skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most counties not on the coast or bay have very affordable areas

Very affordable by coastal standards, but with very low incomes by coastal standards, too. Which somewhat offsets the affordability, unless you are talking about, e.g., long-distance commuters working in the Bay Area.

Nevertheless, yes, the interior is better at meeting the targets for Low and Very Low income affordable housing as specified in the report finding the 97.6% miss rate; lots of the interior jurisdictions are only missing on the Above Modest income targets. (Though there are exceptions, e.g., Fresno County also misses on the lower income targets.)
You're right, I sound like a prick even though I hadn't meant it.

I'll grab some data later on to construct a more compelling case against this type of funding.
competition is a good thing, it encourages all competing parties to strive for a better product.

from an investment point of view, its a bit similar to Lyft vs Uber ... pretty much the exact same business, but there is always room to eat market share.
The Secret Lives of Playlists (2017)
There are cheap netbooks out now with Raven Ridge chips but I'm hoping for something higher end. With a TrackPoint or the equivalent.
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Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone’s ‘Notch’
Can you please stop posting generically ideological and/or unsubstantive comments to HN, especially the flamebaity kind? You've been doing it quite a bit lately, and it's the wrong sort of comment for this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yes call me old fashioned but I want to OWN my wife instead of renting it
I’m no longer advocating for clean energy; here’s why (2017)
Hacker News isn't like other places though. There doesn't seem to be an official rule about jokes [1] but they generally get voted down.

In a world filled with fake news, a tradition of posting at least one link might be a good thing? (Unless it's personal experience, which is useful in itself.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There were numerous reports on reddit's r/tmobile about how the "port validation" password was trivially bypassed. People would perform social engineering attacks against themselves and find that the port validation password was not necessary.

So you may ignore that piece of advice and presume your phone number may be stolen at any time by a persuasive enough attacker. Why? Because customer support people are underpaid and outsourced.

edit: Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7nhr0a/psa_port_va...
That wording is a bit confusing. You might think about changing it to be minimums on height limits for better readability.
Might be time you move elsewhere, I think...
Relevant story from 2016: the NYT profiled Fearnow, the contractor who was fired for apparently leaking some screenshots to Gizmodo (but not for the story about FB's bias in curation):

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/technology/facebook-trend...
Good work - but can we just take a minute to look at this...

> Over the past two years, the snapshot has nearly tripled in size, going from roughly 600 KB in early 2016 to over 1500 KB today.

1.5MB per snapshot... per tab effectively! It's crazy how wasteful we've become.
As banks have merged and eaten each other over the years, I've ended up going from four different website to log into to one website with four different usernames.

There's no way to merge the online accounts, even though the banking accounts are merged and I can see all of the financial information from each no matter which login I use.
It is surprising that most folks reading HN are in some kind of bubble. I see people here commenting how they have never used facebook since last X years and they are fearful about facebook and privacy.

Are you kidding me? FB has 2.2Billion Monthly active users.
yeah, I actually use google's plus-email features to help me generate test accounts on some sites or to attribute mail spam to other sites.
Computing Remainders by Doubling
I am curious if DL really can deliver good results in such spaces.

We all see success stories for very refined and well defined problems with huge amount of training data, with models created by 1% top engineers, but for average business such conditions may not be achievable, to train model to recognize various shelf conditions in different situations, buildings, etc. you need nontrivial set of training data, and will have unclear expectations about model performance.
Problems:

- Company hires a bunch of artists to make something, pays them one time, keeps gathering checks decades after the artists are dead, and even longer after they're getting any payment for the work.

- Artist collects money from their work, dies, and the estate continues collecting for decades.

The purpose of copyright should be to encourage artists to create works for the enrichment of society as a whole, by giving them a monopoly on sale of those works for a limited time, followed by a release of the work into the public domain.

Instead, we've got constantly-extending terms, slim-to-no chance of something still being culturally relevant by the time its copyright expires, and people besides the artists receiving the most benefit, in many cases.

Copyright itself can be a good thing, but the current U.S. implementation of it sucks.
a) Being on time. If you want to take part in the online discussion about tv shows, you have to watch them on time. For a ton of shows I can't even buy episodes on the day they come out. Torrenting is still the far superior choice.

