skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a frequently repeated but completely unsubstantiated claim that rent control reduces inventory and I produced a counter example; the biggest city in America in fact.

>First, correlation is not causation. Second, NYC isn't necessarily a panacea.

I do not claim rent control _causes_ growth, I claim it has no distinct effect. And I do not claim that NYC is a good or bad place. I do not care. Growth continued in-spite of rent control therefore rent control does not reverse growth.

Indeed from 1920 to 1929 all units were susceptible to compete control over their pricing yet the 1920s were a decade of maximum growth. So again, rent control did not kill housing growth.

If for some reason NYC is dismissed as an example, Berkeley too has experienced continuous housing growth. As has Santa Monica. Repeated cases where rent control did not revers growth. And if those are dismissed, California before Costa-Hawkins had a higher rate of housing growth than after. So again, control did not reverse growth.

It is endlessly repeated that rent control reduces inventory, so there should be many examples and no counter examples. Instead we find the opposite. Indeed, where is there any case where rent control drove positive growth negative?

>border on willful deception

Is there any evidence, even theoretical, or any circumstance, however hypothetical, future or past, that could possibly dissuade you of the proposition that "rent control reduces inventory"?
And to add to that, it's next to impossible to buy a new dumb TV without knowing the keywords you need to be looking for.
Why would there be? The Bahamas is not inside the United States and thus is part of the NSA's mission of monitoring foreign communications.

Spy agencies spy. It's their job description.
Guys, don't do this. There are OS-specific APIs to do this stuff efficiently. No, that's not portable. No, those APIs aren't "nice to use". But it's the "right" way to do it.

When you do that kind of stuff, keep in mind that many programs modify files by writing to a temp file and then renaming that file.

On a secondary note, "modern C++" needs to be stopped. This is absurd:

std::chrono::duration<int, std::milli>

Just say no. Don't include stuff like <chrono> or <functional>. Ignore Bjarne's opinions. Don't read books by Scott Meyers. Being effective with C++ means understanding its "powers" and then not using them.
Can anyone compare this to Dynalist? I've been experimenting with Dynalist as more of an information / brain dump tracker. A notepad, for people who can't write -_-. Yet, I'm not super happy with Dynalist.

Thoughts?
stow + git-crypt works well, also. I just added git-crypt two days ago for my very few encrypted dotfiles (cachix key, gist token, etc). Though I understand the desire for it, in reality I've never needed templating for dotfiles, there's always been some other indirection mechanism that was better suited anyway.

`git clone .`, `git-crypt unlock`, `stow --no-folding`, done.
Someone should add (2012) to the submission title.
That's not the case.

Check https://www.chinalawblog.com/ for some examples if you want to.

Easy ones are:

You can be held criminally liable for mistakes your employer makes, since you have no control over and likely no knowledge of what "illegal" actions your employer might be taking, there is no way to comply with the law.

If you sell something to a Chinese company and they decide that they aren't satisfied with your product (maybe they just don't want to pay), you can be charged with a crime for selling "defective" products.
This links to the same code as my post. You might just have an older bookmark. See this PR[0].

[0]: https://github.com/agentcooper/typescript-play/pull/24
Irony aside, the Business Insider ad-blocker popup is easily removed from dev tools FYI, its just deletion of a single DOM node(modal) and removal of a few classes.
What do the failure cases look like with Pi Hole? E.g. broken websites, missing (legitimate) content, apps that crash when they can reach their ad server?

And what kind of workarounds/remediations are available to deal with this, ideally in a user-friendly way for non-technical users?
Ask HN: How did you incorporate your company?
How did you incorporate your company?

Was it stressful?

In which state did you incorporate?

I'm thinking about incorporating in 2019 (why I ask).
Why? Bankruptcy doesn't magically cancel your debts; you have to liquidate (almost) all of you assets.
I think you are probably approximately correct (although a relaxed outlook might lead to helping your grandchildren thrive, thus passing on your genes).

However, your comment could be actionable in a number of ways, for example:

1. "You should embrace the intensity to make sure you reproduce."

2. "You should understand the source of that intensity as something that might oppose your goal of happiness."

3. "You should accept the biological inevitability of that intensity."

I'm partial to number 2. Even if the calculus of reproduction is straight forward, how that should inform your life choices is not.
Node.js developer.

Location: Poznań, Poland (UTC+1)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Primary technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, Linux, Express, Restify, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
Secondary technologies: Python, Docker, Groovy, MySQL, Oracle
Email: michalwadas@gmail.com
Resume: upon request
Github: https://github.com/Ginden
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Other activities: TC39 proposal in Stage 2 https://github.com/Ginden/set-methods

I stopped writing CSS and HTML around 2013, so I'm not able to take job as fullstack developer. I'm currently looking for long-term fully remote employment.

