skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LVT doesn't affect the supply side. Cities would need to reform zoning laws and deregulate building codes that specify maximum density.

The housing market is far from a self-regulating, equilibrium-seeking free market. It is very heavily regulated. Landlords would love to increase SF density so they could pack more people in while extracting NY-level rents. They can't because it's currently illegal.
AFAICT this only avoids CRIME if there's never both attacker-controlled data and a secret in the same SLZ compress call.
How Many People Visit YouTube? Imputing Missing Events in Panels with Excess Zeros
> Not for over a century, including the Great Depression and the .com crash, according to various studies as well as publically available data from which anyone can make the same calculations. Evidence, please?

1) Even the author of the study doesn't say what MMM does in regards to the 4% rule.

http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Safe_withdrawal_rates#Limitat...
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=717195#p7171...

> "The word planning is emphasized because of the great uncertainties in the stock and bond markets. Mid-course corrections likely will be required, with the actual dollar amounts withdrawn adjusted downward or upward relative to the plan. The investor needs to keep in mind that selection of a withdrawal rate is not a matter of contract but rather a matter of planning."

> What the "4% SWR" means is not that you can treat a portfolio as if it were a guaranteed annuity.

2) https://ideas.repec.org/p/ngi/dpaper/10-12.html

> . From an international perspective, a 4 percent real withdrawal rate is surprisingly risky. Even with some overly optimistic assumptions, it would have only provided "safety" in 4 of the 17 countries. A fixed asset allocation split evenly between stocks and bonds would have failed at some point in all 17 countries.

3) http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/11/...

4) Even if you believed in the 4% rule, it was designed for 30 years. Long periods raises the failure rates.

etc.

You need to realize the 4% rule is a cute thing that journalists latched onto in the 90s and was never intended to provide 100% coverage. It also has a non-zero failure rate. Under certain market conditions it does fail. Pretending it doesn't is silly and even in the Trinity paper it is stated its not 100% reliable.

I'm really not going to get into the rest of it since you don't even know the basics of what you are talking about and I've wasted enough time arguing with you.

What you fail to grasp, and what I am pretty sure you are going to refuse to believe at this point, is the 4% rule applied as you and MMM are suggesting is the same trap of overfitting that many people who engage in backtesting do.

If you are not in the historical US, you have a success rate of ~23% with the 4% rule. Even the US? Is not the historical US. Its a new entity that is not guaranteed to perform 100% identically to the historical entity.

Best of luck to you, believe what you want, I honestly don't care.

I get that you want to believe a bunch of optimistic assumptions about reality but the reality is, they are optimistic.
Aks HN: Looking for a niche which make intensive use of emails
Hi,

we are developing a product which will give users infinite email addresses.

The product at the moment is only an idea and a landing page and we are trying to figure out a particular niche that could be interested in our product.

The idea is to let people create a usable email address whenever they want, they will be able to block any email they create and don't receive any more annoying email.

Do you know any particular niche that make intensive use of email and would benefit from the product ?

Of course, if anybody is interested please send me a PM and I will sign you up for the beta.
This was already flagged and discussed here from the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165558

TLDR: it's an incredibly reductionist and short-sighted conclusion that index funds would have helped Trump more than a real estate empire. Yes, having a rich family helps, but he couldn't simply just liquidate everything into stocks.
Sandy Pentland: "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread" | Talks at Google similar theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBl0ttu-Ow I think its in this video that he talks about the productivity gains of the seemingly random exchanges of ideas, and the possibility to increase them by scheduling and thoughtfully designed common areas.
Click-bait ... doesn't tell us at all about Zenefit's hiring process at the present at all, or how to 'ace' them.
Oh yes. A big mystery to me is why New Hampshire (and I suppose the rest of New England) is so expensive. We are in a rural setting, and there is plenty of land, we are an hour from Boston, but even if you go farther a way, the house prices are very high. The problem are the lot sizes. Houses are around 1,200 square feet, but the lot sizes are 20,000 square feet. Compare that to cities like Austin where the lot sizes are around 3,000 square feet. The land is clearly underutilized; many houses are old; and people just keep going farther and farther away. The high house prices also drive up the rest of prices. It is a lose, lose for every body, and the problem has existed for generations. It even destroys the forests, because big areas are cut down to build just one house.
Zurb Analyse Google's New Logo
Show HN: Woofmark – Markdown, HTML, and WYSIWYG Editor
Literally the first example on that page:

