skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They aren't forcing subsidized parking. They're forcing the construction of parking lots and structures.

The part where they're required to build these lots virtually always results in subsidized parking. Yes, technically you could charge for spots, and then they wouldn't be subsidized, but in practice that's so much effort that it's much easier to just let the spots be free. For most businesses, running a paid parking scheme involves too much overhead to be worth it.

> This causes congestion (cars circling trying to find parking) and makes going to these areas less pleasant.

Then the city can charge; since they'd be doing it in many areas (and many cities already charge for this anyway in a section of their core), it's much less of a burden for them to do it than for individual businesses.

> How do these other countries deal with the lack of parking?

In Tokyo, you can't buy/register a car unless you can prove you have an off-street space.

> I think simply suggesting better public transportation and redesigned cities does not solve problems that people are having right now.

Well yeah, actually implementing those things is what's important.
Value is determined by what others will pay, as in any market. But additionally, the hard-coded long-term decreasing rate of production imposes deflationary bias. That manifests as underlying exponential price increase, with various speculative bubbles superimposed.
we need to make sure this code never ends up in a robot, I can imagine a very perverted robot.
How are you defining "correct result?" One formal definition could be the Condorcet winner (the candidate that would win a one-on-one election against each other candidate), but some elections don't even have a Condorcet winner. Also note that neither plurality voting nor instant runoff voting are guaranteed to select the Condorcet winner if one exists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_criterion
One desirable property of FPTP is that if you want to maximize the chances of your candidate being elected, you should vote for your candidate first before all other candidates. In IRV, sometimes you should not vote for your candidate first before all other candidates. Is that okay?

Here are some interesting diagrams of the results of applying various voting algorithms including IRV: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
In this situation, you're voting for party based on platform policy for each position, not people. The actual officeholders are decided later by the party.

It's hard for a committee to be dishonest.
You missed a criterion: All voters' preferences are expressed through a ranking.

As an impractical example, if you could get every voter to tell you exactly how many utils a particular candidate is worth to them (maybe through complex incentives), as a quantity and not as a ranking, you would end up with a perfect voting system.

As a more practical example, approval and range voting don't fall victim to Arrow's theorem.
I have been using Stripe Atlas for about 6-7 months now, for a small side project that I spend part of my weekends on.

I have to say that Atlas might be one of the easiest, and least expensive, ways to deal with the incorporation and the rest.
Approval Voting makes the most sense, seeing as this concerns the election of a single individual.

Basically, vote for ALL of the candidates of whom you approve.

Whoever gets the most approval (votes) wins.

Simple.

With a paper system such as we have in the UK, then if you don't like any of the candidates you can use a blank ballot paper to record your DISapproval, with the option that if the disapproval ballots exceed the winning total of approval votes then a new election should be called with a new slate.

Mathematically, for a single candidate election, it gets extremely close to the optimum Condorcet result.
Let's say that eventually it is the consensus of the scientific community that things like consciousness, pain and free will are just illusions, and therefore, human rights are an outdated concept, and future policy decisions should reflect that consensus.

You'd resist those policy proposals, and I think most people would. You'd base that resistance on your values - values, which in this case at least, you did NOT derive from the scientific consensus.

My point is there are non-scientific origins for value systems, and they are more real and valid than scientifically derived ones - science can only give you facts about the material universe.
My first girlfriend was fluent in ~5 languages and conversant with a couple more (she was a Swedish Finn, so there's 3 languages effectively from birth) so had multiple stories about overhearing conversations she wasn't meant to understand.
You can tell they aren't very close to it a they refer to "the" NHS - there are actually four NHSs for different parts of the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service
As a small country I really wouldn't want to be reliant on a grid shared with either China or Russia.
I'm surprised that lists of certain sizes aren't locked down.

I would expect the server to refuse to send to "all@nhs.gov.uk" unless the sender is on some sort of pre-approved list.
Hey HN, my weekend project was a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that displays items from /newest on the front page.

The idea came from some comments I saw a couple days ago. The gist was that because very few people actually check /newest, getting a story out of /newest usually requires an upvote ring, existing fame, or luck. I'm hoping that by including new stories on the front page, I'll get myself to check them out and upvote them more often than I currently do.

The extension chooses stories at random from /newest and includes them on your front page. The stories get re-chosen every fifteen minutes. You can upvote them from the front page just like you would from /newest.

Links to the extension are in the repo!
I was also having this problem. But I think one must just do away with the self imposed condition that the use of Bitcoin must abide by the law.

Bitcoin is useful against capital controls.

