skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Trulia's market trend reports, both LA and Sacramento's median housing prices have increased faster in the last five years than San Jose's: LA went from $400K to $779K, a 94% increase, while Sacramento went from $143K to $305K, a 113% increase. San Jose went from $490K to $865K, a "mere" 77% increase. Stockton also more than doubled in the same period.

Obviously one could argue San Jose was already overpriced, but in terms of trends, California's housing prices are kind of on fire -- you don't have to be in the SF Bay area for costs to be rising much faster than the national trend. (Which is still higher than I would have guessed: the median price over that five-year period across the entire country rose from $154K to $205K.)
Maybe that just means you're not the target market.
IMHO it simply requires companies to make a clear choice.

Either they have the organizational capacity to handle private information properly, or they should not do it at all.

There's no reason for every company to get a data processing agreement with every SaaS they use as long as they're not putting private data of other people inside; and in most cases (except CRM and payment systems) they should not do so. There's no reason for every random company to get a data processing agreement with the contractor maintaining their WordPress site if that site doesn't contain any private information, and it probably should not. On the other hand, if it does, then giving full access to that data should be more difficult than simply giving the keys to a random contractor; the company is fully responsible for whatever you do ("Where processing is to be carried out on behalf of a controller, the controller shall use only processors providing sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the requirements of this Regulation and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject."), so that includes vetting you, being able to supervise what you've done, and probably some liability requirement. On the other hand, if that's a standard service you're providing, it all means that your standard agreement form just needs a few extra paragraphs to cover that data processing part.

The log/IP address issue has technical solutions - you can use logrotate in combination with gnupg to ensure that logs are available if you need to analyze them, but are encrypted and not available to everyone logging on that server.
> isNan() is a method on num, which is the supertype of int and double, where it makes sense. (I don't know why they didn't define it just on double.)

Because it allows more general code to apply isNaN to nums generally, and always be false for ints (or potential future subtypes that likewise can't be NaN), even leaving aside JavaScript environment questions.
In turn, I was born in a hospital next to a Seoul apartment complex that was part of a 3-apartment complex thing that had more people than your hometown. That's density.
Better to use the method demonstrated in functools' lru_cache: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.6/Lib/functools.py#...
My house is worth almost double what I paid for it and yet I would vote against prop 13 in a heartbeat. Even if it were repealed today, it will take at least a decade to recover from the harm it has done to the municipalities.
i believe that's because the bay area's housing costs are set by bay area labor costs, which are extremely high due to high housing costs, so even if San Jose is building (which, per capita, it's doing just as badly as other california cities, fyi), it will still be screwed by the regional issue
"has terrible or no IT governance"

So planet earth then. Consequences must be understood in terms of how things actually are even if the rules are ultimately for the best.
It would be interesting to see those 2012 calculations updated, especially with regards to the results of the 2016 Presidential election; judging by the resulting red-or-blue-by-county political map, things have changed since then.
If someone in the ad delivery chain doesn’t take responsibility, they won’t be selling ads for long. When it’s not malware it’s bitcoin miners.

Actually … hang it, just thinking about where the threshold is has taken up too much of my time. I will just block all ads.
Interested how this plays into the best in class vision that Amazon pursues.

Does this acquisition allows them to take their Amazon Key service (Cloud Cam + service + tech) to the next level?
Right. They can pay and maybe get something in return but they don't have their employees running the treasury like Goldman Sachs or picking the president's cabinet like Citigroup. Whole different level.

The scary thing is that the most valuable political asset SV has to trade is its ability to spy on, censor, and manipulate the informational flow of its customers.
I think there is, or was, a sense that focusing too much on contemporaneous genocides when considering the period around the Nazi Holocaust, might dilute the horror of it all? I don’t know, maybe it’s just that for a significant portion of history until recently, studying the Holodomor and Stalin (or Mao) in general would mean empathizing with people we still considered rivals or deadly enemies? Whatever the reason, the Nazi holocauust, the Holodomor, and the Great Leap Forward represent a spasm of evil that claimed far more lives than all previous armed conflicts combined.

All of the above is very much my idle speculation.
I have a lifetime subscription and somewhat reluctantly got a Weaknees replacement drive after a failure near the end of last year. It was mostly to avoid making various decisions/changes related to cable service. I don't get OTA where I live so decisions weren't all that straightforward even though I watch very little live TV. However, I can't imagine ever buying a new TiVo and subscribing to the service.
note to self: python ppl discovered unwind-protect in 2018.
Coming from south-eastern US and visiting Mountain View / Palo Alto on business several times, the property valuations are amazing to me. Poorly maintained looking ranch homes with bad landscaping and giant Land Rovers, Porsches, Jags in the driveway or on the street. Downtown looks almost like my semi-rural hometown except there are full parking garages and you have to park under an over-pass. It's a weird place.
http://www.lattepanda.com/alpha-edition
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/139108638/lattepanda-al...

