skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems silly to allow cities to allow development to add jobs but not housing. It's terrible for the environment, the state, traffic, pollution, etc. Doubly insane is that seems like it's standard procedure to mandate parking space per square foot of commercial space, but not a place for the workers housed within to live. What's more important, a parking space or a bed?
But the people who want to change them can't afford to live there:

https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-a...

Best bet is probably statewide initiatives such as those proposed by Scott Weiner. https://twitter.com/scott_wiener
If you are buying coffee who cares about confirmations at all? Once the product is in your hand you are done.

It's the seller that would care about confirmations in that case. Hopefully they do something hilarious like have a bitcoin corral for people to wait in while their payments clear.
> And choosing to live in Manteca is utterly insane. It's FAR more than 2 hours at rush hour.

It's rush hour now. Google Maps, which tends to be pretty accurate, says 2:15, right now.

And rush hour may or may not be actual commute hours for a nurse; not everyone works typical hours and commute decisions based on your actual work patterns rather than average work patterns that aren't actually yours are quite sensible.
Not to mention that the "no new development" position simultaneously has vast amounts of money behind it and can present itself as left wing, even radical. Plus also sound "ecological" (except for the gas spent on two hour commutes but hey look at my "green" lawn).

Anarchists in SF don't protest mountain view homeowners, don't demand opening the door to high rises on Potrero Hill but rather block buses taking tech workers to work - morons. Confusion reigns!
A good example is when roofers or other construction (generally using the "we will be in your neighborhood anyway..." scam) company calls. Just reply, "give me your contractor's license # so I can look you up."
Zoning is the exact opposite of property rights. It restricts what you're allowed to do.
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> American schools are doing what they're designed to do--crank out standard units of compliant citizens.

Arguably, compared to most developed nations, that's where American primary and secondary schools are the absolute worst. Which isn't to say they excel at producing rational, free-thinking citizens. IMO we have the worse possible world--an exaggerated valuation of free speech and anti-government, anti-establishment sentiment without the requisite commensurate critical thinking skills. Among other things, this means we can deftly criticize but are crippled when it comes to providing constructive, substantive criticism or well-considered, concrete solutions. That has resulted in a dangerous, destructive political environment.

It's why Americans elected Trump and the UK voted for Brexit[1], while France and Germany have proved more stable. The latter aren't smarter, but enjoy more uniformity. Uniformity has its benefits.

[1] Not that I think Brexit is inherently wrong, but the ostensible reasons were ridiculous; namely, that the UK could leave without suffering significant economic consequences.
18.5 is lower bound on normal. Also BMI is fairly broken on the individual person level, but ok as an aggregate statistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations
For those that may not click on title alone, this essay is by E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and coauthor of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.
Except for in C, when you want to use the math library, you'd need the `-lm` option, which comes up fairly commonly.
The biggest industry in the whole world is food. As an industry it covers agriculture, dairy, fishing etc.

The best way to reply is to link to the M.I.T. PDF on most profitable business models - search the word creator: http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/pdf/wp226.pdf

"...Figure 4 shows the distribution of different business models in our sample of large US firms. By far the most common basic business model in our sample is Creator, with 46% of total revenues of the firms in our sample falling within this category.

Landlord type models account for 34% of total revenues, followed by Distributors with 18% of total revenues, and Brokers with 2%. In addition, an overwhelming portion (70%) of the business of large-revenue, publicly traded firms still involves physical assets. Financial and Human assets account for 12% and 13%, respectively, and Intangible assets are only 4% of the revenues of large firms. Figure 4 also shows the numbers of firms generating revenues with each model and asset type. ..."

Creating food is content as well.
Except the jobs worth moving for are built by, and favor, NIMBYs. The jobs won't leave city centers because they attract employees by exploiting the culture of the city they're based in, which is built on the backs of "undesirables".

Why are none of the 'big 4' based out of middle-of-nowhere-America? Because nobody want's to live in a place where the idea of culture is TGI Friday's and an old navy outlet.
> using tax code to try to change behaviors

It's what we do though. Mortgage loan interest deductible to get people to purchase homes, capital gains tax is low to encourage longer-term investing....
An even better question is why don't many grocery stores offer Blue Apron style meal kits? They could offer it much cheaper (while still getting better margins on them compared to regular groceries) and have them available for pickup. If they were able to bring the cost to $3-5 a meal (which seems doable) I'd use them all the time.
> Should we strive for an equal society? As such, shouldn't all children be born with equally (or minimally) committed parents?

