skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It builds the page using javascript from a copy of this file: https://github.com/MadRabbit/nikolay.rocks/blob/master/pages...
OK I'm just going to say it. This author SERIOUSLY needs to consider making their prose gender-neutral. I could care less what the time period is, it's hostile to women to talk about the engineer "as a boy" and talk about the 787's "grandfather". It's freaking 2015, GET OVER the all-male pronoun business already!!
From M&S to Rational
As HomeJoy shuts down, we definitely need to think long and hard about our vision for how to grow and sustain the on demand economy. It's clear marketplaces are not the panacea.
> The city’s devastating affordability crisis has an unlikely villain—its famed progressive politics.

Who deems that unlikely? Isn't that the widely-accepted answer?
Proximity detection is done by the receiver. An iBeacon is just a dumb broadcaster.
Yes - all of the above. :)

We're able to more strategically invest in open source projects since we're not operating in hand-to-mouth mode.

We're able to pursue partnerships and push even better Python integration with industry partners, because we can now afford to make long-term investments like that.

We're able to hire more strategically to beef up the engineering team.

And we'll be able to field more sales and sales engineering personnel to ensure that customers doing cool things with Python/SciPy/PyData get all the support they need to succeed.
I think our progressive politics IS to blame: for deluding San Franciscans into believing such a thing is possible.

Actually it is possible. But the irony is that the person who came up with best idea that would have fixed/prevented this problem, has now been ostracized as a "fascist" by the left-wing tech community: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/04/formali...

If circa 2007, San Francisco itself had been turned into a join-stock corporation, with all the existing residents given shares, then all residents would have grown wealthy as the city grew rich. Furthermore, the government would have had an incentive to allow new housing, since that would increase total tax revenues, and thus increased dividends for all residents. Right now, the politically powerful have no incentive to improve new building, since they do not directly benefit.
Thanks, Sahat! Hope all is well with you!
The 1980's were pretty bad here with the famine and rice rationing, etc. and I think that's kind of been carried over. So you get a lot of rude, selfish behavior like cutting in line, lack of queueing, general lack of courtesy.

The concept of face is more harmful than good. People will straight up lie to you here, not because they are acting out of malice, but because they don't want to lose face by appearing stupid or unknowledgeable. It's the thing I hate the most about this place, to be honest. Nobody is direct with you.

Edit: I just want to clarify that I like living here, despite the enormous number of negative things about doing it. I'd much rather live here than Thailand, that's for sure.
> It invented new models of delivering affordable housing and health care. It invested deeply in public space, from parks to bike lanes. It adopted a transit-first policy

Is that really true? San Francisco, as much as I love it, never struck me as a particularly forward-thinking place when it comes to public transportation, bike-friendliness, healthcare, or housing policies. Compare it to any European city (e.g. bike lanes in Amsterdam, transit in London, health care in Switzerland, or Germany in housing policy), and San Francisco looks pretty weak. The only thing it really has going for it is its population density and diversity.

Don't get me wrong, I adore this city. But I feel like it has succeeded despite its policies, not because of them.
Thanks, Ville! :)
Next will be the Airbnb for coffees... and meals, perhaps.
One thing I don't get about "hedging": If you hedge, how do you make profit? While you get downside on your one bet and upside on other, things cancel out, right? Profits seems to be proportional to risk. Hedging reduces risk and hence reduces profits. I've heard "always hedge" lot of time but being naive in this area, I want to know how do professionals hedge while still bringing in significant profits.
One project which really needs contributors now is the Mitro Password Manager, it is shutting down due to lack of funding.
https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro
There are a fair number of high-rise condos being built in Soma right now, and several more than are planned.
The bit about Tomas Mazetti in this article... Paints this entire thing negatively for me.
Getting to work alongside Laura is one of the highlights of being at IFTTT.
I've been a noticing a trend recently whereby all the standard Erlang advocacy articles, tutorials and feature overviews are taken, have 's/Erlang/Elixir' run on top of them and reposted as if they're all novelties of Elixir.
Oh I get it now!

lol at the irony of my comment, I honestly had no idea.

I personally wouldn't use this for my blog because in my opinion a blog shouldn't require Javascript to display content, but I know I'm in the minority there and it's important that people try different things and push the boundaries. Thank you for sharing this OP!
all the content is open-sourced and available on github as markdown all nice and readable without any engine at all! https://github.com/MadRabbit/nikolay.rocks/blob/master/pages...
T would. E interesting if, for a premium, they allow people to take the Wheelys cart and apply their own branding to it. Which could kick off a whole wave of independent coffee businesses a la Etsy but for coffee and purely offline.

