skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real property is, in some meaningful ways, different from goods and chattels. It can be improved but not manufactured and of course cannot be relocated. It doesn't matter how much demand there is, some new real-estate entrepreneur isn't going to disrupt Palo Alto with $150,000 detached single family homes.

In so far as real-estate is a product, differentiation between quality and price points is primarily a function of location...as Peter Thiel might put it [but probably doesn't], each lot is a monopoly. There is cheaper housing in Detroit and solely based on the opportunities afforded by location and not necessarily the nature of improvements one might deem it of lesser quality than a similar structure in San Francisco.

Anyway, I've been involved in a bit of housing development over the years. The few developers I know who do affordable housing specialize in it [as the many upmarket developers do in the upmarket]. Developers who don't specialize in affordable housing typically don't do it. The market analysis and proper institutional investors are not orbiting the market rate housing and general commercial development herd...and most developers stick to their track record.
Damn, what a riveting read would be to find out what IT toys defense has now! Even an informed speculation would be nice to read.
That was exactly the point I was trying to point out. FB is definitely a more compelling ad platform. However, Twitter's biggest challenges (since the IPO) have been wrt user growth. As such, I would have expected them to double down on their product/eng resourcing and build more compelling products vs spending large amount of $$ on their sales/marketing teams. Also, the recent trend is a concern as well where product/eng SBC spend (which was already low as a % vs FB) is going down while sales is going up.
Not everyone has strong, well considered, opinions about the larger world. In fact, with any opinion, it is common to initially take the stance of those you trust.

Also bear in mind that forming defensible opinions is very hard and time consuming, yet the human reward of presenting and discussing them is very real. Philosophising and politicking are very real hobbies.

There is only so much time for any given activity; it makes sense to forgive those who reap the benefits of their employers well designed opinions in the same way I ask chefs to forgive my use of preordained recipes and easily accessible ingredients.

As to the betrayal of an employer? The ease with which I can swap between supermarkets likely matches the ease with which they can swap their argumentative position.
How Google Search Got Past “10 Blue Links”
It's almost as if they're also spending millions outfitting a new factory and new production lines for future products and expanding building capacity for current ones...
Ask HN: Does anyone know what the fuck is going on at Docusign?
User Trust.

Also this isn't just about censoring Twitter as a source, but rather twitter as a topic in an trending topic.

Tangentially related: should facebook hide posts made by Twitter employees?
LinkedIn Accounts Hacked
I/O: Building the next evolution of Google
You forgot "Check with big campaign contribution" :-)
Only anecdotal. And you can see some of it if you google 'facebook censorship'.

But here is one about Germany -
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/26/mark-zuck...

Though to understand what it is really talking about, you have to understand the redefinition of "hate speech" that has happened through-out the EU.
The author talks about a mechanism for replacing parts of a script (e.g. maintaining it in production in spite of the 'forever' longevity of a contract). The Truffle Ethereum development framework has such a proposal in the works -- a simple 'migration' mechanism that will allow in-place upgrades of running contracts:

https://github.com/ConsenSys/truffle/issues/138
Ohio school has “teach the controversy” evolution lesson plan
It's not the opportunity of a lifetime, but it will feel like it to them.

There are no journalism/writing jobs that have the kinds of perks that big tech firms have. Free lunch every day?!
They probably won't.
Go for it! However, make SURE that the class is worth taking. Get the contacts of students that went through the class to verify. Especially at the grad level, a lot of profs are only there for the research and the grad classes are even more of an afterthought than the undergrad ones.
Worst year 2010 with 14 suicides @ Foxconn when they had almost 1 million employees, around 1.4 per 100,000.

China's suicide rate is around 7.8 per 100k.

The rate in Japan is 18.5 per 100k, Australia 15.3, USA 12.1 and UK is 6.2 (WHO's 2012 numbers).
Even so, your error parser could examine common layouts, and figure out that while depndencies could be correct, it probably was meant to be dependencies.
Inception Is a Prequel to the Matrix, Seriously
Yup, just to reinforce from the Matrix side: Olm is an independent E2E protocol which happens to implement the double ratchet (formerly known as the axolotl ratchet), but it's not Signal Protocol and it's increasingly divergent from Signal, and it's completely independent of Open Whisper Systems. For instance, we're defining different behaviour for group chat ratchets, called Megolm, following our own design at http://matrix.org/speculator/spec/drafts%2Fe2e/client_server....

