skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not accounting for inflation, it's not hard to believe:

Median Home Values: Unadjusted

2000 1990 1980 1970 1960 1950 1940
California $211,500 $195,500 $84,500 $23,100 $15,100 $9,564 $3,527

The median alone is almost two orders of magnitude greater as of 2000, let alone 2016. I'm sure there is at least one bay-area home that has been untouched for 50 or 60 years that is now selling for well over a million.

From: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/valu...
In my experience the lack of communication is caused by a combination of workload and lack of experience. A lot of the larger tech companies have an assembly line approach to recruiting, with teams of coordinators, sourcers, and recruiters each handling a portion of the process.

These teams tend to grow fast and hire of a lot of junior people - that lack of experience combined with pressure and a huge volume of interviews(at a fast growing firm) results in a lot of inconsistent communication. When a sourcer/recruiter is dealing with 5-10 interviews a day with 80% of them not making the cut, sometimes they make the decision to prioritize building pipeline over closing the loop properly with people. And sometimes people just have poor time management abilities and let things get lost in the shuffle.
Here's an idea. Make utility services scale with people density. Relax restrictions on how much they can profit off sqft. Single home dwellers are penalized with increased upkeep costs and higher density buildings are encouraged.
I agree. Civil disobedience is the only solution to such anti-intellectual crusades of greed. The only problem is that people that work on such tools will be persecuted (and prosecuted) even if those tools are completely legal (see the pirate bay, popcorn time, and anything related to bittorent). Still, better to risk trying than to bow down to greed.
> A "vat-savvy" guy buys the same car through his company, pays £1k, then claims VAT as a business expense.

Which is not tax avoidance, it's tax fraud. If you allow the rich to commit tax fraud then it doesn't really matter what kind of tax code you have.

And it's a lot easier to catch tax fraud for consumption taxes than income taxes because the thing being taxed is physically in your jurisdiction where you can find it and see how it's being used.

> It's not just that, it's that in absolute terms the exact same thing is taxed in exactly the same way for rich and poor alike. That is regressive, like all flat taxes.

That's the fallacy. It isn't.

Suppose everyone gets the same $5000 worth of government services and everyone pays a flat 10% tax (of any kind). A rich person pays $10,000 on $100,000 and a poor person pays $2500 on $25,000. The result is progressive because the rich person is down $5000 ($5000 - $10,000) and the poor person is up $2500 ($5000 - $2500). If you double the tax rate and the level of government services then the rich person is down $10,000 and the poor person is up $5000, etc. You can increase or decrease how progressive it is by setting the tax rate but there is no point (above 0% tax) that there is not more money going into the poor person's pocket than coming out when everyone is paying a flat tax and everyone is receiving a fixed quantity in government services.

> It's pretty clear that personal income taxes are not sufficient, but the answer is not removing those to introduce flat consumption taxes which are even worse in real terms; the answer is to increase taxation on capital profits, rent and property, which is where the real wealth lies.

Taxes on earned income are worse than consumption taxes for the reasons I've already mentioned. Taxes on investment income are nice in theory but are extraordinarily difficult to collect because you can't locate "investment income" on a map the same as you can a car or a refrigerator, so they end up actually being regressive because middle-income people who don't own international corporations have to pay them while high-income people who do own international corporations don't.

The problem with taxes on property and rent is that they increase the cost of housing, which is also regressive. Property taxes make it more difficult to afford a home and forces more people into renting (which also increases rents), while a tax on rent causes more rental properties to be sold to occupants, which is good for middle income people, but that reduces the supply of rental properties (and therefore increases rents) for people who don't have the credit to buy a home, which is very bad for lower income people.

Consumption taxes are good because they're simple and hard to scam. You buy a sweater, you pay the tax, so does everybody else. Then the government gets a percent of everybody's expenditures and gives it back out as a fixed amount of services, which is progressive as above. If you want it to be more progressive all you have to do is either raise the tax rate, or spend the tax money on things that disproportionately benefit the poor (like public education).
Yes, during discovery, for instance.
"Just to provide some more contrast... Just about every other system had to be rebooted daily or every few days."

That's the biggest point I push on it: architecture and development processes that worked in terms of reliability. It didn't emerge after billions of investment in whatever wasn't working. Just teams working 9a-5p building stuff, testing it, reviewing it, polishing it. And it totally worked.

"By the time the Alpha systems were ready, the Pentium (and soon Pentium Pro) was suprising every OS vendor."

People of the time period told me it was a combo of hardware and licensing cost. They said OpenVMS still cost a fortune while Windows and UNIX's (esp BSD's) were "good enough." That is, DEC & Compaq seemed to ignore the lessons of Worse is Better essay about the market power of an imperfect, mostly-working solution. They might have gotten further lowering their price alone. Maybe still have to target commodity hardware, though.
There are a lot of common patterns in history we should avoid repeating.