> Math.floor( 45.95); // 45

> Math.floor(-45.95); // -46

Its not like its hidden or anything... Its in the center of the page on my 1920x1080 screen.
It's impressive that literally every comment is about this message. Not a single person has commented on the actual functionality.
Sometimes. Sometimes it's also a case of the first developer working on a feature which the second developer needs but is stuck in code review.
Not sure how this is really different from pandoc markdown...
Yes, in Europe it is very common to mix tobacco with your weed/hashish when rolling joints.
Shit, Benjamin! So good. Every time. Great work :)
General Availability of Google Compute Engine Autoscaler and 32 Core VMs
This would be awesome for playing Magic The Gathering, grabbing the card art off of the gatherer site.
You're assuming that the tax is so onerous as to make rental housing unprofitable. Not just less profitable, but a flat-out cash drain. That's a pretty big assumption.

If you assume that it just captures a fraction of the profit, then the existing stock would remain, because it's still profitable. New build rentals would be affected, and would probably push towards more land-efficient form factors.

Take your example, with the added assumption that the landlord is netting out $200/mo after expenses, repairs, vacancy, etc. If the land tax was 100/mo, he'd still be taking home $100/mo. ROI is cut in half, but it's still positive, so it will probably stay a rental. Certainly some of the marginal units will get turned into for-sale housing, but not all of them, and probably none would be abandoned.
nice job, I like it!

If you wanted to go crazy you could extend it so that one could edit emails to apply inline (if there's an email in the job add) so that one could apply to many jobs at once.

Also, filters for location, language, etc.

Either way, cool project.
Updates have slowed on it (I haven't had the heart to nag them because they've been so busy with beta 7) but they're continuing to make good progress on it, e.g. https://twitter.com/DamianEdwards/status/632000189818007552

"Kestrel hit 151k RPS just now for plaintext test with pipelining (depth 16). Lots of known things to fix still, big gains to come #aspnet"

"have a fix in the works that'll give us another 5-10% & a list of other things to attack after that. Fun stuff :)"
There was an interesting book called Life, the Movie written back in the late '90s that argued people were even then already so steeped in entertainment media that they had internalized the mechanics of story and viewed their own lives through them: http://www.amazon.com/Life-Movie-Entertainment-Conquered-Rea...

I was reminded of the book and its argument the other day while watching David Simon's HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, so I wrote a blog post about the connection: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/08/show-me-a-hero-and-the-lim...
What have we become?
American Spirits may be pesticide-free or whatever, but they also spray liquid nicotine on their tobacco. Back when I smoked, I noticed that I was more jittery after smoking them than Camels; it made sense when I learned about the much higher nicotine content.
> Instead of using self-reported data, he wanted objective data—that which is recorded using sleep-monitoring instruments or by observers as participants slept in a lab. Youngstedt’s and his colleagues’ systematic review, published in Sleep Medicine Reviews, took into consideration 168 studies with objective data conducted between 1960 and 2013—involving more than 6,000 participants (understandably a much smaller set than the self-reported surveys) across 15 countries. It too reveals that the total sleep time hasn’t changed much in that period.

Why would you consider this as any evidence about whether the general population sleeps more or less? When you participate in a study, you are not making your usual decisions; you're cooperating and will sleep as long as you can or they let you, and there doesn't seem like much reason to expect sleep lab technicians to have gotten more impatient over the years and start rushing in to wake up subjects at hour 7.
And every time a developer sees that, they're going to google "bar javascript" "single bar javascript" "bitwise or javascript" "bitwise or javascript effect" until they figure out WTF is going on.

