skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If rental income is not sufficient to cover property tax and other property maintenance costs, the property either gets sold instead of leased, or the owner is speculating on an increase in the value of the property and just rents to slow the bleeding until the market is willing to pay the target sale price. Self-storage businesses are often used for the latter purpose. If you see a self-storage out in the middle of nowhere, it usually means that someone is betting that area will see a development boom soon.

Property tax hits all landlords in an area in roughly equal measure, so it establishes a rental price floor without any of the illegal and impractical forms of collusion. Rental prices below that floor generally do not exist unless some kind of funny business is going on, because few people are willing to operate a business that continuously loses money without some kind of plan for getting it into positive cash flow.

Later on, if property taxes increase by a marginal amount, rental prices may increase by less than that marginal amount, but they will also eventually cause the cheapest rents to exit the market, as the tax increase causes them to cross the boundary of profitability, so further into the future will increase the surviving rents due to contraction in supply, and possibly increase in demand, depending on what the property taxes get spent on.

As such, if you are a land-owner in the US, and own property that rents at above-median rates, it would benefit you to lobby the local government to increase property tax rates, improve the public school system, and invest in public infrastructure. This tends to force out your cheaper competition, who might then sell out to you or convert to condominiums, and attract new tenants willing to pay higher rents. Tax increases come out of your tenants' pockets. But if you are at the cheapest end of the rent scale, you would likely prefer to lobby for zoning and occupancy restrictions, and to keep property taxes low. Your tenants have a hard limit on what they can afford to pay, and so the tax increases come straight out of your pockets. So there are valid reasons for landlords to lobby, both for and against.
I now want to plug in my Apple ][, load up lemonade stand and try that.
> It is my understanding they would always execute on the same core.

no they don't, Go has green threads and they are fully parallel. They are called green because they are not scheduled by the operating system.
The keyboard is holding me up. I have shortcuts mapped to the keys above the left and right arrow. I use them extensively to navigate between desktop and tabs. A few years ago I read about using such shortcuts and now they are deeply ingrained into my workflow.

I don't think I could do without them, and they are one of the only reason I'm considering the XPS: a proper keyboard.

FYI, by default these 2 keys go to the next tab, when using the shift key right above: they go to next desktop, using the control or menu key right next to them they reorder the tabs, etc.)

For the tool I use everyday, price is not the problem. However, a bad keyboard is.
HCAR 32 (May 2017) has been published
Dynamic T-SQL and Benefits of Its Usage
Next call for contributions at end of September.
"The internet is broken. It has been for a while" is the first words of the article you cannot read because of Javascriptosis. Quite ironic.
Oh. See I thought the bigger concern would be the low health standards for dog biscuits, not simply being called out for inconsiderate behavior.
I'd say it's not that citizens are ignorant, it's that they're powerless. The only way an average citizen can shape the political reality around himself is by voting. What else can one do? Protest on the streets? Organize a riot? Good luck with that.
The only reason I'm not using vue yet is because of react-native. Is the vue equivalent of that going to finish soon?
Highly recommended read (and less political than the title might imply): https://theringer.com/syria-barack-obama-legacy-853644abdd1b

The author has some great personal stories of what it was like to visit family in Syria under the Assad regime.
Blurays are 60Mbps.

Then with 40k60 + HDR, displaying is quite a lot of bandwidth.
To add to this, here's a comprehensive list of everything related to just the 2016 US presidential campaign:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

Nevermind their track record interfering elsewhere.

Cue the whataboutism WRT the US meddling in other's elections.
Boomerang – Open Source library for web pages monitoring
The US was not designed as a direct democracy, though. Bemoaning the design only when 'your side' loses is a problem that should be relegated to young children. I haven't voted for the winner for quite a few elections now but I don't think throwing out the entire system is the right answer because I didn't get my way.

If you want to start movements in individual states changing the first past the post system, I think that's a logical first step. Colorado recently changed their primary system to be more open, so we will see what that impact has on their elections soon. But what I see is people wanting to throw out the entire system and start over, which is the rhetoric that got Trump elected in the first place.

I assume by 'several million Americans' you're talking about the territories and Washington DC. The territories consistently vote to keep themselves territories, so they choose to remain "unrepresented" in Congress. I don't think letting DC have a vote in Congress will help diminish the 'power' and 'will of the people' problem you are concerned about.
It needs to start from a young age.

Keeping people ignorant of savings, debt, credit etc. seems to benefit a certain section of the financial services though.
I also wrote my own XMPP client (https://poez.io), but since I also use IRC I decided to write a gateway. This way I can use poezio for everything.
I love this comment.

