skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are we designing low income housing wrong?

I'd argue yes. We should be building housing for working class / middle-class residents (sometimes called "missing-middle" housing, although developers often abuse that term to include luxury units) That's where demand is greatest while still having reasonable budgets and modest-but-workable profit margins for developers involved.

> Is anything getting in the way?

Yes, developers. (Occasionally zoning/historical associations/local laws in places like San Francisco or NYC. But primarily, it's developers)

Instead of building where demand is greatest, developers build only where profit is greatest -- almost every developer focuses solely on ultra-luxury housing (with ultra high profit margins) or low-income housing (where margins are reasonably good due to government subsidy).

If there was new working-class housing construction, their old units would filter down to low income households, because there's enough middle-class people for that impact to be felt in a market. But the margins there are lowest, so no company chooses to do that.

Instead, property developers focus soly on high end. Technically, those filter down eventually too, but by definition, there will never be enough high-income people for those properties to filter down to middle class folks in amount meaningful enough to help the market (so in turn, their properties can't filter down to low income households)

This breaks the entire market. High-end construction costs soars (because they want it and can afford anything). Middle-class properties become psuedo-high-end (for no other reason than lack of middle-class product) which creates this weird distinction between rich middle-class people who bought before the bubble, and poor middle-class people who have healthy wages, but burn 50+% of their income on rents (and so are effectively poor, even though they are on-paper upper-middle-class), and now you have an ever-growing group of "low-income" people who can't afford anything.

If we prioritized middle-class working-class housing, we could get units going without major government subsidy, and the old housing could become affordable to low-income folks (also without subsidy). But that would require companies to not prioritize profit over everything else, so it won't happen.
yea, it's a nice attempt to justify your actions, but when drug smuggling and gun running is conducted by federal agencies and the TSA fails 95% of bomb detection tests, you have to wonder what the actual goal is.
Mining is done on ASICs while verifying transactions and building blocks is done on CPUs so they don't really compete. If a transaction includes fees, miners have essentially no reason not to mine it.
Static analysis isn't the only game in town anyway. An approach that seems to be gaining popularity is fuzzing. I'm using the AFL program (American FuzzyLop) in an ongoing way to find problems in code. Stress tests under Valgrind, and fuzzing are quite powerful.
>There's a reason no one is excited to move to Toledo, or Lansing, or South Bend

I think if we look at what made these cities we can understand their current standing --but with effort they can change. Portland was not always Portland; Austin wasn't always Austin. People need to invest and put in effort to drive these places to where they want them. They sure don't have to be replicas of NYC or LA, or SF. They can bring to them what they find valuable while at the same time changing with the times to accommodate and attract or keep their youth as they move into the workforce from Uni.

They can transform these small-to-mid-sized cities into attractive cities with (youthful) Midwestern values.
I had a similar situation, and also ended up getting stuck going through a ton of "interviews" until I got Nexus. It's proved to be a major time saver, even just for domestic flights. Among the most useful $50 purchases I've ever made.
Currency is a collective delusion. It's valuable if everyone believes it is, which is why precious metals trade higher than their usefulness in industry.

I don't think Bitcoin's delusion will last more than another decade. We'll probably find a way to design a delusion that distributes value "fairly" rather than to a class of nerd overlords. But until then, it's a fun story to watch.
How about "SpaceX plans to return with a commercial launch"?
Seems like an attempt at being "clever". L2 equipment shouldn't care what kind of packet it is, but we're trying to subvert the original spec and come up with new hacks by "peeking" into the payload and make assumptions about what it is in order to rule or queue it differently.

Obviously in hindsight this is a bad idea and "idiotic", but I can't see the immediate fault of whomever first decided to try this a decade ago when MAC addresses were sequential, IPv4 was fairly abundant, and we didn't really even have smartphones and the explosion of connected devices.
The asset inflation that a good chunk of that profit derives from (because so much of real estate vitally depends upon transaction churn) is in the dirt, not the structures on top. Verify this for yourself by looking at fire insurance: it hasn't nearly increased coverage amounts by the same growth as real estate in general.

Any taxpayer-based bond issuance for infrastructure of water, wastewater, roads, electrical, data, and emergency services is a giant externality that developers pay only a tiny fraction of by comparison, and the developers capture a big bite of the profit up-front on the initial sale. Taxpayers end up footing the risk cost of anticipating the network effects of the build out will pay off the projects. This is compounded by the car-centric American culture imposing infrastructure costs that go up as the square of the expansion, but by and large cost recovery and operational costs are comparatively linearly composed because American suburban and exurban developers tend to sell low-density in the first pass greenfield development (large lots, fewer people per acre) to sell their book and cash out fast. NIMBY politics then gridlock densification later, so you get all this infrastructure that is now spread among fewer taxpayers than you need to effectively not only pay it back, but properly maintain it as well.

