skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike the Soviet Union or China, we do not have internal passports and residence permits in the United States. Residents are free to move whereever they can rent or buy a place to live.

Who do you think is charging those insane rents for a hole in the wall? The people who already live there. Nobody's forcing them to do that.

You also presume that high density housing is inherently bad. Many people disagree with you. Manhattan and Hong Kong have the highest real estate prices on the planet because many, many people want to live there.

The problem is that Silicon Valley cities want high density offices but not high density houses. They reap the tax benefits of having big business in their city, but foist the problem of housing all of their workers off onto other nearby cities.
That has sated my curiosity, thank you.
This hack can't screw up another application, the author is wrong about that. It's changing the local process only and has no influence on any other apps (which are not just sandboxed into their own processes but also their own user ids)
Agree - I'm involved in the local data analysis and statistics groups and take advantage of those whenever possible. They happen monthly or so and have proven to be a decent method to meet folks.

One thing I may try in the future - during intros at those events, ask to stand up and announce I'm available for contract work. Companies often announce jobs at these, so why not announce my availability?
Government often pays more than market price for most jobs. I think his issue was no one wanted to leave Google to go help the government full time, that is why they had the rotations, people were not giving up their interesting jobs to help fix the governments mess.
> Anti-copyright people would likely support the claim that such behavior is immoral.

Yes, that is my point.

But GPL works in practice because the immoral behavior it is meant to defend against is also illegal due to copyright.

The original point was that copyrights merely make things illegal, but that we shouldn't care because what is illegal would be something moral (I mean, is there an easier target to beat up on than RIAA and MPAA?).

I countered that in this case there are instances where copyright makes immoral behavior illegal—it is not simply true to state that any activity illegal under the Copyright Act would be moral to engage in, if not for those pesky IP Nazis oppressing the public.
I agree with your general sentiment, but either you were assuming that the husband was working and the wife staying home, or your statement "just promotes the gender inequality" makes no sense.
>Sure, if you attract them away from their current job. Then what happens to the company that had their employee taken away?

As a hiring manager? that is not my concern. But from a societal perspective, there are a few things the company that is outbid can do.

1. they can raise their own wages.

Note, this does increase the availability of workers through several mechanisms. most obviously, more people will enter the field as wages go up, but that takes a while. More immediately? you have people that have the skills who can also do another job.

For example, my partner does embedded linux development, mostly on arm. But, my partner could also do my job (I'm a SysAdmin) - and usually do it rather better than I am. Right now, the embedded stuff pays about 10% more than the sort of sysadmin gigs I can get, reflecting the required skills. But if there were suddenly more demand for SysAdmins? if you paid enough, I'm sure you could get my partner to take a SysAdmin job.

This is an important part of how Capitalisim allocates labor efficiently. Yeah, I could work as an apprentice motorcycle mechanic. I'm probably pretty good, I mean, for an apprentice. I'm not at journeyman level yet. If being a motorcycle mechanic paid better than being a SysAdmin? I'd probably spend the time and effort to get my motorcycle repair skills up to snuff.

2. they can train.

This increases the pool of workers rather more quickly than increasing wages. This is what I do when I need to hire technical people, and I can't afford market rates. Find people that you think have the attributes to do the job, once they have some help and practice.

From a corporate perspective, both of these things are just a matter of money. And so is going through the work to get a H1B.
It's even in antimicrobial Q-tips... pretty much it's everywhere it could be used.
>"You're blaming the children for having inadequate parents."

Of course not. I'm blaming the children for having inadequate parents and forcing the same on to their own children! Quite a big difference.
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From what I understand, Australia's poor internet service is more due to poor ISPs and government meddling than the quality or quantity of the backbone.
Here is my (limited) understanding:

A significant amount of internet use in Japan is via feature phones, with smart phones only catching on in the last few years. This limits the complexity of what can be displayed quite a bit. Similarly, the Japanese market tends to be significantly older than the rest of the world (http://www.statista.com/statistics/276045/age-distribution-o...) and resistance to change.
The whole goddamned system is rotten through and through, and one of the main things that perpetuates its existence is when otherwise bright people selflessly sacrifice their time and skill for a cause long since lost, feeding parasites and sociopaths.

I'll selflessly give my time to help .gov when they selflessly decide to switch to socialized medicine and do away with the current crumbling status quo.

