skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm glad the world's scientists are working on the most pressing troubles of our times.
The basic problem is simple: lots of demand chasing little supply, as discussed extensively here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... (HN discussion: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... ). See also this: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o... .

This is one of these problems that has a simple, obvious solution—raise or remove height limits, mandatory building setbacks, and parking space requirements—that will probably be ignored in favor of grandstanding and lots of small, fiddly solutions that don't deal with the overall problem.
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That's the stated justification. The real reason is that politicians of certain stripes enjoy redistributing wealth from the landlord class to the tenant class and getting rewarded with votes for it, so the stated reason is disingenuous anyway, but let's examine the stated reason carefully.

Has this ever actually happened? Has any city ever run out of garbagemen and janitors due to a lack of rent control? I have never heard of anything like this happening, even in extremely expensive cities with free rental markets.
I can't imagine that WebSockets would be used outside of communicating with the browser -- in fact, a quick glance at the Python client library seems to indicate the use of raw TCP sockets.
Come on Apple. Release a decent Audiobook app for iPad and I swear I won't speak ill about you again (I've submitted quite a few foul-mouthed bug reports and feature requests about iPad's Music.app in iOS 5, 6 and continue to do so every month).

That lousy, disgusting 'new' Music.app on iOS 5.0 (on iPad) was the reason I bought an iPhone. I just couldn't stand that app (I listen to audiobooks quite often).
It would be handy if you wanted to download on a mobile device. Or if torrent traffic is penalized/banned.
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eBackers.com is an old startup I own that I haven't touched in a long time.

Was on TechCrunch. Got a good amount of traffic and users / companies.

I am looking for a creative partner who wants to bring the site back to life (whether it be the same idea or a new one).

Interested? Email me (check profile) or post here and Ill reach out
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Since when was enlightenment equal to having perfect phenomenal knowledge?

You seem to be equating enlightenment with omniscience. Are you not?

Please tell us what questions you are asking as a qualifier on whether or not someone is enlightened.
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10X Management is trying to do this: http://www.10xmanagement.com/
Elaine is one of the founders of Meebo, so yes, JavaScript engineer.
The article misses out that Skype also provided Opus codec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-opus. But apart from that WebRTC is supposed to be an open standard and Mozilla and Google are already implementing it. So Microsoft not doing it would be quite risky for them. It is perhaps the reason why they bought Skype in the first place. Also since being acquired (as stated in the article) Skype has been providing the backend for Facebook video.

Moreover, Matthew Kaufman (http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/10mar/slides/tsvarea-1.pdf) works with Skype, as does Jonathan Rosenberg (of SIP fame: http://www.jdrosen.net/). So apart from the original inventors of Skype they have people who have built other Video and Voice products.
This only emphazises how different the world for programmers is in the USA (especially in the SF area) compared to the rest of the world. I only get three or four emails a year on linkedin, of them one's from Facebook, the other from Google, and the others are from local companies.

This kind of make me envious and wanting to be there for a while., to experience how's it like to be valued and sought after.
Studio in the in non-sketchy, easy transit, city proper is going to be 1900, 1bd 2000-3000 range easy, 2 bedrooms can quickly get near 4000.
For the last three or four years, I've been working on a technique (or, really, class of techniques) for solving ordinary differential equations. On average, I squeeze in maybe 10-15 hours a month on it, mainly just working over lunch and some spare time on weekends. I'd love to have a month or two, to make the final push I think it'll take to finish working out the original idea.
Brilliance:

"Activities and Societies: NKVD"
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I was about to prepare the query without ties and yes it is a lot harder than necessary and, more important IMO, much less readable/intuitive for people than have to maintain the code and that is exactly why different SQL dialects introduced ORDER BY/LIMIT/OFFSET/TOP/RANK etc.

Very good point.

In the book pointed out by Matt, Date explicitly states he's not saying ORDER BY is not useful, just that it doesn't return a relation and thus it's not included in the algebra.

My biggest gripe about ORDER BY, LIMIT and relational model is the fact that while Date and others made some attempts to express these operations in terms of relational algebra, they never (AFAIK) tried to do the opposite: alter the relational query model to naturally support them. It's not hard: just replace sets with sequences or arrays. It will gives you natural ORDER and SLICE operators as well as new aggregates FIRST, LAST, NTH. It solves duplicates without having to introduce bags, gives windowing functions for free and probably better represents how modern RDBMS interpret a query. Another hint why sequences may work better than sets is the fact that regular set operations such as INTERSECT and UNION (as opposed to UNION ALL, which becomes concatenation) are so rarely used in real-world queries.

