skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason for the high cost of living in SF, Manhattan (where I live) and other cities is caused by politically induced market scarcity (also called economic rent by economists) through land use regulations in zoning that artificially regulates housing density to favor wealthy landlords so that rents and housing costs increase.

To make housing more affording, deregulate the zoning ordinances which artificially constrain housing supply.

This article in today's NY Times is about finding the only apartment less than $600K in the West Village ($595K for 408 sq feet)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/nyregion/amid-housing-scar...

The issue is simply politics and nothing more.
I am working on package for windows that can do just that. Totally portable and extensible. Based on ConEmu. But I am looking for beta testers. if anybody is interested drop me an email.

Currently it looks like this.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/cmder.png

Should work for you if you are using anything. But works out of the box with cmd + msys-git + some other godness.

Also spit window support, aliases, fullscreen, history search. Sublime Text like shortcuts.
Basic Economics (http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Common-Sense-Economy/d...). It's a thing.
Looks like a great time to start investing in undersea cabling between Europe and Latin America and between Latin America and Asia.
Whatever large numbers of talented people get into seems to have a Clump Phase and a Chump Phase.

Clump Phase comes out of highly intelligent peoples' natural desire to be around each other (clumping) even at economic cost. This goes back to the medieval universities, but now is seen in technology companies where people would rather be a average fish in a huge pond than be the big fish elsewhere.

Now you have a lot of big fish in a school, or "clump". Then the spearfishers, usually rich, fat white men, spot it, then come along and start getting their take. Those are the MBAs who swept into Silicon Valley and are now the most powerful players, despite most of them having not written a line of code since college.

When there are more spearfishers than fish, the ecosystem gets to a point where decline is obvious and rent-seeking/musical-chairs behavior sets in. That's the Chump Phase.

That's where the Silicon Valley ecosystem, with its high rents and VC supercapitalists, is now.
Hey if everyone in the tech scene wants to make Portland the place to be count me in. I'm in NYC right now but I could really use some fresh air. I mean that quite literally.
Butler, a new type of CMS built for developers
Thanks for the clarification. So weird. Was this just a random thing? Does anyone know?
I'm not sure I'd agree with that. With the exception of the one job I had in the games industry, the mid sized startups I've worked for gave me the best work/life balance and stable hours. The crazy hours of a young, small startup are well documented, but I also have a friend who works for IBM who has survived several layoffs over the last decade. He managed that because as they downsize his group, he picks up the slack. That often means working 80-100 hour weeks. He does this for years at a time, until he moves departments. Then he repeats the process all over again.

Maybe the sweet spot is mid-sized startups before they grow out of control and large companies who never seem to downsize? Those two situations never seem to last for more than a few years.
$595K for 408 sq feet in West Village Manhattan
Yes, you CAN ALL be part of this!

The world's HN readers are now the LOBBYISTS of this petition! Yes, just like the corporate lobbyists in Washington - probably even more powerful considering our numbers.

All you have to do is LOBBY the sh*t out of your colleagues in Switzerland. Everybody knows somebody in Switzerland. If the whole world lobbies the people in Switzerland, that petition will reach Mach10, like yesterday.

EDIT: Why should you participate? You get to store your data in a western country that will continue to defend privacy and democracy.
No, you buy another 2 servers at the same price, because performance continues to increase incredibly quickly, and what you got $200,000 2 years ago is now half the speed of what $200,000 gets you.

>When they scale horizontally across thousands of commodity machines, then knowledge of their problem domain becomes encoded in the scaling decisions they make and stays internal to the company.

Or to put it another way: "they create a massive maintenance nightmare for themselves like the one described in the article".

>When they scale vertically by buying bigger hardware, then they are trading profits in exchange for having someone else worry about the difficulties of building really big, fast supercomputers.

You are overestimating the cost of high end servers, or underestimating the cost of low end ones. Again, their existing redis cluster is less RAM, CPU power, and IO throughput than a single, relatively cheap server right now.

>Instead of having a proprietary competitive advantage, they are now the commodity application provider

Twitter is a commodity application provider. People don't use twitter because of how twitter made a mess of their back end. People don't care at all about the back end, it doesn't matter at all how they architect things from the users perspective.

>while if their server vendor wants to raise prices, it has them by the balls since the whole business is built on their architecture.

What do you think servers are? They aren't some magical dungeon that traps people who buy them. If oracle wants to fuck you, go talk to IBM. If IBM wants to fuck you, go talk to fujitsu, etc, etc.
Too bad you can't build more in SF because of the building height limits, which is the principle reason housing rates are absurd. If the city made sense they'd build some highrise condos downtown and house the entrepreneurs in studio apartments.
Fremont can be a good choice... Have lived there for a while and it has many convenient things:

- BART station: easy ride to the city

- Dumbarton bridge if you need to cross to go to Palo Alto (need to pay the toll but totally doable)

- taking 880 south, and then 237 you can then be in Mountain View/Sunnyvale area in 30 to 45 minutes by car depending on traffic.

