skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I'd like to see the city exploring an expansion of rent control in exchange for improved developers' rights, including automatic approvals and increased density. Currently only buildings built before circa 1979 are rent controlled; anything built after is exempt. This creates an obvious dilemma for a city and community which evolved and adapted to the economic tradeoffs of rent control.

What if developers opted into rent control after an initial 20-30 year payback period? It would be easy to create property instruments that ensure a property became rent-controlled after a certain period.[1] Part of the reason (certainly not the whole reason) NIMBY politics is so powerful in the city in the face of such gargantuan supply-demand imbalance is because homeowners have been able to conscript renters into their fight against development on the premise that development diminishes the rent control stock. I think something like 70% of households in this city rent, which means the underlying self-interests at play are nothing like those in suburban municipalities. Dangle the stick of _more_ rent controlled stock in front of the population, and we might see a huge shift in opinion.

[1] I believe there's a state law which prevents San Francisco from expanding rent control. But I bet that a quasi-voluntary system might either pass muster under the law, or at least be an easier sell to Sacramento in exchange for loosening the restriction.
Yes, we know that this (mobile devices, mostly) is causing issues with developing empathy and communication skills.

See "Reclaiming Convestaion": https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Conversation-Power-Talk-Di... for much more detail.
I'm not sure about the answer to your question about different fees for microtransactions, but with their pricing, you would never get charged 25 cents. The minimum charge is $1.

The first four pages are $1, which I'm assuming is partly to cover that issue of their charge getting eaten up by payment fees.
> "the same laws, save for the means of changing them".

> The only freedom that's really lost in my AI-dictated society is the freedom to determine the rules and on an individual level, I don't think that's meaningful. At an individual level, I already cannot realistically change the rules, so losing that technicality makes me no less free.

But the loss of the individual freedom to determine the rules is also the loss of freedom for a society to determine the rules for itself. That is profoundly meaningful. Every dystopian narrative in modern history has been about that point. "Perfect" societies are as artificial as "rightful" dictators. Freedom without democracy is, from the view of a democracy, not freedom at all.

> You keep bringing democracy in where I don't believe it belongs. I'm talking about freedom, not democracy.

I disagree, I'm saying they are the same thing. A democracy expresses our freedom and our freedom is expressed through our democracy. They cannot be separated. I think that is our main disagreement.

> A person living under the right dictator would have more freedom than one living under the wrong (but still valid) democracy, being freed from the burden of governance.

Governance is not a burden. This is why I say devaluing freedom is devaluing democracy. And why the "right" dictator is still a dictator, and therefore they cannot but perpetuate a less free system. Our democracies are a system that allows us to trust a representative from society to project our mandate, to express our will, amongst others with mutual trust placed in them. If they do not, then we can vote them out. It is not a burden to vote or to take part in politics. On the contrary, it is a singular symbol of our freedoms. That does not mean democracies are perfect. Lord knows they are not. But, democracies are the best we have. It's not an add-on, we either have it or we are less free.
Ever since they launched screen sharing, I've uninstalled both Skype and Hangouts and relied entirely on it for pair programming sessions. The smoothness of the reproduction is just incredible, and I don't see myself going back soon.
Yes, but that's only to detect whether node is up or down, the health checks are still strongly consistent and go through the servers.

Because of this design, the don't get benefits of any of them.

Side note, KV is actually strongly consistent, which is what is desired, the thing is that since KV comes with consul it encourages people to use it.

One just need to keep in mind, that Raft and Paxos expect all nodes to be updated on every change (e.g. if you have 5 server node cluster all 5 nodes need to "sign on it" before it is accepted). This is counter-intuitive since adding nodes to cluster makes it actually slower (the goal is correctness and resilience not performance). Basically you just need to keep in mind to not use KV for some write heavy operations. Serving configuration files generally is fine.
"subtle pseudo-gratification from this app ... it's all a facade and it'll make them even less happy."

So the essence of Facebook? Seems like a perfect fit.
> when the key bottoms out is probably the best way to go

I disagree. One of the greatest benefits of mechanical keyboards is that they actuate before bottoming out. With some practice you can learn to type without bottoming out, which can greatly increase your typing speed, and decrease the amount of stress on your fingers and wrists.
As someone who lives and works in Japan, it's absolutely shameful how people do this, when they are pressured so much from above to bot only work insane hours, but to take the entire responsibility upon themselves. It's as if there is a magical white line, where you can pass orders down through, but there is no responsibility for errors passing back through.
Too many companies in NJ have been killed of by militant unionism, plus tax/pension/wages for civil serpents for Amazon to think of it. Why do you think NJ is turning to dust
You are correct. I stated it as a fact whereas I was just assuming there are vastly cheaper alternatives to AWS to do such nefarious things such as renting machines in a botnet, using dedicated HW that you might have anyway around for coin mining etc.
> Can a company exist in both the "normal" exchange and the "long term" exchange at the same time?

