skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That goes both ways. Nobody will pay if its too high (you will pay another slightly cheaper landlord, then) and thus landlord has to lower prices. Thus rent control apts are, in fact, at market rate. Its just that market rate is higher than you think it is.
When the market is exploding prices will rise regardless of rent control to crazy amounts.

People should disclose if they have an interest in this thread, since last I remember, all landlords are pretty wealthy people without that problem. (they own their place + other places, so, yeah)
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The problem is, a libertarian will tell you their ideology because they believe in it. A CPC member knows the situation is bunk and is just in it for the guanxi; they don't even want a debate. They aren't believers, just opportunists.
One thing I wish they had talked about, was about applying Random Early Detection (RED) to this problem. It seems to be, that RED, while an older technique, was created for exactly this purpose, and is supported in every IP router I've ever worked with. Perhaps there are challenges applying RED here, but I would suspect that if introduced it would also have considerable improvements to the internet performance for those islands.

Now, the solution presented, could be superior to RED, but based on what they've shown, I'm not entirely convinced. It is an intriguing solution though.

Also, an important takeaway they presented, that translates to other software tasks, is that increasing the buffer often makes the situation worse. One thing you can look into, is the research currently underway into buffer bloat, and the suspected impacts it is believed to be having on consumer internet service. My understanding is it appears to be caused by this exact phenomenon, where engineers from equipment manufactures and telecom operators reacted to the problem by drastically increasing buffer sizes.

*Please be aware, I work for a large telecom operator in Canada, but the views are my own and do not reflect any position of my employer.
Bear in mind that agile was conceived by a bunch of veterans working on mega programs and was based on observation of what works best with mature teams
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>They are then locked in a small room with all the tools and assistants they need, and given complete and total authority and autonomy over the process and results.

A surgeon of that level would be more analogous to a very senior programmer with management responsibilities. Said surgeon only got to that point after years of working very long hours with little autonomy.

And surgeons only get that autonomy for a fraction of their day, every doctor I've ever met complains about hospital and insurance company bureaucracies.

If you want to compare a bunch of 20-40 year old programmers sitting in an office plan at facebook to doctors, you'd do better comparing them to ER residents who definitely don't have the kind of autonomy you're talking about.

There are also plenty of "professional" programmers working as consultants.
Well, sure you can't exactly copy what Numpy does, but it is not too difficult to do what they do with CLOS.

I think getting the slicing sematics right is crucial for making things easy, and without an infix reader it is hard, for a Lisp to compete on usability in Numerical computing.
When I looked at the two last summer, it wasn't clear that the two were separate. I was surprised to learn of the difference.

Why was WikiVoyage chosen?
I think that in science there is an inherent tension between what scientists know and what what the public knows.

Scientific knowledge is covered in asterisks. To read and understand science typically requires an extensive amount of background knowledge; without that it is very easy to misinterpret the strength, significance, or applicability of a scientific finding. Many of the asterisks are themselves scientific conclusions with their own set of asterisks.

The public, at least in areas which are not immediately relevant to daily life, cannot be assumed to have that background knowledge. Therefore, the tension is essentially this: How can scientists make people aware of (or interested in) scientific knowledge if they have to strip out all the asterisks when talking to them?

Making science into a catechism is simply one solution to the above problem. Ignore the asterisks and turn the fundamental findings of physics and chemistry into dogma and dispense it as gospel truth. I actually am somewhat o.k. with this. Sure, Joe Public might come away with an over-simplified and over-confident knowledge about what science says, but I think that a clumsy knowledge of scientific facts is better than the impression that scientific knowledge is arcane and out of reach. After all, it is highly unlikely that Joey P. will find himself in a situation where it is very important for him to really understand all the subtleties behind his k-8 scientific knowledge, but that knowledge is likely to come in handy.

The only problems with the science-as-religion solution are a potential "loss of faith" and the perception of arbitrarity with regards to scientific findings. The first can easily happen when someone learns about a new finding which contradicts the dogmatic version of science but is entirely consistent with the heavily asterisked actual scientific consensus. The second problem is basically "rejectability;" if people think that science is a set of arbitrary rules, then they are free to reject them the same way they would reject other religions.
it actually sounds fair, doesn't it?
How does zero MQ stand up
Simple answer. Download the apps from your top competitors and start using them. When you get bored of them and quit in an hour, or a week, you'll know why they're dead.
"Scrum is designed for software teams working in a well-known problem space"

More narrowly, it's for problems which can be broken down into more or less independent "features". It's not too helpful if you're building something which doesn't do anything useful until all the parts are working. The Scrum mindset is to first build a flashlight app, then add features.

