skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The total housing inventory available in all these cities is just not high enough to satisfy the demand of investors. It seems there are certain cities that attract attention while others do not. Seems to be about where the marketing effort is and what the screening criteria is on the buyer side.

This is nothing to do with evil. It's just business/common sense. If I had a lot of money and I was living in China where there's a large risk and I was looking to make a similar investment I'd probably go the same route. A lot of wealth was created in a short time and those wealthy people like any normal person are concerned about preservation of that capital and some sort of safety net.
Yes, the tax on 'passive income' discourages apartment buildings.
I think that's mostly Aaron being Aaron, it's not necessarily some form of anti-intellectualism but more like just his personality at work.

I don't really have a problem with the tone of the interview but more with how vague the proposed objectives are.

Also, there seem to be some rather misleading facts in it - like the AOT and the 30% speed-up - in practice, after testing it - it helped to load Rails faster but other than that the benchmarks were virtually identical (don't get me wrong, booting Rails faster is great but they imply something completely different in the interview)
Just thinking about this in a detached, mathematical sort of way. The increase or 400,000 over 4 months, is more than 1% of the value.

Depending on how crazy the market it, prices may jump even higher short term to accommodate the added speculation loss.

In any case, hopefully Toronto doesn't reach that level of insanity.
(to nobody in particular)

Please the article before commenting.

It's not totally clear from reading some of the comments that people have actually read the article.

It's a good one, please do.
The Making of a Great (Developer) Blog – Building Better Software
yes because we can undo china and india's record breaking smog and pollution. /s
The donald trump guide to weight loss
Apple has shipped their UEFI with a number of drivers for 'weird' things integrated, such as wireless card support for network booting.

It wouldn't be too much to assume that they support this keyboard controller as well.
In the first paragraph by converse does the author mean contrapositive? Or is this the same meaning in English?
Honestly, you aren't the problem. The problem is speculative investors who are buying lots of property in nice areas and sitting on them: not renting them, not living in them, but just letting them sit vacant.

For a city like Vancouver, that drives up the cost of living for everyone as it drives the price of real estate through the roof, which is exactly what those speculative investors want. They have a perverse incentive to buy up all the property and not rent it out.

A tax at a percent of the property value destroys the motive to do that, which is in the best interest of the city. There are exemptions for primary residencies and properties that are rented for at least 50% of the year by month are exempted.
Critical role of self-care for handling post-election stress
Confirmed that if you work in small chunks, it does not matter if you write the tests first or last.

That part about it being good to work in small chunks isn't there.
Google’s Josh Carpenter on Bringing WebVR to Daydream in 2017
A home is more than an investment. You live in it. Homes aren't competing with other investments, they're competing with renting or being homeless in some form.
Anatomy of Ransomware
The email isn't "resign if you support Trump's politics" it's "resign if you act like Trump (in his more distasteful moments) during office hours"
The tasks I was referring to are clearly developer-centric tasks. Applications for "normal people" are an entirely different animal of course.
I might want to live in a warm climate for 183 days per year and Vancouver for the rest.

I might have a temporary overseas assignment.

I might have a military deployment. (Or UN or Peace Corps.)
We are discussing these terms in a specific context of this email. Wild straw men arguments do not contribute to the discussion. Unless you can find someone saying,

> You're a dirty monkey and should go back to Africa

I would refrain from such bombast.
One of the criteria for a mental illness is that it's negatively affecting your ability to work, have social relationships, etc.

Trump just got elected President of the United States; it is not negatively affecting him. And people who work around him seem to like him.
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I'm really fascinated by this career path. As I approach 40 I'm really feeling the pain of the whole developer vs manager dichotomy. The fact is, I've always been comfortable on both sides as a generalist and a team lead, but as my career progresses I'm increasingly feeling the pressure to specialize either by going full-time or specializing in some area that can command a hire salary than the reams of bootcamp dev grads + 5 years experience are claiming. One path would be to found a company and raise money, but I don't really want to spend my brainpower on pitching investors, and the thought of having employees dependent on me feels stressful. I figure I have enough general experience with tech and business that I ought to be able to bootstrap a comfortable solo lifestyle business, but what?
Short answer: no.

Long answer: New York City has historically had a policy that NYC is for New Yorkers. There are several aspects to this. One is the cooperative ("coop") structure that came about as rent control was (largely) unwound. Coops are typically owner-occupied and coops tend to have limits on renting out your property or even just not living in it that may require you to sell it. This is (IMHO) a good thing as condos, which don't tend to have the same restrictions, are often ghost buildings (the NYT has done pieces on this where occupancy rates can be 30% or lower).

This has meant that condos in the same area have tended to attract a premium of ~20% versus an equivalent coop. Condo buyers are dominated by foreign buyers paying all cash who are parking money in the US and/or buying an apartment they might occupy a few days a year.

