skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't live in a HOA either, intentionally.
The ratio of free vs nonfree housing varies greatly by geography and date of construction. In some markets almost all SFRs are nonfree and in others almost all SFRs are free.

However, none of the above discussion about local real estate variations and trends conflicts with or relates to the observation that those who complain the most about landlords statistically seem to live as a subject of a HOA or in a condo.

Also some zoning and CCR regs are almost as bad as a HOA. And some HOA are not too bad. Most of them, on the other hand...
While reading this I couldn't help but feel sorry for this guy. What a depressing and uninspiring life to pour all your energy into one thing and at the same time sacrifice some of the best years of your life. For what? A start-up and the promise of becoming rich or tech famous?

We are all social creatures. The inability to be social is most definitely a problem, and leading a lifestyle that deprives you of a stimulating, diverse group of friends is damaging and unsustainable.

I'm happy this guy ventured out into an unfamiliar social situation. People are often afraid of doing stuff like this because they think it will be uncomfortable. And, indeed, sometimes it is. However, that doesn't mean you need to become anti-social.
I would imagine that it's hard to separate cause from effect in the case of well-known schools and employment performance. The cumulative benefits of working challenging, rewarding jobs should pile up throughout a career. Naturally folks with an easy-to-sell pedigree are going to have a good shot at securing those jobs.
Your glib bias-accusation is unimpressive and unresponsive: Cato cites verifiable details about the particular point I was making, that single-payer systems often do "prevent any doctor and patient from doing whatever they wanted, at their own expense".

Similar to the claim that under ACA, no one would lose a plan they liked [1], the claim that single-payer will still allow full freedom to work outside the system is a pre-implementation falsehood used to build support. Hell, it's even in the name: "single-payer". You have to crack down on competing payers, or your price leverage slips away, and voters stuck in the single-payer system get angry that they're facing the political cost-benefit rationing that others aren't.

None of the other-country "single-payer"-ish systems cover even 1/4th the population size of the US. If single-payer can work so well for cost-control in the US political reality, why doesn't it work for Medicare, and the Defense Department?

[1] http://networkedblogs.com/Qy7JI
I usually hear them referred to as stellar systems. But like my sibling comment said, they are trying to say this stellar system is a second "solar system" due to its similarities.
Having your status considered the baseline is a part of privilege. Folks who fall outside of that baseline face real negative consequences for it. Both "the majority is privileged" and "the minority is disadvantaged" are true at the same time.
Very nice looking application. Congratulations.

Is there a buddy list or menu bar applet, or do you have to have the full app window open to see who is online? Also, I didn't see it mentioned in the list of supported services, but does this work with Apple iMessages?
If you are posting this as a quick hack for remembering stored but forgotten passwords then excellent.

If this is more about browser security, that is expected behavior.
Just replace solar with stellar.
Awesome. I've been looking for something like this to replace Adium. While Adium is great, it feels nothing like an OS X app.
The search bar close, "Highlight All", "Match Case" buttons moved to the right side of the screen while the addonbar close button is still on the left side.

At least with the addons I have installed moving the close button of the addons bar is not possible.

I prefer the old position of the search bar buttons. The new one forces me to move the mouse to the other edge of the screen and also look at the opposite sides of the screen.

Unlike other elements it isn't possible to change the positions of the search bar buttons.

Not sure why they changed it. Could it be a bug?
Really? You don't see a notable distinction between "over a million people panicked by fictional news" and "one grandma panicked by fictional news"?
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This quote from a local official sums it up: taxes. Or, lack thereof.

"We shouldn't use the Bay as a lost opportunity for that which can be done on land. We need to ensure that whatever this permit is applied for actually fits into what the Bay should be used for."
Regardless of what you do people who are bleeding out in the middle of a street or who are delirious from fever won't be acting with price sensitivity.
Their patent describes use of wave energy.
It was nice having an easy target to win a sponsor prize, though. I know I got a whole extra app written with the eLance winnings from that event. :) Wasn't even trying or expecting for anything to happen on the winning overall front since I was the only coder on my team.
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Tor or i2p if you're into crypto and/or making the web safer.
Take interest in the things you find interesting
I second the removal of the "Powered by WebRTC" paragraph. You might wanna test a version of the page where the copy focusses a bit more on selling the benefits instead of on the features.

