skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Detroit uses a property tax assessment system, like many (most? haven't checked) states, that is based on "fair market value". However, a foreclosure sale doesn't count (in their eyes) as a "fair market" sale. What's more:

"The assessed value should represent 50% of the current true cash value of your property. IT IS NOT BASED UPON THE PURCHASE PRICE OF YOUR INDIVIDUAL SALE. IT IS BASED UPON A SALES STUDY OVER A PERIOD OF TIME."

http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/finance/assessment/I...

(Clearly the municipality is trying to fight the clear erosion of their tax base by averaging in historical values.)

So even if you bought a house for $500, it may be assessed much higher. You could end up with a tax liability higher than the purchase price. I've looked at buying a cheapo house (or lot) in Detroit, because why not? But the tax assessment situation makes that a poor idea.
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He didn't specify the length of the interval between when he experiences it, and when he dies.
What of it? People who badly underestimate risk remove themselves from the talent pool, probably to the benefit of society - I'd rather an overconfident executive perish on some personal adventure than that they run some corporate ship aground as a proxy and ruin he livelihoods of thousdasnds of employees or impose a dangerous shock to the financial system.
Why doesn't anyone care about Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations by 13 women?
I agree that his usage of zero sum was inaccurate, but so is yours.

Marketplaces are not at all inherently zero sum games. Wikipedia's definition (which is a fine one) is:
"a participant's gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of the other participant(s). If the total gains of the participants are added up and the total losses are subtracted, they will sum to zero."

The key thing here that is is measured in utility (not in the price of the good). Of course every trade or transaction is flat in that I sold it to you for the price you bought it at (that is obvious and non-what a zero sum game means). The issue is whether we are both made better off or not.

If I don't want to bear the risk of holding bitcoins and am happier mitigating that risk by selling them for dollars, my utility increased. Similarly, if you purchased them from me because you want to bear such risk, your utility increased. Even removing the risk/uncertainty from the equation, my willingness to pay for a good is not the same as the market price. Thus, if I sell bitcoins bc my value of them is less than the current market price, then I am improved. Similarly, if you value bitcoins above the current market price and buy them from me, then your willingness to pay was higher than the price you paid. Thus, you have significant consumer surplus from that trade.

There are called pareto efficient transactions. Most transactions are actually pareto efficient where at least one of the individuals increased their utility and no one involved in the trade decreased their utility.

This excerpt does a good job articulating this:
"Specifically, all trade is by definition positive sum, because when two parties agree to an exchange each party must consider the goods it is receiving to be more valuable than the goods it is delivering. In fact, all economic exchanges must benefit both parties to the point that each party can overcome its transaction costs, or the transaction would simply not take place."
Human obsolescence wasn't on Huxley's mind.

Instead of Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons doing awful labour, they will do none.

While CGP Grey has a very consumer-oriented view, it's quite compelling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
The problem with the paper is not overfit. They claim to have run their simulation with out of band ("live") data. The actual problem with the paper is that we have no idea if their simulator is any good, which means that their result (89% return in 50 days) could be totally bogus. In other words, we don't know if the actual bitcoin exchange would fill their orders at the same prices (if at all) as their simulator does. A decent simulator for a high-frequecy strategy like this is not trivial because you have to incorporate all the exchange behavior (documented or not) into your simulator, and then you have to validate your results by comparing your simulated results to the results of some actual trading. The fact that they spent none of the paper on the details of the simulator makes me extremely skeptical.
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It's likely we're mostly to blame.

Apparently Rocky Mountain locusts laid their eggs in a relatively small area of land when they weren't swarming that we plowed up, destroying all the egg cases. From the wikipedia link elsewhere in this thread, it's claimed that hundreds of cases were destroyed per square inch of land by farming.

In the case of passenger pigeon, I've seen evidence that they did have booms and busts historically, but we slaughtered them for food, feed, and fun in truly staggering numbers [1] There was a massive passenger-pigeon-harvesting industry that was interested in harvesting as many birds as possible until there weren't any left.

[1] As many as a billion birds were killed by hunters in a single 50 day hunt near one Michigan town.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120318/METRO/203180301
Sorry for the nit-pick, but I think "critically acclaimed" probably fits better than "blockbuster".
>Any marketplace is 'zero sum' if you think about it.

vs

>I'm not arguing that it is zero-sum

So, what are you saying there then.
This has been very interesting, thank you all for your feedback.
PS: I reported this to the author, and it has been incorporated into the article.
I just want to say I've been playing for the past week and the first actual order resolution will be happening in a few minutes. I'm very excited and the platform has been fun to play with so far. I love the sandboxes.
And hey, just for fun: next time you're in some work situation and you get wind of behavior like this, or even something far less egregious (such as blackhat web scraping or other blatant IP abuse -- very common out in start-up land, btw), try confronting those responsible on it. It usually doesn't end well.
As a skydiver I am super upset that I didn't know this was happening!

