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I actually know a few homeowners in San Francisco in this situation right now. They have extra units in their building (which is also where they live), and choose to leave it vacant rather than deal with the hassle of rent control. They do not need the income and would rather not bother with possibly getting a tenant who never leaves. It's not economically rational, but people are not always rational, especially when dealing with their homes.

The building I live in is also in the situation currently where a unit is being left vacant in anticipation of a condo conversion in a couple years.. San Francisco has a very complicated condo conversion law but part of it is that during conversion some existing tenants have to be offered lifetime leases which can never be increased. Leaving units vacant is a rational way of dealing with that.
Why is it monochrome and such low resolution? Couldn't you could make this with oleds and have real useful screens on the faces?

How are you going to "show the weather" on a 1 bit 16x16 display?

Also, this thing better be cast in a solid block of resin or something, because people are going to be dropping it ALL the time.
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> You know what they call the guy that graduates last in his med school class?

A doctor who passed with at least 75%, so far as my local [third world] standards go.
I work in SMS sending, and every link in the chain has to reason about how they fail. If there is a failure, it is better that the message is dropped than that it gets resent duplicated.

It would be a bad system indeed if a failure to write a log line (say) caused a retry loop that resent the message again and again...
but a guarantor is no different than a co-signer in America which lots of young people need

Respectfully, they are quite different. A co-signer is generally used only if the first party can't pay rent. A guarantor is used regardless of ability to pay and is explicitly designed to make sure that only people with appropriate social status are allowed to live in the building.

Not sure what a guarantor fee

If you're unable to come up with a Japanese company to guarantee you because of social ties, you can pay a company to do so. (This is, ahem, often necessary but insufficient to pass the must-be-at-least-this-social-status-to-rent bar.)

It's basically a surety bond: they promise my landlord one month's rent if I skip out. This bond costs me precisely one month's rent and is nonrefundable, much like an insurance premium. (Warren Buffet just said "Eff me that's the most profitable insurance policy in history.")
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In hindsight, I phrased my question poorly -- sorry.

My question pertained more to branding. Why the name "WikiVoyage?"

I understand Wiki* namespace lock-in due to the Wikimedia relationship, but it doesn't seem like a great differentiator from WikiTravel. IMHO, I don't think the lay person gets the difference. Though "voyage" is a synonym for travel (and the word for travel in French), it associates closer to sailing and cruises.

That said, I did find your blog entries interesting. Thanks!
I've been using GitBook since the early days, and it has improved significantly in a relatively short amount of time. The web-based book editor is phenomenal, and it is perfect for creating documentation and lesson plans for students. I've been pointing every teacher I meet toward organizing and sharing their written material with markdown on GitBook.
You don't have to strictly speaking, you can use your own and just resolve in the same manner. You'd just need to monitor the results of a lookup on CF's servers and send back the same response with your own DNS.
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This isn't even 1 factor auth, this is 0 factor auth.. unless you accept the pain of disabling text message notifcations on your phone.
Hey, would help if you provide a link to your about page or describe how you're planning to reduce costs
Is there a ruby-ish shell out there?
I've judged at the local school science fair in California, at the Intel ISEF a bunch of years ago, and I was also part of the organization that arranges the national science fair (Utstallningen Unga Forskare) in Sweden. Hence, I think I have some perspective on this topic.

The American science fairs are a completely different thing from what we did in Sweden. First, the Swedish one is strictly for 17-19 year olds. But more importantly, the Swedish one is not a competition -- the whole idea is that you do this voluntarily, because you have some project you are excited about, and because you get feedback about your project from real scientists.

What purpose does it serve to make it a competition? Isn't the idea to encourage the idea that science and engineering is fun and interesting? Making it a competition just serves to accentuate the issues mentioned in this article: giving an extreme advantage to kids who have access to professional equipment and personal mentoring.

And the whole thing about doing "original science" is ludicrous, especially when it's applied to middle school kids. What matters is whether the outcome is known to the student, not to the world. Kids engage in authentic inquiry every day, and whether the topic is "original science" or not matters not one bit.

If the choice is between the kid who investigated how different rubber bands shoot rocks of different sizes, but did it by his or herself vs. the one who was hand held through some fancy-sounding project at their parents lab, my choice will go to the former every time.

And yes, maybe there are super prodigies out there who actually mastered a research field enough to not only be able to do cutting edge research but also to know enough to pick a topic that is as high school students. I'm not worried about those kids, they don't need encouragement.
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"Have you never heard stories of patients going from Dr. to Dr. trying to figure out what's wrong with them, until they find that one genius Dr. who finally figures it out?"