This all to save a fraction of a microsecond on an operation that's called 60 times on the page.
1aim - Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time, Visa

1aim started 3 years ago as a technology company. We develop (and manufacture) hardware, create software solutions and provide IT-Infrastructure. Our first products are access systems and we are now expanding our offering to new smart home/building automation products aswell.
We enable engineers to focus on what they can to best, letting them work on new products in small, highly interdisciplinary teams, as well as getting rid of management overhead and daily standup meetings.

We have almost no rules, we provide you with opportunities for your personal growth and flexible working hours. You will work in a fast moving, young team.
Right now, we are hiring new engineers for the following areas:

- (Frontend) Web Development

- Backend Development (with a focus on high security/cryptography)

- App Development (Android and/or iOS)

- Electrical Engineering & Embedded Software Development

- Mechanical Engineering

If you see yourself as genuinely creative, are fascinated by hardware and love great challenges we'd like to work with you on creating the "connected future".

We do not care about your academic degrees or where you are from, but about the stuff you did and what you could create in the future given the right opportunities. If you are interested in working at 1aim, write us an email at work.hn<?>1aim.com and tell us about the projects you worked on that you are the most proud of and which technological feats of the past inspire you.

We provide visa assistance, limited relocation support and free housing until you find your own place to live.
That's a good question to ask now that beta 7 is out. I'll try to remember to bring that up at the next Community Standup.
When Pandoc converts Markdown to LaTeX, it uses a template that speciefies what header and footer material to add (http://pandoc.org/README.html#templates).

You could modify the default template to use whatever style file you want.

Pandoc also supports references with a .bib file, and inserting TeX math formulae between dollar signs.
How to Build Customer Relationships (VIDEO)
More specifically, NexentaStor (the OS which was explicitly mentioned in the article) was at one point based on OpenSolaris, and subsequently switched to illumos when Oracle inevitably murdered the OpenSolaris project.

The article reminds me of people who try to claim that "Mac OS is a Linux distro".
> This is not really the attitude a company should have when they manage benefits

Why exactly? They are talking at the individual employee level, not company wide. The statement above is: "[As an individual developer] it is ok to make mistakes, just own up to them and take responsibility."

They didn't touch on test coverage, integration Vs. unit testing, code reviews, UI automated testing, code quality inspections (both automated and manual), regression testing, external audits, or a whole bunch of other things a company can do to improve the quality of their software over the medium to long term. These exist to help mitigate an individual's errors.

If we take what you said above at face value, you're essentially saying: "It is unacceptable for an individual employee at a company who manages benefits to make mistakes ever period." Which when re-phased like that is patently absurd.

Your anecdotes above may be legitimate reasons to gripe about the quality of Zenefits' software. But these are issues with organisational quality, not individual quality. Individuals can and will make mistakes at any endeavour no matter how mission or life critical, the way organisations detect and resolve these mistakes is what is key to quality, not pretending that people should be mistake free, that's a pipe dream.
Um...is that legal? Nothing in VS is licensed GPLv3.
Be my tech co-founder
No, the FCC Is Not(Intentionally)Trying to Kill Third-Party WiFi Router Firmware
There's a lot that goes into space worthiness rating even beyond the technical spec requirements. There's probably a bid request available for when they were first considered too. No idea where to start hunting that down though.

There was a really good article[0] (plus a video talk I can't find) on a team that modified an Android phone to go to space to interface with the SPHERES mini satellite experiments. A short list of the things they had to do includes:

- No Lithium Ion battery, it takes 2+ years to get a LIon battery certified for the ISS

- Had to put a screen protector on, broken glass screen becomes an inhalation hazard in zero G, BUT many materials are considered flammable in the high oxygen environment on station.

