skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The City and County of San Francisco currently pays roughly a million dollars a unit to build apartments. Not luxury apartments - apartments in general. This is perhaps less than ideally scalable.

We don't need to build housing for "ordinary middle-class people". We need to build housing, period. There's not any need for builders to "exhaust the high-end market and look to the working-class market". There's already huge swaths of SF full of units perfect for the working-class market. That's what they would be if there were other units for people at the high-end of the market to be in.

If you don't know SF at all, just be aware that there are very large neighborhoods that are stuffed absolutely full of what in a sane market would be working-class units.
This seems like a smart play and necessary if they're going to take Steam/Vive head on in VR.

That said they really need to catch up with the Rift - maybe their focus on the lower end of the market with Gear VR will save them, but outside of this the Rift is pretty disappointing.

Steam game support for games that run on both the Rift and Vive make it stupid to buy games on the Oculus store, but worse than that once you've played with the touch controls and room scale that the Vive offers it's clear the Rift just does not compare.

The Vive is heavier, it's hardware is not as aesthetically pleasing and it's clunkier (more wires, bigger pain to set up). Other than that though it's categorically better - if Oculus doesn't ship some touch controllers and room scale sensors soon I think they'll lose the high end market (unless they're able to power through on brand alone). The Vive also has an interesting front facing camera and doesn't let light in through the nose.

I've been seeing people on Craigslist selling their Rift and keeping their Vive - not a good sign for Oculus.

My Rift is unplugged and in the closet.
Businesses are free to lower the value of their content, as long as they meet FTC requirements about disclosure. I doubt that this is a profitable long term strategy, but they can drive away their readers if they want to.

Adapting to the changing market with a new business model might be a better idea.
Blockchains are only useful when you need a decentralized system where nobody trusts anyone else, and where different actors need to be pseudonymous. Otherwise there are far simpler solutions.
Although the "death of distance" hasn't happened as fast as expected/hoped, maybe it's too soon to give up on it.

Trying to kill distance might be crazy. But is it crazier than trying to cram even more jobs, people, and housing into a tiny % of the available area?

Geographical income inequality exists. Maybe it always will, and maybe we can't make it much better. But why should we try to make it even worse?

Seems to me this equation has a couple "V" variables -- VR and VC -- to which small adjustments might make a large difference.
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I haven't made any conclusions about williamtrask but I'm getting there with you. Your behavior in this thread is deplorable.
For the record - the PowerShell team loves Bash and much of PowerShell is modelled after it.
To be fair - we also modelled portions after VMS DCL, Perl, TCL and AS400 CL.
There are lots of awesome engineers out there working on different platforms and we learned a lot from of them.
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Yes. I initially promoted all kinds of static analysis. These days, I'm firmly convinced the friction aspect means the tool needs to be plug-n-play with almost no false positives. Ideally no false positives at all. That maximizes uptake and knocks out many bugs even if more remain.

Another thing I think advocates need to do with lists of such tools is always mention that each one might see errors another won't. This needs to be a refrain that instantly is in people's minds when they wonder about using such tools. Reason is that many make the mistakes of thinking one tool not finding anything means (a) tools don't find stuff in general or (b) there's nothing to find. That implication is even on SQLlite testing page where they applied Clang's analyzer then implied a weaker tool finding nothing in a good codebase meant static analysis itself had nothing to offer (?!).
Valve/Steam solved a problem that the PC gaming community faced in late 2003, namely streamlined distribution of online content. Now there seem to be countless fighters in the ring; I can only see this experiment ending in either a small fandom based on exclusivity deals or smoldering out quickly.
> I think the amount of undefined behavior in C--and that undefined behavior is necessary to compensate for its design mistakes (e.g. signed overflow)--disqualifies it from being a "great language".

The undefined behavior is there primarily to account for the variation in platforms. Higher-level languages avoid this by hiding it in a platform-specific compiler or VM, which in turn limits the number of platforms the code can actually be run on.

> Empirically, virtually every single large C program in existence depends on undefined behavior to continue working.

Citation needed. I get that undefined behavior is hard to spot, but having spent years writing cross-platform C I cannot accept that every large program depends on it without some evidence.
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I think it works pretty well for that beyond the weird omission of anything like &&
Everyone has their own way of working :) I first got into things with batch files on Windows 95 and quickly realised how awful they are when more than 5 lines! I quickly moved on to their Windows Scripting Host stuff which was better but still painful. Then VB6 then C++/MFC.... The usual Windows user story.

