skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am nearsighted and it's not quite accurate. The optics is probably correct, however brain attempts to sharpen the image, so the perceived result is not just blurred. Especially the light sources - I see somewhat fuzzy spiky balls instead of evenly shaded blotches.
Well, the additions weren't really a surprise given I told them to just meet the delivery minimum for this particular sushi place ($25).
> You could essentially do anything in VR that you can do in "reality",

No, you're not doing anything in "reality"
I can't speak for the Bay Area, but SF Mayor Lee used to work in the planning department and has eased restrictions quite a bit from previous times. He's also got connections to bring in developers and money to work within the restrictions that currently exist.
The Comparative Productivity of (mainstream) Programming Languages
> Money, to an extent, buys time

I think spending money is the wrong way to go about getting the things you want out of life.

Earning money is very inefficient - You have all your costs of education, of finding a job, of getting to work and the biggest one - the taxes you pay.

Then spending money is inefficient too, because whenever you spend money someone is making a profit, taking their bit off the top.

So rather than using the inefficient money-as-a-middle-man I think you're much better off to just go straight to what you want - time in this case.

Just go to work less, have less money, and you'll magically have more time - and in fact it will be more time that if you tried to earn/spend money to "buy" that time.
hmm sounds like the old argument for red lining maybe they don't like that nice Mr and Mrs Patel moving in next door.
But preferable to what happens to abandoned closed source software.
I agree with your summary but don't agree that it's click bait. I read it as the author's warning that you should RTFM when deploying GA, which I doubt most people do.
Here's almost the same article from 1999: "How the Internet ruined San Francisco" http://www.salon.com/1999/10/28/internet_2/ "The dot-com invasion -- call them twerps with 'tude -- is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful."

Buildings getting converted to condos, soaring real estate prices, evictions, artists unable to afford SF, traffic, class struggles against yuppies, gentrification. The only thing missing from this 1999 article is Google buses.

Edit: with more comments than upvotes (45 vs 30 currently), the parent article is going to get penalized off the front page. So you might want to slow down the commenting... http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
I'm pretty sure that same question was asked decades ago.

Here's a story of urban development in SF during the 50s.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-09-245099...
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Once you accept that these negative experiences are temporary . . . then you'll have no more thoughts of suicide.
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I don't think it really works like that. You can't just tell yourself, "It isn't so bad, things will get better," then ALAKZAM! those feelings disappear.
I guess beause it's SMS they can you employ machine learning and simple classification, and internal tools to automate whatever is requested the most. Requests that require manual work will probably cost a little bit more.
They also seem to pass requests down to backend providers, which you can probably do very cheaply.
I swear I had no hand in it :-)
local network = internet
In both cases the government support was a result of active industry lobbying, so it's hard to see how it absolves the industry participants of responsibility.
"Good luck" is what he said.

(which I find somewhat amusing)
Since these busses are direct competitors, the MTA also has probably the strongest incentives of any actor to overstate the severity of the problem.
That's quite a leap to assign racism as the core of the author's complaint, don't you think? Especially since I can't seem to find anything referencing South Asians or any other sort of ethnic demarcation.
I posted a screenshot. Did you see it? In landscape (940 x 640 tall) there are 40 pixels used by the iOS status bar, then 285 pixels are used by the fixed banner, leaving just 315 pixels for the content. Switching to portrait was almost as bad, with only nearly half the screen hidden.

I stand by my comment: hiding half the screen behind a fixed, un-closable banner is fucking stupid if people are doing it deliberately.

Luckily they've fixed it, so it seems like it was just a mistake.
As I said before, I appreciate that all approaches regarding this have their pros and cons. That means I accept there are reasonable pros too.

However, from my PoV, anything that can give the false illusion to the mass that their data is truly deleted when a server stops showing it (or even internally deletes it to the best of their ability) it's an overall negative. General rule of thumb as far as I'm concerned. You are more likely to trigger the attention of malicious crawlers by deleting your stuff than you are of protecting almost anything.
I believe he means something like this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089307
Levine’s work raises the intriguing possibility that an individual’s feelings about their use of time contribute as much or more to their happiness as does economics.

This seems like common sense. I know I wouldn't mind working or even not having as much financial freedom as I'd like as long as I found my work fulfilling and important. The problem is most jobs are unfulfilling and pointless. That's why you see a deluge of applicants for jobs at Google and Facebook while others go the startup route.

Here's where money comes into the picture. If you don't want to move to SV or start a company you don't have any other option than to trade your time for money. The key is to minimize that amount of time.
If nobody is maintaining it, how can you tell it doesn't currently have any important bugs?