- House prices in Fremont last time I checked were going up but they were still lower than the City or lower than south in SV

Overall Fremont is a good alternative choices which give you access to the City/Berkeley in 40 to 50 minutes drive/BART, and to the SV in the south.
I was living in Fremont with my wife (no kids) for a salary way less than $240K, so totally doable IMHO.
Austin real estate isn't as bat-shit insane as SF, but what I'm seeing is that there are people who are paying $10k over the asking price. And that is severely distorting the market.

Agreed that Austin isn't as "hit-driven" as SF is. Talent here is more diverse on an individual basis than other tech towns.
As a Portland resident, I agree, rents are rising rapidly.

I think people will find it a bit harder than they imagine - there's a huge level of alienation. Obviously the original writer has a job nailed down, but if you don't, trying to find work for a good company here, or remotely into SF, is quite a bit harder than being wine-and-dined by 20 people in the SF area.
That may have been part of what he was referring to by "culturally rich" ;)
Layout really reminds me of http://hn.premii.com/
well the distinction is on one hand, if it were truly a power grab, one could hope that FISA would get overturned by congress at some point...
if congress just handed over jurisdiction and just washed there hands of the whole thing, then you can be pretty certain this will never be overturned until congress has a major shakeup...

I personally am in the camp that believes congress washed their hands of this matter long ago
This is a sobering read as I prepare to move down to the Valley for work after years of talking about, and to a lesser extent dreaming about, it. One would hope that the experience for those of us who haven't had our stint there yet would still be worth it.

What say you, veterans? And what of San Mateo? That's where my new work is, and I wonder if I'd be better off living there than San Fran proper.
Reflecting on the launch of the first Firefox OS phone
It's not that teaching is better for society than whatever you do (is it? how would we really know?) - it's that you get immediate "helping someone out" feedback all the time. It must be gratifying on that level (aside from the fact that it's hard to actually reach anyone who feels compelled to "do time" in your classroom). If you feel like you're missing that "good person" feeling, I'm sure you can figure out ways to get it.
If people wanted to share things with others, the world would be an entirely different place. But people are selfish.

The city block you're living on probably only needs one stand mixer, one waffle iron, one clothes iron. You could all just share one of these rarely-used appliances between you. Why don't you?

We could already build the world you are envisioning, trivially. Any municipality in the world could create an excellent fleet of mass transit vehicles - I mean a truly excellent system, capable of getting you anywhere you want to go at a very reasonable price and high speed. But no place does that. It exists nowhere.

Because people want their own cars. They don't want to share. And the cheaper these vehicles get - a requirement for your techno-utopia - the more people want their own.

Do you think Bill Gates' car will be out delivering packages when he's not in it? Okay, now why do you think everyone else is different from Bill Gates?

> Why do you even think that centralized parking garages will be as necessary when autonomously controlled vehicles can coordinate to efficiently fill any designated parking space that is road accessible?

That doubles the road problem, not decreases it. The autonomous cars spend four hours in a traffic jam on the two-lane bridge in order to park in the $1.50 parking lot instead of the $2.00 lot. You don't mind because you aren't in them. Anyone who has to actually cross the bridge is screwed. Traffic jams are actually BENEFICIAL to autonomous vehicles - free unpaid parking and low fuel usage - as long as the vehicle isn't needed immediately. Autonomous cars will SEEK OUT and JOIN traffic jams, when not needed, to minimize their cost of operation.
Integrates with Cabal might mean that Haste can be installed with Cabal, but I'm not sure (ghcjs for example cannot).
Just make a subreddit on reddit.com. People tend to think of reddit as just a community, but it's also a convenient platform tool.

There's rarely much of a reason to overthink it - many people do, however, and even create start-up as a result!

Go with what's been tested properly and proven to work to a decent degree.
There's at least one textbook based on Wolfram's proprietary CDF format.

http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/customer-stories/developi...

(I like your visualization page – a nice way to explain that part of wavelet compression.)
Yes, but at the same time, they are doing more. You get what you pay for.
I'm pretty sure they made that comment under the assumption that your job offer was in SF. That was the impression I got reading your original comment as well.

Have you considered living in one of the many cities on the peninsula that are all extremely close to the Caltrain and BART tracks, 101 & 280 freeways, and much better schools than those in the east bay? They're also very close to the actual city you would be working in (Mountain View). Much closer than SF.
I don't think that we will have a successful large scale gov IT project like they had overseas. Still wasting our tax money for this kind of crap is shame.
> He died on the 3rd during his honeymoon

What a horrible thing to happen.
The whole point is you can get equal performance from a single server instead of a ton of little ones. The ton of little ones forced them to totally re-architect to work around the massive latency between servers. A single server would have allowed them to stick with a sane architecture, and saved them millions in development time and maintenance nightmares.
> build more

Clearly, higher density construction in NYC has dramatically reduce prices there.

