skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This dynamic changes the housing markets of these cities, too, with big cities getting more expensive as more high-wage workers migrate there, and low-wage workers leaving cities to seek more affordable housing in the far-away suburbs they can afford. Now that the dust of the recession has cleared, it is evident that the geography of poverty has changed in America."

There was just an article posted here a couple of weeks ago about a woman who was pushed out of LA and moved to Hemet while continuing to commute to LA for work. IIRC the woman was in her 50s and still renting in Hemet despite the lower housing costs. There are no jobs in cities like Hemet but you'd expect that a significant enough number of LA expats moving there would revitalize the local economy some what, just from the higher earnings of super commuters.
"We're bad but they're worse" is not the most comforting argument in the world.
The analogy between an ICO and a stock is pretty apt: they're both tradable contracts. One is enforced via math (as well as luck/naivety), while one is enforced via governments and financial institutions. And a huge portion of those 1000+ cryptocurrencies are really just ICO tokens.

I think crypto is in a huge bubble, and I think ICOs are dumb and will eventually die off or be killed off, but saying that there are 1000+ cryptocurrencies is pretty misleading. It would be like saying that due to the various stock exchanges we have millions of fiat currencies. It's only true given a particular definition of cryptocurrency.

Outside of ICOs, there are probably only a couple dozen cryptocurrencies that are not piggybacking off of some other cryptocurrency's smart contract infrastructure.
I didn’t get the impression this post meant to say we just don’t make stuff like we used to, but that the crap we’ve been taking as normal is going to have terrible consequences if we don’t mitigate it somehow soon.

I agree that common practices are gradually getting better, but I don’t think that’s enough. Re: solutions, the author wrote “What are capabilities?” which got discussed here the other day.
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With some smart TVs, no. For example some Vizio TVs require you to install the Vizio app on your phone (you must allow location tracking) and connect over WiFi before you can even finish the setup process.
That's fair, but I think losing perspective of the tradeoffs. The AMP preload will fetch only the main html file and AMP javascript. Images, videos, etc are all deferred until later. The javascript is cached for a year, so you probably already have it. So, compressed, this is probably ~100kb or less.

Google doesn't start preloading 50 documents, it loads the top result or 2. Even viewing a hundred amp pages in a month is going to cost you less data than one 10kx10k unoptimized image that a publisher decides to load, which happens a lot. Note that AMP optimizes images too taking into account your device resolution, so it's most likely saving you bytes.
When I did this, I used Mint (https://www.mint.com/) initially, and then moved to YNAB (https://www.youneedabudget.com/) that has been awesome.
Note that I said "equally easy", not "possible".
How many dimensions are there, and what do they do to reality?
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If the owners do that, they don't get to flip the 70% of coins they withheld after the price inflates.
Cheer up. You could be taking the subway. :-)
Both are contenders but at twice the passenger traffic, Penn Station has to be heavyweight champion.
Putting a bit more into the README has my preference. Often I come acros repos with “I cloned xxx with yyy”, where I have never heard of xxx. It only takes a bit more to briefly explain xxx.
Reasonable interpretation. Nice research. I wish the author had expressed what they meant more clearly. That phrase is poorly deployed.
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"Bitcoin will die, crypto currency will survive." is the exact scenario where investing in cryptocurrencies is stupid - if cryptocurrencies as a concept win, but the particular cryptocurrencies you bought fail, then you lose.

Just as in the dotcom boom - the concept of dotcom businesses won (and absurdly so), but pretty much everyone who invested in dotcom businesses lost.
I think it's just that every player has different holes - so your 14758 hole was different the the impossible 14758 hole
> technically it's not East and West, it changes.

technically I only talked about a subset of people :)

> Yes because it depends on the observer. No, because it depends on the observer.

This gets metaphysical. If the observer's viewpoint is all that matters, the earth is flat (maybe not for you, but for me, and by definition you can't argue with me on that!). An argument that "I find software to be crap" is completely uninteresting and not worth engaging. If that's the only thing he meant... yeah, sure, more power to him, for all I care he may find all news to be fake too.
> I can do that in Scala with monadic regions, which only need existentials/rank-2 types.

Monadic regions are inflexible. As I have previously told you on lobste.rs, try implementing braided allocations:

(0) Allocate A

(1) Allocate B, do something with A and B together, deallocate A

(2) Allocate C, do something with B and C together, deallocate B

(3) etc.

