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How would more affordable housing (by replacing single family homes with high-rise complexes) increase gentrification? If anything, people are getting 'priced out' because of the absurdly high housing prices right now.
Longitude overflow.
Thank you, I certainly see the power in that. Thanks for the time to answer.
Michael Dougan argues it will be very difficult for the UK to arrange trade agreements within a short time period, as they hardly have enough competent negotiators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTypBKEd8Y
I would even refine this down more to "What do you do for your profitable customers?". Using google the answer would be "We bring targeted and motivated leads to your website".
I agree with (most) everything here[0]. However based on the byzantine (to me, anyway) meta discussions about free/libre/gnu that seem to evolve out of every proposed major change to the emacs development process, it seems extraordinarily unlikely to happen. But man would that be cool.

[0] A code of conduct seems unnecessary.
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Sure, which is clearly far from legal. No wonder it is quickly overturned every single time, like now, lasted what, 12 hours?
At least in my experience, the assessed values for 4+ unit buildings tend to be substantially lower than 45% of true market value.

Property tax rates in NYC are actually not too terrible. I've owned homes in NYC as well as northern NJ, and also recently spent a lot of time looking at condos in the NYC area. Tax rates in northern NJ are pretty much always higher than NYC -- NJ is known as one of the states with highest property tax rates. Yet, typical property tax bill for a condo in northern NJ amounts to around 0.8-1.2%/year of the true market value of a property.

In NYC it'll usually be under 1% of true market value for a 4+ unit building, even with no abatement. And for a 1-3 unit building it's a tiny fraction of this. Also consider that property tax payments are tax-deductible federally... and that property value here is rising rapidly, so the value of your investment is increasing by a dollar amount that may exceed the cost of taxes + maintenance/common charges + mortgage.

Sites like StreetEasy are very helpful for seeing the tax rates for homes on the market -- I've personally never seen any with rates nearly as high as suggested in your article. You can also look at quarterly reports from major brokerages to get a good sense of cost per square foot of condos and coops in various neighborhoods, and see how quickly they are rising in recent years.
Until this past year, the India/Bangladesh border was similar - there was even a triple-deep enclave (india inside bangladesh inside india inside bangladesh... I think...). They just recently did a land swap to make the border more sane, and also easier on the inhabitants, who didn't have freedom of movement between the parts.

https://youtu.be/gtLxZiiuaXs?t=5m10s
Although this prevents city reviews for housing that meets this requirement, can cities simply rezone to prevent this?

In other words, can cities simply down zone desirable areas and force the developer to apply for exemptions on a case by case basis which is tantamount to the current city reviews?
https://youtu.be/oE93J33SfHY

Really great video by Tom Scott about Baarle Hertog
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But shouldnt WikiLeaks be releasing this as a torrent?! Wouldn't that be much more effective, both efficiency and cost-wise?
> Also: what kind of funky debate thing is there in the UK that brings MPs to say "she" before the person they're speaking to?

The person they are speaking to is the Speaker of the House of Commons. The questions are to be answered by a third person, the Prime Minister.

You will note that May also follows the same rules, referring to the people to whom she is (apparently) responding in the third person. (Because, in theory, she is actually, again, responding to the Speaker as to what she would say to the questioner.)

> Do they do the same when it's a "he" or do they then use "you" to actually acknowledge that the person they're speaking to is actually present in the room?

Absolutely. Indeed, were they not to do so, they would be called out for violating the rules of the House.

Incidentally, this isn't actually a funky debate thing that is specific to the UK; if you watch the US Congress you will note that members also refer to each other (except the presiding officer) in the third person even when making what appear to be direct requests like "Will the gentleman yield for a question?" This is because members are generally prohibited from directly addressing each other, they formally address the presiding officer.
Oh, I completely missed that you said "insolvent."

That being said, insolvency by itself sufficient to lose your house—even if you're not underwater.
Well, it isn't below market if he thinks he shouldn't be able to afford a house. If he does, than it is.
I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started.

But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a single server not going down is a non-starter for me. Do you consider this use case in-scope?

I've been looking at Skylable instead. While setting it up is a little clunky, it's the only open source package I've found that explicitly supports replication across multiple datacenters - which is even more interesting to me than simply across servers within a data center.
Alternatives affect the pricing of a good.
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The article lost all it's credibility when it complained about how the menus look.
Yes, but as you've said, the idea isn't exclusive to Smalltalk/Erlang. Message passing is a very common pattern [1], but some languages decide to support them with built-in constructs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing
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How wonderfully British. Thank you for clarifying this. (And come to think of it, maybe "members are generally prohibited from directly addressing each other" ought to get implemented in some other countries if that keeps debates - reasonably - polite and without fist fights.)
Its not that recent since we've been able to fairl effectively code from anywhere. Investors/Managers/ et. al. are having a hard time keeping up with the times. IMO a team should be able to 100% remote from anywhere within a timezone restriction (ie, ET to PT ? )
Fair point.

