skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have a strong enough social welfare net (or enough resources there-in) to care for folks that need care; but, we're not comfortable letting them starve on the streets either.

The result? Essentially innocent people, like the property owner, get "stuck" with "it's your problem now" where various agencies give contradictory mandates, backed with fines. How was property owner supposed to respond when told he must get rid of the illegal dwelling, but also told he can't evict the tenant?

I mostly sympathize with the property owner here. As a tenant, especially a tenant in an illegal or undocumented dwelling, you have to expect that a day of reckoning will come. Even property owners can be "evicted" (eminent domain), much less a property renter.
U.S. spy agencies adopt new IT approach
I didn't see this mentioned in those articles, so I figured I'd mention it: If the level has a lot of geometry, you could also make a BSP tree, and then at runtime you'd just have an O(log n) lookup, plus an O(m log m) running of the same algorithm on a pruned subset of m vertices stored in the BSP node. Each BSP node would contain only the edges which can possibly be seen from a particular area. The tree might be kind of big, though.
Nonetheless, it’s a good time to be a Bornstein in San Francisco: in the past year alone, Ellis Act evictions have risen 170%; since 1997, there have been 3,811, and that number is constantly rising.

The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to increase supply, as described here (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO) or here (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francis...). I've posted both links before but we keep seeing stories like these and the solutions remain the same.

The technology necessary to increase housing supply (steel frames, elevators) is a century old (http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valle...) and well-understood. The problem is almost entirely political.
USGS Calls Oklahoma Quake the Largest “Human-Induced” Earthquake on Record
Chinese Memes: Lazhu 'One Expressing Emotion'
"Growing up in Van Phuc, a village outside Hanoi famous for silk-making, Nguyen (pronounced nwin) never imagined being a world-famous game designer."

As Nguyen is a very popular Vietnamese name, I'd thought to bring this up.. It is not pronounced with an 'N'.. wikipedia has the correct pronunciation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen
I feel exactly the same. She even got a $14k resettlement fee! If she didn't want to be evicted out into the cold she should have been a little warmer to her landlord and neighbors instead of being such a nuisance.
Another whine story. I do feel sorry for those people that legitimately deserve it. You know, women in the middle east who are beaten or stoned to death for not wearing berkas, or orphans in Africa dealing with genocidal warlords.

But this lady could live perfectly fine on her social security if she would move to somewhere she could afford. Living in San Francisco is something a whole lot of people want to do. That's why it's so damn expensive. I want to do it too, but I don't want to pay that price. That's ok, you shouldn't get everything you want. It's a privilege to live there, not a right.
What a hellish process to go through eviction. No wonder the rental housing market is so out of whack in SF. Becoming a landlord is a major headache.
I've been thinking about building a twitter bot for many of the reasons outlined in this post. I worry about the detrimental effect that this could have on the twitter ecosystem though; it will be difficult for twitter to block chrome extensions. There is obviously a lot of potential if done correctly, and it seems that followr is moving in a non-malicious direction.
> Chinese cities are the highest cost of living areas in China, but it's certainly not because of liberal regulation.

Try failing harder. The primary factor that makes the cost of living high in Chinese cities is their property bubble, which is a direct result of government regulation. Foreign investment is restricted for Chinese citizens and weak property rights under the authoritarian government make other types of domestic investment risky.
People still have the game, his money was being made of in game ads, which are still running for the people that are playing. I'd say he's probably doing fine.
Units of the Modern World
Here is Paul E. McKenney's announcement of the release: http://paulmck.livejournal.com/36854.html
It's nothing but the broken-window fallacy in action. If I didn't want to pump my own gas, I'd pull into a full-service lane instead of a self-service one... but the market has pretty much spoken on that issue. I don't know where I'd even find a full-service lane anymore. There is almost no demand for it in the absence of coercion.

(Yeah, yeah, I know, I should STFU and move to Somalia...)
You are a retard nigger.

I'm the Pope.

God says...
game_over absetively_posilutely what_planet_are_you_from
it_was_nothing fer_sure What
I would rather not pay someone (in the form of higher gas prices) to do something that takes nearly no effort, and I can damn well do myself. Who is so lazy at they can't get out of their comfy seat for 2 minutes?
It is worth pointing out that AsterData and Redshift are built on pgSQL. From what I have read, this is due to licensing issues. MySQL is ok but I'm unconvinced that MySQL is a good option for single instance terabyte size databases. I'm not sure if pgSQL is any better but you hardly see large unwieldy pgSQL instances. Large slow MySQL instances are everywhere. And it's frustrating.
It's not about the convenience of staying in your car. It's about the cronyist/protectionist attitude of not letting different business models have an opportunity to serve consumers with various price and service mixes.
I appreciate your comment and think you're absolutely right. The experiment actually tries to make use of some cool animation effects while keeping a strict grid, so I'm happy you liked that part.
I am working on making the UX better by adding an interaction that uncovers the hidden blocks as the mouse approaches the edges of the full-size block. I'll update as it progresses. Thanks!
The 17-year-old raking in $45,000 a week
Wikipedia: No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
So, that is an interesting point you brought up regarding the psychological factor of knowing that your well-being is tied completely to your job that prevents you from making rational decisions. But we are speaking about this from the perspective of a well-adjusted (presumably) adult.

