skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a private university with access to federal student loans, you get a firehose of financing, but aren't exposed to any downside from the defaults. Students and taxpayers are the bagholders, and you've already cashed the check.
Costs are specifically because people want to live there. Housing costs are dominated by infrastructure costs not by what specific homeowners spend. Thus, 'protecting' an investment is silly when it's not homeowners that made the real investment.
Not until OpenZFS offers encryption, which might be... in a year or so? There are signs that it's coming along well.
Simply make it legal to build higher-density housing with smaller setbacks, less required parking, smaller room and unit sizes, etc. The affordability problem will take care of itself, no subsidies required.

For existing owners, they will get a huge payout because their land becomes MUCH more valuable. The downside is that certain neighborhoods where supply is most suppressed will change very much, very fast, and the people that don't sell and leave will probably not like that.

Preferences aside, this cannot be done without hugely disrupting municipal finance, primarily the provision of public schools. Residential property and services are subsidized by commercial/industrial tax revenues, and there is no linkage between assessed value of property and number of school-age children (e.g. two empty-nesters in a mansion pay multiples of the property tax of a family of 5 renting an apartment). And that's just operations! Building lots of new school capacity, when land has just become very expensive, is not something existing cities/school districts are equipped to do.

However, Americans are tough and smart and can figure stuff out. These are just the current obstacles that exist.
All founders of a startup should bring something to the table and be able to carry their own weight. It doesn't matter if one founder has a clear edge in selling a company if there is no company/product to sell due to a lack of founders with the knowledge and expertise required to make it.

If it's very difficult to define the "execution edge"/value of someone then that person probably shouldn't be a founder, or the other founder(s) undervalue that person. In either case this should be a major red flag.

I fully agree that being the idea man is a bad reason for unequal splits. I'd also be more optimistic about the chances of resolving that issue vs the issues related to an undervalued/incompetent founder.
> Would there even be a NIMBY problem since the road is publicly owned?

Yes. NIMBYism is entirely about public policy. The fact that the land in question might be publicly owned is irrelevant. If anything, publicly owned land should be more subject to NIMBYism. Public land does indeed belong to the citizens.
What you're saying is that you would have preferred that Gawker's strategy of outspending Hogan had worked, so that not only would he have had his privacy violated and reputation ruined, but he should also be bankrupt.

That's your justice.
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Sounds good to me! No more federal student loans!
Much like any other project in any other language.

Yes, you can write good or bad code in any language. But some languages have an endemic culture of not caring about good code. IME, VB is one of them, as is PHP.

All the VB6 code I've seen has been a random mashup of databinding directly to the and click handling. The tools encouraged this approach.
You make about $300k/yr by selling used items on eBay? Consistently?
I think you misunderstand. Here's an example:

```
foos = [Foo(a=0), Foo(a=1)]
f0 = foos[0]
foos[0] = Foo(a=2)

print(f0.a) # 0
print(foos[0].a) # 2
```

`foos` is a list of type `Foo`, but it still can't be safely made into a dense list (at least not naively).
See also zom.im - wraps up otr and xmpp in a package along with boatload of cuteness - and is FOSS:

https://github.com/zom/Zom-Android
That's really cute.
... or you could just hook it up to iTunes and let iTunes flash the whole phone with the latest iOS from scratch (9.3.5 fixes these exploits) instead of letting the on-device updater do it.

No need for a whole new phone.
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It does seem like the discussion often assumes they are or will be widespread, which doesn't seem to be happening. I'd like to see numbers, particularly on college campuses, where they are allegedly more common.
Do you have government/fleet auctions in the US? In Australia, government fleet vehicles are auctioned after a couple of years of use and you can pick up cars before they are grabbed by dealers and topped by margins.

Last car I bought was through an online auction. Didn't actually see the car in person until I went to pick it up.
I use slack in irssi. I think I actually get better benefits.

1. irssi is ridiculously low resource usage. It never melts down.

2. No notifications by default. I actually have a script that gives me notifications. It's quite cool because I filter the messages by regexp so that I only see what I want to see. Also, it uses my normal desktop notifications which means that they show up where I want them to, with the right font, in the right colour, lasting for the time I want them to. One tip: my default notifications do not stay up long enough to read them. It just gives me an indication that people are talking. I can notice a word or two and if it strikes my interest I can go to irssi and see what they are talking about.

3. I'm a programmer, so I'm always in my console. Same sauce, different flavour ;-)

I occasionally use slack from the browser because it has some features which are useful (like showing images), but I do that only on demand.

One of the things that is useful is that the people who like using slack on my team also have a lot of experience with IRC. They have good etiquette. Chatter is kept in the right channels so that it can be ignored easily. Work channels are about work and have a really high signal to noise ratio. Some teams are so good at it that if I want to get an overview of what's going on in their project I can simply subscribe to their slack channel. It's great for me since I work remote.
Learning and bias are components of the same concept.
Does CPS have problems? Sure. No doubt. And as a society we should work on fixing these problems.

