skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> building new housing attracts an influx of population

You got this backwards: we build housing for the influx of population. People don't move to new places just to get a new house. They move for economic reasons, like they got a $150k software dev job in SF & don't want to commute 90 minutes each way, or they got evicted so the landlord could double/triple the rent.

Regardless of whether SF builds now housing stock or not, the population influx is already happening and has been happening for the last 10 years. The issue is, new, wealthier residents are pulling the market up and forcing existing, lower-income residents out to the periphery of the Bay Area.
The nootropics angle was disturbing for me. If you take so much (and I guess this can be a slippery slope) that you get anxiety problems then those substances are a problem for you.
I saw this thing on TV once where a guy recovered from RSI by typing with a pen in each hand, so you hold a pen and use the back flat part to hit the keys, he had some pretty impressive speed too.
Yes, latest technologies.
I started this thread because almost all web frameworks had a big improvement year and they're somehow converging in a lot of features and concepts.
>Zealous Planning Commission boards who consider things like shadows and wind when making decisions, EIR (environmental impact report) appeals, CEQA lawsuits, a constitutional housing amendment (Prop 13) that incentivizes existing homeowners to oppose new development, and more...

On the other hand, you don't want to end up with this[1], so considering things like shadows and/or view obstruction has some merits.

1 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking#/media/File:View_o...
I now consider this an utterly, utterly bogus argument - Google Docs has absolutely dismal docx and xlsx support, and I've never seen anybody but me note it.

This is now a bad excuse, not a reason.
It's a bit similar to what I'm thinking about right now. I started my career close to 20 years ago, coding dynamic web pages (yes, I worked with php3), and unintentionally broadened my skillset into something like a CTO skillset for specific environments - I never was a really great coder, so I'm not suited for the lead-developer kind of role in an early phase startup.

Now I'm losing more and more interest in "core tech". While I find infrastructure, performance and scaling still kinda interesting on a rather abstract level, I find it more and more enjoyable to work with "people & processes", so: How do people collaborate within an IT department, how does IT collaborate with its stakeholders, how are the roles & responsibilities structured, where are the frustrations, what can be improved, how do we scale the team.

I've been doing this as a freelancer for almost three years now, and I had just two large-ish projects (about 6 months each). Problem is that both projects were started because management thought the problems they were facing were "the IT's fault", so I was hired as an interim CTO to "fix the IT". Management had the impression that I would look at the code and improve it, and then everything would be fine. However in both projects I discovered there were various severe dysfunctions that didn't really have anything to do with what the IT produced.

So staying within the jurisdiction of IT seems reasonable, but I'm also thinking about leaving it completely to become a general "organisational coach". But at the end of the day, I have no idea what to do, since right now it's hard to find clients, since my communication is rather incoherent, and people don't really understand what I have to offer. As soon as I say that I won't even _read_ code, they think I'm completely useless.
Ask HN: How do you book meetings within a large organization?
> Regarding wine, no need for that now that Office online and Google docs exists.

This is evidence you've never used Google Docs for real work and have never encountered its absolutely dismal docx rendering. I get stuff in Gmail regularly I then have to open in LibreOffice to bloody read.
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Interesting, but for your doubt I have the opposite experience. "Windows update came and took away the working drivers again" is a recurring theme, as are Windows networking issues (on many, many different networks). If I want a system that just works, I have one bootable and installable on a USB drive; for endless tinkering (and fighting against "where do we drag you today?"), there's Windows.

Where did that "monitors" issue come in, no idea - typing this on Kubuntu with 3 different displays, also no issues (except for my prankster colleagues unscrewing the video cable).

As someone above noted, I don't care about the OS. I care about the work I do on it - and I have the same Jetbrains tools, the same Firefox, the same Chrome, etc etc etc. Whether the title bar is polished, transparent and the exactly right shade of unmagenta, I don't care.
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But 50,000 / 10 = 5,000 per year, half the rate?
You're right. But the ratio between number of people employed by FaceBook versus number of customer managed by FB is much greater, so I guess it makes me a tad more nervous :-)
Image Uploads with AWS S3, Elixir and Phoenix
Because it's the best spreadsheet software out there. It really is first-class, and LO Calc has a lot of catching up to do (and they are quite aware of this).

My theory is that Excel's userbase includes the guys who actually sign the cheques, so MS has to get it right.
Melbourne man tests positive to HIV while taking preventative drug
Chinese cybersecurity firm claims to have developed WannaCry virus ‘vaccine’
Where the Internet stands with Iran's moderate President after the election
Please correct the title: "warded off". It is currently unintelligible.
I am the opposite of somebody with a Austrian-economist bent but I think I can predict the answer, because is always the same: government intervention.

