skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how Bay Area land usage would change if property owners were paying tax at the market rate for their use of the land. They would likely move more employees to other offices, as they faced more competitive market forces. On some tracts, Google and Intuit are paying a property tax rate 10-100x lower than local homeowners and businesses who moved in recently.[1]

A "split roll" - modifying the existing system for corporations, keeping the existing for residential -- would level the playing field for large incumbents and new market entrants, paying for office space at a much higher rate.

[1] The assessed value of one 13.7-acre tract underlying part of Google’s headquarters is $789,635, producing an estimated tax rate of 1.3 cents a square foot, far less than most neighboring properties.

In interviews, commercial real estate experts said that both Google and the property’s owner, Richard Peery, a septuagenarian Palo Alto real estate developer and billionaire, were saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Commercial landowners often pass the cost of property tax on to their tenants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/us/california-property-tax...
The deal involves 2.5 million square feet of office space. In comparison, the Empire State Building has 2.2 million square feet. So this is a pretty big deal. (I'm trying to imagine what Mountain View would look like with the Empire State Building beside 101.)
Calvin and Hobbes's creator really liked Schulz's work: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119214690326956694
Great. Although this is really a left-pad situation: it's good that they fixed it, but that fact that it was a problem in the first place is pretty damn disturbing.
Or create a dummy Google account.
Higher the number of pages in a regulation harder it is for the representatives to read and study. The compliance cost goes significantly higher for all the stakeholders making entire healthcare more expensive all people and since IRS is roped in this cost is also passed on to entire population of United States including those who are not residing in USA and have never made a visit to a doctor in a given financial year.

Reform generally means government gives up control in favor of market so people can get what they want, forcing people to buy insurance is not reform it is tyranny.

There is a good reason why US constitution is just 4 pages and not 400 thousand.
Have you a reference for that?
> Rust which has language changes as well

Rust doesn't have backwards incompatible language changes.

> This looks like a breaking change on a stable API.

No. It is a method addition. It is breaking only in the sense that code that didn't explicitly invoke the previous "as_ref" method might call this new method instead. It's the moral equivalent of:

type A struct { ... }

type B struct {
A
}

func (a ﹡A) Foo() {}

and then a later version of Go adds a method:

func (b ﹡B) Foo() {}

Such that code that called Foo() on an instance of ﹡B might call the new method instead. Go can make those changes.
Small example: not taking care of your parents when they get old because it's not pleasurable.
Markdown is fine for github, but isn't there even a slight bit of Helvetica-fatigue out there? Aren't we in a position, 20 years after HTML's widespread adoption, where we can aspire to something slightly more artful/communicative than Markdown's catastrophically simplistic and tragically ugly idea of layout?

Markdown represents, honestly, the massacre of the art of typography. It is ironic how such an ugly standard clashes with the its inventor's purported love for Apple, a company whose very DNA is about the beauty of layout, fonts, and the visual representation of the written word.

Markdown -> you have been weighed in the balance and found (severely) wanting.
Sounds like a (bad) plan! (Your gut is about 70 percent of your immune system.)

From what I have read and experienced firsthand, you are far better off strengthening your gut flora, not undermining them.
It has a language definition. Neither Rust not Go have a formal semantics.
Why most “clever” code ain’t so clever after all
A Technical Founder’s Review of APIs – GitHub
The combination of reference counting and tracing GC looks interesting. There have been a couple of attempts to retrofit reference counting into Lua, but nothing stable or widely used AFAIK.
> You could do that before ACA.

The GP said he was a cancer survivor. I've talked with several people with serious past or pre-existing conditions, including past occurrences of cancer, who could not find anyone willing to sell them an individual health insurance plan at any price prior to the ACA -- the only way they could get insurance was to be in a job where a group plan was offered.

> What does this lifestyle choice have to do with ACA?

It creates health insurance exchanges on which people can by individual insurance without being denied for pre-existing conditions, meaning they don't need to be in a job offering a group plan in order to get insurance.

> ACA often does not offer the cheapest plans either...

ACA has made it possible for people to buy individual plans who were not able to buy them, at any price, before (the rules that do that, such as the rule against pre-existing condition exclusions, are the reason for the cost increases for individual insurance for people who were insurable prior to the ACA.)
I works even if you disable access to the camera (on android that is) but you obviously won't be able to use the AR view.
I agree it is helpful to involve Google so it can be changed for existing Pokemon Go users. But I don't see how Google has verified the claim, since Google themselves have yet to release a statement.

By the way, Google indorsed this comment. Believe me?
I really hope this means we'll get to see this beautiful new campus vision come to life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3v4rIG8kQA

It was put on hold after Google lost development rights to needed property to LinkedIn.
Kudos to the author for tackling this huge and controversial topic.

