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I really dislike the use of the qualification "luxury" for land developers. People constantly complain about how ridiculously expensive the bare minimum housing is getting in high demand areas, but endlessly complain that "new luxury apartments" aren't going to solve the problem.

I think that this is just a bias that is blinding people to the inherent contradiction. The reason that shithole apartments become so expensive is because there are people with the money to spend who "need" (i.e. work in the area) that apartment. It has nothing to do with construction or maintenance costs, just demand. Even the "luxury" apartments have inflated prices compared to their material values. Which means that there is a lot of room to move up.

Basically what I'm saying is that people need to stop complaining about the "type" of housing. If someone builds 50,000 cubicle apartments or 50,000 luxury flats in a high demand area, your shithole apartment's value/rent is going to change the exact same amount. Because there is plenty of room for the people generating the demand to "afford" better (in strict material/construction terms). It shouldn't matter to anyone who isn't already in the mid-range of units to begin with (i.e. people complaining about the rent on their 400sqft hole in the wall). The real issue is that these places are "only" building 50k (or whatever the number) new units, when they actually need far more.

Maybe building cheaper (and therefore smaller) units could make allocating the area for this number of units more palatable, but that is still a secondary problem. This just runs into the issue that as much as people bitch about "luxury" condos, they want crappy high density ones nearby even less.
I am wondering how cost effective all this shipping is especially if people are using it as as a de facto rental service.
Did you notice how the comments had links to more information from sources more reputable than xyz@HN? If you genuinely want to help people and are providing sound medical advice you should include the scientific literature supporting your statement; otherwise you are simply peddling false hope at best.
https://www.edvisors.com/plan-for-college/college-admissions...

Including:
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Columbia

etc.
Normally yes but not in areas where prices are already at the maximum ceiling of what people can afford. Raising property taxes shifts net income from the property owner to the taxing authorities. This reduces net income (yield or CAP rate) from the property and drops the price accordingly as investors sell investment properties and migrate their capital to other assets. Now, there's no free lunch. You end up hurting both wealthy investors and poor/middle class mortgaged-to-the-hilt homeowners who barely squeezed into the market. As we saw in 2008, bad things happen when a large % of mortgages plunge under water.
Oy gevalt! Add (2009) to this; I thought this was new and was waiting for the punchline, but it was just talking about the original breakthrough that provided there are polynomial-time algorithms, but known ones are impractical.

Great explanation of HE though!
Ask HN: Should Startups Form as an LLC or C-Corp?
My "company" (which is currently not legally formed) is ready to begin sales, however I don't know what form of legal entity I should form.

I will eventually need outside investment, and definitely would like some liability protections. This leads me to consider a C-Corp (which would help with outside investment).

However, is it easier to just start with an LLC and just later convert to a C-Corp, or is it easier to start as a C-Corp?

Also, I was considering applying to Y Combinator, so do they have a preference?
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> When you program something correctly, it's expected to be correct to the keystroke.

Are you saying that this is the philosophy Torvalds holds? If you are not, then please disregard the rest of this paragraph (and, if you have the time, please let me know what you did mean.). If you are, then I'mma slap a big [citation needed] on that comment. While searching for that citation, do keep in mind that writing code for OS kernel is usually going to require much more in-depth knowledge of how a compiler optimizes things and the like than writing code for some CRUD application. This means that -not infrequently- single-character errors do have substantial significance.
This comment rings very true for me. I am 30 years old and come from a solidly middle class background - mother was a high school teacher and my father was an airline pilot. I grew up in the Hamptons (Southampton to be exact) and went to a private school. After that I went to U Penn. I ended up dropping out in my sophomore year. I spent the next couple years doing literally nothing productive. I could best be described as very self destructive in those years.

Now, I'm 30. I have a very well paying job. I have quite a bit of money in my bank account. Things are good for me. Much better than some people I know who started off with less than me and worked twice as hard. I cant help but think that my own status in life can mostly be attributed to the access I had to people of power and wealth. Though my family could hardly be considered part of the 1% I did manage to rub shoulders with enough of them that I have received some residual benefit. School was a huge part of that.

