skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Increased supply always leads to lower prices"

Not in real estate economics. Housing isn't a commodity market. There are firm price tiers, different methods of construction, different fixed costs for those methods, and drastically different markets for individual neighborhoods. Real estate isn't fungible and it's isn't particularly liquid. Basically none of the requirements of Econ-101-style supply and demand are met in the world of real estate. Building skyscrapers is nothing like creating an assembly line for widgets.

So yes, "construction" has some small aggregate effect on the price of a rental in the city, but that effect is meaningless to you if your affordable building was knocked down to make room for a luxury skyscraper.

Moreover, if you do happen to overbuild housing in a market, the price sags. Developers then almost immediately stop building, because the costs of new construction don't decline with scale. Thus, price controls enabled by construction happen on the order of decades, not years. Neighborhoods gentrify much more quickly.

In practice, a low-density neighborhood gentrifies, land values go up, and developers start to replace cheaper, low-density construction with expensive, high-density construction that can only be justified because of the higher land values. Existing residents are displaced. Ideally, those residents then move to a cheaper neighborhood. If no such neighborhood exists (because, say, you're in a small land-locked city with more millionaires per capita than anywhere on earth, and no remaining "undesirable" land), then those residents are, indeed, completely displaced. The fact that luxury apartments are theoretically $30 a month cheaper in some other neighborhood is thin gruel.
One thing I am missing is dependency injection/ioc.
How does one effectively unit test without it?
I saw this on Product Hunt too. I wonder if the maker has any plans to keep it updated?
With you all the way.

I have 11 acres, horses, a goat, cats, a dog, and I live 15 minutes from downtown and 17 minutes from work. This is in a mid-sized midwest city (Grand Rapids, MI). While I realize that I could achieve a substantial pay raise on one of the coasts, a similarly sized plot there would cost millions. I paid under 200k 5 years ago with a 1500sf house on it, and it's still probably only worth the mid 200k range after we improved it (cleared 6 acres of trees, planted and fenced a bunch of pasture, made significant improvements to the house). I could not achieve a similar lifestyle on an engineer's salary near a major urban center on a coast ... and I have no desire to move to one :).

Plus, I get to make avionics, which is on my short list of the best jobs ever.
If you aren't tied to .NET, you could always use OCaml and js_of_ocaml, a compiler that targets javascript.

Plus, you get a lot of functionality from the library too https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml

The documentation is a bit confusing, but it has tons of features.
New Wave of Malvertising Leverages Latest Flash Exploit
While I agree with Imgur being obnoxious and a far cry from their early days, they are not as awful as the previous de-facto image sharing site - whatever it was with the green frog as their mascot.
Wow that sounds strange coming from StackExchange. It seems hard to believe imgur would have a cheaper way to host images than what SE could get, and it's not like an image upload page is that difficult right? I suppose it's one less thing to deal with does it make that much sense? (Honest question, not trying to "weekend project" imgur.)
Wolfram at his best
Plus, since Adderall and the like are in limited supply, you're preventing people who actually need it to function from getting the access they need.
No, majority of costs will be for bandwidth, not storage.
Pretty neat. I was curious how a general search would work on a travel site but '!kayak iah' or '!kayak houston' just dumps me on kayak.com after a few redirects.
Apples to oranges. SF has always been more of a boomtown. Neither of the cities you mention have experienced the sudden, massive surge in demand that SF has in recent memory.

When you have sudden surges in demand you can't just pin it on supply. You have to think about macroeconomic objectives for the city (i.e. preserving low and mid income housing) as well as how to plan for the long term, like when the boom turns to bust and lots of those new residents leave.
See also http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val...

and http://qz.com/169767/the-century-old-solution-to-end-san-fra...
What if Thiel simply pays Bollea not to settle?

FTA: "He would not say whether he had compensated any of the people, including Mr. Bollea, which could raise questions in an appeal."
Oh brilliant! Thanks for that, definitely going to give that a shot :)
I love, love, love the dynamic cruise control on my 2014 Mazda 3 Astina. I stretched my budget for this, our 2nd car, as I was dead set on getting next generation safety features. Got an ex demo manual, couldn't be happier with the overall package.

Even though my car is a 6sp manual, the automatic distance keeping is making the commute much more relaxing. I can't recommend it enough.

Funnily enough the radar system is separate to the AEB, which uses cameras. AEB stands for automatic / autonomous emergency braking.

As I'm someone who likes to know how stuff works, especially in cars for familiarity should a real event occur, I did set out to experience how AEB works. I rigged some large but light cardboard boxes, reversed down the road a bit, accelerated quickly to around 40 km/h, kept the throttle pedal steady as though if to drive through them.

All times, although it felt like surely it wouldn't, the car intervened at the very last second. The first time it drove through them by a metre. The next two times the car stopped before impact. System uses 100% brake force engaging the ABS and also putting on the hazard lights for good measure.

