skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing in SF is an incredibly powerful illustration of the danger of letting things get so bad that the usual remedies no longer apply.

Basically:

- Traditionally, the proper fix for a shortage of housing is to build more houses. Just lift the existing regulations, and let the free market do what it does best: take care of the demand at an efficient price.

- However, after years and years of very slow building, the amount of pent up demand is such that even if builders were allowed to construct houses, the houses would almost all be built for the very well off. The amount of houses you'd have to build before you started constructing truly affordable housing is immense.

- People that are in rent regulated apartments have absolutely nothing to gain from more construction. However, even poor people that have no stable housing also have almost nothing to gain from new construction because their only realistic chance of having affordable rent is through subsidies or semi-public housing in the medium term.

- The people that have the most to gain are the moderately well off who can afford SF rents, but cannot find housing at the existing market rate.

Basically - politicians and residents let the situation with housing in SF get so absolutely bad that free-market based solutions would take a crazy amount of time to create affordable housing for poor people. At this point, I'm not sure there even are good solutions, especially if you limit yourself to what is politically feasable.

The lesson to draw from this is that you should never let the situation get so bad that people at the bottom stop caring completely about improving policy. In this case, the right policy (build A LOT more houses) would barely help poor people because the supply/demand curve is so out of wack. The very people that should benefit the most from improving the housing situation are instead opposing it - for fairly rational reasons.
Good question - we don't have much IRR data on 500 Startups' funds (most of them are still open), but they never have trouble raising more money for new funds, so I assume their LPs are happy.
I recently saw this entertaining video about Amstrad and Alan Sugar in the 80s and 90s (also by Kim Justice, not the first time he's been linked in this thread), which makes the point that to Sugar's credit, Amstrad was the only UK manufacturer to recognize the potential of mainland western Europe and make an effort to market its machines there while the others were fixated on trying (and failing) to 'break' America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIXn9Tr5hI
Well, go man. it will be stupid if you donot . best of luck
Yes. I would use OOo if the equation typesetting wasn't awful. They don't seem to have put any effort into improving it over the years. MS Word typesetting has become quite good, though not up to the best you can get with LaTeX.
I've worked remote for the past 10 years and I'll say treat your workspace as a real office, good chair, monitors, wireless headset, closed door to minimize any noise. Scheduling tasks is absolutely critical because I find your way more efficient and focused without office distractions. I'm easily 2x more efficient vs an office so I have more time with non-work activities. Get a small office or have access to one of those shared space offices to get away at times, don't think that Starbucks and Panera are places to get actual work done. It's easy to over work, so set aside time to learn something new to keep things interesting.
Espresso actually works reasonably well. Unfortunately it still has problem with handling timings and sometimes it just plainly doesn't find views that are clearly on screen and responding to touches.

Also it drags in 20k+ methods (whole guava!) which can cause severe problems since instrumentation APKs currently cannot be multidexed or proguarded with Gradle.
After the Blast
SRGMediaPlayer for iOS
This is how the press earns exclusive interviews with high ranking executives at Google. Same stuff as when "How Google Works" was released.
Demand to interview at least your manager and your manager's manager. I ask for the 3rd level as well.
Apply HN: Don't wast your food, get it tracked
1. Scan the food you buy before storing it.

2. Get notified when an item is going to expire.

3. (if the idea gets traction) add a feature to suggest a recipe related to what you got at home.

Food saved, money saved, better environment.
There is no way to enforce data integrity between related tables by virtue of the data model for one thing.
Oh boy, yet another article claiming that if only private investors were regulated less then "all of our problems would be solved". These will never get old.

>The only way to fix it is through a radical change in our housing policy: a change that encourages (a lot of) building.

No, the only way to fix it is to actually build a lot of housing. If you have trouble imagining what that would look at, take one look at Singapore.

To make this happen requires pitchforks, eminent domain, and political will not economic tweaks to building policy.

>Incorrect claim 2: Investment capital will never build affordable housing

Not incorrect at all. Affordable housing meets the demand for a place to live by the middle class but it doesn't meet the demand of the ultra wealthy for a yield bearing asset.

The "lack of demand" for affordable housing is a facet of massive wealth inequality and the treatment of living places as yield bearing assets.

>The forces behind those aren't singular movements or collectively one movement alone.

ZIRP is pretty much behind most of it. If you want somebody to point a pitchfork at, Ben Bernanke or Janet Yellen are as good a target as any. They are largely responsible for homes being transformed into mostly investment vehicles that provide living space from vice versa.
I think the idea is that classes are a good and natural thing, and if you're born into a poor family, that's because you and your family are naturally (genetically) inferior and you deserve to be there. And they like hardcore unrestricted capitalism, so if you're a worthwhile person you'll pull yourself up and be successful. The ideal government is just a monarch who enforces the law and does nothing else, so you wouldn't have welfare of any kind.

