skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Land-value is a better measure of how much housing "should" be built in an area. Ideally, it'd be a land-value tax with a housing capacity subsidy, making the entire thing revenue-neutral.

Unfortunately, Prop 13 makes a LVT infeasible to implement. Maybe a national LVT program would work, but that's replacing a smaller problem with a more difficult one.
This is what I struggle with. Are they evil, blind, or both? The Conservatives are firmly in power now. Labour, the Lib Dems and even UKIP have been neutered. Corbyn is not going to lead Labour to victory in 2020.

You would think that they could relax. They no longer need to pander to the tabloids. If they liked, they could dismantle the media and rebuild it in their image. They could build a gigantic statue of Theresa May. They could go to war. The potential for evil doings is endless.

Instead they spend their time fucking over disabled people. I mean... why? What's in it for them?
You're not wrong. They are killer whales. It's just that they don't (99.9999999999%) kill humans in the wild. They kill sharks and seals all the time which qualifies them as a killer whale.
Although the article covers a lot of things and provides some arguments (credit where it's due), the fashion in which the choices are made suffers from a kind of tunnel-vision favoritism. Claims like, "Everyone should use React. Period. Now!" just make me question the merits of its proponents. The JavaScript community is really infamous for this...
I'm making web apps/clients in the browser, servers using node.js and desktop "native" apps using nw.js. All in vanilla JavaScript, and I love it. If you need additional functionality, there's always a module for it (npmjs.com)

The interesting part is maybe that most apps look like this:

<html><body><canvas id="canvas"></body></html>

And the rest is JavaScript!

It does seem a bit stupid to load the browser just for the canvas element though, so if someone know a better solution, please post!
21 Inc. Launches the World's First Micropayments Marketplace
The silver lining of going with the lowest bidder, the tablets are unlikely to have cameras.
In Manhattan's case, there's a generally good public transit system that lets people commute to (relatively) inexpensive communities like Queens fairly easily.
That's not clear enough. I agree that you can't have those things without private communication but not everyone does.
For comparison, Flow supports tagged unions like this:

http://flowtype.org/blog/2015/07/03/Disjoint-Unions.html
"I'm sure there are cases where this isn't true, but as a general rule, any opposition to new housing in SF concedes ground to wealthy owners at the expense of working-class renters."

You're missing a few critically important pieces of context:

1) The city of SF gives developers two options for the low-income housing set-aside -- they can make a percentage of their units low income, or they can contribute a percentage of the project cost to a city-wide fund.

2) Developers hate both of these options, but they far prefer the latter one (donate to a fund), since it's a fixed cost.

3) Because the city is in competition with these same private developers for land, the low-income housing fund is at a significant disadvantage when it comes to actually building low-income housing. IIRC, the city has only built a few projects in the last decade.

4) As a result of 1-3, most of the community resistance to new construction ends up being about forcing developers to choose the first option (i.e. actually building low-income units). They use the only political leverage they have to compel this choice: the planning process.

5) Many/most skirmishes about permitting get characterized as "NIMBY opposition", when in reality, they're about low-income housing set-asides. It's just easy to point to the zero-influence yahoos who show up to any public meeting, and mischaracterize them as the source of the problem, so developers do this.

Basically what I'm saying is: unless compelled, there's no situation in SF where developers build anything other than luxury units. There's no ROI otherwise; land is too expensive. And they won't build new luxury units into a down market, either, for the same reasons. Low-income housing requirements are the only way this stuff happens.

So I'll turn your question around on you: name one US market that has successfully lowered real estate prices via construction. Even in places canonically held up as examples (e.g. Houston), affordability is maintained by sprawl...which is not an option for San Francisco. For the exact economic reasons you've cited, nobody buys or builds real estate that they know will lose value. That's the fundamental problem with the "build out of it" argument.
What is the problem you are solving?
this is a myth perpetuated by "urbanists" and developer shills. none of the new construction is "affordable". you can't build your way out of this problem. desirable areas will always be expensive.

infrastructure and improved transit are the solutions to these problems, not more housing.
Very cool.

Every time I move location it adds another history item :(, so backing back out to HN is like dozen backspaces if you drag it around a lot.
> They are incorrect. Building luxury housing will take some of the demand pressure off of non-luxury housing (which constitutes the vast majority of the housing in San Francisco), thereby lowering its price.

Nothing stops capital from rushing into non-luxury housing, acquiring it, and then renting it at new "market rates".