That said, we've tried to architect it such that we could implement compatibility with Signal if Moxie and OWS were ever open to it. But it looks like we'll need to first prove that Matrix can support a rapidly evolving yet federated ecosystem without compromising UX or privacy :)
I would be fine with maps and E-mails. But I guess it's a slippery slope.
This is a good point. However, products are usually discontinued because they no longer fit in with the core business of the acquirer. In this case, Google is making a clear statement that Firebase will be an integral part of the Google Cloud experience for everyone (hobbyists all the way to apps at scale).
"The dispute between Rogers Communications of Toronto, Canada’s largest cable television provider, and a telephone company in Atlantic Canada, Bell Aliant, is over the phone company’s attempt to cancel a contract governing Rogers’ use of telephone poles. But the argument turns on a single comma in the 14-page contract. The answer is worth 1 million Canadian dollars ($888,000).

Citing the “rules of punctuation,” Canada’s telecommunications regulator recently ruled that the comma allowed Bell Aliant to end its five-year agreement with Rogers at any time with notice."

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/business/worldbusiness/25c...
Linus doesn't view security bugs as a special category of bugs. So he doesn't prioritize them they way most infosec people would like them to. The lack of a strong security advocate in their leadership is largely the reason why Linux isn't the best example.

The other big reason being that it's a giant blob of C and a large attack surface.

All of these factors could be easily avoided or simply don't exist for an Ethereum contract developer.
I don't understand how mentioning one recent startup which barely has samples out can make or break an article like this.
Interesting. I think Runescape still has this sort of thing in OSRS. Anyways, this sounds a lot like the Minecraft cheats community, which was somewhat more recently a big thing. Most of the cheats were poorly written client mods made by high schoolers and middle schoolers, but since all the anti-cheat server plugins were about the same quality it was relatively easy to make these cheats. Some of my friends worked on some high-profile clients that made them thousands of dollars, although people frequently got into fights and would leak each other's source code or share the binaries for free which made the value go down immediately. I imagine that something somewhat similar probably occurred in the Runescape "black market" around the time you were involved in it, which is probably what stopped anyone from getting literal millions of dollars out of it.
Has anyone used both Fabio and Traefik? I looked at Traefik but needed TCP proxying and SNI, so I'm using Bud+Fabio and it's been fantastic.

Reactive "zero-config" routing is invaluable, I can't imagine going back to Nginx.
> And the bot misdiagnoses

vs. a regular doctor doing that? Which happens all the time, actually. Its really interesting how we expect computers to be far more accurate than we ever expect humans to be!

Of course, I'm being a little disingenuous: You can sue a doctor, you can't sue a bot.
Yeah. Once you have small groups of officers in the same area for a length of time you start getting pressure on local businesses to contribute to the "widows and orphans" fund.
What is this, Hacker News or something? :) (Just nice to see this kind of thing on here)
This is a great point that a lot of people miss. Yes, Prop 13 limits the increase in property taxes, but there are other ways to raise taxes collected on homeowners.

When I was looking to buy a house in SF, I dug up a lot of the tax information and the Mello-Roos tax seemed pretty common.
Darn. I assumed this was about HotBot based on the title and date.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotBot
Similarly, Messenger and Whatsapp have awesome web clients. Very surprised by the mobile-only strategy.
"The data shows, clear as daylight, that prices are only ever this high in cities which refuse to build any new housing"

That graph shows only that housing is more expensive in cities that haven't built a lot (it's actually not clear, since there's no R^2, so you can't interpret it). It doesn't tell you anything about why those cities haven't built.

"In Houston, which famously has no zoning, you can buy a condo in a downtown luxury high-rise for $200 per square foot"

Houston is over 600 square miles, with few geographic impediments to construction. San Francisco is 50 square miles, surrounded on three sides by water. There's a latent variable you're ignoring.

"That's highly misleading, because if development gets easier then rents go down, and if rents go down then land prices go down."

Development doesn't "get easier" as rents go down. It gets harder, because it's harder to justify the costs of a project to investors.

The $300/sq.ft. estimate is a nationwide baseline estimates for high-rise construction. They're labor and materials costs, and are unrelated to land, rents, local policy, etc. High-rise construction becomes especially difficult as rents drop, which is why you don't see it outside of the most expensive markets in the world.

"Downtown San Francisco is full of undeveloped surface parking lots. Here are some maps I made..."

Highlighting every parking lot you see in SF (which is what you've done here) isn't a counter-argument. They're land that is being used for a current economic purpose (unlike, say, most of the land surrounding Houston, which is being used primarily for jackrabbits and snakes).

In fact, you've highlighted a number of lots in my own neighborhood that are currently in the process of being developed. Why weren't they being developed before? It wasn't worth it until residential demand in the neighborhood went up. You're assuming that these lots weren't developed "because regulation", when the answer is "because nobody wanted to build there".

"The paper at...estimates that excessive regulations are responsible for half of San Francisco's housing costs."

As far as I can tell, it's not a reliable source. It's a paper about Seattle, which runs a regression based on a small sample of land-use restrictions from a Wharton database, and claims (without proof) that regulations added $409,000 to housing costs in SF from 1989-2006. Aside from not passing the data analysis smell test, that number includes all regulations -- including state and zoning restrictions, many of which are perfectly reasonable.

