skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sympathetic to both "sides," although it's unclear to me that there are really sides. No one is actually happy about the rising costs in San Francisco (aside from current owners of real estate), and I've not met anyone who likes that there's effectively a purge going on of lower-income people in the city. Similarly, I think very few people want to ban tech commuters from living in San Francisco and eject the start-ups that already exist here.

It's a perfectly broken system, because it's working exactly as it's supposed to: more economically productive people get more access to scarce resources. No one is individually at fault, but there's an emergent order that is grotesque.

The issue is what should someone upset at this do? The people being priced out obviously can't be reskilled to make their labor worth the amount a Googler gets, and the city is, as far as I can tell, incapable of addressing the problem--someone is doubtlessly going to chime in something about rezoning, but it's simply wishful thinking to think that constructing a couple thousand extra housing units per year would do anything besides maybe slightly slow the increase of housing costs, which are already too high for most people.

Lashing out at the buses is a strategy I'm not particularly impressed with. At best it might incentivize tech companies to figure out how to solve the problem themselves, but that's difficult to see happening, both because it's simultaneously a very hard problem to solve and a problem that will resolve itself--in a way neither I nor the protesters will like much--in less than a decade (at least in San Francisco--Oakland and Berkeley probably have a bit more than a decade).

I've intellectually played around with some fairly radical strategies and solutions--for instance, a high land value tax that's used to fund a basic income for residents--but none of them seem like a slam dunk answer, and all of them can be described, at best, as "maybe not impossible." But I'm incredibly eager for any ideas.
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Enyo JS (http://enyojs.com/), which powered the later versions of Palm/HP/LG webOS, expresses its components in JSON as well. Having developed both for webOS and now in React/JSX, I can say JSX is the more easily understood of the two. JSX does enforce small oddities like camel case attributes and always-closed tags since it is XML in the end, but it's closer to HTML and that is reason enough for it to win for me.
Result of using gender quotas, maybe? Does anyone know to what extent the NYPD relaxes its standards for people who aren't qualified but are "under represented"? If there's a bias in the hiring phase, there's likely to be similar laxity in the firing phase, too.
Thanks for those numbers.

So they're the numerator, right? Then what's the denominator? It seems like that's tough to figure out. But I want to say something like, how many PCs were sold up until the release, and with what OSen?

I don't have an answer. I'm just curious because it's an interesting debate.
Attribute access of namedtuples aren't any quicker as you've surmised, it requires a hash lookup and an index lookup.

Yes, you're right, I was mistaken about how namedtuples work under the hood.
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I'm from New Mexico, and it's a grand place.

However he might be thinking of the backwards and corrupt policing of the state. For instance,

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-new-mexico-...
http://www.elpasotimes.com/latestnews/ci_25024804/new-lawsui...
XSLT is about the worst possible piece of technology - it's over engineered and practically unusable for all but simple transforms. functions, conditionals etc are just typical enterprise antiquated over designed unable crap.
There are actually 156 smiley's on the wall, which is (of course) exactly 3 years.
Before this post, I was thinking about watching Moon again. It's such an incredible and unknown film. I will watch it again.

If you haven't seen Moon, then the following song will not make sense, but the sense of desolation and uncertainty rhymes with the film. The ending of the song captures the denouement @ 7:20.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Downfall/2VQtYZ

Moon was fantastic.
No, I don't think it's uncommon that incompetent assholes end up in positions of power and aren't pushed out.
I think you have a well thought-out comment in general, but, like in many many cases on many topics, you have overlooked how much of an outlier the US is.

Look at the US prison population. What kind of policing and prosecutors and courts are needed to feed a system like that?

As Stalin said, "Quantity has a quality all it's own."
Great Story -- more of a myth though:
http://conservationmagazine.org/2011/03/frog-fable-brought-t...
"If that is the mentality, then why is android even open source to begin with, after all people can come and "freeload" off AOSP.
"

I'm not sure I follow. Freeloading is a huge problem, even in the open source community. This is for example, one of the reasons the GPL exists.
Your options in NYC tend to be driven by the deals your building has made. My building has TWC, RCN and after Sandy destroyed the copper infrastructure FIOS. From what I understand about getting FIOS, it comes down to your building being big enough and receptive to having them wire it up. Most are not very receptive.
Not necessarily. A lot of people live here for a lot of different reasons. I live in SF for the people despite the way the city is organized and run.

