skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The etiology is a bit backwards - high rents leads to higher density if allowed and it would be worse if not allowed.

Everything is relative to the impact on the rest of the economy of course. It is possible that prices could be kept down if the demand collapses because of not having enough to justify the expenses.
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Despite working with another protocol in the decentralized space, I have to say Andrew Staltz, who I assume is the person who made this comment based on the username, is doing such a great job with manyverse: https://www.manyver.se/ and I recommend downloading it to try it out. It is one of the first breakout apps (in my opinion) in the space that feels user friendly and really makes it seem like theres a viable decentralized alternative to facebook. The bluetooth/wifi option helps alot with making it user friendly when it comes to pub servers, etc.

I actually found out about manyverse last year when it was trending front page on hacker news and I'm glad I looked into it.

He is being humble by not bringing up is app here despite it being a beautiful one that feels seemless, and being extremely responsive to his users (you can even submit issues to gitlab via by clicking a button in app) but listening to his podcasts on solarpunk, and in general, he seems like a humble guy so I'm not surprised. I am very interested to see how the features manyverse plans to roll out help push the user friendly aspects needed is the SB protocol space.
So where should I send my resume to work for you? I used to work for a boutique staffing firm; I'd love to help.
New Zealand has operated a country-wide content filter for years. It is primarily used to filter out "content depicting the sexual abuse or exploitation of children and young persons" [1]. Filtering of objectionable content is entirely within the social norms of New Zealand.

For comparison, since the video and manifesto have been labelled "objectionable" [2] it would be illegal to burn either to a disk and then carry the disk across the border. The argument the government will make is that this is applying the same rules to content imported into the country via the Internet instead.

If the population expects the social networks to take this content down, they will expect ISPs to remove access to social networks which do _not_ take the content down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_New_Zea...
[2] https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/ch...
I have multiple SaaS apps I manage and others which I have assisted developing.

Starting off, I've always done the following:

1. Free option with a limited number of queries

2. Premium option with unlimited number of queries and a few "key" features unlocked.

This simplifies development significantly, as all you have to do is track the queries (per hour, day, month, total, etc.). You can also limit routes based on the features.

This has been extremely effective on my website Easy-A.net (https://easy-a.net/), essentially people can view the grade distribution for courses and we estimate the workload.

Pricing is always difficult, and by scaling it based on API hits it's much easier to price. It's essentially pay for use.

I think (as identified in the first line of the article):

> How do you deal with what a user can do on their account in a SaaS app? Can Jane on the "Starter" plan create another widget when she is near the limit of her plan? What if she's a trial user?

If as a SaaS you're typically targeting one customer archetype starting off -- then you should only have two plans. One to get their feet wet, the other to help them dive in.
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Boeing is in trouble, the world is no longer revolving around the US and outside of the United States it’s very clear that Boeing is to blame.
You would be wrong on all points.

I have used the product. I've used a fair number of Apple designed earbuds and frankly liked none of them.

Apple does not appear to understand how to design for acoustics anywhere near as well as they do other design elements. It's not a bad sound, I would say competent, but that's it.

Totally not worth the other negatives. For all the hassles, the things should sound golden. They don't.

Sorry.

What I find hilarious is just how bent people get when they encounter negative opinions related to Apple products. I like a few Apple products. My 2012 MBP is awesome. Love that computer. Hate most of the other ones for various reasons. It's hit or miss with Apple.

Ports matter. Headphone jack matters. SD, all of it. Getting rid of Magsafe was a bummer too.

People who really believe in their Airpods need to be secure in that. Trust me, those of us who don't believe are absolutely not gonna be swayed, except...

For when Apple does better. They can, should, need to.

Tell you what. Go get a set of the earbuds that ship with Samsung flagship phones.

These, in fact: https://www.overstock.com/Electronics/2-Pack-AKG-Samsung-Gal...

Fucking amazing. Good, flat response. Almost no internal resonance. Cheap ass, last a very long time, and they work well with most any audio device made in the last, what? 60 plus years?

Here's the thing: I like good sound. I like low hassles. I like great audio gear.

Wire? Pffft. Non issue.

These wireless devices do not yet have the priorities right. It's audio first and foremost.

Now, for people who don't care? Great! People who don't mind charging and managing a bunch of shit? Great!

But, that's just not me, and I know full well I am not alone in any of that, which makes the statement, "No one who’s tried the product in a significant capacity would say any of these things." weak sauce. Really weak, as in perhaps your sample of "no one" needs to be a bit larger.

You like the things? Great!

I don't. And am more than happy to tell anyone why.