(If only that were a joke.)

Flashlight app with an EULA, a privacy policy, and ads.[1]
Flashlight app with in-app purchases.[2]
Flashlight app with spyware.[3]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=goldenshoreste...

[2]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/light-led-flashlight/id37975...

[2]http://www.komando.com/apps/3112/turn-your-phone-into-a-flas...
I fear that all of this is a race to produce incompatible consumption devices for proprietary paid content channels. I do not expect to see open content for them via open channels and sincerely hope I'm wrong.

Steam is just one of the players that will give you access to their content exclusively via their channel on their device. It's all modeled on Apple. I was once very excited about VR but watching what is happening has cooled my interest considerably. It will probably be a long time before the shakeout that can make it interesting again.
It is not a crime to take risks. Or to avoid them. Or to enter into contracts on mutually agreeable terms.

Owners risk their capital and defer their own consumption. The renters preserve their flexibility and get more house than they could have afforded to buy and avoid losing their shirts in housing busts.

Sounds like a win-win to me.

Ah, but if you can use the power of the state to give you the economy of renting with the rights of owning, without those annoying responsibilities, then you've really got something!
It sounds like you want them dead because it doesn't look nice when you look through your window.

They were most likely tenants that have been evicted and couldn't pay, or other similar reasons. Some choose to live homeless, but most do not.
I'm using gitbook to write a book currently (so I'm biased), but its an excellent platform for writers (especially those familiar with git). My best bits:

- Most of the product is open-source, which means I can tinker with their publishing platform.

- Version control

- Markdown support

- Mailing lists for readers (so you can send email updates)

- Support for donations and selling (I'm not using it, though)

- A traffic email sent every week

- Builds are pretty fast

- They even offer an educational discount on the pro plans if you ask nicely.

A few issues I've faced:

- The traffic stats are not realistic. It counts page loads, which are down by a factor of 2-3 as per my google analytics. Also, the country demographics are very clearly wrong (unless there is a readership of my book in Philippines that I don't know of)

- Landing page customization. They do have a few options, but I'd like more options

If there is someone who has tried both softcover.io (by Michael Hartl) and gitbook, I'd like to hear their thoughts.
It has that potential but corporate greed will turn it into a tower of incompatible babble.
Markdown (even this Scholarly Markdown) is a non-starter for me. It doesn't seem to support individual equation numbers for aligned equations. Plus, Scholarly Markdown oddly decided to put them at the beginning of the line rather than after. Why? The equation is more important than the number so it should be first. Plus, it's nice to have the numbers all aligned to the right margin.

You stated about the footnote support being a deal-breaker for many academics, the poor equation support is a deal-breaker for me. Most of what I write is full of equations, especially aligned equations. It's necessary to reference a specific equation that might be on a different page (or far above it on an HTML page).

It looks like Asciidoc has different ways of handling LaTeX equations for non-LaTeX output. It can render a PNG, it can use a Javascript solution, or it can output MathML.
> I don't believe we're talking about rent control here, or at least not exclusively. The original article is about someone's rent increasing by over 400%.

Yes, because the unit is no longer controlled and the landlord wants them out. In your eyes, that makes the landlord an asshole. That may be, but the reality on the ground is that there are few ways to do that... and they found one.

Does it even matter why? What if the landlord wants somewhere for their aging grandmother to live so they can care for her? Would that still make them an asshole? I suspect you'll say yes, because they're looking to push someone out of their home. Maybe the tenant has caused so many headaches that it's not worth putting up with them for the profit anymore. Who knows?

It wouldn't be an issue at all - magical words and warm fuzzies and similar crap aside - if all the various policies supported by not-assholes hadn't created a situation that encourages assholes. It's kind of like well-intentioned policies need to be carefully thought through because they can have consequences other than those intended.

> At any rate, you're re-framing the argument here to try to make me look bad.

Really? I thought I was just exploring the consequences of your position(s), but I'll bow to you on this one.

> There are many multipliers between 0x and 10x, and I would argue that the responsible multiplier in order to maintain non-asshole status is well below 10... and even well below 1... but certainly greater than 0.

OK. Then what is it? What's your happy medium, where you are getting money from someone, providing something in exchange, and making a profit without enriching yourself at their expense?
>>Basically you should teach yourself how to build essentialy any CRUD app (blogs, wikis, basic twitter, news site, hacker news, reddit, etc). When you can do that, you're employable--and probably well above average, honestly.

