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The ironic part here is that it was an illegal unit and the owner of that unit is making nearly a million dollars while the person who has paid rent for decades is homeless. Why isn't there a huge fine for renting an illegal apartment for years? Seems like a great gig to collect money from someone until you want to report yourself and get permission to evict them and flip the property.
Does anyone know of a quantitative way to measure the influence of random draws vs. skill on the final score? I would have guessed that strategy would be effective on this game, but that could be wrong.
Doesn't seem that hard. Revenue, market cap, funding, to name just a few.
> This hypocrisy makes me physically sick.

You haven't been around the block enough yet.

None of this is surprising, because Feinstein falls under a psychopath narcissism profile altogether with scumbags like Bloomberg ("we need to ban guns" [while I will have 15 armed body guards walking with me everywhere]), Turner ("we need a China policy of one child" [while I have five]), Gore ("our carbon footprint will kill us [while I fly my personal jet that generates as much green gases as all the air trips of one human being combined over the span of his life]), and many many others. Its been hidden in plain sight that those people wants all those rules BUT for other people, not for them.

So while Feinstein fails to realize blanked over 300,000,000 cellphones is as clear violation of constitution as it gets, she will assume every citizen is a terrorist.... except Majesty herself!

I only wish CIA would join the game. They should have used Feinstein own words and first admit they been spying on her, however this is #1) for citizens safety (you know everyone can be a terrorist, INCLUDING Feinstein), #2 tell her like she did tell us that if you dig enough you would find that CIA property IS CIA property and they deem to do with it whatever they desire (like she told us she is surprise anyone is angry, since mass survilence was all nicely written in public bills), and #3 (my favorite): that she shouldn't be worry about it at all, because you know, they have their own Internal Quality Board Committee to oversight survilence and there IS not a smidgen of abuse. I would love to hear that!! After all, what on Earth you think that old hag, her political party, or President himself can do to the most evil but yet most legal Government organisation in the USA.
This. The tech boom isn't at fault here. The refusal to make the necessary changes that allow the housing supply to grow is to blame.

Basically, San Francisco voters are responsible for the evictions, whether they be natives, long-time residents or recent tech transplants.
It would actually prevent this exact situation - stopping larger companies from suing upstart competitors.
Nice article. However I think there's a better algorithm: the one actually used in Doom from Id Software.

First the scene must be put into a 2d bsp (that requires slicing some edge). After that, the bsp must be traversed front-to-back and that gives the edges in the right order. Just keep track of which angles are occluded then while traversing. During the process, when an edge is proccessed, cast/create the shadow accordingly. The algorithm stop when the field of vision is fully occluded - and not farther.
The problem is that, via rent control, she was given 20 years protection from reality evolving around her. That is the issue here.

There would be much less sympathy for a tenant who moved into a place at below-market rent, and then the rent was adjusted to market. But because a feel-good policy has created a broken market, the day of reckoning eventually had to arrive.

In a city of housing shortages, giving a small minority special protection under the law is a very bad outcome. Too bad for those not under the umbrella, too bad for those when the time comes and the umbrella is removed.
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It wasn't until she was aware the owner was trying to evict her that she stopped paying rent. Why would anyone continue to pay rent in that case?

> Over the years, Inge’s rent had gradually increased from $480 to $560 per month; in late 2012, in the midst of the permit debacle, she decided to stop paying rent altogether. Withrington says he “couldn’t do a damn thing about it,” since he was renting an illegal unit.

Sounds pretty smart to me.
Valid points :) One place you may want to look at is the home-school crowd. They pretty often can't afford a microscope, and the 30-kid-classroom problem doesn't exist.
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Not really, though. I'm curious whether these light "molecules" are actually still traveling at c or what?
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Yes.

Totally true. IF you are a developer.

How many managers do you meet who still contribute to Free Software? Or who even look at Stackoverflow, let alone contribute.

You might, which might make you exceptional but the vast majority of managers do not. Yet you are llikely only achieving 10-15% premium over them.

Whilst you (and they) are achieving a significantly higher premium over existant developers.

The problem is that the close you are to the people are the top of the leadership chain, the more they believe you are valuable -- even when your value is motivating other people nothing particularly intrinsic to you.
"Meg Whitman shows that someone with a ton of money can be beat by a better political record."

