skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I are technically 1%-ers, and we could not oompete enough to buy a house in SF. We gave up and moved to the peninsula. As the article described, one house we bid for had 20 bidders. We bid over $200k above asking, and we were 10th out of 20 bidders. The winning bid was $400k over asking.

But am I resentful? No. It's the reality of the situation. For those that are bitching and moaning about not being able to live in SF, you just have to deal with it.

And I'm quite confident at some point, the prices will abate. The best cure for high housing prices are high housing prices.

And if they don't, then the problems that the article describes still won't come to fruition. Price inflation will creep through to all aspects of life in SF. It's not going to be a complete vacuum where only house prices increase and nothing else. As house prices increase so will the price for everything in SF, including wages.

For example, housing prices are too expensive for teachers to live in SF? Teachers from the East Bay, etc will commute to SF, because salaries will increase, especially salaries for private school teachers. If you're not aware, SF is amongst the worst in terms of schools and even worse at placement of children in schools. A co-worker had a list of approx 15 schools he wanted to send his child, and none of them were selected for him. He was forced to send his child to private school, and as demand increases, so will salaries. Restaurant prices will increase, and so will the salaries of waiters, etc.
If you visit a page, it saves the comments. I use this to bypass my anti-procrast settings. Acting against my own interest there.
It would be more accurate to say that that Shriram Krishnamurthi and his group at Brown, which are one part of the large PLT "collective", are working on Pyret. The rest of us are still working on Racket.
Here's the rub, there's a lot of "Cook is an unknown", "Jury is still out on Cook" type memes being populated by the media.

Cook has been running the company since the late '90s. I'd say he's a pretty well-known by now. Ruthlessly competent operations chief, who saved Apple from operational incompetence (by the "Adult Supervision" who fired Jobs in the first place), and probably the biggest reason why the iPod, iPhone, and iPad are successes - by giving Apple the capability to design (through operating capital), market and produce them, and make a margin on every unit they sell.

Apple being a black box due to secrecy, it's hard to tell what's going on inside, but by all we have seen, it's been pretty confident at doing what it feels it's good at. I doubt there's a "Jobs haunting" mentality there. But hey, if Yukari Kane wants to sell books...
> And I find the Google Now feature quite creepy - at the end of each month it shows me how much kilometres I walked and how much I rode on the bicycle.

Yep, that's pretty creepy. But you can get the voice search feature without enabling Google Now. Voice search was the only reason I looked into Google Now at all, and I quickly realized I could have one without the other.
Interesting. I'll try that.
You might like www.kickdex.com as well... Rather cooler than what I'm doing.
I think it's correct to say that Apple won't launch a wearable tech "medical" device until they know how to break it out of being a niche product.

MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets were all small "niche" markets before Apple entered them.
Yeah I don't want the government telling me who I can't rob, rape, and murder on my own private property either.
I wonder what the impact of a marginal $150-250k/yr single person who lives in a high-rise and rides a company shuttle to work (or wfh) is, on city services.

Roads would be a big one, but if someone uses a company shuttle and/or drives at off-peak hours, it's not that big a deal. Mass transit and roads are sized for peak-time use.

Water (although SF residents use about 10% as much water per person as people with lawns in the Central Valley), electricity (although at PG&E tiered rates, this is probably a profit center), garbage disposal (charged at cost-plus). Unlikely to depend on the "safety net" services in any way, and the marginal impact on police/fire is low as well (private security for the building, compliant with fire codes). Without children, there's no impact on schools, and I don't know of many 150k+/yr income friends who would send their kids to SF public schools.

Indirect expenditure via the private sector seems like the greatest impact -- eating in restaurants, buying in stores, etc. -- but sales tax revenue should account for most of that impact, as well as increased profits for businesses, employment, etc.
I would think that insider theft is one of the least damaging outcomes for the Gox depositors.

Unfortunately I don't know that the Japanese government is going to have the technical expertise to properly identify the theft and track where the coins have moved. I can't imagine that the thieves have managed to squander all of the 750k BTC.
Nice slope you're standing on.
The same mistake twice in a row. Another good one. Fixed, thank you!
But in developer mode it always shows annoying popup, asking to disable developer mode.
What's that emulation plugin you're using there?
This video starts to get really interesting around 5:50 or so [for less technicals], but the entire thing is amazing.
Definitely worth watching. One other point he made is that the investigation necessary for prosecution would be beneficiary to the country, citing the missing investigation after the torture cases during the bush administration.
We should also add an extension to XML that lets you omit the opening tag.
</sarcasm>
2 is a low number for a global market.
Gilbert P. Hyatt's patent applications, assignments and lawsuits can be found here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=1391559
this'll really blow your mind, then:
http://www.blackgirlscode.com/
Thanks. The challenge was meant as a way to review the different booleans, instead of 'real code'. I added a warning, but I'll see if other code would be better.
I use IRC daily at work and also at home (these days I only frequent 1-2 channels at home). IRC is still pretty popular here in Finland among certain people.
The Most Important Startup Question No One is Asking
Even on my 7-inch tablet, mobile sites are mostly just a pain in the neck. I'll almost always prefer to be served the desktop version served to me (exceptions for sites that expect me to hover my mouse over their content.) In my view mobile sites should mostly be "small display" sites, and they should be served to desktop people with small browser windows, too.

