skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something very close to that did launch first: Amazon Hub. It's a shared unit for apartment buildings though.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/amazo...
You know , you're right! I had my timelines mixed. I do still think that elon musk's companies get singled out quite strongly when they take advantage of the subsidies that a lot of these companies take part in, to much higher degree. I guess his companies bear so much vitriolitic commentary, it's hard to distinguish actual valid criticism from the other things.
Imagine if you got your wish (actually, at Kohls it is like this, last time I was there).

Now imagine thru some method, they could tell which shopper was nearby shelves, looking - and who they were. Do a instant credit check lookup (perhaps with something special with the credit bureaus that don't put a ding on the report), to find out what that nearby shopper is "worth".

Then instantly change the prices in that one area of the store - perhaps to gain just a few more pennies from a wealthy customer, or maybe (perhaps) to try to steer a customer to a particular brand who has paid the store for this purpose (by changing the prices of other brands to be higher, so that the buyer might go for the lower priced item if they are on a lower economic rung - or vice-versa to get them to buy a higher-cost item for perceived "luxury").

This would be easily possible with today's technology. It wouldn't be cheap to implement, and likely the back-end systems are so f-d up that it would take a revamp or a lot of work to get everything talking together properly, plus the attendant tech to recognize shoppers (cell phone IMEI? facial rec? something)...

...but I am certain that if the profit motive was there, and it offset those costs, it would be done. And Walmart would likely do it, too.
The meridian? I assume you must mean some line of latitude, and after some searching, it looks like the 45th runs through Maine so it's my best guess.. I don't really remember there being a colloquial name for the 45th parallel though I remember seeing the sign every family roadtrip through OR to CA.
But they add cash value because the native seller now has whatever amount extra coming from a different economy. It will raise the prices of homes in the area as well. This will fuel growth.
But I claim that number is really pi (or tau/2 if you must). Will you take theirs one rather than mine as an argument from authority? This is Nature, not the damn daily mail. Digital extraction required![1]

[1] Vernacular expression "Pull your finger out!" Meaning to stop being lazy.[2]
[2] Jokes you have to explain, suck.[2]
[3] People who put footnotes on their jokes are terrible human beings.[4]
[4] There is no [4][5]
[5] citation needed
David appears to use CaRMetal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaRMetal
CaRMetal - Wikipedia

BTW, even if that's not the case, I've found CaRMetal exceptionally useful for drawing similar constructions.
Your sunrise wouldn't be exactly 6AM (or 7AM or whatever), it would be between 6-7 depending on where you are in the time zone.
> That has literally nothing to do with location as you seem to allude to in the earlier post. It has nothing to do with the spoils of an economy being distributed unequally

Palo Alto is one of the wealthiest cities in the country.
sharing my (strong) opinion

Share away! Strong opinions, held loosely, is my m.o.

What bothers me is the connotation that I, as a Westerner, do not care about Africans for some reason and a further connotation that the reason is racism (using people icons on the infographic). I care a great deal about Africans! It is infuriating how many people in Africa die due to violence, disease, and famine from causes that can be directly linked to Western activities.

I get why they did it, mind you. There's plenty of research to show that presenting the facts in a straightforward and neutral manner is less effective at swaying people. I just don't appreciate the use of psychological tricks when they're used against me.

I'm reminded of a brief example by Slavoj Žižek:

“Let’s say that you are a small child and one Sunday afternoon you have to do the boring duty of visiting your old senile grandmother. If you have a good old–fashioned authoritarian father, what will he tell you? ‘I don’t care how you feel, just go there and behave properly. Do your duty.’ A modern permissive totalitarian father will tell you something else: ‘You know how much your grandmother would love to see you. But do go and visit her only if you really want to.’ Now every idiot knows the catch. Beneath the appearance of this free choice there is an even more oppressive order. You seem to have a choice, but there is no choice, because the order is not only you must visit your grandmother, you must even enjoy it. If you don’t believe me, just try to say ‘I have a choice, I will not do it.’ I promise your father will say ‘What did your grandmother ever do to you? Don’t you know how much she loves you? How could you do this to her?’” — Slavoj Žižek, “The Superego and the Act” (August 1999)

I would rather be forced to help (by tax-funded foreign aid) than be manipulated into wanting to help via guilt trip. Otherwise I'll make my own decision to help in the way I deem appropriate for my situation and means.
I like your use of "epsilon." I have a lot of little rules I like to follow, like the Nestle boycott, that are just drops in the bucket. But it's nice to have a set of personal standards to follow even if they are inconsequential at scale.