"You mean your jeans aren't continuously reporting biometrics to your phone? How do you make it through your day?!"
Yes is there an article somewhere to inform me why you would use Phoenix over ruby?
Looking great! Thanks for sharing.

I assume it's not open-sourced, but I wanted to ask about the code nonetheless. I would have loved to see it to appreciate Vue.js better.
> t's better that a fraction of the population prosper that the can act philanthropically

That is obscenely optimistic and almost Randian.
I do not know of Solid. But IPFS is a storage layer, so you can use IPFS as part of Blockstack. It is even normally mentioned in the architecture diagrams. Have a look at the picture down on the page here: https://blockstack.org/intro

Where it says "storage layer" it has things like Dropbox and S3, in some versions of the picture it also has IPFS. This is up to the user. As long as you can fetch it, it can be used. Usually that would mean you'd have to use HTTP, but it depends on the browser you're running.

You can also read about 'Gaia' (where it uses storage as Dropbox/S3 as 'dumb harddrives' where it can dump encrypted blobs on) in the whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf
True, if I ever need to use ghostscript (whatever it is) in my day-to-day life, it'll be a trainwreck.
The title says "inspired by" it, so I don't think it was meant to be a clone.
It's worth seeing the information from the source. The talk[0] and the blog post[1]. Plus, as Engadget called out[2] in an update, you can opt-out by contacting your credit card company, and there are more details at the FTC[3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkRJqnQ2T8&19m05s

[1] https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-anal...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/23/google-track-shopping-tr...

[3] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0222-privacy-choices-y...
UNHCR has detailed stats, here: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php

If you draw the line at age 18: Roughly, 27% male adults, 25.5% female adults, 47% children.
You truly care?

Find out how to file a lawsuit, and then do so for LUDICROUS amounts of money. Make the National Debt look small (say 250 trillion might get everyone's attention.) And as it turns out, since Wikimedia is now in the clear to sue the NSA over this stuff thanks to a federal appeals court, you can walk right in on their heels and do the same. [1]

The ludicrous amount of money will suddenly wake everyone up, because everyone's going to catch wind of it via the news. You simply don't miss a lawsuit this large.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/wikimedia-v-nsa-4th-cir-...
5M years ago parts of the mediterranean were 6,000 to 15,000 feet below sea level. Imagine flying that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis
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Also recommend checking out Standard Notes if you're looking for a cross platform encrypted notes app. It's built with Angular and open-source.

https://standardnotes.org
IBM, Google and Lyft Give Microservices a Ride on the Istio Service Mesh
You must have a really unique situation, or maybe things are really weird in Canada.

Where I am, I live in a small town about an hour from a major metro area. The only shopping where I am is a super-Walmart. If I want to buy anything that Walmart doesn't sell, it's a minimum 30-minute drive to the nearest commercial district, and that's over a bridge that I have to pay $4.50 to go back home on. In the other direction (no bridge, no tolls), it's a minimum 40 minutes to that town, and the traffic there is terrible so it's a minimum 50 minutes to the shopping district. Both these districts just have the basic retail chain stores that every such place in the US has (except for hh Gregg which was in both locations, but just went out of business).

So, for me to get anything "locally" means a minimum of 1.5 hours in driving and running around.

You seem to have some weird problems with shipping. For me, I order stuff and if I'm not home, they leave it on my doorstep. There's no theft here that I've ever heard of. As for your "huge hassle", it sounds like you have some really serious problems with your postal service there. Over here, the USPS works great, and Fedex/UPS work fine too for the most part. The only time I've heard of people having to go to some other town to pick something up is when they live in an extremely rural area where there's no residential delivery.

Now, for an alternate view, I also have a girlfriend who lives in the metro area, about 1 hour away from me. She lives in a big high-rise condo, and is less than 2 miles from a quaint "old town" area with local shops, plus lots of typical big-box shops in other directions. This is one of the largest metro areas in the US (I'm guessing #5-7 by population), so there's certainly no shortage of shopping. Shipping is easy for her too: the staff at the front desk takes packages for the building residents. But they take a LOT of packages (many are frequently piled up in the front lobby when I visit; I even saw a mattress there one day); people in that building buy a LOT of stuff online. Why? Simple: time. Even though she's in the city, driving to some random place, even on that side of the metro area, is still a good 20 minutes in my experience, if not more, because of traffic and having to stop at so many red lights. You're not going to be able to get anything without spending at least an hour of your time driving there, dealing with parking, picking it out (assuming they even have it), and driving back. Why waste all that time when you can just get it with a few clicks and pick it up in a couple days when you come home?
Metadata is surveillance
Sure, burying your head in the sand is a strategy too. Good for you.