There is no amount of construction in the subset of 49 square miles trendies want to live that is going to solve this problem. There are a million 1%'ers from around the world that will snap up a $750K condo before you 5%'ers can get it.
Would you mind adding a favicon?
QCMerge is intentionally different than most conferences. We don't focus on a particular language or framework. It's about everything that goes into building a successful product.

The observations in the article are things we noticed after two years of the event. We didn't set out to "attract more women," but rather to attract more people.
I live in Fremont. It's boring suburbia. Lots of identikit housing, no good restaurants, not much to do. On the positive side, it's relatively inexpensive and is 30 minutes from Mountain View, San Jose, or Berkeley outside of commute hours.

If you care about living somewhere hip and exciting, Fremont is not for you. If you're okay with suburbia that's outside the heart of Silicon Valley, but still reasonably close, it's worth considering.
I understand the purpose, I'm questioning its efficacy.
Here's a recipe for using vnc to get pixels out of a docker:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16296753/can-you-run-gui-...
Amusingly, the font is too small to be pleasant on my tablet and the layout isn't very zoom-friendly.
Has anyone tried to integrate Go with Python?

Right now, optimizing Python code by replacing critical sections with C works really well and isn't too hard to write or distribute.

How well would tooling around doing the same thing with Go work?
No cause of death has been given.

The common speculation floating around is a heart attack, but there isn't any solid evidence I know of for this.
I would certainly hope that these companies can now sue the FCC in light of these new facts.
Best of luck to you. This a very ambitious and brave project.
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No matter how life-changing a job is, the fact of the matter is that long commutes are almost always soul-sucking time-sinks that have a significant negative impact on the psychological well-being of those who do them.

Besides, the longer the commute, the less free time you have, which takes away from your personal projects and massively decreases your chances of innovating or inventing something new.
Or you could live in one of the more affordable tech hubs like Austin or SLC, work just as hard, and still grow a successful start-up at a fraction of the cost.
> Driverless cars will reduce the total number of cars, thereby reducing the total space we use to store cars.

Why would you think an invention that makes cars better would reduce the demand for cars?
Yes, many big cities are (state-sponsored) trying to grow vertically instead of horizontally.
No one has come out in regards to the cause of death. Tragic loss :(
Agree, that would be awesome!
What San Francisco Will Look Like Under 25 Feet of Sea Water
Will you make it OSS?
Is there a term for this kind of design? I'm thinking "RSS reader design pattern" when I see this JS-powered stuff.
Not the same Ryan Davis as https://github.com/zenspider.
It's easy for self-styled intellectuals to focus on the most complicated forces in a topic, so it makes sense that they would miss the forest for the trees by focusing on the law in this case. It allows a tangled web of objects to be connected in order to allow pre-existing preferences to be restyled into a dry logic, like postmodern theory or a positive Michael Buble review.

The word "relevant" is used in so many different ways because it's an adjective. You don't say "look at how many different meanings there are for the word, 'green': green cars, green makeup, green grass." The word, "relevant" is the same way, except that it takes two nouns or noun phrases, necessarily, because the only meaning of the word is to describe that they are connected, that they are germane to each other.

"[R]elevance is germane to college admissions" is a meaningless phrase because "relevant" and "germane" are somewhat synonyms. "Relevance is relevant to evidentiary rules." OK.

The context here is an argument of what the terms of relationship are and whether and what those have been changed to. The Terry test speaks to what the surveillance is relevant to. It's not a change in the meaning of Terry, it's a change in the relationship of the surveillance to a particular standard. It could be Terry, it could be something else, but at the end of the day, in the equation "X is relevant to Y," Y is the thing that's changing (or missing, if you follow emptywheel).
This is cool. I'd recommend adding some social sharing options for those who'd like to do that but still, pretty fun to make filters.
Definitely agree with you, and the phrasing will change as we improve the design of these pages. Thanks for the feedback!
What you missed was the twenty years where Pittsburgh turned into Detroit. Losing all of your industry followed by 60% of your population does that do a city. As a Pittsburgher, it's a good city with ambitions to be great, but it took a generation to get there.
I agree. I've used both AutoComplPop and NeoComplCache extensively (1-2 years each) and YCM is superior to both in terms of speed. NeoComplCache has great completion ability, but it lacks fuzzy matching, and the configuration was a total rat's nest. I've been using YCM for like 2 months and I haven't looked back.
No, torture in Guantanamo is not OK.