I love solving problems and I would like to improve my knowledge of microservices.
I think it was the Facebook app, it listened to ambient background to determine music and TV shows. The user had to opt in or at least approve permissions.
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Just wanted to say thanks for your testing distributed systems talk! That has been a huge help to me as I develop distributed systems and consider the problems inherent to them.
Oldest person record stood for decades Then came a Russian conspiracy theory
This is what the push message API in iOS is for. It wakes up the app when messages come in.
Underground cables aren't without problems either. Old stuff breaks without capital investments.

It still ages, and the high cost of inspection and repair means you're going to have problems. NYC has manhole fires all of the time.
PG&E diverted funds for maintenance to their parent corp in the form of profits/bonuses/etc. This was going on for a very long time.

PG&E has been ramping up monitoring and maintenance (tree trimming/removal/etc) over the last couple of years.

In particular with the Camp Fire, a distribution line that size requires California PUC approval to shut it down -- due to the sizable grid impact. I can't find the reference, but my understanding is is that PG&E had asked for that approval earlier in the day/week to do the shutdown/maintenance but the request lingered (it takes time).
> What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when you hit something, you hate to work on but is necessary.

In addition to other recommendations,

Learn the basics of Product Design and UX Design. It is a useful skill and a nice addition for you if you are building something. It helps you in prioritization, problem mapping, writing proper user stories, and teaches you to think about user journey and define project goals.

And by having those, you will feel closer to the end user which gives you the motivation to work on the project.
They introduce both a traditional factorial function and a naive Fibonacci function - it seems likely most enterprising students will overflow the stack.

Odd that they don't (from a quick skim) seem to mention it at all? When they do hand wave a bit around stack frames (call trees)?
One of the more annoying things, while traveling is when I forget to turn off my (Linode) VPN and try going to Delta's website https://imgur.com/a/5lllN6J
It's hard to give a comprehensive answer to your first question since it would require so much background knowledge of valuation. But in short:

> Isn't the concern here mostly how the stock should be priced?

Yes, and this is extremely nontrivial :) There are many competing incentives and metrics to evaluate. Public investors want to buy at a discount relative to future growth. The company wants to get as much money as possible. Investment banks don't want to be associated with fraudulent or poor performing IPOs. They also want to ensure there is sufficient liquidity to make the market move on the new security when it's listed while making everyone happy. And aside from these logistical obstacles, you have the standard financial problem of price discovery and valuation for a security which is fundamentally new.

As for these questions:

> And why then are private funding rounds so much cheaper to get done? Diligence still has to be done for private funding. Why is more diligence required for an IPO?

Private funding involves proportionately greater amounts of money from fewer overall investors. It does not as a rule involve the general investing public. By law public investments must be secure against a number of risks that can be accepted in private investments. You're offering a novel security to a large population of amateur investors who cannot tolerate as much risk as professional investors who either represent institutions or are independently wealthy. Insulating IPOs from that kind of risk requires a lot of due diligence.
Great! :) My initial comment wasn't clear, sorry for that.
Ironically typescript doesn't have a supported language server from MS. TSServer (in the typescript npm package) is language server-esque and that's what VS Code plugs into. I believe the main language server for typescript is maintained by sourcegraph.

VS Code is written in typescript though and the projects have a pretty nice cadence of new features. Typescript is very much a first class citizen in VS Code
We work on a SaaS app (company has market leadership in our specific business which is payroll calculation of a western european country), which would strongly benefit from integrating a time-tracking app of some sort. Currently we are in a limited customer trial phase, doing market research and finishing our planned feature set for initial public release.

As a part of the MVP and customer research phase, and mostly because it is quite relevant to our intended customer base, we did some market research by talking to potential customers regarding the use of time tracking software.

We got feedback that most potential customers looked at using time-tracking software but almost all of them did not find suitable tools because of lacking integration to other software.

Time tracking itself appears to be quite worthless as long as it does not have export functionality (in a commonly used format) or integration.

Just my humble opinion based on our research, may or may not be of any interest for you :)
Yeah I installed pyenv first thing. Made things a lot easier.
Yikes, they don't have an official API? Hardly interested in making a closed system my "central source of truth"
Brings back memories of Frederick Pohl's Gateway [1] book...

(Spoiler)

In the end, we learn that the main character (accidentally) abandoned his friends to a black hole. However (plot twist), it is discovered that because of gravitational time dilation (?), decades later from Earth time's perspective means that his friends are still falling towards the black hole.