Strictly speaking, nobody needs an exchange to implement a corporate voting regime where one's vote per share increases as a function of holding time. You just amend your certificate of incorporation and/or bylaws and, assuming the state in which you're incorporate allows it, it happens.

The trouble is most stock exchanges have rules about voting rights. If you aren't compliant, you can't list with them. A big-ticket IPO, e.g. Uber, Airbnb or Saudi Aramco, might be able to convince an exchange to change its rules. This is an exchange pre-empting that negotiation.

If a quality company listed with these voting rights, there would be nowhere you could buy its shares where voting rights would be different because they'd all trace to the same corporate charter. There might just, at least for some time, fewer places where one could buy them.

(Stock lending would have to be dealt with. It doesn't strike me as a particularly challenging issue to solve, and not everyone has to solve it the same way. The bigger issue is where to sever legal and beneficial ownership. If I have a bunch of LLCs who have held a company's stock since IPO, it might make more sense to sell the LLCs with their voting rights intact than sell out of them. This torpedoes most of the benefits of public over private markets.)
Domesticated dogs co-evolved with humans. They're born to be our companions.
My point was you'd ban titleholders from selling a contract directing them to exercise their votes as a delegate of the purchaser, not the more general separation of title and economic interest which is obviously valuable for a large number of reasons.

(I mean, it's still a bit messy because fund managers have a fidicuary duty to exercise their voting rights on behalf of their own shareholders, but I don't have the ability to dictate a new aggressively activist investor policy to Vanguard)
Definitely Rifters, though I'm not sure which. Probably the first.
I take it this hasn't be proven or demonstrated yet?
Writing this as my wife and I are on the way to Ikea for the second time this week to choose a couch ...

You really need to see the couch in person before buying it. It’s really hard to judge quality otherwise. You need to feel the fabric of the sofa, sit and lay down on it to feel the cushions, and see the color in person. Our first trip to Ikea was meticulously researched, but when we saw the options we had chosen online in person we completely changed our minds.

We did find a couch we loved on Wayfair but there were few photos and the description of the item was incorrect. The item was a chaise sectional listed as reversible (the chaise could be switched between the left and right sides) but the item listed two separate prices for left vs. right. When I messaged Wayfair about the issue through their ‘Questions’ option on the item they responded quickly only to say that the item description was incorrect and it was not reversible. However, the item’s description currently remains incorrect and my question was not made public like the others. This, combined with the fact that no official dimensions are included in the item description makes me think Wayfair is a dressed up Alibaba for furniture, and not a serious online option like Article, which at least has a lot of good quality photos per item.
You might be imparting human perceptions onto other species. Fun to think about though.
I may be missing something, but how is that not "actually calculating velocity"?
> It baffles me that SF chooses not to integrate Bus, BART and Caltrain.

SF does not choose that. In fact SF has long chosen to integrate bus, Muni rail, and BART, and more recently also Caltrain, though getting the Caltrain part done has been hampered by a number of problems, including the cost overruns of Transbay Transit Center’s first phase, which have eaten up the money for the second phase.
There were courses using haskell before monads were the smash hit they are now. In particular haskell didn't have monadic IO then. On the other hand, variants such as gofer were pretty simple.
True (and a whole host of other countries) though I don't think the South Korean service period is ten years!
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Anybody who has assets worth more than €5k?

And there's currently no publicly announced plan/date for revoking the affected certs. There's a tool coming out in November that you can use to generate new certs for your own ID card but as it's not compulsory, don't expect 100% of affected people to update in a matter of days, weeks or months.
I don't know how you got 100k to waste. That project seems like a toy hobby more than anything. I guess people don't really value their money these days. I've seen worse kickstarters.

Also I thought it was cool until I realised it doesn't even remotely have every station in the world, not even close. 214 cities? That's fuck all.

The internet amazes me.
Yes. One example:

window.location = '/news?p=' + parseInt( (Math.random() * 10) + 1)
Super Mario Maker uses "New SMB" physics for all themes. It doesn't actually mimic the exact physics of each game (aside from small tweaks like not letting you wall-jump or carry shells depending on the theme). They did this because newer players found it super confusing to go back to the older physics.

From Takashi Tezuka:

> “In the end we used the New Super Mario Bros. U system for all of the game styles. There was quite a lot of discussion about this within the team. Staff who had strong attachment to the original games expressed a strong desire to see implemented the same system they remembered. However, when players who are used to the modern Mario physics tried playing with the old physics, they found it much more difficult than they remembered."

People on reddit have done some pretty extensive breakdowns of the physics of different Mario versions vs. SMM:

- https://imgur.com/XC38rcX
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MarioMaker/comments/4iqa5s/super_ma...
Well cars don't have drive recorders, they seem to cause a lot more deaths and probably should.

