skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent control is a terrible idea for controlling cost. This is basically universally agreed upon by all economists. You just artificially reduce the supply of housing because people in rent control places will not leave. On top of that it actually makes it more difficult for low income people to rent since you have to have a sterling rental history to get a rent control apartment.

So you actually just exacerbate the situation. Rent control is one of those things that sounds good at face value but once you think about it a little more you realize it's a terrible idea.
Wealthfront is 3x (.25% vs .05%) more expensive than a lot of great Vanguard funds [1]. And with Wealthfront you might be investing in major index funds anyway except you end up paying more. Why not go with any of Vanguard's S&P 500 funds (mutual fund or ETF) or any other index fund of your choice under Vanguard? I doubt Wealthfront can beat their returns after you factor in cost in the long run (20+ years). Also Vanguard is owned and run by the shareholders, their entire structure is setup so that there is no conflict of interest and they really are on your side, since basically you are part of them when you invest [2]. Wealthfront is a corporation whose sole purpose is to turn a profit.

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...

[2] https://about.vanguard.com/what-sets-vanguard-apart/why-owne...
If this is not a joke, op is really a victim of framework formatting of his brain. That render() function rendering <?=> tags is just.. I don't know.
As of right construction is probably the best solution, and it was recently proposed by the governor of California, who is a Democrat and is generally perceived to be very liberal.

The problem with the Bay Area is not just zoning -- it's the fact that even when land is zoned for housing, all kinds of local advocacy groups can prevent development by filing frivolous lawsuits and demanding further environmental reviews (even when thorough environmental reviews were already conducted).

As of right construction would prevent many of those kinds of lawsuits.

Jerry Brown's proposal was probably the kind of compromise you are looking for: as of right construction would apply to developments with a certain percentage of subsidized housing. (The nice thing about subsidies versus rent control is that they are means-tested, so you won't end up with high-income earners taking advantage of rent control and low-income earners paying market rate.) Unfortunately, his proposal did not get anywhere.
For people hoping to just download and play be aware, it doesn't include art files. Need to get those from original Diablo.

> freeablo is a modern cross platform reimplementation of the game engine used in Diablo 1. As it is just an engine, you will need the original data files to play the game.

> #Installation
> Copy DIABDAT.MPQ and Diablo.exe from your diablo install into the folder with the freeablo executable. (NOTE: only version 1.09 of diablo is currently supported, so please patch to that version)
>> Also, do Germans seriously need to separate out green glass, clear glass, and brown glass bottles?

yes, it looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Altglasc...

>> Do Germans need to keep 7+ bins in their homes as well, or do they just separate it out later?

Not really 7+ bins, but 4.
- paper/carton
- plastic/cans
- residual waste (handkerchiefs/diapers/cigarette butts/sweepings)
- biodegradable waste
Mind clarifying the evil here? The word has a much stronger definition than seems suitable in this situation.
Agreed; I've experienced that as well.

I ended up introspecting on the reasons for that, realized that every single one of them applied equally well to watching it live, and as a result stopped watching entirely.
None, just put your money in an S&P 500 fund. I doubt you will be able to beat that in the long run anywhere else (Even though there are flaws w/ how the S&P 500 is run now [1]).

[1] http://www.joshuakennon.com/sp-500s-dirty-little-secret/
Reading the comments here makes me realize it is probably better to come back in 12 months and observe what is still left standing.
Presumably, Italians are less likely to use Italian to communicate with "fair and blonde" women.
Curious about the timeline regarding application of this knowledge and techniques with respect to longer space travel (Mars trips?)?

With what I know any application of this would be a long long time into the future, but maybe that's incorrect and there are short-cuts available.
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Apparently iTerm2 can be used to setup lrzsz coupling [1]. I haven't tried it yet myself, but I'm going to! I really hope this works. It's such a pain to setup scp back to my workstation that if I need to do any real back and forth, I've been known to setup a reverse SSH tunnel just for getting scp to work. But even then, it's a pain. Zmodem would be so much easier (and make me a little nostalgic inside every time I used it).

[1] https://grack.com/blog/2011/10/26/automatic-file-transfer-in...
I'm a home owner in the Western world and I don't consider myself a real estate speculator. I "bought" my house because I really, really liked it and wanted it to be my home for a very, very long time. Buying the house gives that a better chance of happening, as my payments will remain consistent and I get certain protections as a homeowner I wouldn't otherwise have. Whether I make money on it or not is immaterial to me as I don't plan to sell. While I'd like the value of the home to go down (taxes), it hasn't influenced my decision to stay in it -- so far.

I think a lot of homeowners feel this way and aren't in way "speculators", but they're a non-vocal population.

