skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<i>isn't the point of the article that they are not taxed at the rate of a normal condo vis-a-vis their sales price?</i>

That isn't the point I'm making. Ultra-luxe condos are taxed the same way as normal condos are. It's the same mechanism. But the formula is crude and can't anticipate that there might be condo buildings with no comparison in the rental market.

<i>I think it would have made the analysis better to have also ranked the dollar value of tax revenue per dwelling unit</i>

The charts I included do show the dollar value of tax revenue per 10 units that sold for extraordinary prices. Perhaps these dollar values (e.g., $17,000 per year) do seem very high, but that is a matter of perspective. If you are the owner of a $5 million condo, and you pay $17,000 annually in property taxes, it will seem outrageous that the owner of a $100 million condo pays the same. This is why it's important to compare effective property tax rates. Just comparing numbers or digits is meaningless in a discussion about in/equity.

<i>I don't think there is a scenario where the city gets the tower, the condo sells for $100 million, AND the city gets 1.7% each year in property taxes.</i>

Perhaps not. I still think the burden is on the city and state to demonstrate why the inequity is warranted.
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Sigh, the "benefits" of industrialisation and new tech. Fortunately I hope that 2d or 3d pros and cons are known and mastered enough so people can go back to produce artful games.

Similarly to movies, early 2K era movies were speaking too much of CGI, now SFX aren't attractive anymore, you got to give density.

ps: about the level of effort, I think it's not fair, 3d modeling and animating was hard, but more than that it made people focus on low level details rather than 'impressionist' ones. You had to care about all angles and didn't have time nor knowledge on what made a good animation. Same goes for old animations.
Extinguish Javascript? Good luck with that.
You're assuming the same thing you're arguing for. Namely, that JSON should be your base format. I can equally say:

"I understand that everything in HTML could also be represented in another format. But if your master data is in HTML, does it always make sense to convert the data to JSON just for the sake of it? Would you build a separate client-side rendering component only for that conversion?"

There two non-circular considerations that favor HTML:

1. Web pages still render via DOM. JSON data has to be tramsformed, HTML does not.

2. HTML has semantic capabilities. JSON does not.
I remember back in the day people were suggesting moving from Flash video to HTML5 video will somehow free us from Adobe DRM and DRM in general.

Those were funny days.
Those who have been around long enough may recall the late Daniel Moynihan's discovery that math proficiency scores had a strong inverse relationship to the distance of the state capital from the Canadian border. As I recall, he thought it an excellent way for northern-tier states to raise revenue by renting out enclaves where other states might place their capitals.
The magicNumber entry of the "head" table caught my eye, but I'm unable to find anything about what it's there for beyond "Set to 0x5F0F3CF5." Does anyone know any more about what purpose this serves, or is it just some solution to something that is never really explained?
I actually do have Netflix running via Silverlight on Firefox on Linux. Winodws Silverlight is running in Wine, with Pipelight to display the Windows plugin in the Linux Firefox (actually Iceweasel) process.

Its emulators all the way down!
The flash thing that existed for symbian was not "Flash", it was "FlashLite", a very different plugin that supported exactly 0 of all the .swf files I tried to throw at it, including even super simple animations.
> I am surprised that higher speed limits are so strongly correlated with higher mortality rates.

This really shouldn't be surprising: higher speed limits correlate with higher average speeds, and while energy goes as the square of the velocity, mitigation efforts do not.

No matter how well you engineer crumple zones, improve traction, give automated braking responses... if you are going fast enough when you actually hit something, it's the kinetic energy that is going to kill you.

Bear in mind that mortality rates and incident rates don't really reflect the same things here.
Alice is an end user. Eve and Bob each host legitimate servers. Alice authenticates to Eve, and Eve impersonates Alice to Bob like so:

A E B
-hello->
-hello->
<-nonce-
<-nonce-

-random->
-S(rand)>
-S(n^r)->
-random->
-S(rand)>
-S(n^r)->
Don't get me wrong, I fully understand the point you are trying to make. The problem I have with it is, it seems by your own admission, you're somewhat hypocritical. You'd like for someone else, a la the manufacturer, to provide a guarantee that you can be lazy and not take precautions so that you don't have to worry about a $1300 radio controlled vehicle that flies doesn't hurt someone else?

I only mention the general cost because - there's not that much margin in these things to achieve what you want. Nobody will spend $2300 on a Phantom if that additional $1000 is for upgrades to safety and ignorance factors.

There are many things that didn't start out with any guarantees of implied safety - and many things that are assumed safe, when not operated safely, are inherently very risky / unsafe.

Finally, there are easily many tens of thousands of hobby grade drones out there - flying daily, operating (for the most part) safely (again partially dependent on operator). How many deaths have occurred to date?

