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The Luddites were entirely correct in their analysis - automation did destroy them economically.

Globally a technology shift may be the best option for a society, but there are often casualties.
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the supply in question is single family homes, particularly detached homes

vancouver is bordered to the north by mountains, the south by the us border and the west by the ocean. there's already suburban sprawl 2+ hours to the east. there is simply no room for more single family housing

there is a large amount of agricultural land, but it's part of a strategic reserve as it's some of the most productive agricultural land in canada and developing it is extremely controversial
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You could make an exemption for your official registered home address.

How does that work against foreign investors? How can you prevent them from having an official registered home address in both countries?
I don't care what you say. I want a damned gigabit ethernet port on my Macbook Pro. There is simply _not enough wireless spectrum available_ in an urban environment for us all to have full gigabit connections without dropped packets and retransmissions.

And there is nothing wrong with the standard headphone j
ack.

Apple's new Dongle Driven Development™ methodology sucks.
Because Vancouver's real estate is appreciating faster than nearly every other city in North America [1].

Not only are you washing money, you are likely going to see huge returns on your investment.

23% in a year would pay for this tax with a tidy profit at the end.

[1] - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-figures-s...
> Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion_(psychology)

There's a good reason for this: If you gamble on something that can hurt your livelihood, then if you win you only get marginally richer, but if you lose you might not be able to feed yourself or your family.

Or to put it in a cruder way, reproductive success has strongly decreasing return to scale as a function of economic success. Bill Gates has only 3 children, even though his income is around ~300,000x that of the average American.
The Chinese had a problem with almost exactly that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal they added melamine to milk to raise the apparent protein levels, so they could water down the milk.
Did anybody bother to look into the source at all? This is a roadmap without the first sod!
Thank you for this! I learned something today. I shall have to post this in the Comment section of the article.
Why do you think competitiveness of tooling is a bad thing? I understand why it could feel overwhelming, but you really can just pick one (assuming it appears to do what you want) and if it does, stick with it.
> But they won.

Actually, the majority of their new ideas didn't win and we are better for it. Survivorship combined with it sibling selection bias at work here - only counting the successes with the help of hindsight.
Apple is going to seamlessly combine Uber, ZipCar, Tesla's Autopilot, and the US Drone program.

Here is what they are going to build:

A fleet of vehicles piloted remotely like drones, using all the the "tesla autopilot" safety features as augmentation to make the job of remote piloting easier.

The vehicles will be summoned by the iphone.

The fleet will have all-electrics and hybrids, where hybrids are a fallback depending on availability and trip range.

The "front" seats will face the "rear" seats.

Windows will be dynamically shaded from transparent to opaque.

The "doors" will slide to open, including part of the roof, allowing passengers to embark/disembark while standing.
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> If people think that breaking and entering actually requires physically breaking something or disarming some security measure then that's probably what it should be.

"Breaking and entering" appears to have originated as a English legal doublet [0] -- a pair of words with origins in different languages with similar meaning adopted as the language of the law changed. As an aid to clarity.

> Is there really a harm in calling it trespassing?

Well, yes, because:

(1) "Breaking and entering" already has another name, "burglary". [1]

(2) "Trespassing" is the name of another, broader and, by itself less serious, crime of intrusion onto property without permission.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_doublet

[1] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_and_entering
There is also rational opposition to GMOs, or at least to aspects of how they are used. It is disingenuous but surprisingly common for people to pretend otherwise.
Outraged? C'mon now. Shocked with disbelief maybe?

Because that is such an obvious attack vector that it is hard to believe Bnet allowed it. It's very hard to enforce language-level restrictions (like which functions may run when) when they can be circumvented with reflection.

Besides, Bnet's WoW client code has been known to be janky, and their entire security setup seems to only care about protecting the business, and not users. Bnet is the only online gaming service where I have had multiple accounts hacked that I could not trace to any specific doxing/pw dump event... forcing me to conclude that their security infrastructure is absolute garbage
The discovery that one group is on average less intelligent than another needn't imply any particular policy anymore than the discovery that you're smarter than me implies that you and I should be afforded differing rights on that basis.
That's nearly 300 (speficially, 278) fatalities over the last two years, not this year.
I am going to give CouchDB another look. I used to use it a lot, and experimented with BigCouch, but I didn't used to like JavaScript, so doing views, etc. was a pain. Now, I don't dislike JavaScript so much and CouchDB fits some use cases I have.
So... build up? That's more expensive, tech wise, than single family detached homes, but at least it adds to the supply and constrains prices to some degree.

