skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analogously , "journalists rely on 'self-correcting' articles - that is, an article that 'debugs' and rewrites itself...".
How do you think prop13 props up prices? It's an incentive for people to stay in a house, which reduces churn, but it's arguably a disincentive for a renter to buy, because of the outlandish tax rates they'd need to pay (which offset the low taxes of long-term owners). I don't understand your logic.
I too found it pretty strange but posted it anyway hoping that someone could maybe give some explanation.
Not seeing anything in any of their privacy policies, trip agreements, or T&C's, and this is the first time I've heard that, got a source?
I'm guessing this is probably corporate tone deafness rather than something sinister - it seems quite believable to upsell customers to a "gold" package that offers live video conferencing to Hertz staff to "book me a hotel and dinner" (at least believable that the corporate marketing department would think this is a good idea).

As always, the danger will come from incompetently, corporately developed systems that are vulnerable to hackers who will be live streaming the inside of Hertz cars for lolz.
This looks nice, but very limited.

Is there any support for:

- Vouchers

- Promotions

- Categories

- Classifications

?

These all are features a successfull webshop needs. I have to admit I only took a brief look at the API, but all this seems to be missing. Am I mistaken?

edit: seems like Categories at least exist. I didnt find the docs at first. I suggest putting the Documentation link into the "more" dropdown in the navigation
And don't forget The Long Ships [1] which is another book about this period.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships
This sort of thing has been building up for a long time. This is mainly due to the Greed of the SF tenants to who prevent developers from building more units with local politics NIMBY. By constricting the supply artificially it prevents new buildings from going up. Also, the mayor is to blame as well, for incentivizing more companies to come to SF making the situation even worse.
Sorry, silly $EMPLOYER policies.
> 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, but not one who cares and controls rent controlled units in SF. Landlords who know they have to compete care a great deal.

What you describe is a market that is utterly dysfunctional because supply is incredibly limited.
It is. Typically if you publish in a respected and peer reviewed journal, you are required to disclose sources of funding in the article. Especially if those sources include for-profit companies, you're in for a world of hurt if you don't.

But the "scientific community", so far as such a thing exists, can't censure news reports, government reports, or corporate reports that claim "X is true because science". It also cannot stop someone from publishing a "scientific" journal.

"Science" is not a Trade Mark, and scientists cannot solve for clueless consumers who believe everything if you say "because science!" Especially when those same consumers fail to fund / pay attention in quality post-secondary science education.
Impotent language, sorry.
The reason why it is extremely hard to engineer robust large scale AWS cloud apps can be summarized under the umbrella of performance variance:

- machine latency varies more, you can't control it

- network latency varies more

- storage latency varies more (S3, Redshift, etc.)

- machine outages are more frequent

where more can be an order of magnitude more variation than on bare metal deployments. I am not saying the performance is that much worse, only that it will unpredictably vary for a certain instance. The interference is non gaussian and can happen in bursts as opposed to easy-to-model-and-anticipate white noise.

It's a lot harder to engineer cloud scale software to scale robustly and not degrade in latency when running on a large amount of nodes. For example, see [1]

Most of open-source cloud software does not come with these algorithms batteries included and it is not trivial to retrofit this kind of logic. Just being smart about loadbalancing won't cut it when at any given moment one of your nodes will become 10x slower than others even though your code is sound and in fact does not slow down like that.

In fact, what you lose in AWS convenience and "free" maintenance, you gain in simpler RPC/messaging/fault tolerance/storage infrastructure that can sometimes accommodate an order of magnitude more traffic or users on a machine then if deployed in AWS.

[1] http://research.google.com/people/jeff/latency.html
"You can't have skyrocketing rental prices. That's economically impossible."

"If you do have skyrocketing rental prices, you should buy yourself an Econ 101 textbook and educate yourself about why this is impossible."

ok, this made me laugh more then it should :)
This world is clearly not meant for those of us who dislike coffee :-(
Looks useful for UX testing, definitely.
Right. The problem that has arisen is creating that mapping between those HTTP urls and the app URL, especially since only the app developer knows that URL and how it is interpreted inside the app, is almost non-existent. What has resulted is a shadow set of URLs which only work if the app is installed (which you can't tell from the web). All the great network effects you get from hyperlinks on the web don't get passed over to the mobile ecosystem because of these properties (hidden URL structure, inconsistent with the web, etc.).

