skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a multi-faceted issue that has no easy fix. In the SF bay region the issue is exacerbated by convoluted politics perpetrated by residents and government. Locals steadfastedly oppose growth, even when most might agree it's for everyone's good.

On the other hand, some sub areas are bound geographically and can't expand horizontally, so the only way is upwards, which faces even more resistance.

On top of this, no one has a natural right to live in a specific area. At the same time society has a responsibility to provide reasonably affordable living space for lower income residents. However, it doesn't necessarily mean it has to be in the posh areas of town.

Still as land prices increase, is it even possible to build in areas of high land prices? Where does that money come from? Do we divert taxes to that effort rather than building that same housing in areas where that money would go further?

With regard to people not being able to move away due to cost, there are lots of people who move to the US with nothing but a few dollars and an address. It's possible. I guess the question is do we want to put our own citizens in this kind of predicament?
The mainstream stuff is pretty homogeneous, but it gets pretty interesting when you get into the lesser-known stuff.
Interesting story, I get Elk antlers for my dogs to chew on and they are pretty expensive for even a small piece. It has always made me wonder how profitable it is for people who sell Elk antlers and other types of animal antlers. Although I doubt you can really scale up antler production very easily.
This was recalled last week.

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Me-Layla-Bassinet-Cradle/dp/B004...
The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect for Douchebags
Slava @ RethinkDB here.

Unfortunately automatic failover won't be a part of 2.0, but it will happen very quickly after that. Please hang in there, we expect to ship this feature some time in May.

I just saw a demo of the failover feature yesterday from Tim Maxwell (the lead engineer on this), and it's really impressive! Another side benefit of this feature is live reshards -- you'll be able to reshard/rebalance data without any availability loss on the cluster.

The code is there and just needs a bit more polish and a lot of testing. I'm very excited to get this out, it's probably the last part of RethinkDB that I'm not 100% proud of yet (but will be in a month or two).
Quite oposite. I dont understand why someone who traveled world and has medical condition would settle down in California.

Just try Greece for couple of months. Doctors are great here, speak english and are much cheaper.
I knew about Lōʻihi (that's what I meant by "technical")
Yeah, that history revisionism is BS.
That's a good point! Though in RethinkDB's case I'd like to make an exception.

~30,000 commits and long discussion such as this one:
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/281
Yep, geospatial support has been in since 1.15.
Ask HN: Should I Use Heroku, Digital Ocean or Modulus.io for MEAN Stack?
Recently given 3 servos from Modulus (equiv to dynos on Heroku) and began wondering if I should move my operation. Heroku has been good, and has yet to cost me serious $$. Its dead simple to use and the "revert" button has saved my a$$ more than I can count.
However, Modulus specializes in node/mongo, and the servos are a nice touch.

I also have a credit from Digital Ocean, but it seems you can use that storage with Modulus? Not 100% sure
Schneier is also the one who said these are the types of things the NSA should be doing[1].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/more_about_th...
Is there an actual article I can read, or I am stuck with this third-grade picture-book format?
Agree - and in addition, they may not have a 2-week buffer to find a new job even if it were available. They certainly aren't being flown in for interviews.
The article is here (the link in the popsci article doesn't work for me): http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33.full

There's a news article about the paper that Science wrote up, which goes into some of the history of the work and has a broad sampling of views on the relevance of this paper within the broader context. http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/03/ultrasound-therap...
That doesn't address my basic point at all: what do they want for their lives?
Alternatively.. wrap each domain's data as a separate micro-service, with a convenient API... Though it really depends on how you can break down the boundaries of your application's data. Then you can persist/represent that data however you like.
Breaking things can mean many things, from physically breaking it to loss of data.

Either way, kids don't care yet and just plow on doing whatever.
Brian Wilson from Backblaze here (not the "Brian Beach" who is author of the blog post) - this was not a case of NIH. We use lots and lots and lots of existing software like Debian, Java, Ext4. We use tools like ansible and Zabbix. But this one thing just didn't exist for us in the form we needed it. We looked, we really did.

We did write the Reed-Solomon ourselves in a "clean room" so we did not have to pay any licensing fees and we clearly didn't steal anybody else's source code, but that is a very small amount of code. Like 80 lines of Java. Seriously. We referenced the technical papers we read to implement it in that blog post, but here it is again: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/realworld/reedsolomon/reed_solom... And we unit tested the living heck out of that code, plus we mathematically verified various parts.

