skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main culprit are zoning laws.

I disagree. The Vancouver area is one of the most expensive in the world for detached house (median house price > 10 x median income), but that's not for lack of denser housing options. I don't know anyone under age 40 who has even considered buying a detached house here; the default option is to buy a condo in one of the many towers which are going up, and the expensive "yuppie" option is to get a townhouse.

Land is expensive because people want to live close to the city center; not due to excessive zoning restrictions.
The Magic of Computer Science
We're looking for mobile developers and UI designers in Palo Alto. http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs
“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss”
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Elephant in Cairo algorithm
16 years old Bilawal says Wikipic could be a world Stunner in 2 years
These reasons pretty much all pale compared to "will I be able to make payroll?", though.
Here's a quantifiable source of information on what the rest of the world wants: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/popular
One reason I've seen cited in many of these new "edutainment" economics books for the rising price of housing is that more people choose to live alone than ever before. If more people live alone and want their "own place", the amount of demand goes up sharply while the supply grows at a more modest rate. Extended families certainly don't seem to be all the rage anymore..
Well then, the method I described earlier would work for you; Exposure is limited to clients actually giving their passwords and/or using the credit cards _while the system is compromised_ ; It mitigates the risk that you keep hearing about in breaches, of _all_ accounts being exposed.

And just remember, that by storing those numbers locally, you're also taking potential liability for things that go wrong. To assess how much that is in cash, call a few insurance companies and ask them to give you a quote. Assume they have 25% markup on the real cost; That's how much you are "paying", although you are not doing it out-of-pocket (Though, in a catastrophic event, you _will_ be paying a lot)
we at neustar have a ton of openings for software developers etc. Our better known brands are webmetrics and ultradns

http://www.neustar.biz/about-neustar/career-information/job-...
They didn't bribe him. He asked them for the bribe.

We dont know what happened in the past (one prior incident is mentioned) so without knowing the details it's hard to even begin to make a judgement. :)
Yes, I am.

There are populist and leftist governments in many countries, but the media is quite conservative. So Chavez is raving mad and closes everything he doesn't like is supposed to be proof that the media is lefist?

The Brazilian dictatorship closed TV Excelsior which was owned by a billionaire; does that mean the military were lefists? I don't see your point.

The Brazilian government is systematically criticized by the largest media companies; that is undeniable.
Ok. I will try. It's true, that there is an libflashplayer.so on my Ubuntu, however it is a 32bit blob. You can check it with ldd. It is 32bit blob because reasonable performance (along with near 100 CPU utilization) could be achieved with high CPU optimization. There is also libflashplayer.so on N8x0 (with comparable ldd output), but I think it's all they have in common. =)
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A Glimpse Inside Ron Conway’s Virtual Venture Firm
Rackspace Cloud http://www.rackspacecareers.com/
Quality is Fractal, from restaurants to software.
Where did you get that information? This hardware cannot do 1 flop in 1 instruction. Far from it, actually.
Am I the only one who read that as "ancient language of Bodies?"
Yes, not because they offered the gift but because they offered it knowing that it was against TC's policy. Providing the company's name would help ensure other companies think hard about bribing TC writers.

Right now the TC writer has been punished, rightfully so, but the company has gotten away with it.

Or are we to assume that any company he wrote about may have provided the bribe?
Give them an opportunity to catch up. If they don't have a high school diploma, make them get one as a condition for getting benefits. Be flexible and offer night classes for people who work part time. I agree that punishing people whom either made bad choices or found themselves in a bad situation as kids is not productive, but it is equally unproductive to leave them in the situation they are.
Lawful Intercept, Law Enforcement's Legal Backdoor Exposes ISP's to Hackers
If it's monthly billing, why not keep that computer off (plugged out if you're worried about wake-on-LAN attacks), and manually turn it on once a week/month for 10 minutes to process everything?
The Democratic National Committee is looking for engineers to help us build out tools for the 2010 elections and http://www.barackobama.com/

More info here: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/6116
I'm looking for members on my team here at TripAdvisor, near Boston. We're building apps: facebook, iphone, "and others.."

Drop me a line and I'll fill you in with more info. Or you could come to a talk I'm giving at MIT on Monday and meet my haircut in person!
Amazing Video of 3D Printer Art in Belgium
> If you want to get featured in Techcruch or RWW or any high profile blog, you have to send them emails to get their

> attention (opposed to they noticing you because you are a promising startup).