Read first several chapters and picked up the impression that the author doesn't put enough effort to point out how the processes/practices can (and should) be completely different depending on the circumstances. If a startup tries to use the same processes as Google or Facebook, it'll be dead in the water. If SpaceX engineers write software the same way as SnapChat does it, we will never see their rockets leaving launch pads.
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Unfortunately, most non-profits are notorious for money-laundering and illegal activity. I believe you should consider waving fees on a case-by-case basis, if you can spend money to evaluate, but if you can't, I'd err on the side of caution and not waive fees.
Open source Evernote replacement based on Electron
That site has been down continuously for days, so it might not be a real option.

Edit: OK, continually since it does seem to be up sometimes!
Mountain view borders the coastline of the bay. I just used a tool[1] to find the level above sea they are, and it shows ~ 8 ft. I imagine there are problems building below sea level when you are only a few hundred feet from the coast.

1: https://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude....
> methodonpointerotpointer is not a breaking change if you read the specs.

It's not a breaking change according to Go's definition of breaking changes, by which Rust hasn't had any breaking change either.

> Rust doesn't even have a formal language specification.

Neither does Go, the spec is not a formal specification (and the first phrase of the intro states that it's a reference manual).
That's their point. You just sort-of repeated it.
> I don't think that is something science can teach you

Science can teach you that "it's all just atoms and the void"; the other part of the sentence is inference. And interestingly a similar inference as I made as a teenager, though I wasn't eloquent enough to really discuss it with anybody.

The basic premise is that if you reject the notion of a deity, there isn't even any standard by which any configuration of the Universe could be more meaningful than any other configuration.

Except if it's your own standard, which leads to meaning being a feeling more than an objective measure.
That's a start. But given that the report is subjective, and its a report on brain-altering drugs, as a data set its of questionable usefulness. E.g. all those that were changed to be hyper-focused will not be able to change their attention to reporting - so many will be missing from the reports. Others may become depressive and incapable of reporting as well.

Its like "everybody who didn't survive the experiment, raise your hands!"
I've played with Squirrel years ago and its a really nice language. But in the end, I went back to Lua because of LuaJIT.
Same, but on iPhone..
Rust uses a much stricter definition of breaking change than does Go. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, Go changed the size of integers. While this is technically allowed by the language (it wasn't previously specified), and it shouldn't break conforming code, it can break code that depended on the previous size.

The Rust maintainers would have considered this a breaking change. The Go maintainers did not. This isn't to say either side is right or wrong, just that they are measuring different things.

Additionally, the Rust maintainers have been exceedingly cautious whenever making these types of changes. They literally download, compile, and test all published crates to look for indications that such a change might actually break existing code. In the very few cases it has, they've worked with crate authors to incorporate fixes.

The very low bar Rust sets for determining what is a breaking change directly reflects the extreme regard they have for this issue.
It looks interesting, and powerful, but I'm not seeing anywhere about how much MapD costs. I've got a DB of 6B+ records that would be great to do more flexible queries on.
APM tools compared by Gartner
The rx algorithms are not part of MSFT R Open, but they are severely restricted in this, so I kinda fail to see the point of having it. Perhaps someone from the team can chime in and explain the reasoning behind this?
Yes really. In 2010 there were 27.9 million small businesses in the US. https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf
401(k) is just the first product we launched, not our last. We are a retirement company.
There is a great Computerphile video on YT about this topic i can recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sskbSvha9M&index=4&list=PLz...

(Link to playlist, as all of those are great.)
Perhaps people could also use their brains and judgement to decide which locations might be inappropriate. I don't really think it's necessarily Nintendo's duty to have to nanny their users into being normal, functioning human beings.
> Enable the completeness checker.

What's this "completeness checker"?
A Miracle in New York Harbor
I just did it this morning - just refreshed the page once and it worked fine.
I'm from Indonesia. A lot of countries are excluded from getting paid contents on iBook (e.g. India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, UAE, etc): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411
I seriously hope those requests are reviewed by humans, so the person reviewing it could've got a good laugh.
http://tomasp.net/coeffects/

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2741
NIST has done some research on combinatorial software testing and has a pretty good package [1] I've used before for generating test cases given N dimensions.

The idea behind their software is to maximize the effectiveness of test time because testing those N dimensions exhaustively is infeasible.

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/acts/index.html
You don't think that being a superior economic system had anything to do with it? You don't think that being a more humane social/political system had anything to do with it? You think it was just superior propaganda? Seriously?

Gorbachev noted that the USSR had a military that could have gone toe-to-toe with the US, but they couldn't provide toothpaste for their people. Everyone else noted the lines to buy basic necessities. Communism simply didn't work very well, economically. That wasn't propaganda; that was simply obvious comparison of the experience of living on different sides of the Iron Curtain.

