skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that is the problem in a nutshell. Price fixing a single thing (in this case rents) means the market moves without those prices changing and that results in huge imbalances.

Now if the NJ government funded a fixed rate building maintenance team you're family could use the price appropriate maintenance team to keep the building in repair, of course they could not pay them market wages (that is why maintenance costs more) so the people working for the maintenance group would have to go to the state run stores where they could get their fixed priced foodstuffs. Of course the manufacturers selling to that store would need fixed price ingredients which you would get from state run farms selling their crops at a set price.

It is a silly ad nauseum sort of response but the kernel is accurate, you cannot successfully control one aspect of prices without somebody getting disadvantaged. Since you want more housing, the answer is to let people build more market rate housing, not to control rents.
Of course people can be moral actors in the business world.

"Because you might get caught" is by no means the only reason to do the right thing, even if it means leaving money on the table.

What you're describing is a sociopathic greed.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. A few lazy/greedy people in the wrong place who don't think long term can do a lot of unintentional damage.
Artificial intelligence crushed human records in 2048
Give them an estimate for how long it will take you to finish gathering requirements, and offer to pick the discussion back up when that's done.
Adult Dating Site Hack Reveals Sexual Secrets of Millions, Including Feds, Cops
My First 24hrs with Apple Watch WTF :-/
I think you guys mean certificates of deposit..
There have been successful efforts in Pune (India) to moderate those effects. It's called "build enough houses for everyone":

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8cMeVTIMAEMyzk.jpg

For comparison, a nearby city (Mumbai) takes a more SF-style approach - height/FSI restrictions, rent control, etc - rent there can exceed a lac/month (yes, Mumbai rent is a little less than NYC rent).
Well… it was a combination of that, and general downsizing. They would have put me in another team, but they were all shrinking. So they didn't keep me.

How they didn't see it coming… Well, we informally discussed the project, my OOP knowledge etc… But they didn't read my blog, where my biases are quite clear. Come to think of it, my colleague didn't read the coding style rules he asked me to write either. If he had, some issues would have been addressed right away.

I was also told I would work on equal footing with my colleague, participate in technical decisions… He was my elder, and in the project from the very beginning, so he wasn't really my equal. But I failed to treat him like my boss, and it turned out to be such a big problem that the hierarchy made it official 10 weeks after my arrival.

My first commits weren't object oriented, so my colleague deduced I didn't know OOP. I lost all credibility at that point.

Finally, I was too careful. My unwillingness to rush the next feature as fast as possible without any regard for technical debt was interpreted as "doing research". Sorry, I just can't work that way. I was told we would "rewrite the code 50 times over", which would indeed have compensated. In practice we never rewrote anything. The first version always ended up being set in stone. Even code we both agreed was a mistake.

On the bright side, I did adjust over time, and they even said so (to me and my hierarchy). Maybe that's why they kept me for so long. But it wasn't enough to keep me in the middle of a general downsizing.
PEP 0484 – Type Hints (accepted)
That doesn't really contradict his point. It's all about probabilistic expectation. Presumably you have a myriad of options to choose from. If you have a bad gut feeling about one, move on. Obviously there will be counter examples to where this was not the optimal choice, but it is a valid heuristic. Generally in most peoples lives, there is more to lose than there is to gain. You want to skew decision making to minimize potential loss.

Once again, there will be exceptions and people where such an approach isn't ideal.
The original project page has some more info.
http://pencil.evolus.vn/
Promises are just as easy to parallelize as callbacks, though. Easier, IMO, since you can pull their values more than once.

Here's an example of some code I had to write to query a somewhat nasty Web API:

async function apiCall(method, path, qs, body) { ... }

async function getPaginated(path, qs, extractionFn) {
let data = [];
let pagePromises = [
apiCall('GET', path, Object.assign({ }, qs, { page: 1 }))
];

let firstPage = await pagePromises[0];
for (let page = 2; page <= firstPage.pagination.page_count; ++page) {
pagePromises.push(
apiCall('GET', path, Object.assign({ }, qs, { page }))
);
}

let pages = await Promise.all(pagePromises);
for (let page of pages) {
let extracted = await extractionFn(page, qs);
data = data.concat(extracted);
}

return data;
}

Note that because of how promises work I didn't have to special case the storage of the first page (which needs to be fetched first to get the number of pages); I can just wait on it again and get the promise-cached answer. I don't know what async.js code to do that would look like but I doubt it'd be as succinct.

async functions magically return promises. You don't have to just await them, you can choose to do whatever you want with the resulting promises. And promises, being actual values and not just functions called at the right time, are much easier to compose.

