skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monero is the real deal. Once they reinitialize zcash through trustless setup and somehow can audit the money supply it might come close.

But monero also tries to become practical too, which is huge plus
Well in the UK for instance they have housing coops which exist solely for the purpose of their tenants. Also tenants have greater protections like right of abode, which encourage a longer term view for both tenants and landlords. Basically for a landlord to be productive and not rent-seeking, there has to be some level of symbiosis to the arrangement.

I think this is easier to understand with commercial rents. In my local street a half-dozen or so shops have been closed in the past two months, and sit empty due to excessive rent increases. The landlords have forced an un-productive arrangement due to their rent-seeking.

You can apply this same idea to housing, but instead of a business closing, a tenant is strained to the point they make un-productive life decisions, or to the point they cannot pay rent (or cannot see the point of paying rent).

But in this case there is a much greater supply of new tenants than new businesses to fill the void, so you never see the issue illustrated as graphically.
"Great" ideas are a dime a dozen, at least on paper. No one can do anything about the standards you and your co-founder set for yourself, but there is an abundance of opportunity out there. Almost any source of annoyance can be parlayed into a useful product.

I say "on paper" because no idea is worth anything until it is at least partially implemented, and no concept remains static throughout the implementation process.

And let me further clarify that you don't even need an original idea. Most successful companies are entirely non-groundbreaking, perhaps even blase. Breaking ground is expensive, financially and psychologically. Let someone else break ground and not only will the path already be blazed, but you'll have the record of their experience to inform your choices, and you'll know the pain points that people have with them. (The upside is, any given project is probably far less groundbreaking than it imagines, especially in the kool-aid drenched environs of Silicon Valley).

Think early search engines, many of which leverage or improve upon phonebook-style directories, and Google -- Google came later, and as such, knew that they needed something better than AltaVista et al could offer. Early social networks and Facebook, etc. The list goes on.
While I still get random snake oil vibes from stuff Tim F. says this is a great breakdown of that first book and the essence of what one can take away from it. Create a flow of income that requires less of your time so you can do the things you want to do (even if those things take 30-40 hrs/wk).
But an MSAA 4-fragment each 5-bit 16-bit type.

Or MSAA4x ARGB5555 in 64-bit (instead of 80 bit)
> Poverty and housing insecurity are definite societal problems, but does that make it the fault or responsibility of each individual landlord?

I've been living in the SF bay area for nearly 15 years, and in SF itself for half of that. I've watched rent prices go up. The only reason those prices went up was because of higher demand. The higher prices didn't get anyone anything extra: the properties weren't maintained any better, or renovated or upgraded faster or better. On the landlord's side, there were no magical new costs coming into the equation to justify the higher rents.

If a landlord could rent out a place in 2005 for $1500/mo (and cover all costs and make some profit), there's no need for them to rent it out for $4000/mo in 2018. They're doing that because they want to and because they know someone will pay it. I'll absolutely agree that's capitalism in action right there, and in general that's not a bad thing. But we get gentrification and displacement as part of that bargain.

So yes, landlords should accept some of the burden of fault and responsibility. I'm not saying there isn't plenty to spread around, between existing homeowners, the city government, and incoming renters/homebuyers themselves, but... nope, sorry, landlords don't get to pretend they're innocent in all this.

(As an aside: I see you posting a lot on this article, and I want to say that I don't think you're "irredeemable" or greedy or whatever. I'm happy you've chosen to engage and have a productive discussion, at the very least. I just think you might be getting a little caught up in... something... and are missing the point that we're talking about housing and homelessness here, and that's a terrible thing for someone to have to fall into, regardless of reason or fault. Assuming you've been financially responsible on your end, missing rent payments from a tenant for a few months shouldn't put you out on the street, but... you as a landlord do have the power to put someone out on the street, and it'd be nice if you'd be cognizant of the extra power you have.)
Wait, you had a Pebble Time 2? And you didn't wear it?!!

