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I support building new buildings - if we let them build new buildings, those buildings are exempt from rent control, too!

Also, let's not forget that SF also has a pretty large amount of subsidized housing stock in the form of BMR (below market rent) units and other things.

I don't see a problem with having the rent control stock transitioned to some sort of means-testing.

I'd love to see them building, building, building. The amount of fighting that went on to knock down a Walgreens in the mission that was right next to a BART stop though, leaves me wondering if that could ever happen.

Zoning protects owners, but remember that a tenant in rent control has a right not unlike an ownership right; it's a perpetual lease at a fixed price. They can sub-lease it, for instance. It is all but impossible for them to be evicted. So rising property values and quality-of-life in their area benefits them (the tenants) greatly; so opposing construction keeps the value and exclusivity of their position high. The tenants are accruing a large economic surplus that would normally accrue to the owner.

Anyway, I've heard of quite a few anecdotes that involve people making huge salaries and having incredibly cheap rent-controlled apartments, or even worse, sub-leases of one. Never mind the pied-a-terre accusations.

I have not seen any meaningful statistics, though.
Great suggestion. I'm working on preloading a set of images so that things are much more snappy each time you open a new tab. Currently, it fetches the low res and overrides it with the high res when it is finished loading.
Your first sentences needs some more support. We know that some of it can be explained by statistical modelling, and we don't yet know how to explain the rest of it. Why does that make you sure that it doesn't run on statistics?
There aren't a lot of savings to be had. In addition to paying for the Direct Connect infrastructure you still have to pay Amazon per GB charges, albeit at a slightly lesser rate.

The only real solution is to move the bandwidth usage off AWS.
Right now much of the true cost of commuting is spread out in periodic costs like vehicle purchase, maintenance, licensing fees, paying for parking/storage, etc. But all anybody looks at is the time and gas.

If you're taking a car service of some sort, all the other stuff will getg figured into the per-mile cost and presented for payment each day when you get to work. I'm guessing once people are hit in the face with the full cost, they will make different (and arguably more rational) decisions.
If you're a small org with relatively small volume self-hosting doesn't make sense.
For me two of the biggest issues in the bay area, transportation and housing stock availability suffer from a lack of regional authority which could make decisions for the region as a whole. The Abag just does studies and isn't binding.

I wish we had some county/city mergers like miami-dade. I think a regional authority would weaken the nature of neighborhood politics which conflict with larger regional goals. We could have an integrated transit system as well as well planned -or at least better planned- housing policies and strategies.

Bay area nimbyism resulted in a fragmented Bart and uncoordinated transit system as well as wasteful low rise housing developments. I can only hope this changes. And also agree getting rid of rent control is a bitter but necessary pill. Build more and rent will go down.
I'm not sure where you see a difference between a VM and physical hardware when it comes to provisioning.

Sure, the physical hardware takes 1 hour rather than 1 minute to spin up, but the process is otherwise entirely identical.
Do you have to run OSX? Having spent years working in both OSX and Linux I've found the latter is much more usable as a developer - in terms of customisation, scripted setup, flexibility, UI[1].

If you're going to the bother of changing OS, I suggest trying Linux (I use Linux Mint) as well, and see which you prefer. My setup is here:

https://github.com/duncan-bayne/mint-setup/wiki

Using a tiling window manager like StumpWM[2] is a major win as you can almost entirely give up using the mouse. Plus a programmable window manager (again, like StumpWM) gives you the flexibility to tailor your environment to suit exactly the way you work, and keep changing it as your style develops.

OSX is miles better than Windows, I'll grant you, but it's still primarily a consumer-focused OS. Be a producer, not a consumer ;)

[1] The OSX GUI is great for discoverability. But as a developer, you might benefit more from a powerful, flexible, trivially programmable GUI.

[2] https://stumpwm.github.io/ ... see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0DVxy4HBc for an intro
I wish I had NSA-level overview of the internets to see how much bandwidth is wasted on poorly compressed file formats and protocols. Its weird we're talking about gif in the age of h.264 and png. So much for the "burn your gifs" patent protest from a few years ago.

Seems to me, social media sites like Facebook and Reddit have revitalized the gif for cheesy animations and memes. Its only fairly recently that hosts like imgur are converting them down to h.264 or webm for massive bandwidth savings.