The real estate industry enjoys enormous subsidies that really distort the market, and if you aren't in the industry this basically translates as monotonically increasing land prices (which most people interpret as constantly-increasing housing prices). Much of the dysfunction is likely to entrench and get much worse in the future, and won't stop until a really ugly, sharp dislocation happens.
Who wouldn't want to make money simply by having money? Of course it has to end one day.
A taster of the kool aid ye may be, but a part of me says try not to make yourself be known as a whale/mark ;)
Currently in the process of considering a new machine myself and came across a similar article about the MacBook written by Rob Rhyne in 2015 (http://martiancraft.com/blog/2015/08/macbook-for-developers/).
Have they tested charging for Django? Id pay a reasonable fee to use it. I mean, least I could do (aside from donating sporadically).
GraphQL is the King, R-I-P Rest
Because if you start relying on something new or fixed in x.2.z of your dependency you want to make sure anyone using your code isn't using x.1.y.
10% is a meaningful minority.

As it stands, the world is mostly made for right-handed people, with a lot of accommodation for lefties.

In very lose terms, the number of people who identify as 'somewhere on the spectrum of gender' is about 0.5% - but this includes a huge amount of people who have a 'feeling' and frankly, are probably ideological about it, i.e. "I don't believe in gender, ergo, I refuse to identify as one".

The actual number of people who truly do not fit in essentially or pragmatically one or the other gender - to the point wherein they would feel uncomfortable going into either a male or female bathroom is extremely small. Remember that even most trans people actually identify with one gender or the other.

So, when > 99.9% of a population 'is something' ... 'it's normative'.
Read the release notes?

Read the code diff?

Try it?
Hey all - I wrote this article. One update: I've since upgraded to a Pixel XL + Google Fi which is a big step up from my Nexus 5.

Happy to answer any questions!
And if you need to store values that are not powers of 2, you can use the following kind of encoding/decoding. In python3:

from math import *

def number_to_trits(n):
# little-endian encoding
# (i.e. smallest precision trit first)
trits = []
v = n
for i in range(1,9):
v, d = divmod(v, 3**i)
trits.append(d)
return trits

print(number_to_trits(8))
# [2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

def trits_to_number(trits):
n = 0
for i, trit in enumerate(trits):
n += trit*3**i
return n

print(trits_to_number([2,2]))
# 8
I'm currently working remotely from the Philippines.

Essentials for me: Trello, Slack, GitHub, Dropbox, AWS, VirtualBox, Feedly, Pinboard, ExpressVPN, Skype, Adobe Creative Cloud, Toggl, Gusto, Mint
" Out of the box, apps from unidentified developers are not allowed to run. The user has to explicitly allow them. "

I understand this, but this is an extremely low barrier - especially if the user actually wants to run the dam software they just installed, they have to 'allow it to run'.

Who's going to install software and then 'not allow it to run'?

I don't think this security feature has much effect at all.
> Being screwed would be the case if the consumer of the artifact is forced to upgrade. i.e.: if versions cannot coexist in a code base.

In theory multiple versions can co-exist in a codebase in js land.

In practice though the vast majority of js libs don't compose well with different versions.

At best I've found it can work as long as you consider them seperate and unrelated libraries (basically the version in js land is part of the namespace).

Edit: I definetly don't think it's as big of an issue in js land as in Java land because of transitive dependency handling.
This reminds me. The best "presentation" I've ever seen (and I was lucky to be present in person for this) has been by a guy that was, if I remember correctly a top person in Twitter's scalability team a few years ago. His name was Raffi. It was so good that I've since been looking for these slides actively and never managed to find them. The talk was about how they scaled Twitter after it became a thing, and what happens to a tweet once the user clicks "Post", how the timelines are generated, etc. The presentation on the wall was made so tastefully, and clicked so amazingly in place with the speaker's verbal story, that everyone was completely mesmerized.

If anyone can find me these slides (they weren't traditional slides and the whole thing felt more like a smooth movie almost), I'd be extremely grateful. Great material to learn from.
I think we're trying to say the same thing, although you expressed it more expensively.

Concentrating on the breath is an excellent entry point to a set of much deeper and more interesting experiences.

A video game is not going to lead you to these, because it is too distracting/complex/engaging. The breath can. Boring was perhaps not a good way to express this, but it was simple, without the pull of these subtler sensations being noticeable there is no path forward.

This stream is exponentially less noticeable while doing something less boring, like gaming, to a beginner.

Perhaps "stimulating" is a better concept than "boring" to explain it?
https://twitter.com/raffi is the guy that did the presentation.
So lots of manual work. And you still don't see the issue?

