skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a terrible attempt to disguise a position piece as some sort of insight into the psychology of voters. It presupposes that the tax increase in question would be a strict positive for the populace, and argues based on that premise.

Maybe the "no" voters see it differently? They're probably dubious that "the mayor’s plan will shorten commute times on Vancouver’s most congested roads by 20-30 minutes per day, while transit riders will save up to half an hour."

> A report by HDR Consulting found that, even after the sales tax, the average family can expect to save about $360/year.

I'm going to bet that HDR Consulting was smart enough to provide the answer their client was looking for.

I know I sound cynical here, but this article takes campaign-style promises at face value, then cries, "Why can't they just see what's better for them??"
Solving it by hand gives an exact answer, which in some contexts, might be preferable. Forman Acton, in his classic book, Numerical Methods That Work, uses the quadratic formula as an example to illustrate how a computer can give a wildly incorrect solution.
And yet you are both happy to do it; if you couldn't, you would have a worse living situation and he would be poorer. That looks to me like a paradigmatic case of value being added to the world.

It's counterintuitive, maybe, but any sort of trade adds value to the world even though all that's happening is that goods and/or money are being moved from one place to another. What enables this is that different people have different preferences; in the case of your mortgage, it's differences in how you value future money relative to present money -- you want money now and having less money later is a cost you're willing to pay, whereas your mortgagee prefers to have more money later and doesn't mind having less now.

And so you make the trade -- in this case, you exchange a pile of money for some obligations to make future payments adding up to somewhat more money -- and both parties consider themselves better off than before. If that isn't adding value to the world, I don't know what is.

It's not a very glamorous kind of added value: it's less exciting than inventing a new kind of machine, or shaping raw materials into beautiful sculptures. But added value it is.

(Assuming, of course, that you and the mortgagee aren't badly wrong about your preferences. If it turns out that you're going to be spectacularly unable to repay the mortgage, so that you lose your home and the mortgagee loses the money, then maybe everyone loses. See, e.g., 2008. But on the whole it seems like the existence of mortgages is a considerable net benefit.)
I think that the solution human societies will come up with is a basic income. I tend to hope for that, because lightweight government is typically better.
Thanks - look forward to it!
It reminds me of what happened here in Manchester, UK. The population was asked to vote for the introduction of a congestion charge, which would have been used to fund a number of infrastructure improvements. The proposal was soundly (and predictably) defeated, but pretty much all proposed improvements were introduced anyway -- local authorities just found the necessary money in other ways.

Where there is a will, there is a way.
VB.NET is all of that except even easier to work with and more sensible, plus interop with any other .NET language. VS for VB.NET is not slow at all. I used VB.NET throughout a high school class and recently had to modify some VB.NET I found in an open source project to adapt it to my project. It was a very smooth procedure even after not having used the language in years. But with having C# now, I don't think there's much reason to write VB.NET instead of it unless you're working on existing VB.NET code, even though it does have a few nicer spots like the convenient Sub ... Handles myEvent where in C# there has to be an explicit += somewhere, and a few other small things; however, overall C# is more powerful.
Also if people buy it, this guy has free reign to pick any two people on the planet that he doesn't like and effectively end their lives.
About 10 years ago, I had an experience that felt like I was out of my body. It occurred during the night while asleep. I woke up to find myself floating over the bed, just below the ceiling and against the wall opposite the bed.

I remember looking around the room and I could see myself and my wife asleep. It didn't register to me at that time, that I was looking at myself from outside my body. It felt like a dream and I didn't have any desire to try to fly around or through anything, I was content to float there and observe.

About a minute or two into the experience, I noticed something crawling across my pillow, towards my head. As I focused on it, it appeared to be a spider. This made me panic. I think the panic wasn't because of the spider, but that I suddenly realized I was floating in the air and looking at myself. I was overwhelmed with fear and felt myself suddenly fall into my body, at which point I woke up immediately. There was a physical sensation of light pressure when that happened. That experience felt like it lasted only a few minutes.

I jumped out of bed, turned on the some lights and looked all over. I pulled the blankets off the bed, turning over my pillow, etc. I woke up my wife and told her there was a spider on the bed. We spent a few minutes trying to find it, but to no avail. I never had anything like that happen before or since.

I don't know what actually happened, but the experience felt very real. There wasn't any alcohol or drugs involved, but I was in the Air Force at the time, so it could have been aliens. ;-)
Between the ages of 13 and 27 years old I spent hours every night in a dark room in front of a monitor. I started with really bad 14" CRTs and these days I have shiny LCDs.

