skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between Toronto and the oft-cited "global cities" of New York, London, Paris, etc. is that all of those cities have a proportionate number of extremely high-earning or high-wealth individuals to support their astronomical housing costs. Manhattan is expensive, but if you work for Goldman or Google you can still afford it. And you can see that this is true because New York, London and Paris all easily support a huge number of businesses catering to the everyday needs of high-wealth individuals. High-end restaurants, luxury car dealerships, tailors - whatever luxury stuff you can imagine, you will easily find it in London or New York.

That is not the case in Toronto. The issue is not that prices are going up, but that they are going up exponentially in a way that doesn't relate at all to the growth of the local economy. Toronto is a city where an expensive restaurant is one that charges more than $40 for an entree. You will not find $100 cocktails or $500 tasting menus a la Hong Kong or New York in Toronto, because there would be nobody to buy them. You can still get a haircut for under $20 and see people in $300 off-the-rack suits in the Financial District, because the people there earn $70,000 or $80,000 not $800,000 or $8,000,000 as in NYC/London.

Supply and demand are both issues, there is a lot of the latter and too little of the former. But to say that Toronto has transformed into one of the richest cities on Earth simply isn't true in any regard except its housing market. And that is precisely the problem - it has the housing market of London with the salaries of Cleveland.
"4. Toronto is the 3rd largest North American city;"

Not quite, that's only technically correct, due to the fact that major urban areas in the US don't 'incorporate' into major cities.

It's better to compare 'greater urban areas' with other regions. On that basis, it's not so big.

LA, Chicago, Dallas Ft/Worth, NYC all bigger, with Boston, Houston, Bay Area, DC, Seattle, (even Atlanta) about the same size. There's a few more on that list.

America is very populous and just outside many urban centres are vastly populated areas of slightly less density. Esp. in the North East.
I don't quite see why they can't use the same method they use in espionage cases in this situation - if there's classified evidence, the defence lawyers need to get security clearances and are under the same obligation not to further disclose the information as anyone else (even to their own client).
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And here I just sold my i5/gtx670 build in favor of a Macbook Pro, a Raspberry Pi, and a NAS. This one gen old MBPr is my favorite computer I've ever used(I now have two- one provided by my employer as well).

So Apple has made some controversial design decision with their newest line of laptops...I still will be purchasing one in two or three years...whenever this one becomes unusable.
Perhaps I misunderstood your position. It sounded like you were saying that Toronto is a magnet for people from around the country, but when I asked you to clarify that, you only provided one reason that supports that position (#2). Have you seen data to suggest this is having an outsized impact on GTA demand?

It seems clear than #3 and, less so, #1 and 5 are driving the majority of demand. I'm not sure how one can explain the decoupling of prices from incomes without either a massive influx of capital or lax lending from the banks. The latter doesn't seem to be an issue, which leaves the former.

If you're curious, read the PDF from the SFU prof that I linked to in the top comment in the thread. It's a summary of the data and is an excellent read if you're trying to unpack what's really going on (in Vancouver, but a lot is applicable to Toronto).
Good info. Just to add onto the speculation as to why so many new places are vacant at Docklands I would say that it has to do with foreign owners who want to park (secure) their money outside of their country. We've never had so many empty properties and at the same time so many homeless people around the city area (there seems to be direct correlation between the two).
Toronto has 'global city prices' without 'global city industries and wages' to support it.

NYC is fully of bankers, global elite.

SF is fully of tech-stars.

Toronto has no such industries with lots of super high paying jobs.
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I wonder about 3d printing with cob like materials.
Thanks for your response. I generally agree with the technical approach, but not with your assessment of Slack's products.

> By "offensively wasteful" I mean off by orders of magnitude. At which point the problem isn't one of mere programming but of actually having some idea of what you are doing.

That would imply that Slack, doesn't know what they're doing. Slack is an extremely successful company. I myself use it for several teams simultaneously. From a user and business perspective it generates a lot of value and that ultimately trumps criticisms of their implementation.

> One doesn't produce a resource hog like Slack by doing one or two things in a wasteful and sloppy manner. One does it by having the wrong attitude and systematically doing a bad job.

Perhaps what you're taking into consideration isn't broad enough. Going back to the original comment, if they did such a bad job, then why am I able to get a lot of value from it? Their implementation seems "good enough".