I'm going to do something I shouldn't and try to imagine myself as a teenager again (urgh), and whether or not I would have ever held down a job if I had guaranteed money to fall back on. There are times I think I would have done it, and times I could easily see myself throwing hands in the air and going home to play video games at the first sign of adversity.

The whole exercise leaves me wondering, even though I think the 'Basic Income' is an interesting idea for replacing needs-based programs, whether or not these individual choices, acted out en masse, would cause some severe productivity problems down the line. We aren't post scarcity just yet, after all.

Not that it matters. Most of us will be dead before something like 'Basic Income' ever makes it to the US. We are still hanging on to some pretty severe depression-era baggage.
While I agree with your sentiment the real world isn't so simple.

The primary qualification of a good reporter is access. Access to sources, access to documents, access to hints from people in power and access to confront and interview people in power.

For a reporter there's a fine line between gaining and keeping access and using it to do reporting. Access relies on trust, reporting often relies on breaking it.

Since people in power have the ability to cut you out of the loop you need to be very careful about what you write else you'll find that your calls aren't being returned, you aren't being invited to press conferences and can't get interviews. Which makes you useless as a reporter.

Source: A lot of my friends work in media, and quite a few of them have relations to the political game, have interviewed heads of state, etc. Most of them are truly troubled by this state of affairs, but what can they do?
Yeah seeing that reminds me of a consulting job I had decades ago. "We're the customer: don't blame us when your software won't run on our servers!"

"OK, just set LD_LIBRARY_PATH."
> As an example of how incredibly dumb it can be to reinvent the wheel

That's a misunderstanding. It's like saying "Java is a reinvention of Haskell". Neither is a reinvention of the other, they are two very different beasts. You don't have any OS whose entire state (package and configuration) is described at a central location and can be recreated by a single command (outside of research projects, possibly). You may disagree with the approach they take, but such a blunt dismissal dismisses at the same time any kind of original approach to a problem.

Speaking of which, you speak in favour of shell as a solution to automation. What you are saying is that you push the complexity on the side of the shell script developer. In my experience, declarative systems tend to have more complex innards, but it also means more maintainability, and a flow much easier to understand. This is the kind of tradeoff you make when forsaking sysvinit in favour of systemd.
By the end of the first term it was clear that Obama ignored a lot of his promises. What really surprised me that people still believed him enough to elect for the second term.
Ha, when I was a kid there was a criminal in my city named Nguyen Thanh (I think he might have been on the run or wanted for a warrant or something). One day I was playing an online game and saw somebody who had "nguyenthanh" as their username. I freaked out and ran to my dad, excited to tell him that I'd cracked the case. Much to my dismay he explained to me that those were 2 of the most common names in Vietnam.
Go read the Supreme Court's ruling in Raich. Upshot: they ruled a violent raid on a terminally ill old lady's home was legal because her home-grown state-legal doctor-monitored half-dozen pot plants decreased demand for illegal interstate commerce.

If they want something illegal, they'll torture the law until it agrees.
> When the current owners, the Withrington brothers, purchased the property in 2002, Inge came with it.

> In San Francisco, a landlord can’t evict a current tenant just because they are selling or buying the property; by the time the unit was purchased, Inge had already been living there for ten years, and she had no intention to go anywhere. Since Inge's unit was illegal, her landlord had even fewer options in the way of legal recourse.

If the new owners were willing to come clean to the city about the illegal unit, then I don't see what the issue would have been. Being the new owners, surely they could not be held responsible for the crime that was committed by the old owner, right?

It seems to me that the only reason why their hands were bound is because they decided to not notify the city immediately after the property became theirs.
Yes, exactly. For many people this is enough. Twitter is still very useful as a one-way social network.

I follow CNBC to keep track of business developments. They don't need to follow me; they don't need to know when I'm shopping at the mall. :)
> that number is constantly rising

That's a lie: http://infogr.am/ellis-act-evictions
It uses Silverlight to prevent piracy.
The editorial linked-to is worth a read: short, to the point, and harsh, almost as if they had summoned Hunter S. Thompson from the dead to write it. The editorial does miss out on naming the CIA's acting general counsel, whose name is mentioned 1,600 times in the (unreleased/still classified) Senate Committee Report. To be clear, the current CIA general counsel is one of the torturers, and also apparently fighting tooth and nail to not release the report.