- Had to lobotomize the Wifi and cellular chips to ensure they'd never turn on. Just removing the software that would control and allow them to turn on wasn't enough.

In addition to everything in the article they have to worry about off gassing from all the various materials that make up anything sent to space.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/how-nasa-got-an-andro...
Isn't that exactly what a shielded coax cable does?
Great chart. Thanks.
Life is a obviously an open-ended sandbox game.
People who want to abuse bonus systems
The end of a cycle. The beginning of a new one.(Parrino leaves the Ubuntu Phone)
Very possible. It just feels like something from that general area, and I wanted to point it out.

I played around with fitting this in to the Curry-Howard correspondence. For a moment, let's set aside neural networks and just talk about the probability distributions they operate on.

In Curry-Howard, one interprets values of a type as proofs of a theorem. Perhaps we could similarly interpret a samples of a distribution as verifying the distribution. This might lead to a kind of fuzzy logic version of Curry-Howard.

I'm not sure if this actually works or can be formalized -- I've only put a tiny bit of thought into it.
Not to mention that every Windows JRE installer comes with Ask Toolbar or similar stuff.
Good Lord, yes. It takes forever for my TeamCity build agent AMIs to spin up and actually connect to the TeamCity server. It would be awesome to replace that bulky Windows build agent with a Linux one.
Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions
I'm not sure Microsoft came too late to the party. Perhaps MSBuild is a bit crappy (I don't know, never used it), but I can imagine Roslyn becoming more useful now on other platforms since it's open sourced. It'll be great that one can be sure the runtime behaves the same on all platforms Roslyn will run on. And it'll also be nice if new runtime features will be available on every platform at (more or less) the same time. I think Roslyn could have a nice future ahead. Personally speaking, I find writing C# is much more enjoyable as writing Java.

And who knows, maybe someone will build a decent MSBuild replacement. Or perhaps the Xamarin guys already have a nice alternative.
The idea of deep learning as "differentiable functional programming" resonates with me. It makes me wonder if one could build an elegant monadic interface for deriving networks, where you could bind on the results of previous layers and use traditional functions to build new ones. That would be powerful.
Thank you so much! And that's a great idea!

I'll definitely add location and search and have a way to keep track of contact info like emails and maybe draft them inside the app too :)
Oh, but that does not prevent the filling of the form by spambots after it is online and functional.

At Formspree we struggle every day against this problem, and it seems very difficult to solve while keeping a simple API.

Also, displaying the email in the action attribute automatically adds your email to spam lists and you're doomed forever (unless you use Gmail, they have pretty good antispam technologies that cannot work outside of their ecosystem). I know you are providing an alias so people do not have to fall into this, but you should be more clear about it instead of saying aloud that your service is spam-free.
Index Ventures aims to help HackCampus get students into startups
Uber 'shared trip' data leaked into Google search results
What is this supposed to be? All I'm getting is some doorslam about Archive.org's new site design.
Replace all the "yous" with "I" and the conversation becomes a whole lot clearer (and more factual).

Things affect people differently! It can even affect the same people differently at different times. Sometimes weed helps me to focus on things, other times it puts me on the fritz. Sometimes it wakes me up and others it knocks me out in minutes.
Don't know about Windows Phone, but for iOS you could use RoboVM.

http://robovm.com/
Comcast hedges with new unlimited internet pricing and streamed TV
That webpage has a last-modified date from 2009...
But I think the idea is that the compress call takes such a small amount of data that it is far less likely for there to be such data in the same call
Comcast aims to hedge against cord cutters by enticing millennials to connect and levying higher access charges on heavy internet users.
Doesn't deny his thesis, though? K7 out-of-order was great when Intel went on their P4 "Marketecture" boondoggle, AMD64 was great, K8 + Hypertransport plus on chip memory controllers blew Intel out of the water in pretty much every way, IA-64 couldn't compete.

