skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the unspoken thing, the "third rail" of SF Bay area housing is the fact we have a huge Green Belt surrounding the bay.

Yes, we pride ourselves on our parks and reserves and natural beauty. But meanwhile Marin County's population hasn't really changed in 30 years, while commuters from Stockton have grown three or four orders of magnitude. There's a real bay incumbent insiders versus valley outsiders thing going on.
Wish Google would support this. Then again I've already become accustomed to writing !g at the end of all my search queries.

I love bangs, but DDG's results are still very subpar
The beauty with SF is that some of the most beautiful hills and scenery are just a short drive away.
Yeah, I wonder why so many people keep repeating "study STEM" instead of "study Engineering or Finance or Medicine", considering the fact that "S" (Biology/Chemistry) and "M" (Math) seem to be pretty weak.
> These kids aren't just cheating they are marginalizing students who are honest or don't have this kind of social access

Sue the school [1]. There are firms that specialize in protecting people's rights in education [2]. Suing doesn't make you a bad person, and you don't even have to do the talking

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/01/sport/ncaa-response-to-law...

[2] https://www.thefire.org/
I've seen it. It depends on the referrer. When coming from Reddit, visitors will not be redirected.
To be clear, Stack Exchange buys image hosting from Imgur; images are hosted on a separate domain and don't get any of the cruft folks are complaining about here. This relationship has been in place for years and has been mostly pain-free for a involved.

Source: I work for and use Stack Exchange.
Is this anything like my plan to invest in McDonalds franchises and then kill off a huge proportion of the world's cattle to "own larger portions" of each?
NYC is far far far way from overtaking SV as the capital of tech industry. The combined value of just Google, Apple, and Facebook is $1.3 trillion dollars. To reach that scale will take many many years and some incredible companies. Honestly, places that can put in a serious competition to SV are in Asia - China and India. Chinese tech companies are raising massive rounds, with multiple billion dollar investments in 2016. Also, most successful hubs are often one industry towns. Think Detroit and Houston. That's how clusters are formed and they have a self full-filing effect. But it is also a mistake to think SV is just a "tech" hub. Is Tesla a tech company ? Or is Sunrun a tech company ? Are Impossible Foods or Bolt Threads tech companies ? Technology is now integral to any industry. And increasingly we are seeing R&D shops being set-up in the valley to stay ahead of the game
LEDs in that type of wiring simply glow dimly. I suppose that's better in a way :)

You really need a neutral wire in the light switch box, and attach to that for the glow in the dark switch.
I don't know about your developed country, but education seem to have helped the people in the poor developing country I am from. I feel as more people got educated, the more ambitious they became. Instead of doing the same things their forefathers used to do, they got a broader perspective and started venturing into more businesses. More engineers, doctors, accountants and economists have also helped. When you say that someone does not need a specialized piece of education because she will never use it, you are confining her to the life you think she should lead, while more specialized education while not always directly useful can help people see what they can become. But that's just my feeling, no data, no stats
All depends on where you live. If you're trying to raise a family, you definitely have to live in the burbs and commute in.

I pay $1850 a month for a 496 sq ft "Open" one bedroom. It's basically a studio with a wall that segments off my bedroom.

Which is more than fine for me :D Get to live downtown, get to walk to work, walk to bars, etc. But if you wanted an average 3br/2ba apartment, you're probably looking in the $3500+/mo. And buying is so competitive right now it's insane.
A rich person acted out his retributive fantasies by paying a law team for years to trawl through everything Gawker put out in search of litigable offenses. That's unethical on the part of the lawyers, probably, and on the part of Thiel, certainly. He never had a chance to win any personal verdict, so he went nuclear. There's no way that won't have a chilling effect on other media companies who consider whether or not to cover the stupid shit that rich people do.

And it was cheap for him - around $10mm to bankrupt his mortal enemy. There's no way that other rich folks aren't going to do it as well, especially now that he's framing it as a philanthropic act.
I don't think it's a commonly accepted conclusion that education increases income primarily through competitive advantage (i.e. it's a zero sum game).

