skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if the question is getting a single one-bedroom apartment for < $1,000 a month I think that excludes a lot of cities. New York, DC etc... So it's not meaningful to say SF is a bubble because of a trait that exists in many cities.
Yeah, we can make plants do whatever we want, we just have had the wrong priorities.
This video came out yesterday, about immigration. I think it's worth a watch, and the economics behind it are good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHCT2bUjwg

My views:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs...
UK TV series Grand Designs features people who self-build homes, or sometimes convert weird buildings (water towers for example) into homes.

The show talks a little bit about the finances, and how people often start over-spending on details.

In England this can save some money over just buying something as big / distinctive. And if the homeowners DIY there are further savings. And some people are just very fussy about details, so self-build or conversions allow them to have total control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Designs
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We're thinking about a marketing solution for e-commerce people and we're curious about your experience with Shopify and other various e-commerce platforms.
Certain things -- big and small -- have an extra bit of "magic" when we first run across them. Glider was one of those, for me.

Not "big" and "dramatic", but slightly magical. Perhaps all the more for its subdued presentation.

P.S. Plenty of monsters and whatnot, about. But a paper airplane? Smile.

I guess, in good part, it was the magic of a perfect whimsy.
It sounds like prep school for interview exam
Seems equally valid to use it as a tool for learning how to manipulate data in ipython.
Why do people open restaurants when the overwhelming majority of new restaurants go bankrupt in short order?
"I think what is much more likely is that the government will simply [...] let the public transit die."

That kind of happened in other parts of the world (in the former socialist block). You know what happened afterwards? The significant demand for mass transportation encouraged private parties to step in. They weren't as good or as convenient compared to the former government-subsidized public one, but they solved the problem for a while.
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I forgot to answer your question. Yes I've been to a poor area before.

I also forgot to apologize for mentioning Uber, organics, and engineering. You're right, but acknowledging the existence of those concepts I'm totally ignoring the South Side of Chicago.

But by bringing up Chicago, you're completely ignoring sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh. It's not so pretty there, either. Are you going to apologize for that?

Let's just remember that we should always mention regions of extreme poverty whenever we discuss something.
s/equilibrium/steady state/g

Equilibrium and steady state are two very different things. Strictly, the path we eventually want to tread is not even steady state, since internal variables can change dramatically (e.g. switching from fossil fuels to nuclear/solar/wind). Only the large-scale metrics need to be steady state.

To give an analogy, the earth's climate is far from equilibrium (same temperature everywhere), but it is fairly close to steady state (same average temperature over long periods of time).
Current data plan prices aren't exactly cheap and you get a discount for using "approved" services. Nothing is stopping you from going on as before, but T-Mo's actions strongly influence consumer behavior and they get to pick the winners.
Who needs an interface when you have tape?
You can quantify taste. Not precisely, sure, but taste testers are used in commercial food production.
For those who want a quick look at the state of Atom today & it's packages I made a video covering the top frontend and backend packages for Atom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFAzqvYoHJs

Or here's a small blog post I made:
http://cliffordfajardo.com/2016/atom-editor-review/
As I was reading the original article, I wondered if the FDA has any regulations about this sort of stuff ("What constitutes a tomato? When is something no longer a tomato?")

I did find a bit about naming different types of canned tomatoes[1]. I would have had no idea that there is such a difference between "tomato paste" and "tomato puree" and they even have regulations about how many seeds and peels and such can be in the can.

So, even reading all the ingredients and everything on the can, there may be some hidden terminology you may not know about in the way the food is named. Very interesting.

[1] http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrs...
The navy has a much better case for drones. They need to attack at a very long range to avoid land based missiles. They are likely to strike targets that are strategic like airfields or ships, which are easier to identify.

Still probably a good idea for carriers to have a mix of manned and unmanned aircraft.
> Why compare that actual cost to GDP? Compare it to federal tax revenue.

Because we are talking about determinants of the health of the economy, not determinants of the health of government finance.

> There is not a lot of room for the federal government to increase revenue as total taxes (incl state and local, sales, payroll, property, etc) are not low by any means in the US

That's not particularly true; the US is pretty close to the bottom of total tax revenue to GDP ratio among OECD countries; there is plenty of room to increase tax revenue.

http://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-ratio-...
I don't know much about carpentry, but I've seen that they often build custom patterns and guides to make the work on a particular job easier. Maybe they need to cut the same angle or size or shape many times, or drill perfectly aligned holes, whatever. They don't go out and buy tools that specifically match the requirements of that job, because that would be silly. Who would make such a thing, and what do you do if it's not quite perfect? Instead they use the materials around them to create helpers and guides and patterns.