But I'm open to an alternative solution if you can suggest one? Remember our three highest priorities are: 1) reliable, 2) low cost, 3) simple. The "low cost" includes things like we do not want to pay ongoing licensing fees to other companies.
I don't see anything about an invention being "publicly available while funneling money to the patent holder". The "exclusive right" part means the invention is legally the property of the inventor. Others can improve on it, but there is no guarantee the public can use the actual invention until the patent expires.
And that's the thought process that got a bunch of toys banned or restricted (such as magnets[1]) even though they can be responsibly used by many children. I don't think the problem is the product and certainly making it easier to start class action lawsuits will only further decrease the available toys until all we can purchase are pictures of toys. Just don't get a paper cut.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5929064/buckyballs-have-been-banned-by-th...
Unfortunately, building down tends to be much more expensive then building up.
You don't have to be 65 to have that problem, at first I couldn't tell, flat UI isn't accessible in any way, is definitely a step backwards in accessibility.
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I'm using those sources, but I'm also monitoring a few dozen parents and educators forums where safety concerns are sometimes raised, even if they don't convert into actual recalls, and treat those reports as minor alerts.
UK Parliament says it’s infeasible to block Tor and anonymity systems
Agreed on that point. I sold a dead logic board 2010 MBP for nearly that in 2013!
I've been out of step since the '80s when Apple decided that a picture of a box of Kleenex was more intuitive than the word "print".
> What always surprises me is that in the US "liberal" means left leaning and pro government intervention. Which is basically the opposite of liberalism.

Politically speaking, "left leaning" and "liberal" are both terms of 18th century origin, referring to the same kind of opponents of the centralized monarchic/oligarchic authority in favor of distribution of power to the people at large based on a conception of inherent rights; they certainly aren't opposite terms.

And the modern US liberal/conservative divide is a lot more about the purpose of government intervention than for/against it. (Both liberals and conservatives attack each other over different policies for supporting government control over individual freedom.)
For rents to go up, people have to be able to pay those higher rents. Ostensibly because they have salaries that are even relatively higher than yours (this is not intended to be a slight, but when there is a bidding war for salaries there will be a bidding war for limited housing).
What was the toy?
No issues here, Chrome 41.0.2272.89 on OSX 10.10, if it helps the devs at all. I like this game!
Here[1] is a break down of a core M and i5 mobile processor. I don't know if they are the specific processors, but there are some interesting differences, mostly around cache size, graphics chip, and graphics capabilities (the i5 has more hardware decode capabilities it seems). That said, since they are advertising 12 hours of battery, it's not like it's a slouch in that department.

1: http://ark.intel.com/compare/84672,85213
Well, here's where the difference between query builders and ORMs comes in.

Query builders (usually integrated with ORMs) are usually used by people who don't want to write any SQL. SQL is very performant and powerful, but not that easy to understand or write. This is especially so when you think about the context switch between programming languages and SQL.

The advantage of some of the NoSQL databases (MongoDB and RethinkDB, for example) is that you have the luxury of using an ORM only when it makes sense to use it, instead of relying on ORMs as crutch for not knowing SQL.

The second approach seems better, but obviously SQL (power, performance, and prevalence) cannot be ignored.
For the record, Rasmus Lerdorf is on the core team for PHP.

When I said "some_integer_array.at(i)" I certainly didn't mean "rename both things".

Alternatively, having one additional magic kind/trait/... to denote "addressable" would be more manageable than shoe-horning things into the language's syntax which can – at this change – not be fixed anymore.
And now I just feel silly. But anyway... building high-rise housing is probably a good idea.
spot on my friend, I do better than most, and still have to budget for a purchase like that.

what this does mean for me, is that older models will come down in price and become much more affordable. might even be able to pick up last years for $2-400 on ebay.
For that matter, Adam Smith was a great deal more aware of structural factors and the lack of sustainability that would result from unrestrained pursuit of wealth -it's salutary that he titled his most famous work 'The Wealth of Nations' rather than 'The Wealth of Corporations.'

Smith was keenly aware of the dangers of mercantilism and WoN is anything but an argument for unrestrained capitalism. Indeed, the second most observation in the book, after the one about the fact that butchers and bakers are motivated by self-interest rather than generosity, is that “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
Could you list your issues with Rethink? It would really help for product prioritization.
I'll buy it and run linux on it. I've long ago put all my data on my own storage boxes and all my systems have 64GB SSDs.
I doubt that Backblaze decided to go this route on a whim, particularly because it's really their only option for cost efficient large scale storage. MD is terrible for this use case. There's no mature, open source object store with R-S coding.

So everyone uses MD, but why does it suck for Backblaze-like storage? It only provides RAID levels, so you have partition-level redundancy but not necessarily object-level redundancy. You still need another layer to put objects in the right places to achieve the level of redundancy you want, and to re-balance as necessary. And a RAID array is local to one system, so achieving multi-host redundancy means duplicating the data as many times as necessary.

MD can also be finicky. Since it's part of the kernel, kernel upgrades can (rarely) produce weirdness. You can get stuck between a rock and a hard place, where you need to upgrade to fix a vulnerability but upgrading too quickly puts your data at risk.