I don't know about Techcrunch, but RWW started featuring my company without me contacting them at all, and with zero PR push other than word-of-mouth. It's possible to be too cynical about the process.
MySQL to Postgres
Consumer Reports has no advertising and they buy everything they review. When possible, they test items in blind trials. The magazine is also published by a non-profit. On the other hand, Amazon reviews have been gamed by both consumers and companies (two examples: Spore, Belkin). You can't be sure the people writing reviews actually bought the products they are reviewing. In my eyes Amazon reviews are better than nothing, but they don't come close to the value of a review by an unbiased party like Consumer Reports.
This article doesn't mention any efforts that might have taken place to preserve the language, did they record her speaking it? Did she try to teach anyone else the language? etc.
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Apple Requests Google Android Mention Be Removed from App Store Description
So far, of the 6, the only one I would invest in is skribit. But I don't have that kind of money. Let me add my idea in there, in case anyone has an extra 300k to throw at it.
hey david,

i first looked at hecl, and it looks alright for a programming language site

there are a few easy things that would make the site look and feel above-average:

(1) behavioral: a click on the orange box should take you to / - logos are links to the home page by convention, and users (and me) get confused, when they are not

(2) style: make the relation between navigation and content clearer by
(2.1) adding whitespace between the orange box and the actual content, so that it becomes clear that navigation and content belong together
(2.2) extend the highlight of the current navigation item to the far right of the navigation box, so that it "touches" the content (tabs are always "connected" to their content, and you're basically doing vertical tabs here)

(3) get rid of the "links" headline and the bullet points in the navigation (css is your friend there)

(4) whitespace is your friend, even in the example images - the right example looks very crowded. read the osx interface guidelines (or, less preferrably, the gnome one) for examples of good interface

(5) distinguish _somehow_ between internal and external links in the navigation. i first thought that that was the difference between bold and non-bold entries in the navigation - but apparently, it's not.

disclaimer: i'm not a designer by trade, this is just what i picked up during my studies (independently and on university) and by working together with designers

if you want a good introduction to design and a good read at the same time, read "design of everyday things" and look for slides of user interface design lectures - many teachers put them online!

hope that helped
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And Pascal will go down with me:) I loved that language. Now and then I will code Pascal for fun.
"I think identifying clear steps, as opposed to a strictly ideological argument, is a good way to convince the overwhelming majority that the change is necessary and good."

Not sure where anyone made any "pure ideological arguments", especially since this is a thread off a very consequentialist blog post...but no, having a plan doesn't convince people that action is necessary or desirable.

Plans are what you discuss after people generally agree that change must happen; the public at large doesn't want most changes libertarians are interested in, so trying to sell them on how to carry out those changes is hugely premature.
We have two positions available. For both we would like at least a year of experience with C#, but if you're a perfect fit in every other way we'd still like to talk to you.

1. We're looking for someone who's really good with MS SQL Server (database design, query writing, administration, etc...).

2. The other position is for a web developer and designer that can quickly build professional looking dynamic web application GUIs and connect them up to the backend.

The company is Conversive, Inc. http://www.conversive.com/ We are a small, but growning, customer service automation solutions company. Location: Agoura Hills, CA. If you'd like more info, you can contact me at "aaron" at the above domain.
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I'm surprised to see such a high number of points for this canned mad-libs response unworthy of the thoughtfulness of the original article. You fail to acknowledge issues raised in the article and narrowly argue the solution in the most trivial and trite way.

I would like to find a way to combine the best of the technological brilliance and economic powerhouse that meritocracy and social mobility have provided, while also looking for a less disconnected, community-focused and psychologically healthier nation. Any discussions that help pinpoint problems in our current system, and propose solutions, are welcome to me. I do not agree with the author's proposed solution, but I do agree that there are problems inherent in the extreme selfishness and greed in our society that we have not adequately addressed.
You should do an Ask HN post anyway, especially since it might land you a co-founder or other motivation from interested users. Once that happens, you'll automatically want to work on it!
All variables in Java must be final
Another interesting spreadsheet would be: Are you looking to fund stuff / have you funded stuff? Not sure how you go about the contact info being placed there. Then again, venture hacks has the contact info on their list.
144-core, ultra-low power processor capable of 100 billions ops/sec
Skribit didn't say what kinda money they were looking at though... From what I know, most angel rounds get funded by multiple angels each putting in between 25-50k, so if you wanted to get in on that, you should :-)
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Facebook dominates UK mobile use
Chavez is not left leaning. He is just a dictator that justifies his actions in the name of the people.
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The other factors that have changed are the tax exclusion on mortgage interest and capital gains from home sales and interest rate manipulation. The mortgage interest exclusion eventually led people to devise and ask for "piggyback" loans instead of paying for private mortgage insurance, which was not tax deductible. The capital gains exclusion on housing sales up to $500,000 led people to overvalue homes as investment assets, since they had less tax drag than other investments. Interest rate manipulation lowered the real monthly cash outlay for payments, which drove up the actual home prices. It also increased the risk for banks, because they were accepting a lower risk premium on volatile collateral.