Looks like you're building a cool app, good luck!
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If a few dozen or hundred people were fooled and called in to complain, that would be worth an on-air answer. It's still a long, long way from the "over a million" that was claimed.
> On average, society would come out worse

That's a massive leap in logic. Society isn't a simple one in, one out metric.
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Looks very good and promising. However, I wouldn't pay $10 without at-least seeing the app in action. A trial app would be nice.
To pile on to this, when my daughter was born the doctors were going on and on about how her Frenulum[1] was too short and our daughter wasn't going to be able to talk properly. They brought in some Stanford research paper and everything, saying "It hasn't been approved yet, but it's Stanford." That's when my nonsense-detector kicked into overdrive and I just gave them a blank, non-smiling, stare. Of course I did not do it, and now our 3 year old daughter is talking up a storm just fine and clear to everyone.
To this day, I suspect that lady(or her son/daughter in med school) just needed some test subjects for some medical research paper or something and all the medical staff involved knew they were just trying to make our daughter a test-subject.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum_of_tongue
Looks like just Facebook/Google Hangouts/XMPP is supported. You can undock chats from the main window and it acts sort of like a buddy list.
Well, by your own metaphor on _average_ society would come out the same, by definition. (I suspect you meant median).

As a result, it sounds like you're saying "screw you, I got mine". We can flip the question around: why does this majority deserve better opportunities? There aren't very good answers to that question.

The main thing I'd point out is that unlike your metaphor society is not a zero-sum game.
> What is the argument for making things harder for the majority, to equalize things for the minority?

Nobody is arguing to make things harder or worse for those with privilege. Generally people are asking for equal consideration and opportunity and a recognition of past and existing injustice.
Well, I still disagree with you with respect to that law, because I think you're stretching consumer rights cover disliking a product. The point of Apple's forum isn't for warranty-covered tech support, so going in and bitching about a product is both nonconductive and distracting. If Lessig has a problem with his iPhone, there are channels he can go to for support, as well as other channels where he can voice his opinion. Besides, there are defamation laws in place already, and they're broad enough.
The lack of self-awareness was hilarious:
http://americablog.com/2013/07/frances-gayest-homophobes-str...
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"If You Like Your Insurance, You Can Keep It."
OK so the majority has some privilege just from being the majority. But that isn't a moral failing, something they should be ashamed of, something they shouldn't take full advantage of, or something they can change. So it doesn't seem to have anything in common with, say, racism or sexism.
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A decade or so back medical specialists received a financial bonus each time that were called into a Florida emergency room.

A friend of the family was unexpectedly laid off, with insurance expiring at midnight the same day. She had the first of many grand mal seizures around 3 hours after the insurance expired.

The doctor who was first called in to the ER specialized in one type of cancer. He mother suspected she had a second type of cancer, and if so would be eligible for a free research study. Because she didn't have health insurance, she got whatever doctor the hospital assigned and she kept getting this guy. He refused to sign off saying she had the second type of cancer and he refused to admit her to the hospital, even when she was having more than 4 grand mals a week.

About a month and a half after her mother initially contacted them, she got them to look at her records, and the research team determined that she did in fact have the cancer they were studying and flew her out to their research facility. Unfortunately, by the time she got there, the researches said the cancer was 1-2 weeks beyond the effective window for their proposed treatment.

In the meantime, Florida legislators were working a bill to eliminate the bonus for specialists called into an ER. The young lady returned to Florida in time to see the bill passed. On her very next trip to the ER for a grand mal, the doctor that had several dozen times previously refused to admit her to the hospital finally admitted her (now that he wasn't going to get any more bonuses from ER visits)!

To add insult to injury, the young lady was a veteran from the first Gulf War. She died a little less than 3 months after being laid off. The VA still hadn't processed her paperwork to get her in the system.

It was not only excruciatingly depressing watching this young lady and her family's battle with cancer, it was a serious wake-up call about the problems with our health care system!
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Nice, simple and fun.

There's a bug in an error message in the 'Compare' feature. If it can't find one of the two actors, it always says it can't find the first one.

e.g. http://www.cinemabuff.net/comparison/?q1=Sam+Rockwell&q2=Jon...
Datastores are only visible on dropbox.com (but somewhat buried there) and via the API, so this isn't much of a concern.
VoltDB uses a partitioned data model. For OLTP apps that fit within that model, it's incredibly fast and there's no global transaction. For transactions that span partitions, yes, there is a lock. If your app fits the model (and a lot of transaction processing does), then it's quite amazing. For instance, one model I've played with is updating customer balances in realtime. If I partition everything on CustomerId, then I can insert new charges and update balances at extremely high rates (over 50Ktps per node, at least).

If your app requires (edit: a significant amount of) transactions that have no locality, that is multiple arbitrary rows might be updated in any transaction, VoltDB might not be for you.