You don't have to do skyscrapers, you can do 3/4 stories like most European cities.

Not everyone can live in a single-family detached home with a big yard in a place with constrained land supply.
Yes it is, but that has nothing to do with what I said or what I replied to.
> Here are some counter-cases for you all: 1. 1920's era radiation craze. Water energizers, xray shoe fitting etc. 2. Communism 3. Airships

Not sure what communism has in common with the other 2, considering it is:

1. Not a technology.
2. Has never actually been implemented with success due to flaws in human nature.
3. Failed precisely because of lack of technology to support it (a command economy could be viable, given a high enough technological level and sophisticated models to predict the necessary outputs in real-time)

If there ever was something that failed because it threatened the established way of doing things, communism was it.
At that price it'll be a 2 bedroom condo.

3 bedroom condos in the core are rare, and generally start around $800k CAD
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> There is also rational opposition to GMOs, or at least to aspects of how they are used.

No, there is rational opposition to certain aspects of the use of particular crops, some of which happen to be GMOs. Since, to the extent that opposition is rational, it has nothing to do with the mechanism by which the traits that are problematically exploited were generated, it is completely irrational to generalize that rational opposition to "GMOs", or even attach it to GMOs.
This idea cracked me up, keep them coming.
They weren't using the POTS line for power (though I remember holding the leads when a ring signal came in - quite a shock! - seemed like the NYC local-loops must have had a RI# of about 20 at the time...) -- and they weren't just building a speaker - they were building a speaker in the same enclosure as microphones, so physical isolation seems like it would be top on the list. (Though even that would have only helped with freqs <= a few hundred Hz, so their active cancellation would still be key...)
No big deal - it just "seems" obvious, but I wasn't there...
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Two features of LEAN won me over are : 1) LEAN supports finer data such as minutes, seconds, and ticks. 2) LEAN was developed in C#, which is way faster than Python.
Sure, I understand the inertia, but can you show me any demo where a FP language outperforms C for parallel tasks?

People in the deep learning field care a lot about speed, and if someone demonstrated a factor of x speedup with FP language, they would use it.
One neat idea from Neal Stephenson's Anathem (with likely analogues elsewhere) is essentially a chatterbox that records people speaking in a conversation, chops up the audio into syllables, and plays those back at random to foil eavesdroppers. This might work better than white noise, assuming you trust the computer that's doing the scrambling!
I agree with you, but have in mind that patents are not limited to GMOs and affect 95% of seeds in commercial use, including the "organic" ones.

There is a popular perception that only GMO seeds are patented but that's not the case.
I'm glad to read other people saying this. There is a cult that has arisen surrounding the randomized control trial that really verges on pseudoscience. Rather than come up with precise predictions like you mention and then run the experiment to test the prediction, they just kind of use them to see if two groups of people are different, etc. The reason I say this procedure verges on pseudoscience is that it skips the key step of coming up with a real theory that makes predictions.

While experiments are great when you can do them, natural observations can also be used to test these predictions just fine.
True, but that's also true for a number of those other cities. Ottawa has both Kanata and Hull for example (and possibly Orleans depending on what you consider Ottawa). My aunt and uncle own a berry farm within a short drive to Ottawa as well so there's a number of small towns around it (within about 30 minutes drive or so).

My sister lives in a city right by Montreal, but most people would consider it to be Montreal if you don't live in the area.
"Butter is different, if you keep it for more than an hour at room temperature (20-21 Celsius) it will most certainly start to melt, I personally do not like that."

That's what butter keepers are for.
Exactly my point. Just like you don't mount cameras in everybody's bathrooms, you don't outlaw encryption. Instead, you install spy software on your target's computer, or you plant a bug in their light fixture, or subpoena Facebook to see if they ever messed up and said anything unencrypted. You can still find things out even if someone is being serious and uses end-to-end encryption, just like you can still find things out even if someone is being serious and burns their incriminating poo-peanuts.
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Pick any metric. It doesn't matter. The position that differences aren't possible is a position that crumbles when the evidence shows otherwise. My position, on the other hand, is that all people should be afforded the same basic rights, regardless of their differences.

