skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their house still occupies space where another full house could stand. Such space is in short supply within the city. It's basically a tragedy of the commons here - an abuse of a shared resource, to the detriment of most.

And it's not even an onerous requirement on the owners. They will just have to rent them out, now. And they can hire companies that will fully manage it all for them, and still make a profit, marginal as it may be. So it's actually better for them as well.
Kind of funny that we have initiatives like "everyone should be a programmer" but then we don't even trust "normal people" to learn how to use a CLI.
I have at least 5. I may be hard-core, but I have one in my travel bag, one at the office, one in my home office, one in my living room, and one in my bedroom.

Granted, some of these have Magsafe 1 to 2 adapters on them, but those little things are also expensive.

At around $600 for the additional sets, plus probably another $300 for other dongles in quite a few locations, I think I will not be upgrading anytime soon.
a prada bag comes with its straps, gratis. an audi's battery is connected to the engine for no extra charge.
I believe this is wrong. I'm just not going to ask government to fix it. I'll just never use grub-hub or eat with friends who want to use grub-hub.

Just because I am a libertarian doesn't mean I support witch hunts.
Life in California could be surprisingly normal if the state secedes from the US
Php 7 for the win!
Anecdotally, I lived in Coal Harbour in Vancouver when I first moved here. The newest waterfront condos were ~30 stories tall, and on average, you'd see three lights on at night in them. It's not like that everywhere here, but it is really strange.
I just put up 3 more. Starry night turned out very nicely. Anything you'd like to see in particular?
You missed the point and sentiment of his comment.

Wikileaks is not the fact checker in this case, you are.

You were being invited to look at the raw data and draw your own conclusions/truths from it, not somebody else's.
Innovation means doing something new, doesn't it?

The last Apple-ish innovation I saw out of Apple was that "magic" touch-pad that just feels like you're pressing it down, even though you are not.

What they have done recently with the new Macbook Pro and iPhone 7 does not really qualify as "innovation" - they have reduced functionality (CPU power/battery and headphone jack, respectively) - and in turn made the goods thinner and prettier.

Some people might say that OLED display they installed on top of the keyboard instead of old-school function keys might be an innovation. I disagree - it's not functional (it changes over time, non-newbies don't look at the keyboard, it kills muscle-memory), but it's so, so, pretty. Hence it's another step towards a piece of jewelry rather than something that just works.
The examples are intentionally population density maps. (The NYC example is even titled "Every Person in New York City")
Your argument is orthogonal to my point, so I don't really have a response to it. Also I'm not sure if you're calling me out, or some set of abstract Republicans, but I'm not really here to do battle in any case, so I don't have any beliefs for the stack.
You could charitably interpret it that way. But he also did write these words:

Further I absolutely reject the nationalist, anti-immigrant and hateful politics of Donald Trump and will work to shield our community from this movement as best as I can.
...
If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here.

If you identify as a nationalist or favor immigration restrictions, then you're not in agreement with his statement and are told to resign.
Works just fine in a VM - I find it works better to just do that and you keep all the OS X benefits (touchpad, battery life...)
I think it's because tmall.com was overwhelmed by Chinese brands.

Chinese people usually think HK stuff was more wester like, so a .hk tld stands for foreign goods.
I feel a strong need for You-Dont-Need-Windows
I guess no Windows support could be a dealbreaker, but it's definitely "cross-platform" in several senses.
> Awesome! What is your extension?

It's still under wraps but I'd be happy to compare experiences when I launch.

> I did look at in-app payments, but because of how the extension is made to be used (click the button, it starts reloading when required) I couldn't figure out a decent way to ask users to upgrade without being annoying.

Hmm, maybe by default when you click the button make it show the config pop-up you have already with an added upgrade banner. You could add an option to not show the config pop-up on click as well.

I have no figures to back this up but unless you're a well known brand I think not having a completely free version to try will turn away a lot of potential sales. You say in your post you had a noticeable drop in the web store charts after making it a paid app.

> I went for subscription because I wanted a low price point (It's a simple extension, anything more then $5 seemed like I'd be asking to much), with the potential of having a passive income. I'd love to experiment with how one-off/monthly changes the amount of sales but for now I'm happy asking people to pay yearly.

I'd avoid equating code complexity with how much you charge. Charge by how much value your extension brings to customers. If it's saving a freelancer X number of hours per month then that's worth something more than the number of lines of code it took to write. Live reload is a big productivity boost.

By the way, did you look into experimenting with price changes? Since I last looked, you can easily change the in-app purchase price but you can't with subscriptions. I think the only option for the latter is to create new subscription IDs for each price.
Nice interview!