I'm not even arguing that this is a good approach, but I think it deserves some discussion and it appears they never even thought of a possibility of changing the model treating it not as an instrument, but as a sacred scripture.
The nightly tab interface is a lot better, with the tab close buttons on the right. Previously with the tab expander button in the top right and the close buttons on the left edge, closing tabs meant reaching all the way from one corner to the other side of the screen, which is not always easy or possible with a single finger.

I think you should definitely pursue tweaks that reduce the amount of finger movement required to do common tasks. Just to steal one example from Opera, when you long-press a link, the context menu appears directly under your fingers, so you don't have to go anywhere to get to it (similar to the right-click menu on the desktop). This is incredibly convenient, because navigating the context menu doesn't cause you to lose your place on the page.
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Good estimates for SOMA pricing:

Studio: $2000-$2700
1BR: $2500-$3200
2BR: $3100-4000
Part of the problem is that when rents are raised in a predatory fashion, the purchasing power of the renter is diminished.

Homeownership rate, 2006-2010 in SF County = 37.5%
Homeownership rate, 2006-2010 in California = 57.4%

Median value of owner-occupied units, SF 2010 = $785,200 (2000 = $396,400)
Median value of owner-occupied units, California 2010 = $458,500 (2000 = $211,500)

Sources: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html / http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/california/san-fran...

Rent control and rent stabilization aren't about low rent; they are about preventing landlords from enacting unreasonable increases in rent that are related to housing booms and bubbles. Renters really should be immune from the mortgage / interest rate speculation that drives housing booms and bubbles. Instead, the supply of renters is essentially leeched of its ability to invest its capital in housing for the long-term.

The topic comes up here so frequently; it's really astonishing how few people understand it.
That was fixed with firmware updates soon after release of the first Intel Macs.
Interesting. Doesn't look like they're up and running yet, but I'll keep my eye on them. Thanks for the link!
Why couldn't anyone be enlightened?

The Buddha said the true nature of all beings is that of enlightenment.
I really think both the Geary and Van Ness corridors need at least a monorail to handle the capacity. BRT seems like a band-aid, to me. Of course, it's cheaper and quicker to deploy. Long term, though, if they build the Geary corridor as envisioned (dense housing) then I think something like monorail would be suitable.
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It doesn't use your bandwidth, but that of Boxopus.
At least some databases I've used have parsed out constants in the client library code and submitted prepared statements to the server, passing those constants in. That meant that the server got better use out of its query cache; on the server side, those are the same query.

Not sure which ones if any do this today, the optimisation might no longer be relevant - I spotted DBs doing this 10 years ago when CGIs that didn't bother with prepared statements were rife.
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This has been proposed with some of our enterprise contacts, as they share your same concern. I'll take a closer look!
Your data seems stale. We moved in 9 months ago, when a studio in the Tenderloin was $1450. We have a "jr" 1 bedroom in Alamo Square for $1900.
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That's a huge increase, but actually follows overall San Francisco rental trends. HotPads recently looked at rental trends YoY and found SF rent is up 20%. It's also the most expensive city to rent in the U.S. (a two bedroom in SF is 23% more expensive than the same size in NYC).

Data here: http://hotpads.com/pages/housing-report-2012-6.htm
The article says that you're are not allowed to use the full rated capacity of a circuit. Can anyone tell me why? This seems weird to me.

Also, is his concern about earthquakes really warranted? I'd have thought that a DC would have been able to withstand more or less anything thrown its way.
Forget it, unless you have friends or money. The building quality is generally terrible and the economics are dreadful. My wife and I bought in North Oakland, not far from Berkeley. It's not perfect, but it's a lot nicer than the Mission was when I first moved to SF. We spent over 2 years looking for a place, partly because my wife grew up in SF and was reluctant to move outside the city. Now we have space and she gets downtown in half the time on the days when she goes to her office, plus we have a large garden and a kitchen we can both fit into at once. The economics are a bit different if you're renting, but not that different. Sorry to say it because I lived in SF for 15 years, but I gave up on the city a couple of years ago and haven't missed living there since we moved last spring.
I thought F12 was mapped to 'go to definition' by default? in any case, not hard to set up something like you suggest.
> Goat sacrifice may be involved.

Thomas, this is a fine example of why I've got your comments bookmarked (and Patrick's too): At least every couple of days or so, I can count on you not just for insight but for a laugh too.
I was actually going to work on a project that did something similar. Doing anything with large files while you're on a mobile device is difficult because of bandwidth, processing, and screen real estate.

