skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual ratio of rent to income really does matter. If we were comparing two cities where the ratio was 18% and 22%, then people would "want to spend less" or "pay a little more and enjoy better entertainment, culture, weather, sports franchises, etc."

But if a college graduate has to spend 95% or 105% of their after-tax income just on rent there is ZERO left for student loans and insurance, the conclusion is that both cities are completely unfeasible except for graduates with very wealthy and generous parents.

Your sole point is that "SF is more unaffordable than Boston". So what: living on a moon base would cost even more than SF.

> one would not expect that just starting out that you would have an average single bedroom

I have had a lot of roommates a lot, but I don't even see how that's workable in SF for the vast majority of graduates. And we are talking about college graduates: these are people whose employers expect them to arrive clean and rested, which is difficult to do when sleeping under a bridge, and who didn't grow up expecting to have to wait until they have 10 years of experience and 3 children to finally afford a 1-bedroom apartment.
There is some discussion of this on Slashdot [1], with responses by Tollef Fog Heen.

[1] http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/11/16/2142244/longtime-de...
Systemd has always been very controversial.
In all honesty it would take hours to write a proper rebuttal. There are many factual errors but there are also many errors that are mostly incorrect. CSV import/export is one of the first things he calls out and he never mentions BCP or SSIS, which are the methods for CSV import in SQL Server. It would be like saying Apache does not support SSL - it is just factually wrong.
> First, you can import/export csv's. Hell all you need to do to export, is right click the view and hit export, then select .csv.

Are you saying there is no programatic interface for exporting csv? You must rely on the administration tool to generate the csv for you???
What vendor support do you get exactly from Microsoft? Their EULA typically has a SHOUTY CAPS NO WARRANTY CLAUSE, so what does the SLA cover? Have you successfully resorted to the SLA to handle problems you've had?

I'm honestly curious. I just don't know how SLAs work, and whom can you blame if you have problems with MS SQL.
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> it is that he found it an appropriate shirt to wear.

It was a hand-made gift from a friend. He did it to make her smile. In such circumstances I'd probably do the same thing.
Sadly the USPS stuffs your mailbox with advertisements now too. There is no opt out and they've actively discontinued working with third party services that would filter your mail for you.

By mail volume the USPS is basically a government subsidized advertising delivery service these days.
This is a quick reply because I'm about to go out. Feel free to ask follow-up questions. One thing that homeschoolers fearlessly do is reject curriculum materials if they don't work, and use different materials for different children. Many classroom teachers are not at liberty to do either of these things officially, but if they do them on the sly, they will be helping the learners in their care.
So far, the last two TC decisions have been two-for-two in driving developers away; the previous one was the last straw that caused Joey Hess to leave.
Commonly ? No not even close. The most common solution is that people just dump it as a BLOB in whatever database they are currently using. Which based on numbers is likely to be MySQL.
they are lobbying because they see anything Google proposes as a direct long term threat to their business model.
A new working example which shows how to use one of the nonstandard syntaxes in DefineJS, something like:

use(['dependency'])

.then(function(dependency){

})

.then()

.cache();

Imagine a control flow in the module definition, or having different private scopes when defining a new module.
Its hard without knowing the full context. But if it is as it appears, that some people from the debian community have been making attacks on a volunteer for doing their job, then it is absolutely disgusting behaviour. Those making such attacks would be best to leave debian and perhaps the internet.
"stuffing mailbox with ads" is not in the same league as "opening packages destined to you and inserting ads"
OT, but on the European Google antitrust investigation on search results, I am thinking of a tutorial as a settlement.
The uppercase menus are gone in VS2015.
You've interpreted the data in the most positive way possible. Yes, that is one of many ways in which things could have unfolded.

But as the article says, this is all secret. We don't know what exactly Google and the NSA built together in that first agreement shortly after the Chinese hacking scandal. And we don't know what else has happened since then.

Maybe it's all innocuous stuff, as you said. Maybe it isn't. To just assume it is all good or all bad seems unjustified by the amount of actual facts that are public.
For information, what you describe is called "Matthew effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect#Education
IoT Won’t Work Without Artificial Intelligence
I've always had what you might call severe insomnia. I rarely sleep for more than four hours, and I've found I do pretty well on two. As far as I know I've never slept eight without either being up 2-3 nights beforehand or being very, horribly drunk. In my experience if you are not sleeping, staying in bed will just make you more tired. It is better to embrace it, get up and do something. So that's where I'm coming from, I'm sorry if it caused offence.

Three days/two nights without sleeping, as in without going to bed at all, should not cause you to hallucinate. That's just a weekend. That's as uncommon as you might think. If you are hallucinating there might be something else going on.
It's time for this crap to stop.

systemd haters have gone Too Far.

