skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the solution is pretty simple, doesn't it? make it illegal to foreclosure a house for more than 6 months, an "use it or lose it" policy.
Or hide what the devices really do...
Just moved to SF (with two kids so renting a 3br was a required expense).

Why aren't the big tech and VC firms spending a lot more on lobbying, redevelopment, etc?

Though I'm the beneficiary of the rapidly increasing salaries, some relief on the housing side would remove a lot of the pressure for wage increases. A lot of really talented engineers won't even bother taking interviews for bay area jobs due to the housing situation. It seems a bit unsustainable to me.
"Still possible, but you have to run an entire political marketing campaign, complete with mailers, etc."

...to get an exception to zoning rules that have been around for decades. Want to build within the established rules? No election required.

Let's not confuse this with something truly ridiculous, like the statewide proposition that capped property taxes at their 1970s levels. I'm not arguing that every citizen initiative is a good idea.
Before the Gates Foundation and The Giving Pledge, billionaires usually did three things:

1. Buy fancy yachts.

2. Continue running the business that made them rich.

3. Spend a token amount on a feel-good charity. The Foundation to Prevent Euthanasia of Cute Puppies or Whatever.

Gates has managed to convince them of another option:

4. Spend wealth to alleviate large causes of suffering that few/no groups are working on.

More than 3.3 million people who would have died of malaria are alive today.

I realize he can't take full responsibility for that, but considering all he's done, Bill Gates is a living saint.
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I'm aware of that, but unfortunately, a lot of real estate interests use TICs and the state Ellis Act to kick out long-term rent-controlled tenants.
SpaceShipTwo 'Feather' Tail System Deployed Prematurely: NTSB
"We believe the way you reach richness in life is through knowledge. It gives you power and it is your responsibility to use that wisely. If you pass that knowledge on, you are responsible for the outcome. If someone misuses the knowledge you give them, if they use it to hurt someone, you as the person who gave it to them, are responsible for that hurt."

That is a very intersting sentiment, in that we should endevour to convey wisdom along side knowledge itself?
I searched after beet recalls and found no such evidence anywhere
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"Enormous timespan"? I think if you take some history into account you will reconsider that. We tend to project the existence of a construct called Germany backward in time, but Germany did not really come into existence until a bunch of small states were united under Prussian leadership in 1871, and even then it remained a pretty fragile construct. Lots of tribalisms remained. Still, if you count the timespan between 1871 and 1945, you get a bit over 70 years. That's not nothing, but not that much more than 40 years. You should probably subtract the four years of WWI and the 12 catastrophic years of Nazi rule, and then you are left with less than 60 years of shared history before the division into east and west.
Just a tip, in case you find your way to adding it - while browsing through the India selection, I find that there are movies from different languages - I found Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil movies. My suggestion is that if you find a way to add a language filter, in addition to a country filter, that might help? This might be useful for others as well - for e.g a lot of Spanish speakers might look for movies from South America etc.
Wait a second, who was send to Gulags (in Siberia, I suppose)?
It's possible to estimate this using public, easily Googlable data:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=a7jenngfc4um7_

Total U.S. GDP is about $15T. Of that, $8T is compensation of employees, so roughly half accrues to wage-earners (this ranges from the janitor to the CEO, but is probably exhibits a bit less inequality than returns to capital. $5.6T is gross operating surplus: this is profit that accrues to incorporated businesses. GDP is defined as wages + profits + gross mixed income (effectively profits accruing to unincorporated businesses; things like sole proprietors and landlords) + taxes - subsidies. Subsidies is negligible (about $60B) and taxes are about $1T, so that leaves about $500B as GMI (this seems pretty low to me, but I guess most business owners choose to incorporate these days).

Now the question is how much of the $5.6T in profits accrues to publicly traded vs. privately traded companies. This isn't broken out by the government stats, but you can estimate it from financial data. The total market cap of the S&P 500 is about $18.5T:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500

The P/E of the S&P 500 is about 18.68:

http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3021-peyield.html

Market cap divided by P/E gives earnings, by definition, so the total profit accrued by publicly-traded companies is roughly $1T. Similar math done on the Wilshire 5000 index gave the same result. So as a very rough ballpark estimate, the total value-add by privately-traded companies is roughly 5x that of publicly-traded companies.

It would likely be hard to find similar figures for 150 years ago, both because you can't just Google up 150-year-old data, and because 150 years ago the NYSE operated out of coffeehouses and the ticker symbol hadn't yet been invented.
It is interesting how people's intuition guides them to totally wrong conclusions in this matter.