Maybe this would fit your usecase? It has an Intel m3-7Y30 onboard.
Same with the scary devil monastery. You could post, but you needed to know the "chicken."
Jamie Foxx has done plenty of stand-up: https://www.google.com/search?q=jamie+foxx+stand+up
That sounds annoying when you kids sleeping in the back seat.
Except that fails if the browser is installed while something else CPU intensive is running, an update is installing, an antimalware process is doing its initial analysis, or the device is in battery saver mode.

As an alternative, you could do a survey at install time - check if a battery is present, get power profiles, run your benchmark js stuff, check CPU, RAM, disk type (HDD/SSD) - then download profiles for that/those configuration(s). Then put a 'sensitivity' slider in the advanced options to allow power users to tweak/turn off the limit.

No need to send me code. Cash will do fine.
And then you start hating everything about everything else when you are a teen debugging code written by kids in a consenting adults environment.
Oh most definitely, a friend from my hometown spent a couple of years in Seoul and related just how different it was from our hometown but also any other US city he'd lived in, including the greater Seattle area. But I would never mean to imply that my red/blue density supposition would apply to a place as culturally and politically distinct from the US.
Windows 10 is not exactly a paragon of virtue when it comes to privacy concerns - https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/22/12582622/eff-microsoft-wi...
And on a similar note, there are surely many people who will now buy Ring because it's owned by Amazon. A small startup can go away and leave me with an insecure piece of junk, but I have some faith that Amazon will keep things up to date.
Hey, this might be good to replace the silly SATA DOM [1] that SuperMicro uses.

1: https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SATADOM.cfm
Economic growth in California happens in places with a lot of new construction and a robust real estate market, where each real estate transaction resets the assessment price. In some areas of California the prices still haven't recovered to the pre-housing crash levels.

You'd only get significant advantage from Prop 13 if you bought during the 80s and held. While there are some places like that (Berkeley?) the state is hardly over-populated by elderly people clinging to their 40+ year old housing.
The fact that "Navi" and "Nazi" have a Levenshtein distance of 1 is a good enough reason for AMD to steer clear of Nazi numerology.
If you don't do any business in the EU I'm not sure how the new law would apply.
So there's some weird Sword method that changes the sword to a Mace? Seems bug-prone. What if there's a special quest that triggers only if you're carrying a Mace? The message boards will be full of clever people saying, "Guess what, if you switch sword grips, you can actually get the Mace quest!"
This isn't abuse.

This is abuse: https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy
Ask HN: When did you realize you needed glasses?
I'm pretty nearsighted, but a first I didn't realize it.

The day I realized I needed glasses, it was the last day of sixth grade.

Most of the kids had left the classroom and I was alone with the teacher and a girl named Francine.

The teacher was asking us how we found the class, and I said: "It was great, but I found it hard to read the board from the back row," and Francine says, "What do you mean, I can read the board fine from here. You need glasses!"

Stupidly I hadn't considered that they wouldn't put pupils that far from the blackboard if it were impossible for them to read from that distance.

I just figured they put the smart kids in the back rows because they could get by without reading the board and I spent the whole year transcribing as the teacher spoke, and passed my sixth grade without ever being able to read the blackboard.
The effort required to unwind these technical debts is actively inhibiting our ability to deliver real value. That's the reality we've got.

Sloppy Python is particularly bad, because Python gives you a massive footgun to play with. Like you could write functions that radically alter its behaviour depending on where it's getting called - that's similar to the hack that the parent post was talking about.

It's easy to build systems that are coupled in really weird and unexpected ways, and that makes reasoning about code much harder than it needs to be.
Since that's a marketing page for SB827, can someone explain to me how it doesn't ultimately create an incentive against public transit? All it would take to get around the zoning override would be to remove transit... I assume removing a bus stop (or even an entire route) is trivial. I could definitely foresee more homeowners blocking development of new routes/stations. With those considerations, it's possible we could end up with less transit, and the same amount of housing. I actually got banned in /r/california for asking about this

I'm afraid it may be one of those 'short term gain, long term consequence' type bills that CA has a history of cough prop 13. However, at least it's looking in the right direction, since the housing situation couldn't be much worse
have it drive you to a skiing resort while you sleep

Everyone within ten hours of a ski resort has already thought of that. Prepare for ski traffic to get several times worse, and lift lines to stretch up the mountain.