Take, for example, being educated on home farming methods to grow 200 cabbages a year instead of 100. In this case your income grows directly as a result of your education.

Now yes there are some cases that may be signaling, but I'd like to see some empirical evidence that education is mostly zero-sum.
The Pentagon's Huge Atomic Floppies
Here's a thread that led to people's hate of imgur: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/46cjo5/i_just_want_...

It was really annoying on mobile.
In America this is true. Prisons exist to punish criminals and to protect society from them. In more civilised countries, this is not the case. Prisons' ultimate goal is to rehabilitate the prisoners to the point where they can be reintegrated into society. Instead of focusing on making life unpleasant and treating people like animals, they have more of a focus on educating them and treating them so that they do not commit crimes again.
> Most of the scientists and mathematicians I know I met first through professional connections. But not Sol Golomb. It was 1981, and I was at Caltech, a 21-year-old physicist who’d just received some media attention from being the youngest in the first batch of MacArthur award recipients.

Man, Stephen can #humblebrag the shit out of anything, including the death of a famous mathematician
Good point. For those situations, there should be a separate override button to disable the feature, just like there often is one for traction control (on normally, button lights up when disabled). Or for the passenger airbag back before weight sensors replaced a manual override.

But otherwise, even when in manual driving mode, the emergency brake feature should be active and watching for impending collisions.
Seattle is not that cheap. Decent houses in good suburbs easily approach a million dollars.
At Reddit's scale they would be able to negotiate directly with AWS for lower rates. I'm sure they already do so with servers.
Well, the functional crowd won. An example expression from the parent article:

let idx = args
// iterate over our arguments
.iter()
// open each file
.map(|fname| (fname.as_str(), fs::File::open(fname.as_str())))
// check for errors
.map(|(fname, f)| {
f.and_then(|f| Ok((fname, f)))
.expect(&format!("input file {} could not be opened", fname))
})
// make a buffered reader
.map(|(fname, f)| (fname, io::BufReader::new(f)))
// for each file
.flat_map(|(f, file)| {
file
// read the lines
.lines()
// split into words
.flat_map(|line| {
line.unwrap().split_whitespace()
.map(|w| w.to_string()).collect::<Vec<_>>().into_iter()
})
// prune duplicates
.collect::<HashSet<_>>()
.into_iter()
// and emit inverted index entry
.map(move |word| (word, f))
})
.fold(HashMap::new(), |mut idx, (word, f)| {
// absorb all entries into a vector of file names per word
idx.entry(word)
.or_insert(Vec::new())
.push(f);

Is there editor support for indenting this stuff?
Though it's not on this level of sophistication, I'm using three old Android phones as wireless security cameras. Anyone else doing the same?

The phones are running a free IP camera app, while in airplane mode, with WiFi turned on. Then, I've got an old whitebox (PIII / 1GB RAM) running Lubuntu, that monitors the feeds via Motion[1]. Everything is isolated on a subnet, where WAN access is denied. If needed, it's easy to allow remote access to the whitebox and/or camera feeds, automatic FTP uploads of captured data, and email alerts.

It was unbelievably simple to set up, completely free, and it works like a charm. The most difficult part was physically positioning the phones. You could get fancy and use ZoneMinder, but Motion's footprint is tiny enough that the old Lubuntu machine doesn't even break a sweat (7-12% CPU / 10% RAM total, including the OS).

