skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is a Rorschach test for housing policy. Do you see yourself as the vulnerable elderly tenant, forced to move and abandon your longtime existence? Or the kindly landlord, trapped between two contradictory legal regimes?

I live in San Francisco, and own a 2-unit building in the heart of the tech shuttle stops near Dolores Park. I had rented in the city for years before that. I couldn't have bought my place (almost unlivably dilapidated in the 2009 downturn) without a job at Google and help from my college friend who agreed to rent one of the apartments, despite the hot tub installed in the living room by the previous owner. Sadly, she's moving out this summer.

Almost all of my friends rent, and very few of them work in tech. My partner is an artist, and his contribution to SF culture is an irreplaceable part of what makes SF great, but it's not remotely competitive financially with tech. I've personally benefitted from the city and its business and social cultures. I have a duty to pay it back.

But I won't rent the vacant apartment, because renting to someone is a commitment more permanent than marriage. My house - not accounting for the insane appreciation - is more than 50% of my net assets. It'd be irresponsible.

There has to be some protection for the cultural core of San Francisco, given its status as a boom-bust town. Rent stabilization, a la NYC. A maximum-allowable rent increase, tied to inflation. But there also needs to be a lot more housing. Rent control is a populist disaster that sounds great - remember "The rent is too damn high!"? - but actually accomplishes the reverse of its stated intent.

The current political paralysis is a nightmare, and a fascinating window onto the class politics that our modern scaled economy is creating.
Maybe we should just ask God to make our servers work. Since we are on the topic of religion anyway.
"pirating" costs cameramen nothing.

If only one person thinks that way, and pirates a movie, your statement holds true.

If 1,000 people think that way, it probably still holds true.

Extending this, however, you reach an obvious tipping point, where a critical mass of people pirate the movie and the production costs are not recouped (and the cameraman is out of work and his children starve in the street).

It's the logical conclusion of your line of thinking. What if everybody believed pirating the movies they want to watch will not affect the cameramen. What if nobody paid for the movies they're watching? Obviously, high-budget movies would no longer be possible, and we'd all be reduced to watching shoe-string-budget art house shlock (I know, I know... Primer).

Obviously, that is not sustainable. So what makes you special? Why should you not pay for the movie you're watching, while other people should foot the bill?
I actually did that and let it run for a week. It got flagged for spam pretty quickly. I suspect because it was a pretty similar tactic to avoid filters.
Try this implementation for PAVA:

https://gist.github.com/gustavla/9499068

Also, how are you timing Python? When I run this on a sample size of 10 using IPython's %timeit, it takes a few microseconds, which is 2 orders of magnitude from what you report.
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> as there were a number of "following nobody, and nobody follows" accounts

This is actually very common. Twitter recently took down a large number of bots and published a paper about their classification. One of the attributes of a Twitter bot account is it's reputation. By remaining idle, it can establish a reputation within Twitter's spam detection system, becoming more valuable when sold.

Edit: HUZZAH! After Googling like crazy, I found the paper: http://www.imchris.org/research/thomas_sec13.pdf
I do like one thing, this has the potential to inspire kids about optics. I sure would have loved to have one growing up!

These point of care services aren't limit by the cost of the microscope, they are limited by staff and the cost of histology. Most of the scopes I see at the clinic are cheap brightfield ones used to look at stained specimens, and are kept as backups when the Beckman-Colter machine fails. Can your microscope distinguish white blood cell morphology? Working with live cell imaging you learn that red-blood cells are evil because they carry no detail and little information, they are trivial to see and deconvolve. You can see relevant features even if you are beyond the diffraction limit, but then again you need those fancy slides that spread the cells out so that you can inspect them one-by-one.

I see no new science and an attempt to address non-existent problems and seems way out of touch with the needs of medical staff.
The test for malaria looks something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/PLDH_Mala...
http://www.csinnovation.com.sg/upload_files/8/Anti_Malaria_H...

tldr: We knew you could do this hundreds of years ago, it won't change the world because it didn't then.
I'm just counting down until someone builds this for the iPhone/Android for $.99
As others have pointed out improvements could be made to improve performance of the Cython code. However it seems to me the take away from this post should be in this application Julia has a better performance profile while being as simple and expressive as Python [1].

As a Python programmer that often works with these sorts of problems this reinforces my perception that Julia, while not suited to all programming problems offers a productivity gain when it comes to mathematical/algorithmic computing.

Sure I could sit and tweak the Cython code or rewrite the hot loops in C++, but it seems to me Julia hits a sweet spot where I am less likely to have to compromise programmer performance for computational performance.

