skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calculated Risk (http://www.calculatedriskblog.com) did a series on the upcoming SF rent/real estate bubble, as well as the return of housing back in early 2012. I highly recommend this awesome blog for my fellow HNers - it plays host to great discussions/links/facts on the economy, housing, finance and the global/domestic (US) recovery.

The direct links for those who want more detail:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/04/san-francisco-rent...

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/04/bottom-for-house-p...

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/04/wsj-on-housing-bid...

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/04/private-money-comi...

And a summary about all of the above that I found on Quora can be found here (scroll to the bottom - ignore the editorializing): http://www.quora.com/the_edge/Intriguing-answer-on-Silicon-V...
There's a plan currently under discussion for bus rapid transit on the Geary corridor, which is sort of the el-cheapo version of that idea (http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/37/70/). Give the bus a dedicated, physically separated lane to reduce traffic problems, and build light-rail-esque, less frequent stations in the median with level boarding. Not a full solution, but the hope is that it'll raise the average bus speed significantly.
Sounds like you will have to use 'git commit' until they fix this.
Microsoft bets on WebRTC for Skype’s browser future
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How is Boxopus better than just tellign your torrent client to download into your dropbox folder?
Also, remember that East Bay near BART is closer to South of Market than most of San Francisco city is, time-wise

Depends what part of the East Bay, of course. West Oakland is the closest BART station, but it is in some serious ghetto. Lake Merritt, Berkeley (esp North Berkeley) and Rockridge are your first good options, but they'll take a little longer to get to. My advice would be definitely to check out Rockridge, it's a surprisingly nice part of town.
Show HN: In-Line Logging with PHP
We haven't started on a PHP library as of yet. Most of our team is on the Ruby/Node side of things.

Would be happy to work with you on the PHP version though!

Feel free to email me gregarious AT getchute DOT com
Because to eliminate the EU means, technically, throwing out the Treaty of Maastricht (1992), the Treaty of Rome (1958) and the Amsterdam Treaty (1997) which together define most of the framework, institutions, conventions and law enabling European freedom of movement and trade.

There are several other treaties but these are the three most significant.

In other words, they are simultaneously the EU's constitution and they are the instruments keeping those trade & migration barriers down. So one cannot have one without the other. Instead a whole new set of treaties & governing organisations would have to be negotiated from scratch.

This is unlikely in the current, fragmented European political puzzle.

And even if they could be, well, the funny thing is, because of the nature of human specialisation, their details would be negotiated by the same diplocrats running the current system. I leave it to your imagination what the result of that will be.
I experienced this first-hand as I just signed a place a little over a month ago. Compared to what was listed the apartment we ended up with was several hundred dollars cheaper, and we competed with at least 10 other applicants for the place.

However, as I talk to more people they think we are overpaying several hundred dollars based on what they are paying for comparable units, most of which were signed around a year ago.
Ask HN: Should you keep a copy of all the code you write?
Rent stabilization (if applied fairly; New York's 1947-era rent control doesn't qualify) is a good thing, but it's a temporary fix. It's only one part of the solution, because it doesn't do anything to fix an intrinsic shortage.

More necessary is taxing landlords and owners of large amounts of real estate (anyone owning real estate at more than 12 times the average pre-tax income in an area qualifies) at very high rates and using the funds to build the best public transit system in the world-- a long-term solution that obviates the need for stabilization in the first place.
there is no universal truth other than balance and careful judgement. Say "write less code" to the wrong person, and they will go off and create six months of meetings where they decide what they should decide what they should decide to decide to do. Analysis paralysis will creep in and kill you.
What if we hired writers like we hire developers
I hope they plan to raise the average bus quality too; riding Muni is less like public transport and more like a homeless shelter. I couldn't imagine doing it every day.
That's not uncommon, assuming that an initial phone screen counts as an interview.

I have had stretches where it took me talking to ~80 candidates between initial phone screens, random chats, etc over two months before finding someone to hire.