The numbers I'm citing are directly from SF developers, via SPUR. It's possible that "unreasonable restrictions" drive up land prices more generally in SF, but you'd need a better analysis than this to prove it.
Shouting "I have a massive conflict of interest" at the top of my lungs does not negate the fact that I should not be trusted.
Yup, it's very true that until recently native Matrix clients have been geared up for developers. Hopefully the arrival of FOSS yet polished apps like Vector (https://vector.im) changes that - and meanwhile one can always benefit from Matrix via bridges from existing polished apps (e.g. Slack!)
Have you played the pinball game in Word 97? Or the flight simulator in Excel 97?
Google I/O 2016 Conference Highlights: Allo, Duo and More
But that's false. It hasn't been 8 years since Goldman has been caught.

Here's one from 2014 where the research division promised favorable research coverage in exchange for investment banking business:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2014/12/11/finra...

Here's one from 2011 where they promised to stop having "huddles" with some of their clients where they exchanged insider information:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldmansachs-huddles-idUST...

Here's 2015, where one of their associates used his contacts at the Fed Reserve (where he worked for 7 years right before coming to goldman) to gain confidential regulatory info:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/10/28/goldman-s...

Again 2015, when they got caught transmitting incorrect and incomplete data on 1/5th of their trades to FINRA (who monitors their activity to watch for violations of federal rules and regs):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/goldman-fi...

Really.. just type goldman fine {year} into google. There's a lot of it.
Nice project, but I disagree on one point:

> For lighting, it's impossible to fall back on grid power because I had to cut the power cords of all lamps to make them compatible with the 12V DC grid

Why not get a cheap-ass car battery charger? He's using lead-acid batteries anyway, and a charger for these is approx. 50 €.

Or bypass the battery entirely and use a 12V 200W power supply instead of the battery voltage (to avoid overloading your PSU with powering the equipment AND simultaneously charging the battery).
"Business models" are why your devices have such incredible computing power too.
lol keeps running into first 2 things and dyin', artificial idiot? :P fun experiment tho lol
What do Chinese have to do with the SEC?

Answers are more helpful than downmods.
Let us be reminded that the FBI can neither confirm nor deny that they've accessed the microphones on the Amazon Echo of suspects, according to FOIA requests.

Adoption of this tech will hurt general privacy. Find me a home where there isn't an internet enabled microphone or camera. Even if you are security conscious, are your family, friends, coworkers and the people you are near?
Never EVER under any circumstances would I put a closed-source cloud-connected always-on microphone in my house.

Google's entire business model and value as a company revolves around their ability to maximize the accuracy of their consumer profiles. They have no incentive to do anything other than maximally invade privacy. A device like this from them is even creepier than the Amazon Echo. While it's not released yet, I don't see a disable microphone switch on it either. At least the Echo has that-- though I imagine most users would forget to use it.

The defenders will say "but it only listens when it hears the keyword!" What assurance do I have of this? How secure is this device? Is the keyword recognition performed locally or remotely? What is the definition of "listen?" I'm guessing that like glass the privacy policy will allow them to collect everything.
Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results
> Wouldn't be surprised if this whole bias fiasco was an unexpected side-effect of Facebook hiring largely left-leaning editorial staff.'

So, average bay area residents...
Why would someone bring things they would have to disassemble then reassemble? (medical condition etc aside), when they know they are going to have to fly ? that is inconsiderate IMO

To each there own, I just know they are part of the problem.
Time tracking, virtual desktop/spaces navigation, audio controls... scaling server resources? I don't know, there are a lot of things you can do with rotate + click + a little screen to let you know what you're doing.
Another way out is to divorce free "as in beer" from free "as in freedom" and start charging for freedom-enhancing software. Find an economic model that works.
They do: http://speedtest.xfinity.com/
Exactly this. If you're just starting out, just do a simple page with only React.

Very quickly you'll find there are problems with managing your page lifecycle, and you might imagine a good solution to it. That solution probably looks a lot like Redux.

Then you might want some unit testing of your React components. Woo, that too has also has a satisfactory answer with Enzyme.

Slowly, you will add more and more to your toolkit. Before you know it, you have scaled the frontend ivory tower.

There is a rationale for all of this, but you shouldn't feel obligated to use any of it. You can save yourself a lot of headache down the line by starting with a project like React Boilerplate. Maybe you don't need 70% of the things in it? That's cool. Just start with it, build up the bits that you need using just 30% of it. Then maybe later, you want another 10% of it... it's already there, configured, and ready for you to use.
Author here.
That seems reasonable. However, spending 5x/revenue $ seems a lot more. Twitter could also spend some of that money on getting more eng hires to make their advertising product easier to sell vs only focussing on sales/marketing. Also, Twitter's biggest challenges have been on the user growth side - so it was surprising to me to see that their SBC spend on R&D is trending lower vs their sales/marketing spend.
That prepares you for a career writing clickbait for Aol or Demand Media.
How would you design an unbiased news recommendation algorithm? You can't - the definition of 'trending' has to include decisions and values.