Part of that is throwing die after die until a six comes up. The die that gives a six need not have _anything_ to do with it.
I'm reminded of the discussions about XP when it was newer. Lotta folks thought XP meant "cowboy away" and then got excited when it invariably didn't work--the original folks said "well, look, you're not doing the process; you can't blame it if you're not doing it".

Now the thing is this looks a hell of a lot like a No True Scotsman argument, especially if you're only glancing at it in passing. Yet, boundary setting is a legitimate thing to do; the XP folks had put up their lists of practices, etc. XP is/was very demanding, very tricky to do; it was an open question for a little while whether it was actually implementable by average organizations. The interface with the product owner was a particular issue, and is still in Scrum.

Put another way, when you say "Scrum says to do X" (say, very few meetings which should go quickly), and someone goes "Scrum sucks because we're constantly in meetings explaining why we're not getting any work done", and you say "You're not doing Scrum"... you have a point. Scrum teams are not supposed to be crunching; if the product has to ship by date X, then some of the features won't get in, and it's the product owner's _responsibility_ to say which ones those are. If the product owner says "I don't care these are all mission critical we can't discard any of them" then you're not doing Scrum, even if you have some highly educated boob with a certificate from some idiot making them a Scrum Ninja or whatever saying that you are!

Now, some of the practices are more important than others, and most of these frameworks say "you kinda need to be flexible, but try it first". So there are grey areas. And sometimes (as with XP) the existence proof that it is even possible to do the process is nontrivial. But kabuki-scrum (thank you, quanticle!) is a real thing.
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I was too harsh, and for that I apologize. I more care about the level of the increases: a landlord can certainly pull in more profit with a modest rent increase that doesn't break the tenant's bank (and that's likely even a higher increase than current rent control laws allow). The OP's rent is about to become over 4x what it once was. I certainly won't deny that the cost of owning a property will tend to go up, but it sounds to me like most of that rent increase will end up being pure profit.

I want to be rich someday, too. But I don't want to be rich knowing that I directly made the lives of other people harder in doing so. I don't think wealth and capitalism has to be a zero-sum game; I don't believe that for me to become richer, someone else must become poorer.

All this is precisely why we don't have absolute property ownership rights. We as a society have collectively agreed that land is a limited, public asset, and we're willing to allow people to own it, and receive some benefits from the state, but also have to follow some rules that serve the public's interest... like not kicking people to the curb out of greed. If you own land, then you should know this already: it's not "yours" in the absolute sense. It's an investment, to be sure, but your return on that investment can be limited by law in some cases. This is just one way in how that shakes out.

I'm sorry that doesn't jive with your political/world outlook, but that doesn't make me a bad person. There are pros and cons to any economic system, but apparently capitalism is not for you.

I'm not going to try to define "good person" or "bad person", but I will say that the idea of evicting someone from their home (and sometimes city) because their landlord sees dollar signs in their eyes is just reprehensible to me. That doesn't put me at odds with capitalism; I think that just makes me human.
I went to the state science fair years ago in 8th grade, and nearly every single person I met there had a parent who was heavily involved in their project.

You could tell what each kids parent did from a living just by looking at the posters. The CS project kids had parents who were programmers, the kids with engineering projects had parents who were engineers etc...
I have given the link, but its not converted into hyperlink.

link is - http://www.espertosys.com/appdevs/

Intention here is to provide solutions like Push Notification, Crash Report etc free of cost to the App Developers. We need to gather some feedback from people who have been using such platforms so that we will be able to provide them better solution in better way.
> Their docs aren’t great and best practices are locked up in fast scaling startups.

Their docs are ok sometimes, not good for some products.
Best practices are available from AWS reps themselves.
Not all the solutions are good (Redshift, SQS, and by dependency Lambda). This is barely an op ed.
Interestingly I think that the propensity to create complex systems is a sign of inexperience (but aptitude nonetheless). I used to create the most hideously "enterprise" architectures in my projects that even I have problems grokking after years of not touching them. I've reached the stage of moderately complex and out of sheer love of the concept, actively work toward simpler solutions.

Ultimately a "10x hire" who overcomplicates things can probably be toned down through some mentoring.

I guess the "work smart, not hard" truism can be reworded to "solve smart, not complex" in this case.

> some poor sucker is going to have to maintain that mess.