Worst of all are sites that don't provide a "Full site" link, and don't cooperate with my browser's "View desktop site" option. And don't get me started on "Try our mobile app"...
The problem with Stylish is the same problem with every other chrome extension. It can access all your data on all websites. It can surreptitiously autoupdate. I wouldn't want a person I knew to look over my shoulder while typing in my banking password, but I'm going to trust this extension with everything? I have ghostery and ad-block plus, and that's scary enough. That's it, that and my own extensions. I don't know anything about who made Stylish.
The paragraph began to self-delete..

BOFH excuse #114:

electro-magnetic pulses from French above ground nuke testing.

at least it makes as much sense as the 'Russian hacker' assertion they made.
this. Also Win+X is a nice one for the desktop.
Have a look at statsmodels: http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/ and for more basic things, scipy.stats: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/stats.html

It's not a one-to-one match, but the majority of the functionality is there.
Funny thing a few weeks ago Chrome started nagging that I have developer mode turned on because of an extension I made. It doesn't make any sense now.
Thanks for sharing. Just downloaded and am using it right now. Just the fact that I can comment once again is a huge improvement over my last daily. I was really beginning to miss my Android and its version of HN.
Same here, the ui is definitely a huge selling point for slack. IRC just looks terrible, every client I have tried looks bad and connections are unreliable. Slack is a great solution for that.
I think we are all looking at the amount of work that would need to go into this, and not looking at the simple fact that maybe PG doesn't want to manage a mobile site.

If you don't understand what I mean by "manage", then consider yourself lucky as you have not worked in the digital agency world.
"Nowhere to go but up"? How quickly we forget the last housing bubble. If the price of housing goes up faster than the salaries of the people who want to buy it, eventually we'll get to the point where demand will drop sharply: someone with a $100K income and $100K in student debt just won't be able to get a mortgage for a $2M condo. As demand drops, housing prices will drop, and people who bought into the market at the top, sure that their investment could only increase in value, will start to panic.

There are other possible scenarios for a housing market plunge in SF. For example, if California tries to sharply raise taxes to help pay for their huge government infrastructure, tech companies may decide that they don't want to be in California anymore. They're already hedging their bets. For example, Google has a sizable presence in NYC. When the first big tech company announces that they'll be moving out of Silicon Valley, the housing market will take a dive.

And it's not impossible to run a big tech company outside of Silicon Valley. Microsoft and Amazon seem to be doing OK in the Seattle area. The higher housing prices go in San Francisco, the easier it will be to recruit people to go elsewhere.
Can you file a ticket at http://crbug.com ? I can help restore the previous behavior.
2000 words of post-hoc fallacy about an IRC channel.

We're discussing here a group of people who started their careers dead smack in the middle of the dot-com bubble, practically all of them in software/network security, a field that has stayed valuable since its inception. Of course they've done well for themselves.

This would be interesting if the denizens of #w00w00 had, say, invested in each other's companies. But as I understand it (I was a #!r00t person; our biggest win was ISSX) that's not at all what happened.

Sorry to sound pissy. I'm just hoping to forestall another goofy HN conspiracy theory; the idea that w00w00 is, like, the Internet's "Skull & Bones". No.

Also, I suspect the stories about w00w00 as a "hacking group" that broke into people's machines: total BS.
YAML failed the intelligence test of getting its name right in the first place: "Yet Another Markup Language". YAML is NOT a markup language, in any way shape or form, yet the people who designed and named it earnestly thought they were designing a markup language, and that there was a need for yet another one.

Only when somebody pointed out that obvious fact to them, did they come up with a recursive retronym to paper over their initial stupidity: "YAML Ain't Markup Language". How clever by half.

I prefer to use formats that were designed by people who actually knew what they were doing and what it was called and how it was meant to be used.
I think comments are really a bad idea. If you want comments, either make them explicit properties in your data structures or use something else like YAML or XML. JSON is the most practical language out there for inter-machine and inter-program data representation.