The types of people from the techies to the hippies are what make San Francisco desirable. The "quaintness" people admires? Who cares? What matters if that changes with growth so long as it changes for the better?

Instead of being against all growth, why not just support growth that improves your quality of life? For example, instead of only being okay with rent control, permit a mechanism where you can trade your rent control on your current place for rent control in a better newly constructed building. Further still, you could create a market for people to exchange rent control in one unit for rent control in another unit. This would permit builders to voluntarily submit to rent control as a way to get access to land. i.e. I want to develop a piece of land into 20 units, where there are now two units. I could offer the tenants of those two units at the same rent price in nicer and larger units in a building I recently built.
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Just another thought, I have grown to completely mistrust any 'well-used' rating service and thus must say Uber and the like has a long way to go before I will trust their ratings by one iota.

I remember a friend once opened up a bakery and sent out an email to friends and family to review it on Yelp. So within a week of opening, there were 100+ 4-5 star reviews. I've stopped using Yelp since then and have found a great new review since then that I hope businesses don't discover, and so far they haven't, and so far the reviews are spot on.

The role of government (in theory) is to serve the people and it will not make any extra profit (aside from bribery, which again, leads to job loss) and in fact lose their "elected" jobs if their regulations fail to protect people.

Uber and other companies have a monetary incentive to squelch and play down bad reviews. In a pure capitalistic system, one should simply follow the money and realize that '1.0 regulation' doesn't sound so bad compared to '2.0' regulation by companies that have a vested interest in manipulating it to their means.
> 10Gen have one of the best marketing and sales teams in the game at the moment.

No doubt. I have 2 MongoDB mugs even though I vowed to never touch a product produced by them again (it was, after the whole -- we'll throw your data write requests over the wall and pray fiasco).
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I still have to do a mental mapping between this and what will ultimately be generated: HTML. Since JSX is XHTML, the mapping is minimal. This also moves in the direction of web components, which is getting a lot of attention from the Chrome team lately.

<div>
<RadComponent onClick={this.handleClick} model={this.props.thing} />
</div>
Something I excitedly noticed I've never been able to tell anyone because it's too specific:

Moon (2009) opens with the line "Where Are We Now?," the title of the first single off Bowie's new album (2013).

David Bowie is, of course, Duncan Jones' father.
My heavens. This is in danger of turning all the rhetoric around depression on its ear! Everyone knows happiness or the lack of it is determined by brain chemistry, not life events. A well-adjusted person feels the same whether you run them over with a car or give them a hand job.
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Sharing is both common and expected, as it arises naturally as a result of writing functions over variants. The language also provides an identity test (==) by which sharing can be observed, so it can't be said to be "behind the scenes".

Several of the data structures in the stdlib make good use of sharing to reduce the cost of operations - Set.union is a particularly good example. map, however, is not the sort of operation that leads to sharing.
> Either they don't understand it - or they just don't want to.

You missed an option: They willfully misunderstand it because they're looking for a promotion or they have to make their arrest quota.
It's telling that you're comparing America in 2010+ to bad times in the past and developing and undeveloped countries.

Surely America should be compared with Developed (1st world) countries if it's to be considered one...
These language features are not correlated with style problems. There is no evidence that they are. These are folk remedies for bad writing.

On the passive voice, see: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922 and many, many more articles on that blog.

On adverbs:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/02/20/being-an-...

and on adverb hunting via software:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004271.h...

and on this app:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416
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Tech people care more about hardware and software than about social behaviors.
A bit more clarification: what's to stop them from LYING that they have Mirandized you?
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Oldies but goodies... I save these links to remind myself pretty and minimal doesn't necessarily mean better.

http://www.mrgreen.am/affiliate-marketing/the-ugly-truth/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338459
90% has to be a subset of something, there is no way 297 million Americans use the radio. I bet it is something like 90% of automobile drivers use the radio, I never heard the radio outside of cars these days. Even most businesses use some sort of streaming for their music these days.
>All because you blew a red light, which by the way is basically instantly a ticket if you're in a car, and couldn't immediately admit wrongdoing and move on. Sorry, if you were a buddy of mine telling me that story, I'd tell you you were a moron for deciding to "educate" the police officer.

So, the "american way" you propose is to BEND OVER and take abuse and injustice from police officers?

