skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right to live where you are born would be possible - it is neither better nor worse than the current mechanism, just different. But the question remains if there's a way to change market rate, so more people can pay it. Berlin seems to be trying that by banning things which aren't desirable from their perspective.

> Right to live where you are born? That adversely affects anyone not born in a central district.

Thinking about it, this reminds me of the question of immigration. People usually say that one shouldn't be allowed to immigrate wherever he wants and/or that politicans are beholden to the people of their country, not the whole world. So .. what's the difference between a city and a country here? Why should the city council not put the wishes of those born there first?
> Once or twice a year, if you really want to.

I really hope you actually mean 7+ times a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_8_up... - most versions contained security updates.
The algorithm is an idiot.

My social medium of choice is, despite my many and loud gripes about it, Google+. It's not even nearly awesome (none of the major options are), but, for a while at least, it offered two compelling features.

The first is Notifications. Action on your own posts, posts with which you've interacted, and (selected) people mentioning you, will show up in your Notifications list (which ought be a stream in its own right). This is, if you think about it, one of the highest possible signifiers of relevance: something you've already indicated an interest in in which others are interacting, often directly with you.

The other was Search. After a couple of years, even the vast wasteland of G+ had accumulated a catalog of interesting posts, and via Search those could be found. Search was always a bastard child, and it's considerably worse now than it had been for a long time, but given a keyword signifier, it would, sometimes, return relevant content.

I actually wrote a really embarassing mash note to G+ management -- Vic and the project's then product manager -- highlighting this.

The response of Google was, of course, to kill both features, or attempt to do so valiently.

The problem with the algorithm is that at best it can guess or assume intent. But it never fucking bothers to ask you directly, or to allow you to indicate your preferences.

I've likened this to a good salesperson. These exist, and I've on occasion, despite my anti-commercial tendencies, encountered and appreciated them. The good one will size you up as you enter a store, compose a good idea of what you're looking for, consider elements (say size or measurements for clothing), and match these with stock. Then they'll ask you what you're looking for. They'll return with a selection of items and, often, a few others. They'll read your responses, even subtle, on what's been offered and take a "no" as a "no".

That is the one feature that is missing from virtually all current electronic information interfaces. I wanted, an hour or so back, to tell Amazon to show me only books published matching a subject from 1990-1999. Actually, filtering by cover colour would also have been useful. No can do.

For media streams, the thing I most want to do is filter crap. Again, G+ offers no such capabilities. There are websites I never want to see (say, WSJ at HN), topics or people I don't care to hear about, etc. The best option I've got is to uncircle or block crap, which actually works quite well. But finer controls would be hugely useful.

Twitter's experiment seems to be headed the same way. And it's not going to work.

Because the algorithm is an idiot.
GCC inline assembly is one of the most terrible things I've ever had to work with. Somebody seriously need to redesign it or replace it. Aside from that,a decent reference manual for the existing version would be welcome.
Nobody is arguing that you can't set up your own system. You can build your own version of fb/twt etc... if you wanted.

The distinction is that 99.9% of consumers and an increasing number of organizations don't want to do it in house and would rather let someone else do it.

Again, it's not about capability, it's about what people actually are doing.
Pied Piper [spoilers for Silicon Valley S3E2]
Ah, so theses are special insofar that they spawn more derivative commercial and paper-writing opportunities, and aren't singled out simply be virtue of being called "thesis".
Why We Live in a Second Robber Baron Era
Are Millennials Doomed in a Lower Return Environment?
Anyone else getting a 404?
Advanced Jupyter Notebook Tricks – Part I
The market can't solve anything if the product is free. Users aren't voting with their wallet.

Twitter (and other dominant free products like Facebook) will behave the way our overlords want them to behave. Consumers have surrendered the free market. Capitalism is only played behind the scenes.
Democracies end when too democratic – America is a breeding ground for tyranny
Cheaper, but does it also provide value? For non-critical things, OVH provide relatively good value for money. For critical things, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.