And to be clear, I am not claiming that I found the 'best' person out of 80 people. 'Best' is a very custom definition depending on the environment, role, and fit.
I attempted to use it in Chrome and Firefox on Lion. When I go to clone to edit a github repository, it just sits at this http://i.imgur.com/cLcum.png
it made me dizzy =)
Plug: dotCloud has a service called static exactly for that :)

http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/static/
I use this one too. It works well (Galaxy S2).
each person should be judged individually. When you punish the whole group... that's just communism.
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The first article you link actually suggests, sort of indirectly, that NYC is an example of a place with successful rent-stabilization. The article argues that the reason NYC hasn't been destroyed by rent control is that it liberalized rent control into the more flexible rent stabilization (which allows market-driven changes, just within certain year-to-year rate limits), which mitigated the worst problems of rent control.

I don't really have a worked-out position on the question, but I'd tentatively think that stabilization that doesn't amount to de-facto freezes would avoid some of the worst problems, since prices would track the market, just with a lag, as opposed to never doing so. For example, the problem with CA's Prop 13 isn't that it limits the y-on-y assessment increase for property-tax purposes, but that it limits it to 2% per year, not accounting for inflation, which is such an absurdly low limit that assessments will never track market prices, even in a delayed sense. Esp. since in years with >2% inflation it actually mandates a cut in real valuation. (Also, if I had my way, I'd remove the inheritability of rent-stabilized rents and Prop-13 valuations, to avoid any weirdness crossing generational lines.)
That doesn't solve concurrency.
The Work-Ship A New Type of Work Environment for the Modern Web Worker.
That's a fabulous line, I'm going to remember that one.
> You could adjust the timing of the traffic lights to ensure that the rail line always (or usually) has priority and cross the whole city in ten minutes.

Not if you wanted to pick up or drop off passengers. :)

But I've ridden N-Judah, and not loved it. Unless it's elevated or subterranean, it's going to be slow.
How Hatch forced Microsoft to play K Street's game
Any figures? I live in Dublin, Ireland, and pay €500 ($624) per month for a room in a two bed apartment in the centre of the city. That's cheap for the area -- I live within walking distance of all the bars.
i've got a theory on how to do it, one day i'll write a blog post on it but the basic premise is, instead of a sales strategy, i'd like to see a talent agent strategy.

That's actually an interesting idea. Please write it!
Is it only recruiters approaching people about work? I would have imagined many employers are directly approaching people in much the same manner as recruiters.
You mean Sharp himself is funded by the CIA?

What are your sources for this claim?
Am I the Only One?
Fair enough, though few of us will ever write software as popular as WinAMP once was.
Ready to found a startup, but my co-founder is on a temporary visa
My co-founder and I have been bootstrapping our startup for a couple of months and things are starting to ramp up. However, we have an impending problem: he is here on a temporary work visa that expires in September.

What are the options for him to stay in the US to continue working on the startup? So far our main thought is for him to apply for a job that would offer a more permanent visa. Then he would continue working on the startup on nights and weekends while I work on it full time, but this is obviously not ideal.

Has anyone had to deal with a problem like this before?
Actually come to think of it, this is more similar to dotCloudJS by the dotCloud labs team: http://js.dotcloud.com
You seem to be conflating "rent control" and "rent stabilization", which are two different things.

Also, these economists appear to be ignoring a simple practical matter.

The idea behind most rent regulation is to avoid pricing low-income-but-necessary-to-basic-function people out of an area. These are, basically, the garbagemen and janitors and cooks and such, who can quickly find themselves priced out of anything within a reasonable distance of the city.

This results in a corresponding shortage of those services in the city, and prices for those services increase until even the wealthy -- who can still afford the higher rents -- are not willing to bear those costs to remain in the area, and begin leaving.

This can happen surprisingly quickly. In modern environments where many lease agreements come up for renewal at essentially the same time, it can happen frighteningly quickly, far more quickly than new construction can hope to "correct" the housing shortage.
Take a look at Jive SBS: http://www.jivesoftware.com/social-business/solutions/social...

