skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities come in a wide variety of sizes.
Here in Argentina you sign the docs and write your name and in case of problems they'll analyze the signature and handwriting.
Recent report from the electoral commission on potential and actual voter fraud in the UK with recommendations for better identify checks in the future:
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil...
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Sure, the city also raises rents when necessary. The cities real estate companies are expected to be profitable, just while keeping to other policies than "maximize profit". An option which is at least in Berlin is often offered to investors, but not always taken. (The city offers a guarantee to not interfere with a deal in exchange for concessions on how the buildings are managed, which allows to achieve the policy goals without having to invest itself. Private investors of course then often prefer other, more lucrative investments).

Keeping existing supply cheap is useful for the cities inhabitants, but additional demand has also to be matched to not make this a conflict forever (and Berlin has afaik a lower rate than other German cities in approving new projects).
The findings make sense to me... but only as long as there's no money involved, e.g., awards for the best individual prediction. Money might change the incentives for participants to deliberate in good faith.

Also, I suspect the findings would look very different if there were a market on which participants could make money by betting on and against individual predictions. I imagine one would end up with a kind of Keynesian Beauty Contest: https://www.ft.com/content/6149527a-25b8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f...
Programming for the lowest common denominator? Something about that sounds wrong.

No, that's almost exactly right. In my experience designing, building, inheriting, and maintaining systems that in some cases predate the dotcom boom, and in others need to run invisibly for just as long into the future, it's the simplest design that's the best design (but, as they say, no simpler).

I'm not talking about avoiding useful language features because nobody wants to learn them. I'm talking about the structure of the system itself. Minimize layers, minimize context, keep things as linear as possible. Don't use polymorphism just because you can, don't use functional tricks that obscure rather than enlighten the flow, don't make version zero an SOA, etc.
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Don't forget that people have or want families - people also want to be able to find a job for their partner, or find a partner if they're single.

The higher your degree of professional specialisation the more acute this problem is.
This article has to be founded by some pro-banking group. The article completely misses the part where the ratings agencies were incapable of reviewing capitalized mortgage pools to rate them appropriately. Regardless of the balance of prime to sub-prime, the inherent falsehoods within the ratings returned from Moody's, Standard & Poor, and Fitch are what made our financial system "untrustworthy" and that's what led to the financial crisis.
or a live windmap, if you prefer: https://www.windy.com/?26.407,-82.222,7

also submitted it a bit ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15213499
> A loaf of bread, and flour, would be sky high.

Lol. “High.” However seriously if wheat prices rose, more farmers would grow wheat and prices would return to equilibrium — people being paid subsidies to grow nothing would suddenly find it profitable to grow wheat. Supply and demand works. The real problem is that farming is so heavily subsidized that actual supply and demand doesn’t always result in correct prices.
Sorry bud, the guy you're arguing with is correct about what I said.

I stand by my original statement regarding correlation. Your assumption that there's a causal claim is your own mistake. This has been made clear; there's nothing further for us to discuss. Especially given your uh, personality.

Goodbye.
I think the difference is the potential for abuse. It's not possible for a YouTube advertiser to make a YouTube ad appear to be a system popup or for it to attempt to take over my browser experience by full screening. Keep in mind, Google has been fine with popup ads until 2017.
"My verbosity is a shortcoming. This is something I work on improving."
Thanks for the suggestion! New data is now at the bottom and it auto-scrolls, with a pause button.
That was the abbreviation used in TFA.
RIP Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh.Form an interview "Obstinacy and tenacity. Not being afraid to get embroiled in controversy. That's very much a Turkish tradition. That's part of my character, too. I can be very stubborn. That's probably been beneficial for the development of Fuzzy Logic."
> 2) RPN has a short syntax for them << a -> a 2 + >>

The syntax is slightly different. What it should be is this

<< -> a << a 2 + >> >>

The arrow introduces a binding form that captures the top n levels of the stack into n named local variables. (There's also a lower level implementation that forgoes the names in favor of a lookup-by-ordinal scheme that's a lot faster.)

The other notable difference from what you might expect is that the lexical environment is not captured:

Consider this function:

<< -> a << << a 2 + >> >> >>

What it returns is a function object that looks like this, except that 'a' is a local variable reference rather than the global variable reference it looks like:

<< a 2 + >>

Evaluating this results in an error, because while 'a' is represented as a local variable reference, the environment containing the local binding for 'a' is no longer available.
Rent control is an instance of "chang[ing] the laws of supply and demand". If you need it, you didn't provide a solution. The "build, baby, build" solution would keep supply in line with demand, and prices would be stable on their own. Having rent control even if you don't need it (out of concern for long term tenancy security), you will just create a constituency with a vested interest in you not building any more.

