skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Heck, I'd love to live in those areas if my job didn't require me to be in downtown SF every day

> If you can't afford to live in a certain level of housing in a certain area at market prices, then you shouldn't live there, you should live somewhere cheaper. If the people companies want to hire can't afford to live within a reasonable distance then companies should pay more. If they can't pay more they should leave.

Sounds self correcting, then. Someday it may reach a point where you won't be able to afford to live where you can commute to downtown SF and your company will either have to pay you more or you'll have to leave.

There are a ton of externalities already priced into your rent. Not sure why you're singling out this one versus, say, the overwhelming source of high rents: lack of supply.
It'd only be vaguely silly to use OpenStreetMap as your data store.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree
My best guess is an acoustical reason. The floor might reflect the speaker's voice in ways that muddle it for the audience, so those carpets are placed in front of them to kill that reflection?
"if you use these platforms you are a fool"

Hey, that's not fair, you're arguing against half my point!

I said if you use these platforms _and don't have a reason to think you've got an advantage_ you shouldn't be doing so.

Lun and his peers are an exception to this. If you want to make a second argument and say he shouldn't be trading go ahead (and I'll try to back you up), but my original point was about the 99.9% who aren't Lun and are clearly just fish.
Yes please. You're either dealing with a third tier investor with no class, or else the investor needs to be exposed. Lots of VCs have moxie and chutzpah, this is beyond the pale and deserves public shaming.
I agree. That comment doesn't seem to take into account the human aspect of the problem.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, name and shame and all of that.

Calling one party "Investor A" when they are acting like snakes and attempting to extort money from a company simply because they didn't get to invest only serves to protect that party in the future. And I say extort because the logical reading of "Pay our legal fees" is "Pay our legal fees ... or we will sue you."
On Chomsky's Review of Skinner's “Verbal Behavior” (1970) [pdf]
Reminds me of this quote:

> If there wasn't the possibility of killing myself, I would have killed myself!
I've been to Menlo Park. There are homeless people there. Facebook employs janitors and cafeteria workers as well as engineers. Affordable housing makes sense.

But the real problem with building in Menlo Park isn't your concern for poor people living there. It's the "village feel" attitude of the zoning commission, who won't let anything substantially larger than a single-family house be built there. In particular, Menlo Park is highly resistant to building vertically - the best way to get more units onto limited land.
PG talks about this idea of looking back at the present from the future in this video [1]. Applying this technique to the way power on the internet is distributed, it seems ridiculous to me that Governments have massive surveillance capabilities on its citizens, big corporations exploit customer data at the expense of customers, and that the internet is used as a tool to control political dissidents. So this is something that will eventually change for the better.

As the OP points out, transparency and oversight are the short term solutions. If the present is any indication, implementing these effectively with cooperation from Governments and corporations around the world will likely remain a pipe dream.

The OP also mentions reducing power differences as a long term solution. IMO, one of the best ways to do that would be to educate the masses about the mentioned problems and how it affects everyone involved. Once a sufficiently large population cares enough about the problems at hand, change should not be far away.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI
I guess I'm not verifiable enough? What about Paul Irish?

https://twitter.com/paul_irish/status/754864479460929536
wDiabloical.
Even if "coup" is the wrong word for it doesn't mean it was all kosher: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/30/major-new-brazil-events-...
Dear god! I'm an awful programmer.
Can you find me some actual person who honestly does not know what a camera looks like? Not "someone who has never personally used a camera," not "I'm sure that somewhere out there there's someone who doesn't know what a camera looks like," not "in twenty years, maybe lots of people won't know what a camera looks like."

Someone that, right now, actually honestly has no idea what a camera looks like.
Another point, speaking of tropes, it is kind of a trope, but do you think you could tell, say, the DNC delegates like this one, that Hillary doesn't want to ban guns? https://youtu.be/QJipQgOk_vY

Kinda goes into the "dog whistle" concept. I notice that Liberal activists are constantly claiming that Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobe, etc due to vague reinterpretation of comments and positions that are supposedly subtle signals to racists. Meanwhile, the Democrat politicians routinely say that they want "common sense gun control". A little digging usually shows that their real goal is to ban and seize all guns, even if they know that they can't do it right away. But that doesn't stop the same Liberal activists from calling gun-rights advocates crazy for saying that those same Democrat politicians want to take their guns.
Ah, I remember this model from the episode of Mythbusters where they escape from Alcatraz. They used the model to test potential routes across the bay.
No need to imagine, that is literally the first usage scenario mentioned in the paper.
I find this to be true when I don't care about what I'm working on. I wish companies would acknowledge that they aren't providing the most interesting work in the world, and admit when that people can only deal with it for so many hours per week. If I find something within the company that I find interesting, I'd happily put in some extra hours for free, but I'd much rather be working 30 hours per week.
I'd start with this.

