skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you click the link and, leaving all the rest of the defaults alone, drop the required affordable housing percentage from 10% to 0%, you lose about 4,000 affordable units but gain 6,000 market-rate ones.

So, would this change increase or decrease displacement?

Well, another recent Berkeley study concluded that a new market-rate apartment has about half the displacement-fighting impact of a below-market-rate apartment: http://www.urbandisplacement.org/sites/default/files/images/...

Therefore, the benefit of the extra market-rate units fails to offset the damage from the loss of affordable units (6000/2 < 4000). It fails similarly, but to a lesser degree, if you drop it to 5%.

But if you crank it up to 15%, the gains from the extra affordable units are overwhelmed by the lost market-rate units (4000/2 > 784). So it looks like the default value of 10% is the sweet spot.

By the way, the math is even easier for the 25% threshold that Supervisors Jane Kim and Aaron Peskin are proposing (http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Prop-C-...), because that would actually lead to less affordable housing being built. Less market-rate, too. A double displacement whammy.
> Even if it means direct neural interfaces, considering that we're 20 years out using the current approach, maybe that isn't so far fetched.

To be economically viable, the tech needs to be sold to be mass-sold directly to consumers. So it needs to be mostly safe, even when it has bugs, and usable by anyone, without months of "training your interface device and brain".

Even if there was some progress with "direct neural interfaces", without a breakthrough in nanotechnology I'd be we're probably more than 20 y away from something usable outside of a hospital or a military lab that has a different cost/risk/benefit equation from the "average joe" consumer...

And you probably don't realize it, but to get that "spoofing" part right, you might have MUCH HARDER problems to solve than having a ultra-high-re ultra-low-power ultra-low-latency mobile VR set...
so will it die the same way as xmpp?

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Personally I find that many people in the astrophysics department I worked in used either IDL (an abysmal language, for which there is a free GNU compiler) or Python+Astropy+Numpy+Scipy+Matplotlib (which are all free software). While I really love the work that GNU does, I get the feeling that they have a lot of NIH when coming up with new projects to work on -- maybe they should focus on Hurd or start some new and innovative projects.
The nightmare comes when you mix it with proprietary datasets that you license from somebody else. Many companies right now are doing that and it is dubious grounds to stand on.
> Also, how do you make something like Call of Duty when you're limited in your movement by walls?

You don't. Many existing game genres don't map well to VR in a direct port of existing mechanics.

From a game developer's perspective that is one thing that makes it exciting. It's a blue ocean of new design possibilities. I'm an optimistic person but I believe we'll find new designs that are equally compelling to the most popular games on 2d screens. Different games for different platforms.
Yeah, but anyone who's trying to dx (or, worse, rule out) an AMI on the basis of what their Apple Watch can report is ... yeah, I don't even know what they are. Not the sharpest pencil in the box, for a start.
One way to do what you're suggesting is foveated rendering. If you have very fast and accurate and robust eye tracking, you can avoid rendering most of the pixels that lie in your peripheral vision (where your eyes have very low resolution). Future VR headsets will almost certainly need this.
Do you think activities that magnify your personal influence over others is an honest improvement in society?
How does shifting the burden from a profit-motivated company to a hell-if-I-know-by-what-motivated government bureaucracy guarantee anything?
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> And this can be scary: imagine you discover a wrong design decision you made 10 years ago costed millions to your company… would you happily expose it?

Yes. Obviously. That's my job. Are you saying you wouldn't?

The whole article has this really weird assumption that people will naturally be ashamed that work they did years ago with a more limited budget/team/understanding of the problem is now showing cracks. But that is the natural state of software development. It happens to everyone, everywhere. A developer who can't accept that has a serious ego problem, and a manager who can't accept that should not be managing developers. Either way, the problem is the individual, not the design pattern.
I don't think I understand the question. This is by far the best book about how the major research funding and community happened in the 60s (Parc was one of the outgrowths). I would say that our "age" (or any age) could be enriched by understanding this book. For example, the real issues are not "big data" but "big understanding", not "Machine Learning" but "Machine Thinking". Some of the "Dream Machine" is about how the funders were willing to put forth considerable resources for "problem finding" not just "problem solving" -- a lot more of that needs to be done today.
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Another point for this, besides optimization, is easier interop with existing technologies. The memory layout is identical to Windows' BSTR, as far as I know, and also includes a terminating U+0000. All of that makes it possible to marshal a CLR string as is in many circumstances without the need to copy or convert the characters around.
That looks like a very interesting write-up about ECG, and I'll read it properly tonight when out of the office - thanks for writing!