Anyway, if you like the async.auto functionality, it wouldn't be very hard to write a Promise.auto that would let you do (compare to the async.auto example at https://github.com/caolan/async#auto):

let results = await Promise.auto({
get_data: async function(){
console.log('in get_data');
// async code to get some data
return [ 'data', 'converted to array' ];
},
make_folder: async function(){
console.log('in make_folder');
// async code to create a directory to store a file in
// this is run at the same time as getting the data
return 'folder';
},
write_file: ['get_data', 'make_folder', async function(results){
console.log('in write_file', JSON.stringify(results));
// once there is some data and the directory exists,
// write the data to a file in the directory
return 'filename';
}],
email_link: ['write_file', async function({write_file}){
console.log('in email_link', JSON.stringify(results));
// once the file is written let's email a link to it...
// results.write_file contains the filename returned by write_file.
return {'file':write_file, 'email':'user@example.com'};
}]
});
console.log('results = ', results);

...which is the same functionality except you don't have explicit callbacks running around everywhere. For that example, though, I'd rather just write a:

let [ data, folder ] = await Promise.all([get_data, make_folder]);

and do the rest as simple "sequential-ish" code.

I've written code with async.js, and it's nice. I vastly prefer Promises. The only thing I still use from async.js is the queueing stuff, and I wrap that up with Promises.
Google Patents Toys That Watch and Listen to Your Kids
I'm socially isolated so I miss a bit of that interaction with other people stuff.

But, other than that, no, I don't feel like I'm missing out. I made some decidedly sub-optimal choices when I was younger and they continue to have an impact.

I tend to focus a lot on making my child's life better - more fun, more safe (without over-coddling protection), more exciting, more supported, etc etc.
> luxury condominiums .... are rapidly replacing ... rent-controlled apartments in the Mission District

Anyone who comments on this subject should disclose if they hold rent-controlled apartment. It is a huge conflict of interest. I know from my own country, how journalists and politicians will jump through hoops to keep it.

Also article tries to create unfair image of new comers. If I would move to SF, I would probably shop in a dollar store as well, since I have children.
Well for the professions you can switch to a less pressured role or career.

For the working poor well night school or improving ones skills - yes I know that's not always easy but life is what you make it.
> Your execs with spook connections arrange for your crooked embezzling CEO to meet with someone in the WTC on 2001 September 11 (true story - but he escaped...)

What.
What's the best practice on dealing with this problem?

Just don't be naive.

How should one inform oneself and decide on how much time to spend on cross-checking communications for these conscious or unconscious biases and influences?

Take in everything you read, but don't believe any of it unless it's a primary source or someone who you personally find trustworthy. Choose your battles wisely. You won't get to the bottom of everything because life is short.

In short, the best defense is being skeptical but still entertaining of everything you hear/read.
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> Hard work and sacrifice => Lied/cheated/stole to get where they are

I wouldn't be so cynic. I think real life is simply not good news material.

"Tonight, the groundbreaking story of the developer who worked for 3 years on banking software, 4 years on insurance databases and a staggering 2 years on android apps! He's now ready to start his own company... or is he? Sitting on a chair and typing code has never been so exciting!"
Six odd facts about Pac-Man, who turns 35 today (2015-05-22)
>The point of the game was to attract girls

>Gaming in the late 1970s was pretty much exclusively a men's club. Toru Iwatani, creator of the game, wanted to change this, creating something that could appeal to both women and families, he said.

>"The reason I created Pac-Man was because we wanted to attract female gamers," he said at a panel during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. "Back then, there were no home games. People had to go to the arcade center to play games. That was a playground for boys. It was dirty and smelly. So we wanted to include female players, so it would become cleaner and brighter."
Oh I agree but at some point you have to take stock and say is this best for me and my loved ones
An article on HN just a week or two ago argued that allowing more building is one approach, and gave Miami as an example. The old neighborhoods there stay as they were, while a lot of the new influx of people go to a small set of newly-built hi-rise luxury buildings.

I'm sure it's not as simple as that, but it makes sense that if building is very constrained, as in SF, then it increases the pressure and raises prices.
Here's the Kevin Rose cover [0]. I remember him downplaying it but I thought he was being modest at the time.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/KFveyzl.jpg
All the Democrat Senators voted in favor. Why do the Democrats want NSA bulk spying?http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/114/senate/1/194
A company using the label "startup" is a fascinating red flag in and of itself. It means bad pay and worthless options. It's amazing how well startup recruiters and VCs have hyped the startup experience.
A couple of days ago my seven year old asked how internet videos are made. This morning, to answer him, we made a 57-frame stop-motion movie of two Lego minifigures building a wall, only to have it blown up by a Bob-omb three times taller then them. No, I'm not missing out.

...

