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Apples and oranges. The new car market dealership model actually obfuscates the price so much that prices can vary wildly by thousands of dollars for the same model and package options. It is a very consumer unfriendly process. You could even make a claim that regulation is partially to blame for this.

The used car market is full of scams, and has the used-car salesmen ever been seen as a trustworthy individual? The independent used-car inspector I went through had a disclaimer that they charge extra to inspect cars on lots out on 82nd ave in Portland because of how notoriously bad they are at selling people lemons. There are many salvage sellers on Craigslist, who fail to mention how badly the car was damaged before being repaired, and those repairs are usually poorly done. Some of the cheapest options are cars with recalls that the seller never mentions in their ad.

Soap? The raw materials, use cases and costs involved with soap are so out of align with that of housing, I can't see "it works for soap" being a viable argument. In many poor neighborhoods there are "food/grocery deserts", so access to cheap soap can be an issue.
As I said, if it's too unbearable a hack for you to unlink() the file directly after creat()ing it (to get an anonymous file handle that nobody else can see), for the unlikely case that the system crashes just in between, then just go ahead and use O_TMPFILE. It was made for you!

If you don't want to use O_TMPFILE (not super-portable) then just open(path, O_CREAT|O_EXCL). That fails should there be another file lying around, and you can try again with another random name.

Btw. you can also just mmap(2) some anonymous non-disk-backed memory, and possibly open_memstream(3) on it to get a FILE * if that suits you better.
In my experience even seasoned designers do a poor job of this. They show you comps of with the perfect set up -- everything populated, beautiful photos uploaded by the user that are perfectly square, 100 comments on very post (or whatever the analog is for your app).

I've gotten a lot more insistent that designers show me "empty" designs where the user has just signed up and various corner cases like a photo that is really tall.
I hope you have written your experiences down somewhere - and if you have, I'd love to read them.
Which country were you a representative of?
The problem is that the Bay Area has too much money. Period, end of story. You can't fix things by going unregulated.

Douglas Rushkoff talks about how Internet companies these days are extractive, and Facebook is the prime example of this. (I'm not demonizing Facebook in any way, I respect the hell out of them.) The nature of how they make money is that they have users from around the world, and all their money essentially flows from those countries of origin into Menlo Park. It's extractive, and there's more money flowing into Menlo Park than would have normally occurred without a global economy. The same goes with Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, etc. There's an inordinate amount of money flowing into the Valley because of this globally extractive nature of the Internet and that's the problem.

So now, Facebook et al can afford to hire very good engineers. Friends of mine with 8-10 years of experience are making $180-200k with 15% bonus and $350,000 in RSUs over 4 years. That figure is unbelievable. Over 4 years they are making over $1,300,000 each. And they are good but run-of-the-mill engineers that passed the interview. I'm assuming all the engineers at places like Netflix, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Google, etc are all making equivalent amounts of money, or more.

How can anyone in a "normal" job compete against this? My kids' daycare teachers make $40-50,000/yr. Two Facebook engineers make more money than the entire daycare that my children go to. Of course there is going to be rampant inflation across the board when there is so much money circulating in this area. Things like Uber can thrive because it's cheap relative to time.

So, deregulation is not the answer because it will just be exploited by the rich. Do you really think that rampant building across the

The only answer is for companies like Facebook to distribute their workforce back around the US or around the world. Having Silicon Valley being the money capital of the world is causing this problem, just like it does for Wall Street. Facebook, Google, etc, need to move their workforce around, with real equal development centers in the MidWest, in the South, on the East Coast, in Europe, Africa, Asia. This will distribute the money and cause income inequality to abate here.

This is the only answer. You can't stop it with deregulation, or even regulation, because the money won't stop flowing.
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I went to UCLA with one of the authors, weird to see this pop up on HN.
It sounds to me like the OP is actually looking for SRV records, which are basically generalised MX records.
Totally agree. Actually went in depth on this with Heroku for an article a while back.

https://blog.codeship.com/exploring-microservices-architectu...
10x indeed. This is an example of that even rarer creature, the "unstoppable" engineer. Need an FPGA? I'll just learn verilog. Never made a pcb but need one? No prob, just learn kicad and figure out how to solder SMD. No docs? Just reverse engineer. No tools? Make my own.

This approaches Woz level engineering, if not 100% technically, at least philosophically.
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An attack on liberalism. The Guardian really is a very poor quality publication.
> One issue is that unlike many other Unix API issues, it's impossible to test to see if you got it all correct and complete. If your steps are incomplete, you don't get any errors; your data is just silently sometimes at risk.