This always irked me, and this page explains why: the falling would have happened in a microsecond, it's just that the light from the falling ship will appear to slow down because of gravitational effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(novel)
That is like so not worth their time and energy
I did two recently with Stripe/Atlas. All the ones before that with a local lawyer. Stripe was awesome and highly recommend. We spent another chunk to get a really nice operating agreement to our needs on other, but the lawyers said their default one wasn't bad.

No stress at all. Why would it be stressful?

Deleware for the recent two. Colorado and Arkansas for others.
Right. That's why there's an API for it. Each app doesn't have to stay awake listening. The OS will wake the app up.
Not surprising they're watching this thread, it would be a pretty massive deal inside a small company.
That's awesome! Did you convert from Flow or just plain JS? I think the experience is much different when converting from Flow vs converting from JS. When coming from pure JavaScript, you do indeed become much more confident and flexible around the code. When you come from Flow, the differences are much more subtle as I described in the article.
Great feedback. Thanks
And metered data. I would be very aware if my phone was eating my data plan via constantly recording audio. Even a measly 12kbps audio stream adds up to nearly 4GB/mo if recording 24hrs/day.

Non-techie users would absolutely notice that their data and battery is being used up in the background pretty quickly. Further, the cell networks simply could not support that kind of usage from every single subscriber at the same time.
Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'
Because the ISP is upstream, it could potentially reject all DNS queries from your router or supplant the IP within the DNS query with its own IP.
This article is from 2005.

In 2007, the US launched the KEPLER planet finding satellite with massively more capability than MOST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exoplanets_discovered_...
Because open-source is free, that's the big difference. Why would they pay for something they don't have to? There's barely anything in the enterprise edition that's worth paying for, especially when most of it is operations tools that AWS doesn't need.
Yeah, in some industries, that's the cost. Anywhere where lead generation is a thing, you will see high CPC. Insurance is the #1 highest CPC.
It's probably multi-faceted. Part of me thinks it's just something they use internally extensively and that branching out to the public means they can easily hire talent to work on their own projects. It's also probably an effort to stay relevant and make amends with web developers, who have long held them in low regard.

And yeah, Azure is a booming business for them. VSCode has a bunch of first-party extensions that reduce friction for working on their platform.
> and even then you still have to depend on a crime lab (run by the people doing the prosecuting) to not be sloppy.

Which CSI has done a wonderful job of turning into super-cops in the eyes of jurys.
Mostly FUD of a supposed opensource monetization debacle on the aftermath of Amazon DocumentDB.

Not every opensource monetization scheme is the same. Mongo and Gitlab are not the same. One is mission-critical production software, the other is a productivity tool (which can become critical, but in a different manner), thus different ways to monetize. Hashicorp, Canonical, Mesosphere and NodeBB are not nearly the same. Why put everyone on the same pot?

Opensource is not an industry. Opensource is a guarantee, a certificate of transparency. Opensource is global-scale collaboration. And much more.

Neither is everyone moving everything to fully-managed PaaS, at least not in the way described by the OP, who assumes a lot of givens there. Many use cloud infrastructure, but not all the services, some have private clouds or other hybrid setups.

Application platforms are constantly changing, why now assume Mongo or any other opensource models are doomed? MongoDB Inc. is a public company and is perfectly capable of defending their bottom line against a magnificently sized but over-committed competitor like AWS. Mongo has NOT done a good job with their PaaS or enterprise tooling so far, competitors have popped up, so now they have to up their game, that's all.

To underestimate OSS monetization is very presumptuous. To compare musical recordings, an end to itself, to infrastructure mission-critical software is downright stupid.
What about the other very real problems, though? I don't understand how you read this and only come away with resentment for the writer.
Food, clothing, software as part of an integrated system, and housing, no.
Temporal Logic
The problem with the DNA tests we use today, assuming even perfect cases with zero contamination or mistakes (whole other argument there), is that (in my non-expert understanding):

* Taking the samples and using several solutions to snip them at given patterns.
* Taking another solution and promoting replication of the fragments.
* Using some dye and a weight sorting channel to bin the fragments by weight.

This results in a kind of 'bar code' that graphs the distribution of weights as a VERY crude hash of samples of DNA.

It's pretty useful for determining things like IF it is LIKELY that individuals are related.

It's also pretty good at confirming negatives (We're sure someone is NOT related to X).

It's not that great at confirming positives. That is, the results are both subjective and ambiguous given the hashing. A "positive" result here is really more of an "OK, it's likely we should run the real and expensive check, evaluate if someone might be a suspect by other merits, etc."