Now, should Apple go and do the work that AKG did? Design for replacement batteries, 5 to 10 year life? Yeah, I'll think about another go; otherwise, I just bought 6 EXCELLENT earbuds, for the $60 mentioned as "replacement", and those are probably a 5 to 10 year supply. No joke.
I'm not defending AirBNB, nor castigating it. I haven't thought enough about the consequences of their behaviour to have a strong opinion.

You asked if there were other companies who operated substantially illegally,* not if there were other companies who operated substantially illegally and also weren't in the public interest. I offered examples.

Perhaps my musing at the end isn't widely applicable, the only one of the services listed I've substantially used is Uber, but nevertheless AirBNB certainly isn't alone in their behaviour.

* You said mostly illegally, but I don't know that that's even true of AirBNB.
It sounds like they quite wittingly made their swords stronger, they just didn’t understand the physical mechanism by which this worked.
If you're in range of a 4g LTE tower, an mvno data only plan is more than sufficient. The only wired internet available to my house is dsl, and the company could only guarantee 4mb speed because I'm at the tail end of their network. I found ubifi [1] which was perfect as att are the only strong signal around here. Streaming video is no problem, though large downloads such as VM images really suck.

1 https://www.ubifi.net
It isn't. They're still very much illegal in Hong Kong and other cities around the world and very much still don't care and still operate.
Excellent point, totally escaped me. Yes, I would love to see hyphenation take off more when reading articles on phones!
This is a great move Dell. Hope others will follow.
Do you think it is feasible to run the entire stack on closure script?

JVM just irks me the wrong way. Probably less than electron / nodejs does but if I'm stuck with one set of primitives and externs (npm) I'd rather use the same one both places even if the JS one is suboptimal in all cases (I've written enough JS that I'll be able to deal.)

Re The shared code thing between server and client for JS I never understood the proposition. You're solving different problems sharing code _never_ made sense.

I think what people were really talking about when they said they wanted it was sharing data. Sharing their object relations, or sharing their mapping code. Or better yet, not having to share mapping because with the same language in both places you no longer need to map data.

And nodejs/browser js does in fact get you all of that. Provided you have clean models and clear conventions / functions to manage that shared state.

Where the story breaks down is the lack of native immutability, and the problems that leads to elsewhere, namely, if you have some data in the client that maps perfectly to serverside data you likely still end up with that serverside version of it including g server side only infoyou don't want exposed. Likely this is the what you should do boundary wise but it is what often ends up happening anyway.

Closure forcing immutability also forces not only the data structures but also the library code that makes reasoning about, and slicing and dicing those structures far easier / natural or I guess you would say isocratic.
The point wasn't to say that the percentage of X posts to Y posts was Z%. The point was to say that these posts and sentiments exist and here is a way to find some almost guaranteed with one simple search; i.e. it's not hard to find this sentiment around the internet.

If you've lived at any point in a social circle that involved wholeness you will see this sentiment displayed and defended. The whole idea of racism in critical theory is a defense of racism against white people by saying that it's not actually racism, which is a dog whistle, as they put it, to those outside of academia, giving them the go ahead to express such racist sentiments in the colloquial sense.

I'm saying all of this as a liberal who is against hatred and bigotry of any form, and as someone who at one point used to echo such white woke SJW sentiments without realizing that I was trying to find acceptance among my woke friends. I know what these circles are like; you almost certainly are being dishonest if you travel in these circles and say you haven't heard these sentiments.
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They need to get a special totally not a passport document in order to apply for something which absolutely isn’t a visa, but it’s not much harder than travelling to Vietnam.
I dislike it, so it's hate speech, of course!

But I tend to believe that I should not have the power to determine what can or cannot be said, and that no one else should have that power either.
Nope. Porn industry was first. Online porn sales bypassed thousands of local rules re when and where it could be sold. That was long before paypal airbnb or even google.
I've been saying there's basically no difference now between many of the major left news outlets and straight up tabloids. Just more polishing. It's really sad. Rather than having rational discourse that could set up a strong 2020 dem pres bid, all anyone can talk about is how bad trump is. All exposure is good exposure.
I appreciate a lot of the ideas of accommodating bikes, and think it's a laudable goal. But it's not practical everywhere.

As an example, I have lived in Houston in the past for some time. It is huge - I commuted roughly 20 miles each way. That's not "bikeable". And not everyone goes to the same place. Some work downtown, but not nearly as many as you'd think. The energy corridor is in an entirely separate area. Many people work in the Woodlands. Some people have jobs out in Katy. Some work in the industrial areas or near the ship channel.

