skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A given piece of real estate is a monopoly in the same way that a given individual car is.

There are a large number of pieces of real estate with proximity to any major city. They may all be controlled by some monopoly, depending on local laws etc, but typically they don't.

It's true that it's easier to make new cars than new land, but that does not in itself make the buying and selling of these things all that different. Note that the making of Toyotas actually is a monopoly.
US Government Successfully Issues Contract for Open Source Code for $1
Well, I’ve read the protocols of the committees that discuss them. They’re pretty interesting.
New Platform 3D-Prints Glass with Stunning Precision
He's saying that in ED a HOTAS makes the whole game sing (and with a vr headset and a hotas it's pure silky heaven). And that SC has dropped the ball on HOTAS support.
I would love to see a much more granular look at the data.

Particularly another source that maps affordability against social mobility to see if there are smaller communities that sit in the sweet spot but were maybe too influenced by proximity to another market. But maybe just the original data sets. Curious if anyone has some tips on where to find that?
I'm having trouble keeping up. I thought the current narrative was "they don't have jobs" and that's why they hate us. Silly me.
Is this the one where both millionaires pledge to donate 100% of their wealth to ending world hunger - and in the end seeing who's donated more?
The entire study is a pun. The joke is that since in most mathematical notations AB is a shorthand for A * B, then all words are actually products of their component letters; based on this assumption it can be proven algebraically that the value of every letter is 1. I don't think there's supposed to be any serious meaning to it at all.

Also, aside from listing the names of the alleged authors, the article doesn't actually cite the study it's based on. This is another indication that it's just trolling.
PyPy.js – PyPy in Your Browser
Reading tptacek’s and patio11’s advice on salary negotiation has improved my personal finances quite a bit.
> The pre-existing harmonic distortion will only serve to mask any distortion and fidelity loss from truncating to 8-bits.

This is blatantly incorrect. The 8-bit conversion is not truncation, it is dithering. Dithering to 8-bit does not introduce any distortion at all, whatsoever, of any kind. If you don't understand the mechanisms and the science of how bit depths work, then you're going to come to false conclusions, like the conclusion that there's any point to the Pono player at all. We're not talking about just "subtle differences" here. In order for it to be even theoretically possible to hear the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio, you have to bring your audio system into a quiet room and then crank the volume levels well above into the threshold at which you can damage your ears, and even then, you still won't be able to tell the difference with the most dynamic music.

So, suppose you have a quiet room in your house, with an ambient noise level of about 30 dB. If you raise the 16-bit audio level so the noise floor is above 20 dB, then the peaks are going to be well into the 120 dB range. That's like having a symphony orchestra in the room with you, at the very peak of their performance, with all the instruments playing at once. If you've ever listened to a symphony orchestra, you know that the background noise is NOT 30 dB, but somewhat higher. So even at the peak of a symphony, your CD recording should still be able to reproduce the various unwelcome bits of noise that the musicians produce (stomachs gurgling, breathing, shuffling in their chairs, etc.)
Very interesting research but they do their SW in Labview?
I would have thought that the City of London Corporation would be opposed to Wi-Fi tracking. Given their negative reaction when they discovered that the street bins were tracking people [0]. The technology in question was Presence Orb [1].

It's a good idea to turn Wi-Fi off when you leave home/work. This also avoids the issue of captive portals with gated internet access capturing your phone and disabling your data connection. I'm looking at you TfL.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/city-london-cor...

[1] http://www.presenceorb.com
Unless someone walks across the lawn, steps on a spike, and develops tetanus. The point is it might be legal but you run the risk that it could blow back pretty badly.
Interestingly the Russian paid trolls apparently come in two forms. (1) the obvious pro-Russia loudmouths and (2) apparently anti-Russia posters. The second category are paid to post because Putin's Russia needs controversy and a sense of confrontation. Essentially they are paid to feed to Trolls..
Meanwhile ED has beaten them both, quietly.
Nate Silver accuses Vox of recycling Wikipedia entries
Ask HN: Best place for programmers to blog about code?
I have benefited greatly from all sorts of great programming material that other people have put on the web. Over the last few years I've accumulated quite a few nuggets of programming gold myself and I'd love to start sharing. What are some good blogging platforms for programming blogs?

Preferably these platforms would be:

- free

- minimal personal info with no facebook/twitter login required

- hosts images

- supports embedding code snippets in blog entries

From almost starting a blog recently, the best one I could find was Medium, but I'm curious as to what else might be out there. For those of you who are already writing these sort of blogs, what do you use?
Solu – New Finnish Computer with a Cloud-Linked OS
Well, the big decisions often are made in committees, sometimes in parliament, too, though.

