skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $150,000 number is the cost of the mortgage needed to buy a home the size of the one they rented in Palo Alto [1]. The breakdown was that they rented the home with another couple for $6200/mo. If they wanted to buy a similar home, it would cost ~ $2.7M, thus the $12.5k/mo mortgage. They were already renting a place in Palo Alto at ~ $3100/mo. Their problem was that they wanted to start a family and needed more space. Doing so in Palo Alto was prohibitively expensive.

I don't think that she was whining about not being able to live in a neighborhood where multi-millionaire lived. It was about being able to establish roots anywhere in the Palo Alto area. It's all but impossible and it will become harder and harder to run a city where all of the labor force needs to be imported (police, teachers, city gov't, etc).

I know this is already starting to become an issue with some departments at Stanford where it's very difficult to recruit/keep faculty and postdocs due to the cost of living in the immediate area.

[1] https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-a...
It's more than difficult to just drop a company that you can lead with the best direction when you have so many people close to you that depend on its success. So yes he can leave, but there is more than just his paycheck on the line if he quits.
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I agree with you that tying a policy choice you oppose to a horrible poison pill like forced labor is a potentially effecitve way to subvert democracy and prevent popular policies you dislike from being enacted by the public.

I said so two comments up, and reiterated this in the very comment you replied to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286281

The tone of your post suggests you disagree with me about something. Am I misinterpreting? If not, what do we disagree on?
Would most houses in Beverley Hills or Bel Air be considering McMansions? I thought the vast majority are pretty far from that style. When I think McMansions I think Hollywood Hills or Atherton or even Los Gatos.
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Tom Richmond is one I learn to draw [0]
Jack Hamm has the best series, I think, to learn.
[0] http://www.tomrichmond.com/
For-profit ISPs that have monopolies are abusive, in pricing and in the quality of services they offer. This is close enough to a universal truth that there's no point in considering the exceptions for public policy purposes; we can assume incumbent ISPs are abusive ISPs.

Removing the artificial barriers to competition does nothing to abolish the natural one, nor to remove the advantage an incumbent ISP has from having been helped overcome that natural barrier.

The only sure way to break out of the pattern is through another use of the government power that created the monopoly in the first place: either by regulating that monopoly to curb its abuses, by creating a second publicly-owned network to host a functional competitive market, or by seizing the existing infrastructure to turn it into the publicly-owned network that is a prerequisite for the kind of competitive market that can work. The above three options are things that have to be done by the government because other private enterprises either cannot do it or cannot have sufficient economic incentive to do it. Of those three options, the first is far less permanent than the latter two, and the second is far less frightening than the third.
Its missing a ton of information and it seems poorly presented. I found that surprising given that the author teaches the topic.

In general I agree that the most confusing part with these chips are that the ARM interrupts are all very well defined and they have clear semantics, but the vendor specific interrupts are kind of all over the place as the vendors use licensed IP from a variety of vendors and attach them to the interrupt structure in different ways.

That said, interrupts have the inherent complexity of "you were doing something and POW! now you're doing something else." which starts out weird to new programmers and then when nested interrupts are brought up their head explodes. I can imagine it is a tough topic to teach.
"They can move elsewhere" is not a reason to not build more housing - it is reasonable (and desirable) for people to live in the city that they work in. If your argument is that they can pay 3,000 a month for the privilege of living 50 (!) miles away from work in Gilroy then that still doesn't do anything for the "teachers, police officers, and other working and middle class people" - you know, the people who actually keep the city running.
I think you are incorrect. Most production cars (all that I know) have only a single fuel tank, thus nothing to mix.
The linuxulator tries to be compatible with Linux 2.6.16 (released March 2006). I'm not sure about Wine but at a glance they mention 64-bit support so I'd guess at least Vista (also 2006)
Yours. Plenty of us would rather the suburbs than... most anywhere else.
If you want to learn kana, you can drill it in this website:
realkana.com . You select the kanas you want to learn, then you drill them until you learn them.
Writing each one repeteadly also helps. Note that they have a stroke order that you are expected to respect.

Kanji is really hard, you will need to spend some good time learning them. A chrome plugin called rikaikun, or rikaichan for firefox might help you get familiar with kanji by annotating them when you hover over them as you encounter them on websites.
That would depend on the price elasticity of the existing housing stock in response to each additional unit of housing that is supplied to the market. It's conceivable that the marginal decrease in tax revenue from the existing stock would be more than offset by the additional tax revenue from the one additional unit.
Horses (and various ruminants) are a bad example because they need a relatively big mass of fiber in their digestive tracts. Can't do that on two legs. Still, their fore legs are considerably lighter and contribute relatively little to forward motion.

