skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Paris is slightly smaller in area than San Francisco

Its either much smaller (if you count the city proper: less than 1/4 the size of the City and County of San Francisco; given your 3:1 population ratio, this seems most likely to be the comparison you were making) or much bigger (if you count the continuous stretch of urbanized land area within any given radius of the city center) or slightly bigger (if you count by a larger region -- the Ile-de-France is slightly larger than the 9-county Bay Area and has similar population density.)

I can't find any kind of like-for-like comparison by which Paris is "slightly smaller" than SF.

> It is nowhere near "full" if the city updates its infrastructure to accomodate the incoming population

Which isn't an argument that SF isn't "full" (at its current limit of support), but that it wouldn't be full in a hypothetical situation which doesn't exist and which doesn't show any prospects of existing, since the money to change would have to come from somewhere, and even those proposing more aggressive development don't usually propose concrete major infrastructure improvements to support the increased population (and even when they wave their hands in the direction of the idea of such improvements, don't propose a concrete funding mechanisms.)
Zinc–bromine battery – Wikipedia
>[Disclaimer: I'm a browser engine developer, not a frontend or full-stack web developer.]

I read that in McCoy's voice:

"Dammit Jim, I'm a browser engine developer, no a front-end or full-stack web dev!"
Not complex at all, just political. Of course, nutrition guidance isn't really a proper function of govt (what does food have to do with force?) In any case, the problem the govt has now is that crow doesn't taste very good, i.e. the whole "low fat" mantra from the 70's was mistake and bad advice.
Named after the horse in Animal Farm?
MedicalBnB – Shop healthcare providers around the world
Venture for America: Build Companies, Revitalize Cities Through Entrepreneurship
Michael Lewis Says Silicon Valley Is a Bunch of Autistic People Wandering Around
A lot of the web development community, especially the section that I get the impression smashingmagazine caters to, doesn't know much about Unix or C programming. If they've heard of make, they probably know it as "that ancient cryptic tool for compiling C++ programs" or "that command that I typed to install that one program on Mac".

I hope this doesn't come across as condescending, if they can get by fine without using make then there's no reason they ought to be expected to be familiar with it.
I think there is a bit of exaggeration on the non-availability of grant money for research in applied science/technology. @sama acknowledges the adequacy of funds for applied research explicitly, "[1] Funding for technological development is actually relatively high, but funding for fundamental research keeps getting cut. Investors want to fund incremental progress—and the world has gotten very good at delivering that. This is more valuable than it sounds; incremental progress compounds quickly." This is true of industrial research and to an extent, academia.

It conforms with my experience.

That said, the skills required to write great grants and schmooze with grant-givers are quite different from that needed to do quality research in science or engineering. So the academic researcher community in science and technology is whittled down to the small set of {those good at research}∩ {those good at writing grants} + ⊂{those good at writing grants} + geniuses
It was a point of comparison. The NIH pool is large but spread very thin and, we can both agree, less efficiently than YCR is likely to be. Twice? Infinite? No of course note, but it's a point of interest in the "$10 million isn't so much" discussion.

And no, researcher's salaries (postdocs, tech, grad students, etc.) are not included. The indirect costs go to the university to pay for department/college-level utilities, facilities, infrastructure, and administrator salaries (which, admittedly, the lab does benefit from).
By preventing some areas from getting very dense, you are forcing the rest of the city to get dense to compensate. Cities don't have to be uniformly dense, and probably shouldn't.

Cities like New York and Chicago have very dense portions but also have fairly less dense areas. And those dense areas are more affordable than if no high rises were ever built.

Every high rise buildling in Chicago or New York means dozens of single family homes don't have to be explanded and split into 500 sqft condos. They lower cost of living. And they reduce urban sprawl.

By isolating people and businesses that want super dense areas, you actually give the rest of the city more breathing room.
I can't help but feel that maybe Semver made a mistake by including 0.x at all.

It's rare that you don't see a bit of software churn through a few breaking versions rapidly while in the early stages of development, many of which happen well after attracting significant public interest and dependence. Semver provides for this already with the major version and for pre-releases with the `-alpha`, `-beta`, `-rc` suffixes, so 0.x in this case seems to provide developers with an out-clause to consider major revisions non-major and put off committing to 1.0 for far too long.

This also seems to be at least partially fuelled by a historical aversion to hitting double-digit major versions, although we owe Chrome a debt of gratitude for demonstrating to us that there's little to fear by doing so. Hopefully this approach continues to catch on.

Would React's users (and the users of many other extremely popular libraries/tools doing the same 0.x dance) have been better served by declaring a 1.0 version much, much earlier in the development process? I think so.
> Every conversation I've had on 4chan I have no clue what gender the other person is, what race they are, where they live, how much money they make, what organizations they support, or what their name is real or not.