The whole process starts with a committee being started, they writing and working on several compromises, and then giving parliament the ability to vote on these.

But the work of the committees – except for the TTIP committee – is also public.
These days, revolving doors and web-based access to TPP drafts give corporate lawyers many advantages over the legislative branch, as members of Congress are restricted to reading TPP drafts in a locked room, without taking notes, without their trade/legal staff, without a phone.

The executive branch delegated trade negotiations to former bankers, e.g. the lead TPP negotiator is ex-Citibank, http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/28/us-trade-rep-wal..., "Noting deep ties between the country's top trade negotiator and Wall Street banks, ten groups representing millions of Americans are calling on the White House to make public all communications between U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and the massive financial institutions that stand to benefit from proposed trade deals."

For more on lobbyists, see http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-..., ".. Many of the industry representatives are themselves former USTR officials ... Jim DeLisi of Fanwood Chemical said he had just seen the text on rules of origin, and remarked, 'Someone owes USTR a royalty payment. These are our rules … This is a very pleasant surprise.'"

The end result is an expansion of ISDS, which benefits corporate lawyers, https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU
I guess i should have been clear. I meant "making money" as in having a business model. Being profitable and having a business model are two different things. We can ask Amazon
US as well. I was able to be put under for my most recent extraction, but only after shopping around and strong and continual insistence on my part.
While I agree with the premise, the idea that the author is making so much more doing freelance is a bit of an illusion. A 53k year salary with benefits is probably equivalent to 70-80k, and on top of that, you have to pay something like 18% more in taxes (both parts of Social Security, etc).

Granted, that's for the US, so YMMV.
That's p≈0.044. You got lucky.
At least dental techniques work, even if they might not be very sophisticated or pleasant. Lobotomies just destroyed people. They were only successful in that they made the victims more compliant and less of a hassle for their caretakers, they didn't actually fix the problems.
The realism is a bit orthogonal to the interactivity/discover-ability you describe. For example, some really old text adventure games fit perfectly what your ideal (while others fit perfectly the story telling example). A game that mostly fulfills that promise for me is Morrowind.
Depends on the kind of audiophile you're talking about I guess. I think the easily identified difference shows that 8bit just isn't enough, and audiophiles that say bit depth matters are validated. But 24bit just isn't necessary for consumer audio. Plenty of audiophiles will insist on it still, though. They're the crazy ones
Trim Will Find Your Subscriptions, Cancel Those You No Longer Want
TBH, I don't entirely understand your point, so a reply is maybe out of order, butt ... :)

< The players in those markets

Wearable market = created by people who want wearables. Enhanced shoe market = created by portion of people who wear shoes.
The thing is that the age he gives (23) is so low that it's at odds with the principle, the same way as if I said "kids should wait till they're a bit older to drink alcohol, like after 8 years old" and someone disagreed and said 18 years old is a better age, they wouldn't just be agreeing with the principle and disagreeing with the number.
I can't speak to dental stuffs, but some local anesthetics don't work on me. I found it remarkably easy, though extraordinarily painful, to maintain stillness while having my foot stitched back together. The grip I had on the bedframe, however, I'm surprised I didn't break it or tear something apart in my arm.

I can't really say how I did it, because I'm not sure. I just knew I had to and didn't move.
"Bitcoin blocksize limit can be removed" – Satoshi Nakamoto (unverified)
I made a comment a few weeks ago here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459992

that made the point that hedge funds are now spending a lot of their processing and research budgets on consuming many different types of streams of data.

Complex Event Processing has been a main stay of algorithmic traders for the past 8-10 years and has been a key tool in dealing with amalgamating these streams of real time data. The author didn't define CEP as it relates to Stream processing but this quora article does a good job of trying to:

https://www.quora.com/How-is-stream-processing-and-complex-e...

So instead of the database example of where you'd store your data and then ask questions about it, you'd ask the question first and then push your streams of data through the library and have it call you when the question you asked became true.

For a practical example of how this is used in algorithmic trading. You might have streams that consist of market data, a stream for twitter sentiment, a stream for the sentiment of a real time news feed, streams to follow the futures market and a stream to indicate if there are any upcoming Fed reporting windows.

You might then create a streaming query to say notify me when a gold stock has 4 new daily highs in a 5 minute window and the gold futures are within 10% of their daily highs and no negative news sentiment for this stock has been seen in the past 30 minutes and there are no upcoming fed reports due today.