I've been wearing glasses since I was 7 years old and my prescription hasn't changed since I was about 16. But my doctor said that it was going to keep progressing while I'm still developing then stop until I start hitting age problems.

Your timing seems to correlate well with growth spurts that people have in high school. I didn't have mine, still short. So your myopia might be less because of the bad screen and more because a lot of people first develop bad eyes when they go through puberty.

ymmv
An awful lot of Canadians increasingly sound like Republicans.
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No-voting Vancouverite here.

Firstly, giving more money to Translink is like giving a credit card to a reckless teenager. Or the keys to a powerful sports car to Justin Bieber. Secondly, transit should support itself from the fares it collects: how about that! I already pay a "regional transit levy" ... in my electricity bill, WTF? Where is the connection between me running a fridge, computer and lights, and someone else taking the bus?

I don't give a rat's ass about transit. I bike to work!

Okay, so there are bike lanes in this deal for me? Nope; I don't care about those, and they won't build them where I commute. I will fend for myself, thanks.

I also don't care about expanding the road infrastructure for motorists. Roads should get slower and more congested, as an incentive for people to get out of their cars.

My commute is already short and consistently so. I can beat transit by 100% and even the average car trip time. I've made the 12 km trip to work in as few as 22 minutes; whereas my best car time was around 15, and plenty of times when traffic made that 45 minutes or more.

I don't care about a new bridge over the Fraser; just more ways for the violent criminals from there to attack Vancouver homes, businesses and individuals, and then make a faster getaway back over the Fraser, out of law's reach. It's bad enough that a stray bullet can reach across the Fraser.

Hey, that last paragraph is a joke, no offense intended! :)
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They're actually pseudonymous, so they can have reputations. If the other party insists on an arbitrator you've never heard of, you probably shouldn't agree to those terms.
Another data point: Same here, same story, but with a good display. :)
I'm no longer a Vancouver resident, but I know people who are voting no not because they think transit doesn't need the money (it definitely does), but because:

1) Sales tax is a regressive way to tax people.

2) Translink, the company in charge of transit in Vancouver, is widely seen as somewhere between incompetent and corrupt. (Corrupt by Canadian standards, which is a pretty low bar).

If this was done as an increase in property and gas taxes, I suspect it'd be a different story.
Ten Things I Learned by Downsizing My Life
First two sentences:

"This article was written in early 2005, and submitted then to Science. Perhaps predictably enough, it was rejected."

Reminder:
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2012/01/30/the-arxiv-is-n...

The link you provided is interesting speculation, perhaps an amusing philosophical exercise, but if you think it's science, then we aren't talking the same language.
This is not a pitfall of an environment; this is a pitfall of awful programming. It's nice that the rescale folks have implemented a workaround, but it shouldn't stop users from pressuring the vendors for better software.
Also interested in this. Lots of talk on individual components but less out there on wiring up multiple components, some of which may be abstract and do not have a representation in the DOM.
That's not how I saw VB's reputation at that time period.
In my opinion The Economist does a pretty good job of waiting for more concrete information before publishing any story. They never do 'breaking-news'.
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But not by the reckoning of whoever coined that phrase.

Most work in pure mathematics -- even outstandingly brilliant work done by outstandingly brilliant people -- is never useful outside pure mathematics. If you regard pure mathematics as very valuable in its own right, that's no problem. But if you care mostly about practical benefits, you might think that someone with the mental characteristics needed to win a Fields Medal would have done better to use that wonderful brain for something that benefits the world more.

(For my part, I'm glad that some people with wonderful brains use them to enrich pure mathematics, because I happen to love pure mathematics. But I think those more practically minded people have a point.)
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Me too. I love Club Mate (pronounced Clue-b, Maw Tay). It's apparently super popular among hackers in Berlin.

I only know two places to get it in California. One, The Fizzary on Haight in SF, the other Galcos Old World Grocery in Pasadena although my impression of Galcos is they aren't going to keep stocking it.

It's one of many drinks that seem like they could do well with the right marketing and distribution.
Low vitamin D level was my first thought when I read the "outside light" and it looks like it could be related:

https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/vitamin-d-news/new-study-fin...

http://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-can-save-your-...

