skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that it's a positive signal. I'm saying they (the home owner) think it's a positive signal.

I also would say that flaunting your wealth is not an American invention. It's probably more common than you think around the globe. I would think that it's a common occurance in any rapidly expanding economy. China and India have some widely tacky architecture. Whole towns replicating iconic Western cities. I think it's an interesting pattern in developing economies. We all seem to look at Europe when trying to show how far we've come, or how successfull we've become. It's when people don't have an interest in, or don't
have time to have an interest in design, where we see things like McMansions.

In short - Why is all tacky architecture some sort of French or British knockoff?

Only other example I can think of that goes against this trend is the fake Adobe house, or the fake Spanish tile house... The American West's and Southwest's version of the McMansion. Houses that copy the look of traditional architecture without any of the actual benefits of the design, like good insulation.

All this stuff is fascinating to me. The cross roads of semiotics and contemporary, tacky architecture. What does it mean to build a mini Versailles? What does European classicism in American architecture say about our society?
My experience, limited as it is, is that nobody talks out loud about turnover until something awful has already happened. It's always too little too late.

Maybe that's because these things tend to only happen when there's a serious lack of respect and the employees have noticed. You can't bribe people into thinking you respect them. It just looks like being bought off. Twist the knife a little won't you?
It's qualitatively different. The nature of math work is analytic, that of music is more expansive. Someone can appreciate the beauty of Bach intuitively, without consciously breaking it down or even being aware of a construction, depedends on their intuitive senses. In math the information is encoded and mostly can't even start to be processed by the layman.
A Container Is a Function Call
I should have elaborated a bit more on this point, and I mistakenly used the wrong terminology. I was thinking specifically of Typescript type definitions when I wrote about externs, and was meaning to refer more so to the concept in a general sense (across all transpilers). That said I do use a number of high quality externs with Haxe (the Pixi.JS one is excellent).

I agree with what you say about writing your own externs with a subset of the functionality, and I think it is often a better approach than relying on potentially flakey externs. Still I think this sort of workflow is only suited to particular types of projects and especially in a team environment it makes more sense to avoid niche ecosystems.
imho, those toasts look too much like slide / toggle switches.

If you'd make a straight separation between icon and text that would be less confusing I guess!
I knew someone would bring this up.¹

GCC is an optimizing compiler, at which point all bets are off for obvious/trivial translation between C and asm. You could, hypothetically, write a optimizing TypeScript compiler that emits asm.js.

However, while you can reasonably argue C started as a portable assembly, significant differences like a type system, pointer arithmetic, a calling convention, etc, exist now. I don't think it's unreasonable to say C is significantly higher-level than assembly.

1. My parenthetical at the end was anticipating this—then again, the translation between C and asm frequently is easy, albeit tedious.
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1) Trump has praised Putin numerous times, calling him a far better leader than Obama.

2) Donald Trump has taken an anti-NATO stance.

3) Donald Trump's campaign's ONLY intervention in the entire GOP platform was to remove anti-Putin language from the platform re: Ukraine.

4) Not only that, but just days before the RNC, Carter Paige, one of Trump's foreign policy advisers traveled to Russia and gave a speech attacking America's policies towards Russia, calling America's focus on democratization and fighting inequality "hypocritical."

5) The Intelligence community has confirmed that Russian Intelligence is responsible for the hacking of the DNC, which is an obvious attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign.

6) Furthermore, Donald Trump called on Russia to release/hack any emails they could get their hands on.

7) Trump's campaign manager has ties to pro-Putin oligarchs who were propped up by the Kremlin. This isn't new information. As long ago as 2005, there were calls to McCain's people to try and do something about Manafort because he was working against American interests in the region.

8) Now we know Manafort potentially received a cash payment of more than $12 million. Which, I mean, seeing how good he is at running a campaign is clearly money based on competence!
> If Palo Alto could suddenly pop up a few skyscrapers of apartments and condos, that supply would be taken up quickly. The same is true for San Francisco.

This is a sign that a few skyscrapers of apartments and condos is not enough to match demand. But (there's a little law out there called "Supply and Demand", if I'm remembering right), there's a correct amount to build that would. Saying that the necessary supply to meet demand is infinite is quite silly.

> >"There is no free market in housing." Not true. Go visit large geographic areas that are not 'destination cities' like Stockton; Modesto; Vallejo.

What you're seeing here is that we have land-use policy that allows us to sanely build cities up until a point, whereupon speculation over land value will make new development economically and politically infeasible.

