skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it will relieve some of the demand that would otherwise be placed on housing for lower incomes.

I don't know if this is necessarily true, in the same way that if you build an extra lane on a freeway you don't inherently reduce congestion - traffic simply expands to fill the available space.

Many people buying these new apartments and condos will be buying as an investment and renting out, which does nothing to help those in housing need.
> You've hit the nail on the head. Something will have to give, as while rents can go up forever, citizen's income won't.

Since the income of people who will choose to live in the city places an upper limit on market rents, this is pretty clearly untrue -- either rents can go up forever and so can citizen's incomes or neither can go up forever.

I think that, given sufficient transit infrastructure to allow people who can't afford to live in the city proper to commute in to perform essential jobs to support those who do live in the city, that -- whether it is desirable or not -- the situation is more that both rents and the income of residents of the City and County of San Francisco can go up without bound, as residing in the City itself becomes more and more elite/exclusive.
I'm Irish. They provide 2000 jobs here in Dublin, and that has the potential to double even in the next few years.

The fact of them being here is a direct reason Facebook, LinkedIn, and a load of other companies are also here.

They're indirectly responsible for, I would guess, about 10,000 jobs.

I couldn't care less if they don't pay 12.5% corporation tax - they've provided massive social value even without it.
It's really refreshing to see some intelligent commentary on the issues SF is facing, as opposed to the mindless tech-bashing that has been going on in the local media.

The only way to have a meaningful impact on housing prices is to increase supply.
R is a scripting language used a lot in statistics and just graphing.

http://www.r-project.org/

EDIT: oops, posted to the wrong person
Very cool. What made you open source it?

Also I remember it being a bit pricier to use the API. What made you to go down on price? I'm tempted to hook this up to my app right now.
I'm plenty fit, and have real world experience; I'm just lacking experience with Django. Good developers can learn any technology quickly, and I'm one of them.

I'm working on remedying my Django deficiencies, but I don't have months and months to work on it. Unfortunately, nor do I really have the ability to travel all over the country to conferences and hackathons, so I need to make what I do count.

Thanks. :)
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So... you're seriously trying to argue with me that giving people in the same line of business, with identical morality, outlook, and financial motivation $10 will magically result in less environmental damage than giving them $4, merely because they sell their $10 product with a little more greenwashing PR?

Think about it this way... human nature MIGHT be more dramatically different between vegetarian and meat eater than it is between two farmers, one who sells asparagus and one who sells beef. Even more confusingly there are small time farmers who sell both plants and meats yet have about the same political outlook as they slop the hogs or spray the fields. Your ascribing a large difference in customers, which probably does exist, to somehow apply to a relative monoculture of suppliers, where I don't think a major difference exists. I'm not buying it.

As a PR tool, yes for vegetarians its popular to publicize animal abuse and rivers of blood from slaughterhouses and such. That valuable PR tool WRT vegetarianism doesn't necessarily mean anything WRT environmentalism. The farmer spraying god knows what on his fields which you eat from is hardly the paragon of virtue just because you don't see any animal blood.

Furthermore you're assuming I work at a greener company than most farmers. Possibly true to as many as half the people. Obviously, $10 of income causes 2.5 times more environmental damage than $4 of income.

Finally the cold hard truth is for most people, food enviro damage doesn't matter compared to their giant SUV or obese mcmansion. Or obesity in general. I'm a mid size dude, in the tiniest highest conventional MPG car I could get, living in a small old house... I can eat ten steaks a day and not cause as much enviro damage via my lifestyle as one fat SUV driver who only eats (enormous quantities of) kale. Most people are like that, and their house, thermostat, car, and job swamp any food purchase effects by a large enough factor to ignore. Food works as a "guilt sells" PR tactic, its very Puritan, and its traditional to make americans guilty about their diet to control them. But I'm not buying it. I don't think the numbers fit reality.
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Related: NYT just a few days back on "London's Great Exodus" - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/londons-gre...

>> The gap between London prices and those of the rest of the country is now at a historic high, and there is only one way to explain it. London houses and apartments are a form of money.
Still not quite safe enough for me to consider a nightly walk home from BART.

Looking for a place in Oakland a few months ago, I was amazed how blasé people were about being assaulted, mugged or having their car stolen. Much as I prefer the EB vibe, I think living under constant threat of violence would stress me out.
If they haven't by the time I am done with my current project (middle of next month) I'll do it!
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> Nice example...

That is very popular but false example.