Which people on the ground? You sound like you're getting your talking points from CNN.

How about a reporter who has personally visited Syria and Aleppo herself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueyWGyddepw

You do not seem to be aware that there are terrorists operating in Syria that are funded by the west. Let's just start with that.
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After some Googling on the term "Adverse Childhood Experiences", I found this list: Physical abuse, Sexual abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical neglect, Emotional neglect, Mother treated violently, Substance misuse within household, Household mental illness, Parental separation or divorce, Incarcerated household member.

Still can't find much about how humiliating it is to be punished for disrupting class, though.
That's a very bold statement to make with zero knowledge of the financials.
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"Fresh" reminded me of this discussion 4 months ago:

Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views | http://astronaut.io/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225

Edit: Incognito mode or YouTube history ad/tracker-blocking add-on recommended!
> The Muslims in Bosnia are moderate in nature.

The real "moderates" haven't had a chance or influence. The Muslim Bosniak leader in the nineties was a known Islamist. He hasn't accidentally received the support of the Islamists abroad. The Wahhabis are there since that times (decades already):

"Sharia Villages Bosnia's Islamic State Problem" (2016)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/islamic-state-pre...

Regarding "the nature" the history of the WWII (1939-1945) is also clear, even then the inherent religious intolerance (most of the Quran) towards the others was used:

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/muslim-waffen-ss-13th-divisi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_...

Going back to even earlier times, the Ottoman empire removed some typical obligations inherent in Islamic Sharia law only after it was defeated, only around the middle of 19th century. The "moderation" of Muslims probably started only after Austria took over the control of Bosnia in 1878. It was also surely helped by the abolition of the Caliphate by the secularist Turkish president Ataturk in 1924. But then see WWII and the Nazi influence, above. Similar to what happened in the nineties.

Regarding Syria, the "rebels" were fought against by Assad also because they were Islamists, that means, wanted the rule of the Islamic law for everything. Their fanaticism and readiness for destruction is now widely known. There's nothing in these beliefs that anybody (but the Islamists) can wish: intolerance towards women, towards other religions, and the death for insulting the "religion of pieces." But the rebeles were supported by the Arab states and the U.S. because Assad wasn't an Islamist and he was potentially closer to Shia Iran (and Sunni Arabs don't like that) and because he's too close to Russia too (and the U.S. politics doesn't like that).

Thanks to the support from the abroad, the Islamic State claims to have a functioning Caliphate since 2014, a religiously (eschatologically!) important part of it in Syria. Also see the effective destruction of the secularism in Turkey, an U.S. ally.

Same old.
those are likely most of the same reasons these apps are not sandboxed (switching "not my project" with "I'm not payed work on this").
You are right. There have to be a lower limit.
These events are not improbable imo. They are inevitable.
This is a fantastic book, I loved it.
Uber's first massive round was in August 2013. By that time, everyone knew driverless cars were going to be critically important in the long term and Uber would have to make a build vs. buy decision. Whether Uber was ferrying passengers or goods didn't really impact this.

But yes, the investment thesis has always depended on passenger taxi being a decent business for Uber in the midterm.
Some subtext in this article seems to be that the company was already a healthy environment which allowed him to easily adapt and thrive despite his inherent challenges.

He could just as easily have found himself in a company that wasn't as accommodating or healthy and foundered.

Unfortunately it's hard to assess how bound to processes a company is until you're well past the onboarding/honeymoon phase.

Or worse, in my unfortunate experience, finally land at a company light on procedural, reasonably good at executing, and investing in improvements to the development stack only to have that crushed by a supermassive org acquisition with absurdly burdensome procedural overhead and have that overlay existing practices rather than supplant them while still expected to execute not only as if nothing had changed, but as if we should have improved thanks to it all thus setting me back effectively years professionally and rendering my time investment almost entirely void...
Ask HN: Base new open-source library on an existing one, or start from scratch?
One of my projects uses a BSD-licensed C library which works fine but is too slow for my needs. The developers of the library have told me that they are not interested in making the major internal changes necessary to improve its speed.

I would therefore like to write an alternative to this library which focuses on performance. I will also be writing in C and am happy to use the BSD license, however I don't think I will end up re-using much of the original library's code.

There are two possible approaches to writing my library:

1. Start with the code from the existing library and make changes, replacing sections of the code at a time.

2. Begin writing my library from scratch, using the existing one only for reference.

Most conventional wisdom about rewriting code (such as Joel Spolsky's famous "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" [1]), strongly recommends taking the first approach.

Is it always better to start from existing code, or are there situations in which it would be better to start from scratch?