Something that really bothers me is that when I first started flying the general reaction I had was of excitement - although I was generally no less cautious. The RC craft I flew drew interest and excitement from bystanders and it was generally a good experience. Now, I am overly cautious when flying anywhere near public areas. I've received comments about how I should "go somewhere else", even when I was flying in an area where there were no people, but someone decided to seek me out since they saw the craft from remote. And I've generally just tried to stay out of places I know would be potential hazards if there was a malfunction where I lost control.

Do I still fly in "tight" locations? Yes - I do. I've flown my neighborhood to assess storm damage for my neighbors knowing that there are people - but in those situations I always fly with prop guards and try to fly over houses, not over sidewalks or roads. And then there's the artistic side - I like taking shots of architecture and some of those situations require thoughtful planning or waiting for an area to clear.

I can't help other people's ignorance and I will say that you flying untethered with no experience is not something DJI or I should have to worry about - that's your choice and risk to weigh. If I was your neighbor I'd have a frank conversation with you about your actual skills and ability to ascertain risk.

In my opinion golf is far more risky than flying "drones" (I prefer RC quad-copter, but to each their own). I play golf, I love it. I'm not going to stop playing because you hit golf balls off your deck into your neighbors yard and then expect Titleist and Callaway to fix your bad decision.
Agreed.

Some of the greatest film movies ever created are black and white, ironical because most of them were recorded in two colors but the color was lost(as the only copy that not degraded over time were the black and white television copies).

But if you tried to make a film that last 20 seconds like the first Lumière movies, or without sound like Chaplin most people won't understand it.

Even Chaplin got nearly bankrupt trying to stay with silent pictures.

Most people can't understand that making a movie without sound is actually harder than with it, as a movie without sound feels weird and you have to apply lots of work in order to fight this limitation.

So it just does not make economical sense when 99% of the people do not understand the work behind and you have to make something 99 times more expensive to those that do in order to live of your work.
This is nice. I wish we could put the camera at an angle!
Spot on. I think it's tough, particularly as a young guy, to hold back on being overly confrontational. I used to be horrible to be around, not just professionally, but in nearly every way. Super fighty and abrasive.

I'd like to think that it was through mindful practice that I've managed to tame my aggression. Perhaps it is, partly. But the real reason that I'm a lot easier to get along with now probably has to do with aging out of the testosterone-flooded decade of my 20s.
It depends... if your content is mostly static, or mostly dynamic it really depends...

Sometimes doing it all in react/angular is easier than bolting on jquery extension after extension... bloating everything up. Also, if you're using more modern techniques, you're going through a build/minify step anyways which makes it even easier still to be more JS based than static.
Ask HN: Say you know no math, how would you go from zero to calc in one year?
Is that even possible?
Not one succeeds.
I havent seen a truely positive use of the API either. In fact they've had problems with it.

There was an exploit at one point that allowed you to ask the API "how far from my current position is this person" and it returned a very precise distance based on both user's gps. If you then moved your location (just the argument, no need to actually move), you could triangluate the other users exact location. Tinder fixed that by fuzzing the distance and giving less precision.

There are also apps that auto like everyone. This sort of defeats the purpose of the app. Tinder didnt seem to really mind though. They did eventually limit the number of "likes" each user can have in a day, but added a pay option ot bypass it too.
I think the point of raising speed limits is to better match the natural safe speed for a road. The old 55 MPH limit was an over-correction because of high speed accidents. But over time roads were built better and cars became safer, so drivers felt more comfortable driving as fast as 75 MPH.

And, I'm not sure but wasn't there some accidents caused by people suddenly decelerating when they saw a police car? Or am I thinking of the rear-end collisions because of red lights.
While the author may have been a very talented engineer, there are also a lot of mediocre engineers (and members of other professions) who happen to act like jerks.

Don't assume that just because someone is crotchety, indignant, or combative that he/she is intelligent.
He just wanted to get a feel for the problems of the project and the people. What lives in the project, what are the people like.

I guess your reaction illustrates my point nicely I don't even consider this "bypassing". Why not feel proud of your project members? To feel bypassed is saying your are the preferred person for all communication, surely anyone can decide for themselves who they want to talk to. Would you feel afraid they say bad things? Then you are not a good leader. If you are a good leader your team makes you look good. That's how I'd see it. If someone talks to your team he probably has a reason, why even think anything about it?
> There was no reason that the W3C should have made this easier for them.

MS, Google, and Apple would've set up their own venue to standardise the exact same thing. The W3C having it within their walls is really not that relevant to the outcome of this.
HTML doesn't work in this forum, apparently. In any event thanks for reading.
Cheers!

Nothing planned at the moment, but I've been thinking about it. Hard to sync events with times into a diary where there is no concept of time. Even harder to go back the other way.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter Issue 130
Come on. This is the same Mozilla that promoted installing Adobe Flash for internet video since its very inception. If you're really such a purist, they should have been your enemy all along.