Is the most-shared story always relevant to a wide audience? An organised brigade (think a grassroots political campaign) could use coordinated sharing to bootstrap their way onto the trending list. That would devalue the trending list.

More broadly, you have to teach code to autonomously infer relevance from ambiguous signals. And once you do that, you're still not unbiased; you've simply delegated bias to your audience.

Humans are not perfect, but I would still privilege human editorial judgement above algorithms for the time being. But I agree the question of what issues and perspectives people are exposed to, and who controls what they see, is incredibly important. Just too important to abstract away to a machine.
> Working at Facebook, even as a contractor, was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Sentiment like that probably played a part at such toxic environment at places like these..
Doctors use Bitcoin tech to improve transparency in clinical trial research
Every sensor can have a "canary" mode indicator. It bypasses NSL by claiming the negative: "Nope I have not been served by an NSL yet".

This has been successfully used by companies to indicate that "the canary has died" in a surveillance order.
This is good news. The most fundamental corruption in society must be unscrutinized seizure by government and police.
I think you parsed it correctly. My surprise is more about people watching a keynote fully knowing that most of the stuff announced will be ran by Google, and still being outraged about "the privacy implications." I'm not sure what they expected. A fully open source implementation with pre packaged Docker images so you can deploy your own cluster and petabytes of training data?

The truth about a lot of these services is they only work at the scale Google (or Amazon, or Facebook, etc.) run them. You'd spend thousands, if not millions, of dollars to get equivalent functionality, even if you got the software for free. I've basically had this argument every time someone helpfully suggests "Dropcam/Nestcam cameras should have an option to save data locally." You can have cheap, 100% private and efficient. Choose two.
is this the most innovative idea out of google ?
The Marketing Kamasutra
The majority of this sounds like low grade managerial issues. Not much here sounds like a big deal IMO. The type of stuff you hear people complain about often when they work at big corporate machines. Even more so when they're stuck in non-core business units, staffed with contractors.

I have a feeling the curators were seen as a necessary evil until the machines were good enough to replace them. So they were treated as such and their work wasn't well planned/prioritized from the top.

The lack of direct guidelines and hand-holding from management indicates that there wasn't much interest in establishing long-term processes. Which high-turnover contractor worker bees usually require, compared to leaving them alone where they are required to make their own decisions (with potential consequences).
Wikipedia doesn't consider Twitter a reliable source. Why should Facebook?
Theranos voids two years of Edison blood-test results
I am familiar with Bayes' theorem. It just doesn't apply in this situation. False positives are a function of the testing method, not a prior probability. If you wanted to know how likely your positive result is to be true, you would use the theorem.
If horizontal gene transfer was common and rampant at the outset of life, then a fundamental fact of evolutionary descent was not true at that point. This means there may NOT be a LUCA, but several progenitor organisms that each contributed to a portion of eventual life. E.g. there are four features ABCD. We may have descendants that are AB, BC, CD, AD, without having any creature that was ABCD.
> you should make a napster for financial research.

MarketBrief is sorta this (YC S11)
Donkey Kong's all-time record broken again, with a 'perfect' game
I'm really kicking myself for saying "a few" genes are shared between archaea & bacteria.

> The proteins that archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes share form a common core of cell function, relating mostly to transcription, translation, and nucleotide metabolism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea#Genetics

It's really more like hundreds or thousands of genes. And they're around the foundations of translating DNA to RNA and RNA to amino-acid chains.

And we share the genes that are related to DNA maintenance and translating DNA to proteins.

The idea is that, without these shared genes, horizontal gene transfer doesn't even make sense. There would be no shared genetic code. The nucleotides used might not even be the same. Amino-acids have right-handed chirality (which is probably related to our DNA having left-handed chirality). If life independently evolved it would probably use amino acids and nucleotides, but there's no guarantee that the handedness would be the same, or that the genetic code would be the same.
Its incredibly satisfying going off-grid. We have an off-grid cabin and its awesome turning up and finding the batteries fully charged and ready to dispense free electricity.

During the summer, rain water, solar power, cooking over a wood fire and walking or cycling to the beach means you can actually live at entirely carbon zero. One of the kids was fascinated by the idea that his iphone had been powered up using on energy from the sun.

Kudos to OP for doing all this in a city apartment!
The problem is that our devices are locked up behind NAT routers and IPv6 is starting to resemble fusion power in terms of its ETA.

The future of all of our devices having extremely fast connections existing in a world of amazing, free, peer-to-peer applications still seems so far away.