I generally found that buying a season pass on iTunes typically gives you episodes as soon as they come out. They often offer shows in the original version and with German subtitles/audio. In original versions, the shows get released in parallel with the US. And if there's something missing, I use an US iTunes account (Apple TV 4 permits quick account switching).
the growth they present is not telling the whole truth. So called MAU and DAU can be for example a person like me who hasnt been on fb.com for 2 months, yet when I visit newspapers and scroll to bottom I see facebook comments section with my profile picture on. Meaning FB will now count me as an DAU/MAU.

Look beyond those selective statistics, FB.com is dead.
My name is Cory. Despite sharing that name with 120k other people in the U.S., occurrences of misidentification due to having the same name as somebody else are very rare and usually often resolved by merely using my last name instead.

If your apps' users report problems with identifying people, just allow users to add more specificity to their username. "People always get me confused with this other user 'chairdude', can I change my display name to 'armchairdude'?"

If thirteen 'saurik's want to have a fun time and create a confusing discussion thread together, so be it.
Surprisingly, most poor people order takeaways the most around here, as well.
There was a time where you could put an extra DDR2/3 DIMM on some AMD motherboards to complement their chipset based graphics.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/790gx-graphics-sideport,...
This is very common in California because under this scenario your house is not reassessed for prop 13 property tax purposes. Your cost basis only goes up by the dollar value of the improvements (which you can easily understate). If you do a complete teardown, the county reassesses at current market value. A lot of people leave the chimney up because you get the added benefit of getting grandfathered on the air quality ordinances.
Nobody understands debt
A snapshot contains everything needed to fully initialize a new Isolate, including language constants (e.g., the undefined value), internal bytecode handlers used by the interpreter, built-in objects (e.g., String), and the functions installed on built-in objects (e.g., String.prototype.replace) together with their executable Code objects.

This sounds suspiciously like the Smalltalk image. The Smalltalk undefined value was involved in some paradoxes, therefore it couldn't be completely defined/instantiated declaratively.

I wonder if the (de)serialization mechanism used here could be re-targeted in a manner resembling the Parcel technology developed for VisualWorks Smalltalk? Basically, the runtime state of an application could be serialized into a "parcel," which could then be rapidly deserialized and more or less directly injected into the runtime image.
> I really really dislike those "all lives matter" people.

You understand, that this is precisely the intent. I think the "all lives matter" was a great move by a political group to use another group's ideology against themselves. ("Do all lives no matter, only black lives matter? But you can't explain the motive behind "black lives matter" without losing the narrative).

Similarly even more genius move was "It's ok to be white". If you show outrage against that statement, you lose the narrative very quickly.

Take another example, body positivity activists talk about how magazine and women should depict "real women" instead of photoshopped models. Now lets just say the same group which came up with "All Lives Matter" and "It's ok to be white" comes up with a campaign "This is what a normal woman looks like" (in response to "This is what a real woman looks like"), and they post skinny-ish women in response. This is bound to piss off a lot of people in the outrage movement.

The question this raises is why is it so easy for you or others to get pissed off so easily with these simple, yet technically true slogans, and are they right about something?

"All Lives Matter" is simply a parody movement (albeit more serious) similar to "Harambe" meme, which was created in a response to the Internet petition culture and hashtag movements.
But do note that hosting is actually only a very small percentage of where money goes.

In 2017, Wikimedia received ~87M in donations while only ~2M were spent on hosting.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikim...
> Amazing prime now on the other hand has never messed up an order.

Not sure if it’s possible in prime now (could not find it) but I like the option in Instacart to describe an item you need which is not present in their directory, it saved me lots of times when something is not listed on prime now and I can just request it using Instacart, worked perfectly for me every time
Thank you for your very detailed thoughts. In your experience, are the barriers to small, good quality, affordable homes mainly market dynamics, or do housing codes and local regulations play an outsized role as has been mentioned in other comments?
> "People alive have a long series of present moments to go through. And they are conscious of that, and can make plans, and look forward to those.

This is in complete agreement with what I've said. I am merely pointing out that when you make plans, when you are aware of a long series of present moments to go through, you are doing so, right now.

Never any other time.

Again, this isn't a philosophical position as is stoicism - this is based on personal experience. If you ask yourself when anything ever happens, it is only from the present moment that you can make any claims. Because the thought of what you did yesterday or what will happen tomorrow is going to always happen in the now.

> If there's "only the present moment", then knowing you have 2 weeks to live because of some sudden severe illness (with no other symptoms except death), would be just as well to anybody.