If I understand Spanner, it, too, has a somewhat-partitioned model, with parent/child relationships, correct?
I almost fell out of my chair when I read this. What a breath of fresh air! Zero domain knowledge doesn't prevent most HN users from just making something up on the spot and spewing it as fact.
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At the risk of “citation required”... Really, you can show “thousands of customers” who generate up to $15 of income for every dollar spent with you?
2028? Its incredible how we're using 18th century understanding of intellectual property in the modern age. The monied interests have really figured out how to game this broken system.
Facebook isn't doomed, they're going to end up like Yahoo, in my opinion. Granted some consider that worse than death.

Their core product is going to grow stale and begin to erode. Younger demographics will abandon the uncool service in favor of the latest platforms. And there will always be a new, cooler service for young demographics to join instead of the network where their parents hang out.

The dominance Facebook once enjoyed will peak and fracture.

People don't stop using Google because it's boring (which it has been for a long time, it's a search engine after all). People will however never start using Facebook in the first place if it's lame. I'd argue we're going to see a lot of that in the next five years, as the first teen generation to have a wide adoption of smart phones comes through, with tons of good apps to choose from. And to the extent that younger users sign up for Facebook, they'll use it a lot less.

Five or six years from now, Facebook will be a slow growing, very mature social network. They'll be profitable, and Wall Street will be bored, and will give them a drastically lower multiple (leaving their stock not worth much more than it is today; $4b or $5b in profit * 20 to 30 multiple). It'll probably stick around in that stagnant shape much like Yahoo has, for a very long time.
I'm not sure I understand the question. Dropbox uses Python heavily both server-side and client-side. Does that help?
You have to offer a trial at least. The app looks nice, and I would be willing to pay 10 bucks for it, but not before I tested it. So, your turn.
I agree in principle. But I've got to get stuff done in the real world. I don't have an extra week to read the 22,554 words of JUST the video/audio spec in HTML5, and try to figure out not just how all the browser versions differ from each other, but also how they differ from the spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/video.html

Sometimes user-agent sniffing is the only remotely sane thing you can do. Blame the browsers, not the programmers who have to work around their "idiosyncracies".
Ditto.

And I'd also like group chats to be supported. But it is very pretty!
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You mean it doesn't make sense to spend $10 million just on a building to house marketing for a new product in one city on a platform at sea? But KPIX 5 is the CBS News leader for San Francisco! Surely they couldn't be misinformed.
It's a challenge to be a popular company that everyone would like in their market. Yet, in every single city there are differing rules that govern taxis. I'd LOVE to have Uber in Portland but the local Government is the road block. In cities that Uber is available, they're growing.

I love this company and use them any chance I can. I know that they're doing everything they can to be the best company and the best service for those that want to use them.
When working in a quiet environment I prefer not to listen to any music.

When working in an open floor office (which I hate when coding) then I fall back to white noise or ambient music in combination with a good noise cancelling headphone.
Yeah, it's self-referencing, but it's called just before being passed into setInterval. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/oh84ZLV.png
Taken to its logical extreme, you could argue that sometimes it is advantageous for a society to harvest the organs of a healthy person, so that multiple people can have their lives extended through transplantation. Eugenics can also be argued for by saying that there's a net benefit to society.

One argument against this is based on the philosophical concept of a Veil of Ignorance[1]. We should create the rules of society as if we don't already know what our position in society will be. No one wants to live in a society where they could be randomly selected for organ harvesting, for example.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
>None of the other-country "single-payer"-ish systems cover even 1/4th the population size of the US.

That is 100% meaningless. Cost per patient is the only metric that matters. Its the same old right-wing canards that get pulled around here by the same ultra-conservative libertarains. I am so glad you are on the losing side of history.

Imagine if I said "Whoa whoa, you can't open a giant factory in the US! No one has ever made one so big!" and you said "But my cost per item and cost per worker works out." Its madness that this kind of thinking is artificially applied to healthcare, like its some special industry immune to all the rules and can never, ever be regulated or be made in single payer like the Europeans have been doing for decades.
You're the one showing bias here. I never said unions were bad, just that there is collusion across the system because there is so much money to be had. And I include the nurses unions in the lot just as I included every other party in the system. If you haven't noticed, nurses are doing better than most of the rest of the workers whose real wages are actually falling.
Maybe try clearing your Chrome cache?
Love this. We made the same choice for our startup.
>Is it even possible to have intelligence without it being a black box?