Note that my position does not hinge on crossing my fingers and hoping that the future of science corresponds with my sense of morality. My position weathers any outcome.
Yes it is more natural than GMOs. GMOs take genes from another creature, and inject it into the plant. We take known poison producers and inject them into our food because those poisons are helpful in combating some pest.

The actionable data for traditional food (even that which is selectively bred) is that the majority of the population is fine with it. They've been fine with it for hundreds to thousands of years.

Now if the question is would I have eaten a tomato when it was brought back from the New World? Maybe. I would said, especially since I wouldn't have any other point of reference, "Others have eaten it. They're ok. And it's one of God's creations."

With GMOs, I have to ask the questions, "Do I think this is food? Do I think this is safe because I know that CEOs are rushing out things they know are bad for me." So we have evidence that GMOs are bad [0]. We know that CEOs put a low premium on safety and following the law [1]. Given that as a context, is it really irrational to pause and say, "Scientifically, do I trust this stuff? Should we require more research to see how hybridized plant-imals work?" I don't think so.

0 - http://www.hangthebankers.com/10-scientific-studies-that-pro...
1 - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/internation...
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We've been traveling from point A to point B for more than 10,000 years, but we've just done so really inefficiently compared to planes and automobiles. People have a right to be wary of newer technologies; more powerful generally means more dangerous.
> I'm not a car person so I mostly can't tell the difference in power

Bet you could if you tried. ;)

I really like my car. It's comfortable, I like driving it.

I really really really really hate the fucking sync software. It's just awful. Full of the stupidest bugs. I don't even have the full nav version, I have the smaller radio system. If I could find a decent replacement console that let me keep my climate controls (physical HVAC controls are a must. no touchscreen BS) I'd upgrade to carplay.
Well, when your UK friends from other parts of the commonwealth tear into Londoners worse than you do, perhaps the problem is indeed with them?

When you're passing through it is hard to get to know anyone.

London is by far the worst treatment I have seen from anyone in the western world, rich or poor. Even city Dutch are nicer and more kind.
The reason I push on this argument is that by making it, we as a community sound like we're waving away the concerns of the majority. "Oh a lorry killed loads of children? Don't worry about it love, loads more people commit suicide every year."

So those who do pander to those concerns end up winning the vote, and then they can trash our civil liberties. This is precisely how we British have ended up voting to leave the EU.

There has been a significant increase in the frequency and effectiveness of terrorist attacks in Europe. People are growing more worried about it. We need to make those people feel safe again, and we're not going to do that by saying "my privacy is more important than reducing terrorism".

The argument you make at the end is the strongest point: on the one hand we are nurturing terrorism by not dealing with the fallout of globalisation, and our governments have been sold an expensive algorithm that they believe can handle the problem, when in reality it will make us even less secure. Meanwhile, the media can sell more advertising with the increased attention, so they're quite happy to add fuel to the fire.

However, all these arguments end up being lost in whether it will work or not, and the Donald Trumps will always win that argument because they go to a lower denominator. If we want to win it, we need to show more genuine empathy.
You can't program a brain the way you can program computers. You can't program NNs either, im that sense. They have their place, I work for a company shipping them now with hw acceleration. Let's ignore the role of RAM here amd the fact that NNs are not like real neurons and let me grant the point that it's not a vNA, programming model-wise. Most of computing however will not be NN-based because you want to program things precisely, and the brain is terrible at executing commands precisely.
Cool! One question: CouchDB is written in Erlang and Lucene is Java. So CouchDB is now a dual language project, implementation wise?
That's a nice tid-bit of libertarian drivel, but it fails to mention that for innovation to be possible, the thinking class needs to be liberated from the toils of manual and physical labor and be endowed with a surplus of time and costly education at the expense of the (then farmer) worker class.

They didn't stand alone most of the time and were heavily sponsored or subsidized by governments to gain a competitive advantage in warfare or any other area.

Not to mention the obvious survivorship bias.
I'm pretty confused about where the couchdb repo lives. Can anyone point me to it?

Oddly: https://github.com/couchbase/couchdb?files=1 seems to be more like the code than any of the Apache stuff
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> THIS. After learning a few languages and paradigms, I find that I often have a 2 week ramp up for any given programming language.

That sounds about right for many programming languages. My personal average from "having heard of the language" to "writing non-trivial programs" (let's say, something that is able to talk to a REST API and do some processing) is a non-stop weekend programming session. [1]

The time-consuming part is learning the libraries and how to write idiomatic code. That can take months or years (C++, I'm looking at you).

