skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look back 30-40 years:
* Places like the Lower East Side of Manhattan were magnets for broke artists because they were dirt cheap places to live.
* San Francisco neighborhoods like SOMA were similarly inexpensive. A few people with meager incomes could go in together and rent a warehouse to live in.
* London had numerous squats: housing stock so unvalued that it wasn't worth stopping people just moving in for free.
Think about property values in those places today.

In the past 60 years we've witnessed a remarkable cycle. First you had the "white flight" to the suburbs starting in the late 1950s or so. By 1980 the general consensus seemed to be that central cities were doomed forever to poverty. Now the trend is reversed and people want to pour back in. However, the regional population is much larger than when this cycle started so central housing has become a scarce resource.

The article is mostly about forces particular to the London market though. It is amazing how high property values have gone there. I live in San Francisco so I think I'm fairly accustomed to high prices, but visiting London and seeing mews houses going for £3m still blew my mind. Another peculiarity of the UK market is that a lot of property trading are just leaseholds, so you don't even really own the house after you "buy" it. (There are "freeholds" for sale as well, but that's even more expensive) Lovely city, but it does make you poor.
The way to tell if a particular analysis of Microsoft's performance is baseless is the complete omission of the enterprise division in the analysis.

Here are revenues by division:

>Windows Division: 1.09 billion profit on $4.411 billion in revenue
>Servers and Tools: $2.33 billion profit on $5.502 billion in revenue
>Online Services: $372 million loss on $800 million in revenue
>Business Division: $4.87 billion profit on $7.231 billion in revenue
>Entertainment and Devices: $110 million loss on $1.915 billion in revenue

The Server & Tools revenue grew 11% just in the last quarter. The writer may dismiss this with a counter argument, but not even acknowledging its presence shows that the writer is extremely shortsighted and only wants to talk about iPhones/iPads and casts doubts on the rest of the "analysis".
For those of us (probably most of us) that would rather read quickly. Links from talks,

http://www.servalproject.org/

https://arkos.io/

http://mediagoblin.org/

http://cryptosphere.org/

https://www.zerotier.com/

http://drogul.us/
Visual Studio is probably the best way to write C++. Windows is probably the best operating system for the enterprise and is ahead of OS X and Linux in bringing a desktop OS to tablets and touch laptops. C# is arguably the best language for writing enterprise applications. Xbox arguably won the console war of the current generation. Kinect is the only consumer product like it. Surface Pro is probably the best desktop replacement tablet. (disclosure: microsoftie)
I'm a fan of Banksy's work. But a huge part of it's appeal at this point goes beyond a visceral response to the piece and gets wrapped up in social currency. "Come see my stencil art" doesn't really pull like "you see my new Banksy?"

That's actually not even a statement about Bansky, in truth, it's about the way the art world has evolved in general.
Ah, great. http://www.whitehouse.gov/we-the-people-temporarily-disabled
Watch that counts down your life
Yeah, I went to Tmob a few months after their big relaunch/remodeling/whatever that made quite a splash in nearly every blog as the "end of bullshit"

The results? well the plans were just as expensive as those from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, except that Tmobile had by far the worst coverage of all, I didn't get any signal inside my office.

The plan mobility was crap as well, with some plans you were stuck and couldn't move, they wanted me to buy a new SIMcard to change plans and I had to get the new one from one of their stores in particular else it wouldn't work. Why do that if not to keep me locked in a crap plan?

They said it was the end of carrier trickery but they forced me get a ridiculously expensive plan in order to be able to pay for an additional international calling service, meaning that I had to pay for a bunch of crap I did not need just to be able to qualify for that small extra feature.

Overall my experience was pretty bad and Tmob's new strategy can be summed as much ado about nothing with a lot of fine print in the middle.
Wedding dresses with sleeves
Why is the cost of the MacBook relevant at all? She could've had this previously, been given it, or received it second hand.
May I offer a minor note? More correct English would be "Available for hire" rather than "Available for hiring".