Heh, for me the defining moment of that campaign was Whitman waxing rhapsodic about how she wanted to bring California back to how wonderful it was when she first got here. And someone pointed out that, when she first got here, her opponent was Governor.
What you're saying is a terrible idea, because it shifts due diligence to the infringing party. This means that whenever I create something, I'd have to hire a legal team to figure out if I'm infringing on something or not, or risk losing the ensuing lawsuit.

Furthermore, I resent the notion that I'm just "handwaving" at all here. It's not only difficult, but completely and entirely impossible.

It's entirely untenable, and it's a little silly to take patent law reform advice from someone who admits to not knowing much about patent law.
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It has less features and worse performance than Solr and Sphinx. The worse performance is being worked on and will probably be fixed in 9.4 (the index guys claim that they can beat Sphinx in benchmarks).

The advantage of having your fulltext search inside your database is huge though and can outweigh the current disadvantages. For example you do not have to manage another database, indexing can be transactional and instant, and you can can have both fulltext search and normal SQL stuff in the same query (often reducing latency).
The problem was someone filed a complaint. Like any bureaucracy, once you put something down on paper they have to do something. If she hadn't been such a difficult person to get along with she'd still be living there.
as a developer, how can I target the enterprise market, namely ERP, CRM type of software? I wouldn't mind creating one from scratch or based on some open source software and delivering that.
You can very much patent "what to do". They're called business method patents, and they're how software is actually patented in the US.

There is no "software patent", strictly speaking.
I have a question though. Why is this manual?

I don't know much about CV, but even from the a link I saw the other day about SimpleCV, it seems like there should be a way to at least filter out all of the quadrants that are simply ocean, and prioritize the quadrants that are -almost entirely- ocean.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying this so I look forward to the education -- thanks.
Perhaps the 90% were put off by the list of payroll-related things? It likely looked like a slightly more elaborate version of one of those parking sites, with the links to nowhere that are all vaguely related to the domain name (and tons of ads).

Your current site again looks like a spam site. It contains heavily SEOed text that looks like it came from a content farm, some ads, and many of the sort of links that a parking site contains; lots of internal links to more heavily SEOed text.

Basically, you tripped up against heuristics because you look almost exactly like the sort of spam that Google is trying to clear out of its indexes, whether you had good intentions or not.
"Nguyen was earning an estimated $50,000 a day. Not even Mark Zuckerberg became rich so fast."

False. Zuckerberg became rich faster. Facebook was founded in February 2004. As of February 2014 Zuckerberg's personal wealth is estimated at $31.6 billion. So, during these 10 years, his wealth increased on average by $8.7 million per day.

But I guess the point is moot anyway since RollingStone is comparing apples to oranges (earning != wealth).
I thought he offered a very fair counterpoint to all the anti-dealer arguments presented so far.
Can someone explain why you would want to ban direct auto sales? It seems like it would create competition, cut out haggling, and bring new innovative products to consumers.
Too bad you can't use unique_lock in C! Part of the problem is the difficulty in implementing this stuff without RAII.
How would it stop that at all?

Explain how this would work, in practice. So Google sues Joe Individual over patent infringement. What now?
Most of the announced machines mentioned "late 2014" as their release date. That gives Valve the better part of the year to polish the OS and for publishers/developers to keep porting games.

But _today_ you can run SteamOS on a relatively inexpensive NUC or used PC as a streaming client and that's probably the kind of early adopter that Valve is looking for for now.

But yeah, the Digital Storm $2,000+ Steam Machine makes no sense to me, considering there's only one game for Linux (Metro Last Light) that would even come close to stressing the hardware.
If you don't count the rent during that time... It housed her illegal apartment as well as two other families. Her $500 rent alone would be $72,000. I'm sure the other units (non rent-control) were fetching quite a bit more.
I really got into microservices a couple years ago and even wrote a pretty cool proxy in node to write polyglot api's using microservices. I called the project/protocal Radial (http://radial.retromocha.com) but it never really caught on.

Perhaps it was ahead of its time, or maybe the idea just wasn't very good. I really don't know, but it's cool to see the same ideas popping up again.
Feinstein generally disgusts me, but I don't see how she's being hypocritical here.

While I disagree with her point of view on intelligence services, there's nothing hypocritical if she holds the view that their wide remits are important and necessary while still believing that explicitly violating the legal remit of their spying (CIA is explicitly forbidden from engaging in most domestic spying) and spying on the group tasked with the oversight of their spying is one step too far.

If she genuinely believes the intelligence committee is exercising real and important oversight, but that the agencies generally do the right thing, then her reaction makes total sense: Her trust has been utterly betrayed. That's what her speech sounds like - someone like Feinstein openly accusing the CIA of committing crimes is pretty spectacular.