Yes, but these are assumed to be male, white, American (or European), not poverty and right-wing ones, respectively. If you intentionally or unintentionally reveal that you are not one of these, you're in trouble.
A little poke from a baton will do more to harden a protester's stance than scare them off. And it will create massive backlash by spectators.

The fact that you're pulling out a 4 year old article about it shows how counter-productive those tactics are.

Even though I don't have any opinion on that particular protest (I don't know what it was about), I think that whoever let that happen should be sacked, because it would have only escalated the protests.
> Rely on peers' opinions to measure merit and you just reward back-scratching. Rely on objective measures like citation counts and h-index and you incentivise people to focus on these instead of research quality.

In the meantime, Google seems to have developed a pretty good ranking system that is difficult to game.
ha, i took it down with: setInterval(function() {io.connect().emit('join') }, 10)

but it looks like they hot patched the messages out within a few mins : ) well played
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Ask HN: How to find a job in the bay area quickly?
So i'm in a little bit of trouble. I was fired from my previous job as a software engineer, and I have an H1B visa - that leaves me about 30 days to start working at a new job before my status in the US is endangered.

HNers, do you have any tips on how to find a job as fast as possible in the bay area? Is it useful to work with recruiters and tell them the situation here?
It looks like they're using some pretty extensive proxies (read: every service) currently.
this post about the "engineering effectiveness" team at twitter is relevant: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/
It's an honest interpretation on a lot of boards. Of course this is a trend, not the rule. I can't speak for everyone. This wouldn't be true on places like /pol/ or /b/
Ask HN: Has anyone analyzed the ratio of upvotes to comments on HN stories?
I just noticed a story on the homepage with something like 90 votes and 300 comments. That's a bit unusual, as normally for popular stories upvotes slightly outnumber comments. I could see two possible situations where a story gets more comments than upvotes, both of which suggest a controversial topic. First is if the topic encourages long comment chains; even if everyone who comments also votes, multiple comments by the same user could result in this pattern. Second is if the story engenders negative reactions, causing people to comment but not upvote.

I'm curious though whether others have noticed these patterns, or have any other related thoughts.
Solving things analytically is overrated and only possible in rare circumstances. Everything I need to solve orbital mechanics is F = Gm1m2/r^2
Er, yeah. That. Fixed.
While some may not share this feeling, to me there's a constant sensation of pressure from not having enough space; from being too closed in with too many people. You go somewhere where there's a single building you own, in the middle of a nice bit of land, and you can go to town and not have to ram your way through the people, or go for a drive and not be sitting in traffic. That's relaxing to me. That's a pressure coming off... it feels almost like physically coming up from being at the bottom of a swimming pool.

I've even noticed I think worse in that sort of environment. Like I'll look at things I wrote in a high-density area and they look like insane ramblings.

That doesn't seem to be a 'well, you just need to find a nice high-density area' problem. I've lived in some very well-appointed flats in very nice areas before, and didn't care for the experience in the slightest. I don't care whether the flat's fantastically appointed with real oak furniture and good lighting[1].

And what are we offered in return for that unpleasant sensation? I don't care how many coffee shops or restaurants or whatever there are. I don't go to town unless there's something I can't buy on the internet or I need to go to work. There's little I'd value there. Rampant consumerism is not a society, nor is it a community. The ability to shop in a hundred stores is not the same as a high quality of life.

Ultimately, that is why I don't live in a high-density area despite being offered several multiples of my current wage to do so. I make enough to be comfortable here, it would be almost impossible for me to make enough to be comfortable there.

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1. Which, by the way, is very difficult in a high-density area. Good lighting means light from multiple directions in at least some of the rooms. Quite how you're supposed to do that when there's another building in the way I'm not clear on - the general answer seems to be that one doesn't.

If you've lived in a property with good lighting angles some practices, such as an open-plan setup seem rather like bad hacks.
I think I agree with you on all fronts, simply because the online cmake documentation is not as good as it should be.

For BLAS, it has a

find_package ( BLAS )

script, which you can use. The same for CUDA. They define cmake variables you can use later for the include and link search paths.

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/FindBLAS.html

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/FindCUDA.html

I haven't used C11 or Fortran95, only C++11, and I had to add a cmake script for it, you can find it as CheckCXXCompilerFlag somewhere in the web.

I have to use Visual Studio instead of mingw because I'm using some winSDK libs, and VS has no (gnu)make, and what VS offers for the command line is not cross-platform, making it a poor investment of my time to learn about it.