If this query reports back to you that this event has occurred, you could then translate this into an order to be sent to the market.

you give up some performance for the CEP overhead but it makes maintaining the logic much easier than having each algo have to manually track the state of each of those streams.

They also have the nice ability to make your back testing and unit testing easier by allowing you to step time forward in discrete intervals. So if you have an application that needs to be notified 20 milliseconds after an event you can step time forward in a non real time manner, probably faster when unit testing to verify your call back is correctly called.
It works for comparing any arbitrary x and y, so long as equality and inequality can be determined.
Well, obviously. But how does it make them money? I can't imagine the market for prescription toothpaste is very large.
I would advocate Github Pages powered by Jekyll. You can use another static site generator, but Jekyll is directly supported by GH pages, so it makes it slightly easier to deploy.

I like not being dependent on a specific platform. If I decide that I don't like Github pages anymore I can just take my static content and push it somewhere else. Also, it makes it very easy to work on my posts offline.
For the first time I've noticed the "past" option under the title (between flag and web).
BestBuy, Allianz, Thompson Reuters, UnitedHealthGroup, Optum, Cargill, 3M, Target, Oracle, Wells Fargo, USBank.

Also check out the Nerdery. They are hiring, based in Bloomington.

google "minnetonka minnesota companies" for more. All of the big ones are either in minnetonka, hopkins, eden prarie, or downtown minneapolis.
Holding a product in one's head * Tribute to Paul Graham
My truck was anything but generic. I got tailed by the campus pigs (I'll call them that because that was my experience with them) and stopped several times for no reason (and let off with a "warning" because whatever I had done wasn't something one normally gets cited for, they basically wanted to check my papers and see who I was) because my truck was a decade too old and and several tax brackets too low to be common in that area. They always seemed to see me like I was some tweaker who might steal and scrap their aluminum hand rails to get my next fix.

I figured out that parking way out back significantly reduced my chance of being ticketed. More than once I saw the parking services truck drive up and down the rows making sure everyone had something in each windshield, not actually scanning them. This was during the summer so there was always parking available and 90% of the enforcement I saw was during the first two weeks when everyone moved in.

The permits were a paper with a bar-code displayed in the center of your dash (students got ones that hang from mirrors). I thought of just putting a piece of paper there but I figured any attempt fake would piss them off. The policy was worded such that it made it sound like you only got booted after three UNPAID violations so I think what was happening was that when they put each new plate (all three I used were from the same state) into the system it didn't tell them to boot it because no plate had more than three citations on it. I got six tickets over the course of the summer. Two, two and one on junkyard plates and one on my real plate.

Parking in the same place with a ticket under your wiper would probably work for awhile too.

When I looked on their online parking pass system I don't recall a way to input a VIN so I assume they didn't record it, just a photo that includes the plate and a description.

Like I said, I wouldn't do this somewhere that the municipality does the parking enforcement.
It's not nearly the same magnitude of different.

Some examples: Pretty much all of the USA, Canada and Europe are heavily influenced by Christianity. So, come to Japan where there's almost zero Christian influence.

Or take Singapore (Japan as well) both places that are super safe. I never felt unsafe in the USA until I lived in Japan and Singapore. Things USA culture just takes for granted (your car will get broken into if you leave anything showing. Dark alleys are to be avoided. Losing your wallet means never getting it back. ...) all things that aren't actually true they're just so internalized in the culture we don't recognize the aren't actually facts of the world but rather facts of current western culture.

I'm sure India and China also different magnitudes of difference than US regions.
Why is it in our society threatening to sue someone doing nothing wrong is not considered the same as a violent threat?

Whats the difference between that homeowner saying "hey i am going to break your kneecaps" vs "hey I have more money than you and am going to destroy your life with legal action." - which is what he was implying in his email
I think StarCraft's campaign is almost irrelevant. It serves mainly as a tutorial for the multiplayer game. Which is why escort missions are boring.
"In state capitalist systems, markets are relied upon the least, with the state relying heavily on either indirect economic planning and/or state-owned enterprises to accumulate capital."

Your own link doesn't support what you're saying.
I just had an incident like this. A firm that manages ghost writing for executives was looking for someone who understands data science and is also a writer. As a practicing data scientist consultant I get the subject matter. And, I have been an industry analyst (lots of writing), published magazine columns and have a website with lots of current work available to read.

It was interesting they expected me to provide a free sample, which they wouldn't publish (really?) before proceeding. I told them "I don't work for free." In the end I offered them a compromise. You read my portfolio of work and decide whether in theory you would like to engage me. We then set rates. At that point I write the first piece for your client. If you like it you pay the agreed upon price and publish the work. If you don't like the work, I will publish it, minus any references to your client or quotes he provided.

