skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US this is already pretty common and often known as the homestead exemption. A primary residence gets a much reduced tax rate.
Many decent people would love this, but unfortunately so would trolls.
I'm just wondering: Can't foreign money create a company in New Zealand, buy real estate with that company and then rent it out or just let it stay there.

It says it is banning non-residents. But a New Zealand company owned by a foreigner is considered a resident entity, right?
You can use the new AWS Deep Learning AMI which has a version of TensorFlow enhanced for CUDA 9 and Volta support
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/announcing-new-aws-deep-lear...
The issue with rising rents is zoning laws.

Since investors can't as easily build new housing, they invest in existing ones as speculation.

If the demand is there, the skies should be filled with construction cranes and new tech investment in building cheaper, faster, etc.

Instead we slap protectionism on it so everybody fights over a smaller piece of the real estate pie.
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Do you have a reference for "reasonable" rents in Chicago or can you break that down at all?

I'm genuinely curious. Coming from Vancouver where rents compared to salaries are considered beyond insane, what I found on Chicago's craigslist seem to be comparable. That is, accounting for exchange rate but not salaries.
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Wellshit here, got silenced by HN...

They advocate for violence against a group of people and are banned.

You advocate for violence against their group.

Is your violence better than theirs? Why shouldn't you be banned?

Disclaimer: not a nazi
Partly correct....

If you access the ABS web-site and download the house price index for each state and capital and map out long term growth excluding the years after 2000. Then calculate the growth of housing that has been typically matching inflation or 3.3% per year (depending on state).

Then you over-lay immigration, births, deaths, and interest rates. You will find that that most of them don't really correlate with the boom in house prices.

Even accounting for the Negative gearing introduction it didn't have `that` much of a impact.

The only correlation I have found that triggered the whole entire cluster f we have now. Is if you go back and look at the introduction of Capital Gains Tax Discount.

After the introduction of CGT Discount that is when the vast majority of high to middle income earners turned to housing as a investment stream to avoid tax. Then on-top of this you had the Howard Government introducing the `User Pay` system where instead of the tax payer fitting the bill for new suburbs and infrastructure for housing, the developer and home owner now has to pay for housing infrastructure.

I live in Darwin, and did recently purchase a house.
I'm not the one you're asking. But I work with computers all day. Even for an introvert, human contact is nice every once in a while. So I use the human cashier. S/he may be less efficient than self checkout, but the self checkout machine never smiles at me...
10% is a lot for driving market prices.
Apple should shrink its finance arm before it goes bananas
.... according to it's union.
> If you show up to a rally carrying a Nazi flag, I'll unapologetically call you a Nazi

Maybe I need to get out more, but I've never seen a person carrying a Nazi flag, nor have I seen an actual person with any swastika gear; other than a Jew who had a Buddhist painting with a row of Swastikas. I looked at the flag in Charlottesville & it looked quite new (still had creases). Also the man carrying the flag looked nothing like your typical Neo-Nazi. It's also interesting that this person was not doxxed.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that this person was a paid agitator. There has been cases where people fake KKK vandalism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/2...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mcclinton-arrested-in-bu...

But who knows. Maybe we have an epidemic of Nazis (& KKK) in the United States. If there is, wouldn't there be Nazis marching in the streets every week or so in every state?

If anybody benefits from this Neo-Nazi scare, it's the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), who rakes in Hundreds of Millions of Dollars peddling fear; while transferring Millions to offshore accounts...

http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-tra...

> It's only identity politics in the sense that I'm identifying the politics someone espouses based on the symbols and words they're using.

Is this similar to how Antifa attacks supporters of the evil Yamika wearing "Nazi" Ben Shapiro in Berkeley?
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This is definitely a major contributor and absolutely needs to be addressed, but it's not the only thing. Improving supply by permitting an increase in density has to be part of the solution, but without also fixing the tax incentives it's only a partial fix.
You were outbid by people who don't look like traditional NZ inhabitants (Māori or European) but that doesn't mean they're foreign purchasers. If they've emigrated to NZ, then they're not foreigners any more, and that couple was just doing what plenty of European New Zealanders I know are doing. Namely, buying a bunch of houses as rentals. (Whether investment properties should be a thing, and whether Capital Gains Tax would curb that, are left to a different discussion)
I would think it would be "toe" the party line ;-)
Then why did your real-estate prices go down when they disallowed foreign investor's?
As an example of this, see here for the 2016 Australian Senate election results:

http://results.aec.gov.au/20499/website/SenateDownloadsMenu-...