You will need to swamp SFBA with housing (tens of thousands of new units a year) in order to drive down market prices.
Well... they wrote their own PHP-to-C++ compiler (which is both insane and incredibly impressive), then their own PHP tracing JIT compiler, and their own PHP type checker....

At what point does it become their own language?

Also a good amount of their backend services use better languages like Haskell, D, Erlang, and whatever else they need.
This is dead wrong.

"Upper-middle class" may have been a better description for tech worker incomes, on average. Which I'm sure you know caries a very different cachet, socially and politically, than "middle class"

Basic point being (and more germane to the thread as a whole) "middle class" as a label for tech workers is clearly off base.
Just added wired.com to my ad blacklist.
I'm trying to program an application, not Webpack. If there are plugins that solve some problems then why aren't they part of the default config of webpack?

I'm not programming for the fun of programming build tools, I just want the damn thing to work. Zero interest in working out how to make webpack work. This is the problem with javascript build tools - they think I care enbough to want to work out how to configure them. I just want the module that I need to function.
I don't understand why you think that what you're describing (essentially a land-value tax) isn't an ad-valorem tax.
Does anybody have any good solution to this when caching offline services through a service worker? Obviously in this scenario even a page refresh doesn't help.
If you're ever in a situation where you get a choice of which finger to lose don't chose your little finger. You want to keep your index (or first) finger, and your little (or forth) finger, and you probably want to keep your ring (or third) finger.

A bunch of stuff becomes much harder if you don't have a little finger.
Not exactly. The diff is here: https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/b8ba8c83f318b84e429...

The old grant terminated if, among other things, you argued that any Facebook patent was invalid or unenforcable. This meant that if Facebook sued you over an unrelated patent, you couldn't defend yourself without the React patent grant terminating.

The new grant specifically exempts any counterclaims; you can't lose your patent grant just because you defend yourself. You can still lose it if you sue Facebook over unrelated patents.
No, that's incorrect. It is any patent assertion against Facebook. Read it for yourself: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
Why is eslint considered better than jshint+jscs? jscs also supports auto-fixing, which is pretty dope.
That is a serious security issue, many apps and webpages have permission to use speaker.
Gosh, I don't know. Maybe housing prices and market rents are like... related somehow?
Here's a start: "A Brief History of Computing
- Operating Systems"

http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen/history/timeline...
But windows isn't free. I am paying a license for it. And I don't have any problem with that. I am glad you refer to these ads as users suffering. But it is the principle of free services like those by Google. People make a pact with the devil, they sell there privacy in exchange of a free service. If it works for them, good for them. I don't want to do that and am happy to pay for it. In exchange I am NOT selling my privacy.

And you lead me to think you are somehow affiliated to Microsoft. I didn't do any research on you. Quoting you: I helped build the technology that made Bing competitive, And you know what? We're instrumenting them because it's the only way we can possibly do what users ask us to do. We desperately need telemetry on failure, user engagement, and performance.

If you don't want people to think you are not affiliated to MSFT, better not to use we.
> Nothing stops capital from rushing into non-luxury housing, acquiring it, and then renting it at new "market rates".

Supply and demand-- you build enough, and you cannot have artificially high "market rates."
"Nobody really has the power to do this"

The State of California has the power to fix this and, presumably, the motivation to lift this albatross from the neck of the economy.
I see a tremendous future in direct-to-voice-response advertising. Particularly for purchase-capable systems.
I played another game like this when I was younger, it was multi player tetris with powerups, but not this.

It was so enjoyable to play, was hoping your link would be it but alas I don't think so. I remember it being a game client as well.

Edit: found it, Tetrinet!
So its like a very long colonoscope that has camera on its end and can be manipulated to turn around a corner?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colonoscope&iax=1&ia=images
I... did use the past tense? I historically worked for MSFT, because I worked for a core search tech startup they acquired.

Which is not an abnormal story around here. Suggesting that it damages my objectivity is poor form.
So you want to program a biology lab?
Nigeria - don't remember the exact year. And it's happened more than once.
Generics do not have to be complex and they allow abstractions that simplify your code.

Please explain how .map, .filter, .reduce, .pmap are complex?

Swift is also built with LLVM, a backend that is far superior to Go's handmade one. I doubt the performance issues will persist long-term.
You have to give full credit to AWS for inventing previously unknown pricing models. In some cases, it was actually the pricing model that created new use cases. Glacier and S3 comes to mind.
Spotify’s experiments with stream processing on Google Cloud Dataflow
Non-luxury housing is already being rented at market rates, except for the rent-controlled units, but those are effectively not part of the liquid housing market anyway because the tenants won't leave. Hence the recent increase in landlords trying to force the tenants out, so the housing can be rented at the market rate, like all other housing already is.