I wasn't sure what you meant by "equal society," everyones different, the only way to get "equal" where all children have "equally" committed parents, would be quite homogenous.

The main point I think I'll reiterate, is that yes, you are assuming the amount of risk this person took. The amount of risk involved goes down the more you know about something. This person definitely knows more than you about the sport of cave diving, and can better judge the amount of risk involved. I think that's all I'm trying to say. You can do something that seems dangerous to outsiders, quite safely.

And I also think that lessons from one sport, or activity, apply to other areas of life.
R with Lisp syntax. Cool stuff.
" the top gobal navigation bar and sidebar navigation structure are very similar to Bitbucket's, but they take Github's "code first" approach to displaying repositories (the first thing you see when opening a repository in Gitlab or Github is the source tree; on Bitbucket the first thing you see is the readme and a summary of bug reports)."

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you spotted the differences between BitBucket's Design and our own. While we would love to design with a blank slate, we are not. Our users arrive with expectations and deeply implanted ideas of how things should look, feel, and behave. We have to temper exploration with practicality. The downside of that can be that the UI has a similar appearance to other platforms.
From the article:

I felt sure that I’d never work for someone else again. My will to “work” was gone. I cashed out a big chunk of my retirement fund to buy myself some time. After all, I had spent years eating 80-cent Banquet® meals for lunch, saving for this moment.

From your comment above, one of many here:

So let me state, for the record, that not wanting to have a 9-5 job is an eminently rational thing to want. Wanting it against reality, however, or without a realistic plan to accomplish it, or settling on stupid ways of getting there, like just quitting without a game plan, is a recipe for pain, not prosperity. You're not dealing from a rational frame, so your outcomes will not be what you want them to be.

The article also indicates he has savings, something lots of Americans don't have, regardless of how they make their money. He has more than paid back the money he cashed out of his retirement.

I don't know what on earth you are arguing against here, but it seems unrelated to the actual article under discussion. I get that people get defensive when "everyone" seems to argue against them. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. But sometimes, walking away from the stupid argument with internet strangers and not continuing to dig your grave deeper is the better choice. Sometimes, one is just running a fever or pissed at their boss or whatever and this stupid argument seems wildly more important than it really is. Down that path lies madness.

best.
The sensationalism and missing facts/context of this story is truly precious. I'd love to hear the specs on Ms Lile's Manteca house. I'm guessing it's significantly bigger than the median house size in SF or neighboring towns, where she could surely afford to live in a 2BR bungalow or condo.
Sounds a little high, depending on age, but SF is likely more expensive.
If you choose Clojure get

https://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Practical-Lisp-Wo...

and

https://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Cookbook-Recipes-Functional-P...

these two books are much better than the free documentation for learning how to "Think in Clojure". Expect to read them over and over again, maybe sitting on the bus, spinning at the gym, or any time you can.

Conceive of a cool demo that would get upvoted on HN, be put on your LinkedIn page, get talked about at an interview. Start with something small and scale up until it "clicks"

I would recommend Python as a practical language which I see customers asking for by name. Python has great libraries for making web sites and apps, as well as data analysis, graphing, "intelligent" applications involving machine learning, etc. Python lets you get the abstract syntax tree from the compiler and transform it, so LISP-style metaprogramming is convenient and mainstream.

I have been paid to write Scala and I do not think it is a better choice than Clojure, Python or even Java. C# is the best "better Java" at the moment, although Java is slowly catching up. If you want type systems and static metaprogramming that will blow your mind, learn the very latest in C++.
TeX could be a tough one :)
what about the people using democratic means to strip homeowners of the "right" to prevent development? It sounds like your ideology is pretty scattershot. Aren't libertarianism and democracy fundamentally opposed ideologies anyway?
And it went awfully quiet after the ico.

I hate myself for using words like ico in every day speech. This the 80s all over again except with shittier music.
Clearly you don't live here and I'm sorry to say this but I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. Please do the actual math on this, factor in contingencies, other expenses, kids, etc and what you're saying doesn't hold true from a affordability perspective. You can of course find something and buy...but you don't want to be pulling teeth to do it.

The example in the article may be a bit extreme but the article is not much off base.
Emergency shutdown meaning all the huge robot arms fall down, instead of just freezing in place, doesn't sound like a good idea to start with :)
> American schools are doing what they're designed to do--crank out standard units of compliant citizens.