You sure are pragmatic -- but I would hate to live in your world.
Yeah, but that's exactly what it is - it's just that they are putting people's life at danger yet, but their actions are to put stress and nervousness on users, which is very much the same goal as terrorism. Terrorism is not just about putting bombs on the streets, when you get death/serious threats in your mailbox it's also terrorism.
Just because you are prejudiced in favor of white people doesn't mean every other white person alive is also a racist.
I did too, I think it's because the photo at the top is of a woman speaking. Knowing nothing about the author prior to visiting the site, it's not unrealistic to assume that it's a photo of the author. At least, that's what I think went down in my subconscious.
Libertarians don't expect other to abide by it. Enforcing non-initiatory use of force and fraud is one of the legitimate purposes of the government.
Guys, the buses have nothing to do with it. People are angry because rents and evictions are through the roof, and many people are really feeling it. SV hasn't been shy about taking credit for the situation. The buses are just an obvious target.
Sorry but i disagree on b). The streets don't belong to anyone, they are a public space and they are paid by everyone who lives and does not live there. It's not because a street goes in front of your house that you own it. Therefore any action preventing free circulation on public streets should be outlawed.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Very true, but at the same time, the anonymity prized by many in support of the site or currencies like BTC makes it a easy target for scammers. I'm saying this happened here, but I'm honestly surprised DPR1 had as much money in BTC, and lived in the US. i.e. Build a system, run it as legit until you're storing $100m of other people's money. Then use the anonymity the system provided you disappear with their money to a county where you broke no laws and provides no extradition to the USA. Spend the rest of your life sipping mai-tais on the beach. Anonymity can be the enemy of accountability.
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Not only that, but the idea that the truth is too subtle and complex for the masses, so it is better to feed them ideas known to be false by the leaders.

I always hear "educated" liberals say how crime is caused by poverty, and that race isn't a factor after poverty is accounted for. I have read plenty of academic topics on the paper, and liberal academics are very happy to acknowledge that poverty cannot account for the race difference in crime rates.

But these academics have proven their loyalty to the true faith, so they can say these things within their own circles. Ordinary people who try to make this same claim will be socially punished.
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What I hear you saying is that you enjoy the somewhat arbitrary primate street rules that apply to interacting with people who have more power than you, and you'd rather live by those rules than laws.
I don't really understand why everyone is pooh-poohing this; it's just a more creative way to rate-limit their signups than relying on the usual "you are number 123 on the beta invite list".
> the rising incidence of celiac disease (which, as the article says, appears to be a real thing and not merely better detection, which was my most-likely belief until I read this article).

Autoimmune disorders in general are on the rise.

We aren't arguing all that much, except for your statement that gluten is a problem for everyone, but some can handle more some less. I say gluten is perfectly fine for most, and bad only for a small number.

Meaning there is no reason to try to reduce gluten in food or blame some nebulous "processing". Or claim that there is more gluten in bread now. All those things are just part of a fad.

If a person has a problem with gluten then they do. For everyone else it's a non-issue.
I could try, but I can't get C加油 out of my head.
>You can't write performance critical code in C. C is great for high level code, but if performance is important there is no alternative to assembly.

That statement makes no sense.

Of course you can write performance critical code in C. People write all kinds of performance critical code in C. Heck, kernels are written in C. What's more "performance critical" than a kernel? Ray traycers are written in C. Real time systems are written in C. Servers are written in C. Databases are written in C. Socket libraries. Multimedia mangling apps like Premiere are written in C (or C++). Scientific number crunching libraries for huge datasets are written in C (and/or Fortran).

The kind of "performance critical code" you have to write in assembly is a negligible part of overall performance critical code. And the speed benefit is not even that impressive.
The OP did write "stupidly". So you aren't arguing with him.
> Scandinavian countries. My explanation of that phenomenon is that those countries are small (both in territory and number of citizens)

Add to that:

- Socialist governments that redistribute wealth so there isn't as much of a socioeconomic class gap (specifically mentioned by the cops in this article as an explanation for their harassment)

- Racially and culturally homogenous (especially compared to USA)

I'm not saying these traits' effects are solely positive, or that those countries are inherently better for these reasons, or that these are directions the USA ought to go. I'm merely pointing out that it seems many of the US's problems are due to class/racial tensions that don't exist in other countries with different histories.
The 'size' at which you unleash the chaos-monkey is i think a matter of a lot of subjectivity. The QoS expected is one factor. Can you afford to fail?

Formally, two 'requirements', in order to randomly kill your servers are-

1. You have Highly Available infrastructure.
2. You have fail-over established across the architecture.
The reason so many campaigns use "raising awareness" as a goal is because it is trivially, almost tautologically achievable. Let's say the numbers were 10% of what they are. Hey, raised awareness, success! Let's say they were 10x what they are. Hey, awareness!

