skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume that would be section 8 housing which they should exclude as its the government paying.

They missed a pretty interesting demographic issue in the analysis that education didn't quite cover, which is stage of life. The suburban city I live in has renters who are almost exclusively college students or retired / assisted living elderly. I know my uncle who was in assisted living paid something ridiculous like $6K/month for 24x7 nursing coverage until his assets were gone and the gov pays for him now, and that likely distorts the averages. Meanwhile the other end of the elderly spectrum is 55+ housing where they get gov kickbacks and incentives to charge less, to help social security recipients pay the bills. I'm sure there is a numerical average elderly rent payment but I suspect roughly zero population because the distribution isn't even remotely bell curve-ish. Meanwhile college student used to mean "poor despite 8 roommates" a generation ago but now it means infinite gov guaranteed student loans so start charging California rents, after all the .gov will pay and guarantee any expense remotely related to education regardless of ability to (re)pay.

My suburb city has a quarter mil people and a private college and a state extension uni and a community vo-tech so we have megatons of college renters, whereas the suburb city to the east is slightly larger but has zero higher ed and therefore zero renters other than assisted living. I'm just theorizing this discrepancy might extend to states. Surely there are vastly more foreign and american college students in CA than in OR or WA even in percentage relation to population?

The boomer stereotype of "retire move to Florida" is still alive, isn't it? Even though I don't personally know anyone who's done it. Surely that would distort the numbers.
1997: Nobody believes the NSA is listening to phone calls. Netscape is rich. China barely has the internet.

2017: Kids can run real time E1+ voice transcription systems made exclusively of free software on commodity gaming hardware. Bizarrely, the dominant implementation is based upon the "free" browser community Mozilla, based upon work released by a "don't be evil" global megacorporation, but they are reduced to imitating China to get there.
Many of the comments in this thread violate this guideline:

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

This is particularly difficult to avoid on these controversial topics, but we have to try because the quality of the discussion when we do this is way below what this site exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I didn't see any attempt to normalize the rents to per square foot. How can you compare average rents if the average unit size isn't the same?
Cuba has had terrible shortages and starvation, including one especially bad situation in the 90's.

> I would leave my house at 8:30 in the morning with a pathetic excuse for a breakfast in my stomach: a bread roll and a glass of sugared water (milk was a luxury at the time, and all food was expensive). The dollar, which was illegal at the time, came to be valued at 120 Cuban pesos. Anyone caught carrying that currency risked a long time behind bars.

http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=102373
With bastions of egalitarian democracy like the US, who needs tyrants?
How can inflation be so rampant when the army enforces price control? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/venezuela-army...
Well, then I'm still waiting for my paycheck from Uncle Sam. :)
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Pocket-size iPhone ultrasound machine costs under $2,000
It has to exist before it can become the next big thing. It's more the transition from early adopters to mainstream.
> Poor in the USA have enough to eat

This is a surprisingly persistent myth. A quick google search will show you that this is not the case.

http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu...
Any measures can miss the breach.

For example disgruntled insider admin quietly stole all users data on his last day at work.
My flow adapted for this question:

1. Why do you need the estimate? Is it to get budget approval, or because you're trying to meet an approved budget?
If they don't have budget approval then I'm going to charge them something to gather requirements and deliver an estimate.
No budget approval = low on priority list.

2. We charge a blended rate of $xxx per hour. If you have a detailed requirements list I can tell you if we can do this within your budget.
If they don't have a detailed requirements list then I'm going to charge them to provide one.
After I have the requirements list completed I'm asking for their budget.

3. Don't want to pay for a requirements list? I understand. Its okay. Something like this typically costs (low bid), but that will likely change if the requirements are different then my assumptions.
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So, ideally children should be taught about life and how the world works, helped with homework, and/or home-schooled by people with little to no formal postsecondary education?

Seriously?
>What is preventing, or perhaps more likely - disincentivizing, people of even moderate means from doing this?

Its more of a lack of incentive than disincentive. When making profit is essentially outlawed ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/venezuela-army... ), what would motivate people to work and generate stuff?
"The average for the lowest cities is surprisingly high."