I'm not sure if this is the case currently, and it seems you're right. They want to push their own brand and eventually consolidate the different types of food cart businesses (hot dogs, pretzels are too easy but perhaps they steal some ideas from food trucks too).
There's a ton of western style living here.
We would be absolutely stuck w/o conda's environment manager -- I can make sure we use exactly the same versions of the packages across our whole team.
Ask HN: You can get a recommended book list from any businessperson, who is it?
And when a price is artificially lowered below its market rate, there will be a shortage. In this case, rent control.
The combination of those two factors is what makes the housing situation so terrible.
I'm American and a percolator and drip brewer are two different things for me as well. I used to have a percolater but it's been a long time since I've seen one. Maybe most people don't know what they are anymore.
First off, Reagan wasn't the initiator of closing mental health facilities, it was a broader trend.

Second, they didn't close them to save money, they closed them because locking someone up in a facility was deemed inhumane.
Oh, no, not that awful hellscape Manhattan! What a fate to be avoided...
Ha, the Altered States movie instantly came to mind just by association with the headline. Read down a few paragraphs and, hey, there it is!

I saw the movie as a kid on late night TV. One fine day just a couple of years ago, I suddenly remembered it, googled for a while (not remembering its name) and watched it again.

The movie contains a Jeckyll-and-Hyde trope which is so laughably impossible that the screenwriters don't even bother trying to weave in a shred of a plausible explanation for it that a seasoned sci-fi aficionado could swallow. If you can get past that, the film as such is decent and entertaining. Certainly enough to impress a twelve-year-old kid into looking for it thirty years later to watch again.
How many low income people can afford to live in SF now? Not many at all. There would be vast amounts of cheaper housing if there weren't artificial constraints imposed.
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

Windows, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD
This is unrelated to JS classes, but is there a good reason for using getters/setters for some properties but not for other? I've always had trouble understanding why some people prefer this style. For instance, given the article's Circle definition (any of them), accessing a circle's radius is different than accessing its area:

let c = new Circle(10);
c.radius // => 10; good
c.area // Nope, that returns a function.
c.area() // => 314.15... OK
c.radius() // Raises a TypeError, 10 is not a function

Presumably, the author declared the area accessor as a function instead of a getter because it does some other computation beyond returning a stored value. But a different implementation of Circle could instead store the area and compute the radius from that[1]. In that case, would we then have to change the way of accessing the circle's properties to `c.area` and `c.radius()`?

I think it'd be much better to define these properties so accessing them has a uniform syntax: either `c.area` and `c.radius`, or `c.area()` and `c.radius()`[2]. Isn't in fact the purpose of adding getters and setters to the language to allow users to define how a property is accessed?

[1]: That might make sense if it turns out that asking for a circle's area is much more common than asking for its radius, and it's done so frequently that it impacts performance; or if we prefer to have circles with nice round numbers for areas in our application and don't care too much about their radii.

[2]: Yeah, i know that there is a named principle for this. In fact i always thought that adding getters and setters was motivated by the Uniform Access Principle.
Maybe in 2004 you could. ;) That's 40-50% below the market prices I've seen in the past few years; if you have that deal now hang onto it with both hands, heh.
Where I live in Puyallup, WA truck-balls/trucknuts are uncomfortably common.
I don't think I realized how important default colors/styles are for visualization software until using seaborn. Quickly producing sensible plots in terms of aesthetics should not require 10+ lines of extra code. Fortunately, it looks like the matplotlib folks are looking to change default colors/styles with 2.0 [1].

[1]http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html
In his reply he mentions '(or other coffee shops) ', I would assume those are the owners he's talking about
The best:

Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router

Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms

Location Diversity in Anonymity Networks

Basically, Roger Dingledine and David L. Chaum
The NIMBYism is what makes San Francisco a nice place to live.

So the next time someone complains about how expensive the city is I should point across the bay at Marin and say "that's your trade off"?
Debugging Mach Ports (2012)
Problem is that these black swans happen only once in blue moon in a given area. For most other times if you look at trends, it's probabilistically correct to say that oil almost never goes down and real estate almost always goes up. I would estimate that there are less than 10 black swans occur during a life time of adult person that violates conventional "wisdom" in oil, stock and real estate. If you run your life believing that they would occur every year, you are likely to be at bigger loss.

BTW, Nasim Taleeb don't suggest that you wait for one big black swan in one field like oil or real estate. His main argument is that you want maximize your exposure to all different kind of black swans in all different kind of places by putting lots of small bets on them. YC is a perfect example of implementation of Taleeb's theory. A bad implementation of Taleeb's theory would be to put a large bet that Apple stock would go down to $10.
There's this joke in trading: "You can't make money hedging." Of course, not losing $1 is the same as making $1. So to answer your question, you don't make money hedging, instead you prevent yourself from losing it. Hedging is to lock in gains you've already made.