I'm a Garmin Edge user of many years, always interested in HRM during activities. But that's not something I wear all the time. Hopefully when my Pebble Time 2 arrives something similar can be done on that platform.

I'm intrigued to see what sort of details may be captured from such a seemingly simple device.
> hell-if-I-know-by-what-motivated government bureaucracy

If I have to decide between a company which is guaranteed to not be motivated by my well-being and a government which is at least partially motivated by that (unfornately only partially due to issues[1]) I know what to choose.

[1] Mainly lobbyism and greed. Where people are there is greed, where there's greed there's potential for misbehaviour.
Nobody mentioned AppJet yet? AppJet was exactly the same product, 10 years ago! It was awesome and I hope this product sticks around longer than AppJet did (pivoted into EtherPad and then acquihired by Google).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppJet
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This should probably point to http://technology.nasa.gov/latest/public_domain/1 instead of the futurism link - sorry.
https://github.com/dvorka/hstr

Don't know about better, but above certainly makes it much nicer...
“What if I literally type ‘DELETE * FROM USERS’ on my way to typing ‘WHERE id=9283’, do I lose all my user data?”

Nope, you'll just get an SQL syntax error.
My understanding is that they threaten to never give someone who distributes their patches any more updates. While the GPL does not forbid this (it's a contract you agreed to with the party), I'm fairly sure that such a contract would be considered acting in bad faith (you're adding additional restrictions through coercion rather than changing the license terms). I'm not a lawyer, but I'd be surprised if such sneakiness hasn't already been deemed illegal by the courts.

I'm also surprised nobody has asked the SFConservancy to take GRSecurity to court over it. You'd think even Linus (who doesn't agree with the underlying spirit of the GPL -- all software should be free) would have a problem with "not getting patches back".
History of fences on Wikipedia talks about it dating back to at least feudal times when discussing property rights and boundaries. Obviously much farther back when discussing defensive use cases (Hadrian's Wall and The Great Wall being two massive examples I can think of quickly).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence#History

Not the first case of fence use in property rights, but barbed wire was first invented to keep property in (animals) more so than keeping others out.
Sorry but I have to take offense to this. Whatever side projects and stupid stuff (your words) you did in college for fun 100% pale in comparison to the full fledged Rails app I built over 3 months 90 hours/week for work, and the other 2 iOS apps I built and released on the App Store, which took an order of magnitude more time than the Rails app.

Not fair on your part to downplay these efforts by condescendingly calling apps I built "test apps" (what just because I read a tutorial? How did you learn????). You maybe don't realize it, but the only reason you're able to get a job as a self-taught developer is because you're in the US and you have a Bachelor's. That is the way the tech industry works.
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Generic drug makers, with low profit margins, don't have a lot of excess capacity. Any disruption to supply can have a lasting effect, especially for complicated products like injectables.

Part of the fault is regulatory: Once that product is labelled for sale in country X, you can't sell excess inventory in country Y, even though it's the same product from the same production line.
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I can confirm this. Permanent salaries in the UK are OKish. Contracting is where the money is at.
An intermediate developer can pretty easily make £500 a day. If you can make yourself indispensable, or pick a tech stack used in finance, then £700-800 isn't uncommon.
As a benchmark, £600 a day is roughly equivalent to $200K USD permanent salary.
I would be more interested to see the opposite: limited salary and extremely generous stock options, vesting at each time period in the future at a price that's the company's current price projected forward with the average expected stock market returns, plus some discount. (So the company needs to grow greater than the market for the CEO's options to have value)
Sidenote: Rickover is the reason we don't use Thorium reactors today. So sorry you had to interact with him.
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You seem to be lambasting what you see as entitled behavior, while making it very clear that you are simply bitter that they live a life you either don't agree with or perhaps, are envious of.

Either way it isn't up to you to decide who will pay for what, and your assumption that every artist is a drunken freeloader is clearly false. Most working artists also have to hold down a job and will get very little in return for their efforts.

They aren't providing nothing, and very clearly people want what they are providing. It takes time, effort and opportunity costs to produce music and to expect that it be given to you for nothing because you think it's frivolous is ridiculous.

Do you pay for DVDs? Pay to see movies? What about the artwork on your clothing, or the design of your car? You pay for all of those things directly or indirectly and they could all be considered frivolous in one way or another, yet someone worked hard to make it happen and people are willing to pay for that.
Criminals have long ago started doing this. The ones that want to stay out of jail, that is. Not that that will help them much because even then they still leave quite a bit of digital detritus to use as a means of tracing them.

