skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data is nationwide. But California proves this NOT to be the case.

Sunnyvale/Mountain View have experienced 4 years of building new housing without limits, yet every year is more expensive. The new units (rental or for sale) are way higher than the average rent or price. (e.g. ALL the new housing being built now in the peninsula is priced at $1MM or more) I fail to see the point of pushing for new unregulated housing here besides saying in 30+ years the middle class will move to housing built for the rich now. Sure... In 30 years the middle class won't exist. (and in SV I give it 12-15 years)
I live in Japan, and when I went to open a bank account there was a lot of paperwork, including this funny form that said they would notify the American government of my address and how much money I had. I felt pretty violated by it- as if the NSA stuff wasn't enough, they now track me outside of the US. I don't make enough money to be taxed, but I don't like being tracked, either.
Has anybody seen another article on this besides the study itself? Livescience's constant (every second or two) traversal of ad/metrics sites is obnoxious.
Thanks for the explanation.

I could be wrong, but I feel like I experience the white-page-and-loading-icon with e10s enabled much more often than I do UI hangs with it disabled.

If that's really what's happening, though, then the UI could be improved -- otherwise people like me will end up blaming the issue on the e10s update.
We tried licensing the enterprise edition under an open source license but asking people nicely to not distribute it. People didn't distribute it but our customer where very confused about this so we changed the license.

The current license https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE is proprietary but it does allow people to see the code, modify it and contribute patches https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests

Part of the value of a subscription is our support and training, but the unique features of EE https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare also are important.
Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of science
I think our economic system more or less makes sense. By requiring a constant trend of growth, we can spur investment and make people more inclined to take on risk, which in general serves us better than not. As I mentioned in [0] (linked above), if we can get the fertility rate back up for another 100 years in order to drive good growth, I believe we will be able to eliminate most forms of scarcity. From there, we will have more flexibility.

For now, in a world of scarcity and competition, if we continue to perish without replacement, we are risking everything.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076964
it's more direct a subsidy than that -- there are refundable child tax credits (you can get any overage paid to you; it's not just deductible).
That's barbaric. That's why civil disobedience is the only adequate answer to the current overreach of copyright in the united states. It's up to us, technologists, to create and disseminate tools to help out in the dismantlement of an absurd system that is obsolete in the digital age.
Because he has an abstinence ring and an iPad that Steve Jobs gave him and a robot and a talking chair and a magic screen and a globe that can show you maps and play music at the same time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiDHUNiurqY
At a well-known Java school in the Southern US the student body is ~ 2/3 Indian and 1/3 Chinese, the secretarial staff is 1/2 white, 1/2 Latino, and the tech support staff is 100 % white. It's an odd distribution, no matter how much you dislike anti-discrimination laws.
Each operation in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has a cost defined by the protocol. Miners verify that each transaction has paid the necessary amount and any transaction that pays too little will not be included in a block.
Ditto! Bitbucket has served me well for so many years esp with their ondemand integrations. I really don't see why I should move to any other gitxxx. Moving tools is also a pain point so best to choose wisely.
I hadn't heard of this principle that it's impossible to pass tax increases on to tenants. I can't really believe Adam Smith has shown this to be impossible, when I know people who have said (paraphrasing), "The previous landlord has raised rents to match increases in taxes, water, garbage bills(the utilities are effectively costs of land), and we consider this reasonable".

I feel like you could even make a bet on it: There's a nearby trailer park with some mobile homes on it. This should have value solely in the land, since the homes can be removed from the property. I'm counting the availability of utilities in the land. The county tax assessment on both land and improvements is public information. Suppose the tax assessment as a whole goes up 1.7%. If the trailer park owner is able to secure a 1.7% increase over the next year from his tenants, you pay him $10,000. Otherwise, he pays you $10,000. Do you trust Adam Smith enough to take that bet? It should be impossible, since that 1.7% includes an increase of taxes on the land which you're saying cannot be passed onto the tenant.
The notion about lawsuits is basically the answer.

I've interviewed and hired hundreds of people and the real reasons are usually pretty banal, e.g. not a good match between skills and requirements, wants too much money, etc. so in cases where somebody does hear something and they hear "not a good fit" that honestly is usually the case. It's hard to provide more specifics because interviews don't really uncover deep specifics about candidates.

On occasion I've rejected people for less common reasons also, e.g. behavior problems during the interview, poor attitude, etc. and we have to keep those things pretty confidential from the candidate because it would be used in a lawsuit even if it's not an example of discrimination. All the "culture fit" notions in startup-land would be other examples of this kind of rejection.

