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> Am lucky to have rent control. Right now, if I move away, I wouldn't be able to afford moving back.

SF-style widepsread rent control seems like part of the problem to me, in the sense that it hides the true extent of market distortions from many people living in the area (especially the demographics most likely to vote), while incentivizing weird and unethical behavior to circumvent it by developers who could probably be nudged into tenant-friendly density increases under more sane conditions.
I'm not sure if you only visited the touristic areas or are being sarcastic.
A lot of this advice seems mental/emotional, but as far as tactical approaches go, I think it's important to actually practice, like how a musician does. Like when you're not at work, actually practice doing things like set up a git repo, create a random silly MVP from scratch, solve a one-hour problem in a new language, practice a new programming technique, etc. Or, practice while pretending you have an audience, and if you get hung up on something, learn it until you wouldn't get hung up the next time.
Well, I have upvoted you, but:

I was, however, baffled by your implication that the way things are now (you making an average of $12 an hour with ad-hoc work, instead of some larger amount) is the best things can be.

I do not assume that is the best things can be. You appear to have done so in your first reply to me and are apparently still doing so. I spelled out in substantial detail how I can and am improving my earnings, both in absolute terms (total take) and relative (hourly wage). You haven't engaged those points at all.

Edit:

I apologize if I sound snappish. It isn't intentional. I am currently mired in an argument with someone else who is, in fact, being very dismissive. It is possible that is negatively influencing my remark here, without me consciously realizing it.
N1: An extensible mail client built on the modern web
Why can't the shared culture be a mutual commitment to high-quality work?

Let me put it another way: do you want to spend all day hearing about my toddler? If not--well that's how I feel about everything you're interested in. So let's just all do our work and leave our personal lives at home.
You're right... in that we can fudge around these things with "fuzziness", but I don't think that's sufficient.

Btw, I didn't mean that types should be the arbiter of "a | b", just that it should guide the search process. Obviously, you should always be allowed to really choose "c" even if the system determined "b". But our UI could be so much efficient if the system chose "b" most of the time.

EDIT: Classic case, btw: "find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...". Unless we have pervasive and dependent types, how is any formalism going to know that?
"Show HN" is reserved for usable stuff not content:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I found it interesting how they praise the privatisation route for schools and hospitals etc. We clearly see this doesn't benifit the masses from the US model.

And to criticise Norway for paying out more in benifit to the lower end of society compared to other OECD, why is this bad? It simply means they are paying out less in other areas but what are these and why is it a negative?

Personally I found this a weak article. I expect better fact driven discussion from the economist rather than a piece that seems to want to find a reason to bash a country for popular reading.
Old : https://hn.algolia.com/?query=fbi weed&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story
That's a rather odd perspective. Does this person also view murder as morally equivalent to contraception?
I live in an sf suburb. I talk to local homeowners in the dog park at night and they're all wildly opposed to density, often with a nice core of racism too (I'm white so white people say some wild shit to me; you hear references to "those people" and it's not that deeply coded.) The only thing that cheers me about all the nimbys where I live is all their kids are getting kicked out. Seriously. In 20 years when their kids want a house, it will cost $2.5mm on the low end to own a home here. There will be a tiny handful of careers that pay the necessary wages.
Elon Musk: Tesla’s software 7, with autopilot, coming on Thursday Oct. 15
The author here is essentially describing the classic 'seen vs unseen' problem which Bastiat outlined in his 1850 essay titled "What is Seen and What is Not Seen".[1][2]

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window#C...
Is she suggesting that land be taken through eminent domain? Or is she merely suggesting that developers who own land should be allowed to build on it?

Their DSP proposal is so clouded by the political language that it is difficult to determine their true intentions.

Also, I'm quite troubled by their suggestion that tearing down homes is morally equivalent to not building them in the first place. Tearing down homes immediately destroys value; hundreds of thousands of dollars are put into a home with the expectation that at least part of it can be recovered after a sale. A government that destroys homes without taking into account this investment destroys the value that the developers put into it. On the other hand, having the homes not be built in the first place does no such thing.
By the way, thanks for this - this has been a very useful starting point.
Do you view tearing down a house as equivalent to murder? The syllogism depends on the process in question -- hypothesizing a different version by swapping out nouns contributes nothing to the conversation.
"Then I would have bought a different home, for slightly more money"

But what if there had been no houses built here at all?

"Then I guess I'd live somewhere else"
You speak a lot about VirtualWire, this is no longer used. It was been replaced with RadioHead. There are no significant feature differences, afaik.