Scripting on Unix is a lot better but it is only recently that places seriously use VCS for scripts in my experience so before the days of Git if you wanted to do anything with an iota of manageability it meant you did it in a "real" language hehe.
See my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314100

Also, English is not my native language. In fact I wrote and published the novel in Spanish first (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I1EU1Q0). I didn't trust my English enough to translate it myself, so I hired a translator to do the job. The result is OK but I have the feeling I could have written it better! FWIW, I'm probably going to write whatever I write next in English.
Sockpuppet voting and commenting is not allowed on HN, and we ban accounts that do so.
doesn't work on safari technology preview 11 either
Unity games are not going to strongly compete with Steam. Unity engine just isn't performant enough. I think this is more for mobile-style casual games: think flash games with 3D instead of 2D graphics. Will probably make a chunk of change from bored homemakers, but it isn't going to pull marketshare from 'PC master race'-type Steam gamers.
Years ago I used to think they would be replaced like everyone before them. But they've reached such a large mass of people, I'm not so sure anymore. It has to happen eventually, but I can't even guess when that would be anymore.
It is a fact about legislatures that this sort of negotiation would take place again every year. Places with not enough housing would want lower rates, big developers would want the scheme to be restructured so that only their accountants and lawyers could figure it out, schools (and eventually numerous other public services) would want a piece of the action, etc. And NIMBYs would still protest new development.

I upvoted you because you do identify a real challenge with bribery; but this solution won't solve that problem.
OK, sorry (there is an explicit "return" keyword that I thought worked the same way). Either way, yes, I know you can avoid it by piping to Out-Null, but that behavior is surprising.
Elon explains why self-driving buses should be smaller (from his "Master Plan Part Deux"[1]):

> With the advent of autonomy, it will probably make sense to shrink the size of buses and transition the role of bus driver to that of fleet manager. Traffic congestion would improve due to increased passenger areal density by eliminating the center aisle and putting seats where there are currently entryways, and matching acceleration and braking to other vehicles, thus avoiding the inertial impedance to smooth traffic flow of traditional heavy buses. It would also take people all the way to their destination. Fixed summon buttons at existing bus stops would serve those who don't have a phone. Design accommodates wheelchairs, strollers and bikes.

Skepticism is understandable, but self driving technology is advancing rapidly. Tesla will release a bus-like product:

> In addition to consumer vehicles, there are two other types of electric vehicle needed: heavy-duty trucks and high passenger-density urban transport. Both are in the early stages of development at Tesla and should be ready for unveiling next year.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
> But no one uses them, and no one is building an ecosystem around them.

About as many people that use powershell, the only people I've seen say nice things about powershell are microshit fanboys that don't know any better. Not sure what you mean by 'ecosystem'.. a very ambiguous term. Linux already has a 'shell ecosystem' far superior to anything windows has.

> Even if it's not PowerShell itself, if a different strongly-typed shell gets traction because of this, I will be happy.

I don't see why it would, or why powershell would help it get traction. There is not really a good reason to even use a strongly-typed shell, if you need strong typing why not just use a proper programming language? If you need interactivity why not use a REPL?

> That's what I'm hoping will change thanks to this announcement.

No self-respecting OSS developer would want to use powershell.
I think it matters, because the very definition of genocide involves deliberate intent and policy to achieve the goal of wiping out a people.
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In my admittedly limited experience there seems to be at least 3 aliases for every keyword which makes reading someone else's code a real hassle sometimes. Our ops guys swear by it though.
Unix may be fine by 1960s/1970s standards, but leaves a lot to be desired now, or probably since the 1980s. Unix has bad approaches to things like file locking (see VMS instead), the shells are a hot mess, and C causes a lot of problems. Even the Unix developers themselves went on to work on Plan 9.
Yeah i ended up using awk, some python for the date parsing and sorting, back to bash for grep and another thing i can't remember, then into the program that actually needed the data.

It was a mess, and I remember thinking it would be such a simple thing that was so much more complicated than i thought it would be.
Partly because the state charges too little for the guarantees it offers, taxpayers are subsidising housing borrowers to the tune of up to $150 billion a year, or 1% of GDP.

The original post makes this claim without any citation. I don't think it is correct. Recent stress-test reports on Fannie and Freddie show that, even making provisions for future bailouts in the stressed scenario, the agencies are profitable to the government. [1] Instead of costing $150 billion per year, since the agencies were nationalised they have returned $60 billion to the government.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-08/fannie-an...
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We all have hopes that new things like languages will make things better or easier. Mostly it does. Today's hardware beats the 4004 CPU I started with.