[1] http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
"Systems" has come to include things like networked services (eg. HTTP and DNS servers), which you can certainly do successfully in GC'd languages in many circumstances. Personally, I'd just like to see a widely agreed upon definition, so that we can all stop being confused when this comes up.
Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact
The cost of living is definitely infinitely higher than living in the midwest but you certainly can find fields and forests (and actual mountains!) in the SF area. For example, the minute you cross the Golden Gate bridge, you are in Marin County, a county with a rich agricultural history, amazing natural places like Muir Woods (the setting for the ape's home in the latest Planet of the Apes), and 85.5% of it's land protected from development forever. Here's a photo from the Headlands (http://www.robertcampbellphotography.com/Images/Marin/Marin-...), you can see SF just in the background, it's about 10 miles away from Downtown to the place in the photo. If you live in Marin, you can also choose to take the Ferry which drops you off in Downtown SF as well.

If you go South-West of SF, you will hit Pacifica and Half Moon Bay which are quaint coastal towns that will make you forget that you're only 20 miles away from San Francisco.

Go East, past the hills of Berkeley and you hit more rural spread out developments near Orinda, Diablo, etc.

I'm glad you found balance with the things that are important to you which is what really matters. Me personally, I'm drawn to the coast and the great expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The SF area has it's fair share of urban problems, but then you also have amazing restaurants, a close-to-world-class arts scene, some of the best schools and hospitals in the country, the most impactful technology companies in the world, and the fair share of folks who have come West looking to make their mark on the world in Gold Rush 2.0.

P.S. I've spent a fair share of time in Detroit/Michigan and the area and as much as I love being able to buy a city block there, I can't live in a place that calls soy sauce on rice "Fried Rice".
Seeing stuff on sourceforge makes me immediately distrustful of the project. Like it feels neglected, forgotten.... Buggy. Is this generally true for projects you've seen?
Stress and open-office noise [pdf]
This is amazing. As someone who hates clutter and having to use sudo for anything, Nix is just what I needed!
Unfortunately, you don't really move up by being a good engineer. Or, at least, it's very difficult. Some people might pull it off, as specialist contractors or some sort of lucky remote working for remote pay situation. But typically, you have to start force-multiplying -- to borrow military jargon. And that's much harder to do remotely.
I've been spreading the gospel brother! It's a sad thing that I too often meet folks who have been here for several years (unfortunately many engineers) who look puzzled when I mention Point Reyes or Big Sur. They don't venture too far out of the confines of the city and enjoyed the real reason we pay so much to live here!
I don't live in SF, but having spent most of the past 15 years in Europe, which is dense: it's almost completely a supply problem. SF is not really very dense at all for a place with such a high demand for housing.

Random place in SF: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7718267,-122.4388549,3a,75y,...

Near where I lived in Padova, which is way smaller than SF, and way, way less well off:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3850829,11.8706466,3a,75y,18...

They look fairly similar, despite a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in that area of the suburbs in Padova going for under 200K euro.

Here's what Milan looks like, which does have a decent economy, for Italy: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4582853,9.2105922,3a,90y,219...

None of this 2/3 story crap, even if it's fairly far out from the city center. They've built up.
Yea so the problem is you can't think of tech as one industry. Every company that's being created right now has to involve software one way or the other. That's why companies like Tesla (auto), Netlfix (entertainment), Solarcity (energy), Sofi (finance), airbnb (tourism), uber (logistics), tons of biomedical companies that I don't know the names of (medicine) all headquartered in the bay area.
I suspect this might have an impact. The timeline though will be ten to twenty years, optimistically.

1. Eligible property will have to change hands and land in the right hands to make the projects happen. That's the nature of redevelopment, someone has to be willing to knock down a profitable building in hopes of building something more profitable.

2. The rate at which property will change hands will correlate to the legal certainty it can be redeveloped. Until new legislation successfully survives court challenges, the uncertainty will swirl around its "by right" provisions.

3. The trades base will affect the cost of construction and hence the viability of projects. Imagine there is some number /n/ of plumbers in the Bay area. At some threshold amount of construction, these plumbers are all in demand, and so the price of plumbing rises. This happens across several trades and formerly viable pro forma's pencil out poorly with the new cost structure.

4. People sitting on the land now are already in a wait and see mode. As land becomes more desirable to developers, prices go up. Rising prices attract speculators hoping to sell on. The rate at which developable land flows to competent developers remains moderate.

