skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that the problem has ever been how many Chinese have immigrated, but how many rich people who happen to be Chinese have immigrated. For starters, we have an entirely misguided and wrong-headed 'immigrant investor program' that allows rich people to jump the immigration queue.

I think the problem is deeper than this, though. Most people in Vancouver actually want prices to stay high; there are a whole lot of home owners in Vancouver who are counting on that $3M cheque for their house to pay for their retirement. Its the provincial government that wields the legislative cudgel here, and they're going to listen to those home-owners waiting for their Chinese-exit. Worse, much of the BC economy is now based on real-estate; selling it, buying it, rebuilding it, and renovating it. We've built our economy on selling rich Chinese people our homes. If the provincial government intervenes and fixes house prices, it would probably harm the construction and real estate business; it would be political suicide.
I agree, and I agree that it's lecherous and creepy to be hitting on support people (because, what, are they supposed to drop what they're doing and go out with you?) but that's about it. It's not sexist or terrible or anything, just very poor taste.
So what's happening with this general trend? Does it mean some smaller cities have stagnating prices and people are leaving? Or does that mean the money we've given to China for 30 years is finally buying out the world? Or does that mean that everyone is afraid of a bubble and invests since 7 years in land?
Fastly adds MPEG-DASH packaging support
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Digikam is good for photo management (though the facial recognition doesn't yet work as well for me as Picasa did 10 years ago).
Your statement sounds like everything is going well and that this new Alphabet company is just making the situation ever better.

I do not agree: the situation is getting worse: all rates of diseases are growing rapidly. The USA spends the most money on health care and dropped to place 43 on the list of countries with best health. The USA dropped below Cuba!

So it is time to step back and evaluate the situation.

Lets look at cancer. Around 2003 there was a study publisged in the Journal of Oncology stating that 97% of the patients who had radiation or chemo died within 5 years. There is no followup study but since there are no new treatments, the number is most likely the same.
I like a quote of Einstein: repeating the same experiment and expecting a different outcome is insane. So I am against more investments in cancer research since it proves for over 50 years that it does not work.
So what to do?

I suggest to look at the works of the "alternative" doctors who get results.
The medicince that they practise is "functional medicine" and has great results, but there is no double-blind research to their methods. It is time that this changes. Do the research for the various anti-cancer treatments and find out what works best.

There are many other diseases where functional medicine has far better results than allopathic medicine but they are ignored most of the time. The recent online summit by Dr Mark Hyman (the fat summit) had 120,000 viewers so things are changing for the better but there is a long road to go.
I'm a professional coder, and I code in vim. I didn't expect the IDE to have vim bindings, so I didn't mention that, but I use the others in the command line or text fields in the browser, etc. Anywhere there's no vim bindings.
Sorry, I meant a site installer, like those random "download.com installer" software. Not the installer of the program itself.

Generally, if the installer is branded with the branding of the third-party you downloaded a program from, stay away.
Great to see the ecosystem grow!

You should register a somewhat short & clear domain and run a public instance! Or is it up to someone else to provide that service? BTW: Someone registered twtxt.org, maybe that's a good place to provide such a service there.
"Sharma saw it as part of a broader issue of homogeneity in Silicon Valley, a region run by a narrow set of oligarchs who famously eschew hiring women or people of color."

Hyperbole much?. Silicon Valley has plenty of women and 'people of color', especially from India.

India still has a caste system, which makes it nearly impossible for anyone from a lower caste to become successful.

I have plenty of friends that were forced to escape this system because if they didn't, it would mean a lifetime of poverty.

On top of this, the level of corruption is so high in most government institutions, it scares most investors. This corruption is keeping the caste system in place.

Were they better with colonialism? Perhaps not, but the current system sure isn't doing much for the people of India.
Yes, the pricing model is different with the goal of making Bitbucket affordable for individual developers and small teams, no matter whether they work on public or private projects.

Do we want people to use JIRA? If they require more than simple issue tracking, absolutely. But that doesn't mean that we aren't improving the base tools.