https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Producti...
"It is unethical and impractical to hold wealthier individuals accountable"

Are a bunch of 20/30 something tech workers really wealthy? How much money do these kids have in the bank? How much school debt? What percent of their income do they have to spend on rent?
The result of making specific regions unavailable for people with lower income results in a separated society. It will mean that people with much money will live next to people with much money, and people with no money will live next to people with no money. The US has that already; you call it ghetto.
What you're describing would result in large ghettos of low-income people. It would be a nightmare in the end.
One of my big takeaways from read a US history [0] was that conflicts were often solved by the dissenters moving somewhere else and settling that new empty space. Which is one reason why I think space exploration is important; there's plenty of room for multiple viewpoints out there.

[0] 'A History of the American People', Paul Johnson
What he means isn't about genetics but about opportunity.

Who said anything about genetics?

Only in recent times. The original quote starts with "Throughout the centuries...", so this is about a longer period, and throughout most of it that opportunity you speak of did not exist for the majority of the population.

That's all relative and not really relevant to the overall point. There have always been people who managed to innovate relative to their peers, and they haven't always come from a special "thinking class".
And what about personal responsibility?

In the calculus of renting vs buying a home you gain flexibility in renting. You can pick up and leave with minimal hassle. The risk you incur by doing so is that housing and rental prices might go up. You can't just reap the benefits of renting and then claim foul when the market prices them out and make others pay for it indirectly via externalities. If we're talking about people who are young enough that they've been priced out of home ownership in San Francisco their entire lives, then maybe they should have seen the writing on the wall and made a life for themselves somewhere they could afford it.

And, if their families want these people around so badly, why aren't they boarding them? It's the norm in plenty of other cultures.
Legal tender has another quirk: in the UK, coins are only legal tender up to a certain amount. If you try to pay your rent of £500 using only pennies, your landlord can refuse to accept it.

http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/leg...

For example, you can only use up to £10 worth of 50p pieces. Any more and the coin is no longer legal tender. The only coins that have no limits are £1 and £2.

The much rarer £5+ coins are even more bizarre. According to the Royal Mint, they are legal tender but at the same time, shops and banks do not have to accept them!
I think it depends on the operations being performed. Adding a subset of the changed files? Holding ctrl/cmd and clicking the files is probably faster than typing all those names out on the command line.

Need to pull some new code though, or commit changes? I think "git pull" or "git ci -m 'Message'" is faster than opening up a complicated GUI window with lots of decisions to make.
Yes, there are huge downsides to forcibly uprooting people.

But you don't need to throw out attacks like "warped." :-)
> I just don't see what the point of doing that would be.

So you can still see the Dock and the Menu bar without having to do anything?

I always maximize and never use full screen because I don't want to hide the most useful parts of my OS...but I can imagine that visual artists might use it a lot.
It goes beyond "programming" though. If the issue was that there's not a lot of programmers in general in Senegal you would have a point. However the article specifically talks about how women are discouraged from these careers and the main issue stems from systemic sexism in Senegal as a whole.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?Ne...
I have long supported offering free (tax-payer-funded) housing for the poor - studios or small apartments built in cheaper areas but with free internet. It seems like a win-win for everyone, for a lot of reasons.

I'm usually afraid to say it out loud though, because everyone accuses me of oppressing the poor or something similar.
One difference at least is that it's not isolated. It's not a brand new community. It's just a new subcommunity of an already thriving one. So the stakes associated with failure aren't nearly as high.
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When its over its over forever. No point rushing.
Chomsky's fall follows familiar pattern.

You are bright young nobody. You work diligently and produce great work. Then you become confident, famous and old. You don't have strength to work 10 hours per day working on your new magnum opus. People listen you for who you are and not for what you say and it's easy to become sloppy.
Here's a much better article on why OS X is an exercise in bad UI design - http://aaronhildebrandt.com/archive/osx-an-exercise-in-bad-u...
I guess the title caught me off guard. Suicide rates are low as compared to what, does any other animal on earth kill itself?

with regards to people I would not place on it on the desire to live, I figure it because there are so many distractions in life
We don't know that lithium is entirely helpful.
Empathy is a trait that, were you to cultivate it, would also likely help you tremendously in business, product design, understanding users, and many other things you find personally valuable in life, even beyond its intrinsic ability to make you more human.
This is a great point. I'd love to own a Ferrari, but I don't because I can't afford one. The solution is that I buy a Honda--not for the government to step in and devise a "low income Ferrari" program.
An obvious question is whether suicide rates are unchanged, or simply flat because we have opposed changes obscuring the data.