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
I'm really hoping to see Linux become the go-to Operating System for gamers. The idealogical basis has little to do with it: it's mostly personal laziness, less hassle getting a pirated Windows install with spyware, hassles of installing legitimate copies across machines.

But most importantly it we need competition on the desktop. Like it or not, Microsoft still has a monopoly in this market. This can only be good for people who like technology.
You, sir, must be from the future, what with the uncopyrighted, bitcoin-based crowdfunding campaign. Backing this effort is a no-brainer.

https://back.nothingtohide.cc/
Allowed? Question is: by what delegated power does the government have any say in the matter?
The Soviet Union was a true super-power with a plausibly totalitarian agenda (perhaps not so much late in the game, but Stalin was no joke), and they occupied half of Europe.

There is nothing like that on the planet now, and nothing like it on any medium or even long-range trend. And yet our military spending in constant dollars is within a whisker of the Cold War peak when we were throwing money at SDI.

A good first step would be to cut budgets in these areas very deeply. That would simplify watching many fewer watchers.
Hey! Do I have to "save and run" each time I want to favorite more tweets?
Yes, it's a fair analogy. Nix doesn't require static linking, but it does require the exact dependencies to be present for shared libraries. You can run the Nix package manager on top of another system like Debian, but you'll need to build most of the core packages again with Nix, such as glibc, gcc etc. (they live alongside your system's packages in /nix/store, and can be linked in /usr/local). This basically works as long as the kernel you're running supports the features of the packages you install.

With the NixOS you get the additional advantage of configuration management and everything, including the kernel is handled by the package manager, which providers stonger guarantees that things should work as expected.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with Unity devs not committing to Linux ports except using Unity. They're Unity devs, of course that's how they do their Linux versions. It's also how they do their Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and console versions.

If you mean devs in general, then sure. People writing their own engines aren't necessarily supporting Linux. But games in Unreal Engine, Unity, and CryEngine are a huge chunk of the market, and all three now play nice with Linux.
After seeing some eviction processes myself, I'm not sure what more one can do for someone like this.

I've seen a few evictions where the occupants seem to completely deny what's happening, refuse to help themselves, and refuse outside assistance. On top of the denial, this woman was actively antagonistic, which made things all that much harder.

Yes, the current housing situation in SF is bad, but this is a failure of the social services we provide. The article seems to take issue with the landlord, but what would any of us do in a similar situation, with an illegal and toxic tenant in our house?
I have one possible suggestion; http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness
Is there a cultural bias in the HN comments?

Some of the asian social networks are ferocious, much worse than the twitter witch hunts we sometimes see in the US.

The Human flesh search engine doesn't sound like something I'd want to be on the wrong end of.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
Yes, I did, I wouldn't be replying if I hadn't. But I was replying to the parent comment.

>Which is where the database should have just been stored in the first place, and not on the public SD card

I was just guessing why WhatsApp may have decided to put the database on the SD card. But maybe I didn't understand what kllrnohj was referring to when he said "database".

EDIT: Also, that's why I said:

>I don't think that this should be a problem had they decided to implement proper encryption on the database.
:O

I'm shocked, shocked to find that New Jerseyans are capable of performing such tasks. Are you sure you're pumping it properly? :D
Agreed, I'm not attempting to downplay the NSA leaks, my point was that the NSA operates under pseudo-law rubber stamped by the intelligence committees, congress, and FISA. The CIA combined with executive branch blatantly disregard even the oversight committees. Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency#Co...
I'm not a seasoned node hacker, but I've been using grunt tasks as provided by yeoman.

http://yeoman.io/
eople still believed him enough to elect for the second term.

I certainly didn't believe Obama by the 2012 campaign, but I didn't have a huge choice. I blame the other major party for nominating an obvious empty suit of clothes, and you should, too.
It's not about her being poor so much as uncivil. When you stop paying your rent and you've destroyed the value of the building you live in and fight with the neighbors, it makes it very hard for anyone to want to help you. If she had been cooperative, I don't think this would have even been a story.
If you change <= n to != n + 1, you have just written broken code.

Think of n == UNSIGNED_MAX. n+1 will overflow.
The bandwidth is impressive. The latency... not so...
Odd. I cannot find a source for it on Google, twitter, his personal site or facebook.
Flappy Bird is itself a shitty clone - an imperfect copy of it runs even odds of being a better game.
There might be many cases of rich vs. poor in San Franscisco and I'm not disputing that your arguments might be perfectly suited to those. However, if the case presented in this article is the best the author(s) could find, then we're seeing an example of sloppy journalism. Here's why:

"I could send you transcripts of a phone message where she said she will burn the house down if we didn't fix the leaking roof. Or show you the rent increase letter that was returned to me unopened and defaced with 'Fuck You' written on it. We tried to help her."