Most of us probably just didn't expect to find out where she'd draw the line. And presumably the CIA didn't either. In that respect this might prove to be a massive misstep for them unless they do masterful damage control, since you're right - she's been one of their staunchest advocates.

She's also powerful, and a hard nail; if she's not satisfied with the way they respond to this, they might very well find they've found a foe they really don't need, as she's one of very few legislators who has a realistic shot of clipping their wings if she decides she needs to.

I don't expect her to fully see the light, but she could make a huge difference even if she gets disillusioned enough with the agencies to simply stop putting spanners in the wheels when other lawmakers tries to make the intelligence agencies more accountable.
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> chose not to tear the country apart

How is putting a handful of Dr. Mengeles and their thugs into prison going to "tear the country apart?"

You are elevating that decision way beyond what it really is.
"1b. The candidate has proposed a radical restructuring of our tax system to include time worked at a company - something already accounted for by raises due to hard work - making it expensive for California's workforce to move to better jobs. That sounds un-American to me. The candidate has yet to show a single shred of solid independent evidence that this is even a problem, let alone that he has a solution for it."

I'd read the proposal as "[short/long] positions", not "[job] positions". I'm curious to know which the parent intended.
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There hasn't been a large reason to until SteamOS. SteamOS is the best thing to happen to linux since Mac OSX/iPhone surge. Lots of people export to Mac which is unix.
You describe a one-player game with stochastic outcomes. I'm talking about a deterministic two-player game with one player making random moves. They're not the same thing.
Do you, personally, have a market cap?
Depends on the definition of "fully safe", or maybe "device". Extracting keychain secrets from a iOS device requires brute-forcing the lock screen password.

Bruteforcing the 4-pin digit is easy "math-wise", but complicated in practice because you can't really access the data on the flash (not even dumping it, as it's fully encrypted with a hardware key), and the device will not pair to a new PC/Mac without first unlocking; so you would also need physical access to a paired PC/Mac.

For the newest devices, fingerprints can't really be bruteforced (not because of complexity, but the because the hardware locks down burning its secret after a few attempts) and Apple advises using a complex password as a fallback for the fingerprint; basically the password is the real secret for encryption, while the fingerprint hw just holds a temporary unlock secret which selfdestroys if bruteforced; this is why the user is always required to enter the password after a reboot.

Of course you might still have a 0-day root exploit to use if you're NSA (or somebody with $300K to invest), and that's where I concede the "not fully safe".
I think it's natural to think that people will react this way. It turns out that people react completely differently. In my experience employing this tactic across several different verticals (SaaS, ecommerce, games), I have found people to react positively (yes, please make this!!) or neutral/mildly disappointed (darn, I wanted to use that). Never resentful.
Alright, how's reliability on DO?
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Don't think this belongs here, /r/bayarea is much more appropriate for something like this.
I still want to do a thing where response codes are returned the way they are for HTTP.

Query: Why are you screwing around?
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It might get a bunch of politically interested 15-17 year olds helping your campaign.
Oh, for a larger grid, you might want to have letters anyway, because your point still applies.

It's interesting that log_2 2028 is just above what you can represent in a single digit. That's very close to merging two 9s.

I'd like to actually see someone pit x, log_2 x, and letter(log_2 x) against each other in an A/B test of the game. The latter two are simpler, but the former might be more exciting, because of bigger numbers.
Am I crazy in thinking that Popcorn Time is a trap? It feels like one of those thins that is executed well enough that it will be seen as a threat and shut down ASAP. OR... it will be allowed to continue as a way to easily catch "pirates".

I personally believe that movie studios would do well to follow the Pirate License(http://retromocha.com/pirate-license.html) approach, but I just don't see them ever being that forward thinking when they are making millions of dollars with the old way.
You are ignoring the fact that the money in politics is more than capable of washing out the influence of even the committed and involved.
While your general point is well worth making, I think one could easily win without a single vote from Yreka (population ~7k).
I'm still failing to understand what solution is there out there that handles web application deployments (especially JVM ones) in an idempotent way. Including pushing the WAR file, upgrading the database across multiple nodes etc.
Perhaps there are built-in solutions for Rails / Django / Node.js applications, but I couldn't find a best practice way to do this for JVM deployments. E.g. there is no "package" resource for Puppet that is a "Java Web Application" that you could just ask to be in a certain versions.