Get over it. It's childish and pathetic now. Death threats to the creator. Personal attacks to volunteers. You have carried a debate into the extreme to where it is no longer noble.

Just leave. Just stop. You are not welcome anymore in the community.
The announcement of the latest Technical Committee decision: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00...

Some background: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/11/msg00069.html

[Disclaimer: I helped with the evaluation and drafting of this particular TC decision, to try to mitigate any potential fallout, and make sure that this particular decision didn't cause any harm; in particular, I wrote clause 3 and 4 of the decision, and suggested what turned into clause 6. However, I think Anthony Towns has it right: "​The tech ctte could've addressed this issue by providing policy guidance or by just offering advice, and assuming that the systemd maintainers would act on th​e advice or policy in good faith. Choosing to override the systemd maintainers was far from the most friendly available option."]

This mail is useful as well: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00754.html

"This is what many still (retorically) wonder about: we the systemd maintainers did not reject that change, so it is not clear (or, it is) why the TC had to be involved."

It isn't about this one decision, either; as with the previous TC decision, this is more the last straw. Maintaining systemd is a difficult enough task without heaps of people piling on.
Yes, it will be overwritten. Someone tried it: https://github.com/lightswitch05/Bogus_X-UIDH#update-verizon...
Has any of them tried to find movie recommendations from Netflix? For me, it sometimes shows me a dozen or so recommendations on the front page. Almost all of them are TV shows. One or two are movies that only showed up after I added them to My List on my own, and I have no interest in the rest. Meanwhile, sometimes I stumble across a DVD-only movie for which it recommends 4.8 stars for me. So where can I just list those?

[edit: addition:]
When it comes to instant, I usually end up browsing for half an hour and giving up, but that might be more a function of the kind of content that's there than the interface.
"Front page of the internet" is quite a pitch. Being a reedit fan, I still think reedit can do this.
Ah, I love seeing programs inspired by Bret Victor's talks and demos!
re: point 18: It is quite possible to get around this paradox, if you have absolute time. Absolute time means you can't send a message back in absolute time, which means you can't get 'causal loops'.
On pgsql, the blob type. It stores the object out of the row store, but still in the database.
Frankly, I'm glad that Verizon is doing this, as it weakens their ability to argue that Title II net neutrality isn't necessary because no one is currently messing with traffic. Even better that they're doing it with their wireless network, since, as I understand it, they were given a bit more rope with which to hang themselves in the wireless ISP space.
I think what he's trying to say is that due to the relatively lower barrier of entry to (1) than to (2) that it is incumbent on the POTUS to resolve the issue over Congress. His perspective is likely reinforced by a sense that Congress will have difficulty making majority decisions as it has been significantly gridlocked. In general Americans feel that of the branches of government the President represents them the most (it should really be the house and possibly the judiciary...)

I think further he is trying to say that the POTUS and Congress that originally published EO 12333 and some associated legislature are no longer in office today - and that this means the current branches of US law have inherited these policies and framework of legal interpretation. I think he means that undoing these traditions would be a departure from accumulated experience, investments and internal processes and thus represents a significant systemic overhall: again raising the bar of difficulty to get something passed.

For these reasons I think sky001 is placing the burden on the President to realign the interpretation of the law with modern storage/processing/collecting capabilities.
An intranet Facebook would be great.
Garish distracting colors where the old one used muted colors that were easy on the eye.

The new Google calendar app pushed to Android within the last few weeks is a perfect example of this. In the old one, I could easily pick out dates and items. In the new one, the colors overwhelm everything and I literally have to consciously focus my mind to "see" the data they are presenting. It's a complete FAIL, IMO. I wish there was an option to opt out of the material design version.
From tfheen on the Slashdot thread:

"I don't agree with them (at least not fully), but my resignation from the maintainer team is not about people being skeptical, it's about personal attacks, it's about death wishes from project members and it's about people escalating conflicts instead of trying to resolve them."

Seriously, people sending _death wishes_ to developer or maintainers of software who's decisions/directions they disagree with? They need to be publicly named so I can easily find that out when I Google them when their CV hits my desk. That's _so_ not OK. I would refuse to have those people on any team of mine - no matter how excellent your grades, no matter how lofty your achievements, your CV just gets thrown out, you won't even get a call back explaining why.
Your proxy would need to be after your ISP.
In theory, automation does not ensure unemployment, but it does lower wages. In theory, so long as you have a central government that is willing to engage in enough fiscal stimulus, and a central bank that is willing to engage in enough monetary stimulus, then a society can always achieve full employment. However, automation lowers the value of unskilled labor, and certain types of automation can invalidate the value of certain types of skill, so for unskilled labor and for certain types of skills, automation lowers wages. See:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/rise-of-the-robo...

