skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I got my business license in a suburban city, I was chagrined to see that home-based businesses are allowed only in the single-family residential zone — sorry, apartment-dwellers. I'm sure many cities are the same, because why not? Who's going to complain if you say no, the existing residents or "that guy" who wants to do something unconventional? So just keep everyone happy by saying no.

And really, that "no by default" is what zoning laws are all about. City administration is only faulted for not preventing some land use that people will get up in arms about, so zoning laws are their set of hidebound insurance policies.

I think "It's a Wonderful Life" deserves a good deal of blame for this, because of how Capra illustrated the moral derangement of Bedford Falls becoming Potterville. Its main street was full of dime-a-dance saloons, floozy-filled nightclubs, billiard halls and pawn brokers. The implication was that any city with wise and moral leaders would have prevented it, which has struck fear into the heart of American cities ever since.
> I know I'm late to the party in this thread, but still - "correct interpretation" is just not a thing with literary works, regardless of whom you attribute them to.

No worries. I'm glad to continue the discussion as I think it is important.

> A "correct interpretation" of a book written by a dead author is, in essence, an oxymoron. I would argue that this point is not debatable.

Let's take the Shakespeare example, as I think it is a good example and less likely to cause strife.

What is the purpose of Romeo and Juliet? Was it written to be a non-fiction historical account of politics in Renaissance Verona, or was it supposed to be a fictional drama meant primarily to entertain its audience?

It seems obvious to me that this question is meaningful, and even has an objectively correct answer. That is, there is a correct interpretation as to the purpose of Romeo and Juliet that we can glean from a combination of the text itself as well as the historical information about the context it was written in - Shakespeare's current vital signs notwithstanding. Wherein lies the oxymoron?
As it's REST API powered, it doesn't. It could have been anything we wanted it to be. We just went with React & co. because we determined it'd be the best solution.
Oh, don't feel too bad; a few weeks ago, my wife had lunch with the Ivy League-pedigreed nth-generation CEO of a reasonably large midsized company who used the exact same mispronunciation. Paris being worth a mass, she chose not to correct him.
It is similar to spending 90% of a developers time optimizing code that only takes 5% of total time, and most of it is external API calls he or she can do nothing about.

Still, in the case of human life, I have nothing against trying everything to make people aware. Its just the fearmongering bit I dislike.

If I am going to spend a significant amount of time extending my life, I'm going to focus on the big things that prevent an early demise: exercise, diet, and having meaningful relationships.
Question unrelated to the actual story - is anyone running a WordPress.com blog as just an API?

I've had a few friends ask me to work on their WordPress blogs but I turn them down unless they're willing to migrate to something like Squarespace or Ghost. Most of the time they won't switch because they're used to the WordPress admin. Being able to just fetch a JSON API would actually make me think about working with WordPress.
Agree, it's about possible reduction of harm. A notice that cars crash is not going to stop people from using cars. A notice that foreign travel is not safe will deter some people.
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Wait was it really called "Sunnyvale" or did you just make the most veiled Trailer Park Boys reference ever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyvale_Trailer_Park

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3757674/
That study was on hospitals though - although yes the same applies for surgeons (1), and obstetricians [although the benefits begin to deteriorate at around 50 (2)].

But cardiologists were what the original study was on, and they don't perform surgery. Rather, they are relied on for their "expert judgement", a highly questionable concept (3).

(1) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743919113...

(2) http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.d8041.short

(3) https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfile...
It hasn't so far--even prior to the rise of Chinese manufacturing--not sure why it would now. Part of the problem is that although a lot of Chinese manufacturing is obviously driven by low labor costs, there's also a stable and investment-friendly (if hardly democratic) government, a well-developed ecosystem around manufacturing, and capital.

As the article says, I expect more automation and I'll probably bet more on further Pac Rim manufacturing than other areas.
Problem with that is most specialists suck or have very little interest in generalist work.

People became specialists because they particularly enjoy that kind of work. When you put them in an environment where things are changing rapidly, including their day to day nature of work, in my experience most specialists don't respond well to it.

I actually think hiring too many specialists is one of the biggest mistakes early stage startups can make.
This article:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34907009

says "Previous worldwide travel alerts were issued in May 2011, September 2011, August 2013 and December 2014"
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I understand the principal of 'negative interest rates'; ie. if your interest rate is -ve, it incentivizes banks to move money into the economy rather than just holding on to it.

However, I keep reading this in articles: "Although retail banks have yet to pass on that negative to rate to Swedish consumers".

What does that actually mean?

Why are the banks affected at all by what the government determines the interest rate to be? What is this charge they would be 'passing the charge on to consumers'?

It's not like the total amount of money in the bank mysteriously grows or shrinks based on the government stipulated interest rate every year, and I've certainly seen many places where banks refused to pass on interest rate changes to consumers in general.