Food, lift tickets, etc will also probably get more expensive if it becomes easier to avoid lodging, which is a critical revenue component of functioning ski towns.
Amazon Agrees to Buy Smart-Doorbell Startup Ring
> LED lightbulbs, LCD TVs instead of monitors, vastly improved efficiency standards/technologies for various appliances, fact you can do loads of stuff with a smartphone instead of watching a giant TV, etc etc

It's not this. We are getting bigger tvs. Bigger monitors. Residential sector energy use is increasing.

Commercial/Industrial sector uses most of the electricity.

The decline is a reflection of the stagnation of commercial businesses/industry in the TVA area.
> the people from California that move here never fully adapt

I wonder if you can share what that looks like?

I've lived in California most of my life, but I lived in Georgia, Arkansas, Mississppi and Missouri for 16 years.
Yes, I think GE's "time machine" employs four cesium clocks in a compact configuration. With six, you can reduce the worldline divergence considerably.
I would pay $10k for a share in an honest, low fee property investment.
I can't afford losing liquidity to buy another whole property, but I'd like to invest a proportion of my savings against rental/commercial properties, as directly as possible, with as few intermediares and with many safeguards for bad times.
Only if the product is competitively differentiated. If your product is a commodity you to find a value-add or niche. Then you can charge a premium.
Vulkan, as a Khronos open standard, likely wouldn't exist if Apple didn't make Metal. Khronos was content for OpenGL{ES} to sputter ad infinitum until it realized that its largest platform (iOS/macOS) was moving on. It helped that the rest of the industry (MS, AMD) was also moving in the same direction, but it was the release of Metal that broke the camel's back.

There were several efforts in the past to revamp OpenGL (e.g. long's peak), but they all failed. OpenGL was stuck and there was little reason to think the situation would improve. Writing OpenGL code that worked across multiple platforms was worse than it is today to write multiple per-graphics-API render backends.
U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election
You clearly don't know what you are talking about.

Article 3 clearly states that it applies to

> the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

> the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

It does not apply EU citizens while traveling outside of the EU. It applies when you are monitoring or offering goods or services to someone in the EU.
Why blockchain technology may take off:

1) Centralized solutions are costly to freedom of choice and privacy. Consider a solution where Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook photos, S3, and YouTube is run through Filecoin. No more "You haven't used DropBox in a year, so we are closing your account". No more "This video has been demonetized for all advertisers in our network.". No more "we ran these nets over all your photos and use the information gathered to make a better advertisement profile for you". This is what happens when users make and own software: Limewire, Bittorent, Popcorn Time, DC++, Napster, Kazaa. Though most of these are now depricated/forced shut down, it was not for having a better alternative available.

2) Centralized solutions are currently much faster, but they may not be in the future. Also, other coins (that offer spare computing power) or commercial enterprises could act as a power nodes (sub-centralized solutions) in a decentralized network, to speed it up for a fee when needed. Decentralized peer2peer content delivery is currently owned by centralized players, like Akamai. I see no reason why it could not work when it is owned by its users.

3) Because the software has to operate in a trustless environment, a lot of attention has to be spend in making these systems more secure. Security through obfuscation is not a fall-back anymore. If we had known that LastFM stored password hashes as unsalted MD5, would we have trusted it with our accounts? We will have fuzzing tools and static program analysis to help automate checking the security of a contract.

4) Forks can be dealt with in a decentralized manner: voting power being assigned by a provable amount of tokens you own. You can run an entire election in this manner, cryptographically voiding any "vote rigging" argument.

5) You may have so much freedom as to shoot yourself in the foot. Therefore, Cryptocurrency banks may provide support for payment solutions, insurance, lending, for people who don't want to store all their money under their flammable mattress.

6) Smart contracts will fully replace the paper notarial system. Criminals will be booked into networked systems where their identity is biometrically verifiable for the duration of their "stay". Trading and lending circle contracts will be heavily vetted and proven standard smart contracts one can select from a library.
It's an interesting read but really does not answer at all. Don't see how having all extended family nearby is a factor. Rentals? Getting picked up by the family too remote from a public transport hub? You don't need a car as much as you think you do.
The Exeter Book was used as a cutting board
Are dry wounds are less likely to be infected than wet wounds? A wet wound that gets infected can take more time to heal than dry wounds that doesn't?
Not even bothering given the length of the list of things uMatrix shows it's blocking
Other countries require proof of parking for a car to be legally registered. No overnight parking space, no car.
This is why people should forget about attempting to block ads and start attempting to actively ruin the analytics.