For that matter, a human can run down a horse. Some Africans still do that with zebras. Cats can't do that.

And no, "pumping" arms around is not really a necessity.
Innovation != surprise. If that was the case, the 1000x improvements we got by Moore's law would not count as innovation (except maybe when we completely change CPU architectures, e.g. from CISC to RISC etc).

And the kind of work, research and investment in getting new and improved cpus, gpus, cameras is hardly trivial.

If anything, the innovations mentioned (wireless charging, waterproof case) are both existing and trivial to adopt (if one wanted).
Understand Big O notation [1] and how to use more technical JavaScript features like .map [2] and .reduce [3].

I get asked these frequently, and it was never mentioned to me when I asked for advice on how to prepare. This may be specific to senior developer positions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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That one in particular looked nice to me as well.

And others I could certainly see what they were talking about aesthetically, but many of them came with concrete benefits - all those "voids" in the second story of that one I'm sure let in a lot of beautiful light and scenery for the people actually using the house.
“Stop running out of device space get all apps at your fingertips”
Tonight I came upon a very interesting Startup called AppAll Mobile (https://twitter.com/AppAllHQ & www.appallmobile.com). They seem to have launched just today and their a mobile storage application for other mobile Apps.

Basically they position themselves as a "Dropbox for Mobile Apps". It seems by using their app you can drag/drop your existing apps into their application just like you would with pictures and files into Google Drive or Dropbox and those apps are stored on the cloud and streamed back at a fast rate.

I guess I was stunned after researching that something like this doesn't exist and honestly seems very useful. I just signed up for their waiting list, looking forwarding to trying it out.

Curious to see what other people have to say about this?
Nope, it has to do with endurance and having a higher elevation of sight compared to body mass.
Per annum, per centum, per mille, per capita, et cetera, et cetera.

These are Latin phrases, borrowed especially in British English as Great Britain was occupied by Latin speakers for nearly 400 years -- 43 CE through 410 CE. Latin continued to be the language of diplomacy, religion, philosophy, and science through the 18th and 19th century.

It is, for all practical intents, proper British English.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/per

Though yes, $<value>/yr. is more frequently seen especially in American English.
Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a 403 when trying to access this page?
Pretty different, yes, cause I hardly know of anyone who lost their phone that way. I'm pretty sure there are a few. But I seriously doubt there are that many.

In contrast, a phone being damaged because it fell and broke its glass etc, I've seen and heard stories of dozens of times.
Someone in Australia wants CPU and/or server sales hidden from view
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Indeed. but it's also unreasonable to expect that homeowners in a city should not be able to decide how much building they want to allow in their city. I mean, it's a Bay wide problem, why can't all the building be done right outside Palo Alto? why does Palo Alto have to shoulder the solution to this problem? I don't have a dog in this fight, but I certainly can understand current homeowners. They want to keep their city a certain way. Why can't they ?
> All of this sounds to me like arrogant ramblings of people who like authoritarianism and can't grasp the concept of personal freedom and that people like homes that are wacky and extension of their own egos and sense of pride in their financial success.

He's complaining about stupidity such as having a row of windows, with each window being a different random style.

If I was a web designer, and I insisted that every letter on a website was in a different font, everyone else would tell me to stop being such an asshole.

These homes aren't wacky, they are built by builders who kept cutting costs and cutting costs until they were left with the most cost efficient subset of features.

Another analogy to software, imagine if to save on dev time, a random half of every dialog box in an app was just left blank. Maybe some of those buttons were needed, maybe they weren't, whatever, it got out on time!
Or move the jobs out of ridiculously high COL areas?

An area of land has a carrying capacity dictated by the will of the people who live there through their votes. Why fight it when you can simply move work elsewhere?
I hope they don't all end up being locked into the Echo platform - there's no reason such games couldn't work just as well on a smartphone. Although I suppose Amazon's platform may boost a better and easier-to-use speech recognition engine.
The race is on!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon

Humans win occasionally.
Mountain lions use front paws broader than rear to grasp large prey as they bite the neck. As large as elk and deer.
I've seen this done before, but I wouldn't consider it common. In my experience, the two most common approaches for mitigating knock on high boost street cars involve either running E85 all the time (or a reduced mixture like E30), or using a water/methanol injection system. A secondary fuel system with race gas is more common on nitrous cars though.

