skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your blog, it looks like you were pricing sizable houses rather than higher density housing like a 2br/2ba condo, which can be found for much less. Although I grew up in Alaska, I have no regrets about buying a modest condo next to trails and with a short bike commute instead of a larger place further from everything I care about. Anyway, there would be more incentive to build high-density housing if more people wanted to buy it instead of writing off the housing market as insane and going elsewhere (be it the eastern suburbs or somewhere completely different as you did).
Facebook’s Piracy Problem
"the majority of software will be written and maintained by volunteers begging for donations from said companies"

that is not how it works now so why would that change?
Wait, was the fact that UpWork was intended to replace Elance/ODesk some kind of secret?
This happened at Mozilla.
No, unless I'm mistaken, it's literally the sum value of all the bare land, not including the value of the buildings. California seems to have a third of value in the United States, and the Northeast Corridor has another third, but neither have a third of the population.

(edit: I stand corrected, but it's still notable that property value and density aren't necessarily correlated.)
Here: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/opportunities-in-sme-reorde...
Oh, yeah, proprietary. I meant open source competitors. My bad.
> reddit traffic surpassed Digg traffic well before the Digg v4 launch [0].

I'm not sure exactly what that graph is showing. Is it just referrals to the author's own site? If so, that's likely biased.

It doesn't seem to line up with the numbers in your second link.

> Digg was already in decline [1] while reddit was growing [2], and the Digg v4 exodus just made it happen faster.

Digg had started to dip, but I think that was mostly from removing the DiggBar and Google's ranking changes. It had definitely plateaued before v4, but I think v4 was the tipping point where the critical mass of users abandoned Digg and (for better or worse) arrived at Reddit.

> On the other hand, reddit's signature feature is its user-created subreddits.

Yes, this is the smartest thing Reddit has done. I remember at the time people saying subreddits were totally broken because you had to submit a link to multiple subreddits separately. They argued that you should submit a link once and "tag" it to be in multiple subreddits.

I knew that they were deliberately decentralizing their communities so that each could develop its own personality and culture. It was an incredibly smart move.

At the same time, there is a lot of interaction between subreddits, and reddit still has a front page that is viewed heavily by lurkers. This means "global" things can still affect reddit as a whole.

> That's a fundamental incentive for people to stay on reddit: even if the front page goes to shit, you're not going to see something like the trans community or any of the numerous fandoms that have a presence on reddit pack up and leave.

That's only true for users that actually have accounts and tune their front page. I think a surprisingly large number don't do that.

Also, the social reputation of the site as a whole affects how people use it. 4chan also has a few nice subcommunities, but you don't want to tell your friends how much you like 4chan because they associate that name with its most toxic elements.
> NYC and the Bay Area are pretty different when it comes to NIMBY policies and commutes from low income areas to high income.

How so? New York has plenty of NIMBY policies and commuters.
So the US mapped by property value looks like China.. :-)
Then this might interest you:

http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/05/11/in-which-i-make-you-hate-...
This page has a link to a Python script to dump the contents of the list file:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tracking_protection
Well that HT is out of business, they are really up a creek huh? They are just looking to level the playing field so that they can play too. If encryption is outlawed only outlaws will have encryption.
You'd also need to reform the way school districting works. Well, I guess it could cause another round of suburban flight of the affluent, but the underlying problem would still be there.
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How do you know that the culture you're hiring for is all that great for getting results?

Is this culture the one you're going to need in the future?

What if you have a need, and there's nobody that fits your culture? If you're understaffed, is it really better to keep asking your staff to work extra while you satisfy the culture requirement, even if it's just while someone ramps up?

Lastly, "culture" seems to be another way of saying "we don't really know what works, so we just look for people we personally like".

I've worked with many people I didn't like, or even got along with (I'm sure others could say the same of me). Focusing on tasks and goals, communicating regularly, and having decent work habits went very far.
> RT necessitates laziness in some cases