I'd love to see video of it and see if he had better control than Felix. We almost lost him and I wonder if Alan had implemented controls to prevent a bad spin.

On another note, I love that he used the suit only instead of a diving bell - completely simplifying the whole process. It's arguably more dangerous, but not by much.
Mine is that I can't afford to hire a team of engineers for three years...
Wait, so explain it to me. When I bought my last iPad, I could have sworn I had to choose an AT&T model or a Verizon model. Or is this a new feature on the iPad Air 2?

EDIT: From the link:

> right from your iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 3

So this is new for iPad Air 2 then it appears.
People keep laughing at PHP for being a joke language but has anyone ever looked at the Lua internals? Probably not, because you wouldn't make it out of that hell alive. I am amazed they still manage to add variable types and bitwise operators without completely overhauling the language.
Few will be surprised if prosecutors are found to care more about shenanigans in the MS-Win ecosystem than those in the Nintendo ecosystem. Actually FTDI may be in more danger from class action tort lawyers. This is almost a perfect class for them, in that lots of people suffered a limited but not negligible harm.
A good workaround to having to ask for too many permissions is for the app to explain the intent before the permission pops up. I find this offers a much better experience in general.
You mean “Delta City”.
By "out of sandbox" you refer to the fact that shaders are statically transpiled into safe code, rather than getting executed in a dynamically memory-safe and sandboxed environment?

I agree the approach raises some doubts, as it gives untrusted web content a degree of indirect control over what kind of "safe" shader code gets passed to the GPU shader compilers. But the first-order issues are addressed by the specced security model (https://www.khronos.org/webgl/security/).
The safe bet may be a line from authority itself: "Trust, but verify" as they say.

Right now, the only antidote to systemic weakening (potential or actual, intentional or through incompetence) of security is an auditing of code along with these standards and practices.

It's been mentioned before here and many places elsewhere, but the fork of OpenSSL by the OpenBSD folks and their complete scuttling of cruft, including FIPS 140-2 which required the backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG algo, is a good sign that at least some people are taking a proactive approach to security. In lieu of blindly following existing procedures, seeing what breaks in your work when subjected to extreme duress leads to better software and better practices.
Because that's also clearly illegal.
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Perhaps you are being downvoted because you are making a very tired argument which has been and discussed many times on HN and always has the same conclusion.

Do you spend all of your discretionary income on cancer research? I'm guessing not, so why do you think someone else should?
Google Inbox invites are selling for $200+ on EBay
I had a chance to visit CERN recently - they aren't kidding about the thousands of names on the paper, the scale of the project is enormous, and the ATLAS detector up close is like a space ship engine from a scifi movie. The main CERN campus feels very much Silicon Valley, only with older buildings. (The visitor information centres are neat and interesting too!)
The people who make the stuff that you buy, how much do they get paid?

Or do you just assume that works itself out?
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Imagine if someone learned how to legally print money and their first action was to tell the world-- then I would be extremely skeptical.
Listening to music increases productivity 90% of time
Beautiful photos, fascinating interview snippets. I love compelling narratives that remind us that life isn't over at 30.
This (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29...) story from 2010 has this bizarre anecdote:

"The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you.

They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, What the hell just happened?"

I'd love to think that the reporter answered that question- What is the director of the FBI doing at facebook? What does he mean he was just in the building? In what world does someone as powerful as the director of the FBI come into your company needing to burst in on the ceo rather than have a scheduled meeting with the CEO? Does he have an office in the same building?

Instead, we get a puff piece about Facebook's growth.
> Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with this. Infact, sitting around and reverse engineering what other traders are doing is what many funds do. I'm in this group so I"m happy to answer questions if anyone has any.

His point is that the posted trades were not in fact tradeable.
> Surpising to see discrimination expressed so blatantly.

It's not at all 'discrimination'. BTW, I'm not young any more. Programming just isn't worth it.
Hilarious that the author presumes 'relevance' is related to a Twitter presence.
Curious as to your returns, how they have changed over time and if you are doing this full time.
Definitely agree that the comic, staying at one canonical location, could have served as a boon to the sales of the book and awareness of its themes.