And don't even get me started on the heat. Nobody wants to bike when it's 95 degrees out, even if you can shower once you reach your destination.

Many of the proposed solutions are centered around cities like New York: small metropolitan areas to which everyone commutes with at least reasonable weather and with reasonable distances. It's also very difficult to design good public transportation for such a city as I described, especially since many of the places I listed are technically different cities.

With that said, I would be interested in hearing ideas for how to solve a problem like this. I and friends of mine have debated how to solve such an issue before, and come away without an answer. If someone has an idea, let me know.
Why involve the central bank for those loans? I think the federal budget could handle it well enough and there is even some justification for it being a loan as a slight anti-graft measure to give encouragement to make it something productive instead of squandering it.
Wow, this strikes me as unbelievable. How things have changed since the industry was up in arms over Alex St. John's "Recruiting Giants" PDF [1] where he explicitly called out the "holy grail" employee:

Be on the look out for the holy-grail... the undiscovered Asperger's engineer. (usually found on open source forums)

* They have no social skills
* They generally marry the first girl they date
* Can't make eye contact
* Resume and educational background is a mess... because they have no social skills
* They work like machines, don't engage in politics, don't develop attitudes and never change jobs

[1] https://www.geek.com/news/developer-bro-alex-st-john-want-a-...
> In both cases audiences are seeking to be exposed to these views

If people only hear what they want to hear then issues will never be resolved. It’s necessary to hear things sometimes, even if it’s personally revolting or bothersome. Everyone has to deal with annoying people in life and laws won’t fix it.
Blockstack is not based on scuttlebutt protocol, but when it comes to addressing id creation, user friendly onboarding probably needing a browser, etc

"someone will have to build a browser-equivalent"

we do have a browser that has a somewhat user friendly onboarding process: https://browser.blockstack.org/

If it is your first time, you will be asked to create an identity on Blockstack: https://docs.blockstack.org/core/naming/introduction.html

Each instance of the "browser" whether on desktop or phone, requires a unique password, associated with the id. The id is stored on the Blockchain, the data is stored in your own gaia hub which you can host wherever you like: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html

"That's a problem best solved by modeling this as an app - and there needs to be a reason for the average user to use this"

The next browser release will have a landing page that features apps dynamically populated from https://app.co/ and will have a more user friendly onboarding process, one that explains in more detail that each instance of the browser (we have a desktop version, each login in a new browser, etc) requires its' own password.

I think my favorite app using our protocol is https://debutapp.social/ because it is the "facebook" or twitter like equivalent people can associate with to see there is a relevant use to this, and in general user end interaction with the platform can be seemless with integration of decentralised protocols when done correctly.

The founder/creator of this app is a self taught software developer who does this in his spare time outside of a full time job so if you have feedback make it constructive and feed it back to him on the help page.

Same as other protocols, we are working to make our nodes easily hostable. If you know docker at this point or how to launch a vm in digital ocean you are probably good, but we are working to automated images and one click deploys. You will see more rollouts with much less instructions and much more "one click deploy" based in the near future.

We are actually prioritising our gaia hubs being easily hosted with one click deploys by the average user over the nodes, because in our model gaia is where the user's data is stored, and the decentralized aspects of the protocol are related to identity, and authing that identity with a users data, that apps can read/write to, but the user ultimately has the ability to store that data where they want, revoke access to apps, whitelist apps, migrate the data, etc.

You can read more about blockstack, gaia (our user storage) and the rest of the platform here: https://docs.blockstack.org/

Given your very developed opinion on what the decentralised internet needs, and how it seems very aligned with what we are developing, would love to hear your feedback/initial impressions of our platform and app ecosystem.
> At the same time, countries that don't bother with stuff like that, but instead regulate who can own firearms much more stringently than US does - e.g. Czech Republic - are doing fine.

I think you'd have said the same thing about New Zealand a week and a half ago, yet here we are.
What other multi-billion dollar co is remotely comparable?

Uber? Bird? Lime? Lyft?
The data underlying the article is NAEP scores, which are widely respected as an objective measure of student performance. And California does awful on NAEP, and has for a long time.

As to where I’d want my kids educated—I’m thinking from the perspective of having come to this country as an immigrant. We were solidly middle class and moved to a pretty nice neighborhood in Virginia with decent schools, but there is no way we could have afforded it today. If I were in my dad’s position, I’d definitely head to Houston or Dallas rather than San Francisco or LA. Heck, when I bought my house in the DC area, I was apalled at the school situation. I didn’t want my kids to grow up in a place where a million dollar house is the buy-in for a going to a good school district. We ended up moving to a different city and just putting up with a long commute.
And because of MPAA, there are still no DRM-free stores to buy video today.
Well if they are clustered together in the first place it would mean less distance to travel - having to go merely from say district to district instead of outlying suburbs.
Some of the things his manifesto says he wanted, like stricter gun control, are indeed happening. Others, like a cycle of revenge attacks, are not, at least not yet.

