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Do you really think the housing problem in the Bay Area is the result of prop. 13?

The housing problem is multifaceted.

"Let's just get rid of prop. 13 today." Do you really think the price of realestate, or rentals will go down?

In my county, the county workers are already paid over $100k/yr. for picking up trash on our supposedly filthy trails. Our county workers are paid very well. Where I reside we have cops everywhere. You could remove 75 percent of them, and I don't think anyone would notice, except for the fees they bring in.

Howard Jarvis knew what government did with more money; they spent it on themselves.

O.k.--I'm not in the mood for this, but the housing crisis in the Bay Area is due to a lot of factors. It's a nice place to live. Your boss wants the best. I don't know why they picked the Bay Area. There's other nice places, with temperate climates? He wants only the best for himself, and his spawn. The best house. The best schools. The best car.
And by golly, he only deserves the best?

San Francisco, and Marin county are not designed to scale. San Francisco has a better shot at growth than Marin, but I leave that alone. They can go up in S.F.? But I don't think that city will ever see real subways, and not because of money.

Some Bay Area residents are NIMBY'S. Some have good reason--look at 101 at 3:30 p.m. The sewers are old, and small. The streets are narrow. It's surrounded by oceans, federal parks, etc. It's not a vast area.

Local governments almost never approve variances. Sure they take the money, but never approve. It's very difficult to build in the Bay Area. It's almost like they go out of their way to curtail growth. I would love to build a small cabin. Twenty years ago my dreams were shattered when I tried. The kind lady at the planning department, said I'll take your money for the variance, but honestly-- they never approve.

When I was a kid Howard Jarvis wrote a book, called I'm Mad as Hell. My father was a new journeyman electrician, and when my father would look at that property tax bill yearly. My father was beyond disgusted looking at those rising numbers. Every year they took money, and spent it on Themselfs. My father was a conservative Rebublican, but was all for prop. 13, along with millions of Californians. Even though I was a kid, I could feel the anger among adults. The politicians had a little game back then; raise the assessed value one year, raise the tax rate the next. There was always the same loser in this games, and it was the guy who paid the taxes.

If you honestly think the housing crisis is due to prop. 13, read ISBN: 0-8129-0858-9 I'm Mad As Hell.

By the way, I'm disgusted with the housing situation along with everyone else. I don't blame prop. 13 though. A few weeks ago I heard a lady on the radio say, "I lowered my tenants rent $500 a month." Announcer, "Why?" Moral lady, "I was having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror."
The Late (Internet) Telecom Revolution Is Not Such a Big Deal
Yeah, it's hilariously good actually. I find myself evangelizing the search. It's brilliant, and for the first time in my life, I don't feel a need to organize my photos.
When the real reason he should not be extradited is because no self-respecting country should ever extradite its own citizens to another country.
At work we've been using self hosted Gitlab for more than a year and it works really great. Easy to use and maintain, would highly recommend.
Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
But but what about all the articles 3 months ago that were saying we're definitively not in a tech bubble ?!

It reminds me of 1999 or 2000 were I saw at my local book shop a book titled something like "are you ready for the next 20 years of uninterrupted economic growth ?" written by 2 Nobel price winners, no less ...

Then there was the (should I say first ?) tech bubble pop one or two years later ...
On Stapledon's “Last and First Men” (1986)
Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties
Was there more to it?
I a Syncthing directory called "Data/" where my personal files are. Then I have a script which creates symlinks between ~/.dir and Sync/Data/dir and that's it, simple but works.
Cisco buffer overflow vulnerability with remote code execution
Well you know what they say when it comes to patents, too? "Hate the game, not the player".

But I'm fair, and I think we should hate both.
I think it may just depend on what it is you're trying to accomplish with your career. Take Atlanta since you bring it up. Atlanta already is the number one place to be globally for a career in Information Security which is a significant chunk of the tech community even though it's not nearly as flashy as social-web. Atlanta is also becomming a nexus for email-related startups (it's really not just Mailchimp there are several major ones here when you look at volume of email sent). Turner is headquartered in Atlanta, as is Coca Cola, Home Depot, CNN, and more.