I think what you said is absolutely correct, but I also think that a lot of people still have the opposite opinion based on their intuition.
I find free email forwarding service more useful than this. Just think about it.
Rockefeller and Carnegie were donating vast sums of money to many different charities long ago. I wouldn't call either of their donation efforts "feel good".
Well, I tried looking up the beet recall but it doesn't seem to have ever existed, so I made the assumption.

As a side note, I actually rewrote my comment a few times because I thought I was being too passive-aggressive. Could you explain why it still seemed passive-aggressive and suggest a way to state it that would be less so?
Yes, since you spread failed information, and I had to post to correct it. There are many things that could not be done in those IDEs you listed, i.e. to debug random binary outside of a project. Did you tried it Ctrl + H for finding files? Completely unnecessary complicated with tons of checkboxes, and slow to search. It does not show me result instantly; meanwhile in Emacs, I could do this: Open file at point anywhere, even in plain text file: http://tuhdo.github.io/static/helm-projectile/helm-projectil...

In debugging, Eclipse is no difference than Emacs; both use GDB. For compiling, Eclipse also uses external debugger. The only thing that makes it an IDE is its internal parser, that is broken for large projects and Emacs also has a C/C++ parser anyway. What make Emacs less IDEish than Eclipse?
But if something violates the law isn't that why we have courts instead of passing something that will continue on for the next few decades?
>Honestly, I think it's more ridiculous to look at San Francisco and claim that the problem is that we aren't building enough, when you can walk up to just about any live/work space in SOMA, and see the tenant list is mostly startups. That's what happens when you let developers build whatever they want -- they build for the most lucrative allowed use of the land. And that usually isn't residential construction.

So why aren't the developers building taller commercial buildings? Startups are lucrative, right? So why don't the developers just build twice as high and sell twice as much floorspace for twice the revenue? They're free to build whatever they want, right?
Can't do that. Proposition M, passed in the mid-1980s, caps the amount of office space that can be built in a given time period. We're right up against the cap at the moment.
That is the cultural problem with IQ thou, people tend to conflate it with general intelligence
Yeah, but those zoning rules like the one affecting Pier 70 are their own products of bizarre, political, anti-development NIMBY-ist quirks.

I believe some of the buildings on the pier are actually 92 feet high from the pre-war period, but some good, old downzoning in the 1970s moved it to the forty-feet level like much of the city.
GEGL and Gimp are pretty much joined at the hip. While they're in name separate projects, they're very much developed for one another.
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Glad to see at least some companies are taking an (at least semi-) offline approach to these things. With the way things have been going these last few years, the internet-of-things irks me.

I've also often wondered why the home security industry seems to be so out of phase with the rest of the tech world; e.g. my house has a security system which seems to have been designed in the 70s (yet it was likely bought by the previous owner circa 2000). To (re-)set zones, you need to go through a 90-step setup wizard, which requires you to calculate zone inclusions as an 8-bit number and type it in on the keypad. And in a day and age when self-driving cars are fast becoming a reality, my alarm system can't tell the difference between a 3 year old walking around, a large bird coming in for landing, and a man climbing over the fence with a crowbar in their hand. I think there's a lot of room for improvement.

Another part of me wonders why devices like this have to be wireless. Sure, it sounds awesome at first, but I'm pretty sure it means weekly battery swapping (even if we discount frequent wifi use). A device that requires frequent maintenance quickly stops being used, and security devices which are off aren't much use (or worse than useless, depending on how you look at it).
Agreed on Prop. 13. Nightmare. Totally messed up municipal and public school finance for decades.

Sucks that even though the SF city budget is nearly $2 billion larger annually than it was in 2011, we can't seem to divert more funds to teachers because of how convoluted the school financing formula has become post-Prop. 13.
There is tremendous long run psychological and physical harm associated with living paycheck to paycheck in perpetual debt having to eat subpar foodstuffs because fruits and vegetables cost way more than dollar menu cheeseburgers per calorie. And if you don't have a working kitchen you can't cook farmers market produce.

And that is at best. A lot of us are unemployed, and families are collapsing in on themselves as you have fewer and fewer breadwinners.
as if the Morgenthau Plan was never canceled
I'm aware of both. I said, "usually" and I was talking about contemporary billionaires.

Both Carnegie and Rockefeller had a sense of effective philanthropy. I find it very impressive that Carnegie managed to spend 90% of his assets before he died.
The law allows an (IIRC unelected) review board to grant zoning variances. What happened here was that the review board was rubber stamping the exception because powerful local politicians wanted it to happen, because...well, money talks.