After climbing just a section of the the steep cmake learning curve, I have deleted the solution and project files from my repository, and now I use cmake to compile and run the project in the command line with both VS2008 in Win7 (the PC) and VS2012 in Win8.1 (the laptop), without any path dependency. Previously the solution files depended on both my username and the path, and just moving the folder was cumbersome and required a lot of fiddling with those files.

Another thing I really like is the concept of an out of source build, and that's very easy to set up and use with cmake.

I now can write

git clone somewhere:my_project.git
cd my_project
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=../install ..
cmake --build . --target install && cmake --build . --target run

in both Ubuntu and Windows and see my program running, which means I will not go back to make, or nmake or gmake anytime soon.
aaaaand the NSA has tapped them in direct violation of all things democratic and good.
Phone app, not PC website.

I'm not sure why GP is getting downvoted for pointing this out.
Sorry, my bad. fixed now.
Have you been to Reddit in recent years? A majority of the site may not exhibit this individually, but most highly-visible threads that touch race will be dominated by racists, and most highly-visible threads that touch gender will be dominated by sexists. It's very gross.
Tangenital, but I think backbone still has a place post react.

React fills the void between web components and app flow, but it's not the whole story - it still confabulates data structure and function - whereas backbone handles views at a more abstract level.

An html input that does something cool is basically what web components are intended for. A module composed of several of these micro components is where react is beautifully elegant, whilst something like backbone deals entirely in spreading of concerns presented via object literals with benefits.

Backbone may not necessarily be the solution to the problem but it operates in a similar space to flux, such as it is, rather than react.
> When the population density increases over a certain limit, it becomes more economical (also faster and more efficient) to move people around by a combination of walking, subway, and buses.

Only if the infrastructure for those things (particularly subway) exists. Which has to be built -- in advance of the increase in population, if quality of life isn't going to drop before it gets better.

So when we start seeing concrete proposals for infrastructure improvements first, it makes sense to start talking about density increases.

> Of course, in the ultra-nimby San Francisco, building a subway would also get more resistance than in most other cities of the world.

If true, this suggests that people who want to build a new high-density utopia should find some other city to descend upon.
Yes. Start by reaching out to recruiters. Let them know your situation. They will be happy to work with you as the chance of you taking some job is very high.

Also, I would do what's below. I would reach out specially to the company and see if they can send out ~500 resumes / week instead of 100 for 5x the $. Or just outsource this to ODesk instead.

https://medium.com/@calcsam/outsource-your-job-search-3e9909...
For a more relatable figure, 3 cents per kWh amounts to a roughly $27 monthly increase for the average US home.

source: Simple unit conversions plus the average US monthly energy use figure (909kWh) from http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3
> People keep focusing on Pao's gender, but IMHO the main reason Pao was not liked in reddit is not her gender or race, but rather that she was too old for the role. Plus her business background was not really exciting.

Grasping at straws. She was met with a massive, organised campaign of hatred. This isn't explained by being "old" or having a "poor business background".

But being a 1) female, 2) asian person who had 3) recently lost a highly-publicised gender discrimination lawsuit and 4) enacted an anti-harassment policy would explain the hatred. There is a large number of people who are misogynist, racist and/or openly hostile to what they view as "political correctness". And a much larger number of people who will listen to and possibly be pursuaded their lies.
It makes sense in the first world too to have a stable source of power at all times.

By that I mean medical reasons I know someone who has a home dyalysis machine and absolute uninterruptable power is required.
Cool, it works now!
Supdate: monthly updates made easy
When I was in grad school I think most people were aware of how tough it is to get a tenure track faculty position. Many students had no aspiration of going into academia and planned to go directly to industry. This was in mechanical engineering, an inherently practical subject, so maybe the field makes a difference.

Kudos on trying to make it as an independent researcher though. That's a really cool idea. How has it been applying for grants without a university affiliation? What's the breakdown of your time spent on funded research, unfunded research, and consulting?
North Korea has also been connected to the Internet for a good long time -- doesn't mean that 99.9% of its population has any access.

I do agree that this article is a bit hypey, a few dozen Wifi hotspots that charge $2/hr isn't exactly a telecoms resolutions. Unlike NK, Cuba has had public Internet for a long time, it has just been expensive and inconvenient, and continues to be so.
Valid concerns, in a way your right but you can't fight supply and demand there will always be people looking for cheap things and people looking for the best quality things and willing to pay for it. I find that the people who complain that design contests ruined design or that cms's ruined building websites simply need to step their game up and attract higher quality customers who understand their value. it's up to you to prove your value and complaining about the market isn't very useful.
How the hoodie became more than a garment
For navigation within the app, consider using links with URL fragments and listening for the hashChange event. This will allow back and forward navigation, as well as the ability to bookmark or link to a tag.
> KWC was an utterly dreadful place to live, but I suspect that has more to do with its lawlessness than its density.