Although complex is not the same thing as a mess, it merely might as well be.
It won't be accepted by people. Imagine, what will happen if you forgot your phone with someone you know.
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splunk can do both: stats aggregates, eventstats adds aggregate fields to raw documents.
Programmers I've worked with who valued refactoring code instead of building features have also been some of the most negative people I've met.
To expand on this a bit, for better or worse, most of human's collective knowledge is still locked up in people head, be it cutting edge researching knowledge, industrial mainstream knowledge, or obscure hobby one. Notice that how in programming, you only got knowledge of the very basic, and then a glimpse of knowledge on the very high end (multiple distributed huge data center etc.). There is a huge swath of missing information for anything in the middle. That's partly why experience is relevant: there are certain things you just can't know until you meet someone who tell you about it.

There are certain attempts to fix the knowledge gap issue, namely Q&A sites, as well as places where people can share their knowledge. But Q&A doesn't seem to work for most things beyond the basics: there isn't an objective answer, as everything is a trade off, and questions aren't as good as a conversation would be for context and everything else. Even for Quora, where the questions and answers can be subjective, there is an implicit requirement that both of them have to be self-contained (otherwise, it just doesn't make sense). It's evident to see in the "naive" question on Quora: sometimes you can tell the asker knows a bit and wanted to ask for more, but the resulting questions just come out very awkward.

And finally, I think that people are more reluctant to just share their knowledge (directed at no one), for a variety of reasons: it's actually hard to just write about things - there are a big gap between knowing something, and being able to write it down clearly, we mostly can't write a book, but everyone of you will have a thing or two to teach me regardless. It might seem wasteful (who would read this?), or it's just simply never come to our mind that's the knowledge is valuable - familiarity makes everything seems trivial. Most of those issues would not exists in a small group settings.

For a more concrete idea, think of a small but active mailing list, IRC channel, or subreddit, that's approximately the desirable result. If you can, make those mainstream, pretty please :-).
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I wonder what would happen if Yelp joined the hotel review business.
Advertising as entertainment. Brand as identity. Testimonial as opinion. News/catastrophes as entertainment. Dating as a catalogue. Love as a service. Reproduction as a life goal.

These are already trends and will continue sickeningly in the near future. Anything targeting these new facts of life will do well, but at the cost of entrenching this millenial conceptual scheme.
That's interesting. Did you use mutability, in ST or IO for example, to implement the algorithms?
Some responses to comments here:

We do not have an FPGA implementation, although we are working on it.

The reason getting to product is slow is that we are by choice a bootstrap startup, with three full-timers and a dozen or so part-timers. Compare a CPU project at a major such as Intel or ARM, with hundreds of full-time engineers, big budgets, and five years of development before the product is even announced - all for minor modifications to an established and well understood design.

The Mill architecture is notable primarily in what it takes out of the CPU, rather than what it puts in.

Patents are a backbreaking amount of work. To economize in filing costs our attorneys have consolidated what we expected to be separate patents into single filings - no less work, just fewer/bigger and hence cheaper. So far the twenty filings that have gone in represent around two thirds of the core technology. And if you think that 80-odd pages of patentese is fun then you are more kinky than should be let out in public.

"Architecture astronaut" is a cute term, not restricted to architecture; I have more than enough experience with those full of ideas - for someone else to do. We have done a lot of architecture over the decade, but a fair amount of work too. For a live demo the result of some of our work see http://millcomputing.com/docs/specification/

While I have worked in academia, I am more comfortable in an environment making real things for real people (or trying to) rather than sheepskins.

The purpose of our talks is to get professional validation of the design in a way we can afford. It is not to sell you something; it will be quite a while before we have something to sell, and you are not our customer.

We have a private placement in process and welcome Reg-D qualified investors. If you do not know what that is then you probably aren't. For details: http://millcomputing.com/investor-list. We are not cruising Sand Hill Road. We estimate ~$6M to an FPGA, and $25M to a product. Heavy semi is serious industry.

In early days I did my first compiler for a Bob Barton-designed machine, the Burroughs B6500. That compiler is still in use forty five years later. I wish Barton were still here today; the Mill owes a great deal to his design philosophy.

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> that most of the prison population is black

Maybe it's because black people cause a disproportionate amount of crime.
I remember what I learned from going to the state science fair in middle school:

how to fabricate results when the testing apparatus you built isn't sensitive enough to actually conduct the experiment.

I think science fairs could be greatly improved if they were more accepting of failed experiments.
It doesn't really matter either way. Unless you are using distributed transaction protocols, you pretty much MUST store-and-forward and have idempotent processes in the consumer/receiver to guarantee something happens. Usually the easiest way is to generate a transaction ID, such as a UUID, at the very start and use it end-to-end as indicated by the earlier nonce comment. Then each step along the way can either locally dedupe, or refer to a shared database/API with it.
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Touché, though I don't agree with you on the "common usage" bit. People do in fact "rent (a home) forever", and from what I've gathered it's not that uncommon, at least for cases where "forever" is a person's adult life span.