Of course it would be unwise to believe that he told the truth about his aims in his manifesto. Even if we could figure out what he really wanted, figuring that out and then doing the opposite would not be a rational way to respond to an incident like this.
This is a Linux terminal. I'd guess it see 99.99% ASCII. I think they have bigger fish to fry.
They benefit their customers (who have a much wider and often cheaper selection available than the old hotel industry) and their hosts (many of whom keep their finances afloat through AirBnB revenue, or have been able to enjoy life-changing increases in their standard of living - like sending the kids to college - because of it). It's detrimental to the neighbors, who have to put up with a stream of transients, parties, noise, etc; and of course to the existing hotel industry (though many of them are adopting AirBnB as a booking platform).

Similarly, zoning laws are beneficial to resident homeowners and detrimental to renters, potential startups, real estate speculators.

There is no uniform "public interest". Any significant policy will have some people it helps and some people it hurts.
Perhaps nitpicky, but I believe the potential ban and existing re-categorization of certain types of weapons would only ban 2/5 of the firearms he used.
Offsets are a marker that says everything before it (in that partition) is processed. This creates 2 issues:

1) Your application must coordinate and make sure that everything up to that offset is indeed processed successfully. 2) You application must stop if it encounters an error (because it can't commit an offset greater than that item) or handle it separately by logging to another topic, database, etc.

Other systems like Redis, Pulsar, Google PubSub provide per-message acknowledgement to allow items to be individually processed without blocking other forward progress.
Microsoft has a similar program. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/c...
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Isn't a priority queue implicitly sorted?
It’s hard to credit their anecdotal opinions over hard data. There is also quite a bit of tension between what students need, and what teachers want.

California is a particularly egregious example. It has some of the highest teacher pay in the country while having some of the lowest per-student spending in the country. That math balances on the backs of students. So teachers are happy with pay, and old homeowners are happy with their property taxes, and the students get the short end of the stick. It’s California in a microcosm.
It depends on the market, and in its most mature markets the company has worked with cities to make it legal and regulated. Uber has a tiny prescence in Asia at this point outside India having sold most of their biz to Grab.

The biggest turnaround I’ve seen is Las Vegas. Up until 2016 or so they were the most aggressive as far as arresting drivers and the company shut down operations for years. Then a year later the airport has a dedicated floor to pickups, official signage everywhere, all hotels have dedicated pickup/drop off.
(A) An alt-right terrorist shoots up and kills 50, in a country where such things were unheard of.

(B) The nation bans the terrorist's message.

Half of HN: "Oh wait, now that sets a worrying precedent."

Yes, HN, never change.
What happens on the margins is not the same as what happens. You do not need a tech job to live here. Instead you need to have established or inherited a claim on land, sometime in the past.

If this is to become the norm, it's a monumental shift in the fabric of American society. Meritocracy/justice/feudalism arguments notwithstanding, the implications are huge. Parenting strategy changes. Not even the very best wages are going to cover your child's cost of living near a decent job at market rate. Setting her up to be a valuable worker is a poor investment.

Instead of researching school districts, research cities and economic trends. Instead of saving for college, buy property in the cities you think will be employment centers in 18 years (and keep it empty to avoid a potential tenant-rights battle). Instead of living in the best school district, live in a rent-controlled apartment in another favored city, maybe the one where you can least afford ownership today. If your family can't afford this alone, go in with another family or two. Choose wisely. Your kids will be roommates for life.

If one of your bets is correct, then your kid gets a decent life. It doesn't matter that she's less educated; a worker's most important qualification is to be there. Whatever the growth industry is will be elated to find any young adult. And she'll have 100x better living arrangements, at 1% of the cost, compared to any sucker whose parents didn't set this up for them like you did.
It's because you're literally pulling a conclusion out of thin air to claim there's something of a trump related "Russia problem". It's not a bot conspiracy - that's lazy propaganda that's been spoon fed to people who dislike trump. There are just a lot of people on HN who see through it, and it's telling that rather than discuss the possibility that trump is clean, you just call them trolls and bots.
I'm not sure if this is the case; due to the immense body of work on JIT JavaScript, ClojureScript would usually perform better than Clojure for everything but math, hence would be good idea for server side usage as well. YMMV, of course.