skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are a shitload of rent stabilized apartments though ...

http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html#d...

"Rents Stabilization FAQ

See also Rent Control FAQ's

Is there a difference between RENT CONTROL and RENT STABILIZATION?
What exactly is rent stabilization?
Can my landlord evict me and use my stabilized apartment for his family, and how many apartments in the building can he take?
What happens when the rent for my stabilized apartment rises above $2,500?
How can I find out if my apartment is stabilized?
Can the management company sell my stabilized apartment?
Similar buildings in my neighborhood are stabilized - why isn't mine?
Should my landlord inform me that my unit is stabilized?
Disclaimer: By providing answers to frequently asked questions, the staff of the Rent Guidelines Board attempts to clarify the often complex programs and regulations governing landlord tenant relations in NYC. However, the information provided herein does not represent official policies or opinions of the City of New York or the Rent Guidelines Board nor should this information be used to substitute for advice of legal counsel.

Is there a difference between RENT CONTROL and RENT STABILIZATION?

Some of the people who email us say "rent controlled" but actually MEAN rent stabilized -- they do not know the difference.

Why is it so hard to be accurate? There is a difference between rent control and rent stabilization, as only about 38,000 rent controlled units exist vs. about one million stabilized units, and rent control has a different set of regulations than rent stabilization.

The term "rent regulated" encompasses both rent controlled and rent stabilized units. By the way, the Rent Guidelines Board has the responsibility for setting rent adjustments for rent stabilized apartments. We have no jurisdiction over rent controlled apartments, which is the responsibility of the NY State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR).
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I do think web programming is going to be become commoditized in next 10 years or so. Don't get me wrong, the salaries will still be livable, but for the kind of websites the OP talks about, there's going to be more supply then demand.

That said, I do think there will always be a need for people who are willing to solve tough problems using methods and technologies that may not be cool, but are effective.
Yes we know.

Ladies now smoke as much as men do. In my country young women smoke now more than men. You don't smoke to be a man anymore(stupid male reason), now you smoke for getting slim, or looking "sophisticated" or any other stupid female reason.

Females now work as hard as men. In the past they had to raise the family only, now they raise the family and work with all the crap of working(stress), they eat the same fast food shit that males do(obesity), they sleep as bad as men do.

Females now use hormones for not getting pregnant, breast and ovary's cancer incidence has gone up.(they survive more years through).
Looks closer to percent urbanization. Migrant farm worker land not looking very blue. My pasty white state matches pretty well with urbanization, not so well with racial variation. This explanation doesn't seem to hold in other areas.

I wonder how well it corresponds to grain related pesticide and insecticide use per county. This seems to work, Los Vegas is not exactly a legendary wheatfield. CA has a lot of agribusiness but not as much grain as Iowa or Montana. Ahh the waving cornfields of Manhattan Island NYC. It seems to match up...
Quote from the article: "I don't romanticize the bad old days. I find the drop in crime over the last couple of decades refreshing. Manhattan and Brooklyn, those vibrant playgrounds, are way less scary than they were when I moved here. I have no illusions that there was a connection between that city on its knees and a flourishing of creativity; I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit. But I also don't believe that the drop in crime means the city has to be more exclusively for those who have money. Increases in the quality of life should be for all, not just a few."
Without getting in the middle of this, I'd just point out that you're both right -- roughly 38k rent controlled units, about one million rent stabilized units. Apparently there's a difference! http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html#d...
A hyperbolic call to action is more useful than no call to action at all. This sort of article really rubs me the wrong way, I apologize for my overly abrasive tone.
Thanks.

I realise that my comment up there will be downvoted into oblivion for expressing an emotion (and this one for remarking on the downvoting), but in all sincerity I don't understand why people do this.

A landing page is not a movie poster. It's meant to sell something. To sell something customers must know what that something is.

Even luxury goods companies -- the fondest of vague advertising -- have a picture of the product so you know if it's a handbag, a bottle of perfume, a watch etc.
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There certainly is a small community on AirBnb that has shades of Couchsurfing, but I disagree that it's at all a substantial attribute of the system.

AirBnb has always been angling to be a hotel (or at least Bed & Breakfast) replacement.

Unfortunately AirBnb doesn't have an API, so I did the best thing I could: searched for rooms vs. whole-apartments in a way that would actually give me counts.

In and around Greenwich Village, NYC: 634 whole-apartment listings, 132 private rooms in apartments, 6 shared rooms.

On the Upper East Side: 126, 13, 2

In Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: 146, 50, 2

In Park Slope, Brooklyn: 559, 196, 5

In Astoria, Queens: 107, 111, 7

Moving away from NYC to SF...

In the Castro: 238, 129, 3

In North Beach: 176, 67, 9

In SOMA: 421, 197, 63

Or another state entirely...

