skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't understand how anyone can say with a straight face that adding more housing exacerbates the problem of not having enough housing.

Say you have a building with 3 units all of a type that do not appeal to foreign investors and wealthy people looking for pied-a-terres, and thus are occupied by people who live and perhaps work in San Francisco. Tear it down and replace it with a building with 10 units, all of which do appeal to the aforementioned investors and wealthy people. Then say 8 units get sold to investors who leave the units unoccupied most of the time, and 2 units get sold to people who want to live in the neighborhood. You've now reduced the amount of housing stock available to San Franciscans, even though you've increased the total number of units.

We've had discussions here on HN relatively recently where people discuss housing price inflation in London caused by foreign investors. Vancouver also has a large number of condo high-rises that sit mostly empty most of the time, because they're not occupied.

That can just as easily happen in San Francisco.

Obviously that won't happen if we build 10 million units. But we're not going to build 10 million units. The danger is that San Francisco builds enough units to attract additional investor demand, but not enough to satiate that demand. Which could leave actual San Franciscans worse off.
I don't really know about restricted data, but AlexandriaP2P is doing pretty interesting work with storing IPFS magnet links in a blockchain.
This brings up a important issue with the web and internet we have now. And that's the difficulty we have in supporting new protocols in clients.
As someone who has done some meditation and spent some time as a Buddhist monk, I find this scientific treatment of the subject very interesting. When I was in the robe we meditated a lot under the guidance of senior monks who were very accomplished. Other forms of meditation were only mentioned in passing. I've heard many incomplete descriptions of the differences between various types of meditation and wondered if there was a good taxonomy somewhere.
Have you used R?

As both a heavy R user and a software engineer, I can promise you that one of the quintessential aspects of R is it's actually "written by statisticians, for statisticians."

You can't accuse R of having great code and language design. Or good code and language design. Or even mediocre code and language design.

Imagine what you would get if you got a million monkeys drunk, put them on a roller coaster with laptops, and had them bang keys while they were upside down on loops. And then the result suddenly, miraculously runs and produces output. Now you understand R's software design.
A Very Particular Set of Skills
The biggest deal to me is that this was written by local politician Scott Weiner. Hopefully this idea circulates more around those in charge in SF.
GHC 7.12 will be called GHC 8.0
So is the solution to focus on simulating a body within a fairly detailed simulated reality? Forget how you model emotions (which might be emergent from patterns of subtle physical sensations) how do you do prioperception in that context?

Also, do you cheat and allow the entities "imagination" to be a perfectly modifiable simulation, or do you allow "errors" to enter into the simulation? What about the ethics of maintaining the integrity of the events and reactions that compose the entity, and the possible responsibility to ensure that reactions continue, or that those events have something to do with our "real" world and are not entirely simulated?
There's no hashing construction that will "completely eliminate the possibility" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle), so I'm not sure what answer you're looking for. It's computationally infeasible to generate collisions (accidental or malicious) if SHA-2 is not broken. If you're interested in reading about how combining multiple hashes affects security, see this paper: https://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2004/CRYPTO/1472/1472....
That is exactly the plan here, its not free wifi coverage everywhere, its free coverage near schools, libraries, public buildings. Anywhere a dsl connection can be routed to. Note also that 2016 is an election year, many many wild ass claims are being made. I live in the philippines.
It was quite a FU - I read originally they were delivered as printed emails.

Not good form at all.
Yeah, I mean, I know the justification, and it's not really any one business' fault. At this point, any place that tries not locking their bathrooms will instantly find themselves the only place homeless people can go to pee in a mile radius, and be overwhelmed.

What sickens me is that people look at ludicrous phenomena like locked bathrooms, or like putting fucking spikes on public benches, and go "Oh, well, you know, those homeless are why we can't have nice things." As if hordes of crazy homeless people are some sort of irresistible natural phenomenon, like locusts, and not something that anyone could possibly do something about. Especially not something that might conceivably have to be paid for with tax money.
Because Hillary wants to make it hard to analyze them. Drug companies used the same technique to hide their relationships with doctors.

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-col...
Prelude to Tomorrow's 'Hey Siri' Apple Event in San Francisco
Actually, it was not killed by the local populous. The whole situation was not as simplistic as you imply.

http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20100807/did-marin-lose-...
Look, I don't care about your moral/ethical feelings toward piracy, but one would be completely irrational to not pirate content because $1/$2 a show is a completely ridiculous price and doesn't not in any way reflect it's true value.

Let's assume that we're talking about a show which is an hour long. Which means we're paying $2 per hour.

Netflix charges $8/month with the average usage of 2.4 hours a day in the US which comes out to $0.11/hour. More aggressive users looking to completely replace TV can average 4/5 hours a day knocking the price down $0.05/hour. And a household of three with different preferences can effectively triple that getting us down to $0.04/hour if they're casual users or $0.02/hour if they're aggressive.