Then there was the whole "freedom of speech" thing in the west and the whole "gulag" thing in the east. That was real. The difference was real. (Yes, I know the US seems to be rapidly eroding actual freedom, but it was a real thing at the time, not merely propaganda.)
Anxiety and high IQ are linked: http://www.livescience.com/36259-anxiety-linked-high-iq.html so it is possible (I am speculating) that by reducing anxiety, you are reducing IQ. Not everyone wants to be smart, but it is not a decision I would take lightly. I wonder if you could perform the opposite operation, jacking up anxiety and IQ...
When there isn't much data, you shouldn't be segmenting your population. Instead it is common in data analysis to collapse variables to have meaningful observations. Why would that be any different here?
Most of the other comments are off base for Mountain View/Sunnyvale shoreline area. Google and Linkedin can't build tall buildings here because their campuses are next to Moffett federal airfield and the surrounding area is subject to building height restrictions.

There's a map for this, I'll edit my comment when I find it.

Edit: I found the map (http://i.imgur.com/B48yRGK.jpg), the maximum building height for this area is 182 feet above sea level. The Google campus sits around 15 feet above sea level and LinkedIn around 50. That works out to a max height of around 10 stories for the Google area, 7 stories for LinkedIn. So actually, it's higher than I thought.

There are quite a few tallish (7-10 story) buildings along 237 and Central expressway that seem to skirt this restriction.
Well, one thing we can say definitively today is that VoltDB offers strong serializability, when almost no other clustered systems do, and when they do, they are slow.

But my more typical answer is the combination of throughput and transactional logic. No other system does both as well as VoltDB. This comes up a lot in policy enforcement, fraud detection, online gaming, ad-tech, billing-support and more.

Here are some blog posts that might help:

https://voltdb.com/blog/winning-now-and-future-where-voltdb-...
https://voltdb.com/blog/apps-need-acid
https://voltdb.com/blog/call-center-example-integrating-proc...

This video's not bad:

https://voltdb.com/resources/video/transactional-streaming-i...
Banana-nana-brogana...

I'm sorry.
'I'm a Student-Debt Slave.' How'd We Get Here?
Where is the column 1 (Level 4)?
And this coming from a politician that, for most of the Brexit campaign, kept on the sidelines because she was undecided about which side to choose? From a minister that introduced the Snooper's Charter, massively expanding the scope of their intelligence services? Yeah, those pesky human rights could well interfere with her method of governing.

But her statement really shows her (willful) ignorance:

"The ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals – and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia’s when it comes to human rights"

As the home office minister, she should know damn well that the ECHR has no teeth except for EU regulation. Leave the EU, and there is no enforcement mechanism left for ECHR rulings. Not to mention the inconsistency of her own statement: how come the ECHR binds the hands of the UK government, but not Russia's? (The answer is above: it's EU regulation, not ECHR that bound her hands).
> you won't be the first company dying from not finding any devs for your ageing Groovy on Grails stack

That's intentional on the part of the managers of those two products. When they were boosting the presence of Groovy and Grails in Java shops, they were increasing the complexity of their products. They're now cashing in by supplying consulting and conferences at tight market rates.

The lesson here is to check out whether the backers of the language have technical chops, or if they're merely business people.
It's hyper-optimized, small, and can be multithreaded or multiplexed trivially, but that's true of lua as well. The array thing gives it a leg up in speed as well, as does 0-indexing. Finally, its gc algorithm doesn't have cpu bursts (it's not "stop the world"). I don't know of Lua has this feature, but it makes the language ideal for real-time applications. Like games.
I think with Apple and Microsoft it's like this: They've got tons of cash. They don't have any idea where to invest it to provide good returns for their shareholders. But a stock buyback also provides a return to shareholders, so...

The historically-more-normal way of doing this is via dividends (which Microsoft also started doing).
Thank you. I'm going to beef that up in the introduction, due to several comments such as yours.
May I quote you?
I do not understand what is the problem when using Docker. Please explain?
Why Is Werner Herzog Diving into Streaming Video and Online Film Schools?
Content Marketing and Lead Generation Rules You Should Never Break
I think iOS is a great place to start learning programming. Being able to use storyboards to literally connect UI elements like buttons and sliders to small bits of code is easy to understand and quick to pick up.
That's because back then, academic people (i.e. university professors and researchers) REALLY cared about science per se, and not just putting out papers every few months to get promotion.
Ranking the Most (and Least) Diverse Colleges in America
> It creates health insurance exchanges on which people can by individual insurance without being denied for pre-existing conditions

One could (and can) do this without the exchanges.

Yes, before ACA some pre-existing conditions would deny access to some policies from some insurers. This was to prevent a career smoker at age 75 from signing up for a new very large policy, and immediately get the benefits they haven't paid for.

We didn't need all of the baggage that came with ACA to accomplish this.