The only way to commit a crime and not be caught immediately will be guy in a non-contamination suit on a bicycle.
You mean : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Ulrich when you write that.

But I think of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomplamoose so I disagree very much.
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What about SMI already tracking pupils at 250Hz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq09BTmjzRs That tech is still expensive and I don't know how accurate or reliable but if it is good enough for foveated rendering, I would have expected it to be good enough for focus as well. Care to elaborate as to why it wouldn't work, or is it just beyond your horizon of "today"?
They will simply claim not to be logging that.
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I couldn't help thinking of this Joel Spolsky article as I read this. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html sometimes the dungeon master dragging his feet over a rewrite is right to do so. Ironically though I think micro services do offer a way to gradually update and scale an existing system that is creaking under its own weight
The entire concept of low income housing is a scam to keep market rate prices high. Build enough market rate housing that the price falls to what low income people can afford and you don't need any low income housing.

If the government spent the money it spends subsidizing rents on subsidizing construction then the problem would be solved.
> This same argument could be used to show that we can't decide e.g. which drugs or lifestyle choices make death due to cancer more or less likely, or indeed which behaviors make death due to any long-term illness more or less likely.

I won't hazard a guess as to which argument you're imagining I made, but I'm not seeing how you jumped to this conclusion at all. As Dylan16807 points out below, "deciding which drugs or lifestyle choices make death due to longterm illness more likely" has approximately nothing to do with an apples to oranges comparison of time intervals starting at different points.

In fact, to the extent that attempts to figure this out do involve comparing intervals, they tend to be ages, which by definition are measured from birth. That's pretty much the highest standard for having a reasonable, stable beginning point when comparing time intervals across people's lives, in a way that "years after diagnosis" doesn't approach by a long shot.

> Congratulations I guess, but you've just put a bunch of medical researchers out of a job. They had to study a long time to do that job!

I'm assuming the juvenile tone is an attempt to cover up your lack of comprehension with bluster. "Congratulations I guess"
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I'm destined to be a "dungeon master" on a recent project, and would love to restart with an MVP. I had to fight tooth and nail to leave out features no one was going to use - some of which weren't cut. Project manager kept predicting we would be done in 1 month when we obviously had way more than 1 months worth of work. Ultimately we ended up developing our current version as if it was just 1 month from being done (cut some corners so we can hit the target!) for the majority of it's development time.
>On the other hand, the replacement is needed because we are now hitting the limits of the original approach, be it the model, the technology, the market evolution or the understanding of them all. Releasing a new solution, way better than the original one, will prove that the DM did a bad job.

Not it won't. It will just prove that the rewrite was justified.

>Good developers turn into Dungeon Masters because this is what the system demands.

They really don't. Good developers realize that there is an endless of cycle of the old being replaced by the new and if you can't deal with that you are not suited to a career producing software.

The whole thing reads like the author encountered one or more people whose self esteem is so fragile that they are unsuited to the commercial software industry. It sounds like those individuals had a lot of trouble keeping their own (fragile) ego out of technical and business decisions.

>The moment a different implementation shows that a lot money could have been saved, then the cost of keeping the old software for too long is exposed too. And this can be scary: imagine you discover a wrong design decision you made 10 years ago costed millions to your company… would you happily expose it?

Yes. Exposing it presumably then saves the company millions going forward and any halfway competent boss will respect you for putting the organization first. Shelve your ego, it's called being a professional. Never mind being professional, its also a matter of acting like an adult.

The article isn't so much about dungeon masters as it is about people who shouldn't be programmers.
It is funny to see such naïve attempt to ignore the basic laws of ecology and economics.

Any given ecosystem could sustain a certain limited population without being collapsed and destroyed together with its habitats. Everything evolutionary biologist will tell you that.

The no free lunch law, like every other law of the Universe, also cannot be gambled out, given that money is a measure of labor, and is like ATPs of a complex system we call local economy. Disturb the balanced flows and the whole system will inevitably collapse.

Economical perpetuum mobile is impossible for the very same reasons a physical one is impossible.

But who cares if it is such a brilliant scam for any politicians. When consequences appeared they would be very rich and very dead.
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Interestingly this is somewhat similar to what the US is doing for some food items. For example farmers are being paid to milk cows then dump in on the ground. This makes sure we have higher milk production capacity than necessary. Then if a disaster strikes or war that could reduce production, we have some extra production capabilities to help.
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I came across this recently - Treibner's algorithm, mentioned in this:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/shanir/publications/Lock_Free.pd...
One more thing...