I'll be using epsilon to describe these quirks from now on :-)
Increasing expenses by reinvesting it is also a good way to lower taxes.
Once they have your mobile ip address, they can buy your phone number, full name, billing home address, and billing email address - among other things.[1]

Of course, there are other more classic ways for them to buy this info but if they can get it from the source, why not?

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/10/stop-mobi...
My comment is sassy, but I really was curious about the answer to the question.
Woo! My biggest hope with open sourcing this is to find other new or soon-to-be new parents with ideas for making it even better. It is such a huge motivator for me. Looking forward to your input.
The north pole? (I know, context matters)
That is sooner than expected.
> The way this problem is tackled with ballots is rather simple: way too many people to bribe to change the outcome

I think we do this correctly in New York City, where I am an election worker from time to time.

Voters mark a paper ballot that is electronically counted. Every counting machine continuously shows two numbers: the number of ballots it has ever received, and the number it has received in that day's election. Multiple people at each poll site sign off on these numbers at the start and end of each day. Lots of people, from parties, interested groups, et cetera, personally verify these numbers throughout the day. (We call these people "observers." Anyone can be one.)

At the end of the day, the poll numbers are printed directly from each machine and posted for observation. They are also transmitted, electronically, to HQ. Poll observers like to observe and independently record these numbers.

Finally, the NYPD carts away the paper ballots for archiving.

To corrupt this system, you'd have to overwhelm a majority of the poll workers, poll observers, and NYPD officers transmitting the paper ballots at every precinct in your jurisdiction. That's hard.

(The system isn't perfect. The sign offs we're supposed to do at day's end are done at the beginning, because people want to get out early. This weakens, but does not break, the chain of trust and custody I described above. TL; DR If you care about this, please sign up as a poll worker.)
I don't see any issue with NZ putting up that block to keep out Chinese 'investors', considering the roadblocks foreigners have to face to do business in China.

Seems fair to me.
> It's the US government that's advocating violence against a group of people

The US government stopped advocating violence based on the declaration you point to more than 70 years ago.
AKA perfectly reasonable economic reasons.
You left out my other measures :p

Obviously, it's very hard for me to be specific to each market, so those are high level principals.

It gains for the new buyer an average falling of house prices, under the assumption that we are talking about a later period market that has seen asset prices rise due to leveraged investment by primarily high net worth holding entities looking primarily for capital gains of of asset price movements in an illiquid and inelastic-supply market, rather than fundamental connections to longer term investment/income flows and local income opportunities. The logic is that this disproportionately targets the leveraged investors regressively compared to the local home buyers.

Now there's also an argument to be made that if you encounter a market that is not in such a state, it could be individually rational for a new buyer to buy into said market, then lobby for policies which increase demand while removing said policies/barriers for themselves, thus trying to turn such a market into our common current situation now they have become a property holder, but in short, we have to try for policies that allow openness for sensible new investment while still tying values to local incomes, services and infrastructure funding, and long run returns.
Funny, I had an airbnb(I hosted) in nashville's downtown that made that rate look dirt cheap.

Reason?

Outdated zoning laws and hotels were slow to catch up with the tourist industry.

It was crazy watching my nearby competitors(the major hotels) adjust prices like the stock market.....

$1800 a night for the last suite at the sheraton up from $250-500 normally. Bonoroo and Country Music festival held the same week is what I called "Second christmas".
My experience with the gig economy is that my schedule ends up being whatever is convenient for my clients.
It'd probably be better to design standard packaging and automated shelving systems that could be easier for robots to stock. Even better? Make the shelves robots themselves, so they could re-arrange themselves as needed, and go and "fill up" for stocking in the back, etc...
Alternatively and less wastefully:

echo foo | grep bar || true
Only ~9% of commerce is online [1]. Amazon will continue to grow like crazy for a while.

1 -https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.p...
> For example, my user agent may know where I live and thus show me this place relative to that place—the sort of thing that a web component can’t possibly do.

Web components have been able to do that since before web components existed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation . It's almost as old as <canvas>.
Interesting, I have the opposite reaction; it seems virtually utopian to me (especially if you define "sick" broadly).
I was actually surprised during a visit to Stockholm (granted, in May) that it was not light that much later than my native Seattle in the summer. I guess there's probably a reason major cities in Scandinavia are not all that far north in their respective countries :) I've been above the arctic circle in the summer, but thankfully never in the winter.
Stop sign. I don’t think it’s a good analogy.
Sure, you think that, but the last two times I went to Walmart and needed help finding something, the first person I went to at each store didn't speak any English at all. This was in the middle of Tennessee, not Texas or Miami.
Exactly - it is a symptom of the different regulations in the different city centers.
Well yeah, obviously. Anything that reduces the profitability reduces the appeal to investors, which decreases price pressure, which leads to price falls, which ideally falls into a virtuous cycle of falling prices and falling investor demand until you have sane prices again. You'd have to hit it pretty hard to actually get that going though; this policy won't do it alone.