Torrenting costs more in time than $0.05/hour so it's no surprise that people are willing to pay for it.

If torrenting is to be defeated it will require cooperation and a realistic view of what content is actually worth to people.
Fun colloquium on hypervelocity stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI0ePSHz5b4
Samsung Electronics to Cut 10% Payrolls as Part of Restructuring Measure
> I have never heard the word “God” mentioned in a scientific meeting. Belief or nonbelief in God is irrelevant to our understanding of the workings of nature

The second part is key here. Whatever connection 'plenty of scientists' see between faith and science, it has no place at a scientific conference. That aside, calling someone a bigot or some other label in order to distract from the actual topic at hand is hardly productive. Like he says at the end:

> If that is what causes someone to be called a militant atheist, then no scientist should be ashamed of the label.
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Russian metro train stations are also extremely gorgeous. They are all done differently with intricate designs, sometimes making passengers feel as if they are passing through a palace. There was no advertisements anywhere. But then when you look at all the communist symbols, slogans and architecture heavily embedded in design, you realize that the whole thing itself is a massive advertisement for the political system. Not surprisingly it was all sponsored by Stalin because he wanted to make them as people's place. Anyhow, those stations sets the example of how beautiful these transportation spaces could be. Any tourists to Moscow are definitely recommended to visit its best train stations (Eyewitness guide has a list).
BeFS (BeOS) and "Cairo"/WinNT4 NTFS (with Object extension) offered a database API on top of the filesystem. And IBM stored its system files in a database like filestorage too, in its mainframes.
I really like Greg Young's talks on CQRS and Event Sourcing.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGkaShoyNs

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXqrBySgX-s
In 2002 I invented the Trie data structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie

I used it in a programming competition to very quickly count and sort the words in a book.
I wish this article mentioned something about BitSwap; before reading the IPFS paper, I was doubtful about anyone wanting to participate without incentives.

Still, even after skimming the paper, it sounds like a lot really depends on how well BitSwap is implemented. At one point, the paper says this:

> While the notion of a barter system implies a virtual currency could be created, this would require a global ledger to track ownership and transfer of the currency. This can be implemented as a BitSwap Strategy, and will be explored in a future paper.

So it kind of sounds like they need something like bitcoin, but don't want it to be tightly coupled to bitcoin - which is probably smart. But without a single clear solution for a reliable BitSwap strategy (and I'm not sure how it could be reliable without a distributed global ledger of some kind), it's hard to see how/why the necessary resources will be contributed to the IPFS network.
I get 2-3 megabits into most international sites on my 10 megabit line, im in manila. Not amazing, but not that bad. They are just rolling out 20mb - 40mb fibre.

The only major issue i have is that PLDT's dns is shit, so i have to reroute everything to google dns.
> You've never heard God mentioned at a conference because the religious people are hiding from bigots like you.

They probably should. Religious belief betrays at least a partial rejection of what science even is. If you can apply one set of rules to determine, say, the efficacy of some new drug undergoing testing, but another set of rules to how you believe the universe works, then you don't really understand either.
Check out another protocol we (the IPFS creators) are working on: http://filecoin.io
CrunchBase Is Spinning Out
Google's original logo designer reflects on a 'bittersweet' run
This person seems like they are unwilling to accept a different idea of how religion and science could be connected than the one he's come up with (essentially, that our universe exists in a test tube and a God interfering is bound to the same laws that we observe ourselves to be). This whole article deserves a "citation needed" marking.
TIL: Hacker news has search box at the bottom
Webtesting.io Enhances Selenium IDE Capabilities
She probably wants to delay the inevitable.
How long ago were you thinking? I think your suggested salary numbers are off by about a factor of 10.

The average salary is about $2 million/year.
The median salary is about $1 million/year.
The minimum salary for a first year player is over $400,000.

Here's an article with lots of details for 5 years ago:
http://work.chron.com/much-money-nfl-player-make-year-2377.h...

And here are links to team-by-team numbers: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/
The Coming Need for Electromagnetic Spectrum Security (ESS)
> Religious belief betrays at least a partial rejection of what science even is.

Can you go into more detail about what this means?
Moanbox
this is why we use multihash -- https://github.com/jbenet/multihash
> Couldn't it just as likely be the inherent conflict between proprioceptual cues and visual cues causing sickness?