When people say "always hedge", what they really mean is be diversified.
That was actually a great talk, I'm happy I'm not the only one in the world that doesn't use new...and the dec64 idea sounds freaking awesome
Nice work. Great to see more bitstrings being used in genomics. Did I give you guys some ideas? ;)
well hedging could lower your expected value but increase your sharpe ratio (i.e lower the variance relative to reward).
Sure, I elided a bit of complexity. I visit many coffee shops, including Starbucks. Some are owner-operated, some are not. Indeed Starbucks doesn't have a franchise model. And yet the managers both there and at owner-operated shops always seem happy to have me around "taking up space", and often offer me a free something-or-other.

That doesn't change the fact, raised in a sibling comment, that given the fixed cost of rent, having someone in the shop during off-peak hours is in a sense "advertising" the desirability of the place. Trickle revenue + "advertising" using up slack capacity seems like a clear win for them, given the pre-existing real estate investment.
Yes it would. My assumption is that they were planning on it only needing to hold out long enough to evacuate everyone. Still, it's indeed the better design to fail safely, and still let some smoke waft out the chimneys, than the actual fail mode, which is to burst into shrapnel.
iOS devices randomise the MAC when scanning to avoid this.
Could easily rebrand and repurpose this at times to work at events or serve a different product category - popcorn for outdoor cinemas, alcohol for private functions like weddings, cordials/lemonades, corn on the cob, etc. Use magnetic or stick-on signage when required. Have portable seating to lay out nearby.

Friend of mine bought an old caravan for under $1k and was selling homemade lemonade at street events for a while. Was making hundreds each night, then renting the caravan out for private functions on weekends.

Someone entrepreneurial could buy a few of these and set some keen uni kids to work running them for profit share.
http://pasteboard.co/2bBK3iI3.png
I'm very excited about this aspect and their focus on being CO2 neutral. I'm not entirely convinced yet and would be interested to know the energy source split (particularly more about how they use the NBG).

Also allowing people to charge their phones is a given really but that's got to be super fast charging otherwise it could get awkward... XD
Subreddit Simulator
I haven't been on LinkedIn in a while, but are there ads on it? From my perspective LinkedIn is probably the most obnoxious social media site (in a doesn't-even-try-to-hide-it way).
Start/Grow your Uber business
That's because the worth of votes are in aggregate, not individually. Individually infinitesimal is not the same thing as individually inconsequential.

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
-Stanislaw Jerzy
I gotta call bullshit. I've lived in Saigon for five years and the only expats that fit that description are the losers that haunt Bui Vien. But there's a Bui Vien in every city in every country in SE Asia.

How exactly do you integrate with Vietnamese culture when you don't speak the language or have any other connection to it? You see this stupid argument on the expat groups on Facebook all the time, people slagging off on expats that live in the more western districts because somehow living in a western style apartment isn't "authentic Vietnamese living". It's a giant pile of bullshit, imho.

If you mean "have local friends" or an integrated social circle, almost everyone living here long term has that. You can't live here for a long time and not have it.

Maybe you got stuck in the teachers on paid vacation circle, but everyone I know here doing stuff outside of that doesn't even remotely fit your description.
Might need to be more specific about where in Asia that Asian-grown rice originates. China has a big problem with heavy metal contamination of rice. One of many stories about it: http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/after-cadmium...
Every iOS user get's Bluetooth turned back on every update...
No one made San Francisco the most expensive place in the country on purpose. That’s the tragedy.

I disagree. I've worked for a couple "limousine liberals" in New York. So has my wife and so have many of my friends. Many of the limousine liberals are assholes (not that he's very liberal, nor is he wealthy, and he's also fictional... but think of Frank Underwood). Sure, they vote Democratic, but they're nasty, elitist people who will hurt your career for any reason or no reason at all, and who put a lot more stock into meaningless social prestige (connections, pedigree) than typical conservatives. Their liberalism is mostly an air they put on in order to make themselves socially acceptable since they can't hide their wealth. (That's not to say that all wealthy liberals are like that. The type certainly exists, though.) Frankly, it's at the point that I don't really care about a person's macropolitics. Some of my favorite people are conservative (I think they're wrong, but that's another issue) and some of the worst people are nominally progressive (and probably sincere in their support for left-of-center politics). As with religious belief, some expect a correlation between position and ethical character, but the actual correlation seems to be near zero.

Frankly, I think that this was intentional. It has nothing to do with being "a conservative" or "a liberal". This NIMBYism is about maintaining high house prices; it is about being a selfish piece of shit. It just gets a leftist veneer because these people are good at coming up with an argument that other people will listen to. End of story.

I think the progressive anti-growth sentiment is earnest; it’s people honestly trying to protect their city from unwanted change.

That's the opposite of "progressive". They're leftist, but that's not the same thing as being progressive. Kim Jong-Un is a leftist. So was Stalin. So are many of the Euro-rednecks

The U.S. is different from Europe in that our mouth-breathers, kooks, racists, regressives, and assholes are more numerous on the right of the economic spectrum... to the point where tropes are made of it. In Europe (and in NYC and San Francisco) the authoritarian nutjobs and the xenophobes and the anti-progress crowd is more evenly split between the left and right.

Some component of the Bay Area housing evil is ill-thought-out liberal politics (see: legacy rent control systems that don't allow rents to rise even with inflation) but much more of this stuff is exclusionary than people will admit to.
I suspect mine would go like this:

1. Mind wandering (~5-10 minutes)

2. Sleep (~whatever time is left)

What keeps you awake all that time?
Here's Richard Feynman on sensory deprivation tanks: http://pastebin.com/42YhjjYg

From his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"[1].

1. http://amzn.com/0393316041
Amazon.com is now bigger than Walmart
Shame that this has been upvoted, because it's not really true.

The Gini coefficient of CA and TX are extremely similar [1]- CA is ranked #44 in the US, and TX is ranked #43.

However, social mobility of the poorest percentiles is significantly higher in Californian cities [2]. In fact, of the major US metropolises, the top four best cities for social mobility of children in the bottom quintile are: San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, and San Diego, in order. [2] Social mobility in Texas is significantly lower, and extraordinarily lower throughout the rest of the southern US. (Texas is a nice exception)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_co...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-incom...
Hi Maria,
How can I find out if this is legal to operate in my city? Do you need some sort of permit to occupy the space when parked?
It would be helpful if you had a list of the laws in different cities. For example, I can't find any information on non-stationary selling for Montreal or Vancouver, Canada. Thank you!
> My friend easily spent $4/ day

... I don't think this is the success story you want to paint it as. Who cares if he's a millionaire if he's only purchasing $4/day? If a retail shop is reliant on a customer worth a mere $4/day, then it has serious problems.

And if his presence discourages other patrons or consumes space that other paying patrons could have occupied, it's a drag on business. Sure, having an empty shop is a problem because it makes you look unpopular, but conversely, having a full shop of people who aren't purchasing anything is equally bad, because it blocks people who do want to purchase.
If we could plot the life of a dollar or credit we could create a science of money. Could something like the blockchain offer the opportunity to build a solid theory of money by mapping transactions? I imagine the blockchain, as it is now, is a bit of a mutant given transactions are limited to select goods and services, however if it was widely adopted as a transactional ledger by banks we could better understand how money flows.
+1, except would awesome to see this on Microsoft Azure. The current SQL database as a service offering on Azure is expensive with mediocre performance. A highly available Postgres as a Service offering backed by a big co like IBM would be most welcome on Azure.
Maybe minimums for monthly ingredient purchase by the franchisee? I believe this is not uncommon.
A Square Jigsaw Puzzle with Android Example
Also, what about the carbon output for the cart, equipment, and consumables?
Here is some very interesting tech from OTOY that is basically doing that, http://uploadvr.com/diy-wormholes-hands-on-with-otoys-light-...

"Recap: the rig takes two Canon DSLRs and spins them around in a circle, capturing a dense light field image. The resulting data, when properly processed, can be rendered with OTOY’s pipeline and delivered to a VR headset with full head tracking. It’s a static scene but OTOY have alluded to future video capture."
I believe you meant: "affordable, desirable, growth", pick two.
I use it to email notes to myself. This recipe is one of the top killer features of my Apple Watch, as it means I always have a GTD input device available within about ten seconds.
Title might act as a filter as well. I cycled among "Senior Software Engineer," "Product Manager," and "Engineering Project Manager", and got most of the spammy shotgun recruiters when I called myself a Senior Software Engineer.

It would be an interesting experiment to create lots of identical profiles with single variables changed to see how they each perform, but that's likely against LinkedIn's terms of service. They should add the ability to A/B test tweaks like this and let you optimize your profile for whatever level of recruiter interest you'd like.
It is pretty high. My three bedroom apartment, including the nanny, is around $800 a month and it's in the second nicest area in Saigon.

2 bedroom apartments in the newer buildings like Sunrise City, Stella, etc. are twice that though. But those apartments are super "high end" for Vietnam.
They do some kinda misleading accounting for AWS. They don't count the capital leases as expenses in "operating income" for AWS, it get's counted at the entire company level. So, because they don't have to expense any depreciation/(expense for capital expenditure in some form) at the AWS level, the "operating profit" at AWS is artificially high and would be negative if it was properly showing the economics of that business.

This isn't to suggest amazon as a whole is doing anything wrong, they are following accounting standards, but that is one place where the standards for capital leases are misleading if you don't read the fine print.