"If this is the wave of the future, it makes nonsense of just about all the conventional wisdom on reducing inequality. Better education won’t do much to reduce inequality if the big rewards simply go to those with the most assets. Creating an “opportunity society”, or whatever it is the likes of Paul Ryan etc. are selling this week, won’t do much if the most important asset you can have in life is, well, lots of assets inherited from your parents. And so on.

I think our eyes have been averted from the capital/labor dimension of inequality, for several reasons. It didn’t seem crucial back in the 1990s, and not enough people (me included!) have looked up to notice that things have changed. It has echoes of old-fashioned Marxism — which shouldn’t be a reason to ignore facts, but too often is. And it has really uncomfortable implications."

Also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-f...

"Mechanization eventually — that is, after a couple of generations — led to a broad rise in British living standards. But it’s far from clear whether typical workers reaped any benefits during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution; many workers were clearly hurt. And often the workers hurt most were those who had, with effort, acquired valuable skills — only to find those skills suddenly devalued."

Also, the typical analysis of the Industrial Revolution only looks at workers in one country, rather than studying the impact that cheap exports from England had on nations such as India or China. The reality is that a small number of rapidly industrializing nations were able to export their unemployment overseas. The devastation caused by the Industrial Revolution lasted for centuries and some countries (India) have still not recovered even now.
I wonder what the effects would be of cities requiring a long term lease to get a restaurant permit? Would landlords just not go along and we'd see fewer restaurants? Maybe, but it could be an interesting experiment to find out.
This is the anti-SPDY lobbying alliance, http://www.atis.org/openweballiance/index.asp

They seem to be deathly afraid of becoming "dumb pipes".
Like /u/exstudent says, it was a reaction to a Verge article and a huge shi(r)tstorm that followed after that, on Twitter and elsewhere. SJWs made the guy completely break down.
Of course, I'm just making the point that Boston is at least on par with San Fran. Median and averages are useless for cost of living because you can't get an average rent for recent college grads. All you've demonstrated is that if a fresh out of college grad tried to live an average lifestyle in Boston they wouldn't have enough money. Well, duh. They have another decade to go before they reach average income.

All we can do is make apples to apples comparisons. You're trying to stretch the data to say something it doesn't. For example, as soon as you start looking at 2 or 3 bedrooms split between roommates both cities become more reasonable.

EDIT: I don't think having 2 roommates in a 3 bedroom apartment is quite comparable to sleeping under a bridge. I don't understand why you're being so hyperbolic.
Why It’s Illegal to Use Milk Crates for Anything Besides Milk (2013)
Online harassment is harsh to handle. Death threats, stalking, threat of physical violence, and I can only imagine the look if a male developer went to the police and said that it is all because software he is developing on his spare time and giving out for free.
To immediate, drastic, noticeable changes.

Amazon, which arguably has the same userbase, has successfully managed to change their interface over the years by gradually adding functionality.

Craigslist has only bullied others who make a better experience for users.
I don't really blame twitter, they're just using information that is being sent to them. The carriers who add these headers are to blame.
Bless you my friend!

I never want to blame the messenger when it's bad news, but I do want to thank the messenger when the news is good. :-)
Spaceplane?

This doughnut creates a neat lifting body design.
@sergiosgc
Nope. There are several ways of doing this. Using the GUI is the easiest, and the most common method. You can use SSIS, or the bcp command.

For example:

bcp "SELECT blah... FROM blah" queryout C:\..\blah.csv -c -t, -T –S<servername>
+1 on rottentomatoes. easy to get an API key with reasonable rate limits for free, and the API has a decent fuzzy search. (you might have to do some fiddling with the results, but what you're looking for is usually there)
Yeah I know. C really needs to fix some expressiveness issues.
This is the stat that most blows me away:

Over 55% of ESPN’s traffic in a record
September was exclusively mobile. Not
just ’also mobile’, but ‘only mobile’.
I didn't even know about it. This looks awesome. Highly recommend: wrap GNU GLOBAL in a web app (scrape its output, stick it in a database). We did that at Matasano (with dumber tools than GLOBAL) and not only was it incredibly useful, but shockingly, shockingly easy.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608798/data-center/systemd...
The fatal flaw with this reasoning is that every President gets to change their mind. So long as the law of the land delegates this authority to the executive, you'll always have to wonder what internal rulemaking the President has done, or plans to do.