Oh, you mean all that sturm und drang about entrepeneurship? Meh. This is a wonderful time to be alive. Make sure you enjoy it. Doesn't have to be family, there's a lot of other options. There's more ways to succeed in life than selling a unicorn.

(After years of reading this site... I have more or less a 9-to-5 job at a matured now-public startup, and few regrets. Oh, there's a few things I might have done differently, but if HN has taught me anything, it's that I'm not an entrepeneur. That's fine. So's what you're doing. It's OK.)
The Africa-driven demographic future of the Earth
I'd say this is a joke, but you've got a caveat. Since you're being serious, I'm even more concerned.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin

CMD was founded in 1993 by progressive writer John Stauber in Madison, Wisconsin.

I'm going to guess that this "watchdog" only calls out spin and corruption in some cases but not others. Even the watchdogs are suspect. Just follow the people and follow the money and if you're a grown-up you'll realize that pretty much all news is either propaganda, entertainment, or both.
You can use it today if you want to, there is already language support for adding your own type notation.

And if you don't want to create your own you could use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/obiwan
It's a resounding Yes for same-sex marriage in Ireland
Ireland is the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage through a popular vote.
Well, personally I don't consider "Twitter debates", "viral content" or what I think is implied with "insta-fame" to be all that amazing or noteworthy at all. Those are all ephemera by definition that may or may not end up obscure historical footnotes one day.

Other things you described amount to the business cycle. There's a lot of interesting to stuff to be learned studying economics and finance, but the particular results and spotlights of a given boom-bust aren't necessarily all that notable. Do you recall the aftermath of the depression from 1920-1921 in the United States? Likely not, and it barely registers in the public consciousness regardless.

Finally, only one actually amazing thing - new discoveries in physics. Too bad you don't see all the behind-the-scenes academic debate, infighting, spurious results, grunt work that underpins the eventual eureka moment. And don't forget just how many "eureka moments" aren't really that at all, but inflated expectations from poor scientific reporting. How many people do you think realize that "statistical significance" is pretty mundane in comparison to our everyday understanding of "significance"?
No. The concern is that it makes it easier for the wrong type of people to get there ... from Oakland, etc.
Man, I have been there. After I finished my training, I started working as a programmer at a small company, and I had this supervisor whose strategy of dealing with people was exactly as described in this article.

Even worse, he enjoyed it, thoroughly. Such people should never ever be allowed to get anywhere near a position of power over other people.
By your reasoning, mafia dons should never have been prosecuted, since by design in these organizations it is very rare that they personally direct the commission of crimes. This is why RICO was created, and given conspiracies like the LIBOR-rigging scandal, I am perplexed that financial executives aren't being charged under RICO. Because if there is anything that is a Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt Organization, it's the modern international bank over the last 20 years.
No. Not really. Not even slightly.

I really don't enjoy the thought of being famous, and especially not the ephemeral famous-on-the-internet variety. I especially hate the end results of how twitter gets used, and turn a blind eye to nearly everything that happens on that website. It's something of an abomination watching silly people cram their already dumbed-down thoughts into something even dumber than its natural incarnation.

Web 2.0 is really more of a 2004 idea (as with viral content which is even older) but I understand what you're driving at. Especially since some of the technology involved isn't all that new either, which points to the fact that the purchases are more often a form of conflict resolution between competing companies, than genuine success. Large companies purchasing smaller companies before they can become threatening.

There might be much physics-related publicity, but not too many drastic shifts in our understanding of the world that surrounds us. We still don't have any moon bases or martian colonies, and so maybe certain special bosons are the the seat of mass, enslaving us all to gravity, but until that discovery actually pays off, big deal.

Stocks are imaginary financial instruments, and publicly traded stocks are even more imaginary. Some people have a lot of imagination, I suppose. From what my friends tell me, owning a home is worse than owning a car. When your car breaks down, you have to walk home. But when your home breaks down, you're either cold, or wet, or both, and there's no place to sleep. At least, when you rent, there's someone else to blame.
>Fraud is fraud.

Yes, and lack of regulatory oversight (i.e., law enforcement) produces fraud. We saw this with Enron and later with Countrywide, AIG et al. The line seems pretty clear to me - we deregulated the derivatives market (via the CFMA), Enron makes use of the lack of oversight to perpetuate fraud.

>Over regulation is a problem exactly because it builds too big to fail corporations. It eliminates competition due to regulatory capture

You'll have to spell this out for me, because I just can't see it. Regulatory capture is not "over regulation", it is the opposite, at least in the case of finance - it is the regulatory apparatus failing to do what it should (regulate) because the power lies in those being regulated (e.g. the NY Fed's kowtowing to Goldman).
This project is a great example of harnessing one of the most powerful techniques for bringing down costs: multiplexing.