But when it comes to your own individual life, you can either live your life in fear of the boogeyman or you can live your life the way you want to live it. Let your kids live their lives the way you think they should.

And if CPS shows up one day when they shouldn't, you lawyer up and fight.

That's what a grownup does.
BiDi sucks, and as an RTL language speaker you learn to live with it.

My native language is Hebrew, and we don't bother translating most technical terms to Hebrew. You end up with technical documents looking something like this:

".yadot patch a desaeler Apple .iOS 9.3 ni ytilibarenluv privilege-escalation a dnuof srehcraeser ehT"

In newspapers, where lines are typically short, you get the effect in the screenshot in question. E.g.:

"Everyone gets a day .ni tnew eH
.dias eh ",off tomorrow

You can't really get used to that. You actually have to read the second line sideways from the middle!

By the way, typing mixed text is even worse than reading it. You have to press alt+shift every 2-3 words to switch layout. If that's not bad enough, Office 2007 (if I'm not mistaken) introduced a 0.5-1sec lag after each keyboard layout switch. Imagine typing out an entire document like that. I lost my nerve a couple of times.

In many cases we avoid this issue by simply writing technical documents in English, but sometimes that's not an option.
CRISPR is cool, but isn't the challenge of adult genome editing bottlenecked by the delivery vehicle? Last time I checked it's still hard to deliver viral vectors past the blood-brain barrier. Does CRISPR have a unique solution to that? I also would imagine that a "BCI" optogenetic adapter would be so massive that payload size alone (never mind electric properties) would never make it past the BBB.
That would be awful. I'm glad I have yet to experience that yet. Not sure I could tolerate non beautiful code for the sake of a business metric.
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Is that really what "we don't condone" means?
>For existing owners, they will get a huge payout because their land becomes MUCH more valuable.

But these very same owners are the ones blocking such construction, even despite being the same people that will receive a financial windfall; they prefer to keep the neighborhoods as is even at this tremendous opportunity cost.

So, it still requires some eminent domain or overriding local government.
In my EMS experience, people rarely do what you described. I have yet to see one that wasn't successful.
> And since they haven't published the latest versions they are in violation of the GPL.

There are a few ways that they can comply with the GPL without posting the source on the web.
Its been a black mark for a while. If you have plenty of prior work experience I would completely omit the education section in your CV.
I can't rigorously prove it, but I'm pretty sure the people complaining about for-profit prisons wouldn't change their minds even if there were a system of "staple $N/month to every prisoner and they can go to whatever private prison will have them".

After all, we have basically that system for for-profit schools and ...
The funny thing is that Epipens have been really expensive for a while. Sure they took a 15% price increase over the past year. The price has been over $400 for a two pack for a while.

The reason why this has come to a head is high deductible health plans. This is where you pay the first $1000-$6000 in medical costs before insurance kicks in. When all it was was a $30 copay, consumers didn't give a shit.

So maybe, just maybe, pushing more medical costs to patients will actually create the pressure needed to reduce medical costs? Interesting thought.
There are many reasons that not all cities are as dense as lower Manhattan, starting with the fact that those of us in these cities don't want it and that outranks those outside who do.
Dude and Dudesses, do you really think people are going to give serious consideration to something called CockroachDB?
Does the high density housing in SF allow for families? In Vancouver at least the majority of condos in the core are single bedroom so if you want a family you need to move to the suburbs.
> A CS degree can prevent you from making a lot of obvious (if you have a CS degree) and costly mistakes.

That is just wrong. A degree is just a piece of paper. How is a piece of paper going to prevent you from making mistakes? It won't.

What you mean to say was this:

> Any intelligent person with reasonable CS knowledge will be able to work without making a lot of obvious and costly mistakes

I hope I've taught you something. :)
There is one:

>>> C2 = attr.make_class("C2", ["a", "b"])

>>> C2("foo", "bar")

C2(a='foo', b='bar')
The federal government doesn't have that authority, unless maybe if someone concocted a Commerce Clause argument for it.
I think the comments that precede mine are valuable and should be the basis of your decision.

I can offer a relevant perspective because I pursued my startup solo. I have said for a while that if anyone asked my opinion my response would be, "don't do it." My understanding is that Y Combinator prefers teams as opposed to solo founders because of the amount of work and the truly gut-wrenching process of bringing anything to market. I agree.

I am fortunate because I am married. The strength of will not just to weather the storms, but to remain focused, positive and productive is a shared contribution with my wife and I. She has no interest in being considered a founder, but the value of her contribution in that regard, is indisputable.