JSON has two unique properties among data representation languages that make it useful for certain types of tasks: 1) it is very simple to write conformant parsers and serializers, and 2) the parsed representation contains all the original semantic information in the original document (excluding maybe whitespace). If you have a separate syntax for comments, then parsers must either drop the comments (making transformation tools less powerful) or parser must provide a more complex representation (e.g. like the DOM) and drop the simple map/list/scalar data model.

Please don't make JSON the next XML! Source: I spent about 5 years suffering with XML in the Enterprise Application Integration world.
i agree among consumers its high, but its still 4mil per quarter compared to 100s millions windows, android and iOS move per quarter. Also developer support is pretty poor when it comes to games on Mac and usually are buggy ports which are released 6-12 months after windows release. Part of the problem is Apple being lazy with Open GL support on OS X platform which just recently hit 4.0 with Mavericks. The situation is completely opposite on iOS where they even feature games during keynotes and went as far as to make their own Framework called sprite Kit to write games on iOS platform.
And Win+L to lock. Locking the device from the GUI is a ridiculous process.
The companies move to where the good employees want to live so that they can hire and retain good employees. I hope that explains that for you.
What I found more striking about the Disk Manager paragraph is the "which, by the way, you’ll find under «System and Security», not under «Hardware and Sound», which is where I would expect it — but perhaps I’m just weird" comment.

This seems to indicate the author actually actively goes searching for the entry. Which is nowadays not the 'correct way' of reaching it but instead by far the most ineffective way of navigating. I honestly have no idea where the Disk Managment thing resides (well, I do know) despite using it often. Just open the control panel and start typing 'disk' and click the item.
Blah blah blah Surface is good for bland office related productivity tasks. Yeah we've heard it all before.

Microsoft shills are truly the worst shills.
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I've worked on complex sites for digital agencies (30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals (10 templates, 10 plugins). Soon I will begin selling my commercial themes directly to the public.

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS/LESS/SASS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, WordPress, mySQL, ZURB Foundation (3/4/5), Bootstrap, SVN or Git for version control, Fogbugz or Sifter for issue tracking, HipChat to stay in touch. Self-taught and resourceful.

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I've become extremely jaded against intellectual property recently. Far too often, IP law is used to for long, drawn out legal battles that do nothing to help society, while costing the tax payers a ton of money.

Property is a way to deal with scarcity. Two people cannot simultaneously wear a shirt, for example, so one of them "owns" the shirt. Two people cannot both drive a car to different locations at the same time, so one person "owns" the car. Of course, you can lend your shirt or car to someone else, but the final say as to how those two resources are used belongs to the owner.

The product of intellectual labor, using this scarcity condition, cannot be considered someone's property. The only tangential relationship IP has to property is that one person uses force, namely, the government, to prevent others from using "their" idea for economic gain. This scarcity is artificial because absent that threat of force, everyone would be able to use the idea freely. Physical goods are subject to scarcity as a consequence of physical law; a car acn't be in my driveway and your driveway at the same time. (This argument applies directly to patents and copyrights, but also to trademarks in that a word or phrase can't be used to market something for economic gain.)

Besides the moral argument, which I know some people don't care about (it is subjective, of course), there is a utilitarian argument. Some act as if, without IP law, no one would be willing to create new ideas; it's as if the only incentive for creation is economic gain from a government-granted monopoly on an idea. Just take a look at the news to see that IP law is more commonly associated with patent trolls and corporate legal battles than protecting Joe Inventor's new idea.

At the very least, I wish people would stop comparing downloading movies and music from the internet as stealing. If I steal your car, you can't use it. If I "steal" a song from the record label by copying the exact sequence of bytes that represent a song from my buddy's hard drive to my hard drive, we can both still listen to the song. I understand that some people support the song creator's claim to the song as "property," in the form of IP. However, even then, there has to be a middle ground between copying against the wishes of the song's creator, and theft in the eyes of the law.
It's one issue, but I think you could overcome NIMBY opposition if the money were there. Even traditionally transit-averse LA (finally) managed to overcome the NIMBYs who had blocked the purple line in the 1990s, and is building it now. But the cost of the transit that could usefully be built in the SF Bay Area is really high, so high that it's never really had serious funding prospects and made it to the political-wrangling stage. For example, the transit situation within SF would be a lot better if a crosstown subway replaced the N-Judah or the Geary bus, but there aren't any current prospects for funding such a thing, so the Geary BRT is being built as the low-cost option.

The BART extension to San Jose is also mostly hitting cost issues rather than NIMBY issues. It's currently going to extend to... almost San Jose, the north outskirts, because the funding secured so far isn't enough to build the final portion through to downtown and connect to Diridon.
Well the University of Technology is in Kumasi so that would be IMHO a better place to start.
"The best cure for high housing prices are high housing prices."

