skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see someone create a "marketplace for rent control rights" in housing markets currently being fucked by rent control.

The idea here would be that anyone with rent control for a certain unit would be able to put out an offer for conditions under which they would vacate the property. Once you have standing offers for all units in a building, a developer could make a bid to satisfy those rent control rights and buy the property from building owner.

People with $800 rent control in say a studio might be willing to exchange their studio apartment for a 1 bedroom in a new building within 1-mile in the regions of a city, and this new unit would come with a contract for all the same rights as rent control, but that it would be limited to that tenant and that tenant alone (it can't be "passed" on by adding people to the contract).

So lets say I'm a developer with a few properties under construction. When I see a building where all the tenants have made offers that I can meet in some way using units in my projects under construction. I crunch the numbers and make offers to each of those individuals. Once I get all the tenants to accept the offers I make, I then approach the property owner and make an offer on the property. Once I buy the property, I can then give each of those tenants a property in my other buildings and then demolish the original building and build something taller with more units. Even if I destroy the old building and build something newer with only marginally more units because of zoning laws, I would now have a new construction free of current rent control rights.

The key here is to create legal mechanisms that make rent control rights a fungible commodity that can be traded. By making rent control rights fungible, you essentially decoupled the rent control from the physical structure, you create a way for the owners of the structures to be able to use the land under that structure for its highest and best use.

Furthermore, this approach is much more amiable than Ellis Act evictions since it gives rent control renters an out that is comparable to their current situation. Even more, it gives them the opportunity to move to a larger unit in case they've outgrown their current rent control place and would like to stay in the city to raise a family (e.g. someone with a 1-bedroom can requests offers for a two bedroom place at a comparable rate relative to their current living situation).
Your website isn't mobile friendly?
I played for about 10 minutes and owww does my brain hurt.
i want to get married to stamen. the company. they're so awesome.
For Linux, the Lenovo X or T series are the way to go. I've had ~5 of them over the last ten years and they're great. They're built like tanks, are very well supported by Linux, and are modular and easy to upgrade.
Not even that.

As you pass the 1.5 kg bag to the next group, it's easy to see that that it's not 3-4 kilos as you have just guessed.
At least one of the 12 seeds wins almost every year. An 11 seed upsetting doesn't really impact the odds much.

Not that anyone is going to win his money, but this one game doesn't change anything.
Really you think the dealer unions didnt lobby to get tesla banned from selling in that state?

From:

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/03/chris_christie_...

"The state Motor Vehicle Commission last week unanimously passed a rule requiring franchised dealers to sell electric cars rather than allowing manufacturers to sell directly to customers as Tesla does at two showroom locations in New Jersey — at the Garden State Plaza and The Mall at Short Hills."

>requiring franchised dealers

And who is going to be franchising? The Unions will be. Maybe not in NJ but I gurantee other state's dealer unions are feeling the pressure that may come from tesla.
Seems like two separate apps.
It's a really impressive visualization. Does anyone know how it was made?
Hacker News: Sucking off Google like a fanboi hooker.

PS - NSA, GO, 2048, Snowden, GO, I can't believe that I like/hate Angular now.
> Without government, there is no free market.

Government obviously performs several functions which are necessary or extremely helpful for a free market, but it's not so simple to prove that these functions couldn't be performed without a government.
I currently have short & long term disability through my employer. I haven't had an occasion to enact either. So far it's just been a nice to have.

If it weren't provided to me I'd probably be asking the same questions you are.
In some numerical sense Buffett has better odds now.

I think in a conversational sense, they didn't really change, just because the reasonable conversational description of the odds was ~0 to begin with.
Right. Not so relevant in California, but when it snows you have an obligation to clean the snow off your license plate!!
> Why do you think XML succeeded where sexps failed?

Because it was superficially confortable given HTML and its popularity due to the explosion of the web.

Cosmetics are often more important than substantive structure in popularity.
I've been very happy with my Lemur Ultra from System76, though needs may differ. "Can comfortably use it on public transit through my commute" was the most important consideration for me.
Most people using standing desks have to hack something together. But what do you do if you're buying standing desks for your whole office? That's why we need companies like this to mass produce them. I wish you the best of luck. If more offices used standing desks, we'd all be a little bit healthier... I think. Maybe there's some unforseen consequence.
This isn't like normal tech-transfer. Most of the teams that would be looking for funding on a break-through idea, and can't get it from NIH/NSF aren't going to be seasoned tenured faculty. They're going to be senior graduate students and young post-doc's. They'll know the field, but they will have radical ideas and won't fit in to the academic funding heterodoxy. They'll probably be 25-35.
I can understand
a) this will diversify their portfolio
b) increase their risk negligibly
c) increase their long term positive variance appreciably.

