skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supply/demand curves say that creating shortages will drive up rates. If you rent control everything, you will create black markets at much higher rates.

Other than that, you're right. Except that in the case of San Francisco, most of the city is under rent control. However the rate resets to the current market rate every time a tenant moves out and another moves in. If you assume regular renter turnover, then rent control changes the short-term path but does not necessarily change the long-term trajectory of rents much.

Reality says at least one of three things will be true. You can be undesirable to live in, build lots of housing, or have rising rents. San Francisco tries to avoid all three, and does less to prevent rents going up than the others so that is what happens.
There is. There are obd boards that use the standard uarts, and dongles that use bluetooth that you can read from the pi. Here's one guy's project on it. http://fabcirablog.weebly.com/blog/reading-a-cars-obdii-port...
Just consider that some individuals who have concerns with GMO's are not scientist themselves, but are referring to information that they have identified as a vetted scientific source. Which may or may not be true.

So, from their perspective, it is a science argument. Labeling their argument as anti-science is condescending in that it is received as a statement they are either not educated, have phobias of technology or their position comes from some religious or philosophical belief.

We also have to recognize that we often get things wrong and that's why in a free society people are free to choose what they consume and should have knowledge of what is in a product.
http://www.investors.com/politics/capital-hill/how-settled-s...

The elephant in the room with vaccines is a credibility problem within the industry. Until that is addressed, doubt the dialog is going to improve. Whether the following are all true or not is irrelevant, these articles represent the lost of public trust which I believe is at the root of the problem that is never discussed.

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/vioxx/vioxx-p...

At 6:30, mentions over 132,000 lawsuits filed against industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5OuzB9L48&feature=youtu.be...

Vaccines protected from lawsuits
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/March-2011/No-Pharma-L...
While their integrity is admirable, you should let your coworker know that iTunes music has been DRM-free for about 6 years now. :)
Government vs private enterprise.
What is a 'financial corporation'? Is there a non-financial corporation that exists? How have universities abandoned education to favor entrepreneurship? How were universities previously not like businesses, and how do student loans - which have existed for quite some time - make them be 'be like businesses'? If the axes for conservatism are democracy, the free market and religion, where do people who only care about 1 or 2 of those items fall? Since college enrollment is rising significantly, how is it keeping people out of universities?
Perhaps just a space-mining gag?
The idiom is always "two cents". The parent was implying that because the GP didn't add much to the conversation that this subtracted a cent.
Clearly we should create some type of AI to detect such individuals...
Or another way of thinking about it:

If you fire a particle at two slits with a screen on the other side you get an interference pattern on the screen implying the particle in a sense went through both slits and the results interfered. This happens even if you use quite complex particles such as C60 buckyballs. So the universe in some sense runs multiple versions some with the molecules going one way and some going the other. All the "multiple universe" explanation implies really is that this is a general phenomena and the universe runs all possible versions even when we can't observe the results.
That's one way to solve edge cases I suppose.

If your assassins tell you to watch Firefly they can finish their work before Season 2. It shows there are good people everywhere.
It comes up because Meteor gets slow faster then most other solutions will get slow. It kind of reminds me in Django how a common mis-step for beginners is using an O(n^2) algorithm on the Django ORM. Meteor is the same way if you aren't using proper indices, or are trying do something that SEEMS doable to the uninitiated (like say pushing ~n thousand JSON objects into a MongoDB set), it's going to give you a bad time.
My ability to avoid these Google/Oracle/Microsoft mind-fucks diminishes each year. Is it good for society to have our cynicism cranked up so high?

That's a question for our best second tier psychologists and UX researchers (the first tier being too busy developing the aforesaid mind-fucks).
Hard scifi usually has an unrealistic premise but everything else is constrained by real science that we know. If everything was exactly adherent to science and tech as it currently exists, it wouldn't be science fiction. It would just be fiction.
Compare this to Spotify Premium:

- Syncing an album for offline play is a checkbox.

- I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account

- Robust song discovery

- Massive back-catalog

- HD Playback

It's absurd that iTunes, my phone's native media player, is worse than a third-party app.
This was originally from an article titles "Apple stole my music", whereas iTunes deleted music from his computer.

I doubt the old Apple would have gone to so much trouble, good to see the new Apple appearing to be more concerned and open.
If you're interested in learning more about consensus algorithms, there's a great website that describes many of the variants: http://paxos.systems/.

The author also published an excellent paper on the subject called "Paxos Made Moderately Complex" (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs7412/2011sp/paxos.pdf)
The first third of Seveneves is a real gut punch. The only other world-ending story that comes close in terms of emotional impact for me was Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End".