Atlanta has become a really excellent city for graphic artists and design firms because companies such as Cartoon Network pull artists in from the global market, and then these artists stick around and end up engaging with the local startup community. In other words Atlanta is becoming a designer hub (and the city's close-enough proximity to Disney helps boost this effect)

In addition it's also a nexus for medical startups probably due to the fact that the CDC is here.
This relates to Disney and Mickey mouse as follows, everytime the copyright of mickey mouse was about to expire the copyright law has been extended.

"This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

Mickey mouse copyright vs works of Jewish girl killed by the Nazis.
But that would not fix the problem in general. Consider orphan works for example.
How to Embed Google Maps in Blogs and Websites
Execute my packet
We're planning on migrating a single repo to Gitlab hosted this weekend to try it out.

I'm hoping this can reduce some cost since i'm currently spending a lot on Github and Travis CI.
What is the motivation for this question? If written in Go, do you ask why not OCaml? Or think OCaml somehow especially unsuitable?
The roof on your house can suddenly start leaking, too.

Vancouver was plagued by "leaky condos" in the 1980s and early 1990s, but that's over now: This happened due to a rapid expansion of condo construction using building designs suited for a drier climate. There have been no signs of problems in newer buildings.

Stata corporations are normally supposed to have depreciation reports prepared in order to identify upcoming costs; unfortunately these can be waived with a vote of unit holders, and most do. The best remedy here is to not buy a unit which doesn't have a recent depreciation report.

no space to start a family

In terms of $ per unit floor area, condos are cheaper than detached houses. Sure, you don't get a lawn... but you get access to lots of other amenities. I'm not convinced that raising kids in a condo is as hard as people think.
Film Analysis: Man with a Movie Camera (2012)
A very interesting point! Cloud services cost tons of money. For companies running on AWS, a better alternative might be to migrate to Google Cloud or alter cheaper alternatives. Google Cloud lacks some bells and whistles at this point but it shaves off 50% of your AWS bill.
I would really like to see a longterm container pipeline. In true recycling, we wouldn't have any plastic containers, period. Everything should be served with, on or in durable, lasting materials, or easily recycled post compost paper.

We just don't have an accommodating container infrastructure to manage that, but what if I could take a cup from Starbucks and when I'm finished with it, put it in a recycling bin, it goes to a center for sanitization, then is redistributed to McDonald's? It would be like how a hotel works, but on the scale of a city.
If you want a cheaper battery wouldn't it be simpler and safer to replace the cells in an old Lenovo battery than to buy one of these dubious copies? That way the charge electronics are all correct and you can also control that the cells are good quality. There are even places that will do that for you if you're worried about poor soldering or other issues with doing this kind of swap.
ever is a strong word. I know that at the moment they use some parts of OpenJDK 7, but If they need to comply the Java (tm) caused by licensing, they will be forced (sooner or later) to actually don't use a deprecated JVM. As I know OpenJDK will be depracted on 2024. so it will take some time, but it will come.
How would they prove that the damage was caused by a third-party battery if there was no security feature to authenticate first-party ones?

People would buy third party batteries and put the original back before filing a warranty claim
I've seen a couple of comments where expensive office space or other somewhat optional expenses are cited as reasons for going bust.

I'm curious, as I have no experience in this area, if that's really likely.

As an outsider, it feels like salaries would be the overwhelmingly largest monthly expenditure for most tech startups. Such that things like office space, even a lavish choice, wouldn't really be relevant.

If you were to break it down by "cost per employee" is there really a case where office space, perks, etc, really becomes the driver for failure? Where it is statistically meaningful versus the base salary cost?
How does that work ? Do you have to pay capital gains on a house before you sell it ?

The point of this construction is to never sell the house, so that might be avoided here as well.
What is software engineering
The app is nowhere close in polish to the google reader app, but I make do :'(
If you read the Scott Sumner link I provided above, you'll realize why a consumption tax is actually the tax which doesn't favor one over the other.