Essentially, the citizens passed an initiative that ensured that the existing zoning laws had some actual teeth, instead of just trusting politicians not to violate them with impunity.
My impression of Apple's UID is that it's a physical unclonable function[1] whose output is directly connected to the key derivation circuitry. This means that there is, absent physically destructive attacks or side-channel vulnerabilities in the key derivation circuitry, no way to recover the UID/PUF output. Since PUFs typically get their values from random process variation, their values cannot be known before manufacturing. Since it can be used, in very well-defined operations with inherent rate limiting, but cannot be read out directly, there is no economically-feasible way to recover their values after manufacturing, either.

Of course, this is mostly speculation and would need some serious ChipWorks-style reverse engineering to determine if it's true, but that's my impression given what I've read from Apple's security documentation.

[1]: http://www.nxp.com/documents/other/75017366.pdf
WWII was wiping out a lot of German history. In the west some restauration of old elites took place. In the east, a new political and economic system replaced what was there before. 40 years means roughly two generations of socialism under soviet leadership. Both parts of Germany were developing into role models for their political systems. A lot of structural change took place in the east.

It's also always astonishing how very little basic views change over time in people. I can well remember that many of the generation who grew up before or during WWII was anti-semitic views long after the Third Reich. Even people who were not active racists had them. The Third Reich was responsible for some, but some views were very old (see for example Martin Luther http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism ).

For some change the previous generations have to die away, but there are underlying views which are hard to change even between generations.

> Germans are known for doing or thinking what they're told

Well, actually communism was a German invention. You may have heard of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and others. The particular combination of Racism and National Socialism / Fascism was also a home-grown development. A working model of democracy had to be explained to us, though. It took a few decades in West Germany to make it work, put the results were positive.
Oh. I thought you were objecting to the syntax highlighting. I'm inclined to agree with you about refactoring tools. Even so, I bet you that if Rust takes off, they will eventually exist.
Intel to pay $15 to Pentium 4 PC owners in US for 'faking' benchmarks
And don't forget to give it a lick afterwards for that clean screen feeling!
The difficulties these regions face are a direct consequence of the exploitation done by the communist dictation (the SED).

While that is an often repeated trope, you'll be hard pressed to find actual studies supporting it. In fact is seems that correcting for the different start positions of both economies (marshall plan in the west vs. reparations in the east) explains pretty much all the difference that was appearent in the late 80s. (see e.g. "Das Scheitern des Realsozialismus" by Steinitz).

I'm not sure why that trope is so successful, but one reason could be the that from the viewpoint of someone from the western parts of Germany looking at the eastern parts, what catches the eye is the abysimal effiency of the micro economical structures, as micro economical effiency is something a market economy shines at. The macro economical aspects are not that appearent for an observer because apart from monetary policy macro economies aren't part of the western political discourse. But Eastern Germany had a planned economy, e.g. the focus laid on the macro economical development, and macro economical growth was indeed consistently higher than in Western Germany from the 50s until the 80s.

It took billions of euros to alone fix the environmental damage, e.g. in Bitterfeld

...as it did in Western Germany in the 80s. Haven't you seen the pictures of the massive acid rain damages of the black forest in Western Germany? (have a look at "der Spiegel" from 1981: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14347006.html) Those massive environmental destructions were results of the industrial zeitgeist and could be observed in both political hemispheres.
I have many Z80 machines in my 'museum'; happy to see people making software for them still. I am working on applications for Symbos[1] which is really a show of force on these rather slow machines[2].

[1] http://symbos.org
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-oBNh0UkQc
You are underestimating what Indian Govt can do. Until recently (two months back), I was part of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, which completely eliminated paper for company registration. The implementation project started sometime in 2006 and was rolled out pan-India by 2008. Since 2009, no physical paper is used for registration; all are done electronically. Company registration in India now takes a week which used to take 3 months until 2006. It's a huge success. Similar thing is done for Passports too.
A lot of people who vote for Die Linke might either be too young to really have experienced the GDR in full bloom, or are compelled by actual arguments, of which they occasionally feign a few good ones, as politicians usually do.

BTW: I met a lot of people who'd been incarcerated mostly for their political motivation, but I've never met anyone who was murdered. Although I see how that might be difficult, I haven't even as much as heard about it. So, either the Secret Police really kept it secret or you are being overly dramatic.
I really like the idea of unobtrusive anomaly detection as a product, but I wonder how much benefit I could actually derive from this.

Perhaps it is nice to have a log of whenever the front door opens, but that feature certainly won't sell me on its own.

It is cool that they can tell when a window breaks, but... how much good does that notification do for me? How confident can I be that this is not a false positive and immediately call the police? Or do I rely on the "soft alarm" to hopefully scare away the would-be intruders?

I don't see what the "light up" option affords. If I'm there, I'll know that loud music is playing. And I don't get the sense that this is meant to replace my smoke alarm/carbon monoxide alarm, so at best the light is an early warning system that I should open a window to vent out some smoke from my cooking before the real alarm sets off.