But how on earth will participating in YC help? its not some damn webapp or incrementalizable b2c/b2b product. Some things also don't have a natural exit, even if the biz outcomes are grand and/or interesting.

seriously, convince me its worth my time to apply even though I don't want investors. please. (I know many folks who did YC and are happy with it, I just don't see how it'd help in the domains I do work in.)
Or to avoid going to jail (assuming that they give out the info to the US government in the first place).

The word "price hints money, but I guess you don't mean that; it would need a lot of money for that company to risk jeopardize it's reputation.

Probably the best pressure the US government could do is to actually threaten important people in the company some jail time if they cooperate. So here "price" means personal freedom. Nobody would like to go to jail just because his job right?

In any case, yes there is no guarantee that nobody would treat your data with no interference. If you use another mail provider, the government could grab their https certificate, or with cooperation of a cert authority perform a man in the middle attack. (Which ironically google can to some extent be protected from because of cert pinning in chrome).

Still, in your comment you are hinting that it's easier to just "buy" it from Google because Google is just fine with selling your data to anybody for a "price". I find it hard to believe. Not saying anybody should trust Google more than any other service, but I don't see neither any proof that we should trust them less.
How 1,280 Artworks Stolen by the Nazis were Hidden Until 2012
Wow. Pretty broad generalization of Python and Ruby developers. Would love to get more details beyond "seemed like hacks".
Yes, PHP is its own web framework, but it's not a very good one. And, as you say, implementing a better one on top of it adds a lot of overhead due to the execution model. With other languages, where you don't throw everything away at the end of the request, you are free to implement a good web framework without suffering additional overhead.

As for a), many (most?) frameworks are able to monitor the source files and reload the application when they change, in order to enable that workflow. For example:
http://cherrypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/refman/process/plu...
Exactly, the creators think it's the next Flappy bird. It's not. Besides, I just spent a minute bashing the keys randomly and got a score of 2,000. Dumb.
It's not what you're looking for necessarily, but I'm a Grasshopper user, and am quite impressed with their voice mail transcription as well.
It's weird they're not just calling this a fork of PHP.
Pivotal Labs Pushes the Second Screen Concept to the Limit
It depends on whether their currency is inflated or deflated relative to its market value. In a case like China, their currency is artificially deflated, so they will happily trade dollars for yuan all day long (but not the other way around). In a case like Argentina or Zimbabwe, the official exchange rate is something like 10 to $1, but the man on the street will give you 50 to $1.

Basically, with restricted currencies, you can often trade easily one way but not necessarily the other. The idea behind this is to make it easy to bring your money into the country on favorable terms, but hard to take it out (so you have to spend it there and repatriate the money through transfer of goods). In an inflationary system, you often have a capital class in power in a country, and high inflation keeps them in power since they own all the means of production. Unfavorable exchange rates and high prices discourage foreign investment, which can be desirable in corrupt or autocratic regimes. More often than not though, long-term high inflation is unintentional and a sign of bad monetary policy.
I just checked it out on a pc, and the site resized with the browser window. I haven't checked it out on a phone. Does it not resize? I had this problem before on a website I made a while back. I forgot the meta viewport tag.
Google does not, nor have they ever, as far as I'm aware, sell personal user information to third parties. Google sells ads targeted at keywords and other interests, and while in an indirect way, this is profiting from user behavior, it is not the same as claiming they give out your personal info.

Using third party hosted mail is a trade off, especially webmail. Unless you are using end-to-end encryption, intermediary servers will need plaintext access, not only to route the email, but to present it, to permit search, filtering, and other operations users value in the webmail client.

Google is taking steps to ensure all data is encrypted-at-rest and encrypted-in-flight. That's not a perfect defense, but it is an improvement. What is to be gained by bashing them for taking positive steps that everyone in the industry, we hope, are also taking?
Then contribute to the guide.
> It's to everyone's benefit to restrict one's freedom to sell rotting rat meat labeled as beef.

Not if the social structures necessary to enable society to restrict that freedom inevitably lead to other inefficient/undesirable restrictions, and the bad restrictions end up outweighing the good restrictions.
Curious is you have some more details about this written up anywhere or some code on github?

I'm just using Pundit in a "real" app for the first time where strict user types won't be enough and I need to have a role based approach. I'm doing something similar to what you have now, but a couple steps back in my design process, and the managable concern sounds promising.
Yes, we are still very active users of MySQL. Most of the primary portions of facebook.com are still served from a backend MySQL system (with lots of caching and many other services involved). Some data is not stored in MySQL, but in other systems such as HBase (messages being a big one).
This isn't any fun any more...I CAN'T STOP PLAYING!
That is essentially what Hack is.
Permissive licenses give freedoms for techies and users equally. If it's free for one, it's free for the other.