What's the negative consequences of their "orders of magnitude" performance problems? Does it destroy it's business value? What would you do if you were the CEO? Cease all active development and re-build everything in scratch in c++?
My goto solution for Linux backup is an encrypted Duply[0] back up to an S3 bucket. Duply is a more user friendly front end to Duplicity[1]

[0]http://duply.net

[1]http://duplicity.nongnu.org
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I find the headline a little misleading. Reading it, I was thinking "ok, Vox runs an ad for Comcast - what's wrong, all the press runs ads, that's how they make the money, and why would they refuse to run an ad for Comcast?". Reading further, the allegation seems to be much more serious - that Vox run an article, purporting to be an editorial content, but in fact being, by its content, very close to an ad. Wasn't clear from the headline at all.
strawman argument
I doubt a 10k house in Russia is "good" concrete.
This, I regularly see 95C while compiling, which I'd imagine isn't doing any favours to a $2000 machine that I expect to last at least 2-3 more years.
From 8 to 12 pm is doable, but as other have replied, rewind some 5-10 minutes between your breaks and you should get a good experience.
It is worth it, it is one of the best films ever made IMO.
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When to consider Prometheus or InfluxData
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I also wrote about the Uber, Zenefits, and Volkswagen scandals, and how companies seem to be getting bolder about pushing developers to circumvent regulators: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/dark-genius-how-programmers-...
There are practices which can ease the use of feature flags. E.g.

- Only a handful feature flags at a time.

- When the feature is stable, delete from everywhere!

- Easily turn on and off.

- No branching makes it much easier.
People said the same about Netflix, and they're doing amazingly well. Remember those DVDs they used to stuff in the mail? The human Uber drivers are the equivalent of those workers.

Uber is investing heavily in the autonomous car revolution, and that's going to pay off incredibly well.
Doesn't CQRS style design attempt to promise a "rollback button" or method of rolling back ? In the example you would see the event emitted by the faulty program and then you would reconstruct the object based on replaying the log right before the invalid function was executed.
Human beings have always lived in organized societies, and indeed cannot survive without them.

Once you move from foraging to agriculture, inevitably it leads to large states. The only question is how much power the state will have. There has never been a large society in which the state has as little power as the libertarians wish, and I doubt there ever will be.

As to the market and modern technology, they exist only because there is a state to guarantee things like paper money and contracts, and to sponsor scientific research and also new technologies like the internet.
"Speculators and investors may be the ones driving up the prices, but I think there really is just that much demand. "

Only 5% of buyers need to be speculative. They drive the 'price anchoring' for the rest - including the banks who 'deem the property to have x value'.

That's how bubbles work - a small number of 'price insensitive buyers' create poorly anchored prices which drive everyone else into the mania.

Those 'buyers' are there only because the banks are happy to give them loans using the asset as backing.

You don't need to be bothered by it as long as you are willing to sit on it for 10+ years and can afford to make the payments.
This movie is possibly in top-3 list of any gangster movie collection.
I rank the Godfather (I & II) as #1 and this movie as #2 in my list.

I also consider this to be Sergio Leone's best movie and one of the must-watch movies by any movie fan.
Oh wait, so you're not preserving the subsequence, you just preserving the sum. So it's a standard scan. So my original translation is correct, my subsequence preserving version is doing a bit more than this by preserving the subarray as well as the sum.
I don't really get the comparison with Pony Express part. As you said they shut down because of superior technology (transcontinental telegraph). So the superior technology to Uber and Lyft will be self-driving cars or teleportation.

The second point is that Uber is not trying to scale driver's earnings but the availability of the service for your every day needs while still making sure drivers can make a living. How many people were commuting to work via taxi before Uber and Lyft? How many people do that now? Making uber ride affordable for every day needs and maintain a certain level of service and customer support that's where they were scaling.
Why couldn't you use 3 or 4 of them to make a larger house? Seems like as long as it can print your largest room you are Golden.
have you considered asking for help? contributors can do more than just submit PRs and create bug tickets.
How is it any different than Camelcamelcamel?
The machine is impressive, but not really comparable to this.
As it could only do fixed shapes.
With this printer you can do any shape, and also change the inside struxture of the walls.
And while this one is quite limited in its range, it is still impressive and a glimpse, of what will come, soon ...
I recall back in the day being very confused when I first saw the US release, but then several years later watching the original. I didn't know the back-story of the film. I recall thinking "I've seen this movie, but this scene wasn't in it, neither was this, what the hell?" This was obviously pre-Internet, so it wasn't easy to figure out what had happened to the movie if you weren't following the trades.
They have not seen blistering growth since. They haven't grown much at all in two years, since the initial burst of growth early into their existence. The clock is ticking on Vox, they either have to generate substantial growth soon, or they're guaranteed to go under (these new media sites are universally red ink machines, betting on continual capital investment to try to get a lot larger, then the growth stops but the red ink continues and they go under, same business concept failure repeating over and over again).