...is a reference to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenote#.22One_more_thing......
So you're saying you don't believe that an affordable unit has twice the displacement-fighting power of a market-rate unit?

If so, what's the basis for this belief? Have you read the study I linked to, which concludes otherwise? If so, what part of its reasoning do you contest?
Sounds like what's needed is a drug reserve, to act as a buffer if there is a disruption.

The artificially short expiration dates for drugs makes this hard. Drugs last a LOT longer than they say, but no one wants to spend the money to see how much longer.
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Certainly orders of magnitude less than producing vinyl and selling it in brick-and-mortar stores. The size of YouTube videos is in the singles-to-tens-of-MB. http://www.cdncalc.com suggests delivery costs for commercial for-profit General-purpose CDNs are on the order of 5 cents per GB. YouTube has absolutely massive scale and their own CDN POPs deployed, so I wouldn't be surprised if their costs are a small fraction of this price. However, even at a generous 10MB per video and retail CDN bandwidth cost of 5 cents per GB, delivery of one play of one song is about would cost one twentieth of one cent. I'm sure they're making much more than this for the ad which plays before the video. YouTube also has employees and infrastructure and other costs, but they don't disclose their financials, so it's hard to know exactly how much they spend on hosting: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cfo-doesnt-disclose-yo...

All that said, digital distribution tends to be drastically cheaper than physical distribution to the point where it's essential free, and a negative cost once ad revenue is factored in.

For a vinyl analogy, imagine Starbucks was paying 1000x the cost of distributing a record if someone went to Starbucks after seeing the ad which was slipped inside the record cover.

Another consideration: YouTube makes so much on ads that they're giving some of that money back to content producers because they know that the service they provide is so readily available for free elsewhere that producers need additional incentives to use YouTube specifically.

I'm fairly confident that their ad share payouts exceed their bandwidth costs.
I'm fairly sure it's not legal, because you're acting in bad faith (while you haven't changed the License terms, you are effectively coercing people into not being able to take advantage of the license). I'd also consider the tactic immoral because you're adding restrictions to free (and copylefted) software.
I've got all kinds of gaps in my cardiogram which could apparently mean atrial fibrillation, but I suspect it more means that my watch is just crappy at measuring my heartbeat. Sometimes when I'm out on a walk it says 60-70 when I know I'm at 130-140. Not sure how to make my watch more accurate, it's already strapped on pretty tight.
Are you thinking of GNUstep? I actually backed them but evidently my pledge wasn't high enough: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/203272607/gnustep-proje...
The population of the US in 1950 was roughly 100m and it is now 300m. The participation rate has stayed roughly around 60% during that time. That means a lot more people are working than in 1950.

Globally, populations have increased dramatically as well. More people are working than ever before.
The flaw is scale. If you build one market rate unit (or ten or a hundred) then you get displacement, because the price of the market rate units remain too high for low income people to afford. You need to build a million.
Except you can't fake the feedback of muscles adjusting focus that the real world requires without different physical focal planes. You can mimic the focal effect, but your brain has the ability to recognize motor inputs to the eyes and act on this information (or lack thereof).

I think what we really need is a way to target specific focal distances via some sort of dynamic refraction. Otherwise we'll never get the proper motor feedback needed for immersion.
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I know plenty of former military contractors that are disgruntled holding down 9 to 5 jobs at Home Depot. It wouldn't take much to stand up a private army to take over a private country.
Fascinating paper! Somehow, this escaped my attention when I was researching this topic. I was interested in the question of how the heck we evolved such a crazy system of 7 white notes + 5 black notes (i.e. the diatonic (and pentatonic) scale overlaid on the 12-tone equal temperament), as well as the origin of the Western concepts of major and minor scales and chords.

Long story short, it seems the answer is that our scales and chords derive from a combination of what makes for interesting voice leading and what notes sound good together in a given timbre. The choice of approximating ideal chords and scales using 12 equally spaced notes derives from a instrumental playability concerns and the desire to be able to freely transpose and to modulate between distant keys.

It's a deep topic, but if anyone's interested, I recommend two books:

- Timbre, Tuning, Spectrum, Scale by William Sethares
- A Geometry of Music by Dmitri Tymoczko
Just for the learning part, I moved from CVS to Perforce 10 years ago in a new job and it took me perhaps all of 4 hours to completely understand the work flow and the GUI. Until now when I started to see what Git is all about and after a couple of days and lots of different clients and articles, I am still not sure about my Git skills. It's certainly isn't as straightforward to learn and use.