The guy behind indiehackers.com, csallen, is doing an incredible job with the site. Interesting interviews tailor made for hackers, the forum is an interesting place and it's been fascinating to follow his journey which he shares in vivid detail.
Yep, Apple are replacing these for free.
I would have loved to see this especially with someone who don't vote. It would be funny to see the company get sued, to have to pay up, and to find out half way though the court procedures that the person didn't vote.
Try verifying authenticode signatures in exes correctly without Windows.
Albert Einstein vs. Donald Trump
I don't know anything about UptimeTrack. Can they be trusted with information about my servers? I know it is a small amount of information, but it is non-zero.
I sort of agree, but we're being too selective in our choice of crisis.

The people who sold that house for $1.25M also enjoy free healthcare in Canada. I have to pay 40% of my income to foot that. The average cost of our healthcare system is about $3500/citizen, but the high end of the average is typically found with older people in their 70's. Why should I have to pay 40% of my income to pay for the medical costs incurred by that old guy who sold his house for $1.25M to a Chinese investor who will pay almost nothing in Canadian income taxes?

Then, we can talk about the fact that Vancouver is mostly zoned for detached homes. We can say that if a property developer buys a bunch of detached homes and then wants to consolidate the properties to build townhouses, that it's "profoundly unfair" to try to prevent that, but that's exactly what detached home owners have done over and over again, both by lobbying and supporting those restrictive zoning laws and by speaking out against developers at city council meetings. That's why almost all new townhouse and apartment developments in Vancouver are in reclaimed commercial zones.

Let's address the whole problem all at once. Right now people who own houses are having it both ways.
Oh, I might have misread you. So, you're saying the jobs you've worked disallowed all politics except stuff they dictated? That would be bad, too. The universities can make it worse.
I have recently started to consider myself a recovering software developer.

Much like with alcoholism, there comes a point where the negative physical and social consequences of chronic over indulgence starts to outweigh the positives. It sounds silly on the surface but makes sense in the context of an obsessive programmer who spends 8+ hours a day almost every day doing something dev related, whether it be working or learning something new just to keep up.

It's a culmination of realizing how much of your life has been spent creating value for other people so they can pursue their own ambitions, coupled with good old fashion burn out and wondering if all of those hours of ones life could have been better spent.

The only solution I have so far is trying my best to partake with moderation, and only working on things where the end product is something I care a lot about.
I'm also confused. Php 7 has Opcache, which according to the documentation:

"OPcache improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory, thereby removing the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request."

How would JIT features come into play with it?
BC lets you evict "if you or an immediate family member (parent, son or daughter of you or your spouse only) wants to move in"

http://www.tenantsbc.ca/evicting%20a%20tenant.htm
Even if not, giving up on doing the right thing just because other countries aren't helping is a very short-sighted approach to worldwide leadership. We can lead the efforts towards a better world.
Annoying...doesn't seem to be working on firefox either... for the time being, use this as a work around http://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer ...
Garbage in. Garbage out.

I'm pretty sure the data collection was not well handled.

Why would we think that the hubris, as exposed in the Wikileaks emails, would not also infect this "secret" project.

I also wonder if everyone involved was able to speak truth to power--Or if the ones with dissenting opinions or countering data were simply ignored? Seems plausible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVCUBfOGNg
An attack on character isn't necessarily an ad hominem fallacy. The poster engaged directly with the argument, and didn't rely on the character attack to make his argument.
that problem does compile in Go, and i have done it before (maybe with single err and not a comma). iirc there are go vet checks to catch that.
> Try verifying authenticode signatures in exes correctly without Windows.

When You-Dont-Need-Windows, You don't need this either. Do you?
Maybe it did work? The loss may have been even greater without the data driven decision making.

There's been a ton of finger pointing today as to where the blame falls for Clinton losing (Facebook...). The reality isn't hard to understand, Bernie was treated unfairly by team Clinton and Trump's supporters were discounted, vilified and talked down to. It's pretty easy to see where the real fault lies and it's not with any form of technology.
There are two types of residents - owners and renters. The renter is just renting from a property owner, who will just pass on the tax. In this example, assume the mortgage payment is $1k / month.

1. If you own the home, you will pay $13,500 ($12k mortgage + $1500 taxes) per year.

2. If you own the home, and want to rent it to a tenant, you must charge the tenant at least $18,000 ($12k mortgage + $6k taxes) to break even.

Renters are in generally less wealthy than owners. Why have this extremely regressive tax? Why should the poor renter subsidize the rich homeowner?
If you're a principles-first libertarian, then yes it's anti-libertarian.