That depends. Do you believe in Cartesian dualism, or atomic monism? If you believe in a monist universe where minds don't reside on some other plane of existence, then plainly a mind must be explicable to a sufficiently smart other mind, because after all so is everything else.
I agree, data center seems more likely, but there are strong hints already that Google Glass sales will need extra space. Google has been having fitting events so far with large areas of buildings dedicated to it and they are only servicing small batches of testers and conference goers so far. You can Google the Google Glass pickup experience and see pictures of the Chelsea office area and MV area, etc., people bragging about the champagne, ice cream, valet parking, etc..

As someone who has worked for smartphone OEMs, it is entirely possible a reduced return rate would be worth having extensive pickup experience options like this. Return rate was a huge consideration. If you have a high return rate, carriers won't even carry your device in their stores. Similarly, Samsung is having a big issue with Galaxy Gear watch returns right now.
Thank you for that link. Quite interesting. That being said though it is not a fair recrimination or charge. The problem is one of relative terms. Of course there should and will always be disparate income and wealth based on choices and circumstance. The problem arises in the immeasurably disparate and unbalanced nature of wealth and income distribution.

You have to keep in mind that even when talking about wealth and income distribution in the USA we are only just talking about the most obvious of disparities, the pile of snow on the tip of the iceberg. We don't talk about the value of soft disparity in things like opportunity, privilege, access, and corruption.

Your last sentence is the the one at the crux of the next step in human social and economic development. I pose that it is the linchpin keeping shackles on the vast majority of humanity.
My understanding is Vertex Array Objects are one of the core browser improvements that asm.js taps into to make C++ based game engines (unreal, rage, unity) crazy fast.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154994-epic-mozilla-releas...
Mine as well. It will change you for live, and from my experience meeting other expats, I think for the better. You get a whole new perspective on both origin and destination countries. Even if you go back after a few years, you'll be changed.

No, going somewhere on holiday for a few weeks/months is not the same. You have to live and make a living there.
> Growing up in a poorer neighbourhood, the native friends I had were able to play football, have school lunches, go on fieldtrips, and go to university when I could not because they were paid for with tax payers' dollars.

Everyone should have access to these things, that some first nations people got this while you didn't isn't a problem with first nations people, but society at large not caring for its members. Of course, it is important to remember that first nations people experience that lack of care in unique and often violent ways.

> My grandparents were not even in this country at the time, it was not my ancestors nor me that hurt anyone. So I should have less because of what someone with the same skin colour as me did decades ago? Doesn't that seem a little, I don't know, discriminatory?

You or your immediate ancestors didn't have to be there to benefit from that past and the situation it fosters today. You frame this as you being targeted to get less, which is really far from the truth about how first nations people live in Canada today. Finally, no you are not being discriminated against, you are benefiting directly and indirectly from past and current colonialist policies in Canada if you are white.
I'm assuming you can't use iMessage with this? Looks incredibly, but iMessage is a vital part of my workflow throughout the day.

I also agree with others that $10 is a steep price without any form of a trial.
If your house burns down and you receive the check and don't spend it repairing your house, oh well.

If you get cancer, get a check to cover the total expected cost of treatment, and don't spend it on treatment, the hospital can't refuse you treatment when you show up with serious symptoms.

Plus I'm not sure I'd want to receive a check for the "average lifetime cancer treatment cost" because it would sure suck if you case was more complicated than the average case.
Using an older phone, Firefox is unusably slow and Chrome is not even available.
We actually use an Android app on a rooted ACTV, strapped to a hexacopter to map out Wifi hotspots. It works in limited tests, but for obvious reasons we would never take it out into the real world.

It's a really good, cheap, embedded platform. I wouldn't be surprised (despite the so called firewall) that Motorola engineers are working with the WIMM Labs folks on the Nexus Watch.
"You are most certainly correct that buying a house for cash would make sense, but if that seems like a truly viable option for a younger family then you have lost touch with reality in a big way."

Well, yes, my point is not that you would do it, but someone "must" see it an do it. Its like the old joke about getting an economists attention and pointing to a $20 bill laying on the floor, and the economist refusing to pick up the $20, saying, "thats impossible, by the efficient market hypothesis $20 bills can't be laying on the floor ready to be picked up by anyone."

If my house maint only cost $200/month long term I'd be pretty happy. Or it would have collapsed around me as I live here. The killer isn't so much the multi $1K class expenses like roofs and HVAC, but the $750 appliances, theres so darn many, all value engineered to fail in five years, and the uncountable $100 trips to home depot.
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It's a Neal Stephenson book. By definition, the paperback version weighs as much as 3 or 4 Kindles. The hardcover version can be used for strength training.