5. Five years from identification of a feasible redevelopment site for multifamily housing to full occupancy would be pretty quick even in a relatively development friendly culture. Research, options, due diligence, financing, entitlement, design, bidding, construction and leasing...any one [or several] can run out over a year.

Throw in the normal rate economic and financial cycling and the sorts of effects experience indicates these have on the construction and housing sectors, and even in the next ten years, there will likely be a period where half of all projects in the pipeline die.

There's no silver bullet.
I would somehow think that is itself a canary, but I have some misgivings about that.
Libertarianism: "All the parts of government that benefit rich folks are legit/necessary/essential. All the parts that benefit poor folks are illegitimate/aggression/tyranny."
Man hours have a direct impact in court cases. Therefore money is a thumb on the scales of justice.
Yes, but many young people like myself do not. Ok, I'm not so young now, I am 30. Still, I could not wait to leave my mid-size sunburn hell of hole of a city. In my mid twenties I did move to a west coast tech hub. Best decision I ever made.

If you like where you are, then you should definitely stay there.
The ironic thing about it is that it falls for the same trap that it criticizes others for. This is a classic example of having an idea, finding some data that supports the idea, then explaining why it could support it.

There's an old stereotype that people in poverty are lazy and unproductive by nature, and this reads a lot like a defense of that idea.

This is basically a false dichotomy. It doesn't really offer alternative explanations. I could say that statistics show that wealth is increasingly consolidated every year and the bar for being part of the elite is raised a little each year, including educational requirements, and I could just as easily support my claims with the same data.
I think one potential advantage is that turbofan bypass ratios are topping out due to the dimensions of the fans needed. A hybrid system would allow you have multiple fans per engine and also reroute power in case an engine failed.

I think turbofans also have issues with the difference between the rotational speed that is optimum for the turbine and that for the fans. Hybrid design would allow one to decouple the two.
Isn't there a greater focus on apprentices and in-work training though? It's not like people leave school at 16 and stop learning, surely?
To be fair, bandwidth isn't free. Imgur can't serve hotlinked content for free, forever.
It got really bad, to the point that now you click a link to see an image, and the page loads a bunch of thumbnails and JS before the image you wanted finally loads.
I left Silicon Valley to start up in India, my lessons learned the hard way
People who have negative opinions of things you clearly like often found those opinions in experiences you are unaware of. My opinion on Imgur involves eight years of context, remembering pre-Imgur Reddit as well as Quickmeme, watching Imgur rise and fall, observing the psychology of i.imgur.com leading to upvotes of Reddit, knowing a pretty religious Imgurian who goes to meetups, etc.

However, because I disagree with you, according to you I reacted to a TechCrunch article; there's no better way to get me running to share that opinion than by poisoning the thread with the assumption that naysayers are misinformed or oblivious.

Assume people are informed and you'll end up on the right side of disappointed when they aren't, instead of being embarrassed when they are.
Fundamental flaws of bash and its alternatives
I want to know whether Imgur's dark patterns are because the site isn't profitable, or because it isn't profitable enough. Because they've sort of cut their own throat here, and it would be interesting to know whether it was from necessity or greed.
> If workers are needed in an area, businesses will eventually need to pay them more.

To me this is a sensible solution. Let the city start to suck a bit (expensive or closed restaurants for example) and then other cities can share the burden of being go-to places to live.

> Subsidizing their housing is a backdoor subsidy to the business owners who don't need to pay their workers enough to deal with living in the Bay Area.

Not to mention subsidizing the property investors, and driving up demand.
It depends on how common your name + lastname is. I have a very common first name + last name among Indians and plenty at silicon valley but I got mine few years back at my registrar for $13 per year.
Sounds about like GNU Hurd's translators.
As a former grad student who has interacted with both the good and the bad of your group, I understand the differences... and regret the unfortunate realities.