Their traffic is directly measured:

https://www.quantcast.com/vox.com
Wouldn't you be able to use somewhat normal refrigeration, then put a thermoelectric cooler on the heat exchanger side? If you could get the TEC's high temperature side hot enough, would it radiate heat more efficiently? (I'm assuming that hotter items radiate more joules of energy than cooler)
> Jump one word forward or backwards?

> Windows/Linux: ctrl + arrow

> Mac: depends on which program you are currently using

I don't know what the deal is with Carbon - it was already dead 5 years ago, even Photoshop transitioned in 2010 - but everything I use uses option-arrow. Even the terminal.

> Opening a file upload dialog box in one browser window would block other windows from the same browser forcing me to use two different browsers: one for docs and one for the task at hand.

I just checked and at present in Safari, file upload dialogs block the current window (i.e. can't access other tabs) but not other windows. Though to be honest, I don't understand why you needed to keep file upload dialogs open… why would you click the button to pop the dialog if you weren't intending to immediately select a file? But I guess https://xkcd.com/1172/ applies :)
Absolutely. Maybe it's also just a Fedora thing, installed it a week ago on my laptop that only had Win on it before, and from prior Linux experiences (Xubuntu & friends) just some ~3 years back I was absolutely baffled how everything installed quickly without a hitch, without glitches. HiDPI graphics recognition with a good default scaling, there, no config-file messing required. Wifi, there. NumPad, multi-touch trackpad, even audio!! you name it, it Just Worked. Still very-minor rare glitches throughout the Gnome environment but no showstoppers especially regarding the first-install experience. Major props to the Fedora devs for rounding out such a smooth distro.

If someone gave me a MacBook tomorrow, I'd install Fedora on it, no contest. At least I wouldn't have to get lost in "homebrew ports" and such, or some "Powershell" RedmondUbuntu2017 concoction ;))
One product I look longingly at from over here in Mac world is the Surface Pro. Full desktop OS on a tablet; the ability to make notes with a pen. Surface Pro with OneNote seems like a seriously powerful tool.

I'm sure iPad also runs OneNote but you simply cannot efficiently use an iPad as a full time desktop experience, from what I've seen.
This is really cool, but I'd love to know how durable a printed house is over the long term. Right now though, I think that there's a profitable niche for this sort of portable and low-labor-intensity construction in the defence and disaster-relief fields, where speed and cost are a higher priority than aesthetics.

I could easily see the US government (or rather, their contractors) using this technology when constructing bases overseas, especially in places in Afghanistan where workers don't just need to be paid, but fed, housed and transported at great expense.
The real reason Dallas and Houston are growing fast while remaining affordable is because we can sprawl forever.

The Dallas area has no natural boundaries whatsoever; there are no mountains and no coast, nothing to stop development from sprawling out constantly. I was born in 1984, and I've lived in Dallas my entire life. I've seen the suburbs balloon in size like you wouldn't believe; and I'm not just talking population here, but area. The idea that we have continuous suburban development extending all the way north to Prosper (and soon Celina) blows my mind. Suburban development used to peter out in the northern half of Plano, and honestly southern Plano wasn't fully built-out either (there even used to be huge unincorporated enclaves in Plano).

Another is business culture; companies, especially tech companies, have largely chosen to avoid the central business district and instead locate their offices in the edge cities [0] and the boomburbs [1]. Blame historical happenstance: this phenomenon was entirely thanks to two companies who decided in the 1950s to locate their offices in Richardson instead of Dallas. One was Texas Instruments, which was founded as a startup in Richardson (none of the founders were native Texans, oddly enough), and the other was Collins Radio (now Rockwell-Collins), an established company from Iowa who decided to put their Texas campus in Richardson. Between the two of them, anyone in North Texas who wanted into the tech industry worked in Richardson. After that, the founders of TI decided to start a technology-oriented university so they can grow their own talent right there in Richardson. Soon, they handed over the university to the state, who promptly renamed it the University of Texas at Dallas (despite it actually being in Richardson). Since then, UTD has become the most prominent school for engineering and computer science in the entire southwest (when I went there, the phrase "MIT of the southwest" was bandied about a lot), cementing Richardson as the home of the tech industry in North Texas.

I find it interesting; housing prices actually have spiked in the Dallas area thanks to an unexpected surge of demand (I expect prices to go down soon, as new sprawl catches up to the demand), but Richardson is still one of the most affordable cities in the Dallas area, and it's still recognized as being one of the best cities in the US to live. That combination of affordability and quality of life is rare; usually, the two are inversely proportional. You can still find a good house in Richardson for under $300k, and if you look carefully, you can go below $250k.