It does essentially that.
What are you doing?
I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe.
Why is the net wired randomly?
I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play.
Minsky then shut his eyes.
Why do you close your eyes?
Sussman asked his teacher.
So that the room will be empty.
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

-- Jargon File
You can't get a room share in most of SF for under $700, for SOMA and the Mission you'll be lucky at $850. A studio you might be able to get for $1200-$1500, 1BR $1400-1800, 2BR $2000-$$$$$.

This is assuming you don't want to live in Bayview.
I remember a time when that was the biggest criticism of Microsoft, the way they would absorb more and more features into Windows, putting all the little guys out of work.
I'm a cofounder at AeroFS. The main advantage of AeroFS is P2P file syncing without using servers. S3 support is a nice addition to the basic functionality, allowing users to use S3 as a "super" peer.
So in order to get unpirated stuff you go to the pirate bay to find it?

Humble Bundle, most Linux Distro's, Open Source Software, Public Domain Books, Articles, http://www.clearbits.net/ (legal open music), every site listed here http://gigaom.com/video/ten-sites-for-free-and-legal-torrent..., NASA Footage...

I could actually go on. Thanks for trying to show everyone how evil torrents are.
I'm a full time freelancer. I work on several projects at a time, from large companies to startups, and most of them I only give 10-15 hours a week to. You can get a lot done in 15 hours a week if you put your mind to it. The trick in this case would really be the scheduling, 15 hours a week all done after a normal job schedule (say after 6pm) would likely not jive as well, and your productivity would not be nearly as good.
I might have used protovis for my first iteration, if not for the fact that I discovered it just as d3 was introduced :)

I'm normally a server guy, but needed a good dashboard for our OpenTSDB metrics project, so I started diving into client-side JS -- going whole-hog on d3 without a good chart lib on top of it seemed to be a bit too steep of a learning curve. But I do love the possibility of open-ended charts, where we can dip into the power of d3 at will when we need something more custom.

Like DiabloD3 commented below, I feel like doing an end-zone victory dance :). Nice work.
US Military about to launch its own reddit clone
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Yep. Sketchiness is proportional to affordability.

Actually the Dogpatch area has come a long way in the last decade or so. Not much of a secret any more, and low turnover, but still relatively cheap, easy access to South of Market (or 101), and nicer than many other options. Low walkability, but easy parking...
Checked with one of our guys who does PHP. He's gonna give it a try in the next day or so.

It will live here:
https://github.com/chute/avatars-io-php
Thank you for the explanation, this is blowing my mind because I had no idea message queues existed! Given that, this is a great abstraction for RPC on top of an MQ.
I think you're confusing what you'd like to be true with what actually is true.

>Gandhi's great insight was that nonviolent resistance is more effective than violent resistance.

Except: that isn't true. Or rather, it's true only in certain circumstances.

>Popular movements pretty much instantly lose their legitimacy when they turn violent

Perhaps, but "legitimacy" and three bucks will get you a cup of coffee. Power accumulates in the hands of whoever controls large numbers of men with guns.

>That some authorities massacre people doesn't refute it.

Actually it pretty much does. In the contest between a nonviolent movement with "legitimacy" and a violent authority without it, the violent authority wins every time.

The few times that nonviolent movements have succeeded, they have done so against a tired power that was pretty much in the process of withdrawing anyway -- the Soviet Union circa 1990 and Great Britain circa 1950.
Eh, I don't know... Have you ever seen some of the code that comes out of academia? Interesting stuff, not usually very robust.
Actually, I had to turn off my gray text on a black background function (Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+8 on a Mac), because it caused a double inversion with this site and I was blinded by the awesomeness.
You could come to realize the nature of reality, in Buddhist thought. The three marks of reality in Buddhism are anatta(not-self), annica(impermanence), and dukkha(suffering/dissatisfaction).