Turns out, you can't, because monadic regions are strictly LIFO. Lest you think this is just a theoretical exercise, this allocation pattern is used in the implementation of concurrent database indices.

> I see no reason these things wouldn't be possible to implement in the language, though one would have to pass around the (phantom) evidence that these things are true to the point where it's used, which is cumbersome and something newer languages fix.

The only way you could do it is if the design of the array data type anticipates every use case (including ones not in my original list). To give you an analogy, your response is exactly the same as if someone said “I don't need sum types. I can anticipate every single way in which a sum will be case-analyzed, and turn it into virtual method of a base abstract class.” This is completely ridiculous.

> No, we'd make the runtime check at the point of casting.

Then it's effectively dynamically typed, don't you think?

> My experience has been that types are more than good enough.

Types are good enough for some things. I certainly wouldn't want to program in a completely typeless language - parametric polymorphism and algebraic data types are just too nice to give up. But I also wouldn't want to use types to prove everything. Nor would you, as evidenced by your follow-up.

> My defect rate is much, much lower than it needs to be

Lucky you. Mine has to be zero, but it's always positive, sadly.
You didn't finish pricing out the put option. I calculate $475 for a put. But think about this a second. That's a crazy low price for this kind of investment. You're only paying a 3.3% premium to hold a put I can exercise at any point in the next 5 years. At any point in the next 5 years, if BTC goes down by rougly 7% I'm in the money. That's a daily swing for BTC in a normal week.

I think the volatility input in this equation is way off.
Here's a link to the actual opinion, which is pretty interesting if you're into political history and constitutional law: http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/rucho-opinion....
New Yorkers are pretty highly taxed, actually.
HEVC is H265, Netflix already uses it with 4k clients that can support it.
Na you're looking at it as if you're moving currency from some valued mint to a non-valued mint and that's not the case, we're transforming capital from one ecosystem to another, just like Britain Pounds Sterling to the USD, when you move into the new token ecosystem you now are presented with new ways to use your token. MOST of these systems will not create _value innovation_ but some select systems will and those tokens will actually gain in value faster than the backbone currency [meaning the ivy of your token could grow faster than the tree of ETH/BTC because your innovation has value in addition to being a useful transaction vehicle].
> Having your 'team' win at all costs is a problem both parties share. Here in Oregon both parties are telling me, who is non registered with either party, to vote for or against Measure 101 because the "other party doesn't want me to".

I think those are two separate things - having your team win at all costs, and opposing the other team regardless of what they do. The latter can be a rational response to an opposing team who is willing to win at all costs (and I would currently agree that this is justified). The Democrats have determined that the Republicans are untrustworthy, insisting on rules when they help and suspending them when they don't, pushing all of the gerrymandering they can get away with, etc. The Democrats themselves do not engage in this behavior - they just want the behavior to end. And in turn they get accused of organized voter fraud and all sorts of other allegations that have no basis in reality.

I would actually say that one of the persistent problems with the Democrats is continuing to extend the presumption of good faith to their Republican colleagues who have shown a history of acting in bad faith. The right response is to oppose everything Republicans do, simply because they are Republicans, until they show themselves willing to work in good faith. You can absolutely believe certain things and disagree with your political opponents and still act in good faith.

(As someone who believes in Christian morality and disagrees with a lot of policies of Democrats, notably their warlike tendencies, this situation combined with the two-party system is a problem for me, because it is now the case that I simply cannot vote for any Republican in good conscience, whether or not I think their Democratic opponent is reasonable.)
Goldman Says Cryptocurrencies May Succeed as Form of Real Money
The guy appears to have lied about a PhD and being a chess master. So it's entirely reasonable for me to be skeptical of his claims in a lawsuit that he was an A+++ top performer. And even if those claims are correct, I still would like to look at his code and hear from his coworkers. He wouldn't be the first person to get promoted beyond his actual accomplishments.

Also, sweeping assertions like "had no reason" assume facts not in evidence. We mainly don't know what happened at Google. Or why he didn't complete his PhD. We have only heard his side of the story, and only part of that.
While I don't disagree that that's part of the overall strategy, I have a hard time believing that someone can't find the time once to get an ID every four years. Poor people living literally in the middle of nowhere in a state like Texas work it out, so why can't people in the city?

