skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The painful truth about it is that we're both right.

Those luxury condos aren't built by landlords wanting to bring down the rent, obviously. They're built with full intention of taking advantage of clueless yuppie transplants who haven't a clue what things should actually cost, or whose monstrous senses of suburban entitlement leave them thinking they need a 2500 SF (232 m^2) space in the city. In the short term, they actually do drive up rents. The opportunities and bargains come out in the long term.

What then happens is that the developers overbuild, and a few years later a large quantity of housing stock comes on to the market, depressing price. Look at what has happened in Florida, Nevada, and even California. It can happen again, and it's ugly but still far better than the alternative (Manhattan rent levels).

Also, most "luxury" housing is not of a quality that real rich people would accept. "Luxury" means there's a small gym and a doorman, but the quality of this housing/renovation is usually low-- which is fine given that you're just using it as a crash-pad while you work a 60+ hour job that requires living close to work. (Rent if you can; don't buy.) "Luxury apartments" are for people making upper-middle incomes in their professional jobs who need college-like pampering because of their insane work schedules, rather than genuine rich.

That said, you have to be extremely careful in playing this sort of game. Manhattan "luxury condos" are selling at 40-50 times annual rent for a variety of reasons, so you'll actually lose a lot of money if you buy one and try to rent it out. Trying to time the crashes caused by overbuilding is not something most people can afford to do. However, it is abstractly and also obviously good for society when more housing is created.
+1 for trains! I dread airplanes and airports!
We need more Paneuropean train routes; nice, comfy trains running on electric power.
> [...] if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

If I didn't like this guy before...I certainly do now.
Mandatory upvote for writing "iceweasel." What version of debian has 20? I thought unstable was at 21. Run the beta or aurora line from http://mozilla.debian.net
You can make a much more powerful argument by showing how nested views work in angular, rather than by making strong statements with nothing to back them up.

If nested views are in the basic Angular docs, it's even more strong. Don't just say someone is ignorant, show them how to not be ignorant any longer. It helps them, and makes you seem like less of a jerk.
Anyone interested in the history of the NSA should read Matthew Aid's The Secret Sentry. It's very, very good.
You would have to prove that cryonics is, in fact, science first.

>>http://www.nobeliefs.com/images/DarkAges.gif

Yeah, you know what, not so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7CanyzhZg
Well that is a lovely one for watching isn't it! Thanks.

Have you seen www.skyvector.com you can select the high or low routes if you wish. Whilst the mapping isn't 100% (ie don't fly from it, make very rough plans from it before going to your golden source state issued maps) it is really cool, espesually because it covers the world.

I have a dream of spending 6 months flying a little light aircraft along the silk route, visiting and exploring all the hops on my journy. One day maybe I'll have the means and the political situation will be suitable. That website lets you quickly see what such a mission would entail.
You can kill off Flash, but the desire to wiz-bang the web will never go away.
People don't buy software any more anyway; they only buy cloud services.
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How a hacker is helping Pebble's Smart Watch Platform
I am going with the last option. Rely on bundled licenses. Seeing as I also provide a fully managed service, I include all software updates etc. for those who pay the annual license.

The rest are not my customers and worrying about them is a distraction.
Does anyone know the property tax uplift? Basically if you're paying $1M for a property in New York City and stay their 2 weeks a year you get end up paying taxes for 52 weeks and consuming city services for 2, so that would be a ~25x the tax per service rendered. Is this noticeable to cities or in the noise?
Are there lyme tests that are accurate in less than a month? I also got bit by a tick a couple days ago, but I just went to the doctor and got a doxycycline prophylaxis. I'll probably also send the tick in for analysis.
Most of the normal folks are being pushed further and further out of the city every year. Anywhere remotely central is out of reach of anyone but the very rich.
anyone who criticizes this kind of thing has never been to the chinese countryside.

it. fucking. sucks. it's not the US countryside. there aren't red barns and guys riding Indian motorcycles and nice roadside cafes to check out the shots you took on your DSLR.

there's a reason that during the mao era people were sent there for punishment. these poor people want jobs and money not open ditches full of cow shit and 7-day a week hard farm labor.
By having a framework "handle this" you teach novice devs that they don't have to think about it and then they do stuff the framework can't fix and wonder why the framework is broken!
Watch a user use your widget. If that doesn't generate ideas of things to improve you're just not paying close enough attention.
So if China solves its three biggest, most intractable problems, it'll be a great place to live? No problem.
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If you're writing Python and need to do something like this, you could try using Phantompy, a Python port of PhantomJS: https://github.com/niwibe/phantompy

It's still "in an early stage of development" but it's on my list of libraries to keep an eye on for when I have time to tackle the JS-heavy sites of the world.
Joeffice: The Open Source Java Office Suite
2x NEC 19" 5:4 1280x1024 monitors at work, nothing special. Used for coding in Visual Studio/SSMS.