The Time 2 is legendary with Pebble fans, as it was cancelled and never sold commercially, and Kickstarter backers were given refunds. Only a handful went out to employees & reviewers:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/12/7/13864804/p...

I still use my Pebble Time Steel and love it, and I'm not sure what I'll move to next. The Fitbit Ionic is meant to be the successor (and it has hardware buttons too, despite what the Verge article says). But it doesn't have a microphone, and I use that a lot on my Pebble. It's useful for dictating SMS replies when I'm out running, or for setting quick reminder alarms with Snowy (Pebble's version of Alexa / Siri).
But they will give you dollars for bitcoin or ether. However, I agree, I never trade tether because that is the last bag you want to hold if the crypto market collapses
I have. Relevant quotes include:

> But don't let anybody see these plates except for you...

> They are only for you to see...

> Even if people ask you to show the plates to them, don't

> [...]

> Even though this might make them question if the plates are real or not... "
While I'm mindful that all of this is always one fateful day away from collapsing, at the moment it's not a problem. A number of exchanges will trade tethers for any of the major coins (BTC, ETH, LTC) and any major exchange will give you dollars for those, at least on days when withdrawals are functioning.
If tether begins to fail, there will be huge push to sell tethers for BTC/ETH/anything. Couldn't that drive the price up across the board?
Sure. The parallels are pretty obvious.
I'm constantly wondering if I have the fortitude for this.

I've been staring at the Feb BTC futures for a while. I mean, everyone knows that Tether is a scam. But the old phrase about the market remaining irrational longer than you can remain solvent is true. Bitcoin's basically hovered between 10k and 11.5k, for the past while, but this is something that's known for going up tremendously. That takes some fortitude to hold a short position in, that I'm not sure I have.
Can you acknowledge that you realize the parent specifically said "non-aspirin", and everything you are talking about is regarding aspirin? It isn't clear to me that you realize this.

Also, the cardiovascular issues in question are not something recent. They were already widely reported in 2005 to the point the FDA commented:

>"Back in 2005, the FDA warned that taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen and naproxen increased the risk of having a heart attack or stroke."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fda-strengthens-warning-...

I asked that question because the advice was so opposite the usual, and the tone so playful ("Prostaglandin system is fun"), that it almost seemed to be a troll who had gone too far.
Does private equity actually hold properties vacant for long periods of time? Blackstone, for example, owns a ton of real estate, but it's actually in the landlord business.
I believe the parent means "productive" in the sense that the higher rents charged are justified by capital improvements and/or the rising costs of being a landlord. That's not the case for the markets cited; landlords are charging more simply because they can.

This is "unproductive" in the sense that it causes negative economic activity. A person becoming homeless usually ends up not contributing to the economy. A person who has to move to a smaller home in a more remote area has less money to spend, and likely has a longer commute, which wastes money.
Arbitrage explains why prices tend to be the same across exchanges, but it doesnt explain why it isnt discounted today. Kraken is the only one where you trade tethers for dollars that I know of. You cant trade dollars for tethers on tether.to.

Its possible tether is able to sell tethers to exchanges alone and mint tokens at 1 on 1 rate and so it should tend to be so, but considering tether is issuing through bitfinex..
There’s more Android devices out there than iPhones too. Same story. Apple’s success has been about selling the best and most profitable products, not the most.

You will definitely know more people who own echoes than HomePods, at least for awhile. Echoes are cheap. Doesn’t mean it’s a “dumb business move” for Apple.
You are right - I am in Australia, and we tend to follow the trends of the USA etc. when it comes to building businesses here.

It wasn't always like that though, and when I was younger, learning a trade or starting an apprenticeship was something that was highly valued and encouraged across most socio-economic groups. Sadly, that trend seems to be fading with more people encouraging their kids to complete tertiary education, get a degree and join the rat-race/hustle.