Everything I wrote presupposes that all housing is rented at the market rate, including the non-luxury housing.

I suppose you put quotes around "market rates" as a form of sarcasm, but aside from rent-controlled units, all housing rents at the equilibrium market rate determined by supply and demand. If someone jacks up the price of older apartments and is still able to find tenants, all that proves is that those apartments had been rented out at a price below the market rate before now. The market rate is quite simply the amount people are willing to pay.
Yes, we should assert that right. And there is no reason not to go after a constitutional amendment to clarify the right. It should not be necessary, I believe it is already covered. But the equal rights amendment should not have been necessary, either. In fact, the federalists thought the bill of rights was unnecessary. It was the Anti-Federalists that drove the first 10 Amendments.
can't wait for the freedom of information request for that ;)
I'm a huge fan of the Anno series (Anno 2070 multiplayer is amazing) because of how much fun it is to try and maintain supply chains and production lines of 50+ different resources. Have spent over 400 hours playing it according to steam.

This looks right up my alley, downloading it now.
> A $120k median salary definitely isn't "middle class."

In the San Francisco Bay Area, it is.

The median household income for SF residents is $78,378. [1]

However, to purchase a home at the median price ($682,410), a family must make $115,510. [2]

One article suggests the ceiling for middle class in the Bay Area is $170k. [3]

It appears your focus is nationwide, and not regional.

[1] http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/map/PST045214/06075

[2] http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2014/02/18/how-much-income-do-...

[3] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/03/19/394057221/how-m...

Edit: added [3]
It's Arstechnica's title of the article, verbatim.
What does he mean by "hard tech"?

And would most engineers consider Cruise really hard tech? I don't know (I mean that honestly, not passive agressively).
Hmm, it might not be "full sandbox", but they are... flexible puzzles, which can be solved in various ways with different tradeoffs or optimizations.

I think that distinguishes them from other kinds of puzzle-games where you're hunting for "The One Predefined Secret" to make your solution.
Rather than conjecture, why not educate yourself with free films such as Earthlings (available on YouTube) to learn what the experience of others really is like?

Edit: your assumption that animals' capacity to suffer and experience fear, pain and misery is dissimilar to ours is rooted in ignorance. If it's academic proof you're desperately after, a great jumping off point is by reading The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, signed by a prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at The University of Cambridge in 2012.

http://www.earthintransition.org/2012/07/scientists-declare-...

http://www.livescience.com/39481-time-to-declare-animal-sent...
Could you flesh out your point instead of simply repeating it?
No, but it's close.

Median individual income in the Bay Area is around $50k.

So you're saying $120k is "close to" $50k?

A middle-class family could live in San Francisco on 150-180k

Median family income is around $78k.

Are you sure, then, that you don't see anything wrong with the logic in the argument you're making?
It is terri-bell...
>The line, “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly,” is not an excuse for poor efforts. It is perhaps an excuse for poor results. But our society is plagued by wanting good results with no efforts (or rather, with someone else’s efforts).

This relates to weight loss and the dependency on weight loss drugs. I see ads all the time for new weight loss supplements, or new workout machines, or fat burning belts. Stating that this will burn fat faster, with less effort. Society now thinks that in order to look fit you must take a fat burning pill, or some crazy concoction to actually loose weight. >We have left “the things worth doing” to others, on the poor excuse that others might be able to do them better. But in reality it just takes a healthy life style to be fit, so if loosing weight is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
If building continues at the clip it has for the past 10 years, what do you think is going to happen to the SF real estate market? What I think will happen is that it will be owned almost entirely by wealthy people.
I was a huge fan of Ultima Online as a kid and the emulation communities are what got me into programming. This has a lot of ideas I always wanted to implement, awesome stuff!

I'm actually working on a multiplayer map builder in a ww2 fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XdLbRzsCDg (I hope this is ok to share I don't think they are in competing markets)

Curious to get your guys response to it!

Great work and good luck!
Thanks for the hint! Should be fixed in a minute.
ESLint is extremely configurable and thus has a vibrant plugin ecosystem so I think that's why it has picked up a lot of hype.
> I suppose you put quotes around "market rates" as a form of sarcasm, but aside from rent-controlled units, all housing rents at the equilibrium market rate determined by supply and demand. If someone jacks up the price of older apartments and is still able to find tenants, all that proves is that those apartments had been rented out at a price below the market rate before now. The market rate is quite simply the amount people are willing to pay.