I would be interested to see your proof of that.
You open a Dash account and link up to three bank accounts. It flows it simply work like a debit purchase. If you need to build credit, you should look at a credit solution, but presumably not every employee gets a credit card or you may not want to do card sharing, for that, Dash is great. We are fortunate enough to have some strong partners in fintech and are exploring credit options, but nothing commercially available at this time. (Disclosure: I am a founder here)
Readlist: A reading habit tracker
As long as they (FBI/NSA) don't think they did anything wrong it will be hard to believe that they will reform and start to uphold the Constitution.
Based on your description, it sounds like you're looking for a more intelligent search result set, not "realtime"
I spent half article thinking "Wait no, they mean Ed Roth"
Google has a new ethernet adapter for the Chromecast, $15
Psychedelic Maps Made With Google's 'DeepDream' Code
Science charges ahead full steam and theists are left will less and less wiggle room.
Definitely agree re: datalog/pull syntax for SQL backends. Quite surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Python caches the bytecode in .pyc files, so the compilation happens only the first time you import a module. In a typical Python start-up only the main source file is byte-compiled.
I change my ringtone when I change the phone or the ROM on phone. other than those two scenarios i don't change....
I'm so glad you posted this. This has practical applications for just about anyone, especially those in enterprise environments (like me). I have been noticing this phenomenon but hadn't quite put it into words yet, and you've perfectly described it.
I'm a big fan of Ninja: it applies the philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" to build systems. It takes in a dependency graph and a list of build rules, and it builds stuff in parallel.

Like Make, you can use it to build a lot of different kinds of things, and it doesn't care what programming language you're using.

Unlike Make, it doesn't give you its own idiosyncratic, messy, easily-misused programming language for defining your dependency graph. The dependency graph is just an input that comes from somewhere else. You can make it in a reasonable programming language, or apparently now you can make it out of a Makefile using Kati.

Because it's not trying to support decades of Makefile hacks, Ninja can do things that would be dangerous to do in Make, such as a single build step that reads M files and writes N files without any extra locking or bookkeeping.
> I want to edit a file and re-evaluate arbitrary expressions with a keystroke. Writing the code and then copy/pasting it into a REPL prompt is not sufficient.

This suggests to me you've not spent much time with Pry. Are you aware of this:

https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Editor-integration

It's not perfect - doing it perfect with Ruby is a hard problem, as a method can have been defined and redefined in multiple places. But it works very well.
There was a bug in the example. Fixed, thanks!
Around half of Apple's are retail employees. Microsoft has retail employees as well, but overall their employee mix is very different.

Still, your main point stands: a 7% reduction is perhaps significant, but probably not "large."
When we say we want diversity, I think we tend to mean we want diversity of perspective and experience and way of thinking. But when we try to implement diversity, we tend to do it by body shapes and colors and genders.

> I think the biggest thing is to acknowledge that we are all human and we like people ...

This sentence was off to such a good start!
Why is it so much easier for me to read junior programmer's code than senior's?
I amd mid programmer, and I noticed that for me it's so much easier to read the code of a junior developer's than senior's. The reason is senior programmer uses so many abstractions over abstractions, dependency injection containers over containers etc. Yes it's easier to write unit tests for it, but it's so difficult to understand anything. Senior programmer is considered to be a very good developer, and he is. But it's just so strange. Maybe I'm just a terrible developer.
"People are upset because reddit corporate did a shitty job of managing reddit corporate, and it caused reddit corporate to fall through on several plans they had made with the public and other parties."

Shouting louder and using caps doesn't make me believe you or add to the discussion.

I just don't think this was a planned and orchestrated protest as a result of mis-management. There might have been 1 or 2 mods that felt this way, but the rest did it in "solidarity"..more likely a pure emotional decision to feel like they were part of the group (reminds me of the occupy wallstreet mentality..which accomplished nothing and just made the protesters look foolish).

If they really wanted to make a change, they should have all gotten together and contacted management..like mature adults. But this takes intelligence, discipline, maturity and doesn't give them the desired effect of rebellion. It feels good to rebel because it gives a person a sense of power that they probably don't normally have in their life.

It's the difference between a government discussing change and a mob of people burning down the city because they aren't getting what they want. A step back in terms of social change.

I also didn't see any of the explanations that you claim when it was happening. It's just back-pedaling to try to justify the actions of the mods.

Most inexperienced people don't don't how to play politics...and may get what they want in the short-term (the company just wants to put out the fire until they can figure out a good strategy) but will be pushed aside in the long-term.

The mods have no leverage except the power to make a sub-reddit private...and that can easily be taken away. If they let all of the mods go today, there would be people lining up to replace them tomorrow. But, this would be a bad PR move for Reddit...so it won't happen this quickly.
At an abstract level:

If one can technically verify level of belief, then one can both insist upon it in coercive capacities (the NSA does not want any employee who has any doubts about its holy mission), and tune arguments for it in non-coercive capacities (The breakfast cereal marketing department's learning algorithms will be able to test jingles against a fully verifiable 100% accurate human model).