We have an older guy here at work who thinks the alternative to flash is just hosting 20mb to 50mb gifs on our websites. I think people like this are still fairly common because they don't understand how terrible gifs are. Its funny the ways the web doesn't move forward sometimes.
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> backwards client regimes

They also have some modern client regimes, like Europe.
Yeah, an ice age would be far worse than anything predicted for AGW.
Have you been to a European city, somewhere built before cars? Open space is good but you don't need the width of American streets, and it's important to get the pedestrian density up high enough that people feel like there's something going on.
GANGSTA tool for Bitcoin double spends
Searching "dancer" brought up related perl modules but not the primary one.
Drones: out of sight, out of mind
I think so, but I am reminded of this sage advice: https://twitter.com/jdub/status/575887350158372864 > Never plug in an unknown USB key or cable. Never plug in an unknown Lightning cable. Never touch computers. Everything is a computer. Run.
Surely fine print on your rental agreement could let you know you could be filmed.
Readme has been incredible for hosting documentation of our open source project (rbkit.readme.io). Very responsive to support requests, even though we weren't really a paying a customer.
This is a hell of a strawman. The proposition isn't to remove the ability to travel, which (as you said) is effectively the removal of geographic barriers to interaction. It's to replace car travel with something that has lower costs in terms of efficiency, health, economics, city planning, fatalities, the environment, etc etc etc etc.

> What, you think the amount of roads we have now is a lot? We've always had roads, they were for carts, or horses, or anything else. There is nothing special about cars here.

Not all roads are made equal. There's a huge difference between "space reserved for a mode of travel" and the public spaces that roads[1] (in cities) were before cars became ubiquitous.[2] A good analogue is imagining a path in a park: it's generally used for transit (people walking and occasionally biking), but it's also fully open as a public space for the citizenry to use as they please.

[1] This whole conversation is about roads in cities, so that's what I'm referring to: roads across sparsely populated countryside don't have nearly as high a cost, nor do they have as many viable alternatives.

[2] http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
apparently there's also hints of alpha channel, but basically no support for it outside of chrome's experimental flags:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/07/Alpha-transparency-in-...
Relatedly, I have seen plenty of very smart people that were able to bowl over these "sink states" completely unaware of just how unmaintainable their ultimate solution was.
They are at the moment, Go doesn't have a central repository like npmjs.org, each project is just a url that you can "go get", I'm trying to find a good way to group them that keeps the full dependency graph intact.
Who is this "we" ? People without kids?
The Inventor of Underwear with Pockets
We have 100 physical servers and hardware failures really are very rare. Very rare.

In fact over 4 years we have only had 3 hard drives fail and no other hardware failures.
> I think the general notion that it is more difficult to improve things that you can't/don't measure is fairly accurate.

To be somewhat pedantic:

The difficulty of improving a thing does not change based on you measuring it. If I, say, measure the response time of a service, it's still just as difficult as it was before to improve the response time of the service. Furthermore, any improvement you do make will not change based on you measuring it. If I do improve the response time of the service, it will be just as improved whether or not I measure the change.

So, measuring does nothing but allow you to quantify the improvement you have made. It doesn't make improving a thing easier, and it doesn't make improvements better.

That said, there's plenty of scenarios where impartial measurements are critical. If you don't know what to improve, broad measurement across the entire system can provide an answer. If there's indecisiveness about which action will provide the best improvement, then impartial measuring will provide an answer. If you don't trust your perception, or cannot perceive the result, then impartial measuring can also provide an answer.
One thing I've never understood (but would still like to) is where does the imperative to build more and faster come from? I live in Berkeley, am very nearly priced out at this point, but see no reason why the community is required to take in more people. Permitting snd process ensures a snail's pace for new construction here, but from the perspective of those that live here (and most have rent control) why should they rush to grow?

All I'm saying is, market prices reflect supply and demand, but they also balance the demand which would otherwise threaten to overwhelm the place. Who am I to say 'I want to live here! Make it happen!!' We could be building the city of our dreams, of the future, a mere 30 miles away.
Nobody knows. The climate is intensely non-linear, and as such can only be predicted by models that are comparable in complexity to those for turbulent flow.

This is not to say that anthropogenic climate change is not real--there is plenty of evidence for it--but that climate models in their current state, and in almost any plausible state to come, are not up to the task of addressing these sorts of relatively short-term variations.

Even saying things that are probably true, like "Climate change will result in more extreme weather events because the heat engine of the climate will have more power behind it and it is being progressively pushed out of the mid-20th-century near-equilibrium" doesn't tell us anything about specific <em>types</em> of climate events. Maybe it'll result in more and heavier snowfall. Maybe it'll result in more severe hurricanes. A hundred years from now we'll have the data to look at the distributions so we can tell. Today, we are largely in the dark.