The list is based on the 100 most populous cities so I'm not sure what their point was for the least expensive cities. Higher populations generally mean higher prices.
This was a good lesson for me not to get tech books well before I get a chance to read it. I got the 1.0 book thinking I'd read it when I get a break. Still haven't had a chance to do it and it is already somewhat obsolete. Live and learn :(
Serious comment. Help me understand the problem with economic inequality. If I can afford two cars, a nice house, plenty of food for my family, and all the other things we've become comfortably accustomed to in the first world, why should it matter that my boss can afford twice as much, and that her boss can afford 30, 300, or even 30000000 times more than that?

Don't take this to mean I am ignorant if the poverty problem in the US, but that's a separate concern. Comparatively, the US has a reasonable safety net (sure, it could be better, but again, separate issue). Given the choice, I'd rather be economically unequal and live in poverty in the US than economically equal and living in poverty in places like Venezuela.
That does kind of confirm to the attacker that the credentials are valid on your system though. And do you do this for every different IP? Kind of annoying for users with dynamic IPs.
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I've met a lot of dealers and I am still waiting for my free coke...

Free certificates were free, no trick. Of course they recommended their paid offer, but there is nothing wrong with that.

You may argue that StartSSL turned some webmasters into https addicts but it is not exactly a bad thing isn't it? Remember that Let's Encrypt didn't exist back then.
Any email or mobile number can and will receive spam.

So you need your system to check every spam email, call and text and decide whether it’s a breach or spam.
That's again inflationary - because each unit of currency is worth less.

Money is not wealth, its a token of exchange for wealth. Your proposal is akin to educating a country by "issuing" degree certificates at a certain rate, completely ignoring if anyone is learning anything.
Could you please re-read the guidelines and then stop posting like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, protesting against their own (French) government would also be the wrong entity. The right entity is the US government, because almost all of the profit on iPhones sold in France is created in the US. For the same reason that Foxconn makes only $8 profit on each iPhone [1], the sales operations of Apple in France would generate very low profit per phone if it was an independent company. This is because almost all the value-added activity (eg. hardware design, writing software, designing ads, designing Apple stores, WWDC) is done in California, not France.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/09/25/foxconn_getti...
"Backward compatibility" is holding back creativity a fair bit, I would think. You can build two completely different cathedrals, both surviving the ages. But straying from the fork/exec pattern would make you completely incompatible with the current software landscape, and leave you with no users, and no lasting impact, no matter how "elegant" your solution is.
At our company we didn’t estimate entire projects, but separated tasks until it was 3-5 hours piece of work that everyone agreed “it’s realistic, I can do it”. The big time then simply summed up with 30% buffer for delays. Since our customers mostly paid for hours, it was also a good base price builder.

Big projects can suffer from this because little architecture is involved (and we worked on already existing systems). Otoh, I’ve seen no big local project that wasn’t an architectural mess once it hit a deadline hard. It is better to not have one than to have a set of rules that you must obey, while other parts of system don’t even care of or contradict these.

Personally I don’t believe this “I’ll get back to you with an estimate” thing. It is just first iteration where you go relax and try to formulate at least 5-10 questions that you think you should ask foremost to start building an estimate. If you come back with an answer instead, then it is still wrong, maybe even worse than random, since you estimated a different thing. For us, estimates and requirements always moved, as they were functions of delays and business priorities that change unpredictably. I didn’t like to deliver the entirety on a deadline because my job was to support that for years, not throw a bill at them and run, as all integrators did.

Maybe, maybe these SE-users are speaking about coding phase, when all “business analysis” was done perfectly. But ime it is you coder who collects all the knowledge, because no one can. Or it is you who is non-coding analyst who must estimate, because non-analytic coders don’t have a clue what a big picture is.
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Can confirm I saw this happen in Iraq way too often.
This is more common than you think.
It also sounds ignorant and ill-considered to me.

What baffles me is the amount of people in the US, usually in parochial cultural settings, who lack significant formal education or pedagogical background and are nevertheless deemed fit to home-school their kids. How is this legally possible? Now can a high school drop-out single mom (absent some extraordinary characteristics) possibly provide a well-rounded and adequate curriculum in a variety of general education subjects, ranging from math to literature, to world history, to biology?

If anything, the problem is that there aren’t nearly enough PhDs teaching kids.
Why should it even be discussed anyway? Some accounts seem intent on creating a "special" reddit here.

Would love to see some technological solutions to this problem currently afflicting millions, but this is just general world news and the associated opining.

