skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of Vancouverites would be more willing to pay more money for transit if they actually believed the promises would be delivered. Translink is notoriously incompetent and wasteful.

For instance, their "Compass" system, despite being pegged for deployment by 2008, STILL hasn't been fully implemented. It's been plagued by technical issues and is now running over $200 MILLION dollars, far higher than the original cost. All to stop non-paying passengers (they'll be losing more money on the compass system than missed ticket payments).

Not to mention many of the "transit police" they increasingly employ have 6 figure salaries. They're basically security guards who call the cops if anything serious happens. I've seen them maybe checking tickets 3x a year max in all my years riding Translink.

So yeah, if Translink wasn't already blowing millions of dollars when it shouldn't have, I think Vancouver would vote yes. As it stands, they're justified in saying no, in my humble opinion.

Sources:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/compass-card-...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/translink-sal...
I'm surprised they're not doing the streaming for synchronous code yet considering it's just parsing and compiling and not yet executing. Perhaps in a future update.

I'd still love to see some sort of byte code for the web though but I love the advancements still.
I don't think the vote happened yet.

Your summary is technically correct. But you're implying that it's a petty insult, when he's tackling a real systematic problem in votes about public services. Just because the preaching gets annoying doesn't make him wrong.
I think you wrote this post in good faith, but I have no idea what you are saying.
I don't have this problem in the genres I listen to--they have only not had a couple of songs from pretty obscure groups.

Even when I create a station by artist, say The Avett Brothers (considered folk music, I believe), I end up getting repeats quickly--even among the non-Avett artists playing on the station.

My own personal folk playlist (on spotify) has more variety than their own station.

I'm convinced it's an algorithm issue in my case. In yours, possibly lack of choices.
It's fair that you don't trust the government to spend money properly, but if the government has no money to spend then this problem is left unsolved.

Here is a document outlining the plan and budget: http://mayorscouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Mayors-Co...
It is worth emphasizing the cost in this case. My family is fortunate enough to be able to both access excellent healthcare and pay for the complete cold cap procedures (which included a trained specialist who would apply and maintain the cold cap). I hope, sooner than later, that we will be able to offer this as a standard part of many chemo treatments.
But in the last 12 years, I've seen it in a dozen cases...

Once a year, throughout the country? How many thousands of investigations are performed per year? Doesn't seem very likely to happen.
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We just added that information to the top of our about page: https://gyrosco.pe/about/

Scaling is hard so we want to make sure we don't break everything, but we're really excited to have everyone start using it as soon as possible and doing everything we can to make that happen quickly.

We're also doing multiple passes, starting with people who already have enough data connected, because we know they will have a great experience. If someone only has a few photos connected there and not much other data, we still have a lot more work left to do to give them a great experience.
Have you looked at these remote job boards?
Have you looked at these remote job boards?

http://offsite.careers
http://nomadjobs.io
I don't know if they're offering equity at the moment but they were offering it to engineers 18 months ago.
This is a great example of effective marketing. The No side has worked for a number of years to portray Translink, the transit operating company in Vancouver, as incompetent and wasteful. They've turned this referendum on funding a group of capital projects into a referendum on the operating company.

By most metrics (trips per capita, on time performance, farebox recovery) Vancouver has one of the top transit systems in North America.
There are about a zillion drag & drop web designer tools out there, all with varying angles and subtly different markets. The ones I know of are:

https://divshot.com/features

http://www.appgyver.com/composer

https://polymer-designer.appspot.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

https://webflow.com/

http://froont.com/

http://www.google.com/webdesigner/

http://sparkle.cx/

There's also a bunch of desktop software that does this too - remember FrontPage and DreamWeaver?

I thought about getting into this market but it is so crowded that it's unlikely there'll be one clear winner. Instead, every designer seems to have their favorite tool.
Keep in mind that the taxi situation is very different in Germany. As an American who lived and worked in Germany for a couple years, the taxi service was generally fantastic. Professional and courteous drivers, usually an impeccably maintained black Mercedes-Benzes, and a digital readout of the current fare on the rear-view mirror. And this was 7 years ago. Upon landing in Atlanta, I'd regularly step into a smelly, old van--with a driver who spoke little English and zero knowledge of the city, requiring GPS entry before departing--only to careen haphazardly down the highway. The contrast was rather stark.