This sort of thing is not good for the city as a whole. These residents aren't funding city services. Foreign buyers have I believe decimated neighbourhoods in other cities (eg I heard of this happening in Tel Aviv).

Now Bloomberg kinda went too far on this as he believe that you should attract the billionaires to the point that someone who owns a $100m condo (of which there are now several) pays only about 10-15x the property tax of a $1m condo. This is something that needs to be reformed.

I'm very much in favour of public policy that benefits residents be they owners or renters.

Now other commenters have pointed out one issue and that is you have to be careful you don't catch landlords in your net. Landlords provide a useful service in providing a rental stock for people to rent. There are various reasonable ways to handle this. Some options:

- Don't tax a property (extra) if it's occupied by somebody;

- Exempt landlords from the higher prices if they're a resident of the state (and paying state income taxes).

This can be a way of handling illegal hotels too. Have much higher taxes for non-active properties and reporting AirBnB type income can trigger whatever housing regulations apply so illegal hoteliers are faced with a choice of paying higher property tax if nothing else.
> On 11.11 many are on duty for 24 hours.

For sure, Alibaba is working all hands on deck and burning the midnight oil right now.

And yeah, I hope the nation can continue being positive and empathetic, and even grow more friendly in that regard.
What you describe as "a match around a lambda" is the `catch` expression, which will catch `?`s thrown within it and allow you to match over them. This syntax has gone through RFC but its not implemented yet.

Of course for now you can create this control flow with `match (|| { block }) { }` as you describe.
How do you time it to avoid the eventual correction?
Easier surely to use existing data such as number of letters delivered, electric bill, water bill, voter turnout, etc.. Amalgamate that and send a person to the property. Requiring property maintenance companies to register the properties they work on, eg "for health and safety reporting", might be useful too.
Except that it is not real use.

Might be better than nothing, but if you are designing a reusable API, you'll be better using it on some real code.
Assuming manufacturing got moved back to America then yes, it can be solved.
In my experience, the slowdown is usually not remembering the command, but remembering, say, whether you want -f, -F, --force, --hard or some other option for this particular command.

Even common commands have this problem — for example, I don't copy files all that much, so when I do, I frequently forget that cp takes -R instead of -r.
I can't tell with this particular topic - are you making a bad joke or do you legitimately feel this sort of smug behavior would be helpful?
If people complain that other people earn more than them then they are just jealous. I am talking about fairness. When Warren Buffett complains that billionaires are paying less tax compared to the average Joe then you cant blame the average Joe getting angry about it.
The market only cares about profit, they don't care about the environment or the future beyond seeing growth in the next quarter.
The Watch Edition never needed to sell. It just needed to exist as a thing that could set your price expectations: "That one is just too far, but I guess I could pay $399."
Why not? If you are looking at least 10k/house in taxes, it's very efficient to have a full time staff to check out the recently flipped (well...) MLG houses.
Right. In large projects some kind of automated tests are indeed useful. But they should not be a substitute for writing working code in the first place, just as an extra level of quality assurance.
Ah, total cross purposes. Not what I meant at all.
Did this help in any way? https://tunemygc.com

Just by playing around with ​ RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR you can reduce memory consumption quite a bit.
If your curiosity is genuine I can tell you the answer.

First, a casual perusal of any human biodiversity blog will tell you that they do in fact care about differences between Germans and Irish as well. Or Tamils and Gujuratis, or a variety of other groups that exhibit interesting differences.

Intelligence is particularly interesting relative to other traits since it explains so many social outcomes, but many other traits are interesting. For example, clannishness: https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/how-inbred-are-euro... Some people just find human biology intrinsically interesting, and don't have the same negative emotional reactions to it that you do.

If you want a more traditional "give me a grant" motivation, here it is: public policy. Consider racial disparities across fields. One possible cause of such disparities is disparate treatment - e.g., judging white job applicants more harshly than Asian ones. Another possibility is disparate ability - e.g. a greater proportion of Asian people than white people are smart.

Different causes of disparities would significantly change what policy you would choose. For example, if disparate ability is the cause and equal outcomes is your goal, you would choose a quota system to cap the number of Asians.

and to anyone who shouts them down, calls them racist and attempts to get them socially ostracized, they say, "why are you trying to hide the truth?

Fixed that for you.
Knock knock.

Who's there

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton who ?

Hey guys I found the trump supporter. Let's out him on facebook !

Edit: flagged ? Haha! Let's out him on hacker news too!
Is it because the Berkeley dudes ain't that hippy any more?
Wow, this looks really promising. I went with Firebase when it became too obnoxious to manage websocket concurrency. I didn't even know about gun.