By the way, I put "bought" in quotes because it often seems like I'm renting it from the state.
In all, the proposals' opponents have raised more than $1.8 million against the measures in the five cities, according to campaign finance records, largely from groups like the National Association of Realtors and an array of landlords including apartment giant Equity Residential. That far outstrips the roughly $200,000 reported raised by various groups supporting rent control.

Real estate is a broken industry. Moreso in the Bay area, but the negative effects there ripple outward. See: http://ecosteader.com/alternative

In the Airbnb story yesterday, my comment (which was maliciously downvoted), was this:

"Landlords and Realtors get their cut every time there's a turnover in occupancy. Interestingly, this is the root problem at both ends -- from people living in poverty (Portland's sidewalk tent campers who get shuffled around), those suburbanites affected by the housing "crisis", and those who can afford to own in any upscale hip-n-trendy neighborhoods where Airbnb rentals are desperately sought. Those rooting for turnover are usually those who profit the most from it.

Sure, people travel and need to rent rooms once in a while. People like to rent while they're young and mobile, but the two use cases need very serious and separate delineation from each other. Airbnb is pushing them more into "overlap" territory. Airbnb's expansion into "subletting" was the kicker.

So, long story made short: it's an interesting economics problem I've been working on solving in my spare time, as a very long and iterated side project with Ecosteader (ecosteader.com). Some of the details emerging need a better format for communication; however, the most clear thing to come from my research is that people need to _own_, and they need to be able to transact with each other directly. Middlemen (Airbnb is the middleman here) taking significant commissions is part of the problem.

But the middlemen problem has sort of an obvious solution: to tax rental income so aggressively that it's just not an appealing source of investment to people who invest in rentals. Use the tax generated from over-inflated rents to build properties for sale, and/or figure out a way to use that money to grant-deed land on which people can build. This last option seems the more fun opportunity to me, and is what I originally had in mind building an eco- site.

The homesteading movement needs to come back, adapted a bit for the 21st century."

Disagree if you want... but explain how the problem can be solved better any other way.
I keep seeing stories about rents falling like this one: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/10/14/hard-believe-rents-fel...
So? You must haven't been investing for very long.
Try keeping that up for 10 years straight then come report to us.
They were for the definition of "open" which was current then - ie that the source or specification was available.
They object to the speech and decline to host it. Juggle the words however you like to make it more emotionally palatable to you. My goal is to speak precisely.
To be fair, what do they need to evolve for at this point? It's hard to imagine an extinction event, short of the sterilization of the planet or the end of Solar activity, for them.
Is anyone using block chains to verify ad serving and viewing?
Clothing line wants to change how you see people living with schizophrenia
The more erratically they act, the more attention they receive.

The more attention they receive, the more attention their email dumps receive.

Even Sean Hannity is praising them right now.

If their goal is to influence the election, then I think it's in their best interest to draw attention to themselves.

If anything, their credibility and the scope of their reach are increasing.
They still offer benefits. And some also offer an event loop and non-blicking behaviour. However there is a huge number of libraries around Node which enable you to solve problems both in the browser and on the server. For example Highcharts rendering graphs in the browser and rendering them as a png or pdf on the server, enabling the user to save them.

Too bad it doesn't have a standard library, too bad js is an ugly language compared to Ruby or even Perl. Too bad npm duplicates dependencies and pulls tons of packages.
At least in my market, you get TV for free with the Internet, or rather, you can't buy Internet access unless you also pay for TV.

And don't say there's no competition, because I could totally in theory get 3Mbps DSL for the same price as 300Mbps cable.
That affects a small fraction of people. Do you prefer tornadoes, blizzards, or earthquakes?
No mention of Prop 13?
The people are migrate are the members of the lower class who are exiled by law or economics or racism.
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Bingo. Every generation discovers why the suburbs are desirable
Rent control is not a benefit for well connected people. It is a benefit for middle income people that live and work in the neighborhood who otherwise couldn't. It requires filling out paperwork; are we really going to argue that we should just hand it out to the first person that puts their name down? There are certainly problems with the administration required to get into an apartment and NYC made some good steps to reduce the burden recently (e.g., can't be denied solely on bad credit, no more home visits, etc) but the answer isn't to make it an application-less procedure.
> Question to landlords: does rent control hurt your bottom line?

If it didn't, rent control would be wholly unnecessary.
Ah, wonderful news. Glad to hear this won't have any effect on the wonderful rollout of Spectrum I keep hearing about.
Someone got triggered.
I'm in a new apartment building (I'm the first tenant in my unit) on Ocean Ave about a 10 min walk from Balboa Park. There are still a handful of units in this building of about 30 units that are unoccupied, almost a year after construction finished. Admittedly, most of the empty units are 2 beds, which I can see being harder to fill than the 1 beds.
> the difference between your “high-performance code” and your prototype code is @devec

So is there a reason @devec is not applied by default?
> do Germans seriously need to separate out green glass, clear glass, and brown glass bottles?