There is no problem with the API. The issue is in an underlying assumption, that data sometimes is not at risk. Sadly or maybe luckily, there is nothing you can do to guaranty 100% durability, no point trying to do the impossible. Your data is always silently at risk. Accept it, deal with it, minimize the risk, if you need to. Like replicate your data synchronously cross continent.
On the one hand, you have established residents pushing back against expansion, construction, and denser housing -- perhaps to preserve what they value in their community, or perhaps out of personal interest and to drive up their property values.

On the other, you have a massive influx of tech workers who have convinced themselves that they must live in this small, overpriced city for their basic livelihood, and that the city should rapidly rebuild itself to accommodate them.

There's entitlement on both sides.

Could San Francisco have higher population density to accommodate the recent surge in housing demand? Sure. It already has the second highest population density in the U.S., but it could be denser. But the truth is there's no way to guarantee affordable housing for everyone who decides they would like to live in a small, in-demand city on the tip of a tiny peninsula. There will always be people who can't afford it.

> But I'm not so entitled as to think that my occaisional aesthetic pleasure is more important than someone else's basic livelihood.

No, but you're entitled enough to think that a city should be rebuilt to accommodate your livelihood, rather than your livelihood determining where you can reasonably afford to live. You're entitled enough to think you must live in SF, and you shouldn't have to consider living somewhere more affordable. If you can barely make ends meet and can't see your kids because you're commute is so long, why subject yourself to that?

As much as I'd like San Francisco's housing prices to come down, I also think rebuilding should be done responsibly and not rushed to accommodate a relatively recent surge in demand.
You might look at probably the most popular system to ship with an object store, the Apple Newton. I would probably start there and work my up API wise.
Implement full accountability for all promises and actions in order to fix the most glaring issues. But who would go into politics if you're accountable for lying or misappropriation of funds (which includes uneconomic projects).
Uber is afraid of Google. That's why the maps in Uber's driver app can't plan a route according to traffic, they don't use google maps.
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So do you feel like Saudia Arabia is extracting money from the West? And while we worry about being dependent on foreign energy sources, should they be worried about foreign money sources?

Google and Facebook succeed in part because they attract the best engineers. Those people aren't going to move to the midwest or wherever just because it's "better" for the economy.

It's called trade.
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"competes with" does not mean that it's better in all use cases.

But even in an extreme example like storing a single timestamp, there are situations where you want various guarantees that SQLite makes easy.
Ask HN: 10 year old girl with creative stop motion art wants to program a game
At my son's birthday party today, a friend's daughter said to me 'you know how to program games and apps. I have some ideas and I want to program a game'. She showed me some really wicked stop-motion video she created with hand-drawn graphics (sharks hunting sharks underwater). I asked about her primary goal - it is mobile phones (1), tablets (2), PC(3), not consoles. Her dad would set up a Linux PC for her, though she can use her mom's Windows PC, too.

Any people with experience here - what would be the easiest way for her to start?
I think a great many people who would consider themselves Keynesians are rather pro free-trade. I'm thinking here of Paul Krugman who despite have recently backed off saying trade is universaly good has been very much pro free trade.

It's also not at all clear that free trade is the primary culprit in the decline of manufacturing labor. Robots are way cheaper over the long term than are even abused sweat-shop workers.

Krugman acknowledges that trade as universally positive is a bit wrong, but even so doesn't think protectionism is necessarily the correct solution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/opinion/trade-labor-and-po...
How am I implying or reinforcing the idea that our federal budget is analogous to a household budget? There is no FUD here.

> This is completely ignorant. The federal government is an issuer of currency and therefore has infinite amounts of money . We are no longer on the gold standard where money was limited by gold reserves.

That's a tautology. We are only an issuer of currency insofar as we have credit. Our credit rating is heavily dependent on our ability to make interest payments, which are $222BN annually.

Now maybe what you're saying is that since we can issue more currency, we will never be unable to make these payments because US debt is denominated in US dollars. And sure, that's technically true, but absolutely no one in America comes out ahead after that. Americans are the people most invested in the future of the dollar-- particularly lower and middle class Americans who have savings accounts and retirement funds that are mostly denominated in US dollars, whereas rich people hold capital assets.

So that doesn't address my point, which is that right now we have an expenditure of $222BN annually and we're obligated to make those payments or face some consequences that are much greater.

And all I'm saying is that it would have been really great if we didn't have to spend those $222BN every year. And what would be less great, but still great, is if we could start moving that number down.
sync_file_range(2) allows you to specify ranges to sync, instead of the whole file, but it's not that useful anyway.