Remember that the worst bugs in the last couple of years have been in the code that nobody was looking at.
Imagine every startup in the world moving to SF! The startup world will get trapped in a cycle of exorbitant rents/salaries and exceptionally high burn rates. This would mean that 'real' innovations would more or less die down and any company which is in an 'attractive space' and can raise money would be free to spend it on even more rent/salaries. Spending on ever higher rent/salaries so that they can 'compete' for limited resources. The situation has come down to '10 year lease deals' being the last option. The cycle will continue until we realize how we got caught in this trap in the first place!!

I would've had no motivation to move if people didn't keep telling me that I wouldn't be able to raise money because VCs didn't like to invest 'outside the bay area'!! I tried to reason with a partner at one such VC firm and he said 'that is how the world works'. Seriously?!! This is a guy trying to invest in innovation and yet is so oblivious to bringing innovation into their own sector.

Sorry for the rant.
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Sorry, I don't live in Silicon Valley where everyone has a six figure salary and the solution for feeling bad is to see a doctor. So many of the reasons why I don't stem from money issues, but also time issues (I'll probably never get days off, vacation time, etc. at my current gig, and that eats up 11-13 hours per day including travel because of the bus system here).
The three levels of hacker mastery

F.U. Money

F.U. Time

F.U. Zen
I would like to see the same article written from the point of view of bay residents who are being displaced by the art folk.
MIT Physics PhD student stand-up routine
Budget Options for New York City [pdf]
I'm from a generation that didn't even knew what loló was. These kids are using it before their teens on these despicable funk parties promoted by the organized crime.

The reality is that we have at least two lost generations to drugs and crime, while fanatical lefties like you deny the reality of Brazil.
Tech shuttles don't compete with the SFMTA in any way.
This is the best part of Perl 6. I am not familiar with the terminology, but it seems "not just" gradual typing to me.

I always it puzzling that to avoid the tedious parts of static type systems, people throw away static checking entirely. As demonstrated by Perl 6 and other gradual typing systems, the whole dualism is imaginary.

I wish that the "runtime dynamicity with as much compile-time staticity as possible" idea will be the norm in the dynamic language community. I wish that someday when we talk about the days of 100% dynamicity with no static checking, we can remark that we have luckily passed that dark age.
In general it was fairly reasonable. On the console, they managed to find a store not too far away that had stock and reserved it for me. No fee. Their travel agency also seemed pretty useful.

Best concierge thing was going to a packed restaurant, told it'd take a long time without reservations, making a call and turning around to "right this way". No fee from Amex. They really wanna sell the flattery/status idea to get you spending more and feeling the $450/$5000 annual fees are worth it.
No, I disagree. The SF MTA only serves SF not the south bay. They also charge for use of the MUNI bus stops that these buses use.
Some people must have reported bugs since 2013. If not, then either it's unused or bug free?
ins and del also define extended semantics attribute (@datetime and @cite), though I don't know that any browser does anything with them.
I would be sympathetic to his sort of criticism except for the fact that it's really political who you're allowed to deride as "changing the culture". I mean, if he was complaining about all those darn Chinese or Mexicans changing the culture of San Francisco, he would have a problem. Not that I think the criticisms would be equivalent, but simply that it proves that people don't really think "culture" of a place is sacrosanct.
The restrictive development rules you are referring to are height restrictions on buildings.
When did you start your business?

2011.

Why do you work alone? You can definitely afford an employee now.

Those who know my situation ask this. Right now, I'm able to manage the business side without too much trouble. I like building the technology and working with my customers.

If I "grow" my business, my role will change, and I have little interest in this.
They're not new in HTML5, they existed in the HTML4 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.4

And yes, the justification is purely for semantic markup reasons.
The https referral issue isn't unique to GA, nor is it their fault. The browser doesn't pass a referrer value for HTTPS->HTTP traffic. Best way around this is to use HTTPS yourself, or use custom UTM tags on your link (if you have any say).
The government wouldn't be doing the work. We just need the legal framework in place. The industry would do it themselves, but they don't now since there are no real consequences. There should be. We have plenty of rules around how medical records are treated. There needs to be similar rules for all this stuff.
Nim doesn't without the Boehm GC (it segfaults if you send a pointer to another thread). D doesn't without the garbage collector. Go doesn't with GOMAXPROCS > 1. These are often languages that are brought up in discussions like this...
Seems to be down. Here's Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Amatts...
It is quite a leap...I don't think Ferlinghetti or the author of the article was complaining about racism at all, I think they just don't seem to like the tech people. I'm not really sure why but if I had to guess, I would say they don't view them as cultured people.
"Relative" is a good description, as one might find the development rules of the rest of the country quite "permissive."
This would actually make a lot of sense if you could detect when a call came off hold. A small pool of operators could deal with calls as soon as the operator on the other end becomes available.
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ground hog day / kill yourself. literally, kill yourself, but do it FOR something. what would you kill yourself to achieve?
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This is probably dangerous advice. When I was deep into the downward spiral, I had decided that I wouldn't commit suicide until no one needed me for anything, so I began to make plans to make all of my friends/family rich (start a software company, use the money to help them start their own dream companies, put all my personal money into retirement savings for everyone else) because they were all I had. (No relationships ever during my life, and at my age it's unlikely that will ever change.)