Less permissive licenses, and the GPL in particular, restrict both users and techies.

Users can be subject to oppression, monetization and lock-in if they are willing. But it is their choice. And if they so want, they can grab that free code and hire a developer to "oppress, monetize, and lock-in" the other guy. If he is willing to be oppressed.
Can you expand on "Wordpress folks dont care about PHP.next" ?
I've been reading about Docker for a while. But am unable to wrap my head around it. I've gone through the samples and I only see it good for creating SaaS apps. Can someone please correct? What am I missing? What is the brouhaha all about?
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I know that. That's why I wanted to choose a two-word English phrase which immediately conveyed the right thing without the downsides.
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I'm curious just what definition you're using for "crumbling foundation". Is it that old software doesn't break on it, in which case PHP/HHVM/Hack isn't a crumbling foundation either - Facebook is built on it, and Facebook is clearly still running.

Or is it that maintenance is difficult and programmers will run into all sorts of ugly corner cases and features that are just grafted onto each other? Because those apply to C and C++ and Win32 and Google and basically every other large software system as well. That's the point the grandparent is making - if you look at pretty much any successful, evolving software system under the hood, you'll see a byzantine mess of complexity, and it's a wonder that it ever works.
So you don't think that Google sells and buys user data from data brokers to correlate with their usage data?
>Tabata workouts are 5 times more effective than traditional cardio workouts.

sigh

The Tabata protocol is nothing of the sort:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabata_protocol#Tabata_regimen

The Tabata group had a 40% larger increase in VO2 max -- not five times as much!

The now-famous 7-minute workout is based on the following article, which is a good article, from the American College of Sports Medicine:

http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/fulltext/2013/050...

It should be noted that, for individuals who have already achieved some degree of athleticism, the authors state clearly -- and this is never reproduced in pop journalism:

> Total time for the entire circuit workout is approximately 7 minutes. The circuit can be repeated 2 to 3 times.

Now, let's crunch some easy numbers for a second: there are 12 30-second intervals with 11 10-seconds rests between them, this is 7:50 min:sec, and with a short (~30s) break in between it's at least a 16 minute workout. Not seven.

Though, personally, I've been doing it for a while, and the one circuit is still pretty tiring. I'm hoping to move up to two in a couple weeks or so, like, maybe. Ultimately, the time is the least of your concerns. High-intensity circuit training is hard: if you're motivated to do HICT, time will not bother you, believe me.

The 4-minute version does not seem to have any scientific literature behind it -- if I had to guess, it's just six of the exercises from the 7-minute workout. I would also strongly suggest warming up before any sort of HIIT, because rhabdo is real and it's not a risk worth taking -- if you get dizzy, stop.
I want a standing desk!

I'm thinking about buying a modtable (crank or motor powered: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A3733671%2Cp_4%...) without a top, then find/buy a rustic wood finished top. No keyboard tray - put mouse and keyboard on the desk, then attach monitors with a nice Atdec monitor mount (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/909028-REG/Atdec_l_pb_...).
I hate books with contents like that too - I've read about those things many times already and unless the language I'm currently learning really does something interesting in one of those areas reading whole paragraphs of text on them is just a waste of time. I'm recently learning Forth, and I really do appreciate more detailed explanations, because holy cow, that's some really crazy shit going on :) However, for languages and technologies closer to mainstream - or just similar to what I already know - I use these web sites for an intro:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

http://learnxinyminutes.com/

http://hyperpolyglot.org/

And then go straight to the most advanced books I can find. It saves me a lot of time and it's more fun than following yet another book structured in exactly the same way, with pages and pages of text about minor syntactical differences and rare interesting things buried deep inside the book.
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"No No" Baby will NOT go down (for a nap) without a fight.
Maybe not in NJ but I guarantee dealer unions are lobbying as we speak to get Tesla banned from various states.
Seriously. Databases should be as reliable as a rock.

At my first startup, I quickly ran afoul of MySQL's silent string truncation behavior as well as its silent invalid dates = 0 error.

Wait, my database is tossing out my data? If my head could have spun around, it would. In no universe should silent truncation ever have been a default behavior. I've avoided MySQL ever since.
Colour me disappointed. It's like the last 50 years of management and organizational research never existed.