Nothing has changed, and the conclusion is nowhere near as dramatic as you're making it sound. The suggestion that Mozilla implemented this for market share reasons is also incredibly unsubstantiated and ignores the very obvious practical reasons they will have had: dropping reliance on large propietary application runtimes (the DRM module is much smaller and has less functionality), improving user experience, and the fact that it's an actual web standard (albeit the most controversial one).
The Internet Gives Me a Voice
I found it interesting that the author denigrated a fighter from Street Fighter IV with 'arms don't work that way', then immediately turns around and says that the pixel art for the next fighter is far better because 'she looks like a whip cracking', despite spines not working that way. It feels like the author is applying different standards at times.
> de-scrambling using JavaScript

No thank you.
I left Internet Explorer for Firefox because I was unsatisfied and jumped to the first viable alternative. I left Firefox for Chrome for the same reason. I'll jump to the next viable alternative as soon as it's available.
Can't really find this on the site but does it have any sort of collision avoidance? What if I am running on a sidewalk and it runs into a tree branch above?
*some.

Being vocal/hysterical about something doesn't imply it's a dominant opinion.
That's fair, but if you want to make art, there's no sense in trying to appeal to everyone. The guy that disregards pixel art probably wouldn't see your traditional art for what it really is, either. You can be depressed that the "mainstream" doesn't appreciate what you do, you can crush your spirit trying to pander to them, or you can have fun in your cozy niche with a small handful of fans and peers that really get you.
Funny thing that TACK and the Google project for certificate transparency have exactly the same failure point of DNSSEC, in that both will make all the names public.

TACK is great. Google's certificate transparency isn't. And, yes, we need more proposals. The more, the better.

And, by the way, yes, it's Verisign, thanks.
In an age of information, giving the student a choice is a really smart move!
I really like these two paragraphs towards the end:

Being kind isn’t the same as being nice. It isn’t about superficial praise.
It doesn’t mean dulling your opinions. And it shouldn’t diminish the passion
with which you present them.

Being kind is fundamentally about taking responsibility for your impact on
the people around you. It requires you be mindful of their feelings and
considerate of the way your presence affects them.

This get's missed a lot here on Hacker News. Many people are often hostile towards content creators or other commenters.

It's perfectly OK to disagree with someone; but please consider doing so in a respectful and thoughtful tone. Remember that others often shut-down when they read criticism, even when well warranted. The way you phrase and present yourself defines whether you're giving criticism or critique.
The Chinese have a weird way of using the iPhone, and no one knows why
FileVault is completely transparent for me here. I can hardly notice any performance hit.

Now, if only Apple can fix the incessant graphics freezing...
'Dancing Git' – How to Explain Git in Depth
>If you're asking if software licenses are important, the answer is yes, they're very important.

I'm not asking about their importance, I complain about their existince (and need).
Fail safe works reliably in my experience - but it doesn't save from risky flight in the first place. I think YMMV, but I've yet to have an in-flight failure that resulted in crashing or losing control. That being said I'm overly cautious about inspection and maintenance of the craft I own.

I'm not disillusioned though - it will happen, I'll lose an ESC mid-flight and I'll have to deal with trying to guide an uncontrollable aircraft that I may not have line of sight on. Pretty much next to impossible to guarantee anything in that situation.
and chakra is currently faster than both on the octane and jet stream benchmarks
For sure. Well, I unblocked the site while reading, so I guess the scale tipped over to appreciation.

Although, I'm skeptical about the Facebook/share buttons. It'd be great if they didn't load content from the sharing sites themselves automatically (as they can track who is reading what by looking at the requests and referrer).
The complaint is that the people don't live there, and therefore don't contribute to the neighborhood. See the recent article about how Vancouver is dying for more info.
Here's an argument for that: Just like the car can become an unguided missile endangering others, an unseat-belted passenger can become an unguided missile endangering fellow passengers/driver.
People seem to underestimate this but I've learned this lesson myself the hard way. Your absolute most important skill is not to make a dick of yourself next to your co-workers. Even if it means doing things wrong for a while, it is essential you don't hurt feelings while slowly pushing for things to change.
Awesome, but my experience with current-gen pseudo-autonomous UAVs, these questions immediately come to mind:

Can it follow you around the corner of a building without clipping it?

Can it avoid bumping into a tree?

Will it climb above the trees to follow you through a wooded area?

Can it avoid getting tangled in an overhead utility line?
git comes with `gitk` and `git instaweb` out of the box; both of these are point-and-click graphical tools that show you branches, merges, and specific commit hashes.

I think what you're looking for here

> you click a commit and the repo shows up on the desktop as a mounted drive. We could use ordinary tools to edit the image and when it's unmounted it becomes a new commit

is basically `git checkout -b newbranch 80238ec` followed by `git commit -a`.
"Being kind is fundamentally about taking responsibility for your impact on the people around you. It requires you be mindful of their feelings and considerate of the way your presence affects them."