My opinion would be the opposite. It seems to me that the laws that constrain building are, in part (not totally, obviously there are other bad motivations), trying to defend the area against what is basically a blind process of feedback.
But your argument basically boils down to:

Stop using the operating system where everything works: apps, games, hardware, good office package, etc.; rather use an operating system on which debugging to a layman translates to a plane of hell itself, where your hardware may or may not work, and half your game library certainly won't.

I would happily switch to Linux permanently the day the flagship office package UI doesn't resemble Office 97 (the ribbon UI is absolutely fantastic in MS Office), I can get all of my games to work, and I don't need to recompile a kernel to get something as basic as a graphics driver running.
We just need a billionaire benevolent dictator to fund a distribution of Linux and relevant programs that turns it into something stable and user friendly.
An effective population-level way to address type 2 diabetes could be dietary feedback from glucose levels, for pre-diabetic people.
Wine has been up to real-world commercial use for at least a decade, in my experience. It's more surprising these days when stuff doesn't work in Wine than when it does. (.NET support is still annoyingly imperfect.)

Sponsoring getting a vertical market app working 100% in Wine is unlikely to be cheaper than cleaning up after WannaCry's competently-written successors.
alias primetime watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)"
My favorite: basename

Returns just the filename plus extensions e.g.

basename a/b/c/d/foo.php
returns foo.php

Very useful for shell scripting.
> However, it is a no no to embed a cam in a pair of glasses.

If someone is holding a phone up and taking a photo of you to post online, you can object. If someone is wearing glasses with the little red indicator light turned off, you can't.
> like dense cities - there are plenty of them

> LA

what

> SD

wut

Until jobs start spreading out & not get concentrated in small geographic areas, we are doomed to support the high-density metropolis or urban-sprawl-commute-hell.
Is Parallax Web Design Is the Future of Digital Design?
I believe all the food is sealed air-tight.
Looks like Microsoft urged to file the patent in 2013 when DropBox started doing this. Either as a potential weapon for patent wars or "just in case".
A lot of Elixir Q&A actually happens on https://elixirforum.com/ and the slack channel https://elixir-lang.slack.com/ . So stackoverflow trends may not be the best thing to judge this.
From what I gathered, it's popular for Rails developers who want something that feels like Rails, but with (much) better performances and concurrency.

For me coming from Scala, I feel like the lack of typesystem would be a step back.
Asp.Net Core or Flask.. why? Becuase I know them.
Shortage of cloud GPUs due to AI conference deadline
I really can see an ever increasing shelf in Apple stores that stocks medical monitoring devices, compatible with the Apple Watch and iPhone.

And if I'm to be almost offensively practical, this is a huge business opportunity. We're all hypochondriacs to some degree, and it's a market that's currently being served by some pretty dodgy outfits, offering magic bullet solutions. And the incumbents are making a ton of money. It's probably not a good idea to give people tools to self diagnose themselves on a daily basis. But it's inevitable, and a logical path for the consumer electronics industry to follow.
> laws and rules must be based upon logic to be effective and good for society

Yeah, but let's not forget that "civilized society" is a necessary evil - we accept it simply because we know no better way to minimize suffering, on average. For any one particular individual, the laws of the particular society (s)he happens to be living in are probably far from the laws that would be best for him/her in particular... Some individuals would flourish better in societies where stealing is accepted. Other in ones where murder is accepted, etc.

There's nothing absolutely better about out set of rules and moral values made of o concepts like "don't kill", "don't rape", "don't steal" etc. They are just a good local average maximum... Maybe the actual global maximum of human flourishing would be achieved in a society where rape and murder are allowed in a certain circumstances. I'd personally bet it is, though the definition of that set of circumstances is probably too complex to allow optimal practical implementation of such policies.

I mostly like our current set of rules, but let's not delude ourselves into seeing them as anything other than a local average optimization! The "criminals" are just the unlucky fellas whose traits don't correspond well with flourishing while playing by the rules in our little play pen we call civilized society. Nothing more.

A sadistic murdering rapist can at the same time be a great mathematician, and, judged by the global maximum of the universe, may have a much greater positive contribution to the betterment of the human race through his mathematical discoveries and their consequences (than the relatively minor negative contribution done by taking some of his unlucky victims out of the population a few decades sooner than their natural death) and judged by this one could say he could be a better human being than you in total, even if he/she may have directly killed 20 people, and you may have killed 0.

And be honest with yourself if you think the society we live in is anything but a necessary evil: you know you've felt the desire to murder, or torture, or rape, one time or another, just as any other human being, and that you've been hurt by society because it didn't let you exercise the freedom to do these things. (Yeah, you've been hurt less than the victims of such actions would've been hurt, hence the optimal average given by the current set of rules. But maybe it's not the optimal average for you as and individual.)

