skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement is not inconsistent with mine. This is economics 101, price controls act the same way with housing as they do with oil. If those apartments could not be converted to the market rate, the investment would not be made. Market rate housing invests money over a longer period of time instead of a short burst.
"Comparable to Sadiq Khan (the major of London) claiming that terror attacks are just part and parcel of life in the big city"

I'm so incredibly sick of hearing this. It's completely a fabrication. That's not what the quote is, and the fact that people keep saying it is makes me think they have an ulterior motive for getting the quote wrong

The actual quote is this

"Part and parcel of living in a great global city is you’ve got to be prepared for these things, you’ve got to be vigilant, you’ve got to support the police doing an incredibly hard job. We must never accept terrorists being successful, we must never accept that terrorists can destroy our life or destroy the way we lead our lives."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/29/misle...

It makes me really want to disregard your entire comment when you say that Sadiq Khan just "accepts terrorism as part and parcel of living in a city"
Selling farmed accounts isn't lucrative. You can buy an account with 10K thread karma and 50K comment karma for $50-100.
I see no word "Ether" in your post. LIGO (which is basically Michelson–Morley experiment at much higher scale and precision) already demonstrated waves in Ether/QF(Quantum Field)/PV(Physical Vacuum)/Space caused by merges of black holes, so I see no point to play this word game anymore.

I'm unsure about why you think that laws of conservation will not hold for Ether, AKA Quantum Field, AKA physical vacuum. If we will be able to get energy from QF, QF will lost that energy and will cool down, so Casimir effect will be smaller until it will vanish. However, there is no shortage of PV in space, and Sun is pretty good at heating it.

However, because of wave-particle duality, and because waves are propagating without moving, and because waves are propagating at speed of light, Casimir effect may be unaffected by rotation even when exposed to raw vacuum for speed less than 50% of speed of light.
Ah. So basically he is not saving money now, he was just wasting it before.
I think you're probably getting downvoted for making the claim that

> somebody must be poor for society to function
I'll write a blog post about it soon, but I was hoping to benefit from other people's comments and links from discussing it here first. (You could accuse me of "crowd sourcing" my blog post, but I'd like to think of it as applying collective intelligence! ;) )

"The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed." -Douglass Engelbart, Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times, 9/19/05

https://collectiveiq.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/great-doug-eng...

Or as the great philosopher Linda Richman said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJkANps0Qw&feature=youtu.be...
You could fly after his drone with your drone and see who it is!
A really solid alternative was Lemonstand, then they decided to do the SAAS dance and lost most of their fan base.
>That just makes people who like Trump shut down and call your site fake news.

... good riddance?
Hah! I used exactly this example to motivate the arbitrary precision CLP(FD) implementation, published as The Finite Domain Constraint Solver of SWI-Prolog, FLOPS 2012, LNCS 7294:

https://www.metalevel.at/swiclpfd.pdf

The observations on type inference are also spot on. The project you mentioned was previously discussed on HN, but the page is no longer available:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108041
Show HN: I built something I'm proud of recipepoodle, a social recipe site
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If anyone else out there is like me then they probably constantly have projects that they start and never finish. I have always loved programming and have always had side projects that I've built in my free time, but would never finish them. Typically it was always the same story, get started, run into a problem, can't find the solution, stop working on the project. Rinse repeat for the next one.

This time around I made a challenge for myself that the next project I take on I would put my full ability into building it out, even if it took forever to get to certain the solutions. The project I built was called recipepoodle (http://www.recipepoodle.com/about). I spend a lot of time cooking and I wanted to build something that would allow myself, friends, family... whoever, to be able to post and share their recipes.

I think one of the reasons I stuck with this project was because even before I started hosting it online I was using it almost daily from my localhost. I want to give a shoutout to two resources I ended up using pretty heavily for learning rails. Going through these tutorials I was able to build social features like sharing, user profiles, following users, saving recipes you like... etc.

gorails.com [awesome bite-sized videos on a huge spectrum of ruby topics] thinkster.io [great for learning to build real-world applications]

The application is utilizing ruby 5 for a backend API and for the frontend I opted to use Angular. I added a better breakdown for tech stack below.

Backend recipepoodle was built with rails 5 and using Postgres for persistent storage. I use Heroku for server deployment, currently on the hobby plan (approx $5 month). The app is also using elasticsearch for search and recipe recommendations. I chose to go with AWS to host my ES cluster purely based on financials (free for the first year). The final piece I am using is an API for getting the nutrition breakdown of each recipe. So when a user creates a recipe I send the ingredients to spoonacular.com/food-api in JSON format and it returns me the macronutrient breakdown.

