skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you need to keep extending the state of emergency, you should admit that the "emergency" is actually your normal state of affairs.

I agree with this, therefore the trigger for a "housing emergency" should be something that can be measured in qualified facts (e.g. ratio of migration influx vs build of housing stock, queue length for welfare housing).

> If you have a problem in housing, with a really substantial part of your housing stock empty, your rental market isn't working. Don't blame evil capitalists for it; blame the rules of the market you created with legislation. For instance, unreasonable tenant protections at the expense of the owner.

Housing is a human right. Tenant protections are not unreasonable, they're often enough the only thing preventing capitalism from its worst excesses. The countless stories I have read alone on HN how in America people are kicked out of their homes just because the landlord wants to have more money should be proof of why tenant protections are needed.

> Empty housing is not the real problem

It is. Empty housing causes entire zones going dead - look at London. Wherever a large number of "investment housing" appears, the small shops etc. have to close because there are no customers.

> the problem is lack of building permits and zoning in areas of population growth, and generally meddling with the market.

I highly doubt the problems in Berlin, London or Munich are related to a lack of building permits or population growth. It's just that it fetches more money for real estate developers to build luxury apartments instead of affordable housing, therefore the solution is more zoning, not less.
> If I may ask, I'm very curious (and I suspect others may also be interested in this datapoint) - what sort of ballpark......?

Well, you already supplied a number. I figured since they had not done QNX any favors they should be happy with a bit of a discount, especially because I did not care for the branding.

> And what were you requesting?

Open source the complete OS as it was available at that time, without the brand. Perpetual license (they'd already done a release-and-retract once before). Other deal parameters to be negotiated.

Anyway, as it is I strongly suspect that QNX will go under with BB at some point, or that it will get sold to the highest bidder in some kind of bankruptcy proceedings. Which likely will be quite a bit cheaper :)

I already wrote one QNX clone for 32 bits, it should not be too hard to make another for 64 bit mode and it would be a lot cheaper too so maybe that's a better way to go about it. It really isn't all that difficult, the fact that it starts off with an extremely simple kernel makes the whole problem far more tractable than it would be for a comparable macro kernel, the scope that needs inspecting to home in on a bug is a very small fraction of what you get with a macro kernel and if a device driver crashes you can simply inspect the core dump of that device driver.

And with VMs as a test bed that job got so much easier.
The rumor I always heard on Wall Street about Paulson was that he essentially stole the idea of the sub-prime short from other investors

Ideas are a dime a dozen. He put his money where his mouth is. There's no shortage of people talking about China's crash and maybe one day it will. But when and are you willing to invest in that idea?
Apple started with a closed ecosystem. Any perceived notion that they were going to be open: using commodity hardware, using open source software, was a means to an end. And they have come back full circle.
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Let's take a specific example. For grad school, I went to a university with a generally well regarded MBA program, which drew on-campus recruiting from MBB. The recruiting process for MBA students was short recruiter interview -> case interviews. Non-MBA students interested in positions at MBB had it a bit different: in between the recruiter interview and the case interviews was an extremely difficult written exam designed to test the candidate's "reasoning" ability. A couple of my (pretty smart) classmates tried to prepare for these exams and eventually took them, failing miserably. They both reported that it was the hardest test they ever took. Both ended up at second-tier consulting firms.

Let's get more general and rigorous. Kellogg Business School professor Lauren Rivera studies the effects of educational credentials on employment opportunity. Her research confirms that educational pedigree is the single most important factor for gaining employment in elite positions in finance, consulting, and law, with the implication that your education is an indication of your social class, and your comfort in the upper echelons of society. [Link to her work] (http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/rivera...)

I would say it's bit ignorant to say that a Harvard MBA has no effect on employability or opportunity.
Show HN: Visualize the Math Behind Neural Networks
Not sure Google will actually bring us any Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
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Thanks, was totally unaware of that. For the lazy and ignorant like me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel

(if you'd like to throw a link in your comment, would be happy to delete this one)
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One of the most important messages I got from The E-Myth (Revisited) was that there are many small businesses that are slowly going out of business because their prices are too low to be sustainable. But every new competitor in their market thinks they have to charge a similar rate or they won't get customers.

Result: now two companies are slowly going out of business.
That's the same old tired argument. So what does that say for folks who don't attend? That they don't have a well rounded education? I don't know what your experience has been or where you work but Uni does not give you a well rounded education and that should not be it's goal.
They are. AMD TrustZone runs an ARM core alongside your computer. I've also heard a lot of ARM SoC platforms have something similar.
Also worth noting that not all agencies in the US use the same two letter abbreviations for states. Anyone who has registered a boat or other watercraft has probably encountered this
I used to be skeptical of that idea, but the data seems incontrovertible, at least in terms of web startups.
Moneyball teams
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Have you heard this Wolfram TED talk about the subject:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/23/conrad-wolframs-ted-talk-...
Even then there are passive and active owners. And someone could be all three.
LA Times is writing about a California issue, where disabled spots are uniquely crowded. This is bad for people who are disabled. They truly need these spots but often can't find any available due to abuse. This has been documented extensively:

> Just inside the city limits, in Old Sacramento, Investigative Reporter Thom Jensen found nearly every disabled parking spot was taken. Dozens more metered spots also had cars and trucks in them - parked free of charge.

http://www.abc10.com/news/local/one-out-of-every-8-californi...