(And to put thing in better context: the character that started the talk, Christopher, was far from a sadistic murdering rapist, he was convicted for armed robbery... basically "stealing some crap while holding a gun in your hand to look more terrifying, or for self-defense against the shopkeeper who might have a gun himself and shoot you instead"... something with less negative moral value than most actions of most heads of state I'd guess, and far from "a true monster")
The sentence before the one you mention explains it; the only problem with the top diagram in the header image is that it doesn't make it clear that opposite the CO₂ side of the stream, there is an air side. Seems like the diagram represents their experimental model (two exit streams), not the practical application (three exit streams).

> As the team hoped, this arrangement caused suspended particles with positive surface charges to concentrate towards the CO₂ side of the water stream, and those with negative surface charges to concentrate towards the air side, leaving the centre of the stream more or less particle-free.
Yes. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned here. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...

Comes in several formats: hosts, firewall, openwrt, dnscrypt. You can choose telemetry, update and extra. Has ip rules aswell as DNS rules.

I am actually thinking of writing a modular openwrt luci plugin to make it easy to add to your router as it is only effective on router level as other have mentioned here.

It's updated regularly, tested and one of the best lists out there, a clean copy and paste works into firewall rules as and there is nothing to install.

Happy user. MS probably really dislikes this because they are adding new domains serving the same function almost every update.
If they open this to developers, it could be quite powerful and interesting feature. Point your phone to something, Google recognizes what's in the picture and makes this information available on platform. Applications can then be activated based on context and they can additional information to screen.

Of course things like this already exist, but my phone does not feel particularly "smart" when I need to be making the choices which app to use on which occasion. They could also tie in app discovery to this. "Hey, you are pointing at movie poster but don't have any related apps, would you like to see a list.."

The true power of this of course comes with the augmented reality headsets (Google Glass or whatever it will be in future). Maybe one reason for introducing it already now is to start collecting data. It is certainly interesting for Google to know what kind of things people are pointing their phones at in order to recognize things.
> forcing existing, lower-income residents out to the periphery of the Bay Area.

but this should drive those who receive low income out of state, and thus lower the amount of worker available for low-income jobs, which in turn should drive up the wage?
Productivity tips for procrastinators, multitaskers, and everyone else in between
What do you think of this idea? 99 Designs for marketing / sales pitches
Software developers are notorious for building something great but people poor at succinctly pitching it.

I wish there was a "99 Designs" for sales and marketing pitches.

Say I have a great new product, it's often hard as a developer to really figure out the best way to pitch it.

It would be great if I could go to www.pitchbitch.com www.itchtopitch.com or www.pitchit.com or pitch.io and put up a post listing the website and asking for the best marketing / sales pitch and offer a reward to the winner.

Thoughts? Good idea, crap idea?
I find the non-official Android Libre reader app 'Glimp' useful. Even though I have the official one, I keep both installed, because Glimp does less smoothing/extrapolation of the readings.
1. I use minicom, but you may not like it.

2. Good point. What did you used? Exquilla, DavMail?

5. Use etcher!

9. k3b is the answer

Finally I think that Fedora/kde or Mint/cinnamon have an overall better user experience than Ubuntu.
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This is in effect the jobs to be done framework. Is your product solving a functional, emotional or social need? One could argue that motorbikes all fulfil a functional need but only some brands fulfil that emotional or social need.

I don't think people buy better versions of themselves, what they will buy is a product that solves the problem they have and are even more inclined to do so where that product also makes them feel good or improves their social position.
Long Time Ubuntu user feels your pain - I've solved most of the pain by using KDE (kubuntu backports ppa on 16.04) or switching to Arch with KDE.

Subjective List - only a few good solutions:

1. screen can be used for serial stuff - also allows logging everything to file and copy&paste - you add yourself to a group that uses that device if you don't want to be root.

2. Yup. It's a pain point. There is stuff like Play on Linux that eases some WINE pain points.

3. There is a Linux version: https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html

4. Blame Gnome/Ubuntu. KDE is better in that regard (I know no the answer you want to hear)

5. Depending on the ISO dd is good enough. geteltorito is your friend: https://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/ftp/noarch/getelto... - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linu...

6. Yes. NetworkManager is a pain point. Plasma NM (KDE) works fine for me. There is nmcli that you can use via command line. It's not totally straight forward but should be good enough for automation.

7. This is apport - you can disable it - another major Ubuntu pain point. http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-disable-stop-uninstall-apport-...

8. Yes. Remmina crashes for me a lot of times, I'm not using VNC that often but it's kind of pain in the ass. You could try using plain rdesktop and reading up on details - I've switchted NX where it is possible but it's also not perfect.