That's a tall order to become barely employable. I'm guessing this is written from a Silicon Valley / SF market perspective?
https://handmadehero.org/

Definitely not rehearsed, but the first few weeks are stuff he knows well enough that it goes really fast.

After that, though he starts to get into things that he hasn't done (at least in a long time).
Valve is going to give away their "Lighthouse" room-tracking technology:

"So we're gonna just give that away. What we want is for that to be like USB. It's not some special secret sauce. It's like everybody in the PC community will benefit if there's this useful technology out there. So if you want to build it into your mice, or build it into your monitors, or your TVs, anybody can do it."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/valve-vr-input/
The problem is that research and prototyping is difficult to estimate even when you have a history of estimates. The advantages of scrum really kick in around sprint #4 or 5, when your team has a history of estimates that you can refer to when you're estimating future work items.

In a research setting, this breaks down because the work for sprint N is totally different than the work for sprint N-1, which means that you can't use the work logs from your previous sprints to estimate the next sprint's work.
On Mission street in my neighborhood alone there are at lease 3 large lots with derelict buildings on them and they've been that way for years. There are quite a few other smaller parcels on Mission and smaller streets.

If we want to take housing seriously, let's start with a law that says "If the building is abandoned for 5 years, you lose it, it becomes housing."
I think we all use code to make things. However, not caring about the code can spell disaster for the thing we're making. In the case of Minecraft it appears the code is good enough but I wonder how many more features would exist if it wasn't for the poor design.
Yes, you technically can rent it for a limited time of zero, meaning they do have the right to rent it for a limited time, in some weird mathematical field theory of rental treating that as the additive identity element or something.
Basically rent in big cities is extremely low risk income. It means if you're lucky enough to be born/married the right places and own a few buildings, you do not need to work, nor will ever need, nor will your children ever need.

So.. it doesn't make landlords assholes or evil, but its not like there wasnt a class issue. The only reason why this thread explodes is because the wealth difference is getting bigger and bigger.
The lower bound for computing the points of intersection is n log n + k for n line segments and k intersections, but obviously k can be n^2 in the worst case.
The main problem I see with technical interviews is that they are based on an assumption of individual technical knowledge adding value to an organisation.

Working instead from an assumption that the whole is greater than sum when it comes to groups of people - I'd be far more interested in what a candidate is like to work with and what unique qualities they bring that we don't already have and which can act as a multiplier for the organisation.
First of all, saying that profanity is "ghetto talk" is racist. Ghettos are places that (often poor and persecuted) minorities[1] are pressured to live. So what you said was far more offensive than saying "crazy shit"[2].

Second, wealthier people swear more[3]. So not only are you racist, you're also wrong.

Third, there's a great deal of research showing the usefulness of profanity. It conveys emotional content in a way that other words can't. If you refuse to accept and understand profanity, you're neutering the language.

1. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto

2. (On that note, "ghetto" is often used by racist Americans as a pejorative euphemism for "black".)

3. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/10/nine-things-you-probably...
"much of what the VCs are funding isn't even technology but the post-apocalyptic sort of "attempt to engage in one of the short-term natural monopolies that technology sometimes creates" gambits that bloom in the caldera of an imploded technology industry"

Much of what is funded has always been that.
So the SF is just a very expensive place to live. So is NYC, Tokyo, and London. Whether you consider these outcomes acceptable or not, it seems they are inevitable. By keeping rent control, you are actually leading people into believing they can afford to live in a place that is poised to prove them out one way or another.

I personally cannot fathom why one place can be son much more expensive than another. Sure, there is a price differential, but is SF really that much better than Brimingham, or Durham, or Albany?

Besides, if you want to be the master of your destiny and put a root down, buy. Renting is a tool for when you cannot afford to buy yet, or for when you are on the move. It's greatest strength is that it lets you up and move. I never understood why you would rent the same place for more than a few years. If you plan on staying, buy. If you cannot afford to buy, why are you staying in this place?
I found the research study interesting -- https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/research/chr/pubs/report...

1."if a hotel increases its review scores by 1 point on a 5-point scale (e.g., from 3.3 to 4.3), the hotel can increase its price by 11.2 percent and still maintain the same occupancy or market share"

2."1-percent reputation improvement leads up to a 1.42-percent increase in revenue per available room (RevPAR)"

#1's substantial
Whoops, I didn't mean to apply quote formatting to that. I DID mean to take the same argument and swap for vectors, but DIDN'T mean to make it look like your words.

My apologies. But, I maintain that trees have their uses. I would never use a hashmap to implement a priority queue, and i'd never use a tree to implement associative arrays!
Another interesting visualizer is gource[0] - here's an example video[1].