The main reason is that investment is merely delayed consumption (as you note above), so the consumption tax hits everyone equally regardless of whether they consume or invest. However, a capital income tax is additional taxation that applies only to the person who invests.
i open facebook
Why Silicon Valley's Leading Startup Incubator Wants to Research Basic Income
Oops sorry you are right, I was supposed to post that inside the Flammarion post that I made just before this one at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064890, got a bit confused :)
>> "Politicians don't get educated. They get bought. Do you have as much money as copyright industry? No? Then, no, you can't have your sensible laws. You'll have theirs. The only action you can take is to ignore those unenforcible."

Then you need to fix your political system before you can fix the law. As an outsider looking in it seems like sorting out how campaigns are financed would be a good first step and that seems like something Bernie Sanders wants to and probably can fix. So the opportunity is there for you to take if the issue is important enough to you.
Seconded. I've owned several Lenovos since my beloved L520, and I probably won't be buying another.

The L520 was the last I've owned that I'd describe as excellent; the others have been disappointing in various ways, especially the L530 that just fell apart in a little over a year of the same level of use that my L520 handled without issue.
For startups planning to host their infrastructure on AWS, a better alternative might be to go with Google Cloud or other cheaper alternatives. This can significantly increase the startups runway, by lowering the operational costs. Google Cloud lacks some bells and whistles at this point but it shaves off 50% of your AWS bill.

Edit: Here is why Google Cloud can save 50% of your aws bill

"1X" is AWS

Compute:

VMs Price: 30% less + Per minute billing

Boot time: ¼ X

Network between VMs: Same region: 4X Across regions: 10X

BigQuery vs Redshift : ½ -20X

Big Data (Hadoop and Spark): 3X

Disks:

Read throughput: 1X Write throughput: 4X (Ephemeral); 2X (Persistent)

Local SSDs: Read throughput: 8X Writes throughput: 4X

Storage (S3): Throughput: 2X Latency: 3X (initial); ½ X (for subsequent reads)
“Better than AirBnB” Rails Course
Checking Microsoft Orleans with PVS-Studio for Fun and Profit
Given the rumors of ChromeOS and Android becoming one OS, by 2024 it will hardly matter.
uBlock won't even allow me to visit that blog post, hard to see any future for SourceForge.
Blame the market for changing. Seriously, it's that simple. "Market now values x over y and we're doing the smart thing and adjusting our strategy....."
I understand your good intentions, but feel that you've been social engineered.

Those comments were flagged for good reasons, in the most positive from it is detestable that someone would try to use HN as a platform to advocate the exact opposite of what HN should attempt to stand for, in a more negative form this is simply trolling. As a result of not flagging comments like these I'd expect HN female participation to drop and eventually you'd see fewer female YC founders.

Which is exactly what the GP seems to desire since that increases the chances of them to fulfill their reproductive duty to mankind or whatever he feels it is they should be doing instead.

Novelty accounts spouting non-sensical flame-bait viewpoints relegating 50% of the population to bearing a minimum of 4 to 5 children (see other comments by the same user) are rightly flagged, they're not the kind of thing we should either tolerate or encourage.

That people trying to advocate such viewpoints play 'by the rules' to couch their trash in 'a thoughtful and respectful wrapper' goes past the fact that the 'flag' option is there for more reasons than just the tone of a comment (for instance, to flag flame-bait content), besides that comments that solely complaint about downvotes or flags are off-topic.
You should read manuals like you read love letters (1982)
Why does the foldl function use a while loop?
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If that's Amazon's motivation then they have a lot of work to do. Their shipping practices are enormously wasteful. They will ship small, non-delicate items in huge cardboard boxes, with inflatable padding thrown in for even more waste. Other shippers have the good sense to use plastic bags for things like clothes, which cuts the weight and volume of the waste enormously. My house orders a lot of Amazon and I spend a lot of time each week just dealing with the enormous amount of shipping waste this generates. It's so bad that I am thinking of checking out Costco instead.