When I went to execute on step 1 of this plan, life beat me down harder and I decided to stick where I was not add more stress to the situation, which made me feel useless and worthless.

My point being, telling people who were once suicidal to kill themselves is probably not a good idea, even if it's for the shock and awe factor.
I know it is too early to say, but if I had to guess what the next Google would look like, it would be this.
I just put the same items into an order on eat24.com, which is how I'd normally do this. The order came to $30.38, which is exactly $2 less than what Magic quoted. That's before you have the opportunity to add a tip.

So either the Magic surcharge was $2 and they tipped $0, or they tipped $2 and were doing some free introductory thing. ($2 off coupons for eat24 are also plentiful, so I guess Magic could have also made $4.)
You asked for advice. Seeking medical attention for a medical condition is good advice. What you do with that advice is up to you. You're free to ignore that advice. But you shouldn't dismiss it for bogus reasons; just be honest and say that you don't want to see a doctor.
Thanks for chiming in, media from London. Is it possible to write about this issue from a far-away or recently-arrived perspective?

Worrying about this a decade or two sooner would've been more timely. The city changed dramatically from the late 90s to early 00s. We had a lull in change during the macroeconomic recession, but now the machine is getting back up to speed.

I've been increasingly sad over the years as my friends who are artists, librarians, dancers, therapists, social workers, statisticians, teachers, writers, musicians, accountants, anything other than software engineers, have been falling away from the Bay because it is just so expensive.

Rapid growth can apparently kill anything. IMO it's likely too late to do anything for San Francisco. There's still time to worry about Oakland though.
I have never found significant whitespace to be a significant problem in practice.

Very few people use tabs. 4 spaces is the norm.

I just don't get the fuss surrounding this issue. It just works and the benefits far outweigh any cost - real or imagined.
I think its heavily implied in the article with some tech companies having 60% technical from one particular country.

If they use term like a "different breed" that could straight out of a UKIP leaflet.

Its the WASP playing at activists who pushed out a previous generation that seem to be behind a lot of this.
Wolf Hall – the economic lessons
More to the point, is there any thing that is a repellant for police harassment? I can think of a few things, but generally not easily achieved (e.g. large amounts of money or power or celebrity status)...
They are indeed different for semantic reasons. The <del> and <ins> elements are used to represent edits to the document [1] while <u> is used to "label" names or misspelt text. [2] The <strike> element doesn't exist anymore but was used for styling text [3], much like CSS.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/edits.html

[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-u-e...

[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.1
SFMTA routes end at the borders of the city. They are not direct competitors to buses going down the peninsula. If anything, SFMTA lines are feeders, because the corporate buses don't wander all over the city.
Both my grandmothers grew up in a time and place where you had to grow your own food, and one of them still grows her own veggies and raises chickens. Frankly, a system where you're forced to do so, sucks, and they certainly don't miss the long hours, the hunger that comes from the inefficiency of the production, etc.

You say this system is wasteful, but I disagree - probably much less human effort was wasted achieving the basic need of feeding that person than what was needed before - which is well shown by the fact that it cost much less (even with the Magic fee) than it did back then.

I don't agree that merely having more layers makes it necessarily more wasteful - if they're the result of specialization, it isn't.

You have a point about the disconnection and unmindfulness that comes from having these layers, but it reverting to the previous processes is akin to burning your eyes so that you can better understand and empathize with the blind. That would be waste, and I think better ways of maintaining that connection are possible.
OpenBSD replaced groff with mandoc[1] which is a much simpler program, once you known that it is just for manpages not a typesetting system.

[1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110314142734
So, San Francisco only gained it's soul in the fifties? What about the previous 100 years? You know, the years that all the beautiful architecture was built? The Haight was once great but now it's a hollow shell of it's brief glory and the shell emptied long before the tech millionaires showed up. Do we really need to save it as a museum piece? Has anyone seen a real beatnik in a generation?

I don't think a city should freeze it's self in time so the aging can relive their youth. A truly thriving city is in a consent state of change. So the city goes through a gentrification cycle. After the next crash or long decline, neighborhoods will open up for a future wave of bohemians. In the mean time, a lot of buildings in decline will get fixed and modernized...
Swiss takeover law
A number of IDE's these days have spell checkers (JetBrains comes to mind).
You'd be concerned that he tried to show off in a problem that was clearly highly contrived for the purposes of an interview?

