skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent control is a case of the government forcing landlords to do something that is really the government's job.

If the government wants housing to be affordable, it can build more of it, or provide households with tax credits or vouchers to help them afford to pay rent. Vouchers are less desirable than increasing supply, but they cause fewer market distortions and bad incentives than rent control, which is a price ceiling, which we know for sure leads to shortages.

Instead of taking on this public policy responsibility, the government of San Francisco has decided to take the easy way out by capping rents on certain units, which unfairly forces landlords to shoulder the burden of a job the government ought to be doing. This incentivizes all kinds of crazy things, including removing housing stock from the market under the Ellis Act.
From the article @ "Units of Measure at runtime and interoperability
":

One key point to take heed of, is that units of measure do not exist at runtime.
They are intended for static type checking only and therefore prevent us implementing functionality based on checking units.

They are also not part of the wider .NET type system and can therefore not be consumed, or used, by any non F# assembly.
If exposing units of measure to consumers, the units are simply not visible and all values will be treated as there underlying, dimensionless type.
Interview with Julie Zhou, Growth at Yik Yak, Ex Growth at HipMunk
Hmm, sorry to hear that :( We're not seeing that across the major browsers, I can't say why you would. It's a ghandi.net provided certificate, I assume they would work well like any other authority..

Also, I'd love to touch base on what you're building!
Building a seesaw bridge
Ask HN: You have successfully soc engineered your way in a company's network
... using an unwitty technician's credentials, what do you do? Keep in mind said technician (or IT guy, whichever term you prefer), has access to most servers and has admin rights over several others.
I'm surprised we would want HTTP URLs for this. Especially since, as this article is written, no HTTP requests are ever being made.

Why not have an ios:// (or android://) prefixed URL, and have whatever follows that determine the app? If you passed along the rest of the path, you could specify logical resources to link to.
Really I would describe these people as bikeshedding. They're pontificating about the only abstractions they understand, some hand-wavey idea of AI and then the sci-fi short stories of the imagined dangers. Because if you can't do, fanfic.
1 hour? Welcome to 2015! OVH spins your server up in two minutes.
The big benefit is you don't end up with "weakly-typed", "strongly-typed" and "untyped" APIs. There are just "typed" and "untyped" ones, and you can choose the behaviour that suits you best.
I think it was that radioactive spider venom stuff. I hear Peter Parker was on it, too.
The professions you mentioned are government positions, which are largely funded with tax dollars. As it is, governments are currently full of people who are extremely anti-tax, and are against paying these people more.
Yes, and I find it claustrophobic.

Pedestrian density should be targeted using a "pedestrians per block" metric, not a "pedestrians per square meter" metric. 100 people on a wide pedestrian path is preferable to 100 people on a narrow pedestrian path of the same length. I don't think that constantly getting in the way of other people, getting stuck behind other people, and constantly bumping into other people helps anyone.

Then again, I also avoid concerts because crowd density, so maybe I'm just the odd one out here.
You can do something similar with iOS as well - as far as handling parts of the url and query. One thing you can't do, unfortunately, is handle any url that starts with http - it has to be custom.
Nor is the R&D required to integrate a camera with their custom spy gadget/GPS thingy.
I like it.

You might enjoy this:

http://phrogz.net/css/distinct-colors.html
MHI Successfully Completes Demonstration Testing of Wireless Power Transmission
From running a large OSS project, the general passive-aggressive (or just plain aggressive) complaint ratio to the amount of "thanks, this is awesome" ratio can be quite overwhelming and painful at times. Usually.

I've basically resolved to not complain about anything given to me for free, ever, at least on twitter, because I've felt so much of it. "Why I personally prefer X vs Y" is ok.

For twitter, it can be anything from a software project to some customer service guy somewhere, but it's important to remember that real people are out there.

That guy's boss might be a jerk to person XYZ about what you said about his software on twitter, even if you weren't particularly upset. And you definitely didn't make the author feel very good either. And who are you to complain when you couldn't build it yourself, and are putting in much less energy?

If you have a problem with free OSS bits, help fix it, or use something else.

If you've paid for something, this is what support departments and customer service groups are before too.

( This blog is good reading on the subject too - http://powazek.com/posts/3368 )
There's nothing wrong with saying "I chose technology X over technology Y because they are basically the same, they each have small advantages in certain areas but nothing that will materially impact our success, and making any decision is better than making no decision."