Stephenson manages to show humanity in all its realistic messiness but still leave you proud -- on balance -- that humans mostly get our act together in a desperate attempt to preserve a seed of life and culture.
I share the same perspective, but draw a different conclusion. Instead, educate the electorate, the first step of which is reversing Citizens United. Then, make voting as easy as signing up for Facebook (whether that means online or mail-in voting). An informed, active electorate is the single most terrifying thing to the Establishment.
Why wouldn't gates drive a tesla x?
My guess would be that they do, but don't always exercise it (at least in your case). As a corollary I was an Active Duty Air Force officer for 7 years and have been in the reserves for two beyond that. I have only been drug tested once in those years. So having the policy to check the box and actually utilizing it, in hiring or otherwise, are different.
I may be totally confused, but I don't think the CM has states "stop existing" on collapse. It is not in a state until it collapses. And the "you observe" isn't really "you". Essentially, it doesn't have a state until the state is referenced.

Again, I might be wrong, but I think the problem most people have with QM is that they think something must either exist or not exist. From that perspective it's easier to imagine that something exists in all possible states and that we are just observing one of them. However, even logically things can be in an indeterminate state.

For example, if I draw a box and then I draw another one that is twice as tall, the first box is short and the second box is tall. If I draw a third box that is 3 times as tall as the second one, then the first 2 boxes are short and the third one is tall. However, if I never drew the second or third box, then the first box is neither tall nor short. The concept doesn't actually make sense without the other boxes.

Similarly, imagine a universe with a single particle. What is its position? What is its momentum? Obviously these concepts have no meaning. As soon as I add another particle to the universe, then suddenly position and momentum have meaning. Now imagine that space is not a discrete map of particles with positions, but rather a set of particles which each have a probability of interacting with each other. This probability indicates their position.

In such a universe, if a particle does not interact with another particle, then it does not have a position. There is no meaning for position with respect to that particle. As soon as it interacts with another particle, then suddenly position has meaning. It is "created" in the same way that we "created" tall and short by drawing different sized boxes.

That is my, very possibly naive, way of thinking about it. Yes... I've read too much Taoist literature... ;-)
I had a bug with a Bank of America payment system which wouldn't accept registrations with upper-case Zs in the company name. I went into super sleuth mode and somehow found the company they hired to make it and got a number for their development department. After explaining the problem to the guy who answered his only response was, "How did you get this number??"
You can blame those policies all you want, but they were bought in for a reason. San Francisco's problem was that it grew too fast, and that is difficult for any city to handle.
Most of the words I've encountered in written Portuguese appeared to be either Spanish or French, or visually a combination of the two. It's another child of Latin, alongside Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, and others. I don't know the history and I don't intend that Portuguese is a child of the two, only that it is another product of the Latin echo chamber by way of its two most visually apparent influences.

I've never had any purposeful encounters with any of the languages you mention, though I would certainly like to!
>If a group decided to create a MAI, it follows that
preventing a global oversight board committee from coming
to existence would increase its probability of succeeding.

It also follows that a global committee would increase the probability of the board's favored AI out-competing any other AI.

A classic wolf-in-sheep's-clothing power grab, employed by government committees worldwide.
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If our first line of defense against a malevolent AI is to depend on a research oversight board then we are doomed already. ...
What do you mean? They thoroughly explained it -- it was an agent!
Many professional jobs don't require drug tests. So is it really about finding the "best workers"? Could you imagine if software companies rejected people for marijuana use?
I keep bumping into this problem: a company that has a large media library (video, music, books) offers a client that lacks the basic search, filtering, and sorting functions that any half-decent programmer would consider Step One of a client app. I don't want clever discovery and recommendation algorithms (which never work, by the way); I want faceted search, filtering, and sorting. Amazon's storefront is just about the only AAA online service that gets this more or less right. I just don't understand what is going on at Apple and Netflix.
There are a lot of people who install a printer despite not having access to the router.
This seems a really messy and discriminatory solution when compared to a far more elegant one: a land-value tax, which would reduce the ability for a property to serve as an investment vehicle.

CAVEAT:

LVT could not be applied unless Prop 13 were first repealed.
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure how else they'd be showing up in my library under "Recently Added" then. I didn't specifically create any new playlists or anything and it's just the songs I "hearted".

I assumed it was just a "genius" thing at first as well, but there they are. Maybe it's new.
Biophony and the Deep History of Sound (2013)
Impossible. How can someone tell whether you cooked with butter and oil, for instance?
I was just getting into Kerbal Space Program at the same time I started reading this book, and it's amazing how well they tie together. I would learn something about orbital mechanics in KSP, and then see it applied in the book, and I really enjoyed that feeling.
Details on the antialiasing configuration would be nice. These look completely different from what my fontconfig renders (uglies, IMHO, but that's subjective).

