skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a more to a car trip than just going through a highway. Trips have endpoints. If you increase the size of your pipe into the city, you also have to increase the volume of the parking within the city. That means parking garages, lots of them. In addition to more costs for everybody, you're then deteriorating the urban fabric and making drivers within the city miserable in process (whether they recognize it or not).

As far as # of daily metro rides. My point is that if the metro were shutdown, the highways in and around DC would be a nightmare and people would not enjoy travelling in or through it. Getting around in DC, without the metro, would BE INTRACTABLE.

As for developers, while it is not "their job" to plan for infrastructure, it is very disturbing that they can simply buy land for cheap, put down and sell thousands of homes and walk away while forcing the nearby cities to deal with the mess they made. In response, many localities are now pushing "smart growth", we simply can't allow developers to make short-term selfish choices and pass the long-term costs onto everyone else.
Wow. Chitons move very slowly but can clamp down tightly onto their substrate. The video suggests they can detect predators at a distance of at most 2m, so the eyes allow them to clamp down "just in time", leaving only their armour plating exposed to the predator.

Interestingly, the lens in each eye is made of the same material as the shell itself, but the grains of the material are aligned parallel, to allow light to pass to the retina. Grains in the rest of the shell are randomly oriented, resulting in opacity.
I highly recommend Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (2008) by Shannon Brownlee.

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That's especially so when you're deep in debt from buying that hammer, and can earn huge speaking fees through promoting the brand to your peers.
>However, when discussing room

No room was discussed.

Here you go: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+californi...

A sample of what has been available to you: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/california-announces-re...
Hey, come on, give yourself the due credit. You probably put in more hard work than you give yourself credit for :)
Yeah on street parking is the bane of cycling. So many roads have on street parking on both sides and yet there's no space for two cars to pass each other.

I don't know what will make the difference. I think in London it's taken years of campaigning and highlighting to deaths to get a change. Having an elected mayor controlling transport also helps a bit to because it gives a focus for the campaigning. It'll remain to be seen if London continues it's improvements or gives up on them. I hope we have now reached the tipping point where cyclists start to outnumber other road users on so many roads that the 5% argument can't be used anymore.
Quizlet
> Now it is a different kind of challenge.

Howso? I don't see it as any different, but instead of Microsoft, there are multiple organizations.

> FOSS is from another era.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. FOSS is still current, and quite active today. In fact, I'd say even moreso.

> But that's a lot of nuisance and in the end what you get is an inferior version.

I agree. That's what I do now, but it's not nearly as good. But what I was implying was that we have the potential to create a much better version, that's trustworthy.
Transit is only not sustainable because too few people are using them.
FCC chairman suggests expanded wiretap laws in response to the Paris attacks
Is Alfred really that much better than the updated Spotlight? I used to use it (free version), but I find that Spotlight does everything I want/need that I'm aware of.
Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
San Francisco is no longer allowing new patrol specialists.
Jawbone Cuts 15 Percent of Its Workforce
+1 on dropping AGPL. Most people won't go near that with a 100 ft pole.
You started with a semantic quibble and have continued with a semantic quibble for 3 weeks -- "cheating-but-not-cheating".
How is it not a speech issue?
> Hopefully this is a true circle, where those at the top allow those on the bottom to stand on their shoulders.

Of course this is true. The company I work for was founded by, and is run by very successful wealth members of the top 0.1%. The salary I get from that company feeds and clothes me any my children, provides us with a car, holidays, health care, a pension plan and all the other trappings of western civilization. Just because I work for them doesn't mean I have in any way 'lost'. I have gained massively. I hope they go on winning so they can employ even more people like me.

When my wife arrived in this country, she got a bottom-of-the-ladder job at a coffee shop. Within 2 months she was an assistant manager. She used the money she earned to support herself and pay the course and transport fees to go to a community college 'access to nursing' course and now 13 years later is head nurse at a specialist fracture clinic. Everybody won. They got a hard working Barista, and she got the resources she needed to build a successful career and their customers got great tasting coffee. Nobody lost a single thing.
Open source software (OSS) means the source code is available under an OSI approved license. While the term could not be trademarked due to the process being impractical, we like to be precise in order to not dilute what is otherwise a very useful term.

"Free software" also means source-code being distributed under an FSF approved license. Unfortunately English doesn't have an equivalent for "libre", like romance languages do, with "free" being overloaded. So of course, usage of "free" has a long history of being overridden depending on context, going back to freemium/freeware/shareware. This is why context is important and why people then feel the need to be precise about the kind of free we are talking about - free as in beer or as in speech. You're talking about free as in beer and in our context Free Software really refers to FSF approved licensing. And Wikipedia does agree. Of course, the set of licenses that are FSF approved and OSI approved does overlap, though in theory you could have some differences, because the definitions are different. For example I think AGPL should not be OSI approved. But I digress.