If you could move or process large files though a third party without having to physically download the file to a temporary location, it would be awesome... but apparently Dropbox doesn't think so. I deemed my project DOA because I had a feeling that what happend to Boxopus would happen to me across multiple platforms that I wanted to integrate.
Mike, nice blog post. Love the SketchUp.

Imagine my surprise when I read the name LJ, and Mike, and Physics @ MIT .. and put two and two together.

-Long Time friend of your neighbors, C&J. :)
Stated more simply: "you are not your thoughts"
For those who are finding it hard to rent a place, I have a suggestion for you: move to Berkeley. Amazing food. Great weather most of the time. And if you live near BART station its not that far if you work in SF.
Why on earth would an article about struggle against dictatorship mention the main force that keeps the dictators in place (i.e. money, the weapons, diplomatic support) when talking about the "dictator's worst nightmare?"

I never suggested that Gene Sharp represents the government or that all Americans are equivalent but it's funny to attribute the recent Arab protests to some book written by Gene Sharp, these movements are homegrown.

Another commentator mentioned Gandhi, his nonviolence didn't force the British out, the threat of violent independence struggle was very real if the British didn't leave. Behind Martin Luther King there was Malcolm X. Nelson Mandela's ANC was called a "terrorist group" by the US in their struggle against apartheid (Mandela's name was on terror list until mid 2008).
https://www.google.com/search?q=mandela+terrorist+list
"The real problem is SF prohibiting any dense housing from being built anywhere in the city"

Huh? In most of SF the houses are about 1 inch from each other. It must have the densest housing on the west coast.
Rodeo -

I'm currently planning a move down under (my wife just spooked me by wanting to push the timeframe up to next year instead of 2015). Mind if I reach out to you sometime to chat about the market there and whether what you're doing would make sense for someone in my position? I'd be much obliged.
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The concern is probably mostly about the power grid. Power problems have caused outages at large colo centers in the last 5 years.
Ok, the people being quoted on the page all look to be under 25, and so are the people commenting here judging by the comments, so I suspect that no one involved or interested in Bridge has ever used RPC systems before and therefore have no idea how bad they actually are. Or possibly, judging by the "No configuration files or IDLs." comment, they may have heard of SOAP while it was being called an RPC system and be suffering from second system delusions.

If you are interested in some of the existing discussion, check out (They're PDFs. Sorry.):

* [1988] A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/publications/euteco-1988.pdf

* [1994] A note on distributed computing. http://research.sun.com/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html

* [2005] RPC under fire. Steve Vinoski. http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/pdfs/IEEE-RPC_Under_Fire....
So, as I understand, this is also a main principle of most modern sciences: outcome of a proper experiment must be reproducible. In other words, given enough detailes that matter, it's possible to predict behaviour of the system.

Also if an Enlightened being sees the world as it is and gets perfect understanding directly, he(she) can make what is generally considered scientific breakthroughs with ease. Does it really happen?
Doesn't SF's risk of liquefaction plus the current soft soils around the city make it potentially quite dangerous to build taller buildings?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/soiltype/map/

http://thefrontsteps.com/2010/11/22/san-francisco-neighborho...
I completely agree with the issues presented in the interview. I'm afraid though they cannot be solved with solving the much harder, more general problem of "people are stupid, a.k.a. people cannot be bothered to care about X until it's waaay too late where X = freedom, privacy, quality, etc".

Good luck, may we all help ourselves and our fellow humans.
Why wouldn't they just rate a 20A circuit as 16A if that's all that's usable? What's the benefit to rating it as a 20A circuit if 4A are unusable? I feel like I'm missing something.
That image of the hand immediately made me think of Parodius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tq7QngiiLI&feature=playe... somehow :)
I believe there are some political issues (neighborhoods decrying the loss of "Old SF") in addition to somewhat onerous (compared to SJ) planning requirements, specially north of Market (where no building shadow shall impinge on a public park during the hours of 10am to 4pm or something.

Developments typically appease the loud-voiced locals by either pulling out of development plans or modifying their original proposals to lower heights (and thus lower density).

It seems some voices SF, while urban, would prefer to keep SF a quaint victorian town. I mean, we're in the 21st century, allow the city to grow like a city.
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Yes, this happened in San Jose during the last bubble, when Firefighters and Police couldn't afford to live in the city.

Who on minimum wage can afford to drive a car for an hour to work each way?
How do I go about pair programming with someone using this? I shared the URL but it didn't work.
I didn't understand your argument at first; after you clarified I believe you are correct (with the corrections mentioned). My comment was intended to fix some flaws in your argument that rendered it incomplete, not incorrect.

