skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent control was an attempt to correct for an even worse government policy. If we repeal both CA prop 13, which freezes property taxes at a certain value when the property is sold, we can repeal rent control as well. But both need to happen. And both are excellent examples of the "I've got mine, f#@K everyone who doesn't have theirs" thinking that's so pervasive in California.

If California were serious about fixing it's housing problems, it would:

1) Repeal prop 13. Yes, some grannies would be forced to sell their homes because their property taxes would go up beyond their ability to pay from their fixed income, but the overall effect would be positive. A side benefit of this would be that we could fund our schools again.

2) Cities could repeal rent control laws. If owners are forced to pay property taxes that reflect the true value, there's less likely to be an imbalance between the value they get from renting and from selling the property.

3) Cities should allow the building of more housing regardless of complaints of existing residents. Repealing prop 13 will also help with this, since there will no longer be a direct financial benefit to existing homeowners to block new construction at all costs. But the underlying problem that's evicting poor people from ares like San Francisco is that there's a severe imbalance between housing supply and demand. No amount of government meddling will fix that problem...the only thing that will is correcting that imbalance by increasing the supply of housing.
I rarely have a need to display static charts. My common use when I reach for a chart is to display live streaming data. Usually doing so involves accessing a points list directly and managing the addition/deletion/updating myself.

Is there any chart system that is made with live updating in mind?
Given how many things YUI was composed of, I doubt there's one single "move to this" library out there. People aren't making these sorts of monolithic do-everything libraries anymore.
Yes, when it was still relevant and heavily developed. So for a long time now I would've said chosen something else, more relevant to and convenient for modern-day web development.

Of course if you chose YUI a few years ago and you're still using and relying on it, that means it is still serving you well. Was a great past decision ay?
No, it was abolished for the whole country, cities have no ability to impose it (in fact they have very little power to do stuff).

(doesn't New York still have rent control?)
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>It would be interesting to see how quickly your attitude would change if you weren't wealthy and were living under a landlord such as yourself.

It's funny because I do live under a landlord such as myself, in a different city. I'm both a landlord and a tenant.

>Any day, for any reason or no reason, your entire life can be turned upside down. You can be effectively made homeless and given a very limited amount of time to find a similar alternative place to live that may or may not exist and may or may no be close to your work (which matters when you're poor and cannot afford public transport).

Sure, that would be inconvenient, but I'd get a reasonable amount of notice (60 days in any case where I haven't done anything wrong) which would be sufficient for me to line something else up.

>I'm not referring to rent control: I am talking about privacy of the tenant (inspection notification periods, etc), notice for evictions (e.g. 30 days)

Oh, so we're actually in agreement. I agree, there certainly needs to be notice if you feel like kicking your tenant out. That's just a matter of practicality.
Yeah it's the pro but the con (IMO) is that if you're the last active contributor then it has effectively become a custom framework... which nobody likes to support.
KEGG is what you're looking for. The Roche charts are beautiful but not really that great in terms of navigability. KEGG annotates organisms over the 'full chart' so you can see which pathways are thought to be active in that organism based on sequencing results. E.G. for humans -

http://www.kegg.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?hsa00360

If you need the full pathway map, you can see them e.g.:

http://www.kegg.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?hsa01100
I think the rub is in the, "if we could stop a photon...". We can't. From the photon's perspective there is no time elapse. The photon doesn't believe time has lasted forever. I imagine it would not even understand the concept.

I believe that it is not possible for an infinite amount of time to have elapsed before this moment in time. I think that is what the quote in question is attempting to state.
Relevant patent I think:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130088491

If the emscripten lot had decided to patent "Method to reconstruct flow structures from binary machine code" then Zynga would not have the privilege of porting their game to the web in the first place.
If you're testing the same thing over and over, that's less likely to yield interesting results whether you're getting positive or negative results. Middle-school science classes get millions of positive results per year, but that doesn't mean they're valuable.
As someone who likes high end kitchens... this?

"dual dish drawer dish washing machines $5,000"

Like what?

My "high end" Bosch dishwasher retailed at $1,500 for ultra-silent, low water consumption operation (but was purchased for just over $950) - http://dishwashers.reviewed.com/features/2013-best-of-year-d...

Even double drawers as far as I could see had an RRP of <$2,000.

Just curious, not argumentative!
No problem :)
1. Our ratio is about 1 senior developer to 2 juniors, although as far as organization structure we're fairly flat and in some teams it's more 1 to 1. Average team size is about 3 engineers.
2. Yes, every Wednesday was game day and we'd alternate through a number of card and board games. Now this happens more organically, people are setting up their own games and times. We (of course) have ping pong and pool tables as well.
3. We have about 16 people in our open space and at any time one or two have headphones on (max). The way we have the room laid out seems to cut down on ambient chatter.