1) In my country when there were no much phones around children played tamagochies and tetrisis. Teens used to listen to their CD and before that cassette players. Is was relatively popular among youth to read fiction books in the trains. It's a popular mantra today: "phones are evil, but book is good!". But what about cassette players - were they evil too? What if I read a book from my phone - is it evil or good?

2) It's quite popular today to stare in phones but guess what.. I used to do weekly 2.5 hours commutes between cities in public transport - and most people just stared.. in the window.. and still nobody was talking with strangers. The same situation applies to the trains. Of course people get acquainted if you are in the same compartments, but they don't otherwise (generally). So it's more a culture thing (maybe like in city - rural etc) then the curse of the phone.
People keep talking about the rising prices, but what is being done? What CAN be done? Its supply and demand. San Francisco will always be expensive because it is a desirable location for certain groups of high-earning people.

Being "progressive" is great, but we live in the real world and if you refuse to do things to lower prices in the name of culture, prices will keep going up. Ironically, this will also hurt, if not destroy, the "culture" that they're trying to protect in the first place.
I apologize that my comment was not clear.

The income of existing citizens will reach an upper limit, and they'll be pushed out by those with much higher income bounds. In San Francisco's quest to preserve its character, its pushing out the very people who create the character, and its turning itself into London proper, where only the very wealthy can afford to reside.

Citation re: London: http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/09/mapping-gentr...
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She needs to analyze the sayings of Lord John Whorfin:

* History is-a made at night.
* Character is what you are in the dark.
* Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!
* Home... home is where you wear your hat.

I'm sure it would be as illuminating as her other analyses.
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I don't know if you're an iOS guy but I've been listening to the iPhreaks podcast. There have been a couple pretty enlightening ones.
Please read more carefully before down voting.

My point is that the general public does not agree with the idea that all advertising should disappear. They just want something for free and don't care how they get it. Apparently this idea was a little too controversial.
I think you're missing the implication here. Until now, an attacker could go after Bitcoin by using superior technology to compute hashes faster than everyone else. But now, these new companies are using the best technology available. There is no superior technology that would allow the NSA or any other single attacker to compete with 28nm ASICs produced in commercial volumes.

Once 28nm bitcoin ASICs are widely distributed, the bitcoin network will be safe from a 51% attack even from governments.
Because 1) they've known all along this has been happening and 2) they don't really care, public histrionics to the contrary.
"Would it be economically viable to provide a paid shuttle service to and from SF / Berkeley / Oakland?"

Perhaps Uber should move from providing premium taxi-like service, and instead offer a 24-hour bus-like service? For partygoers on the weekend, at least?
Can't speak for Google, but Facebook certainly doesn't sell personal data. Facebook internally uses personal data to show targeted advertisements. Big difference.
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My understanding is that Netscape failed for a variety of reasons, a major reason being they decided to rewrite their entire product. Joel Spolsky cataloged it as one of the "Things you should never do".[1]

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
There are many Leap Motion games.

What makes this one stand out?
Depends on the employers. It would be really stupid not to keep the salaries up to date. It's been said over and over again, it's taught in business schools, hell you can even google a lucky "management tutorial" right now and it's written there. Management should know this, this is their job. If the employers are incompetent then, yes you should leave.
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"Abroad, where the “negotiation” consists of governments telling you what they are willing to pay, even as you know that they can always change the law to shorten your patent term so that other countries can manufacture your product, using your research for free."

The author doesn't mention any examples of this actually happening, which makes me wonder if it's just theoretical. Does it happen?

Also, how much of big pharma's costs goes to marketing? They don't have consumer marketing expenses outside the USA.
For those of children who will survive you mean. (unless you would regularly commute to the nearest medical facilities).
The Workman layout sounds interesting, though I don't have the brain-cycles to try switching. The Shift + Capslock = Escape seemed interesting though (especially for a vim user).

If you want to use it with KeyRemap4MacBook this should save you a bit of time:

<item>
<name>Change Shift + Capslock to Esc</name>
<identifier>private.shift_and_capslock_to_esc</identifier>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::CONTROL_L, ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L, KeyCode::ESCAPE</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::SHIFT_L, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::ESCAPE</autogen>
</item>
Everything in San Francisco is more concentrated than in SoCal, not just homeless people.
It's also why I prefer Boulder, Austin, Philly, and even Omaha to SF. It's time for some pioneering spirit, and with location mattering less than ever because of the maturation of collaboration tools, I'm happy to save money and let others spend it.
I think the answer to your question is in the missing directions on the threads. The goal of modular software is to have the arrowheads point in the right directions.

Uncle Bob was talking about this in his keynote about how Rails is not your application.

http://confreaks.com/videos/759-rubymidwest2011-keynote-arch...