Also, strictly speaking, building is not the only solution. Curbing demand by making the city less attractive would also be a solution.
Mathematics is a language. You don't really need to memorize it, you can read it. Unfortunately, most people aren't exposed to anything higher than arithmetic.
And we see the reverse problem too; some London local authorities got in trouble for trying to move their social housing recipients to seaside towns where there were no jobs.
Duckduck go is a pretty good engine for 90% of searches.
I wonder however whether its (perhaps tenuous) connection with Yandex and Russia should give pause? I admit I have only read this in a headline several years back.
I wonder how long it will take until some enterprising society will start a new eugenic breeding program, this round with a faster feedback loop. It could start as simple as extra tax breaks for desireable genotypes if they have children, or tax reductions for undesireables if they get long-term birth control. Already in you can reduce prison sentences by voluntary sterilization in Tennessee.
>scrape my site without permission.

No one needs permission to request a web page, and that includes bots. But if that still bothers you, why not create arobots.txt with your preferences?
Why isn't Postmates on the graph with DoorDash etc?
Well said! Differential taxation based on some social or moral argument, to me, is a violation of liberty. The government ought not be in the business of using taxes to dictate what people should or shouldn’t do. Government shouldn’t be dictating winners and losers — that should be up to the individual. Every product ought to be taxed identically.
> but obviously it begs the question why the 75 model can't just be the same price.

Because Tesla would make less off of each 75, which is no good when you need cash to expand operations. Have to squeeze every dollar out of each sale, manufacturing and R&D costs money!
I hate these people! Let them die!
> When you look at the quality of what HP used to produce versus now

I was always impressed that the keys used two color injection molding for the primary labels. There was almost literally no way to wear the label off the keys, since the label was built into the plastic.
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This article is little more than an argument about semantics. Whether prime or subprime, the real culprit was mortgage-backed securities. At the height of the bubble, banks were merely underwriting loans and they couldn't sell them fast enough as MBSs/CDOs, a market of which was experiencing its own shadow bubble. Banks were basically shifting risk off of themselves.

When housing crashed (and subsequently the MBS bubble pop), banks like WaMu and Wachovia were left holding too many loans (prime and subprime) and no market to offload them, which quickly lead to their insolvency.
Well, this tells us Apple has plans for facial expression mapping to emoji. Sounds a lot like the technology from their FaceShift acquisition.
what do i get from that return?
Why can't pasta have been invented independently in Italy and in China (and possibly somewhere else?). After all flatbread and pizza are very very common in cultures that had not communicated.

As a matter of fact the first written mention of pasta in Italy predates Marco Polo's birth by exactly one century (1154-1254).
The wolf guardian the sheep.
Not a dig at you, but I tend to use $5 words when a normal word would suffice. Even though the obscure words usually express my thoughts more precisely than common words do, they do a worse job of conveying understanding, since people often do not know the word and infer an incorrect meaning from context.
Ask HN: How to setup proxy per request in browser?
Let's say if i want to proxify all urls which end in ".png". Is this currently possible in modern browsers?
Ask HN: Development environment for presentation/workshop?
I'm going present some workshops where attendees are expected to "code along".

Mostly Node/JavaScript but it may vary.

The way I'm organizing this, is that each workshop has a "starting project" as well as some technical requirements to make it work. (Install node, run some npm scripts, have a certain DB, etc.. )

Is there a way I can share the project bundled in a development environment?

Maybe a VM that is a "single click install", so that it has minimal implications on the participants' laptops, while at the same time allowing them to code easily and as transparently as possible?
I can't speak to the complexity of this project, but for ROM hacking in general, it's not all too complicated, but it does take some persisence.

First you need to find code relevant to what you want to do. You can take diffs of memory as you do things in the game to narrow down where the relevant addresses are, and then set breakpoints on read/write to those locations to find relevant code. After that, you can mostly just follow the assembly - you can even read backwards up the call stack by reading to what look like the beginning of a procedure, and searching for jumps to that address. Once you've found the code you want to modify, you just need to find some empty space in the ROM that you can branch out to to write your code.

The trickier bit is if you're in a spot where you need to worry about timing. On older consoles, this included things like changing the HUD or wave effects, etc., since you need to make sure whatever work you do gets done in time for HBlank/VBlank.