I can recall when our town had its own 'go to' citizens where you knew you would get old fashioned expert craftsmanship and service when you needed your car services, or a cabinet made, or a haircut etc., but that tends to have become lost in a sea of bland, homogenised 'me too' businesses.
OK, we've changed to that from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-atms-usa/atm-makers....
The Eerily Similar Suicides of James Dolan and Aaron Swartz
Wow, the amount of compactness and craftsmanship in these lines of code is amazing.
XPCOM was better mainly because it was Mozilla docs instead of Microsoft. I was doing MS COM in a previous job and I swear MSDN is written in sanskrit
Ask HN: Can I make a video not downloadable?
I'm wondered if there is technology or way to protect my video from downloading from website.
> That's not even counting all the other things they can legally do as an unregulated exchange, like front-running, liquidation fishing with unlimited assets, etc.

Unregulated does not mean that they can ignore the law. Fraud is illegal either way. In fact, most businesses used to be unregulated and just had to follow the same laws as everyone else. That should be the natural state.
Thats like saying you dont mind holding a bomb you cant see the time off, because its only going to be a for a short time.
The real problem is that there isn't enough "top off" outlets at shopping centers, work places, and parking lots.
It's actually cheap to put in regular outlets or 220V J1772.
In some northern states, they actually have these to heat the cars in winter; let's just promote that idea to everywhere.
Please don't be a jerk in HN threads, and especially not in response to someone's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This is the second strongest correlation I found: my worst performing students didn't have a plan, a desk setup, a working computer, a schedule with time blocked out for course-work.
> because it seems to clearly describe the state of the overall affordable housing market in the country

No it didn't. The article presents high rents as something that landlords create by fiat, or with construction equipment. It didn't begin to engage with the actual sources of high and rising demand in urban neighborhoods, i.e. concentration of economic growth into a few headquarters cities, migration to those cities, shifting preferences among the affluent away from McMansions and towards urban condos, etc.
The Muse Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer
All of the suggestions given work but none of them are a TreeView of every hardware node grouped by category then device.

That said I much prefer doing I/O programming on Linux than Windows :)
It's not just small indie servers. They do "reputation scoring" of senders that penalize them for things like sending plaintext mail. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/WWK... for more details of one example.
> Greed.

How it's relevant? Tether has fixed price: 1 USDT = 1 USD, you can't become rich by buying it.
Weaver
Right! We can't trust those "small indie servers" on the world wide web. Who knows where they've been?! Make sure you use mail servers furnished by Google, Microsoft, and other NSA-approved facilitators. They only cost $10 / mo / user, that is easily affordable for anyone who is not a Russian agent tricking the unwashed masses into preventing Hillary Clinton from ascending to her rightful place as ----- errrm, uh, from "corrupting democracy".

Any non-Google, non-Microsoft mailers will be blocked, lest users be asked to renew their VIAGRA prescription from a Canadian pharmacy, or a non-compliant political message be received. It's for your own good, citizen!

Thank you, wise and great Google! Thank you, wise and great Microsoft! I wouldn't know how to use this free, non-controlled computer network without your benevolent work!

unsnark: Seriously, the way that Google et al have captured "anti-spam" mechanisms and converted them into "pay a big company for your mail" mechanisms is extremely sad, and speaks to the true forces at work behind all the warm and fuzzies about an "open web".
New supply equivalent to the oldest and crappiest apartments on the market would still not be affordable, because they aren't either.

The positioning of new supply within the basic<->luxury spectrum is vastly overblown. The entire range of market rates needs to come down by thousands of dollars.
Saint Exupéry's memoir is titled Wind, Sand, and Stars. It's quite good. (The post tells you some about the memoir without ever naming it.)
Direct link to the Krebs story:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/first-jackpotting-attack...