I remember the last time there was this sort of fragmentation and polarization in the web framework world (2005-2007), I chose Python & Django over Ruby on Rails because, well, I liked it better (that and the RoR community had a certain evangelistic quality to it that turned me off, while Pythonistas are basically like "Yeah, it's a tool. I can build cool stuff with it. Let's move on and solve some problems"). I'll freely admit that it doesn't matter, Ruby is a fine language, and Rails is a fine framework. But they do largely the same thing, I've never once regretted my choice, and I've been able to build some pretty cool things with the energy that wasn't expended getting emotionally involved in language/framework/tool wars.
Bitcoin's 4 biggest threats
Ellen Pao Trial: What do we mean by “discrimination?”
I got the impression he was hiding his own fear of inadequacy behind a wall of disapproval and smack talk. I know this method. I used to use it myself, when I felt for sure I’d be fired from the team as soon as they realized I’d never used Handlebars.

Fascinating. In that this episode represents an only slightly exaggerated instance of a pattern of such profoundly dysfunctional and self-blocking behavior in the community that has become so widely entrenched that it is beyond epidemic proportions; it has practically become the new norm.
The site's design is not terrible, it is quite unique and therefore interesting. But I still gotta say that the elements on the main page are too drawn out: https://i.imgur.com/Xvs0F80.png

Also, kinda nitpicky but still, while the page is loading it looks like this which is quite ugly: https://i.imgur.com/dIBdD5g.png
Every enterprise router in existence has built-in tunnel support. Even the open source ones like PFSense.
We also had thousands of years where basically everyone was poor and there wasn't anywhere near enough production so that there was a hope or a prayer of not everyone being poor. The middle class is a relatively recent phenomena. A great example of this is "The $3500 shirt" article that made it to HN a while ago: http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-l...

> Which is why we invented governmental action to solve them. Which has proved extremely effective.

I was under the impression that the whole point of the article -- and also the book -- was that the programs in place currently are not effective. If they were, there would be no "Mary Sue"s, there'd be only "Miriam"s and there would be no problem.
Why have a requirement? If the people want garages, let them demand garages, let the market price garages so that they're an efficient use of space and construction resources on the margin.
Now is the time to ensure you know what your surface area is for OpenSSL. Do you terminate SSL on your hosts? Do you have a loadbalancer that terminates SSL for you? Do you distribute OpenSSL to clients? Do you have network devices that have OpenSSL on them? These things are all important for you to know to be able to handle the response to whatever drops on the 19th correctly. Good luck!
I use iTunes mainly for podcasts. I don't know of a good alternative to that.

I also hate ruining a good linux installation with WINE. =)
Have you ever looked at the possibility where one's family has to move every year or so because landlord decided to increase rent to 'catch up' with market. This is what it looks like in communities where lot of people wants to move in but no rent control. One can move in but will not have any stability.
I think it's pretty foolish that most programmers assume they will always be "working above the api".

http://rein.pk/replacing-middle-management-with-apis/

edit: To clarify, I think AI is the wrong question it's a question of the layers of abstraction and where it puts you in the labor force. Who cares what inhuman force is telling you what to do or how fast to do it?
How many cups of coffee do people drink in Seattle and Vancouver, and is that linked to their longevity?
I'm glad you're not dissing the Middle Ages, but the Ancients had some amazing trading networks too.

The Britons in Cornwall, Devon and Brittany traded tin with the rest of Europe as far back as 2150BC. Pytheas of Massalia travelled all the way Britain about 325 BC and wrote about the thriving trade.

Update: also Bronze Age trading between the Scandinavians and Egyptians: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-egyptian-blue-gl...
PSA: F5 BIG-IP's NPN support is buggy
More info here: http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/wir...
If someone is going to integrate with your API in PHP as an example, why not use a full open source shopping cart where they have more control?
Because we’re an API, you can retrieve, remove, destroy your data at will.
When you incorporate us into your app or site, you have a very loose relationship with our system. That means its very easy for you to stop using our product without having to rebuild from scratch.

In the future we’ll be making it even easier to migrate to and from Moltin with tools to import and export data.
Chrome doesn't give devs access to 'frequently visited sites', unfortunately.
What Makes Silicon Valley Special in 30 Seconds
I ran several dozen Dell blade enclosures fully maxed out - well over 300 server blades - and in 3 years I had two disk failures, none of which were critical. Hardware is pretty reliable these days.
> In 1900, only 6% of US women had engaged in premarital sex by age 19; The number is now 75%.

Sad. Are there any countries that are closer to the 1900 number today?
Or maybe he was being exceedingly dismissive because it's funny? I don't understand the need to make all these assumptions.
If we're going to talk practicality then I can just point out that torture doesn't work and that's that.