In Capitol Hill, Seattle: 130, 55, 9

In Belltown, Seattle: 96, 16, 6

All of the searches were performed with the default filters, with the additional filters being only geographic bounds and type of listing. Now, I've got experience with all of the neighborhoods listed here, and they're all places where locals actually live. We're not exclusively at, say, Times Square.

I realize you've had good experiences with AirBnb, but I've argued, and still maintain in light of this data, that AirBnb is on the surface property-based, and is also beneath property-based. There seems to be a subcommunity dedicated to the more Couchsurfing type of experiences, but the data is stacked against them. AirBnb likes to borrow and quote heavily from this subcommunity in an effort to appear more populist and grassroots, but in reality the vast majority of listings on AirBnb are dedicated rental properties, not situations where the host is even present.
Well, for one thing, the "impossible" comes with large error bars and thus is difficult to trust, even those trained in the sciences (or, perhaps, ESPECIALLY for those trained in the sciences). At least the pragmatic buys time, if nothing else.
Is there is a "news" version of this story? The press release makes it hard to understand what the actual issue is, and what happened.
I don't think you've done anything to substantiate the claim that it's "too complex"; forgive my skepticism but I've spent enough time in both the Scala and C++ communities to draw a significant line between "too complex" and "critic hasn't learned it sufficiently" (and I've been on both sides of that line).

I have spent a nontrivial amount of time with Kotlin and Ceylon and neither are particularly interesting to me after actually internalizing and understanding Scala; as an example, I am significantly hampered by their continued insistence on mutable-everywhere (which is basically the watchword for "barely adequate programmer"). They may very well be "the next Java", but that's a curse more than a compliment. You should not need Guava to write minimally competent code.

Meanwhile, as a sibling comment notes, Twitter's a lot bigger than Yammer and pretty vocal about going whole-hog on Scala (and I've talked to them a little about what they've done, it's insanely impressive, I'm jealous). Guess they're just making things hard on themselves for no reason though.
Just because something is well-established doesn't mean it is right. "He" is obviously not a gender neutral word because it refers to a male. Now why should you make an effort to use correct language here? Because it matters. Language forms thought and if we continue to add genders to professions such as programmer -> he, nurse -> she, laywer -> he, au pair -> she then that has detrimental effects for the excluded sex.
In reality the easiest solution for this would be to build yourself a time release cellphone or something. A simple time release power switch pulls, then the phone tweets the key to a strong encryption scheme. Build the phone into the walls of a cafe or something, maybe a bit of redundancy (multiple cafes) / and photosensors to detect discovery and disable/destruct the phone.

If you split the key redundantly between the phones, you should be fine.
Crazy idea: he wanted to live in SF. It's a dream for many millennials to live in SF/NYC/Chicago, including me.
It looks interesting but if it can't be self hosted. I'm out.
sorry- it's linked from http://blog.dwolla.com/register-for-beta/
Georgia tech does that "half way" as well

http://www.dlpe.gatech.edu/dl/

I agree seeing the rest of the way would be good.
If you know the right people (and have an adequate amount of cash), then you can be damn safe in former Yugoslavia.
I've just submitted my application.

I've got an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in "Information Technology" and an associate's degree from the Community College of Rhode Island in "Computer Programming." I did both of these degrees almost completely online, part-time, working a full-time job to pay my tuition. Getting enrolled into a master's program for me has been a huge challenge. Many universities do not want to talk to you unless: a.) you've demonstrated independent research, and, b.) you have an undergraduate degree in computer science.

I'm currently a non-degree seeking student at Brown University. This has only been possible because I work a job where I can shift my hours around to attend courses during the day. When initially trying to obtain "non-degree" status, my previous education wasn't even part of the discussion, my experience as an Erlang engineer working in the distributed systems field was.

I find the online master's degree idea extremely compelling. I want to keep learning, but I don't want to drop everything to go back and do a master's degree. I imagine this is the case for many people who simply can't quit their job because they have other financial obligations, or a more restrictive work schedule.
Silvrback is really nice and interesting. Why not reimagine publishing from the ground up using Markdown syntax?

This is what we're trying to do with http://markdawn.com/. The reason I'm leaving a comment here is that the app is not ready for a “Show HN” yet (or maybe it's just a designer/engineer complex for not doing that at this time).
http://blog.dwolla.com/register-for-beta/ (sorry should have included- but only can give one link).
Rent Stabilization isn't all it's cracked up to be. Everyone I know in Rent Stabilized apartments has dealt with large rent increases with some regularity.

Even so, rent regulation is _not_ the problem. It's primarily the parking requirement and secondarily the zoning issues. All the co-op and condo owners who dominate most fo the neighborhoods affected WANT it to be this way because it keeps the price of their homes up.
People make assumptions (snap judgments) based upon "externalities".