Nice little punchline at the end too:

"The Secret Service alert says ATMs still running on Windows XP are particularly vulnerable, and it urged ATM operators to update to a version of Windows 7 to defeat this specific type of attack."
reminds me of:
"Have you ever sailed across an ocean?
On a sailboat surrounded by sea with no land in sight?
Without even the possibility of sighting land for days to come.
The stand of your helm of your destiny.
I want that.
I want to be in Piazza del campo in Siena.
I want another meal in Prague.
I want another bottle of wine,
and then another.
I want the warmth of a woman in a cool set of sheets,
One more night of love.
I want to stand on summits and smoke cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can.
Walking the wall again , climb the tower, ride the river, stare at the stars.
I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book.
Most of all I want to sleep,
I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy,
Give me that
Just one time" R. Reddington (The Blacklist)
Elon just tweeted that when the zombie apocalypse (which he is definitely not creating to generate demand for flame throwers) comes, you'll be glad you bought one.
communication from client to designers. Plus all the design projects from all the clients.

I am also looking for a good invoicing software
That's funny, considering you're just setting up strawmen targets and knocking them down. The point was that renting gives you more freedom than buying.

> To put it in your snarky-ass tone

How was my tone snarky?

Also, it's all economics. If the rent is way higher than the mortgage, sure you go ahead and buy. If not, you rent.
Obscuring license plate might be prohibited by law, but so far I been pulled over twice for not having license plate AT ALL. Twice got ticket to show up at court, twice case was dismissed because cop did not show up.

I don't think there is law for not having a license plate. License plate are only required in case you commit a crime or break the law using your vehicle so identifying you is required. I was ready to argue in the court that I should be presumed innocent when it comes to driving my car, just like walking on the street I m presumed innocent and do not have to have my state ID plastered to my forehead, in case. I'm currently awaiting to be pulled over for the third time.
I use httpie to view request and response headers. Very handy when you want to check something without worrying that a browser is caching something for some reason (like a redirect).

$ http --print Hh http://news.ycombinator.com
Admiral charges Hotmail users more for car insurance
Here’s how a Tesla Model S holds up almost 5 years later – Electrek
EMA surveys pharma companies on their preparedness for Brexit
> Sometimes I do that, actually. I have a tenant who has lived in my building since I bought it and I’ve never raised his rent. It’s substantially below market rate but he’s older and a model tenant so I just leave him be.

That's super great, and I absolutely agree with and love that sort of behavior on the part of landlords.

> Do you negotiate a lower salary to try and do your part to lower the market rate?

This doesn't make much sense from a power imbalance perspective. Both a landlord and an employer have an outsized portion of the power here: the landlord gets to decide whether or not a tenant has a home or is homeless, and the employer gets to decide whether or not an employee has a job. The renter & employee in these situations are the ones who stand to lose the most, and don't have much power or recourse to fix the situation.

It doesn't make sense to me to ask a potential employee to negotiate a lower salary; they're hurting themselves pretty heavily by doing so (and, hilariously, making it so they can't afford their rent and can't pay you, the landlord, what you feel you're due), and asking for a modestly higher salary does not hurt the company that much. On the other hand, a landlord deciding not to raise rent doesn't hurt the landlord much at all[0], and it means a ton to the tenant.

> It kind of sounds like you’re just upset about rent being too high (me too!) and think individual market sellers should charge well below market rates to “do something”.

At the end of the day I will always vote for tenants not being homeless over landlords being able to increase their (already positive) profit margins. Property ownership is not some no-strings-attached right that lets you do whatever you want; it's ownership of a scarce public resource, and it's in the public interest to keep people in homes and not out on the streets, and to have a healthy, functioning economy that everyone has the spare cash to participate in.

[0] This is assuming a market where the costs of being a landlord aren't going up much (at least nowhere near at the same rate as rents are/had been), which is the case we're talking about here. The potential rent increase is driven solely by demand, not by any increase in intrinsic value that the landlord or property is providing.
Only against USDT.