Sure, that's the general concept. OP's two points are specific examples of the causes of mismatch - examples which are well known, and can be mitigated.

a) When a program's framerate is high enough, moving your head causes a corresponding change in visual cue. When the framerate is too slow, the visual cue update is delayed from the motion. A mismatch.

b) When a game allows you to walk forward in a virtual world, your eyes get visual cues that you're walking forward, even though your body knows you're not. VR applications that instead simulate you sitting in place, and give you visual cues to that effect, limit that mismatch.
LOL'd at this one
This is standard procedure...the emails go through a vetting process to redact things that are not meant to be released to the public. This can mean anything from classified information to private information that was sent to an official (medical records, personal information in a forwarded application, etc). The PDF workflow is probably the most efficient way to do this...I don't mean efficient in terms of what programmers think of as efficient...I mean efficient in that the vetting/censoring process involves a good number of officials who are reviewing the documents which probably involves some back-and-forth, for which paper is a pretty decent medium for. Also, not all/many of these officials are versed in digital editing workflows [1]. I think in some situations, the emails are printed, physically redacted (i.e. black marker), then scanned and converted to PDF. Keep in mind that many requesters of government documents are perfectly fine with printable documents, even if such documents are not suited for machine parsing.

[1] Government officials have been burned before when using what they thought was a PDF redaction tool...i.e. using the box-drawing-tool and drawing a black box...was not actually redaction...Governor Blagojevich's case comes to mind: http://www.wbez.org/blog/update-blagojevich-lawyers-created-...
the caveat of course being that SHA256 may be _broken_. That's when we'd have to upgrade to another hash function.

(We may improve how this upgrade will work down the road by allowing links to link with multiple hashes at the same time, but at this time this has not proved to be necessary, and can be added later)
> Whatever connection 'plenty of scientists' see between faith and science, it has no place at a scientific conference.

I'm assuming that you mean that non-science has no place at a science conference. Scientists who see a connection between faith and science will see that as science, which is why it's as important to them as a type of protein folding or particle decay might be to someone else.
Python 3!
see also: https://github.com/cryptix/git-remote-ipfs
This is fantastic. Signed up.
Cool idea. I can see why you'd want this to be an app—you want the person to take a photo of their bill to contribute back to the database, and make it more accurate for everyone.

My question is--what data set are you using to bootstrap your prices?
Football is a different case from other college sports for one main reason: physical development. Your average NFL squad has players that are much bigger and stronger at every position.

A receiver who is 5'9" has a fighting chance to be successful in many college conferences where there aren't monstrous cornerbacks but absolutely no shot in the NFL where size is a requirement. Undersized and underdeveloped players also risk significant injury by going pro too soon. College players need at least a year or two to build up the physical condition to compete at the next level.

This is the reason why the worst NFL team would easily crush the best college team. The college team just wouldn't be able to handle the size of your average NFL squad.
So what part of the submarine did they get? Or is that still classified?
MSG is a Natural Substance
Can you provide links to back up your assertion that investors would buy housing and then not utilize the space? Seems like a bad investment then...
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Since the above is anecdotal (or at least, not well referenced), I feel comfortable in adding a personal anecdote to the contrary.

I bought a DK2, played with it and developed some prototypes with it. I have a very wide IPD (Interpupillary Distance), which meant that I couldn't focus cleanly on the image of the DK2. I experience some mild to moderate motion sickness when I use the DK2 in most titles.

However, there are some experiences -- particularly those with a cockpit or a third person camera -- that significantly reduce or eliminate the sickness. At PAX this year, I tested both the HTC Vive (Call of the Starseed -- a Myst-like title) and the Oculus CV1 (Eve Valkyrie -- a space superiority dogfighter) with absolutely no motion sickness at all, despite some rather hectic motion in Eve. Both demos were approximately 15 minutes of VR time. The higher frame rates and resolution, along with better accommodation of my wideset eyes absolutely improved the 'presence' in the demo. It was absolutely a material change from the DK2, which I've shelved until the consumer ready hardware is available.

Additionally, DK1 and DK2 content is still generally content under development. We're still learning which experiences are good or bad in VR, and how to move the player without disturbing their equilibrium. Games like Eve Valkyrie and Call of the Starseed were both designed from the ground up with VR in mind, which also helps.
Tweetstorm: A Goal That Will Take You Places
> Before I met them, I’d assumed that Zuckerberg and Luckey would have much in common. They’re both hackers who started valuable companies before they turned 20, but the similarities pretty much end there.

> ...

> Luckey does not come from money, nor did he have access to the prep-school, Ivy League fast track that Zuckerberg and so many of Silicon Valley’s young masters started on.

People are still surprised that poor white people and rich white people are not the same. Wealth divides far more than race in America.

What makes Palmer Luckey all the more badass is that he created a product from scratch that changed the world. Zuck cloned Friendster and leveraged the exclusivity of a "Harvard social network" to bootstrap his site.