The large ZIP files under "Formal preferences" contain every vote.
It depends, open-source driver brings better desktop experience in general, even considering only NVIDIA drivers (nouveau), since you don't need the extra performance in 90% of the cases. Things like KMS is only available in NVIDIA binary drivers in recent releases, are still kind bugged and it is more difficult to use (installing a binary driver and including the module in initramfs VS. completely plug-and-play support with open-source drivers; the work can be automated by distro maintainers, but still is not the same thing). Other things like Wayland works so slow in NVIDIA binary drivers that is simple unusable. Another example is GPU switching: for some time Linux has a very good dynamic GPU switching support using PRIMUS, however NVIDIA proprietary drivers still does not support it (maybe they can't?), so NVIDIA ends up reinventing the wheel and their implementation is really bad (Vsync issues and no dynamic switching, you either start your whole X11 session in iGPU or dGPU, so it is kinda useless).

NVIDIA binary drivers really only win in performance. Even the features in NVIDIA drivers tends to be more bugged: i.e. I use compton as my composite manager. It needs a very old OpenGL version (like 1.1 or 2.0 capability), and NVIDIA drivers still mess up and I need to activates some workarounds in compton to get usable desktop. MESA (used by open-source drivers) has a much better OpenGL implementation, and I can basically get a glitch free desktop without workarounds. I also remember getting random glitches in Chrome and Gnome Shell, just to cite more examples.

So it is not an artificial comparison. Want performance and CUDA? Yeah, go to NVIDIA. Want just a stable, modern desktop (Wayland and composite glitch-free)? Open-source drivers is the way to go.
I saw an interesting proposal that called for hefty property tax surcharges that could be rebated against annual personal income taxes.
A chance to work on hard research problems; that is not possible without mentoring for most people. If everything you do in life is just money to you; then sure PhD is irrelevant and you find absurd reasons like immigration to justify it.
Which you only become after 2 years being on worker visa (with some exceptions).
This is an unpopular opinion but I'm a big fan of DST for most of the reasons enumerated in this article: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/

>If we stayed on Standard Time throughout the year, sunrise here in the Chicago area would be between 4:15 and 4:30 am from the middle of May through the middle of July. And if you check the times for civil twilight, which is when it’s bright enough to see without artificial light, you’ll find that that starts half an hour earlier. This is insane and a complete waste of sunlight.

>If, by the way, you think the solution is to stay on DST throughout the year, I can only tell you that we tried that back in the 70s and it didn’t turn out well. Sunrise here in Chicago was after 8:00 am, which put school children out on the street at bus stops before dawn in the dead of winter.
Oh come on! We've gotten ourselves into messes like this before, please have the foresight to add a "planet" attribute.
I had to look that up. You are correct:

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

(Still learning my native tongue at age 52.)
In all seriousness, what if it's a machine that no one should ever really be running commands on? This could be an effective, albeit naive, way to discourage undesirables in the system.
perhaps not directly, but you have to have some debt to back all the us t-bills that you are printing to make your int'l balance of payments seem credible and prevent the dollar from collapsing..

see also: freddie mac / high tuition / yadda
is it xenophobic to prefer free-range beef too?
Yeah, I can't think of any service that appears to actually do anything useful to me with all the data they've been collecting. Netflix recommendations are awful (one reason I recently canceled my account), Amazon recommendations are pretty hit and miss, YouTube makes some good suggestions but they are dominated by channels I'm either subscribed to or have watched a lot of recently. OkCupid for all their talk of data analytics seemed to have very questionable match percentages. Facebook fails horribly at putting interesting things in my feed. For all the hype around big data and AI there's a serious dearth of really good applications.
I just wanted a comparison between NVIDIA binary drivers and AMD open-source drivers. I know the comparison is old, I even added a footnote explaining this, saying that current performance of open source-drivers is even better.
Would you elaborate on how this would work? I feel like I'm missing something obvious. The sun is roughly in the same position in the sky at noon each day—at least it's going to be midday for any human approximation of it. Sunrise (and sunset) vary throughout the year, and increasingly so with latitude along the same longitude. If the idea is to be sunrise-based, sunrise isn't going to be at roughly the same time along longitude lines, while midday sun is at roughly noon.
But if I’m asking, it’s because I already looked on the shelf and I didn’t find the thing after looking for at least five minutes. I want to know, at that point, whether they carry the thing at all; whether it’s just in a crazy place (e.g. honey in the bakery in a little spreads display, instead of in the baking or condiment aisle); or whether my eyes are failing to do their jobs properly and I’ll need to look again.
Read the whole thread; seems like no one else can reproduce this.
You'd hope so but in practice, this gets reported as the polls being off and there's speculation about ivory tower intellects not asking the right people or using outdated methodologies ... the news media and mathematicians get blamed for being wrong. This is what actually happens.
It's not "housing where one most prefers" in this instance, it's "housing where you're already lived for years, and where your children go to school".
The notion of "a fundamental right to housing" isn't about "where cool restaurants are." It's a starting point and a framework for how you solve the problem. There are complications that we definitely have to figure out (including where etc) but the conversation always comes back to the strawman of "well it's just not fair to buyers, and those people need to make better economic decisions."