At home I have a single Dell 24" IPS monitor, used for photo editing and lighter coding, in addition to general home usage.
"Between X and X+N" requests/devices".. why can't they say the exact amount?
>it has to be implemented properly. It needs to have proper access restrictions and data retrieval methods built in from the ground up

US intel agencies aren't known for self-restraint. They are usually lobbying for more, not less access. Additionally, if the data's collected, it's not just vulnerable to abuse of power, it's also vulnerable to being hacked.

According to Snowden, accesses to the current system are largely unaudited (even accesses from foreign intelligence agencies: only 5% of accesses by GCHQ were audited). It doesn't sound like there's anything stopping the current system from being abused to gather business intelligence, etc.

>It could be an amazing tool for tracking down lost persons, solving crimes

There are lots of things that could be done for public safety that have the downside of being open to potential abuse by the state (sampling the DNA of newborns, implanting tracking devices in newborns, etc.).

>That is, assuming that our government isn't full of corrupt shitty people (mostly false).

Folks involved in PRISM have been knowingly working on a secret program that violates the 4th Amendment: I'd say that counts as shitty. But if that doesn't qualify in you mind, history offers many more spectacular examples of egregious abuses by shitty people: in America COINTELPRO, MK ULTRA, etc. Banking on your rights not being abused by trusting in the good of mankind isn't a great strategy.
For Northeast travel in the US, the train is more practical. Pretty much anything from DC to Boston is less painful on the train. You get a seat an continuous alone time.

This holds less on broader travel.
A Skylane (Cessna 182) with a STC'd larger engine (PPonk O-520). It'll do 145-150 kts in the 4-8K feet range if you put the spurs to it. (I'm still breaking in the new engine, and that is best done at max continuous power: full throttle, 2700 RPM, in this case. At slightly more sane power settings post-break-in, I'll be doing 165-170 mph.)

The fatal rate is probably much worse than "only 4x". Per mile, all factors included, it's comparable to riding a motorcycle. Now, "all factors" includes running out of fuel, flying into weather beyond the capability of the plane or pilot, and CFIT, all of which the prudent pilot has some means to control/influence to a far greater extent than a motorcyclist does. Still, it's not for the completely risk-averse, and my wife hasn't yet let me fly with me and the kids (and without her), because she doesn't want to think about living after a possible 3-fatal scenario.

I borrowed a "crew car" (free, short term loaner car) yesterday to run an errand, and it was an old, clapped out Dodge Ram van that hadn't seen a tire balancer or front-end service in who knows how long. Driving that thing to/from the airport was almost certainly the most dangerous part of my travel... ;)
Don't worry, that's not going to happen in London though - the Tory government made squatting in empty residential properties a crime shortly after the recession hit, and are doing the same with empty commercial ones.
"the telegram has lost too much ground to smartphones"
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This is my main issue with using parallax scrolling. It's absolutely murder on a mobile device.

Which means if you're going to build a site with it, you need to have a full mobile version for the rest of your users. I've found 99% of the sites who have parallax don't do this, since it requires more time and effort to build what is essentially two full sites.
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Or you could apply some math and come up with a generating function!

http://www.math.ufl.edu/~joelar/generatingfibonacci.pdf
That doesn't seem like a very safe thing to do...
dont they have sc for PhantomJS one can checksum and run ./configure > make > sudo make install?
There is another interesting factor. Women seem to have more active immune systems. This gives them a lot more cases of the sniffles, but less of a chance of dying outright.
No. No. No. No.

I just spent the last year of my life doing a 'proof of concept' and 'looking out for investors'. You'll spend your life always with a sense of insecurity drawn on by the fact that you don't have a real product.

Now, if your favorite Uncle is an investor and absolutely loves you, that's a whole different story. But realistically, make a product, find users who love it, then campaign for them by finding people to invest.