(I'm guessing that the subtlety of the comic's original Postman mention – at the very bottom – compared to the top line "AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH by Stuart McMillen" may have started the attribution discussion off on the wrong foot.)
There are two points to this SIM, and dedicating it to a carrier only negates one.

This SIM still removes the requirement to either purchase a carrier specific SIM before first using the device, or have Apple stock devices with the various manufacturer's SIMs preinstalled. Making a customer poke their new device with a paperclip and load a SIM is not very Applelike.
This is unhelpful, following this track, no discussion can happen without taking the full context of the universe into account. This might be fun for your 2-sentence statement, when discussing an entity as large as Google in relation to an entity as large as states, I'd be impressed to see you putting all context on the the table before I die.

Also, you cannot put the whole context on the table, as some of this is secret, meaning that you will necessarily omit things.

Which means you have to rely on heuristics. Or trust.

By the way, I follow Thor and I've been struck by a lightning.

Logic != Debate
While there are certainly user benefits (like easier switching between providers) that's not the primary point of the Apple SIM.

Think about SKUs and inventory.

On launch day this month, Apple had 2 phones, with 3 different storage sizes, available in 3 different colors. Apple SIM is about not have to have another multiple on top of all those combination about which network the phone works on (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc).

Apple SIM lets them go from 42+ SKUS, to 12.

User choice is nice and Apple certainly cares about the user experience. But Tim Cook made his bones at Apple as master of supply and distribution chains. Apple SIM helps them, even if the carriers all balk on allowing users to switch providers via software.
The Software Industry Is Not Industrialized (1968)
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erik_sub, you have been hellbanned and your comment (reproduced below) can't be seen by anyone.

> Ireland was probably chosen because of low corporate tax rates.

Perhaps you are right. It just sounds incredibly short sighted if true. That's like, to use notax's example location, locating your startup in North Dakota because the rent is cheap over there.

Amsterdam would have been a much better location with better and cheaper bandwidth from a much larger selection of providers. In addition to better infrastructure, Amsterdam has a wider and deeper talent pool for datacenter talent.
I also have a hard time really buying the tax argument as Facebook and Google have European datacenters outside Ireland and they seem to manage their Irish tax strategy just fine. Even Apple is reportedly eyeing a datacenter in the Netherlands and I doubt they would consider one if it messed with their Irish sandwitch.

> This might have been more important when the first location was chosen than it is now, and latencies in Europe are mostly pretty minimal anyway.

From experience I can tell you that there is plenty of latency to go around in Europe. Part of that is Amazon's dubious choice of location and part of it is their network. Cloudping easily gives you latencies comparable to east coast - west coast ping times when testing from various European location to AWS Ireland.

Unlike popular entertainment would have you believe, Europe in not a country and neither is it the size of a postage stamp. You'd also be advised to consider that previously Ireland was Amazon's closest location to Russia and that in itself is a pretty big country.

Amusingly enough Amazon's Irish location is almost exactly like putting your datacenter in North Dakota as notax quipped.

Just look at this map:
http://www.powercycle.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/FireSho...
It is however perfectly legal to make a hardware device that could make use of the Same API and driver i.e a clone. Provided it is not branded as a FTDI chip, but rather "FTDI Driver compatible"

Now that may violate the terms and lic of the driver software on windows (not on linux because it is GPLv2) but that would not make it illegal to buy nor would it give them (FTDI) the legal right to modify that hardware
False. This is a common misconception. There is also no "academic exemption" to patent infringement.
The beauty and clarity of Paul Dirac's prose
There was previously a compile-time option to use integers instead of doubles.
There was some research that showed that the brain goes into hunting mode _for protein_, and it gets satiated when enough protein is had.

But, today's sugary foods contain less protein than before, so we keep eating these foods until the quota of protein has been met. This is why probably the keto diet reduces appetite.
With this design you might but you can get good essentially flat layers using the same essential process. There are existing commercial machines that use metal welding to do mixed additive and subtractive manufacturing. It's really a question of getting the welder dialed in so it creates a smooth enough surface. The weld will also fill into the small inconsistencies in height better than filament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9IdZ2pI5dA
Why the Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang
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Sure, the driver doesn't know the manufacturing process. His point is the chips are simply so different, there are bound to be obvious ways for the driver to tell.
Art is among the least ephemeral on earth. Software written by me will live at most 10 years.
This is one of the most bad-ass things I've read in a while. The fact that it was so under-covered so as _not_ to be associated with any kind of marketing makes it even cooler.
>Oh jeez. You mean the fact that businesses can sit on commercial properties for more than either of our life times and not pay much more in taxes?

one can see how a minor adjustment made be made here :)
Though as things work as it is, why risk breaking a working machine...