Frontend I am far less of a frontend developer so I ended up relying heavily on tutorials and stack overflow. I used Angular 2 for my frontend framework (from what I hear of react I wish I had used that). I'm hosting the site using AWS S3 with Cloudfront sitting in front of it for caching.

There is still a lot of work to do and it's buggy as heck but its really the first time a project as left my localhost to be hosted online. If anyone has any questions I would be more than happy to answer them :)
The lease applies to the land on which the apartment is built. The 'owner' of the apartment building cannot grant you a lease that goes beyond the period remaining on the land lease. So you get 70-x.

But not sure what will happen when these leases begin to expire.
And wait up to 10 minutes for a ChatCoin transaction to go through? Ain't no one got time for that!
I don't think the FAA does anything lightly when it comes to passenger air travel.

The author probably misunderstood the meaning of the phrase.
I don't think many people see it as an immediate threat. But between unpredictable American policies affecting regional politics or the global economy, the Chinese bullying countries like Norway and the Russians trying to affect politics in other countries this could all change relatively quickly.

PS. The brochure can be downloaded here: https://www.msb.se/en/Tools/News/The-brochure-If-Crisis-or-W...
I'm from there. It's not that bad, but not looking out of place helps considerably.

There's not much violent crime, so just keep your wits about you; You'll be fine :)
I built the high level system but out of stock components from the usual suspects. I used off the shelf components though. Standard High CRI LED strips, stock power supplies, 0-10v dimmers, and a Raspberry Pi in charge. Most of the hardware and heat sink from superbrightleds.
I don't think that this is a technology problem - it's a polarization problem. No amount of technology traveling at the speed of light will solve the simple problem that you belong to an ideological sub-group that ferociously disagrees with another sub-group about how things should be run. Indeed, we're a nation of 330 million people, this is to be expected. I'm amazed we've been able to get away with this level of centralization for this long.

This isn't all that different from the EU, a similar union of states with a similar population (500 million), where the vast majority of laws and regulations are passed at the member-state level and not at the EU level. Any American that argues "each state will handle things on its own" is just making the same argument that a European might make when saying "we should enact this healthcare system X, or that pension system Y, or that policy Z in Germany".

This was always the Framers' intent, Hamilton himself was well aware of the perils of the Tyranny of the Majority[1]. The prescription for this was to apply the subsidiarity principle and use concurrent majorities (i.e. "let the states decide"). Federalism was never about the logistics of walking to state lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Yeah it finally started working for me. But I was definitely being served a broken build.
Boeing and the FAA proceed on these things as a partnership. Boeing has their name on the line, and they have way more engineers and other technical specialists than the FAA. In the past, Boeing has essentially written the specs that must be adhered to by all equipment producers, and, once the FAA approves those specs and procedures, ensures that they are followed. This book gets into how this worked with the 747:

https://www.amazon.com/747-Creating-Worlds-Adventures-Aviati...
Do you know about the four-port Prolog debugger, a.k.a. the Prolog tracer? If not, it's used to actually step through your code, one call at a time. You can set breakpoints and everything. Swi-Prolog even has a graphical interface for it (though I personally prefer the textual interface).

Bottom line- yes, you can add print statements etc, but you can also directly debug your Prolog code just like you'd do for an imperative language.
I remember crying/laughing/screaming when I won three GameBoy Advance games from some kids magazine. I would say he's pretty happy with himself.
> some plane crashes occurred after pilots did not secure flaps on wings before takeoff. The FAA required Boeing to have several warning systems to make sure pilots won't attempt a takeoff before the wingtips are locked in the correct position.

And Boeing couldn't imagine that might be a good idea in the first place?
I thought a wider wings would cause more drag? What am I missing?
> The truth is, big real estate companies have the resources and the incentive to be aggressive.

Those are the people who can afford to weaponize the courts. Us little guys still have to play by the rules as we don't have deep pockets and lawyers on retainer.
The rutabagas that we get around here are little bit stronger and tougher than turnip, so it adds a nice zing. Don't buy more than one unless you're really planning on making a lot of pasties.

I grew up in southeastern Michigan, but we took family trips in da UP eh, and my mom likes to reverse engineer recipes. So when we got home from one trip, she whipped up a batch of perfectly authentic pasties from just guessing what was in them.