This is an excellent point. The folks who are in tune with there only ever being the present moment - would have a very different reaction from those who have a thousand and one concerns because there's the future to look forward to.

This is not to say they will not be affected - there are very deep rooted instincts in the human experience, that don't want to experience dying. The subtle point is that there is another part to the human experience that doesn't mind living or dying - the part that is very well aware that there's only the present moment, and hence no living or dying from that perspective.

It's not one perspective or another that one has to accept as 'right' - it's just recognizing that there are many aspects to life, and being aware of 'easy come, easy go' of moment to moment, as well as 'no pain, no gain' of planning your life out, is good, because then, there is balance in between the two.

The hippies are stuck in 'it's all one maaaan' and the average person is stuck in worrying about tomorrow, so the hippy would benefit from a little planning, an average person from a little oneness :)
Can old people get into this somehow if they are still learning?
Hmm. Most folks I know address the colleague issue with a "no current coworkers" policy.

(Not to imply you should immediately add newly-former coworkers).
Prove it yourself or get downvoted to shit (not by me). This isn't a real discussion, it's HN.
I was in virginia this past year (for a year) and I bought a little car, sold it. I didn't think about groceries when I sold it, I walked to work, it was close. I found a place online that actually delivered groceries to where I was and it was instacart.

I loved this service while I was there, and even in this little place in Arizona they are looking for drivers.

This service was amazing, you can substitute items for other items, you track them on a Google maps widget on their site, you get texts and instant communication with your delivery person and can choose to tip after the delivery is done.

Not once did the driver forget an item (multiple drivers) and one time they didn't have the item I wanted and the driver felt bad and for Christmas without notice left me a coffee cake tree on my doorstep with the item they didn't have previously.

This service deserves the valuation they have and I couldn't believe it was as big as it was when I found it last year, I thought it was a rinky-dink service that turned out to be amazing.
I HAD to sign up for an account - don't ask why. After about 1 hour of usage trying to do what I had to get done, it REQUIRED a phone number for security purposes. Seconds after I entered the phone number (for security purposes) I was blasted by about 400 recommended connections including some ex-girlfriends that I'm sure my wife would LOVE me to be friends with. Go facebook. I'm guessing those people got notified that I was there too, but at least I was able to delete the account.
If you are good enough to get that 400k offer now, you’ll be good enough to get it again later. The same can’t be said for a startup that you’ve been working on for two years.

You’ve invested two years in this startup. If you came here saying it wasn’t working, I might say you should quit. But it sounds like your business is going well. So why not stay the course and see where it takes you? You’ve already invested two years worth of money and declined opportunities. What’s the harm in saying no to a little more money and opportunities?
If I am in your case, I would:

1. Get the job. 400K would be quite a salary that would allow you to save.

2. AND Continue with your startup, by being on an advisory role. Delegate the business to someone you could trust (difficult, but possible). After office hours, you put in time to gauge how your startup venture is doing.

It is not quite easy to get a startup to a point where you are actually making solid progress. Of course, you would want to ensure your own survival as well.

Best of luck.
UberEats will likely win in the long run... On-demand is just a long-term game of leading and losing money... Uber has the distribution and the money that will allow them to lead and lose for longer than anyone else.

How much money can all these companies lose before finding themselves in a dead-end? (no positive cash-flow, no more investors willing to invest, no more local market first mover advantage).

People who deliver for these companies will do it for the ones that can give them more business and larger commissions.
People who order from these companies will do it from the ones with the largest selection and the lowest fees...
Only Uber can pull-off the economies of scale to arbitrate those two sides without running out of money.
The Shoemaker's Children Go Barefoot
Seems like you did the right thing:
https://youtu.be/vsMydMDi3rI?t=2397
> "I got hit with a huge AWS bill last month that wiped out most of my remaining runway"

This is exactly why I don't use AWS. I need 100% predicable billing.

Lately I have considered looking into AWS again, since their system is just leagues ahead of competitors.

Mind explaining how this "bug" caused such a massive bill? Did you not have alerts set up? No protections against scaling? Etc.
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/06/157857/masako-wakamiya-wwd... 82? Quite possibly 83 now...
Yeah, I know about that. It's why I said there is no technological reason for any of these.
Yeah, until it's not. I mean sure, 20 seconds of low quality is not the end of the world.