Nowhere else in the economy do we so explicitly support ordinary folks to make highly leveraged investments. When housing price volatility increased, the down payment requirements should have gone up as the risk premium increased. Instead, our government conspired and is still conspiring to drive them down, backed with our tax dollars buying the loans and now buying up the MBS.
But excessive zoning restrictions exacerbate the problem. In Cambridge, MA there are significant limitations on how high buildings can be thus limiting construction of larger apartment buildings. This in turn drives up the cost of housing due to the lack of supply.
Gee, it's like changing major government programs isn't trivial or something.

Mind, nobody said it was.
Ask HN: Review my startup: Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer
I was tired of paying late fees on my parking tickets, so I created a system to detect new tickets and email me weekly reminders. The site can also automatically pay the tickets for the truly forgetful, if the user sets it up.

It's only for San Francisco right now, but would love the wider HN community's feedback as well. Is this something you'd find helpful? Worth paying for?

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Despite massive inflation, which is still yet to be truly felt.
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You need some sort of search function right on the front page.

I agree using YouTube for sharing music is a bit overkill, but it's nice to be able to just get to YouTube, search for some obscure band, and find random tracks immediately.

By not focusing around search you're forcing your users towards functionality in which they personally upload tracks to send to their friends. I find myself less wanting to upload tracks to share, but rather wanting to share links of stuff that already exists in the system with my friends.

Make that piece of functionality prominent and you're letting visitors easily leverage the work of the people that actually want to be a part of the system, as most users probably just want to be casual users.
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That's basically what I was thinking, and it's so fundamentally obvious it's painful to think anyone would be surprised or wonder why people don't want to spend their lives in their no-name hellhole hick town. I grew up in the suburbs of various unremarkable mid-sized cities in the southeast, but I still had a strong "I need to get the hell out of here" feeling constantly in my mind growing up. Moving back home after college personally would feel like a sign of failure, a major life setback, and I felt pity for those who did so.
The funny thing is that many people were sympathetic with Chavez just because he was critical of George Bush.
"The author of this has clearly never worked in the UK civil service where promotion is not based on merit but according to arcane rules of how long you have worked there and what you "deserve".

What you end up is a slow lumbering mess. Unable to achieve much (except maintain the status quo - people spend more time worrying about whose fault it is going to be than making things happen."

You just described the Indian Civil Service - which of course we inherited from the British and fucked up in our own unique ways.
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This is probably just a small business and not a startup, but they are innovating on a new idea. Everything is prepared in a way to make it as healthy as possible. Expensive, but worth it, and tastes great.

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I think part of the question is what you mean by less disconnected, community-focused and psychologically healthier nation. and specifically how you define connected and community focused. Most people who use those phrases are talking about their geographic area, but that means little to me.

The community of SQL Server DBAs I participate in is important to me, but that includes members both physically close and around the world. My church group matters to me, and that one is somewhat centered around my general geographic area, but it has people from all over the city. My coworkers are very important in my life, but none of them live anywhere near me (I live in the South part of Las Vegas, work in the North, most of my coworkers live relatively close to the office.)

The people who live in my neighborhood do not play a significant part in my life. They are thankfully all very nice people, and I wish them the best and say "Hello" when I meet them while walking my dog, but I have very little in common and little reason to interact with them. If you mean this group by connected and community focused, then why would we want that?
Money quote:

Now, I've hardly done much to refute charges of anthropomorphism - but am I bovvered? I'm not projecting human characteristics on to dumb animals - I'm saying I really don't see that much difference in their hopes and fears, behaviour and petty foibles. If one actually lives with chickens, it's a lot harder to treat them as mere objects.