Even with a great support system and a decade of experience in my field everything took longer. When there's a "million" things to do and nothing else gets done while you are doing something it's easy to lose heart. So, I would recommend valuing the partnership beyond your individual contributions (assuming it is effective/satisfying/pleasant - aside from the split discussion).

My personal opinion is that a quality partnership is worth 5-10% difference.
The federal government could at least stop subsidizing mortgages (which is more NMMYA than NIMBY).
> We can see the distinction, we just don't use the same terminology you use.

No, most of the people I've talked to here clearly couldn't see the distinction between a value and its representation. (FWIW, I'm not fully convinced you can see it either.) They're not used to thinking about values without thinking about how they're represented. They're abstraction-challenged.

> We use standard terminology by which what you call an object is a value.

That's not consistent with some of the things other people have said here. But let's ignore that. What do you call what I call a value? Not that I'm a nominalist, but in practice, I've seen that people don't understand concepts they don't have a name for. (Though I probably have the causality backwards. It would be more accurate to say that, as soon as people understand a new concept, they rush to give it a new name.)

> Your definition of the terms only shows up in an obscure part of FP, which is still a bit obscure in itself.

It's not obscure. It's in the operational semantics of any call-by-value language, which for practical purposes means any language other than Haskell.

> I've tried to point this out to you at least three times, and I'm losing my patience.

Well, it's not like you have to deal with me if you don't want to. You do so out of your own volition. shrug
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> build higher-density housing with smaller setbacks, less required parking, smaller room and unit sizes, etc

That's what we've been doing here in Australia to deal with a housing crisis; now there's a looming oversupply of apartments [1], and a lot of them are barely habitable "dog boxes" [2][3] built as investment assets (rather than, you know, for living in) while house prices are still sky high.

[1] http://www.domain.com.au/news/australia-to-have-too-many-hom...

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-14/melbourne-dog-box-apar...

[3] http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/03/melbournes-dog-boxes...
Mystery solved, thanks! I was looking at a private channel. I didn't realize that private channels don't get #xyz shortcuts.
That's not what "condone" means. And, with trigger warnings he explicitly said they don't support them - so it's reasonable to assume that if he meant "support' here that's what he would have said.
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Yes, huge NIMBY problem - people drive/bike/ride busses on those streets, and business are on those streets. (not saying they wouldn't benefit from a change, particularly businesses, but many people object to huge changes) You don't need to own something to be a NIMBY.

More practically, the width of even wide streets like Geary is narrower than the depth of a typical SF building - see https://goo.gl/maps/YbJmqxpgEW62. Roads overall take up a huge amount of space in a city, but no single road is all that much area. For instance, it looks like the right of way on Geary is about 110'. If it went the full length of SF (~7 miles), then the whole road takes up less than 100 acres. For reference, Park Merced is 150 acres.

It would be great if all the lightly trafficked side/residential streets could be squished from 60' to 40', you're talking about 50 blocks -> 1000' width, which is over 3 blocks wide and about a thousand acres, which is approaching the size of the Richmond district (and that's just if you squish in one direction). But you can't just pinch-to-zoom in real life :(
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None of this is a problem with attrs. Serialize however you like.

>>> import attr
>>>
>>> @attr.s
... class Thing(object):
... a = attr.ib()
... b = attr.ib()
...
...
>>> @attr.s
... class Many(object):
... things = attr.ib()
...
...
>>> many = Many([Thing(1, 2), Thing(3, 4)])
>>> many
Many(things=[Thing(a=1, b=2), Thing(a=3, b=4)])
>>> attr.asdict(many)
{'things': [{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, {'a': 3, 'b': 4}]}
>>> import pickle
>>> pickle.dumps(many)
"ccopy_reg\n_reconstructor\np0\n(c__main__\nMany\np1\nc__builtin__\nobject\np2\n
Ntp3\nRp4\n(dp5\nS'things'\np6\n(lp7\ng0\n(c__main__\nThing\np8\ng2\nNtp9\nRp10\
n(dp11\nS'a'\np12\nI1\nsS'b'\np13\nI2\nsbag0\n(g8\ng2\nNtp14\nRp15\n(dp16\ng12\n
I3\nsg13\nI4\nsbasb."
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(attr.asdict(many))
'{"things": [{"a": 1, "b": 2}, {"a": 3, "b": 4}]}'
>>>
I would consider that a negative.

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Whats going to happen when all professional code is using `attr.attributes` but all the documentation uses `attr.s`?

Anyway its a minor point. I personally think it is a poor decision when a programmer decides to be cute than clear.
Perhaps you feel that way because you have the luxury of living in a place where human rights are respected. That these exploits are being used by regimes to shut down opposition is terrible in its own right.