"Suffering consequences" for truth telling should be one of them.
New to Adobe products huh?
I would love to see something like this, for example federated merge requests http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-deprecated-feedback...
Yeah maybe it's mostly specific to Windows. Wouldn't surprise me if that's the case. I was speaking from a Windows perspective (I should have specified).
Thanks for that, did that while I was in the car. Corrected.
Thanks for adding the links!
Five things would happen if everyone stopped eating meat
Established by Anne's father and editor. Ok. I wonder if the Wikimedia foundation reached out to the Fond. and tried to get permission for posting of the content, or does Wikimedia only do certain licenses?
How is "subtract a, 3" better than "a-3"?

I can already feel my carpal tunnel acting up!
Quora for when I want long reads,
reddit for when I want to discover new stuff.
Thanks! I agree they fill a different niche.
From the appendix of the report mentioned in the no doubt well-perused article (http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345):

"""We use data (.xlsx) on Bay Area census tracts (small subdivisions of a county typically containing around 4,000 people) maintained by researchers with the University of California (UC) Berkeley Urban Displacement Project. This dataset included information on census tract demographics, housing characteristics, and housing construction levels. We focus on data for the period 2000 to 2013."""
That would be time.apple.com.

DHCP can respond with a time server. Would iOS use this to connect to the advertised NTP?
Thanks, the links are pretty helpful - I will try to bend some of the scripts for our needs and maybe contribute a "Testing Python projects" section.
Hopefully we can replace TeamCity soon, I'm a big fan of open source and therefore your company ethos. - cheers
From “Most Loved” to “Trending”
What's north of 101? The freeway generally runs north/south, so there'd be an east/west division.
FILES=`find /Applications/Adobe -type d -name "something that doesn't exist"`
rm $FILES/*

It's easy to do.
Definitely could use better presentation. It is interesting, reminds me of forth a little, where you compose a lot of small commands.
Are You Asking the Right Questions
I had used GitLab for Mailman but I hadn't considered using it. I'll probably migrate off of Bitbucket thanks to this article.
For regular contributors, women appear* to accept a man's work (slightly) more than they will a woman's, and men appear to accept a woman's work more than they will a man's. Since there are more men than women, this means that on the whole women are privileged.

* appear: maybe men or women have a different internal bar for how polished they'll make a pull request (how afraid they are of rejection, etc). the study looks at profiles that are closeted vs out as a gender. If you reveal gender on purpose, this tells us something about you, presumably, but for convenience the difference between closeted and out is taken to signify "bias against [out] men/women". Much of this is not statistically significant, probably (study doesn't give enough info, and suspiciously did an "insider" vs "outsider" analysis rather than a pooled analysis, suggesting they didn't like what they found until they split into two pools).

For unsolicited outside contributions, closeted men seem to get rejected more than closeted women (men's bar is lower?). Out men get rejected more than closeted men or women. Out women get rejected more than closeted men or women. The key is: for this category, people appear to be less biased against out men than out women (but somehow people prefer contributions from hidden-gender folks?).

Anyway, this is interesting stuff but I'm not sure what to take from it. I do expect more low-quality outside-team submissions from men than women, and I might judge them unfairly if they were out men, but this is just a random hunch and I doubt it would affect me much (probably I wouldn't notice).
I posted my reasons in a comment above. I don't think I'm a jerk, just a quiet physicist. You should get to know me :-)
Yes, but I would imagine that cost is not too much. Why not make it into something like a public resource. Often that approach will generate more wealth for the greater community.

Often the for-profit model and fiduciary responsibility can be constraining in wealth creation in general.
Try the README: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/Readme.md

It's a new programming language.

edit: The source seems to be structured intentionally in a recommended reading order. See the comment at the top of

https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/000organization.c...

Layers of code are filled in as you read down the list of files. It's an interesting concept, similar to literate programming. (And FWIW, these source files are C++ code for the compiler, not an example of Mu code.)

The author also has a blog post up here: http://akkartik.name/post/mu
I'm a rails guy and have run a consulting shop based on rails. But Im actually a bit surprised (and impressed) that you distribute a self-installed piece of software based on Rails (yes I have seen Omnibus and all the cool things you do. As I said very, very impressive!)

I have personally lost many a "enterprise" contract because of the Ruby thing. Not just that, but at the end of the day Java is very performant with least deployment effort .

Which is why we became a JRuby shop first (and packaged JAR for distribution) and eventually to Spring Boot and Scala.