Basically, you purchase a property from someone else and it comes with a tenant. You try to co-exist with that tenant and she behaves in a manner that is unreasonably hostile. Are we really supposed to be sympathetic? Is this really supposed to make us feel for the plight of people being evicted in San Francisco?
Show HN: Auto-scaling databases and a story – MongoHQ
Preface: we love Hacker News. It's been one of the constant good things in all of our lives, and is by far our favorite place to talk with people about what we're doing. I figured it was worth doing a special post for something we've been cooking up, rather than just linking to what everyone else gets. So here it is.

We just turned on a product we're calling "Elastic Deployments". These are MongoDB clusters that scale vertically with no intervention. As a database grows, it has access to more RAM, IOPs and CPU. More here: http://blog.mongohq.com/new-elastic-deployments-now-available/

The product itself is neat, but the "startup story" has been one of the more fascinating things I've been lucky enough to experience.

We started working on this general scaling path about 2 years ago. In that time we've grown a lot, raised a series A, turned down acquisitions, watched a small competitor sell to a public company, and dealt with the same stupid startup shit that nearly everyone deals with but you only hear about verbally.

Handling large customer databases has been the canonical "do things that don't scale" exercise for us. We've hand-managed a distressing number of large MongoDB clusters for customers, all in an effort to figure out how best to handle database growth problems in a repeatable way. While doing this, we experience immense pressure to give everyone the same answer for scaling any database (just shard!) ... but our experience with the customers we were working with in the real world just didn't make that sound right.

Over time, we almost lost our religion. Rackspace went hosted MongoDB shopping ... HN only allows 2000 characters, so continue here: https://gist.github.com/mrkurt/7629bab3e9a8016a5fda
Reading this was incredibly difficult because the letter F didn't show up in any words for some reason. Arch Linux + Firefox Aurora.
True, but I think that the genie is out of the bottle on this one. Tesla is way too popular and residents of states that can't get them because of lobbiests are probably going to make it uncomfortable for politicians who don't eventually give in.
Nope -- I should make that more clear. Followr will run on 30 minute intervals when your browser is open.
From the sound of the article she has no family and whatever friends she has don't like her enough to let her live with them.

It's a simple thing: she and her prior landlord were breaking the law. Either SF has to change their zoning laws or she had to comply. Hard to see the property owner as the bad guy. After years of legal action and dealing with someone who honestly sounds like an exceedingly difficult personality, I'd want to sell the house too.
The Philosopher and the Thief: Trespassing in the library of a dead genius
Has there ever been a time when seeking news was the most important priority?
Maybe, but I doubt it. If she were in Texas, sure, but not in San Francisco.
We hearing about it.

And it seems that it's the executive branch maliciously deceiving the legislative which is calling them out on it.
I never saw any ads when I played it on android.
Franchise law has a long history built around some truly abusive things done by the manufacturer/parent company.

I don't think this is going to be a big deal. If you own a fleet of cars (think rental car company), you can't technically buy from a manufacturer, but the standard loophole is the negotiations happen with the manufacturer, and the local dealer is the official seller and the dealer gets something like $75/car. Tesla should have no problem setting up a similar arrangement.
no. i ran it a bunch of times and it seems to have a win rate of around 30-40%
What about lolcode, whitespace, binary, and drawing on the whiteboard? They are powerful and fun.
Everyone absolutely must read Feinstein's full statement. Most of the press coverage is woefully lacking in the details and context that move this into really serious political/constitutional shitstorm territory

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/03/11/transcript-...
Links for those who desire the clicky:
http://blog.mongohq.com/new-elastic-deployments-now-availabl...

Continued: https://gist.github.com/mrkurt/7629bab3e9a8016a5fda
I have little sympathy for her, or the new owners (who failed to report the illegal situation to the city immediately after becoming owners of the property).

My main take-away from all of this is that being evicted in SF is quite the feat, right up there with climbing Mount Everest or swimming the English channel. We should commend her for accomplishing something so difficult, despite all the people who told her it could not be done (read: tried to help her).
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It looks like the Entitled do not consider it to be a privilege. To them once you rented a place somewhere for x years, you are entitled to live at that place indefinitely.
Personally, I think using NPM is more idiomatic; Both Grunt and NPM are third-party tools, however NPM is FAR more pervasive with Node than grunt is. Essentially, if you write Node, you use NPM. Not so with grunt.
The customer is the most likely to benefit, which is why they often choose to shop at stores which are highly automated and optimized. The employers are often automating or optimizing to compete with alternatives, and these companies often see the gains competed away. Managers may benefit, though they often face issues similar to the employees.
How was property owner supposed to respond when told he must get rid of the illegal dwelling, but also told he can't evict the tenant?

Clearly he should have moved out of the house and let her live there.
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Obama was reelected as a result of Romney's weakness as a crossover candidate, not the strength of Obama's first term.