skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true even in rural areas. I bought a house 2.5 years ago and have a monthly payment (including taxes and insurance) that is about 20% less than an equivalent monthly rental.

I didn't want to buy a house. I wanted to keep renting and retain the flexibility and freedom that renting gave me. It just no longer made sense financially.

What are the underlying reasons for the disparity between rental and home ownership costs? Obviously low interest rates are one and rented houses that were bought by their owners at higher interest rates reflect that in their price. But surely this would eventually normalize if rates stay low.

There must be something else since the relatively low cost of home ownership should be putting downward pressure on rental rates.
Wasn't "Fraggle Rock" essentially Sesame Street on HBO?
The problem is that like a lot of other streaming content, sports has to follow archaic rules designed to protect the broadcasters. Specifically for MLB, you are not able to stream any game from your local market's team(s). This nullifies the biggest market who would be interested in streaming games.
The goroutine model allows a lot of tasks to be handled in parallel without the application developer having to worry about it. So, for example, a web framework can have one goroutine per request and scale very well. That is what I would love to see in Rust, although I know it isn't likely right now since a lot of the ecosystem is still maturing.
Assange was not particularly afraid of the outcome of the rape allegations. He was afraid of Sweden extraditing him to the USA.
This is very disappointing. I remember how glad I was this finally came into existence when I discovered them. It's a real problem. Of course, since their launch, Intuit came out with their Self Employed offering. I wish more detail was provided about why they're shutting down.
They're disturbingly effective. I personally know more than one person who's had their brain sucked out by Putin's sock puppet troll army. (If indeed that's what it is, and if I were a betting man I'd bet something on it.)

These are folks who have always been kind of out there and fringe, but this is different and it's a bit disturbing. They've become mean-spirited in an odd kind of way that I've never seen associated with the fringe before (outside of certain conspiracy circles), and have started espousing stuff that sounds slightly to the right of Hitler despite having historically been left of center. The ideology sounds like a cross between radical environmentalism and neo-right eugenics stuff, like Rachel Carson and Julius Evola had a love child that was raised by Steve Sailer. One even started admiring ISIS, claiming that all the stories of their misdeeds are Western propaganda. It's depressing and a bit scary.

Propaganda is real and it works, and anyone can be conned. A lot of 'alt' people pride themselves on their independence. Thinking you can't be conned makes you a better mark.

The problem with the analysis you give is that the goal of the propaganda may not be to inspire pro-Putin or pro-Russia feelings in Americans. The goal may be to make Americans more angry, cynical, irrational, and distrustful of their own government, institutions, and each other.

The race baiting is probably the most dangerous element of the propaganda. I wonder if there's any causal relationship between it and the outbreak of police violence and reciprocal radicalism we're seeing.
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Not even... I am on an uncapped plan in Ontario.
stephengillie, "twitch plays pokemon" maxed out at 121,000 concurrent (according to Twitch) viewers, last years Super Bowl maxed out at 120,800,000 viewers. So yes, I would say it is a considerably different scale.
A lot of these attempts come through proxies. Shut one down, another comes in its place.
Yeah, I thought this too. I pinged them for API access; I get the feeling they are looking for application partners and building an ecosystem.

Kind of an interesting biz model.
What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months
The biggest gripe I've had with Drupal was when moving from 6 to 7, they had module writers pledge that their modules would be ready on the release day of 7, which a lot of folks broke the promise or worse, abandoned the project all together without letting anyone know.

So some folks were caught not being able to upgrade due to a crucial module being abandoned at 6.
you have never seen good art?
Facebook don't invade my privacy because I don't use it.

However there are numerous cases where people have been caught out because Facebook was sharing information they expected to be private or limited to their friends.

Yes there is an aspect of personal responsibility here, but there is also a strong aspect of basic human decency which is pretty much at odds with Facebook's business model.

Good companies don't ask "what information can we get from users and how can we make money from it?"

Good companies ask "what is the minimum amount of information we can collect to provide our product/service. OK, are we sure we need that much? How do we protect that information?"
> Because there is a difference between "can voluntarily use" and "is rammed down your throat".

I got gmail rammed down my throat pretty hard when I needed to install an app from the play store on my Android phone... Google search was also front and center on the home screen.
What font is the index printed in?
Almost as good (and cheaper and longer lasting) would be a nice JS tool to render text in a "Ferrolic" font, with dripping, re-forming, etc.

