skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree (and at the same time assume that just the story he tell now, he probably just ignored it because he gets hundreds of emails a day. When he got the third he may have thought: I should say something before he spams me the whole day). Its a typical strategy that works as long as not everyone is doing it.
Or, a proper Land Value Tax[1]

[1]http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/11/ec...
No politician was involved in this decision.
Not if the App Store is still in the mix. It's a centralized distribution failure point for the app.
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I agree, but it's still important to try.
Is that new in 1.6? As of 1.5.11 there was a lot of hacking required to get a true zero downtime reload: http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-h...
Are you sure about these things? I feel like this sentiment reflects the Denver/Boulder area 2-3 years ago, but the recent influx of so many people with the exact same thought process as you has significantly dampened the lower population density appeal. For example, I was in Denver in November and there were lines out the door for pretty much every trendy restaurant and dessert place downtown, and traffic was decidedly not pleasant.
Yes, it's happening, more than 1M accounts* created by brazilians today.

[1]: https://twitter.com/telegram_br/status/727201106166689792
Same thing happening in South Florida only buyers are South American oligarchs/crooks. A good fix would be to charge much higher property tax rates for non-owner occupied single family residences.
Then you get charged with tampering, even if found not guilty on other charges. Probably lesser charge, but not a "win".
>Programming is one of the only jobs you can do literally from anywhere

you're putting theory ahead of practice. We're talking right now inside of one more thread where programmers discuss how hard it is to live in BA - don't you feel any contradiction between that fact and your statement?

You with your theory reminded me about that joke yesterday in Prairie Home Companion : "People of Galveston can look in the eye of reality and dismiss it" :)
They depreciate like they are cars because Japan focuses on the new. You don't buy a house, you buy the land, knock down the existing house, and build a new one. You don't buy a used car, you buy a new one unless you're broke. There's precious little used market for anything, which can be a boon to those of us who want to buy nice used film cameras from Japanese ebay sellers.
> The idea that someone, somewhere is making a profit on something you provided [for free] should make you happy, not sad.

This seems like a double standard. Why should I be happy when corporations will regularly go to court to make sure that nothing they create returns to the public domain within my lifetime? The norm seems to be capturing this kind value wherever (and for a long as) possible, not distributing it freely for the good of mankind.

I'm not making a normative argument that this is a healthy way to live or for society to operate. In a functional community resources, ideas, and capabilities may be shared freely for the benefit of all, but it can't always go one way. That's exploitation, not community.
It is as bad as they make it sound. WhatsApp is the biggest form of communication in Brazil. It would be effectively the same as SMS and phone calls being disabled in the U.S. (or maybe just like the effect of blocking StackOverflow for all programmers ;))
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Except that looking at a single year doesn't tell you much about why even a ratio of 3 isn't good in SF. After a quick google search I came across this set of charts that do a pretty good job of covering the history of population and housing in SF.[0] For the period 2010-2013, population rose 32,500 and housing expanded 7,500 - a sustained ratio of 4.33. The decade prior to that saw a much gentler ratio just a little over 1, but that may have been catching up to the booming growth of the '90s and the dotcom bubble. The thing that really caught my eye though was the tidbit of information in the first chart - nearly half of the existing housing in SF was built prior to 1940. The original report (linked in the article) provides a much more grim outlook for 2010-2015 predicting a total population growth of 60,000 with a housing increase of 12,000 - a ratio of 5.[1]

0 - http://sf.curbed.com/2015/2/4/9995388/sfs-population-is-grow...

1 - http://www.paragon-re.com/San_Francisco_Real_Estate_Feb_2015
This only works for simple algorithms that don't touch the system. As soon as you try to bind something that handles a file on disk, a socket, a thread, it's wishful thinking anyway, as any language have different ways and paradigms to approach threading, asynchronous I/O, signals and other runtime-level issues, and getting code from a different language / library / paradigm is probably not going to fly, or even introduce subtle bugs.