Now, I don't know too much about Houston, but it's pretty low on natural boundaries. Sure, it's not too far from a coast, but that's only to the south, and right now Houston's sprawling north and west. No mountains, either. I don't know much about how the business culture evolved, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_city

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomburb
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Sure, but time is a finite resource.

You know when the last time I even thought about my OS was? Probably 8 yrs ago. I'd much rather fiddle with the stuff I'm building than with the stuff I just need to work in order for me to build what I'm building.

So I have no aversion to learning, but I want to focus my time learning the stuff I want/need to learn. And if there's an OS that runs well enough I don't need to think about it then that's fantastic.
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The ZX81 was best described as a terrifying bundle of hacks flying in close enough formation that from a distance it looks like a computer... a real masterpiece of hardware design, in a disturbingly twisted sort of way.

Also, the official manuals had some of the best cover art ever seen on a computer book, by science fiction artist John Harris:

http://www.alisoneldred.com/imageJohnHarris-Prints-2-2508.ht...

http://www.alisoneldred.com/imageJohnHarris-Prints-2-2064.ht...

http://www.alisoneldred.com/imageJohnHarris-Prints-3-1214.ht...
> If Apple devoted their focus to products in proportion to their revenue, then they would be putting 12x as much effort into the iPhone than they would for the entire Mac lineup.

True. However, creators and developers (who, in my experience, almost always use a desktop) are important for the iOS platform. Someone has to write those native apps. Therefore it doesn't make sense to ignore them for too long.
You're rewriting history, those sentiments, parties and political leaders were growing in popularity across Europe way before then, that was just gas on the fire.
They included only the cost of materials. Moreover, the article says that the house was built on the territory of the concrete factory itself. That might explain the discount.
Consider the following configuration (where --- is the wall and M == known mine):

+------
| 1
| 2
| 1 2 M

If you know there are three mines here, including the marked one, this is either

+------
| M 1
| M 2
| 1 2 M

or

+------
| M 1
| M 2
| 1 2 M

There's no way to ever get more information to resolve the ambiguity without guessing, and the mine probability in every square is 50%. This (or simple variants) is the most common late-game failure case. Similar symmetries can also occur on edges, and (though more rarely) even in the middle of the field.

If you assume that you have knowledge of the 5 outside squares of a 3x3 corner (and any neighbors outside of that 3x3 corner) and that you know how many mines are left, you won't be able to fill in the rest without guessing 4.14% of the time on an Expert board. The most common failures are either three three-mine cases like the one illustrated here (0.440% likelihood each) or one of 16 four-mine cases (0.115% likelihood each). Given that there are four corners on the board, that sends your failure rate to at least 15.572% (actually higher, because you don't always know how many mines are left in one corner without clearing the other three).

If you want to fail fast, figure out if you have symmetry in the corners first.
> This is a myth that will not die.

Linking to some sources would help, please.
Well sure, but that is true on every system, hence Windows warns "Do not turn off your PC".
The results of the actual polling machines can be trusted. Nobody is claiming that Russia hacked into the polling stations and changed the results, which is what Trump supporters were going on about prior to the election.

That does not mean that Russia did not interfere in our election, which is what the left is angry about today. The evidence of ties between Russia and people involved in the Trump campaign was public knowledge during the campaign and connections between Trump and Russia were topics on the campaign trail and were even discussed in the debates.
In the context of multi-billion dollars edge funds and investment banks, they always have money to play with.

For everyone else, it's a high barrier to entry. An edge is of limited value if you don't have the xx M$ to risk on it.
Seems like a bit much to say that it's a toy language because it can't (currently) be used to write Linux or Windows applications. There's probably tens of thousands of developers at least making a living developing Swift applications. I bet there's more people making money writing Swift than Haskell and Lisp combined.
Did not know that, so if an app is non responsive but alt+f4 does the trick, does that mean the app maybe wasn't as FUBAR as I thought?
It does until it doesnt. There are very few quant funds that have figured out how to navigate a rapidly changing economic environment. The problem with quant is that it is backward looking. When the market changes most quantitative funds do not have a good method of accounting for the change. They do not properly account for conditioning information and they end up completely hammered.

I am confident that there are people who have at least partially figured out how to invest this way, but i believe it is very, very few. Like less than 10 funds/people on earth.
> The only time I ever use it is for comedic relief, or to demonstrate the obvious superiority of either Google's, Microsoft's, or Amazon's implementations.

Curious here - can you give some examples? Siri seems to work better (on friends' devices) than "OK Google" on my Moto X.