If we want to talk ethics, let's assume it's in a scenario where torture is somehow useful.
You're asking for supporting evidence for something I didn't say? Wow, exactly how weak do you think your case is?
Gitlab's terms and conditions for their hosted service are here; they don't really address ownership: https://about.gitlab.com/terms/

Gogs isn't a hosted service; you're installing it on servers you control, so you retain ownership of your content. (I suppose there would be questions about ownership if you uploaded content to their demo instance at try.gogs.io, but you probably shouldn't upload things you care about to a demo server like that.)
In reality, you have limits to the precision of your measurements.

In 99.9% of use cases, Newtonian physics are completely accurate, not a decimal out of place.

Market explanations of 'efficiency'? Way out of whack.
While GIF is surely inferior to short looped videos, it's still ahead in terms of usability/portability: Drag & drop the file to the desktop and re-upload elsewhere (or embed in your own website). AFAIK this experience is unmatched by web video.
I was just debating whether to go out for coffee now, or in an hour. Now it is!

Most people I work with splash a lot of cream and sugar in their coffee - probably hurts the study.
Great resource. Are you going to keep this updated?
Question - are you planning on making a ruby gem for it?
I'm running 40.0.2214.111. I never would have thought to test it on 36!

EDIT: I wouldn't even know HOW to test it on 36... (where do they keep those old ones?)
To replace GIFs. I don't have a problem with users being able to opt out, etc. But GIF's are still useful, yet a huge drain on resources. If for nothing, I want my cat videos still available inline without having to click them.
Microsoft Azure uses Error-Correcting Code memory (for mitigating Rowhammer)
> ffmpeg is downright magical

Actually, in my experience, ffmpeg is the linux-program that by far outshines any other program in... failing or crashing :/

I'm sorry to say this. And, unfortunately, there isn't any other open source program doing a better job in terms of file format support.
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Libs are always a pain to patch at the OS level, because you are not really sure what links against the lib, you can do some manual work but most often a reboot is way easier. Here is a pretty common pattern, that I use, if I cannot reboot right away. Doesn't hurt to go through the motions, then you have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done, stops the panic patch work ;)

On RHEL/CentOS, you can use needs-restarting, to tell you what processes need restarting after a lib update.

sudo yum update
sudo yum install yum-utils.noarch
sudo needs-restarting

On Debian/Ubuntu, you can use checkrestart, to tell you what processes need restarting after a lib update.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install debian-goodies
sudo checkrestart -v

Helps to work through this manually, wrap your head around what needs to be done, then you can push that into automation tools if you have a large enough infrastructure. Here's a screencast about the pattern for anyone interested in learning more.

[1] https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/44-patching-the-ghost-gli...
> even starter jobs offered comfortable salaries.

Source?
What makes intelligence is organic and doesn't seem to map easily on statistical modeling. We can oversimplify some behaviors and claim some math on it but we at best scratch the surface.
Not only that, but accidentally voting (e.g. because the person at the DMV said you could) can bar you from ever becoming a citizen and even get you deported:

http://www.immihelp.com/forum/showthread.php/91741-Denied-N-...

http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=27445

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/141110/pinoyabroad/pina...

https://beki70.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/fortunately-i-wasnt-...
+1. I need to be able to ship 20x20" matted prints (so, big but relatively flat), and finding a safe and easy means to ship these prints sucks.

Incidentally, I'd love to be able to ship a bunch of product off to Level and have them frame and drop-ship my prints (hint, hint!)
The speed of light is not your friend. You can never compete with the latency of a local network versus even the fastest connection to a cloud provider.
We are yes, we started with what we knew and now are allowing the community to vote on what they want us to release next - https://moltin.com/getting-started#vote
There's certainly a Thing where you tribalise through aggression.

There's also a Thing where you signal your knowledge about crappy solutions by peeing on the crap; this informs others that you have enough knowledge to Not Use Crap. (or, alternatively, showcase yourself as an elitist jackass. ymmv).
Global support for h.264 video in the browser: over 90%. And on the desktop it's close to 100%. That's IMO just good enough.
Look at my first comment. I objected to you calling something that is less convenient than you would like "very inconvenient". We don't have to agree about the "very", it probably isn't worth any more attention from either of us.
Could the rights holders of Marvin Gaye's work be sued for copyright infringement of an older, yet still quixotically copyrighted, work? Not only would such a move highlight everything wrong with the verdict, but it would also be quite poetic.
Neptune Suite: A Taste of What Computing Should Be in 2025
Does this 3 cups is of expresso, filtered, or the watery stuff common in USA?
1) ok got me there (but SoftLayer does offer VMs too, which presumably have a faster turn up time)

2) SL has hourly physical server rental now (turn up is quoted at 20-30 minutes though)

3) SL has an API for ordering changes, you can setup a script to run on first boot (and probably system images too). What are you thinking for network configuration? Really the only thing I've had to configure on SL is port speed (somewhat API accessible, but not if they need to drop in a 10G card/put you on a 10G rack, etc), and disabling the private ports (API accessible, real time changes).
Is it possible to see how much if any money was given to the committee from the coffee industry?