This is well and truly a legislative problem.
How about we just stop letting them steal from us?
admittedly it's intended as corporate email server - ie. MS Exchange replacement. You can run it with less ram, things will just be slower, however if you only have a few accounts, it may not be a big deal. I like it because they package all the components you need: postfix, mariadb, web ui frontend, spammassasian, etc all together and you don't have to do any configurations other than the initial setup script it comes with.
If you have a server? I use ngrep.
Title slightly misleading.

> I am not resigning from Debian, just from the systemd maintainer team.

Source: tfheen@ http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/11/16/2142244/longtime-de...
Typically it wouldn't "obviate the need for the thermal control system," see fbender's answer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614514

"An RTG's primary objective is to produce electrical energy (at an abysmal efficiency). The excess heat generated by an RTG is seldomly used for thermal control since it can also not be regulated and it emits simply too much heat energy."
Vendor support from Microsoft is about requesting help with issues. You get x number of support calls, depending on what you paid. Microsoft has fixed service levels for that, and you've little option other than paying more money if you want a quicker turn-around.

SQL Server itself doesn't ship with an SLA.

You'd get that from your service provider or systems integrator, because the customer chooses her own service levels (determined by business continuity objectives). Her SP or SI (or in-house IT department) would then deploy SQL Server in a way intended to meet the required service level. Specifically, the customer might opt for five nines (99.999%) availability. Such a deployment doesn't look anything like one that must only be available from 8am to 5pm on weekdays - even though both SLAs are met using the same SQL Server code base from Microsoft (but on vastly different hardware and network configurations).

The availability associated with an SLA usually goes hand-in-hand with disaster recovery (recovery time objective, and recovery point objective[1]), but can also apply to support turn-around (a support request is triaged, and based on severity is resolved within the amount of time specified for that severity by the SLA). As mentioned, if I'm not mistaken Microsoft has fixed service levels for that. IIRC an MSDN subscription gets you a small number of free requests. An Enterprise Agreement gets you a whole bunch more.

There are many other quality objectives you can specify with an SLA, including efficiency (capacity), integrity (security), and robustness (stability) [2].

So unless you're hosted by Azure or have an Enterprise Agreement, Microsoft is rather unlikely to provide you with an SLA. And even then you'd be the one telling them what your service level requirement is. If Microsoft can't deliver on your service level requirements, you'd do it yourself, or get a systems integrator to do it for you.

[1] http://www.druva.com/blog/understanding-rpo-and-rto/

[2] https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=d8c54975-bd0a-410...
I'm watching NeoVim, but I'm skeptical about their ambitious goals (i.e. refactoring internal Vim code). I do wish them luck though.
Why does his gender matter?
Is there a database dump available for app metadata?
I don't have a horse in this race, but isn't it a good idea to as they say: 'don't give them a reason to hate you'.

From what I've seen the good intentions behind systemd were marred by the fact that when it was announced the (mostly skeptical) responses to it were met by systemd supporters who held the attitude 'we're saving nix, join us or nix dies', and this has created the current atmosphere of debate.

While these death threats and the like are in no doubt horrible, it seems that some bridges need to be built between the people who support systemd and those who do not, because the attitudes on both sides of the argument are rather poor, and this makes the open source community look even worse.

Edit: I said nothing about systemd users currently making threats, rather that their attitude at the beginning of the project at some level caused the response that we see today. They are not completely to blame, as are not the people who are against systemd and do not send death threats. Regardless, it seems that recently, HN only supports the idea of 'there is no gray, only black and white'. People like these are the reason why the systemd creators cannot engage in debate, because on both sides the people who shout the loudest win out over the reasonable voices.
More systemd drama as a long-time Debian developer quits
1. Let me say that it's great to see more hackers work on issues of civic interest. The data from the government, like most things in life, is messy...but the more eyes we have on it, the better potential there is for public good to come from transparent.

2. This seems like a textbook case of mapping things that don't need to be mapped. I understand this is a hackathon and showing off a simple table will cause you to lose...but the map is indecipherable...it's only because it's a commonly-used template that I can make an assumption what the zoomed-out numbers mean. But the major flaw is that the purportedly important number, the "lives-at-risk" score, is completely buried. There's no way to make an easy comparison ...I can't even tell how many mines are actually considered dangerous. I think if your aim is to shed light on what are the most dangerous mines, according to your analysis, you should at least put up a table of 50 mines, listed in descending order of "lives-at-risk"

3. What alternative methodologies did you try, and how do they compare to your score? I would guess that a simple indexing of days-since-last-inspection and number of major violations (and some factoring in of type of mine) would also be a good indicator of how risky a mine currently is.
Wish I could get over it. But every time some random process fails to start at boot time I...well I cry a little knowing this is what we are now stuck with.