Peter Drucker is rolling in his grave right now.
Great marketing for first round, though.
"Windows has been a never
ending refinement on exceptionally shaky ground." No. Windows NT was a complete rewrite and it was " well-conceived and theoretically well-
founded"
Email security? How do they do that when they are data-mining everyone's inbox? Most of us have a choice on using Gmail, some kids don't
http://www.alternet.org/education/do-no-evil-google-sued-dat...
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NORX: Parallel and Scalable Cipher (by authors of Blake SHA3 finalist)
End of Windows XP support puts ATMs at risk
Crime doesn't seem to be eliminated either.
I humbly disagree. Especially in the case of JavaScript it's a good idea to review JavaScript's specific perspective on functions and object but also variable scope. I personally found "JavaScript Enlightment" quite interesting in this respect.
No, I was simply trying to express that if these datasets are going to be collected, I'd rather access to them be restricted to government than for it to become a free-for-all, because I disagree with the GP that the root problem is information asymmetry. The problem is collection and availability, and that is not solved by wider dissemination.

I don't have any magical solution to the privacy issue (wish I did). My current approach is to try to be active in discussions on the topic, educate people about the risks, and trying to give a counterpoint to the David Brin-inspired peeping tom paradise a lot of tech people seem to love.
There's really just one question -

How much?

There's virtually identical, very nicely done desk from SteelCase, which goes for a bit over $1,000. If they can halve this without compromising on the quality, they will do well. Otherwise, it'll be just another "artisans who care sooo deeply about quality" KickStarter flop.
I see it runs Linux, do you make the OS available?
C, simple and predictable? You've got to be kidding me: http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/
What, it's only a little over two hours if you keep a steady pace of two moves per second.

I just played til I got a 2048 in a corner. It wasn't fun.
Why we dropped support for WebM
Simplistically: if you deploy to Linux, Docker provides 90%+ of the benefits of virtualization without the performance penalty.
Why do they force you to signup to see the discounted price. It should be upfront.
Python and mod_python were available and working back then. The mysqldb python module too I think. Guess somebody just didn't like python :)
Look at several places the bots started binge buying when the price started to fall out.
agreed, it seems like the way to go today. But there has been some movement towards reviving cancan lately https://mojolingo.com/blog/2014/putting-the-can-in-cancan/ so we'll see where it goes.
IIRC, In New York City and the northeast there is EZPASS (an RFID device that automatically deducts a toll to your prepaid account). Someone altered theirs EZPASS to track when their EZPASS was read. Basically it was read all over the city far away from toll booths.

Here's the article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/12/e-zpasses...

EDIT: Seems that New York Department of Transportation is doing this.
@dalias is very active on the glibc list. Back when he started it was in a dark period and not responsive to change. It is better now, but there is space for something as different as Musl.
They will probably not topple the monopoly as long as we allow lobbying in this Country. Who's agenda do you think the legislators of these bans are following?

The people who elect them or the lobbyist who fund them?
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Each dot is a trade. I pulled the columns from the db we generated with the raw info of that one big trade, so you can see what the structure of the source data looks like. Removed the user id of the buyer, but it's trivial to find if you have the dataset.

File|Trade_Id|Date|User_Id|Type|Currency|Bitcoins|Money|Money_JPY|Money_Fee|Bitcoin_Fee

2013-11_mtgox_japan.csv|1384974682548514|2013-11-20 19:11:22|*|buy|USD|1000|610000|60941267.96|0|3

2013-11_mtgox_japan.csv|1384974682548514|2013-11-20 19:11:22|THK|sell|USD|1000|610000|60941267.96|0|0
what do you mean when you say "sales model" - is it the same as revenue structure ?

I'm trying to understand startup B2B sales as well and I'm trying to understand "sales terminology 101 for tech founders"
In the sense that any software written in C is built on C.
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Musl has the benefit of being very readable, and you can just use bits of code if you like due to the license.
It changes if you have multiple keyboard layouts installed, confusingly enough.
You're ashamed it took this long for google, but not ashamed you didn't notice you were accessing with ssl?
How to create a secure (HTTPS) OS X webserver
That seems to be a benefit for consumers though. Imagine if google had dealers and they weren't able to so easily kill off a service that wasn't profitable because there was more of a unified voice against the action.

(This is not a pro or con for dealers just something that came to my mind based on your comment).
I'll have to look at those network use clauses. I've always found proprietary, BSD, and AGPL to have coherent philosophies. The GPL, on the other hand, has always felt to me to be much more of a mishmash of whatever Stallman likes or dislikes.
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This subthread is about "safety", not trademarks. IANAIPL, and I have no opinion about what color the various cheap-ass meters I have used should be. If someone is too confused to contrast the letters comprising "Fluke" from those comprising "Mastech" or whatever, that someone is too confused to be metering circuits.

For my edification, can you point out one example of a human being who was killed while using a cheap meter, who would have been unharmed if using a precious Fluke?