skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't really make the comparison being made in #1 without a lot of assumptions that just don't actually hold water in the market.

Seattle has a population of 652k, with an average density of 8k/sq mi.

San Francisco has a population of 864k, with an average density of 18.5k/sq mi.

And yet:

Seattle has a jobs-to-housing ratio of 1.5

SF has a jobs-to-housing ratio of 1.6

So what explains SF's higher costs? Density coupled with massive wealth inequality. Period.

Upzoning increases land value in a tight market. Markets remain tight in desirable locations and no amount of development has been able to keep up; population is growing, job growth in the tech sector is high, and the wealth gap coupled with high demand means that there's enormous price elasticity for some, who then push the rest out.

High density construction carries a higher barrier to entry, and is almost exclusively allocated to rental units. Additionally, high density construction allows one to combine multiple profitable uses in the same plot; commercial and residential.

This accelerates the wealth divide, putting more money into the hands of fewer and fewer land owners, with rents tracking whatever the high demand is capable of sustaining. Nobody else ever builds up equity, the city winds up being owned by fewer and fewer, and the low end of the market is priced out.

This then requires attempts at government correction, through subsidized housing; either as outright grants to developers, zoning variances granted to allow higher margins in exchange for permanently affordable (but still rental!) units, tax credits, etc.

This further accelerates the growth of the wealth divide, as development and development investment companies begin to specialize in cornering access to (and brokerage of) these economic perks that are unavailable to individual potential home owners.

Density does not fix housing. It literally never has, and I do not even begin to understand how this conception became the norm amongst housing activists. As near as I call tell, it's something that's been green/liberal-washed as a necessity by those who profit the most from the government-funded development incentives.
Refer to the iOS Security Guide [1], starting on page 10.

1. https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Quick, Hide in This Closet! (1983)
Apply HN: Hackinator – Allow hackers to invest in YC startups using code :-)
Every startup has very tight resources, and yet they often need to add really bright highly paid individuals to their team. Hackinator will allow brilliant hackers to provide code development (or other similar services) to YC startups in exchange for shares in these companies. Startups would be submitting posts such as: "Develop our Android app for 0.1% shares of our startup". Since the startup has been selected by YC, the hacker will be somewhat confident that the startup has good potential.

Note: I am already involved with a startup of my own, but I am gladly offering this idea to anyone interested in pursuing it.
Yes. But I read somewhere that a newspaper vocabulary is targeted at somewhere around a 5th grade reading level.
This.

File a polite complaint that they are excluding members of the community unnecessarily, and that alternatives like meetup.com exist so you don't even need to run your own web server.
FYI - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html does not have any reference to the 'delay' variable. I still have no great idea what it does.
Really smart autonomous vehicles that automatically do ridesharing and that intelligently pack vehicles full of 4-6 people on their way in could do it. At that point you're dealing with an experience that's not too different from a bus though (i.e. sharing a space with strangers). There's not enough capacity for everyone to commute in on their own individual autonomous vehicle, nor is there enough parking downtown, so the vehicles would have to be commuting twice daily.
Well it was magic'd into existence so magic it back out. Most degrees are not worth the cost because the cost is set by loose credit, and credit is ex nihilo.
> My entire high school education was focused on how to get into the "best" college.

and? The alternative is closing doors.
I think that is mainly a matter of opinion. Unfortunately, you can't use Vivado with Xilinx's older, cheaper chips. I think beginners are more likely to use these chips than their more advanced, expensive chips. We'll have to see if the Spartan-7 is supported by Vivado or not.
> I mean in my state (WA), 48% of people below the poverty line are white, 18% are hispanic, 14% are asian, 14% are black.

You may just be getting numbers back based on the ethnicity that predominantly lives in your state.

Look at relative poverty numbers. i.e., of the number of people who are of ethnicity X, how many are poor? I think you'll surely find a correlation that OP describes as a decent first-order approximation.

For example: white 9%, hispanic 18%, black 37%. That's 2x and 4x more likely to be poor vs white depending on if you're hispanic or black.

[0] http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceeth...
I understand "activist" in this context to be something closer to "interpreting the law in some unusual way nobody could have thought of when they wrote it", as opposed to "using a clause to the letter of the law in an unambiguous way and any reasonable person would agree that that was the intent of the law to begin with" which is the case with ÓLG.

I think his detractors just don't like that he shit on their parade, so instead of addressing that issue they're making this absurd argument that he used a clause of law that had never been used before and ubsetting that status quo is somehow bad, while conveniently forgetting that that unprecedented clause was invoked in the midddle of an unprecedented financial crisis.
Cheap bike-sized rental lockers at transit stops might work too. I've seen those in the DC area. I'd much rather leave the bike at the station during the day than have to carry it with me into work and back.
> or complete luck that my overly analytical brain turned into something real.