But they took their eyes off the ball, bought ATI, took 4 and a half years to update their microarchtecture, and the first shipped K10h chips had a bad TLB, requiring them to stop shipping until the next stepping fixed that 6 months later.

I really liked them in that heyday, and, oh, back in the 486 DX4 days, but given their many decades losing corporate DNA (I'm sure it's still true they haven't in the long run made money for their shareholders), and their having to sell their foundries, it's doubtful they'll again be a big player.
> Cognitive engineering, via direct edits to embryonic human DNA, will eventually produce individuals who are well beyond all historical figures in cognitive ability.

Now that would be truly foolhardy. Blindly augmenting intelligence before cognitive moral reasoning is completely understood would be a recipe for incredibly dangerous psychopaths. At least with AI, you don't have a system that has been fine-tuned by eons of evolution to manipulate people at least partly against their own interests.
It depends what you're doing.

If you're making libraries, console applications or doing modern websites it's pretty easy to get your build working without Visual Studio.

One - ELEPHANT SIZE - problem is that for some reason Microsoft only ship the Windows SDKs as part of Visual Studio. Meaning that you'll need to install the IDE at least once to get a build running (you can copy the SDKs around after that).

Microsofties - I know that a lot of dev-div people will be reading - can you shed some light on this situation? What's the reasoning behind not shipping the SDKs separately. I've never had this problem with Java..
Moving from Consulting to Startup
Love this idea, might copy my current novella on the web (http://www.flailfast.com/) over to your platform to see how it looks. Out of curiosity: any chance you guys might integrate bitcoin donations/payments in addition to USD?
Well said - I agree with you that considering oneself to be a story is dangerous, but I believe the danger is primarily to the people around you. It's important to find the rest of the world real and valid, even more important than one's own journey through life.

I'm not calling for great acts of self-sacrifice, just suggesting that over-consideration of one's own narrative can lead to acts of great selfishness.
Manhattan is dense, but plenty of people commute every day from suburbs with yards and spacious homes. The Economist doesn't really go into transportation except for a brief mention at the end. New York has a better transportation hub than the Bay Area. At 3 AM on a weekday or weekend, I can catch trains going to New Jersey, or Long Island, or upstate New York, or Connecticut, or the subway which runs all night. In the Bay Area, the last Caltrain headed to the peninsula leaves at midnight, and there are no more trains until 5 AM! There are plenty of places to live which are a 30 minute commute from Manhattan (by subway, train, ferry etc.)

Wasn't San Francisco destroyed in an earthquake in 1906? Weren't 63 people killed, and thousands injured, by the 1989 earthquakes? Instead of better public transport, the Economist suggest building up, up, up. I suggest reading this - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake - if you never saw the damage done by the 1989 earthquake. Remember the 1906 earthquake as well.
Why would I want to deal with MS on any other platform? I want nothing to do with that company out of principal and I hope we can do a equally harmful shut out of MS in the future, they deserve their own medicine.

No, into the trash it goes.
And as with any substance (or activity in general), environment matters a lot.

Hanging out on the couch at home? Probably fitting to crash soon.

Out at the park with a book? Read until you realize you're burning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4gMe5bx9Y
The difference is that the new purchases provided a strong incentive to JetBrains to make their software better. If the new version doesn't add anything useful, people wouldn't upgrade.

Now you have to keep paying whether they add features or not.
14 Piece Brass Band Do Badass Cover of the Backstreet Boys
That is what I thought ... ahah
While I love my headphone listening (I have become addicted to the Grado sound), if I ever go back to being a homeowner I'm going down the route of linear array speakers. The whole room is the sweet spot. It's really creepy / fun.
When one is at the point where they can kind of pick and choose where they want to go because they have an awesome resume and a great body of work, then let them choose how they wish. If I were going to my first or second job, I would go with Google or Facebook or Uber over a smaller/lesser known company as they would be great signaling mechanisms for my resume for future opportunities.
what is it then?