skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the big thing is that most people can't just move if they want to. They have their jobs, and (especially if they're older) it might be really hard for them to get an equivalent job elsewhere. So moving will already cost them money.

The second part of this is that it costs a lot of money for these people to move/be without income. So for some, they might just be too poor to move, and suffer with diminishing disposable income as the price of everything else around them rises.

I think the core of the argument is that it's not like these rich people came into a barren land and built giant apartments. There are many people in NYC that simply live there, and why let these billionaires come in and make everything more expensive?

I think that's the crux of the counter-argument. I think that a combination of proper tax brackets, loose zoning regulation allowing for high-density housing + commercial mixes, and primary-residence rules can solve the problem.

I think the central moral argument is that having giant empty houses in the middle of a city with a community trying to do otherwise isn't exactly useful for society as a whole (see Detroit) , so we should disincentive it as much as possible.
Because of the way HN structures comments, it took me a second to realize this wasn't a reply to my comment. (Or maybe I need glasses.)
race-card popular lately, but civil forfeiture is a problem here. More race you bring - less efficient you get with fighting real issue at hands. If you do little research - people of all races and sexes were hurt by that, and local/federal police benefitted from it.
well it's restricted supply, especially in SF. If more high-rise apartments were built in downtown SF (and there's demand, but just too much pushback from local officials), this debate would probably not be happening at all.

It's not like SF is crowded, it's just that we've built really bad buildings for holding a lot of people.
The important bit:

> The agent found Rivers's cash, still in a bank envelope.

Yeah, the police have a severe race issue, but civil asset forfeiture is being used against anybody that has anything worth taking.
That is in fact the use case. One popular case was a bot that played guys off other, pretending they were taking to a different (woman) with s different pic.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Pencil mileage is a great way to sum up the difference between the two traditions. Sorry for sounding so down on Western animation; it's true that I'm more used to the look of Eastern animation, having invested much more time invested in it (hence my mistake about Western films animating on ones vs. twos; it's been a while since I watched one of the classic Western animated films, oops), but I don't want to discount the work of Western animators. I have my biases, but there are gems in both traditions, and of course I'm saddened by way Western 2D animation has fallen by the wayside in mainstream Western (or at least American) culture since the dawn of 3D animation.

As for games, I wanted to add a comment to my post about how I was mostly thinking about mid 80s-early 90s games, but Hacker News seems to have some restrictions keeping new users and throwaways from editing posts. Many European games from this time stood out to me as compromising gameplay at the expense of their animation. In contrast, many of the 90s and early 2000s Western mascot platformer games, as you mentioned, did great jobs of working charismatic, fluid animation into the medium. Crash Bandicoot in particular is notable for being one of the few games to use per-vertex animation; for each key frame of animation, the vertices that made up Crash were placed manually, giving the artists an unprecedented degree of control.

Since then, sadly, most Western AAA devs have tended overwhelmingly towards more "realistic" art styles that make heavy use of inverse kinematics-driven procedural animation for gameplay, and motion capture for cutscenes, leaving the animators much less room for expression.

Regardless, my intent was not to comment on Western animation as a whole, but (bringing it all back to the original commenter's remark about mobile games being sparsely animated) simply state that sparse animation doesn't have to be a bad thing, and in fact, there's an entire school of animation built around it.

Anyway, thanks again for replying, and I'll be sure to check your suggestions out.
I don't know. In every built up city I've been to, I live in one now (on the 16th floor of a 30 story apartment)...with high density, the prices just seem to go up and up with the high rises.

Can you point out a city that built up and is affordable (with a good economy also)?
I was just using that as an example, but that's interesting. I didn't think about using projects as a resume.
I was wrong, Japan used a variation of NTSC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC-J
It's religious zeal verses rational waffling. If big Z is perfect forever, there's no issue at all. He will, by default, do whatever is best for his company in any circumstances. That approach can be amazing or howard hughes like.

On the other hand, you dilute power between an array of smart talented people. Any action requires consensus. In the best case, you get congress when passing a "think of the children" resolution. In the worst case, you get congress with pretty much any other piece of legislation.
maybe someone can pull it off with ultra sound? Those can be pretty cheap.
Whoa, this hit too close to home...
Ha! I found your question a couple months ago after youtube hit me with the soloshot ad, and I couldn't figure out how it worked. Despite being downvoted, it still ranks fairly high on the SERP for "how the hell does the soloshot work, their site is useless".
While civil forfeiture is scary, my (very very brief) stint doing criminal law as a public defender showed me that there's also a bigger side of this -- seizing the assets of individuals who are charged with a crime so that they cannot attain private counsel, make bail, or receive any creature comforts while incarcerated. What will generally happen is that after sitting in jail for 120+ days, they'll jump at any opportunity to be released; that includes a plea agreement that includes no more jail time, but, generally also includes more financial obligations (probation, fine, license reinstatement) against the defendant.