It sounds like you could use the same kind of thing. Someone entering an issue doesn't need to be presented with a JIRA server and told to go at it. A tool like JIRA has some tools for guiding users (e.g. embeddable, customizable javascript forms). And where JIRA isn't cutting it, any self-respecting tool has an API that gives you all the power in the world. You want a dashboard that shows you just the charts you want, and clearly explains what they're showing? There's a lot of material all around you to make building that for yourself easy. Wishing for an opinionated and rigid solution that happens to match what a project of nontrivial complexity needs is not realistic.
This was fun. This was my path to the solution:

http://pastebin.com/Px4cLTJV
Nice! I spent many hours with this game as a kid.
I was observing that, in the current times, it's very popular to point out how easy men have it, observations typically lumped under the term "privilege". This story illustrates one of the common cases that does seem to be rather ignored in that accounting, hence why I brought it up.
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burn.
What about Bing? It was a money pit for a very long time, until it wasn't.
The major issue with the H-1B isn't the Indian consultancies, who contribute to some of the more egregious abuses, but the regular tech companies: The Intels, Microsofts, IBMs, EMCs, Googles, Facebooks, Amazons, etc. It's not that they are replacing employees that are citizens it's that they are preferring the H-1B and OPT for open positions.

Modern tech corporations have been automated to the point that the biggest cost is labor, so they are now spending a lot of effort to address this cost. The claim that there is a STEM shortage is a myth invented by these corporations in order to lobby and expand these programs. They operate within the letter of the law but not in the spirit, with misleading job advertisements and preferential hiring practices. This becomes a self fullfilling prophecy in that the smart people who are paying attention are driven away from technology.
You must not have finished reading. He originated the version that says "regular expressions", but not the "two problems" part or the sentiment about textmatching:

>As cute as the “now you have two problems” quote is, it seems that Jamie wasn't the first to come up with the idea. The same quote (but with AWK rather than regular expressions as the punch line) shows up in the sig of John Myers post from 1988, where he credits a “D. Tilbrook” for it:

“Whenever faced with a problem, some people say `Lets use AWK.'
Now, they have two problems.” -- D. Tilbrook
How long until someone has gotten this working on a modern PC/Mac/iPad?
(FYI you mention "Lotus Impromptu" but I think you mean "Lotus Improv")
The .binhex files contain the original Mac OS Classic resource files. On OS X they can be decoded using the binhex command and opened with a resource editor, e.g. Rezilla. Not sure about other platforms, since they don't support the Mac OS Classic resource fork. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork#Compatibility_pr...
Lots of us Linux people don't like Zip, so?

To point out the obvious, Zip compresses files individually and then bundles them. A .tar.{Z,gz,bz2,xz,...} files bundles the files and then compresses them. The latter is better for entropy reduction, the former is better for random access. It all depends on your objectives.
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How do you run it?
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I used Shopify a couple of years ago, they are great. They integrated the payment directly in Shopify right after I started using them. It's a truly great platform for online shops :)
I don't blame the techniques, I blame how we've chosen to use them.

If we chose to use modern techniques to make tomatoes as delicious and nutricious as possible, I have no doubt we'd have some damn delicious and damn nutritious (both at once!) tomatoes.

But they wouldn't ship or store well and wouldn't have as high a yield, so they'd be more expensive, at least under the current production and distribution economy.

So we've chosen to use those modern techniques to make tomatoes that store well, ship well, have a high yield, taste like crap, and have fewer nutrients.
You nailed it perfectly. I've dealt with this problem so many times in my career it makes me sick. Continual pounding on hardware/systems to let them realize that we really can't finish software without actual hardware (simulators only go so far) and that a few weeks of integration at the end of a multiyear hardware/software/chemistry project just ain't gonna cut it.

So glad I finally got out of that industry!
> otherwise around 10 USD

wat? it's 1.5$ actually

http://www.systembolaget.se/dryck/ol/heineken-153603
Takes me back to 2600 :)
Atool already comes with appropriate aliases for all the common tasks:

$ wajig list-files atool | grep bin/
/usr/bin/atool
/usr/bin/arepack
/usr/bin/aunpack
/usr/bin/apack
/usr/bin/als
/usr/bin/acat
/usr/bin/adiff
DontFuckWithPaste
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You sound like somebody who feels comfortable handling security, but for boostrapped and/or a self-funded or even small funded startups, that's extra money that goes to plug a major whole that didn't exist with Parse because they made user authentication, permissions, and security simple.

I'm no security expert. So now instead of concentrating on growing the user base, gaining traction and making the best experience possible for our users, that means finding, interviewing, and hiring more people to handle back-end security which takes a lot of time out of improving the product.