For example, Bitbucket already provides the ability to vote for issues and recently added rendering of the CONTRIBUTING.md file for pull requests (http://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/01/26/pull-request-guidelines...).
It only took TravisKalanick 7 years to destroy Noyce’s 60 year tech labor legacy
Typically a VC fund does not re-invest profits back into other startups — the profits are disbursed to LPs

VC funds tend to dislike small exits: they're not enough to return the fund and they can't re-invest the capital.
http://www.thewire.com/business/2012/01/twitter-verification... says:

> When he asked a Twitter sales rep who had been in contact with him how to go about it, she replied that the only paths to verification are if an account has had impersonation issues or is an advertiser who's spent at least $15,000 over three months.
You sound rather smug and happy that people who hold opinions differing from yours can not express them for fear of repercussions. That must feel great.
Do you really not see the humor in political elites & aliens? Or are you just providing the readership with a textbook example of becoming outraged by deliberately interpreting things wrongly?
I believe you're overestimating what it takes to get a job at Google (or Facebook or whatever other company you might be thinking of).

As someone who's approaching middle-age and has done a wide variety of interviews, it's my experience that large companies like Google have less age discrimination than trendy startups. If you don't want to work at Google because you don't think it's a good fit, I think that's a totally valid reason. But if you don't think you can get a job there because you're too mediocre at actual programming, I think you're simply wrong. For all I know, you actually are a mediocre programmer. That doesn't matter.

It's not possible to be too mediocre a developer to get a job at Google because the interview process doesn't measure how good a developer you are. It is possible to be too mediocre at whiteboarding algorithms and answering the brand of design questions they ask, but those are learnable skills.
>RingTo launched over two years ago with a simple mission: help more people keep the phone numbers they love. In the spirit of moving forward, several changes are coming down the pipeline we want to share with you.

>In early 2016, RingTo will transition to a paid service and will no longer offer free accounts to new or existing users. But don’t worry, we’re making it worth your while to stay with us!

I'd say they haven't quite finished the new signup yet.

I guess this is a good thing? If it's paid it might stick around for a while longer.

Edit: not sure I'd touch them - http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9094a6314c49a804bd522a79...
Social taboos against unpopular opinions may not rise to the level of criminalization, but that doesn't mean they are all perfectly acceptable. The Hollywood blacklist wasn't a government action nor was it a violation of free speech in the legal sense, but that didn't make it a good or even an acceptable thing. Actually, we consider it a great scandal when screenwriters are blacklisted from their livelihood for expressing sympathies with Stalin, but we don't bat an eye when a tech executive is hounded out of his job because he backed the wrong California proposition a few years ago and refuses to comment on the issue today. One of these is called "McCarthyism" and the other is called "political correctness", and it's hard for me to see a world where one is okay and the other is not, unless of course we live in a world where denying legal marriage to same sex couples is worse than Stalinism.
If you think of the government as the "ultimate landlord", then property tax is just another form of rent and Prop 13 is just another form of rent control. It has most of the same positives and negatives as rent control:

> forces an incentive not to move

Check, if you move your property tax will go up

> and owner's have little incentive to bring up to standard something they are not going to get an ROI on

Check, the "landlord" (government) spending on residential infrastructure won't result in increased property tax income. This is partly why the peninsula cities invest so much in office space but refuse to build housing.

You're right that Prop 13 makes rent control possible, but overall I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Even an inaccurate Google Fit notification about how much I've walked made me feel better and willing to do more and more regularly.
I live in Vancouver. I rent half an old house built in 1941 on a big lot.

It sold twice recently, within a couple months, by the same realtor. They always collect the rent in cash, never issue a receipt. I know a racket when I see one, so I had to figure it out.

First, somebody buys a house in cash but puts it in somebody else's name, like a child or spouse. They get lots of mail sent there. This is to establish primary residence exemption on capital gains when the house is sold. They make it look like that person is living there, when it's actually being rented. Two untaxed sources of income: undeclared cash rental income and the inevitable capital gains on the sale.

As far as investments go, its a sure win. And I have reason to believe I'm renting one of these properties. It happens to work out well for me though cause rents pretty reasonable.
> In particular, I'd like to understand whether mining fees are paid for executing contracts or for solving hashes or for both

I believe the answer is both. Miners get a rewarded for finding a valid block of 5 ETH (typical PoW style reward) and they also receive the transactions fees paid by users of the network. And in Ethereum the cost of a transaction is determined by its 'gas' cost, which is based on how computationally expensive the transaction is.
Agreed, except in cases where the code will never be maintained again (e.g. game releases on N64). In my experience an "over-estimate" that leads to the so called "do it right" syndrome happens if someone else estimates for a developer. When the developer makes the estimate him/herself and doubles it, you can be damn sure they are going to need all that time and then some to even get it in the ballpark of long-term acceptable.