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-arch...

https://vimeo.com/21145583
Not quite "all" the character... it's great in many ways (awesome biking infrastructure, very affordable housing, great restaurants/bars/coffee), but there's a huge upside to the weather that San Francisco has. Perhaps as a cause and effect situation, Minneapolis also doesn't have the talent pool that the bay area has.
I'm in St Paul myself, much more sedate than either and soon the green line will mean I can visit Brits pub and drink in Minneapolis as well and still have a zombie city to live in.

I thought the seasons were more, construction, and snow preventing construction.
The good news, however, is that nothing is holding you back from being successful at a young age. You just need to work hard, have confidence in your abilities, and surround yourself with positive and successful people.

Really? Just?

This is Gladwelling at it's finest.
Bingo. These types of litmus tests always get strained the more an organization grows, and eventually organizations outgrow them.

And as frustrating as these things are from the to-be-hired side, I have dozens of colleagues who strongly complain about these practices in their own companies. They always use the same words -- "false positives", meaning that someone was considered an ideal candidate but they failed the do-i-want-to-play-cards-with-them test.

What surprises me is how everyone claims to be data-driven, yet when faced with the aspect of hiring, the same choices are repeated over and over, which (shockingly) leads to the same results. In a field where creativity is important, we as an industry are forcing people to fit into a certain persona, all with the goal of being predictable, interchangeable parts. Great minds may think alike, but I've never heard "like minds think great."

As with other trends, this too shall pass.
It's nothing to do with IP; Simply what the market is willing to pay. We're not buying knockoffs, or violating anyone's IP (I'm european). In fact, the article claims the US buys more generics than we do.

We just have a completely different market, and the prices reflect that. With state-sponsored healthcare, you have one buyer who represents a vast proportion of a nation's market. The economics become reaching most the market on a narrow margin, vs reaching a tiny market on a more favourable margin.

Apparently the narrow margin scales to beat the private margin, based on those sales being made.
Hi, author here. That's a fair question! The database code I presented there isn't just to database-ify sessions, but to provide user->sessions association, which none of the existing stores do. That technique is applicable to AR stores as well as others, and essentially provides users with control over their list of purportedly active sessions. The first solution I presented was just a simple server-enforced timeout on sessions which doesn't require any DB work.

I think it's still worthwhile to use CookieStore even if you're going to go to the DB, because:

1. You only do DB round-trips for cookies that contain a valid user ID, and you're going to be pulling that user record anyway, so the net effect is a few extra bytes over the wire on DB work you were going to be doing anyway. Critically, this means that anonymous users aren't going to be generating sessions that you have to store and validate on every page with a form (as forms use csrf_token which generates a session!)

2. Additionally, less data over the wire between the app and DB. You're going to have a small list of active sessions; you could enforce that as a to a small number to ensure it stays small.

3. You retain CookieStore's invulnerability to session fixation.

4. No sweeping!

You can still put most of the work on the client, and only keep the verification bits on the server. Of course, the same technique is applicable to DB-backed stores as well, as a means to provide a mechanism for users to manage their sessions.
Wait a second.

There are two strange assumptions in this article. One that paying more for something makes it better. And secondly profits gained are always reinvested in research and development.

Paying more for something does not make it better especially in the realm of healthcare. There are lots of reports and studies that show that American spending on healthcare is one of the highest in the world and among comparable nations it's health outcomes are the lowest (basically american consumers are getting fleeced). Here is an article from our friends at Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/10/united-states-healt...

So paying more for healthcare does not mean better outcomes.

To bring it back to the drugs debate, perhaps it is the American consumers that are getting ripped off and paying higher amounts for drugs doesn't result in better drugs being developed but instead just results in higher profits for drug companies.

Drug companies are private enterprises. They don't exist for the public good, but they exist to make money. So higher profits WILL result in more money being removed and not invested in R&D. If the companies weren't doing this they wouldn't be living up to their responsibilities as corporations.
I've never understood this whole "slide-deck as self-contained usable content" thing. A big no-no of presentation design is putting too much content on a slide, so online slides without any context is little more than a tease.

Having said that, seems like a really interesting presentation! Maybe the author would be willing to put together a blog post or a video?
"Comparing it to open source isn't really possible."