> At any given moment, on any given street, more than a third of the vehicles displaying the tags -- and parking without paying -- are doing so illegally, say officials with the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/22/local/la-me-disabled...

You see this pretty much everywhere. At the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, it's not uncommon to see a family park at one of the coveted disabled spots right next to the slopes, take down four pairs of skis, and start hitting the pow. The UCLA football team was discovered a while back to be possessing placards.
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The way this article is written leads me to believe that it is not entirely accurate.
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In this case it was. But, water isn't the only way to get lead exposure. There were the novelty drinking glasses distributed by McDonald's for example. Or kids eating lead based paint flakes from the porches of older multi-tenant buildings. Basically just trying to say that there's value in having experts around versus thinking one type of methodology just always works.

As I understand it, in this case, the water supply wasn't contaminated with lead. It was either more acid or more alkaline than it used to be, which caused the individual houses with lead pipes to leech more lead. That's a pretty specific causality where a scatter plot was the most useful approach.
There is zero reason for an investor to leave a home empty, you still get the benefit of appreciation when you are making rental income. Its foolish not to rent in that case.

All that does is apply the label "foolish" to all the people who buy up property and leave it empty. It seems they don't care about being labelled foolish by the likes of the HN community; they still do it.

Perhaps they have different motivations or perspectives on this.
Sam Jarman shares his 5 Predictions about what we can expect to see at WWDC17
From the many worlds perspective, it's actually quite clear where the Copenhagen "collapse" occurs: it's when something enters a superposition with Earth.
I agree with your points here, and I'm not endorsing more capitalism as a solution to problems of current capitalism. I was only answering the question "why such roundabout way" by pointing out that, when viewed through the lens of human nature, it's actually a pretty direct way.

Though honestly, it's also easy to forget all the benefits capitalism brought us when criticizing it, and IMO it's worth to have them in mind when discussing alternatives.
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This article starts to get at an idea that I've had for a while now -- that mathematicians are doing it wrong.

In the software business we learned a long time ago to name our variables properly, name our functions logically, and to control complexity by breaking ideas into modules and then hiding the details inside.

If you can't name something, then you don't know what it is, and that tells you that you should rethink your design.

Mathematicians don't do that. They name variables "a" or "x", or worse, they use some Greek letter I can't type on my keyboard. They are entirely inconsistent in their use of variables: "phi" or "theta" can mean a zillion different things. I can't tell you the number of times I've read a computer science paper, a paper that uses entirely unnecessary equations, and doesn't bother to define symbols. This practice wastes everyone's time.

It's laziness, pure and simple.

Mathematics needs a general overhaul. The language of math needs to a complete redesign with a focus on understandability. And the key to it is to force mathematicians to name their variables.

Yes, I realize that mathematics deals in abstractions that have little relationship to the outside world, and it makes little sense to call a variable a "dog" or a "car". So what? It just means that we need a new vocabulary, a vocabulary that includes terms like "fourier transform" or "hypotenuse". Pretty much every industry has it's own vocabulary. Chemistry has thousands of terms. Biology even more. Computer science is full of them. Math is full of symbols that have no inherent or well-understood meaning. That should change.
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You are missing the bigger pictures. Housing costs are directly related to the cost of land, which is much higher in dense urban areas. The other driver isn't "commoditizing" homes, no individual owner can affect the market price of similar homes by not renting it. It's land use regulation, and rental regulations.

The NIMBYs in every city want tight land use controls to restrict the construction of new housing that would impact the value of their homes. The renters want tons of regulations demanding things from landlords the renters can't get by contract.

In NY or SF renting a home means giving a renter a massive amount of control over it. Evicting them when their lease expires and you want to sell or move back can be a nightmare. So the rental regulations are keeping homes off the market.
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>When asked directly, they just deflect talking about the opaque 'algorithm.'

This is precisely why "AI" cannot be trusted and why code must be publicly auditable.
>I don't think he acknowledged saying that, but he was also 19 at the time.

You don't get to play the whole "Genius Wunderkind" part, take all the success and notoriety that comes with that, and then say "Oh, young people will just say dumb stuff" regarding your emotional maturity at the time. This is who he is. The quote perfectly sums up Zuckerberg's actual intentions, as demonstrated repeatedly by his public actions. He's a sociopathic megalomaniac, and Facebook is a net drain on society. Fortunately, I think others are beginning to realize it too.
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