If a person is paying $1000 a month, and sees a 2% increase every year and can afford it, but then can't afford a 100% increase in one year, are you saying they made bad economic decisions? OR that they should have anticipated the housing market to shift so drastically?

Of course not, because, as you said, it is absurd to not consider ones actual economic status.

Wrt to the newly homeless who have been evicted - i think it is convenient to chalk this up to market economics, but the truth is that zoning, housing, and rental laws have created an environment where you are seeing mass displacement of people. You may say "well that's the market" but you might feel different if it was you and yours. It also trivializes the value those people bring to their communities, and the lag effect in economic production their displacement will invariably produce. Longer commutes = less productivity (http://www.cityam.com/265145/heres-just-much-impact-long-com...).

I don't disagree that you need to consider economic status, but in that vein, it's worth considering that housing laws help us define the values we want in a community and sometimes those are not always economic.

At the end of the day, there is pretty conclusive evidence that building more affordable housing is good for cities.
I wouldn't bother, because my preference is to tax capital gains on all property including family homes (and to apply this tax annually based on paper profits too).

That said, occupancy requirements are reasonably common elsewhere (e.g. to claim first home buyer benefits in AU, to prove that it's your primary residence to avoid capital gains taxes in AU, to get owner/occupier interest rates in AU) so I assume that they have some means of enforcement, but haven't really looked.
As long as we're trying to fix all the world's problems, I'd submit that the ideal domestic partnership has one parent able to focus full-time on childcare and home life. It doesn't have to be the same parent all the time, but I find the expectation of dual incomes to be one of the great rip-offs of modern life.
That 10% is new demand. It’s a big deal.

That new demand is on top of already high demand. It’s probably magnified as foreign investors want premium property and drive the top of the market up.
The stuff about “lying” should be disregarded. Using rebase or merge is not a moral issue. Well, it would be bad to rebase master or some other public branch, so don’t do that. Not because it’s lying but because it will cause problems and confusion. Screw it up bad enough and you’ll lose data.

The chain of broken commits is unfortunate, but add a bug fix commit and then rebase to squash it into whatever commit it belongs. The problem is the assumption in the feature branch that the dependency is still there when it isn’t. The problem is not rebase. The fix for the missing dependency has to happen somehow, squashing in a bugfix is a fine way to handle it.

When conflicts are introduced, I’ll agree that rebasing becomes a lot more painful and less useful. Rebasing through the constant stream of conflicts is maddening. It’s not clear what to do here, but repeatedly merging brings all sorts of ugly pain with it, like the fact that your branch ends up littered with changes that you didn’t make and are unrelated to the actual purpose of the branch.

I’ll close by saying that if you work in a fast-moving monorepo, rebasing becomes a more pressing concern.
Apartments suck. Most people vastly prefer not to live near them or in them if they have the option. If they have 1000x the land (still remembering that a lot of that is grazing land), then what they need is transport, houses, shophouses, townhomes, and lowrises. If the land price is higher in the the middle of town, then so be it. At least the current residents aren't having the sky systematically parceled away by a corrupt bureaucracy for paltry favours.

I'm not totally fond of the way NIMBYism ends up working, but the fact is that these people would otherwise have their land value degraded by amendments to local zoning. The rules for projects like this should at least include compensation for the decrease in assessed value of their property.
In Europe we use the 24-hour system to write time, but a 12-hour system to speak about it. So you're invited to dinner on Saturday at 6 (nobody in their right mind would show up at 0600). Everybody learns at an early age that 4 o'clock in the afternoon is 16, 5 is 17, etc. It's easy when there are analog clocks in all public, walkable spaces, as well as in the kitchen and/or living room.
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I notice that each time websites ban or delist far right websites, that the temperature jumps a notch, often with accompanying antisemitism on more mainstream sites or subreddits.