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/gource/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_02QGsHzEQ
WikiVoyage forked to join the Wikimedia family of sites after WT's owner failed to keep its infrastructure up to date (30 seconds to make commit an edit). That the owners of WikiTravel (Internet Brands) literally sued contributors for this was less than helpful to WT's continued existence.

Disclosure: I was potentially an "unnamed co-conspirator" in the lawsuit.
Unless SF eliminates its insane height restrictions, the very few buildings that would be repurposed in this fashion would immediately become $4000 apartments.
I filed the Mill CPU under "call me when you ship" quite a while ago, because the constant "let me tell you how we will solve that with Mill" threat-squats got really old and in 30 years of doing this I've seen way to many "no, really, this is going to change all of computing as we know it" architectures proposed, that never amounted to anything worthwhile, and here in 2015 I'm still buying the 8086's grandkid. At least ARM and MIPS are keeping it somewhat interesting, and Power 7 and T5 are looking at interesting architecture innovations, and, most importantly, are actually shipping something instead of hanging out on HN telling us how awesome it will be one day.
Babies are expensive!
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You can detect a car any number of ways. Detect a car without also getting an RFID and you can generate a report for a nearby traffic police to follow up on. We already use RFID for access in a number of places, such as tool booths. An RFID-less car would get noticed there, and I don't see any reason that police vehicles wouldn't be equipped with the transponders, so I think in some cases it might be harder than it currently is.
Those skills would get you callbacks. The killer in South Florida, at least, is the "3-5 years experience" requirement so often seen in job postings. A nice portfolio could overcome that hopefully.
The funny thing is that he has a Masters in Economics. You'd think he knows what the word means.
This reminds me of a talk at SCALE13x about NATS: http://nats.io

It's fast and scaleable.
I hope this isn't the way it goes. For purely selfish reasons. As a wheelchair user, VR has the potential to provide sets of experiences that are difficult for me to find elsewhere, like running, jumping, exploring spaces with verticality. But not if I have to wheel myself slowly around a 15' area doing n-point turns with my controllers on my knees.

Ah, I can't blame them, but it will be sad not to be able to access these experiences.

And, even for able bodied folks, isn't part of the fun of games being able to do virtually things you're not able to do in real life? Limiting games to walking around a small room - might give you immersion, but is that really going to be fun in the long run?
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I believe the person was paying month to month so the per month deposit just refers to general security deposit.
Abstractly, yes, you are absolutely correct in every detail.

In practice, how much money should that be expected to translate to? From what I've seen, SF could dump literally it's entire yearly budget at offering care, compassion, and generosity to the homeless without the homeless population shrinking.
Barely employable? ...Ruby/Rails/Full Stack jobs are so hard to fill it's insane. Starting salaries are in the $130-150k range for mid-level $150k plus for senior and even junior level is a six figure gig. Sure it'll take time to get to a hirable state but it's perfectly doable.
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You're just stating things without making any argument. I am aware of consumer surplus, thank you very much.

You said that I value something at 60 cents and the seller values it at 40 cents, therefore I will buy it at 50 cents. Not only is your simple linear model absurdly reductionist, it's just ignorant. If a grocer is willing to sell at 40 cents, I would never pay a 50% markup when I wouldn't have to, your assertion that I would notwithstanding. I would just pay the 40 cents, and therefore the only objective measurement of how what I valued it at would come out at 40 cents. You stating that I actually value it at 60 cents is just you trying to fit a scenario to your fictional model.
My supervisor has been writing a book (for many years now) and he has a heavily customized LaTeX style that actually works quite well for his book. He has a lot of special needs for formatting so none of the default styles really worked for him. It's actually a pretty well done dynamics textbook. I've been looking forward to the actual final published text.
I invented the "piece table" data structure independently, while writing a DOS text editor in 1990s, presented it at a symposium in my faculty and got laughed off. 20 years later I stumble into this PDF describing it as a worthwhile data structure. LOL
...having been in several organizations in recent years which are challenged to find enough people, everyone says 3-5 years, but everyone will hire someone with obvious talent, a portfolio of stuff on Github and enthusiasm to learn, at much less than 3-5 years of experience.
ZeroMQ is not a message queue, nor is it a broker. You could build a message queue with it, but it's not really a valid comparison.
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Yahoo shows off password-free logins and new encrypted email technology
None of that is real property. Attaching the word 'property' to those things is a legal fiction and completely different from what we were talking about.
Could be worse. There's a build tool for Mozilla add-ons where the flags go after the file argument.
Did Atlantis really exist on the Moroccan coast?