In the meantime, they can pay me an honest day's pay for an honest day's work--especially if I have to fix things that shouldn't have happened in the first place.
They need to start building medium or high density apartments near public transport, not $2m low density McMansions.
Google is building trans-pacific Internet cable
Thank you! For a open source hardware project I was looking for the BOM(and wondering at it's real price). Presumably there is some R&D recoup baked in to this price, but when other micro controllers and kits sell for ~$25-40 to see this over a factor of 10 more expensive was surprising.
> by Neal Stephenson

Well ok then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfXHqKnHBXc

pro wrestling is too stronk!
If you work for decent money for decades and you retire into poverty, you have no-one to blame but yourself.
What general techniques are you using? Perhaps another way to put it: which Wikipedia article is most related to your methodology?
Thanks for sharing.

For this line - "I know that starting from this position, with certainty that some customers will pay for the product is a fantastic starting point for a small business or passive income side project."

As someone who recently graduated college and wants to create some sort of startup/side-business some day; how does one go about finding what things someone would be interested in paying for?

Any tips on how to find that initial starting point?
On second read, I realized that OP didn't even prove Fisher-Yates. I blogged about this several weeks back, and here is an excerpt from it. Some of you might find it useful.

"This is easy to verify for N = 2: You are just flipping a coin to decide if you swap 1 with 2. For N > 2, you just need to show that each of 1 through N has an equal chance of getting the k-th slot for 1 through N. In the first step, every number has a 1/N probability of getting into the first slot. For all other slots: the number has (1-1/N) chance of getting/staying there, then by induction, all slots are equally likely, hence (1-1/N)*1/(N-1) = 1/N. This completes the proof."
what if you truly don't care to know your neighbors? personally, i could care less and would most rather live miles away from everyone.
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Your last two sentences convinced me.

> Mobile game users are looking for the 21st century version of solitaire, and they're not willing to pay much for it. Maybe nothing at all.

EXACTLY.
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Their waterproof case is junk and the colors are skewed heavy on the blue side.

Still, they're great cameras and I think they look beautiful, but you can see lots of shots of skies and pools that are very unnaturally blue on the Sony models.

If you need something submersible, it's not a good option though.
This is beyond a technology problem. For example, even with encryption everywhere we leak metadata about ourselves. Recent discussions here and elsewhere have shown the value of metadata.

Further, at some point data needs to be decrypted for it to be used, so we still need to wrestle with who has the final say over what is allowed with that data, and what are the consequences when the data isn't handled correctly. Currently, most of the rules are governed by companies and consumers have little say over their own information. We've only started to see abuses of this today (e.g. Target as the article references), but the potential for abuse is only growing as we see companies discover new value of their databases.
I wrote a daily scraper that scrapes about 15 sites plus (cheerio) formats it and sends it to me in a responsive email from the node server that does all. Runs from a cron daily. The point is efficiency I get all my updates and data for the day in a few minutes versus perusing for 2 hours. Its like a shot of espresso versus a pot of Joe.

What else I scrape for I can't share as its lucrative.
> Soaps containing triclosan

I clearly know that. Look what I said.

> this story should not come as a surprise to anyone.

It's come as a surprise to you:

'I do appreciate knowing that this ingredient is in Colgate Total. That tube is getting thrown out!'
We're actually lucky it's this good! It was as good as our audio/visual dept could edit it; we definitely didn't prepare as much as we should in this area and next year will be much better.
>My point is that an immigrant isn't necessarily cheaper. I'm one of those immigrants on an H1B working in the US that isn't cheaper than an equivalent US worker.

Yeah, this hasn't been my experience. My experience is that outside of the contracting houses[1] or teams where you have a bunch of H1B types from the same place - if the same people that hired the Americans hire a single H1B on to a team of Americans, either the H1B is technically better, or he or she is willing to work a lot harder under worse conditions, or he or she is willing to take less money. Otherwise putting up with the paperwork and language barrier is not worth it.

It makes sense that someone working under a H1B would be willing to work harder; My understanding is that if you are fired, you have 15 days to find a new job or leave the country. Regardless of your financial ability, that sounds like a real pain in the ass.

[1]The only rational explanation for the high price and low quality of contracting houses that I can see is that someone is getting pretty huge kickbacks.
Yep. But even the big stick doesn't always work. For example, Silicon Valley cities have managed to indefinitely delay the (approved and funded) state-level plans to upgrade the CalTrain link between San Francisco and San Jose to become a modern, high-speed train with frivolous lawsuits while they work on how to manage the cancellation.
Unless they're going to start installing urinals in ladies' bathrooms I'm not sure I see the point.
The hippies think it's a bad idea to drink Clorox bleach, too. So start chuggin'! You gotta show those dumb hippies they're not the boss of you.
Moving to windows killed many products so they're not unusual. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

But WordPerfect had some spectacular failures and the buggyness of WP for Windows was a factor in their death.
http://www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/mjnk1198.htm

Grossman was writing a blog before there were blogs. He was a lawyer of some kind working for a government agency in Chicago.
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How much less could you care, exactly?
Think how good we are at destroying the envirorment for nothing!
Hi, www.runningshoesguru.com here, 500k visits/month.

