skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or as a simpler, more politically palatable approximation, set up a pied-à-terre property tax for residential properties above a certain value that are lived in for less than three months per year.
I've lived in Vancouver. There are really only three industries: (dodgy) junior mining, retail, and real estate. Property is bought by absentee owners who take supply out of the market, drive up prices, but do not contribute to the economy. The city is more expensive than NY without the amenities (except the outdoors), culture, or opportunity. The city should be Canada's powerhouse but it's turned into a high price vacation area without tourism.
The technical quality of the project has been so far debatable[1][2].

The Partido de la Red results seem to reveal a problem that is obvious at first sight: the underrepresentation of those who need representation the most[3].

I have doubts about whether direct democracy is a good idea, at all[4]. Summarizing, dividing the burden of decision making is inefficient for the population at large, and it does not guarantee better results.

People behind this project admit that this does not fully solve the problem it is attempting to solve[5].

Even if I could ignore the previous statement (which of course I can't), I wonder if the advantages of moving from an indirect democracy to a direct democracy are enough to even try to solve the problems. I think the cost of switching is high, and I cannot see any benefit.

In USA the main problem with democracy is the lack of interest of population in government elections. Does micromanaging decisions make this problem better or worse? The question is valid. It could be better if the feeling is that no matter who wins nobody will represent the voter; it could be worse if people do not care about the decisions that have to be make. There are other possible options, of course, but I don't really know if this solves problems or makes it worse.

I wonder how selection bias would affect decision making. People will mostly vote on subjects they feel passionate about, and ignore the others. Which will probably lead to what programmers know as bikeshedding[6].

Now I would like to highlight the positive of thinking about this problems and attempting a solution. Also following up Congress's debates and actions is something that should happen more often, for example Congressional Dish[7] attempts to do so.

[1] (Spanish) https://medium.com/@alejandrocrosa/votarias-a-un-partido-que...

[2] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/576422593244299264

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9245536

[4] (Spanish) https://catdevmind.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/democracia-direc...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9244628

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Trivialit...

[7] http://www.congressionaldish.com/
The "demo" is not representative of real conditions.

They should offer money to the first persons out. See minute 40 of: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18vhzz_mayday-s09e01-manch...
Java's new is similar to C++'s new as I understand it, yes. It allocates memory, initialises an object, and produces a pointer.
Going into more detail on this would have been more useful, but it is part of the problem. I believe it has to do with the culture of promotion that favors pilots, not to mention the revolving door.

The other major part of the problem is that drones are cheaper and present real competition to juicy manned contracts, so defense contractors don't like them. Drones might be an example of actual disruptive technology: a cheap alternative that also creates a new market (planes that can stay in the air longer than a pilot ever could). Losing one drone, or even a dozen drones, is always smaller than losing the life of a single pilot or their plane.
The bottom 50% pay a bunch of other taxes. Payroll taxes, sales taxes, taxes on booze, cigarettes, property etc.
Have you considered the gigantic military requirements that are placed on the United States?

Placed by whom, exactly? It's not as if the US took on those treaty commitments involuntarily or expecting no benefits in return, and it's not as if the rest of the world would not adapt if the US reduced its military commitments over time.

For example, you talk about the US being required by treaty to defend almost all of Europe, but Europe already has collective defence agreements that are becoming stronger over time, over a million active military service personnel, thousands of aircraft, thousands of heavy armoured vehicles, hundreds of ships, special forces to rival any in the world, and two independent nuclear powers. There is exactly one sovereign state on earth that could single-handedly give the combined forces of Europe a serious fight today, and the consequences for all concerned would be so devastating that such a conflict is almost inconceivable.

There is a reasonable school of thought that argues the world would be a much safer place if the number of military superpowers in it was zero, and that as the only old-school military superpower remaining, the US is therefore a negative factor on global stability and peaceful relations.

Given the recent track record of the US, both acting as an aggressor under often dubious conditions and failing to act as a defender when weaker nations faced aggression by others, there seems little no moral high ground for the US to take here, nor any general mandate to act as the world's policeman. The alarming frequency with which the US military and its political leadership presume to take such positions anyway brings me back to the previous point about the world being better off in the long run with no military superpowers at all.
This reminds me of LazyJs. It also unifies many concepts under the same umbrella: arrays, dictionaries, strings, events - they could all be kinds of lazy sequences. Unifying so many things under the concept of lazy sequence gave me a wonderful feeling of insight.
A 2011 study by Landcor Data showed that 74 per cent of luxury purchases in Richmond and Vancouver’s west side were by buyers with mainland Chinese names with no western variant.