OVH is a dysfunctional company that somehow turns a profit.
We almost lost our company's domain name twice due to their incompetence.

We paid OVH for the renewal of our company's domain name several weeks before its expiration. This domain hosted our google apps for business and more. We received an invoice and bank statements for that. OVH never renewed with the registry.
We only got to know about this because of a standard email warning from the country's registry (not OVH as a registrar) itself about quarantaine and expiry!
We spent over eight hours over several days talking to OVH. I have been able to verify that the problem was on the side of OVH only, and not on the registry's side at all.
In the end, we made a direct payment to the registry to make sure the domain was not deleted.
I don't understand why we even bother teaching Freud anymore except as a cautionary footnote. Dude basically just made a bunch of shit up and called it theory.
Almost all culture is, or is getting fast, to be US culture, so that's little consolation.
You've nailed it.

Add a few outliers who never cared for culture or meaning much, even when young, and don't understand what the whole thing is about anyway (those won't even have midlife crises).
Khamir Industries – Paints and Industrial Coatings
Distributed Deep Learning with Caffe Using a MapR Cluster
OVH have data centres and dedicated support staff in .ca too.
There's no path -- that's what the article is about.

And that doesn't change whether the journey is personal or collective.

At best one can kid themselves.
Clang provides both GCC and MSVC style inline assembly.
Kisan Network (YC W16) Is Hiring Core Team in Delhi: Engineers and Ops/S&M/Biz Dev
How Walmart Canada’s responsive redesign boosted conversions by 20%
A couple of points here:

- This seems to have been the sale of several different chunks of land totaling the size of Ireland, not one huge chunk.

- The reason given for the Chinese effort to own the land is pretty fascinating to me:

> ever since a massive tainted milk scandal effectively shuttered China's domestic dairy industry in 2008, companies there have been seeking to source dairy products from overseas, and Pengxin has been particularly pioneering, if not very successful, in the endeavor.

The land being purchased is a collection of large cattle ranches.

I find this fascinating because basically 100% of Chinese are lactose intolerant. But the local market for milk is surprisingly robust, given that it is poisonous to the entire population. I made a minor hobby of asking people in Shanghai why milk was so widely available there, and why I could observe Chinese people buying it. I was never particularly satisfied with the answers, but I learned a few things:

- One reason given for buying milk was to feed it to infants. This is fairly reasonable.

- One was, it's fashionable. I find this weird, but hey, why not.

- I also learned that the concept of lactose intolerance isn't widely understood in China. I had one person react to my statement "I'm hungry - I'm going to go buy some milk" with shock, assuring me that I mustn't drink milk on an empty stomach because that causes diarrhea. When I responded "I don't have that problem; I'm white", I got a funny look from them.
Interesting - so vdev might be ported to OpenBSD! That's pretty awesome :-)
> Doing that using an actual switch confounds the CPU’s branch predictor—there is basically a single branch point for the entire interpreter. That quickly saturates the predictor and it just gets confused and fails to predict anything, which leads to more CPU stalls and pipeline flushes.

From what I've heard, Haswell's branch predictor makes tricks like this largely obsolete,m (sans support for pre-Haswell or AMD cpus). Not terribly meaningful, but worth keeping in mind that tricks like these will eventually become obsolete.
Will the WebExtensions API be powerful enough to write a "browser firewall"? Essentially give users automatic/manual control over about every process run by the browser.
I think you solved this!

I actually use the Apple mail client, so I get my spam mail and my personal mail in the same interface. My angry deleting of cookies and web history following the Criteo email would have cleared any log ins, but I haven't used the yahoo mail web interface for many years. However!! I remember going to flickr briefly about a month ago, and since it is a yahoo service, it would have been connected to my personal yahoo ID/email address (correct?). It's possible that I never logged out, so could it have mined my address that way? I am still incredulous and outraged that Criteo could use this to mine my address and spam me, but this could be how they got my personal email/yahoo ID.