It's noise and nothing more.
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Don't most people feel the exact same way ?
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I understand from an outside view it may look like we think we NEED that much space... But really it's economics of building development, primarily ROI for the building company. It's more profitable to make more expensive type of housing on that land than it is to make small apartments or starter homes. Hence the seemingly barren housing options within the small apartment and small/starter home markets... It sucks...
>> Today's Unix/Posix-like operating systems, even including IBM's z/OS mainframe version, as seen with 1980 eyes are identical;

I just thought I'd clarify this for those among us fortunate enough to not have been acquainted with z/OS: the author does not mean that z/OS is a Unix. Rather, he is refering to the fact that there is a unix "mode" included in z/OS, Unix System Services, that can be started from inside the z/OS command line, TSO, to drop you to a Unix shell.

It's a full Unix OS, too, complete with, well, for example- ed. So you can experience the supernatural horror of getting stuck insid ed, inside the z/OS command line, on a mainframe. Which is a bit like being in hell and having a nightmare about being in hell and having nightmares.
GoDaddy is now masking _all_ DNS info whether you pay for their "privacy" service or not, so thats making a substantial black hole in this data
>I'd much rather be in poverty in 2017 than in 1960.

You'd be surprised. In 1960 it was easy to find occasional job gigs and make some money. Plus, in the fifties even a simple month's salary got a long way.
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It sounds like you want mob justice but managed to avoid using those words.
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So many times but it's not getting to me.
"Six to eight weeks"

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19514/154820
Organizations such as the Joseph Rowntree foundation define poverty as being in the lowest third of income. Then periodically issue angry press releases that one third of children are below the poverty line...
Texas just barely edged out NY for more expensive rent. Seriously. This is why averages across entire states are worthless for understanding many economic factors affecting people.

This is Info-fastfood. There’s no nutritional value in this data. First off the data should be presented in at least a county level or MSA. A cloropleth map would be nice too.
Grew up with them. We then met our CTO from a different friend who used him for contract work in his startup.
You get paid to do a job, why do you need thanks as well?

I wonder if your current lifestyle will make it difficult to transition to another lifestyle when it's no longer sustainable or you tire of it. At least you're volunteering and as odd as I find it to be homeless and spending time on this site, it suggests an interest in and connection to activities that will work out later.

BTW, a mooch is someone who lives off others ("to mooch" is also a verb). A smooch is slang for a kiss.
Selection in the evolutionary biology sense is not with the connotations of the common word. Selection is considered as a pressure on a population, and not a picking and choosing of individuals exactly, merely the picking off of individuals that for some reason or another cannot breed.
> and there is no escaping that the entire dot-com era was a disaster for IT/CS in general and for [...] Unix in particular.

I honestly have no idea what ismeant by that. What background info do O need so that makes sense?
My hope with HTML5 was that complexity would be removed in the standard; reduce the platform to smaller generic components. Instead we have this ever-expanding feature set, a constant stream of new standards that have to be implemented. It's death by complexity.

This plays in the hands of Google; each new feature is another opportunity to fingerprint the user. If things continue like that, a new platform will have to emerge to replace the web.
A key contributing factor appears to be the capability to produce. The handout system in Venezuela had destroyed a large portion of that capability and thus when its stock of wealth in the form of oil becomes less valuable, the disaster ensues.

Well-managed capitalism is much more efficient than socialism in inducing people and organizations to develop and upgrade their production capabilities. One of its unfortunate side effects is much larger inequality than socialism. Still, history has shown that over the long run, capitalism tends to be better even for the poor. Most poor people in the US still live better than many average people in certain countries (Example: a small fraction of people in India own a car; many poor people in the States do).

On the other hand, pure capitalism is clearly not the most efficient system because it perpetuates the status quo, suffers from negative externalities, and underdevelops certain resources, especially those that require a long lead time and mostly yield social rather than private benefits. Prime examples include public infrastructure and talents born in underprivileged families.

Capitalism that works well should maintain these two components that resemble socialism:

1) Long-term public investment to develop shared infrastructure, production capabilities, and talents, and

2) Redistribution to alleviate people from poverty trap and allow people to help themselves and become a contributing member to the community
Well the numbers are probably even more alarming for millennials (18-34). For example, the national average of millennials living with parents is 31%, but in Miami that number is 44.8%, again the highest nationwide and more disturbing that number was 15% in 2005. And of the millennials who do rent, they spend on average 54% of their income on rent [1].