Nobody wants the extra land in Stockton very much, but everybody wants Palo Alto land. The problem is that the land is held for very little cost by people who don't want to actually use it. (The market is giving a very strong signal, via price, that is should be developed for housing with much higher density.)
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My complaint was based on the $150,000 quote, specifically, because it's a specious one. It is not based in fact.

I'm certainly not arguing that Palo Alto or areas around it don't have serious pricing problems caused by policy that restricts growth. I rent in San Mateo (can't afford to buy) and am very frustrated that houses typically cost $1M or more (outside of what I consider affordable, on a dual-professional income, very similar to yours).

Based on your response what I am hearing is that you're angry. That's fine, but you're lashing out. For example, you just attacked me, while I provided a data-driven argument that your $150K argument was simply false. It's based, apparently, on your insistence that you must buy, rather than rent. Renting is currently much more affordable than buying in the Bay Area.

As for whether the support staff for a city should be able to afford to live in the city they support, that's another argument. I personally do not see any requirement that a city provides affordable housing to its support staff, especially in the form of purchased housing. That would be a major policy change that would have enormous impact.
OpenMDAO, mentioned in an earlier comment, looks like a promising option http://openmdao.org

MDAO = Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization
Don't be discouraged! YIMBY groups are popping up all over the Bay Area working to make a difference in their cities. Join a group's mailing list and show up at your city council when they ask you to. Easy. Bring enough friends and we'll see real change.

Live in Palo Alto: paloaltoforward.com
Live in Menlo Park? www.imaginemenlo.com
Mountain View? http://balancedmv.org/
San Francisco? http://www.sfbarf.org/

Some headlines:
http://gizmodo.com/yimby-groups-are-organizing-across-the-us...
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/who-are-yimby-first-meeting...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/06/30/what-is-a-...
They VeraCrypt developer claims to have fixed several weaknesses in the TrueCrypt codebase in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjsDS4ynq8

Will be interesting to follow the audit.
Is living in the Bay Area a privilege or a right?
I see plenty of units for rent in Palo Alto in this price range. Not East Palo Alto, Palo Alto. Also, don't just check Craigslist- that only includes a very limited number of rentals in that price range; other rental searches show a lot more examples.

[EDIT: I had incorrectly filtered my search. The price break is at $6K for a 4 bedroom (at least 4 units) not $5K. However, that is still well under half of the quoted value of $150K for a house purchase).
Yes. That's exactly what it means. You can have priorities for different interrupt sources. It has utility in many critical RTOS situations.

Imagine you have a factory machine. The micro has an IRQ for your communication interface. This goes off when there is a packet. Obviously you want this to be handled so there is not backlog of packets, however there is another interrupt for a limit switch that goes off when the door to a chamber in the device has been opened. You want to handle that interrupt above all else so you can shut off the rotating blade in that chamber before a human hand can get in there.
If someone has been in the industry for 4 years and still can't do basic tasks in their language of choice, I think we can decide they either lack the talent or the determination.
Those Belgian houses are ugly in a cute and endearing way, kind of like bulldogs. McMansions are ugly in a boring and tedious way.
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> A shorter distance that is closer to the combustion chamber increases the compression ratio because there is less space for the fuel/air mixture. When the system is operating in low compression mode the piston travels more and does not reach as high.

I think this is partly inaccurate. The images show the piston at the top of the stroke; when the compression ratio is high the piston is higher at the top of the stroke. But the bottom of the stroke is the same in both cases. That means the actual length of the stroke--the distance the piston travels--is greater in high compression mode. This is consistent with the definition of compression ratio, which is the ratio of cylinder volume at bottom of stroke vs. top of stroke; a larger compression ratio means a larger difference between these volumes, i.e., a longer piston stroke to get the piston higher (closer to the top of the cylinder) at the top of the stroke.
Like this? http://www.abc10.com/news/local/sacramento/modular-apartment...
I've always been suspicious about those schools. Computer science is far more than just "coding". While I'm sure many cool projects can be done with patience and motivation, there is also a lot of fundamental knowledge that is hard to acquire just by doing unsupervised coding projects.
I agree with keebEz - this is more dirt being smeared on Trump by the pro Clinton media. I'm no Trump fan FWIW
Replacement of entire disks to grow the pool is simply a different way of adding capacity, because ZFS is based on different paradigms than what one is used to with run of the mill implementations; however, in practice, it's a much simpler and therefore much more reliable way to extend capacity. The units are simply entire larger disks.

Swift is also how many orders of magnitude more complex?
"If he quits, or makes the wrong decision, that potentially affects thousands of his employees, and their families."