People bully and exhibit prejudice (both effective strategies, by the way; why do you think they persist?) in order to secure their own advantage.

Choose a role that fosters negative outcomes in the former and fosters and facilitates the latter, and you can be in for a lot of grief.

Flower up the language about this however you like; at base, this is a substantial reason.

Is it "fair"? No. Is it reality? In my opinion and experience, yes.
Would it be OK if the services they build take one year to respond? They care about other things too.
we'll be out of USA in the near future. Sorry!
Thanks. Fedex and Tom Cruise's center tooth.....
Your homework is weird, because you are just evaluating a function instead of evaluating Maxwell's equations. Check out FDTD.
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Is it actually impossible to query the DB asynchronously in PHP?
I disagree, in some ways it's even less like a hotel than renting a room. In a hotel you expect some level of service (a bellman, a receptionist etc). Should I rent an apartment or home on airbnb I expect the keys and nothing more.

Should it be substandard, or not what I anticipated from the listing, I expect to be able to report the condition via a review on AirBnB. I don't expect a refund should I decide to stay there, unless it's specified in the host's policy on the website.

I don't expect it to always be spic and span, but if a particular place is, I'd be happy to leave a positive review. I don't expect there to be a new bar of (crappy) soap in the shower. But that's only the negative.

I don't expect the host to spend hours talking about the local area, or even giving me a tour. Sometimes that happens on AirBnB, quite often in fact, even when I rent the whole place. It's never happened at a hotel, though I expect there's a concierge service which can arrange such an experience, except a professional one at a price.

It's just a different experience, and frankly, I will never stay at a hotel again (unless AirBnB is banned or has no availability from a particular area). Yes, I'm taking a risk of a messy place, or bad host, but a risk that's mitigated not by some governmental regulation (which rarely ensures quality), but rather by the AirBnB community which I've come to trust a lot more anyway.
You need years of life lost stats not just lifetime frequency. My grandmother's heart didn't get her until she was in her 80s. If she had a miracle perfect heart well maybe she would have made a couple more years at most till the kidneys, or the liver, or something else got her. Unfortunately I know of too many women, practically girls really, who get cancer in their 20s or maybe 30s. Without the cancer they'd probably have had another 50 healthy years before the heart disease got em.

Edited to add you hear a lot about people dying of heart disease when they're 30 because its shockingly unusual, usually heart problems kill bluehairs. But cancer always seems to strike someone like my kids friends mom who's only 30something, that unfortunately seems normal for cancer?
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Looks very nice. I'd actually consider using this.

Questions:

* I like that you support tags. How do you browse tags?

* Customizable URL slugs: so if I want to date my archive URLs I have to manually type in '/archive/2013/10/07/slug' each time? Is there any way to template the archive URLs?

* How does your archive page scale when you have thousands of posts? https://dsowers.silvrback.com/archive

* As others have mentioned, I'd really prefer a free trial than shell out money (I understand it's not much) and feel like I wasted it if I poke around for a few minutes and find it's not for me.

* I had a question about exporting data but someone already asked it :)

* "Your homepage... will show the latest three posts in full." Is this customizable? I often have a bunch of short posts that mostly serve to keep track of stuff I read and find it later. I'd rather show the last, say, week's worth of content instead of a fixed number of posts.

* Full text search?
I'm not a big fan of the Wall Street Journal but they've published a steady stream of articles on asset forfeiture abuse. That is from someone in government, or even a local law enforcement agency, deciding you've committed a crime and taking nearly all of your assets before any trial.

One statistic points to $500 million forfeited in 2010. That was a doubling since 2002, and something that did not even exist roughly 40 years ago.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...

There are many different US government agencies that can seize your assets, without trial, for a large number of reasons. This is not limited to you drugs or organized crime, but rather someone's belief that your money came from something that was illegal. In a case going to the Supreme Court next week, what they are being charged with may not even be illegal. The WSJ appropriately titles the article "How Prosecutors Rig Trials by Freezing Assets."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732411040457863...

Unfortunately bitcoin is not the solution. Because, if you attempt to use it to prevent asset forfeiture now your breaking money laundering laws. So now you can end up in jail even if you never did anything wrong in the first place.

Additionally, a judge could put you in prison indefinitely until you disclose and transfer your bitcoins. Unless you are facing the death penalty, and have a whole lot of bitcoins, you probably don't have much leverage.

Finally, the public paper trail of bitcoins will make it hard to "hide" them. I'm going to guess some of these regulators are split between liking and hating them. I would imagine that they are already piecing together the puzzle based on subpoenaed data and what is better sent to them from US compliant exchanges.