These look great. Kudos!
In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
Linksys is no longer owned by Cisco:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys

> The Linksys company was founded in 1988. It is currently owned by Belkin, who bought it from Cisco Systems, its owners from March 2003 to March 2013
You're right. There is hard work in managing a system of services where any service endpoint can change at any time. It appears to me protocols for negotiating upgrades between services are important and there's no widely deployed solution for that yet.
His goals were minimums. Probably there were a few times when he was on a roll and kept going.
They might be pieces collectors have seen before, but on the other hand they're crucial parts of a one off performance piece, and I'd bet that adds value for collectors.
Ya, nice!
Bear in mind, I have no particular love for the company (I'm typing this on my rMBP right now). But I like to acknowledge good work when it happens. I know that all of these can be argued against, and some of my choices below are easy to argue as not great software -- but compared to any other competitor is still better (e.g. if mail and calendars are so easy why aren't there loads of Outlook/Exchange competitors?)

- Remote Desktop is really good. VNC is "ok" but my God I miss Remote Desktop in the Apple world

- Pretty much any MS-Office product, highlights are Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook. (Much better on Windows machines than Macs BTW, in much the same way iTunes is better on Macs than Windows)

- Visio, not without it's quirks but other competitors are all "ok"

- Project - are there any serious competitors?

- OneNote

- Explorer, I've yet to see a file manager as good. It's lightyears beyond the abomination that is Finder for example. I could go on, but it's probably one of the reasons alternative media organizers are not as common on Windows machines as Macs

- Visual Studio - I can see some arguments one way or the other, but it really is a world-class dev environment.

- Online Office apps are easily the best office web apps by far

- SQL Server is actually very good.

- Flight Simulator

now outdated, but top of the game for many years
- Midtown Madness as an open world driving game

- Encarta was awesome

- Halo series

and hardware
- the Xbox systems

- really nice mice and keyboards

- Xbox controllers

- Kinect

- the surface pro is actually a pretty amazing full fledged portable PC, I'd put one up against an Air anytime, except it has the slight edge of the much more robust Windows software ecosystem
submitter: any particular reason for this link? The Hobbit movies aren't due until mid December.
Aren't API requests limited to 60 per hour if Unauthenticated?
Actually, even consulting a lawyer won't shield you from legal issues.
Or legal action!

Of course, shooting people over "legal action" sounds crazy, so to make yourself sound better you'd better keep talking about guns.

Edit: Here's a good example of the alternative to shooting people, from Bob Brown, former leader of the Greens here in Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/as-...

a) it works, and b) if you can't find 1000 people who are also willing to come and protest, perhaps your cause isn't that worthwhile?
Not really... FaceTime only lets you do iOS to iOS. Wifi calling lets you call any phone number.
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The biggest problem with Microsoft after say 2005 was that it let things like Windows and Office drag it down to the point that if things competed with either, they were killed with fire.

For example, look at what Ray Ozzie got built with Azure, or what J Allard did with the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune, and Courier. Azure was in a prime spot to do what Amazon ended up doing - being the computing platform for the cloud. Instead, nobody at Microsoft wanted to listen to Ray because selling Windows and Office on PC's and servers is the thing that drives MSFT today. Thus, if it competed with either, it's not going to get the kind of respect it deserves.

Look at where Microsoft is now on the consumer side. J Allard and his team were basically paving the way for Microsoft to make great consumer devices. Zune basically gave them Metro UI, Xbox 360 showed them how to do consumer hardware and supply chain management worldwide, and they were working on the Courier about the time the iPad hit. Microsoft did nothing with it and the iPad replaced literally millions of low end Windows laptops and netbooks. It took Microsoft something like 3 or 4 years to have an even competitive touch tablet experience with the Surface, and then it bundled desktop Office on a touch device.

The iPhone debuted in like 2007 and Microsoft is still peddling a desktop mode Word Processor on a touch tablet as a good idea.