Maybe a bit more tweaking options, like the basic AA, hinting, etc would help.
I love Buku. Using it daily now!
I'm really surprised that in all of those fonts, Monaco, Monte Carlo, and ProFont Windows are the only ones with single story lowercase "a".
Reminds me of a saying: The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Coming from Australia where we have mandatory voting, you're missing one of the biggest benefits.

When people are forced to vote, the parties HAVE to accommodate that not only their 'die hard fans' are going to get them through the election.

It leads to far less extremist views from the parties, or if they are extremist, they often temper some of the points later to ensure they don't have a huge backlash during the election to their policies.
Pure in the sense that it was designed to be grammatically regular, phonetic, and generally easy-to-learn. Functional purity.
"without the issue being open for community input"

Are you sure this is an accurate description? Many neighborhood groups will ignore opportunities for input, sometimes for years, so they can later block the project and retroactively claim they "weren't given a voice".

For example, when San Francisco put bus-only lanes on Mission Street a few months ago, neighborhood activists said:

"“SFMTA’s red carpet bombing of the Mission was a surprise attack and is wholly unwelcome,” Raeleen Valle-Brenes, an activist from the Cultural Action Network told the board."

Mike Schiraldi describes what really happened:

"Actually, the MTA took out multiple ads in 8 different local papers, notified 31 neighborhood and merchant groups, 8 schools, neighborhood senior centers, posted on Twitter and Facebook, rode the 14-Mission Bus to distribute 1500 postcards, handed out 1700 flyers, and mailed out more than 25,000 more postcards.

They also had these community meetings:

Public Open House #1 (2/18/15)

Mission Merchants Association (2/18/15)

Mission Bernal Merchants (3/9/15 & 3/27/15)

Calle 24 (3/10/15)

Mission High School Principal (3/12/15)

14 Mission Rider Open House @ 24th BART Plaza (3/25/15)

MEDA (4/16/15)

Public Open House #2 (4/21/15)

Public Open House #3 (5/30/15)

Public Hearing (10/16/15)

SFMTA Board of Directors meeting, with public comment (12/1/15)

Prior to all that, the Chronicle wrote about it in 2014:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Muni-overhaul-spe...

And before that, they wrote about it in 2012:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-transit-agency-s-p...

And that last article says they'd been trying to get this done since 2008."

(source: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4i5n66/critic...)
That's just some half-assed lame custom that has no particular justification behind it. The age of consent is usually no more than 18 pretty much everywhere (at least in the US, where most of the HN posters seem to be), so I don't see any problem with a 50 year old guy on a date with a 20-something.

I figure anybody complaining is probably just jealous. But I'm close to 50 than 20 myself, so I'm not exactly unbiased. :-)
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That's a really great story. I'm curious if this guy gets paid at all for this, if he just does it in addition to a day job, and perhaps family, etc. Can you share the link to his page?

I'm also also curious if there (ever) was a town newspaper.
Why is this not subject to anti-trust review?

Oh, interesting. Among the trustees is Hal Varian, professor emeritus of economics, UC Berkeley. And currently Google's Chief Economist:

http://info.berkeley.edu/~hal/

http://www.ssrn.com/en/

Brian Leiter's take: http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2016/05/elsevier-a...

He points to Matt Bodie who has this comment:

"In 2006, I asked Gregg Gordon if SSRN would ever sell itself to a larger corporation. His answer:

"'As for a future sale, other than myself, the shareholders are academics. They have invested their own money and time into SSRN with the goal of changing how research is distributed, value their reputations and relationships within the scholarly community, and would not risk them by selling in a manner that would jeopardize our central goal. Our intention is to never sell, but it is hard to guarantee that.'"

http://www.theconglomerate.org/2016/05/ssrn-acquired-by-else...

Paul Gowder, professor of law & political science, why you should be concerned:

https://medium.com/@PaulGowder/ssrn-has-been-captured-by-the...
Is this the law in question? http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/asp/drugfree/require.htm

It doesn't sound like testing is required--just telling employees not to use drugs at work, and taking action if they are caught doing so?
Hopefully like him, but not with that ending.
I really cant understand these journalists.
IBM scientists achieve storage-memory breakthrough with PCM
We already have those. They're called automated trading systems. They use machine learning to optimize for profit and nothing else.
It seems my friends who vote on intuition are the ones likely to already vote -- by getting higher turnout you might actually reduce their proportion of the vote. Don't shoot yourself in the foot on this one.
It was years back so it probably when they still had it, or maybe it the format mp3 vs some other thing.
You've never been to a bar/coffee house/grocery store/etc on a weekend? Lots of people work the weekend, often it is those who are paid less and have more rigid schedules. Also you run into religious days where some are not able to perform work.