Their preferences are astoundingly obvious, so what possible excuse could there be for giving them any less? If they like greens, why give them pellets? If they like sunbathing, why pack them into a tiny, noisy, smelly place with no natural light? If, as I suspect, the answer is something to do with the "efficiency" of food production, then the notion of efficiency is horrible, incompetent, brutalised and brutalising, and it's certainly not in the interests of chickens at all. And I'm not sure that our ethical notions are all that more advanced than chickens'.
People choose to live in more expensive homes

I didn't choose anything for my rent to skyrocket because suddenly I live in a million dollar 1-br.

Everybody has to live somewhere. And by speculatively inflating the cost of housing (and getting out of it before the burst) a speculator effectively strips general public of their cash.

You don't have a choice: unless you live on the street, you're participating in this game and you're getting screwed even if you rent.

Imagine this: assume I have many billions of hypothetical dollars to play with. I go and buy a lot of houses and rent them out. Then I start giving out loans with 50yr/0% APR to everybody. Guess what happens to the houses I already own? Their value will skyrocket. So I can sell my loans to the next guy (who's hoping to re-sell them as well, since prices are going up) and I sell my expensive real estate too. When everything goes to hell, everybody will be poorer but me, including poor souls who's been paying insane rents and refused to invest in the bubble.

So yes, we have a problem because the system allows this to happen.
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>If you want to tell your children they can be anything they want, you can't end up with a perfectly egalitarian society as a result.

Perhaps an easier solution than the author's don't-let-anyone-excel would be to de-stigmatize lower-talent positions. Tell your children they can be whatever they want, and then let them follow whatever they're good at. Even if it's plumbing or retail. Fundamentally, I don't think meritocracy is incompatible with mass happiness. (More technically, I believe there exists some value system in which pursuit of excellence is encouraged without associating a sense of shame to "lower" professions.)

> when someone proposes grand social engineering plans: What does it mean for a given person?

We have to be very careful here to view imbalances as potential indicators of underlying problems, and find and treat those problems rather than the symptoms. To use your example, we have to determine whether systematic pressures are keeping women from choosing CS, and correct those pressures, rather than adding new pressures to choose CS. This point gets made frequently around here, but the mistake is made often enough that it bears repeating: adding different counter-pressures that fix the statistics may mask the problem, but often also exacerbate the underlying issues.
One probably couldn't by merely looking at it. Reading it with the specific intent to understand it, on the other hand, can make design intent pretty clear. (One would hope that the structure of the program is at least homomorphic to the intended design, if not isomorphic.)
Anyone on the inside know what's happening?
step zero: Fire Steve Ballmer
BTW, RE: your iPad idea - the X10 wireless nodes would make it all trivial!

http://www.activehomepro.com/activehome-pro.html (audio alert!)
"Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be 70,000 years old."

Wow - I wouldn't mind a linguist vetting that claim. How would we even know that a language hasn't evolved enough to become an entirely different language in over ten times the length of recorded human history?
Question ... is there documentation / tutorials written for Rails 3?
It seems the code will be out "soon":

We're in the process of opening the list and approving members to the
group. Code will follow soon after any recent cherges have been merged
to the branch and we're sure that anything Facebook specific is
removed.

More in the HipHop mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/hiphop-php-dev/browse_thread/...
You have a good point regarding CR.
"Example 7: A college student who has earned a reputation as a video game expert maintains a personal weblog or “blog” where he posts entries about his gaming experiences. Readers of his blog frequently seek his opinions about video game hardware and software. As it has done in the past, the manufacturer of a newly released video game system sends the student a free copy of the system and asks him to write about it on his blog. He tests the new gaming system and writes a favorable review. Because his review is disseminated via a form of consumer-generated media in which his relationship to the advertiser is not inherently obvious, readers are unlikely to know that he has received the video game system free of charge in exchange for his review of the product, and given the value of the video game system, this fact likely would materially affect the credibility they attach to his endorsement. Accordingly, the blogger should clearly and conspicuously disclose that he received the gaming system free of charge. The manufacturer should advise him at the time it provides the gaming system that this connection should be disclosed, and it should have procedures in place to try to monitor his postings for compliance. "

From FTC Endorsement Guidelines
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides...
Apparently your perfect lifestyle would be about the same as people have in Wall.E.
More people complaining: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=63... No official answers yet.
I would have liked this more if there were some examples of full designs that didn't use images (or used very few).
And it's a promo produced for General Motors. If only today's advertisements were as informative and modest.
The house I am (in the process of) buying is only 2.8x my annual income. It was also built in the 70s. There's a lot more potential in it as it is a more basic structure than a newer house would be.