I understand the value of Rails (my current startup is also built on that) - but I'm wondering if it makes sense for you guys to bite the bullet and jump to the JVM.
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver
i live in a subburb 30km outside vancouver.

have a 3000sqft house with a $600k mortgage.

my yearly income is 90k before taxes/deductions.

my mortgage is $2500.00 a month (a bit more than half months wage).

my property tax is ~5000.00 year

my house insurance is $1200.00 a year

my car insurance is ~$1300.00 a year

my city utilities is about $120.00/month

my car gas is about $400.00/month

my house natural gas is $150/month

my house hydro electric is ~$200/month

that just covers the necessities minus food.

i have friends who live in downtown core vancouver, paying the same as me for 600sqft condo.

that is more than half my gross income, very not affordable.
thinking about relocating.
can keep same position and just move remote... also had career change opps in dallas, ny, californa, etc at $120k+, better than here... but my whole family is here... my whole life is here.

tough decisions... always thought more money would lead me away, now lack of affordability will instead.
Sorry, my advice is, Google for the whole replication crisis thing. I think I read something about this specific set of studies on slate star codex, so that's a good place to look.

Please pardon that I don't have enough time to look for the sources myself.
Actually funny. But you know exactly what I meant.
That's terrible advice where I live. Once I touch the thing, I'm responsible for holding on to it and bringing it to the right facility during the two weekends a year they accept such things AND paying the disposal fee.
Everyone (myself included) cries about house prices, yet I believe there are many many truly beautiful small cities and towns where you have great internet access, safety and amazingly affordable housing. People just needs to have the guts to move to these places and recruit friends and family and like minded folks to join them.
I just noticed my comments here have been flagkilled, as well as the comment I made yesterday that I linked to from this one. This is incredible. I'll have to readjust my sensor for what speech is and isn't verboten here, but I'm sad that I overestimated Hacker News so. I went to a lot of effort to stay within the bounds, and maintain a respectful, objective argument.

To see such suppression happen somewhere like Hacker News of all places expresses to me how far gone we are as a society. If arguments such as those I made here aren't even allowed to be had on one of the more-open online forums, perhaps there is no hope for us.

If anyone is curious to read these killed comments, email me at: 319loe+5wpqjzb1szho2ovdi8aquyzh8js@sharklasers.com
Apparently they are named after characters from a game series. http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Prismriver_Sisters
StarUML 2 – A sophisticated software modeler
"Secure computation is a catch-all term for cryptographically safe computation; this includes ORAM schemes, FHE, iO, Searchable Symmetric Encryption, PIR, etc."

I'm aware that they have all kinds of interesting models. I even have papers on a few of those. I'm also aware cryptographers often ignored concrete details of their ideas in ways that led to real-world vulnerabilities. This happened with padding, covert channels, implementation difficulties, and so on.

"If you mock without knowing, you're the fool."

I said it's called Secure, Multiparty Computation in most discussions of this stuff if it's crypto letting two or more work together on something often with confidentiality but sometimes just integrity. That was the label where I first saw it in Schneier's book all the way up to an article I saw after this one. Are you saying the concept is not called multiparty computation?

Or are you saying that anyone publishing cryptographic papers has factored into their math assumptions and effects of host CPU's, caches, interrupts, I/O, compilers, networks, and users? That would be a mock-worthy claim. Those ground in practical reality and useful are rare enough that I post them on Schneier's blog and here to bring attention to them. Incidentally, ORAM and CryptDB were among those I posted worth exploring for potential, real-world benefit. ;)

Note: I did critique CryptDB as not good enough against NSA as some media portrayed it. It relies on underlying host, software running on it, and distribution of both. NSA has been smashing such things. So, if A then B, the dependency shows it's insecure against such a High Strength Attacker. Good for many others and still potential here, though.
Why isn't every house incorporated (bought by a company, then have that company bought/sold instead of the house) ? Note: this is how it's done for a lot of houses in western europe, and there it's a 100% legal way to avoid this tax.

The problem is that you're going to have to pay 30% company tax on profits, and it's hard to get a mortgage. However this can always be structured so there aren't any profits (e.g. by improving the house, saving up for another house, ...)
It's rough when the rich own numerous suites they rarely dwell in. They have to give some middle-class loner a basement apartment with discounted rent to meet occupant requirements. Yea, that'll help.
Yes, the only do "free content licenses," with limited exceptions.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_po...
Isn't the Elasticsearch feature just for EE? Or are you planning to release it for CE too? I just upgraded to 8.4.4 and didn't see any of it (not that I look so well).
I'm retiring to Savannah when I'm old.
I guess a better term would be, you are not doing much `aerobic' exercise. High intensity sports like rock climbing or lifting definitely train your cardiovascular system. In a different way than `cardio', of course.
Not in Mountain View & Sunnyvale. The peninsula curves around at the bottom, so north/south routes like 101, 82 (El Camino), and 280 go mostly east/west, with 85 branching off as a north/south spur. The "north" side of 101 is the side closest to the Bay, where Google is. Throws a lot of visitors for a loop.
Wrong, there are not entire city blocks that have no lights on at night. There are some buildings under construction too.
Wearing your fitbit then seems weird.
The page loads very slowly for me. It says that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlmxhCuD31o is the same content in video form, and that loaded much faster for me.
Technically they're additional property tax.
Exist something like this but for mercurial (I use BitBucket. I mean something to download private...)
Thanks for the love! I'll be offline for a few hours for dinner, we're celebrating being together for 16 years today.
HFT in the Banana Land, Part 3
Microsoft Recalls AC Power Cords for Surface Pro Due to Fire, Shock Hazards
I would recommend breaking them off into separate additional libraries. I don't need unicode for flags, so paying for it at compile and link time seems unwise. Or provide adapter classes that can be used over other frameworks. Just a suggestion.
No doubt a move to give Hillary a boost. Unfortunately. Kinda sick of the DNC at this point as a Democrat myself.
My experience: Twitter has been very useful to get to know influencial people in my line of work. Also, to practice concise expression of ideas. The problem is, Twitter is not very actionable. Yeah, the CEO of X company now follows you. What now? I found following people and writing posts in LinkedIn is more actionable. I connect with leaders in my industry to whom I can send a CV quickly.
That's an impressive breakdown. Thank you for sharing.
Hi,