For instance, if I bind a Rust library that opens a file on disk and use it from Go, I lose all the benefits of the Go runtime like the fact that the FD is not inherited by sub processes (as Go always uses O_CLOEXEC, while glibc doesn't), or the fact that blocking calls never return EINTR to application code in case of signals (the Go runtime handles this for the application).

So you might think that the library works, while its subtly violating your language's runtime conventions in a way that might cause hard to debug bugs in production.

One of the benefit of writing code in single "modern" language/runtime is that you don't have to worry about these hairy issues.
This comment section is unreadable on mobile. Why is it so wide?
Keep electing terrible politicians Brazil
"and use what you learned to make a profit"

I am not. Problem was in different case. I should not post patched skype binaries, needed for reverse engineering. And its okay, what i will be shotdown for use it.
Marcel Maia Montalvão, of Sergipe state, sounds like a luddite judge with more judicial power than is warranted by her technocratic abilities would warrant.
> ... because code written in them is not easily reusable from other languages.

Which is also technically true for C as well. The ABI [EDIT: Not API] is an implementation detail which can vary from compiler to compiler.

So long as you're just using LLVM-based compilers for both Rust and your other languages, you should be OK, but don't be surprised if you run into problems.
Honest question: Why?

My home is about 30 years old and honestly the only way you'd know that is by recognizing certain features and techniques that pin it to that general time period of construction and code requirements. It's not like everything shows "30 years of wear" on it. (Of course all the surfaces have been replaced at least once over time, but by mass of the house that's not that much; maintenance is maintenance.) So it seems sensible to me that it hasn't depreciated all that much, in the way that, say, a computer from the same time period is basically worth whichever is greater of "nostalgia" and "scrap metal" value.
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It's a scale issue. There are plenty of small metro areas (600K-1.2MM pop) with affordable housing, plenty of jobs, and absolutely zero useful mass transit. Traffic is bad for about one hour in the morning and two hours in the evening, at most, and usually just in one direction with plenty of side streets.

You double that and the infrastructure collapses. The tax base doesn't support large investments in transit to get a system built from nothing, and the roads and bridges aren't equipped to handle 2x the volume.
What technology are you referring to?
Thanks for the correction. Fixed
>and none of them were even close to that position 10 years ago

I think you are failing to see the overall picture. 10 years is not a long time, those companies could fall out of favor at any time. yes software runs the world, but is it facebook and twitter software or software that runs industrial services and backend systems? do you really think Uber is more important than something like general electric or dow chemical?
I was waiting outside the bathroom while some TSA agents were chatting. They were talking about how very skinny people with protruding bones set off the body scanner.
"A combination of using enums as a 'target triple' and lack of dynamic target registration conspire against easy-to-use out-of-tree targets :(

Have you considered this is a deliberate decision, with a goal of having most targets in-tree?
:)
Zoom out - you're missing the huge demographic risk. The next generation of people who will become top engineers, founders, etc. are facing tougher tradeoffs between standard of living and access to SV's social and business networks. It's not only the risk that the current drivers will leave but that the new drivers will just go elsewhere.
A couple months ago the WSJ had an article that analyzed his messaging technique. They showed how he will choose a theme, test it out in a smaller audience (for example, the speeches he gives as he crosses the country and most people ignore). If the audiences respond well to it, then he tries it again for a larger audience. If they don't respond well, then he drops it.

That, of course, in addition to his several decades polishing his messaging techniques in the public eye (some people would call them click-bait techniques, but whatever).
That's assuming there are fair elections in Brazil.
I post links on tor... But ints not help much. Against be DMCA'ed.
I was floored when I heard it just takes a phone call in order to buy property in the United States.

I would kinda understand if we were allowed the same reciprocity, but from what I gather; it's very difficult to buy property in most foreign countries.

I can't even debate it too much, before someone call me a racist.
What does "you can make unprotected left turns" mean?

I'm from the UK so I guess this is the US equivalent of turning right at a set of traffic lights... but what significance does "unprotected" have?
Fuck you.

(The state, not you user: JoshTriplett)

But I do NOT agree with your comment.

Fuck the state. A state who is trying to use terror and fear and war and crime as an excuse for power is a fucked state - and I want no part of it.