If you're interested: We have 4 pods of 4, plus conference and lounge separating the room into 2 sets of 2. Each desk in a pod has roughly about 49 square feet of space, all desks are L shaped (ikea galant with extensions), facing out towards the corners. We have half-height cubicle-style walls between pods, otherwise no walls between desks (other than dual 27-30in displays). It seems to be just the right amount of privacy/openness/sound dampening. We're currently building out another identical one of these open offices in our extra warehouse (did I mention space in Texas is cheap?) to house a few more engineers who are still in private offices and in anticipation of hiring.
I see your point, but I think it depends on what you are deliberately practicing. I would argue that if engaging in those activities regularly is what you want to be good at (if those activities are an end not just a means to an end), then simply making time for them and just doing it, would be deliberate practice.
My tenants benefit from a well maintained home, which I pay professional property managers to do, and I make every effort to insure their rent is near the low end of market rates. I do this because I was a renter once, a very poor/low income one, and I know what it's like to be in their shoes. Unfortunately the overwhelming majority of landlords are from privileged backgrounds and have little or no idea what it's like to live a life that isn't filled with privileged middle-class or better conditions.

Regulations exist because of attitudes like yours, and frankly they ought to be stronger everywhere. Eviction ought to be difficult, and not merely based on the owners' whims.
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1. Apply for new jobs.
2. Get an offer.
3. Quit
Regardless of whatever private insurance it has, Coinbase does not have a money transmission license in California or a surety bond as required by federal and state law.

They know they need one; they have applied in other states, such as Florida. See https://archive.org/download/coinbasefloridamtl/20140415.coi....

Interestingly, Coinbase appears to offer false information to the State of Florida in item 6(A)(2) of its application, which has since been withdrawn. Coinbase did receive a subpoena in the NY DFS's investigation of various Bitcoin companies in August, 2013. See http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/12/us-digitalcurrency....
I love the Roche charts, but I also always wanted a more rational organization to them, perhaps at least regionally organized such that on one axis number of carbons and on another axis net oxidation state of total carbon.
The author says "everyone" then only talks about white people being racist against blacks and hispanics..

I don't think serious discussion is the authors intent. Just my humble opinion.
$380+ for a ticket, you need to travel to the remote area, bring every single thing you'd need, pack it all back out, etc etc. Doesn't sound accessible to everyone, even without the millionaires.
Great suggestion...I'll think about the best way to implement this (without driving up the costs/processing too much). Thanks!
XaraXtreme - http://www.xaraxtreme.org/

InkScape - http://www.inkscape.org/en/

Karbon - https://userbase.kde.org/Karbon
Wells Fargo is big enough that they can spend resources maintaining their fork. Yahoo is no longer working on it, but if somebody else wants to pick it up, they can.
> If we repeal both CA prop 13, which freezes property taxes at a certain value when the property is sold, we can repeal rent control as well.

As a non-American I think that property taxes are an abomination anyway.

Tax people on their income if you must, but not on their wealth, especially not on non-liquid wealth. Otherwise you have retired people being forced out of homes they've owned for decades just because prices in the area have gone up.
>different decisions were made by different doctors

that is exactly my point. It is a discernible trait of the system level behavior with many different people involved.
Show HN: GameDev News- It's like DN or HN for people who make games
Interesting. The big issue with replacement Time Machines I've had in the past has been the CPU required to traverse the insanely broad band structure inside of the sparse images when backups become large. [1]

Is the Pi powerful enough to overcome this?

[1] http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2008050913104691
I would like to point out, with regard to Angular, that they are moving to a much more lightweight delivery strategy. Their plans moving forward are to break out all the individual components into importable modules, and make Angular sort of a salad bar of functions. This should help mitigate the "all-or-nothing" nature of large frameworks. Hopefully it will also help make it relevant and compatible with new technologies like Polymer.
That is a great suggestion...I think I can probably do at least some basic parsing to determine how many different people are commenting (vs. total comment count)...and I can probably do some basic keyword filtering counts too (checking for common flame/spam words and scoring on that)...worth playing with for sure! Thanks!
Hi there. Some friends and I built a social news platform (a la HN) especially for people who make videogames. It's based on a MeteorJS social news project called Telescope. We'd love your feedback!
"Learning is supposed to be about falling down and getting up again until you do it right. But, in an academic culture that demands constant achievement, failures seem so perilous that the best and the brightest often spend their young years in terrariums of excellence."