Blowing things off and consenting because you just want to move on, ceases to be an option once it's detectable. Instead, the opponent can iterate on strategies of persuasion until the job is genuinely done. This doesn't produce an easily swayed populace for the same reason an unsecured computer doesn't produce an egalitarian botnet host: It is in the interest of every memetic attack to install defenses against other memes. Will you tell your new girlfriend, that her brown hair looks nice when your preexisting bias in favor of blondes has been hyped up into a whole obsessive fandom by your last girlfriend, who jealously insisted on the mental calcification of True Belief?

Mindreading in the form of an accurate lie detector of some sort is a large portion of mind control, once you extrapolate it to routine applications throughout society.

.

More specific to the article's point:

Datamining truth verification is more likely to be a problem for us due to the asymmetry: It benefits large organizations and only large organizations. It benefits the people with the best AI to search your history and only the people with the best AI to search your history. The NSA is already capable of performing a background check, utilizing the whole of its resources constructively, that would point out any doubts you have; But we are not similarly capable of deducing facts about the NSA.
Windows has the auto-boot disabling built in - msconfig in XP and above, or it's built into task manager on 8 and 8.1.

Removing tricky software can be done by crap cleaner and/or hijackthis
"...blue photons, which are the most efficient type of photon..."

Argh.

Plants require light at 450 nm (blue) and light at 650 nm (red) to experience normal growth, and 730 nm (far-red) is also required to flower normally. (That last one may be important to growers of certain plants valued for their flowers and/or fruits.)

Phytochromes and photropins are the plant pigment-hormones that govern the plant life cycle. They respond to those 3 critical wavelengths of light to allow the plant to guess the time of day and the season of the year. Some plants also need a dark phase to "sleep", but it doesn't have to be as long as an actual night.

Blue light is likely most efficient at forcing the increase in green plant mass. That is, it makes bigger leaves and longer stems. That isn't always what you want for indoor farming.

The ideal indoor grow light would have a programmable, timed output of those three critical wavelengths of light, with a different ideal program for each type of plant. You may wish to start with red light, to germinate the seeds, go to blue light for rapid growth, then manipulate the plant into flowering out of season by switching between the two reds.

Transcend also needs a smaller, programmable 650/730nm light to offer a complete indoor farming solution, particularly for plants that do not get natural sunlight. It wouldn't need to use nearly as much energy, as it is being used primarily for hormonal signaling rather than photosynthesis.
People don't want to hear the truth. They want to hear they already know the truth.
I finally found it in a different article linked via a pingback. The article above does not reference county-level data at all from what I can tell.
Converting a code base from camlp4 to ppx
Microsoft Expands GitHub Integration with Visual Studio
You will have much better results (attention-wise) by posting this to the monthly "Who Is Hiring?" thread here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

It's most likely too late to add it to the most recent July 2015 thread (below), so you'll need to wait until the August 2015 thread on the 1st.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812245

good luck!
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Why not just use AWS? Seems like you went from bad to slightly better.

There's no reason to fear virtualization, and the automation is definitely one of the best aspects of running in a major cloud.
Phosphors are interesting in that they emit in 360 degrees. We have a "recycling cavity" behind the phosphor plates that reflects "backward" emitting photons. The design of this cavity is key to an efficient remote phosphor system.

As far as forward throw, the plate is a lambertian emitter. This means ~80% of the light is in a 60 degree beam angle and nearly >95% within 70 degrees.
Hi soylentcola,

Ian here, co-founder of Potbox. Very good question. This is something that we might explore in the future, but right now we wanted to get our core product out and branch out from there based on feedback. From our experience, concentrates seems to be a lot popular with younger age groups that don’t really seek out farm-to-table products (they are also super strong). On your last point, a lot of our user-base use premium vaporizer systems like the Volcano, which is able to vaporize your cannabis without the use of chemicals. Most concentrates are made using chemicals (like butane) and you will taste it, we want to avoid adding any additional chemicals into something that can be enjoyed safely without them. We aren’t ruling it out, but for right now we are focusing on our core product, premium all-natural cannabis.