"myopia was significantly higher in individuals with vitamin D deficiency":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24970253
Gyroscope looks really cool.. it REALLY REALLY reminds me of Gamesphere
I've been working with somebody else's .NET web application recently, written entirely in VB.NET. It works just fine and VB hardly seems like a toy. An interesting quirk I discovered, however, was that, with a VB.NET application, you can add individual classes as namespaces in web.config

This basically allows you to import classes from App_Code globally--something which my predecessor on the project had made significant use of. And it all worked, despite the fact that it's not technically "allowed" and C# naturally prevents you from doing it. I only noticed something was amiss when I tried creating a simple Web Service and the app kept falling over.
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He is married, and around 30. Some people don't grow up.
Assasin's Creed mentions of Geometry Shaders being used - (March, 2014, GDC) - https://bartwronski.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ac4_gdc.pdf

possibly many others.

EDIT: Here is much more updated version (4 versions actually with much more detailed images/video and more notes) - from the author's web-page - http://bartwronski.com/2014/05/09/digital-dragons-2014-slide...

oh, and if you are looking for some fun graphics failures :)

http://igetyourfail.blogspot.com/2009/02/behold-power-of-geo...
How to recognise and deal with a workplace sociopath
Vamos, que lo han desahuciado también a él, con lo tranquilo que estaba ;-)
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This can probably be combined with data mentioned in Albion's Seed to test some questions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed
Oh hi Erik, cool to see you here and thanks! Haven't seen you in way too long.
Do you also think that if you don't have kids in school, your taxes shouldn't pay for public education?
IMO the PR is not only disrespectful but also utterly wrong, from a technical point of view.

If Make was that awesome of a project, it would have evolved to cover the needs of most developers, however, some tools grew around it to "workaround" its limitations, and then the monster called autotools was born.

I consider MSBuild much less worse than autotools. I'm not yet a fan of any build tool to recognise that it's good, but at least I can tell that MSBuild is one that sucks the least.
It's near José Luis Borgues' tomb, isn't it?
I disagree with the author. I've found that rote memorization (especially in quantitative endeavors) gives one a foundation from which creativity can spring.
Nah, I wouldn't call myself a programmer. I'm just 'technically curious' and enjoy the conversation found on hn. I might try and find work in tech consulting or security later on. References can indeed be a bitch, although you can get away with just a name and date for the exams. I'm enjoying LSE - although studying here has meant very different things at different times. My first 4 or so terms were a bit too social and I'm now taking the work more seriously (and finding it's somewhat fun). I'm definitely in a bit of a work bubble at the moment, so the library is totally my social hub.
> I don't give a rat's ass about transit. I bike to work!

Surely biking to work is easier if there are fewer cars on the road?
Your comment comes across to me like someone without kids complaining about school levies simply because they don't have kids. You've solved your commute problem and that is great. 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.

You are under no obligation to try to convince others to agree with your perspective but if that is your goal maybe a different line of reasoning would be better.
Atlassian's hosted JIRA is $10/month for up to 10 users. It is very slow compared to hosting on premises, but users in my office don't need fast ticket tracking.

I switched from on-premises JIRA, Stash & Confluence to the Atlassian hosted services and I found it saved a ton of admin time. I am a happy customer.
Do you pay a fee to use the roads you bike on? Probably not. Then why should transit users pay all costs directly, but bike (and, of course, car) users get subsidies? OK, putting the subsidy on your electric bill is pretty weird, but the general idea of subsidizing mass transit makes it no different from just about every other form of transportation.

Even from the point of pure self-interest, transit benefits you: each additional person who takes it is one less car on the road trying to run you down and put you in the hospital for the crime of riding a bike.
TLDR; vote does not go the way a journalist wants it to, so he writes a long piece on how stupid the voters are.
"I already pay..." "I don't give a rat's ass..." "I don't care about those..." "I will fend for myself..." "I also don't care about..." "My commute is already..." "I can beat transit..." "I don't care about a new bridge..."

You've done a great job of making the article's point. You've fallen for the cognitive trap that the article is describing.

You have not considered more complex effects. How does this affect your family, friends, and co-workers? How does this affect the school and parks in your neighbourhood? How does this increase population density? How does this affect property prices? How does this affect pollution levels?
I've noticed when that is the case in Europe, the curbs are low and rounded, so it isn't hard too drive over them slowly. When they are high and square like in CA, it wouldn't be easy at all to get on the sidewalk (even if the fascist parking dictatorship were to allow it).
Is this going to be supported on Android ?
We'd love to conduct such a study, but we need a small sales tax increase to finance it....
We don't warn against mailing cash only because it might be stolen in transit we warn against it because of the lack of tracking. How do you know the store received the cash? What happens if your envelope is delivered but falls off the mail cart somewhere and is lost? The merchant isn't going to take your word that you mailed them cash no matter how trustworthy they are.
A gross mischaracterization of the article.
The data ultimately lives upstream on a corporate file server, so long as you install the "AeroFS Team Server" -- which is the backing storage agent. The Team Server is indeed optional, so you could theoretically just run things in a peer-to-peer manner, but really the recommended environment is to have the Team Server up and running.
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Where do you want to be 5 years from now?
> I didn't mention any activities at the college level.