>Or the part where a family with a bunch of kids pays less in local property taxes, yet uses public resources more than a single individual who bought their house 5-10 years later?

if they bought at the same time, the family would still be using more public resources, wouldn't it?

there are some minor flaws, yet anytime i see property taxes in other states i always grateful for that relict of direct democracy, ie. Prop system of CA, which allows voters to control at least the most important things, like real estate taxes.

>the hole this state has been dug into, not so much.

what hole? We're booming. Again.
If this isn't satire then I'm amazed at how cluelessly condescending one could be.

>I mean, you're probably a developer, aren't you? Your time is valuable. Why waste it looking at a tree?

I have a hunch that not many people die peacefully thinking "wow, the most important way I spent my valuable time was coding" when reflecting on life and happiness.

Coming from someone who does enjoy sitting in nature for hours at a time observing life, it's mostly about forgetting all the "important" bullshit that will be waiting for me when I get back home. The experience also gets 10x better when you're out in nature with someone who you care about.
You are aware that that argument can be used to essentially justify anything?

If you are worried about police violence, just leave the country! And screw it, why not give a DNA sample for the federal database? If the government paints a target on you, they can get a blood sample anyhow!

That something else is also bad is not a reason for progressing further in that direction. Yes, mass surveillance is bad in any form, that's not a good reason for creating more structures that are prone to mass surveillance. If anything, it's a reason to get rid of those old services that are from a time when mass surveillance was still technically challenging and replace them with something that protects your privacy, rather than something that destroys it for good.

Also, no, addressing a problem through legislation and oversight that can much more effectively be addressed by other means, is not a sensible idea. We don't build bridges that can't carry the load that normal citizens without special training are likely to put on them and then legislate to keep them from destroying the brige, we build bridges that simply work, as that's much more efficient. Similarly, it's much more efficient to build a system that doesn't present a gigantic abuse potential and to then try and legislate that problem away. In particular, when the thing that's at risk is the ability to legislate. If centralized communication hubs get too much power, that risks undermining democratic decisionmaking.
Perhaps I'm missing something: In Iteration 1, it says juxtaposition has higher priority than any operator. In that case, how is the lambda declaration (x y -> (...)) not interpreted as a function call to the function x with the argument y?

Or is the author simply saying that this will unambiguously create an AST of ((x y) -> (...)) regardless of what -> does?
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erik_sub, also this comment was invisible due to hellbanning.

erik_sub 19 hours ago | link [dead]

They are fairly equal. According to self-published statistics AMS-IX is nominally bigger in peak traffic and number of members.

Sources: https://ams-ix.net/ https://www.de-cix.net/about/statistics/
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Have you tried high protein-low carb instead of high fat-low carb?
It's not necessarily about nature, though for many of us that is where we find what we are looking for. It's more about taking a minute or thirty for yourself. In that time you aren't being productive, but you are giving your mind a much needed rest. It could be watching the lights from cars on a road late at night. Or staring at leaves. Or just getting a good view of your city from a high vantage point.

That's not to say that there aren't obnoxious people always talking about how "enlightened" they are. I'd say they are in the minority, however.
Honestly I doubt Nintendo cares about selling consoles to game pirates. They, like everyone else in that business, make their money on game sales.
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Lock would be confusing because consumers associate that with being carrier locked. It is still an unlocked device, and the word choice helps make that clear.
Same as people going on vacation, with "nothing to show for it, could have donated to cancer research" and take a variety of terminal risks in the process.

We live for a little while, then die. Good if we can have a heckuva ride along the way, so long as it doesn't result in a net harm. This guy did it because the record was there, the experience was there, he contributed to advancing the (admittedly narrow) field involved, etc. If you've lived a good productive life, kudos in doing something fun & dramatic that may have a chance of a spectacular exit.

And you have no idea how much he _has_ contributed to cancer research or other laudable causes. The wealthy tend to give away a whole lot more than the general public is aware of.
OpenID does not provide your password to each site that you use it on... It uses a token that only that site can use, for the permissions that were shown when you created the token. If someone did acquire that token, you could just change your Facebook password and the token would expire
Plus he mentions in the article (technically, in a comment) that his quarter-million figure includes insurance, 401k, discounted ESPP, and stock (which has a 1-year vest). It's not at all unbelievable that his actual salary could be as "low" as $150k.