I would, offhand, consider a "positive" above to be enough evidence to produce /suspicion/ and /warrants/ to locate other specific evidence to ascertain an actual guilt or innocence based on harder evidence. If an actual "sequence the whole set of samples" option enters the realm of feasible tests then it would also warrant actually doing that.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure how the Ancestry/etc novelty DNA tests work. I'd assume they've isolated a few specific markers they're looking for and the processes are optimized towards identifying those and comparing combinations for those specific traits.
Personally, I think since he cheated she deserves about two thirds. Infidelity is a big deal.
It's not a type error. I think the error is in your definition of a function and types like that. I would've defined your types like in this example[0]. However, I don't know enough about your codebase or why you're doing this.

[0]: http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=type%20NodeType%20%3...
Official API is on their roadmap: https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba...
Yeah dude someone might go through the trouble of hacking your email just so they can find your todo page with an unchecked checkbox for feeding your goldfish.
We are about negative $300 a month
OTOH, I was quite surprised that E minor is used more (17%) than E major (10%) in popular music. In classical music the latter is quite common and the former is very rare.
It really comes down to how many sites you block. It comes with some default blocklists, but wally3k hosts a site tells you the status of different blocklists: https://firebog.net/

As for what is seen when a site fails - well, it could vary. If a JS file fails to load, the site will either look bad or not at all. ANd yeah, some apps may have issues, but pihole comes wiht a built in query log so you can see which devices just made which DNS queries, along with an easy-to-click whitelist button.

There are different blocking modes you can choose from that return different response codes, so you can choose what works best for your environment: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/blockingmode/

I would recommend checking out the pihole discourse(https://discourse.pi-hole.net/) or subreddit. The community is very active
Long Augur
Related: visualizing travelling through a Schwarzschild black hole:

http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html

As OP page indicates, the Schwarzschild description is simpler as it doesn't take into effect the rotation, but their visualization, especially with the distorted space background, are impressive nevertheless.
High quality video can be quite useful for getting closer to the truth in many cases. Fits under your tech not developed for forensic science category though.
>it's not uncommon for people to unknowingly support policies that don't actually benefit them.

The presumption of democracy is that this is a minority of cases. To suppose it is the case here is to assume that the less likely is happening here. And assume so on an apparently evidence free theory about the effects of a single pricing policy.

>it seems plausible at least that people in the business of renting buildings (ie landlords) are the group with the most information about the market, and are therefore in the best position to see the distortion.

And so are not voting against their interest when they oppose rent control. Being as rent is rentier income, it is zero-sum, and so is to the disadvantage of tenants.
How is it less safe than any service with an email based password reset option?
Thank you, Antonin "Emails aren't Papers" Scalia.
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That is a nice stack. I should test Phosphatidylserine.
Wow, we've had very different experiences. I'm 43 and am now in management, but remained hands-on for 15 years before making the change. I never felt like a "close the tickets" guy, but perhaps that's due to a focus more on smaller startups early in my career.

I don't have to worry about whether my 11 year old about going into CS, though. His plan is to be a Youtube streamer.
I don't mind. It is an ed-tech product. Happy to explain more over email. Just don't like to self promote on HN :)
Sure. I wouldn't claim otherwise. However,there are some key things missing here:

1. Lot of states have strict liability of this form for utilities.

2. California is not entirely unique in the land mass of the united states (or the world) in the issues it faces here.

It is only unique in that it has not done a good job overcoming them.

All of these viewpoints seem to start from from a position that it's impossible for PG&E to succeed (due to global warming, legal climate, etc), and then ask "what do we do in that situation".

But as mentioned, it's simply not impossible for PG&E to succeed, and also no evidence that it is particularly harder than it is in similarly situated areas.
I don't see how parallel construction applies here.
Really satisfied (free) user that will likely pay the monthly fee at some point.

It's friction-less, but with some rules/ideas in place to help you.

Well done Notion team, 100% satisfied
It'd be interesting if development on sonar autofocus systems continued - they could work in the dark where phase detection and contrast detection have difficulty.

A compound eye of phase detection points, laser, sonar as well as regular contrast detection would be interesting. Each has their own strengths and limitations.

(For context the camera listed above uses sonar autofocus - basically echolocation)
I found it a bit weird to "normalize" everything back to C. Couldn't just use numbers instead? (To make it friendlier for those less comfortable with that, put a hover over to show what that means in each key at each point in your analysis.)

Good call on the guitar tab sites being wrong almost all the time!
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There are always going to be unavoidable fires. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent the ones that are preventable.
In a personal use case you more than likely stay below 10 users forever. If you are a company paying multiple employees 2500 should be easy to justify: that's 25 users at 10$/month for Jira Cloud would cost you 2500 in 10 months, with hosted Jira it's just a one time payment