skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have zoning restrictions that mean there aren't enough multi family and apartment buildings, and now the old bungalows are starting to get replaced with larger "modern" houses.

Sometimes I think about how much better the city would be, if the leaders over the 20th century hadn't been so racist.

It turns out the old redlined areas are where all the big apartment buildings are going in. This has contributed to backlash against development, as has the pace of change along main streets in other parts of town.

As a result, rents have been rising faster than income for a while here. And a lot of folks on the ground blame the new development for the rising rents. In my book if we had been developing for decades at a steady pace all along, and hadnt engaged in racist redlining and relocating policies, Portland would not be seeing the price shocks we're seeing now, and we would have a more vibrant community.

Also there is a macro thing here where Portland has joined the west coast real estate market, so long time low prices have a higher new normal in the last three years.
The cash buyers from SF to Cupertino to Pleasanton are coming from China. Same in Vancouver, for example.

Why not do what the new Muslim mayor of London is proposing -- stop the foreign investment property buyers. They're the biggest reason the local population can't afford housing in both the Bay Area and London, even for households with two adults making tech salaries.
"Heart" actually doesn't function as "remember" as there's no way to see songs in Apple Music (not in your library) that you've previously "loved"[1]. It's supposedly used to help refine recommendations[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3bprla/apple_music_w...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204842
You wrote:

> Nobody believes or has claimed that supply and demand are "not real" and reducing the housing crisis to "Econ 101" is highly disingenuous.

I responded by providing links demonstrating that there are indeed people active in SF media and politics who need an econ 101 lesson, which rebuts your assertion that "nobody" does. There are many other articles by SF activists that are similar to the links I provided.

There is nothing disingenuous about "reducing" the housing crisis to econ 101 when many of the people involved clearly need an econ 101 lesson.
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Yet another reason I don't let OpenOffice or any Linux UIs slow me down. It's all about the command line and always will be.
I think you're actually validating the GP's point that the clock app UI is so cumbersome it's better to get SIRI to deal with that mess for you.
The other parts of the process also have shenanigans, yes. Those are worth fighting against, too. I have no problem with people making protest votes and am genuinely confused by your implication that I would have a problem with people turning in blank or random ballots.
Requiring you to show up at a particular place and put a pair in a box, with the option to actually mark something on it (Australian style mandatory voting) hardly violates freedom of speech.
Trump and Clinton are basically still at the primary stage where people have actual choices. You can expect a push to center fairly soon. They don't want to give voters issue whiplash so they generally transition though to more centrist message.

Ideally candidates want to avoid alienating their base, but they also can't pick up more voters by pandering to them. So, everyone tries to appeal to independents and not energize their opponents base. The other strategy to to fight dirty which tends to suppress voter turnout, but that can easily backfire in a presidential election.

This also often results in coded language. Which lets you target messages to people that care about an issue without generally annoying other people.
The tuition has increased as the costs have been shifted from the state tax revenue (public funding) to the students.

I almost wonder if this might be part of the reason for the rising costs. Since there is no option to escape from college debt free these days, the difference in costs appears minimal, as it comes down to a small monthly difference in a far-off student loan payment. I'll bet this makes students much less likely to protest tuition increases, as it is all essentially far-off funny money, and doesn't impact their bottom line.

I remember participating in massive protests of a new (small) bus fee when I was in school. The fee was imposed in contradiction to a promise of free inter-campus transport made when a second campus was built 20 years prior. I doubt such a small fee increase would result in such massive protests these days. For me, that fee was the difference between ramen and real food for a few weeks.
SquadScout, the sports scouting tool, now in Spanish, German, French and Romanian
This is fantastic! Just wondering, how does Vote.org compare/contrast to TurboVote (https://turbovote.org/)?
It's like everybody missed the part of the article where it's not just glyphosate and we're not allowed to know what the other additives are.
Google-owned Waze is testing its own Uber-like carpooling feature
Roads in Germany are MUCH better. It's all relative.
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It was for me, on every OS I ever ran it. I say that as a dedicated Firefox user.

Right now, today, Firefox is generally responsive for me but not faster to render or process than Chrome for most workloads. I still see plenty of jank when framerates matter like when scrolling a busy page.

That said, when pages leverage Firefox's special performance features, like ASM.js, I've seen it vastly outperform Chrome, many times faster.
That's not a productive attitude. (1) There will be another boom, (2) with more affordable housing, you could stabilize the population during pullbacks instead of people moving out.
The other alternative is to come up with an idea that doesn't require scale, that can become cashflow positive more quickly.