I've started to click random links and garbage ads just to mess with the bulk collection of data. It probably won't make a dent, but hopefully it scews a few of those data points
well said thanks! probably what i might have said if i had more eloquent wording :D
A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology
Thanks ;) We're especially inspired by airtable & their "Universe" page
While I do think I understand why Amazon would want to purchase Ring (the company), I don't fully understand why consumers would want to buy Ring (the product).

The number one use I seem to see from it is people taking video and posting it on nextdoor (package thief alert, car prowler alert, etc.) followed by other people talking about how the neighborhood is going downhill and lamenting about how the police don't do anything with their Ring video.

I guess this is my attitude on most of the home security field. It always seems like the devices have a ton of false positives that just give the owners something else to worry about, and the companies that sell these things continue to do so because it gives owners the illusion that buying these devices give them some sort of control.
So if intelligence has a negative correlation with creativity than how do we have people like Conan O'Brien or Quentin Tarantino? This just feels like way too much of a blanket statement backed by faulty logic. Harvard, for example, has some really famous creative alumni, so did they admit average intelligence students? Or are they really not that creative?
I wonder if part of the agreement with Intel, AMD agreed to not bring out Ryzen 7 APU with better graphics to keep that segment competition-free? Currently there are no plans for anything higher than Ryzen 5 in the APU space.

Would that be anti-competitive behavior or just part of business?
Extreme UV chip defects may force a new approach to processor design
Well, sometimes it is harder. Think, any problem related to traversing a tree, or similar problems related to trees and/or graphs.
It's not a marketing page, really. I made it. Did you see my vlog? It's too bad it looks so pro... it looks like a real estate developer built it :)

But Senator's Wiener's FAQ answers the question you ask: https://extranewsfeed.com/my-transit-density-bill-sb-827-ans...

he says "First, most cities and towns don’t operate their own transit systems, given that transit agencies are typically separate from cities or regional in nature. Thus, very few cities even have the power to reduce transit service, even if they wanted to do so in order to avoid SB 827.

Second, while communities could organize to fight new transit stations or to reduce bus service, let’s also be real: people already fight transit expansions in their neighborhoods."
People just tend to notice the cases where the association is justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_Fifth_Avenue
How is that different from say Dimitry Sklyarov, a Russian who broke a US law while living in Russia, who later goes to the US for a convention and gets arrested and thrown in jail?
Dell PowerEdge T30 – My 2017 File Server
But even if they're right on the giant screen, you still have to look. A dashboard knob can be used without ever taking the eyes from the road.
We have not pushed that on the homepage yet, but there will be a strong discount for NGOs and academic institutions actually!
> In the use cases Dart targets yes, yes they are. They are extremely unheard of.

Dart is a general purpose language it wasn't intended to be web front-end only.

> File offsets actually highlights the perfect problem with dart's approach. 2^53 isn't enough to interop with file systems using uint64

Dart ints aren't limited to 2^53 except when using dart2js. It's an arbitrary size type, otherwise. Anyplace it would need to deal with inodes, the dart2js limit wouldn't be a problem.
I don't have enough context to know if this will work in your situation, but I believe he meant something like the following:

def create_callback(request):
def invite_accepted(sender, email, **kwargs):
request.session['invite_accepted'] = True

return invite_accepted

You would then pass create_callback(request_object) as the callback, and would have access to 'request'.
I believe he used one of those marketing phrase generators when he came up with this response.
>lots of terrible things have been done "with the best of intentions". It's hardly a reason not to be scared.

Are you referring to gun control or the 2nd Amendment, here?

It's a reason to be scared, if you're paranoid and believe the only thing keeping your government from killing you is the fear of your gun barrel against its heads. But I don't believe such a fear is reasonable, or worthy of the weight it seems to be given in American political discourse.
To force the other replies to explain themselves:

What is the target market for Tarsnap vs G/A;

what do they offer at that higher cost that their target market wants? or is their target market simply the ignorant-to-storage-costs-CIOs/IT-departments?
I know Singapore quite well. And yes it is a nice city but also very boring. Nothing to do but shopping.
That can also be accomplished by using more productive frameworks and infrastructure services that allow a company to hire fewer people to begin with.

But I think what you’re describing happens with larger companies - setups where engineers are in the Bay Area and support is some place else like Nashville or Austin are becoming more commonplace.
I disagree. The hardware is extremely underpowered for the price and the interface is clunky.
Vault by Hashicorp
Any hope had of Microsoft being a serious option for people who care about privacy went away when Windows 10 turned itself into glorified spyware.
You know... you can call almost any language from any other as long as both have some kind of FFI?

It is high time we get over this ridiculous need that everything works with everything else without any added work. Writing software (for most) is a profession. You should expect to have to do actual work.
Which would be Apple having moltengl replace their implementation