As for Mos Def the artist, awesome. As Mos Def the person, meh.
Being blamed for things they self-evidently do not control? Eye rolls? These are classic markers of low status.
Would there be any benefit in creating a VM on the fly, running the shell script in the VM and there reporting back on what was modified by the shell script. If all goes well, I reckon you can then safely run the script on the host machine.
The gentrification complaint always seems hollow to me. There's nothing cooler than seeing some run-down urban area transformed into a place that's more successful and vibrant through renovation and revitalization.

Some people may find that the environment outpaces their income or lifestyle... okay. Record companies found that technology outpaced their business model. The changes are good regardless what the curmudgeons think.
All forms of government (management is no different) work great under specific conditions. That Valve's flat (or pseudo-flat) structure doesn't work in all instances, or for all groups, or for all projects should come as no surprise. It may not even function well at the scales Valve operates at now, we have very little prior experience to know.

Hopefully this is a case where it doesn't work in a specific instance, as it would be a shame to see something so different and unique (within the industry) have major structural problems so early.
Nintendo makes great games.

So does Playdead
So does Turn 10 Studios
So does BioWare
So does Bethesda
So does Dice
So does Team Meat

I could actually go on for a bit but I think I make my point that having Nintendo make good games consistently doesn't compare to a more open platform that has dozens of developers many of who consistently put out excellent games.

Nintendo is far behind in terms of hardware and completely relied on their blue ocean strategy to carry them last time. They tried again and it’s not looking too good. Sales will pick up I'm sure when games actually come out but between half the people I know thinking it’s a peripheral and it having to actually compete because people are not going crazy over a gimmick I don’t think its going to do well this generation.
This is because you don't know what's out there.

Damn Small Linux runs in 16MB of RAM and provides a GUI by default:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

tomsrtbt runs in less, but provides no GUI and very little documentation:

http://www.toms.net/rb/

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news/1998122400805PR

My point is that not everything needs to be small. We have freedom of choice here, not one-size-fits-all, and we can create specialized distros for specialized tasks.
> Come to Oakland. It's beautiful here.

Unless you are talking about west or east Oakland, in which case its full of blight, gangs and crime.

Don't get me wrong, Oakland is gentrifying despite itself but I would never want to live in Oakland till they fix their failed city government and their high crime rate.
The numbers should be draggable via touch.
How Flight Experts Fly First Class
San Francisco real-estate is absurdly corrupt.

From 2004 to 2007 only an average of 2,220 units were built. From 2008 to 2012 a mere 1,710 units were built [1]. New construction has been impossible. It looks like it's picking up slightly, but not nearly as much as it would in a fair market.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-apartment-construc...
The Jetsons had Twitter as pet
How does this deal with calling arbitrary JS code from Haskell? For example, how would I use jQuery from Haste? Looks like a cool project, but that's the first thing I want to know for X to JS compilers.
"encryption.. actually makes you a target for state surveillance"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
If You Could See your MacBook’s Electromagnetic Fields
I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who want to work in a faddy industry for faddy companies in a faddy town. If you want to do real work and make a real difference in the world, get out of the coffee shop.
This is true... it's a bit pain in the ass to buy real estate within a mile of downtown in Austin... but if you go outside that it's not that bad...
He quit a dream job at Google (SRE) to follow the sun w/ a backpack and a laptop
IOS apps and games go free
I think I get what you're saying; you don't care what the law says, because you believe surveillance on the NSA's scale is wrong. I'm not sure who you think you're arguing with.

You indulge the nitty-gritty detail of the topic I'm discussing anyways, in order to dismiss what I said. But your dismissal doesn't make any sense; you appear incapable of comprehending that there's a second order of relevance at play in cases determining what "relevant" means to different circumstances. Is the color of someone's hair relevant to predicting their performance on a job? Objection! Requires court to recursively evaluate concept of relevance! Overruled.

I don't know who you're referring to when you point to "self-styled intellectuals", but if it's a participant on this thread, I'd note that nobody here has taken to calling you names.
That won't help you much with concurrency problems, however "multiprocessing" does.
Yeah, there are a few hard parts that I left out. Making it 'good enough' is hard, but for a reason I found surprising when developing the methods. Making the design look exactly right is quite easy, but making it feel perfect is damn-near impossible. The way it bends and the texture in your hands are qualities of the exact manufacturing process and materials, and you can never quite nail it with a knock-off.

That said, most people will never hand them to a customs agent, and I had reports that mine were accepted as ID by police officers on several occasions. Maybe the forger is more sensitive to the differences than most.
> How do you stop house prices from going up?

Allow people to actually build things, rather than insisting that 100 year old, wood-framed 3 story split level houses and no new ones are the perfect housing solution for everyone forever.