You can do this in software by attacking a very narrow niche, or by doing a services-heavy business. Neither creates a unicorn, but both can be stable.
2000. VB6. Manufacturing workflow / management system, BOM..... I did some consulting work at the same company a year ago and that system was still chugging along. They had pretty much rewritten / replaced everything else around the place but apparently didn't see a need to change my module. I was amused to have a couple of guys come and ask me questions/advice, and all I could do was sympathize.
Consumer confidence. The problem with financial institutions is a systemic and intentional policy of using law to prevent competition. You need the, again, certification nightmare to be legally allowed to even make a loan, let alone a home mortgage. If those barriers to entry did not exist (and again, it is death by a thousand cuts - only Wall Street institutions have the army of lawyers to stay compliant) we might have a hundred major banks again like we did fifty years ago than the five we do now.
Refusal to participate in the political process very clearly looks like speech to me. And a very important kind of speech. A great many people think "They're all bums. I'm not voting for any of them!" You can find some of these people in threads on this post!

Who are we to tell them otherwise?

I also don't think that the "you're allowed to show up and not check a box, but you've still gotta show up" argument passes muster. That's very clearly an attempt to coerce speech out of someone which is also a 1st amendment violation.
New Moto G lineup brings 1080p and fingerprint sensors to mid-range phones
Web Project Management: Miscellaneous Meetings
I thought I was on a mobile page because of the lack of side bars and other distractions. Nice job wired!
1998. Lotus Formula Language Runtime engine. Completely rewrote the original written by Ray Ozzie. GA released in 1999 in Lotus Notes/Domino R5.
In retrospect, I think I misread your posts
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The voting constituency is not, nor has it ever been, made up of informed citizens. Indeed, you could probably say that the more extreme your political views are, the more likely you are to vote. In this case, more 'average' voters would result in a moderation of discourse and alleviate the hyper-partisan gridlock that currently defines the American system.
How do you make interesting a boring task?
I'm curious if you have a personal trick for making things more interesting when you are dealing with tasks that you don't like.

Some examples :

1. For a while I was doing screen captured videos while coding to explain to myself out loud what I was doing, and reasoning out loud, the videos lasted as much as my pomodoro, after the video finished I was quickly reviewing what I did, if I had temptations to open HN or FB or not. It was a new thing that add something new and experimental to an already hard/boring task. But I lost the interest on it.

2. I invented two characters and wrote dialogs between them, in a text editor to understand complex, tedious and low rewarding situation I had while coding, one character was directing the situation, like the boss, and the other was "myself" executing the actions and making questions or answering the questions of the director. Again, it added something playful and interesting to keep me motivated and doing the task, but it didn't last long.

3. I tried to listen tech talks in the background at the same time I was doing something boring, this one didn't help to get things done, but I learnt some interesting stuff as side effect.

What's your trick ? I'm curious even if it doesn't work all the time.
Yeah, I don't understand how Portland will be the next SF or even the next Seattle. SF and Seattle are years ahead in economic growth. Further, SF and Seattle have solid schools and universities. Portland is quite mediocre in that respect. The local universities in Portland and in wider Oregon are eminently mediocre.
According to Feedbin, I've been a subscriber to that XML feed since July 10, 2014. So, definitely not new.
Is that code?
Where do you see that?
Rent control helps the well connected, not necessarily those who need it :

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122126309241530485

and ties up existing inventory. I know people here in SF who have an apartment, and own a house or two outside the city, but will never give up their apartment because its just so cheap. Rent control definitely ties up supply.
Not exactly a CLI but I wish every program had a Sublime Text-like command palette shortcut for performing actions and accessing menus by typing their names.
Windows 7 now has a Service Pack 2 (but don’t call it that)
Out of curiosity, I just installed Bloomberg Professional (all 2GB+ of it; contrary to the Quora post, the font package won't run by itself, you have to install the entire program), copied the fonts, and uninstalled it. At no point was I shown any sort of licensing agreement or terms of service. I fell no moral obligation to refrain from local use of some fonts that Bloomberg offered me for free.
People die all the time from "bugs" in the genes, or from acquired defects. This doesn't stop the rest of the people and the race going on.

Same thing with AI. Some will crash and burn. Others will manage to continue.

Nothing is eternal. We only need stuff to work for a while for it to be useful.
This seems like they're selecting for candidiates that will tolerate a job that is perpetual crunch-time.
It's different here since much of the construction is happening in areas that have been vacant. We have the Pearl district, Slabtown and others in which many new structures are going in. Even in downtown Portland, there are plans to build on street level parking lots, adding to the structure inventory. There is a real expansion going on in this region.

Population of Portland proper has actually grown substantially, >= 7% in the last 10 years or so. The entire metro area may have increased even more, I'm not sure about that. Portland State University maintains a demographic study center with the data but I didn't check there for this comment.

The necessity for constructing more housing units isn't questioned, but there's a lot of discussion about projects that the city planners allowed to exceed the originally planned height restrictions without the issue being open for community input. The lack of procedural transparency in these cases has evoked the ire of concerned citizens.