Not surprising, given that Richmond is 55% Chinese[0]. West side Vancouver is probably around the same.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_British_Columbia#Demo...
This is a very unjustified and overly harsh criticism. The article clearly presents real world confusion that can arise from not understanding that Java is not pass by reference. This can easily lead to wrong code. So it's not just pedantically insisting on some specific terminology, but highlighting the semantically differences between passing a reference (more precisely pointer) by value vs. 'real' pass by reference.
> tone-neighborhood watch

Nice name for a tone-lynch-mob, but are you sure that's any better than tone-police?

> as a challenge to the father

Seriously? The OP starts with "There seems to be a movement to accept any and all behaviors of children on the spectrum". If that's not the challenge, then I don't know what is. It's not possible to slap someone with an iron gauntlet over the Internet though. That's as fair as "there seems to be a movement to enslave all men/whites/extremely rich rocket company owners" - I'm even sure you're going to find a few people who do have those beliefs, but representing them as anything but fringe is unfair and challenging.
So what's the motivation to buying property you don't live in. Are they renting it out? The OP made it sound like many units are vacant. Are they buying and holding hoping to sell later for more?

Normally a boom in high-end housing is good for local trades (plumbers, electicians, carpenters, painters, decorators, etc) as the first thing most upper-tier home buyers do when they buy a place is renovate, remodel, or at least redecorate.
Not that it's perfect, but http://mendeley.com/ is the best tool I've seen for organizing and annotating papers. If you don't have a reasonable way of staying organized, then no matter how you read academic papers, you'll wind up forgetting what you read eventually.
Couldn't the absentee owners just rent the properties out to dodge that?
No, I'm really just talking about common dumb statements you see on tech sites like "Mac OS X is just *BSD with a pretty GUI". When in reality they've been maintaining their own fork for almost 20 years now, for serious technical reasons.

Keep in mind that both BSD Unix and CMU/Mach were funded by the government in order to advance the state of the domestic computer industry. In terms of successful government research projects, these two would have near top of the list!

That being said, it would be great if "FreeBSD" had a bigger brand (and perhaps wasn't seen as Apple's vassal.) But I think that has more to do with the fact that Linux effectively beat them to market versus any license logic.
Could be worse: could be one of the debates about Python, where people who don't work in Python insist that it must follow one or the other paradigm (when trying to shoehorn either a consistent pass-by-value or a consistent pass-by-reference interpretation on Python's behavior will lead you to write code with bugs).
DRYing up iOS testing with Specta's global before and after each hooks
"Black Metal Housing"
Academic papers can seem incredibly intimidating but you have to remember: they're not written to be readable to the casual reader unlike articles on the web.

Journals have strict page limits so there's no space to introduce domain specific terminology or give a brief tutorial on the topic. They only have enough room to tersely describe directly relevant background material and will assume you are knowledgable in the domain.

Read the abstract then the conclusion. If it sounds like you want to understand the rest of the paper after that, be prepared to look up terminology, read citations, follow tutorials and reread the paper multiple times to really understand it. Don't be put off if you can barely understand it the first time.
I don't understand why autism being genetic disproves whatever the anti-vaccination camp says. Do they actually say that the only cause of autism is MMR vaccine? I wasn't aware of that.
Here is a link to one my favorite sites about housing in Vancouver. Take the quiz:

http://www.crackshackormansion.com/

http://www.crackshackormansion.com/part2.html
This is a great question to philosophize over. All the reading that we do (especially as tech people) does seem slightly gratuitous. I find that I will most likely retain/remember only a small percentage of what I consume.

Recently I have started writing. Much to my surprise I really love writing. It helps me decompress and organize my thoughts. Since I have started writing I have a much greater appreciation for great writing and notice how great journalist construct their arguments/information.

So digesting does not have merit. It is merely an means to an end. Triangulating and reconstructing knowledge is where the benefits and real learning take place.
I don't disagree with anything you wrote, but in this article it was used in terms of, "Now we diagnose these behaviours as autism, whereas in the past they would have been called mental retardation." In that context it's hard to see how someone would be offended by the word. That said, I think it's a stretch to be offended by the unusual asterisk as well (or to discount the rest of the post because of it).
According to Wikipedia, Vancouver only has 600k people. Shouldn't people expect the city to grow to a few million people over the next 100 years? More people are moving to cities, after all. I'd think that with proper urban planning, there's enough space to grow. Urban planning means more mass transit, of course. That's not something that we do very well in the western hemisphere. Even NYC could be a lot better. People are still trying to jam several thousand buses into Manhattan every day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/nyregion/port-authority-ag...
But that would increase the number of rental properties, theoretically drive down rents, and then possibly even decrease housing prices.
As a student in Vancouver this worries me. It think it's about time either the city or metro Vancouver started putting forward some absentee homeowner legislation. We have a lot of talented young people that are leaving to places like Calgary and Seattle because the Vancouver doesn't have the opportunities to support them.
Or pick a strongly-typed language, so you can find errors at compile-time instead of a couple months later when some weird hard-to-reproduce bug shows up.
A big problem with real emergency evacuations is that passengers try to take their carry-on luggage with them.
Not beyond the cash.
Property is bought by absentee owners who take supply out of the market, drive up prices, but do not contribute to the economy.