Thank you so much for your insightful comments and for "investigating" with me! Even though this is still somewhat mysterious, I've learned from this and also discovered my ghostery settings were off which was very valuable. Now I just have to figure out how to block Criteo and similar invasive species. I may have to go off the grid after all.
>You're telling me that all I need to do to build the institution of my dreams is provide people with a sense of meaning!? LOL.

You think that's easy? LOL.
C++has had RAII for decades already. Actual Rust innovations are the borrow checker and dynamically sized types.
Here's some 'Truth' for you: your post is indicative of the exact kind of thinking that leads people to demand back doors on encryption in the first place.

"I think the solution to all of this starts with creating alternative means to access encrypted networks. You should be able to key into the someone's computer without doing any crypto work for the privilege. Once crypto comes with back doors, and the keys our in our hands, freedom will blossom and terrorist protections will fade away."

Maybe if your solution were in any way practical or realistic, or if you -- the layman -- knew the difference between how to actually solve a problem and merely proposing fantastical solutions, we wouldn't need this discussion in the first place.
So, you can't create a user plugable interface and submit the changes upstream? Who knows, they might even be accepted.
> a 5cm processor, if it allowed data to travel at light speed,

Easy. Just have multiple synchronized clock sources.
Donut Them in Or: How My Roommate Made Our Apartment into a Shit-Hole [video]
I agree. I had read and occasionally seen a documentary on the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I lived in Tokyo for a while and visited Hiroshima and the A-bomb museum. They had a "scaled" model of the entire city and the bomb hanging on the model with the proportional distance at the height it exploded (represented with red ball - size of billiards ball )
That picture/model is ingrained in my memory - it gave me an instant visual of the scale of horror. Pictures/movies don't come close to describing it. If you can go to the A-bomb museum in Hiroshima - do it.
"I am Jack's broken heart"

Fight Club people, come on
We as taxpayers are already paying for your research.

Given that, it seems reasonable that you should make the modicum of effort to publish your code.

Also, don't construct a false dichotomy. Publishing your code (at all) does not mean you have to make it production-quality or provide support for it.
> there are stories of landlords putting up an affordable property online for one hour and getting 250 applications to rent it

This doesn't just happen in Berlin. I've lived in several German cities, Berlin included, and it's really difficult to find an apartment in _any_ reasonably large/popular German city (e.g. Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Köln).

It's a Germany-wide problem, that just happens to be most acute in Berlin. Unless you're really fast, super aggressive, or can leverage your network to talk to the people moving out, you'll have a difficult time in finding an apartment.
NYT within the past year is claiming 2 million subscribers... now some of those may be online only... but there's every bit of potential they could setup a first party ad system.
Better put that in my reminders...
Just adding some ram is also not so easy in an embedded system.
Half a tweet.
Not sure if you're interested, but I've got a couple of my lights hooked up with Google Now so I can say "Ok Google, turn the living room lamp on" and also when I connect to my wifi network and the sun has set it'll turn my living room lamp on.
Please warn in tweet when you link to paywalls
At a guess, they want to be able to charge companies to reach the people that are following them on Twitter just like Facebook does and they can't easily do that with reverse-chronological.
In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack
Harris was elected DA in San Francisco in a race against DA Terence Hallinan who was famous for soft-pedaling drug user prosecutions. She immediately stepped them up.

Harris first started barely supporting medical marijuana after constituencies forced her to recently. She's been giving support to federal prosecutions that target dispensaries for years as DA and AG.

She's been saying that she'll tone down drug prosecutions in campaigns and then pushing harder for more vicious enforcement than ever once she gains power in every election she's ever run.

And she still doesn't support marijuana legalization. Still! In California in 2016.

She's smooth and a good communicator, but Harris is all Feinstein inside.
They're probably doing it so that docker containers running in Azure infrastructure can be a bit lighter than it currently is. That's probably the main reason. Second, if you are already running windows servers, because you have software/infrastructure that require it, this allows you to also run Docker images, and Linux software without the overhead of full virtualization and/or new hardware.