As far as neighborhoods go, close-in areas have experienced marked "gentrification", displacing lower income populations to the "high number" districts of east Portland where housing is less expensive. So indeed development has had substantial effects on some neighborhoods, whether that's "good" or "bad" can be debated, but it is a reality.
1988. A specialized finite element analysis program. Fortran.
FFT library for .NET written in 2001, still seems to be fairly popular (and it got included in quite a few other larger scope libraries as well): http://www.exocortex.org/dsp/

Quite a few hits on Github: https://github.com/search?q=exocortex+dsp&ref=searchresults&...
People still play the Warcraft III map I made in 2006, mostly in Russia. It relied heavily on an extension of the scripting language called vJass created by a genius eastern european hacker named Vexorian and was one of the most advanced of its type for a while.

It was also ported to the DotA 2 engine, where it has millions (!) of subscribers.
And you do what the neurons in your brain make you do.

Article from today - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-n...
Major league sports get a $40m annual property tax abatement, churches get an annual combined half billion dollar property tax abatement. Taxes are wildly different from block to block, there are not dozens, but 147 different categories of abatements. There are 7 abatements that have a single claimant per annum (hmm...) and 42 abatements that have less than 10 claimants (more hmm?).

There's so much more, definitely worth a read. I imagine the info will cheese off some people.

Great work indeed!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713047 (91 points, 12 hours ago, 28 comments)
Another one is to add new technologies to the project, but at the end my colleagues are hating me.
I said "all current, major browsers" in my original post. IE is not Microsoft's current browser. In addition, not all web sites are serving via http/2 and that web sites aren't using http/2 is no fault of the browser or the user.
A game I finished in '96. Still playable thanks to DOSBox.
The evidence is the phone record with a string of calls. A gap between calls is as much evidence as a phone call is. A gap is not absence of evidence.
EA Forms Frostbite Labs to Focus on VR and Virtual Humans
Yes.

By 2020 global job pool for software developers and user interface designers will start to contract due to competition from automated design/development AI.
I wrote a fax->email gateway in 2002 that's still in very active use.. wouldn't be that remarkable, except most of the servers are still running original equipment with original hard drives!

Anyone have servers running 24x7 with hard drives older that that?
A section of macro assembler written in 1983/84 that I wrote that validated the MICR encoding on the bottom of a cheque ran as far as I know every day without error until at least 2007 processing 30-40% of the daily cheques in a European country It may still be running but all the guys I knew are gone! I'm the reason banks have technical debt. They'd track me down every 10 years or so when a major change was required. I also have a C++ system I architected and built in 1992 still running round the world. The codebase has been refactored to some extent as it was originally designed for Investment Banking but it now runs on line gambling, who'd have thought it?
I guess that's the question I don't have the answer for. Was the OP's education largely subsidized by the government or have other things like increased demand combined with easily obtained student loans driven up the cost?
If you think it's not complex, then you simply don't understand the situation, or how cruicial/vital ads are to content production. If you'll allow me to be blunt; You're ignorant. Most of the internet is funded by ads. Claiming "it's not complex" is almost laughable if I thought you were joking.
The sad thing is, that vintage of lotus notes was actually tolerable, compared to what came later.
In a world filled with COBOL, C, Powerbuilder, CICS. Oh, and TELON.
More that it was including the phase of the moon in the output and it would crash of the output ended up being too long.
MP3 importing code for the Audacity audio editor. I wrote this in 2002. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/src/import/...

Amusingly, a TODO I put is still there:

/* TODO: get rid of this by adding fixed-point support to SampleFormat.
* For now, we allocate temporary float buffers to convert the fixed
* point samples into something we can feed to the WaveTrack. Allocating
* big blocks of data like this isn't a great idea, but it's temporary.
*/

"temporary" indeed. :)
That is awful. Surely there was a sign attached saying that this equipment is attached to live Monkeys - not just a "do not remove" sign.
Do you have add-ons installed? You should really not get this memory usage on a clean installation.

One way to see what's going on is to open a tab to `about:memory` and take a measure?
Here's a great collection of classic bug reports (including the never-printing-on-tuesdays): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309401
There are barriers to voting that tend to crop up the less white collar your job. One sad issue is lines tend to be vastly longer in poor areas.
> they have been shrinking tax support for universities.

If your assertion is correct, then the rate of increase in traditionally conservative states - such as Utah, Texas, Kentucky - would be significantly higher than in liberal states such as California, New York, and Massachusetts.