I came out highly impressed. It ought to pick up cars better, but I'm not about to actively try that.
You are confused; the 48hills article is referring to a different bill[1] (affordable housing bonus) than the Governor’s budget trailer bill that Sam Altman is referring to[2]. The Governor’s bill requires that localities deterministically and expediently approve projects near transit that provide some low-income housing and comply with local zoning laws.

But speaking of the affordable housing bonus, Tim Redmond’s specific concerns seem to be that height limits, setbacks, and backyard requirements may be waived, not that there would be any reduction in affordable housing. But I agree that the affordable housing bonus law is somewhat open-ended so who knows what concession a developer might request.

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[2]: http://web1a.esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/1617/FY1617_ORG224...
> The spatial distribution of the local gravity field is a significant part of the uncertainty of these measurements.

Interesting! Could you please add a few numbers, just to get the order of magnitude?
having the same problem with every cloudflare site as a Tor user. I hesitate to read the link if presentented with the "Attention Required" page.
Print Map of India in C Programming (Obfuscated Coding)
"and especially in the domain of networked services, it is rapidly replacing C/C++."

Rapidly? Where?
Live Streaming Security Games (hacking Competition)
Probably a little out of topic, but is there a way for sites like this ("curated collection" sites) can monetize, other than using display ad networks?
That you're able to isn't much of a belief, the question is whether you should be able to. Yes, you said so explicitly, and I acknowledged it.

But you're, as I said, not justifying it with desert now.

You think you deserve to be able to do as you wish with your money. But why do you deserve that? It can't be because you worked for it, because in giving money to people who didn't work for it (e.g. your kids), you acknowledge that having worked for it isn't important to you. And I guess you think that your kids, too, should be allowed to use the money you give them as they see fit.

Apparently, having the money ("facts on the ground") is sufficient for you to think you should be allowed to do with it as you please. That sounds like might makes right to me...

I'm not condemning you for "sharing your earnings with your family", but I'm certainly condemning your deficient justification for it.
To me, stress should correlate positively with code quality. I've met too many developers in my life that work away while listening to music from their headphones, doing a low-stress job of copying and pasting code around without the least concern for structure or maintainability. I curse and sigh all day long, but at least I try to write code that looks and behaves as I think it should, not just whatever works.
No. Considering the amount of time it took for the original research to begin with and for any subsequent attempt to replicate, the fact that 'americans' were cited as the replicators is superfluous.
If you're ever back in Michigan, you should visit the west side ... and also check out lake Michigan. Grand Rapids isn't as big as Detroit, but our economy is growing at a healthy clip and there's a lot of interesting things going on here.
Just make the emergency brakes kick in only above 5km/h?
Louis CK Reading CATCHER IN THE RYE (Can someone please make this happen?)
You can still do dependency injection in Rust..? There even exists a create for it: https://github.com/Nercury/di-rs. There's also some further discussion here: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-do-you-implement-dependenc...
Prometheus addon for Kubernetes
I'd love to see the same. I'm having a hard time understanding why signaling that a gag order exists with the removal of a canary wouldn't violate the gag order.
Possibly because race is one of the protected classes by anti-discrimination law, which makes the characteristic a legal hazard. Perhaps you've heard of stories where people are hesitant to hire women, because sex and pregnancy are both protected. In fact, most of the groups you mentioned are covered by anti-discrimination law, so they would naturally fit this model.

The USA legislates most major workplace interactions I can think of. I don't find it too surprising that people want to avoid the costly and painful legal system through whatever means they can think of, regardless of their effectiveness or ethicalness.
Google went for a 25 mph top speed for regulatory reasons (the car is basically classified as a golf cart that way), not for technological reasons.
Because new housing doesn't magically appear around existing tenants and their furniture. Existing tenants get told to leave, then there is construction for x months, then a new building is there with more units available, and (especially if the old building was under rent control) each new unit costs more than each old unit in the building that used to be there. And its possible none of the tenants who used to live in that building can afford to live in the replacement units - tada, displacement by adding more apartments.
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> No, it will be because a plutocrat decided to fund a lawsuit unrelated to his reason for disliking them

It was directly related his reason for disliking them. In fact, it was practically the same reason.

> and apparently influenced the process of that lawsuit with the aim of destroying Gawker to the detriment of Bollea

How so? Bollea was already a millionaire; he didn't need the money, and he wasn't materially damaged in any case. He wasn't going after Gawker for the payout; he wanted to see them punished for what they did to him, and dissuaded from doing it to anyone else. This outcome serves his interests much better than a bit of extra money would.
Some of the links in the page may be useful but some... On my mobile, some websites have a pop up that cant be closed to read the content, some have broken links - exactly those that enumerate a number of principles, etc
I think that list must be curated..
It's Bollea's rights that would be violated, so he's the one to decide such. I highly doubt he will given the circumstances.