Is this just the rate applied to treasury bonds? Or some kind of tax related thing?
> A "correct interpretation" of a book written by a dead author is, in essence, an oxymoron. I would argue that this point is not debatable.

No, its not an oxymoron, any more than "correct interpretation" is always an oxymoron; a living author doesn't even necessarily make it easier to identify the correct interpretation, since individuals are not static, and the author's preferred interpretation at a later time may not reflect their intent when they wrote the text.
this was in reddit a few days ago, there's a good chance this is a hoax
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This is one of the least actionable and most poorly thought out travel alerts I've seen the Department of State hand out in quite some time. (Listing those three groups all in the same alert is just completely wild.) And the Department of State already issues travel alerts that seem more akin to someone's parents getting worried than real security risks.

Shameful. I want my government to be less afraid.
No I think it's still virtualised isn't it? But on a machine that they guarantee only you are using?
Going through the same process myself, short answer there is no easy metric that you can add that really quantifies a developer.

I would start measuring projects or teams first, getting a solid set of metrics for each and once you have that you can start tracking down individual developers.

Even so tracking developer productivity can be hard, a good chunk of our work happens in our head. Who is more valuable the developer that wrote thousands of lines of code or the one that changed one but fixed a critical bug in production?

I highly recommended this book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020134.do
Leibniz's universal language
Yes, I did miss the ring spec. But as a beginner to ring, I'm not sure how I was suppose to know that such a document exist.

For the most part, Ring is well-documented. But, as you noted, human-typed doc strings go only so far. I applaud the writers of ring in their discipline, but certainly we can do better than depending on human discipline.

You even noted, I picked "less well-documented libraries." I didn't pick them because they were not well-documented—I picked them because I'm using them!
to be fair, this was posted within a minute of the other; the predecessor was probably not visible yet.
There's also the relative-to-baseline nature. Foreign travel has always had risk; this alert declares the risks are temporarily higher.

If the gov't said "For the next week, car travel will have heightened risk", people might take notice.
That makes a lit of sense, thanks for the explanation.
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You have a dedicated host to run VM but you don't really have access to the host OS and cannot run custom code on it.

Previously, your VM were allocated to a host as Amazon saw fit.
This is true -- but again Microsoft got caught lying about how IE's functionality was "intrinsic" to Windows (which was why it prevented IE from being uninstalled). It was also forcing PC manufacturers to pay a royalty for every PC sold, whether or not it was bundled with DOS or Windows (which damaged rivals like Digital Research -- the company Microsoft essentially stole DOS from, but that's another story).
The maker of one of such app mentioned, Clue, is a Berlin based startup: https://www.helloclue.com/company.html

I guess that 4 people do not work for free. I understand that There's a huge potential for health care service providers, but how could this company get money out of this? This app is free for everyone. I do not connect the dots why one health care service provider should fund it. So perhaps you could elaborate it from this point of view?
Large parts of Ubuntu aren't under the GPL, and as a result Canonical can impose additional restrictions.
This is brilliant tool. Bye Bye MSDN searching for F# samples, I have a new home ;)
> A notice that foreign travel is not safe will deter some people.

The problem is that foreign travel is safe and all this fear-mongering is unjustified.

99% of people who travel to a foreign country are completely safe. Saying anything to the contrary is pure fear-mongering.
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Yes, there have been 4 such alerts in the last 5 years alone.

They're really not a big deal and shouldn't cause anyone to avoid travel.
The point is you don't worry at all about those things (you would never let it affect your trip), so there is no reason to worry about these comparatively minor risks.

It's like issuing an advisory about getting papercuts filling out paperwork in a war zone. No one is so marginal that it should make a difference.
When the travel advisory includes the entire world (With the odd exception of the continental US - I guess the terrorists will never strike at home!), and the risk is so minuscule, it is indeed worse then useless.
It's not "perhaps higher", it is orders of magnitude higher. It's not even meaningful to talk about the two risks side by side, because side by side one of them is so small as to be utterly irrelevant.

Paying attention to this "advisory" means what, exactly? It doesn't say anything. It doesn't provide any information at all. It's just pointless fearmongering by the very people who have the most to gain by having you the citizenry be vaguely afraid of ill-defined threats who might or might not be trying to harm you in unspecified ways at unknown times at any location anywhere. So the only thing that paying attention to it does is make you afraid, and therefore perhaps more likely to approve of giving the federal government (who wrote this worthless piece of trash) yet more unconstitutional power over your life. It cannot possibly help you in any way, because it doesn't tell you anything.