My suggestion is to go for the blue ocean. Either blog in a sphere that is not crowded, or be significantly different than any existing player.

Easier said than done maybe, but have a goal in mind and strive to be the absolute best. I dont agree with the "just write".
The reveal codes feature in WordPerfect probably had something to do with its initial popularity because it helped you to be sure that there wasn't text hidden in the document. That said, I expect that, at a time when there were a lot of different word processors out there, WordPerfect gained a foothold at law firms for at least somewhat accidental reasons. At which point document compatibility made it somewhat of a standard in the profession. (It also ran on quite a few different systems as I recall, so many firms may well have run it on the minicomputers that they were also using for other purposes.)

I never much cared for it myself but a former employers sold quite a bit of it (on minicomputers) to law forms.
The Video is also up on Youtube and adds quite a bit to the slides including some good demos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuruzFqMgIw&list=UUJ6q9Ie29a...
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Way to blame the victim. So bully does something, causes a fight, parental figure sees and intervenes... and finally, blames both of them for the resulting fight, compelling them both to take responsibility and fix the mess. That's horrible, I hope you didn't get beaten(child-abused) if you refused to clean up the mess.
More generally - there is no market when there is only one purchaser. Right now, the market for "tech talent working in government" is separate from the market for "tech talent working in private-sector tech companies", and the former sector has only one customer, which can set salaries basically arbitrarily.

If you watch the YouTube video provided, it seems like the subtext of this appointment is that Obama wants to merge these markets, so that the federal government competes for tech talent out of the same pool as Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, NYC, etc. tech companies. There will probably be many subtle culture changes there - programmers may stop wearing suits in government contractors, market rates may adjust, etc. I can't predict exactly how things will change, but wouldn't count on the status quo remaining for long.
If there's ever a story that deserves an amazing documentary (it literally is saving lives), it's the unfucking of healthcare.gov.

I've long wanted to find out more about the behind the scenes. Thanks for pointing to the videos.

edit

Off topic, I'm also struck by a statement Umesh makes during his talk in the video you linked to.

(paraphrasing): "there's this concept that people have different personas when they do different things, but I can assure you there is no difference in how they use sites and get information, no difference".

If anybody ever wanted to know why Google boggled up Google+ and fundamentally doesn't understand identity management, this statement gives me lots of insight into how that might have happened.

So tech companies screw up all the time also.
Check out http://www.startupbook.net/, it talks in detail about how to find your niche.
Wind is cheaper than nuclear, and competitive with or cheaper than gas, depending on technologies.

Solar PV is modestly more expensive, but has seen prices falling at ~20% annually (50% every 3.5 years) since the 1970s.

http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/16/solars-dramatic-cost-fal...

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/graph-of-the-day-solars-99-c...

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/citigroup-how-solar-module-p...
no, the title is accurate. it says "Google invests in $300mm cable", not "Google invests $300mm in cable"
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What type of consulting do you do? Are you familiar with any specific industry vertical? How do you get clients for your consulting business? Acquiring contract work in data science is no different that selling in your business. It is same as selling any other consulting services.

In my experience, it is very difficult to get data science and analysis work (except in tech/web analytics) unless you understand a specific industry segment. I have been able to get data analysis contract work by focusing on a specific industry niche.

Identify a niche, do data analysis in that niche on your own, share your findings with the people working in your niche, participate on forums in your niche. Stay patient, keep diving in data analysis for your niche, and leads will come to you. Clients need to know you exist, you know their business, and you have unique/interesting insights that can help them in their business.

Become a data-backed industry specialist instead of just a generic data scientist/analyst. Kaggle, Elance and oDesk are not worth spending time on for data analysis work unless you see a project in your targeted niche.
The discussion about "What is Public" was absolutely fascinating, and a bit frightening, to think about.

> Technology is changing what is public by changing what is observable, and that's what I'm getting at. And I don't know the answer, but I do know that if we don't answer it, things will continue.

We already see the excesses of things like this from the paparazzi and the effect it has on a celebrity's privacy; what happens when the long range lenses are compact and cheap enough to fit in phones, and easily combined with the technology to see through walls?
List::Util [1], part of Perl 5 standard library, offers shuffle function which implements Fisher-Yates [2].

[1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Util#values-shuffle-values
[2]: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1869
I can't say for sure that there are none, but I believe that I've done quite a bit of research. If there really was an excellent web crawling framework it should have bubbled up to the top.