One then wonders if that was the real motivation behind Bitcoin. It's maybe not a coincidence that it has widespread use in China. I don't want to speculate any further. Just having this thought right now.
Just to clarify one point; when a member of the LLC, you'll be taking "guaranteed payments" or allocations rather than W2 income (and paying quarterly estimated personal taxes out of that). You only do W2 income once it's a C-Corp.

Not a lawyer or an accountant, so use salt with the paragraph above.

(edited to clarify that post above is correct, but possibly ambiguous)
From the initiative text:

"This initiated bill provides ranked-choice voting for the offices of United States Senator, United States Representative to Congress, Governor, State Senator and State Representative for elections held on or after January 1, 2018"
The original intent of the US political representative system was pretty much in line with what you suggest. Over time, the costs of running such a system with a hugely increasing population and senators/etc who enjoy wielding more and more power stopped any serious moves to keep the ratio constant.

Also, those who buy influence in congress would of course prefer there to be fewer people to bribe(lobby, whatever) for their laws, so they'll always be anti any suggestion like this.
Or you can live with better standard of living in the Twin Cities suburbs with a house and a yard, as I do, for less cost than living in small box in Minneapolis.
Was once hanging out with my wife in the lobby of an Israeli-owned hotel in Costa Rica (lots of Hebrew and Spanish with some English). Two young female French backpackers stopped in for about ½ hr, sat nearby and started speaking French to each other. My French was quite rusty but it became clear at some point that I was the topic. Eventually they got up, and one, without really looking, said "au revoir, monsieur". To this day I regret not replying in kind just to see the reaction on their faces.

Over the past year my wife and I have learned Esperanto to near-fluency. However contrary to the goals of the language, it is a quite effective "secret language" when we don't wish to be understood.
If you're going to link to ~50 pages of content the least you could do is summarize or pull out some interesting bits.

Some of these are real logistical issues but are certainly solvable. There's no real reason that we have to know the results immediately other than a desire to know. And a couple examples like ex 4 in your third link are really unlikely to happen because to make them work you have to have a lot of information about the ranked choices of other voters.
I was thinking you can block ICMP 3/3 if an IP address is used for ingress only (TCP/UDP server)
Not all routing by any means. Just anyone using those particular Cisco and other routers. Fortunately the net routes around damage by design; as routers went offline, other paths would be found.
For context, the NHS is one of the largest employers in the world. The list[1] currently goes:

- US Department of Defense

- The Chinese Army

- Walmart

- McDonalds

- The NHS

And The NHS's staff are all far more likely to actually have to use a computer and email in their day-to-day work than most of those Walmart and McDonalds employees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
The Irish Republic only existed from 1919 to 1922 :/

And Malta is another EU state with English as an official language.
I think one telling feature is that the New York subway runs 24/7; every other metro in the world shuts down for nightly maintenance.
'We can't keep producing records if you keep not paying for them'
I think sfall means "cost to the public purse". It's like any minimum requirement that the government sets - it imposes costs, but doesn't require the raising of taxes, so it's easier to do politically.
Look, I agree with you. I am thrilled that RCV was voted-for by the people of Maine. It's a step away from the two-party system, and that's great.

The Spoiler Effect happened one way or another. I was not intentionally trying to bash any of the candidates who were involved in the Spoiler Effect, and I think it's petty and inflammatory to assign blame either way. I'll update my post to be more clear in this regard.
OK, replace "candidate" with "party" in my objection, I don't think that changes anything.

If you think parties have a hard time being dishonest... would you like to buy a bridge?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12914188 for anyone looking for the link.

And yes, the hex edit fix works (at least for me)
If you're joining as employee 10, you should negotiate for the opportunity to early exercise all of your shares and avoid any tough tax choices later on. Perhaps even a starting bonus to cover the cost of exercise.

This also puts you in a position to exclude your entire gain from federal capital gains tax if the liquidity event is at least 5 years out:

https://blog.wealthfront.com/qualified-small-business-stock-...
a stair climbing/hauling robot - most households have indoor staircases and lugging heavy stuff up/down is a big pain point with rapidly aging populations.
> New York City is definitely the most ethnically and linguistically diverse place in the world

Citation needed. FYI, other cities such as Auckland, Toronto and Los Angles and London are ahead by some metrics.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/75964986/Auckland-a-melting-...