But if you're a "let's use the market and data to solve problems efficiently" kind of libertarian, then this is a nice solution.
They did add an OLED touch bar that no other laptop has, to my knowledge. Does that not count? Why not?
Or allow deductions from this tax for landlords paying for maintenance or improvements, and an exemption if you can show that all maintenance requests were acted on within 30 days and resolved within 90 days (for those that keep their rentals in good shape). I think that might aim it more squarely at slumlords.
Well, a good first step would be an education system that encouraged a culture of curiosity and respectful questioning, rather than just "obey".
Thanks for the response. As someone who generally relies on a materialistic framework, I can't fathom where this true self resides or is coming from, but it is interesting to read about.
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He presents no example of "doing it right", and in fact smugly dismisses the people who attempted to do what he's suggesting:

> here’s been some sympathy from the press, sure: the dispatches from “heroin country” that read like reports from colonial administrators checking in on the natives.

Seems like he's just adding more smugness.
Yes, but my conclusion in this case is that the way we started building the application - traditional full-page-load Rails with custom javascript - resulted in more complexity than if we had started with a "single page app" using a framework like Backbone (which, in fairness, was very new at the time).

I didn't actually say anything about microservices. I think that may have also been a win, but it is much less clear-cut. Backing the front-end with a single monolithic API server would have been an improvement over the hybrid page generation / API approach we ended up with.

These are all just my own personal conclusions, and others who also worked on the project may not agree with me, but I'm just not convinced by the backlash against js-heavy web apps, because I believe I've felt the pain of going the opposite route in the wrong case.
Oakland has a $7000 homestead exception. It actually just takes $7000 off the "value" of the property for taxation purposes.

https://www.acgov.org/assessor/decreasetax/exemptions/homeow...
I just added something on that via editing, sorry, didn't think you'd be that fast.
Stands for: ambitious. Against: crystal clear.
Approaching awe: a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion (2003) [pdf]
Is this a recent change? I've with 100% been bitten by this before, repeatedly, and the go compiler did nothing to warn about it.
Ish, but if you're considering something ultrabookish then the Dell XPS range has the most people working on it. Probably better sticking with Thinkpads if RHEL is a hard requirement.
But all the other vendors suck. We're all having this conversation because we hold Apple to a higher standard. And more pragramatically speaking, because we're tied to OS X, which is really the only desktop OS that does not suck immensely on a laptop.
Vancouver has a lot of for sale signs in front of houses that are entirely in Chinese.
Then your problem is apparently with lower income people in general.
Test-first was promoted as being the secret sauce that made TDD so much better than anything else, so this is something of a qualified vindication, but I do think (from my own experience) that writing down what I am thinking does help me see flaws that I had overlooked.
Building a virtual reality cockroach horror game for Oculus Rift
Harmonics of an ultrasonic signal are even more ultrasonic.

You're right. I was thinking of resonances. Even in that case, I might be wrong.
Paralyzed Monkeys Walk Again with Wireless Connection
In 1983/1984 there was a super-secret internal group at Atari that was working on a product that was going to "save the company".

[Note: if you're CEO of a company, don't tell the press that there's a super-secret project to "save the company", because all the other engineering teams will read the papers like everyone else and think "Well, shit, how is the work that we're doing of any value? And why did we read this in the San Jose Mercury News, and not get it from internal channels? This place has terrible management." And they'd be right.]

When it was revealed, it was a telephone. Not a very good telephone, either. They'd been working quite a while, and were well into double-letter board revisions. They really didn't know how to do telephones.
Seems like a single payor system might solve some of the problems...and create some new ones.. Trump needs to address this fear very soon as it impacts so many folks.
Everybody that I've ever worked with (that uses an MBP) has an external monitor at work, and external monitors provide power so you don't need a separate charging brick.
Who said anything about it being bloated and slow?
I live in China for a long time. Last night wife and I up waiting for lock to tick over to midnight. The shopping cart was loaded up with about 30 items and just waiting to hit the go button so that the 11/11 special pricing would kick in. And then kaboom....tried placing the orders and servers couldnt handle it- lots of comms errors, weird errors that didnt even make sense in Chinese, but at least the cart contents never got lost or mangled.

I would like to know how many people were doing the same but a conservative guess would be over 100m concurrent users. We had to retry about a dozen times, including pruning the cart because limited stock of certain items was already gone in the first few seconds. Eventually got the order thru about 00:10am with 1/3 of items bought successfully. Now i know for next 3-5 days the courier guys will be heaving huge loads at every city apartment block. And in case you are wondering the volume of online sales on normal days is so high that courier companies have dedicated teams of delivery guys servicing each group of a few apartment buildings. I live in an estate with 4 buildings of 32 floors and here there are 4-6 from one company alone....and there are multiple companies. As someone who works in ERP software this is logistics on steroids.

Any...just sharing a story from the coal face from a HN fanboy.
In a simple math world yes, but tax policies consider other factors like social equity, disincentivizing work/investment, compliance likelihood, etc.
I think the key distinction is between different kinds of tasks (and importantly, the scale on which those tasks are done) rather than different kinds of people.
Donald Trump and the nuclear codes
"Why should the poor renter subsidize the rich homeowner?"