The basic teachings of Buddha say that all things share those attributes.

So, in practical terms, all things will pass, and things aren't necessarily what they seem, and attachment causes suffering. Even more practically -- don't take everything so seriously.
Few more points:

* Bridge currently uses a central broker, ZeroRPC is broker-less.

* ZeroRPC gives you streaming responses (similar to python generators). Bridge instead provides pub/sub.

* Bridge uses callbacks everywhere, whereas it varies for ZeroRPC based on language implementation. Our node.js version obviously uses callbacks, but the python version doesn't, thanks to gevent.
Why exactly is it so important not to forget my towel when hitchhiking?
Apple Plans $1 Billion Data Center near Reno, Nevada
It might be worth considering introducing a Qt-style "if we ever go under, or stop, the source is released Under BSD".

No offence to you, but I have sen too many companies go bankcrupt, or get bought out and shut down, to trust such important infrastructure to you!
Had this idea as well. I assume this could work for highly sought after consultant/contractor profiles, more than pure developers. Might also be quite hard to scale this up to many people as the fees you can collect from agreements will be limited (as opposed to actors).
Dropbox is not the huge powerhouse of money that would be able to just act as if the law doesn't apply to them. They are scared that they will get in trouble, and the biggest reason for them to do this in my honest opinion is simple... Traffic, dropbox servers were acting up recently, right when boxopus got big, chances are they can't keep up the kind of traffic that torrents require.

Is it a shame that I can't use a legit tool to download me some open stuff? Yeah a bit. But, guess what. I found 5 open source dropbox clones within minutes of a google search. It really wasn't that hard.

If boxopus could have stayed, I promise I would have been getting a paid dropbox account. With dropbox not letting these guys continue, there's a good chance I'll invest my time in one of the open source projects. I really like debugging stuff anyways so it'll be fun.

TL;DR - Dropbox is a private company, I can take my money elsewhere if I want, or pick one of the many open source alternatives.
Realize that my info is ~10 years old. At the time I was leaving Microsoft, they were working on adding more transparency to the process since, as you'd guess, people wanted to know more. Part of that was explicit titles tied to levels; part was just informing people of the process.

And at least there _are_ guidelines. Have you ever worked at a small company? There are certainly exceptions (I'd gamble that Fog Creek is one), but most of the ones I've worked at or for have had salary and promotion schemes that basically came down to some mix of hiring manager's whim, highest priority for the company today, your public visibility before joining, and whether you have some family connection to the owners.
I keep hoping that one day I'll wake up and all of this (G+) will have been a dream.
Logically you would assume that both robots would tie. By making it no longer about a faster reaction time you would be reinstating the basic principles of the game. The interesting follow-up would be how would two bots that just passed Turing tests perform?
There was a funny tv segment I caught here in Japan about how to increase your chances at RPS.. If you let out a blood curdling yell or make a semi attack-like movement just as you throw down, people's instinct is to clench. You throw paper.
I have wasted so many months of my life in this trap, spending a few days coding an app myself rather than paying usually less than $100 for it (usually because I want some small feature it doesn't have) . I dont think its ever been worth it in the long run.
Wait.

"The default is to send your private key in plaintext to the redirector."

What?
Going Colo
I fly about 50-70K miles in a given year. I never turn my phone fully off, I usually put it in "Airplane mode" after I'm out of the coverage area (to conserve the battery so it's not trying to hunt to unreachable towers). I usually find that the phone has lost a signal well before we've hit the 10,000 ft. altitude where electronic devices are "allowed". Roughly this seems to happen about 8-12 minutes into the flight.

I would consider the first 1,500 feet of altitude to be a zone where appearance of cellphones would be considered "normal", so the window in which you're truly in the supposed problem zone is even smaller.

I'm not sure that the evidence your phone connected to some random carriers is any evidence that phones in flight could be problematic for modern towers.