No, even if that was the goal (I don't think it intentionally is, though American schools were largely copied from a system where they was an intentional goal), American schools are, by all evidence I can see, fairly bad at that. It's not like compliance or social cohesion in the US are notably high.
Why is this being downvoted? It's like almost every post here is interpreted as right/wrong in the context of The Great Argument, and as such, folks are punished for sharing in general. rainbowmverse contributed an idea I'd never thought of (being in notyourwork's camp myself), yet they are being downvoted because their post does not directly support The Most Correct Parent.

Like, can we just talk, sometimes?
Paypal will never cooperate this, because the service is selling money laundering. Without Paypal's cooperation, you can't guarantee that a transaction presently honored by Paypal will not be reversed in the future, for reasons including "the buyer, who legitimately controlled the Paypal account at time of transaction, decided to defraud the seller" and "the buyer, who has credentials for X,000 Paypal accounts obtained by hacking, does not have the authority to commit either the Paypal account or Paypal to a transaction."
Yeah - however, politically, it'd be expedient to come up with some kind of 'replacement' for zoning that still allays the (mostly ridiculous) fears that someone is going to buy the house next door and put in a nuclear waste disposal facility in its place.
The assets traded on the bitshares exchange are derivatives backed by the value of the BTS token. This is how counterparty risk is eliminated. Bitsquare is like openbazaar but only for cryptocurrency. Personally, I'm very skeptical the approach will work in practice.
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Cities don't need things. People need things. The relevant question is, Which people are the city?

Is it the business people who own businesses there? Yes.

Is it the people who live there? Yes, them too.

Is it the people who don't live there, but want to move there? No, it's not. That's the problem.
Blockstream has raised something like $76m. If you look at their business model and which developers they support, it doesn't take a genius to connect the dots. They really want side-chains to become both possible and economically necessary.
It turns out there's lots of ways of exploring the world that don't put you in imminent danger.
Housing prices reflect decades of public policy decisions. For example, HOPE VI took hundreds of units out of San Francisco [2] and about half a million units of public housing out of circulation across the US. [1] Even if there was a strong shift in public policy, the housing market in California would take decades to express the effects in a way that would be noticeable to most people...and that's assuming that the affordable housing policies don't simply enable more construction that quickly moves upmarket.

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35913577

[2]: According to James Tracy, training institute coordinator at San Francisco's Community Housing Partnership, only by organizing did North Beach residents win a guarantee from the San Francisco Housing Authority and Bridge Housing that all of the units would be replaced. In fact, North Beach Place actually added units, from 229 units in the original project to 341 units today. (At Plaza East in the Western Addition, 276 high-rise units were replaced by 193 townhouses and flats; Hayes Valley saw 294 units demolished and 193 rebuilt; Bernal Dwellings replaced 208 units with 160.) "The success of Hope VI depends on your standard," Tracy said. "For the housing authority and developer, once a new building is up, that defines success. But from a standpoint of community preservation, losing units in the San Francisco housing market is not a successful project." http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2005-03-01...
Best example to me is how population density impact the use of time:

https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-...
What? They could still sell medication, it would just be the appropriate medication!

As for expired--- expired medication are still good.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/expired-medications...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB954201508530067326

You are right that illiteracy might be a big factor though. "Haiti's literacy rate of about 61%..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Haiti
You'd need to have enough deductions to itemize without the mortgage interest deduction and be making well over six figures for that to be the case. I personally don't come close to itemizing without mortgage interest, so I was seeing far less than that. My wife and I combined were barely in the six figures (taxable) when we actually owned our house as well, so we got back about $1k in taxes on about $12k in interest.
Codeplay/Google release open source OpenCL-to-Vulkan compiler
IANAL, but...

People should be aware that Atom (the editor) uses React internally, so it's possible you face similar legal exposure without even shipping anything just because you agreed to the terms by installing an editor.
Meh. I'd either have to do all the business crap, which I have no interest in doing, or I'd have to pay someone to do it, which would get rid of those profits.
A movie is like real estate... You make it and you can keep "renting" or selling it. Movies like 'Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Snow White" are still making studios mad money on different delivery systems from the original theater showing on through to VHS, DVD, Blu Ray, 4000-pixels and streaming.'

These movies came out in the 1930s. They are almost 100-years old.