[1] I will note however that the code in the OP doesn't seem like the clearest implementation of the algorithms in either language, some of that heavy nesting should be factored for a start.
Because "piracy" is a slur that equates sharing to attacking ships and stealing cargo and threatening or even killing people.

The implication in copyright-infringement = piracy is that when you share something, you are an aggressor actively attacking the copyright holder. It's complete garbage and shouldn't be tolerated. Sharing is the complete opposite motivation from stealing. We want to encourage sharing and oppose stealing. Trying to equate them is ludicrous.
It may be better, or worse. But temp matters a lot - several data centers I've helped in are often left to get to almost 80 degrees - I can see that being a huge problem on their lifespan!

I know from experience that people are very likely to think "Tape?! It'll last forever!...right?" which is dangerous.
If this system had been implemented at a national level Perot wouldn't have got his 5% and thus no matching funds for the next election[1]. Also, if I remember the vote totals correctly, Bush 41 would have had a second term with no Perot in the general.

I believe the math favors the two parties on primaries because they can pay to mobilize.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do believe CA has election considerations (and laws) based on how folks do in the general.

It sounds very much like the Democrats feared a Nader and the Republicans feared a Perot or Tea Party challenger. It solidifies the people who own the machines.

1) how that 5% was wasted in the next general is not really much of a debate
1. The Bay Area as a whole has pretty good public transit.
2. There are plenty of cheap single room rentals outside of SF.
3. She wasn't living on public property. It's private.
Maybe. We've considered lowering prices - but $500 / month is far less than what any company (startup or not) would need to spend on hiring an employee with quality control experience.
We do far more than most QA/QC teams ever could... unless they have individuals with an advanced math degree, expansive analytical chemistry knowledge, and production experience - and paying that team won't be $500 / month!
Hollywood shutting down would not be a huge loss to the world. Movies of cultural value could still be funded and then be made available to the public.
if this is AI why it scores only 512 square as max?
I never said that people who make movies shouldn't be paid. The point is simple: however we figure out funding movie creation, doing so by making sure nobody ever benefits without paying is definitely the wrong approach.
Roommates don't sign leases with each other, and marriage contracts are also highly regulated, e.g no-fault.
This and android office365 sdk. Glad to see Microsoft making a move towards the open web.
The feature he's saying is that mac os preview allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper with your signature on, and then places that in the pdf.
You should implement this - or at least try it. There's no dragging mouse that will be ever be close to how natural this feels.
I would go crazy trying to play without arrow keys.
The point is that digital copies cost (almost) nothing, so by standard market principles you would not expect to pay something.
Your configuration management is going to have to be OS-dependent. Nothing is going to be so portable that you'll be able to use the same commands on different distros. POSIX is too leaky an abstraction to rely on.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious! Glad to see, more than just a few of us out there hate this hypocrisy.
A fair definition. If they're anything like mine, the hosts probably have unique hostnames but share the remaining 99% of the nginx config. Is that identical portion a "package" or "configuration"?

I think there are a few more steps in there. Assuming identical OS and arch, you've probably got:

* software packages that should be identical on all nodes in the cluster

* a set of software packages that should be installed on all nodes

* configuration that should be identical (e.g. 99% of an nginx config)

* configuration that is unique to the host (e.g. a hostname)

Or perhaps:

* packages limited to a single OS (traditional software packages for Linux)

* packages limited to a single organization (identical portions of configs)

* packages limited to a single node (hostname)

Anyway, I'm playing around with using Nix for all but the unique-per-host stuff. I see potential, but it may or may not pan out. I seem to always need a custom version of nginx, or ruby, and I find making custom Debian packages rather cumbersome, even with a fair amount of experience.
Does it protect against the hosting site going down and the project disappearing from the web? That's the main concern people have when they check library dependencies into source control.
Sure. It's just the knee jerk reaction that the person not paying rent is the one "screwing someone over" and not the landlord who has collected illegal rent for years and gets to skip out on the responsibilities that entails.
Easy to fix on Chrome. Just click on the little shield at the top-right of the omnibar and click "load unsafe script."

Yes, it's broken and they should have caught it, but it's so hyperbolic to call it an "utterly dysfunctional site." This isn't a screwup like healthcare.gov, which had major architecture problems.

This is literally just the omission of the "s" in https.
I'd agree that Season 2 strains credulity, but the arc of Season 1 isn't that unrealistic given Frank's position in the party at the beginning of the season and the general uselessness of the VP position.
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The real question is "What do we do when we are forced to acknowledge that a free market in labor doesn't work?"