Anecdote: I'm running a water/alcohol injection system on my 335i (tuned on higher than stock boost). It really helps on the hotter days. Currently, I'm running a mixture of ethanol (everclear) and distilled water. Most people use methanol, but it's not really compatible with the viton gaskets inside of my pump.
More airline outages predicted as carriers grapple with 1960s technology
Well that was unexpected, a N800.

http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/screenshots/n800...

Sadly these days i feel mixed emotions, and i keep finding that Linux desktop development seems to have gone off the rails thanks to that thing.
Interesting, I didn't know that actually. Seems GOOGL has a market cap almost as high and 2.5x higher P/E. Would make me wonder about Google a bit too. In my opinion, they don't really innovate at the market level like Apple does. They have the Search cash cow, Gmail was moderately innovative at the time, and most of their other stuff comes off as well-executed me-toos. Technically innovative, but not exactly opening up new markets for things that nobody knew existed.

It's also a narrative problem. Apple has the narrative going - Jobs is gone, can Cook really replace him? Google is mostly boring crickets as far as management narratives.
That could be quite useful when installing Games on my tablet since they tend to take quite a lot of storage also my phone tends to run out of space all the time and it's a pain in the butt deleting apps and seeing which ones I don't need
>you're never going to convince the populous that exercising is fun

You don't have to convince the "populous", just enough tens of millions, and it would be a huge profit center.

And you don't have to convince them about exercise being fun or anything similar either -- just that not dying from heart attack and knowing your glucose levels and such is fun...

(There are 30 million people with diabetes in the US alone for example).
Is this ontologies within the field of AI not working, or more generally?

Do you have references to any specific discussions on this?

Curious as I'm doing some work of my own (well outside AI) in which developing ontologies strikes me as useful, though I'd prefer not falling into any well-worn traps.

(My use is largely comping up with useful descriptive models of otherwise hairy concepts.)
Warren Buffett Talk to MBA Students at Florida University (1998)
For those who aren't familiar with the Bay Area: East Palo Alto is a high-crime city. It is not the eastern part of the city of Palo Alto -- it is not even in the same county. It has such a high rate of crime that there were no grocery stores there for many years, because the shoplifting put them out of business. There are frequent gang-related shootings. And yet, it still costs more to live there than it does in most of the United States. That's pretty good evidence that we need more housing.
Many people buy houses for their utility, not because it makes them a special snowflake.
Seems to be the same old story we've long known. Government interference in markets leads to distortions. Yet year after year we act surprised. And when it comes time to setting up a government, we vote for the person who promises to spend others' money on our pet project.
I ran into a claim some years ago saying that homeownership is policy because homeowners do not riot.
Changing the head has been around for a while. This appears to actually control how far the piston itself travels up the cylinder.
But nobody is forcing him to do it. If it doesn't make him happy, he can change it, unlike many people.
Moved from SF to tokyo. Japan happened to be one of our bigger markets (among doing well/better in asia).

I was a gamer who grew up in Michigan, so I saw the downfall of the automobile scene at the hands of toyota among others as well as lived and breathed japanese games.

Japan's dominance is all too familiar in that space.

Tokyo today tends to not be very good at software. That coupled with the tech scene here trying to revitalize itself (see the work by 500 startups japan as a great example) is an interesting time to keep an eye on the culture as well as the country to see if it can rebound.

It's definitely a combination of things but that with the vastly better quality of life here has lent itself to what I believe is a big interest from a lot of people. As mentioned in other comments, japan also knows how to export its culture well.

I'm not sure it's 1 thing but a bunch of small things that make a difference here.

Not sure if that helps or not.
Some people have a superficial idea of what taste is.

ie. It involves spending a lot of money. It should be complex. Columns are a sign of taste.

So they are easy to "fool", they only look at bits they can tick off. They don't have the knowledge to get the overall concept.

So even through they might not subliminally love the design they get enjoyment from thinking it is great through their criteria.
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The watch is selling well and continuing to grow at a rate greater than the iPhone did over the same period.
Gold standard implies that it's high end. High end homes in the US can also have excellent quality as well.
Their in Beta huh? How long do you think it would take to get access to it? Do they offer the ability like some apps do if I reference a friend I get a chance to move up and access to it earlier?
I hate the anti competitive structure we have in the USA now but I can't see how government run ISPs could ever be w good thing.

1. Network tech advances at breakneck pace. Do you really think government is going to update aging infrastructure every few years? Sure the current ISPs might not to that now. Proper competiton might fix that. Government ISPs will make that even worse.

2. Censorship seems far more likely on government ISPs . Someone will lobby "the government shouldn't allow X on government run things". You'll have no recourse. Proper competiton would solve this. Government ISPs won't.