You solved the case!
will be adding that soon
I majored in history at UNC and paid off my $26,000 in student loans with my first commission check from my first sales job.

One's major and even one's skills are not an accurate predictor of ability to pay back loans. It is entirely a question of persuading other people to pay you lots of money quickly, and the requisite amount of luck it takes to find such a person quickly.
And yet giant trains are somehow less-whatever-nonsense-you-just-pulled-out-of-your-ass.
I've added that to my todo list from today's discussion. My dismayingly lengthening todo list. But you're right.
It sounds like the tax break was the handout, not the TARP loan.
I tried this, and very quickly found that out. Thereafter, I considered very carefully whether any word that wasn't in the most common 1,000 was worth introducing, and used the top 1,000 freely. That ended up working pretty well. When I found a word that really helped, I added it to the list of words I could continue to use for what I was writing.
there's a known bug that tapping the "no plans nearby" card will cause the app to freeze or crash. A fix in in the review by Apple.
This is an incredibly niche feature today because no releases come packaged in archives. Furthermore, to my knowledge you can't really "stream" archives.
From an advertiser perpective, there's Google, there's Facebook, and there's everybody else. Ignoring everybody else doesn't seem to reduce sales.
Sounds really interesting.

When will it be available for testing and how will it be licensed, open source?
Meetup is worse than Facebook. Meetup sends emails.
Boston's average population density is 13.3k/sq mi.

San Francisco's average population density is 18.5k/sq mi.

SF has been developed beyond Boston levels, and it's still not enough.
Reapp – better than React Native or losing steam?
Non-college grad here (well, AA from a community college, but that doesn't really count). I get the impression that that some kids did really challenging programs or went to prestigious schools and that paid off really well, but a lot of kids bought into the "college = success" mantra. Every authority figure they knew was telling them that this was the only way to be successful and the schools were jacking up tuition to pay for more and more amenities. Indoor kayaking! Rock climbing walls! Extend your adolescence for four years and you'll magically be successful and pay it all off!

This is really a shocking dereliction of duty on the part of teachers and guidance counselors. It was just easy to go along with conventional wisdom and not apply any critical thinking and they ended up really screwing a lot of kids over.

All that said, I wish someone would have shown me the value of a really high-end education and helped me attain one.
Most popular commercial programs get bloated or out of touch over the years... I'm just a user but I was thinking that it is this way because developers need something to do and don't like to waste time doing nothing.
I moved from NYC to the rural reaches of upstate New York when I was 11. My family and folks I hung out had a mixed of "Lunged Idland", Brooklyn and Irish accents. Nobody had any idea what I was saying for several months after moving, with good reason.

The accent still pops out once in awhile, usually when I'm tired or agitated. Some folks find it grating or aggressive. I just tell them to screw off.
It may be marketing but I was able to implement a sequential A/B test based on it. Admittedly, I did need to do some work beyond merely copy/pasting an algorithm, but all I really needed to do was read their paper and some citations. I do believe that this document does describe a viable frequentist test and my implementation of it worked pretty well.

Disclaimer: I do stats work at VWO, an Optimizely competitor.

(Also if you want to read our tech paper, here it is: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/310840/VWO_SmartStats_technic... This describes our Bayesian approach, which we believe to be less likely to be wrongly interpreted by non-statisticians.)
I love it. It's also why they are so against distance learning (Quartz has a poll out on it, only 30% of faculty "support" it).

Academics have the gaul to set up an extortionist racket, and then find someone else to pay the costs of running it!
Is it? Or are you a whining little baby?
I'm no domain expert here, just a random HN user. But I think this looks cool though, is trying to solve a real problem.

My first thought: This is a very big problem space to be tackling all at once. Massively huge.

I could see it taking a lot of engineering time to build out a featured product, which has parity with the incumbents at the things they do well. Also your target customers are very process oriented, so you've a big challenge to sell to them. For any given engineering application, you're probably going to be missing some features or feature-richness they consider 'key', for at least the medium term.

Unless something has changed that means they can achieve their needs with a lot less functionality?
E.g. Spreadsheet software, by virtue of the inherent power and simplicity of the metaphor, turned out to be good at a lot of things, and killed a lot of special purpose apps. Even then it took a lot of resources to write an early spreadsheet package. And its really difficult to build horizontally successful products like that.

So the common pattern to tackle this is to pick a really narrow niche you can specialize in and dominate, within the wider market. Ideally a new or underserved niche, or one that has changed recently in some important way, which means it isn't being served optimally by existing solutions. And getting enough better than an incumbent in just that niche that you can get some traction, get funding, bootstrap your development, and [>5-10 years later] eventually build the more general product.