For new home buyers lower prices is great. For the economy lower prices is great (the initial massive losses will be rough, but going forward it means far less overhead on all Kiwis with that interest money going elsewhere in the economy, and in general the money going into non productive real estate speculation will go to more productive areas of the economy).
Sure. We have that now. But it also wouldn't be the same along the same longitude. Yes, 6AM would be the same, but now sunrise, midday, and sunset would all vary. At least with noon-based time zones, midday occurs at the same time along longitudes. People have an expectation that noon occurs midday, which is why the system is set up the way it is. This is how it was before we had time zones. It's a human-interface thing, more than anything else.

Am I missing something? Sure, we could have all sorts of different schemes. Most of them are not going to match human intuitions.
Or VMware/Parallels
You can if you're George Orwell writing 1984:

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
I like to imagine some alien civilizations version of Voyager 1. Perhaps they sent us their own golden record with difficult to decipher pictographs and samples of pictures and music.
The solution proposed doesn't match the problems stated, or take much of the technical realities into consideration. Which is fine - maps are complicated, and hard to understand.

- As a user, I don't want to share my location with a website.

The proposed element doesn't seem to address this at all, or suggest how it might address the problem down the line. Even if there was some sort of opaque position-in-the-browser-but-not-sent, how would, say, nearby businesses show up?

- As a user, I want access to my devices' mapping features when I view a map on the web.

You already do, with the W3 and WHATWG standard protocols in every browser.

- As a developer of a website, I want to take advantage of any in-built mapping software the user has, rather than use a 3rd party library.

Like what? People don't have built-in mapping software installed on their computers.

The 'zoom as width of map' proposal is, um, well - as I said, maps are complicated. It's not a very good idea.

Anyway, the state of the art is pretty much:

- Use Leaflet and you can have your choice of mapping providers.

- There are good standards like GeoJSON and navigator.geolocation to move data around.

This concern has come up before - like there was, long ago, the mapstraction project that 'abstracted' away mapping providers. It's abandoned, for pretty good reason.
Same thing in London. Foreign buyers is the big bogeyman, but the reality is that prices are sky high even in areas where foreign buyers are not the slightest bit interested in putting their money.

The reality is that most foreign buyers here rent out their properties - it's an investment after all - and it's only on the very, very high end of the market that people leave their properties empty for any amount of time, and that's a very tiny proportion of the total market.

But it is convenient to be able to blame someone else and avoid making the hard policy decisions requires to boost construction.

(while I agree leveraging makes it worse, though, the underlying problem is still competition for a too constrained supply of housing - I don't know about Australia, but in the UK house-building has trailed demand for decades at this point; to a large extent because of short-sighted policies which focuses infrastructure investments in already overheated areas and makes it even more attractive to move there, coupled with lack of willingness to open new areas for construction or relaxing restrictions on new developments in terms of height etc. outside of very small areas)
On the other hand, Walmart is certainly feeling the pressure from Amazon and improving customer interaction is likely high on their strategic radar. To wit: AMZN revenue +33% to a $170 Billion run rate, vs. WMT revenue virtually unchanged over the last 4 years at $485 Billion. Walmart recently introduced their own version of Prime, and AMZN is now in the grocery business, two more differentiators that have been closed off between the two.

It doesn't take too many 30% years to go from $170 to $485 Billion (not that they'll continue at that pace, but shit, this is year 23 for AMZN, and their growth is still incredible, [AWS, AWS, AWS]).
> okket: A remote civilisation that has no problem waiting hundred thousand years or longer for a probe to reach its destiny.

> pavlov: At 44 km/s, the object is travelling slightly faster than Pioneer 10. Seems too slow for an interstellar probe?

> QAPereo: A probe should show signs of acceleration, not freefall... unless you anted the probe to be stealthy. That is a disturbing thought.

Of course it has FTL, but they want to observe us for an extended period in our natural state, not riled up by an FTL object moving through our system and parking in orbit.

They also wanted to see how long it would take us to detect it. I'm not sure how well we did.
Does the American system of governance work as well as it reasonably could?
That hasn't been my experience. I do what I can to try to promote the idea of gig work done well such that it is a net positive for the worker in metrics like quality of life and control over their schedule.

Granted, some things are inherently more flexible than others. An Uber driver can choose what hours to work, but is at the beck and call of people who need rides. If you want to make good money, you realistically need to work during busy times. But a lot of knowledge work can realistically be done whenever works best for the employee, so long as they get it done in time for the due date. You do need to arrange for such expectations though.
> For instance, we can't reasonably authorize Isis propaganda on public forums, can we?