It's a weird thing. I sometimes feel guilty about it. Particularly when I meet people who are smarter or harder working than I am.
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It is about land ownership sinse beginning of time.
It's worth pointing out the silliness of the title ("well, if an MIT grad student claims things are so, who am I to suggest otherwise?"). But it isn't so difficult as you seem to think for a somewhat talented and hard-working student of the middle class to be accepted to an elite school. I think there are many here who can attest to this. The wealthy will always have an advantage, but it isn't as though it's easy to literally buy admission. The sheer number of do-nothing rich kids who never make the cut is evidence of this.
Many (most?) private employer based healthcare plans in the US don't provide dental/optical. Those are each separate plans and premiums that you and/or your employer must pay for.

Your point about doctors taking ~50% of the provincial budget seems exaggerated (please provide a reference to support it). Even if healthcare takes 50% of the budget, it's not all going to doctors, probably not even the majority of that. There are a lot of expenses other than doctors in a health system (nurses, administrators, buildings, equipment, materials, etc, etc, etc).

In the US, the big "single-payer" system, Medicare, is far more cost efficient than private insurance:
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/09/20/medicare-is-more-ef...

And I can think of at least one good reason to prefer single-payer if you are a not-poor tech worker: Job flexibility. Since insurance comes from the govt instead of the employer, employees don't jeopardize or destabilize their health coverage by switching employers or switching to being self employed.

Edit: wording
I found out the hard way that on the new Qantas A380s, the power outlets are only in "premium" economy.

It's $939 from SYD to LAX in December (holy crap, at that price I better take a trip!) in Economy, but a whopping $2539 or $3389 for Premium Economy. I like having an AC outlet too, but that's crazy.

If you do get to use the outlets on the A380, be aware that they do ~75W maximum. Exceed that and they'll shut down, and they don't get reset.
"And while many of the wealthiest colleges offer need-based scholarships for their poorest students, they enroll a relatively small percentage of low-income students compared to their less wealthy peers.
The 10 wealthiest private colleges hold cash and endowments that, combined, total nearly $180 billion. A median 16 percent of their 2012-13 enrollees received Pell Grants, a form of federal aid only available to low-income students, according to an analysis of federal data."

“We are spending the most money as a society educating the wealthiest people.” -- Ronald Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/21/rich-universi...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/28/pf/college/ivy-league-low-in...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/04/09/what-like-po...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/11/27/the-cha...

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/16/top-1-of-harvard-grads-richer...
What was used to auto generate the code?
Geode is write-intensive, and generally optimizes for consistency over availability. That being said - there's a lot built into Geode to ensure availability as well.
I heard you. I contend that Islam is not the problem at heart. Every holy text can inspire hatred and violence. It's very likely the Quran was a fight manual like you said -- for understandable historical reasons -- but what matters is what it is now for most of the world's Muslims. And it's not a fight manual. The slide to religious fundamentalism is a threat in all religions; I wouldn't welcome any theocracy.

Sorry, you can quote the Quran all you want, and I can quote it back with verses promoting peace (or verses from other holy texts promoting violence; or even violence from other religions which are not frequently linked to terrorism).

There is no inherent danger from Islam. There is real danger in the world, but I think you're mistaken in placing the source. And Western countries are oblivious to their own historical contributions to violence in the Middle East. All too easy to blame it all on weird raving fundamentalists.

In the end, you think I'm mistaken. I think you're mistaken. Let it rest.
Not yet, but it's on the horizon. The current model of student debt for a degree which conveys little to no advantage in the job market is unsustainable. Once it starts to turn the deflation will be rapid and impactful. Not only does higher education employ lots of people (funded by student debt) but also keeps millions of hard working 18-25 year olds who would otherwise need jobs, out of the work force.
Stock investing and raising capital as spectator sport. Complete with peculiar spectator sport journalism. I imagine the set of people who care about "perceptions" of how a stock does on the day of the IPO will be extremely narrow. The effect on the business fundamentals is going to be nonexistent. And in a few years' time, the share price will have taken on a life of its own, independent of the IPOs fading memory -- do you remember 18 May 2012?
When I was in the US for most of last year for business this is the one thing that really perplexed me. In Australia the only advertisements we have are for Nurofen and popular paracetamol product Panadol. In the US, things are ramped up quite substantially, ads for blood pressure medication and erectile dysfunction.

I just stopped turning on the TV in the end. These ads seemingly dominate television over there and some of the side effects for those drugs sound horrible, death is mentioned a lot.
It's very easy to see where all the wealth is going and how and why it is divided unequally in this county. It's a simple observation that is self evident.