Otherwise you'll lose sight of why you're doing this.
What's the argument for allowing un-used imports? I've never run into a case where I wished I had imported something but didn't want to use it

If you're looking at future code, you can accomplish that by commenting out the import. But I've never run into the situation where writing future code has been good, or where I wouldn't have remembered to import the package I needed when I wrote that code. If you really need to import packages you're not using, and for some reason can't spend the time to comment those out, GO probably isn't for you. I just haven't heard of a case where doing otherwise would have been helpful.
If, through whatever means, they become interested enough in your data, they can just go judge shopping until they find one that decides that NSA suspicion is enough to issue a search warrant.
I mean, so what? It's doable with design.
If people today had the chance to revive a frozen person (or animal) from the past, they surely would not hesitate to give it a try.
To quote from the HN front page

> What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/mar...
The link submitted here is on the other side of the login process. Hence, people are being redirected to GitHub for authorisation.
Unfortunately over half of Americans don't realize the current healthcare situation is a problem, and actually believe it's good, because it gives them more freedom.

I almost thought that once, but it's really easy to run through the facts:

1. Since the primary purchasers of health insurance are companies, the insurance companies grossly tilt their plans in the direction of companies. Individual plans are lackluster. The individual plans where I live don't even cover mental health services. Not even one.

2. Since companies are fallible, we cannot depend on them to honestly offer insurance to every worker who deserves it. For example, in Massachusetts, there is a mandate for companies with full time employees to provide a health insurance plan: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/29/companies-cut-hours-of... naturally, companies schedule for .1 less hours and leave you in the dust.

It seems that this is a total mess. Companies cannot be put in the crossfire of the health insurance debate with these unimplementable laws.

The only reasonable solution is to pay for it with the federal income tax. Competition and free markets are good, but not in this space. Would you like to find out the free market price for an ambulance after you were involuntarily hit by a bus and woke up in an ICU?

We live in a strange land of "freedom"
Actually Eastern Europeans can travel easily wherever they desire with a passport or a national ID card, no need for visas. Some countries are not using the Euro though, and it has protected them from the economic crisis to a degree.
Optimum Online has begun injecting advertisements into home networks
Amazing poetic writing skills, love it:

"Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't
I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living
in a palace petting a phoenix by now."

why did I not drop our of school and get a 200K job:-(
Phones are different in size.

Condensation/spills become a much bigger problem.
if you want sth more complete, try django-userena.
Ask HN: Is it wise to use a 'meta' VC? 
My startup fabfabbers.com has been approached a few times now by people that appear to be VCs, but are actually agents that claim to have access to many VCs, and will charge some kind of fee upon successful funding.

Question is, has anyone used such a 'meta' VC (if that's the right term). If so, what is a reasonable charge/charging structure? I do need funding, but worry this might not be the way to go.
Thoughts on Project Loon
Surely everyone had assumed this already? We know Glenn Greenwald has a large number of unreleased tidbits, and I'd guess he's quietly shared those around to trusted people to ensure the information would not be squashable.
Concorde's specs were up to 5000 fpm climb. With some tweaking to the aerodynamics, flight planning and whatnot, I'm sure you could be supersonic 150nm into the flight instead of 250nm. (same goes for anything else getting up to cruising altitude)
The money quote:

"Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it."
I think this NSA case is getting way too air time on HackerNews. We're turning HN into the drudge report.

Snowden may well be a spy and we've made him into some kind of martyr/hero. His actions came out right around a major summit with China and he defected within their sphere of protection. Allows the chinese to paint us as the bad guy while appearing as a protector of free speech. Brilliant.

No one is talking about chinese industrial espionage now, which is arguably much more damaging to the US than reading people's yahoo email, particularly that of suspected terrorists. And this was most likely the point of the whole exercise.

The story needs to play out - let the facts unfold.
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Sorry, if it sounds personal but I have to ask: How do you know he's not proficient and what does your proficiency have to do with it?

I have a basis of knowledge about how language proficiency is defined (the federal government in the United States has a standard rating scale of foreign language proficiency, as do most other countries with an active diplomatic corps and military alliances with other countries) and I know how much time it takes in specialized training programs and in-country to become proficient in Chinese, none of which Snowden has. I would find it more believable that he has some knowledge of Japanese, because Snowden lived in Japan for a while, but he apparently has little knowledge of that language either.
I'd consider it still active, since it was updated on 2013-06-07:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4

I prefer using lxml myself, since I like using XPath queries, but bs4 sometimes parses broken HTML better than any of the provided lxml parsers do.
> Who's to say that an "early" death is not in fact a gift for the living?