How time consuming on a hours per day would it be to stay on top of handling security on your own? How many engineers would it take and at what cost per engineer?
I don't see why not, they have to pay rent too.
I thought 2600 too but 2600 was, IMO, light on the PoC and very heavy on the GFTO.
Are there any data released on use of chat heads (in Android, the only OS where they can exist)? Personally I love chatheads, they're why I've driven so much of my messaging into FB Messenger. But I would certainly be curious as to how many users disable them.
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> Also, if you are going to have a potentially rough landing, would you rather do so sitting 6" from a box containing a parachute, or 6" from a tank of rocket fuel?

The former, of course. I agree that a propulsive landing wouldn't be likely any time in the near future. But if it could eventually be shown to be safe (and therefore the quote above doesn't apply), I don't necessarily agree that it would be more expensive. You wouldn't need large engines or a lot of fuel, as the capsule wouldn't be very heavy. Yes, it would definitely still be more expensive than parachutes in terms of equipment and weight. However, it would mean you could land right back at your facility, rather than splashing down in the ocean and dealing with retrieval. When we're looking into the future of reusable, commodity space travel, that would be a significant advantage.
Do you know about canned tomatoes?
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So one of the things going on there is that firmness and redness used to be signs of a good-tasting tomato -- because it was just the right amount of ripe, not under or over. Customers don't normally get to taste tomatoes before they buy them, they have to use firmness and color as a proxy.

So they bred tomatoes that can be very firm and very red with almost no relationship to actual ripeness, and taste terrible.

In that case, it's more of a trick than customers showing a preference for firmness or color over taste.

But you're right, I think, that customers will generally choose cost over taste, or over almost anything else, in the aggregate over the long-term anyway.
Mac: Should still run, even though the Carbon API it uses all over the place has been deprecated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)

PC: As it uses a Mac OS specific API a lot I think it would be easier to rewrite it. You would also have to convert the graphics and sounds from their native Mac OS formats to e.g. png and ogg.

iOS: Same as for PC. The Carbon API isn't available on iOS.
I wonder how much was actual Twitter leadership getting greedy vs investors demanding a clear plan for monetization and control.
The delta between a great tomato and a good tomato is nontrivial but insignificant compared to the delta between any tomato and a Coca Cola.
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I'm in Canada and every time I consider prospects of getting into United States, comments like this frighten me. More specifically the Valley area for its renowned reputation of tech-oriented culture, and make good earnings. Compared to what I see in, say, Toronto area with bad housing and a bunch of old .NET 2.0 I feel that it must be better there.

What I find lacking in such comments, though, is some explanation on why and the suggested alternatives. Would you mind sharing why? Java/C# were the hot things of 10-15 years ago and people still make a living out of it. It sounds like an argument for classic Red Queen problem where the only winning move is not to play.
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I'm so astonished and impressed with this kind of work. When I look at that tablet all I see are a bunch of triangle impressions like scales. I wonder how it is read.

http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/67/a8/67a8aa02...
It does, I always extract files with:

tar xf <file>

(as in eXtract File)

The xkcd answer could be: tar t

I always see people using tar -zxvf <file>, I'm guessing they tried that and it worked, and they never needed to look in the manpage.
I feel that
Drinking cow's milk at all, inbred or otherwise, will most likely be viewed as a completely ridiculous notion one day.
Umm, no. If you've worked at Facebook/Amazon/Google, you'd know that is not true. They do not prefer H1-Bs over citizens. They simply hire people who pass interviews. Also, what makes you think the industry's smartest people aren't working at these companies? I'd say on the contrary, they have the smartest folk in the CS industry at these companies.
In an old job I worked for an affordable housing developer who did this with properties down in New Bedford, MA. We'd turn old schools into affordable housing units. Same with a hospital in Connecticut. It's a great way to increase the number of affordable units while using old buildings.

EDIT: Here is an example: http://www.wihed.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Acushnet-Com...
What specifically leads you to conclude it's a "flawed model"? Is it the problem of private ownership of a semipublic community, through individual accounts "owning" a subreddit?
Suggesting that we'll see them in mass market in less than five years strikes me as insane. Marketing bull, even. Currently today, self-driving cars are still far worse drivers than humans, and companies developing them have been misleading people to build the hype.

Google likes to brag about how it's cars have driven 1,000,000 miles without causing an accident. But they've neglected to brag about what they had to report to the California DMV: That among their 30-some-odd cars, there would've been 10 at-fault accidents in 2015 alone without human drivers intervening. Google took the telemetry from those incidents and simulated the behavior if the car had been allowed to operate unimpeded.

One out of three cars being at-fault in an accident in a year? That's an AWFUL safety record, and far worse than the human average. If the Google self-driving software was a licensed driver, it would've had it's license revoked

http://9to5google.com/2016/01/12/googles-self-driving-car-ca...
I'm looking for something more visual than Org, thanks for the suggestion though.
The media will simply parrot whatever the stock price has done. The stock price was simply too high for what it was worth or maybe worth for several yrs. the media interprets this as indicating a dead company.

Twitter has 300 million users and growing, 60% rev price growth to over 2B, new features like moments, periscope, and a treasure of real time news and data. Twitter is really an fantastic success and every quarter grows revenue by an amazing amount.

If the stock was going up (as I suspect it will from here), the media will parrot the great turnaround... When nothing will have changed fundamentally.
>> But, at scale, its effect is magical.

Yes, much like handing out megaphones at a music festival. I see very little value in the incoherent rambling that is twitter, but of course I'm not a market researcher or intelligence analyst.
Before Sameroom [1], we spent two years building Kato (https://kato.im), which became a Slack competitor once Slack launched. We did enjoy a brief pre-Slack honeymoon (at Techstars, no less).

For a few reasons, we chose Xamarin to build the Kato mobile apps. The end result was pretty good—great, even, considering the ridiculously tight timeline. We had a pretty elaborate common core with all the hard stuff (networking, caching, protocol, presence, etc), and custom UI code for Android and iOS.

In the end, since Kato was to be no more, the real benefit was seeing how much sense it makes to use a strongly-typed, object-oriented language for building complex user interfaces.

Many years ago, and for many years, we were C#/C++ programmers, so it wasn't exactly a revelation. But, we'd been working for quite some time with dynamically-typed Erlang and dynamically-typed Javascript (the Kato UI was built with Knockout.js).

Our server code was fairly straightforward and didn't change very much, so Erlang was an excellent choice there. With JavaScript, we'd programmed our way into some serious debt.

When deciding on a stack for Sameroom, we embarked on a quest to replicate the Xamarin experience for the web. We eventually narrowed in on Flux, React, and TypeScript.

After some experimentation, we got a development workflow working with gulp, shrinkwrap, make, and no particular IDE (we use Atom, Sublime, and Vim).

The biggest crutch was lack of JSX support in TypeScript, so splicing together HTML elements was pretty cumbersome. We viewed this as a temporarly incovenience, which was a good decision—TypeScript 1.6 got React/JSX in September 2015 [2].

We're pretty conservative about adding dependencies, but the overwhelming majority of libraries we do use have TS support available from the DefinitelyTyped project [3]. The few libraries that weren't supported (Stripe checkout and Intercom, if memory serves), we TypeScriptified ourselves.

As a result, working on the Sameroom UI is absolute joy.

It's a little ironic that, unlike Kato, Sameroom basically doesn't need a UI, since it's just marketing copy and an administrative dashboard.

[1] https://sameroom.io/blog/from-pivot-to-140-paying-customers-...

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/09/16/announ...

[3] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Imagine if only Fedex got to decide who got free shipping?
A docker-compose for parse-server
Ok, we've used your suggestion. If someone suggests a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Giving out visas based on salary will expose the system as the unfair and useless system that it is.

Suppose we raise the minimum salary to say 120k/yr, or if we use the salary to determine the order, what this will signal is that the more you are paid the more you are needed. And since this visa is for the best and brightest we will see that, hey, my manager/dentist/lawyer/doctor makes double what I make, that would indicate to me that we need more of those best and brightest from around the world.

But that's not what this is, there is no shortage that we need to address. We educate and train plenty of American citizens to fill these rolls. It is corporate welfare that the government is all to willing to play along with.
DO YOU HAVE SCRATCHES ON Your AUTO GLASS?
Their site works fine on mobile, either the desktop version or .compact (you can add .compact to the end of a reddit url to see it). I never really liked the normal mobile version though.
Tomatoes in the 1950s were already domesticated. Humans have been growing tomatoes since at least 500BC. Comparing them with wild tomatoes is irrelevant.

Industrial agriculture has brought about a radical increase in food yield over the last century, and there seems to be a corresponding, possibly correlated decrease in the nutrition.
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It reminds me of the GoT dialogue " Chaos is a ladder, my friend" : What I mean is the products that are 'shitty' and are thriving is because probably each one of them were created to solve a problem where absolutely nothing like that product existed before and the original product founders were sharp enough to notice a market and business opportunity. This shitty product was so good when it came out, it changed the way ppl did business and led to its mass adoption with little marketing. The other better products that came later on, however usable they are, are probably providing marginal ( as per the product users) value over the previous product hence lower adoption rate and requires huge marketing $. That is why if you notice a new market/business opportunity it is most lucrative path.
Shopify and the modules solve virtually any configuration of e-commerce you could want.