Still, knowledge of a specific programming language is usually the wrong thing to optimize for. Perhaps a more useful metric was the number of programming languages one has been exposed to? That is more useful, as once you have learned a bunch, you've seen most of the important concepts, and can focus on whatever subset is implemented by the new language.

[1] Except Haskell. That's a nut I still haven't cracked.
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> As a web developper, this is the kind of exploits I keep in the back of my mind every time I develop something.

As a web developer, you should also know that there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent attacks performed through the developer console. This is the moral equivalent.
Other people - probably the majority of the UK population based on opinion polls and elections - weigh the balance differently. We (HN readers) are probably in the extreme minority, and we are not necessarily right.
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- Focus on trade, normalization and standardization (much of it could be voluntary though), environment and crime. These are all cross-border issues. It should stay out of most other things and at the very least try to make things opt-in.

- Require qualified majority (>= 75%) for EU parliament decisions. That should reduce the stream of leglislation coming from the EU.

- Introduce a judicial review with the purpose (and power) to veto any law which doesn't make sense as EU-wide regulation. Sort of like a constitutional court. For example, the parliament recently voted on EU-wide parental leave rules. Completely pointless to decide on an EU-level.

- Remove the entire Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), basically just a ton of farm-subsidies. Many European countries had a healthy farming sector without subsidies before joining the union. This is ~45% of the budget btw.

- Don't move the parliament to Strasburg every now and then. Not a huge cost but should be abolished on principles.
With someone that has little knowledge of Machine learning and TensorFlow will this book help me learn about them?
That would be helpful. It's not always easy to know which innovation is actually a net benefit.

Leaded gasoline was a superior fuel in many respects but was clearly a fraudulent mistake (it was sold with false assurances of safety).

Even the original Luddites were not wrong in their original critiques - the technological innovations of machined industrialization did indeed replace workers and enrich employers. (That such technological innovation also created wealth was poor consolation for the workers getting the short end of the stick).

Chemical warfare was horrible enough to have military strategists more than willing to agree to ban its usage.

New is not universally a good. In fact, every change has benefits and detriments that will be unequally distributed. History has also shown a tendency for the detriments to be mostly felt by the poor and disenfranchised.

It seems fair to be cautious about the new.
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I can't help but wonder how this bill, on top of Brexit, will affect the state of technology entrepreneurship in the UK. Why should an entrepreneur start up a technology business in the UK if his efforts will be hampered by politicians who have no clue about how technology actually works?
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> Has never actually been implemented with success due to flaws in human nature

The flaw is in Communism, not human nature.

The very system you claim could theoretically work - given enough technological development - is fully incapable of ever producing that technology to begin with. That's just another excuse in over a century of endless excuses for why command economies fail and fail so dramatically. That specific excuse regarding technology has existed at least since the 1960s. Fortunately, human nature will always thwart command economies.
I think it doesn't fit, but for a different reason. Communism was considered scientifically superior by its proponents. Those who disagreed with it were often labeled luddites and anti-science. Communism absolutely was considered a scientifically provable method of managing societies.

But that's not the reason it shouldn't be grouped with the others. The fact that the others only resulted in a few hundred deaths while communism resulted in hundreds of millions. People still die today from the after effects of communism's heyday, killing more people than anything ever before it besides old age.
That supply chain optimization comes at the cost of having to fight 50 pitched political battles with some very entrenched interests (dealerships).
Oh yes, sorry you're right. Even so, the numbers have increased significantly in the last couple of years.
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The way I solved it was to say that the bicycles meet in the middle because their velocities are equal. They travel this 20/2=10 miles with v=10mph in 1 hour. In this 1 hour, the fly will travel 15 miles, no matter how often it changes its direction.
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> Check out the ODroid series, Banana Pi Pro, ECS Liva, Jetson TK-1, etc.

For which of these do regular updates (in particular kernel updates) from the mainline distribution exist?
I've been poking around the site for a few minutes, and am not quite sure what it does.

Clicking "Create Item" brought me to an empty page.
Devil's advocate for the Internet. I'd say that our being so connected helps spread and magnify these fears, and the fact that most of us carry smartphones et cetra helps keep us consistently in that state of mind.
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All advertising does is basically trying to create the illusion that the stuff has been tested by the rich, the beautiful and successful- you are basically a late adopter.