According to Backblaze, they used to do 3 RAID6 arrays of 15 drives each per pod. This gives an overhead of 1.15:1, and two devices can fail before you lose data. Write performance is not going to be great, nor is rebuild performance. That is probably part of the reason why they could only push 950MB/s per host.

This only provides disk-level redundancy, and not host-level. So now you have to at minimum duplicate your array onto a second host, and your overhead is 2.30:1. A third host brings it to 3.46:1. I'm surprised that they were even using RAID for non-boot devices at all, given the overhead.

Erasure coding allows you to safely store data with far less than a 2:1 overhead. Their current design claims that they can lose 3 storage devices before they risk losing data permanently, with an overhead of 1.17:1. That is pretty compelling from a cost perspective.
That's nonsensical. The EV of an hour would depend far more on the table limit than any other factor. If I could find a table that would let me vary the bet from $1 to $10,000 a hand on a two deck game they could have Parkinson's patients with oven mitts on shuffling with chopsticks for all I care.
A friend of mine just sold his 2009 MacBook Pro for $1500, he originally purchased it for $2400 IIRC. That's only $900 worth of deprecation in 6 years.
yes, public transportation is very important to spread the liveable area beyond commutable distances. That would mean more land to build on. A more expansive and well connected BART network would be very beneficial.
I thought this was called the "loon" program, not Google baloons?

Either way, I love this type of innovation and this is what makes me really respect Google. Yes, I know it is all about bottom line and they will profit handsomely from it, but they are also helping the world become a better and safer place.
The difference with GPS is that these balloons (I assume) allow two-way communication, so if you are in trouble you can call for help and there's a good chance someone will actually be able to respond AND know your exact location.
Funny how moving a few colored squares requires the fan in my laptop to spin up. A right, it's HTML.
The problem is that the "poor" people are asking the wrong question. They are asking, "why can't I afford to live where I grew up?" The question they should be asking is, "should I live where I grew up?"
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WalMart seems to be often cited as the biggest competitor in this market, but I don't find it very compelling as an alternative. I know many people who do not shop at WalMart for numerous reasons, e.g. their labor practices[1]. The fact that giant, monopolistic corporations like Luxottica and WalMart seem to be the most viable option for something essential to many people is not particularly comforting.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/11/18/walmart-sto...
I'm glad it's not just me. Somebody made one of my websites beautiful, but with 'flat' buttons. People became confused on how it worked, and I had to go back and give the buttons depth.
> Nice simple game, I wish longer chains gave you more points, doesn't seem to be any reason to go for them.

Ya this looks like just make as many 2-dot connections as possible
"Print" needs to be localized.
Idle time means idle money. Think about how you would react if you were hiring someone and that someone had "idle" time while you're paying him. If you have investors, they expect you to do something good with your time that ultimately multiplies their money. If you don't have investors, you are your own investor (your time is your cost of opportunity) and you probably also want to make your time worth.

I've been in that situation and even while it doesn't feel ideal (just the fact of having idle time feels weird and wrong), I think its the best time to learn new things relevant for your business. There will always be something helpful to learn that can be useful for your business, so just try to prioritize on what would be the most useful in the short term. There is indeed many times idle time, but it is only idle if you keep it that way.

The easiest learning comes from reading. Keep up to date with industry trends, read about marketing strategies, read about cases of successful and failed companies similar to yours.

Learn to fulfill positions that are yet non-existent on your company. If you are a small startup and you have no one doing marketing, pr or something else, use your time to learn about it and do it yourself.

just my thoughts from someone similar
Do you have any concerns that the system could be abused? Maybe a someone would start paying some Amazon Turkers to make complaints about a competing product?

What do you think about expanding this to 3d-printed stuff? Analyze blueprints for child safety before printing?
I haven't seen anybody complaining about the move to a single port type. Most of us in the tech world recognize that as a Good Thing. What many of us don't like is that you have to unplug the power adapter just to plug in a flash drive unless you have a dongle.
You don't have to understand my preferences. All you need to do is try to respect my right to decide for myself what is best for me.

Thinking you have a superior answer for my life after reading a couple of comments by me on the Internet and saying I should move to another country because you don't understand my choices is beyond insulting.
BUY link goes to a 404.
Features of Variable Data Printing (VDP)
How useful is a ChromeOS?
Can you use it yet to develop either ChromeOS apps Chromium itself? Can you use it develop Android apps or Android itself?
Firefox Android's "Reader Mode" goes part way to solving this problem.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-reader-mode-fir...

But of course, that's another random piece of UI to memorise.
Go to a record store, pick at random a few from the 'news' section, listen and repeat until you have a few you reckon go together. Then buy them, research the artists involved on Discogs, go see them play. Do this weekly for a few years.