In my experience, this couldn't be further from the truth. I'm a current Dartmouth student with an Engineering/Computer Science concentration, and in my hardest classes the curriculum is set up to help you persevere through failure. There are optional TA/Professor office hours for when you fall behind, and if you completely fail at an assignment, most professors allow you to add an explanation to why/where/how you failed, and they'll generously take this into account for the assignment grade.

I've read about the benefits of a "growth mindset" many times here on HN, and I couldn't be happier with how Dartmouth encourages this school of thought. I'm not sure if this is universal in the Ivy League, but this part of the article really bothered me because my experience is drastically different.
I once read that "black holes orbiting each other follow the exact same mathematics as electrons orbiting protons", but I was unable to find the direct source. I did find another article comparing black holes to elementary particles:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/413483/could-all-partic...
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> You seem to be postulating a landlord that owns all the property. If you don't want to rent to me I can always find someone else.

I am not postulating anything, it is a hard cold fact: If a landlord evicts a tenant with no notice they're at that point homeless (as in "with no home").

They might be able to find another property, maybe, but they also might not. It doesn't take a single landlord to own all properties in order to make it difficult for a tenant to find no place to live on literally 0 days notice (particularly when a lot of tenants living in rental accommodation are very cost constrained).

> Most poor people don't have a job but do have a car.

People in general don't have cars in the city, poor or rich.

If someone is living on near minimum wage, and their home is moved from 10 minutes away to 20+ minutes away that is a big financial blow. That's more money, which they likely don't have, going to transport.

It will be harder to find the "right" apartment if you have 0 days notice within which to do so. If you had a month or more to look for a new apartment you might be able to find something more suitable to your needs and budget.

> Incidentally, your concern about poor people being unable to commute to work is a bit silly.

There are people who can barely afford to put food on the table, my concerns about public transport costs are quite valid I assure you.
I think we can all agree that once a good setup is found, you don't change it that much; recompiling is ok as long as it's fast.

The point of GP is that since config.h is part of the standard distribution, any local modification should be overwritten (or discarded) upon updating the software, or the user has to maintain a local "fork" with his custom config.h.

You should get inspiration from what suckless does [0]. It uses the same idea of config through header, and the "solution" is workable for all involved parties.

[0] http://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/
I wonder if YUI was solving any Yahoo specific problems, their goal (should be) is to make FrontEnd Dev easy for Yahoo employees not to build a framework that's a good fit for the rest of the world. So who cares if its losing traction in the open source community?
I agree it's a hassle, but don't you feel like this is a bit melodramatic?
awesome ideas - will work on implementing. Thanks!
This is why you should understand the language first.

A framework is just a tool to abstract some complex/repetitive tasks and work faster, but they're in no way a replacement for the language they're written in.

For example, jQuery.ajax(), you should not treat it as a black box, and pretend everything is done by magic.

You should at least understand the process behind it: Creating the XMLHTTPRequest object, setting the onreadystate event to check if the request was successful, etc.

If a feature brought by a framework is good enough, it will be added eventually to the language, ex. document.querySelectorAll().
There is something called the local housing allowance rates.

http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk/info/200008/benefits/565/local_...

A landlord can charge what they like, but if they want people on benefit to be able to afford the property they should price it near the LHA rates.

There are some restrictions on sudden increases once you've got a tennant, but the landlord could just evict the tennant.

England has the balance mostly right (I'd prefer some slighty stronger protections for good tennants and fiercer penalties for terrible tennants).
From my angle:

1. You CAN quit. - What would happen if you got fired tomorrow? The same thing would happen if you quit. OK so you might not have any savings and have kids etc i don't know but YOU CAN - unless you are being held hostage - thats another matter.

2. MAKE WAR - if you hate your job then drop everything and MAKE WAR with this situation. I mean as soon as you finish work you start building your CV and start applying for other jobs. But don't just leave work, go home and sit around moaning about how you hate your job. I would be putting in 5 hours a night for 4 weeks to land a new job. I would even try and do this while in work, buts thats me.

3. Do something - if you become unemployed your now self-employed also - grab a piece of paper, a pen and write down everything you can do. Start somewhere. I borrowed a friends lawnmower and mowed lawns for 4 days some years ago when i was on my arse just to make $200 for rent

But don't say can't. You can - thats the key.

People bitch and moan to me about their boss, he's this, he's that. It's just a job. Job's are risky. Get rid of the risk and work for yourself.

But take strength from knowing that you can do what you want. Quit if you have to. Your the boss of you.
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That's our hope. I have a prototype on my desk and I love it.
love it - will def. work on better grouping. Thanks!
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That's key: Coinbase is insured.