There's a bit of variance in the US numbers, and I wonder how means reduction, a decline in chronic pain/terminal illness, and various way of life changes compare. I'd be surprised if none of those things were relevant, but less surprised if they didn't add up to a clear trend.
> http://copyfree.org/

If your licensing standard rejects[1] licenses like Apache 2.0 and CC-BY, you may be construing 'Free' too strictly.

[1] http://copyfree.org/standard/rejected
You're presuming to speak for others.

I don't fear death at all.

I fear dying slowly and in pain.
Everyone once in a while someone will ask why public companies have to continually grow revenues. I think this illustrates why. If the Left-Behind Remainder Yahoo (LBRY) company just holds yahoo Japan and Alibaba then the only growth it can have is from the two underlying corporations stock appreciation, assuming they don't start paying dividends. LBRY now becomes a very poor form of an ETF. One that has to pay for employees to run it, accounting fees to be public, etc.

Now what happens if the underlying companies stop growing. What would you pay for the corporation? you already need to discount the company by the amount in capital gains you'd need to pay to liquidate it.

And each year the company loses a bit of money due to just paying people to run it. I guess you can go activist on it and try and force them to sell its holdings and shutdown. Which is essentially what Starboard did to the former Yahoo.

Why would you even bother to invest in it. You can already buy shares of Alibaba if you want and get the full value of its appreciation rather than holding a tracking product that slowly looses money each year.

This company is a bit of a walking Zombie, it's great for some in that its now an arbitrage opportunity.

I don't see why Alibaba or Softbank would be too quick to make a deal here. Time is their friend as each day they wait the company becomes worth less.
What's most impressive for me in the first answer (that perhaps might not get noticed by everyone) is the self-awareness of when one's most productive times are. I think knowing this can really help anyone get more done because you can re-schedule your day to suit when you're best at doing creative/routine/mind-intensive tasks most effectively and efficiently.
In speaking with a Dendrologist, today I learned that the primary factor here is the close proximity of "planted" elm trees.

Elm bark beetles don't travel far on their own, so in a typical forest environment, elm groves are protected, or buffered, by a variety of surrounding tree types, the distance between groves, and the natural order of things.

Whereas, in (sub)urban areas, elm trees are planted up and down residential streets, in close proximity, with no buffers in between.

There's no winning this one.
>Honest question: are spam calls common in the US?

I'm not sure what happened, but lately they've been rare (I suspect there's a lot of pressure on voip providers to up their game and stop selling to scammers), but in 2015 I had one or two per day, easy. These people often faked caller-id and had different numbers each time. It was difficult to block, so I just stopped answering calls I didn't recognize.

Worse, if you answered and treated them civilly like "No thank you I'm not interested in this please remove my number," they just hang up on you and then you get a new call from a different agent an hour later reading the exact same script.

The callers were obviously Indian call centers using scratchy sounding voip connections usually pretending to be your insurance company and asking for personal information or trying to sell you no-name car insurance.
I think usually "The rest of normal folks wanting to stay at very nice hotel" is just "the folks that were too lazy to register for hotels reward program". At least that's the case with Hilton, Marriott, SPG.
Write it in R?
The most popular method at the moment seems to be SEing phone companies into transferring the account to a phone owned by the attacker, therefore bypassing 2FA.
The "in my experience" raises instant warning signs to me. Anything that is strictly "in my experience" is susceptible to ridiculous amounts of survivor and confirmation bias.

So, do you have any numbers? I agree that your argument is appealing. But I really distrust appealing arguments nowdays.
"And their friends? Their support networks? Their families? The place they know and love?"

This is the common retort.

Here's the thing: This goes for pretty much everyone ever born somewhere, so, uh, everyone.

You simply can't have everyone live somewhere. Imagine if everyone in the world wanted to live on a a small, 10 square mile island. You'd agree this is impossible (blah blah blah, current technology, blah blah blah), right?

How do you decide who gets to live there and who doesn't?

At least, IMHO, the best way is not "blood right" (IE i was born there, or spent most of my life there, i get to live there). It's essentially being "born lucky". It wouldn't work anyway. At the rate people have kids, you still run out of room. It's simply not a viable mechanism of deciding who gets to live where.

What is happening here is no different. If you have too many people who want to live in one place, you have to decide who gets to live there somehow. While i'm not necessarily a fan of "whoever pays the most", i'm even less of a fan of "because i spent 50 years there" or "i grew up there". Great, so you got to enjoy it for 50 years, let someone else have a turn.