But I don't think those two things were unrelated.
http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Found in the article.
Nicklaus Wirth didn't name Modula-2 Pascal 2

And that was a big marketing mistake. Do you think C++ would have been anywhere near as successful if it had been called Z?
>Yes, but these are assumed to be male, white, American (or European), not poverty and right-wing ones, respectively.

You're defeating your own argument. Assumption doesn't mean it's the rule or it's true. There's no census on 4chan and there's no reason to assume that the assumption is correct.

I could argue against your views by citing the 4chan conventions which had quite a number of women and minorities. Obviously the largest group was 18-25 white males but this was by no means a significant majority.

I can also cite my own experiences in 4chan IRC channels where a lot of our members were located outside of Europe and America.

Or how about doing a census on /cgl/? It's well known among experienced users that the vast majority of users there are women.

You're not stating a fact.
I think this is what https://github.com/wilsonpage/fastdom was designed to help with... The issue I have with it is it's another library to load...
edit:

Reddit really could create a code of conduct for mods - only ban people / delete posts enforce reddiquette (it's a pretty good guide). Some kind of appeals process could ensure a bit of consistency.

The problem with reddit is the vast number of warring subs who hate each other. To some extent, this is inevitable (some groups just don't like other groups), but the double standards (often on both sides of any debate) just encourages the level of vitriol.
If you get really desperate you could try walking into the offices of some small companies and telling them about your situation and then offering to work for below market rates in exchange for a quick hiring. This would probably only work if your resume is good enough to interest them.
http://ridetheclown.com/wp/saver2/
Welcome to my life.

Yes several mouth guards/plates over the years at $500 each.

I tried but I have acid reflux too and the combination of the guard and throat spasm makes me feel like I am suffocating.

I need to destress or changed jobs. Or get a girlfriend.
Good history, glad Bowdlerization was brought up. Of particular note, from the final paragraph:

>What is genuinely radical in the commission is not the process but the people involved... more than half of the selected playwrights will be women, and more than half will be writers of color. Shakespeare’s scripts have always resulted from collaborations among playwrights, actors, and editors... those collaborators were white men.

I'm a very big Shakespeare fan, and think his words are among if not the greatest words written in English, but this whole debate is absurd. It's art. Let artists create art. People who will enjoy it will enjoy it, those who won't won't. I don't expect every Jane Austen fan to enjoy "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" or Doris Kearns Goodwin to appreciate "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" (actually, I bet she loves it), but so what? The source material is public domain, so let's enjoy the beauty of the commons.
The baby lobster looks remarkably like a cockroach. Maybe we should start bioengineering 20-pound roaches and serving them from food trucks instead...

https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/lobster.jpg?quali...
> You're defeating your own argument. Assumption doesn't mean it's the rule or it's true. There's no census on 4chan and there's no reason to assume that the assumption is correct.

Whether the assumption is correct or not is immaterial to the point I am making.

> I could argue against your views by citing the 4chan conventions which had quite a number of women and minorities.

That doesn't go against what I'm saying. Re-read my comment.
For adding bookmarks? No, not yet, but I figured if it get's popular I'd add a URL parameter, e.g. "?add=URL", document that, provide a bookmarklet and maybe let others write browser-specific extensions.
Memory and C++ Debugging at Electronic Arts [video]
Exciting times ahead!
Porn.com Drops Flash as Web’s Least-Loved Tech Nears Death
I remember reading about the Perl 6 reinvention of regular expressions in 2009 and being really excited about it, as the syntax changes seemed really grounded in the actual experience of using regular expressions (such as my own).
Have you been in Hong Kong? The summer is horrific, but it's quite pleasant otherwise. I'd guess New York's climate is much worse.
I don't see the relevance of that point. The existence of violence without a particular weapon does not refute the argument that a new weapon may lead to even more death and suffering. By your logic since violence already exists apparently we shouldn't worry about new weapons making it even worse.

Back to the original point of the article it is important that international standards limiting such devastating weapons be enacted and enforced. Even Assad after being caught using chemical weapons was forced to step back and many robotic weapons, especially autonomous ones, should probably be in the same category for the same reason. These things are going to be developed so we need to act now to limit their use not wait until a calamity has struck.
I was showing Ruby code to show how its regex handling is much like Perl 5 - Perl 5 would use a sigil on 'something'. Ruby is less like Perl 6 regex-wise due to the smart match (among many other things).
Silicon Valley Internships
What companies in silicon valley are looking for interns next summer?
I never had Motwani as a professor but I've only heard good things about him. RIP.