In most DBs, you have separate data and log. The log is always only appended to, and the nature of disks is such that grouping concurrent transactions together into a single commit is a big win regardless of how syncing works. So syncing all outstanding I/O to the log file is generally what you want to do anyway.

While the data store is always being written to, its writes do not need to be synced to disk until a log checkpoint is made (and the old log subsequently discarded). And since that is an intermittent asynchronous process, there is not much to gain from finer-grained syncing here either.

See e.g. http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4A51CB76.5020407@enterp...
Thanks, it's a great article that deserves even more attention. Is there still a plan to make public the list of re-upped articles? I think it would be a good resource. Please at least keep a log of them for future use.
I can't even begin to describe how condescending your comment comes across as.
I was wrong about the 1k net -- that's the article's quote from Aaron Peskin, which I read as their summary. But your original comment ("64,000 in 2014") is still way off:

“This official census data [the American Community Survey] shows a one-year in-migration of 63,991 people, with an out-migration of 62,757 residents — a net population increase of 1,234.”

That's the article's quote from Peskin. The article contends he's wrong, and that the net migration, per year since 2010, is ~10k.

The actual census website [1] says that SF had a population of 805k in 2010, and estimates that it will be 865k by 2015. So ~12k per year, net. Peskin's numbers look low, but your original claim ("64,000 in 2014") is wrong by a factor of >500%.

"Certainly not insurmountable problems; Manhattan went from 942,292 people in 1870 to 1,164,673 in 1880."

If you think that Manhattan was a magical wonderland between 1870 and 1880, I suggest you pick up a history book. It was a brutal time for poor people in that city. [2]

[1] http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045214/06075
[2] http://www.livingcityarchive.org/htm/decades/1870.htm
That or cases where you have several people debating and you always have a "joker" who tries his/her best to interrupt someone else with lame jokes.
Your problem with ideology is that its not as comforting as religion? I think ideology can help take a 10,000 foot view of highly complex situations. There are many factors in a political or economic decision but we can easily say that free markets have worked better through global history than communism.
looks crazy, and like others it strained my credulity. But the interview sounded pretty authentic and the description of the development process also sounded credible. The Hiller Air Platform [1] was reasonably successful in the 50's and had less HP than modern RC turbojets can produce so the physics would seem to be credible as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee (you can see this at the Hiller Museum in San Mateo)
Excellent article. Just the paragraph bellow deserves its own extended commentary:

> The screener was instructed to take down videos depicting drug-related violence in Mexico, while those of political violence in Syria and Russia were to remain live. This distinction angered him. Regardless of the country, people were being murdered in what were, in effect, all civil wars. "[B]asically," he said, "our policies are meant to protect certain groups."

Among other things it puts Putin's decision to grab VKontakte from its founder in a new light. Presumably videos of Mexican violence (supported by American guns and by the Americans' desire for drugs) are not banned on VK, while Russian violence I suppose is now easily banned. It also makes him look less like a paranoid for accusing the US special services of having "created the Internet" (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/vladimir-putin-...)
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Good point. I assumed a 1-year, $33-million was just as bad as a long term deal but it may not have been.
Disgraceful. I think solving that problem is one huge step a dating site can make. Though, the old technical solutions to social problems thing comes up.

Perhaps one step is a write up of what you wish to get out of the service. Over time, find patterns with those write ups and that behaviour.

Interrsring problem.
How does one learn how to do this stuff? Low level programming interests me immensely but I can never find a good resource for how to learn. I know C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Objective-C, Swift, but the only reason I have been able to learn these languages and their technologies is because of the resources available. Can anyone point me in the right direction to become acquainted with low-level technologies/understanding?
You're not wrong. Any developer for example that can find remote work can benefit from the plummeting real estate costs to be found in any of the areas that have seen an outflow of people in search of work in urban areas.

There are countless communities across the US that are aging, as the youth have moved to the metropolis to work. Anyone that can extract money from the internet can benefit from this trend.

Couple that with low interest rates, good credit and a duplex and you can live without paying a cent for housing. This works well in towns with some sort of natural beauty, but few jobs. Grab those tourist dollars via airbnb rentals and take it easy.
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Nope, every single programming language and computing interface is an attempt to avoid writing machine code. :)
Even easier than open(2) with a random file name is mkstemp(3).
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From my subscriptions list:

- Lore (http://www.lorepodcast.com/)

- Limetown (http://limetown.com)

- The Moth (http://themoth.org/)

- The NoSleep Podcast (http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/)

- Criminal (http://thisiscriminal.com/)

- Snap Judgment (http://snapjudgment.org/podcast)

- The Black Tapes (http://theblacktapespodcast.com/)
Economics is all about models. Models that are highly constrained by the current level of technology and other variables. Variables which are in constant flux. With big data you don't need models, you have actual real time information about the entire system. You also have means of using that data to make live predictions that can change all the time. Just because history says that "free markets" worked best, does not mean that this is true any more. It was historically a fact because you did not have big data or ways of computing to process supply and demand properly.
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Jesus Christ you're a moron. No wonder you're single.
Only significant if you ignore 1933 to 1978. Otherwise it's mediocre. If you're a working class family it's dismal. You achieved no increase in wealth between 1980 and 2000. And then lost ground in real terms since 2000.
You can subsidize jobs for a few billion dollars a year. If it makes sense to do it, we should do it, not hold out for a radical several trillion dollar change to the federal budget.