I wonder how far you could travel, eating nothing but the traditional "whatever's available, wrapped in the local bread" in each country that you visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmL3F5uylo

I mean, if you can show me any significant society in human history without a servant/working/slave class though, I'll buy you a cookie. A really big cookie.
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iPhones are cheaper in the US than in China. But I'm not sure why they would buy them in NYC rather than HK. HK and the US have similar list prices for the iPhone, but HK has no sales tax, and is closer to mainland China.
The fact that they own the building and the land deed. Tenant rights can be made strong, but property rights will always be stronger.
Whatever the source I don't think there can be any question how Theranos will be judged at this point, which makes resorting to cheap devices all the more unnecessary and redundant.
Books: What the Doorknob Said, by John Markoff. From Counterculture to Cyberculture, by Fred Turner.
What I appreciated most about it (or maybe this is just his writeup skills), but how not advanced each of the things were. It was just mostly him Googling things and making random guesses at the rabbit hole until he found something.

The skill, I guess, comes in piecing it all together and consistently making good guesses.
> A lot of the fear in this thread seems to be from people reading EU law through US filters.

No, my fear is from reading the EU law with an experience based Hungarian filter.
This is perfectly reasonable -- and not what was described to me when I asked about it, which also fit the name better than this does.

That is a terrible name.
"Frogs might like go-to's": Joke from a heated debate about "go to" statements regarding whether go-to's are objectively bad, or it's matter of something in the human mind.
The Wikipedia article suggests that Mandaeans haven't liked to discuss their religious beliefs and traditions with outsiders, but then sort of goes on to reflect a lot of variation in this.

Do you have a sense of how this impulse toward secrecy has worked over time, what's motivated it, and how Mandaeans might understand it today? Are there other Mandaeans you know of who might be unhappy that you're happy to talk about the tradition with strangers on an Internet forum?

How unified do you think different Mandaean communities have been in their beliefs and practices?
>> Also, Prolog code is often "split into digestible chunks". Even more than other languages, in fact, because it's rather hard to write nested loops or nested predicates or nested many other things.

I find it very easy to write nested loops in Prolog:

findall(A
,findall(B
,findall(D
,findall(...)
,G)
,E)
,C)

To paraphrase the old saying, a good Python programmer can write Python in any language.
I have a relative who worked at the FHWA (Federal Highway Admin) for many years. The estimate I often heard is that improper pavement design and maintenance were a factor in 20% - 30% of fatalities (think: asphalt). That friction with your tires is all that's really keeping you on the road. Many states refused to perform testing of their pavement because (a) they would have to remediate, and (b) they would likely have to go with less politically connected companies for pavement that would work better.
Open source and humongous ecosystem makes Magento unbeatable.

You would be nuts to release a payment gateway with no support for it.
Shouldn’t they automatically lock? In what scenario do you want wings down and unlocked?
Sure but taking over the entire discussion thread still looks like an abuse of the site, however on-topic and well-intentioned. You can just post a link to the draft you want people to chime in on.
The difference is that most movie showings are not full, and every empty seat is $12 lost. If you have 50 people seeing a movie at $12, and you'll get more than 10 more people watching it if you price it at $10, you'll make a profit (not to mention concessions).
Hi, Neal here, author of this analysis. You are right, it was an accounting measurement, until I sold the car, then it became a real pocket expense because I sold the car for less than I bought it for, and in that moment it was a measurable cost. I sold the cars before doing this analysis, and included the sales price in the analysis.
Also, it's not a difficult logic leap to call members of the Agency "agents".
What we need is to consider the incentives that laws create. If you're a landlord with rent-controlled units, there is no benefit in doing anything beyond the legally required minimum, and a large benefit in getting the tenants to leave. You can say they shouldn't do that, and you'd even be right, but that's about as useful as saying "people shouldn't sell drugs".
OPA is also a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/03/29/cncf-to-host-open-policy...
When talking with people who struggle, I talk about the that the difference between being able to see a footprint to track a new animal in the forest and you being able to use a somewhat novel computer interface are based on the same principles of experience and ignoring the piles of useless information.
I would expect that in most jurisdictions (well, if they're like Australia) that income is income, and it just goes onto your taxable income.
Magento is older than MongoDB and also I guess they wanted to rely on the ubiquitous Php/MySQL stack to get adoption.

I think a better alternative would be Postgresql which can do relational sql and what MongoDB is supposedly good for.
Prolog on the other hand has a very clear imperative reading, that fits alongside the declarative one. In fact, this is probably one reason why many programmers used to imperative languages find it hard to pick up Prolog and run with it - they get distracted by the imperative reading.

On the other hand, that makes it much easier to debug code, by thinking along the lines of "p/2 is called after p/4" or even "p/2 returns A that is passed to p/4" (even though strictly speaking predicates don't "return" stuff).
>wouldn't you also want to know if they are still open,

Yes, but my experience is that, especially for the case of later (or earlier) than peak business hours for an area, I can't trust a second- or third-hand source like a mapping service for this kind of information.