And NYC is probably ahead, but about level with London on others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_born#Cities_with_large...
That seems unrelated to the discussion. If GP had said, "I'm a blueberry muffin and would love to see all of these costs unbundled...", could you have responded differently?
Doesn't that depend on the religion though? Like evangelicals don't think human made global warming is real because humans can't alter gods creation. I think most people will accept the evidence as long as it doesn't go against some of their core beliefs (which can be expanded beyond religion). It's just that for a lot of scientific discoveries there is at least one group that refuses to accept it.
I use it for api monitoring. It hits various endpoints for trainspottr.fm and pings me if anything is amiss.
What you have to deal with;

* Xcode = iOS bugs + UIKit bugs

* Xamarin = iOS bugs + UIKit bugs + different runtime, language, memory model abstractions + .NET bugs + P/Invoke bugs & overheads + GC inter-op bugs & overheads + C# bugs + slow followup of platform updates

* Xamarin Forms = iOS bugs + UIKit bugs + different runtime, language, memory model abstractions + .NET bugs + P/Invoke bugs & overheads + GC inter-op bugs & overheads + C# bugs + slow followup of platform updates + extra UI abstraction layers + lack of fine level controls & features
that hand though
They would gain control over the management of the open source project, which is apparently what they wanted? If they don't want an open source version they have control over the management of, then that's fine too of course.

But yes, forks of open source projects are never something one wants, they are a last resort, but one you always have with open source.
HN bans persist across sockpuppets. No more of this, please.
"Controlled by", I would understand, but why not "shared with"?
Its still done like that in South Africa. A fish chain here prints fake newspaper onto their packaging which wraps the fish.

Colonial habits die hard ;)
English: What is this? (3)

German: Was ist das? (3)

Japanese: Are wa nan desu ka. (5)

And this is just a simple example. Often the sentences get even longer when set in past tense or in some of the "politeness forms".

Maybe that's the reason they use these symbols, they allow for compact writing of even long sentences.

On the other hand, the Japanese I met didn't really "talk" the way I learned it at university. Noone said stuff like "Are wa nan desu ka", they just said "Are wa?"
> Why bother with remote power generation and such, when I can hang stuff on my roof and get free energy?

Because the sun is down for about half a day each day. However, halfway across the world, the sun is shining. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get power from there?
Travel and learn to code in Colombia for 8 weeks
Reminds me of the "Bedlam DL3" story from Microsoft [0].

[0] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004/04/08/me-t...
> The first article talks about logistics of doing it in practice, which as other countries and Maine will see, can be done.

The flaws consist of more than simple logistical problems, such as:

* The requirement to count votes centrally to handle ranked choice makes it more susceptible to fraud (flaw #2 and #16).

* Makes exit polls virtually useless as third-party verification vote data, which just compounds the flaws of the above (flaw #7) -- this all ties into auditing difficulties (flaw #9).

* They cite data that IRV actually entrenches the two-party system wherever it's been tried, so it doesn't actually solve some of the problems it's supposed to solve (flaw #11).

* Counter-intuitive results, such as ranking your first choice last could cause them to win, while ranking them first could cause them to lose (flaw #12).

* They cite data suggesting that IRV favours extremist candidates, or candidates that are worse for everyone except special interests (flaw #13, similar to flaw #12).

* Not all votes are treated equally, so some votes count more than others (flaw #14)

None of these are logistical problems. The other links I provided suggested that IRV may actually be illegal in the US for various reasons. So I'm not convinced that IRV is better than the current process.
Nazi Germany prepared for war and many people had to work for that. Germany had less unemployment. But the things produced, were for a huge war machine. Financed with debt and the hope to loot other countries. In other areas the youth was forced to work for the regime.

Many people were happy that they were employed. 1933-39 Soon many of them or their relatives were dead, because their work created the ships, the tanks, the planes, the weapons, the industry for the war.

This large reduction of unemployment was what people thought of being successful economic policy. If you talked to people from that time, they saw Hitler's policy in rosy pictures. After the mass unemployment, suddenly there was hope. But it wasn't for long. The financing was not sound. The purpose was clear: fight a war, either win or die.

Hardly successful economic policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
One would really hope that such an address cannot be externally addressed ;)
Because they need the children of today to grow to be productive members of society who will fund the retirees' Social Security.
Radioactive Boyscout (David Hahn: Oct 30, 1976 – Sep 27, 2016)
This site contains little practical information about cryptography.
Are police, parks, libraries and such federally regulated? I thought it was controlled more at the state level. I mean yeah, FBI is federal, but if I call 911, I'm going to get state-level police care.
TL;DR: less than a full week after the election and more than two months before Inauguration Day, a German-based publication declares that the United States is now in decline and the civilized world must rely on great leaders like Angela Merkel to survive.