As for editables, this is a very gray area of the cannabis industry right now. They can be pretty scary if taken in excess and it’s very difficult to measure exact doses contained within an editable and how much someone should consume. The way we see it is that there’s just so many variables in editables, from production to effects, that we thought we’d hold off on that for right now.
now is good time to watch 'Road Trip'. Try floating the idea of a threesome with them. if you'r lucky to get a 'yes', it would be a win-win for both the startup and the personal relationships.
Poisoning the Well of U.S.-China Relations
Your impressions about Céu are very accurate, but I would like to add some remarks.
There are three possible perspectives about the language: the "static", presented in the SenSys'13 paper; the "dynamic", presented in the Modularity'15 paper; and also the actual compiler publicly available.

The static version shares similar restrictions to Esterel, as you both pointed out.
The dynamic version allows dynamic allocation inside lexical pools, keeping static memory management (no GC or "free"), but with possible unbounded memory usage.
The actual compiler is even less restrictive and just gives warnings for unbounded loops, recursive calls, and so on.
>While i think having a 200 stories tower surrounded by a park would be better than a bunch of 20-30 stories mid-towers sticking out of concrete/asphalt space)

Ugh, please no. This is essentially what Le Corbusier advocated and the results are disasterous. It leads to all of the downsides of density. Lots of people taking up space, but none of the benefits (easy access to shopping, entertainment, school, work, etc.), because everything's so damn far away from each other.
Can someone help me understand the main differences between CRISPR and traditional genetic engineering that has been done for many years now? My understanding is that we've had technologies to selectively modify DNA for some time, but perhaps it hasn't been as targeted or reliable as CRISPR?

One thing that stands out to me (especially from the radiolab episode) is that it sounds like CRISPR isn't just gene editing in the sense of engineering something in a lab; it's gene editing in an already living organism. If DNA is anything like an organism's "source code", once the code is "shipped" (organism is conceived), traditionally we tend to think of that code as being locked/frozen. It sounds like CRISPR is akin to modifying the code live - "in production", so to speak. Is that a fair analogy?

Edit: to explain, when I say "in an already living organism", I'm referring mostly to a developed, multi-celled organism. I understand that traditional techniques also use living cells, but the radiolab episode makes it sound as if a full-grown adult human may someday get a live "DNA upgrade" - at least to applicable portions of the body - via CRISPR, e.g. to remove a genetic predisposition for developing a particular disease. To me, that would be substantially different (in practical application) from genetically engineering something like a gamete or a single-celled bacteria.
I prefer using my own credit card and getting reimbursed since then I get points on my card. (Which I then use to buy things on Amazon that I want without considering my budget.)

Obviously this is part of credit card companies charging fees that hurt small businesses. But as long as the system is that way I'll use it. Retailers don't charge me different fees based on which credit card I use, so I might as well use the one that gives the best rewards.
You already answered the question: if you keep on sleeping you're vulnerable and being vulnerable over a longer period of time equates to certain death. So we awaken to stay alive when the cover of night disappears.
> fuckin pigs

None of this here, please.
The source article is complaining about a $100 million condo in NYC that is listed at $6 million, and it pulls the values for the rest of the country from the Census (which tends to track households more than properties), so I think it is just the opposite, it mostly reflects the value of buildings.
Aggrieved users are welcome to take it up with the mods of /r/cooking, or make their own spinoff sub - that's the beauty of reddit.
Yep, the link should be https://golang.org/dl/.

Work is ongoing to make golang.org be HTTPS only.
I remember when Slashdot seemed like the only game in town. Things can reach a tipping point very quickly.
We need to work together to make culture-fit a bad word. "Culture fit" means discrimination along dimensions that shall not be named, for were they to be named they would be illegal.
How to Cross Compile Go Programs Using Docker
Thanks to Lipner's SDL & executive support, Microsoft has done one of the largest 180's in the industry's history. Backward compatibility and time-to-market will continue to create problems. Yet, comparing security (even architecture) of Windows 7 with Windows 95 is almost like looking at two different companies' products.

So, I give them due credit for good effort they put in. Many other companies have yet to match that effort. It's why their stuff is the new, big target. ;)
It's a good question. Part two goes in to this a bit more (the post was too long). But, the performance seems to be due to a few things:

1. Rust/C#/etc. vs Java. Stuff just goes faster with less effort.

2. The model is more "programmable". Rather than select from pluggable pre-fab algorithms, with certain trade-offs already made for you, you are able to write your own code where you need it. The system runs your code and really not that much else.

Stay tuned for when we actually push that content out.
Wow, I see Rami had his cancellation fee waived! I had to fork out another $75 for cancellation and wasn't even allowed to use the product for the remainder of the period.

Adobe? Never again.

Using Inkscape now for Illustrator replacement. Mixed results.