> meaning they don't need to be in a job offering a group plan in order to get insurance

> ACA has made it possible for people to buy individual plans who were not able to buy them

Before ACA, you did not need to belong to a group plan to get insurance. And to that endeavor, private individual insurance policies are about the same price now as they were then...

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Meanwhile... ACA didn't touch pharmaceutical companies - the true reason healthcare is so expensive ($700 salt water IV's anyone?).
> The entire point is that healthcare is no longer coupled to a specific employer.

It never was. You could always get an individual plan.
This shocked me the first time I went out to SV. I thought the bay would be a deep body of water with a shoreline, and it's basically a mud flat / salt factory. Really disappointing. Many cities built along rivers have better water views & access.
it's the google login flow
Yes, I personally find Siri very useful. I almost always interact with Siri through my watch and I do things like start a cooking timer while my hands are covered in raw chicken juice, set a reminder to do something tomorrow, or reply to a text via voice while driving.
Seems Rust is moving up in the world!
> Compiler changes are the norm in Rust.

Compiler changes are the norm everywhere? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

> This looks like a breaking change on a stable API. Am I wrong?

Yes and no.

Rust's policy on breaking changes is that changes that can be fixed by properly qualifying an implicit path are not breaking. Otherwise, adding any method to anything would be a breaking change. In this case, you can use the UFCS syntax to disambiguate.

So it's an "allowed" kind of breakage because not allowing this means freezing the stdlib.

(Go doesn't have this issue due to lack of generics, overloading, and interface-based overloading. Edit: actually, go does too, due to inheritance, but that is easier to avoid and isolate. In rust you can always write client code that breaks if the stdlib adds a method, anywhere. This is true for most typed languages).

Anything that has the chance of practically breaking things is still run through crater (which tests impact on the ecosystem) and as you can see that PR had minimal impact.
Not only that but the fact that by the method they are following, they will never know what the effects are. That's really what makes it pseudo-science.

They have an apparatus, but nothing else of the scientific method.

The results of a trial are judged in some purely subjective terms.
I'm the second author on [1], if anyone has any questions.
> It simply mandates everyone buys insurance.

It mandates everyone buys insurance meeting minimum standards.

> Does it matter if you buy insurance if your deductible is $6000 and you never seek medical help until its too late (because you can't afford the copay(s))?

By definition, with "too late" as part of the premise, no; but more meaningfully, it definitely makes a difference if you buy a high-deductible plan and only use it to cover catastrophic costs.

(Of course, to meet the minimum standards under the ACA, plans must cover certain, mostly preventive, services at no cost to the covered individual, regardless of what co-pay and/or deductible they have for other services, so that also makes a difference.)
Researchers Confirm EFF’s T-Mobile Binge on Findings
thats why they're involving google, Google is handling the permissions changes
I understand that this is an unpopular thing to say, but I say it From research I did on building a "transparent accounting" software for non profits. I found out during the course that most of them didn't want to be transparent.

If you don't believe me, check transparency international's research on the same.
In case you use Visual Studio and want to write some R code, VS now has a free+oss plug-in for it:

RTVS v0.4 video overview: https://youtu.be/k1_6XLyhHbo

Docs: http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/
"BamBrogan formerly went by "Kevin Brogan." He formerly worked at SpaceX where he was fondly called "K-Bro." But in 2013 he married a woman named Bambi Liu. As part of the nuptials, according to Forbes, the couple decided to merge names rather than hyphenate. Hers became "Bambi BamBrogan" and his, simply "Brogan BamBrogan." "
Totally agree. IMO it's also be amazing if we could create an AI which could evolve itself to the point of understanding things we can't while understanding humans well enough to be able to explain those things in terms we could understand.

Then again, maybe if it found out "higher" "actual" truths, it could see that possibly explaining those to humanity wouldn't be "good", and thus lie / withhold information for our own "benefit".

And now we're back to morals and ethics.
Regarding Unicode, we do strip the most distracting codepoint ranges: emoticons, dingbats, misc symbols, etc.
ha u might as well have been in Google LA and had the perk of working on venice beach.
IIRC, technically alternate (rendering) engines are allowed but you can only execute downloaded code using the system's webkit/JSC (and if you didn't you'd be restricted to a straight interpreter).
Actually I've been wondering if a PR agency has been running a huge campaign against Pokemon Go. There were a bunch of articles last week:

- People sent to churches and graveyards

- One person found a dead body while playing

- Someone supposedly had an accident while playing in the car

- One black person pointing he couldn't play the game safely as it would be dangerous to wander around aimlessly as a black guy in the city

- A bunch of inappropriate places like strip clubs were included

This seems to me like the next candidate for overblown, unjustified outrage. Like D&D in the 80s, or Google Glass recently. I'm just waiting for Moms Against Pokemon Go.