That's why I can't take seriously anyone other than him suggesting such.
Nothing is wrong with making a bit of money.

However, when the barrier to entry for providing a service is low you have to be _very_ careful about making that money by negatively impacting the user experience.

If you make money, that's fine. If you make money by taking advantage of users, you can't really be surprised when a competitor pops up and users leave.
Introducing TrumpScript: Making Python Great Again
I agree 100% but is someone else's sex tape speech? It doesn't inform the public of anything it needed to know and it doesn't express an opinion.
Ok....there is clearly more housing in San Francisco today than there was 50 years ago. Why does housing in San Francisco cost more today than it did 50 years ago?
Nvidia  vs. AMD OpenGL and Vulkan Benchmarks with Valve's Dota 2
San Francisco Studio Apartments IPO, Stock Jumps 273%
Apparently this study was done somewhere in some dystopia wherein war does not exist. How quaint.
Is that written, or just your opinion (professional or otherwise)?
Your premise that the tech community is not a major player in local politics because of their relatively small body count does not hold water. Money plays a large influence in local politics. Ron Conway is a perfect example of this: he dines with the mayor and provides major funding to local campaigns and initiatives, which usually win.
Do you think you know what an HTTP verb is?
http://www.j-alz.com/content/study-disproves-link-between-ly...

A study looking at the rates of Lyne disease and Alzheimer's by state did not find a correlation. States where Lyme disease was more prevalent tended to actually have lower rates of Alzheimer's.
This is a radical document:

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A simple method is a method that is `GET`, `HEAD`, or `POST`.

There are no restrictions on methods. `CHICKEN` is perfectly acceptable (and not a misspelling of `CHECKIN`). Other than those that are normalized there are no casing restrictions either. `Egg` or `eGg` would be fine, though uppercase is encouraged for consistency.
That is a terrifying mentality. Should Romney have been able to sue about his 47% comments? Why is everyone so content to march into fascism?
That's not the current environment.
>Researchers at MIT have shown that by surrounding the filament with a special crystal structure in the glass they can bounce back the energy which is usually lost in heat, while still allowing the light through.

Why can't/don't they use those same crystals on LED lights?
I raed.it. Good looking website.
does this standard exist? if not perhaps it could:

http://foo.com/canary.txt

if becomes empty or 404, etc., then the viewer can assume canary is withdrawn
> He could not have done anything at all to them if the cases were not meritorious.

That's not true at all. One jury verdict (before appeals have been heard) plus a bunch of nascent suits is no proof of eventual merit. It could be that every single one of those cases eventually ends up getting dismissed, or being awarded negligible verdicts. But because Gawker may not be able to afford a full defense, they could well be out of business.

Long-time financial journalist Felix Salmon points out the issues here:

https://twitter.com/felixsalmon/status/735662530903826437

You also write like somebody who has never been on the receiving end of a lawsuit. They are a painful multi-year distraction and expense even if you win. My mom was on the receiving end of a lawsuit after a business deal gone bad. Eventually she won on all counts, and after he had finished reading his verdict, the judge gave both the plaintiff and the plaintiff's lawyer a royal dressing down for wasting the court's time. But the stress was incredible for the whole family, and we still had to pay the defense bills. It was not cheap.

And in Gawker's case, defending themselves against $10m worth of lawyering could well take them at least $10m no matter the outcome of the cases. News is not a business rolling in money; publishers go out of business every day even without being forced to burn unlimited millions. I can and will seriously argue that Gawker will be unable to afford defense lawyers long before Thiel will be unable afford lawyers playing offense.
I don't have any numbers to support this claim, but it's certainly true that we are seeing a lot of software being developed in Go, and network software in particular.
So happy as they are the healthiest night lighting anyway.
I understand your frustration. The difference is at least clear to most other students, even if it's not so clear elsewhere. When I attended university in the UK about ten years ago, about 1/3 of the students on my course were Chinese. Unfortunately I reckon the majority of these were suspect. Many could barely speak English, and when doing group work would contribute to the written work in broken English, but then mysteriously submit flawlessly written final work. However there were several Chinese students who were clearly smart and doing their own work, but these were sadly very much in the minority. There were lots of other international students and none of the rest were suspect. I'm not saying there was no other cheating as I'm sure there was, but none of the rest made me wonder how they even got onto the course, let alone maintained good grades.
The luxury of tears
+1 to this. People should stop being soften with unrealistic business that uses the ad hororem tactic. Imgur can explore dozens of models.
Development along the existing CalTrain and BART lines makes a lot of sense. Though it would be great if there were good public transit options in Marin, the reality is that neither CalTrain nor BART will ever go there. The development is just too expensive at this point.