Most of us reading this live in a bubble. We work at things that are, for now, very hard to automate. Employers bid up our wages. We may even tell ourselves that smart people are always in demand. It won't always be this way.

How will your brain be valued when prosthetic brains can make all those dullards you look down on now smarter than the un-assisted you? Will the poets with minds that (still) can't be artificially be boosted start pitying you and giving you free advice that you should have become more creative?

One of the biggest challenges for all us smarties will be to try to imagine ourselves on the outs, and to imagine economic systems very different from the one we have now.
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Do not link employment with the health system. There is no way for that to lead to a good outcome.
Their staffs don't have the necessary clearance level to administer such a network.
An open internet doesn't mean we should be open to share people's hard work free of charge.

How is this an argument for DRM?

All DRM does is improve the reverse engineering skills of pirates (making them more equipped to crack the next DRM) and serve as a crutch to end users, making them turn to piracy just to get DRM-free software, so they aren't treated as buffoons.

I'd say DRM jeopardizing the freedom of the Internet is very much true.
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There is a transcript here: http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/03/the-art-of-the-obit...
Flappy Arms, nice one, might be fun on Kinect as well. Flappy Bird has become an experimentational platform of its own.
Pandora and Audio Quality Benchmarking
"One of the biggest challenges for all us smarties will be to try to imagine ourselves on the outs, and to imagine economic systems very different from the one we have now."

I already know what that's like. If any of the 'smarties' are writing an anthropological fucking study on the cave people of U.S. society just ask. lol
> to say it jeopardizes the freedom of the Internet is disingenuous.

My biggest beef with DRM is that it makes no allotment for fair use. I'm sure most of us have encountered an irritating website that tried to block right click and ctrl-c, but it's trivial to get around it. What if it weren't?

For some reason, we've accepted the idea that video is a special thing that you can't easily grab snippets of and share. I think it's mostly because DRM showed up before there were consumer friendly tools to do it (like ctrl-c for text), rather than some special attribute of video as a copyrightable work.

If we accept DRM protected video, what do we say when a photographer comes around and says "Hey, why can't I protect my photos like that?" A lot of websites already try, but we have screenshots and noscript to work around it.

Or further down the line, what happens when writers start to ask "Video is protected against copying, why doesn't the browser disable copying from my article?" And all of a sudden I can't copy a quote out to email to my mom without either retyping it or taking a photo and running OCR. Easier than exercising fair use on an encrypted video stream, but still an annoying extra step for something that I ought to have the right to do.

In short, I don't think video should get to be special, and if you wouldn't accept DRM on every single piece of content then you shouldn't accept it on videos either.
DRM means handing over control of a part of a computing device to someone else. In light of recent revelations, how smart is that?

So let's go to the opposite extreme and say "Sorry, but there's really no way to enforce copyright against individuals sharing copies." Let's say the industry of selling recorded performances collapses.

Are we going to miss it any more than we miss buggy whips?
Or you could get something like Manhattan, which seems more likely than a repeat of Dubai in 2009.
Wow, what are they, a cursory Google search turns up this result:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6345538/is-there-a-lower-...
How's the Bill of Rights working out for you? Far as I can tell, the first, fourth and seventh have all been forgotten about.

What makes you think governments are going to respect a Bill of Rights for the virtual world when they don't even respect the one for the physical world!
Twitter Fake profile research: http://barracudalabs.com/2013/07/twitter-underground-economy...
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Requiring patent holders to go after the largest infringer would tilt the table sharply in favor of large companies.

Lawsuits involving the largest corporations are enormously expensive affairs. Especially in the USA, with our extremely expansive rules for what information is discoverable in civil cases. That's part of why they so rarely make it to court when it's big companies suing other big companies. When it's small companies suing big companies, that asymmetry makes it really tough. And a small company suing a big company for patent infringement is likely already feeling some pain in the pocketbook.

But if a small company whose patents are being infringed can start out by getting a judgment in their favor in a case that's less expensive to pursue, that will give them a big leg up when the time comes to take on the big guys. A rule saying that you have to go after the largest infringer would take that away.
thanks for the link. Do you know how much exposure is too much, in terms of developing skin cancer?
> Along with the next Crysis game and who knows what else.

I know almost nobody has done that yet, but it would be great to make the previous games in their catalog available (Crysis 1 and 2 for example) on Linux. I'd buy that.
As much as I realize why it's required, I'm not going to give permissions to view/edit all my Google docs.
Hahahaha. The responses to my comment are hilariously off-the-wall. All I said was that the reasoning in the OP was wrong. The reason to pay for movies has nothing to do with the idea that benefits should always have a price.