Have you thought about doing that? Its not always the best thing to do, but it should be given a lot of thought?
Simple Memory Model
The RISC-V address space is byte addressed and little-endian. Even though most other ISAs such as x86 and ARM have severalpotentially complex addressing modes, RISC-V only uses base+offset addressing with a 12-bit immediate to simplify load-store units.

I remember reading [1] that one reason C became so popular was because it was easy to write a compiler for, not because it was easy to write a program in. Thus, compilers emerged for various platforms, making it accessible. At the opposite, stuff like Smalltalk (I may be mistaking the language) were complicated to implement and the compilers/environments were expensive, limiting the reach.

Looks like the RISC-V is taking a page from this strategy book.

[1] was it Gabriel's Worse Is Better essay? https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
It give me a strange feeling with "Open" in title and documents in MS propriety file formats.
I've read many times about it happening in the U.S., but that's all I know.
Anyone got a screenshot for the lazy?
The Hit List, a list app for OS X and iOS did this a while ago. I actually stopped using the app for years because of the fee but looking again now, the syncing service has been made free and is included with subscriptions!
It is an artificial government subsidy, used to fund "non-profit" real estate development.
You aren't permanently forgetting it though, you're just temporarily forgetting it, and you're blanking on it worse than most people do.

Law enforcement isn't going to care if it takes you a little bit of time to get past your mental block and come up with the password. It's a much bigger deal if you truly forget it and can't reconstitute it at all.
Yes, and Facebook users are not aware that they are paying for Facebook, so the price comparison is brutal.
At the moment I am personally looking for great authors, and asking them if they would like to join(or allow me to add their stories).

We already have some pretty amazing authors and stories(check out http://fictionhub.io/story/the-metropolitan-man for example). Great fiction attracts readers, and as we grow our audience of readers - other authors have more incentives to join.

To maintain the high quality of content, we will have an invite system - new authors post their stories to the "sandbox"(a list of unapproved posts), and existing members of the community can send invites to the authors of stories they like. So we start with a few great writers, and organically grow from there.
The Rapid-Ride is an exception to a vast majority of the bus experiences I've had in the US though.
How is that propaganda? People with degrees make more money. The fact that universities had other goals doesn't mean their effects on graduates' earnings are any less real.

Are you saying we should lie to high school students about what does and does not lead to a high-paying job?
Simpler reason, I can't ride the bus to work without feeling sick. The uncomfortable seats, constant rocking, often too much heat, etc... all adds up to horrible motion sickness.

Compare that to the Skytrain in Vancouver, faster and never had that problem.

I also hate being jammed in with people. Just find it uncomfortable. Last time I took a public bus the guy next to me was pretty much asleep on my shoulder. I was tired too, but come on man. :/
I love the idea of story pitches/short teasers being greenlit by the community via prepurchasing the finished work at a discount. An interesting middle ground between the publisher mode and the self-published model. Especially if the org can offer editing etc, maybe via the crowd?
Prior art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lgluqEiQow
I would if users hadn't complained to us, but they did, so it seems like not a good idea. If it weren't such a new thing and the patterns were well-established, we'd probably say why not.
Can people at least leave some form of criticism when downvoting?
Not sure this has anything to do with young age (e.g 17 year olds). Plenty go to graduate school, to get MBA, Law degree and end up with insane amount of debt. Even from top tier schools, most are struggling to pay it off.
We are making a huge effort in keeping things very simple, we want to lower the barriers to entry by offering affordable hardware in two aspects: price and ease to implement-use (plug n play).

All this started over a year ago, we worked on some IoT projects, we realized we needed a platform to make it real, but none of the existing were simple and flexible enough for our needs.

The one project that kickstarted Undercontrol.io was monitoring the temperature of the fish tank we have at home, after some fish died due to an issue with the heater we started monitoring the temperature and receiving alerts when something went wrong. Sure, you can buy fancy sensors, but they are expensive, we already had all the components and the technology from other applications at home.
We believe IoT should be accessible for everyone, you have the example of Arduino, Raspberry Pi, NodeMCU and so many others. All of those are very useful developing tools, but we were missing a powerful workshop for creating real applications with all these tools.

From here we want to unleash the potential we believe our idea has, but baby steps first. :-)
Curiously, I've seen a lot of pushback in recent years (post-2012) on the idea that you should use an ORM. Many recent apps are firmly in the "pick a database, use it to its fullest, and stick with it" camp, probably because

a.) a number of new databases have come out recently that don't fit nicely into the SQL query paradigm

b.) many of the early ORMs (Hibernate, ActiveRecord, etc.) had terrible performance and that unfortunately has tarnished the reputation of all ORMs.

and c.) people try to use an abstraction layer, and then they actually switch databases and find out that the abstraction layer hasn't actually saved them any work.