Thanks for participating in the community discussions.

I have a question/comment in terms of the UI that GitLab provides for developers.

Are there any plans to add a customizable dashboard for gitlab? Think social media sites like twitter/fb/g+. They all have notification numbers over the icons signalling the amount of new emails/messages etc.. gitlab needs the option to add these to the sidepanel!

It would be so darn useful to have say, 5 extra icon counters for whatever project/merge request search filters one is currently using.

e.g.
2 extra sidepanel contexts showing

- big red '5' counter on icon for merge requests with author bob, on project xyz. Because bob made 5 comments on merge requests on project xyz

- big red '2' counter on icon for merge requests with author karen, bob or steve on project abc. ditto as above.

I think extra 'tweakability' features like this for Gitlab's UI would make it easier to manage complex development environments where its necessary to keep an eye on many different scopes around a project. and have the abliity to evolve the dashboard's info display over the projects lifetime as 'hotspots' of attention need to be shifted around to different service codebases and team members.

thanks again
I agree with you that this a phenomenon that is taking place and yes when I was younger I don't remember it being so severe. Even mentioning you're live in a 'second tier city' makes some people think, well this persons not serious. Aside, I live in London UK and people are paying insane rents for pure garbage tear down style disgusting properties.
Ask HN: What do you do when feeling depressed?
Ask yourself. You're feeling really bad.

For whatever reason. E.g.:
- your job sucks
- your relationship sucks
- sucks that you don't have a relationship
- don't make enough money
- unemployed
- nobody around you gets you
- etc...

What do you do?
Yes, this is just yet another special tax exemption.
Because money.
Some say (for example Moore) that arithmetic is only a tiny part of programming and don't deserve special syntax (especially with a language that lacks C-style for loops).
Both utf8 and utf16 can contain multicharacter elements. If you split a string at an arbitrary point you risk splitting it inside a multicharacter element.

This will be very common in utf8 that contains non-ascii characters, and very rare with utf16 (only happens with characters outside the BMP).

Neither is something you want in your code, unless you think it's a good idea to corrupt your users' data.

Edit: It's not too difficult to handle these cases and make sure you only split at valid positions, but you do need to be careful and there are a number of edge cases you might not think through or even encounter unless you have the right sort of data to test with - which leads to lots of faulty implementations. e.g. for years MySQL couldn't handle utf8 characters outside the BMP.
Why the downvotes ? Rails is a PITA to install, Docker might change that but I've spent too much time fighting rvm, rbenv, old gems
You are forgetting about the telegraph! And before that, semaphores.
I really like SemanticMerge, in its current shape it is litte more than a fancy proof of concept.

Its biggest limitation on real projects is that it works on a single-file level, while all the interesting stuff happens on patch level. You may browse their forums to get an idea of what else is missing.

That said, I wish all the best to Codice and I really hope that they continue to invest in this tool.
Redeeming the Original Sin
I think the point is that if housing prices in Vancouver peak around $2M, the dust settles, and housing prices fall and equilibriate down to $1M, living in Vancouver doesn't really get any more realistic.

I too am skeptical of the Japan comparison. China is both a very densely populated but also an extremely populous country and I think its just natural that a lot of Chinese will want to leave for less-densely populated places. Just the number of people involved makes this a problem unlike any other we've seen in history; how many tens of millions of Chinese millionaires now have the option of picking up and leaving their homeland? The scale of the migration is larger but the size of west coast cities isn't; certainly not by a factor of 10.
work remotely? TN visa effectively lets you earn US wages.
Are you really upset about access to a book that you can find in any library? There are reasons to be upset about copyright, but this is just nonsense to me. If you really want to read this book so much, and for free, patronize your local library.