Back to the point I want to make - source code being able does not make a software open source and having the binaries free as in beer does not make it free software.
Most of your corrections to my story aren't really germane to the point, and mostly involve your constant flogging of a bunch of sysvinit replacements that never caught on, but there's one where I think you move from mere pedantry to being wrong:

> In fact, "some people from Red Hat" already had deeper architectural failings with Upstart (which I agree with, but absolutely not with how they decided to "solve" them) and its event model. The beginnings of systemd (prototyped under the name of Babykit) were lying around for several years on Lennart Poettering's machine.

Here's Kay Sievers, one of the originators of systemd[1]:

> True statement. And yeah, without the CLA, we would very likely have worked on upstart, instead of starting the systemd project. Four years ago we talked to lawyers and tried pretty hard to convince them to give it up, but there was no way to negotiate.

In the comments, from Scott James Remnant, who wrote Upstart for Canonical:

> I don't think we ever disagreed enough for me to refuse patches from them - it was very much a case of they had different ideas to me, and couldn't contribute them because of the CLA

> If the CLA wasn't there, we'd've just tugged and pulled and fought about patches like normal projects, and Upstart would have turned out much like systemd - I'd've been okay with that :)﻿

And another comment from SJR:

> you'd be surprised how little of Upstart's code is the "event system". It could have quite easily evolved into what systemd looks like today, with an active community working on it.

> Indeed, systemd today doesn't look much like systemd back then either, it's evolved over time - the dependency system has taken a greater forefront than the socket system it was designed around, etc.

> systemd had the benefit of an active developer community, because it didn't put barriers up to contribution.﻿

People who wrote for systemd and Upstart at the time both claim that if it weren't for the CLA, Upstart would've been contributed to by the people who eventually wrote systemd instead of systemd being its own project. I see no reason to disbelieve them.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+KaySievers/posts/C3chC26khpq
Apple, Google and Microsoft: weakening encryption lets the bad guys in
Run pg_shard cluster using docker
Fungi are a special case with special problems, not necessarily worst or better for health. Much of them, and I'm talking of edible species here, extend its micelia for a big surface underground and absorb and accumulate high concentrations of metals from the entire place.

Even if you could culture a strictly seasonal product like Calvatia regularly all around the year, is not guaranteed that you could eat it every week without to slowly poisoning yourself with nickel, lead or arsenic. Chicken meat, even with its own problems, seems much safer at long term.
Seems like a way to bypass signed drivers. Sending drivers to Microsoft for signing takes a few weeks and costs money. I bet this certificate was used on prototypes, but was not removed from final version for some reason.

Source: I worked for hardware vendor and wrote windows drivers.
Do you, uh, know anything about women.
Wikitolearn: Collaborative Textbooks
Of 135 shuttle missions, 2 resulted in the death of all crew, giving a confidence interval of something like 1-4% for the mortality risk of each flight. Any sane assessment of the first Apollo landing missions would put the subjective mortality risk at 10% at the very least. (Later landings were somewhat safer, subjectively, since the equipment was proven.)

I can't imagine the in-mission mortality risk of a Mars mission would realistically be less than 5%, and 15% would not be unacceptable to me. A 10% in-mission risk equates to something like 5 years of lost life in expectation.

In comparison to this, the risk of cancer seem small or comparable. Yes, you'll need to provide sufficient shielding to prevent aggressive cancers from probably developing during the mission, or ones that will reliably lead to death before 60. But I'm not at all surprised that we may need to accept a much higher cancer risk than we would for a normal occupation. This doesn't strike me as one of the key challenges.
It's great that we can all brainstorm ideas but for you to come up with really great solutions, it's just like customer development for any startup - reach out to the ones you're trying to build a solution for. Who are these 10 million people you're trying to help? What are their real problems? Without their input, I don't think we can truly come up with great solutions.

Unskilled crowdsourced jobs are great in the short-term but can people reasonably live on these solutions for the rest of their lifetime? What kind of impact do you want to create? Short-term? Long-term?

I personally love the idea of microlending and it would be interesting to see how you can empower the urban poor through such an initiative.
I use Autoresizing. Now the layout has been shown to normal.
> Streetcars on the same route are much more expensive but get lots of people to switch.

This is also observed in countries in Europe that don't have similar history in racism as the US. The perceived comfort is better in trams.