NetFlix got that fact pretty quickly when the studios wanted to renegotiate contracts and that is where the bulk of their money is coming from. [They are] the creator and the distributor.

edit to fix typo.
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My point is that such a limited amount of money is at stake that confirmations really aren't all that important in this example. I think most places would just accept the risk. Heck, they could have the POS alert the owners if anything fishy happens between payment time, and when you actually receive your drink if they are really concerned.

I really don't think this is as big of a problem as you are making it out to be.
Don't leave it there! Details!
It's how banks work.

You write a check and buy something. The banks reconcile and determine you don't have enough money, and your account goes negative.

If it were atomic, your account could never go negative.
I think you quite clearly know the difference between the two situations. Don't debase yourself.
Your talk sounds very interesting! Any chance it will be uploaded?

My suggestion: If your audience will experience a major speed/efficiency/accuracy improvement using your tool, you should definitely have rigorous before/after comparisons. Also show how it's easier to use your tool than any existing tool (if true).
It's both/and, not either/or. It gives me the right to not have to live next to an oil refinery, at the price of prohibiting my next-door-neighbors from putting an oil refinery on their place.
I have to say I really don't understand this story. For those of you who don't want to read, it's a 1948 story about a farmer (presumably E.B. White?) who tries to save his pig before slaughter that has fallen sick and dies (from erysipelas presumably?).

The narrator seems to have a lot of investment in the pig's health:

The pig's lot and mine were inextricably bound now,
as though the rubber tube were the silver cord. From
then until the time of his death I held the pig
steadily in the bowl of my mind; the task of trying
to deliver him from his misery became a strong obsession.
His suffering soon became the embodiment of all earthly
wretchedness.

The ending few sentences concludes with

I have written this account in penitence and in grief,
as a man who failed to raise his pig, and to explain
my deviation from the classic course of so many raised
pigs. The grave in the woods is unmarked, but Fred can
direct the mourner to it unerringly and with immense
good will, and I know he and I shall often revisit it,
singly and together, in seasons of reflection and
despair, on flagless memorial days of our own choosing.

On a superficial reading, there might be a confusion as to the empathy of the narrator, but the narrator clearly understands what the conclusion of a healthy pig is:

I had assumed that there could be nothing much wrong
with a pig during the months it was being groomed for
murder; my confidence in the essential health and
endurance of pigs had been strong and deep, particularly
in the health of pigs that belonged to me and that were
part of my proud scheme.

So it's understood that in the best of cases, the pig is being cared for so that it can be murdered for food.

Is the sense of loss one of not conforming to a rigid script that society sets out? Is it because the narrator has a genuine sense of empathy but just ignores the fact that they'll slaughter and eat the thing they have empathy for? Or is it a statement that we are all eventually bound for a soulless premeditated murder and the only thing we can hope for is a comfortable prison before the time comes?

Or am I just expecting too much introspection from someone who hasn't examined their own motives and actions?
It's a gray area. So far, at least, they still count the votes, and the votes do add up to the majority. You could argue that in the absence of truly free media, those voters are deceived, and are voting against their interest. But then we have free media in US, and yet...

Turkey is not the only country like this, by the way. In Russia, the government similarly enjoys majority popular support, even though elections aren't even free at this point (numerous fraud issues). Many would say that Hungary and Poland are on their way to this same place.

I would argue that such a system is still democratic, insofar the government does reflect the desires of the majority of the electorate. It is no longer a liberal democracy, however, with checks and balances to prevent abuses and to allow the electorate to (in theory) make informed decisions. Perhaps "authoritarian democracy" would be an appropriate term.
Or finding eigenvalues.
Seems like those laws come from people that already live there, and it seems kinda reasonable for a community to have those opinions and make their own ordinances. The part I don't understand is why most of the sector doesn't just leave.
Paying more in interest in order to get more back on your taxes is a losing proposition.
We do this very inconsistently. For example, we don't force this sort of term-avoidance on turkey bacon, turkey hot dogs, turkey burgers, goat cheese, gluten-free bread, white chocolate, root beer, herbal tea, etc, even though those things contain different components that are standard for those kinds of food — because we recognize that they are essentially the same thing, just with modification (hence the modifiers like "goat" before "cheese").
No one has mentioned the risk subjected upon the rescue team to come get him. So there's that.
> rental rates are exactly the same thing as interest rates (+/- wear and tear and so forth).

In what world? I have never seen a market where rents were below P&I for a comparably-priced house[1]. I would love to see a real example of this.

[1] Note that this does not automatically make buying better, as rent factors many costs P&I does not.