I've heard that said many times without any hard stats behind it. How many absentee purchasers would it take to drive prices up? What about the effects of low interest rates and everyone desiring to get in the market before it gets hotter? Everyone seems to be an expert on this, and I highly doubt that.
No. Many companies have hiring rate of 10% [1] which means hiring 1 candidate may cost you 10 person-days assuming full day interviews for each candidate [2]. You can probably double that to cover the cost of phone screens, so let's say 20-person day of work per good hire. Assume you had 4 false negatives just because you are so aggressive and so a good hire ended up costing you 100 person days instead. This cost is still tiny compared to damages that a true negative would cause otherwise, i.e.,

(1) loss of entire person year or even two because annual reviews need to accumulate evidence for HR to fire (may be less time if you were startup without real "HR")

(2) amount of cleanup other people have to do after that new bad hire

(3) loss in moral for good people in your team who now perceives your hiring process at the company as "broken"

(4) delays + bugs introduced in product because actual work probably didn't got done or badly done despite of you filling up your headcount

(5) amount of money lost in salaries, signing bonuses, office space and benefits (typically > $200K)

(6) amount of productivity lost because of wasted time by good people in the team trying to "ramp up" your true negative

(7) emotional stress you caused to good people wondering them about their job stability and to managers who wasted their time in months of paper work and lot of explaining

(8) emotional stress you caused to your true negative being fired who had moved across the country for you, bought a house on mortgage and had 3 school going children

(9) Most likely, if you are big company, true negative didn't actually got fired because hiring manager never wanted to admit it. S/he was encouraged to join another team or role or even learned political tricks to get promoted contributing to ongoing bozo explosion[3]

(10) I could go on and easily justify probably 3X-10X loss compared the case if true negative was avoided

Footnotes:

1 - Many companies specify their hiring rate over total resume they received which is wrong. I'll use 10% as total number of full interviews that needed to be conducted which is average of 5%-15% at most companies.

2 - This is bad math. Assuming random trials, it would be actually 5 person-day on average but intuitive approach doesn't produce entirely bad results here so we will go with that.

3 - http://guykawasaki.com/how_to_prevent_/
>Whatever created existence (or the big bang) is by definition supernatural (which means outside nature).

Unless nothing created existence, and the big bang was a natural event unrelated to the existence of existence.

>are we going to argue about the word "being"

Maybe. "being" is pretty clear and necessary to have a God. Wind comes from outside the ocean to make waves, but it is in no way a being or a God. No matter how 'supernatural' it would be from the perspective of ocean=nature.

No binary decision is ever truly perfect, but the yes/no of atheism is pretty damn close.

There's only one empty set.
The motivation is often wanting to move assets to a location out-of-reach for the Chinese government to potentially seize.
They took out about 900 mostly Russian made tanks in Gulf War 1. Plus over 3000 other targets. Four A-10s were lost, shot down by surface to air missiles of the large, non man portable variety. A-10s are effective if you can remove the serious air defences first. Syria apparently has a lot of serious air defences which could be taken out but it would be a major effort.
If you count the main suburbs of Vancouver, there are already over 2 million people.

The transit system in Metro Vancouver moves over 400k people a day.
In fact the reason why "retard" is offensive, is because it is taking a term for a mental condition ("retardation") and turning it into a slur. It's similar to how calling something "gay" in a derogatory manner is offensive.

With "retard", the derogatory use became so much more prevalent than the clinical that even the latter was overshadowed and began to take on a negative connotation (at least, for many people).
Well, he also has articles on tips for using Visual Age for Java, and a copyright notice starting in 1996, so perhaps this is yet another blast from the past that made it to HN's front page.

Because that particular argument used to be a thing.
pretty sure that isn't what you said.
Dear author: webhostinggeeks did not actually translate your article into Serbo-Croatian for free. They just ran a shitty automatic translation and added in links that boost their black hat SEO empire.

They target many people who host highly linked articles this way. They picked Serbo-Croatian because you're unlikely to verify it.