As a driving enthusiast, driving in German was a pleasure (minus the traffic). Being able to cruise at 140 mph on unrestricted sections en route to Darmstadt, and feel safe doing so, was wonderful. Then again, obtaining a driver's license in Germany is substantially more difficult, costly, and time-consuming. Vehicle maintenance requirements are likewise more stringent (e.g. mandatory winter tires). Given the different driving environment, this ruling is not surprising in light of Uber's lackadaisical approach (I say that as a fan of Uber's service in the US, not their behavior).

Whereas in much of the US, you can cruise around a parking lot with an instructor, and walk away with a drivers license. It's like the wild west by comparison. Uber is faster, safer, and cheaper than the abysmal service in most US cities; but this isn't universally true. The situation in Western Europe is mostly superior to what you'd find in the US; ditto for Japan and South Korea.

EDIT: Clarity.
Half a penny per dollar. 7.5%
The sample was not "every federal investigation of the past 12 years".
The plan has been touted in the metro and other papers since I moved to Vancouver 5 years ago. I suppose it depends on how you want to define plan -- as talk from officials with no drafts or as a concrete plan with specs and budgets. If we are using the latter definition it has been since around 2012.

I recall when the Canada line was being built for the Olympics there was an outcry because it would push the plans for the rail to Langley(UBC? My memory is not 100%) back by years as they were putting it on hold to make way for rail to Richmond.

From 2014: http://www.bcbusiness.ca/manufacturing-transport/an-expo-lin...
From 2013: http://www.surreyleader.com/news/195701621.html
From 2012: http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/7340/surrey-mayor-derails...
From 2008: (When it was just talk) http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=ea3c45d3-d3b6-48fc-8b18-...
Also from Vancouver, but will not be voting because I'm not a citizen. I'd be on the fence about this decision. Not because of the statue or the CEO salary; you're right, in the grand scheme of things they aren't very important and are absolutely used by the "no" campaign to cause a knee jerk reaction in voters.

The more troubling thing about Translink is their apparent inability to execute even the simplest of projects. Remember the Compass cards? Still not in effect. Similarly, turnstiles in the skytrain still don't work, so many people don't pay.

Building new rail service and adding more bus routes seems orders of magnitude more complex than implementing a check in/check out card system or enabling turnstiles in the skytrain stations. If they fail to execute simple tasks at the cost of hundreds of millions, why would they be able to execute complex tasks at the cost of billions?

This in addition to the fact that sales taxes are the most regressive taxes you can have. Why not property tax? Only extremely wealthy people can afford property in Vancouver. Seems like a better place to start...

Like I said, I have no skin in this game. Just trying to shed some light on some of the more salient points from the No side.
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DEC64
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365812
That's a great point. In this case, he's in a completely different place and the goal was still applicable. That's great. I would tell you to set goals all the same. If you _don't_ hit them, figure out why. If it's because you are different, that's cool. You adapted.

Don't use goals to measure "Success" per se but rather, yourself. It's a great lens to see trends in what is important to you in thought and practice and where they diverge.
I value the ability to feed my child and keep her happy. However that requires a lot of commitment. Time and money I don't have.

So to say that I must drive myself crazy just to meet your need for me to have OSS projects on my resume, I rather work somewhere else.

Side note: I work at a dream job, getting paid below market value, and won't trade it in because... how many people work in a job where everyone is underpaid and wants to be in the office every day because it is just so amazing?
> I believe a huge number of artists would not bother to make sense of monthly records which could reach 1800 pages

I don't understand this argument at all, which suggests that reviewing a monthly report is an O(n) task. Spotify, if they chose this route, trivially solves this with a simple open source app that analyzes your monthly report making it, basically, an O(1) task.
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You may be right, that this is a solid plan. I should have been clearer in my original post that my complaint isn't with the position the writer holds. In fact, if I were a resident of Vancouver, I'd probably vote yes on it.

My problem is with the article's attempt to present their side as a fact; that the existence of opposition must be due to some defect in humanity itself, rather than a reasoned stance. It's very patronizing and doesn't help to convince those that need convincing.

When people have a general distrust of the handling of their tax dollars, they often have experience that informs that distrust. One should not summarily discount and ignore that sentiment if they're looking to raise funds.
How many thousands of investigations is he personally involved in per year? I'd guess something on the order of 0.05.
Introduce vote-counting based on personal tax you have paid. More tax you have paid - more votes you get with maximum of 3 votes per person.
This way you will have usually more successful people with more votes, while keeping majority of votes with less successful people.
This way poorer people can still block any voting when united, but most decisions that wont affect them negatively will get passed thanks to people with more than one vote.

Sounds like a good upgrade to current system...
How do you know it's not the other way around, at least part of the time?