You've got to be kidding. (A very dark kind of humor, I guess)
People use "slashdot/slashdotting" to refer to the general phenomenon; it's quite common. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slashdot
I assume you wanted to point out the sexism part. Is there sexism in the "skeptic" community? Certainly, just as there is in just about every community. The assumption this author seems to be making is that feminism is beyond reproach which simply is not true. It certainly should be held to the same critical standards as any other theory. Feminism is not perfect and it certainly has some serious problems. Don't confuse egalitarianism and rejection of certain feminist ideals as sexism. To use feminist's own language, often times the things that the antifeminists attack in feminism are things that can be considered products of patriarchy. Sexism among internet skeptics is no more rampant than sexism in other internet communities. Anyone with more than a passing familiarity should know this. That doesn't make it right. It is just fact.
Use of Erlang in WhatsApp
What are some of your bugs and design improvements? I plan on attempting one of this in the next couple of weeks.
By reasserting it, Snowden is also signalling that it is useless to go after him directly. Be it true or false, this is the only logical thing to say in his situation.
You're using our API? Please get in touch with us. We're a very small team and the project is very young. You can't really expect to use it like that without telling us and expect it to work well! (It's open data and free software, you don't legally have to tell us, but please do so).

http://tosdr.org/about.html#contact
I can tell you for a fact that this is not true when you're dealing with enterprises or software that is vital for the operation of your business. These types of customers demand to have products hosted internally.
I have no direct experience of the market but my first impression is to use a large cattle prod on such people, and wash it afterwards.

There are plenty of real VCs out there, and the good ones do have a network of folks whose recommendations they would trust. Those recommendations do not come on a commission basis (unless a good lunch at an expensive restaurant is commission). I strongly suspect that trying to convert membership of that network into cash is the the fastest, surest way of leaving the network.

If you want an introduction to a VC, try this:

* look up their list of funded companies

* find the companies that are in your field, or work OSS
projects close to yours

* do some work with them, say hello, contribute patches.

* be upfront about your status - a founder who one day might look at funding.

* When you have customer traction, ask for advice and help on getting funding. Your linkedin network now contains a dozen people who know your work and know a VC.

disclaimer: I have no idea if this will work.
Back in the days , when i was doing flash stuffs ,there was a site with flash and a static version of the website. Same with all the crazy JS animations. If you are going to use these kind of stunts ,you'd better 1/ test heavily on all major browsers and devices 2/ provide a light fallback for mobile and tablets. (yes , javascript kills the battery too...)
Its only embarrassing if you've tried and couldn't figure it out.
It's not really envious or wrong to say that people like this contribute nothing to the world, yet by accidents of birth get to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's labour.
What's interesting is that while the media is attacking Snowden for his lack of "elite" higher-education credentials, a cursory look at these analysts reveal that they too don't have the "elite" higher-ed credentials.

Several profiles list University of Maryland University College [1] (an online state institution with very similar operations as competing for-profit schools), American Military University [2][3][4](for-profit school), community colleges [5], and so on.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidamerson

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linnea-jones/67/319/8b9?trk=pub-...

[3] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/taina-robles/56/4b9/3a1?trk=pub-...

[4] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/danna-rey/18/252/2bb?trk=pub-pbm...

[5] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shawn-atkinson/14/1b3/587?trk=pu...

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Did Snowden say "direct access" in his interview or elsewhere? I thought that was an extrapolation of journalists writing about his story afterward (who also got details like the salary slightly wrong), taken from the wording on the slides, and reinforced in people's minds by the denials from Google et al which talked of backdoors etc? I don't think he made any claims about direct access, only that he could access all account details including emails etc if he had 'the proper authorities' as he puts it (which is pretty consistent with the slides and with the Google claims).

I don't remember him using that particular phrase at all at least in his initial video - I remember him talking about the ease with which they could access data using a 'selector' like an email address, not making claims about specific connections to servers or anything similar. He's not responsible for what journalists say, and we can't expect them to clearly restate it all the time, but what we do know about the extent of surveillance is disturbing. It's still unclear exactly what is recorded, when and how and I'm sure we'd all love to know more, but in the meantime it's not very useful to try to discredit his claims based on the interpretations of others.

https://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-int...
I'd like to see more of this coming truth and less of this melodrama.
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I think it's a little rich that Snowden is complaining about being labelled a traitor - morality aside, what he did seems like a pretty clear-cut case of treason from a legal standpoint (IANAL).
Can you please share the name of the country in which you live?
To disclaim: I submitted this story to HN because people on HN care about patio11's blog, and if someone gets internet points, might as well be me. Do not take this as an endorsement by me or anyone else on the Rails team, thanks.
Here's an article:
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporati...