skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. SF has a housing shortage. Remembering our basic supply & demand curves, price starts to go up exponentially when demand greatly outstrips supply.

Suppose you met the demand by doubling the supply. Suppose that takes you out of the exponential region, and housing costs drop fourfold. Overall, the market shrinks by half.
I'm not an expert, but I assume the exchange takes the same cut of the bid ask spread on an insider trade as it does on any other trade. So the answer to your question is an unequivocal yes.
If you've ever played Kerbal Space Program, you probably understand how freaking amazing this was.
> And having used django user authentication, something similar would be really useful.

How about exactly that on App Engine, rather than just something similar: https://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine
By Clifford Click, from ~20 years of experience with just Hotspot.

Some hard earned knowledge, like:

• GC requires SP (& usually PC) for stack roots
• Hard to find the SP+PC of remote thread
─ Common problem of OS's
─ ! Very surprising to me, until I tried it !
─ Fails (w/low frequency) on many “robust” OSes!
─ Caught in page fault handler, nested in tlb handler, nested in stack overflow handler nested in ....

Ouch!
The Young and the Voiceless
I've also read that sleep can help with weight loss - but maybe that is a stress related side-effect.
Related: other "domesticated" aspergilla:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus_oryzae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus_sojae
I wonder if people are looking for a 'deeper' story because "shit broke, fix was prompt, PR was processional" isn't as interesting as sweat shops, foreign hackers or cover ups.
Interesting article. One line bothered me

>Maybe it’s because of the still prevalent mindset that women shouldn’t be in engineering at all.

Is this is an actual prevalent mindset? I've literally never encountered it in the last two decades, although I also never attended university. I do assume, as a white male, that I would be approached by other males who would confide such prejudices in me. I've certainly been approached by white people (in non-engineering contexts) who assumed I would be comfortable with racist behavior so I feel like I would be soaking in obvious, blatant examples of this claim, but it has literally never happened.

Is this just an underlying assumption people have, and it goes unchallenged because of the apparent prevailing belief that contradicting a woman about sexism claims is also sexism? Is it a mindset that one finds primarily on campus? Have I just been lucky in selecting employers?

This is true curiosity, although I'll certainly understand if some of you are too emotional about the topic to avoid downvoting me for asking the question. I've had enough tangles over this issue to know that it's fairly rare to find people willing to calmly discuss these things.
I've seen many places where "the solution" to the unprotected EPO button was just a simple plastic cup!
Azure is so terrifically overpriced for compute, so it stands that they'd love people using it even if they ran stuff that actively went against Windows. Azure's prices are more than double Google Cloud Compute. Up to 5x the price. Azure could resell GCP and still make a hefty margin.
I don't understand how this is "Facebook's" piracy problem. It sounds like the British newspaper's piracy problem.
This great documentary actually names and shames the involved estate agents (and their agencies), who willingly assist the "buyer" keep his identity and source of money hidden (probably not the first time they're facilitating a transaction like this).

The agencies are named in this DailyMail article [1]: Winkworth, Chard, Domus Nova, Marsh & Parsons and Bective Leslie Marsh. Hopefully, this documentary will deal a significant reputation blow to these agencies and will in turn prevent similar money laundering in the future.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3153060/Estate-agent...
THE SCOPE TUG-OF-WAR
I guess it's just me then. The way I see it, this is like the guy who proposes in front of everyone at a wedding. It's not your day, don't come and try and steal the limelight.

Heroku guy should have just pulled the other marketer trick... get a stooge to post a thread asking "Can someone compare GAE and Heroku". This way he could promote his product without looking like a jerk.

In someone else's product announcement thread, STFU about your product. If it's good enough, your customers will mention it. Basic manners really.

As you can see, I've gone way overboard on this. This will be my last post. I'm just pissed because EVERY hn announcement thread is like this. Someone does something and announces it, and you'll see "oh I did it first... and mine is better and cheaper, ignore his".

You ask "I really don't get what you're talking about here."

Well heroku guy knows what I'm talking about... that's why he prefaced his self-promotion with "shameless plug" like all the others that do.

Except saying "shameless plug" doesn't make it any less shameful.
Sorry, I fail to see the point in your second paragraph. Of course in the business logic level you need to allocate variables that can hold every possible value in the valid range, but as long as this is the case, why does it matter that you use types that have the same byte size in every possible platform?

In your third paragraph, i agree on the debuggability front (if you are actually reading memory dumps, otherwise, why should it matter). About the code reading clearer, I guess this is more a matter of taste.
TempleoS is a native operating system like Windows or Linux. I wrote a x86_64 compiler like gcc or visualC.
Usually there is a reason people believe what they believe. It's called motivated reasoning. For instance I know my religion is full of shit, but it's a very important part of my identity. Therefore I must find reasons to continue to believe in it and defend ideas that it puts forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
>Facebook typically complies, they said—but often not until a day or two later, by which time the video’s virality has run much of its course. Two days, Sandlin told me, is “basically forever in Internet time.”
Medicare Proposes Paying Doctors for End-Of-Life Counseling
This should be a fairly open and shut piracy case for the video maker. Zoo is a British magazine with a real company behind it. Facebook is a US-based company and is redistributing the video (and likely making money from the adverts). The video maker is based in the US. He can start with filing a case against FB (seems he has a US lawyer lined up already), and once he collects from that, he pays a UK lawyer to follow up against Zoo's parent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih-OGXesJqg
People are "taught" to lie since the childhood and passed as "good manners". Ex:

>How are you feeling.
>Good.

Or my favourite:
>Wow, good job!

People learn by example, and they see these lies (in their technical definition) as acceptable and even encouraged behaviour and hence follow. Then we have parents lying to their children all the time, and then later when they learn the truth they will likely carry on their tradition of lying (aka Santa, Monster Under The Bed ... God) to their kids because, hell, my parents did it.

The list goes on and on.

Or maybe I'm just a sad cynic.
If the tooling isn't there for reporting. Youtube, for example, has worked really hard with Content ID to be able to automatically report and repoint infringing content.
And I'm sure it'll all work perfectly, and there will be absolutely no reason whatsoever to test your application on Windows devices, right?
Second Life Creator Linden Lab Prepares to Test Parallel VR Universe
Its not just the addon bar, and its not just firefox. Its a wider problem, not just with open source or free software.

If a business model is predicated on giving free stuff to the public, the staff, directors and investors do not understand that its users or members have a legitimate ownership stake.

That they did not pay for the product or service, that they agreed to the terms of service or copyright license or even copyright assignment is not a consideration. That something is legal doesnt particularly imply that it is ethical.

Or that it makes sense. Look at the smoking radioactive crater that reddit the company made of reddit the website. I dont blame Ellen Pao, the problems arose long before she hired on. I blame the directors, the directors hired Pao to act as a spokeswoman for the ignorant.
The data is purporting to show total property value, not land value. Thus, a residential tower with 400 units at $100,000 each and occupying five acres adds $40 million to the valuation. In contrast, a five-acre spread with a single mansion might only be worth $5 million. Thus, a county with more residential towers will have a higher aggregate value than a county with more luxury mansions, even though the former is much more affordable.
It's also worth remembering that quality of service depends on a host of variables, including departure/arrival cities (major hubs are better than regional airports), routes, and times (morning flights tend to be less delayed, Thursday afternoon flying always a bit of a shitshow), etc.

I fly out of UA hubs frequently and have had nothing but excellent service from them this year (over 50 segments flown this year, ~60K miles).

Definitely helps to have status too...

Personally, I consider SW to the be shittiest of them all. I hate having to fight for a seat...

Lastly, use google.com/flights by far my favorite booking tool now.
Windows phone has a minuscule marketshare. Where is this "huge opportunity"?

Remember, Blackberry did the same thing, and it didn't help them at all.
Indeed! That brought back a vivid childhood memory of moving the cat's whisker around on a crystal to find just the right spot to pick up the local radio station.

It was mind-blowing to realize that the acoustic waves vibrating my eardrums were directly powered by the radio waves transmitted from the broadcast antenna.
But the article talks about how sharing YouTube links is penalized by Facebook, and you have to re-upload it as a Facebook video for Facebook to really share it in news feeds.

Then you don't get any money at all fore it, so that doesn't seem viable for people who treat it like a job.
ISTR that producing a clean sign wave on a scope requires a real-time operating system, and it was one of the first tests for seeing if your real time linux patches worked.
It's trivial enough in my usage, which involves a breadboard and a Pi that are dedicated to one another and never disconnected. I'm not sure why that isn't a feasible option for educational use; instead of issuing a naked Pi, or a Pi and an Arduino, just issue a Pi+breadboard pair, already connected together.

If you're especially worried about mishaps, and don't mind modifying hardware in ways that aren't easily reversible, you could even use adhesive to permanently fix the IDC connectors in place.

If, conversely, you don't want to permanently connect all the parts to one another, you could also clip J8 pins 2 and 4 (5VDC) and 39 (one of several ground pins), and key the Pi-side IDC connector by stuffing the matching holes with a dab of quick-set epoxy. That by itself will suffice to protect against inadvertent 5V -> GPIO shorts; if you further use a breakout cable with keyed IDC connectors (e.g. [1]), and a breadboard breakout with a shrouded, keyed header (like an old-style IDE connector), then you end up with an entirely safe system.

And, taking that last idea further, you can get the same safety benefits at minimum hardware modifications (and no irreversible mods to the Pi) if you use:

- a ribbon with keyed connectors;

- a breakout with a keyed, shrouded header, and pins 2 and 4 removed;

- and a keyed shroud, such as [2] with the shipped pins removed, press-fitted to the Pi's J8 header.

On the one hand, the keyed shrouds prevent fumble fingers from inadvertently misplugging the IDC connectors on either side; on the other, the absence of pins 2 and 4 on the breakout prevents inadvertent overvolting of GPIO pins.

(And all you need is a bit of protoboard and some solder to make the breakout, using the pins removed from [2] as the breadboard-side pins of the breakout. In fact, if you have students old enough to be trusted with soldering irons, this is not only parsimonious of materials but an excellent teaching opportunity in its own right!)

Granted, none of these solutions is entirely ideal. The point isn't to provide a one-size-fits-all; instead, I'm trying to demonstrate that there are plenty of ways to solve this problem, many of which are less expensive and more user-transparent than pairing an Arduino with each Pi.

[1] http://amzn.to/1foCXLy
[2] http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TE-Connectivity-AMP/5103...
Their blog answer most of your questions.

https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/

You can't prevent 0 days, and the informations hacked were encrypted.
A USB IR to resurrect old remote controls
Let me rephrase the question. Why was there a realistic chance of succeeding with Excel?

As I see it, you seem to be trying to prove that things that actually happened were impossible, but no one noticed.
This is awesome! Great job!
Discovered this right after handing in my master thesis where I wrote an (extremely) prototype compiler for my own language which has a similar approach.

Synchronous seems to be the way to go for multithreaded programs where optimal performance is not required.
This is unfortunately backwards. Many large corporations will only donate and provide matching donations to registered non-profits. Applying for 501(c)(3), and whatever the Canadian equivalent is, would be the gateway to much larger donations. Yes, there's overhead and headache, but the benefit is that being a registered non-profit is one of the requirements for corporate donations.

The reason the project gets so few donations may well be that many businesses and individuals have to weigh donating to OpenBSD (not tax deductible, not registered as a non-profit) versus literally any other cause that is tax deductible. Simply put, a dollar to OpenBSD doesn't go as far as a dollar to say, the Linux Foundation (a 501(c)(6)).
This seems to be shades of aggregate content farm business models. Is HuffingtonPost Comedy's recutting of cute cat videos without credit okay? How about BuzzFeed's use of stock / flickr images? What about memes -- someone took those photos once upon a time, now they don't even get a credit. How about the dumb radio station's non-original video clips circulating on FB?
Sure, it's not going to magically drop prices, but it might help blunt their advance for a while.
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Waste Less Time Swiping with Android
A little note from the founder :

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ok-we-can-afford-buy-burn-sur...

Constructive feedback are welcome and the iPhone app is in the making!
Microsoft Thinks the Smartphone Is Over. It’s Wrong
Agreed, they're always beautifully written. This one is my favorite: http://www.economist.com/node/16885894
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Microsoft's latest HoloLens demo is more realistic about its limitations
Because FB's infrastructure doesn't prevent piracy or offer creators ways of identifying it.
No worries, I was just wondering if something was wrong on my end. There's a lot of simple things you could do to make it look better, you can start by pushing the whole site up. Right now most of the valuable content happens below the fold of the site. A lot of the stuff on top either doesn't need to be there or doesn't need to be the size that it is, so just prioritizing the screen space for results would go a long way. Then you can do simple things like adding dividers between results.

This looks a lot cleaner and usable http://imgur.com/zLdnKuy

edit: also you can just twitter bootstrap everything together
Associated youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlswP_qXbdA

not sure why it's not linked on the website
Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Coming Soon
Interesting. I think the GC pauses are go's biggest problem.

Looks like they are tackling this head on with positive results.
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"The developers also discussed whether it was time to get a bug tracker."
I must be the only one who can't load the web page.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
A secure connection cannot be established because this site uses an unsupported protocol.
Is verge a legitimate source for technology-related news? Seems like they're very pro-apple and anti-everything else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI5xnkLk8IA
Erlang's per-process (Erlang process, not Unix process) GC is pretty good from this point of view. I'm surprised they didn't mention it as something to think about.
Verizon: Let us install fiber–or we’ll shut off your phone service
At the very least, you have to parse the new information and then understand what it means (ie. which beliefs of mine now change and how).
> ...there has been a virtuous cycle between software and hardware development. CPU hardware improves, which enables faster software to be written, which in turn...

This is the exact opposite of the experience I've had with (most) software. A new CPU with a higher clock speed makes existing software faster, but most new software written for the new CPU will burn all of the extra CPU cycles on more layers of abstraction or poorly written code until it runs at the same speed that old code ran on the old CPU. I'm impressed that hardware designers and compiler authors can do their jobs well enough to make this sort of bloated software (e.g. multiple gigabytes for a word processor or image editor) succeed in spite of itself.

There are of course CPU advancements that make a huge performance difference when used properly (e.g. SSE, multiple cores in consumer machines) and some applications will use them to great effect, but these seem to be few and far between.
Because I prefer a set of simple and basic tools used in combination to accomplish something instead of a "push this button and it does everything" approach. It's the *nix pipe mentality of combining simple well built tools to build solid and reliable things that you can adapt any way you please.

I also build things that are heavy on the network side, and virtualization drops networking performance a great deal (this may be changed these days, not sure).

Don't get me wrong. I don't fear virtualization. I use virtualbox and vmware heavily for development, and yes they do have a purpose, but it's a bad fit for the type of projects I build.

I just find that anything in life that just continues to add features for the sake of adding features, and create more and more "magic" push buttons to solve your problems eventually goes to crap and becomes a fragmented dependency hell that I would rather not deal with. And yes, I do love Golang.
Requests.xyz – shareable requests and responses
Source code is available on Github https://github.com/seanbehan/requests_xyz
Please keep HN titles plain text and informative.
Design for Conversions
Is anybody at Google planning to address the whole patent situation?
Not just that, but the fact that the content is unsearchable, and the fact that Facebook is profiting heavily from it as fuel for one of its latest "frictionless engagement" features is fairly damning. That's not to say Facebook isn't taking reasonable measures, but if you look how incentives are aligned it doesn't inspire confidence.
D'oh! My bad. I was just so excited to see Oberon on the front page.
Yes, it's difficult to make a fair comparison across counties of such vastly different areas and populations. LA county includes far-off places like Palmdale which bring the average housing price way down. If you only looked at more central neighborhoods like Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, etc. you'd see distortion more akin to SF.
On the contrary, check out https://status.cloud.google.com/summary. Serious incidents (eg https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/15019) include a full incident report, including root cause analysis,.
Really tough for a small creator to police without tools. I think the lack of tools is the real place where Facebook is going to see trouble.
I think the issue that the article points out is valid. But it expands to a bigger face than just Facebook. Namely, any content on the Internet, by virtue of being easily accessed, is easily duplicated. Sites like 9gag and Buzzfeed are full of reposts from Reddit and 4chan. "But wait!" you say, "those aren't the same. Those aren't making money like videos!" But the value of any content is to drive views and growth, and in that sense the text or image posts are worth just as much as video. We don't generally make the same big deal out of these as music or video because it is more difficult for creators of small content to complain.
Sure, but YouTube was a startup in a nascent industry.
OTOH, taking money puts pressure on a bigger exit/revenue scaling plan. To me, that means more like GoDaddy and less like prgmr, which is not what I want from my service providers.

The pressure to expand is a negative indicator when I'm a user of a service.
And Zoo's actions are clearly willful infringement. I don't know if he can apply US law when going after the UK magazine, but in the US willful infringement can lead to $150,000 statutory damages per incident. They can't fall back on the "the user did it, we're not responsible" defense relied on by Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.
The cat perhaps reminds Japanese travelers of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, in which a foundling brings prosperity to her adoptive home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter
Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain
Considering that Oracle's current efforts against Google could bring down the software industry as we know it, I wouldn't touch any product of Oracle's with a ten foot pole.
How to make a custom applicant tracking system in 2 min
Osborne in four-fold attack on contractors
Wouldn't DMCA protect Facebook from legal action here?
Source code is available on Github https://github.com/seanbehan/requests_xyz