We've moved away from a society where the police were there to truly protect and serve the community (think 1950's/60's beat cop walking the blocks during his shift) to a totalitarian police state (constant erosion of the 4th amendment, nexus centers, sweeping overreaches of the third party doctrine, stingrays, and mass deployment of license plate scanners). Big Brother would be proud.
I'm not aware of any instances where it was used to fight crime. Seriously, not one.
It's straight from the definition of an integer. An integer is defined as sum(i=0 to n) d_n * base^n. A number with zero digits is just the empty sum, which is canonically defined to be zero.

I'll also note that int() returns 0.
How I hacked India’s biggest startup
From what I understand, upvotes signify "this adds to the conversation" and downvotes signify "this subtracts from the conversation" -- it's a stronger sentiment than disagreement, but weaker than trolling or abuse (which is what flags are for.)

If a comment is disagreeable but worthwhile, my preference is to give a substantive response. If a comment is value-subtracting, even if I agree with the sentiment, I'll downvote it (and may take the time to explain the downvote if I think my explanation will be helpful.)

The main attributes I consider to make a comment value-subtracting are:

- substantial factual errors (not just a nitpick, but core to the point)

- gratuitous negativity or unnecessary incivility

- waste of space ("me too", memes or jokes except if they're edw519 caliber, excessive references to irrelevant topics such as mentioning someone else's religion several times in a thread that has nothing to do with that)

- extremely poor reasoning or communication, to the degree that trying to engage substantively becomes difficult
I obviously craft/collect examples of V8 going off the rails for these talks just to show that VMs are software and all software has bugs --- and those bugs don't necessarily manifest as crashes and incorrect results - they can lead to worse performance and developers must be ready for this: must be ready to diagnose these issues, report them and work around them.

For a single test case where V8 goes off the rails there are millions of lines of code across the globe which V8 optimizes correctly.

On a funny note: I actually do have a version of this talk where I show GCC going slightly of the rails and producing a code that is 3 times slower than it should be because it hits an (infamous) partial register dependency stall --- see StackOverflow question[1] for the gory details.

> How do I ensure that the VM does not execute my 'dumb but readable' code literally?

Well, as I do say in the talk: reasonable code should be reasonably fast. If it is not the case --- file bugs with VM vendors.

Keeping your code relatively static / monomorphic is the best way to achive performance in any language.

In any case I think it's much much much more important to optimize algorithms not their concrete implementations.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26585977/64-bit-code-gene...
You can. It's a form of price discrimination. Like coupons in a supermarket. People who really want to pay less will jump through the hoop. If you just want it conveniently and don't care about the cost, you can subsidise those others. In a way this is more fair - it means people pay closer to what the money is worth for them.
Takipi – Detect and fix production errors
This Guy Is HeartBroken So He Decided to Pour His Emotions to Beat
For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Ivy League colleges money
>This sounds a lot like out of a movie.

imagine yourself in 1917 as a German soldier in trenches with 500 of this

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_01/tankDM0212_468x3...

coming toward your positions in formation (http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/69756-how-worlds-f...) - it wasn't like movie, it were Martians straight out of the "War of the Worlds".
Why hasn't this been challenged in court? Seems like civil forfeiture violates the 4th amendment.
I should have done a better job for the ball dynamics

Perhaps the easy version is more suitable for the kids

http://otoro.net/slimevolley/easy.html

Thanks for the feedback it is very helpful.
Look up "the twenty factors"; sometimes they're called "the twenty questions".

The IRS, and California at least but I expect the other states, consider you an employee or a consultant depending on the nature of your relation with your employer or client.

The factors are whether you provided your own equipment at your own expense, whether you were exposed to the financial risk of failure - that is, would you get paid anyway, even if your code didn't work - whether the employer could tell you when to arrive at work and when to live.

To be perfectly clear: neither your contractual relationship, nor on what form your earnings were reported have any bearing in the IRS' decision.

No one factor determines either way, it is the preponderance of the whole being one way or another.

I say you have grounds for an unlawful termination complaint. If you don't have the cash to hire an attorney, you may be able to find one on spec. If you have the kind of attitude I do, you could represent yourself pro per, that is, without any legal advice, or pro se, in which you speak for yourself but with an advisor who does not speak directly to the court.

http://www.powells.com/ has lots of legal texts dirt cheap. http://www.nolo.com/ has very good self-help legal books. Most courthouses have law libraries that are open to the public.

May I, in the most polite, friendly and helpful way, suggest that you write a registered letter, return receipt requested, to the IRS and your state tax board to suggest that your former employer may be guilty of tax evasion.