Does the data support your assertion?
Neuroscientist to the Super Busy: Sleep Is Work Too
http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401
Interestingly, arithmetic on the Mill CPU does this (at the machine level instead of at the language level). You can get modulo addition, saturating addition, widening addition, and excepting addition.

http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Instruction_Set_by_Category#Si...
I am seriously considering implementing this and tying it into the nextdoor.com API to creating a wall of shame in my neighborhood.
Having done both, I'd say door to door total travel time of Tokyo -> Osaka is shorter by train. But I like to get to airports two hours early to deal with security non sense. YMMV.

Also, a standard Shinkansen seat is far more spacious and comfortable than any economy plane seat.
The catch is there's the JS Module syntax, controlled by TC39, which WebKit may or may not support (not sure whether its a part of ES6 or not), and then there's the browser module loading standard, which is controlled by WHATWG.
1995 windows print software
In a similar vein, Andrew Sullivan's article on this year's US election is a fantastic read:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny...
1995. Pinball game code for Williams Electronics "Jack*Bot".

I also don't count it as code, but the Pinball Expo 1994 website I put together before that (in Notepad, natch) is apparently still up and running at Linköping University in Sweden:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/
No, it was 3 million. They originate over $100 million per month in loans so it was a very small amount and the data they fudged was not related to the credit quality. The only reason to be concerned is if you believe this is only the tip of the iceberg. Those fears were put to rest yesterday though when the new CEO released a letter stating that they engaged an accounting firm to audit their entire portfolio and found no additional discrepancies.
It even works with JavaScript disabled... what is this sorcery?
I've thrown up several quick sites for friends and family using very simple markup over the years.

Both my brother's site (1999) and an ex-gf's art portfolio (2002?) are for the most part unchanged in all this time.

They don't look amazing but they're still...decent.

Some sites I made for a school I went to are still up since 1997, but I don't think they're directly linkable from the main page anymore, just hosted and indexed by google...
Adobe® Photoshop®?
APL was an extra-cost option. Here's one with the Basic/APL switch.[1] Machines without APL have a blank plate there.

[1] http://kkraftonline.de/Museum/data/images/5100.JPG
Perhaps you don't care about social issues but there is a world of difference between the presumptive candidates' positions. Do you care about the fate of women and minorities?
You are ignoring Jevon's paradox.

Automating 90% of the work will only make software cheaper, and more in demand, as we are very far from creating every possibly useful software. Developers pay might even increase because of it.

Automating 100% of it is a completely different thing. But well, that's hard AI definition. Software development is among the last kinds of work that will get automated.
Google built a bunch of gigapixel cameras to capture artwork in high resolution
Snowden on Ice (1997)
I wrote a "single-use bookmarking" app, http://app.reminderbear.com/, during spring break of 2011 and haven't touched it since.

It was the first thing I wrote and I'm still insanely proud of it.

It's chugging along sending 5-6 reminder emails every day and I use it once a month or so.
I'd definitely be interested! Thanks for the offer :)
I haven't dug around in the Miranda IM code in years, but I hope there is some of my code left, even if it's just 1 line, would have been written in 2000.

I do know there are plugins I wrote for ACDSee as a coop student in 2000. I can still see some of the icons I drew.
We know that current conditions support life. We don't know which of Earth's past conditions necessarily lead to the creation of life.

Gotta play the odds.
> If the printer is on a dynamically assigned IP address, chances are that the port created for it will use a hard-coded entry like "192.168.1.13" which will break. The DHCP host name requested by the printer can be used [...]

Personally, I've never understood this. Are there a lot of admins who let their printers take IPs from the DHCP pool?
This stance I sometimes hear from Sanders supporters (and I'm one of them, though not a US citizen myself) completely baffles me.

Why would a Sanders supporter want to risk putting someone like Trump in office (through inaction)? Asides from maybe the anti-establishment aspect, Trump and his proposed policies spits in the face of everything Sanders stands for. Even if we ignore his own dangerous, egomaniac tendencies, having a Republican president in office with a supreme court nomination on the line could easily undo all the progress (however little) the US has made in areas like healthcare, marriage equality, minority rights, gun regulation, climate change, etc, and very possibly even regress on certain areas.

There's so much at stake in this election and a Trump presidency will be absolutely disastrous for not just the US, but the entire world.
From an ISP network engineering perspective, something like 85-90% of these tools are obsolete, no longer maintained, or proprietary to some particular manufacturer's platform.

There's a much, much shorter list of modern BSD, Apache or GSL licensed monitoring systems that includes opennms, zabbix, zenoss, cacti, etc.
AWESOME!!! I wanted to work on such project to police my neighborhood speedsters. :-)
Why is 100% so important? There will always be a section of people who really do not care about choosing their representative. Why insist on such people voting too? In my opinion it would be a random, ill thought out vote.
Your Legacy on Earth May Be a Plant
or they realize that whining about IE from a decade ago does nothing to further discussion.
At least return a circular error probability and display a circle.
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