Look at yourself, the average joe. Where is the wealth you generate going?

Let's follow the process step by step.

You work for a company and most of the wealth you generate is for said company... the company pays you a salary, lets say 10$/h. In order for the company to afford you, you must be generating more wealth then 10$/h. You're generating 20$/h of wealth and the company is shafting you by paying only half of that. It's one of the ironies of capitalism... employment is usually a deal that is unfair and weighted heavily towards the employer. But hey, it's a freemarket... you chose to get shafted.

The rest of your money goes to things related to your survival. Unless you own a house, then the majority of what's left will go to RENT.

So in the end, rent and labor output is what's sucking out the wealth from underneath you. Where does this wealth go? To the owners of the houses that are rented to you and the owners of the corporations you work for.

In short owners of both HOUSING and HUMAN Capital is where most of your wealth getting extracted. Logically if your friends and coworkers are also employees then the same shit is happening to them and the rest of the population of the united states.

Simply by observing where most of your own wealth goes, you can see where all of the wealth flows in this country and elucidate the primary cause of wealth inequality.

The person who wrote this article seems to think that rich people invest their wealth in something called "technological capital" which "depreciates." What is he talking about? Does he think wealthy people are putting their wealth into warehouses loaded with piles of smartphones and macbooks? Rich people put their money into real estate and stocks (aka Housing and Human capital).
So I visit the website, click on the link some of the best examples of fair use on YouTube, and land on this: https://i.imgur.com/ygLwM6S.jpg

Priceless.
I doubt this comes as a surprise to most economists. After all demand for housing is pretty inelastic, universal and the supply in terms of property is finite. It reaffirms my believe that restrictive zoning regulations are one of the leading causes of wealth inequality in modern economies. In the Vox article about the paper they mention that Lawrence Summers supports "an easing of land-use restrictions" because otherwise they " [...] cause the real estate of the rich in major metropolitan areas to keep rising in value".
Groupon, and Andrew, really did solve something hard: local customer acquisition and attribution. Others who had been toiling away at this problem for years were stupefied. Really? That's the most valuable local commerce company (as Andrew notes)? But when those looked in the mirror they couldn't say they were guaranteeing customers with no risk. That's a powerful value proposition to the small local business.
The Schengen area formed about 20 years ago, so depending on exactly when that was, you may have encountered the freshly opened border.

Oddly, there are some places with no real controls but where it is not legal to simply cross. Some of the US/Canada border is like that. You can just wander across in certain places, but you're required to present yourself to an immigration official if you do.
Has anyone tried Cloud BigTable? Performance numbers are compelling but I'm not always sure where it fits in with the rest of the GCP storage options.
Share buybacks are an essential part of the stock markets. If money were never returned to shareholders, the market would be a literal ponzi scheme. Returning money to shareholders is what keeps the whole system legitimate, and keeps confidence in the system...

As far as the 'innovation' side, money will be allocated where investors see opportunity. So startups, IPOs, and so on.
> Something like 95%+ of people that get into elite schools graduate. It's not hard to graduate, it's just hard to get in

As someone from a middle class background who went to a top-tier school, you have no idea what you are talking about. Sure, there were/are plenty of humanities majors who had relatively light workloads, but as an engineering major I worked my ass off 8 days/week.
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I'd say more will get digitised as time goes on.
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They can be very efficient for conveying information. I'm not a strong fan of videos (as some friends of mine are) as substitutes for texts on a subject. On the same side, lectures aren't enough either. They're all different aspects of the same thing: expressing information to others. If we move away from traditional texts, I like the idea of "smart" books. These would be interactive (where appropriate) in demonstrating concepts or guiding students through exercises (such as a proof or stepping through an algebra problem one step at a time). However, I think in the end (my opinion) good books are irreplaceable as sources of information, and should be aided by lectures, videos, tutoring and interactive apps.
It's not the best solution, but I don't think banning them will do any good. I'm more rebutting the attitude in this thread that medical information is only for your doctor and not you. I don't think you'll get better health outcomes by focusing all of your medical advertising budget on influencing doctors behind the backs of patients. And advertising does serve a legitimate purpose; I knew a woman with restless leg syndrome who had suffered from it for all her life, but a treatment wasn't developed until something like 5 or 10 years ago. She'd have never asked her doctor about it had she not seen the advertising since she had gone without medication for 50 or 60 years at that point.
Pardon my ignorance, but property owners have the most fixed supply possible - they're selling house space, it's literally nailed to the ground. To paraphrase the root comment, the prices are set by how much tenants are willing/able to pay. Higher property taxes mean investors take less profit from housing, which means it takes longer for them to save enough rent money to buy more properties to lease. And therefore less money with which to drive up the bidding war prices.
Most of Manhattan isn't actually all that tall. Just go over to Google Maps and look at it in the tilted 3D view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/New+York,+NY/@40.6654432,-...

