation Instructions"?

Looks great!
Yes you are advocating trespassing and litter. Saying that you'll rent to 8 families and they'll have no choice but to trespass and litter is advocating it. You literally say "I told my [hypothetical] tenants they can just toss their garbage bags over the fence into your yard, and you would take care of it."
Google 'quantum complexity classes'.
> Could you please explain why the foreign investment is a problem?

I'm not sure, but I get the impression that the concern is partly about non-resident populations. Non-residents buying homes as investments or as a hedge against corruption driving them out of their home countries uncaps demand. More demand might end up causing wealth transfer from the renter class to the owner class.
I am hoping that someone is working on a video of Trump answering this question.
> I see no evidence that his knowledge is any better than a layman's

Really? I got the impression that he didn't really get the significance of Q-bits and just thought of it as 'stores more stuff than a digital-bit; MORE GB!!!'.

At the same time, I'd be surprised if a man-on-the-street interview would give anywhere near as good of an answer.

> It's pretty sad that people are surprised or impressed when a politician has a layman's understanding of something in science.

Sad yes, but probably a mentality brought on by the number of U.S. politicians who activity don't believe and don't understand many things in science (great answer from Carl Sagen on Charlie Rose on this: https://youtu.be/U8HEwO-2L4w?t=56).