Even if it weren't for the GIGO problem, I still have the UI problem in that there's only an "open now" boolean filter, which is horrible if I'm searching at 9:48 for places open after 10.

>what kind of food they offer,

Sometimes, but there's often at least a hint in the name of the restaurant. Often, though, the later it is, the less importance the kind of food holds.

>how people rate them?

Honestly, not even a little, since, by this point, it's a "beggars can't be choosers" situation. Plus, even if I had the inclination to dig into the reviews, I wouldn't care what people thought of, for example, the service during the dinner rush.
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> We all benefit more than we ever can repay.

Clearly, that is not possible.
>in an environment that IT had locked down

When I worked in one such environment people made and enjoyed HTA chat app which used text file on a corporate file share as its storage.
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I did this before I relocated there for a few years. It will raise your blood pressure and you'll be trying so hard to protect yourself from one scam that you'll get hit by another, and by the time you've done researching you'll have so little trust that you might see everything as a potential robbery.

Enjoy your time there, it's a beautiful city! Just make sure to minimise your risk by limiting what you carry around with you and never take your eyes off it. That way if you do get unlucky, you can still recover from it.
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It's not just about locking in-place. These warnings will almost certainly include warnings about them being up instead of down, for example.
North Korea has survived until now not because they recently got nukes, but because they are holding South Korea hostage. The moment foreign troops near Pyongyang, conventional NK artillery would have leveled Seoul completely. Millions of rich-country people in a nation allied to the US would die. Also China would have been pissed.
That would be very prudent.

And it's arguably good practice for everyone. Good OPSEC.

Why do I say that? Well, even in "free" countries, one never knows how stuff will go down. What will change. It's better to be safe, than to be sorry.

Also, mass adoption helps protect me, and others who love their privacy. Because it makes us less unusual. That's one of the standard arguments for widespread Tor use. But even so, I prefer to obscure my Tor use with VPN services. Because VPNs are still far more common than Tor. In some areas, VPN usage is over 50%.

And finally, it's a great hobby. Better than puttering in the woodshop. Or whatever.
How do those patents help with spreading Doug Engelbarts work? They would seem to hinder rather than help.
> if that's the price to pay to avoid childhood leukaemia it is too high

Curing leukemia requires multiple rounds of chemotherapy, which are drugs that attempt to kill as much as possible without killing anything important. They aren't particularly safe (which is why cancer patients lose their hair). Once you've cured it, you haven't actually cured it[1]. 10% die from ALL, even treated.

Gastroenteritis is an infection. Sometimes it's bacterial and a round of antibiotics (or possibly probiotics) will do the trick. Once it's cured, it's cured for good. We aren't in 1903. 0.085% die from gastroenteritis usually because they go untreated.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/931/
Oh you implemented this CLP(FD) and wrote that paper! Thanks a lot! My 7-11 example is probably because I first saw it in your paper then.
If you have a small to medium sized shop, WooCommerce (now owned by Automattic) is a better solution and easier to deal with than Magento. For larger sites Magento is the go to, until you reach the threshold of a much more expensive paid solution.
the one in quotes
Mini-kanren?
> There are only 45000 of these left in the city. 30,000 of these are co-ops. If you discount the co-ops that leaves you with just above half of the inventory of rent-controlled units.

Why discount coops? They're units too.

In any case, I didn't say Mitchell-Lama as it exists today is sufficient, but it's a thousand times better at achieving the stated goal.
Honestly, I kinda like the look of it. Not enough to drop $600 on it just yet, but maybe a third or half.
It is pretty clear from your quote that he does accept terrorism as part and parcel of daily life...
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The problem isn't that the landlord is doing the legally required minimum. The problem is that the landlord isn't even meeting the legally required minimum.

When we catch people selling drugs, we take their drugs, and their money, and throw them into prison. When we catch landlords doing this, we should take their properties. They aren't operating some secret underground criminal enterprise here - many of these abuses are well-documented.

I assure you, if you make an example out of a few landlords, the rest will stop with the frivolous evictions. The reason they are playing these games is that they have a lot less to lose then their tenants.
Except this is exactly what Prop 13 does in California, and it is incredibly damaging to housing and rental prices.
so US government does not take an cut ?
Was it the only way? No, of course not. Does Wall Street play the puppet master? I think we all know the answer to that.
- "independent actors are acting rationally in this situation."

- "the only alternative is this particular strawman policy, which would make things worse"

- "there's nothing absurd about people starving due to preventable causes"
Economic growth without a civic plan creates huge bubbles. The second growth slows in Seattle I can’t help but think the market will be flooded with units from people wanting to finally get out at the peak.
Glad to be of service :)