Even considering the temporary case, what does "temporary" mean? 1 year? 2? 5? 10? Where's the cut-off where you've rented for "too long" and it's ok to be kicked out of your home? Even if you can pick a number for that yourself, I hope you can agree that others might have different numbers, and that the selection of such a number is somewhat arbitrary.

I think the fact that all of this is a problem proves the point that people do expect to be able to rent a home for some value of "forever" (or even some value of "temporary") that is larger than a landlord's profit motive would allow.

Look, if I want to rent a power saw from a hardware store that offers rentals, me keeping that saw for a long time isn't a problem, assuming I'm continuing to make payments[1]. If the hardware store finds there are more people wanting saws, and they're running out, they'll just buy more; there's a ready supply. The same thing doesn't work for housing because land is a limited public resource. In SF's case it's even more limited due to the arbitrary new-construction planning process and disappointing level of NIMBYism in the city that means we can never keep up with demand, Mayor Lee's housing initiatives notwithstanding. This is why real property law doesn't give absolute power to the owner of that property. There are rules. You can't discriminate based on protected classes, for one. Rent control is another rule. The Ellis act is yet another. These rules aren't perfect, but they do tend to protect people who would otherwise be at the short end of a very unpleasant landlord-tenant power dynamic.

[1] It might be stupid for me to do so, financially, since I'd fairly quickly pay more than the cost of a new saw, but let's assume that, like housing in SF, the cost of a new saw is several hundred times the cost to rent it. This also serves to point out that owning a house is financially impossible for many people, while renting -- up until recently -- was much more doable.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if it is important to guarantee that a certain message will be dispatched and processed by a worker, why wouldn't a RDBMS with appropriate transactional logic be the best solution?
Not too mention that furnished apartments are unheard of here so you may also need to spend money on a fridge, stove and air conditioner/heater.
I'm pretty sure it said "BASHwards-compatible" when I submitted the story to HN, so I guess one of the admins changed the title.
There would be some content in the tweet, instead of an almost-assuredly dead link.
Hopefully the rising prices will encourage investment and lead to a greater supply of housing options in the future. The fact that this kind of thing is happening probably means the rent control laws have been too strict in the past.
I'd go with the other top theory's of flu or plastic surgery as more likely, but this story seems to imply they have a source.

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It's a testament to TripAdvisor management that it hasn't gotten mired in controversy quite like Yelp has. I think this is mostly to do with some bad execution on Yelp's part (review filters, undisciplined salespeople).
I'd say that the onus is more on people not actively screwing over other people for their own gain, versus relying on people like me to somehow choose which of their neighbors is most deserving of charity.

The exact reason why we have legal limitations to property rights in these cases is to require that landowners sacrifice some of their disposable income for the benefit of others -- and the benefit of the public good. I think the law has the intent correct, there, even if the implementation of it leaves something to be desired.
That sounds like a job for a scheduler, in the cluster sense. I'm actually looking around for a job framework in .NET that supports custom schedulers, but have yet to find something that supports resource constrained scheduling. It's all either about en-queueing something to be done NOW, or at a future date. I haven't seen anything that supports custom scheduler implementations on a per-job type basis. They don't really distinguish between logging work to be done and deciding whether or not it can be executed NOW.
I wasn't aware it's not a broker. Thanks for clearing that up.
Or, you buy the Uber Driver pitch and buy a Uber approved 4 door car, and find you are working for less than minimum wage, or worse yet; you end up in Bankruptcy court?

I don't care that Uber is providing competition--I just don't
like their business plan of hiring Drivers without any risk on their part. "Oh, but you're an Independent Contractor, but you need to drive a certain year four door car from our List.(A list that doesn't make a lot of sense? Oh yea, I have found selling a four door car on the secondary market is harder than selling a two door car; if your Uber job is not what they claimed?"

My point is I guess Uber provides great service for their customers, but I question the great experience for the "Independent Contractors"?

Sorry, but I saw Uber and had to chime in. Back on track--Twitter--that verification email I keep forgetting to fill out.
Fair point. If the flag lib allows that, sure.

But why should you have to do extra work to override a default that's sub-optimal from a standardization and user-familiarity standpoint, and is trivial to fix "upstream" where everyone should benefit?
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