The fact is that it is a lame excuse for "security" to use ginger-prints as a "secure" access method to a device such as a phone and then for the state to force people to take finger prints as a sure-identity method, which, ostensibly, could then provide access to all their data and phones, etc.

Tell me how that is fucking secure????

So the real argument is about privacy. DO I HAVE ANY OR NOT????
Probably yes, my concern is that this can be exactly what judges, telcos and its lobbyists want.
They could use this in the future to justify blocking client-to-client connections, implement deep packet inspection, maybe even transform internet in Brazil in a deny-by-default network, where only allowed content would be accessed.
Too much of a conspiracy theory? Maybe yes, but given the current political turmoil in Brazil, I wouldn't be surprised.
As someone who lives in a not-crowded this makes me smile :) I can't imagine being so used to such a lifestyle that it starts to feel normal.
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Boulder has a NIMBY problem nearly as bad as San Francisco's:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583455

https://journal.dedasys.com/2015/06/18/boulder-colorado-vs-b...

Not sure about Denver, I never looked into it much - it's an order of magnitude too big for me.
It is worth noting that Chicago Public Schools is functionally insolvent and the City of Chicago has a $20B pension liability (relative to a $7.8B annual budget). Pension payments have been routinely deferred ("pension holidays") to balance the budget. Bankruptcy is inevitable at this point.
Is telegram also blocked, I think it sounds like a good alternative that people can use now, if it's not already blocked.
My house has a vacuum, a lawnmower, a blender, a washing machine, 20 light switches, a 4 zone heating system, and 6 sinks/showers. I can manage 1.71e10 possible states while I sleep, why are you struggling with four?
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A judge can have you force fed, put into a straitjacket and spitguard, or have people put their fingers up your asshole and vagina. The idea that they can't get you to touch a piece of plastic is absurd. I'd be surprised if they wouldn't sedate you in order to do it. As someone who has been anally probed by the state, I find it pleasantly surprising that they even think they need a warrant to force you to put your finger wherever they want.

Do passwords really need to be simplified? Do we invariably have to envision the future as a place where we wave our arms around beams of light and gently touch secret symbols to make things work? Isn't that just a juvenile fantasy of being a magician? Was Excalibur the first touch ID?
I think it means without the green turn arrow that indicates oncoming traffic has a red light. I've never heard this term before, though.
Mine stops working all the time, especially my right thumb.
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the biggest virtue of a c-programmer is temporary forgetfulness.

forget for the moment, that all of the old-guard-tech foundations is basically a castle made of glued together jello filled rubber ducky's.
forget all the tricks needed to jump through that final hoop in assembly.
forget even those hopeful endeavors of the languagewiser that stood up, and then came back because performance is a bitch and there use cases to edgy.
forget all those library's that overpRomised, undereallocated and disspointered.
forget all the futile attempts to steer this boat, carried on the hands of the likes of you, towards some sail-able waters.
blissful unawareness settles in, while every "good c-programmer" near you starts to spit fire as soon as management declares a new megalomaniac project in C worthy the effort and thus starting.
forget that strange feeling of elated Shame of being the best to repair the most broken car in town.

Then, and only then, you will be a "good" C-Programmer, one that knows all the tricks of trade, while not getting wiser.
The media is 100% to blame here... I think in large part because of how they treat female entrepreneurs, with well-meaning, but harmful attitudes.

IMO we live in a world where there are too few successful female entrepreneurs and at the same time people are very eager to see that world change. So as a result, if there is any inkling of a successful female entrepreneur, that story gets gobbled up by the press ad nauseam.

A couple of problems created by this that stick out in my mind are: there's a lot unfair pressure for said female entrepreneur to succeed. And a lot of female entrepreneurs who would otherwise be ignored, suddenly find themselves as celebrity icons despite having any real success deserving of such praise, which creates a disastrous over confidence and the "personality" being placed before the business.