I appreciate that the starter app doesn't try to make decisions for me about what I'm using clientside. Can you think of any reasons it wouldn't play nice with react-native?
But there are reasonable limits on those private property rights that are commonly accepted.

For instance, I don't have the right to set up a nightclub without permission from the city, and (if I'm not being an asshole) neighbours and other nearby residents/businesses that would be affected.

These limits come into existence because there was a problem that residents of the city felt needed action on. Leaving large numbers of properties empty is the extreme opposite end of everyone running nightclubs.
Letting market compete means dialing back the net metering, discounts, cashbacks and preferential treatment for renewables, which in turn means huge decrease of their allure, which in turn means less of renewables

Not like I'm particularly sad, watching Germany fuck itself up so bad with renewables :/
(Price of electricy at least doubled), grid requires massive investments all the time (also, Germany had to decouple from Austria because they caused massive strain on countries in between due to volatility in Germany), the per year energy produced is still barely worth mentioning and the best part is, they effectively increased the emissions, since any energy intensive industry is long gone and relocated to China where it runs on coal PP with way lower emission standards
I prefer to rather then write tests plan out the interactions between all components in large projects. This will show you how all the pieces interact and what cases to need to handle in each functional unit. After this, I sit down an write all the code.

After I know the organization of the source, I write out each functional unit of the code one at a time. As I go, I write each bit of test code for my source. After this I integrate every function unit.

If a change is needed, I go back to the drawing board and find a better overall organization. This happens often due to either performance constraints or the need to abstract a section further.

After this I'd consider embedding a unit test suite.

Works great for small to medium projects.
Except smaller cars don't have the range, which is important in an ev
What difference does it make for a buyer?
Sorry for not being explicitly clear about what I found objectionable.

Saying that you're retired and working on hobby projects is technically true, but in context heavily implies that you did not have a management background. It's not technically lying, but you can mislead people extremely well by saying particular true things in a particular way. That's why I called it "dishonesty" instead of "lying".

And "jump into a discussion on the merits" isn't how I'd characterize their behavior so far. Most of what they've done is snark and implications that play stupid bullshit status games.
No, it's more "If you act like Trump (in his more distasteful moments) at the office or with colleagues, then fuck off".
And to support Hillary, one must accept lies, corruption, warmongering, corporatism, voter manipulation and unfettered globalization.

It's a choice between two evils, however you look at it.
In the case of lodash, those functions exist mostly to interoperate with other lodash functions, like chain.
Heh, I have a similar visceral reaction to the "open" style: what a waste of precious screen real estate. Now my eyes have to scan a much bigger area in order to see all the relevant information, and I might even have to waste time scrolling around to find what I'm looking for that I would not have had to if only all that unnecessary white space were eliminated.

Putting the brace on the same line also makes it easier to grep for function definitions.

So why not:

if (
x>y
)
{
code;
...
}
}

(I've actually seen that in real code.)
That statement is absolutely protected speech.
um, yeah, that's the whole point. In addition to all the empty homes, there's so many teenagers driving around in Ferraris/Lambos it's become a joke. Sometimes Mom comes with the kid, other times it's just the kid living alone (typically with a nanny). It's mostly hot money from China. Though to be fair, there are plenty of Mom+Kid from places like Korea who are here for the education & into to the 'West'.
Why could you not make the charge for non-payment be something like 50% of the assessed value or repossession of the property. Why do you have to leave an easy route out.
He said "I guess so" before the war started, and then started opposing it when others started opposing it. That's hardly the political courage he was attempting to convey here, especially when he says "I was against the Iraq war from the start"
I'm also concerned about how arbitrary the line is between passive and active income. Let's say I rent out a lot of properties. I have legal obligations to maintain those properties. That might be a lot of work. A full-time job, even. Let's say I make a lot of money on investments. I might be ensuring the success of those investments by advising and doing research on / for the companies I'm investing in. Both of those things get called passive income, but they very well might not be in reality.
Not long ago I saw a post about the oil pipeline protests. It was a photo of a huge crowd, and stated that the media was not covering the protests properly and that people are taking a stand. The photo was of tens of thousands of people, and had over 230,000 shares. 230k....

A quick image lookup showed that it was in fact a photo from Woodstock 1969, but since the comments on the photo were restricted, nobody had been able to point it out.

I went to report it, but facebook seems to have removed the "misinformation" option when reporting content (thought there was one before?)
Chinese buyers are not restricting themselves to Vancouver....