Furthermore, to be more brutal about this, I think "getting an article in the NYT" can no longer be a success outcome for awareness in a world with such fast attention cycles. There's an adage in politics that an issue has to be in the press for something like 5 consecutive days for it to have real electoral impact. Seems like that is more akin to the target here.

Yes, it means we can't automatically declare victory, but it also defines a victory that's earned.
Interesting. I commented earlier in the thread that they maybe the police were hinting they wanted a bribe -- this would have a similar outcome but maybe more legal / less traceable.
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Yeah...

that's a pretty long time.
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>You assert that Python hasn't progressed much, but you thumb down the project to progress it (Python 3).

I was talking performance wise. There are benchmarks from the Python devs out there that confirm what I wrote.

I did not speak about Python as a language in general. That said, if you want my opinion, Python 3 is not much progress in that regard either.

>Your assertion that optimization must always happen all at once is completely bogus

That's good, because I never asserted that. I didn't say that "optimization must always happen all at once", just that incremental optimization doesn't yield much benefits compared to a thorough interpreter rewrite with optimization in mind.

Python's history confirms this totally. And not only is Javascript a counter-example (all at once optimization getting huge results), but PyPy also is.
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How often do you get picked for jury duty? I've never been picked. (And given current trends probably never will be - they seem to have gotten too good at weeding out people who have opinions about anything.)
> Make those fuckers pay

> make sure the fucks who arrested you are fired

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Ken White, of the law blog Popehat, says of a case of much more serious police abuse which resulted in a $1.6 million settlement:

"you can assume that...taxpayers, not the law enforcement officers who engaged in a conspiracy to commit torture and rape, will foot the bill...The only thing out of it that would surprise me is if any of the individual police officers or sheriff's deputies faced any genuine significant consequences arising from it."

[1] http://www.popehat.com/2014/01/16/update-the-quantum-of-reco...
The presentation starts about 15 minutes in -- it was a live thing at the Commonwealth Club.
I was really jazzed when this came out. For me, it fell flat. Perhaps it needs a second viewing. Kudos for the use of models instead of cgi for this filmmaker, though -- pretty awesome decision. The results speak for themselves. Striking visuals!
Internal investigations are also BS. If police officers are officers of the court, judges should have the authority (and use the authority) to strip the officer of the authority to act as an officer. Much like contempt of court, it should not require formal hearings or process to immediately remove bad officers from duty. At that point the police department would effectively have an ordinary citizen on their payroll, unable to wear a uniform or make arrests or risk being charged with impersonating an officer and kidnapping.
Thanks for this comment. It's disheartening that some will always point and yell, "Hahahaha - all those guys on the blue team. Man, they're so dumb!" like an individual's political philosophy has absolutely no nuance. It's easier when your world view is all Libertarians are Anarchists, or all Democrats are Marxists and Socialists, or all Republicans are racist Teabaggers.
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It's a subset of 100% ;)

http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/03/nielsen-more-than-90-perce...
> And your words are a huffman tree - the most popular ones are the shortest

Problem with that is that it leaves very little room for error detection in the language -- everything is a valid statement.
I've got to say this site does 'responsive design' the exact wrong way. On small screens all the words are hidden explaining what it actually is, instead you just get a giant meaningless image and buttons with no context.
Why can't Intel and MIPS challenge the ARMpire?
If anything, null-terminated strings are bad for performance as often as good for it. One example that comes up reasonably often: comparing strings that have different lengths but common prefixes is fast with length-tagged (Pascal-style) strings, but expensive with C-style strings, because you have to scan both strings until you find either a string end, or a difference. So instead of quickly answering "not equal" after one integer comparison, you could end up doing hundreds (or thousands) of byte comparisons in degenerate cases. Anything that calls strlen() also ends up doing extra work.
I was startled to see "I'm a fifth-generation San Franciscan" as if merely not moving away is making a claim on having a place in the city, more so than actually choosing to relocate there. He almost sounds nostalgic for serfdom, because you can (and must) work the same farm your parents did for life.
It's interesting but it feels like every year for what feels like more than a decade, some student is building either a craigslist for campus, a campus chat board, a campus event system, a note sharing app, or course scheduler, or some student discount system. These ideas constantly crop up over and over again yet I don't remember any persisting or growing to dominate the space.