Beyond this, there are a lot of developers running windows either by choice, or because they have software requirements themselves that can leverage this.
it would be pretty easy to make one using c pre processor
To offer an anecdote to counter an anecdote, I'm using OVH proper as well as SoYouStart, one of their "developer" brands and I've had zero issues with either.
The trick is not taking a statement at 100% face value.

He even says "ALMOST ALL". Most records, most movies, most books, most magazines, etc are for people under 40.

>how can I design it to be consumed by 35 year old but not 45 year olds given their behaviour is much the same

Again, taking it too literally. You picked two nearby points (+- 5 years) for your question as if they present a binary, whereas it's more a continuum. A movie made for 35 year olds will be consumed OK by someone at 40, less ok by someone at 45, much less by someone at 50, etc.

And that's a film made for 35 year olds -- most films are targeted at even younger people, and modern Hollywood does most of its blockbusters to sub-20 -- which is evident even in the ages of the stars (given that stars are typically 10-15 years older than the target audience). That's not even some dark secret, it's common ad demographics.
This is get for having psych majors optimize the feed for an optimal mix of reward/stale to achieve maximum addictivity. Skinner box, now available in Facebook
> Doesn't SV and other areas that had chronic apartment shortages before AirBnB existed now have an even greater shortage due to short-term rentals?

Not in SF. If you don't occupy the place you short-term rent, during the time you rent it, you may only legally rent it for 90 days per year. What's more, if the place you rent is covered by rent stabilization, it is illegal to make more in rent per month than you pay to your landlord each month. That is to say that you can only legally cover rent through short-term rentals; you may not turn a profit.

> However, in an earthquake-zone (which I recall California is), isn't it risky to build skyscrapers and other large structures?

The Transamerica Pyramid [0] (and every other skyscraper in FiDi) survived the 1989 earthquake. So, I'mma say "No, not significantly more risky." :)

For a more recent example, the Salesforce Tower [1] is (reportedly) well under way to completion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Pyramid

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce_Tower
Yeah, this is bordering on ridiculous. But, if any of this is contemplated, you can bet it's also being contemplated in China, Russia and everywhere else.

The standard response should be: "would you want us to do the same for foreign governments?"
20 years sounds optimistic for "ubiquitous". Consider: it took over a century to go from Maxwell's equations (1861 and 1862) to modern cell phones. It took over a century from the time that Babbage proposed his analytical engine to the first working general purpose computer. The dawn of quantum computing can be traced back to, maybe, at earliest, the early 1960s. (Based on cursory Wikipedia browsing.) It took several decades to get Shor's algorithm, which finally got people to take quantum computing seriously. If we have quantum computers comparable to ENIAC by 2060, I'll be pretty impressed.
Myth: “CS Researchers Don't Publish Code or Data”
Yes, thank you, appreciated.
I've been using ovh (proper OVH brand) for years and the only issues I've had recently was a service without an SLA which I foolishly used without a failover in a different dc (load balancing ips had an outage for ~5h recently)

Other than that they've been top notch, support is slow, but the non-human things are working as advertised
If the difference is less than $1000 or if you withheld more this year than you owed last year or if you withheld 90% of your total bill, there is no penalty.
3 essential features: encryption, filter.dat support and RSS =)
Cities can make all the rent control laws they want.
(See for example NYC and San Francisco here in the USA).

Property investors can decide to never build apartments in such cities.

Then you wind up with a shortage of willing landlords.
(See NYC and SF).

Some folks don't think they need willing landlords.

Okay, strike that: some folks don't think they need MORE, not FEWER, willing landlords.

Rent control laws cut the supply to nothing. Willing landlords will NOT build and operate in these areas.

You may not like it that willing landlords are the other party here -- the tuple of (renter | landlord) --

but they are.