There are also a good number of wealthy Russians and Middle Easterners paying cash in the cities listed. If you've followed NY or London real estate news for the past decade, you would know that what's happening in Vancouver has been happening in other cities as well.
Relevant:

Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the future of Ruby Performance

https://blog.heroku.com/ruby-3-by-3/
So the ratio is evaluated at time of reproductive maturity, rather than time of birth. The selective pressure to keep the ratio at 1:1 still exists.
TDD requires to write FUNCTIONAL test case first for every new feature. Functional test case should not depend on implementation. Integrational and unit tests are.
You don't get too greedy. Usually there's a reason why bubbles form (e.g. a housing shortage in SF and London, gentrification of a certain area in a certain city etc) and often there are secondary factors as well.

Having both a clear exit price and timeframe in mind when buying is probably a good way to do it. Even if a property bubble starts to collapse, there is usually still sufficient time to get out.
>But when did the global elite

Many homes are being bought out by the Chinese elite. They are desperately trying to get their money out of China before the Yuan devalues or recession strikes.

The same is happening in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
You have to factor in bias in your job.

The people that are looking for a talented A-tier lawyer are likely the ones that are the most guilty. These guys and gals exhibit Dark Triad[0] tendencies far more than the average labor/service-class defendant does.

If you're a mediocre defense lawyer on public defender detail, you'd probably have a much different perspective on criminals. The poor can't afford lawyers, guilty or innocent.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Grubhub CEO's email to employees
BTW, can you elaborate on the meaning of "sophomore"? I can't find in a dictionary anything other than "second in a series" which doesn't seem to make sense in your use.
I'm ever curious about this topic - what do you define as innovation?
My guess is that Republicans will keep the restriction that insurance companies cannot deny pre-existing conditions. However, without the individual mandate that would bankrupt every insurer within short order. Avoiding that outcome is, afterall, the entire function of the mandate.

So what I expect to happen is that Republicans will cover the insurance companies' losses with some kind of new Medicare/Medicaid programs. However, over time (or maybe in short-order) it'll effectively be a blank check for insurers, funneling money from the government into private industry. Typical of similar Republican-designed programs, it'll be an unfunded expense adding to the debt. (The GOP is still the party of Dick "the deficit doesn't matter" Cheney.) Though, I have no doubt it'll become fodder for more anti-entitlement rhetoric from the very same politicians and pundits who supported the program.

I've already invested heavily in some insurance companies with proportionally large Medicare exposure. Unlike most health insurers, those companies actually took a nose dive yesterday, presumably based on the intuition that without Obamacare the Medicare/Medicaid spigot will shut-off. So, to my mind it was a doubly good investment, as companies like UnitedHealth were already up double-digits, making them less appealing to me (too much upside gone).

It's definitely a gamble. Who knows what Trump will do. But many Republican leaders have already stated that they don't think it's politically feasible to remove the pre-existing condition limitation altogether. Likewise, they've made it clear the mandate will go. The logical way forward would be to back-door kickbacks to insurers through Medicare/Medicaid. And unlike Obamacare it's much more likely to provide out-sized profits for insurers.

I suppose one alternative is just to allow people with pre-existing conditions to get on Medicare. But I think that's too openly pro-entitlement. Republicans like to grow entitlement programs like everybody else (it's what gets votes), but they prefer to obscure things so their policies and budgeting isn't openly contradictory with their rhetoric. (That's fair game, however it also makes it easier to hide deficit spending. When spending is out in the open the electorate is forced to make hard choices; when you hide deficits the feedback process breaks down--the electorate isn't forced to reconcile the specific costs of the program with the specific benefits.)
Which means "The situation is bad, but deal with it."

The problem with this phrase is that the U.S. military takes it extremes, telling soldiers to suppress inborn capacities for empathy, particularly in regard to civilians and "military-age males" routinely maimed and butchered in the course of its day-to-day operations. Inevitably resulting not only in mental health issues for the soldiers when they return home, but ultimately, failure of the overall mission itself.
Depends... are we talking about eliminating subsidies for transactions with positive externalities, or are we talking about undoing some regulatory capture?
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As they pointed out in the interview - it's not a free meal i.e. one could expect high memory usage and slow start-up times.

For me the slow start-up and the JIT requiring ~50K/req for warm-up just ruin the whole experience in coding the app in Ruby I'd rather just use Elixir.

Another interesting project is IBM's OMR [0] - compared to JRuby there are no slow start-ups and weirdly, being still a dev. preview it can run Rails and its deps. without issues, even better than Rubinius stable.

[0] - https://github.com/rubyomr-preview/rubyomr-preview
FWIW, as a developer if I'm willing to break out my credit card to pay $5/year for a tool, I am every bit as willing to pay $20. I would wager you'd get far more than just a 1/4 of your users if you jumped up that price.
I did hand tune stuff

https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/master/te...

RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS is critical without it you get way too much bloat. The default is very problematic I discussed this with ko1 but not sure if we can get a better default in for 2.4.