Technology will move forward but building tech on back tech is a bad idea.
Don't forget, if you have pension savings then you're probably invested in this through some sort of pension fund.
His post has 455 points. I think that's a clear sign that people are actually interested in this book, and it's not some publisher scam.

Yup, I have written a book with Manning (Grokking Algorithms), which is why I commented about empathy towards authors.
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won." - Linus Torvalds
It should be improving. The city recently banned, with no grandfathering, boilers using #6 fuel oil. Before it put in the new regulations, it had found that 86% of the total building sourced soot pollution came from 1% of buildings.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/gbee/html/codes/heating.shtml
If PowerShell on Linux takes off properly, then that will lead to one of the biggest improvements in the general computing ecosystem in a long time; roughly comparable to the adoption of DVCS, maybe.
Interesting. I'll have to look into it. Thanks.
But why? It's like if VW invents doors that can be connected to BMW cars. (spoiler: BMW cars already have doors)
Are Apple selling harmful addictive substances to children?
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> People who raise these issues now probably and unintentionally end up generating hatred amongst individuals who might otherwise be perfectly fine with each other.

I think that's a flawed way to think. Your logic would imply that we shouldn't make anymore movies about the Holocaust because it might cause Jews to hate Germans.
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Doesn't VR require some pretty heavy hardware? Is the casual gaming market really going to have that?
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...
> re-negotiate the patent cross-licensing agreements with Intel

I've always wondered why intel does not buy AMD... is it just because of an expected anti-trust lawsuit? With Nvidia, ARM, IBM, it does not seem that a monopoly in x86 would dominate ALL architectures, but perhaps it would not be viewed that way.
Well, if one has to input a lat/long pair to get "3645 OUR DUDE - Central,Paraguay", the same effort[1] can lead to better data in Google Maps or better, OpenStreetMaps

[1] http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/29079/my-house-addres...
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True, but exacerbated in the Bay Area by the effects of Proposition 13, which makes it even harder for cities to pay for improvements in services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
You're supposed to avoid the aliases in scripts. Or that's what's recommended anyway.
I would like to build a PC that would compile stuff quickly... Android, Java, Spring/Hibernate, some Rust and JS recently. Currently takes a few minutes to build any of my projects on a laptop I have. I think more physical cores will boost it more?
That's the very thing I am talking about. Britain was the first country in which it was a massive political liability to support slavery, and the first country in which the opinions of ordinary people mobilising and campaigning against slavery actually mattered and made a difference.

You can cast this in cynical terms as self interest, but you can do that with any action by any state in history - Britain is hardly unique there.
> I might be wrong but it seems to me you need something close to AGI to have a fully autonomous car.

Consider that we used to let horses do most of the steering and low-level control of our road-based vehicles.
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I do agree with everything you're saying here. It just seems to me that "people holding onto things that are serving them no use, making a market illiquid" is exactly the sort of thing a government would want to disincentivize, and taxes are how governments disincentivize things. (Sometimes without thinking about that consequence, like with income tax, but I digress.)

The interesting thing here, to me, is that the government wouldn't want to control allocation as in a command economy; instead, they merely want to punish people for making the market inefficient. They want the market to clear, so that they don't have to figure out how to centrally allocate anything. We already have a lot of government regulations with this explicit goal. I'd be shocked if we couldn't work one out for real estate.
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The level of autonomy exhibited by these vehicles are much greater than that of the Model S
Couldn't you use $() for this?
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Don't forget control-R. I find that even the GP's example of up arrow 20x to be ridiculous when I can type C-r and a few unique letters that were anywhere in the command to find it instantly.
Many places have "less than ideal weather conditions" for 100+ days a year.
Unity is powerful enough for 3D open world games (http://www.firewatchgame.com/).

I was under the impression that Unity and Unreal were basically comparable engines - is this not the case?
It's irresponsible gamma ray owners like you that give all rays a bad name.
That's cool, we are just different is all. I use Python for automation tasks that require more than what I can do with Bash/Batch/PowerShell but don't warrant a full write/compile/deploy process. If your job is working in Python then sure you are going to use it way past the limits of what I would use it for.

Things are a lot nicer these days than 10 years ago though with PyCharm, etc. it makes managing a Python project so much easier.
Well, I'm not sure, but I don't think so. It's probably my normal depression reinforced by a naturally pessimistic outlook on life this time.
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Founder of Sifter here. Happy to discuss and answer questions.
Thanks!

The collective intelligence task in this case is for the community on the site to identify who are the best traders to be mimicking. It's not an explicit group goal, but we are treating it as an implicit one.