RF systems are also very interesting... I'm not an RF engineer, but I know enough about it that the cell towers coverage pattern is not spherical with equal coverage in all directions. The antennas would be designed and placed to direct the signals mostly out and to lower elevations, not up. Again, this would limit the chances that phones zooming overheard are appearing to multiple towers simultaneously, or moving tower to tower faster than the billing and tracking systems could manage.
I found the shownotes by clicking the little "i" in the list interface, it doesn't seem to show up anywhere else, though.
Remember when Microsoft was a scrappy company who made fun of IBM for being so bureaucratic?
The best way I've seen this problem solved is via using a viewport, where you only render what is visible at the time.

SlickGrid does this very well, but they don't have the Excel-like features that biz people fawn over.
Twitter and Drop box can have independent "moral compasses". They don't have to have the same -just as you and I don't have to share the same.
Not to imply that questioning subpoenas equates to questioning piracy. Piracy is not a right, while having protections against unreasonable searches is aright (depending on country, of course).
Or 'nvm'[1], or 'n'[2]... All of them are bash-specific so if you're using 'fish' for example (what I really like to), you're out of luck and you must hack your own.

[1]: https://github.com/creationix/nvm

[2]: https://github.com/visionmedia/n
It was all over the tech-part of the Internet recently:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

And indeed, bitmap-images in particular needs to be twice the size to look as sharp as the retina-display allows.
DataTables is what we're phasing out in favor of SlickGrid (most likely); it simply croaks when you have 1000's of rows...too many DOM objects in the browser.

Of course, the paged option might alleviate that somewhat, but requirements won't let me use that.
We need then to get in touch - even for the CFPB I cannot just reference someone by an online alias. Please write me to m3dsa [at] hotmail.com.
Nothing is stopping them from doing that with Username/Password or OpenID. In fact I would argue that it probably happens more with the username method because users forget they have an account. With Google/Facebook/Twitter signin they click and that service remembers everything for them and sends it to the app for authentication.
I find it even funnier that O'Reilly would publish it too.
Did you read the quote, especially this part: thanks largely to strong smartphone sales?

There is no argument that Apple is making more money. The point is that others are also making excellent mobile profits.
Microsoft's private cloud marketing gets creative
What makes Dropbox special that they chose it as the only cloud storage solution that Boxopus works with?
You're ignoring that building Craigslist was as possible in 1995 as building its replacement(s) is now. Disrupting the global print classifieds market in 1995 using an unfamiliar new technology was hard, and companies aiming to disrupt CL now will have to work at least as hard (and possibly ride a wave).

In fact, the major difference between 1995 and now is that CL has concentrated the market from zillions of local print publications to a single website. That means they are more vulnerable in some ways than "print classifieds" were in 1995. (It also means they have to stay on their toes to make sure they keep their users happy.)

>> It's now virtually impossible.

Air BnB shows that it can be done, so we know that it's not impossible to build a challenger. And we knew that it would be virtually impossible, or everyone would do it.
We're attempting to fix the way freelancers are recruited at agencies / startups by changing the pricing model. At the moment with recruiters, the incentive is to place as many people as quickly as possible as you get a commission for each placement.

By changing the model to a subscription you can then open the market place up and make it very transparent. No more hiding peoples contact details from the employee, no more hiding the employers name from the job seeker.

We're only in Melbourne, Australia at the moment but if we get interest, we'll try and increase our reach. If you are in Melbourne and you're a freelancer / agency / startup, we'd love to talk: http://www.dragonflylist.com
Avalon is brand new and freaking expensive. It depends on your comfort level. For me $3K odd for a 1 bedroom apartment was deeply discomforting. If you are open to living a little far away, take a look at the Castro, Noe Valley, Haight-Ashbury. All these neighborhoods are on Muni train lines which will make traveling to SoMa suck less (it won't be awesome but it will be ok).
Scientists hit wireless speeds of 2.56Tbps using light vortex beams
I think you need to add about 50% to all those prices.