His idea is to build intelligent, networked, automated, mobile machines for the production of food. His goal is to be able to gain cheap access to land by striking deals with vacant lot owners that have costs associated with weed control/landscaping.

Thats the same kind of multiplexing that has let airbnb harness so much value in the form of unused real estate space.

I've been able to harness a lot of value through multiplexing as well. I rented a beach house for 8 months for the off season, and the owners are happy to have a responsible tenant that protects their house from the cold and would be there in case a pipe breaks. A pipe break while the owners were away destroyed the house next door.

By taking advantage of multiplexing I was able to have an entire waterfront house for less than the cost of just the property taxes on the home.
> I guess you'll get things like this when you use a BSD license.

That is by design. As the other commenter said, they will either have to release fixes upstream, or be forced to re-apply them over and over just stay up to date.
Specifying constraints one time and having them work across landscape/portrait and different sizes, all done in a UI interface, with warnings/errors to help you out. Being able to specify relationships of any element to any other element.

So much worse than typing in a text file, saving, refreshing your browser, testing in different browsers, testing on different phone devices, polyfills, -webkit, etc etc etc.

Autolayout got ways to go to catch up to web dev huh :)

I feel your pain regarding auto layout being difficult SOMETIMES but if you've come from web dev and you're not crying tears of joy at not having to waste your life trying to create proper column layouts with a footer and a header (the 'holy grail' of web dev, lol the bar is set so low it's hitting me in the ankle), I don't know what to tell you :)

Also, what the heck is this flow concept. I hope you're not referring to uicollectionview which has, flow layout, lol.
Is It Time to Shift Focus Away from On-Demand Start-Ups?
Tolerating some of his views, yes. Electing him President of the United States of America, not a fucking chance.
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Certainly some people do succeed through hard work alone, but corruption absolutely plays a large part at the top end of the spectrum. Youtube was mostly pirated content before they were bought, Zuckerburg stole the idea for FB and cheated his partner, Uber guys have done every dirty trick in the book...
I would listen to that news... I kind-of like it...
The whole "not really a filibuster" thing fell pretty flat, didn't it?

What started as (what may well have been) a publicity tactic turned into one of the most effective parliamentary maneuvers of the session.
What a perversion! The richest country in the world celebrates trailer parks. Even "upscale trailer parks". OK, one has to admit, it is an improvement over tent cities. No wonder these exist. When you're giving hundreds of billions to gamblers and nothing for social housing you get "ghetto" areas which even police avoids. You officially live in a free country and you surely can go into those areas but it's questionable if you'll come back with your life and your possesions.
It's funny how this article is located right below an article pointing out how Warren Buffet owns trailor park firms who advertise that they are raising rent on poor people at 10% per year. They can't leave, after all, the alternative is to be homeless. [1]

> No conspiracy lies behind this depressing fact: The poor are most definitely not poor because the rich are rich.

However, a lot of people are homeless because Warren Buffet wanted to be paid just a little more.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/03/owning-t...
You're right that this will probably happen, however now it will be very, very difficult to do it without an amendment process which forces Senators to go on record vis a vis some very specific proposals.
Not the OP, but for me it's a conscious decision not to join the party, and it's totally related to your [1].

I run a small consulting company doing primarily hardware and embedded software. I've got a lab set up in my basement with almost all of the gear that I need to do that successfully (spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, and logic analyzer being the big 3 that I use pretty often). I do well enough at it that I don't really worry about money; I won't be retiring at 35, but I'm doing well enough that I don't think much about my chequing account balance.

There's the occasional crunch time, but for the most part I work hard for clients a few hours a day and spend the rest of the day learning & experimenting[1], reading, taking the dogs for a walk, doing yard work, etc. When I'm working on the software part of the work, we've got a family cabin a few hours away that has excellent 4G coverage. My partner and I will pack up the dogs and head down there for a few days in the middle of the week if it looks like it's going to be nice weather. She too has a job where working remote is often an option, so we'll get up, make some bacon & eggs with pancakes, take the dogs for a walk around "town", and then come back and do a few hours of work from maybe 11-3.

When I was working full-time+ in startup land, I definitely felt time poor. Sure, I sometimes miss being at the party, but I feel way less stressed now and happier with my life.

[1] The learning & experimenting often involves noodling with a new piece of software or hardware. It's often still screen time, but it's at my own pace and on my own terms. And over and over, it's turned out to be relevant to potential consulting gigs with a 1-3 month turnaround. Learn some new piece of tech, talk about it to friends, and tada! there's someone who's willing to pay me to use whatever weird niche thing I picked up to solve a problem for them.
Getting even richer by taking from the poorest. Disgusting.
Lean startup by Eric Rise, made me go out and test the idea I had before we started building, made us pivot to something much better than what we were doing.