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/committee/#members
This is fixed now. You should see a speed improvement when you upgrade.
Every server, with exception of tiny SOHO servers not powered by Xeons, has ECC RAM. This is true for well over a decade.
> I would argue that the Constitution absolutely overrides laws to the contrary

We're agreeing with each other? It's up to each person who takes an oath to defend the Constitution, to ignore and even fight against unconstitutional laws, i.e. ones that in an ideal world would be overridden by a fair Supreme Court.

Couldn't reply earlier due to "you're posting too fast" limitation, even after a day. I may have to wait several days to reply again.
Would you agree that even in cases as you describe, those doing the torturing should be prosecuted and punished? I would. If it's as important as you say, then the people doing it should be willing to fall on their swords afterwards.
Shift Labs (YC W15) Makes Medical Devices for Healthcare’s Future
Violence and civil rights in the U.S. are also much better than they were 150 years ago, well before we used gasoline widely at all.
Coffee shops and airports don't provide laptop chargers, but they do sometimes provide USB chargers, which are now the same thing!
You have a VERY rosy eyed view of what cities were like before the car.

What they were actually like is rivers of mud mixed with horse manure. There were just as many roads before as now, except they were very dirty.

> and the public spaces that roads (in cities) were before cars became ubiquitous

Absolute nonsense. Go read some history, or even fictionalized accounts. Roads were never public spaces like you imagine. They were roads, and carts and horses routinely road right over people who didn't get out of the way.

They were crowded and dirty, and those open spaces you imagine did not exist inside cities. (There plenty of open spaces outside cities, of course.)

Your dream world existed to some degree inside farm villages, but never in cities.
Do you have any indication that Bitcoin came out of the world of finance? I would venture that Bitcoin comes from cryptographers.
I have a female intern that leaves on the clock, she gets more done than me. Probably because of it. The owners of the company ask me why does she leave so early, and I ask them back, why do your people in other apartments that stay late get nothing done?
I think it's the same for any crime, I could have left it at breaking and entering. Generally murder is bad, breaking and entering is bad, torture is bad. I don't want the police to be able to torture my family.

If you're going to claim a ticking time bomb scenario is what makes torture ok the same reasoning will make any other crime ok.
I'm pretty sure type providers can do that.
What happens as that ecosystem grows, though? There's Windows phones, Blackberry, and others. The solution would have to be either universal (like app://) or implemented by the OS/applications themselves (like Android Intents).
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They're pretty interchangeable in my experience.

I've used both in side projects (where the choice is fully mine) and usually the decision comes down to libraries I'm going to use.
Prop 13 applies to all of California. Most of California does not have rent control.

I have complex feelings about Prop 13, and I'm not by any means unilaterally a fan. But to suggest that it necessitates rent control sounds, at the very least, under-argued. How does San Jose fit into this picture?
What Goes Around Comes Around: 35 years of data model proposals (2005) [pdf]
It's OK to be opinionated (I am) and it's OK to be proud of one's opinions (ditto) but the issue comes when we go into promotion mode, claiming everyone must share our opinions or be an idiot (I feel this way about some things, not others) and insisting that everyone needs to learn about the background for our opinions (likewise).

In the particular situation when platforms are multiplying and the years behind us are littered with the corpses of failed initiatives that promised a world enough and time, the call to learn The One Best Technology becomes stale and annoying. It looks like an invitation to waste our time rather than becoming more expert with the technology we've already invested a lot of time in, and are just hoping we can make that time worthwhile before it becomes obsolete.
Wow this guy needs to get on board with some collaboration software. I work at Sococo, and it helps with all this. In fact our entire company works 'remotely'. Its not clear who if anybody works 'at the home office' even though we have 3 offices.

Its honestly like working in a big office, except better. Everybody is on an even playing field - we can all hear each other, all share docs, all participate in a sprint commitment ceremony etc.
Yea, it doesn't work unless you're the one renting that chit hole. I have an old girlfriend who moved into one of these
old houses(SF) at market rates in the nineties. The unit was not maintained back then--hot water pressure of a man with an inflamed prostate, no grounding, no functional heat(old electric units that just spin the dial), etc., but it had hard wood floors. She's still there and the place looks the same, except Mr. Chins greedy kids want her out. I don't think the kids will consider selling because they are charging new tenants unbelievable rates--for the same chit holes.

I'm sorry, but I've never met a Landord who cared about the
condition of their units, unless it affected the property in a structural way.

I have never met a landlord who didn't try to get as much for their property as legally possible.

I don't have the answer, but human greed is palatable.