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
Haven't tried it out yet, but Weex (https://weex.apache.org/) looks really promising. I think this will be table stakes for most frameworks moving forward.
Principles of Product Management
How incredibly naive.
Everyone knows you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, now you're saying the cover of the book influences how the book feels about itself?
It is (https://github.com/tmm/notational)! Star, fork, watch it!
I had him for a few classes at ITP. He was probably the best teacher I've ever had.
Kind of related, an adorable instructional video about density altitude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihee35QrWtk
> sold for a millennial-gouging £50. It is, for all intents and purposes, a fashion statement—a phone for the beard-grooming, braces-wearing festival set that think tapping out texts on a T9 keyboard is the ultimate irony.

Not sure if this snarky social commentary is required in a phone review.
Then Uber should pay drivers more in certain places at certain times.

What is it, free market only works for Uber but not for the drivers?
Hi, i'm the developer of WindowsSpyBlocker and it would be nice if you can contribute on the openwrt part :)
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I would be impressed if this were actually "Hollywood". It's better than e.g. the RIAA lawsuits.
I'm not sure where you're getting this from; did you read the article?
I think it says more about the society that the refugees are fleeing from. Imagine some hypothetical civil war in Florida with millions of refugees -- the American women would not be lumped in with the children.
“Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform, and don’t kid yourself.”

--Frank Zappa
Care to explain how? His highest priorities appear to be 1) to bolster his ego and 2) to gain more popularity/consolidate his political position (usually with cheap-ish speeches, stunts, gimmicks etc.) while everything else takes a backseat. Seriously doubt if that is good for India.
Thanks for pointing me this out, I have a circle of people who regularly use this adjective to describe this kind of strange, never changing, routine type of activity.
Anonymity is only required when there is one source.

If they are multiple independent, unbiased sources, that is different.
I don't get the JSX vs. HTML argument. The whole point is that non-technical people can use this to create websites that work well enough, and it'd be simple (comparatively) to build a WYSIWIG on this.
I only got 50 percentile which I thought wasn't bad for not knowing python
Ask HN: How is “Modnesty” going?
"Modnesty" is a project described in a HN announcement from 2015:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/

> HN’s approach to moderation has always been three-pronged: software automation where possible, human intervention where necessary, and as much community moderation as users can provide. Our long-term vision for HN is to have the site be as self-regulating as possible, and we’ve been working on a project code-named Modnesty (for ‘moderation amnesty’) to develop new ways to do that...

I did a quick search and hadn't seen any mention of "Modnesty" (maybe it changed names?) recently. This question is sparked by something I saw regarding a new commenting system that the Washington Post and other big news outlets hope to try out:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/how-the-washington-post-pla...

The quality of HN's community seems to heavily rely on quality of moderation, which implies any new commenting system will be reliant on effective moderation. The New York Times famously expends a lot of resources for manual curation [0], though was said to have partnered with Google to figure out a more automated way.

As an end user on HN, we only see the end result of moderation -- things getting flagged, downmodded, rescued, and dang/sctb intervening (detaching threads, banning folks). But compared to 2 years ago, how much of that process has been streamlined? That is, has trusting users to vouch/flag worked out, or do human mods have to jump in just as much as before? How much has flagging/detection been moved to automation even before users act on it?

Obviously not asking to give up the secret sauce. Just interested in knowing how much progress has been made in moving more of the judgment/detection to algorithms.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/insider/appro...
The landing page is great: it shows exactly what the product does/is and all of this without having to scroll down.
Yup, not meant to be a clone. I use a Mac at home and Windows at work so I needed something I could use anywhere.
Possibly related to conversion to/from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECEF which uses ellipsoidal height (Geodetic), potentially in ways which would be problematic for negative values.
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Thanks to your and andrian's comment I'm currently downloading a QubeOS ISO, I'm curious to see how usable it is.

Using VMs sound a bit more heavy handed than what I had in mind, but I guess on modern machines with good hardware support it should be pretty workable.
Sorry, didn't wanted to sound like that. Just changed the work accordingly. There was no intention of offending anyone, so bear with me.
> Instead of "creating a better Yahoo" (as she once said), she created an enormous payday for herself by slashing thousands of jobs over five years and making plenty of questionable managerial decisions.

This was part of her job, that's how the acquisition was even possible to begin with.

This guy has no idea what it feels like to fire so many people and be called names, while trying to make things work from a sinking ship. I can imagine the type of stress she went through, especially considering how bringing back a dying company is mission impossible to begin with--you rarely see a tech company that's going down come back up because of some CEO (Unless you're Steve Jobs)

Marissa Mayer doesn't show us what's wrong with leadership. If anything, this article shows us what's wrong with LinkedIn, Medium, and all the social media sites that reward provocative content without substance.