Someone here quoted Michael Mann saying that high sea-surface temperatures were responsible for more moisture in the air resulting in higher snowfall. Well and good, but if New England experienced a series of unusually dry winters we'd be pointing to high sea-surface temperatures changing wind patterns resulting in drier air over the region, and so on. Almost any weather event is capable of a nice linear-sounding "explanation", but weather prediction is still terrible, which tells you how seriously those "explanations" should be taken.
Really puts humans in perspective. That said, it's nice to know we're all part of a potential Atlantis.
You can, say, nearly double the quality, get a 100kb file or so, and have it be much sharper. The settings he's using are fairly compressed. Generally, you should be able to go down to 1/10th the file size without too much of a quality drop.
Wish there was samples or at least an example creator so I can see what our branded box would look like.
The problem with leaving units vacant though is it takes those units off the market, driving rents up for the remaining units. That is the end result of overly aggressive rent control, and one of the big problems in San francisco right now.
I'm unfamiliar with this - does it pertain to physical tables or number of seats? If for instance you take an approach such as Bennihana where you have large tables and just add people to the table until it's full, is that counted differently than 8 tables for 4? If two parties of 4 show up, they're both seated at the same table... if the table is for 10, then when another couple show up, they're added to the same table. Does this count as 1 table or 3?
Zermatt, Switzerland. Car free city.
It sounds to me like they're just disallowing the OEM practice of recovery partitions, in favor of telling you to create restore media, like the old days, lol.

Factory reset without recovery media isn't going to work if your runtime files have been infected and such.
Hackhands/Codementor/AirPair are in this realm, but you have to pay.
So I'm not railing against government programs because they're "bad" and in fact I'm not necessarily even opposed to them. I'm trying to explain a set of psychological effects that I suspect influence the way our society approaches these kinds of problems.
I think it's unfair to compare self-hosted to shared hosting. GitHub Enterprise is not $7 self-hosted. It's $5K/year.
Cool, thanks for reaching out! I'll look into this. Finding info about this problem was a chore, so I'm really appreciative you're able to point me somewhere =].
Why can't Chevy put in some kind of "beep beep you are being recorded in valet mode" warning when the door is open and that mode is on. That would cover any reasonable case here.
"Works" with the android stock browser, however there the controls stay in the way. Same for Chrome. Does not work with opera mobile.
>viking origin of Kievan Rus is disputed

there are some theories that there was some state there before Kievan Rus state founded by Vikings. That pre-Viking state(s) has pretty much no meaningful traces, it was more like glorified village-level tribes of Slavs running in the forest. Only with Vikings there appeared the state which pushed (and finally destroyed) Khazar khaganate (a huge empire in itself) and performed aggressive southward raids, like those on Constantinopole and Iran.

>not all the aristocracy (kulaks)

kulaks, as were already said by the other commenter, have absolutely nothing to do with aristocracy, not even in the same hemisphere. I can only wonder how much do you know about Russian history ...
Even the IPCC doesn't claim human-induced climate change until the 1950s. The amounts of CO2 added to the atmosphere didn't seriously ramp up until after 1950.
ROWs usually extend far beyond the edge of the road.

You'd be surprised how far into your yard the ROW for your street extends.
Yet another option is the stateless desktop, similar to mobile devices (and actually to some degree Windows 8+). The ability to do a reset/refresh without affecting user data or apps; and full system reset where all updates and user data are removed, e.g. returning to an OS state defined by a read-only image (which itself can be atomically replaced for major upgrades).

What makes things a pain on Linux is applications have parts strewn all over the filesystem. My stuff has a /home, why isn't there an /OShome, and an /Appshome?
Really. Who needs to fly to enter a country?
Jeremy Clarkson made a fascinating point about the self-driving car and it's "intelligence." shortly before the whole fracas thing:

If you assume these cars will some day be able to identify humans, what decision is made in a situation where the car can either swerve and (potentially) injure a bystander, or continue on a trajectory which calculates to be certain death for its occupants?

What shocks me is how few people understand that this would not be a "decision" in the sense that the software would have a choice. It would either be coded in directly or would be a resultant output of the criteria it uses to already do its pathfinding.
Ask HN: Anyone know of a web template organizer?
Hello,

Anyone know of software for organizing different templates for web development? Ideally users could upload code snippets (templates), attach screenshots and tag/categorize templates for easy reuse. kind of like Gist, but for content and design teams to choose different snippets so development can implement them.
The Future Is Coming Faster Than We Think
I don't see the use of an inward looking camera. I can see the use of an outward looking camera --as Russians can attest, this can prove useful in insurance claims against you. If you allow the camera, you get a ten, twenty percent discount, whatever. But inward looking, what would that assist with other than invasion of privacy?
> I use text for documents and grep/find to search them.

That's wonderful, now what about a picture of a business card or flier I took quickly? What about PDFs I've been sent or have found online? Not everything is generated in a text editor, and as much as I love text and default to it as much as possible, it's not always possible.

This is maybe my 3rd biggest usecase.