John Carmack, also from a poor background, is the one who believed in Oculus first. He is most responsible for helping Palmer Luckey make VR happen. They're the big heros here, not the rich kid who bought it for $2 billion.
Apparently it wasn't really killed by the local populace. There is narrative about how it would have caused sprawl-like development (certainly a conservative mindset in context). I couldn't find any references to that for Marin though. It seems what did it in for Marin at least was a campaign from the GG Bridge district, fearing a loss of power and money; there was strong support in Marin for BART (https://books.google.com/books?id=z56Ui3QFYPgC&lpg=PA136&ots...).

Edit: diction
Interesting - I'll have to check it out. Thanks for pointing me to this.

Really cool stuff by the way - I'm very excited to see people working on this, and I hope IPFS (or something like it) is successful.
+1, wanted to say the same.

P.S. that function name though...
This is of course correct - I myself needed some sleep when writing the comment ;)
Oh damn :/
I think you read his comment too quickly. It seems you're agreeing that being "written by statisticians" is a disadvantage.
To suggest that "Planned Parenthood provides fetal tissue samples from abortions to scientific researchers" is even remotely true is, well, sad. I saw the videos. That's some sick stuff. If this is one of your arguments for objective science, then count me out.
What if, instead of sewers, we built subways with sewage cars? Everybody knows packet switching is more economical.
Hmmm I think maybe your tone comes across stronger than you mean it then.

Because, while you do say that, it comes across as a sort of "meh, it's not totally useless but I still hate it" kind of thing at the end.

Especially as you spent the last... like 2000 words trashing it.
Isn't it much more likely that random members added this data vs google copying it?
And Python's index starts at...what?
You know how people use the term e-sports to refer to playing video games professionally instead of sports? The same is true for Copyright. It's not property. It's at most a 'property-like concept'.

There are those of us who do not agree with Copyright and would gladly suffer the negatives to be rid of it.
I absolutely love the concept and the underlying moral reasoning for why we need IPFS!

One of the first questions that came to me: Is there any way to add a forward error correcting code, like an erasure code to IPFS? I didn't find any discussion of this in the IPFS paper.

This seems somewhat critical to be able to compete with modern centralized storage systems which are likely to use FEC extensively to provide the level of redundancy that customers expect. Modern FEC codes can provide phenomenal levels of redundancy with less than 50% overhead. IPFS seems to rely on many fully-redundant copies?
Maybe the parents who are paying big money for kindergarten feel like they're getting shortchanged if their child isn't being educated the entirety of their time there, and this has led to pressure to reduce or eliminate nap time?
$29k a foot is nothing! The Central Subway project currently under construction from Chinatown to the CalTrain station (the only major subway project built in SF in many decades) will cost $1.6 billion (assuming no cost overruns) to build and go 1.7 miles. That's around $190,000 per foot!
Yep. The idea that I should have to code defensively to make sure that the matrices I'm multiplying are of the correct size[1] is complete bullshit.

cat(paste("That", "and", "string", "manipulation", "in", "R", "is", "a", "pain", "in", "the", "ass", sep=" "))

[1]: If A is n by m and B is p by q, and m is a multiple of p, then R will SILENTLY concatenate copies of B to itself to form an m by q matrix, and then do the multiplication.
"I was able to identify the emotions that rush over me when that happened. Then, I was able to notice and acknowledge those emotions happening and finally I was able to control them and let them pass without influencing my behavior."

That is precisely one of the central practices in the meditation practice I am familiar with.
How to build an RSS Reader?
Hello there, I need a help.
I want to build an RSS reader (or shall I call as RSS feed engine) to learn how it works.
This purely for educational purposes.

I tried looking around the web and honestly could not found much material on the topic. In a nutshell, think of that I want to build something like feedly or Google Reader.

I do not get resources on how to build one. The closest I could get it

- http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication
- http://www.whatisrss.com/

Could someone please guide me in this effort?
I tried to learn Python but my computer was turned off so I gave up.
Really cool!

This paired with https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ makes up really good tools for learning and quick ref for flexbox.
That really smells like FUD. Sass is Ruby for example not node. Ruby has been much more unstable than node AFAIK. And python hasn't even been able to move to version 3 so not sure it's the best example. I really like both python and Ruby BTW. Haters gotta hate...
I love the person who made it. It's exactly what I needed.
Isn't 2%/year enough of a property tax increase? Why should I suddenly get a tax bill I can't afford because some idiot bought the house next door to me for too much money, causing my "property value" to skyrocket?
If you oppose copyright, you are required to oppose Free Software. "Creators and makers should have the right to determine how and where the work they own is distributed" is the only reason copyleft licenses have any power.

You do not get to be a copyright abolitionist and a supporter of mandatory source code distribution at the same time.

There seems to be a lot of overlap between these communities, and the cognitive dissonance is just stunning.