As for civil rights, I think basically they look at old successful civilizations and say "they were all sexist and racist, so that must be part of their success". But as I'm sure you know, capitalism solves all problems, so if social equality is really a good thing, countries will compete to ensure equality so they can retain the best citizens and businesses.

I apologize to any darkly enlightened people if I have misunderstood your beliefs. Feel free to darkly enlighten me.
It's not driven by capitalism (any more than any transaction ever has been), it's driven by consumerism. Twinkies would not be manufactured or sold if people didn't like gobbling them up at the available price. Stop blaming corporations (which are just made up of people) and simply blame your fellow citizens for being a bunch of idiots.
I don't understand why they're not wearing balaclavas. Don't they know we can see who they are now?!
Ask HN: How do you share photos?
Having just been on a vacation, I have mid-sized (~200) collection of photos I'd like to share with friends and family.

There seem to be a bunch of sharing options out there, which one do you use?

I need a network that either the recipient doesn't need to use, or is likely to be using already (aka Facebook), where I can control specifically the list of people who see the album, and where I can choose a couple of different subsets to show different groups of people.
The simple answer is realize your more nervous than the person or group interviewing you. You may not be completely yourself as your nervous, but they are being themselves.

If they act aggitated, aggressive, nervous, rushed, etc... Thats most likely either their true personality or a real problem of their workplace.

When you ask to meet your coworkers are they nervous or friendly. Does their boss say anything nice about them... Etc...
Says nothing at all about the tech.
In the United States, if the "city dwellers" all disappeared, the "rural folk" would go from barely getting by despite being heavily subsidized by everyone else to some kind of devolved state that looked like an Amish version of The Road Warrior.

If the opposite happened, urban areas would buy their food somewhere else and eventually save some money thanks to the increased competition in the market and the lack of agricultural subsidies, not to mention all the other ways we subsidize rural America's inefficiencies.
Haven't heard of torify before but it looks cool. Does the app being invoked by it have to be able to use a SOCKS proxy or does it auto wrap all socket connections?
Ask them directly -- don't phrase it "Hey, are you an asshole?", but ask them questions that will help inform you of their approach to the organization:

1) What is your leadership style?

2) How do you resolve conflicts on the team?

3) Tell me about the communication style of the team.

If you get a chance to talk to team members without the boss being present, ask similar questions - conflict resolution, communication, collaboration styles, etc. This should give you enough information to judge for yourself if it is a healthy team environment, or not.
1. Samsung is indeed a megacorp and has 489,000 employees.

2. Organizations this large traditionally have a huge problem with employee performance. (Q: How many people work at IBM? A: Half of them.)

3. Middle management will be forced implement Lean Six Sigma or techniques like this to prove a certain level of control to upper management.

4. Some things don't scale, like a company with 500k employees.

5. At least American consumers have a negative view of Samsung: phones don't get regular updates, your TV spies on you by recording everything in the living room.

6. You may be happier in a smaller organization that doesn't have to play these HR games.
Jason Fried is a master at managerial science. Hopefully some day we will look back on him as a pioneer in treating employees well, and we'll wonder why we were decades behind him on employee satisfaction and retention.
The Slack Platform Roadmap
In theory, this could alleviate some of the issues you are seeing in SF, but in practice this is not something many tech companies founded here would do. Most new tech companies are being started by people already working in the industry, and the industry is located in Silicon Valley, with epicenter now being in SF. So it just doesn't make sense from a competitive perspective for most companies to move out of the Bay when there's no better place for "tech".

To me, the most logical conclusion is to organize and create the political will to create the housing necessary to alleviate prices. This could be on a regional level - building more housing throughout the east bay and peninsula, or organizing on the city level to re-zone and re-develop parts of the city that can most easily support denser development.

Not everyone will like it but as long as you have more people than the anti-more-housing crowd and are organized to vote, it can be done.
> the ideal solution is to build lots more housing - it's the morally and ethically correct thing to do.

What do you mean when you say "morally and ethically correct"?
Instead of taxing people (negative reinforcement), build better (or at least function) transit with the absurd amount of tax dollars already generated(positive reinforcement).

Taxing parking(which is already done) is something only 2 groups of people will/can support:

1) Those without a car ( can afford to live close to work,take uber, rent cars - high income people)

2) Those who can afford the tax (high income people)

So no, this is most definitely not the solution.
Not a moment too soon, especially considering I would probably save time using Xamarin in VS from start to end now.
Honestly I think this guy misses the point. A lot of the extreme minimalism we see today is more about visual aesthetics rather than a clean designed meant to make an application easy to use.