Hence, my quotes around "market rate". The tech industry can afford to keep pouring salaries into employee pockets, therefore, tech workers will always be able to price out non-tech workers seeking affordable rents in the bay area.

You will never be able to outbuild what Facebook, Google, and the like can pay their workers. Zoning is not the issue, a slanted labor market is. And the tech labor market will continue to soak up whatever housing comes onto the market.
ESLint catches more errors.
:)) Parallax rulz
Watch a full show in 360 degrees
I've been very happy with the various XPS 13 systems. This one looks even better. Most likely my next computer.
I read the OP as making exactly your point. They were saying that the people they describe make the error you discuss, and get bad results on account of it.
When LLCs Make Sense for Startups
"you are reducing the victims of actual concentration camps to the status of food animals."

to be fair, it was the nazis that did that.
Cribspot (YC W15) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer and Sales Rep
What about GOG is better than steam? I'm pretty sure you can sell your game DRM free on steam too. Valve is also pushing pretty hard for Linux gaming.
Manhattan's northern neighborhoods aren't "slums."
Not even a mention of ClojureScript? :(
My zip code shows up as 'Austin, CA' when I searched 78701 which is Austin, TX.
There's a very small amount of data available. It suggests that international purchasers are around 6% of the total cash buyers of real estate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270279
I'm hardly the first to draw a comparison between the treatment of animals and the Holocaust [1]. Every year, 150 billion animals are born and slaughtered [2]. I think to compare their plight, which was happening long before the Jewish Holocaust and continues to this day, is offensive and shows a great lack of empathy, or understanding of their situation and present experience.

Just like us, non-human animals are not machines, they are not for the satisfaction of our needs in this world, and they do not belong to us. I therefore advocate a lifestyle that is called ethical veganism [3][4]. It goes well beyond the diet and includes all aspects of life and human and animal interaction.

Only when we look at other animals as individuals, with dignity and respect, can we really know who they are. As long as you cling to euphemisms and degrade sentient creatures to being mere commodities for your personal enjoyment, you will remain ignorant of their individuality, their ability to suffer and their desire to live and be free.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Treblinka-Treatment-Animals-Ho...

2. http://www.adaptt.org/killcounter.html

3. http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/

4. http://johnnytisdale.com/veganism-is-a-scientific-imperative...
I don't understand why would anyone think having a remote control system without any form of encryption or authentication is a good idea.
Huh?

On DE-International that is on [AltGr]+[Shift]+[,]: ×
The government is not a monolith - it's made up of people who follow incentives. Proposition 13 is basically the third rail of California politics, and there's very strong NIMBY tendencies in voters.

Fixing the housing issues in the Bay Area would be worth billions to the larger economy, but the people who make and influence the decisions are largely concerned with other matters (specifically, house prices and doing things that voters approve of).
https://speakerdeck.com/niteshkant/distributed-tracing-at-ne...

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/06/scalable-logging-and-tra...

https://github.com/Netflix/vector

Not terribly easy, but possible. I agree that "never have to SSH" is a bad target because there will always be edge cases, but for the majority of things it's possible to troubleshoot at the cluster level given immutable infrastructure; all the systems will be doing the exact same thing given an input. Reality shows that this is a bit idealistic, but if you start finding that e.g. A certain set of requests cause weird behavior, you can look at what makes those requests different, then set up some routing logic to send them to a debug farm (using something like https://github.com/Netflix/zuul ).
I'm not convinced that's a better approach than making sure we capture all the rain water.
It does, because otherwise you think technology never changes quickly. My point was while it's true we're probably reaching the point of diminishing returns for silicon etched circuits, that's not the end of the line. I'd be surprised if we didn't have ubiquitous quantum computers in thirty years or so unless something even better came along.
Bingo. This sort of dynamic has played out forever, but whatever the flaws in housing policy in today's shiny locales, not everyone can live there however perfect housing and construction policies were (and, of course, not everyone will agree on what constitutes perfection). The good news is that this is somewhat self-correcting. To the degree that a locale becomes unsupportably expensive, people and jobs start shifting to other areas. Adding a million housing units to San Francisco and the South Bay isn't going to happen anytime soon whoever is setting policy.
reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22WNkYKeo8
Strong Grounding in Mathematics for Students Key for Africa's Future
Flow has pretty good support for tagged unions like this which act like ADTs:

http://flowtype.org/blog/2015/07/03/Disjoint-Unions.html
I can't see it :(