Wouldn't it be good if there was some kind of automated way to know?
well the Federal government allow owns nearly thirty percent of the land area of the United States, it is particularly high in many Western States which adversely affects availability on the West Coast versus the East.

I find the living with parents issue to be an odd one because the period where that wasn't the case doesn't seem to be so long ago. There is a strong push toward independence of self in the US and that may have pushed people to seek their own homes a lot earlier than elsewhere but to sustain that needs a vibrant economy up and down the economic scale. To get back to that would require lessening the burden of regulation and taxation, something never happening in Japan and resulting in their stagnation for decades. You cannot spend borrowed money for so long to get out of the rut
Aw dang, I wish I knew about this earlier. May have made teaching command-line data processing to beginners quite a bit easier. Example lesson using Spotify API (which is still public and free):

http://www.compciv.org/recipes/data/touring-the-spotify-api/

(just noticed that you used the Spotify API too for the demo :) https://github.com/dflemstr/rq/blob/master/doc/demo.md)

I personally like using jq but not sure how easy-to-grok it is for people who are new to both the command-line and to serialized data structures in general. Will have give rq a spin (waiting for it to compile on my machine) but it looks quite nice, at least for my own uses, which heavily involve YAML.

In terms of TSV/CSV support, you may want to checkout csvjson, which is part of the csvkit command-line suite: http://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.1/scripts/csvjson.html

csvkit is my go-to tool for data, so much that I rarely ever use SQL for anything other than when I actually need a database. I suppose if rq were to be my go-to data-processing tool, I'd probably do this:

csvjson mydata.csv | rq ...

Unless I'm missing it in the documents, there doesn't appear to be a way to convert to CSV? That would be helpful. FWIW, csvkit has a tool named in2csv, which will read from line-delimited JSON:

curl -s 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=rihanna&type=track&limit=50' \
| rq 'at "tracks.items" | spread | flatMap artists' \
| in2csv -f ndjson

http://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/stable/scripts/in2csv.html
Trying to be a douchebag?
the thing they didn't explain was how they distinguished between people who live with their parents (in their parent's home) and people whose parents have moved in with them.

Of course traditionally the eldest son inherited the house (and the fields) and the supported their grandparents in their old age in the same house.

China has a unique problem in this respect, retirement essentially consists of the eldest son inheriting the house and supporting his parents (who look after the grandkids). The one child policy means that when a couple marry and have a kid they end up with two sets of parents wanting to move in with the newly married couple, vying to look after the one kid and be supported in their old age. You can see why people have quietly been having more than one kid where they can
And doesn't automatic dependency resolution make this a non-issue for your consumer?

Edit: I.e. If you declare your own dependencies then tooling should ensure anyone who uses your code uses the same dependencies.

It doesn't work this way in Java world due to technical limitations, but it can in JS world
> can you think of any other investment available to the general public which has ever returned anything like this?

It's not easy to find, but it exists.

NHTC stock went up from $0.09 to $51.46 (+57178%) in less than five years (Dec 03 2010 -> Nov 13, 2015).

INSY stock went up from $0.073 to $44.92 (+61534%) in around 5 years.
What if, instead of tracking, they added micropayments? Have a very simple way to donate $1 every time you run startapp or something like that, and boom, profit.
Not necessary more expensive. Roof cost in terms of labor and material is lower. https://www.thehousedesigners.com/articles/prefabricated-roo...

Builders also cut corners. Example, my 1974 home has the AC condenser on a concrete slab. My new 2015 home it's on a piece of plastic supported by dirt. Guess which one is noisier.

Garage doors are now styrofoam, unlike solid wood in the doors of the past. Hence its cheaper, and your garage opener doesn't need to be as strong so that is cheaper too.

Hardwood floors can be engineered hardwood, while the past was only solid wood. Significant savings in material and installation.

Land lots are getting smaller too...here in Atlants, developers are buying up older homes and putting up several home, dividing the lot up.
You wait, Google is going to create one in XML, then Apple is going to invent a cool minimalistic pseudo-Lisp that doesn't require any brackets or colons. Then Windows is going to try to create one that only runs on .NET. Finally, someone will create a format that to be read by all of them, and someone is going to implement another LISP in that format.
This is a great example of how the modern media is a cancer to the truth. I wish there was a media source that wasn't incentivized by clicks and ads. I would pay monthly for a news source that doesn't lie to me.
Also I meant that your breath is always there literally. No matter where your attention is, if you are alive you are breathing.

It is something available to all beginners at all times and works well as a place to refocus. And at that stage the main challenge is stopping constant mind wandering and narrativising.
I live with my mother (oh so f*cking cliche-- for a nerd), but as that's due to mental illness (though I think someone did and is doing this to me), I don't think I'm what's being talked about.

