skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The super short version is that for existing homeowners a big corporate campus benefits them, while housing doesn't.

If Google builds a huge office park next door, their housing value shoots through the roof. Every residential unit that gets built means more supply, which reduces their value.

People are also fiercely defensive of the "character" of their residential neighborhood. They do not care nearly as much what happens to office towers.

For a lot of people in the peninsula, nearly all their net worth is in their suburban house - it's not something they could never hope to afford in today's market. It's terrifying to imagine anything happen to it.

FWIW, Google doesn't push for this sort of thing very hard. Corporate housing generally brings the specter of "Company Towns" and all that came with it, which makes it a tough sell all around.
They want to, the city and NIMBY don't allow them to.

See e.g. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/23/mountain-view-slashes-...
>No. It's a rude, factually incorrect, and just plain obnoxious comment with nothing to recommend it. Are you shocked it was met with ridicule and hostility?

I'm never shocked it when things are met with hostility. It's natural for people to meet constructive criticism with hostility, that is human nature and apparently yours as well. What I said was not rude at all, I directly re-quoted what I said so you can point out exactly which part of my message was rude. You couldn't. You are a liar, which is a thousand times worse than rude. Also it's not factually incorrect. It's factually correct. Stop lying.

>> you seem to mistook it to be "All" professional developers.
>That's because you're a bad writer who speaks in (incorrect) absolutes.

I am a bad writer or are you a bad reader? Where exactly did I use the term "All" developers? Nowhere. If I used that term nowhere than logically there is no way I could have spoken in absolute terms. You are again lying. You are a liar. The worst of it's kind. I wonder if you are just not reading the text carefully or if you are deliberately just an ass.

>I've never found a really good developer to hate any language. Good developers tend to appreciate languages for their strengths - even if they prefer not to use them or don't like their idioms.
>It's often a sign of a very poor developer to get into the kind of crazy language war stuff you're talking about.

You haven't met enough developers. Good developers tend to be highly, highly opinionated. They have extreme opinions about many things and languages they hate. Again you are speaking from inexperience or lies. Lets put it this way: It is not probable that all languages are created equal... with strengths balancing weaknesses, this is not the way the world works. Things come out better or worse, rarely are things created totally yin yang balanced... Languages are the same... some are better some are worse.

>> Look, there is no denying this fact.
>He said while lots of people deny it.

You gotta be kidding me. There are a good amount of developers who hate javascript. Unless you don't work at a node shop than you've probably been drinking that koolaid since forever. Many, Many developers don't like javascript, this is obvious af.
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This American Life had an episode on this called No Man Left Behind :

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/515/...
Yep. The whole machine learning craze is just fueled by the fact that it's now feasible to create models for handwriting/voice/image recognition that actually work reliably. But in terms of the underlying technology, we haven't had some "breakthrough" that explained how the brain works or anything even close to that.
rsync -avz project_files/ root@192.168.0.1:/

Essentially production was not acceptable for a little bit....
Meanwhile in the Tesla/SpaceX corner we have space based broadband just around the corner:

https://hackernoon.com/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest...

With nearby Tesla cars and SolarCity roofs giving your phone 5g with 25ms latency. It could happen. Soon you will be able to buy a VPS in space to halve that.

One day this space based network is going to come online and it will supercede many terrestrial upgrades, making things like the TelCo 5G roll out not needed after all.
The zoning is what I'm wondering about. In most of the rest of the country large corporations make the rules. It seems the taxpayers in Silicon valley are the tech companies, and they want housing. So who is voting against changing the zoning? It seemed like miles and miles of corporate offices out there when I visited. Just build a giant apartment complex on top.

And I wasn't actually talking about corporate housing, just giant residential buildings. But even then, company towns still exist, why haven't Google and Apple built them?
Sort of - they just apply a tax on unoccupied homes. As long as it's rented, the owner does not pay the tax.
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> One of the hugely compelling benefits of cryptocurrencies is they entirely eliminate the necessity for such middlemen taking a cut

Only if you don't count the online exchanges as middle men. Right now I still pay 3-5% to convert fiat to digital money, depending on where my fiat comes from.