Some consoles also had some built in functions that would give you an idea of what code was for, like the lz77 compression on the GBA, which was mostly just used for graphics. Similarly, DMA was most often used for copying sprite data. On newer consoles where code was often compiled from C (rather than assembly with macros), I'm under the impression you can also do things like try to pattern match on the signature of standard library functions.
I guess now we will find out just how important element of surprise is for Apple marketing.

And prediction: in the future they will separate all new hardware features to .1 release (iOS 12.1, etc).
Exactly!

International Law is great when there's some incident between nation states, but there's a dire need for intra-national law, where nations can poke their noses into the affairs of an aggressor government.

Case in point: Russian actions in Chechnya back in the early 2000s. When there were murmurs of disapproval, Russia basically just told everyone: "Go away, it's an internal problem." And, shamefully, everyone did just that.
You can have decent algorithm skills and not be able to demonstrate that in an interview environment. You get more than 20 minutes in the real world and you're allowed to do research.

Most algorithms that developers will commonly need to use already exist and the skill is not developing algorithms but recognizing which to use and when. Understanding it enough to adapt it to specific needs. That's not the skills interviews test for.
In some cases is precisely the value that make the prices go up in the first place.

For instance, people want to live in city x because this city have nice features (good public transport, good public spaces, buildings size that leave to see the sky..). Those features are in some cases due to location but, in other cases, are due to what the people that have been living there for generations have done with the city.

Now outsiders come and out-price the people that "created" the city and, in the process, destroy the value of the place. So, people start to move to another nice city. Rinse and repeat.

This, it seems to me, is not a "fault of the market", but the effect of an optimization process run amok. And I have not even mentioned speculation.
It just seems wild that people haul around extra battery in their cars that they aren't allowed to use.

It's one thing on silicon where there's no ongoing costs to having some of it locked away, but batteries?
It ignores the whole cycle of leveraging and recycling that occured when weaponizing mortgage and asset backed securities into CDOs and insurance risk swaps. Sub-prime mortgages were the gasoline on that fire, they took what was perhaps a cabin burning in the woods and turned it into a 10,000 acre wildfire. With out sub-prime mortgages as an accelerator the who CDO mess burns out slowly and in when it starts burning the market moves away in a controlled manner.

To discount or even disconnect the sub-prime lenders from that fire is disingenuous at best in my opinion.
leaving money on the table aside, wouldn't that have annoyed the people that paid more for the higher range? ie. their best customers?
I think the the critic who said there is “abundant choice reading for those who can skip a page now and then, judiciously” nails it. This book is a journey, and is like many works mixed together.

I like this Twitter profile that posts random quotes from the book: https://twitter.com/MobyDickatSea

A couple quotes I like:

1) “I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

2) “How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.”... “Vengeance on a dumb brute!” cried Starbuck, “that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”

3) “In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

4) The narrator is also pretty open-​minded and gracious towards different cultures. “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
"Furthermore", "novel", "distinct" are scientific jargon that reduce readability? Seems like a non-problem to me.
It's unclear to me how or why posting a lobbyists publicly available information along with a personal opinion should be self-censored.

If you don't like what he is up to, it makes perfect sense to contact him and let him know.

He should be all for people communicating their opinions about his actions to him, he is after all a lobbyist.
The Acer Swift 3 is a really great budget laptop
The presentation anxiety solution – 8 pre-mortem steps
mastodon is going to die. Even us, hackers can't figure it out. Go do something different. Not a copycat!
Agreed. Looks awful.

Get some Bootstrap on there at least.

The media object in Bootstrap 4 Beta will probably be suitable for this:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/layout/media-object/
Collect runtime type information of your Node.js code
Better than using 3rd party software you can't trust. Especially in these days when data theft is so common place!!
This is great. Ideally you look at the % of the page with actual content and % of the page with 'everything else' and sort by % content. Hopefully, this would motivate sites to compete with one another for cleaner UX.
Air travel is pretty safe.
As soon as I heard this it seemed like a major phone seller. It will only be on the top of the line phone but wow does it sound fun/appealing.
No good interviewer is grading whiteboard coding on whether you forgot a parenthesis or semicolon.
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The Treasury has money which didn't come from taxes to spend on federal budget items...? Not sure what you're asking.

And as a nice sweetner, you got a financial system which isn't a smoking ruin.
Someone is going to get in a TON of trouble if found.