I literally never have 20 seconds of low quality on Netflix et al. It is sharp HD from the moment that I start streaming (UnityMedia with 200 MBit/s downstream).
A smartphone OS is required for whatsapp
Publicly guessable addresses can still be a pain like sequential numerical ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe#User_IDs_and_e-mail...
I think this is excellent idea for a book :)
This URL isn't on the TPU beta signup page. The Google TOS is. Perhaps you can see the confusion? I would be reluctant to trust random 37 karma guy on Hacker News message board on this particularly important consideration.
This.

Facebook was really useful for keeping up with life events. I could stay connected and updated even with more distant friends and relatives. As soon as the algorithm "knew best" what I looked at I no longer got the occasional, but wanted, updates from those more distant. I would see what FB told me was popular - and some would play to that popularity. It would downplay to the point of censorship updates from someone if I didn't interact enough - whatever "enough" was. The feed is now almost completely beyond my control - no matter how I try to mess with groups and liking random posts to stop people being forgotten.

Once when you got a message and weren't around it would mail you the message. Now you get "Fred sent you a message log in to messenger to see it".

Now it's worse than useless for the reason I signed up in the first place.

Worse because, like a needy ex, it keeps pleading and whining for me to come back by email. I log in maybe 2-4x a year to organise with the few people that still prefer it as main point of contact.
Raven Ridge supports 4k60 via HDMI 2.0b. However, no current mobos do. New mobos with updated chipsets should and those are due out in April with the Ryzen refresh.
Total Programming using Swift
> Bitcoin was created as a democratized money that is outside of central control.

I'm just beginning to learn about blockchains and bitcoins. At the moment, I don't see how bitcoin is democratic. Having read "Miners Aren't Your Friends" [1], I don't see how it's possible to trust a system where "... each miner controls the blocks they generate, they can also exercise control over the state changes in that block," that is, miners can manipulate the order of transactions in a contract. At the very least they can cause extra transaction fees to be charged.

[1] https://blog.keep.network/miners-arent-your-friends-cde9b6e0...
as an instacart engineer, i'd be super curious as well. i haven't seen many actual data-driven cases (noting this honestly and thank you for acknowledging the attitude in your initial comment :)
> Just make your content available

Agree. Regional licensing restrictions (music & video) and timed availability (video) seem to be lingering issues for legal streaming services and until they're solved/ forgotten the Popcorn Times will always have a place.
Once it's set up I agree, but it's a bit of a pain to set up on Linux servers (in my limited experience, even including SSH encapsulation to make vnc not completely vulnerable).
I am in a small town in Washington state, maybe a couple of hours from Seattle. It doesn't have everything I want, but I am off the street and my life is slowly coming together here.

One of the reasons I ended up here: I had no problem arranging to get here affordably and efficiently via train and intercity bus. Many of the small towns I researched in the western half of the US were a case of "Good luck trying to get there!" and/or would have cost a great deal more just to get there, on the order of two to three times what it cost me for train and bus tickets to get here just for tickets. And the reality is that if you travel for a couple of days or so, you want the sleeper car if possible or to stay at a hotel at some point, etc. Thus,the places that are that hard to get to wind up having additional expenses involved in just getting there.

An additional benefit of that is that I don't feel trapped here. If I want to go somewhere for any reason, whether for travel or to move again, getting out of here without a car is not some intimidating obstacle. I can readily get on an intercity bus and go to a variety of places in this region. I haven't looked into it, but I imagine it would not be too hard to get to the Seattle Tacoma International Airport and, from there, out into the world.

I was a military wife for a lot of years. I like living within a couple of hours of a major city and a major airport. I have not flown in years, but I have friends and family all over the planet and I always keep it in mind that I might need access to the ability to seriously travel.

Many years ago, I previously lived in Richland, WA and its downtown center was fairly pedestrian friendly as well. I don't know how easily you could get there without a car. It did not make my radar for where to go to get off the street.
> However, I presume there is little vacant land near public transit.

Redevelopment is a thing that happens, and removing barriers to redevelopment for densification will encourage such development compared to the status quo ante.
If you mean the crime, that was Oakland, and I have recently left. But I still don't currently live near a grocery store. Maybe next move.
There's no reason why this should be down-voted it's actually probably 5% of the reason people are leaving - bad UX in the security area - they have some bad ML algo that is banning and doing this to people. Only facebook probably knows the true numbers around this problem, but it's significant - it happened to me too.
How a 5 percent mortgage rate would roil the housing market