So even though they admitted they didn't have any writers who could understand the subject matter they still wouldn't budge from demanding a free sample. Obviously we are not working together.
Movie to GIF conversion OS X app
Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
'Atlassian, the company behind enterprise-focused social products like Slack competitor HipChat, JIRA, and Confluence'

I just can't get over how horrible this lead-in is. Is it trying to say that Slack is Atlassian's product, and HipChat is a competitor... what is even going on... Who edited this crap? Come on techcrunch, you can do better than this.
I am referring to Hochdeutsch
players in those markets > example Nike:
Nike makes shoes. They are looking for differentiation in that market. They have massive resources. So it makes more sense for Nike to make a new model that incorporates technology than it is for them to make something that attaches to their existing models (and presumably everyone else's).
Unfortunately, many people will look at this list and tell you that's why the United States is so much more prosperous. Vacation time and workers rights == laziness in many people's minds.
Why do machines broadcast MAC addresses to networks? to identify themselves? Is it easy to randomize your MAC?
That's not how this works. The TPP is public before it is implemented, it is secret before it is finalized. If a country has the democratic means to stop it, it can do so after it is finalized but before it is implemented. I'm not saying that I like the TPP as a whole or that some countries aren't getting screwed over, but the negotiation process would be fucktarded if it was public all the way through.
One of the Dr. Dobbs editors made the following confession years ago in an editorial, when Dr. Dobbs was still published on glossy magazine paper. (According to the text, the statute of limitations had already run out.)

When faced with the situation of working on a mainframe at city hall, but not being issued a city parking permit due to bureaucratic oversight, he came up with a solution in code. It just so happened that the system he was working on issued the parking tickets, so he just added conditional logic to detect his name, then deleted the ticket! Problem solved, and no bureaucratic runaround to solve it!
current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10534274
Some pretty bad things were done to a lot of those that 'got off their asses'. It is much more acceptable to buck authority now, or at least a lot less dangerous.
I think it's sarcastic. Elsewhere he says unless you get 9 or more correct, you probably can't tell.
Good question. I am not an expert in this in any way. I'd think that you have to have dampners in the lattice of the crystal. The only way that works is to dope the lattice with either another 4 valence element, like silicon, or to dope the carbon itself with something. The only think I can think of is to modify the isotopes to be VERY heavy which is obviously therefore radioactive and would need to be replaced a lot. If you used silicon dope then you'd reduce the interatomic strength and therefore make the rope possibly too weak to be used.

I thought that the whole point of carbon nanotubes was that they are the only thing with the 'pull strength' (forgetting the term here) that could withstand the tension. If you weaved them, then you would rely on the Van Der Waal forces to keep the tubes together which is much weaker. Also you have to contend with the phonon interactions, anything tangential to that 'plane' has no effect on the strength, you have to be a part of the lattice to effect things.

Then again, I don't do research in this area.
This. More precisely, and on an ultra-micro level the surplus a property owner may be able to capture all of is the surplus compared with the next best available alternative site. If it's a retail unit in a rare spot next to a busy station, the owner of the property can capture [nearly] all of the leaseholders' additional expected profit due to heavy footfall, but not nearly all their profit period, because otherwise it becomes more profitable for store owners to pass on the opportunity in favour of opening on a site with low customer footfall but even lower lease rates. Similarly, suburban houses based right outside a high-paying office campus won't be priced at much of a premium to the surrounding suburbs, because workers there will expect to own a car anyway and won't mind a slightly longer commute that much.

And all of this assumes there are multiple prospective buyers whose use of the site will generate that surplus. If the use of the site is dramatically more valuable for one prospective buyer than for all the other buyers (e.g. because they have a supplier next door), they'll still only have to bid a fraction more than a market price determined by other buyers without that advantage, and so the buyer gets to keep all that surplus.
Disney World is the most visited theme park in the world. Good luck at scaring tourists away by turning something into Disney World...

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
Ask HN: Where do you keep your 2FA recovery codes?
Personally, I haven't kept any of them because I can't think of a place that wouldn't be (a) more vulnerable than my phone, which requires biometric access, or (b) in the case of digital storage locations, susceptible as a single point of failure. Does anybody have a good and systematic way of addressing this?
The problem is complicated a bit more because physicists use the word "tensor" to mean a tensor field, i.e. a collection of tensors on which calculus makes sense.
Put the Internet into your favorite podcasting app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535265