(That being said, the company needs to have standards for code acceptability in the first place, which doesn't always happen)
When the market tips all those foreign investors are going to try to unload their investment property at the same time. If I lived in a market like that I probably wouldn't buy anything even assuming I had the money. There's a big hangover at the end of this party.
Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring for Admissions and Business Development
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We're looking to hire for two roles:

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So, looking at the sponsors, this bill has pretty broad, bi-partisan support. It's sponsored by a Republican, and as such, will likely clear the house easily, if it hasn't already.

Considering the support, and the fact that Obama hasn't threatened to veto it, he probably won't, which makes the bill likely a done deal.

That said, the idea that bills are agreed upon by both houses is maybe how it's generally done, but since (at least) the passage of the ACA (and possibly earlier), definitely not how it has to be done.
Often clients can't produce specs sufficient to build a house/building/pipeline. That's why there is an entire category of firms that exist that are hired by clients to produce these documents.

Guy wants an apartment building, he hires an AE firm and tells them "I want an apartment building" and they say "well what kind of apartment building?" and then goes through the exact same process of defining scope, budget, and schedule that would be done in any other project management field. Lawyers get hired when someone wants to sue someone - "well what do you want to sue them for?" Sourcing managers get hired when someone wants to make something - "well what do we need to buy?"

The fact that the software engineering industry refuses to acknowledge that their industry is not special is a constant source of confusion for anybody who has been doing this in another industry. Why is the software industry special? What makes software so nebulous that scopes cannot be defined and estimates made? The argument that "people don't understand the impact of requests" does not hold water - people don't understand that simply wanting more room in a particular part of their house can cause an entire redesign. That's why you, as the expert, have to explain the impact of their requests clearly rather than just agree to them.

The problem with estimates and scheduling in software engineering isn't a result of work, it is a result of failure by the project management.
This sounds like a good fit for Twitter's lists feature[0], if only the standard clients supported it better.

[0] https://support.twitter.com/articles/76460
They used a validation set of 14,000 people. Any correlations found in the first group is checked against the second group to make sure it's a real correlation.
The X11 part would be solved by xpra. Capsicum, however, feels like the better tool for the job of privilege isolation here. One of the more important things is that you're able to lock down access much more finely than you can with docker. You can use this to ensure that the locked down application can only communicate with xpra and put files only in certain folders, for example, without being able to see or interact with other processes.

Your approach has the problem of needing the inherent insecurities of docker. Because everything within docker has to be managed either by root or someone within the docker group, you have a greater surface area exposed where if an malicious app is able to get hold of the docker socket file, it now owns your system. A capability-based security system, on the other hand, wouldn't be able to touch the docker socket, even if it was run as root.
Nice personal attack. :) But no, I'm afraid you are mistaken. What I am is dismayed that so many mistake fundamental free-speech rights for the right to be an offensive asshole and be tolerated.
JavaScript's Sword of Damocles
Maybe I'm not following, but isn't this just a Tiling window Manager?
Because a free great desktop app, paid for by a freemium (or free-for-ecosystem-lock-in) online service was quite a thing, but never a permanent/sustainable one. I suspect that I will use an utterly outdated version of picasa for quite a while, because it already wildly exceeds my demands for an offline snaps-management application in its current version. Hope they did not sneak in a kill-switch in a previous update.
Or according to the parents of this reply, to play under the wing of an expert player.
Why would an Adobe installer erase files that have nothing to do with it ? This sounds like a really bad installer.
Sure, sorry if I came off like I was using you guys as a political football or something. Obviously the particular bug tracker that's right for any one project is going to depend on team familiarity and experience. The main point I was trying to get across—which I think is being ignored by the dear github people—was actually what you said in your last paragraph:

> We do have to spend a lot of effort on triage, but that's true of any bug tracker

It seems like people are looking for a magical way to get out of doing triage, dealing with bad issues, and moderating comment threads. It just isn't something that's going to happen. Bugzilla has voting, for example, but "me too" comments are still a problem on bugs that get shared outside of the community[1], to the point where they're the first rule on the first section of the Bugzilla etiquette page.

Now, I'm not saying github implementing voting would be useless, or a bad idea. I'm just saying it isn't going to fix as many things as people seem to think it will.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590 was shared in a bunch of different places, and there were a lot of +1 and "me too" comments.
Gender bias in accepting pull-requests [pdf]
Well sort of. Consider a couple in a 4 bedroom house who's kids have moved out, but don't move into a smaller place (say 2 bedroom condo) because they would have to pay a bigger tax bill. So there are two bedrooms not being used because of taxes.
How practical is it to run a simplified init program like this instead of systemd for a desktop Linux system?