It's well-known that people are generally multifaceted, and that, typically, different circumstances bring out different facets -- that's more general than the online/offline issue.

I never met Naggum in person, only online, so I have no personal theory about him.
> The lesson — other than that criminal justice often has little to do with actual justice — is this: for God's sake shut up. Law enforcement agents seeking to interview you are not your friends. You cannot count on "just clearing this one thing up." Demand to talk to a lawyer before talking to the cops. Every time.

This is a very good reminder, and everything he says is both important and true. Unfortunately, it's sadly much easier said than done.

I know my rights. Both nationally, as well as the specific nuances of New York[0] (both city and state). I have even conducted multiple "Know Your Rights" training events educating people (generally students) about the rights that they do and don't have when speaking with LEOs, and how to exercise them. But even then, when push came to shove and I was in this position, I found myself hesitating and second guessing my knowledge, despite all the practice I had and the trainings I'd helped conduct myself.[1]

LEOs - especially Feds - will do everything they can to intimidate you, make you uncomfortable, lower your confidence, etc. It's literally their job to make people like you make mistakes. It sucks, but that's what you're up against.

[0] PSA: Did you know that possession of < 27g (not a full ounce) of marijuana is only a criminal offence in NY if "burning or open to public view"? Did you also know that this means that you should never, ever turn out your pockets if a cop asks you, because then you've exposed said contraband to "public view"? Wait for him/her to frisk you, and at least then your lawyer will have a slight chance at getting the charge dismissed.

[1] It didn't help that most of my knowledge (as is often the case) centred around local police, whereas the situation regarding border crossings and the TSA is more thorny.
Not to mention, I imagine they only play that card when it seems like they need to for one reason or another.
"One regret I do have: I spent too much time waiting for other people. Investors, cofounders, mentors. I found that once I started actually building, these things came naturally." --

I had this same experience. It wasn't until I pushed something live that those things/people just fell into place. Great article!
I was rather glad when I first encountered DEC64 because I had previously had the displeasure of having to think deep thoughts about IEEE 754. DEC64 seemed simple enough that I could get the gist on a note card, and generally I gravitate towards the simplest possible options whenever possible.

However, reading some of the comments on previous HN discussion of DEC64 are kind of depressing. It sounds kind of like either you get a floating point number representation that's comprehensible or you get one that's fast (or you get neither ... which sounds like it might be the case for DEC64).

Are my options really some sort of symbolic representation OR IEEE 754? Bleh that seems rather unfortunate.

(Side note: someone linked this on the previous discussion ... I was surprised http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format)
I laughed to myself after reading the first few paragraphs. When I saw the image of young Chinese students I immediately thought of the literary use of myopia, not the medical condition. Given the source of the article was “Nature”, I assumed it was an article about the Chinese exploitation of natural resources for the sake of short term profits and the destructive effect on the environment; hence, myopia. Is that irony?
> A lot of it has to do with who you work with. In every case I can think of, windfall money for employees came from founders with a track record of accomplishing that (or, in my case, a founder who would soon develop that track record, and was, in the company I was at, extremely committed to making sure his team was well compensated at liquidity).

This.

I am the founder of OpenFeint which was acquired a few years ago for ~$100M. Many of my early employees there got into the range you mentioned. But I also had to work incredibly hard to make sure that every one of the 60 people at the company got compensated at some level. It's very easy for people at the table during a transaction to focus on themselves... most people do.

A good founder will constantly fight for his/her team.
I wonder how they persist the cached code, and if it is signed etc. Seems like it could be an attack vector if it was altered on the filesystem or something like that.

I'm sure they thought of that, so I'm just curious. I suppose I could look through the Chromium source but I'm probably not actually smart enough to figure it out.
Most business folk loved it, because thats what they used.
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Why don't they call it that then? Because saying you're increasing the sales tax by 0.5% (almost 10% increase) sounds worse than "it's only half a penny"?
Nobody seems to care that I attended Caltech.

I actually graduated from UC Santa Cruz; in my actual experience, the classes at UCSC did me quite a lot more good in my career than the ones I took at Caltech. However my degree was in Physics, but the classes that really made a difference to me were psychology, social psychology and anthropology.

In the work world, you see, it helps a great deal to understand other people.
I know that calling them recording cartels is making a certain point, but the licensing companies in the US are ASCAP and BMI and they don't really have anything to do with actually recording music. They collect royalties on behalf of the artists.