Do you really think CEO's care about the help? Watch what happens if Google gets broken up, or takes a nose dive like so many companies. That Playland campus will just be a story we reminisce about. Larry Page, nor any of the others won't be crying in their wine.

They will take their safe money and do something else. Bill Gates had the hubris to think he could solve the worlds problems with his wealth. I always felt it was our wealth? He practically "strong armed" every pc user.

"Oh he's being negative! Let's get him with our finger." I don't think I'm being negative, just a realist. I have seen too many CEO's decimate companies when the wind starts to blow in another direction. They always fatten their stake.

I think people are selfish by nature. When they become wealthy, and the one in charge; they just get worse. I really can't think of an exception?
That is sad. Companies should not be able to profit off of people like this. This is why we need someone like Hillary. She should be able to put an end these corrupt government programs.
I first used it with CHICKEN Scheme. There's a distro that includes IUP and the Canvas egg for Windows. Eggs are the containers for CHICKEN Scheme packages.

Great for quick, and not too bad looking, GUIs from C or CHICKEN. I haven't tried Lua or the LED mentioned.
David Daley of Slippery Rock University is involved with SVG -- I know his work mostly through his Ello posting, but you'll also find a pretty significant CV here:

http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/

He tends to post various experiments which continuously blow my mind, though also mentioned he preferred the 1.2 spec to 2.0:

https://ello.co/ddailey

(The fact that Ello supports display of SVG images helps.)
I've been architecting and implementing highly fault tolerant, large scale storage solutions with ZFS since one week after it came out at end of June 2006, but thank you, I'll be extra sure to keep that in mind.

Please do not assume that everyone here comes from GNU/Linux and knows next to nothing or half-true anecdotes about (Open)ZFS. For example, I learned what and how in ZFS directly from the ZFS development team at Sun Microsystems: Roch Burbonnais, Adam Leventhal, Eric Shrock, and Jeff Bonwick.
Wrt 1, I buy that for switches and such, but the pipes themselves- fiber seems pretty future proof. Nothing faster than light. All that could really change would be a tighter spec for slightly higher bandwidth ala cat5e vs cat6, OR eventually 1 fiber strand isn't enough and we start needing to bundle ftth.
I've wondered that too, primarily in the context of reducing or eliminating turbo lag by spinning up the thing electrically.
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Jiro dreams of Game Design - by Brenda Romero - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKW2ozlRRQ

How to let your passion motivate you in developing great products (not just games).
The article doesn't explain what this has to do with diesel at all. Why the emphasis on replacing diesel with this technology?
I was poor. I joined the US ARMY. I went from poor to lower-middle class. When I left the army, I took what money I had earned and went to The Flatiron School (a ruby-on-rails bootcamp) for $6000. 3 years later, I make pretty good money. All these schools have the potential to become social elevators. It's awesome that free organisations exists. I may have not joined the US ARMY if 42 US existed.

EDIT: typos
This depends on what you consider to be the purpose of music education. A good portion of musical training could be for personal enjoyment, expanding horizons, resume padding, etc. so it wouldn't be necessary or even desirable hat everyone get employment.

Think of martial arts. The best way to make a living in it is to teach, but the vast majority of students aren't there to make a living of it in the future.
https://xkcd.com/435/

Made me remember this. If only the 'upper' fields adopt mathematical naming where applicable :D
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I have tested various Python implementations and pypy is the fastest, so you could create a self-extracting archive with pypy and your program.

I created something similar to that here [1] for an abandoned project (but the project is not about self-extracting archives, so don't bother compiling the project).

(1) https://github.com/RamchandraApte/unvanquished-installer/blo...
You underestimate things.

Is Tokyo a destination city? Yes. Total urban population? 38 million people.

I don't think you realize how attractive a beautiful city really is to the people of our planet.

While I'd agree that 38 million people is not 'infinite' -- it's a lot of people. Palo Alto is at 66,000 people right now.

Did Tokyo's decision to allow high density housing solve their 'housing is too expensive in Tokyo' problem?

NO. Tokyo is one of the most expensive cities on the planet to reside in.

Again, adding supply to a Destination City will NOT bring down housing costs. The crybaby lawyer failed to factor in the difference between Palo Alto and Stockton.

And it will be a big surprise to her -- Santa Cruz is very pricey. And won't be getting any cheaper.
I don't normally bother commenting, but I thought I'd offer a few observations here.

First, the second you start using all caps to make an argument, in effect yelling, you significantly lose any credibility your argument might otherwise have had. If you want to make an effective argument, and for readers to not otherwise ignore your point, I'd recommend not doing that. It does no one involved any good, and essentially shuts down the conversation.