Perhaps a more fair statement would have been: "good advice for pitching, but really, spend your time building your customer base."
It has nothing to do with the fucking weather. In fact for many, maybe even most people, the weather in california is SHIT. I like rain and snow, so -- by definition -- california has BAD weather -- for me.
> Morality doesn't enter into it.

Why not?
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Neutrino experiments cost of order a billion dollars. The event rate for anthropogenic neutrinos sources at the MINOS detector (from the article) is a few hundred events over 1 year.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0607088v2.pdf

So the bandwidth for this state-of-the-art billionish-dollar detector is measured in μbps :)
No one is said vim is an intuitive UI, or whatever. It's simply the conditional like A => B, where A is "you know what c, a and w" mean, and then B is regarding another feature that becomes intuitive once A is true. Pick anything that you think is intuitive and I'll show you a prerequisite for it, and some times that prerequisite is sort of "bootstrap human knowledge" like "touching things that move."

For a moment, try stepping away from the semantics of what 'intuitive UI' means as a holistic thing, and think of it this way: when you read an angry letter from someone, you are immediately flustered, or something. This happens intuitively. But it only happens if you already know how to read the words and what they mean. It isn't intuitive if you don't know the language. Intuition is perspectivized and based on prior context, etc. The human using the tool is defined by their history, stuff like that. The commenter is just saying, the way I see it, given X in the history of the user, where X is "understands what each character means" (this is now assumed as part of the user's identity), that some other aspects of the entire vim-as-a-text-editor process becomes intuitive.

Yet another example is, an app meant for musicians, like Ableton, where some things are intuitive because they have rhythm and/or melody knowledge or know what filters are, but isn't intuitive if they don't. It's a spectrum. The most interesting questions are often about such nuance. Vim is interesting, and it has stuck around.

I don't know, but I personally care less about semantics than about the human-processes that actually result from the way programs are. Call it 'intuitive' or not, what do you see actually happening? What I see is people making really quick edits (I often see this in myself) that I can't do in other editors that I am able to do as an extension of myself sort of the same way I feel about playing percussion in a band.
There is also Fuat Avni, who was exposing Turkish government for last few years with very accurate predictions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuat_Avni
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One way to avoid that problem is to use interpolation between two frames computed by the physics engine.
I work for Google in MTV now. I usually get in around 8:30 and am out on the first bus, just before 4:00. I've worked 3 evenings in the past 5 years (2 were for hackathons, one of which translated into a transfer offer), and I spent two hours working on a weekend once, actually just a couple months ago. I usually play games on my phone on the bus.

I also feel no pressure to work more. I feel like I'm valued by the team, and frankly more time typing wouldn't make me more productive. I feel like the work/life balance team does a great job of advocating time off, so I don't feel guilty about my time off.

I've been at places that expected 60 hour weeks, and I've found that setting realistic expectations from day 1 were key to me doing my ~40 guilt free.
True. And that's not too hard a version of parallelism to handle: never access the same data at the same time, just run physics on frame N to produce frame N+1 while rendering frame N, and don't publish frame N+1 until after physics finishes, at which point physics never writes to it again.
I wonder how much IPv6 plays a role.

Once you go IPv6, you never go back. After dealing with the hell that is limited IPv4 address space, everything just seems so easy.
See also part 2 (http://number-none.com/blow/blog//programming/2016/07/17/bra...) and part 3 (http://number-none.com/blow/blog//programming/2016/07/18/bra...)
The touching story in the article: a cash-strapped family wants to see their son before he deploys with the Army:

"Chris Woods started looking for flights to Hawaii during his son’s senior year of high school. His son had joined the US Army and would be deploying right after graduation, which meant the only time the whole family could take this trip together was during spring break."

But the story on the front page of Airfordable's web site[1] has a very different spin: take a romantic vacation in Bali, Paris, etc. even if you can't scrape together the cash to pay for it up front. (If you can't scrape together the cash for a plane ticket, maybe you should save up a bit more before going on vacation so you can avoid paying extra fees? Or take a vacation somewhere that's cheaper to get to than Bali. And after you pay for that plane ticket, you still need to pay for lodging, food, etc.)

Also, I couldn't easily find information on their web site about what their fees are or how they compare with standard credit card interest rates. If they're really offering a good deal, it would be in their interest to prominently display on their web site how much you'd save by using their layaway service instead of a credit card.

