skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is a rental agent at a very large Manhattan brokerage. It's quite a bit more complex here in New York than you imply.

Yes, there are databases, and yes she looks through them. But good units get snatched up so fast that by the time someone has taken photos and written it up in the database and syndicated it out to all the firms, it's already gone.

The people who benefit most are those working with very difficult constraints. Imagine you are searching for a Studio apartment and can only afford $1,500 a month but the average rent in the area you are seeking is $2,200. Somewhere, there might be a $1,500 listing but it's going to go fast. If you have a broker you might have a shred of chance of 1.) even knowing about it 2.) getting access to the apartment the minute it's vacant 3.) getting a cash deposit submitted and 4.) passing all the landlord's test -- multitudinous because for every one person who barely has the credit to afford $1,500, there's 5 who can afford twice that standing in line behind them.

Landlords are also king here because of how skewed the market is and therefore will do little to no work as part of the process. Getting photos, getting keys and access, it's an absurd runaround, hugely time consuming and barely worth the 15% (of annual rent), only half of which the agent receives.
I submitted this a few weeks ago and it got removed from the front page, but I think it's relevant for anyone interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9900168
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And neither is Snowden.

After you grab a million files constituting nearly half a terabyte of top secret data and abscond with it to China (and then Russia), despite what your very best intentions may be, I don't think the title "whisteblower" is still applicable.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/24/opinion/food-c...
"Current administration" may have been the wrong phrase. I meant, whatever administration would be currently in office. It's easier for candidates to say something to the contrary, this was the only response I would have expected from any current administration.
Do you really have to ask after the last year or more of news?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/08/snowden-council-of-europe-t...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/22/gchq-surveill...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/20/gchq-targeted...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/22/nsa_gchq_...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/world/nsa-dragnet-included...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...

I mean, these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. I've got a pretty good record of everything leaked over the last year or so on my home computer.
OK, now we're getting somewhere. What is difficult about getting things right across production and CI? What are the pain points? What are the exact problems we're being asked to solve here? I don't think dev environments need to be harmonized the same as production. If your tests are good, you should catch most of the "it worked on my laptop" problems.

Sorry if my initial question came across with a weird vibe. I'm generally curious. I have colleagues working at places and they actually are being asked to drop everything and implement Docker. I asked why and what's driving this and got the predictable response of "management/dev/someone wants something new".
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The response is the same as we've heard before: If you're going to engage in an act of civil disobedience, you're throwing yourself at the mercy of the justice system.

When in recent years so many programmers have had examples made of them, I can't say I have much confidence in the fair treatment of a previously relatively inconsequential man who made a monumental decision on one of the defining ethical dilemmas of our time.

There's a gauntlet of institutional embarrassment that he'd have to run through. I can't blame the guy for staying in Russia.
I feel you. For those who don't, here are a few relevant readings:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/10/how...

That said, it's not Goldman's fault as much as it is the US gov's fault... It's failure to regulate that financial industry is humongous.
How so? From what you've said, not only does that seem to be what you think, but you seem to have no trouble with the idea. Am I wrong?
Considering they were responding directly to people that signed the petition to have Snowden pardoned, I don't know how their intended reaction could be anything other than frustration and rage.

It's like David and Goliath. Except where Goliath is the largest, most powerful military in the world with nukes and fighter jets. David is just a pale nerdy guy with a keyboard.
Are you suggesting that a person with a total of 3 nodes use a system like Kubernetes which requires at a minimum (correct me if I'm wrong) 5 nodes just to function? If you really, really want to use Docker with a typical Nginx-App-DB setup just whip up the necessary shell commands to start/stop/log containers and throw that in Ansible or the like.

edit: I guess you can cram all of the various Kubernetes master/etcd servers on a single node but whoops there goes reliability.
It certainly allows (some) organisations to 'believe' this.

Unfortunately.
I would have thought that that would be over by now. Surely all of America is online by now already?
Totally agree. Just look at the mess with mobile OS. It is nearly impossible to develop a native app yourself without excluding half of the world population. In my opinion, native mobile apps have been always an intermediary and I wouldn't mind seeing all of them going away if some better web app alternative comes along.
I think I didn't explain myself clearly... What I meant is that once one side has it, it will go outside of common warfare pretty quickly.

You are thinking in Gov. A vs. Gov. B both using machines. My concern is that after that, Gov. B will use machines against humans C inside the same country, or in the neightborhood. And in those cases, "technical errors" can be used as excuse after a tragedy. And that's only one of my concerns... add organized crime and terrorism to the mix and you will have a very explosive soup.
And how. I had no idea.