The theoretical future where nobody needs to convert between digital coin and fiat isn't here yet.
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I wasn't arguing for another AI Winter per-se. My warning was more along the lines of pointing out a potential personal "career winter".
I have friends who own cattle that will later be butchered. They truly love those animals, even though they know their fate in the end. They give even them names. They would be heartbroken if one of them died like this pig did. I suppose this is the mindset of many who raise these animals. There is definitely a sense a humaneness towards their animals, and at the same time enjoy the meat they produce.

I have seen cows butchered -- one second they are alive -- one blow to the head they are gone. Sharp transition from death to life. Better than many humans who endure being eaten by cancer while lying in a hospital bed.

We are so insulated from death in our society, we almost pretend it doesn't happen. Many who butcher there own animals or hunt for their own meat have a better grip on this reality I think.
I use it daily, and it works well. I'm still a newbie Windows person so I probably don't notice these pain points...
Thanks for the summary. Just to make it clear, if either party refuses to sign the escrow release, then neither of them gets the escrow-ed funds? If so, then doesn't that mean that I lose out on 2X money when the other party fails to pay me X (I send them X and I lose X or more from the escrow)? If not, then doesn't that mean that a "troll" can refuse to sign after a trade just to screw me out of X? Or am I missing something?
This is interesting. Or is this just a "joke" (albeit dark) using an alternative definition of "worst"
They try - in fact they just got their proposal slashed from on the order order of 10,000 units to around 1,000 for their new campus in San Jose.

Answer: NIMBYs who don't want new neighbors

In Mountain View they tried to build housing at the campus but were denied - among the stated reasons being that Google wanted to build 5000 units which is apparently close to the turnout in the entire city election. The city made the argument that Google could tell its employees how to vote
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Unless you're building SRO housing, it would be very hard to fit 10,000 people in a single "tower".

Le Lignon near Geneva, Switzerland, is one of the largest apartment complexes in the world by square footage, and it only houses ~6,500 people with ~900k sq. m of floor space across 28 hectares of land.

So you'd need something on the scale of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, which houses 25,000 people on 32 hectares. Maybe Google could build a Stuytown or two of their own at Moffett Field (400 hectares).
> I would not recommend anyone use this for anything other than entertainment.

Hate to disappoint you, but I have to try this together with NFQUEUE to power a distributed computing cluster.

I will even use the lease information to implement a host-side firewall, BCP-38 style!

maniacal laughter
I mean, if developers plan right, you could add people in a more efficient manner, but good luck bulldozing the suburbs and getting rid of cars. Those are the main issues. It's not so much that I don't believe it is possible, I don't think there is the will for the people of California to give up their cars, and their suburbs for Tokyo-style living.

I strongly believe that California needs far fewer people, and more efficient/better housing. I don't think more people + more housing is a sustainable solution.

Of course this isn't the popular narrative, but I think it's true.
For someone with health issues that can't work full time (or has to work freelance) what tech skills would you recommend?
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THAT IS IT! I was wondering why the name always felt funky. Although the name they have now is technically correct if you ignore standard noun to adjective conventions.
At least in the case of Spotify, I expect a large (and growing) chunk of their traffic to come from Google infrastructure: https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
Prop 13 is a major component. Property tax grows at below inflation, whereas commercial tax grows at the pace of the local economy.

So, if you zone housing, eventually the cost of servicing that housing exceeds the tax revenues from it, and there is little you can do to avoid that process. If you zone businesses, you get sales tax and similar revenue from the workers. Financially, it's best to let your neighboring municipalities build homes for your workers.

There is also a backlash from locals who see higher density housing as the core cause attributed to most local issues: traffic, crime, overtaxed city services, etc. This is mostly an incorrect perception, but it's a persistent one.

These combine to prevent zoning for housing.
Rescue teams for caves are usually regional volunteer groups - and usually it's body recovery. They go into it knowing what they're likely to find - very rarely (if ever) are they first responders or typical public service employees, at least as part of their job function
Oh my god, I laughed for a good 5 minutes on this one. The comments just add to the hilarity.
I found their proposed mechanism for handling settlement finality, outlined in their faq, https://bitsquare.io/faq/. The escrow for bitcoin is a 2 of 3 multi-party contract.