If it made strong sense to live with my mother, rather than on my own, then I'd have done so. How it's perceived by others is irrelevant to me. That said, I can't think when I'm not living by myself and I have difficulties getting along with my mother, so this would've never been an option for me. It's bad enough that I'd be better off alone in a high crime, run down, low cost area than with others in an upper class neighborhood.

If many are still living with their parents, then it implies the recession of 2009 is still inflicting damage, but what's annoying me is the notion that what was previously smart, frugal, and sensible gets baked in as the norm (creating more misery for everyone, but without any advantages). That is, living with parents after graduation is done to just survive, rather than to save more and pay off student loans faster. What BS!
Go back to reddit if you want a pat on the back from other 12 year olds for being a pedantic grammar Nazi.
Prop 13, Or, California's Progressive Blindspot Illuminated
Yeah, but the pause is completely deterministically in control of your program.

Doing cycle collection basically ends up as hard as full GC right? Annotating with weak is not a big deal.
My first response upon reading the title: "Answer: I have no dependents." ;)

Enjoyed the article though, Karma was new to me and looks interesting.
I have yet to have anyone satisfiably demonstrate what is more expensive in silicon valley apart from housing.
Just a quick note:

1-minute away to get your bot alive .. maybe should be "bot live"? not sure what you intention was here, but one would use "live" more likely in this context.

"Use it, is free" should be "Use it, it is free" or "User it. It's free". English always requires a pronoun before the verb (with exception)
It seems with webpack you could alias inferno to react and start using it without many code changes, especially for projects that made a focus of using functional components. Am I wrong here? What are the main hurdles you see in doing this? What React features and common libraries would we have to forgo? Would recompose continue to work with it?
Congrats on the excellent returns. I'm just a spectator/occasional BTC user, but I love the crypto world.

We're in the middle of a shadow war/revolution being fought by many different actors using technology, legislation and ideology, and it's by and large happening under the nose of the everyday public without many of them realising. Fortunes, freedoms and lives are being won and lost, and underpinning it all is mathematics and computer science.

Every now and then I'm hit with a sudden feeling of living in the future, and it's things like this which trigger it.
You still need an account with admin privileges to enable the developer mode, so I'd count it as still requiring admin.
Same here. I get my prescription through insurance and go to Costco for glasses.

Great customer service, frame selection and very competitive pricing. I can buy $10 glasses online or $60 from Costco.

I spend the extra money for the quality and service. It is, after all something you use everyday.
great comment, thanks for sharing. this might be the first insight into meditation that gave me an actual idea of what it attempts to accomplish.
Dont think too much. This is a solid idea that is very marketable.
I mean having a short period of time with long latency still sucks though too, right? That's real customers getting real low-quality service.

Then maybe you're left doing complex things like running the server with fake traffic as a warming up period to get it to be fast enough.

Sure, it'll work, but it's a lot of extra hassle.
Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory”
> The T.O.S is now backed by law.

Pft. Which law, where? And what provisions? It's vastly more complex than that even where it did sneak in.

And between me and South Korea? Very little chance.

> I'm asking you to prove something exists.

No, you're asking for me to prove something to your satisfaction when you're predisposed to dislike it regardless. It's similarly impossible.

> There are no alternative purposes of cheating software other than to cheat just like there is no other purpose of a calculator other than to calculate.

Which isn't actually true. It can exist just for the sheer joy and reversing and controlling a new program.

But even at that, "to cheat", isn't damning. Even perfect aimbots aren't perfect players and a lot of people enjoy fighting someone using an aimbot. Personally I'd rather play against an aimbot than a camper. At least one justifies their slot on the server.

Anyways, it's your responsibility to curate your friends list to find people you enjoy playing with, not to sanitize the gaming population until you're sure nobody is left who might offend you. And especially not to enforce general purpose bans on computer exploration which this amounts to.
Yes it was a clever ending. I wish I could write that well.
This analysis makes no sense.

"In general, having more education means it’s less likely you’ll live at home: just 3% of PhDs live with their parents, versus a quarter of those with only a high school diploma."

Never mind that you are probably about 30 by the time you finish PhD so they should have compared high school educated adults of the same age groups.

If anything, this shows that people with higher education are more likely to live with their parents (see associates vs bachelors).

Also, their claim that STEM degree holders are better off than those with social sciences degrees is unsubstantiated.

Edit:

In fact, I'm fairly certain that High School educated adults are less likely to live with their parents than Bachelors educated adults at the age of ~23 and possibly later.

This is because 48% of all adults who live with their parents have to have a high school degree.
Definitely helps! Though I do know a fair number of people who do this WITH kids which blows my mind. Glad the Karma tip was useful!
Could you provide some link to read about this? First time I've heard about it.