I'll try this out tomorrow, using say 5 Arduinos with 433 MHz radios.

What antennas do you use for the radio modules? We've used quarter-wave monopole of 17.3 cm on both the receiver and transmitter with some success.
Nice strawman. Let me explain like you're five:

A) Waterfront improvements are somewhat more socially important than saving the ship. But helping the sick and starving is massively more socially important than both.

B) Public bodies such as the city of Philadelphia have a much stronger obligation to focus on socially important causes than do private citizens.

C) However, frankrizzo was imposing a much stronger condition on private citizens ("no ship while the sick and starving are suffering!") than on the city ("let's make the waterfront prettier!" "but what about the sick and starving?" "sssh, don't worry about that"). This violates either A or B. Since A and B are commonly held beliefs, C is strange.
Sounds good to me. The amount of visual pollution created by advertising is mind boggling in some places.
> This is a roundabout way of saying "never build an online game for kids / I have no idea how Minecraft hasn't been sued over this yet"

That's the basic problem of the MMO approach, rather than Minecraft's ad hoc and persistent private servers.
Next time they're drinking a latte or beer, smack it out of their hands.

After all, having your drink taken from you is morally equiavlent to never having it in the first place, right?
It's disappointing that this type of activism is only gaining traction in places like the Bay Area. For years, I pushed for more affordable housing in Aspen, but nobody listened even though I was willing to walk 1.7 miles to get to the nearest lift.
...Literally? Not just the figurative "course in finance" we all hear so much about?
"Am lucky to have rent control."

You are (party to) using the state to withhold justly earned economic value from your landlord.
Sorry, that's nonsense. The problem not only in the bay area is the irrational and unnecessary concentration of people. It is quite unsettling to me that just because some people don't like what you do on or with your private property that you feel entitled to impose yourself and your will upon them. It's really a kind of liberal tyranny that is not only sweeping this country but it seems at least the western world. It strikes me as a kind of lower class hacking order / squabbling and anger that really should be focused on the only legitimate and justifiable target for anger and animosity, the wealthy. Just because you and your fellow drones are frustrated that they can't afford to live in the place they want to live does not justify some sort of right or privilege to simply demand it or throw a tantrum about it and impose your will in an oppressive manner.

The real problem here is why this concentration of people and opportunity and economic activity is happening in the first place. I bet that if the government had not or would cut off the economic centers in the country from government spending and made a deliberate effort to inject money into slightly less economically active areas that only need an money injection, the housing problem in SF, NYC, Austin, etc. would essentially evaporate overnight.

Ultimately the real problem is a concentration of opportunities in a few economic centers, which is irrational in and of itself and only perversion of a manipulated, mutated, and distorted market due to the spike in oil prices that have dropped off and the Fed pumping money into the highest layers of society, which has led the little rat and roaches to squabble over the crumbs and droppings of the wealthy all around their hives and layers. You want to solve the housing problem far faster than being authoritarian dicks??? Vote for Bernie Sanders, or really anyone who will break up the grotesque concentration of wealth with a few and in a few places.
For software that embeds Composer, it's a little odd that it's "quick start guide" and general installation instructions don't include a typical Composer-based installation option, or mention Composer usage at all, instead seemingly opting for quite a non-standard "sculpin.json/sculpin.lock"-based approach.
> The recent "golden age of television" has been attributed to the increasing volume of paid content

Interesting, really? Do you have a source referring to this? The only theory I've heard is that as Hollywood studios have become financially more conservative (cf the dominance of remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, etc relative to decades past), talent interested in taking risks has fled to television.

> Paid content on the web has been bad because there has been a glut of free content.

Right, and the glut of free content is facilitated by the incredibly low marginal cost of distribution. Buzzfeed has built their entire business on this: instead of "writers", they have "people with a spare ten minutes to Google a set of gifs"[1]. I don't see how this is a feature of the Internet that is going to disappear, especially since people have spoken loudly and clearly that, en masse, paid media will be ignored in favor of nominally free alternatives. Your book example is particularly useful in proving my point: those books that aren't encumbered by the monopoly power of copyright are freely available on Kindle or through Project Gutenberg. TL;DR: As long as there's a free alternative, people writ large won't pay, and as long

> I use an ad blocker because I'm not interested in participating in a system that is based around manipulation of people.

This is what bothers me about people who try to take the moral high ground about ad-blocking. How in God's name do you come to the conclusion that "not participating in a system" is anything but "not visiting those sites"? If you think Beats headphones are priced more for brand than quality[2], do you go "I refuse to participate in a system that overprices products based on fooling customers" and then merrily shoplift your way through their inventory?