What happens if the person buying bitcoin does a
chargeback on their national currency after the bitcoin
has been released from the multisig escrow?

We only support payment methods in which chargebacks
are not easy (i.e. we don’t support Paypal). But there
is still certain chargeback risk with banks. If a bank
executes a chargeback after the cryptocurrency escrow
has released, there is nothing the arbitrator can do.

Bisq’s goal is to make this scenario as unattractive
as possible, using three primary mechanisms:

1. There is a trade limit of one bitcoin, which is
generally too small to attract criminals (though this
limit may be lifted in the future).

2. We will remove national currency payment methods
which are found to be used for chargebacks.

3. Bisq has support for delayed payouts using the
“locktime” feature, which might help if the chargeback
is done quickly after the transfer.
You could build in the Bay area for 20 years and not lose money.
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While such support might be helpful, the majority of systems in C++ that I've seen are significantly larger than the libraries they are consuming. In other words, such library wrappers are but a scratch on the surface of the system.

I often wonder - how big does a code base have to be before an advocate of these ideas (ie: "rewrite it in X cause X is abstractly better") might be inclined to backpedal and reconsider their advocacy?
There have been some efforts: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/facebook-...
However, building a few thousand apartments is hardly going to make a dent on the larger housing market. The area needs construction on a scale that large tech companies have no incentive to provide or expertise to do so.

Furthermore, attempts to get regulations changed are very hard. The people who are comfortable with the status quo are long-term residents in power, and generally don't want to bring down the value of the homes they own/ spoil the 'charm' of their neighborhoods.
Any reason you picked this over using something like Kea [1]. Because it's fun is an acceptable answer :-)

[1]: https://www.isc.org/kea/
Which ones?

- Boston? Super expensive.

- LA? Super expensive.

- Seattle? Super expensive.

- New York? Super expensive.

Etc. You can just settle for a long commute to mitigate the problem, but then it comes back to pick 2.
The bay area is a lot bigger than SF. As I said in my original post, I think a lot of bay area communities need to get with the program.
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"It seems the taxpayers in Silicon valley are the tech companies" - Most of the taxpayers are also homeowners who don't want to see their property values fall due to an influx of new affordable housing.
Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches
The person asking wasn't specific about what he or she meant. I understand usually that means in the "how did your code fail in some spectacularly bad way?" sense but I took some liberty to answer.
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> What's preventing the tree you planted from replacing the old tree next to it? Nothing really, ask again in 30 years.

That's... actually one of the best descriptions I've ever heard about these tradeoffs. :)
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>large corporations make the rules

I think you've been reading too much political chatter. It's not that straightforward.

>So who is voting against changing the zoning?

The actual voters.

>company towns still exist

Well, they mostly exist in the sense that some modest-sized cities/towns mostly have a single employer for a fairly large radius. That isn't true in any meaningful way in Silicon Valley.
When I was a teenager, I crashed a MUD hosting server by forking a process in a loop. The admin kindly explained ulimit to me. (This was before VPSes were a thing).

I was so mortified, I guess it stuck well enough that that's the worst thing off the top of my head.

But it seems like I'm an underachiever based on this thread.
This is only true because we don't know how the brain actually works. But the NN architecture is not unreasonable, it maps structures seen in the brain. Backpropagation is also reasonable to abstract the changes in gene and protein regulation (e.g. how learning could be encoded).
Look at Seattle, it has built a lot more than SF in response to the demand and as a result, the price of housing has not gone up nearly as much.

So yes, increasing supply does lower price.
The property tax seems like a likelier answer. NIMBY-ism always strikes me as a weak answer. At least in the midwest, if one city won't build it the city next door will. Seems odd (and in my view, unlikely) that every single city bands together and can resits the market forces of the most powerful companies on the face of the planet.

I'd have thought a municipality would have cracked by now and let everyone build huge residential buildings and used that population growth to fund everything else. Seems every weird no municipality isn't building houses like crazy.
Sure, that's fine. The current level of what investors have demonstrated they're willing to build is by far below the norm for even SOMA. There is still a very significant amount of surface parking or 1-3 story developments in SOMA that could potentially become a very large amount of housing.
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So your code worked as intended, and the intention was to kill people since it was used by the military? You sir, have written the most destructive code on this thread.