The first step to a UBI is universal healthcare, or at least substantially cheaper healthcare. How close are we to that politically?
This is still a problem. I attended a talk a few weeks ago by a member of staff on the Square Kilometer Array Science Data Processor project, and they were talking about data volumes on the order of an exabyte... per day.

Obviously, an awful lot of pre-processing has to be done to get this down to a manageable data volume for analysis (100s of TBs), but if something gets lost in processing in the early stages, it's gone forever. Even managing and archiving the processed datasets will be a challenge.

Oh, and the second stage of the project was going to add 100x to those data volume numbers.
I have! (see me trolling in the comments below)

And yes, we can... I mean, I do, I mean, ya, sure :)
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Uber is already integrated into Google Maps from the consumer side.

From the VC side, Google Ventures invested ~$250M in Uber a few years ago.

How is it they're afraid of Google?
The discussion was about a laptop.
I hear well made bananas are also useful for terrorizing atheists. [1] Something about how they don't squirt in your face.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4
I totally agree. Women only date me for my money. I know this bc my personality blows (I generalize women online and sum them up with mathematical equations). Hopefully one day I'll find the most beautiful and richest women to date who will be my soul mate
I know it's like attacking a huge army :). But if we succeed, it would be a huge win, for all of us, right?.

I believe pure text-based programming is an overkill in modern programming. We seldom write complicated algorithms, we mostly do plumbing of pre-written algorithms. Why should we be stuck with directly editing text for everything, even down to requiring library to tiniest details? Internally even flows are also text, but you never need to edit it directly. If you really need to write complicated algorithms, text editor is always available, like say the terminal in mac or command prompt in windows world.

It will also work well with modern input interfaces like touch based screens and even gesture based AR/VR systems. And as a far stretched goal, wouldn't it be easy for AI bots to assist you with a structured program vs plain text(as there could be a thousand way you could format text)?. Imagine you will be telling the computer what to do instead of typing out every detail..

We have put a lot of effort into it and we believe we are one of the best implementation till now. And we will be making it open source, so we can make it happen together as a community.
It's a very cool project. However back in the day I knew someone who made a half-height accelerated graphics card for MVME (68020 processors, VMEbus so similar era and processor). He pretty much did it on his own, although it was his full time job at the time and he had some support selling the boards. Also he used an existing (Hitachi?) GPU and some existing VME interface chip.
There's worse problems at a lower level - hardware caches on the disk do not really guarantee flushes are honored either. There's a discussion of this here - honoring writes is an enterprise feature... http://serverfault.com/questions/460864/safety-of-write-cach...
In a small city (Cincinnati), Uber only really surges on Friday and Saturday nights, mostly around the downtown neighborhoods, and then for major events with a few thousand+ people in one place.
Huh, I just assumed you were AF because you've made the same argument that they use for dragging their feet on drone deployment - the value added by retaining a large amount of human judgement in process that no longer requires it. I imagine the folks who got replaced by standardized tooling during the industrial revolution made the same obviously self serving argument.

Well grunts can disagree, I was an 0331 ten years ago, but you've got me curious about what experience has informed your thinking on this matter. I've only been down range of danger close fire missions twice, and in neither case were we moving around much. The first was when we were pinned down, and the other was when our foot patrol stumbled onto a numerically superior enemy with technicals. I'm hard pressed to think of a situation where a danger close is made any more dangerous by adding a two second delay. Even in a scenario where your FDL is breached and you're poking people to death, there is a clear delineation - you aren't running past your attackers. A flanking maneuver would confusing that delineation, but that takes a lot longer than whatever delay the drone operator faces.
That's a problem of labour costs rather than design. It sucks for your homeless customers, but I can't understand your outrage.

By your definition, these phones would only be "repairable" if they were vastly more expensive to buy. Does it really help low-income customers if the cheapest phones available are several hundred dollars?

These phones are primarily intended for the developing and middle-income world, where lower labour costs make them perfectly economical to repair.