In other words: more reactive, hysterical nonsense.
Fly under the radar until you build up some steam
Arrow's impossibility theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
is often trotted out in the discussion of RCV and similar systems. It seems to me that the problem with mentioning that theorem is that if you admit that every system for judging among more than 3 choices has some flaw, and that flaw makes the system anti-democratic because it allows tactical voting, then why not admit that the status quo is worse, under the same framework, and therefore admit that something else other than plurality voting should be used?
I think the iOS "unsubscribe" banner could be adding to the chaos. Not sure about this exact situation, but I've been caught in mailing lists where people instinctually hit the unsubscribe prompt which just sends an email with text saying "unsubscribe", therefor blasting everyone in the thread and not actually unsubscribing them.
What about all the ferriers?
AliasingBug
They said the same thing about the last 4 APIs as well.
Not quite true. If I recall correctly, each country picks a language and Ireland didn't choose English.
San Francisco, Oakland and 1-2 other Bay Area cities have had this for a while. I think it works well, and the electorate and politicians are getting used to it.

The implementation, at least here in Oakland, is a bit clunky. When there are only two candidates, they still let you pick your first, second and third choice...

Having it at state level opens things up to a whole different level. Now a popular and/or centrist third party candidate can realistically get elected as US senator, and that's real power.
I lived ten years in the Faroe Islands. You can do just fine with Danish, but learning to read and understand spoken Faroese was of course a great advantage. Too old to learn speaking it, but conversations where I spoke my mothertongue and the other part their mothertongue worked great.
Pretty much everyone in the UK refers to the organization(s) as "the NHS"
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
I was extremely disappointed in the development experience, but the core technology is extremely helpful, depending on your use-case.

If your app is just a mobile front-end for a REST API then I wouldn't bother with it: develop two versions of the app with different UI idioms.

If your app does something considerably more complex, Xamarin might also be a good idea. Keeping two drastically different codebases in sync can be a very big task, but I suggest proactively looking at issues people have experienced with it, as well as other differences such as memory management which works very differently to what you're used to as a .NET developer.

However I think a number of responses have strayed from the question, which is "is it worth learning Xamarin". It appears Microsoft bought the technology because it was useful, not to kill it. I don't think the technology will be retired any time soon and can only get better. So long as Microsoft gives this the TLC it needs, it will be a formidable part of any developer's toolkit.. so long as it can get over the really bad reputation it has.

I for one will explore every possible alternative before considering Xamarin again.
slashdot discussion: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/11/14/0039257/radioac...
The legal challenges were at very different points in their lifetimes. It's at least arguable that the legal issues associated with AT&T and BSD kept it from becoming as mainstream as it might have. (As did the somewhat splintered community.)

Linux OTOH was already well-established before the SCO suits.
How to Build a World-Class Network If You're Moving to a New City
I look forward to another cleverly-named security flaw that allows someone to take down entire e-mail servers with a single externally-sent email.
If it's structured parking on a difficult grade, that's actually a totally plausible price, no cozy cost-inflating required. Recall that you're not just building the area of each parking space, but all the aisles and space leading up to them, and that it has to be built out of reinforced materials to carry the weight. Standard aboveground parking garage spaces frequently run into $60k+ apiece.
> With self-driving cars on the horizon, I think the suburbs might go through some type of re-birth.

Suburban sprawl. I have several concerns with that. In places like San Francisco, there is no space to sprawl. It’s healthier for kids to use physical activity to move around. Only 7 miles from the office? When everybody goes to the suburbs, typical commuting distances are measured in the dozens of, or even over 100, miles.

But I haven’t seen an answer to the concern about economic sustainability. The tax revenues from the properties have not been high enough to maintain the infrastructure, and likely cannot be high enough with middle-class people living there. I can imagine Donald Trump, how would he solve it? Hire contractors to rebuild the infrastructure and then threaten to sue them when they present the bill? That’s how he built his own properties. I don’t think it will work for the rest of the nation.

http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/

Even in mildly dense areas like San Francisco, revenues do not cover maintenance. The BART district just passed bonds to rebuild the tracks, but we haven’t finished paying off the bonds to construct the tracks. This entire region needs to become dramatically more dense, preferably gradually over the last 50 years, but now we might finally have the political will to do it; just so we can afford to maintain the infrastructure.
Canada is a completely independent and sovereign state. The fact that the Queen of Canada and the Queen of the United Kingdom are the same person is incidental.

Would you say UK is not _actually_ independent because it's a constitutional monarchy? If not so, why would Canada be any different?
I love how this article manages to contradict itself completely in the space of two paragraphs.

Paraphrase #1: Salaries at startups aren't very high, without considering options.

Paraphrase #2: Yelp is having to raise compensation to compete against startup job offers.

Past the very early stage, the first statement is untrue. I sincerely doubt that Uber is paying less base salary than GE. Certainly it is in the ballpark -- because every well-funded startup out there (there's a lot of them) pays "market rate" which nets out to "we match salaries for everyone except Google employees."