Maybe this will be my next weekend project.
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And the federal RealID program provides a nice comprehensive dataset to train the computers with. This is the veiled motivation behind ID laws that are being promoted as protecting the public from terrorists, sex offenders, or voter fraud. But what the US government really wants is to introduce a loophole in the 4th amendment by outsourcing policing. It's not an illegal search if it's done by a private company. And they don't have to respond to FOIA requests either.
Chipset and device manufacturers, and carriers, hold all the cards though. Samsung and Amazon could conspire almost overnight to bring about a real contender and, failing something bold like that, Windows Phone has always been an option.
The problem with reductio ad nihilum arguments like this one is that you can make them about absolutely everything and anything in life. It's a slippery slope.
I run Windows as a guest with vga passthrough and completely disable networking (though a very strict firewall could also work, e.g. For online games).
Thanks again for the feedback. Testing now on Firefox/Windows 8.1.
Don't mind that a few comments down on the HN thread there's a clear quote of the W10 privacy policy where MS says it sends your text and voice back home.
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Does anyone else have concerns about the linked bank account? I refuse to give up credentials.
MLB streamed to 60 million viewers on opening day this year. [1]

Granted that is 14 different events being streamed, but they eclipse Twitch in terms of live streaming by a huge amount.

[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/07/mlb-com-hits-home-run-with-...
Learn Immersive Raises $400k to Build Language Learning in VR
American, majority of life in NYC (the worlds largest police force)

I can't stand being around them. They are arrogant, aggressive and petty. They frequently take liberties with the law to suit themselves. The NYPD has recently taken to posting dehumanizing pictures of the homeless on Twitter to shame the mayor.

"We know you didn't do it but we are arresting you anyway" - Police officer to me
Considering the options out there cord cutting may not be they best financial choice for some customers. Be careful because its easy to saddle yourself with forty to fifty plus dollars a month of selected content.
I'm really looking forwards to a gritty Vice episode covering Oscar the Grouch and homelessness on Sesame Street.
"the interior of the Tesla (mainly lack of tactile feedback due to the touch screen, and simple things like there being no button for the sun roof) was just not up to scratch"

Setting aside the design differences (the Tesla interior is very modern and stark and has very simple design) the quality and featureset of the Tesla interior is roughly equivalent to a 3-series BMW or an Audi A4.

Which is to say, it's glaringly insufficient for what is usually spec'd out as a 90-120k car.

Let's tilt the field in favor of Tesla and compare only against mid-sized, mid-ranged competitors, which are the 5-series, A6 and E-class. Those have much, much nicer materials, more adjustable seats, features like ventilated seats ... it's hard to believe that this far through the lifecycle the model S interior is so lacking.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted for sharing your experience.

My experience (as a 10+ year Linux user) is similar. As a workstation/desktop OS, it's unbearable how many things break on a regular basis. My Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS, mind you) installation has constant issues with the update manager crashing. This is on a pretty lightly-tweaked 3-month old setup. In order to get dual monitors to work, I had to plug in one to the motherboard's DVI input, and the other to the dedicated GPU's (AMD) DisplayPort input. And I can't for the life of me get the color profiles to match on both displays, nor to fix issues with screen tearing (also inconsistent on both displays). There are many more issues like this that pile on and on, but these are just two I remember from very recent experience. The fact that this happens on what is supposed to be the best Linux has to offer to the mainstream consumer (I'm judging by Ubuntu's mainstream popularity here) is just terrible.

However, you can't beat Linux as far as the developer environment goes. I live in zsh, Git, Vim/Emacs, Python, Docker, and friends. I'm countless times more productive and trouble-free as a developer in Linux than I would be by using native Windows tools (unless I was a .NET developer I guess). In fact, the times I've tried to replicate my workflow on Windows, it's usually with MSYS2 and installing everything I use in Linux.

Anyways, just my experience. The fact is every OS has its pros and cons. Windows offers by far the better consumer experience, while Linux does the same for developers.
Those kids must be really smart. I still have co-workers who can't get the $GOPATH foo right. :(
Multiple factors figure into why the rent is so high, but from a government policy standpoint, I'm interested in "the decision by consumers to rent over purchase" but what is more likely, that in spite of low mortgage rates, a number of buyers are not eligible for credit from private lenders.

The other policy piece that I think is interesting is the private housing market's ability to deliver housing choices-- what are developers producing, are they producing luxury units, are they producing affordable options in high enough quantity, and are developers inhibited by government regulation in delivering a diversity of housing choices.
Some days I used to really struggle to focus on a single task. I discovered Pomodoro through a friend and have been using it ever since.