It's nice that Google and Reddit's staff are feeling virtuous but it is becoming harder to talk civilly than it used to be and if it doesn't stop the pro-violence extremists will become validated and nothing positive starts from there.
From NVidia's perspective, the more of the GPU computing stack it's in control of, the better.
They are super responsive and helpful. Where are you located? Sam Agnew is always there to help you.
Prosecution cannot claim anything without evidence. Now there’s only evidence of obstruction of justice by some IT manager, but no evidence to support charges of election fraud by executive branch of government.
Rob Pike explains this manifesto in several videos available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg

It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do too!
I'm having trouble understanding your comment. The entire principle of private property ownership on which (arguably) our entire civil society and economy is based is that one may use said property as one wishes. It doesn't really matter if another person might have made "better use of it". The only opinion that matters on how the property might best be used is the person who owns it. It's not a community decision, excepting the narrow cases you outlined.
Aucklander here: you're right. One of the effective political tactics against the Labour Party was to suggest they'd threaten house prices: most of Auckland home owners need high real estate prices, either to keep rents (investment cashflow) up, to continue to leverage their retirement real estate Ponzi scheme, or for the simple reason that nobody wants to have to move for work and lose money when they sell their house. These all make it hard for a government to be effective at lowering house prices without the needed-but-deeply-unpopular introduction of a Capital Gains Tax.

The "no sales to foreigners, let's curb immigration" is a sop to affronted New Zealanders of European and Māori descent, who are increasingly finding themselves outbid by recent (last 20-years) Chinese migrants who not only want a house for themselves but also want to participate in the only economically thriving part of the NZ economy that doesn't require a dairy farm: real estate.
Nazis were the government of Germany.
At least in downtown areas, Seattle is infamous for having some of the least restrictive zoning laws in the country. I was advised not to pay any premium for a condo with a nice view, for example, because there is almost no such thing as a "protected view" in the city, unless you're physically situated such that no theoretical future building project could obstruct it.
The Australian is hands down one of the poorest quality news sources in Australia: It is pretty much the direct mouthpiece of Rupert Murdoch and is notorious for being grossly inaccurate and terribly biased.

It's getting increasingly hard to deny that we are starting to see the cracks in capitalism, so I don't think it's wrong of him to say that.
No, you can't deduct capital expenses like a renovation from your personal income, but you can deduct those capital expenses from the eventual capital gain so that the capital gains tax is only paid on the net profit.

The negative gearing only applies to ongoing expenses (e.g. maintenance, interest, depreciation) not to capital expenses.
It is quite dystopian how much of our productive capacity is geared towards making people less sick.
The old expensive housing becomes the new affordable housing. Trickle down real estate works assuming the old real estate isn't destroyed.
It depends on whether you believe racism is power + prejudice or just prejudice. Since I subscribe to the latter, yes.
There is nothing wrong with being NIMBY with your own land. It belongs to the citizens of New Zealand, not the top bidder.
Wouldn't that get messy quick? If we go there, don't we also need to have catalogs of maps by date for every planet?

(No, not kidding.)
>it costs basically nothing to implement too,

Eh. Don't be so sure of this.

Yes, this technology exists. No, it's typically not feasible to implement. The ROI simply doesn't make sense.

Each store houses about 250,000 unique products. That means you'll need that many digital price tags. If they're $4 a peice (highly unlikely), thats 1M per store - and that's only in the new hardware.

You also need to test different environments - will it work in freezers, coolers, and under heated lamps (150F temperatures)? Do those places have wifi access?

Then you need to test and update the wireless infrastructure. Adding 250k devices to a network is not a small task.

Then update whatever software exists to send out price updates. This is honestly the cheapest part, all things considered. And it can be applied to the whole chain / store by store, depends on the roll out strategy.

All in all, it's at least 1 million per store. A brand new store costs the same amount. So you'd also be paying for the opportunity cost of not opening a new store. So you'd also lose out on the potential revenue of that new store.

There's other factors to consider, but the math never shakes out positively. There are bigger fish to fry than price tags.
Tie tax discounts to residency and register those applications centrally.
Please also read

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mpml/conversations/messa...

> AscendingNode's tweet is in error: It's using the basic find_orb fit (which tries to fit the object's observations to a parabolic orbit) without taking into account the fact that it COULD be interstellar.

> You'll notice quite clearly, that in the follow-up tweets they make, that they give residuals in the orbit on the order of 6-9 whole arcseconds. It's quite bothersome that everyone I've been talking to has been re-quoting the tweet all day.
People still use cash?
Yeah, I'm not aware of any distro that has this setting enabled by default. It's neat that it exists, though.
Not to mention, who's data are you using? Lol this must be a joke.
First I've heard of this. Finally a keyword to beseech my needs!
Mr. Puigdemont is the President of Catalonia, not the 'separatist leader'
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That sounds a lot like IPFS (Interplanetary filesystem) [https://ipfs.io/]

Or am I missing some key point here?
> hundreds of thousands of children

I don't think there is that many children in NZ. Let alone living in poverty.