Elizabeth Holes isn't the only one. Marissa Mayer was hailed a hero before crashing and burning. Less know is Sophia Amoruso, who despite only have a moderately popular online clothing shop (Nasty Gal), has written two books about her success and has an upcoming Netflix series about how "awesome" she is. And the press complete ignores the fact that Amoruso's company has gone through multiple lay-off rounds, has atrocious Glassdoor reviews, a declining relevancy, is being sued for firing pregnant women, and by all accounts is struggling to stay in business. All of this is true about Amoruso, but she still gets a Netflix series about how "wildly successful" she is...
> it's basically just a straight quality-of-life improvement for Rust programmers

Nice to read. Are there any other such improvements planned?

Doing mostly scripting languages, Rust feels often a bit clunky with solutions like you mentioned or its unwrapping etc.
Sure you can!

Imagine if Brazil tried to ban Bitcoin. How successful do you think they would be?
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At the extreme, these things can hold a lot of people without too much land:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper

But you don't really need those in most places. Simply building 'in' more and up 2/3/4 stories would add a ton of housing in much of the bay area.
Presumably building high-rise apartments.
I didn't realize that Idea Fairies translates to the animal kingdom too. :-)
curious, why is the compile-time regex slower? is it just a less efficient implementation?
Brasil is the 8th economy in the world.
In this case the decision maker wasn't even elected.
Possibly. You'd have to add support for the nonstandard Plan 9 calling conventions, stack growth checks, and GC stack map information. LLVM broadly has support for all of these features (contrary to what some Go team members have said), but the specific binary formats for these features are incompatible with the Go runtime, so it'd be necessary to contribute upstream changes to LLVM or fork it.
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> I'm not sure if TSA is allowed to touch weapons, but they refused to attempt to handle this item even after police arrived.

The TSA is not allowed to touch weapons, and the police are not allowed to perform the sorts of pat-downs that the TSA provides[0].

Incidentally, packing a gun in your checked luggage is supposedly the best way to make sure nothing ever gets stolen. If you pack a gun (even a flare gun will do), you are required to lock it with a lock for which only you hold the key, and the TSA cannot open it without calling the police in case they need to look inside. Not to mention, the penalties for them losing a piece of luggage that has a declared firearm inside it are way worse than the penalties for when they steal something from your luggage[1].

[0] Jurisdiction-dependent, of course - but police have to meet a much higher bar to pat people down than the TSA do.

[1] Which is to say, 'nothing', because there are essentially no penalties for TSA employees who are caught stealing, even repeatedly. It's absurd.
I live in Cupertino, near DeAnza college and the Garden Gate elementary school, and I see no sign of broken windows or peeling paint. The prices are crazy.

I'm not sure what developments you are referring to, but the Main Street and Hills developments are running shuttle buses to caltrain. The one by the Oaks shopping center certainly seemed ill-advised, but it got shut down by the city council.
Mostly yes, not only in Spain but also in Italy, Portugal and even France. The 25K€ part is a bit low though.
What about Europeans who work american timezones?
Except that voters in California effectively did decide that, with Prop 13. In other states, property tax is effectively a liability for the owner. Texans pay roughly 3% of the current value. That is a lot-- keep in mind that mortgage interest is only slightly higher than 3% (and loan is based on the initial purchase price, ie it doesn't go up like property tax). In California, Prop 13 is essentially an entitlement for the owner, who only pays roughly 1% of the value, and that value is not increased along with the market (only tiny increases are allowed).
I assert, and I think many of us here are moved by the notion that, as time moves forward, technological solutions tend to be confounding for entrenched power structures and empowering for social liberation.

I don't really know how to parse "you can't fix social problems with technology," but I have much more confidence in the growing power of, for example, uncensorable media than I do in any fantasy of change in the nature of government.

My sense is that government will be co-opted by the rich to excuse violence against the poor, and that this rule will apply in proportion to the size of the government and the size of the landmass over which it claims dominion. Technology seems to be the cultural foil to this trend.

I think that "you can't fix social problems with technology" is too oversimple and too absolute to have real meaning in the current techno-political environment.
Can you suggest other App stores to publish it?
No, they weren't trying to get the projector to connect to their laptop.
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