> Sharing with non geeks is a different story, of course, that is not covered by this approach.

Which may be my second largest use case for evernote.

I would not call a method that cannot perform more than 2/3rds of the main functions I use daily a replacement, let a lone an adequate one.
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> ... almost all synchronization primitives can be implemented with each other

Not to mention that any partial recursive function can be computed by a machine which can move along an unlimited tape, reading or writing a symbol, according to a handful of rules. :)

> And as you point out, the various mutex incarnations usually have an easier time of tracking ownership and debugging

Ownership, whether or not the owning thread died, deadlock detection, recursion detection ... priority inversion handling like priority inheritance ...
Let's be clear: It's wrong in all scenarios.

It turns that it produces results that are close enough to reality to be good enough in lots of scenarios. (And, similarly to how you can ignore relativity in lots of scenarios, you can also ignore lots of other complexifying bits of physics some of the time -- plenty of mechanical equations will give you "good enough" results without taking into account air resistance, for example).

Yes, much of economics is like that. Economics is studying an inherently more complicated problem than simple billiard-ball mechanics, but the idea that economics has nothing useful to say about the real world is an agenda sold by people who don't like the implications of orthodox economics.
Adding to that insight, I've gone hiking in the backcountry and I've seen the vibrant economy that results from an absence of mobility. (note, the above is extreme sarcasm)
Is that just because that isn't the norm? If it was quite normal to walk through a cemetery or park at night, would it still be as creepy or is it just because of the proliferation of ghost and paranormal stories...?
I wonder: Do you derive value from the use of a 1-5 scale? Do you have set definitions for each level, or is that left up to the responder?

I have a certain curiosity sometimes about the use of 1-5 or 1-10 scales, where it seems like a simple boolean response could be appropriate. In this context, I could see an interesting experiment in simply asking, as a yes/no question, "Are you content?"
Lean StartUp Author Eric Ries Crowdfunds and Lets Fans Help Write Book
If Prop 13 were limited to primary residence OR to those aged 65 or older, or had means testing, that would make a lot more sense.

Of course, somebody decided it would be easy to apply it to everyone, even large commercial properties. The fact that it applies to commercial properties is kind of insane.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bill-to-close-Prop-13-loo...
Heh. So what is a good use case for EC2?
Most people moving from Windows need some applications that are not available on Linux but are available on OS X. If this is the case, then virtualbox on OS X with Linux VMs is a reasonable way to go.
The incentive is that people who own land (or even people who own existing buildings) can make money if they rent it out. It boils down to simple greed; as Adam Smith said, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

Adam Smith's big contribution was showing that, generally, if we assume people are greedy and will look out for themselves, we can still end up with a fair system. Lasseiz faire economics has a much better track record in that regard than the alternatives that try to ignore greed. You can set things up based on how you want them to work, or you can set them up based on how they really do work.
That looks like some API/kernel call overhead; you've moved the fast path of the semaphore implementation into user space. But what you have there is undeniably a semaphore implementation: atomically tweak a counter, and based on that result, wait or signal.
To be fair, millions of horses in the streets would cause a lot of pollution in the form of horse dung. Streets would be mired in horse crap... And what would you do with it, if you removed it? Some could be used as fertilizer, but not all. Woe are us after the rains...
Depends entirely on the city's zoning law. Max occupancy or floor space ratio are fairly common
This is absolutely incorrect. Pricing is based on what people will pay, not development costs. Developers have high loan costs, and can not afford to let units sit on the table simply because they'd be "losing money" when measured against a sunk cost. It is very common for developers to lose money by selling units under cost in a down market. While there may be some resistance to pricing under cost, developers are not idiots and understand that investment made is already made.

Further, any truth in your statement would argue against rent control. If owners could rent at discounted rates to fill their units, then raise rent to market, everyone would be better off. With rent control (in SF new units are not rent controlled) owners are incentivized to hold out for a higher initial rent.
I think there are a couple of moving parts to that request: shipping is a real thing (at least the servers that I've touched are not something I'd want to put in UPS), a facility would need racks and a place to keep the noise away, plus staff that are used to dealing with rackmounts, and finally the eternal problem of connecting with the audience who haven't read this post.

In some ways, giving(?) them to an e-cycler that puts them on eBay is addressing that last problem, it just robs you of the tax write-off.
Back in 2012 we were also curious about that topic and developed a service called CompanyMood (https://www.company-mood.com)

It tracks the mood of invited employees on a weekly basis.

We thought, instead of asking for specific feelings it would be more intuitive to estimate the mood from 0(lowest) to 100.

Furthermore you can organize your team/company in departments, use an anonymous complaint/suggestion box and get an overview via a dashboard that shows all metrics in a graphical overview.