Edit: As for net effect on global society, I think having my phone be part of a botnet that sends spam is less impactful than disrupting democratic progress.
>The issue is that the profit comes before the education. ...

That sounds like a fully-general argument against provision of any good by a for-profit business: "The issue with private farms is that the profit comes before the food." "The issue with private semiconductors is the profit comes before the computational efficiency."

True, profits do bring the potential for fraud, abuse, etc., but obviously there are at least some situations where that can all be contained. What's special about education per se?

You cite abuses, but are those artifacts of the for-profit part, or the "students generally don't have good information about what a given school will do for their career"? I mean, there are lots of cases of students at "non-profit" public universities who are drowning in debt from a worthless degree.
there is a standard called mediasource api

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSource

I tried video streaming with it.
Sure, owners prefer to sacrifice total windfall in favor of stability and control. That is proven across all cities everywhere that land use controls exist. I'm just saying it's not all bitter medicine for existing owners if land use controls are loosened.
Some AI professors recommend first jumping into a ML framework such as scikit-learn or Keras, which are more approachable, playing with them to the point where a little practical intuition will develop, and only then follow up with theory. Works better in practice than loading up on courses and math at the beginning, and helps the student form practical interest in the field and be more emotionally invested. In other words, first, hack your way in, and only then open the books.
Yes, they do. Unfortunately, you tend to need several per child (minimum one for school, one for home). So, these costs quickly multiply.
You're absolutely correct, and this illuminates an aspect of the controversy that I don't think gets quite enough coverage: where did the social justice/progressive left students learn about the terminology and ideology they advocate?

They almost certainly didn't learn it in high school, from their peers in high school, or from their parents. (Although that may be changing.)

They learned these things at the university, from professors, and from fellow students who learned from the same professors.

In other words, academia brought this situation upon itself by teaching these things to students -- -- so I'm rather leery of analyses which blame millennials for pushing a self-indulgent worldview on universities. If the same ideas had been taught to previous generations of students, they too would have advocated trigger warnings and safe spaces.
Why not? It's aggressively tested and benchmarked to ensure its correct and its performance impact is as close to zero as possible. (It's pretty close.)
Awesome! What graphics library are you using?
Yeah.... right..

https://www.rt.com/news/166028-snowden-rendition-plot-cia/
Some graphics cards, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...

It might just be a hedge against hypothetical CPUs.
and then you lean on USC Title 17 Chapter 12 § 1201 (f) : the interoperability with other software defense, broad argument.
FWIW, UChicago is known for having one of the most conservative economics departments in the country/world. Over 50% of UChicago students major in econ (often as part of a double major), though most UChicago students are liberals.
The "NSO Group" is just speculation.
Dictionaries are not for fixed fields.

if you have a dict, it maps something to something else. You should be able to add and remove values.

Objects, on the other hand, are supposed to have specific fields of specific types, because their methods have strong expectations of what those fields and types are.

attrs lets you be specific about those expectations; a dictionary does not. It gives you a named entity (the class) in your code, which lets you explain in other places whether you take a parameter of that class or return a value of that class.
But the weakest point is always human: http://boston.conman.org/2004/09/19.1 (true story---happened to me)
The best thing about a city is the forced contact with people who are radically different with each other. Only with time spent together can you begin to understand one another [1]. Given the vitrol and hatred being dished out between disparate groups around the country and the world, making city life affordable has an undeniable macro-level social good aspect to it.

[1] one reason why many of us are hopefuly that the Internet will increase our contact with others around the world with radically different upbringings and world views from our own, helping us understand and empathize with one another better.
I tried to buy a car via email. I picked out four different cars (a Kia Optima, a Honda Fit, a Toyota Prius, and a Subaru Outback) and emailed all the dealerships for those cars within a three hour drive. None of them would give me anything other than MSRP by email. Most of them called my phone within 15 minutes of me sending the email and all they wanted was for me to come in and talk to them.

I eventually went to the Toyota dealership because although they wouldn't negotiate via email, they didn't phone me either. When I told that to the salesman, he said that he could get in trouble for that because he was supposed to call.

Like every other car buying experience I've had, buying the Toyota sucked. They want to know what payment I want and all I want them to tell me is the out-the-door price. We would go back and forth and eventually they would bring some paperwork with an offer and they had accidentally changed the term from 48 to 60 months. Whoops! I think it ended up taking close to 3 hours to come to an agreement.

To this day, I'm still getting emails and phone calls from some of the dealers I initially contacted and there seems to be no way to make it stop. I would happily pay a small premium to buy from Amazon or direct if I could avoid giving my details to a local dealer.

That reminds me, I'm always getting junk mail and phone calls from scammers trying to sell me some aftermarket warranty. How did they get my name, phone, address, and car information? Is that a public record? The dealer swears they don't sell or share their customer lists.