I think this advice is so apt and so needed. There's a perception that to be effective or powerful, one must also be harsh, stern, a little bit mean. That stems from a misunderstanding of what kindness is. Hopefully people will heed his advice!
FRS is always a possibility.

That being said - self-driving cars will likely allow manual overrides or require a driver in the case of a manual override for the same reason space shuttles have a cockpit and give astronauts the ability to manual override the controls. People will want the ability to have control just in case.

If a system fails, or says it is failing, and you feel you know it will work or have an alternative that might work. Having manual overrides as a fail safe for software failure can be life saving.

For example, what if your brake sensor malfunctions and your car ceases to be able to operate it's brakes? A manual pedal to brake the car could save your life. Although arguably redundant it will likely remain as part of the car until enough time has passed that such fears are considered completely unfounded.

"There hasn't been a brake sensor failure in over 25 years." Such a statement could probably convince people a manual override brake system isn't needed and they can save money by ditching it.
actual mozilla announcement: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r...
Top-level domain .design just got released
You did not provide an example of production-ready JSON query library for feature comparison.
The Tangram 3D map rendering library powering that demo does support moving camera!

Give this other Tangram demo a try: http://tangrams.github.io/lights-cameras-demo/

If you like to use this in your own visualization/app/site, there's more information about how to use Tangram here:

- intro: https://mapzen.com/projects/tangram

- documentation: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram/wiki
> But poorer math performance...on particularly hot days

> Overlay test scores with the average temperature in the county where they lived

Wait, what? Is the study about hot days or warm climates?
Even though Apple was right in the end, I think calling Apple "arrogant" is quite on the mark. It is they who denied opening up MobileSafari for 3rd party plugins (yet it supports 1st party plugins; in earlier versions you could even iterate the navigator.plugins property and see quicktime there). I remember seeing Adobe hinting heavily that they even had a working flash plugin (for jailbroken phones?) going internally. In fact, I think early Adobe Air applications targeting iOS shipped with an embedded flash player engine, until Apple started rejecting all applications "not compiled with apple-gcc from objective-c" and banning "interpreted code", so Adobe even went as far as writing an AS3 LLVM compiler, so that newer Adobe Air applications were compiled down to native arm assembly with no flash runtime present.

See for example http://web.archive.org/web/20130302154428/http://www.adobe.c...

I bet the real reason for blocking flash player in Mobile Safari was to block all the flash based ad banners of the day. It would have degraded battery life and the user experience quite a lot.
Lawrence's description of a motorcycle ride in his memoir of RAF training and service, The Mint, suggests that recklessly was his favorite way to ride. (Or so I recall--it has been years since I read it, and perhaps I was influenced by the opening scene of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia".

"Boanerges" indeed means sons of thunder in Aramaic, but I find it odd that the BBC would leave it at that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus#Boanerges_.28...

An interesting article.
I always assumed it was similar to cruise-control insofar as it can be turned off?
Hmm, your fun fact (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_numb...) is fun, I agree, but also misleading.

According to the above link, Oklahoma has 5 billionaires, Oregon has 2, Ohio has 4. New York, at #4 per capita, has 88; California has 111. The "surprise" is mostly due to low counts.

For any process (like wealth) with large extremes, if you subdivide it into bins, you are going to get local extrema just due to low counts. The only mildly informative thing is Oklahoma (oil and gas). Ohio is a few elderly (ages 77, 74, 70) manufacturing folks -- their count seems to have dipped to 3, according to http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static_sear..., which would remove Ohio from the top 3 per capita.
So, if the officer _had_ gotten a warrant (which I assume would be more limited in scope than 'everyone'), and had come across similar information, it would be completely reasonable that he investigate it, right?

I'm also curious if they caught the original perpetrator. Tampering with narcotics would be tough to pull off in our agency... To get access to the narcs you have to swipe a ProxCard and enter a pin to access a safe (logging a timestamp attached to your identify), which gets you to a locked metal box and a numbered seal (which is checked twice daily). Any tampering would be caught within ~12 hours, and would be easily traced back to the card and pin number of the person who accessed it.
Unless one of the passengers knocks out the driver while bouncing around in the car..

The argument mentioned by tghw is the only reason I agree with the law on this point. Considering law's meant to protect people from themselves (and only themselves) in general I'd pick freedom over mandatory safety any day.
> You can still (barely) buy model rockets.

I see them selling in Target all over the place. When I was a kid you had to find a pretty specialized store.
Reads heavily like sour grapes to me. =\
The Rise of the Edible Insect
A step along the way to the drone cameras from Bruce Sterling's "The Artificial Kid" coming to real life.
But what if the tree is cached?