[1] https://www.airfordable.com
That's only a spiral if you expect organizations to stay in Mtn. View no matter what. At some point your spiral reaches a point where Mtn. View based companies are beaten out by companies in sane cities with sane costs of living, and then Mtn. View reaches an equilibrium.
> but current vulkan/spir-v tooling is more like a toy than production ready.

Yes, that's what I meant too. It's not ready (translation to SPIR-V from HLSL). GLSL → SPIR-V should be in better shape.
Agreed, at some point SDKs will break it.
Our frontiers are sometimes a bit fuzzy to say the last [0] and there is also this place [1] where you can literally be in 3 countries at the same times

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3378842/Belgium-Neth...

[1] https://www.google.be/maps/@50.7543794,6.0212649,17z
While factually partly correct, your explanation of causality is mostly BS.

Rent control in SF was a direct response to Prop 13 and certain landlords enacting disproportionate rent increases. Strict zoning had been happening before prop13 (1978) and still continues to this day based on the desires of each community and how each would like its city planned.
It seems like you're talking about human-created models (e.g. a manually-constructed decision tree), whereas the paper's primary concern is machine-created models (e.g. the weights derived mechanically by a neural network).

So the problem would be: how do you get the "modelers" (i.e. the machines) to be "honest about the flaws" of the models that they generated?
Yes, would love to build something like `hledger add` for mobile.
By GPA, the author likely meant "name of prestigious university."

Before dimissing a VC for choosing to use or not use it, I wonder what the data shows regarding whether pedigree is a good proxy for selecting founding teams for funding?
Why do the rights of the local people trump the rights of people from "elsewhere"? The major question is what harm is being done to the local people by the existence of 50 story buildings, vs the harm to people that find an ideal job in SF but can't afford to take it?
A combination of historical factors (the concentration of major tech companies here, the resultant concentration of venture capital, even the very idea of "Silicon Valley"), the presence of large feeder populations (Berkeley, Stanford, etc.), a generally high quality of life, and so forth -- there are legitimate reasons why so many tech companies, and so many tech workers, want to be in the Bay Area.
Hey HN, author here! This method of inlining CSS for email templates has been serving us well for a while now at Assertible. All of our emails are created with React components and then compiled down to static markup; with dynamic data injected via props.

I'm interested to hear some other ways people have achieved this, or answer questions for anyone looking to do something similar!
Great additional info, thanks!
Also, FWIW I'm near my vacation cap. My plan is to start taking every other Friday off in order to not lose vacation. Teammates and manager were all like "nice" when I let them know.
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That can work, but take care to avoid making the controls feel laggy in that case: if the player feels like their input doesn't immediately take effect, such as because the input gets processed on a physics timestep but the player character kept moving through interpolation, the controls can feel "floaty".
The various land regulations such as Prop 13 and rent control were overtly billed as "ways to stave off all the social change that's been happening" when they were debated and passed in the 70s and 80s. It's not a guess or some sort of conspiracy theory. Review the newspaper polemics of the time. It was quite openly the goal.

You can see exactly that continuous spectrum of decay in California in many places. The state has become ever more polarized into rich and poor, with less and less middle, during that entire time. This is partially a process that was going on everywhere in the US, but all the extra regulation in California that was designed to halt that process actually made it worse.

The California middle class has been massively eroding since the '70s. Before that, you could drop out of high school and still get a job that would lead to you owning a house within a few years. Now, owning a house is impossible for almost everyone.

The land regulations that restricted supply have made long term housing prices grow far faster than the national average: http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/0...

Huge tracts of formerly middle class suburbs near San Francisco and LA have become massive ghettoes -- where you still have to pay half a million dollars or more to buy a house next to thugs who openly sell crack 24 hours a day, where people are shot a couple of times a month. Where else in the US do you pay half a million dollars for a house in the ghetto?

The middle class jobs have mostly evaporated -- other than sinecures in California's vast bureaucratic and public employee apparatus, in which case you get a job for life with a powerful, politically-connected union to keep you from ever being fired for any reason. Good luck getting one of those unless you have a friend or relative who's already there.

Yes, things are great if you happen to be a high skilled tech worker in San Francisco during the late 90s or from circa 2010 to present, but this is a very small fraction of the population. Most Californians who don't have advanced computer programming skills only got squeezed harder by that influx of new money pushing up real estate prices still further.

And we haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till the "smart farm" trend really kicks in: http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-06-09/fac...