I do not use a task list, but rather for 25 minutes I work on my story focusing on just that. Then I take a 5 minute break. After 2 hours I take a longer break, (first one is lunch, second one is 30 minutes, third one is 15 and then after another hour I go home)

It works very well for me. I am happy with my output. Some days, I have to abandon Pomodoro to instead have a meeting during that time slot, or other times I am just less productive Than I would like. It is a good baseline to help keep me focused.
This is awesome! It is my dream that one day our team can move to ember from sproutcore...
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I'll be here in the comments to answer any questions.
I recognise many of those domains, because I'd blocked them in my HOSTS file due to ads (this is long before Windows 10, or even 7, came out.) That makes it all the more unsettling, because it's as if they're not even trying to hide the fact that their OS contains adware and trackers.

flashtalking.com: "Flashtalking is an independent ad serving, tracking and technology company"
I would recommend Rand's Philosophy: Who Needs It then Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. The Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (ITOE) is good but is a bit technical and not everyone has the interest and motivation to read it. At the very least, if you can find it at a bookstore, read the intro because it does a good job of setting the historical context on why the theory of concepts is so important.

BTW, in some ways The Romantic Manifesto which you mentioned is more difficult than the ITOE.
> Binaries for proprietary apps, from 20 years ago, will probably still work today on Windows 10

Do you really want to run 20 year-old software?

> I don't think the same can be said of proprietary apps on Linux

So, you don't know then.

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In my experience, getting something to run on Linux is easier than getting it to run on Windows. The only reason that more software isn't built on Linux is the network effect.

"All of our paying customers use Windows, why would we want to build on Linux? Only free software hippies use that!" - Caricature of the average IT manager

Steam for Linux is going to gradually be a... game-changer. B)
>Also, note that Assange was obviously in Sweden when the rape allegedly happened, and only became conveniently afraid of extraditiom to US after those allegations surfaced.

The allegations surfaced in August 2010, four months after Collateral Murder and one month after the Afghan War Diary was released. Also earlier that year the diplomatic cable releases began, and while most hadn't been released yet by August, some had, and they were a recently-known quantity by then.

The timing of the allegations was awfully convenient. Far more "convenient" than Assange's paranoia.
Not exactly related to the interview, but I remember reading about you from some of Andy Gavin's series on Crash, and wondering what the transition from Naughty Dog to ITA was like? I just imagine that personally, I would struggle to transition from game programming where even with great engineering standards, lots of things are more 'get it done fast and close enough to right, and if something just won't work, kluge it together because we have to ship in a week and if there is a collision detection problem leading to a crash because a player jumped from this particular pixel at this particular speed, just put a crate right there so they never can jump from there' and you're doing a AAA title with less than 10 people in less than a year (or whatever the short time horizon was on Crash) to something like ITA where I would imagine there is a lot more rigor and having a tax rule incorrectly applied could be the cause of hundreds of thousands of dollars of loss for you or a client, not to mention it takes five years to build a product.

My question would be, are there any good resources you can point to that would help someone trying to understand what the truly important engineering practices a software developer needs to follow are?
I'm definitely in the "rent over purchase" group, even though I could get a mortgage with good terms. I think people are a bit nervous to purchase a home after seeing what happened in 2008.
Not sure why your comment was downvoted since what you said is taken as a given for me and I've been a Linux user (out of principle) for 3 years now. Many things are lacking for a good user experience, simply put. The way a Linux system is built out of very different small programs (and ideals) leaks to the UX, leading to many situations of "why can't I do this simple thing X I can easily do on Windows?".

Still, depending on your area, you can use Linux to get your job done, but it does not come without nuisances.
Even very cheap houses still require a mortgage. If mortgages are harder to get since the sub-prime crisis, more people will be forced to rent than to own. By the law of offer and demand, that would raise rents and lower housing costs.
Why would he apply to work for Facebook if he cared about privacy anyway?
My thoughts exactly. Why isn't this obvious? There's no invisible hand making wages match productivity. There's unions, and that's about it.

If a new computer system makes my employees deliver twice as much value to me, I don't have to double their salaries.
> I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a product like Windows 7 to come with essential support for a significant period of time, perhaps based on the expected working lifetime of devices where the software is normally installed.

Under Microsoft's software lifecycle policy, operating systems are normally supported for 10 years. So, for example, we already know that support for Windows 7 ends in 2020, unless it's extended.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/lifecycle

The best LTS on Linux is 5 years, and used to be 3 years. The best lifecycle support on OS X is, oh well, pick a number. A small number.

If you bought Windows 7 in 2009 and took a free upgrade to Windows 10 then you're supported until 2025, if your hardware lasts that long. So you'd have got roughly 15 years' use of an operating system for roughly $40. It's obviously terrible value....
http://cloudinary.com is the best at this. Just look at their customers list. They also handle video just as seamlessly and have a pretty generous free tier with a great control panel and useful manipulations (like recognizing faces). We've been using them for a while and everything has been perfect.

http://rsz.io/ is another great service that's free.