I remember a Chinese PhD student who could not function in spoken English . Nice guy. Always smiled, bobbed his head, and said "hi", and that was the extent of his verbal vocab. Still don't know how he got into an American graduate school. Really brings the department down. :-/
not if we can help it. Time to eat all the squids too!
I've wondered for a while weather housing exclusivity can improve economies in some respects. Do the high housing costs create a strong selection bias to bring in only the most determined to take part in the SV culture?

Obviously, lower housing costs would cause a higher absolute density of people. But maybe the presence of people with other unrelated interests would somehow dampen the tech economy, even if the absolute density of tech people remained the same.

Let me be clear that I support more residential construction on the peninsula, so I am not saying this as part of a weird socio-political agenda. It's purely out of curiosity.
Probably not the right answer, but I only upload to imgur with a CLI client. You get a direct link back that has never shown that behavior. Also if the client only outputs the direct link you can pipe it to `pbcopy` on Mac to put the link in your clipboard.
They started as an image host for those freeloaders. That made them big. Now they stopped providing that service.

Yes, imgur can do what it wants. But so can we. Also we may complain as much as we want for being deceived for so long.

Thanks for the free bandwidth and farewell imgur.
I saw a study recently [0] that suggested that college acceptance alone, regardless of attendance, was a good predictor of lifetime earnings.

E.g., if you're accepted into Harvard, but decide instead to attend a cheap state school (or don't goto any college), you'll end up earning just as much as your identical twin who attended.

[0] I'm looking for it now..
You make him sound like someone who is filing frivolous lawsuits. The Hogan case involves an outrageous invasion of privacy of extremely dubious newsworthiness, nothing at all like, say, outing a lesbian congresswoman who supports traditional marriage legislation. He's not going through looking for possible gotchas; these cases are pretty clear cut.
Rustfmt can clean that up, but I'm on mobile and can't run the examples through to see what it looks like.
So if it were a Donald Trump sex tape rather than a hulk Hogan one, should airing under a minute of it cost the NYTimes $150M?
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Senate Committee Must Pass the Email Privacy Act Without Weakening Amendments
Don't get me started on that. RWC resident here, and there have been major issues with the city rubber stamping development without enforcing minimum parking requirements, or giving any major thinking to how to solve the cities insane traffic/parking problems (particularly compared to neighboring cities).

Oh, except the thought they had to make Farmhill suddenly go from two lanes to one lane. Yeah, that's a great solution on a main connector to 280 in a city that already has major rush hour congestion issues.
On iOS, they override the swipe-from-left-to-go-back gesture and instead use it to cycle you through new images.
I have stepped away from development for the time being but as a black man in the industry, when I read that, I already knew what my answers would have been.

He was probably a lot more diplomatic than I would have been.
Dear lamb, we had a great time but now I have to eat.
Have you found noticing this (the large degree to which education is just a filtering/grading ritual rather than a process for actually imparting useful learning) incredibly frustrating?
No one seems to be asking what was done to education to produce the higher graduation rates. Is it really true that everyone is now "smarter" or were standards changed to achieve the desired outcome? What good is it to have a college degree that is marginally superior to or in the case of some majors, no better than a high school diploma of 25 or 40 years ago?
Colocation hosting your own servers around the world... you know, the original way.
I don't think the tech community is deflecting criticism. As a minority voting group, what are they supposed to do about the problem?

The limited supply is not their fault. The refusal to bid in the market would be a meaningless self-sacrifice. The lack of healthy leverage and organization by workers in other industries have nothing to do with tech workers, who, again, are a minority power in politics.
i haven't read the article but you are discussing education as it stands today and not what education should be in the ideal sense. education shouldn't be about the bullshit standardization and paper seeking that it has become. instead, it should be what education is all about: intellectual and skilled growth. if we truly educated people, this would help becuase it creates the skills necessary to adapt to and change one's situation.
Use S3 but put a cache in front of it, at the very least.