3. Spying: governemts want to spy. What better way to spy than with their own systems.

Yes there is a problem with the current local monopolies but I don't see how government run ISPs is the right solution.
I use openRC with Gentoo and ZFS in my a file server. The simplicity is close to FreeBSD's rc system.
people went nuts about that recently there didn't they huh
Given the bundling of JS and often CSS in modern web-apps via build tools, I've been a proponent of serving html/js/css from the same serve as a front-facing API host... this way almost everything comes from the same place. This works better still with HTTP/2. It's getting more and more like having a CDN in between your primary app and the user is of less benefit... having one for an image-store if you have a lot of images may be an okay idea. Images tend to be the bulk of a web page's weight for a lot of apps. Even SPAs.

I think where this will really start to shine is when browsers get js module support internally... combined with http/2 and some smarter server-side rendering, that could be a really nice place to be.
More Is Different (1972) [pdf]
> Indeed. but it's also unreasonable to expect that homeowners in a city should not be able to decide how much building they want to allow in their city

How far away does said land need to be before you think current homeowners shouldn't have a say anymore? Should someone who lives on the border of Palo Alto and another city be able to prevent housing being built in that other city, or just in Palo Alto? It's pretty arbitrary.

The people who are trying to prevent housing being built today are the same people who benefited from lots of new housing being built during the 1960s-1980s. Why should they have the right to prevent other people from doing what they themselves did? Should the Palo Alto residents in the 1960s-1980s have been able to prevent the newcomers at that time? I suspect very few current residents would agree with that, which is hypocritical.

I think there is a much simpler way to deal with this -- if land is zoned for housing, allow housing to be built. If some rich guy in Palo Alto wanted to control what happened on that land, he should have bought it. Why should anyone be able to veto the development of housing on land they don't own, if it is zoned for housing?
The McMansion thread is over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286724
Good suggestion but I think headphones would be frowned upon in my workplace unfortunately.

Constant interruption and complaining, perfectly fine. Antisocial headphones, verboten!
I consider JS and even CSS part of the app... to me a lot of the text, images and videos are external content better on a second/dedicated resource (or CDN). Not to mention that properly supporting video can take a bit of work on its' own if you want to dynamically up/down-grade the stream.
I think the point of the person you replied to is that any variation in octane is handled by the fuel injection system. This renders having two tanks unnecessary (unless you require more distance between fill ups).
I think direct injection allows engines to run higher compression ratios without knocking. I'm not sure exactly why, but I assume it's because the fuel sprays directly on top of the piston which could allow it to cool any hot spots which would have normally caused detonation.
That's not an ad hominem attack, it's a statement based on reputation.

Ad hominem, properly, is based on an irrelevant characteristic of the person being attacked. "I won't work for a Peter Thiel startup because he wears white shoes after Labour Day", or "... because he mixes stripes and solids".

Stating that he's got a track record of founding and backing ventures with a net-negative social value, or which simply waste talent, is absolutely spot on.
or is there merely an unceasing open-loop demand that you turn the crank "as fast as possible"?

and keep your speed constant at all times. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
> it's just within the last 7-10 years I start hearing people use this term

If I recall, the term arose out of the JS community around the time CoffeeScript, Traceur and other languages that compile to JS got popular. Brendan Eich did a lot of popularization of the term.

> IMO adds no actual value.

I think it's a really useful term. Compilers and transpilers are structurally different and have different high level aims.

If you tell me you are writing a language that compiles to JS, then my assumption is that you treat JS as effectively an "assembly language for the web". You will output whatever bizarre JS code that happens to correctly implement your language's semantics efficiently and compactly. It might make my eyes bleed, but that's OK. I'm not supposed to read it, maintain it, or debug it. Think Emscripten or dart2js.

If you tell me you are writing a language that transpiles to JS, then my assumption is that you treat the output JS as a first-class developer artifact. The generated output should, as much as possible, match the structure, formatting, and naming of the original code. I should be able to read it and step through it in my debugger. If the source language's maintainers disappear, I can check in the compiled output and move on with my life using it as vanilla JS. Think CoffeeScript or TypeScript.

Those are very very different kinds of tools, and it's handy to have words to distinguish them.
Homeowners don't riot. Neither do married people.

But while there is good evidence that marriage transforms rioters into non-rioters, giving houses away doesn't seem to have much effect on the recipients.

Logically, if you want to tamp down rioting and your metric is homeownership, you should be trying to oppress non-homeowners, not trying to get houses to the people that don't have them.
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