Second, your overall tone here seems incredibly condescending. I realize it's often difficult to judge tone on the internet, so if I have misread that tone, I apologize. However, condescension is another quick way to short-circuit any fruitful conversation you might have otherwise had.

It's fine to disagree with someone, even to disagree vociferously, but talking down to someone is not going to convince them of anything. Quite the opposite, in fact.

If you want to not only convince someone of something, but also have a fruitful conversation where hopefully everyone involved actually learns something, it's generally wise to assume the person you're talking to is an intelligent human being who has valid reasons for believing the things they do, regardless of whether you agree with those reasons or not, and treat them accordingly.
Do Trade Agreements Kill Jobs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254300
As an aside: Folland's real analysis is a great second-level textbook in analysis.
Yes, I can rent. I can rent until I die. But how bizarre is it that you are telling me and everyone else who isn't wealth enough to have bought a house yet that we "insist" on buying and we should be happy to rent forever when we spent decades telling the baby boomers the exact opposite? As a country, we recognize the wealth building aspect of home ownership. We recognize the stability it gives people who don't have to worry about rent increases and who don't have to worry about pulling their kids out of their school. We see the value of people leaving their kids with homes after they die, not dusty rent checks. We recognize the value of people putting down roots in their community and investing in it. We gave the baby boomers the mortgage interest rate deduction, Prop 13, and the GI bill and numerous other programs to make sure that everyone in the middle class could have a home to call their own.

Now you're saying that it was fine for the American dream for boomers to involve home ownership but if a Millennial wants the same benefits then they're "entitled" and "insisting"?

The absurd cost of housing in this country and the declining rates of homeownership are directly tied to the massive divergence we're seeing between rich and poor in this country and the shrinking middle class. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/19/meet-...
"tarnished by Volkswagen's (undefined) emissions cheating scandal."
Dear Reuters time for you guys to use flow in your js code.
> There he heard of 42

There are many French universities with CS programs that are virtually free (and work as social elevators too).

Maybe that's one of 42's strengths. Via their media exposure, they can attract students who wouldn't have thought about studying otherwise.
Huh? When I lived in SF all daylight hours were spent in the office...
Some of the biggest problems with the US education system are not problems with the US education system. They are problems of poverty that most other OECD countries either don't have or deal with by a stronger social welfare system.

Kids in poverty are missing classes, not doing homework, not able to concentrate because they are missing basic neccesities of life. Like a quiet room with a bed. Enough food. A ride to school when weather is bad. Clean clothes. A place to do homework. Pencils/papers/books/etc. An educated adult to help with homework. Etc, etc.

No amount of "education reform" is going to get much better performance from kids in such circumstances without the lower level problems being addressed. But for whatever reason, US policy tends to ignore this.
To impose term limits on them you'd need to pass an amendment to the Constitution, since Article 3 Section 1 of the Constitution implies that Supreme Court Justices (and other Federal judges) can serve indefinitely, except if impeached for lack of "good behavior".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_St...
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The NanoPi M3 uses the Samsung Octa-Core Cortex-A53 S5P6818 SoC. Its dynamic frequency scales from 400M up to 1.4GHz. It has Gbps Ethernet port, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. Its AXP228 PMU supports software power-off, sleep and wakeup functions. In addition the NanoPi M3 has MicroUSB port for power supply and on-board porcelain antenna. On this tiny board various ports and interfaces are integrated. It has DVP Camera/LVDS/HDMI/LCD interfaces, Gbps Ethernet, I2S, 3.5mm audio jack, four USB ports and a serial debug port.
Bookstores are certainly disappearing in other cities as well due to economic pressure from online vendors and ebook readers.
NO ONE is talking about the city providing anyone with housing. This is not about government subsidized housing. It's just about the city allowing people to build housing on the land that they own. Just permitting people to build.
Does the problem scale beyond Palo Alto and San Francisco? Do residents of Topeka or Detroit have similar issues with housing affordability?
Will it reach 38 million people in Palo Alto? Maybe, maybe not. (My money is on "not.")

In any case, the solution is to build. I don't see a good argument in your posts that it's preferable to stop building.
That is the core of this discussion I believe. Bay Area is really hot as a place to live and many real estate investors are very much aware of that. I can assure you that most of the new housing put there just becomes a big target for the investors. I believe most of new housing won't be available to low income families but immediately go to the real estate hunters. Right now, there is a huge global market hungry to invest to Bay Area.

In that respect, I support the housing is limited, instead we should push more public transportation, we should push more on new hot zones for commercial zones, outside of the current ones. This is the best way to balance housing and traffic.
Redwood City has a lot of nice houses near the downtown for under $2M