I'm sorry for how you must feel.
138+ points, 100+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786863

Plus all these other dupes already:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=obama&sort=byDate&prefix&page=...
Sorry to hear about that though I'm glad you're doing ok, may I ask if it's not intruding what their professions were?
Robert Reich told all Google employee to convert to islam on Talks at Google
...or it's missing an apostrophe.

a. Windows' Subsystem for Linux

b. Window's Subsystem for Linux

Each option has its own sort of context.
Not my code, but I was involved in cleaning up the aftermath. Financial company, a programmer had made a one line change to clean up some working directory at the end of a program. Something like

"rm -rf /var/scratchdir /"

Yeah the space was a typo. Wasn't running as root but was able to make a pretty big mess regardless.
Digital database captures voices from inside America’s prisons
This is the same problem that BitHalo has (in my opinion.) But the escrow step for Bitsquare is done with multiple third-party mediators instead of between the users. This has problems of its own because now you have to trust that the mediators are going to act honestly (and pseudo-anonymous reputation systems don't reveal what prior relationships might exist between actors.)

I guess the assumption here is that reputation is good enough.

Edit: I edited the explanation for clarity.
If you have 10000 classes taught by robots

... then you also have 2,000 or so fewer teaching jobs.
That is why many people have life insurance. It's probably not common in large parts of the world, and requires a certain income level to pay for, but it can make a situation where a parent dies a lot easier to cope with, at least the financial worries go away, or at least are delayed.

In my country (New Zealand) we have a government run, compulsory, insurance scheme for accidents and death. If you die by accident then your family gets a payout based on a percentage of your (former) income.

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

We don't have the right to sue for accidents, relying on ACC for compensation.
There is a trade limit of one bitcoin, which is generally too small to attract criminals (though this limit may be lifted in the future).

I feel like technologists consistently overestimate where the lower bound is for size of an opportunity which causes it to attract adversarial attention, given an adversary who understands e.g. specialization of labor or, more prosaically, how for loops work.
I'd be surprised to see inductive learning anytime soon. But I definitely see the next generation of AI systems, robots and their implementation across industry. But that will rapidly fill out and then we will still be left with self determination.
Maryam Mirzakhani was a role model for more than just her mathematics
1. Rust is not C/C++
2. Lots of software is already written in C/C++
3. Rust follows the same convention as C/C++, that you integrate functionality by writing a library, compiling and linking it into a monolithic binary
4. Systems that rely on a monolithic binary are NP hard to replace with something different
5. Replacing a monolithic binary works best, in practice, when it is done by refactoring into services that are integrated by something other than a link editor. Although the buzz is all about web microservices, the reality is that message queuing to tie together microservice, macroservices and monolithic binaries, provides better performance more consistent with the linker/monolithic model.
6. Go with its channels and packages may be a more advanced model, and is also competing with Rust. In other words, it is not just a question of comparing Rust to C/C++
7. The JVM with its JIT has in many cases equaled or exceeded the performance of C/C++ monoliths, but languages like Clojure and Scala take it well beyond mere Java.
8. It may be that replacement of systems is driven more by economics than by technology. In other words it is not Rust that will determine the fate of Rust, but the economic sucess of companies using Rust for mission critical systems. In 20 to 30 years, the businesses that have succeeded will determine which technology is better.
I don't know, this doesn't really impress me. It's not that hard to do using After Effects. Also, they're still using his real voice, if you're going to fake something like this, you have to have the person say something they never said.
Usually the failure mode in these kinds of system should be to emit nothing....
All of my other code workflow (terminal and editor) is in a dark theme, having to switch to GitLab to review an MR can actually be quite uncomfortable to do because there's such a leap in contrast.

The dark theme I use is Dracula[1], it's a really beautiful theme and if there was a way to view GitLab using it it'd be incredible.

[1]: https://draculatheme.com/vim/
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How so? HFT generally provides liquidity and is arguably a good thing, for people wanting to execute infrequent trades, on otherwise thin volume markets.
I would love to see a state pass an amendment removing all density restrictions on residential zoning and making all commercial zoning mixed use.