The Surface launched without consulting the one team that had shipped tens of millions of hardware devices at Microsoft - the Xbox team and consequently built about 3 million too many Surface RT units which cost the company $900 million in losses.

For as much as Microsoft is trying, and they really are trying, Windows and Office are as much of a curse as they are a blessing in the modern era of devices, services, and the cloud. Where they end up is anyone's guess, but all the people who seemed to "get it" at Microsoft the last 7 years or so basically got ran out of the company and I have no idea if the people who are still there really "get it" enough to compete with the likes of Samsung, Google, Sony, Amazon, and Apple.

Also, remember when Microsoft was so terrified of Google owning search that they tried to buy Yahoo! for $45 billion? Imagine if that had gone through.
Almost everyone was indeed eligible. Freakonomics did an episode on it, and there is a study on this affair since it was pretty well documented.
You're really looking at this from so many incorrect ways that I'm not really sure where to start.

First of all, "good ideas, theory and philosophy" only go so far when we're talking thousands of more developers and billions of dollars. Excel, is pretty awesome but it's not perfect. I often find myself using Open Office because of some UTF8 issues when importing data into Excel. I own Excel but I use Open Office just as often.

Visio, Access, and PowerPoint were purchased by Microsoft. Sure they continued to develop them, but at one point I used Access for 5-6 years and it hardly got any major features when Microsoft upgraded Office. So, these great innovations didn't originate with Microsoft.

The major reason that you don't see much competition with Office is because of their proprietary formats have basically won. People don't want 99% compatibility, they need 100%, so other vendors have fallen out of the game because they can't make the same level of investment.

As for being easy to learn, I think if you Google "Microsoft Office classes", you'll find that lots of people still require training. Just switching to the Ribbon Bar caused problems for many users.
Oh so you imply they all was forced? Hell no. It is just better than clerq in 7 11 for 5 times less salary
The regularity of ADTs is nice, too, though tagged unions feel weird in dynamic languages.
Maybe those with a lot of accumulated bitcoin from drug dealing are now afraid to spend it. A portion of the bitcoin inventory is offline, boosting prices for the rest.
If you're talking about a marketplace of ideas and collective action, fine. I'm all for communication without oppression.

But a marketplace for violence is just as bad or even worse than the implicit violence of the state in my opinion. While I believe that sometimes violence might be necessary to oppose tyranny, I don't know that I trust the 'justness' of a system which presumes anyone employed by the state should find themselves subject to that kind of threat. Eventually (inevitably) it would wind up being used as a tool for political and ethnic genocide. Or petty crime.
It's not stupid at all. I've been using three language learning apps and they all have streak features. That feature is helping me maintain a level of commitment far greater than I ever would have done if I said "well I'll just study big next time".
Am I the only one interpreting this as more of an art piece than, I dunno, something that should be put in D3 with a shiny explorer interface so you can find out how many times they drew a smiley face at 3AM? Sheesh.

Neat imagery, and it makes me wonder what mine would look like :) I suspect you could make out where my IDE/browser tabs usually reside.
Is it more amazing? I doubt I could tell the difference between an amazing violinist and a competent one.

That may change given even an hour comparing between some great players and those that aren't as good at some time in my life, but I've never had that hour.
BitTorrent Sync seems to have done a really good job of making a decentralized system easy to use. Their pre-shared-key method of connecting computers is really simple for people to understand, and supports a wide variety of potential use cases.

Incidentally, I'm working on an open-source competitor to btsync called clearskies (https://github.com/jewel/clearskies).
In economics, degrees serve the roles of prior selection filters, ability to complete tests, and easy to understand signals of approximate knowledge level.

Autodidacts can never hope to match the prior selection filter, but it seems conceivable that the knowledge level signal could be recreate through a credentialing equivalency test of some sort.
I devour books, sometimes for technical knowledge, other times for context. But in the end, it's all just part of the data input process.