I don't really understand this line of reasoning. You are running code on your servers, are you not? Your code is either closed or open. (closed) How is comparing it to open source not possible?
> There is no superior technology

I think you need to assert that there never will be any superior technology...
Do you have any kind of source on that? I've lived in Arizona all my life, and the only rolling brownouts I've experienced and heard about have been in California. Who I believe already buy surplus power from AZ.
There are some good advice on how to improve the situation in the appendix section.
I used to think that too, but then my friend pointed out that it just shifts the problem elsewhere. This is DC, not SF, but the gentrification of DC has meant that a lot of problems (as well as longtime DC residents who can no longer afford the rent) have simply been pushed out to PG County.
Entrepreneurs have biological clocks, too
I was thinking specifically of this:

When i look at the FNV-1a "number" map, i think i see subtle
vertical patterns. With Murmur i see no patterns at all.
What do you think?

Wouldn't that vertical repetition, and the other repeating patterns the other hashes form, show up as a nice spike in the frequency domain? Whereas I would expect uniform hashing to generate a flat, white-noise spectrum.
This article sounds like it's talking about a form of cooperative, without calling it a cooperative, which isn't a new idea, but certainly is one that is starting to become more mainstream. For example, the UN named 2012 the "Year of the Cooperative." I'd like to believe that people are starting to see cooperatives as a way of organizing businesses outside of only coffee shops and grocery stores.

Yes! Magazine came out with a good series not too long ago on cooperatives in operation today, their varieties, their benefits.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/how-cooperatives-are-drivi...
> You should ultimately be putting in systems that, if in the event of a compromise, you can mitigate the cost to the user.

Completely agreed - that's the gist of the DB bits there. Right now, you can terminate a compromised AR-backed session by logging out, but if you lose that session ID, then you have no control over the compromised session. If someone jacks your SID while you're on a public terminal, using ARStore alone isn't going to save you.
About a year ago I was at a dinner party with some friends that live in Oakland, off Lake Merritt. They were all recalling stories about times when they'd been mugged like it was normal!

Another friend of mine tells me about shootings she's seen outside her window as recently as a few weeks ago. She's only a few blocks South of Lake Merritt around 18th and 5th.

I'm sorry but I wouldn't feel at all safe living in that area.
Reminds me of the Tiger Mom's philosophy of parenting in which their children won't enjoy any of their activities (and usually they don't), that is, until they get good at them.
All I need to assert is there will never be any radically superior technology that is accessible to the NSA long before it is accessible to commercial bitcoin miners, and I think that's plausible. The NSA doesn't innovate in semiconductor fabrication, Intel and TSMC do. The only way the NSA could plausibly gain a significant hash rate advantage over commercial bitcoin miners is by breaking SHA-256, which has nothing to do with hardware.
As of 2008, somewhere near $58 billion/year.

"From this new estimate, it appears that pharmaceutical companies spend almost twice as much on promotion as they do on R&D."

[1] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
There are still some bugs, but the author is fast at fixing bugs. I have been working on razor code, and found a bug on Thursday, he fixed it on Friday.

What I like the most is the speed. nxhtml/mumamo is too slow and sometimes it is even unusable.
An agenda-driven article based on an unsupported anecdote (that lots of his friends are moving to Oakland) and topped with a click-bait headline.

If there was really any net "exodus" going on, landlords wouldn't be raising rents 25-30% each year.
I will be adding advices from the discussion here, so feel free to comment! :)
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I think this is a really valuable approach to try, thank you.
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See, this is why I love Baltimore. We've got charm out the ass AND our rents are low.

Quite frankly i'm disappointed in how cartoonish SF's neighborhoods seem. Here's the hippie burner neighborhood, and here's the spanish hipster neighborhood, and here's the rich white boating neighborhood, and here's the dingy chinese black market neighborhood, and here's the financial district complete with skyscrapers and shops that close at 6pm. It's like a dirty spicy version of DC.
Just not possible in the sense that a hosted solution has the expectation that everything is managed for you. An open-source solution requires you to do the work of setting it up, configuring, handling traffic spikes, backups, etc...
I find it ironic that proponents of bitcoins tend to argue that:

1. Bitcoins will take off because it has tiny fees for wealth transfer.

2. Future mining to keep the blockchains up will be supported by transaction fees.

If all this mining power has to be kept up as the 25 bitcoin bonus runs out then the transaction fees could well end up just as high as the current 2.9% + 0.3 seen everywhere.
My spin on that was not that these things should be completely ignored, but that you should be informed and act on them; if you're not going to act on them, don't constantly consume the news about them.

I don't completely agree with that. I do read about those topics; I don't necessarily act upon it, e.g., engage in climate change research but I do use that information to inform my actions, e.g., what I purchase, how I vote, etc.
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Google has started resorting to some odd and arguably evil tricks as well: http://i.imgur.com/gqJAfH2.png

"Your channel will get a new page on Google+" only appears after checking "No", and does not show up if checking "Yes".