Well, I'd be concerned too. But just ending the interview process immediately is incredibly naive.

If you see a candidate do something like this, your reaction is probably a mixture of (1) being impressed; (2) being wary that they're always going to be like this. So what do you do? You ask them about (2).

But of course, that's not going to happen in this example, because the company is implied to have an incredibly rigid interview process which cannot be modified or adapted at all on the spot.
has eased restrictions quite a bit

That's great news—SF has been the least affordable city in the country for a couple years: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/... , and for years I've been reading articles from people who say they a) hate high housing costs but b) also hate any new buildings. Which is amazing, because it's like saying, "I hate that supply and demand function!"

The solution to rising prices in the face of rising demand and constant supply is simple: build more, per Yglesias in The Rent is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO). That Lee is now doing so, on at least some level, is great!
Or one from 50 years ago complaining about all the bohemians moving in. Change happens.
So Cal Edison's IT layoffs are abuse of H-1B program, says U.S. lawmaker
So, what happened to collecting traffic information yourself?

You know, from Apache logs and similar tools.

Yes, I know google analytics gives a lot of bells and whistles and tools and whatnot.

But it's still YOUR website, YOUR data, YOUR traffic. YOU can get (most of) the info that GA is sampling down.
Kind of disappointed there wasn't live examples of what the sample code did.

Perhaps the author is using a CMS for his blog which doesn't allow arbitrary html.
As 50 or 60% or the recent tech incomers are from India that is indirect racism.

And India has culture going back several thousand years.
Having had used diethyl ether and chloroform as a solvent many times and inadvertently getting a larger whiff than I cared for when some asshole would inevitably leave some out of the fumehood, I can tell you that neither of those experiences were pleasant... but it just might have been the context.
Shame on me for not knowing about <figure>. I actually looked for such an element a week ago when I had some issue with <picture>.

This is exactly what I need when rendering pictures in the markdown's auto-upload image in https://github.com/pothibo/ecrire

Thank you!
The various versions aren't equivalent to each other. Some validate 100% according to the RFC (perl), and some make a compromise (JS, PHP, .NET)
Google buys these guys out.
"CSV" is bad because it's not well-formed. There are tons of "CSV" parsers in the wild, and they all make reasonable, but different, choices when it comes to some behaviors. INI is the same way.
Developers are also getting around the affordable housing requirement by paying money into the affordable housing fund. That way they are not actually required to make a certain percentage of there housing developments affordable.
How's he enjoying the weather? I was just back there last week -20F then came back to SF sunny and 70F. Reminded me why I made the opposite move years ago.
What are you confused about? Just a quick tutorial on how to set up a simple log in system in RoR.
An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Founders Conference
I'd love it if the work I'm interested in wasn't generally a boolean 5*8hrs/day/week or unemployed. Most people don't have the luxury of a work/free time slider.

(I could freelance, but I don't think that would end well for me.)
Programs written in C and C++ are certainly much, much, much more widely used than programs written in Java.
Browsers aren't the only tools for working with web content.
Someone isn't 'different' because they have their noses stuck in a device 24/7. They are simply not considering others around them.

I see no reason why I should have to tolerate people going around not being present with others. We all have a right to our feelings, so saying "tough luck" is equivalent to saying "I don't care what you feel", which is actually the point of all of this.
Sorry about that. Unfortunately I can't delete it.
Don't worry. When VC funding dries up and 90% of these startups die, then rents will fall, buildings will vacate, and the whole cycle will start over again.

People forget that these things go in cycles and that nothing lasts forever.
btw, since this Guardian article uses the "Compare Oakland to Brooklyn" trope, here's a great article putting change in Oakland into a historical context: http://nextcity.org/features/view/oakland-gentrification-lib...
Those spell checkers are easier to make if the language already includes tooling to support that functionality.
I'm sorry you think the undisclosed circumstances of my life are bogus and that I am a dishonest person. From a throwaway account to hide my identity, there's no possible defense I can mount against an accusation of dishonesty. But my circumstances aren't as simple as "do I want to see a doctor? [y/n]"
GA gives prominence to referrals in a world where more and more sites use https. People are making real business decisions based on this flawed stat, and most people have no idea that this is in fact a useless stat without https if any of your referrers are secure pages. Google says website x was your top referrer, and they just take that as truth.

I think they should just take it out and recommend using campaign links or landing pages or at the very least make it very clear that this is only a partial and distorted view. Same goes for in-page analytics etc. the presentation of overlays on page items (implying clicks) is misleading.
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