I wouldn't say we are trying to define collective intelligence per se. e.g., when you offer a model of a dynamical physical process (maybe a ball arching through the air), you can hardly say that your model provides a definition of that physical system. But you can say that the physical model describes the movement of the ball.

In the same way, I'd instead say we are simply trying to grabble with how to think about collective intelligence.

We are offering a model and a class of models that we expect to display collectively intelligent behavior, and we thereby hypothesize that these models might also explain how collective intelligence in human groups might arise.
You do realize the other link is a stated income / no doc loan right?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-28/get-ready-...

> Angel Oak is willing to buy loans with credit scores as low as 500, though the average has been about 670, just below the 680 level some use as a cut-off for subprime on a scale of 300 to 850, Hsu said. The company makes sure borrowers can afford the payments and requires at least 20 percent down payments, he said.

660 is subprime.
Totally hands on. I mentor not manage.

Overwhelmed, no. More excited by advancement in knowledge. I'm more frustrated by the number of subjects that could be investigated that go un-explored.
Probably anti-trust, otherwise I think Intel would have bought them a few years ago just for the huge discount on their graphics division, which Intel has never seemed to be able to do well.
Being ashamed of something you had no possibility of being complicit in, is perhaps psychologically maladaptive. Unless by shame, you mean an opportunity for performative ethnomasochism as a means of virtue-signalling.
Ford is going full autonomy
You can still find risks that are palatable. The person described in this article mentions a desire to work for a Silicon Valley startup. That's not possible, but why not look for local startups? Or ones that offer remote positions? I did just that.
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> Unfortunately, the alternatives to empires is isolation and infighting between smaller powers. For an example of this, take a look at the middle east.

The example of the middle east is not really the best for supporting your claim, since there are not only small powers, but also the big empires fighting for various reasons.

And I believe that is the case in nearly every mayor conflict I know.
The big empires are allways involved. So it is not really an argument pro empire, when the empires are the cause for the conflict in the first place.
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You're right. Genetic manipulation programs were created for that purpose, instead. Hitler looked at the "White Australia Policy" and decided he could improve it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
I tried to imagine a developer being able to pay the interest on the debt incurred building all these hypothetical unsold luxury properties for years and years, and then I realized: this implausible situation is inevitable once interest rates are negative as it seems they are destined to become. Truly 'maxsilver you have seen the future.
This might come across as a little rude, but I really wish Windows developers stayed away from Unix. I moved away from Windows a long time ago because I didn't want anything to do with Windows or Microsoft, and I went to great lengths to avoid their software and their proprietary file formats. Now we had command-line interfaces, desktop environments, running on top of an incredible, powerful Unix-like OS. It was free software, and it was Microsoft-free. Please, don't ruin it.
Where are you located? Maybe you should add a throwaway email to your profile so people can contact you. It might also help if you mention the area that the invention relates to. If someone with an interest in that area happens on this post, it will make it more likely that they will reach out.

Also, if you're trying to contact VCs, you need a warm intro from someone they know, so tap your network.
This is key for me.

I'm already maxed out in how many various messaging services I'm willing to subscribe to.

I buckled and got Slack recently because of a couple of local communities who were using it as their only means of communication. Turns out to be great, and has the wonderful feature of no interrupting notifications unless someone specifically messages me, so I can take part in group conversations with 100+ people involved and only look at them a few times a day.

But installing Slack was effectively the last straw that made me give up on using Pidgin, so I've cut off IM access from friends who only have me on older IM networks.

So what would possibly motivate me to jump to another messenger app that currently none of the people who I know are even on? I'm still resisting installing Facebook Messenger on my phone since I don't want Yet Another Messaging App. At least Facebook Messenger would have people on it I know; Formal would require that I bother people even more by making them install a new app.
> Kids are a big distraction.

I understand the sentiment, but this lines has always bothered me. I try to find ways to incorporate my children into the things I enjoy and want to do...
Messenger and Facebook are the two buggiest apps I use most often. For about a week now, the "seen" indicators have been completely broken on all platforms for me and for some of my friends. Before that, somehow my messages got pinned to the top half of the screen for a day, which would be neat as a feature except (1) how is that bug even possible in a sane system (2) its not a feature.

Can't wait to use a gaming platform engineered by the same people. Who cares about bugs in games anyways? Multiplayer gaming is very resilient.
> The undefined behavior is there primarily to account for the variation in platforms.

Honest question: Doesn't implementation-defined behavior suffice to address variations across platforms? Undefined behavior has far more drastic consequences: compilers are allowed to assume it simply won't happen.
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Your example is theoretical, this particular constraint does not appear in San Francisco. New buildings (even huge ones) are being built with little to no parking.
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