I believe the constant MC assumption is dangerous though. MC is rarely fixed in microeconomics. It is almost always assumed to be an approximately linear function of quantity. Thus, increasing production will always increase MC. You'll need to hire more workers, pay more overtime, buy more expensive supplies, whatever (in the short run; in the long run firms expand production and the supply curve shifts). The assumption that MC won't change is almost always incorrect, and the MC changes affects whether the argument is valid or not.

Sorry if I'm sounding pedantic, just pointing out what my econ prof would've said to me about this argument.

EDIT: and I'm not trying to imply that you don't know any of this, just that it may benefit readers who have less economics exposure.
About 80% of my walking around time is spent listening to podcasts, and I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Namely:

- A podcast app that's separate from Music. They're really two entirely different tasks, and I don't like losing place in a playlist just to listen to a podcast, and vice versa.

- Buttons for skipping forward and ahead within a track.

- Never losing place in a podcast when switching tracks. This was a huge problem with the popup playback controls, where it's far too easy to hit rewind instead of pause.

- The ability to download and update podcast subscriptions directly from the device.

- Syncing listened/unlistened and playback state between devices.

I think they've covered all of my issues with podcasts, and it's a beautifully designed app (I have a particular fondness for reel-to-reel decks). Well done, Apple.
SF prohibiting any dense housing from being built anywhere in the city

SF would love to give out more building permits than it actually does. The problem is that existing property owners and tenants bewail any attempt at building upwards and the permitting process is so process-heavy (environmental review, public comment periods etc.) that getting anything actually done turns into a major political battle. Forgive me for saying so, but if not for the loss of life and livelihood the best thing that could happen the city right now would be a medium-size earthquake. It's so dysfunctional as to have affected my political views.
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This is like putting a retail investor up against a highspeed trading algorithm on Wall Street.
I wasn't critiquing the specialization, I was critiquing the claim of being the worlds leading expert. Going for the long tail doesn't require lying.
What was your experience ? Your buddy (who I assume has a Cloud9 account) should join your project in read-only mode, and then you can grant RW access.
It is also riddled with problems: management went to the pits from mid 2010; the construction quality is terrible (particularly in the new third phase); if you value a decent night's sleep, you're screwed (Caltrain and Berry St garbage trucks)

Moving into an older, but more sturdy unit is the most sensible thing we have ever decided to do.
To me, pair programming is one person codes while the other watches. And then vice versa.

Both parties could access the project but it was just collaboration, not pair programming.
I used to rent an entire 3BR house for $700/mo, albeit in one of the more depressed markets in the US. Thinking about moving to SF makes me more than a little queasy.
Well sure, they can have independent moral compasses, but they shouldn't. They both depend on a civilized society. Dropbox needs to uphold and defend the values of civilization (which don't include a paternalistic authoritarian monitoring system), not thwart them.
Well, ultimately the problem is that San Francisco is a small area where a lot of people want to live, and they're willing to pay a premium to live there. You can fiddle around with the supply side of this "problem" if you like (which will by your prescription also lower the demand by making the city a less nice place to live), but there's only so much you can do.

As far as I'm concerned the lack of cheap housing in San Francisco is no more of a problem than the lack of cheap housing in Beverley Hills.
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You're not wrong, but can I admit that I had the same feelings the top commenter had? I'll happily tack on the other admission that those feelings probably had a lot to do with jealousy.
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I'm aware of the startup visa act (http://startupvisa.com/), but that is not going to be available by the time we would need it (assuming it even passes).
Not necessarily: there are ways to build high rise buildings in such an environment. It also isn't hypothetical: San Francisco skyscrapers are some of the safest places to be during an earthquake.

See also Taipei 101 -- designed to withstand seismic events and typhoons through some rather interesting "hacks".
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Simple one-liners often work well to brush aside the real issues, you don't need an argument, just a simplistic phrase that plays with emotions is enough.

May I suggest that you read about who was at fault at what place and when? The current Syrian dictatorship is not US-supported, neither are Iran and North Korea. Does that mean that Britain and US have no part in bringing Iran to where it is today (i.e. 1953)? Do you deny that 2 million Koreans were brutally murdered as a part of an imperial struggle in 1940s? Should we not mention that our one part Republo-crat government gives billions of dollars to dictators around the world and at the same time denies social services to its own citizens because we don't have enough money?

I suggest another link if you're not familiar:
https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+us+interventions+sin...
What I would like is a super-easy server-side library that allows persistence for a table like this. Since I had a crap day at work where I got no development work done, maybe I'll bang this out tonight at home.
This is what I was wondering about on a greater scale. Do you happen to have a link to recent statistics that show this is the case for torrent traffic in general?