If the twenty questions come out saying you were an employee, and your employer didn't pay state or federal unemployment insurance, or IRS Form 941 payroll tax withholding, then that could be a felony for which they would do time. This because failing to pay payroll tax, or failure to file the 940 and 941, are regarded as stealing from your own employees.

The simple failure to pay tax is generally not a criminal offense but it is in the case of failing to pay payroll tax.

While I am not an attorney, this is a topic that i am intimately familiar with.
I've often thought this, every now and then you get a guy that goes off (shooting spree, whatever) - one of these days, one of those people who go off the deep end may be an extremely technically gifted, it would be scary what sort of havoc that type of a person could wreak if they set their mind to it.
The idea men should express themselves combined with the limits on socially acceptable expression have always been a strong indicator to me that "men showing emotion" isn't about men showing emotion.

The social limits on expression aren't even based on a laughably bad interpretation of "heathy" expression. It straight up means to continue conforming like you always have, but additionally cry and show emotional weakness when socially cued to do so.
By the way, what I find most heinous is the concept that the money is separate from its owner.

This is explicitly forbidden in the fourth amendment. Unless the money is evidence. (which it usually isn't.)

That judges allow this shows that the corruption is not just on the side of the police who are decking out their gin joints, but on the part of federal judges who are signing these warrants.

In my case (I had some assets held by a third party that were stolen in this way) the warrant had straight up lies in it used to justify the theft.... and worse, not only were they obvious lies, but in the weeks before the theft the very judge who signed it had been presented proof that they weren't lies in his court. (The third party was party of a lawsuit that the judge was hearing). So on one hand he knows the facts of the situation and on the other he signed an order based on a perjuruous warrant!
Vinyl sounds nice to many people. It has likeable, some say 'musical', distortion.

A turntable with a nice amp and speakers is a novel treat to people who have grown up with low-bitrate mp3s and ear buds. Sounds different. And having to work a bit harder and paying attention means you tend to get more out of it.

Of course, a well-mastered CD and a nice pair of headphones also sounds great and might be a more accurate reproduction of what they heard in the studio.

I just like music every way :)
The older I get, the more amazed I am at how truly difficult it can be to be consistently kind.
It is classy of you to have not revealed the name of the offender. You show lot of dignity and I am sure it will pay off.
HN goes down quite often if you browse enough ;)
Planet Money did an episode about VC, where the host pitched a podcast business to a VC and got shot down.
I don't agree with you.

I don't know what your environment is like, but I notice a lot of people who are pointlessly aggressive and competitive, or who premise their aggression on being right about something they're actually wrong about. That doesn't make these people stronger and it doesn't make the world better. It would work better if everyone just focused on doing their own best job, and constantly checked themselves for correctness, rather than acting like they're never wrong, tearing other people down and trying to make themselves look better than they are. Those activities are not producing anything real.

Most of the time we are really all just trying to get by and perhaps achieve some shared goal, there is no game to win, and the people who are acting that way are just being asshats. It is not somehow clear-minded and objective to constantly strive for "supremacy" by aggression toward others, it's just messed-up and insecure.

(And what gives with implying that weakness is inherent to women? That's something that has no proof at all.)
1. Olacabs isn't India's biggest startup.
2. I wouldn't even call this hack. This is more like...a fack.
Whoa, this hit a little closer to home than I would have liked...
My experience has taught me the opposite. My grandfather and father were never taught to express feelings. Both were products of their time and circumstances. And there is nothing wrong with that. Both were successful in life despite the odds being stacked against them.

I do not have children. I would not have a clue how to raise a girl, but if I had a boy, I would be teaching him stoical techniques to dealing with problems, not today's 'share your feelings' approach.

(I am not in anyway telling you how to raise your children, just sharing my opinion as a man.)

I just don't see any evidence that the West's in vogue approach to teaching boys and young men to be "in touch with their feelings" is helping them in anyway. They are not happier. They are not more successful (in life). They are depressed.

The stoics taught that most of what we think are problems, are not in fact problems. And the things that are problems are generally not in our capacity to change and therefore probably not worth worrying about.

Society tells us that every little thing is worth being upset about. We are conditioned to even be outraged on other people's behalf over what really amounts to nothing (think every single twitter shitstorm ever). We are told to pick at scabs until they are bleeding, then pick some more. The theory being that if we pick deep enough we will end up in a state of emotional healing/enlightenment and we will feeling better for it. I don't buy it.
I am concerned that by calling it "civil forfeiture" this article is using language to mask a very basic crime.

What was described in this article is called stealing or theft. To call it anything else is to mask and downplay what was done to this man. It is to enable the very act that was committed.