The USDT/BTC price will go through the roof, but what does that matter? USD price will also skyrocket relative to USDT. Anything is worth more than a USDT that's known to be a scam. But, that doesn't make everybody holding non-USDT rich, it just takes a couple billion off the table and puts it in the pocket of the folks running Tether/Bitfinex.

The problem isn't so much what individual traders will do when Tether crashes or what that'll do to BTC. It's what Bitfinex/Tether have been doing with the Tethers they've been printing at a few hundred million per week. If we assume most miners sell most of their coins, and if we assume most of the Tethers printed over the past several weeks (well over a billion of them in just the past few weeks) have gone to buying Bitcoin, about half of miner output has been bought with counterfeit money over a long period of time. What happens when half of the upward price pressure disappears overnight, and miner output continues unchanged? I don't think it's alarmist to suggest BTC and much of the rest of the crypto market will drop 50% pretty rapidly. (I am long-term bullish on crypto. Short-term, I'm extremely bearish.)

I've seen people make the argument that Tether only accounts for a small percentage of the market cap of BTC, and so if it fails it won't be a big deal. But, when that "small percentage" is able to buy half the new coins coming into circulation day in and day out, you can bet it's able to move the price, and it seems to be what's been propping up the price these past couple of weeks; trends and signals are downward, but every couple days Tether drops another $100 million USDT on the market and, miraculously, BTC gets a bounce and it stays above $10k.

I'm not an expert, and I can't predict the future, but I've sold nearly all of my crypto, because this looks absolutely insane, to me. It looks like a blatant and insanely bold con, and I don't want to be one of their marks when they disappear with a few hundred million dollars worth of stolen Bitcoin purchased with money they printed out of thin air.
Finding free perks outside of work is the perk.

Personally, my perk is Gold Club in downtown SF.
>implicit conversion, which happens in many languages

And that doesn't happen in many decent languages. That is, languages with strong typing.
The Beguiling Science of Making Planet-Saving Pavement
Cool concept. UI is nice, and the explanatory video makes it pretty clear how to use the app without any frills.

What tech stack did you use to make this?
Ok, so if I'm an engineer and I think the ethical thing to do is help build a better license plate scanning technology to protect everyone from terrorism, then what?
> If you were a landlord, at least you’d be helping provide supply that keeps the price in check

Landlords don't provide supply. Homebuilders do. It's pretty rare that those are one in the same in a market like SF.
> I been pulled over twice for not having license plate AT ALL

Where did this happen? I see tons of cars without plates in California and Oregon. When I was living in New York I saw zero cars without license plates. I can't imagine one is going to get too far without plates in the tri-state.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218333
$1200/mo on a $30k salary is >60% of post-tax take-home pay. That's... more than a little crazy.
I have found that my YouTube account, that has no intention of being famous and had a couple followers, is now getting a constant trickle of new subscribers every day, with funny names that look autogenerated. It may have some relation with changes in YouTube monetization that will demand a minimum number of subscribers. I hope my account will not be jeopardized by this.
Show HN: Designer Cases for your iPhone
The kind of girls you want to settle down with can see through that shit, but it doesn't change the short term problem. The 25 year old with the BMW doesn't buy it because he has some love affair with German engineering, he buys it because it's going to get him girls. America is the land of risk takers and optimists. It's full of people who know how to get in on the next big thing and are going to work to grab it. This all works great as long as credit isn't too available, and when the next big thing isn't as big as someone thought, he can always get a job at the GM plant. The problem we have now is that he gets overextended on his securitized mortgage and has to take a job for $11 at Wal-Mart.
In my case, it's something to play with. I need to fiddle with things. If my hand isn't on my mouse, I'm playing with my mouse wrist rest (basically a bean bag). If it is on my mouse, I'm clicking around randomly.
There's a pretty well-developed community around sharing swim training workouts already out there in a way that I haven't found an analogue to for weight training etc.
I think it's that First Amendment thing.