It is indeed done in Germany.

> Do Germans need to keep 7+ bins in their homes as well

At home in Germany there are four bins: paper, organic waste, residual waste, Green Dot (recyclable waste) - at some places the recyclable waste has to be put in yellow bags (Gelber Sack) instead. I have also seen cans for metal waste at large apartment buildings in the past.

In a typical residential district there is a central place where there are bottle banks for clear, brown and remaining (including green) glass from non-returnable bottles.

Here is an excerpt which makes fun of the complications of separating the garbage from the German comedy "Otto - Der Außerfriesische", where the main actor tries to convince the people that if you throw away a teabag you have to separate it into tealeaves (organic waste), paper, staple (scrap metal) and string (residual waste):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBPIPzGBxYE
Even if you would only have passively invested funds, you'd still have the pricing mechanism. Each index fund has an individual portfolio distribution and different rules of how to adjust it to market changes. Passive investing doesn't mean that there is no "active" part to it.
Furthermore, a great number of stocks won't be part of any index fund, hence you'd still have active investors (humans and/or machines).
Amusing trivia: Peter Brown, co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, got his PhD under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.
No, they build big houses because rich people can afford it and want it. If people couldn't afford it they'd build smaller houses or townhouses/apartments.
You can't do SPAs with ajax calls?
depends on the card room

still, you need specially made decks that the scanner can read. no casinos have that
How do landlords/the IRS allow this? If you tenants can do it without their landlords noticing, why can't landlords do it themselves to get around rent controls?
How I found a vulnerability at Virgin
The combination of content providers and ISPs is deeply worrying from a net neutrality perspective.

Evil is a strong word but imagine a future where ISPs chop and charge your for your data like cable and try to keep you looking at "their" content.
We are not talking about ozone-depleting gases, but short term global warming causing gases.

CFCs were successful because they are incredibly safe. HFCs are about as safe as CFCs. Now, if every car started to carry something as dangerous as a propane tank, we could expect a lot of people to die (some cars currently do carry propane tanks, and they are less safe because of it).

Anyway, this thing is certainly not as dangerous as propane, or we'd have reliable data by now. The question is, how well tested is it (are there unbiased 3rd party tests?), and how dangerous are we willing to go? (And that F-O link is usually nasty.)
In Australia we pay flat rates but our speed is severely reduced after a certain limit. You definitely know when you're over.
Not sure if Netflix confirmed officially, but they were down during this week's Ddos attack on DynDNS. Would be interesting to know why
What city was this? Just curious. Sounds like a lot of work for everyone involved, and could defocus the police.
You could read that part different ways- if some of his "investment" was allowing other doors to close (such as becoming a salaryman), then truly, he has "invested" too much to turn back.
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In California, rent control only protects incumbents against rising rents provided they stay in the same place. As soon as they move out, the rent for the next person gets reset to market rates, due to state law (Costa-Hawkins Act).
You need access to capital and balance sheet, brokers who help you, salesmen who wine and dine your clients to bring trades in the door, and a lot of other artifacts of the trading floor. It's tough to buy a billion dollars of bond notional below fair value if you can't afford it and there's nobody to sell it to you.

There are huge advantages that the institutions have built for themselves.

Not only that, but these guys are often some of the quickest, toughest, most perceptive people you will ever meet.
First of all, I explicitly said that it's not wrong to attribute winners to skill, but you still feel the need to put my argument in a binary box, very well.

Your mistake is treating each trade as an independent event. But in reality all those trades may share a single methodology which can be invalidated by a single unprecedented market change. Yeah, a fund is a perennial winner until it's not. You can call it being unlucky or you can say they went from being smart to stupid. It doesn't really matter what you call it, the point is past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
Original (satirical) article which this is referencing: http://sperlinggrove.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-lifestyle-of-p...
Banks hoard Bitcoins to pay cyber ransoms
Sure sounds a lot like the Burrows--Wheeler transform...
I was assuming that the authors themselves had gone to grad school in Germany, so they should be proficient in German. Maybe they would be more comfortable in English, but since part of their audience is German, I would think they'd make the effort.
Also dead if you catch them cheating.
Why would there be only 3 or 4 towers? NYC and Vancouver have many
> The arguably surprising part is that JS doesn't have integer literals, but that isn't surprising when you think about the fact that JS only has one number type which maps to IEEE 754 double.