We still don't know two things: the iPhone X price and if it launches at the same time or later than the iPhone 8 and 8s.

Bonus: Verizon just confirmed the existence of the LTE Apple Watch due to their own leak.
I agree with the premise, these reports seem to focus on the act of passing your genetic material to a child as the final act. Anyone who has had kids knows that passing on your genes is the easy part, raising them to be productive members of society who will in turn procreate takes a long time and you continue to influence and guide them. So something that shortens your lifespan would reduce the survival edge of the remaining offspring compared to a group with that guiding influence.

This is a pretty clear social structure in humans. I understand not all or even most animals have that same social structure. Can someone explain to me why they would assume remaining alive after you dump off your genetic material would be neutral? (from an evolutionary perspective)
Social Security card is made of paper, has nothing but the number and your name, and 99% of people in the US have lost, destroyed, or never carried it to begin with. Stupid paper card even says "Do not laminate" but mine is laminated and thus intact after 40 years.

SS#'s were never meant to be personal ID numbers or national ID numbers. This was a big thing when they were introduced. Unfortunately, companies use them ALL the time. There should be a law against companies asking for your SS#.

Anyway, nothing about American government or the American people makes sense. We're probably the most irrational, stupidest electorate in the world. I mean, look who we elected president!
I try to communicate at a level where the intended audience can easily understand me. This is also partially out of laziness. I don't like having to repeat myself.
The high quality image of the upcoming cellular connected Apple Watch is probably the biggest news to come out of this leak. The features of the ‘iPhone X’ have been pretty well known, but details on the new Apple Watch have been scarce. Having high quality marketing images of an unreleased Apple product is really unprecedented.
Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic, studies show
IIRC, China is trying to do just that.
Ha, you're right that making the city less appealing would also fix the "problem" (lower prices), and I almost included that in my post because strictly speaking it's true...but honestly I didn't want to give politicians any ideas!!
Not much more than one hour drive to the beach, and two hour drive to mountains (although the mountains probably don't hold a candle to those found in Colorado).

Philly is also a relatively short train ride away from NY, DC, Baltimore, and half a day's drive from everyplace in the Northeast.
One of the worst interviews I've had the interviewer was not only similarly incorrect, but then afterwards proceeded to try to give me advice on interviewing skills, and how I should've "taken his hint" and been "more amenable to other answers". I probably would've been open to alternate answers if they were, y'know, factually correct.
This puzzled me, as these Alzeheimer's and smoking results do not seem to be evidence of evolution; one would surely need to see a decrease over generations? The article goes on to say 'That such a large study found only two [late-acting genes] strongly suggests that evolution is “weeding” them out, says Mostafavi, and that others have probably already been purged from the population by natural selection.' The article and paper then repeat some hypotheses as to why natural selection would eliminate these hypothesized former late-acting genes from the gene pool, given that they seem to act after most people's reproductive years.

So the article and paper seem to be arguing that a low frequency of late-acting genes indicates ongoing evolution, but acknowledge that this raises questions about why natural selection would act on them.

The relevance of the decrease of the prevalence of these genes with age is apparently that survivorship bias is being used to distinguish causation from mere correlation.
Or just assign duplicates/everyone a generated unique/sequential number?
A bit sensational to call a reference to an unknown product that's likely going to be unveiled in 2 days, as well as some minor feature like Animojis, a major leak. This is what suffering a major leak looks like: http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone
There are two big risks, as I see it: 1) the human tendency to turn statistical averages into absolutes. Imagine genetic testing saying that gene A is associated with a slightly higher than average propensity for coding ability (say, 3%). Then we see people saying "Oh you can't code? Must not have gene A!" Or genetic testing revealing that someone doesn't have gene A, so they're told they can't code, even though they could very well have been great at it. All because of an extra 3% probability.

2) Making it impossible/unbearably expensive for people with genes that are correlated with higher risk of whatever conditions to get health care/insurance.

We need to be really careful with how we talk about genetic insights as we gain more and more understanding, as well as what uses of that information we allow, or we're going to get ourselves into another period of atrocities justified by what boils down to eugenics. Perhaps not on the scale of genocide of entire populations, but still bad enough.
In my case, I offered to do it for free. (It wasn't their idea to give me a task on the actual codebase.) Almost nobody would be fine with that, but I want to work there. The other option was to hope that none of the other candidates seemed like a better choice. It's good to lock in an opportunity.

Perhaps it's unworkable in the general case. That would be unfortunate; it's the most effective type of interview.