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/ar...
Tell them there's a probability density function associated with the result. This allows you to get away with any outcome :)
>Yes. The richest people have produced orders of magnitude more value than those under the poverty line.

The richest people have not produced anything by themselves - maybe they got some ideas and secured some funding. The millions of people working for them have produced that value, and continue to produce it.

>And yes I'm talking about value for their customers. You know, the people who paid for their products and thereby made them rich.

It's even worse for their customers. Rich people like Henry Ford understood trickle-up economics -- pay your employees more to create a more vibrant economy.

Today's rich people, are more like robber barons of yore, by affecting legislation, passing favorable deals, screwing over markets, dodging taxes, and so on, while moving their operations elsewhere whenever that made them more profits, have royally screwed over their customer base.

The people, who, you know, are also workers making a living, for their whole life, as opposed to consumers (which they are only for a short period every day).

And that's not even considering externalities such as environmental cost and hampering democracy.
The other side of the positive pursuit of pleasure coin is the negative absence of pain. Wikipedia claims "rated as having one of the lowest violent crime rates among cities with over 100,000 inhabitants by the FBI every year since 2005". Another good wikipedia quote is "Irvine has been frequently recognized among the top school systems in California and the United States". There are much cheaper places to live, but you might have not written your post because as a little kid you got shot as a bystander and died, or never learned enough from bad schools to get into CC, or your computer or whatever you're posting with got stolen. Better to be poor in paradise than rich in hell, etc.
SALT deduction is a regressive deduction that benefits the wealthy much more.
More accurately, cubes pack more closely when agitated one way than another. The fact that they are dice is irrelevant (they don't become ordered with respect to the facing side). To be honest, this isn't particularly odd, as the experiment removed the component of the agitation that would tend to displace the cubes vertically, which is the only dimension with an asymmetric force that would tend to increase the packing factor if undisturbed (gravity).
Usually the poverty line is defined in some way relative to the income distribution. So if everyone gets richer by the same factor, the percentage below the poverty line does not change.

I think that's a mistake. The poverty line should track how many people can't afford enough food to supply the recommended amount of nutrients, how many are not reliably protected from freezing to death, how many can't see a doctor when they have an infection, and so on.

In short, the poverty line should track how many people are physically suffering because they don't have enough money.
Because you can't simply find an apartment sized to fit. Even if you can afford only 200 sq. ft. but are okay with that, it will be hard to find in most communities. You need 1 place to live, not X sq. ft. to live.

But price per sq. ft. is not completely irrelevant and can be useful to know.
Coal mines and coal power plants are worse for your view.
Instagram over a year ago. Everyone knows how often we press one profile / picture and end up on six different ones. Basically that.

We have a mutual friend who announced he was leaving his company via IG. Saw her profile thanks to his post, but it was private. Did a follow request and went to tennis. After, I had a private message from her which led to back and forth conversation. She is a beautiful entrepreneur. Knowing this was a limited window where A) she was single and B) I have her interest I suggested we go on a walk that night. We did and within 24 hours knew we were dating and that this is it.
The graduate students in question here already pay income taxes on their stipend, which is used to cover housing, food, and commute.

The only thing they get "tax free" is tuition, which they shouldn't be paying because in most cases they aren't even taking any classes.
"NEED" is somewhat loaded and subjective. We only "need" just enough space to have shelter from the elements. Things like most appliances, toilets and so forth are optional and can just as easily be provided communally (and were for literally centuries in many places).

Why should "what is needed" be higher in priority than a slightly more spacey/comfortable/whatever standard? There's a spectrum between living one step removed from hunter-gatherers sheltering in caves and Middle Class McMansions. It's certainly not clear to me that moving as far as 600 square feet for a two bedroom is necessary, even when it seems that certainly more high density housing is.
Mexico is a whole country
Paper is titled, “Experimental Study of Ordering of Hard Cubes by Shearing” - does anyone have a link to the paper as a PDF?
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Curious when Topology will become a core math subject.
I suspect this phenomenon is already in use in material science and manufacturing.
The article explicitly states that they are measuring the amount people actually pay, not per unit rented. So a person renting in SF might pay less for a more expensive unit compared to one in LA only because the person in SF is sharing rent with more people.
Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely look into it. Cookies shouldn't matter since I don't use them, but localstorage would be a tiny problem.
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Somebody must have thought "but" was a useful operator at some point. But from this demo I have absolutely no idea what it does.