When YouTube came pre-installed on iOS in the first few versions, when you clicked on an (HTTP) link to YouTube it would open the app. It was a great experience because the YouTube app had a nicer experience than the web. It would be great to be able to do this for more apps, if those apps wanted it.
This is an especially bad HN title because the Aeropress has been coffee-famous for years and years now. There are Aeropress competitions, an Aeropress aftermarket, and cafes that use the Aeropress.

The right title --- even though I don't like it either --- is the article's: "The Invention of the Perfect Cup of Coffee".
It's weird that the panel didn't take into account the harmful effects of disrupted sleep patterns. They did note a concern about the extra calories from milk and sugar added to coffee.
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Disclaimer: I don't live in SF or Bay Area, but visit for work often.

That said, I do live in a place that is fairly constrained on new development, but not as badly as SF. For my part, the lifestyle that makes both of these places so appealing includes a certain level of density, but not much more than that. It's hard for me to fault people who bought their properties for defending the lifestyle they bought into.

On the commercial use of prop 13, I would tend to agree that it's not the best idea today. I am entirely against means testing and such for personal uses, including non-primary residences.

A simple use case for non-primary residence non-commercial use is if one is taking care of elderly parents. Should the parents be forced out of their home because their child happens to own the property? This is not commercial use to me either, unless rent is being charged of course.
You're almost priced out of Berkeley (if it weren't for your rent control), but you don't understand where the imperative comes from? Well, you will, once they find a way to evict you.
But that doesn't - the authors in the paper are explicitly claiming that this ring shows direct communication between the Caliphate and Swedish vikings, that the woman recently acquired the ring directly based on the wear of the ring and it's form. The GP is right to question the sample size IMO.

Your citation moves the opposite direction and reinforces the GP's statement that the items can travel far in myriad ways.
That's pretty slick! (Let's assume that the PRNG in-browser issue is resolved.) Setting far-future expires/forcing long-term caching can help. Even LocalStorage for code can help. Of course, it's still chicken and egg -- and anything can be updated or disabled on the fly w/ HTML anyway at next load.

Any of the injection or MITM issues that arise w/ in-browser crypto are similar to those in mobile apps or browser extensions as well, except that you have the chance to modify the app more often, so sticking your crypto code in an app or browser extension is no panacea anyway.

Maybe you could combine this concept with http://headjs.com/. It's a great idea.
Usually TXT is used to prevent spoofing (SPF etc.). If you can't rely on DNS to be giving you non-spoofed information, going to the wrong app is the least of your worries at that point.
Blackstone Buying Chicago’s Willis Tower
So much for that 'most transparent presidency ever...' campaign pledge.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283335-obam...
That's true. It's very easy to get caught up in that echo chamber even as an experienced developer.
they are free to ask for $4. if the market is working efficiently then the renters in the market will start a bidding war between landlords to lower their price. as soon as one landlord reduces the asking price below $4 its all over, and the $4 "market price" is proved to no longer be the market price.
Is it possible to get these supposed benefits from coffee if it's decaf?
I would think that an $EMPLOYER that doesn't want to keep things up to date would insist on something like $MSIE7 rather than $CHROME36, haha!
unfortunately, Tenants are disincentivized to complain about their landlords.
Imagine you're being downvoted for the watery stuff from the USA part. Careful, you're offending those who take their coffee seriously. I prefer German or Italian, personally. Coffee in France is too bitter. Something happens (even to Italian coffee) as it crosses the channel into the UK that sucks the taste out of it, and puts it into tea. I consider standard-fare American coffee a torture technique. Worst coffee I ever experienced was in Israel. But all of these are my personal taste. Opinions will differ as much as there are stars in the sky, grains of sand on the beach. And every opinion is correct, and valid. Because while some of us are similar, none of us are the same.

If you're going to inadvertently dis' someone else's choice, make your intent known - i.e. point out that it's just your opinion. Don't give it that superiority-stance.
Very true. I do love my Aeropress, but I have been loving it for several years. And I'm pretty sure it was fairly old news when I discovered it.
>fictionalized accounts

The amount of plays, novels, stories, poems, and songs that take place in and on and nearby, as well as revolving around and referencing to, ares of transit is pretty large. When looked at in the context of human existence on the planet, roads are the pathways human cells use to move and multiply and spread and settle. So much culture and development occurs on the paths of humanity. This is not limited to any single road concept; bridges, train tracks, shipping lanes, and airports all spawn society blocks around them.

The Pathways have always been public spaces. Are you opposed to those public spaces being safer and more productive? If so, would you say it is because vehicles [methods of human conveyance] have a priority over people [humans living] in the Public Square?