After reading about counterfeit Italian olive oil, I tried California Olive Ranch. Good stuff! Then I pre-ordered some of their harvest reserve. Wow! Also makes for easy Christmas gifts.

Now I randomly pick a grower from this list. Mostly good so far.

CA Olive Oil Council
https://www.cooc.com/2015-competition-winners/
This book is available for reading online at http://buildyourownlisp.com/

I'm not sure how long it will be available now that it's being published by Leanpub.
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This is somewhat tangental, but it's tangental on a couple of points so I'll bring it up anyway.

Would someone please fix "podcasting," and maybe even RSS?

The first tangent is 2012 (or maybe 2007, I dunno time is a blur). RSS and XML were one of the Web 2.0 buzz. Blogs were exploding and there was a lot of novel writing of a type we didn't have much of before. RSS, XML, semantic web and their friends were being brought up all the time (here too) in confusing contents. I didn't really get it but I assumed other people did.

I think there was something wrong with the conceptual design of it.

Podcasting though, that was a nice little bastard of RSS and ipod. She had weird hair in weirder places, but.. I'm going to abandon this metaphor ..podcast content has been getting better and better.

It's terrible to use though. It's hard to find or share content. It's hard to subscribe, even if you know the name of the show. All the podcatchers suck.

It has a lot os stuff going for it though. It's genuinely "web." Compared to youtube or any other centralized internet media. Anyone can host their own audio files and broadcast the feed. Apple, Sound cloud or whoever makes an app using podcast content can access all the content. They can filter, sensor and display it how they see fit. This could be great for competition, freedom of speech.

Why do all the apps suck? Why is it so hard to find content. If you're below median technically, just getting from the show's site to a feed in your app is a serious challenge. I suspect the protocol is partially to blame, but I don't know.

Anyway, HN… fix it?
Isolation - so you can run / snapshot / restore multiple applications not influencing each other on one machine.
Abstractions so that you code doesn't have to worry about different os-es, cloud providers, etc.
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The one thing I remember about Goldman Sachs is that they have their own collections library for Java.
>not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime

Is the White House this much hostile towards Russia?

Besides from Iran or North Korea, I'd never expect diplomats to be as straightforward as in this statement.
Sinaloa on the frontpage of HN...
I'd say there is no way it peaked in 83 considering how vast it has become since then. 2004 is probably the high point for my personal favorite genre, power metal, for example (big releases from Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Kamelot, Angra, and Edguy that year).
Administrations often change their tunes to maintain a populist backing. They could have just said plainly, "Look, he did the crime and we are required by the rule of law to bring him to trial." and left it at that. But they didn't. They subtilely drilled home the "he's a traitor and a coward" ideas, and I am honestly not sure why. They have nothing substantial to gain by it, other than maybe to discourage future acts of subversion. Apparently, whatever the aim, they're willing to use the language of tyrants to achieve it.
It's basically saying martyrdom is the one true path to change.

According to this statement, if we want justice, "blood" must be spilled.
Thanks, I was able to read on my laptop. Great article! I really like the idea of cutting out all the cruft and shrinking the image down as much as possible.
A brief aside from the discussion on NYC the rental market: I'm kind of surprised that it's only available as an app, and only on iOS.
> Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it.

As you say, where is the prove and also: He did not disclose the documents, respected journalistic institutions did. He did not just leak anything and everything. He did the right thing. This response is an insult to everybody who signed the petition.
The point I was attempting to make was VISA does provide value. This value is estimated as the price clients pay plus the estimated benefit clients receive. This previous post also mentioned that you would be able to provide the same value VISA does given the same market opportunity (albeit at a lower price). Therefore I believe we are in agreement.

I was not diving into VISA's market power, their ability to price their services, nor other politics.
The petition process has one purpose, to provide an outlet for short attention span outrage, in a forum that poses 0 threat to the White House.
Point taken, but keep in mind this probably isn't the artist's only song, the sound guy's only mix, or the recording equipment's only use. What is the marginal cost of using that mixing board to do one song? How many people are buying the song? As a digital good the per-unit cost of selling the song to another person is next to nil. It's not obvious to me what a fair price is for a given piece of music, but it is obvious that if say everybody in the world bought a copy at $0.01, nobody involved in the production would be going hungry.
Don't use this for anything practical.

There's a finite amount of band images.