But we can authorize American propaganda?

Who killed more people in these two groups?

In fact, what tells you that Isis is not an American construct?
We use it extensively at work to connect multiple apps/blocks together. It’s great because you don’t need to really worry about all the network management. It just works. We can even deploy across multiple ips and its transparent to our code. We work in c++ and python mostly.

FYI we combine it with protobuf. Protobuf handles the data formatting. ZMQ handles the communication.
These are the same issue. If housing is regulated as a commodity then there will be plenty for consumers and prices will tend to be low and stable. If housing is regulated as a premium product with limited supplies and implicit links to schools and other critical resources then available units will dwindle, prices will rise without rational bounds, and we see the rise of people without homes along with homes without people.
Hi everyone, co-founder of Graphcool here!

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* Run Graphcool locally (also works offline)

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* Get involved in the development of the framework on GitHub

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First, your numbers are incorrect: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/bcs-foreign-buy...

10-14% of buyers SELF REPORTED as foreign, across METRO VANCOUVER, not some fancy neighbourhoods. That's the base minimum possible percentage of foreign buyers.

Then the 15% tax was introduced and dropped foreign purchases down to to 3-4%. Do you really think the ~8% stopped buying? No, they just used one of the trivially available loopholes like sending in their astronaut family or buying through a trust company. And many buyers were doing that even before the tax was introduced.
The major problem here is that far too much effort was put into accommodating everyone by including them in the eastern time zone. Last time I looked, I think something like 48% of the US population lives in it, and it's just unnecessarily large. Obviously there are benefits, but it creates a ton of perverse consequences too.

Realistically, the eastern time zone should probably stop between OH/PA, west of West Virgina, east of TN, etc.

But of course we'd then need 5 time zones to cover the continential US to keep other time zones from becoming far too large.
Tesla is amazing at marketing. Elon also seems like a genuinely good person, which helps.
They were informed 3-4 weeks before the lawsuit was filed that they were going to be sued and they should not delete the data. But did it anyway so seems like they might be hiding something
That's a pretty ugly robot no? Looks like it's built to follow old people around: "Are you sure you don't want me to check your blood pressure?!"
TIL, sounds like a good system. Voting is not only selecting a leader or measure, but it also needs to be validated so that the people believe that the citizenry collectively made the decision. Observers, audit trails, multi-party sign off, etc make the electron results more believable.

If a single server can be wiped, on the other hand, there's no point in holding the election at all -- there's just too much room to quibble over the result.
Using blockchain as an uncountable noun like that is like saying "database will revolutionize the ______ supply chain."

They aren't talking about Blockchain technology as a whole, though - rather a specific Blockchain.

I wish the Fortune editor thought this through and added an "A" to the title.

Rant over.
10% is a lot for driving market prices only if they live in those houses or leave them empty or massively overpay.

But most foreign buyers in these markets are buying to profit, and rent out the properties, and so only really contribute to balancing rental and sale prices.
Dropping gum in front of their wheels...
If it is, given its trajectory, it's probably not meant for us. I would be nice to keep an eye on it though -- it'd be fun to get a complete scan and hope it's doing the same in return. It's too bad it's likely too late to rendezvous with it and get some samples.
From a logical viewpoint, assuming a pragmatic approach, that'd be pretty handy. From a political approach, it's almost required.

I know, you probably think I'm wrong. Hear me out.

Imagine if Trump just announced he was laying off 75% of the judicial branch ans executive branch tomorrow. Effective immediately.

We pretty much gotta keep them all busy. The people would revolt, otherwise.
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I have never seen or heard of any version of XCode that isn't riddled with bugs.

A daily ceremony when build iOS apps is to carefully rule out Xcode flaking when any issue is presenting.

Far too often it's XCode.

I think things may have been better in XCode 4.x but it would still crash pretty often.
Walmart employees used to be trained to always escort the customer when they ask for help finding something.
Worked on an automatic lawn mower. They wanted to sell them (in part) to golf courses, where they could do the mowing at night.
That's a false dichotomy; you can allow more density without skyscrapers as far as the eye can see.

The problem is hard because existing property owners have more rights, but those without have plenty of incentive and skin in the game too, as the overall cost of never owning a home is significant. Arguably the property owners should have less rights than they do when those rights are causing significant hardship and economic damage, which is the case.
On the other hand, Amazon generates a lot of free cash flow. Roughly $10B worth last year or 7% of revenue (or an impressive 21% of gross profit).

It earns this healthy margin because customers pay Amazon before Amazon pays suppliers. Normal companies have to fund their businesses by raising debt or equity, whereas Amazon gets free loans from merchants. Exceptional way to fund growth.
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I completely agree. One must not become too reliant on technology.