How valuable any given bit is, whether it comes from experience or reading, is entirely subjective based on the entirety of the blended data set, my state of mind, the needs of my core project at any given moment in time and my desired outcome.

Plus, as Amanda Palmer said, "We can only connect the dots that we collect," so if books allow us to collect more or better dots faster, sometimes faster than experience, why not add them to the mix?
Microsoft has done quite well financially, but where they look bad is when you see how much Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc. have grown in the same period.

One thing I learned in business school is the measure of a CEO is not whether or not they did a good job, but rather if they did a better job than someone else in the same position. It's hard to look at Microsoft in the last 10 years and think that they have done as well as they could.
> Apple still contributes to open source A LOT.

Oh wow you capitalized "A LOT". I am sure you'll be able to list at least 30 large known open source projects actively maintained or contributed to by Apple.
As of October 1, Boehner no longer has the option to bring a vote on HJR 59 (House Joint Resolution 59, or the clean budget resolution passed by the Senate), and asserts that amendment to it must occur, as well as discussion with the Senate, prior to further consideration (since amendments to a joint resolution must be approved by both houses of Congress), and "[Sec. 2.] Any motion pursuant to clause 4 of rule XXII relating to House Joint Resolution 59 may be offered only by the Majority Leader or his designee."

Only Eric Cantor may make a "privileged" - prioritized for vote - motion to dismiss an amendment on the HJR 59, also as of October 1.
>>Why do apple fanbois find it necessary to make sure we know they have an apple product? They can never just say "my computer" or "my phone". Bleh.

Polarizing and derailing in this manner makes you sound like a complete jackass.
The Joy Of Being Unable To View The Link Because It Is Down.

Might there be a mirror somewhere?
Site didn't load for me...

http://web.archive.org/web/20130822142217/http://www.feld.co...
Strata 2013 - How to Interview a Data Scientist
The same reason you're not allowed/frowned upon to record law enforcement in public. They don't want you to have evidence of their wrong-doings. It's not about the phone per se, it's about the phone's audio/video recording abilities. I'm sure video-cameras aren't allowed either.

EDIT: Wow, those downvotes. My mistake for posting on controversial topics at night.

EDIT#2: Spoke too soon... :)
I'm not sure what you mean; that was exactly my point. His exposure was likely minimal (I can't recall anything suggesting he was close to any criticality assemblage tests), but his exposure level is still more or less irrelevant. It's basically impossible to separate anyone involved in the Manhattan project that didn't die immediately from exposure from expected background population cancer rates.

That's stated pretty explicitly--even for those few most directly exposed in accidents--in the discussion section of the paper you link (which my first linked paper was a followup study to, 20 years later, btw), and it was found to be true in the larger population of nuclear material workers in the second paper (who were, indeed, working in an environment where much more was known about how to control the dangers of what they were working with).
Didn't work for me as you wrote this post, but works now.
How entrepreneurs think
This. part pf street art is the 'vandalism' aspect. in banksy's case there is almost always an ironic play on this. in others, we've seen thinkgs in the uk like using "powerwashers" to do grafitii, as a relief of light (clean) against normal (dirty). oh, and this selective washing was "illegal", and deemed "vandalism" even though by most sane standards washing a wall (however selective) would seem in the public interest. But the marking of the wall (claiming it as your own) is the inherent social transgression...sad statement on our modern world. Yes, and none of this gets communicated with the same techniques ex-situ.
Lean Startup Myths
I struggle to imagine why the caps lock key exists, and if so I can't imagine why it is typically so big and placed in one of the best spots on the keyboard. The only time I ever use the caps lock key is to turn it off after I have accidentally pressed it.
> what did America get in exchange for doubling the size of its government between 2000 and 2012?

That's a valid question. Working from www.usgovernmentspending.com, I found the increase to be about $1.7 trillion. $300 billion is health care, mostly Medicaid; $500 billion from increased defense spending, and $300 billion in transfer payments, including unemployment, food stamps, SSI, and the child tax credit. Inflation accounts for about $500 billion as well.