[1] Side note: I love this site. http://buzzfeedminusgifs.tumblr.com/

[2] Note that I'm very uninterested whether people think Beats are fairly priced or not and don't have an opinion about it myself; I'm not an audiophile and was just parroting something I've heard a bunch of times for the purposes of constructing a hypothetical. Please don't respond to this comment arguing about Beats...
When I read the article, what immediately came to my mind (and was not mentioned by the way) is how this ecosystem is dealing with the corruption mess of such government(s)?

Finding funding, specially early stage seed fund, is very difficult in the first-world, not to mention it is almost impossible in a third-world country like Egypt (where I was born and lived most of my life), how is that being resolved?

Finally, I really wish to see the startup scene improving in my home country, this will develop a new generation of entrepreneurs that are willing to take the rotten bureaucracy for a ride and push to improve the governing policies.
> Did i mention party?

Blaming the standing president for systematic problems is a fairly reliable sign that someone is a member of the opposite party (or an independent that always votes one way, natch). Even if that somehow happens to not be the case for you, there's the little problem that we have a FPTP voting system which effectively means that elections always boil down to two options (assuming that you're a rational actor who understands vote splitting). Claiming that voting for one option shows "bad judgement" implies that the alternative (remember, FPTP => only one rational alternative) is better, so it really is a partisan statement.

Sanity check: would a statement of the form "Obama is bad because x,y,z" be necessarily partisan by this logic? No.

> Finance reform will solve nothing. You can't stop a billionaire from investing in himself.

Sure you can, but for now that's a largely speculative failure mode. First let's solve the problem that our system effectively imposes a mandatory bribe quota on the candidates and see if that doesn't improve matters. If the problem you propose becomes an issue afterwards then we can fight over the whole "money is speech" argument.
Handy hint for people who want to live in the Bay Area and can't afford to: tough cookies. Have you considered living somewhere else?

I'd like to live on a private island in the Whitsundays, but there aren't enough to go around. It has never occurred to me to whine about this fact.
English only has six vowel letters (the same ones as German without the umlauts), but it has lots of vowels (monophthongs). Wikipedia's article on lexical sets lists the following words as having distinct vowels in General American (the exact number varies between dialects): trap, lot, face, dress, nurse, fleece, kit, goat, cloth, goose, foot, strut. That's twelve, and doesn't include vowels which only appear in unstressed syllables (there's at least one: for example, the second syllable in comma).
By that logic, we shouldn't be building houses, but hospitals, homeless shelters, orphanages, and retirement homes.

After all, what kind of a monster tears down those things?
To be fair, lots of people who are minorities who live in gentrifying neighborhoods also tinge their conversation with racism. To presume one "race" should be less or more prone to racism is problematic, as if they are or should be better than they show.
From my quick reading,. So that Google still gets paid in an Apple adblocked world.
Yeah, it's fundamentally not "this is impossible" but "this is very hard and expensive", and very hard and expensive tasks have a remarkable way of becoming cheaper and easier over the long term.
Oh man, it's awful isn't it? I upgraded my phone the other day and it took me a little while to root the thing and reinstall AdAway.

After over six months of completely ad-free internet use it came as quite a shock as to how intrusive and distracting mobile advertising actually is.

Once I had it set up again, the relief was palpable, like finally being alone after being shouted at by a roomful of idiots.
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you are simply wrong to run around diagnosing people as having schizophrenia based on your anecdotal experience. As I explained in another reply to you, the symptoms described do not match the criteria for schizophrenia. Call that a vague platitude if you want.

On margin, more people experience brief episodes of psychosis than who experience chronic psychotic illness, so again, you are just plain wrong.

the diagnosis of schizophrenia is a diagnosis of an extreme form of mental illness, regardless of its prevalence; cancer kills a lot of people, but it does so in an extreme form: the prevalence has nothing to do with the extremity.
> So, when growth slows or stops, feel free to freak out.

Or you could just save yourself the mental angst and build a profitable, sustainable business that doesn't require perpetual growth to keep the wheels from falling off.
Looks like a case of the Copenhagen Interpretation of ethics recently discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855
A telling remark. So far as I can see, lawyers dress pretty much identically to every other professional --- except computer professionals, who actually do have an idiosyncratic dress code.
Life is filled with suffering..death is an end to that. The end of suffering is a vile evil? I know this logic is common, but it always confuses me.
It's similar in Washington state. Signs on interstates are heavily regulated: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/653A31E9-ADE7-42CA-854E...
> You are (party to) using the state to withhold justly earned economic value from your landlord.