There's of course all kinds of discrimination in hiring and companies hide behind these practices all too often. I've never been part of this kind of thing thankfully, but I can imagine.

tptacek's old company has more rigid hiring practices that produce what I would guess are strong metrics that help them find good candidates but also might protect them in the case of a lawsuit.

I've also been on the receiving end of rejections of course. Before the second dot-com boom/bust companies used to actually contact you back with a "not a good fit". After that you usually just don't hear anything unless you really press the recruiters.

On occasion, when the recruiting department isn't as well put together as might be expected, real reasons will leak out and those are also surprisingly interesting:

- salary demands are too high and exceed even senior execs. I don't make all that much out of the ordinary for my experience level and position, so that brought a lot of insight into how they function as a company

- bad culture fit - depending on the company I actually felt relieved by some of these rejections and perturbed by others.

- the weirdest one was where the company's internal hr processes were so broken, and they had some sort of internal clock on candidates, that they were not able to process me through the interview rounds in a timely fashion, so they rejected me because it was taking too long to process me. I can say that the interview and hiring process was a real shit show so it didn't surprise me at all, but I found it impressively annoying. I did think about suing them, but then I thought about what I wanted out of the lawsuit and decided not to bother.
My last employer didn't offer reasons quite simply because that would have been intractable with our candidate flow (legal issues aside).
It also neglects a huge factor in several hot markets, particularly New York: rich out-of-towners buying apartments as investments, and leaving them unoccupied. The owners aren't living there, and the buildings are typically reworking or replacing former residential units where people actually resided, so the net effect of that new construction is that the stock of housing available to house people who actually live in the city is reduced.
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If you don't mind me asking, what was confusing to the customer?

Again, I don't mean to be rude, just curiosity, how would you react if people forked the community edition and implemented some of the enterprise edition features and released it under the MIT expat licence?
Yes, but you have to look at it from a societal-engineering mindset. Religion was vital in getting everyone to commit to the collective rather than the individual.

FWIW, it's difficult to analyze this through today's society because I think the cancer of individualism rampant in our society bleeds into everyone regardless of their faith. For example, many Christians pray and act in order to be saved; totally individualistic. I believe this is a byproduct of our age, and with a more collectivist societal mindset we could address things like this.
It's really nice to see you plug Gogs like that :) I'm a massive fan of both! They fill different niches I think. You're always super helpful here on HN, too, and I just wanted to let you know that I (and I'm sure others here) appreciate it!
There's also a nice GitLab package for Arch Linux:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitlab/
Those have usually been ones that did very poorly, so they probably already have some idea of what they were missing.

Some candidates have other offers to fall back on and just don't care that much, and some just don't want to discuss technical details with someone in a non technical role, which is understandable.
Oh my god, I didn't notice this until you mentioned it. The lightroom cache contained a full copy of every video file on my hard drive - over 250GB.
One example would be KDE, who considered Gitlab but ended up going with Phabricator because they are one of those 100+ developer projects that wanted the LDAP, analytics, logging, etc but also being a major open source software community wouldn't settle to not dogfood free software, and the CE was missing too much at the time.

Personally, I much prefer Gitlabs project -> code / issues / milestones / etc workflow over Phabricator's git / issues milestones -> projects workflow, and love using Gitlab, but there are a lot of free software communities (Gnome, Freedesktop.org, among others) who are almost certainly going to try moving to more modern project management services in the near future and will be forced away from the IMO best UX Gitlab offers for ones like gogs / phabricator that both sate their needs for a free software solution that also has the featureset for these thousand+ developer ecosystems.
I'm a woman, I program professionally and as a hobby, I have friends who do too. I think maybe the biggest problem is visibility. I work on things and have a lot of code on github but I don't really get involved with open source projects in my free time.

For me it's a combination of not wanting to deal with the very abrasive personalities idolized in some open source communities and just preferring to spend my free time hacking on throw away code to experiment with new ideas. I write clean readable tested production code at work, I want my hobby programming time to focus on impractical educational exploratory programming.

It also just feels like I have a lot less time to write code than my coworkers, even though I'm the only person on my team without kids. Traditional gender roles are evolving but it still feels like I'm left with more life stuff to deal with.
Yes, the question is whether anti-discrimination laws would actually be an effective tool.
The claim in the article and from building proponents is not, "building market rate housing will prevent housing costs from increasing, regardless of all other local market factors." It's: "building market rate housing will result in lower housing costs than would have obtained otherwise."