It feels like as a Linux user one has to make the choice between software freedom (and software ethics) and an easily maintained, attractive desktop experience. As a Fedora user, I'm very used to GNOME and all of the comforts that it provides, but I'd consider switching to Gentoo sans systemd for the sake of making a stand against bad practice in the software community.
The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know
Run:
curl -IL https://medium.com/backchannel/how-india-pierced-facebook-s-...

It is because of a "301 Moved Permanently" response code. The URL shows as "medium.com", because thats the URL saved in the HN database. However when you open it, your browser follows the redirect.
Is there a way to throttle it without killing it?
You missed the next sentence: "They then checked any links they found against a second group of 14,700 eMERGE volunteers."

So if any correlations were found, they basically did another study to replicate it. And that's a big sample size too. Many studies are published with far weaker correlations.
Currently, < http://htwtxt.plomlompom.com/ > (HTTP-only so far, will probably look closer into the whole certificate business after the weekend) is my attempt at a public instance: sign-up is open (for now), and I don't plan on eradicating the feeds regularly as I do with < http://test.plomlompom.com:8000 >. But I'm also a bit hesitant to promote this instance aggressively at this early stage of development. I'm happy about anyone testing it by registering, or even by setting up their own instance.
Sweet. And if you had anything to do with the performance improvements, thank you very much.
Unfortunately, Vancouver housing is being driven by international currencies. A low Canadian dollar makes houses in Vancouver a bargain for outsiders and even more unaffordable for anyone earning Canadian dollars.
Why is recycling almost a religious issue for some people? How has reduce, reuse, recycle been turned into just recycle? Some people even talk about reuse and incorrectly call it recycling. It seems as if many people have been brainwashed via propaganda about recycling. How did that happen?
Container deposit schemes are getting some discussion in the comments, so it seems an apt time to mention their history in Australia [1]. SA has had the scheme since '77, and the NT managed to introduce it - then reintroduce it - just in 2013. No other state presently has such a scheme.

The most disturbing part is what happened in NT. The proposed scheme - which had massive community support - was challenged by beverage manufacturers - Coca Cola, Schweppes and Lion - based on some very dubious claims about it being an expensive and ineffective way to recycle.

In other states it has been a political football: parties support the idea when campaigning, then promptly forget about it once in government. The paranoid part of my brain wonders about behind-the-scenes influence of donors on this pattern.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislation_...

As a side point, in Asia I'm used to experiencing that a beverage bought in a platic bottle must be consumed on premises, so the bottle can be immediately put in a container for collection. That's a lot more satisfying than having to look for a bin because I got thirsty.
I was hoping that this would be about some new nootropics-enhanced, microbiome-friendly vinaigrette, but it's about fashion.
> There's a referendum coming up to do just that...

And if they leave the EU they can do whatever they want. But we can also discuss a few other purely hypothetical situations.
Beautiful video of Windows 95's launch
But you don't necessarily increase poverty by decreasing utility and increasing inequality. Arguably, 8-hour workweek and restriction of child labor reduced utility of people (at least on the short-term), but markedly improved their quality of life and probably decreased inequality as well. IMO it's likely that we would be much more productive and "better off" in a society where we're all "equal" (to some degree - e.g. a very good model of society is described in the story Manna by Marshall Brain - every day, everybody get's the same amount of energy (which cannot be stored) and they can use it however they want - including donating it to worthy causes).

Without proportionate representation, it's unlikely that you can achieve "everyone better off", because your measure will be biased - such a system practically ensures that the rich/powerful are better off at the expense of the poor, because their desires are weighted more heavily!
There's a lot to be said about the vagaries of workplace romance - but don't just fucking grope your coworkers!
Truths have truth value while opinions do not.

Uncomfortable truths exist. And like all fact based observations they require evidence and are susceptible to disproof.

The interesting case is when one takes an internal personal dislike (opinion) and rephrases it as if it is a true property of the world and thereby spreads that dislike. e.g. "all martians are immoral".

More interesting still is when such a person convinces himself that his opinion is based on such "facts".
> Thanks for working on a tedious problem so we don't have to!

Interestingly, I think this statement is clearly sign of "vitamin" rather than being a "painkiller" product.
New machine learning tool for wearables to teach them to recognize new movements
That is not the only alternative.

"$300/hr + expenses; hours and expenses determined by necessity to complete work; work as described represents at least 100 hours effort and $x in expenses"