The south end and midtown are tall, the rest is not. You can stuff way more density into Manhattan than currently exists.

And Brooklyn is shorter yet, of course. Could put way more tall buildings into Brooklyn if you wanted to.
Price controls would be appropriate in this situation. I'd much rather have money in the hands of tech workers than in the hands of banks or landlords. Rent-seeking behavior is too often allowed and ignored. The demand/price correlation is not a natural law or a natural good.
You should never get your hopes up. If it ends up working, then you can be happy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10888476

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi...
If you want to experience some classic amiga, but don't want to fuss around with setting up an emulator, check out The Company's page. Most of the major hits are there and play on Windows machines without any fuss at all.

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Compare your struggle as a well off person attending an elite university to what your poor counterparts were doing at the same time. They were cleaning bathrooms, waiting for buses in the cold, dealing with criminals in bad neighborhoods, and living in apartments with cockroaches.

While they worried about buying food and paying the rent, you "worked your ass off" doing homework in total safety and comfort.

But I was wrong. Poor kids who get into MIT ("Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant") only graduate at a rate of 87%. It's just the wealthy students with such incredibly high graduation rates.

http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/students/graduation_rates.html
Like we haven't heard that before...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
I used to be a Reflux fan myself, but baobab (Om architecture) has scaled much better for us, in terms of code as well as devs who are new to React/Flux.
I didn't realize code completion / autocompletion / IntelliSense for JavaScript NPM modules required TSD. I followed the steps in this guide[0] and it seems to work fine.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/runtimes/nodejs
Funny story: some in-flight WiFi services give you a different price based on your user-agent (high for phones, higher for tablets, highest for desktop browers). Fortunately no one can change that...
Hey Issac. Sorry that we didn't make your design contributions clear enough in our promotional material. I was wondering if you might be willing to either write up a lab note for experiment.com or an article for our publication so we can point to it and do a better job of giving you credit.
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"The current model of student debt for a degree which conveys little to no advantage in the job market is unsustainable."

I don't mean to be a smartass, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
The color temperature used should probably be 5700K, as that closely resembles sunlight. Sunlight-like light can negatively affect your circadian rhythm (body always thinks it's day time), however.
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Wild bird feeding probably affects avian urban ecology [pdf]
(Sadly) longish flights are one of the few times I spend a lot of time reading books these days. Though this ends up meaning that I have lots of dead-tree books laying around home unread because I tend to just take a Kindle traveling.

I like your idea about long-form music too. I have lots of classical playlists but I mostly use them as background.
You're making a tangential point about representation of various socioeconomic classes in admissions. This has more to do with intrinsic correlations in academic performance then biased admissions process.

"A median 16 percent of their 2012-13 enrollees received Pell Grants, a form of federal aid only available to low-income students, according to an analysis of federal data."

What's low-income? If you define low-income as the bottom 20% of income earnings, that would be very close to proportional representation. That's outstanding, given all the confounding factors connecting performance and income.
Singapore has social housing as well and it works well.
Dang, for every new convenience technology affords us there's someone to complain about it.
Any thoughts on how this could be replicated to multiple nodes?
Do you have any proof to back up your assertions?

As the grandson of a WWII veteran, they ring awfully hollow to me. I assure you we did not live high off the inheritance of his mobile home when he passed on.
> I'm assuming LAN traffic still works in this case.

Blocking outbound RFC 1918 addresses is a fairly common firewall configuration to prevent any LAN traffic from leaking out into the internet due to weird or misconfigured NAT rules, etc. It doesn't prevent that traffic from traversing the LAN, just if it might try and escape the WAN.