It wouldn't take long for a Turing Farm to crack them all.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/captcha-effectiveness/
And number 1 is HTML...
@mateuszf can you give actual examples of each? I can upgrade nginx on my servers without affecting memcache or MySQL or redis or....Why the need for isolation there?
"However, for many production users today, the pros do not outweigh the cons. Docker has done fantastically well at making containers appeal to developers for development, testing and CI environments—however, it has yet to disrupt production."

I keep hearing about people putting Docker in dev and test environments and not production. This use case makes no sense to me as you would throw away the entire point of containers and have a wildly inconsistent path to production.
Oh you mean an intelligence agency whose mission is foreign intelligence is gathering intelligence on foreign entities?
I was in the same boat recently and this is what helped for me. I quit my job, and took a few years off. I have to admit, I was really burned out. Took as much time as I needed to rest, take walks, talk to people, and in general just change the perspective.
Just like you, I had this huge dilemma. While programming was my biggest passion, I was sick of all the bitching and BS that revolved around it.
After taking the rest I needed, I started learning new technologies. Without preconceptions. Just like I used to do when I first started coding. So far it keeps the flame burning. I am working again, and I am happy doing it.
I am aware that one day I will get bored of it again, and I will repeat the process.
I think the more you dwell in a technology, the more knowledge you get, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go. And the darker things get.

Take a break. Learn something new, and apply the cross technology knowledge you acquire to new fresh projects. Always keep an open mind, and by all means avoid pointless topics that try to establish the best language, the best IDE and so on.
“Everybody will have a favourite upcoming feature that would be hit by the moratorium — mine is offline capabilities.”

Mine would be next-generation image handling — <picture> tags* and some sort of alpha-blendable lossy format.

I work for a lot of artists and designers, these guys want fast, retina full-screen responsive images, and I’m not sure that it’s an unreasonable expectation, but I’ve got enough technological hoops to jump through to recall the days of “Netscape Now!” and “IE 5” badges.

* don‘t talk to me about the unholy abortion that is srcset
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In NYC there are brokers, property managers, supers and landlords.

Landlords own the building. They may do everything themselves but often they hire the other three to help them out.

Supers (short for superintendents) often live in the building and are responsible for repairs and general upkeep of the property.

Property managers deal with the tenants: marketing, hiring brokers, approving/rejecting tenants, getting the paperwork signed, accepting rent.

Brokers are like job recruiters: they have access to more listings than you do as an individual and sometimes have exclusive agreements with individual properties. Their involvement ends once the rental agreement is signed.

In NYC most apartments are only available by going through a broker and the broker usually charges 1.5 months rent* (15% of the annual rent, though often this can be negotiated to 12%). This fee is owed even if you found the apartment listing yourself and all the broker did was spend 10 minutes showing you the place before you rented it!

*Edit: to clarify, the tenant is the one who pays this fee
Well, to be honest I kind of am a jack of all trades ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But as I'm increasing my job search efforts, I'll end up making a few resumes tailored to different roles. So thank you for the advice, I certainly take it to heart and will act on it .
> What a narrow minded view. There are data structures that can store geometry and lighting information in world space - for example you can have world represented by some sparse voxel data structure and calculate lighting in worlds space - then camera rendering is just raycasting in to the datastructure which is the same for all views. Animation and particles are about updating the world geometry.

That only works for diffuse lighting. There is more than diffuse lighting. I'm not "narrow minded", I actually work on renderers for a living so I know the actual data structures in use. Things like specular reflections and refractions are entirely dependent on where the viewer is; and calculating lighting information for an entire scene is way less efficient than calculating it for a viewer (see: how deferred renderers work).

> Unfortunately not a lot of research has been done because rendering 3D polygons fit the constraints we had historically and is really robust, everything is optimized towards it.

Huh? There's been decades of research into ray tracing and voxels. Believe me, people have put a lot of thought into how to optimize these things.
Really? That's surprising. Maybe they think the case where it fails is not susceptible to occur during a normal execution of the program. This reasoning could work if you don't define "a normal execution" :-)
It seems the title is just: "Musical Applications of Microprocessors"

http://www.amazon.com/Musical-Applications-Microprocessors-H...
By what definition of 'whistleblower'?
Someone should write an article - Who's paying for my internet. :)
So is track and field, but records are still broken every year.
Thank you for the explanation! At this point, I've given up on streaming services to watch movies. It's actually so much easier for me to just walk a couple blocks down to the video store and rent the Bluray...
I do this. I don't even really think about anything new until others have put it through a shakedown for at least a year.