Provided you have the possibility of actually building more (and/or denser) housing at a sufficient rate.
I'm sure he's crying himself to sleep on his pillows stuffed with hundreds over that comment.
He is describing how CSS is spec'ed to work right to you. The proposed Chrome change would be breaking how CSS works.
I hope you're wrong but fear you're right.
I think this site: http://threeringfocus.com/ is an good example of a way to create a cool animated splash without forcing an 11MB download on the site visitor.
Quote: '"The fact that the index beat the average actively managed funds doesn't mean that it beat the good actively managed funds," said Ellison.'

Yes, true, but the problem is choosing the "good" managed fund, and keeping in mind that (statistically speaking) a good managed fund is only good for a short time and is replaced by another good managed fund.

My point? The statistics of random market fluctuations assures that at any particular time, some managed fund will look good for no real reason, only because of random fluctuations, high entropy. And in the long term, an index fund is a better investment.

Investment counselors and brokers don't want you to find this out. Their business depends on the confusion of entropy and wisdom.
> It’s not an accident that the best selling, highest grossing iPad apps are almost exclusively games.

The story goes that Gabe Newell was doing market research for Microsoft, collecting data about which programs were installed on business users' PCs to get a feel for the installed base of programs like Windows (which, at the time, was not standalone and sat on top of DOS).

Turns out Windows was pretty widely deployed -- the second most installed program on the DOS machines they surveyed.

The first most installed program was Doom.

That's what prompted old Gaben to reassess what business he should be in. :)
The alternative proposed was "distributed, remote employee base", which - if it worked - would let you hire and retain good employees wherever they wanted to live (even if they didn't all want to live near each other). So your explanation alone doesn't address the issue.
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Yep, I keep trying to find an excuse to use then, largely though I end up wanting more IO than you usually find in the DIP ARM packages. With a controller as tiny as those in the article, it should be possible to turn it into a 14/16 pin DIP-like; I'm assuming that you could throw an XTAL on the adapter board, or that you can reduce the pins further since there's likely more than one ground and vcc. It would certainly be a nice toy to play with for projects since I usually don't need more than 10 i/o and if I do, i can get away with shift registers when I need more.
/r/bitcoin probably.
Such an irony. People who are creating the mobile future are not embracing the mobility and cramming into one spot.
I am not sure what this is meant to address. The worst thing for mobile users is the teeny tiny voting buttons. I believe that votes are important and are not used enough and part of the reason is fear of accidental downvote.

The other thing that could be fixed is when someone puts a very long unbroken string in a comment without putting it in a code block. This makes the page very wide, and creates an unpleasant experience.
Can a similar argument be made about the PayPal Mafia? Is there a lot of investment cross-pollination within the members, or is it more just a general sense of "lots of clearly forward-thinking people made lots of money and continue to be forward-thinking/making lots of money", a sort of reverse Seinfeld curse?
You didn't read the article and it's obvious. Just delete your whole comment. Trust me.
> "Nowhere to go but up"? How quickly we forget the last housing bubble.

The title was an obvious pun, referring to the need for high-rise development (which was touched on in the article, though it wasn't the focus.)
I used to use hn.premii.com since sharing articles from there shares the hn.premii.com link which seems to steal the page view from the authors post - I may be wrong though.

I use the HN Enchancement Suite chrome extension[1] now instead on my desktop and cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb on my mobile.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...
Which came first? Do people want to be in SF - or are they there because there are jobs?

Anecdotal, but I know people who live in SF who would rather be back in Myrtle Beach, SC - as soon as there's a similar opportunity or a remote work opportunity for them.

The quality of life and work-life balance is not in SF for them.

wyclif: I agree that more companies will solve this problem with distributed, remote teams - which is what we're leveraging to attract those folks to the Beach. http://WhyNotTheBeach.com
I love it! Microsoft, please take note, hire this guy, and get this into Windows 8.2, 9, or whatever is next.

As the OP points out, the pop-over handwriting "keyboard" is far from ideal. So far, in fact, that I feel it neuters the appeal of the pen on my Surface Pro. I don't want to lose half my screen real-estate to a special-purpose input area, be it a virtual keyboard or a special handwriting panel. Losing half the screen for input reeks of the iPad.
Endoscopy, fertility treatments, and pregnancy assistance are consensual. Forced insemination is not.
Chrome's stock developer tools.
It depends on how sleep(3) is implemented really. Usually sleep means approximately one second resolution. If you start adding fractional second sleeps, say 1.5ms is required, you start moving into real time space at which point the kernel API, userland C runtime and all sorts have to change.

Plus there are good reasons not to arbitrarily sleep for sub-second times for the sake of the scheduler. You probably should be using select or other event driven programming models rather than relying on delays.