A messy interface is NOT a good thing. What the author seems to try to imply is that minimal interfaces means you lack of functionality or capability. That is a misconception. It is perfectly possible to make complex interfaces with few features or simple interfaces with lots of features.

You can e.g. simplify a interface by making it easy to combine functionality and you can complicate it by making lots of overlapping functionality which can't combine.

Another way to make something complex without adding features is to always display all possible actions even when they are not relevant for the task you are presently doing. Clean interfaces strive towards only showing the actions relevant to what you are presently doing.
Ah, post with one comment couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429941
It's definitely a setting on meetup too.
Switching careers in QA: From manual testing to automation development
How old are your kids? I've got a 3 and a 0 year old at home (with a nanny) and even on a separate floor, the chaos is making me want a regular office job again after 5 years working from home.
Ty. And there it is: "collaborate on new technology and advertising opportunities."

I read that and laughed. I suppose their bed is for Millennials and Advertisers now, but it's kind of interesting that Advertisers still haven't learned.

UX brains cells die though when advertisers get involved.
I've been running into Luke Gorrie's cool projects in different languages since my early university days in 2006. Somehow he always does inspiring stuff, and gives off a really friendly vibe. Cheers!
-If respect isn't reciprocal, run.

-If you only get canned questions, run.

-If questions are machine gunned without any followups, run.

-If the hiring/interview process is needlessly complicated, run.

-If they give you an IQ test or similar, run.

-If they're not paying attention [0], run.

-If a pattern exists of mistakes (forgot to call, etc), run.

-If, when discussing pay, HR says "Yeah, sometimes we hire people knowing they won't last and only fit a political agenda."..... run. True story.

-If the recruiter tells you, "The path you're going down will lead to failure unless you do a startup. Frankly, I don't see you doing a startup"... run. Also true story.

..Ultimately, it comes down to gauging how "human" they are towards you. If the interviewer[s] lacks empathy, it's a sign somewhere up the chain that something's not right. Mind you, that's not to say that the interviewer doesn't necessarily have empathy.

[0] Seriously, this happens at about 20% of my interviews. Put away your fucking laptop and just listen, interviewers!
I've found this amazing media player library on MIT license with 988(!) commits and I totally don't understand why it has only 18 stars.
You can ask how long team members have been with the organization, to tactfully get a sense of turnover. At a young company you might ask how team came together: was it through past working relationships and friendships? or the internet equivalent of putting an ad in the paper?
There isn't much hard probability/statistics in deep learning since most of the stuff is empirical(IE: these neural network architectures work b/c we tried it and it works!). I'd say that deep learning is very accessible to the novice practictioner if you really want to dive into it; it doesn't require the same sort of mathematical background that something like signal processing might.
S-expressions are the better alternative to XML.
I shall add to your thanks. Joe's the first thing I install on any new box or server and has been my default "quickly edit this thing" editor for a decade and a half now.

Thanks, Joe author!
That's disappointing. I was really looking forward to reading the book.
Third-party libraries are one of the highest security risks
(I'm the author)

Even putting aside the ethical and moral arguments, which carry a lot of weight for me:
(1) There are network effects in urban environments.
(2) Globally, specific industries often concentrate in specific cities. A lot of tech has concentrated in the Valley up to the San Francisco. The effects are getting stronger as that migration occurs. That's a great thing: it allows for people to move between companies easily, allows ideas to be shared, etc, etc.[1] That effects is and will continue to be hard to replicate elsewhere.
(3) Destroying that seems like a gigantic waste.
(4) We are destroying it through our current public policies -- housing and other.
(5) I believe there are political solutions, just not ones that have been well-organized.

[1] Urbanism has a lot of other benefits too, if done right: like less traffic, and a lower per capita carbon footprint.
A Cloaking Device for Transiting Planets
The correct answer is to hire the expertise to get it done. Can't blame the neighbors for looking at your lawn if setting up a high fence is easy and you chose not to.
> Even when the storm passed and the systems came back online, data in magnetic storage (including all hard drives and SSDs) would have been irrecoverably damaged.

SSDs? Would even actual magnetic storage like hard drives really be damaged? If I understand correctly the electromagnetic 'pulse' would come very slowly, cause huge spikes on long wires like electric distribution networks, but I don't see how it would wipe disks unless it's just by way of forcing lots of uncontrolled power from the electrical outlets through the computer. Would that really happen? Also, mobile devices not attached to the grid would then still work, also PCs not currently connected.
Can we call it EMCAScript2015? It will help people get into the habit of referring to annual releases. ES6 was actually never called that right? The last ES was ES5.
The Not So Easy Oculus Rift Constellation Teardown
Countries That Use Tor Most Are Either Highly Repressive or Highly Liberal
Another option is to actually make it a free market by reintroducing homesteading. Undeveloped or unused land, after a period of abandonment, would effectively become open game for anyone to start developing and the previous owner would forfeit it.