I think it would be simple for Amazon to improve this if they actually cared but for them it's easier to toss everything into huge boxes and let the customer deal with the fallout.
Do you make any attempt to interview for things are inherently subjective?

At least for some positions, personality and culture fit might be important.
Do you work for GCE? You've made this exact same comment twice on the same link. Do you have any examples or links that back up the 50% cheaper point? As well as the trade-offs for switching to GCE? We run on GCE, Heroku, and AWS.
The university I worked for had a very strict hiring process, and it was all recorded as well.

The process worked something like this:

1) Get approval from HR to start the hiring process. Your department needs to have the money to hire someone, and a need to fill a position. I'm not sure how either is decided.

2) Define the position. Several people are involved here, basically you define the role and the areas of expertise that you want and need.

3) Information from 2 gets sent back to all involved parties, and everyone ranks the skills by necessity and comments on things.

4) HR takes the information and creates job listings, and collects candidates.

5) Interviews take place, and you grade applications according to what you decided in 3.

6) Hire someone who satisfies the requirements and did well in the interviews.

There's some leeway in the system because the interview and the judgment of the interviewers matters, but you can't just accept somebody because you like them, and you can't reject someone because you don't.

As for what happens with an applicant's information after they're rejected... I'm not sure where it goes or whether it gets called up again if they re-apply. Our department was pretty small though, if we didn't hire you the first time, we won't have forgotten you by the second time around.
I'm wondering if github and gitlab implemented their own version of git under the hood, or if they just use the vanilla git everyone else uses on their server.
P is the 15th letter of the alphabet, 15 is 0xf in hexadecimal, the ascii code of f is 102. 1 + 0 + 2 = 3 omg, Half-Life 3 confirmed!
I put most of the things i download on the desktop, and when it's to cluttered i create a folder like "downloads2" and repeat until the "downloads3" is needed ;D
I don't know about that. It should be fairly easy to study (and hence replicate).

1. Find a group of animals (preferably humans, but dogs, rats, pigeons, etc. should also work just fine).

2. Target a specific unnecessary behavior pattern (hobby) that all individual engage in.

3. Measure the baseline rate of that activity.

4. Introduce a reward:

4a. For a randomly selected subset the reward follows imminently the targeted behavior.

4b. For the rest they'll receive the "reward" equally often but at a time independent of the targeted behavior.

5. Drop the reward.

6. Let some time pass.

7. Measure the drop/increase in the behavior from the baseline measure.

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[edit] format.
I've heard this argument many times and it all boils down to "Scala is not Haskell", which is in fact a true statement. Scala is not Haskell and never meant to be a Haskell replacement, nor a pure FP non-strict language. Complaining effects or monads are broken in Scala is like complaining that nominal subtyping in Haskell is broken or that you can't just introduce state in Haskell whenever you want, like you can with Scala changing a val to a var. Different design choices, different strengths / weaknesses.

Anyway, Scala is probably one of very few languages that combines OOP and FP and at the same time has type system sophisticated enough that it can express directly or indirectly the stuff that Haskell can - maybe more verbose and there are some rough edges like you say, but hello, here is the news: Scala is not Haskell and it had to pay some price for other useful stuff that Haskell doesn't offer.

Also, Scala creators are generally aware of some shortcomings of the current Scala type system and are working hard on improving and simplifying things (DOT calculus). So if you know how to make effects or for yield notation better and fix these subtle problems - I think the community would appreciate your help.
I used Picasa to organize my photos offline, so Photos is in no way a replacement. Are there any plans to open source the desktop application?
Even if "we" (meaning HackerNews users or engineers) come up with a better term (e.g. "a company"), it won't get picked up by the media. Old media has schadenfreude for technology companies failing and they use "startup" as a code-word for their tone that tech companies are irresponsible, lazy, out of touch, and not doing "real" work. They have no idea what we do, how we do it, and they want to sell to their audience and themselves the idea that we'll get some comeuppance. It's telling the horse breeder that the "whole auto-mobile thing" is just a fad by people trying to ruin "honest work." It's gross.