Honestly it is a hard one to mandate as a single few hour window on a single day. Someone has to be working at hospitals for example.

Maybe it should be election week
Rapid eye movement sleep shown necessary for memory formation
Machine learning outperforms physicists in experiment
Ingestible ‘origami robot’ lets doctors operate on a patient remotely
I miss Rdio.
Siri is actually the perfect interface for a clock app. It needs only a limited grammar, IE:

(set|stop) clock (for|at) ([0-9])(AM|PM)

which improves recognition, as opposed to scrolling through wheels to select the right time as you would with a GUI.
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Bill might well drive a Model X and any number of other cars -- his daily was an armored mid-90's Lexus LS for many years -- but if there's a Porsche 959 parked at the south Kirkland Burgermaster, the odds are overwhelming that it belongs to Bill.

This because only 345 Porsche 959's were ever built, and none were eligible for import into the US. That is, until Bill made himself instrumental in the passage of the show and display importation exemption* so that he could buy one.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_or_Display
Possibly. But even if the clock app was simply a single "start timer" button (or whatever function the GP was using) simply getting to the app can be Slow. Compare "take
Out phone, unlock phone, find clock app, open app, do whatever" with just saying "hey Siri set a timer for 5 mins" or "take out phone, press and hold home button, tell Siri to start a timer"
I greatly enjoyed some of Stephenson's other works, but I was actually a bit disappointed with Seveneves. The narrative is well crafted, but unfortunately I just got stuck on the whole space ark concept and couldn't suspend disbelief enough to continue.

Maybe someone else can explain why it made sense to focus on an orbiting refuge, right in the path of the Moon's fragments, rather than dig a bunch of underground cities that would have saved many times more people.

Midway through the first unit, I basically decided they should have dug tunnels ten miles long, one mile deep at bottom, lay tracks, and just go full steam carting rocks out while digging massive caverns. They could move entire hospitals, schools, factories, labs, etc. into these places, store tons of food and supplies, lay pipes to connect to underground water supplies, set up parks, farms, and animal preserves using artificial solar lighting. Makes so much more sense to me than this nutty space station idea. And with gravity, access to minerals, oxygen, etc.

I love space as much as the next geek, but if you want to save millions of humans, you've got to dig.
Yup. I ditched the built in music player after they insisted on making it worse and worse every release. I installed Google music right when it came out and haven't looked back. Pretty much the features Spotify has, but I was able to upload all my songs that gmusic didn't have.
The character identification bit is interesting. I had assumed the president was meant to be Hillary Clinton until I read someone angrily complaining about his take-down of Sarah Palin...
Curious: what is your definition of performance and how do you view this complaint?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712035
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Bjarne uses Rob Pike's Sam text editor, which by default uses a proportional font (Lucida).
> It's a question to the philosophers, not the scientists.

As discussed upthread, this is all philosophy. The popular interpretations of quantum mechanics are all experimentally equivalent, so we need to use elegance, intuitiveness, troubling-ness, etc to choose between them (and these can be highly personal).

EDIT: After re-reading your comment I think I'm agreeing with you here.
Having the "living and supportive family safety net" is definitely under-appreciated as an advantage here in the US. Many who have it don't even realize what an advantage it is.
OCaml, like SML, have the syntax for defining their own operators. |> is defined, to my knowledge, both in the standard prelude and in core.
Unfortunately this is why (IMO) I see a lot of mediocre ML articles upvoted very highly on HN that have either very little discussion, or generally poor quality discussion, especially around hot topics like neural networks

I think you're asking too much of upvotes. Since "upvote" and "save" are the same thing on HN, a lot of people upvote anything that meets the bar of "based on the title, it's plausible this is something I'd like to read eventually". That's really about all you can expect of upvotes.
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Sounds like coercion to me.
I realize that's what many people do, but I don't agree with it because it's an implicit signal of interest/worthiness, due to affecting rankings. It gives people on HN the wrong perception of what is popular/worth learning and risks leading autodidacts astray.
US schools can't teach everyone to read, expecting them to be able to effectively teach complex topics that involve nuance - let alone opinions - is wishful thinking.
Any AI can be Turned to the Dark Side. Just give it a Twitter account.
Didn't the "liberal" state of California elect one Governor Reagan on the campaign promise that he would crack down on hippies at Berkeley by cutting funding to the University of California system?
> Similarly, all of Apple’s services—iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Photos, iMessage—exist to support the sales of phones, tables, and laptops.

I have to say, a HomeKit-enabled table would be an interesting strategic play.
Apple Music has ALL of these features.

Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users. Apple is great because of Beats 1 and their curated playlists. But the core features are basically identical.
Sorry, see here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11718642
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