Do not post translations unless you trust the translator (perhaps because you paid them to do good work) or know the language.
"patch the binary card decks"

Is this the origin of the word "patch" in CS usage? As in, literally patching paper? Or does it trace further back to patching clothing?
Mode X. Nostalgic. It was my school project to write graphics driver for Mode X for game developers.
> I don't follow youtube personalities, but I could see this being the kind of game that does really well for them

The first PewDiePie Goat Simulator gameplay video has over 11 million views.
The trick is to look at the neighbouring houses!
I've been going to Vancouver regularly (about once a year) since the mid 90s. As the return of Hong Kong to China approached, the influx of Chinese investment spiked. It started in Vancouver, people who had been in the better parts of Vancouver and were of retirement age sold and moved out (basically the first wave) and those being bought out moved to places like the Okanogan, etc.

Then, single story buildings in Kits, for example, gave way to three+ story multi-use (commercial downstairs, residential upstairs) units. Some of this is still happening around the city. Where older 2-3 story condo buildings exist, some were vacated for building some more towers.

Funny this story shows up now. It is something that has been happening for almost 20 years.

It is also amazing to me, given the beauty, the availability of technology, and the desirability, Vancouver never has become a tech hub. There were a few startups circa 2000-ish that made waves, some were sham puffed up deals like those lead by Dick Hardt (sxip). There has traditionally been a lot of media (popular for hollywood filming), gaming, and smaller startups, but nothing that served as an anchor.

Vancouver and BC are probably at the top of my favorite places on the west coast, but the issues it has in technology, building an industry, and being affordable go back in time well before this simple blog post.

edit: typos
So these homes are vacant? From my experience in the Bay Area, these homes house their wives and small children; or their adult children. When you think about it this makes more sense than leaving them empty considering China's environment pollution.
Slack Gets a Standalone Windows App
Where did your cofounder go? Why is half your company non-engineering (per your team photos)?

Tech looks good, company looks shaky.
A bit offtopic, but...

Can you give us any advice on how to solve interview challenges faster and unstick under the pressure?
> English subjects

That is not a thing.
> Such an enormous extrapolation from an ultra-specific line.

To be fair, cooking a calf in its mother's milk is pretty messed up, so going a bit overboard on that one isn't going to keep me up at night.
If you're not hiring, just don't mention open positions. My entire impression of your company is now "the CEO is a dick."
Links is certainly an interesting tool, but you certainly shouldn't look at it as the only "niche" way in which people might read your website.

This is Windows 7, with the latest version of Chrome - the only difference from "normal" being the installation of ScriptSafe blocking JavaScript:

http://i.imgur.com/vH4MTdV.png
This is why self-signed certificates are more secure than CA-signed certificates. When you expand the trust model to include three parties rather than two, it gets much more complex and vulnerable.

If I see a self-signed certificate from CitiBank, I know that the counterparty claims to be CitiBank. That's all I know. When I receive a Verisign-signed certificate from CitiBank, I know a party claiming to be Verisign claims that the counterparty is CitiBank. That doesn't realistically help me much.
“I Was an ISIS Hostage for 5 Months”
So it hinges on Chinese people westernizing their last name to ensure they are counted as Canadian? Plus this is only counting luxury properties. Sadly it's really important now WHICH set of rich people own those properties.
The linked page on the tweet offers great advice, the only two things I can add are:

* Take a sheet of paper and write down all definitions for easy reference

* If you are planning to use the learning from the paper in a production system, make sure you fully understand all stated (and unstated) assumptions the researchers made when presenting their results.
How to Read a Paper by S. Keshav

http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf
Autorestart distributed services from crash without considering the order
"The paper gave Urschel an Erdős number of 4."
Some of the owners move their families over. But they often own more than one property, so the unused ones are completely vacant.
The only reason I use @-refs anymore is because of PHP copying arrays on assignment (shallowly, lazily.) In addition--unless you do everything in a super-functional way--you need to unset() each &-ref to prevent latent bugs later in the same scope.

It's an unfortunate situation, and it gets worse when you add array-like-objects into the mix, which look exactly like "normal" arrays up until the moment everything explodes into WTFs.
I feel your frustration, too. ASD is a phenomenon very poorly understood by the general public.

Luckily, science is leading the way (as usual) and providing us with methodology such as pivotal response therapy. The future is bright.
Untimed Olympic lifts are nearly the same to me as yoga. Steady concentration, form and listening to your body.

I don't know much about Crossfit besides that they co-opt a lot of Olympic lifts but add timed elements and "go until exhaustion" type of circuits. To me this is the opposite of what anyone should do, it is dangerous and form breaks down when you're tired or overwhelmed.