You can use your own CDN in front of both to save costs and use your own bandwidth.
Not everything is a startup, bro.
There's a very natural upgrade path from Angular 1.x to React: start building new little components in React and patch them into your app in Angular directives.

You can even apply the flux pattern to good effect within the directive while still making use of your existing Angular service infrastructure. Per Evans this would be an Evolving Order over a pair of Bounded Contexts.
It is always the case that the monthly cost to buy is lower than rent. It has to be, because the rent is covering the cost of repairs and depreciation which isn't included in your mortgage payment. And then there needs to be some left over to cover vacancies, and some profit for the landlord. Clearly in some markets buying is legitimately a better deal. But most people do a fairly cursory and incomplete analysis before coming to that conclusion.

20% is actually not a very large margin. Depending on how much your house cost, and how much your rent was, it may have actually been cheaper to rent.
Is this a matter of design or a matter or budget?

If all the electric features are making the car already expensive... maybe the market would not react well to another 10k in price to add some luxury features like ventilated seats.

If things like ventilated seats are really only a few dollars to add, then maybe it was indeed a weird choice to make. But not seeing Tesla currently having a huge glut of inventory to unload, so seems to be filling some kind of market niche ("Not the nicest luxury car, but fast and eco and pretty nice")
A source inside Niantic hinted something to do with 3D, not sure if it's related to Project Tango. Target release is the same time on the next event series (Oct-ish 2015). Some employees that I know were originally Googlers chose to stay with Google.

I do hope Niantic Labs finds more success in this move.
And they can keep playing that game, because at some point millennials will be tired of paying for stuff they don't want and old enough to finally make municipal broadband a real thing across this country.
Sounds like good fun! I hope IBM Watson replies to them :)
Hang on, they're not unrelated businesses. This is kind of the same as Steve Jobs even.

Apple is a software company that also creates hardware for their software to run on. They're two businesses under one roof. Hardware is definitely a pretty high risk business too.

Tesla is an electric car company that also creates batteries for their cars to run on.

Tesla has more chance to make higher profits by controlling their battery operation, and also has higher chances of failure. This is the same as Apple and creating their own hardware instead of letting their software run on all hardware. There's differences, but I think your argument doesn't hold much water and has nothing to do with whether Apple or Tesla can be successful businesses.
I'm sure the kid will be OK. And maybe he can find somewhere better to work than Facebook now. I mean, who wants to spend their life working on helping find better ways to mine people's personal information to help make better ads anyway? Sure FB have some interesting technical challenges and they do release a lot of code as OSS, which is good. But they're not exactly a "cool" company.
This wasn't a security disclosure at all - Facebook knew that this information was available but didn't see it as a problem. The "problem" was that somebody tried to make the public aware of how it worked.

"Noticing a lack of significant public response to the visible nature of geo-location data on Facebook Messenger, despite media coverage dating back to 2012" - http://jots.pub/a/2015081101/
Over half of these best practices involve keeping some code-level metric low, and they illustrate my position that, while coding standards and style guidelines can be useful, you cannot expect them to transform the way your organization writes code.

This is because they do not concern themselves with the issues that lead programmers into writing unnecessarily complex code, and consequently offer no guidance into how to address the root causes of the problem. If you take a programmer with a tendency to write 'large' code and insist that he follows these guidelines, you are likely to end up with a large number of smaller classes with unusual semantics and interdependencies.
I watched sesame street a few years ago and it had devolved into a pretty annoying cartoon with lots of loud noises and sound effects. There was still a physical set and some human actors, but each scene segued into the cartoons. Horrible.

Let's hope it goes back to being a show with realistic life-size puppets and human cast members who interact/sing with them.
Looking forward to the development of "Game of Chairs" into a spinoff series.

http://youtu.be/dhWUFXvaZjo
Their customer support is top notch too. I had noticed a video quality issue after the All-Star break and at first, figured it was just some crappy old standard definition cameras at one of the baseball parks. When it continued to the next location, I realized something else was up. I emailed MLB.tv support and they had the problem fixed during the game in about 20 minutes.
The "secondary offering" part of my comment already covers this.

It also worthwhile to note that the underwriters will take a cut/percentage of whatever goes to the issuing company.
Understated in these discussions is the role of landlords. In Ithaca, NY, where I live, people's proportion of income going towards housing by some counts surpasses Manhattan and San Francisco. Yes, it's a college town with students already accepting the huge cost of tuition and throwing rent on the debt pile. Yes, the city is hemmed in by a lake to the north and hills to the rest. But there are like three landlords in the entire city. One in particular, Jason Fane, is notorious for jacking up prices on his Ithaca properties as collateral for his investments in China. Meanwhile, Collegetown is becoming increasingly split between obnoxiously priced condos and old houses that look more depressingly decrepit with each passing year.