I happen to know because I was once in a band and the only money I really ever received for our recordings after the label advance was from ASCAP. Even years later I get a check every few months for a few bucks, whereas I get nothing from spotify or any other music service (even though my music is on there).

So at least for me, I appreciate ASCAP and BMI, even though it is not a lot of money, they are the only ones who have ever paid me royalties as an artist - and their service is free to all artists no matter how small.
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Did I see a Google car?
It had a little black node on top like this: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/27/3607036/google-unveils-new-driverless-car-whats-holding-it-back/

But the car looked more like this: http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/

It went by too fast for me to see more than a blur on the sides, so I don't know anything about colors or logos.

This was in the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta (Winder). I know they have an office in Atlanta, and I've sent quite a bit of map feedback. Is it possible they're running tests around here?
> Of all the Canadian transit systems I've used... Vancouver's is without a doubt... the best

I'm guessing you don't live in the suburbs or attend UBC (or, God forbid, both at the same time). While I agree that transit functions very well in the core part of the city, lack of rapid transit out to the University is a conspicuous weakness -- the 15-km commute from East Van takes over an hour by transit. With a tram or SkyTrain line it could be a third of that. Also, much of Surrey (whose population will exceed Vancouver's within a decade) is very far from any SkyTrain station. To be fair, Burnaby and New West at least are well-served by fast transit.

I think Toronto's Go Train serves commuters better than anything in Vancouver. Montreal has a similar light-rail system which I've used a few times.

In general, though, I agree with you. Vancouver has a solid transit system that could be even better with more funding, and a $500k CEO salary is neither excessive nor relevant to the argument. I'll be voting yes.
> Any plan that can unite that many wildly disparate organizations behind it is likely to be a very good plan.

The war in Syria is also uniting "many wildly disparate organizations"...

The simple fact that the very voters whom the plan supposedly benefits seem poised on the brink of rejecting it should be a good hint that maybe the plan is flawed.
This content is very backwards given today's increased focus on mental health. None of their scenarios explore the issue, just traits to watch for and the repeated recommendation that you or they change jobs.
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Clickable: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/27/3607036/google-u... and http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetvie...
Yes, absolutely. Brains, geolocation, family, this is all just blind luck.
> However, some day your commute problem may not be solved and you may need to rely on public transportation. You may even find yourself needing a road or two at some time in the future.

At that time, I will pay the fare, or gasoline tax or whatever.

> a different line of reasoning would be better.

Like what? Vote in a way that is good for someone else, rather than yourself?

Here is an idea: everyone should vote in a completely myopic way based on what is immediately good for them today.

The big picture emerges from the total of the vote.

This is correct and how democracy works.

Democracy is not optimal; for that you want to remove voting and have centralized control.
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I reply that you are blatantly lying about an easily checkable matter, and I request the interested observer to follow the link and check.

(Wow. Am I missing something about status games that make the above open lie a good move for David Gerard? He's done it repeatedly, too. I'm confused, how is this a good thing from his perspective? Am I playing into his hands somehow by calling him on it each time?)
The PST in British Columbia (which would be raised half a percent) exempts children's clothes, books, bicycles, medications, and most food.

Source: http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=78521DE3BD5D46C9A3B1...
The question that I have every time I read about something similar to this is not about the law itself, but about the human who's applying the law: how/ why/ what is the line of thought that would lead them to (supposedly) knowingly do something like this? I realize that processes, bureaucracy and generally abstraction can allow people to do less than desirable behaviours, but I can't quite figure out which abstraction that would encourage people to do things like that (note: with the term "abstraction", I meant that by using incentives or measuring the wrong intermediate metrics, we've created a wrong set of objectives, which might be completely misaligned with the actual goal we're trying to achieve).

Laws are complex set of statements, which naturally will have more accidentally complexity as they're developed, a phenomenon that hackers are extremely familiar with. That's something to be expected. On the other hand, human, abusing the accidental complexity of law, is not ideal - as anything else, there should be place and time for trickery, but not the SOP.

That said, what's the rationale for the behaviour of law enforcement officer in pursuing various type of trap-y actions?

- Do LEO routinely believes that everyone they investigate to be committing the crime. Do we have a good priori of P(criminal | under investigation) that would support this?

- Did we actually manage to create a powerful enough abstractions that let actors within the system to, well, behave psychopathically (ie. this button should be pushed because I'm supposed to do that, I don't really know what happen behind it)?

- Trickery are generally being reported out of proportion, and should not be a general concern for the the majority of us.

- Malicious intention -- I will assume this percentage to be not higher than those from a general population.
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