With FDIC, the depositor is insured, not the bank. This is the bank being insured, not the depositor.
Why? This is not a troll, I'm very interested in your reasons.
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Agreed. I would definitely not pay for this on a monthly basis. That being said, if you stick to the free plan, it does just what you'd expect.
Silly as it seems, this is a rather significant historical development.
Works great on road trips, I need to be just right amount of tired for it to work for me though then stop at a diner like Waffle House, get a bite and a coffee, head back to the car and nod off for a spell. You wake-up peculiarly alert.
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> Patents and trademarks are what drives the world’s economies.

Let me just stop you right there.
We are actually planning on letting users customize their sign text. Also, you can change the color depending on availability.

My hope is that you'd actually have an entire work space with a sign on each desk.
Good point - I'll work on getting better context into each link. Thanks!
That's true, but most companies need to spend at least some of their time on writing their own code and features too. So we pick third party code that serves us and saves us time.

Analogy if the goal is to go for a smooth car drive, why would you want to stop and be replacing/reinventing wheels every few minutes?
>. Anyway, the most probable explanation is still "space is hard".

I never said it wasn't, I was just exploring the possibility. My point is that a lot of international relations, and this includes spaceflight, works on trust. When one country is habitually lying to the world and receiving sanctions from its partners, that trust is lost. Especially since we know Russian leadership has no problem with politicizing space, namely, its sudden turn-about on RD-180 and early retirement of its part of the ISS. So we know they are willing to be petty in the world of spaceflight for completely unrelated reasons (Ukraine).

Thanks for the downvotes and putting words in my mouth though.
Not a fan of games but i like it.
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I agree completely that the price is steep and the capacity limiting, but if it's a choice between no backups and one or more Time Capsules, I'm going to pick the latter.
Good point - my orig. motivation was just to get a quick list of stuff I'm too busy to catch (because I'm off coding during the day)...so I cared more about things making the list than I did about the actual position on the list...but better grouping (like others mentioned) and better scoring (also mentioned by a few) is probably worth some time/focus...so I'm adding it to the list. Thanks!
primary example of birds benefiting from ornithology :)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/06/vladimir-putin-...

If only some philosopher of science could lead the scientists the same way ( to the former USSR citizens - "poruchik, molchat!" :)
In this NYT article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/world/africa/study-says-zm...

It mentions that all 3 control group animals died.

Does anyone know why the control group is so small compared to the test group of 18?
> The forced bundling of gmail, calendar, and maps (w/ turn-by-turn) where critical to android's success imo. Though I'd be curious for an argument otherwise.

People wanted smartphones that didn't cost an arm and a leg. That's the basis of Android's success. The Google apps are a nice to have.
Quote: "... its CEO Mikael Hed is stepping down, and he is passing on the reigns [sic] to Pekka Rantala ..."

I'm seeing this error more and more often.

* "Reigning" is what a monarch does to a kingdom.

* "Reining" is what a cowboy does to a horse.

The desired expression is "passing on the reins".
You should have read the article; it has, as the first paragraph under the second bold section, "Thus the real question should be, in a perfectively competitive marketplace, how much of a bitcoin does it cost to make a bitcoin?"

Please read an article before making a meaningless comment that doesn't contribute in any way.
+1 for "Your the boss of you." (Which should actually be, "You're the boss of you.")
Napping is actually a big part of the culture. You'll see many people catching naps on trains, buses, and other public places, even while standing up.

Japan has its own word "inemuri" for the practice of sleeping on the job, which is sometimes even faked to make it look like they're working hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inemuri

Recently this practice has become more accepted company policy.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/07/editorials/po...
Ah great, I uncommented the line but I didn't have the fonts installed.
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"but I'd get a reasonable amount of notice (60 days in any case where I haven't done anything wrong)"

Tangential trivia: in some states, even "progressive" states like Washington, this number can be as low as 20 days.

That can be a burden: "Quick, find a new house, move, come up with at least first month's rent and a security deposit that is usually equal to a month's rent, in less than three weeks".
Past bad decisions stay that's hindsight. In this case not so much the project but technology has become irrelevant. Technology changes every few years or even evey year. Nothing to do about that. Software is difficult.
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NYC has not just rent control, but rent fixed apartments. Which leads to a rentocracy where people inherit 1500/mo leases for 10000/mo apartments and all manner of tricks and lies to make it happen. And then building owners install electronic locks to record visits and prove residents are only living part time in their apartment.
I'm surprised that so much of the coverage of ZMapp doesn't include the fact that the drug is produced in tobacco plants.

To me, this is the single most interesting and impressive fact. It's also likely the main reason why "the limited supplies will not help the 20,000 people predicted to be infected during the outbreak in West Africa." Scaling production of antibodies grown in plants can't possibly be straightforward.