Soon, very soon, robots will be picking all the produce in the Central Valley, and there will be millions of newly unemployed low-skilled workers flooding into San Francisco and LA looking for work.
To be fair, it's significantly more difficult to manage and maintain a remote team than a local team. Some people thrive under those circumstances, of course, but I think that many more benefit from working with their team in "meatspace."
Not just you. Age-wise I suppose I'm part of the ᶜʳⁱⁿᵍᵉ ‘New Guard’ ᶜʳⁱⁿᵍᵉ, but I consider email + IRC to still be really hard to beat in terms of low barrier to entry.
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Is there no way to download a dump of this leak and keep digging offline? (also started getting HTTP 500s now, search doesn't work either with HTTP 400).
That's not me, but that's pretty much exactly the process... It was pretty common maybe 10 years back - these days there's a huge range of purpose-build brushless motors available from places like HobbyKing.com for such small amounts of money that I suspect _nobody_ of spending all that time to make their own (at least not in the "saving a few bucks for my hobby" class, I think the top end competition guys are probably hand making motors still...)
I see yank as copy but with a history, like a copy plus undo/redo state. Because that's how the functionality was introduced to me with Vim. I can cycle through previous 'yank' buffers, yet on my OS I'm limited to a single 'copy/cut' buffer so I remembered them as distinct terms.
Historically, this has been used for some very, very ugly things:

http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/02/zonings-racist-roots-s...
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That says more about the foolishness of living in a boomtown during a boom than anything else.

We're talking about annual income 7x the Per capita income in the US and 10x of countries like Italy, Spain and Israel.
Could you explain why a wikileaks dump implies Russian spies?
It seems to be down. I searched "rebel" and got an error.
That's not exactly something that most people have any power over.
Obviously that's shorthand for something like "What [most] people [mostly] want" ....

Are you sure though? Let's assume it was up to you, and you had a choice between $27 billion worth of the improvements mentioned in the article -- mostly aesthetics -- versus choosing $27 billion worth of making your commute time shorter and/or making service more reliable (eg off hours).

You'd really choose the fancy signs and USB chargers over the shorter commute? Really?
I'd wager a significant amount of production C is running on systems without ANY OS
Article from original source (NASA) posted a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12124435
I think this might be special case of more general and more important topic of software project (or basically any human operated project) spanning multiple generations. Knowledge transfer, continuity of ideas, experience sharing ... all that difficult stuff.
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> Also, having been clearly betrayed by EU and OTAN in this military coup...

How was he betrayed by the EU in this coup? I can see no evidence for that statement, from the limited amount I know about the situation.
Again, I guess just a matter of perspective. My parents house was 2200 sqft (2 siblings and 2 parents) and the Zestimate on it is like 140K.

Believe me, not a day goes by where I don't think about moving. But right now, as long as you can save a bit and don't mind living in a slightly crappy apartment, you'll do just fine here. Just take all the money you would've dumped into home equity and buy stocks, real estate, invest in companies, whatever, and you'll have plenty of money.

The current environment feels very unstable though. Something has to give. Either house appreciation has to slow, or wage growth has to accelerate, or a lot more new supply has to be built. I don't think your average Google/facebook employee knows or cares much about these trends but the startups do, and they're the canaries in the coal mine. If entrepreneurs stop coming to SF, and anecdotally I think it's getting less and less attractive with the rise of angel.co and other distributed funding platforms, this place is really gonna have a huge, long-term problem because big companies don't just spring into existence, they grow up from small companies that start locally.
Seriously? You just lost all credibility by judging the entire detailed analysis based on a jokey throwaway comment at the beginning of the article.
It sounds like the author wants basically everything about how Emacs is developed to change in order to better fit their ideas about what open source looks like.

There are plenty of established projects that don't use a "pull request" workflow, Emacs only recently migrated to Git; I don't have the discussion from ESR around migrating Emacs to Git handy, but it was a pretty slow process to "bring Emacs into the 21st century" and encourage contributions from new devs. There is simply no way the entire development workflow would change based on this critique. Never mind the fact that Emacs is RMS' baby, the suggestions are so far-fetched as to be laughable.

> the vast majority of modern software developers do not want to use email as their communication channel

This sounds more like "the vast majority of software developers like me" and I'm not sure how much value there is in debating something like that. Mark me down for "disagree". I have, in the past, skipped over projects when the only means of contribution or discussion is "sign up for our Slack/Gitter/etc. channel".
It's not that they don't want to share it, it's that they don't want it to change. If you live in a peaceful, quiet neighborhood, you don't want huge buildings going up, ruining your landscape, bringing more traffic, and basically changing everything you liked about the area when you moved there.
Hey i didn't check on mobile, but i checked on desktop and tried minimising my browser and it isn't even a bit responsive. Used Chrome on linux to be specific.