Instead, you wrote:

> Harvard/MIT math contest (which is way more fun and difficult than the Temple School of Actuarial Sciences contest or Drexel's)

Sounds like college.

> It's clear you have no idea what you're taking about.

What's now fully clear is just that
you are angry about something
and want to attack me personally,
not my writing or thinking but just
me, personally. Not good.
Government spending is too wasteful, by orders of magnitude. I don't blame voters for saying no. Fix that problem first, before spending billions of dollars.

In Oregon we recently had a transit proposal to build a new bridge over the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. About 30 years ago we spent $170 million for a very fine bridge.[1] Now we were being asked to spend $2800 million[2] for a replacement for a parallel bridge (revised down from $3500 million but surely overruns were guaranteed). I know we had some inflation in the intervening years. But nowhere near that much!

According to the govt CPI calculator, $170 in 1982 dollars is $412 in 2015 dollars. But our Oregon "leaders" wanted to spend $2800. Fortunately the Washington legislature killed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_L._Jackson_Memorial_Brid...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Crossing
Growing up in the Philippines, this is how we used to drink, one guy fills the glass with booze, then passes it down to the next guy in line, who chugs it down then passes it back to have it refilled.

Same glass, same amount of booze, same order in the rounds. Wonder if it's an indio+Spaniard thing? I haven't seen this anywhere else in Asia.
Maybe you overestimate how funny you are.
Note: One mate is shared by many. This makes at social ocassion, similarly to coffee, but with the restriction of having to take turns to sip. This makes it take a lot more time. As much as the conversation needs.
That's a good point, and I may have done inadvertent cruft cleaning just by updating my program periodically, since it was so easy to just reboot the system.
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The arbitrator will usually be known by reputation, i.e. always the same key id.
>No ever actually did that. Your dream world simply never existed.

You are completely wrong:

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
I'm the author! Let me know if you have any questions.
The UI of this web site is very cool. How to make this 3D animation?
It definitely depended on whom you talked to. Folks in the "business" world generally respected the productivity of VB, as it was used for a lot of the little custom apps that people depended on.

But there were also a lot of developers who thought that VB programmers were the script kiddies of the day.
>Most work in pure mathematics -- even outstandingly brilliant work done by outstandingly brilliant people -- is never useful outside pure mathematics.

Perhaps this is untrue on a timescale of decades or centuries.
Now I can finally quantify how little I do of everything that I should be doing. Before it was vague; now the guilt really can come to life with exciting (or rather, flat?) graphs and visuals.
Well, part of the British Isles. As usual people in the UK pretend nobody lives in the rest of Ireland, and there's no way that there could be any genetic overlap between the populations after many many centuries of trading, raiding, and invading between the two islands.
Standard name for this type of linked list is the "intrusive linked list". There's an implementation for it in boost for c++ and here's another article about it: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/avoiding-game-crashes-relate...
The power of engineering standards and convetions
This reminds me of the mass market hi-q puzzle although this puzzle probably inspired the hi-q cross design. I was never able to solve it as A kid but later wrote a 6502 program to try to solve it. I toggled char's on the monitor to see if it was running or off in never never land ( relative jmps are murder). After 10, 20 , 40 ?? Minutes it stopped. It hadn't crashed. I dumped the memory. It was the solution!
Prolog seemed cool when i saw it but life in IT drudgery took over.
Also very enlightening, and many probably already have watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

> Dont Talk to Cops

> Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.
Legally (in the U.S.), the FAA restricts the height of towers to about 2000', with rare variances granted.

Technically, we don't need supergiant towers, now even less than ever before. High frequency broadcasters (TV) need line of sight to their customers, but -- economically -- TV transmission also has huge energy costs (wide bandwidth), and you're fighting the inverse square law the whole time. So in the low-populated areas where you might reach more people at the margins, it just doesn't make economic sense. In denser markets, the next city will be better served by a local station.

Also economically, the general rule of thumb is that the cost of a tower increases as the square of its height.

But I think you were asking about the physical limit. These masts are typically made of galvanized steel tubes. Pipe OD size and wall thickness (and therefore compressive strength) will vary, but that is the ultimate limiting parameter.

The galvanized steel guy lines are in tension, but it's easy to add more of these as height and footprint increase.
Who does he now work for?
There's a train from near downtown to PHL... so the world is their oyster.