The point of travel is the people that can do it, not the profits to be gained or the methods to be employed IMO.
Alfred is amazing (and the Power Pack is totally worth it). F.lux is great if you plan on spending any significant amount of time on it after dark. Bartender is quite nice to have. As others have mentioned, iTerm2 is a must, it offers a vastly superior experience to the native Terminal.app. Disable Caps Lock and switch it to Alt, you'll save yourself some pain in the palm/thumb (Google how). Enable Dark Mode (subjective, but I and most people I know greatly prefer it). Enable Autohiding on your dock, and Google how to speed up the animation and reduce the delay. Make heavy use of Spaces. Enable 4-finger swipe to switch spaces, and three-finger drag for click-and-hold. Get rid of the Widgets space (useless). Wish I could provide more links but I'm on my phone at the moment. Hope this helps, enjoy your new MacBook!
I think you have a good start.

Don't forget to use lots of resources already mentioned:
-StackOverflow
-Codeacademy
-Udemy
-Khan Academy

To really ramp up your skills. Build small projects and go from there. This is coming from someone who barely has a coding background but is currently dabbling in Control Overflow in Python. Good luck with everything!
3 cups of espresso would be a fantastic amount of coffee. You'd actually have a medical condition of you drank that much espresso every day:

~64 mg caffeine / ounce in espresso

64 mg/ounce * 8 ounces * 3 = 1536 mg

From wikipedia: "Consumption of 1000–1500 mg per day is associated with a condition known as caffeinism."
Some people believe all kinds of meaningless or unprovable nonsense.
CEO of Shift Labs Beth here as well!
> I've seen people over on reddit's /r/shittprogramming make posts about how someone used a 2-space indent instead of a 4-space indent, and _that_ got upvotes.

absolutely not surprising given that there is even a pretty popular language with indent base syntax out there.
What happened to PHP6?
>Sometimes I make a hypothesis and test it, which superficially resembles debugging by superstition but is different.

As Adam Savage [1] says, "The only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down."

I don't follow this process for every problem I encounter, but when I have a really intractable issue, where nothing I've thought of seems to work, I start a "lab notebook" (usually a few sheets of printer paper). I write down all my assumptions, and start designing experiments to test each one in turn. It's a fair amount of overhead (which is why I don't use this approach for everything), but when all else fails, the scientific method powers through.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUMBBFjxrY
While this comment does not offer a tracking mechanism or a tool, I do believe you can measure and feel when an environment gets better. More subjective than most would like...but you can definitely observe a difference in behaviors.

The UN also thought that this was important. There are more details at liveHappy.com and #HappyActs. There is an upcoming International Happiness Day on March 20th.

In our office we are celebrating the day with everything from team walks, Jenga competitions, popcorn, and managers serving the employees ice cream, as well as building a Happiness Wall.

I can tell you over a year of diligently addressing team morale...it is nothing Big Bang it is consistent small steps and paying attention to the employees and their needs.
In short, Yes! But perhaps not soon.

We have a really strong community ethos at Moltin, and we’re trying hard to open up as much of our platform as possible, both in open source and community modules.

We know there is still work to be done and we have a pretty lengthy set of features and updates going forward.
The research is quite focused on caffeine but mentions some benefit from decaf:

http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-scientific-report/1...
Rent control prevents existing rent controlled properties from being redeveloped (e.g. to increase capacity).

Of course, in the SF context that might also be impossible due to zoning/nimby opposition, but it is one huge factor.
Finally! I had a lot of concerns about this, but I think they're mostly answered by the discussion. I do like the way union types work (at least nullable types) in Hack, but I think they existing `foo(int $param = null)` approach is fine for 99% of cases, and those that it doesn't work for can go back to type-checking at the top of the function (ie do what we have to do for all scalar types right now).

While I understand the optional strict mode, I do find it quite confusing: it looks similar to javascript's 'use strict';, and at first glance it sounds like it should be similar to `error_reporting(E_STRICT)`, yet somehow scoped to the <?php ?>. Personally I like the `strict namespace` approach they proposed the most. The argument against is that it will read like everything in that namespace is strict, when it's actually limited to the file, but I think it's pretty clear if I read in a.php `strict namespace Qaribou;` and in b.php `namespace Qaribou;`, that a.php is strict and b.php is not. I really don't see the ambiguity there.
Bit of a misnomer then, isn't it? Does that mean those on the no-fly list are just flat-out not allowed to cross borders, whether they're inside the US or not?
planning to launch a new style each week. perhaps I should add a voting option for the next style to add to the site
In that case, consider the empirical argument: Torture doesn't work!