It remains a contentious topic. Most programmers I know who learned to program in the 2000s think that you're crazy if you don't use an ORM, and setting yourself up for a lot of pain. Most programmers I know who learned to program in the 2010s think that you're out of touch if you do, and missing out on many of the new features in their favorite database. Most programmers I know who learned to program in the 1980s look on with amusement, because they know that the tech industry is driven by fads and you're screwed no matter what you do, so just muddle your way through it as best you can.

Be aware of this as you craft your messaging to different groups: this is not an effective comparison for the post-Node, post-mobile-app developers I know.
Micro-degree are already a student... they're called an associates..

Nurses used to really only need an associates, however some hospitals are now requiring RNs to obtain a bachelor of science in nursing.. Getting a tad ridiculous.
Why not? It was done on real hardware in the 80s, right? hell, here's one:

http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/
For what it is worth, I ride transit a lot in Seattle and really like the electric trolleybuses we have here. The new ones are whisper quiet, have air conditioning, are generally a smooth ride, and belch no black smoke. I will modify trips to be on one of those instead of a diesel bus. My house is on a trolley route, by choice.

Metro has almost completely eliminated the older high-floor diesels that are loud and rickety. Next up is ditching the longer, old conversion electric buses.
Debt is cheap and nobody cares about the future. Every Mayor plans to be gone in 1-2 terms.

Also, in the US, government mushroomed in the late 60s with the "Great Society" welfare programs and war on drugs. So state and municipal governments in most states are dealing with underfunded pension programs. Transportation that isn't Federally funded is discretionary spending.
What else could you do to attract readers? How are they hearing about the site now? Is there a particular kind of reader/author you're trying to appeal to first?

I would love to see an alternative to 1.) Fiction publishers as middle man and 2.) Awful self-published fiction in the kindle store.
I had a similar problem - I was around 7.8%. I refinanced (with Earnest, though SoFi and others provide similar service) and got it down to 4.71. Increased my payment a bit, and cut my term down by more than a decade. Now, just 117 more payments to go.
Clicky: http://brightwork.io
Google invents smart contact lens with built-in camera:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/180571-google-invents-sma...
The kicker to me is that you can't drink till you're 21; look at porn, buy cigarettes, or consent to sex with an adult until you're 18... but you can sign a federal promissory note for "super debt" that will fuck up your life and the lives of your next of kin.
This is probably very similar to Patreon, and we'll have to look very closely at its success if we move forward.

My understanding is that when you pledge on Patreon you sign-up for a recurring subscription and then author then produces the work. You then have to unsubscribe if you no longer care about the authors work.

On this platform, the content would already be written ready for you consume. If you are enjoying a novel, you can pay to unlock more content immediately. You are not committing to a subscription, instead you are making a one time small purchase.

I think this can be better for authors too, because if somebody discovers an author with a large back catalog, they can go back and buy all their old premium content.
You mean can't, right?
Come on you guys.
But a lack of knowledge and understanding is a solvable problem by education and advice.

A lack of reasonable choices is a problem that can only be solved by social change of one sort or another.

You could almost say that "you have known better than to get yourself into this" aspect of the situation is a cover for the "you were screwed no matter what by the way things were set up" problem.
Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up l
Google Saves
One Node.js server can do 10x that! /s
This is a bad situation that's going to get worth. Student aid is great and all but I see a lot of people with useless degrees. If someone can expect to make $35k/year after graduation they shouldn't be able to borrow $200k to get there, it just doesn't make sense.
Safe-harbour might be responsible for the web we have today. I can't imagine a web without its protections.

That said, the DMCA exists in multiple countries now thanks to trade negotiations. No way it's being changed...
The Strange, Accidental Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
BRT is compatible with raised buses: the platform can be built at any height, so disabled (or otherwise-rolling) passengers will have already cleared a ramp or elevator when the vehicle arrives.
Just a useful trick, you can have the best of both worlds if you respond with "well, it depends", play up a dramatic pause, and follow with "on one hand..." and finish with a counter-point. It seems to result in a less argumentative response when people disagree as well.
Great 2 cents !!
I agree that social networks are tough. I did a whole course studying them. But the idea I am proposing is more of a community than a social network, although community aren't easier either.

Agreed again,I do not need the YC funding. Although the advice,resource and the environment that it provides can be incredibly valuable. Having said that everyday there are great companies built outside of YC so yes will still give this a shot anyway

Yes but I just had this idea few days ago and with a full time job have just got some wireframes and data models done. I did not want to miss on Apply HN thread and the valuable feedback here. For example from one of the comments here I already changed one of my data models.

Also I am one man team right now :) so I realized from the feedback here that I would need a UI or hopefully a front-end UI founder on this.

I hope to move from Apply HN to Show HN. Thanks again
I'm late to party, but Premii's HN client has collapsible comments and keyboard navigation.

http://hn.premii.com/