Choose your tools and frameworks judiciously, learn them well, and you will be much better off (and less stressed) than the folks who are continually chasing the latest thing.
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Getting a bit of a C64 vibe from this...
Everyone has tried an iteration of this idea in NYC -- I even tried one back in 2008 that was very similar. It's an extremely difficult market to crack since landlords have very little incentive with vacancy rates so low and a working relationship with brokers that at times goes back decades.

When Urban Compass launched in 2013 I thought they'd have the best chances not because the idea was any different, but because they were able to raise an $8 million seed and the founder had already sold businesses to Google and Twitter (they've raised $73 million so far). I just took a look at them now and it seems they're focusing more heavily on home sales as I'd guess the data platform can make more money in that market. They still do rentals, but definitely not exclusively.
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The web is an ecosystem, browsers are species. They create new mutations in a new attempt to thrive. The definition for what it means to thrive is always the same. To replicate oneself the most. That means the largest user adoption. If performance is what users judge by, then browsers will adopt to it. If transitions are what users what, than browsers will adopt.

IE had trouble adopting, it had the wrong balance of features. That's why it started to go extinct.

You can't DESIGN an ecosystem. You can't tell an ecosystem to stop churning. It just keeps going.

Timing also matters. If a fish evolves a hand, does that make a better fish? Maybe not, but if the fish starts breathing, and living out of water... maybe those hands would be pretty useful.
It's slightly different.

The addition of sets and symbols, for example, did little to change what an existing codebase looked like. Similarly, adding explicit trees, binums, and so on won't really change much.

The improvements going on right now, though, seem mainly concerned with syntactical sugar and extra syntax. The problem (and I'm in a minority here, I think) is that this creep and bloat takes a quirky language that fits into one's head and instead starts making it a rat's nest of special-cases and odd interactions. This is the sort of thing that caused C++ so much trouble.

Once they add annotations and shared state and threading (and that's coming), the party will be over and the earth salted.
Wow. A few dozen more unsurprising responses to high-profile petitions like this, and people might start suspecting that the White House petition site is really just a PR stunt by the current administration and not some kind of revolutionary, hopey-changey Government 2.0 effort.
In other words: nahhhh
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> He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers

Why would Snowden come back when he can't make a public interest defence [1]? The trial would be a formality and he'd be locked up for 40 years without being able to contribute to any debate.

[1] The espionage act does not allow you to make a public interest defence and makes no distinction between whistle-blowers and spies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
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Me too. That's how I learned about California Olive Ranch and then COOC.

I posted this link upthread:

CA Olive Oil Council
https://www.cooc.com/2015-competition-winners/

I'd happily try other growers, like Texas, but haven't researched it.
Well, your aim is to eradicate the middle man. What I'm missing is a reason to believe that artists generally share your aim.
Yeah but the government would never allow someone who would nullify the law to serve on his jury. Just like they removed all jurors who wouldn't consider the death penalty from the Boston bomber trial.
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It should be Google Cloud Datastore, not BigQuery.
This is a real problem. I was dismissed from a DUI case last year because I felt that it was a problem that the officer had forcibly administered a blood test while at the scene (this was after the Supreme Court case). The judge and prosecutor were very vocal about the fact that they were only interested in jurors who would be content to entertain whether the accused was intoxicated, without going any further into the matter.
What evidence is there for your jury claims?
No, its a VLIW thing.
The Snowden/spying fiasco is the biggest, ugliest black mark on Obama's legacy as President. He knew and he kept quiet and, as a former Professor of Constitutional law at Harvard he has absolutely no excuse.

Not withstanding this late, clueless response to the petition, Obama's only real way of not going down in history as the "Peeping Tom President" is to pardon Snowden before he leaves office.
With 1-bedrooms averaging above 3k/mo, you're looking at a broker's fee of $4500. Even if you get a cheap studio at 2k/mo, the fee is 3k.
Windows XP is completely safe if:

1) is not connected to the internet

2) you can't add external storage

I see people getting upset all the time about cashier tills running windows xp - but that doesn't make any sense. If the software works fine in that situation then it could be just as well running windows 3.11 and I don't see a problem.
Interesting. Isn't the XBox controller "asymmetrical", in that the left joystick is above the D-pad, further up and to the side than the right joystick is? (much like a Nintendo Gamecube controller)

transmitter vs controller images:

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/280927693588-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/PlayStat...

http://gaming.logitech.com/assets/47832/f310-gaming-gamepad-...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Xbox-360...

http://www.gamechoiceclub.com/image/gc_controller_black.gif
This works for the latest JavaScript framework, but is a lot more problematic when it comes to jamming fads into the browser: we have to support them, and work around them for a long long time.
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