9. Only ever burned with k3b and never got problems.

10. Lightdm lockscreen sucks :( - sddm (again KDE) works far more reliable for me.

12. kwin/KDE gives you all the options. There might be some hidden GNOME or Ubuntu Tweak tool settings but I stopped bothering.

Battery life: powertop + tlp and it's now better than windows for me (on an Ivy Bridge i5 HP Notebook, should work similiar good on a Dell with Intel)
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The information is there, but only a small fraction of people want to actually read it.

Beyond a point, the scale and complexity of the information goes beyond what is required for a simple conversation.

Most people want the information spoon fed to them. The issue is that they may not even be framing the correct question.

To correct that they will always need to (at some point) engage with complexity.

And as long as someone can meme or use cheap arguments to dodge a difficult/complex point, theres no real advantage to that level of complexity.

So the only people who are digging that deep are people who want to figure something out. For them, google works just fine.
Google trends shows that Elixir is in fact growing: https://trends.google.co.in/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0pl075p,...
Django if front end is complex (lots of forms, complicated templating, need to have a free admin interface for out of the box).

Or if the front end is simple, I'd just write it in Go using core net/http library.

To make it more maintainable, I'd probably split the application into two components, so backend could be API written in Go and front end a Django app.
Yes. Every software which runs on Windows 10 Home or Pro, will also run on Windows 10 LTSB, as long as they don't depend on Windows Store, Cortana, or Edge browser.

Microsoft offers 90-days evaluation ISOs of Windows 10 Enterprise and LTSB [1]. Just be sure to select "Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB" instead of "Windows 10 Enterprise" when downloading [2].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/DyEfZbq.png
How much paperwork does it take to prove you meet those requirements and what is the cognitive/time cost of that paperwork?

Gentoo is free-as-in-speech, but way way too expensive for most people. Given that the US healthcare system is bewildering even to middle-class people who have relatives that work in healthcare, the cognitive costs of something like this might be considerable.
Where has this happened?
There was a point where after 6 years on Tumblr, when we started cracking thousand likes on a post. Then came when there were 100k likes on posts. Reddit reached that terminal velocity around year 8.
Radio-Interview with Dr Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind
Books by astronauts, the space race and humanity
Mary TDDs a todo program
Many people in their late 20s/early 30s are thinking about starting a family, and have the secure jobs to give them the financial stability they need for this. Raising small children in an apartment can be pretty stressful, and given the choice, I think young families would overwhelmingly prefer a house over an apartment (all other considerations being equal barring price). Plus, houses generally have 3-4 bedrooms, apartments 1-2.

But: apartments also aren't available! They're just as appealing to the downsizing boomer.

> just build a house for themselves

Where will they work? The places which have cheap land and labor generally are more removed from the economic hotspots. Or do you propose that they should take their job with them?
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> Maybe it would be better if we collectively decided not to manipulate each other, even if we think that we know best.

Yes it would but it's not going to happen. I don't like manipulating people and thus my default is to be as unintrusive as possible at first but this seldom leads to success.

For instance, if your friend agreed with you to have a phone call soon and you write an e-mail asking what date would suit him/her then it happens more often than not that they delay their response or even forget to answer. If, otoh, you write an e-mail: "Is is okay if I ring you at 8 p.m tonight?" then they feel more pressure to answer you and maybe even agree with your date. Of course, they don't have to. It would be perfectly fine to answer: "No, tonight is not good and I am not sure when I am going to have time." But most people aren't that free. If you give them a range of choices, chances are they are going to pick one instead of offering a counter proposal. If you don't offer choices it is very likely that nothing is going to happen. A loose-loose situation (in this example: both of you want to talk but no date is being agreed upon and thus no call) is more likely to happen.
Yeah. Other countries generally solve this by not covering these treatments; for example there's no way this would be available on the NHS at this price. Somehow I suspect this would be a political non-starter in the US through.
Rails: stable ecosystem, just heroku it
Webhooks, REST and the Open Web (2013)
"It kills him when people say mean, stupid things in comment threads."
Wonder what will all these climate deniers be saying when we start having flooding in coastal cities. Some idiots will probably blame it all on Gays who draw wrath of god ...
In both the ‘data=ordered’ (default) and ‘data=writeback’
modes, ‘shred’ works as usual.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shre...
what does this have to do with tech or start-ups?
More information on the GitHub Marketplace here: https://github.com/blog/2359-introducing-github-marketplace-...
Language Server Protocol, Smalltalk, Unison, Lambdu, Etc...
There are also some similar work.
I seriously recommend testing xDrip+ with the Libre. Better results and you don't need to carry an extra reader device with you all the time:

https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip

Pull requests are welcome too :)