How do you guys do this for Rails apps? Django apps? is this only an issue with Java web apps?
I think the parent referred to the US adaptation of House Of Cards.
One point to note is that you don't necessarily need to explicitly ask their budget, you can ask questions about the size of their operation instead. eg. For an IT sale, ask about number of employees in the IT department, number of desktops serviced, tech refresh cycle frequency, server numbers, etc... You can then get a gauge on what their true overall budget is without having to ask for it - as that will possibly be lowballed. A 100 man department with 10000+ desktops to support can probably afford a 6-digit equipment sale, whereas a 10 man dept. with only a hundred users will perhaps be looking at low 5-digits spare on their budget.

Similar applies to the authority question. The larger the department/company, the less likely that a huge sale will be authorised by just one individual. Although the contrary can also sometimes be true in this case - very small/new companies may have the directors signing off on all the major purchases.
To: actually isn't used in routing. MTAs and MDAs route messages based on the target address that's communicated in the 'RCPT TO' command, ignoring whatever may be in the To/CC[/BCC] lines, should the MUA happen to generate those headers.

The set of metadata used in routing, aka the 'envelope', also contains a return path, which is (normally) used for things like submitting delivery failure reports.
I'm sure you're right, I should have specified that the end users I've spoken to have all been in the US.
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Also are DO's $10 a month servers underpowered for a site with medium traffic lots of pages and a mySQL database or two?
No kidding the Active Set solution in Cython is slow, it barely leverages Cython at all! It uses a Python list which is managed by Python and uses none of Cython's static typing.

Implement the algorithm inside a "with nogil" and you will see some nice speed-ups. It won't look pretty, but for certain performance-sensitive code it will be worth it.
Design docs, specifically if you're discussing an API or a code generator.
You want to rank by truthfulness and not truthiness. :)

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Hi all, author here. Any feedback on the contents of the videos would be appreciated. Thanks everyone.
That's what bugs me so much about Steam Machines. When Valve originally announced it, there were no hardware partners announced yet, and they said they'd have three basic tiers -- a $99 or under "good" that presumably did nothing but in-home streaming, a console-priced "better," and then the "best" tier, where manufacturers could ship whatever. They announce the OEM partners and what's being built, and EVERY machine comes up in the best tier. So the idea of leveraging a $99 machine to do for Steam what Roku or Chromecast does for video streaming was put out there by Valve, and then they've completely failed to deliver on it in hardware. They're still hard at work at in-home streaming, but none of the actual Steam Machines announced seem to be built for it; you don't need most of those machines to stream Bioshock Infinite off the gaming PC you already own.
It's not NIMBY. The problem is between California law and San Francisco law renters have far too many rights. A person who knows how to play the game can stay in your rental for more than a year without paying rent. You shouldn't need to hire a lawyer everyone thinks is an asshole (think about that - someone who's an asshole even for a lawyer) to get rid of someone who isn't even paying rent.

Property owners sell off places they would otherwise have rented out or just leave them empty because it just isn't worth the risk. That is what constrains the supply. You'd be crazy to go into the rental business unless you had a lot of units to balance out the Inges of the world, particularly since once you finally evict someone like that you have to tear out the walls to get rid of the stench.
Replication is dead simple now, but a few years ago it was not.
Hi, author here.

Yeah, the active set implementation in Cython is relatively slow - see [1] for where I discussed how I benchmarked the existing algorithm and demonstrated the PAVA implementation was faster.

Then again, until two days ago the Cython active set algorithm was the production implementation of isotonic regression in scikit-learn, so it's not like it was a strawman example that I made up.

[1]: http://tullo.ch/articles/speeding-up-isotonic-regression/
It's not migration between states that's important, it's migration away from unaffordable big cities.
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Ok, San Francisco, it's time to bite the bullet and build (much) more housing. This is getting ridiculous.
I feel like one of the major benefits is being able to use the right language for the job. I can't be the only one who cringes at the thought of writing a large scale webapp in js, but writing my rendering logic in python on the backend and again in js for the frontend breaks dry. With a SOA you can split the backend into an API and have a presentation/routing layer in js that sits in front of it. This can use something like react to emit plain HTML from the server, and then that same react code can kind of re-bind to the generated dom on the client (using the exact same backend api!) giving you a single-page-app experience with graceful degradation and fast server side rendering for nearly no extra development cost. A guy can dream...
I don't think it can be done. Every group has a group think. Facts that fall outside some scope of their collective experience/understanding of the world, get dismissed as tall tales.
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