Where would rents and real estate prices have gone without the new building you're lamenting?
Yet another sign that people read the meanings they want into most information that they encounter.
I'm not sure it's a holocaust joke.

Heirs and descendants are not synonymous.

EDIT: read the ownership dispute & history[1] at wikipedia - it certainly reads like various inheritors (heirs?) have gone to some lengths to extend the copyright of the original material by making periodic changes. I am not a lawyer, consequently I don't understand how such changes can affect status of original work (as in - how they can apply retrospectively to the original work - and not just affect copyright of those changes).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Copy...
It's interesting that there's even debate over whether it's public domain in Europe:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-02/anne-franks-diary-goes...
Well maybe if it was a new site with no backing, they would block. Unfortunately Download was part of CNET. CNET was purchased by CBS. This is CBS serving malware.

They know what they're doing. It's probably the only portion of the CNET properties that makes a good amount money in CBS's eyes.
Visualising data in a native iOS app using a Html5 charting library
But who holds the copyright?
They have a fox though, so that's cool.
The comments on HN about this software confirm its own necessity.

I find this quite funny.
I think he's referring to the replication crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
There is an ios/android app that does this too: http://worldhistorymapsapp.com/.
> Unreal's game-level memory management system uses reflection to implement garbage collection.

Yep. Game-level garbage collected C++. Which is exactly what I said, I just a didn't mention GC on C++ to avoid obscuring my point. I promise you the code at the game-engine-level is manually memory managed C++
I received some excellent support from the GCS (Google Cloud Storage) team while I was working on my last project. There was only an email address listed in the API docs. I didn't have high hopes when I first contacted them with an issue, but I got a response in less than 24 hours, and a similarly quick response to my following response. That first problem was due to my own misunderstanding of the API, which the person in question patiently helped me better understand.

The last time I was in contact with them was a few months ago. I got another reasonably-timed response, and this was an issue on their end (something to do with an occasionally missed automated notification when files were uploaded). It took a couple weeks or so to fix the problem, but they contacted me after each upgrade (rather than waiting for me to contact them) to follow-up and see if my issue had been resolved. After a couple rounds, it was fixed.

I'm not sure I've ever received personal support from Google prior to that, but in my experience, the GCS support team was/is absolutely top notch.
Cool! I see it is on the latest release. BTW Work is underway for a native Debian package, it is weeks away from completion https://poddery.com/posts/2272322
Very few people have any need to closely track their water consumption unless they have a particular condition, though, and this product seems to be marketed to a fitness/lifestyle market, not health care.
Sunnyvale & Mountain View are interesting cases because nearby employers have experienced hyper-growth and we haven't had a recession any time in the last 4 years.

Rents absolutely did go down in 2009, oftentimes way down, with apartments that rented for $2000+/month in mid-2008 going for $1400/month by mid-2009. There's no incentive to drop rents as long as everybody is making more money and the apartments aren't lying vacant. There's a pretty strong incentive when people start getting laid off and moving back in with parents or roommates, and places aren't renting at any price.
Info on the Raspberry Pi 2 distribution is here, if anyone else is interested:

(installation instructions) https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#raspberrypi2

(original blog post) https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2...
Don't worry, old people eventually die and we will be old.
Former technical recruiter, current CEO here.

The recruiting and hiring process as presently practiced by most firms is an enormous waste of everyone's time. We are inefficient in how we gather information from applicants and how we communicate it to them.

This is partially because it's hard to standardize the information needed for each job and available from each candidate. By the time you meet the minimum requirements of gathering information about an applicant, sharing it with your team and getting them to make a decision, much time has passed. Time when you should have been doing other things.

Then you face the question: How much more time can I spare sharing with the candidate the reasons why they were rejected? A recruiter may get the decision from the VP Engineering, but not know the reasons. If you do know the reasons, some of them will make the candidate upset, and they aren't always fixable. (What if all you can say is: The hiring manager didn't like you. Wasn't impressed. You don't seem smart enough for this role...?) That is: sharing all the reasons for rejection will lead to a huge waste of time and emotional energy with someone who you may never speak with again. Except in the rare cases where you see potential, there's almost no incentive to go into detail.

I've written more here, for those who are interested:

https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/13992315?trk=prof-sm
I think it's the "Anne Frank Fonds".

http://www.annefrank.ch/
This is specifically related to the SF Bay Area and there is a link to the source which has a easy-to-use Excel sheet of the data, so feel free to make an awesome geo-mashup:

http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345#Technical_App...