George Carlin observed this as a dangerous trend in our language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

Call it "civil forfeiture" once if you have to (perhaps as a footnote). But to repeatedly use such "soft language" is to delay an end to such injustice.
Please don't do a dismissive handwave over what's really an important element to this story. That the victim is a person of color is absolutely relevant to this story; it demonstrates a bias on behalf of the DEA agent, or perhaps simply a cynicism: they know what they can get away with in the eyes of the public.

Of COURSE race is an important element of how law enforcement interacts with citizens. Race is part of these issues. The very term "race card" is offensive and marginalizing, even if you didn't mean it that way.
Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden
Oh it has been, many many times. I can't explain the jurisprudence behind it, but this is nothing new.
Disclaimer: I didn't downvote you, I just comment to offer some insight (unrequited perhaps).

You said:

>> People can't read the unsaid stuff.

Buy many people CAN read the unsaid stuff, so maybe I'll spell this one out for you:
You said:

>> feminized (weakened or neutralized)

So I think you might have gotten downvoted for comparing femininity to weakness.

And not sure about this one, but maybe also for sounding a bit like a nazi supremacist.

Being kind is not about displaying inferiority.

I don't think you're a bad fellow, but it sounds like, for you, it feels cool to consider yourself superior because you are "right" most of the times and you "win" a lot of arguments.

Many times you can end up thinking you were right because no one present was able to overthrow your reasoning, and sometimes you end up thinking you were right because you stated your arguments with "natural vigor" and people just lost motivation on engaging with you in conversation.

You might be of the opinion of "who cares about downvotes if I'm superior because I know I'm right", but you might consider caring about the message those downvotes entail in this particular case.

Why? To make it relevant to you: Because learning to read the unsaid stuff is powerful.

Also, consider the Dunning–Kruger effect.
I'd link to an article I wrote about website testing, but I used mod_rewrite to redirect every URL on my site to "Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations".

When I stop being so pissed off, you'll find my article at http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/web-application-testi...

tl;dr: use a load generator. I wrote the article after some jackass woke me and my new bridge out of bed at three in the morning because his sun ultrasparc server fell over when brought live just in time for the christmas shopping season.
Wow, this is massively fucked up.

>I just don't see any evidence that the West's in vogue approach to teaching boys and young men to be "in touch with their feelings" is helping them in anyway. They are not happier. They are not more successful (in life). They are depressed.

pure nonsense. through and through.

>Society tells us that every little thing is worth being upset about. We are conditioned to even be outraged on other people's behalf over what really amounts to nothing (think every single twitter shitstorm ever). We are told to pick at scabs until they are bleeding, then pick some more. The theory being that if we pick deep enough we will end up in a state of emotional healing/enlightenment and we will feeling better for it.

Ah yes, how dare other people be upset about social injustices that haven't happened to privileged old me. Why am I not shocked that you think your kids should bottle everything up. Woof.
If you are not familiar with "MMT", I highly recommend reading:
http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf
It's a quick and easy read and may be quite mind expanding.

Also, this 2 hour long video with Mosler and Stephanie Kelton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

Randall Wray, Bill Mitchell and Pavlina Tcherneva are a
few other economists trying to get the word out.

For the "fiscal conservatives":
http://itsthepeoplesmoney.blogspot.com/2014/11/confessions-o...
The key part for me is right here -

"A DEA agent boarded the train at the Albuquerque Amtrak station and began asking various passengers, including Rivers, where they were going and why."

Yeah, no. We've already crossed into unacceptable police behavior right there. There's no reason to suspect me of a crime, so you don't get to question me. At all. Forget whether or not it's smart for me to answer it, it's wrong for the cop to be asking it. We, as a society, need to walk this all back starting right here at this point in the process.

The forfeiture itself is so clearly unconstitutional that I can't imagine how even a loose constructionist can twist it to make it ok. Much less someone like Thomas or Scalia. Ugh.
It has been, but it lost. I don't remember the case offhand though.

That it lost is a big part of the problem-- that Judges are not throwing these cases out of court every time they see a warrant to steal money-- is a problem.
I'm a lot happier. If that's a trick, I'm not mad about it.
You can't eat gold and its industrial uses are quite limited. Gold is just fiat money that you have to dig out of the ground.
"Loudness wars" has everything to do with mastering and very little to do with the actual medium. Yes, the onset of the loudness wars coincided with the rise of digital distribution, but you can master a record to be just as loud as a CD. On the other hand, you can't master a record to have as much dynamic range as a CD. That's why classical music enthusiasts tend to prefer CDs.
"Exponential growth curves in the “feels gradual” phase are deceptive. There are many things happening today in technology that feel gradual and disappointing but will soon feel sudden and amazing."

The ending is cryptic, and so general as to be meaningless. How do you tell apart the linear from the exponential?