The state is what allows a landlord to be a landlord in the first place, by making a society stable enough that property ownership is a matter of laws and contracts as opposed to guns and groups with guns.
law books : practice of law != {star wars, jokey t-shirts} : software development.
Teaching is Selling
Original article: http://fortune.com/2015/10/11/tesla-software-7-autopilot/

From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
> If more Jews could revolt the final solution might not have happened, not in the way it did anyhow,

Your conclusion is a bit tautological - if things were different then they wouldn't have happened the same way.

> the Germans could only execute it because they have had very little internal and external resistance in doing so.

Jews were not the only ones being killed. Everything you say should apply to Ukraine. Quoting Wikipedia:

> The Holocaust in Ukraine took place during the occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany.[1] Between 1941 and 1945, approximately 3,000,000 Ukrainian and other non-Jewish victims were killed as part of Nazi extermination policies, along with between 850,000 - 900,000 Jews who lived in the territory of modern Ukraine.[2][3] Original plans of genocide called for the extermination of 65% of the nation's 23.2 million Ukrainians,[4][5] with the remainder of inhabitants to be treated as slaves.[6] Over 2,300,000 Ukrainians were deported to Germany for slave labor.[7] In ten years' time, the plan effectively called for the extermination, expulsion, Germanization or enslavement of most or all Ukrainians. ...

> One of Hitler's ambitions at the start of the war was to exterminate, expel, or enslave most or all Slavs from their native lands so as to make living space for German settlers. ... Total civilian losses during the war and German occupation in Ukraine are estimated at four million, including up to a million Jews who were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen and local Nazi collaborators.

> If there was a much bigger Jewish resistance and there would be revolts in every work camp, ghetto and concentration camp the Germans could possible have had to give up on their plans,

Given that millions of non-Jewish Slavs were also massacred, how much more Jewish resistance would have been needed?

And like I said, if that thesis were true, then it would seem that the best way to achieve the two state solution for Palestine is to ship a huge amount of arms to the Palestinians. If not, what is missing in the comparison?
And didn't Sweden just adopt a 6h work-day recently? (30 a week, so even fewer).
This is a pretty basic financial distinction. A credit card is an unsecured loan. A car loan is a secured loan, with the car itself as the asset backing the loan.

A college education is unlike all the other kinds of assets that individual humans tend to "own". The only thing they could meaningfully repossess is the sheepskin.
Blindly encouraging a ketogenic diet can actually be damaging. While the average person slightly benefits from a high-fat, low-carb diet, a small group of people (who have the APOE4 allele) are unable to properly digest fat and thus are greatly harmed by it.

Similarly, light alcohol consumption seems to slightly benefit the majority of people. But, for those with APOE4, it causes significant harm. So, tonic for one group is toxic to another.

It is far better if Alzheimer's treatment is prescribed on a case-by-case basis, based on genetic, environmental, and familial factors. This maximizes the outcomes for all, and not just the average.
How Continuum for Windows 10 Mobile Works on Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL
Those are all great reasons to try it on a different project, and terrible reasons to rewrite your functioning, complete software.
I don't understand what makes this more useful as a text-based thing, rather than, say, something like the OS X right-click Actions/Share menus, especially when when the latter can work on fragmentary parts of other documents without needing to juggle interfaces.
It's worth noting that Peter Thiel has also advanced a version of this argument (progress stagnant since 1970): http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/530901/technology-stalled...

along with Tyler Cowen (low hanging fruit has been picked, specifically in the US): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stagnation
Telephone wires are already largely underground. What you see are power transmission lines. That's why the transformers are up there, too.

I can only imagine it would be rather hazardous to have power transmission lines buried underground, especially in a region prone to any kind of flooding or even heavy, ground-saturating rains.
There are exceptions - the animated and ugly signs on the I-5 corridor are all on reservation land.
I've been pushing for more affordable housing at Buckingham Palace. It sucks that there's only one house there and the Queen isn't selling.

And what's with the lack of affordable housing in Yellowstone National Park? There's loads of room for condos!
Internally RadioHead and VirtualWire uses a 4to6 bit en-/de-coding. Their reasoning is that if your payload is either high or low for too long, "for a good DC balance". have you experianced anything related to this? You but in 0b01 padding before each byte, maybe this is enough. Your solution is substantially lower overhead.
It's based on pretty solid evidence from multiple sources (German, Russian, Polish records, Jewish congress records and interviews with both survives and camp workers) this is now entering David Icke's territory so have a good day.