That's all I said. The rest of my comment acknowledged that the economics and funding for movies is complex.

All the copyright apologists are so defensive, it's absurd. It's like you can't accept dropping any of your arguments, even when they are pointed out as plainly wrong. You are so worried that your whole case is ill-founded and won't be able to keep your position if you accept any criticism at all.

There might actually be some valid points on the pro-copyright side, but we don't get to see them if you keep defending the obviously invalid arguments…
CSS unit-testing : is it a good idea?
So by the same logic the woman should have never taken up the lease in the first place given the illegal nature of it.
This isn't correct, consider that the whole scientific community was excited about this paper. And why not? It was published in a good journal and there are a few people trying similar methods.

Could be big if it works, although not sure it is HN content as opposed to some biology community.
I can tell I live in a different world—I immediately thought of multi-threaded programming on a single machine.

Modern individual machines give us all kinds of opportunity for parallel execution—even my phone has vector instructions and two CPU cores. Modern Intel CPUs have 256-bit wide vectors, meaning you can do 8 floating point operations in a single instruction, assuming you can phrase your problem in the right way. If that's not enough, you can throw a pile of these cores at the problem, assuming you can coordinate work between these threads.

My experience has been most programmers struggle hard to build multi-threaded applications, countless hours lost to tracking down race conditions, deadlocks, and unexpectedly bad performance, which is a shame.

Scanning through this book, it doesn't appear to cover vector instructions, but it does look like it covers coordinating multiple threads in amazing depth. I feel like I already have a decent handle on multi-threaded programming, but I will be reading this book, and I'll probably learn plenty.
Sexy, could it be done as an HTML5 app? That way it would be easier to distribute.
There is already competition on Desktop. I see more Macs nowadays (clear bias though, but the user base has definitely grown over the years), and the Linux user base is stable and slightly growing. Linux won't be the go-to operating system for gamers for a long time, though, unless publishers and indie game makers alike decide suddenly to drop windows and so Linux only from now on. It's not going to happen anytime soon.
It's copies that aren't scarce.
> Example: a violent game can be a way to express violence of an otherwise repressed person, or some other people that is having a few bad weeks, is finding an escape playing at it.

Yeah, that's not actually true. "Letting your anger out" makes you angrier.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/08/11/catharsis/
I think the point is the fun of the language. See here: http://julialang.org/ and scroll down a bit for the speed comparison.
The tenant is also aware of the legal status of the unit.

The rental laws seem to be very restrictive over there. Here in Australia you are often given a one year contract which can then go to month to month with a months eviction warning if not renewed into a longer contract. If it was me I would just be happy that I had a good thing going for as long as I did. Essentially the uncertainty is already priced in to the rental price, it is well below market value.
And all of a sudden I can't copy a quote out to email to my mom without either retyping it or taking a photo and running OCR.

That is assuming that all your other software hasn't evolved to the point where it recognises "copyrighted content" and stops you from doing that... this is worth reading if you haven't already: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

"if you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."
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True. This is why people living on $10/hour tend to work more than 40 hours / week. Unfortunately, this increasingly means one or more part time jobs, because service industry jobs don't generally offer overtime.

Speaking of couples living together with kids, I personally wish Americans, rich and poor, were vastly more open to adult living arrangements other than the "traditional nuclear family". Not that there's anything wrong with it, I just think the world would be a better place if there were a larger variety of equally "acceptable" living arrangements with no obvious default, to make people more comfortable seeking out the particular set of circumstances that work well for them. Some people might be happier living as an extended family, say, or communally, or alone or with platonic room-mates, even when in a committed relationship, if it weren't for strong societal pressures to conform. I'm not at all "dogmatically anti-dogmatic" about this, it's just a train of thought I've had on many occasions.
Yes. Sometimes we lean on the table.
I agree with you on this - I actually believe that the main issue is timing. Let's take The Great Gatsby as a quick example:

Google shows the US release date as May 1 2013 in cinemas, with the DVD release on August 27 2013 - nearly 4 months after it's first out. By this time people will have been downloading a version of the film for at least a couple of months.

Very few cinemas will still be screening the film after 3 months, so where does one go to see it in that period? The easy answer is to the internet.

I believe that people will pay, and Spotify has huge success in releasing albums either early, at the same time or very shortly after physical release. Whilst this wouldn't be possible with films due to the fact that there isn't much of a secondary market (bands now taking the attitude that albums are a support to merch/shows), there is a need to rethink how quickly people can get access to films. If an HD rip is available after 2 months then perhaps iTunes should be ready to release the film at a higher price point (as they already do for some early digital releases) for those who are willing to pay the extra.