For examples, I didn't even have to leave the linked article:

- The link off the article: "Silicon Valley's reality: The party is over"

Yes, the whole 16 hour work-day for potentially valueless-shares "party." Excuse me if I'm not wearing my party hat. You'd never see "Coal miner's reality: The underground rave is over", nor would you see them taking a shot at executive compensation in the banking industry.

- From the article: "Margaret Quigley, 27, a techie with some coding experience, is on the hunt for a job in San Francisco...there is literally Airbnb — for cats!...'Do I see value in the platform?'.. she has also rejected multiple sales job offers"

Ah yes, the non-programmer vague "sales techie" living in the modern day political and corporate Gomorrah and a trivialization of the tech industry. Yes, quip about some startup no one has heard of and avoid talking about a company like SpaceX that is inarguably changing the world by doing things at the scale of NASA.

- "The candidate wanted more money, the opportunity to work from home three days a week and to set the hours. Six months ago the company scrapped free in-office yoga and massages."

Again, trying to paint tech workers (with these demands, he/she was likely an engineer) as spoiled, pampered children.

The rare/uncommon perks exist because it's hard to find people capable of doing the engineering work, and once you find those people, it's very easy for them to be ground down to a nub. Funny that CNBC isn't brave enough to talk about the perks that politicians receive from lobbying groups.
Nice article, but they missed PostgreSQL among the databases. I'm using it in half of the web apps I develop for customers.
It made me have to pause for a minute because it was adjacent to a graph. It made me think Airbnb had published a graph somewhere and that their graph had been altered in some way that could be described loosely as "photoshopped".
Let's get together with Wikipedia to mount a DMCA story to take down Wikipedia until the law is removed ;) ?
No, I don't work at Google. I work for Monsanto. Here is my take on AWS vs Google: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10O1YeNpPjylHLugEz8GI...

Performance benchmark summary: ("1X" is AWS)

Compute:

VMs Price: 30% less

Boot time: ¼ X

Network between VMs:
Same region: 4X
Across regions: 10X

BigQuery vs Redshift : ½ -20X

Big Data (Hadoop and Spark): 3X

Disks:
Read throughput: 1X
Write throughput: 4X (Ephemeral); 2X (Persistent)

Local SSDs:
Read throughput: 8X
Writes throughput: 4X

Storage (S3):
Throughput: 2X
Latency: 3X (initial); ½ X (for subsequent reads)
The Internet Archive is absolutely fearless when it comes to risk of litigation for copyright infringement. One could fear that it will be their dead.
Headhunters are a pain in the ass but they are useful in that respect. You can provide feedback to the candidate indirectly without the feedback starting to be a negociation or pissing off the candidate. Internal candidates aren't that lucky.

Usually recruiters made their decision when walking out of the room on whether the candidate is suitable or not. This timeout process is a bit wasteful.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I was not aware that there were rules enforcing such actions.

The linked PDF answers the question why corrupted software stacks do not qualify for forced revocation. Section 10.2.4 (which is the lever for 13.1.5) requires (but not limited to that) a private key to be "communicated" to restricted parties before a revocation might be considered.

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For the small fee of some downvotes i learned that any cloud based service storing private keys for end users qualifies for a revocation - as long as the CA knows about it.
There's a list of photo organizers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_organizer

ACDSee is very good but not cheap.

Windows Photo Gallery is great as a free Windows program, but isn't being updated, so I assume it is going the same way as Picasa...

I don't use Picasa or Google Photos, I just funnel stuff via DropBox and OneDrive.
Google might start making their own chips
Is there somewhere a comprehensive account of the development of ASCII?
This is now returning "URL signature expired".

The guaranteed way to do this is just to grab and use youtube-dl. It supports almost everything nowadays, and it's where all the updates and maintenance goes. Passing the OP URL got me a copy of the video perfectly.