Overall, this seems like a really cool concept that has a lot of marginal benefits and zero killer features. Hopefully that sell-story will be embellished upon in the real kickstarter!
3d point cloud of what?
In Germany most of the banks use ChipTAN [1] for online banking. With that scheme it's impossible to make any transaction without having physical access to the card.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_numb...
The hope is that the temporary wealth transfer until you reach equilibrium can fuel your own countries growth to the point where it can self perpetuate the cycle with its own infrastructure.

IE, you built factories and call centers and all manner of things to service western tastes, and even when the western money dries up by then you should have enough in your own little money cycle plus the infrastructure to produce enough to compete globally to maintain equilibrium.

It is an efficiency game. You start out with a farmer who has no tools, but because they live in an impoverished nation he sells his crops for next to nothing and that next to nothing money is considered a lot where he comes from. That money gets him funds to buy tractors and plows and other productivity boosters or maybe self driving combines to just outright replace some of his labor.

Now while a lot of that might come from the same western market, he will still spend some of it locally, and macroeconomically that effect will spread wealth in the local area assuming locals can buy something from each other. As long as the equation has money flowing out of another country into yours you are boosting your economy through your citizens productivity.

By the time the equation equalizes, the farmer should have all the modern tools of the farming trade such that there is price equalization between himself and all other farmers - their countries economic deficit gave him an opportunity to invest in his farming, yielding a more efficient farm that can produce significantly more food and by the time it is done sell it at western market value because their economy has equalized with the first world.

Of course, the farmer could also blow all his temporary profits on drugs and women, and end up screwed when he cannot produce enough crop to sustain himself as the cost of living rises with a modernizing economy.
When you consider headers per request, we're talking bytes. But at the Internet scale, it's gigantic.

Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application,
application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml,
application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-shockwave-flash,
application/x-silverlight-2-b2, application/x-silverlight,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,
application/msword, /

This is an Accept header on IE8 with Office installed. Back when it had over 55% of market share, Google alone estimated that as much as 38Gb of useless garbage internet traffic was sent its way every single day. And that was back when the Internet population was half was it is today, web apps were were primitive, and mobile and the network constraints were nascent.
> your VPS that hosts your blog is an example of something where Salt or Puppet would be WAY overkill.

I've used Salt for this in the past - it's not overkill, and it's good practice. Ansible is even more lightweight. You can set up a blog, an IRC bouncer, and whatever else, in practically no time. Then, when you inevitably mess it up, you can wipe it and have it running again in 10 minutes.

(At the moment, I use CoreOS on my server, so my configuration is just a bunch of Dockerfiles and fleetd unit files that I can edit locally.)
A strangely glaring error

prod (x:xs) = x * (sum xs)
Completely agree. Just saying that a vulnerability exists is a big thing, because it motivates hackers to search for it.
I seriously doubt it will take more than until january for another personn to find it.
> We have no successful model for dealing with this.

Canada seems to have had pretty good success with that basic income town. And no major western democracy has really attempted it yet.

I like it because it lets you have a completely deregulated economy, because both employer and employee would be participating in voluntary negotiation without a huge bias towards the employer - when one side is starving and need shelter and the other just wants a third yacht, the incentives are skewed. If both of them want money for luxuries and not necessities (worker wants a TV, boss wants a movie theater wing on his mansion) you don't need as stringent workers protection regulations and you don't need a minimum wage, because all employment is voluntary and a worker could just walk without fear of homelessness if a boss cannot offer him enough to keep him working.

It also means people can pursue what they think is valuable, rather than what the market can show is valuable, which like you say it is becoming worse and worse at over time. It means every artist could draw all day, any recluse could stay in their bedroom trolling reddit all day, and everyone who wanted to help starving children in Africa could help starving children in Africa whenever they wanted.
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It's kinda relevant economically, and in spirit since Berlin has a thriving culture of hackers and startups.

A bit defocus and diversion don't hurt either. It's not the kind of breaking news I come here for, agreed. Social issues are everyones responsibility, anyway, so it's a fruitful basis for comments.
Interestingly enough, the US Constitution's much-abused 2nd amendment was targetted at precisely this problem - the founders were at least aware of the problem.

It's still too early to know if this is a sufficient safeguard. But things must be getting close - those Occupy Wall Street protests only needed to have a few hotter heads leading things, and we may have seen impromptu armies numbering in the thousands taking over corporate America. I don't know how the government would react to such an uprising.
So HTTP/2 provides an incentive to put the analytics, jQuery, etc on the main server, reducing third-party spying? Sounds like a win-win to me.
"ex-apple team" is a little misleading, only one employee worked at apple (at least according to their about page)