(Also me personally, I get motion sickness if I read in a bus, but in a tram I can read just fine.)
Not "Why?" but "Why not?".
The implied question is how they're making any money at all if it costs $90k worth of water to grow $20k worth of rice.
Good.
Then we'll move to sources that are super-expensive right now (desalination, etc), and we can finally have a discussion about the agriculture situation and whether it makes sense to irrigate a desert just because you can.
“Concurrently JavaScript”; exploring concepts of concurrency, parallelism, async
Track5Media Launches AllPhysicianJobs.com
Very true. It also depends on the person, some people will happily say "I don't eat X, it gives me indigestion" whereas someone else will tell you that you shouldn't eat X because it gives them indigestion.
NEW Startup to Fight Physician Shortage
Well, 30,000 gallons of water per day is an acre-foot of water every 11 days, where as 178 gallons per person is an acre-foot every 5 years, per person.

To add more perspective, over 100 days that 30,000 gallons of water per day could bear eight and a half acres of corn.

Most of California's crops use more water than that but that is one comparison with agriculture.
Combined with the inventory access, you could check the player's inventory against the known unique items, and place a custom map marker on the exact location for the next one they don't currently have - a treasure hunter app.
Controlling a lamp isn't very useful on it's own, but it's a good simple proof of concept for tying in-game mechanisms to internet-connected resources. Step 2 is getting an external event to have an effect in-game. Once you have that, you can start building VR interfaces to the real world.
What is the fear that is being mongered here? The community's demographics are changing, and different people have different feelings about that. Some community buildings are being repurposed. Oh noes will the people still eat pierogis. Some residents defaced some signs with racist stuff. But honestly, I'm more afraid of racist white people than Bengali immigrants =/
The Business of Being Happy
Post-human mathematics
Bitbucket launches Aerobatic for static site hosting
The title says they found a lost island, but what they really mean is, they found archeological remains under the ground of an already known island, right?
am I missing something or is their directory account / password protected?
#iatrogenics

Nassim Taleb discusses this concept from a broader perspective in Antifragile.
Delaying puberty and sexual maturation is quite odd in this case.

It's a bit hard to know what gender you identify as when you aren't even remotely sexually mature hormonal and neurological changes during puberty might be a very important factor. And while yes sex isn't equal gender in this case but it still means allot.
If you pump a man full of estrogen and make him feel like a woman you'll might be able to push him hard enough to identify as one.
> Every single major and minor city has a bus system. Most of them are nearly useless, often intentionally so by design.

European here. Why would someone intentionally design a useless bus system?
Components: taking a step back from Dependency Management
self submission
Cool! A logical AND gate, in metal.
Ask HN: What to put first by creating a new app – performance or privacy?
Hi HN!

I have currently a dilemma - to sacrifice my new web based application's performance or user's privacy. Both are harmed in a minor manner, but still.

The situation is following - I have to choose either to apply my tool on my user personal web pages so that I don't break the page loading style, order and time, but brake users privacy - anyone can see in what ways my app is used in the particular webpage and the information may include user private data (such as future changes, content text versions etc.) via an insecure client-side validation. Or I can do it vice versa - brake the users web pages behaviour and keep users private data safe.
There is a possibility to let the user choose what method to use, but I guess that makes the tool too complicated to use (explain the differences; lower overall trust in the tool; time to develop both solutions).

Which path would you advise to choose?

As for a real world example - let's take http://www.convert.com and http://optimizely.com A/B testing tools (both are chosen randomly in search of current, similar problem solutions). The first one loads the website test instantly but anyone with basic code knowledge can check what particular webpage tests are in progress. The second loads only the test you are allowed to see, but for a short time the users web page flickers from the original to test design.
TIA.

You could advocate teaching the kids to read, but fuck that.
Keep them illiterate. Surely the ANC won't complain.

(And before someone says this 'research' has other uses, I'm referring to part of his abstract:

"The developed world dominates the design of programming
environments, assuming letteracy and computer literacy on the
part of the programmer. In developing areas, this assumption
raises the bar for novice programmers and especially pre-school
children from differing socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds.
In general, our research aims at developing a programming
environment that does not require either computer literacy or
letteracy from the programmer, thereby affording the novice
user the opportunity to control appliances connected to the IoT." )
Obfuscated code samples unless I sign in with GitHub? No way.
Where are you located? In the US we also have agricultural supply co-ops, agricultural producers co-ops (dairy, produce, etc), housing co-ops, bicycle co-ops, electricity co-ops, credit unions, shops like REI, the Associated Press, community ISPs, community water associations, and others. Some of these types of co-ops are very popular in their respective sectors: electric coops are often the only choice for electricity in rural areas, many markets have a variety of credit unions to choose from, agricultural supply co-ops are universal in the countryside, etc..
Designing destinations at Lonely Planet
> A couple of days ago there was some open-source appreciation day by the Ubuntu community and it looks very suspicious that mjg95 coincided his rant with this.

I posted it the day after I got a reply from Canonical telling me that they wouldn't be answering my questions about the rights of downstream recipients.