I don't remember the names of all projects that I've looked at, but the main ones were Nutch, Hetrix, scrapy and crawler4j. I've come across several companies/startups that have built their crawlers in-house for the same reasons (e.g. http://blog.semantics3.com/how-we-built-our-almost-distribut...).
Figure out who your audience is. The easiest is to pick someone like you or who wants to be like you. Are you a rubydev? You can probably solve problems for aspiring ruby devs, etc. Consultants can solve common consulting problems, (brennan dunn did (http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/rate/).

Find out where your audience hangs out online (forums, reddit, hackernews, blogs, etc). Start systematically going through the comments looking for pain points. Write those down. Then eventually you should find a pattern. Once you have an idea of a major pain you can probably come up with way to solve it.

That's basically what this guy just did to launch rubysteps: http://patmaddox.com/rubysteps/ . He realized there are a lot of aspiring devs that took the first step but couldn't figure out what they should do next.

There is an interview here where pat talks about his process: http://unicornfree.com/2014/from-zero-to-3k-mrr-in-10-days-t...
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They are inherently in this business through Google Apps, they even offer the appointment making feature and functionality. It's just poorly executed, just like so much at Google.
According to the FAQ the waterproof case can go up to 10 meters below the surface.
Cool, I hadn't heard of this. I couldn't find much info on a quick search, so here's Intel's reference: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

MULX was introduced on Haswell as part of the BMI instructions. Basically it allows two explicit destinations (still an implied rdx source though).

ADCX/ADOX are pretty weird. They both operate basically the same as ADC, but only read/write the carry or overflow flag respectively. The idea is to allow two interleaved independent chains of adds, putting less pressure on the out-of-order logic on chip. This seems kinda weird though: the renaming logic would have to detect that the bit of the flags register that one chain of adds reads aren't written by the other chain, so those instructions wouldn't be hazards, and thus both chains can be executed in parallel. OTOH, IIRC there are other instructions that only write certain bits of the flags, so I guess the logic for this bit-level renaming of flags is already there.
Ask HN: List of all code schools in SF or South Bay
Hello,

Can you please list all code/hacker schools that are cropping up offlate. I would prefer that the school be in South Bay but San Francisco city is also ok.

My wife is looking for a job and I want her to get some training while on the hunt. She is a QA professional but every company wants ther to interview for "Software Engineer in Test" position. Then they go ahead and ask them the same questions as they would ask a regular developer. Given this, I would like her to train as a developer in web/mobile apps..

Here are some I already know:

AppAcademy

Apprentice

Maker Square

Dev Bootcamp

HackBright Academy

Hack Reactor

Rocket U

Coding Dojo

Thanks!!
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Rather, rent control is a wealth transfer from "people who have moved recently" to "people who have not moved recently."

Poor people move too, all the time, for the same reasons as anyone else. They're the ones who get screwed the most by rent control when they do.

When you move into a new rent-controlled unit, you're subsidizing everyone in all the other properties owned by that landlord who moved in before you. Your personal wealth level has nothing to do with it.
I remember when polaroid cubes were indexable disposable flash bulbs.
Make a landing page, Try and get emails, gauge interest vs. how much risk you are willing to take and go. I'm doing this right now which is interesting because every other time I tried it was "build and they will come". Marketing is definitely the harder part. Capture attention with your idea and then implement.
Rent control doesn't reduce the quantity of housing when redevelopment, especially denser redevelopment, is essentially illegal due to zoning laws and a lack of by-right development. It might reduce the aggregate quality, but that's a moot question for those who couldn't afford a higher-quality unit.

When the number of housing units is essentially fixed, rent control instead redistributes the profit from rental unit price increases from the property owner to the renter. And in a renter-heavy city, renters prefer lower-quality units they can afford to higher-quality units they can't.
It's like the high-fructose corn syrup of the personal hygiene world.
It's a pretty rubbish way of checking whether you've introduced bugs when things change as well.

Testing is good for doing one thing: Validating that the code meets a specific quality target.
If "stellars" are not free, then pre-mining is a scam.
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Are there technical/practical limitations that prevent it from reading microSD cards above 32 GB?

I'm mostly asking out of curiosity, as 64 GB seems fairly inexpensive on Amazon...
Well that's pretty embarrassing. Looks like Dan did a Black Hat presentation with two dryer lint traps stuck to his face. [http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2014/08...]

It's kind of ridiculous to think of paging devices as secure or private in any way. The main reason one might have to use one over a cell phone is they are passive devices, unless you use a two-way feature. But everything goes over the wire unencrypted and broadcast for between 10 minutes and four hours. An example is the famous 9/11 pager logs: http://911.wikileaks.org/