He's not subsidizing, is he? The tax just goes to the government. Essentially it's an extra tax on renting.
I hope so. I always thought that Ruby could greatly benefit from something like .pyc files in Python.

I love working with Ruby; I get lots of work done in very little time. However, sometimes I just can't wrap my head around certain language design, documentation, and implementation decisions.
I recall earlier this year Musk on stage asked about the Presidential election. He was extremely careful about picking his words and at no time bashed or even mentioned Trump. There shouldn't be any bad blood there.
Regarding the subscription: this would be a huge turn off for me. I guess I disagree with the price model, so I'd only get into a recurring cost for something I deemed essential, whereas I'd be much more likely to pay a (similarly?) small sum as a once off. This isn't criticism, just opening the possibility that sales might be a lot higher as a once off, and if you end up rewriting/adding a tonne of features you could always release V2. I'd be curious how many years an average paying user would actually end up using/paying for with a tool like this.

Obviously this is purely anecdotal, and this extension isn't applicable to me personally anyway.
Author should read Thorstein Veblen's seminal work The Theory of The Leisure Class. There is no "too far" when it comes to conspicuous wealth.
Well I appreciate your explanation of your thoughts, although my feelings are that it's far to early to be so dismissive of something people haven't really used yet.

I'll grant it may turn out to be a useless bauble, but I'm old enough to remember people saying that about the mouse, too.
Ask HN: $250 Desktop/Laptop
Hi HN,

I am looking to buy laptop/desktop under $250. I am ready to build it myself as well.

Can you provide some recommendations ?

My primary use going to be coding and watching movies. I plan to hook it to large monitor and good keyboard.

I have one HP laptop bought in 2011, with i7 QuadCore processor and 8GB RAM. That laptop is experiencing problems with the cooling fan.

Any suggestions ?
The point is to incentivize the populace to take on stable obligations, the proverbial two kids and a mortgage.

A stable, indebted population is a governable and docile population. Somewhere there's a great quote about how "any man with a cottage of his own and a yard will never be a revolutionary, he's too busy" but I can't find it right now.
Can someone please explain the open-source yet earning?
Is it that part of the project is open source and the rest is paid and closed source? How to protect products if they're open source?
This "At a certain point" is, however, subjective. Who can say your "point" is right or wrong. Some people have more tolerance than others. Having a mob mentality of dictating what those limits are is dangerous in my opinion.

I would not oppose having a quantitative measure of how empty homes ultimately harm Vancouver's economy in the long term. I think that would be a much more constructive argument to implement measures to curb this trend.
Clones don't work well with the evolution. All of the individuals are exactly the same, so they are very prone to a whole population being wiped out at once. The key of evolution are mutations that promote survival of the best adapted. And the bacterias are different from what I understand because they reproduce at extremely fast rates. The more complex creatures could do the same but it would take centuries to do the same number of cycles and they (as a population) just wouldn't survive that long. Mixing genes is thus a better way for bigger creatures.
True, but we usually phrase it in terms of the new thing’s compatibility with the old. In this case, Apple chose not to make their laptop compatible with the existing Linux. Nor, I think, should they necessarily have been expected to—it’s proprietary hardware, meant to run their proprietary OS.
If it works, then it works. That's the point.

If I don't use it because it doesn't pass my peer review process, whatever that might be, then my competitor will use it and come up with a faster/cheaper solution than my one.
> "It blocks or impedes the installation of software ..."

You didn't?
No. I find facebook actually useful to talk to my friends and keep in touch with them.
The Good Man Stanley
> How long until they disable the identified developers option too and leave a system like the iphone?

Never. That would literally kill the platform. And nothing Apple has done has indicated that they even want to go this route. For example, against all expectations, they haven't been expanding the set of sandbox exemptions for apps, which means there are still large classes of apps that cannot be distributed on the App Store as they need functionality that isn't available in the sandbox.

Removing the "disable Gatekeeper" option from the UI does not indicate that Apple wants to force everybody on the App Store, it means that Apple wants everybody to codesign their apps. But, as you already mentioned, you can easily re-enable it from the CLI, and anyone who isn't capable of finding out how to do that is almost certainly not qualified to judge the security implications of making that change.
You can grow new people (and voters). Takes about 18 years. However, making a new planet, or dropping the ocean levels, takes orders of magnitude longer.
Anyone here run linux on their macbook succesfully? I tried but couldnt get hardware rendering to work with cinnamon (2015 15" pro). I'm open to any window manager that does hidpi well though.

Vmware fusion actually works pretty damn well but I hate having the extra layer and hearing the fans all the time.
Don't forget tolerance of rape and child prostitution. (See Jeffery Epstein and William Jefferson Clinton.)