Using real estate as a store of wealth, like gold, is incredibly toxic for society, because it basically takes money (and in the case of real estate, land) out of the economy to mitigate fiscal risk.
I'm really hoping Apple will get it into gear soon enough that I don't have to develop a separate iOS app.
Throwing two things in a bucket and information is lost. This makes the topic so complex everyone talks about carbs but almost no one talks about that fructose and glucose are very different in very significant ways:

1) Natural prevalence: Glucose is more common
2) Digestion: Glucose is transported by different mechanisms from the gut to the bloodstream. The mechanisms for fructose are in some people significantly weaker
3) Regulation in the body: Glucose is regulated by insulin and handled by all cells. Fructose is left to the liver and contributes to blood triglycerides.

If intake, processing, regulation and resting places are different should there not always be two different discussions?
Maybe something like it will happen..

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/04/05/boston-housin...
Palmer says: "Come on, @iFixit, you can go further than that! :)"

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/715269888948854784
Le Corbusier! I guessed right. Now I have to admit I don't really know what he meant by this.
This is awesome! Thanks.
FbI traffics in child porn. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/21/fbi-ran-websit...
They fabricate evidence when they cannot make a case. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment...
This is obviously coercion. Connecting the porn files to one of their websites would be very beneficial to the defense, and something I would love to see in the court record.
I've been going through this series of video lectures on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5102DFDC6790F3D0

for a basic "Stats 101" course.

There's also this archived Coursera course. There aren't any active sections to sign up for, but the videos are still available:

https://class.coursera.org/introstats-001
> are only adjusted upon sale of the property

While often repeated, that is incorrect. In reality property tax goes up 2% every year under prop 13.
Steel password manager now has a GUI as well as command line interface
'sysadmin'

I used to think server/sysadmin was one job where you had to be there and that remote job was only for devs. But now with AWS and cloud computing, sysadmin for remote working is just as easy. Amazing how things change.
Its to allow you to easily move by shipping your pod with all of your stuff in it, no need to do as much packing/unpacking. Pretty much the only thing to move would be to secure breakables then lock your cabinets shut.

This would make it easier to change employers as you only need to see if a potential employer has open rack space nearby, rather than dealing with possibly selling/buying a house or finding a suitable apartment nearby.
I used to do it on and off for a year or more 15 years ago.

I did it just for fun but noticed significantly improved productivity during the week.

I too would drink juice in the morning and possibly juice or 2 sugarcubes at lunch but not always and no calories otherwise.

To ease into fasting I would start by skipping dinner. Skipping breakfast was then easy (for me at least) and the rest of the week was no problem.

Then during a boring week in the military I decided to test what I had heard that we have 80% left when we feel completely exhausted. So after a couple of days of my "normal" fasting (IIRC) I skipped even my breakfast juice and continued without. Later that day I went to the gym and started lifting weights. 15 minutes into that I was completely drained and I was shaking for hours afterwards (again IIRC). That was my last time. :-/

I want to try again, but with a family it is way harder (and that experience kind of scared me.)
I was bored, so here is a quickly thrown together generic "thing" DB model: http://dbpatterns.com/documents/5706a53c1514b428de88940c
many sites still sadly support IE<=8

I'm curious: how much have "evergreen" browsers changed this? Do developers typically target Chrome from a few months ago? Two years ago? Just "today"?

Maybe a better way to put it: if you only cared about Chrome, how long would you wait after a new feature was introduced to start using it?
Half of what I ever said online is about this. Somehow, I never got to write a detailed description of the vision.

Perhaps I should take this opportunity to make that happen.
BART now designates high-cost areas. You can see it in the tri-valley, the new Whole Foods in Dublin is a good indicator. Now they want to build an IKEA next to it.

Poorer, non-tech people are getting pushed out to Tracy and made-from-scratch exurbs like Mountain House.

SF is just the center, Oakland/Berkley is getting hit hard now. The Uber acquisition of that large office complex in Oak has set off a bonanza. The hipster brigade is already popping up in weird places in Oakland. Really not sure where all the poor people will go.

There is one, weird, and very not pc observation though: old home owners get pushed out, but in the East Bay you see a lot of Indian newcomers moving in - and not highly paid executives, but Indian fresh out of rural areas in India, men in sandals (no socks, ever) and women in full garb. Where is that money coming from?