Those guys behind the counter started kinda like that as did any DJ worth his/her salt, and honestly I don't think there's a better way of music discovery. Having something physically there, staring at you reminding you that you forked out cash for it, something you come back to again and again forms an authentic experience that can only be replicated in part by digital.

Check out stores like Hardwax, Space Hall, Kristina records, Naminohana, honest jons or whatever is local to you. Look up the event listings in Resident Advisor and grep the artist names. Actually leave the house. :)
When they say they've "written 2,000 checks worth $45,000," they're basically saying they'll pay you, on average, ~$11 per referral? Most employers I've worked for pay at least $250 per referral for regular work, and much more if they have an urgent or very specialized need. I'm not sure I see the advantage of joining this network over just referring people to my current employer.
Yeah, this is also the bend I get from this video. I wonder if this article would be made if it were an American company.
Building isn't the main difference between SF and NY. If everyone in Brooklyn want to live in Manhattan prices would be very different.

If anything SF has become more centralized and companies keep paying high salaries and other perks playing in to the whole thing.
But lte's base stations has actually very limited capacity, thats why in cities there are a lot of micro cells for capacity and much less 'full range' cells for coverage.
A matte display is essential for a developer (imho) so the Pixel is a non-starter.
> I hate rent control, but I think it's a symptom of incumbents' unwillingness to allow more development,

No. It began in SF as a very-specific response to Prop 13, which is essentially property-tax-control

Both are bad policies in terms of market distortion and are often the overlooked elephants in the room in discussion of housing supply and affordability.
That's a good point. Being a craftsman means caring about the quality of your work.
Asana integration is on our roadmap, along with a number of others.
"Sputnik mode"?
Pranking the CEO to Further the Feminist Agenda
Compile OCaml to Objective-C / iOS
Making a big line has the same value of making several small lines. Bad.
Designers seem to hate data. At most they might do some brief user testing but they'll laugh you out of the room if you suggest AB testing their designs. They love the Henry Ford quote about people wanting faster horses because it justifies their dismisiveness of users. The regrettable thing about Apple's ascendancy is that businesses are letting designers run products unchecked while designers all imagine themselves as arrogant Steve Jobs type who's vision can't be questioned.
@RevillWeb

Thank you for this write up!

I've been looking for an overview of WebComponents, including a simple example and yours is the best I've seen yet.

You do state that there are three extensions (X-Tag, Polymer, & Bosonic). But then you question their interoperability. I'm definitely a newb in this area, but isn't the main selling point of WebComponents that it doesn't matter how the component itself is written (e.g., your comparison of the X-Tag component code to the Polymer component code) what matters is that each version is simply a plug and play component?
Full-stack tensions on the Web
I moved to Seattle for Tech work. It required 2 months of planning and less than $5k in expenses (for two people). I moved from Memphis, TN.

Places like the Puget Sound and the Bay Area are going to keep getting populated with tech workers, and they are going to keep rising in cost.

Moving isn't hard. It sucks to feel kicked out of the city you live in, but there isn't much that can be done. If you can't afford it, move somewhere that you can.

I hate gentrification, but what can we do to avoid it? Ban high-paying jobs? Maybe one day all of this will bite us in the ass, but if you find yourself on the receiving end right now, do the best thing you can for yourself and get out!
Yet Another Blog Article About Acceptance Testing
The behavior of removing all the dots of the same color when you make a square is definitely novel.
Not to excuse or justify the design decision, but you can in fact re-enable highlighting for buttons. It’s in the accesibility settings.

Edit: Just realized we are talking about websites here. Sorry, forget what I said!
I can't find any evidence of this recall; how did you find out about it? I guess that's the value of your site?
Is there such a thing like a "general purpose computer" anymore?

My computers need to be light. I don't need a powerful CPU and, since I run small VMs, not a lot of memory. With containers, the needs are even more spartan. What I do need is a good battery, screen and keyboard.

Were I running simulations over large datasets, I would prioritize a large amounts of memory, fast CPUs and the fastest GPUs I could lay my hands on. And a fast network so I could move the datasets easily. My general purpose computer would have Xeons (E7s and Phis), Nvidia GPUs and Infiniband interconnects across multiple chassis.

My mom needs a keyboard, a mouse and a screen. And a browser. And that's about it.
You can make "loops": link at least four squares of the same color in a loop and it will remove all the squares of that color on the board. This seems to be a quite unique feature that you find in both Dots and Zop.
Even if you bought in 2011, when the $1M home was $600k, you'd be fine.
I don't think HNL is really that efficient: it's just so far away that any standard percentage-based schedule pad will overcompensate it (i.e., if I always add 5% to a schedule, but actual delays are independent of the flight length, then I will underpad a 1-hour flight and overpad a 12-hour flight).
Yup, and if it had 5 ports value vould be five times as much, right?
For some value is not in the ports.