It's rather convenient that the Democrats are always against any measure that would make elections less easy to rig, and provide no active solutions to improve the situation.
Well it's more because the title implies sweeping generalizations about conservatives. I think most people, when proven wrong by a fact checker, would be slightly irritated. It's a bait article, not really meant to foster discussion.
elect different representatives that promise not to do that

If that’s your response, I assess that you’ve either reached the point of supporting a narrative, or you don’t understand the impact of gerrymandering, which is specifically designed to work around this. You snarkily mentioned something was “U. S. government 101”, which it wasn’t, but gerrymandering they taught me in grade school.
Actually, I did this for a 3-D minigolf game I made about 20 years ago. The algorithm isn't hard. You have a rather small parameter space of possible hits (direction plus velocity). In my game it was a 3-dimensional parameter space. For his, it would be a 2-dimensional parameter space. The output is the distance from the hole to the ball when it stops moving. This is just a minimization problem. Try a bunch of experiments and refine the better ones. Worked for me.

It is technically true that it's possible there might be a solution that your search won't find. But I never found an example of that occurring for my game. So if you follow this, you may inadvertently throw out a hard level that has a solution, but you'd never present the player with a level that has no solution.
All political systems with a modicum of success, including ours, have worked to align interests without relying on a moral compass. Magnetic north tends to wobble quite a bit more in politics. The idea of our republic is that the only responsibility of people would be to elect congressmen they feel will represent them, or continue doing so. And similarly, to not reelect people that do not represent them. This thus coerces representatives into representing the people for fear of finding themselves without seat come next election campaign.

That this has failed is in fault a part of the system, but largely our own fault. You can see this very thread degenerating into partisanship. And this partisanship ensures that representatives don't actually need to worry about representing the people that put them into office. All they need to do is make the people scared enough of the alternative that they'll vote against their self interest 'because it's better than the alternative.' The most recent election was quite a radical example, which I suspect will only get more extreme in elections to come. How many people genuinely felt Hillary was the sort of person that would truly represent them and their beliefs? How many people voted for her because they were terrified instead of Trump? And vice versa for those that voted for Trump and their terror of Clinton as opposed to those voting with belief Trump would effectively represent them?

It's also the same reason our 'representatives' pander left and right to corporations and special interests. We do a pretty awful job at being swayed by anything resembling merit, but massive advertising, attack ads, and other stuff is what really gets us going. Corporations and special interests provide the "donations" to fund those campaigns. The average voter does not. They simply go out and emotionally, or tribally, cast their votes, get their sticker and 6 pack, and go home and root for their team like a sports game - much to the benefit of the 'players.'
The DNC did not put up known pedophile as a candidate and continued to support him after highly credible accusations were made.

Not. The same. Thing.
> It's a thing you do to win short term gains, but you can't keep doing it over and over.

They redraw the map every 10 years, and they do do it over and over.

Sure, sometimes demos shift, but even then it's a crap shoot as to whether enough people move, and if those people move in are of a different party.

> state-wide popular vote election

That's party-list proportional representation. It's done in many countries, but not in the U.S. or countries of the British Commonwealth. Any U.S. state could decide to adopt it though...
No, it actually works. When California went through with it, the “other side” actually gained seats. It takes the drama out of redistricting, and districts are of a much regular shape. Of course, isn’t perfect, but a sucks way less solution is much better than a sucks way more one.
Would a fact checking engine that allows you to use incorrect information as its source be better or worse than nothing at all?
The only part the acknowledge is zip-i-dee-doo-da!
As it is in most countries...
Yes. There are business parks along the highways all over the suburbs, and so everyone has a hellish suburb-to-suburb commute.
Kinda hate to say it because of the current level of hype making it always sound buzzwordy, but a blockchain or something similar could be legitimately useful here. The issue is getting government entities to agree to strict accountability.
This is what I don't get. In my state at least, MI, it costs $18 for a 4-year license (less for just an ID). Sure, you might have to wait a couple hours depending on the location of the SOS (DMV), but that's one day every few years.

If people are actually concerned that requiring a state ID to vote will disenfranchise the poor, then compromise and make IDs free or discounted based upon income.
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Apart from professional activities, I'm a hobbyist in Lisp, Ruby, Node.js, Angular.js. Learning internals of the Linux Kernel, since this is something I'm truly excited about.