The fact that people have been able to run cryptography through JavaScript despite it not having integers is pretty amazing. Yes, I know the mantissa is where the bits are stored, but it still amazes me.
How would you apply those markings with your fingers? They need to be pretty precise, so that the device can recognize them properly.
"politically connected" is a poor choice of words for the concept I was trying to get across. Like, I'm not at all surprised that people that live and work in an area would vote themselves a law that says that their rents must be cheaper than they otherwise would. There's significant negative long-term consequences of it, but those mostly fall in other times and places.
> The queue paragraph was interesting because that is one thing we Germans don't do very well compared to other countries

Maybe not compared to the British, but everybody is better at queueing than Chinese. Have you ever been to China and tried to take public transportation? It's madness. At rush hour it's just one big shoving match.
Tech's gender gap is getting worse, not better
Most of SV land is parking spaces. The obvious answer is to stack the cars up multilevel, for an easy 2x population density
I think the key to multicultural communication is to drop assumptions. There's a lot of things in our native culture that we take for granted that's not applicable elsewhere. That's alright; it would be exhausting otherwise. Elsewhere we assume that people are more dissimilar than they are.

You know the saying "strong opinions loosely held"? My advice in the general case is to assume that everyone's like you are (humans are really similar), but to drop assumptions at the slightest sign that they might be untrue. "They" eat, sleep and fuck (the last one varies on an individual but not a cultural basis). That's all you know. Anything else is an assumption that you should be ready to drop. For example: If you're eating dinner with them and they start taking food from your plate, then your new assumption is that that's normal. In that example the opposite case is harder to deal with: You start eating of their plates and after 2 minutes you realize that no one else does the same and they're all looking at you weirdly. You can mitigate this by trying to err on the side of timidness in all matters until you see what "they" do. You've worked up a lot of confidence during you adult life because you understand how society works and you've stopped making an ass of yourself regularly like in your teens; forget that - you're back to square one. Reading up on the culture is obviously of great help. I think The Economist has a series of podcasts called "Doing business in [city]" which deal with these kinds of things as well as airports and all that shit.

In your specific case you're obviously having communication problem, as you say. I'd suggest finding a way to communicate one-on-one where there's little chance of either of you losing face or being embarrassed by having your conversation shown to others. Lots of great diplomacy have been done in bathroom stalls. Anything that leaves a paper trail is a no-no. Video chat might work, but only if they assume you're not recording. I don't know about Malaysia, but in many south-east Asian cultures people are very concerned about losing face, looking dumb or even admitting that there's something they don't know. It also means that they can see that you're not lying to please an observing third party. Once you've found that venue you need to make it clear to them that the two of you are having a communication problem, and that you need to talk about it. Maybe they are assuming that you can get around the law in the US because the law can be circumvented in Malaysia? I don't know, check corruption stats for Malaysia, but that's what it sounds like to me. In many south-east Asian cultures people also speak very indirectly, so he might be well aware that you can't solve the problem with software, but he's kind of asking that you do it anyway in a wink-wink kind of way. Similarly, you saying it's impossible could have been interpreted as you being unwilling, not unable, to do it. Maybe he even thinks that you want something extra to skirt the law and you're now the unwitting part of an incredibly discreet price negotiation. The possibilities are endless.
The [economic] irony being that the 'waste of taxpayers money to re-examine for an hour' instead wasted 16 years of taxpayers money to incarcerate him.
I think this is cool, but I think you need to have some ideas of what pain points you are solving.

When I installed a Nest it said that we were saving money but actually our bills were higher. Correlating appliance usage to utility bill changes might be interesting.
Japan seems to be in vogue here on HN atm but I think we in the west could learn from their zoning laws. All they do is set the maximum zone that can be used.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/japanese-zoning.h...
Ask HN: Pomodoro Timer gadget?
Anybody can recommend a timer gadget that can be purchased which has a set of preset times and the alarm can be set/reset by simply pushing a button?

(e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0002U72LS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1)
Most Americans do not have the savings required to own in cities. Ownership might be a solution that works for you, but penalizing landlords penalizes renters who can't afford ownership.
The catch is that the refrigerants are being used in cars (which don't sit in a kitchen all day). When 1234yf lights, the byproducts are extremely toxic. You may survive a vehicle collision, be pinned in the vehicle, and then get killed by the fumes.
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Time Warner Cable does not exist, it was purchased. They will not share a name, as it is folded into Charter Spectrum.
There are _always_ investors trying to beat the market on fundamentals, even if many of them are just overconfident. We'll never got to the point where the entire market is index funds because, as more people invest in index funds, the possibility (and pay-off) of actual alpha by picking stocks rises. This isn't sustainable because people will notice the sustained performance difference between stock-picking and index funds (the same way we do now) and the opposite tendency will push things back towards an equilibrium