If someone has some information that you desperately need them to cough up, there are better ways to go about it.

Really, why on earth would you take actions that don't make sense to get information you don't need for reasons that don't exist?
Well, you can't rely on that. In fact, DNS is one of the most trivial protocols to spoof since it mostly runs on UDP.
Yeah, basically eurasian continent has been crisscrossed with traderoutes for thousands of years. From Scandinavia to Mediterranean, from China to Italy (romans were fond of chinese silk). I suppose the stereotype of the sedentary medieval peasant is so strong that notions of traderoutes spanning thousands of kilometers being ordinary is hard to grasp.
most of it was rolled into 5.4. i think some of the more contentious unicode parts were dropped.
Torture works. In many circumstances the unreliable information provided by torture is the best you can get. It is, of course, very unethical to today's standards, especially when done to innocent citizens.

But the reason it is increasingly becoming unethical today, is because we are getting better at acquiring information through other means, like better monitoring technology and wiretapping laws.

Now THAT, is some food for thought.
It got a call from ECMAScript 4.
"Inventor of Aerobie flying ring created innovative coffee maker in 1994"
I feel the title of that article is misleading. From the article:

'"The markets where instant coffee is most popular tend to be the ones without a strong tradition of coffee drinking," Dana LaMendola, and industry analyst at Euromonitor, said in an interview. "It's basically an entry point."'

So it's not that people prefer one over the other, it's because they don't have much of a coffee culture and people don't really care about the quality of their coffee. Saying you prefer instant coffee to quality, roasted beans is like saying you prefer a prepackaged, microwavable dinner to a properly cooked meal.
Supply/Demand imbalance raises rents. Rent control is one contributor.

Rent control is more than an economic issue, it's a class and moral issue. Why should only people with the means to buy property have the ability to live a stable life? Imagine if your child had to change schools every year because your one of the overwhelming number of people who cannot absorb rent increases.

I personally have zero or negative sympathy for landlords charging usurious rents while simultaneously crying proverty and getting all puffy about property rights. If you can't handle the regulatory environment, nobody put a gun to your head and made you a real estate speculator.
speaking of phpng, it now scores 1s better on the wordpress unit tests than just 3 month ago: https://wiki.php.net/phpng
N is a number you specify via the API call with the REPLICATE option. By default is set to 3 to provide a reasonable durability. So if you are in any side of the partition with at least 3 nodes, you can continue without issues.

Two sides of a partitions are basically two smaller cluster that operate independently, if we consider new messages. But what about old messages? They'll wait (if there is no memory pressure) to get garbage collected if copies are split among the two nodes. However during the partition the side where the message gets acknowledged will stop ASAP from re-queueing it.
Product Pipelines are tricky.

I feel on the one hand, they could have retained both ports and the retina screen.

On the same token, you want to increase the legacy of a market driven product line. Correct me if I'm wrong here but you want to "intentionally" flaw the product to provide room for improvement on the next generation.

I'm sure the Product Dev. team has an idea on their pipeline as to what the 5th generation should look like and what their prospective specs are for the 6th generation product after the 5th is finally locked down for confirmation.
I decided to give up caffeine. I used to drink a lot of tea. I thought maybe it was making me anxious + using caffeine as a stimulant is a zero-sum game.
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From the abstract of the paper itself:

>"an Arabic finger ring, which was found in a 9th c. woman's grave" //

Which by your definition makes this mediaeval, as the GP states.
I want to increase the amount of money in my bank account. I'm using Mint to measure. Just because I'm measuring it doesn't make it easier to get money in there.

That said, it helps me keep budgets more. If I don't check mint periodically through the month, making sure I'm on track for goals, then I have a tendency to overspend.
I once won a code golf "popularity contest" competition that was about dithering a grayscale image. The algorithm was perhaps interesting. More so my language of choice: Fortran.

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/26554/dither-a-g...
> the imperative to build more and faster come from

From a consequentialist/utilitarian perspective, you'd say that the utility benefit if you allowed a million more people to live in SF at affordable rents would outweigh by orders of magnitude the disutility of incumbents.

Another framing is just the attitude that it's wrong to exclude the poor from a community via high rents. I think people that focus on this framing are also relatively friendly to rent control, but building more housing is arguably more radically inclusive.