One of my hobby projects is a geeky bookmarking service written in Go: https://github.com/dimonomid/geekmarks

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It's not at all, but the rational thing to do is still to support bad and not worse. (Unless you have a realistic way of introducing good, but I don't see any of them that will work in the short term, and I think promoting bad and eliminating worse is probably the best way to get there.)
Romero comes across as a really nice guy!
A new battery-electric airplane goes into production as popularity grows
What about "we're not perfect, but they're dangerously totalitarian"?
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Hi, my name is Dmitry. I'm a passionate software engineer with strong background in low-level (MCU real-time kernels, C, Assembler), and experienced in higher-level technologies as well: Go, C++, JavaScript, and many others. Author of the well-formed and carefully tested real-time kernel for 16- and 32-bit MCUs: TNeo: https://github.com/dimonomid/tneo , which is now used by several companies.

Apart from professional activities, I'm a hobbyist in Lisp, Ruby, Node.js, Angular.js. Learning internals of the Linux Kernel, since this is something I'm truly excited about.

One of my hobby projects is a geeky bookmarking service written in Go: https://github.com/dimonomid/geekmarks

Technologies: Go, C, C++, Assembler, Low-level, Embedded, RTOS, JavaScript, SQL, PostgreSQL, Java, Linux, Git, Bash, Docker, Ansible

Some of my articles:

- How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/how_i_ended_up_writing_my_o...

- Here's why I love Go: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/i_love_go

- How do JavaScript closures work under the hood: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/js_closures

- Unit-testing (embedded) C applications with Ceedling: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/unit_testing_embedded_c_app...

- Object-oriented techniques in C: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/oop_in_c

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Most of the MPEG contributers aren't making their living from selling codec designs e.g. Apple, Microsoft, Nokia so many of the same concerns apply. Except with MPEG those companies have a government granted right to dictate business models to their competitors via patent licences.

It's similar to the "if you aren't paying, your the product not the customer" line, unfortunately companies can charge you for something and then also sell your data to make more money.
These are interesting, but many are tough to really grok without being normalized by DAU's
> If you oppose both then voting 3rd party is sill more useful than staying home.

Oh, certainly. But very few people dislike both candidates equally. I didn't think Clinton was a particularly good candidate, but I was extremely concerned about the prospect of Trump being President. In that situation, my most sensible path is to vote for Clinton, despite my reservations. A vote for a third party would be a waste unless the system was changed in a way that would make it meaningful. All that said, I live in New York, so my vote doesn't make a damn difference anyway.
This article puts a big question mark of the quantitative easing done in 2008 on the dollar:

http://www.heritage.org/monetary-policy/report/quantitative-...
The most interesting part of this (to me at least) is that even our 'secure' messaging systems rely entirely on trusted entities. I don't think Signal is immune to this problem either, as you still need to communicate with their servers. As a distributed trust system, WhatsApp and Signal are single points of failure.

Messaging is analogous to money in a lot of ways. Perhaps we'll see a good distributed peer to peer messaging protocol at some point in the future.
Do you have a link? We have not participated in such a challenge.
The tricky bit about consciousness is that nobody can find a useful way to measure or define it. So we end up chasing our tails talking about if fish feel “pain”, that is, they suffer, and yet have no tools or criteria that would help us know.

Let’s imagine that, actually, deer don’t have any form of consciousness and cannot suffer. Imagine a deer critically injured in a hunt — nose flaring, eyes open wide, struggling to stand up, screaming maybe. This feels like a reasonable way for an animal to respond, backed by evolutionary reasons, even if its a mindless automaton.

Now imagine we magically imbue that deer with a consciousness in this situation. What measurably changes about their behavior? They still scream, try to run, struggle to survive — I can’t think of any way the situation would be different. Conscious or not, the deer behaves the same.

Thus, the claim “deers have consciousness” is non-falsifiable — the claim does not provide any way to be disproven, since there is no difference in measurable characteristics if the claim is true or false. One day, we might have a way to quantify consciousness. For the time being we are not even close.

Claims that are non-falsifiable are not really worthy of scientific inquiry. My personal conclusion, then, is that the question of consciousness is not a useful one. Any animal measurably displaying pain is in pain, in every useful form of the word, and we have a moral obligation to prevent it. Fish included.
Sorry, but no, that's not what I'm talking about. You're being distracted by actions of those in power vs. the common mentality of the people voted them in.

You're right that the types of things being done by each party, when in power, are different, but the shared mentality amongst the party members, of both parties, is the same: our team must win at all costs.
China’s Die-Hard Star Wars Fans Respond to ‘Last Jedi’ Flop
Sure, but that's a fashion vs. fashion comparison.

I'm not arguing that the modes we operate under are informed by the mores of the time - I'm arguing that pretending they don't exist isn't 'logic'. It is willful ignorance.