I think a lot of people have anexiety for flying, I useto for a while. The best recommendation I could give to get over that (or at least to mitigate it a little), is to do some flight lessons. I actually conpletly switched deom being nervous to wanting to fly fairly quickly :-)
>and the human responsible should be the asshole who picks it up.

You're suggesting a solution to a problem which is impossible. Crows may be a solution to the problem. Convincing all assholes to pick up their cigarettes is not a realistic solution.
I stopped after I read "Apple 2" for the second time.
You can ask 100 gophers. And obtain 100 different workflows ;)

I like to separate design and code, from build and test, from deploy and monitoring. And I like change. And experimenting with new techniques. dep is definitely next, as well as prometheus.

The things that determine what tools you use are often external to language design itself. How your remote team handles its gitflow. Whether people prefer vim on a remote dev instance or Atom locally with github integration. Are you targeting app engine or container engine.

Regardless of the heterogeneity, having a canonical $GOROOT source tree and deploying binaries makes things much more flexible.

I'll just point to one recent discovery that is helping a lot at the moment and may be useful to other people: godoc for static analysis

https://golang.org/lib/godoc/analysis/help.html
Zookeeper and Consul have very different scopes and therefore architectures. Consul servers are very much like Zookeeper: an odd number of nodes running a consensus protocol to provide a consistent API to a key/value store.

However, Consul builds tons more on top of the servers. Consul has a first class notion of services and health checks. It has agents that run on every node to register services, perform health checks, and provide service discovery to local apps via HTTP or DNS.

For every Consul feature there is probably a similar library or tool to do the same thing with Zookeeper. Consul just chose to focus on the service discovery problem and address it as a first class feature of the project.

Full disclosure: I work for HashiCorp, but not on Consul.
Netflix adds 5.3M new subsctibers
I am writing SQL/PLSQL for my living and I like how learning Elixir changed the way I accomplish my daily work.
That's enough to start a startup buddy.
> Didn't work so well for alcohol, drugs, or prostitution unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure it will work out once the surveillance methods are more advanced and ubiquitous. And no, I don't think it's a good thing.
At least their customer support are good about it. My wife ordered a few pieces of furniture, and every one that arrived had some kind of physical defect. We called, they shipped another one, we called, they shipped another one, etc. All had poor quality, but at some point, we were able to assemble a good item by picking and choosing the best parts from each defective unit. We donated the scratched ones to charity.
Buzzfeed or Memeology sites.
I'm trying to understand. This sounds kind of opposite to a description given to me for dev-ops. Is that accurate enough for a layman?
Amazon Lightsail Support for Windows VPS
Disabled kids get to experience zero gravity
Well I have read the article, I have nothing to add directly, yet I have commented twice in reply to other comments.

Should I get a 2 week ban for bot commenting directly? Perhaps people want to discuss some issues raised or some side issue/interest about the article?

We are here to discuss afterall, and I am more than a little disappointed to see someone being upset for comments that may be to the side of the article.

If they were all political posts, okay I could understand, but they arnt.

Edit: I am reading the top third comments, most popular threads bottom thirds are, well ignored for a reason(and hence downvoted)
The absurdity of this thing not being directly connected to BART nor Caltrain is so, pardon my language, unbelievably fucking stupid. This could have been the nexus between local transit, local tain, local bus, and interstate train (HSR). But instead it's a bus station.
I stand corrected. Rogue AP / MiTM only needs a AP with the ability to send raw packets, gotcha.
Working with the kernel keyring
Your article only accounts for about 7.9 million new shares from the secondary offering, but many more have been issued.

It's primarily from equity grants. Even your article says Musk tacked on his stock option exercise as part of the secondary offering, which increased the dilution.
I don't understand, how would you use RNN for this? Would you try to predict whether this startup gets funded based on whether the previous ones got funded? Or which data would you use?

To me this seems more like a binary classification task.
If you read through to a linked article you'll find there is indeed long term health effects to the birds https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730341-600-birds-lo...
> Voting rights are powerful. That's the point of the long-term exchange.

> In existing exchanges, going long and short in equal amounts on the same stock simply cancel each other out.

Not really, for voting purposes. You can buy the stock, borrow the stock, sell the borrowed shares and end up with "free" voting rights and no economic exposure to the stock. I say "free" because you may have to pay someone a few percent to lend you the stock.

You might say centralised clearing prevents this from happening - that my account will always just show a position of zero shares so I have no votes. But even in that case, I can open two accounts, one long and one short, with the same effect.
That all but guarantees a lower stock price over time for the company, as newer shares are literally less valuable than older shares. If you have “high priority” voting shares worth $100, they could be worth $90 or less to the investor that is buying them because they decrease in value on every trade.
It really doesn’t feel like anything special is happening either, and recovery is quick and easy. It’s a non-event at altitude.