An analogy: cities use very high fines for parking in Disabled People's parking.

By removing the benefit to park in those spots (ie. fining people hundreds of $$) -- the supply of non-handicapped drivers parking in handicapped spots is cut, drastically.

Another example: The supply of willing bar owners selling drinks to young-looking people without checking their ID is small. The reason? BINGO, the city made it unprofitable for bar owners who fail to check IDs.

When a city tells Landlords "you're a pain, here -- making next to nothing" -- the supply of willing landlords drops.

The result of rent control laws is A SHORTAGE OF WILLING LANDLORDS. A SHORTAGE OF NEW APARTMENT CONSTRUCTION. CONVERSION OF APARTMENTS TO CONDOS.

Rent control REDUCES THE SUPPLY of apartments.
When that supply drops -- like it has in NYC and SF -- what happened to rents? FREAKING HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY! Because the DEMAND is still there, and growing. But the supply is dropping.

The cities with the STRONGEST RENT CONTROL -- have the HIGHEST RENTS IN THE COUNTRY!

Like hearing that? No? Then you cannot handle the truth.

Here's from the article:

The long term effect of these laws (rent controls, restrictions on AirBnB etc) is already clear. Sweden already has these policies. Just look at Sweden to see what the future holds.

Sweden has rent control. This causes the existing housing to be converted to AirBnB and rentals to be converted into condominiums. It also makes it more worthwhile to put investment money into owner-occupied housing than build new rental apartments, as owner occupied housing isn't subject to price controls.

Almost 90% of Sweden's local government areas now report a shortage of rental apartments. This includes countryside areas and small towns. Students cannot get into university because they cannot find housing, or have to queue for years.

In Stockholm, you have to wait for 10 years on average in a government queue system to get just the chance to apply for a rental apartment. It is a similar story almost everywhere else in Sweden. In 2013, one woman waited for 28 years to get her Stockholm rental apartment.

Berlin is already starting to see some of these problems with large crowds of competition for apartments at viewings etc
Comparisons: which are the best gaming monitors (May-2016)?
Yeah 4 hours by bullet train, and $185 each way. Plenty of people haven't been there.
Why is Feinsteins name attached to every piece of shit legislation that comes out. Does she just really hate freedom or something? Literally every bill that had the internet up in arms over the past 4 years had her name on it.
1 word. Heat.
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
BTW, I didn't downvote you, but yes, not a big group at all.

However, you'd be surprised how discoveries sometimes transcend and are bigger than their first impression. It may have a lead to another site, or cultural connection, or linguistic connection, and in a series of unfolding conclusions bring more to the table than imagined.

Then again, it can be another, "You should pass the food to your left at a table"; Such are the ups-and-downs of archaeology!
The benchmark for Phoenix was done at the last minute, and had a lot of problems which they didn't have opportunity to fix. The next round will be better.
I think you're doing pretty well if you've gotten more than zero supports requests, and they are all relevant to the topic too.
This is why loosening building restrictive is not a solution - builders always want to charge a premium over the existing market price, which means building expensive luxury flats and leaving new homes empty if necessary rather than reducing their prices.
Microsoft Buys DNA from Twist Bioscience
Because you may have the belief that the shares will grow much faster than an index fund.
I think the reference to consumerism leads ones understanding astray. It's is not particularly more apropos to consumerism then any other context of meaning. Religion, self image, ambition, love life, are all equally relevant here.

Your last paragraph captures it best, and his assertion does not seem to have any obvious contradictions in reality.
> Every now and then I have to drive through bumfuck Oregon, and the only radio stations are AM talk radio.

I downvoted you because of this. When you're on this soapbox, please bear in mind that some of the people listening are actually residents of bumfuck Oregon. Also, not everyone in bumfuck Oregon is on the political tack that you associate with bumfuck Oregon. Also, they have FM. (Mostly country, I'll grant you that, but still.)
The Effect of the Cost of Higher Education on the % of wealth held by the top 1%