Prediction: the gentrification currently happening in Oakland will soon spread to Richmond and Vallejo. Vallejo, it's crime problems aside, actually makes a lot of sense. There's a ferry there and cheap housing.
Supporting a free and open media doesn't mean supporting every media outlet. The point everybody seems to be glossing over here, in their haste to paint Thiel as the Antichrist incarnate, is that Gawker was wrong. If they had not actually done wrong, none of this would be an issue. Who is funding the lawsuit is actually irrelevant. They chose to publish the Hogan sex tape, they get to pay the consequences. So Thiel gets his revenge in the process.. OK, fine, there are plenty of other media outlets out there (hello, qz.com).

Of course it's frustrating to see a billionaire flaunt their wealth in a way that most of us never could, but that's the flip-side of the open society coin.
And yet the alternative is to allow vile publications like Gawker to continue to cause damage to the general public without anyone able to stand up to them.

It's also important to point out that Thiel is not manufacturing bogus cases to try and overwhelm a company with lawsuits. He's trying to find legitimate victims of Gawker and fund their lawsuits. These aren't frivolous claims, they're merely claims that the victims may not have been able to afford to file otherwise.
I am enjoying learning and using both Elm and F# at the minute, but finding a webserver to link them has not been straight forward.
Suave, or Nancy seem to have a lots of opaque boilerplate, and I've not found anything with a similar learning curve to more familiar Python webservers.

Have you any suggestions for an F# webserver?
Gaining degree makes most of us poor, Isn't that the case.
What i was thinking can we build a infrastructure on top of blockchain technology to make the very fact of education free and for all as every one knows each others ability or degree or area of expertise with this infrastructure.
Yes, way, way cheaper. Amazon egress bandwidth is 10-100x more expensive than IP transit.
I changed my useragent to Googlebot and Googlebot smartphone and none of them display the link for activating the subscription. Which means that SO had not granted more permissions to Google Bot and possibly Google is registering? Is this even possible?
Neanderthals Built Complex Underground Structures 176,000 Years Ago
Self-driving cars already work well in Google's Mountain View. Mountain View has four way stop signs. So, yes.
> a PhD student who just arrived at US may not be able to communicate well enough in English to articulate his/her thoughts, but that by no means is an indicator that the person has poor knowledge on his main research topic.

I don't see any part of the article that makes that assumption.

If you don't understand the test, there's no way to verify if you know the subject matter being tested. Cheating is cheating

Chinese students certainly have it rough and are being underserved by China, America, and themselves. Americans are trying to help by opening up institutions. Perhaps they should offer more English language programs at the beginning for these students. Students could help themselves more by asking for help with English rather than cheating.

The CPC could open up its media more so that more Chinese people can learn English by watching American TV shows, for example. Many of the best English speakers I've met in my travels through Asia grew up watching American TV. Others learned from churches. Unfortunately, China cracks down heavily on both organized religion and media.
Education made jobs more competitive.

It was a social lift taking people up.
On the other hand, by making workers more productive it reinforced the competitive advantage of being born wealthy.

Too harsh competitions creates cheating.

And there is no lift taking wealthy/high positioned people down when they are incompetent, especially when governments gives free money to the stock exchange (QE).

Well, we are heading full speed to Victorian era and hard social conflict, because educated poor will eventually understand the game is rigged.
The point is that we're still being taught that the reason Columbus sailed westward was to prove that the earth was round, which was certainly not the case. I have lost count of the times the 'we used to think the world was flat' argument has been used in discussions I have partaken in. Though it does have a valid point (we know more now than we used to) it is also misused, especially when it comes to discussions on science and religion. It is quite ironic when the defenders of science in that perceived battle perpetuate this myth.
I have lastname.localtld costs me $15. I think local tlds make much more sense for name domains than generics like .com.
I imagine you in a grocery store somewhere, railing against free samples. "You never should've given me a piece of sausage if you were going to start charging for them."
That's what eg Google is lobbying for.
I once worked at a large tech company... one of those ruthless fast paced ones. An interviewer liked to ask dumb things like

"what's your GPA"

<reply>

"Why is it not 4.0?"

or

"where'd you graduate from?"

<your school>

"Why not stanford?"

I can't tell if he did it because it was a useful technique to throw people off and test them, or if he was just a supreme dick. Either way the interviewer in the article went too far into illegal mode (interviewer training 101: never mention race, marital status, military service, etc)
I think it's reasonable to speculate that their canary might as well have not existed for the purposes of determining legal consequence. Without the expected uproar over an agency forcing a canary down, the agency has no reason to apply legal pressure on the company. Thus, reddit's canary gives you no real information about the likely reaction of a govt agency to the practice, and certainly no information about a court's view on its legality.
Not only that, but I doubt his car was particularly tired. Something that probably isn't true about most of the people driving in the traffic jam.
Depends what. We pay significantly lower than label price for Cloudfront prices. EC2? Never seen a reduction in that