Spin training though, no thanks!
If all the cards get laid out and you find that the only animals that have good survival odds are those that we domesticate, would you be singing the same tune? I don't think it's of "bad conscience" when we, as veritable gods on this planet, must be appeased and kowtowed too. We are just as much slaves to our past and our power as any other creature is. The cruelty of nature doesn't end with us. We are still largely a part of it.

And even if it did, I don't see how offering crows a good deal on food is less cruel than otherwise. Perhaps the crows will evolve to take the human economy into account and become something better at surviving as a result. I suppose my point is that, even if we can't in good conscience domesticate more animals, it was not by a consideration of good conscience that they became domesticated in the first place.
Reminds me of furniture.com's high profile failure -- worth reading about.

In addition to the dot com madness, furniture is expensive to warehouse and ship.
MURDER IN MALTA – THE KILLING OF DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA
Since you ask: I bought a sofa (from Joybird) and mattress (from Leesa) online recently. Both came with free delivery and a 365-day return period. Happy with both of them.
That is, instead of using y velocity = acceleration * time and then adding in gravity, they made something like this, as I understand it:

speeds = [0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 4, 2, 1, 0]

And then you keep track of how many frames it's been since you jumped, and then just do

yVelocity = speeds[ticksSinceJump]

No math needed at all.
Would such a political system not spiral into chaos really rapidly?
Obviously Tesla is doing _something_ about this because what is the Gigafactory if not a major part of the supply chain?
Isn't this more like teaching the crows commerce? If we controlled their food 100% and did not give it to them unless they did the work, I agree that would be slavery. This is just paying for a service.

I feel like there would be bigger ethical problems over the proper amount to "pay" them than whether or not the act of paying them for a service is ethical
What's new in BBEdit 12
And when an owner wants to raise liquidity? They'll take a hit due to the cliff issue (voting rights have value and you destroy voting rights by selling). So any company with tenured voting rights will have created a system that forces owners to sell shares at a discount to their current value. And because they can't sell for more value than they get from holding, they would tend to prefer value-destroying and excessive short term cash distributions up and until the point where the damage from those distributions equalizes with the value destroyed at sale.

I'm sure some economist smarter than me could formalize the issue, but unless the cliff issue is solved, this sort of ownership scheme will not result in shareholders maximizing long term value.

A dominant founder-CEO could mitigate or overpower the incentives described above, but my guess is that any company that successfully gets of the ground using this scheme will replace their tenured shares with ordinary common shares at some point.
> That all but guarantees a lower stock price over time for the company, as newer shares are literally less valuable than older shares

Which is why you see private companies experimenting with all manner of super-voting classes of stock (usually for founders) but never with this idea. New money would be reticent to invest.

Devil's advocate: investors didn't seem to care about Snaps' zero-vote stock.
wow.
so I imagine Amtrak also will not connect there?
The Embarcadero Freeway (Highway 480) was originally built to connect with the Golden Gate Bridge. Citizens hated this and the Board of Supervisors agreed to stop further construction. It ended on Broadway if I remember, convenient for Chinatown.

The Embarcadero Freeway came down with the 1989 freeway. Tearing it down vs rebuilding it was a 6-5 vote for tearing it down. Chinatown deeply resented it not being rebuilt and Agnos lost re-election. That probably led to the Central Subway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_480
Has anyone made the "direct wire to every key" keyboard? Getting rid of debouncing would be kind of cool.
Is it accuse people of lying or present proof that they are either wrong, or knowing lying?

Otherwise I could just had me and a few friends constantly telling everyone that anything I don't like, is lying.
How do they distinguish between 4 000 000 000.10 and 4 000 000 001.10 wavelengths? Do they simply count how often they cross a full-phase change and keep track of the direction of that change?
Project Elysium Shut Down
> Businesses have been moving further and further into short-termism; with the next quarter being the most important metric.

That's the conventional wisdom, I've heard it my whole life, and I see no evidence of it. AMZN, MSFT, etc.

I've known CEOs who believed it, and manipulated the books to make the short term look better at the expense of the long term. Investors weren't fooled and the stocks would tank.
We do a decent amount of go at the company I work for. We started out using Makefiles (2 or so years ago) then moved everything to Glide and now we use Dep. Makefiles weren’t fun to deal with so I advise against that. We moved to Dep because we feel that is what the community is converging on. There is no great solution unfortunately. As long as you are able to live with some of the small downsides with any vendoring solution then really any would work.
PS/2 and AT are also bidirectional protocols for controlling the LEDs, key repeat, and various other commands that at a minimum requires some sort of digital state machine to manage the interface.
Are you thinking of Super Smash Bros.? This is Super Mario Bros. for the NES, over a decade older :)