> mjg59's attitude is like "if it is not ours, let's f* their efforts anyway".

I'm willing to do the technical work required to split the trademarks into separate packages as long as Canonical are willing to accept that.
> For example, my 6 year old daughter enjoys the local art museum, but I don't think she has looked at any one painting more than 5 seconds.

Funny, what you say reminds me of my (Dutch) driving lessons. When I started learning how to drive, what was most peculiar to me was getting used to looking in the rear view mirrors. I was looking at them, but I didn't really see what was going on.

At first I just had to make the routine a habit: "inside mirror, outside mirror, look over your shoulder, turn if safe". I think it took me at least ten lessons before I actually saw what was going on behind me, and incorporate that into my driving habits.

Maybe this applies to what you say in the above quote too... maybe it just takes some time.
Yes absolutely. People are capable of looking past economic concerns when the lives of another are at stake and we should absolutely expect them to in this case. What's disappointing is the notion that we've sunk so low in our expectations of humanity that we even assume doctors are constantly calculating min/max selfish economic expectation when they advise their patients.

Luckily while some doctors are scam artists the vast majority of them have a sense of duty that transcends "maximize profits".
I like the way IRC networks handle this, they use a pre-connection protocol verb called WEBIRC (de-facto standard documented here: http://git.io/vBLYp) that also enforces a whitelist of ip address + password combination. This stops most abuse of this feature. Maybe HTTP servers should have something similar.
Why LoadFocus should be Your load testing tool?
Meanwhile you carriers (last mile and everywhere in between) have setup deep packet inspection capabilities for their own gain as well as you government to spy on you.
Many seem to misunderstand how large the USA is, how dispersed the population is, and how impractical it is to implement alternate infrastructure to solve the alleged problem. Walking/biking infrastructure is only feasible with high enough population densities; below some threshold, "car culture" absolutely dominates unless you're raising your own food. Grocery stores require a minimum number of recurring customers (and low enough crime rates); given a sufficiently dispersed population, the average viable distance between stores may very well exceed the distance criteria currently defining "food desert", even though people have moved to those areas knowing full well stores were far away.

Following your link, I was surprised there's a "food desert" near my home; yes it may be a bit far from the nearest grocery, but if you live in this area you _must_ have a car and thus have no trouble reaching a ridiculous number of grocery stores.
Since we can't install firewalls on cheap Wi-Fi IoT devices, it would be interesting to have a Wi-Fi router that handles that for you, isolating every device on the network by default. Just have every device have a web control interface so that you don't have nasty surprises from devices starting to communicate on ports they aren't expected to be operating on. Or just close all outbound ports from devices by default, and just open those that are needed to operate the device. Requests to communicate on closed ports could trigger a message to the Wi-Fi admin who could decide what to let open. A smart interface would pre-generate Web searches for the device ID and port trying to open up so you can read up about it.
Ah, but the real question is what.
Why has Buffer lost 50% traffic? Consumers aren't as stupid as you think
Google builds marketing site in Angular. World celebrates that "Google dogfoods Angular." All online bickering ceases.
If you only read mass media, most co-ops are too obscure for anything other than universal needs like food. My town for example, has a co-op printing shop and a co-op bookstore as well as a co-op grocery. A FOSS project could be seen as a co-op in some ways, too.
Hmm, but isn't word2vec a dictionary in word -> vector? If it's the case, the two - completely unrelated - meanings of the word "ball" will be represented by a single vector. Which would mean that in that representation, for example, the concept of a ball is near both to "sphere" and "music" or "dancing". So that the perfect ball is a dancing sphere, or something like that.
The alternate universe where Tom and Jerry made it in is someplace I could spend some money...
"the astronauts chosen to make at least the initial forays into deep space may have to accept a higher level of risk than those who fly International Space Station missions."

Is this surprising to anyone? It's a far greater challenge?
This is true, and the difficulty is compounded because the government lies or is incompetent.

I remember a time in Menlo Park (unclear on the year, was it the late 70s drought?) when there were fears of the need for water cutbacks. The Water District said, "Please conserve now; it won't be held against you if rationing is imposed." But that is exactly what happened. When rationing was imposed, it was based on recent usage, which penalized those who had already conserved.

IIRC, the issue was that Menlo Park got its water from Hetch Hetchy Water District and HHWD set the rationing policy. Evidently, MPWD should not have made that statement, but nevertheless those who relied on it were put in a very difficult situation.
I guess that's a bit too harsh and overstating. I'll change it, I just never really got Twisted, it always seemed to try and do too much for me.
Good will doesn't seem to triumph over greed very often. It's very fortunate for us all that the cost of solar and lithium-ion batteries keep decreasing.
It's even worse: limits for thee but not for me.

https://www.revealnews.org/article-legacy/california-water-o...