So to answer your question, "what we got" is that we are able to pay for the increase in medical costs, the increase in the number of people needing assistance, and the War on Terror. With the exception of the military, these increases are mostly in reaction to the changes in the economy, not due to new policies. Hopefully an improving economy will lift incomes and reduce the need for these programs.
Why should you be allowed to use a cell phone in US immigration areas? I find it ridiculous that people feel the need to be able to use their phone wherever they want. No one complained about not being able to use their flip-phone in hospitals, government areas and air-planes...
I don't disagree. I fire up much simpler ASCII editors quite frequently to just get stuff done. But they're really worth learning beyond the surface level use-cases as extra tools in the toolbox.

re: Keynote - I think Keynote tends to just produce better looking presentations, but you'd be impressed with some of the ways I've seen Powerpoint pressed in to service that had nothing to do with presentations. A few of them are so useful to me (e.g., Powerpoint is actually a pretty decent easy-to-use graphics and chart maker, vector graphics tool, logo designer, UI mockup tool etc.) that the ability to do those things are so important to me that I won't switch to another presentation tool until they can do them.

edit

for example, I made this entire image out of nothing but powerpoint vectors and a few power point vector effects

http://i.imgur.com/qK7XxM5.jpg
> "... a credentialing equivalency test of some sort."

Like some kind of degree, issued by an accredited university?
Repudiating the National Debt
because the government doesnt respect the US constitution anymore and you are the enemy. get it now?
Relate this to Dunbar's Number and an effective small business. Dunbar says 150 total for a social group. But we operate across multiple social groups, across all realms of life, not just your job.

If you wanted to put together an elite group of excellent professionals, how big do you suspect that could be? In other words, how large should you let your company get before you spit it down the middle into two subsidiaries? My guess: 125

125 = 150 - (5 close family + 5 extended family + 4 close friends + 6 extended friends + 5 extracurricular friends)
Overreaction.
>Cities are expensive because space is constrained (artificially in many cases) and lots of people want to live there.

That has ALWAYS been true, so cannot possibly account for today's prices. The last decade's price increases have been driven by the lack of other perceived safe haven investments. Treasuries/Gilts pay below inflation now. That money found a new home: property in tier one global cities.

>The author makes note of the low "property taxes" in London which is just spurious.

Oh come on. Would high taxes on a house make it a more or less attractive investment?

>A £5m house does not generate 10x the garbage of a £500k house.

THIS is spurious. Irrespective of whether that's true or not (it's not: a £5m house probably takes up more valuable land, which is made valuable by everything surrounding it - transportation, shops, parks, etc.), it still doesn't change the fact that low taxes make property a much more attractive investment.

>It's true that the current state of the global economy has meant that fearful foreigners have brought their money and bought property

It's foreigners who have checked out every other safe investment and seen how pathetically they pay. Seen the interest rate on Gilts?

Some are also (rightly) fearful of their home governments (Russians, Chinese, Arabs), and want to park their money in a country where the government is unlikely to decide to confiscate it one day.

>this tends to be at the very high end of the market which shouldn't be affecting the middle class that he's referring to.

Except:

A) It does affect the middle classes too. Prices filter down. Everybody who was buying at the high end of the market and gets priced out buys something lower down, which prices them out and so on. Land used on expensive properties is not available for the middle classes.

B) It's not just the very high end of the market. London property is being shopped all around the world, from Singapore to Hong Kong to the US as a safe investment for upper middle classes. I could show you a hundred glossy foreign magazines advertising property which is "close" to some tube station on the Piccadilly or Northern line 13-15 stops from the center.
Buddycloud.
I hope when you say you will make comment thread "more civil" you're not just talking about commenters calling each other names but are also considering the comments here in favor of sexual assault as unacceptable.
"fanbois" is not a word
It's a result of low interest rates and mortgages being the only way that most people can leverage themselves.
Never found another editor that allows such easy key swapping [ for ( and ] for ).