Let's also add that the only reason, at all, those people are there in the first place, is because someone moved away. The likelihood that we are talking about people where generations of their family lived and died in the same place is very very low.
In all likelihood, the only reason they have these "support networks", etc, is because someone uprooted the family and moved them somewhere else. After all, the vast majority of us are immigrants.
How soon we seem to forget that.

Do i feel for folks who get displaced? Of course. But i don't believe in magic, and, eventually, you run out of room.

(now, there is a reasonable argument we aren't there yet, and we should do it to provide as nice an environment for people as long as we can, but in the end, someone is going to get screwed here)
The human aspect where 20/30 somethings can barely afford rent and school loans at the same time? Where the young have to move out of the city and commute in for their jobs?

There's two sides to that coin.
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>that sounds like the absurdist end of the libertarian spectrum and I'd expect more moderately minded people would take some issue with that line of thinking ...

Should people have the right to communicate with one another without government interference? Does encryption undermine the state in a similar way as terrorism, or is it merely an extension of the existing right of people to be (to quote the US Constitution) "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects from unreasonable search and seizure" ?

I concede that reasonable people can disagree with where the line should be drawn (given different states and different philosophies about the proper nature of government) but I don't think it's that absurd to insist there should be limits on what any government can know about its citizens.

Unfortunately, there have been too many demonstrated cases of governments abusing the legal limits given to them, so I have no reason to expect that greater surveillance powers would be used responsibly. When it comes to weakening encryption, they're not "smacking the child," they're smacking every child and hoping they'll hit the right one sooner or later.
You know how in software quick and ugly hacks have this nasty tendency to stick around long past their sell-by date and hurt everything around them?

A quick and ugly policy hack like a housing moriturium is the same way.
Any similar projects aimed at compiling Linux binaries on non-Linux Unix? (Excluding qemu, etc.)

Some non-Linux Unix have Linux emulation and can translate a subset of Linux syscalls. Perhaps it could be in a chroot with all the needed Linux libraries and utils.

But I am curious if there have been existing projects aimed at this goal.
From http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html:

> I would like to remind you this essay is copyrighted material. It is illegal to repost it without permission. I will usually give you that permission if you translate the essay into another language and if you provide a link back to the English-language original. I do this for three reasons.

1. That way any change I make to the essay is instantly reflected in any English-language copy anyone reads.
2. That way the formatting and images are preserved. Pirated copies usually screw up the formatting.
3. Google ad revenue from this essay is the main source of income from the website. It pays to keep me on the air.

I don't understand how the creator of this GitHub repo could miss this, it's the first thing in the original article...
This link surpasses the paywall: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/facebooks-answer-to-silicon...
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Don't sweat it, majority of the planet doesn't write amazing code. The whole world still runs on it, and it works.
Since time is a resource, yes these 20/30 year olds are wealthier if we assume that everyone's time is equally valued - and that's an unrealistic assumption
Mountain view is not sure what they want. All they are sure of is that they don't want anything new.

I rented a house in Monta Loma (across the 101 from Google when I worked there). The same neighbors would on one hand complain that building housing in North Bayshore was a terrible idea, because the people there would stay there, and not contribute the the Mountain View economy. And on the other hand, they'd complain that development there was sure to increase traffic because more people would be driving to/from N. Bayshore. I tried to argue that it would decrease traffic, because people would no longer be driving in from San Jose, the east bay, or Gilroy.

These were the same people that complained that Google giving free lunches hurt local restaurants, and in the same discussion complained about all the traffic Google generates and how hard it was to find a place to park on Castro.

I'm so glad I moved away.
Verbal languages are full of grotesquely outdated vocabulary and that is perfectly fine. The word starts life as some resolveable derivation until it eventually gets detached from that, becoming pure convention. How many people do you know who are called engineers because they routinely operate actual trebuchets?

I really don't see why visual languages should not evolve along similar patterns. Visual communication would hardly get easier if we switched the existing symbols over to black, rectangular screens for all the tasks that have recently been consolidated in the smartphone as a single, multifunctional tool.
Definitely shorter people have higher survival rates, and also a short women would counter the taller man since half of the genes come from the women.
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They all use third-party service to send those messages through actual WhatsApp clients with real SIM cards (I think each serves around 500 recipients). They also sometimes get blocked by WhatsApp for spamming, loosing customers subscribed to that number. Some examples are https://www.whatsservice.eu/ and https://www.whappodo.com/

WhatsApp announced some API for those use cases though.