Also, the measure is not whether available housing is getting more expensive, but whether low-income households are being displaced.
What do you mean no limits? Building housing north of 101 has been entirely blocked until recently.
Clearly larger companies are likely to attract more risk averse candidates but they also typically offer better health benefits, better work/life balance, and are more likely to have an hr department that can maybe mitigate some of the worst sexism that crops up in our industry.

There's also probably a bit of a gravity affect happening. My entire career I've never been on a team with even a single other woman and it would certainly be a nice thing to go somewhere where that wasn't the case, so maybe it's just easier for companies that employee women to hire more women.
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I had no idea that GitLab had support for changing what type of commit is created on-merge. That's actually a really temping feature; I've spent so much time trying to convince people (especially those starting out) why manually rebasing and merging is A Good Thing™.
Just like that silly explanation of the width of railroad tracks starting with the width of a roman horse's ass, the question of "why can't I read the Diary of Anne Frank" starts with "so there was this cartoon for little kids in the '20's called Mickey Mouse..."

We reach this ridiculous situation by serious people taking a series of thoughtful actions a tiny bit at a time. But serious and thoughtful actions only add upon themselves with each step. Ridiculousness multiplies.
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This is great! I love all of the opinions! Thanks so much for your feedback. I'll try you answer all the comments when I have time, I'm on the road right now. Yes, this is legit. We're in beta. Still very rough around the edges. Obviously there's room on this site for abuse, but it's meant to address a larger social issue. Voices and opinions on the periphery of society have been scorned in such a way that no one ever talks about them anymore. This is an opportunity to have educational, yet progressive discussion. At the same time, all character bias is removed and your friends won't view your comments as coming from a particular race, background, nationality, or the like. Users have an opportunity to evaluate comments for their logic and core tenets, not the messenger. Please keep the feedback coming, good, bad, or indifferent. Thanks everyone.
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They already have this lottery system in various cities in the SF Bay Area. I'm sure it helps some, but it hasn't made a big dent in the housing problem.
Okay…

1) When Free Basics launched India, the problems with it turned out to be even worse than I expected. I wrote about how the local marketing (‘Free Facebook’) and Zuck’s post (‘farmers getting weather information’) had completely different messaging.

2) I pointed to another article that dove into these issues about who actually uses Free Basics.

3) The reporter who wrote the article this HN thread is about (“How India Pierced…”) couldn’t find a single person who was introduced to the internet through Free Basics.

Does that help?
The original article is saying that 5K steps is enough and additional steps are not required to get health benefits. So, it sounds like you were already doing 5K and plus the running/weight lifting. When you replaced running+weights with the additional 5K steps, you did not get any benefits but gave up an important workout. The original article also mentions the importance of 45 minutes of high-intensity exercise. Everything you say matches the results they found.
It's an absolute crisis. The government should response just as it would in the event of war time profiteering.
Thanks for posting this, I'm always interested in how to advise our users better so feel free to ask questions or disagree. BTW We're trying to keep http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/gitlab_flow.html updated with the latest learnings although it is very similar to the blog post.
Moreover, in most of California, the supply of housing has been artificially restricted using overly stringent zoning rules and laws. I'm in favor of reasonable zoning rules, but in my city the only justification for limiting new constructing seems to be existing homeowners who "want to live in a small town" and enrich themselves at the expense of newcomers who have little choice but to settle in the area for economic reasons.
Are there laws that would allow me to get the interviewers notes?
Psychiatric disorders are commonly found to be influenced by a multitude of genes (SNPs, CNVs, etc.), often dozens or even hundreds. Each genetic factor accounts for only a small part of the difference between affected and normal groups. Frequently, perhaps mostly, the proportion is <5%, often as low as <=1%. As the article says, there are many genetic and environmental factors involved in complex conditions like depression or schizophrenia, so these low levels of effect are unsurprising.

Here's one article (and there are a great many more) describing such a finding:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923972/
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Obviously they could add it - it wouldn't be hard. Just because it doesn't have feature X doesn't mean it's bad. At that point it's a conscious decision to exclude that feature. Poor performing mobile sites? That is something they could for sure address, especially with the engineering power they have, I agree.
This problem is so easily fixed via the tax system I am surprised it has not been done already. Just tax high and rebate for residency.
In places as rotten as that one you'd ideally fire everyone and rehire from 4 states away. Antidiscrimination laws are weak tea, but the only tool we have. You sit and hope that the University President takes note after the first suit and fires management.
We're indeed pretty hesitant to add options for these things, it makes it harder to refactor the UI if you have to account for all settings.