What is the solution? Making people aware that they are not free. That anyone in the state, local, or federal government has the ability to seize all of their assets at anytime. Making sure they understand that if this happens, they better have friends who will graciously front them hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars or else they will be seeing a public defender.
Yea, that doesn't sound right.

Can you give a little more detail on what's happening?
If you already know the material, an hour long CLEP test can get you out of just about every required elective most degrees have.
I'm actually the one that wrote the last two nasty parts of code, not the author himself. I'm really sorry that it confused you.

I actually don't remember why I wrote them like that, but I'm pretty sure I had a reason (at least I think I do..)

Again, sorry about that.
Does it matter? What would the FBI do with them?
Or you could just use Octave, which is an open-source Matlab clone that has almost all its core features:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
> >fat shaming is bad, and stupid

> No, it's not.

Yes it is.

> Obesity is unhealthy and usually the result of bad habits.

Shaming isn't therapy for bad habits, and "usually" wouldn't justify it even if it was.

> All the ex-fatties I know think this "fat acceptance" crusade is bad and stupid.

And...so what?
We're talking about two different things here. I'm talking specifically about rent control.

I know what I'm talking about, I live(d) in a rent controlled apartment since birth.
> Processing power, memory, and power consumption are still a pretty big deal in the mobile sector and offloading all these responsibilities to build the view client-side are a huge mistake.

See, I think the fix not using evented programming with tangled callbacks but spawning a (green) thread. Just because PHP does that model inefficiently, shouldn't be a signal to dive into evented programming but find something that does that model right.

Some example: Python's gevent or eventlet based servers. Java's vert.x server. Go, Erlang, Rust. All support a more sane model I think.
Just a reminder these classes will be available for free on Udacity as well. To me that seems like a better option for the first round of classes.
I think we are approaching this from different angles. I am thinking of a single contrived M for whom a simple copy input to output is the primary supported operation and all other operations/modes, although still capable of performing arbitrary computation [hence able to execute 'compressed' programs if you should wish to attempt to provide them and also, by definition, still Turing complete], are exceedingly clumsy/verbose.

I have not only the transition function but 6 other entities to define to accomplish this (really 5 barring the 'blank symbol') so I am certain that it is not only possible but likely much smaller than one might think at first. With such a small M (that penalizes attempts to compress T0 and J1), and a large T0 [such as the code base for Microsoft Windows ported to F#] and an even larger J1 [such as the same code base written in C], we still see my desired result.
That's exactly one of my many complains about Scala (and about type inference in general). Type annotations are not there just for the compiler, they also help readability / documentation.
I agree. I spent 6 months living in Toronto and trying to find an affordable place to live downtown was difficult (I ended up about 30mins north of downtown).
Did you read the whole piece before commenting? The author specifically mentions the hardships you describe.
I don't think he really proved his thesis. It seems like NYC is churning out artists at a faster rate than ever before. Most of our finest amenities and cultural institutions are thoroughly available to the 99%. I was at Brooklyn Bridge Park this weekend and it just felt like the pinnacle of urban society. The underpriveleged get cheap lacrosse lessons (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/nyregion/adding-diversity-...), Smorgasburg was grillin' up maple bacon, the hibachis in the picnic area were firing, kids were swinging on tires, there were soccer teams and amateur anglers pulling in East River bluefish. It was utterly spectacular.
Just out of curiosity, as someone who has been using C++ a lot for two years rather than 20, do you use a lot of the new C++11 features? I started in 03 and can't think to go back to no smart pointers, move semantics, threading library, or > > template closing.
Hm...

You may be right. That's actually pretty depressing... it means there may be no improvement... just a general worsening being masked by female immigrants.

I wonder if female immigrants were excluded from the populations used in these two studies?
I have what is probably a unique view here.

I am a US educated Indian programmer who finished half a PhD here and got a master's degree in CS along the way at a top school. Since then I've worked at fb, apple, and yahoo.

But I have also spent some time earlier in life taking a course at NIIT, which was at that time the most common vocational school for programming in India. I say vocational because you are only taught the bare minimum you need to build an app or a DB etc. No fundamentals, and no ideas on why things work they way they do.

They take anyone who can pay as a student.

A large portion of India's IT workers have gone through such courses and learned the basics of one language and a few web queries. They have no motivation in the area (as the OP says), and just want to make a living.

So what you get is many people with no passion and inadequate training. They definitely serve a purpose, but it is very unreasonable to expect them to write clean code with a salient architecture to solve difficult problems.

There are of course the exceptions who go through NIIT and then teach themselves everything else they can, but these are the exception.
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Yet another blogging platform for which I need to use 'ctrl -', resulting in a content-width of less than 600 pixels, which looks ridiculous on a modern monitor.

I still don't get the 'large print' trend. Yes, I've read all the so-called 'pro's', but the content still looks ridiculously sparse to me.