The best thing to do is demand the impeachment and removal from office of everyone responsible for this idiocy, and then vote out of office every single politician who supports, endorses, echoes, funds, or in any way permitted, encouraged, or enabled it. Every last one. That may not make you any less likely to be killed or injured by a criminal (of some kind, somewhere, sometime, maybe), but at least it will end the pointless asinine fearmongering that does zilch for public safety.
I never get this line of argument. Yes the probability of getting killed by a vehicle is perhaps higher based on Stats

Then you do get it. But because terrorism is scary it gets more mind-share than mundane but more deadly things like driving.
How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads, Node.js and Microsoft Windows ..
> I want my government to be less afraid.

Given that this expires a week before super tuesday, I wouldn't be surprised if this is more about helping Hillary than about any fears of the government.
Additional slightly paranoid alternatives:

- $1 IT contracts get in the way of crony overcharging, said cronies then provide campaign financing to the right people (never forget Accuweather paying Rick Santorum $50,000 to lobby to stop making National Weather Service data public);

- overcharging is how some intelligence services finance black ops (the modern Air America might be a press or marketing company) as France is alleged to be doing already (e.g. [1] for the full description)

In both cases, there would be powerful incentives to shut down "more efficient government IT" projects.

[1] http://www.amazon.fr/Missions-methodes-techniques-speciales-...
I suspect you might have encountered the SPEC if you opened the README of the ring project or visited its github page (which displays the README by default). It's mentioned and linked in that README:

From https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring:

Ring is a Clojure web applications library inspired by Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack. By abstracting the details of HTTP into a simple, unified API, Ring allows web applications to be constructed of modular components that can be shared among a variety of applications, web servers, and web frameworks.
The SPEC file at the root of this distribution provides a complete description of the Ring interface.
A note on Typed Clojure: Ambrose is doing excellent work with it, and I'm excited to see it develop.

But I wished there was a bigger push from the top, from Rich himself, on "first-classing" typed Clojure. Aim for 100% annotation coverage for the most popular libraries. Start with core (maybe it already is? I haven't kept up) and ring, then move outwards from there.

Library writers will be more motivated to add annotations if the big libraries are doing it.
I agree specialists will not be satisfied with just doing generalist work without any other offsetting compensation, but this is why I said you have to pay them well and be very flexible about work style and work environment. You're already selecting for specialists who were open enough to the idea of working at a start-up that they even applied at all. That self-selects for some things, and an open mind towards generalist work is probably part of it. But just because they are open to the idea of sacrificing time they could otherwise have spent gaining more specialist experience in order to do early-on generalist work for your start-up, that doesn't mean they'll do it cheaply or be willing to fit into cultural situations they don't feel compatible with.

It's hard for me to believe most start-ups can really say anything conclusive about the quality of early-on specialists, because so few start-ups are willing to be flexible with office layouts, introvert v. extrovert working styles, and many other things. If a start-up is simultaneously rigid about those types of things and also claiming they can't get a good early-on specialist, well it's no surprise why they can't.

For legitimately cash-strapped start-ups, I think your point would hold true. Even if they are very flexible, they just won't be able to afford a good early-on specialist at all, even such a specialist who is already sympathetic to start-up lifestyle and willing to trade some salary for flexibility on certain working conditions won't go for it.
> Why are the banks affected at all by what the government determines the interest rate to be? What is this charge they would be 'passing the charge on to consumers'?

The interest rates set by central banks are the (targets for) rates that regular banks pay (and receive) for interbank loans, and therefore represents the marginal costs that banks avoid by additional customer deposits. So, it makes sense for what banks are willing to pay customers for money to be influenced by what they would have to pay to replace that money via interbank loan.

> Is this the rate applied to treasury bonds?

Treasury yields are controlled by different mechanisms.
They allowed me in with an American passport! I just wanted to look at their secular music books 1500-1800.
Is it 100% drop-in replacement of net/http?
> Figure 8: The execution time is projected to decrease with the increase of number of LSTM cells running in parallel. This can lead to significant performance improvement.

They do say in the text that "Figure 8 shows the expected speed up, assuming the data throughput is high enough to handle the parallel processing" so take it with a grain of salt. There could and most likely will be (as there always is) other factors that prevent ideal scaling.
You have both https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/ and https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API that can be used for something like that.
So if there are "worldwide alerts" all the time (which is true), and they're no big deal and you shouldn't do anything differently because of them, why have them at all?
Yes, you can change the keyboard shortcut to whatever you like.
Not really. I would argue that I can realistically have a much greater impact on politics by contributing reasonable amounts of money to a campaign, by hiring a lobbyist, or by forming a vocal special interest group around my ideas which has a PAC. Why be a nameless voter who a candidate doesn't give a shit about when spending some money can literally buy me face time and legitimacy. Moreover, I can do this regardless of who is in power; I don't need to be constrained by political affiliation or a candidate's stated platform which may not mesh well with my ideals.
> U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance when in public places or using transportation. Be aware of immediate surroundings and avoid large crowds or crowed places.

This is really crazy text. It reads like, "U.S. citizens everywhere should scuttle like rats through alleys and sewers." I see little use in telling every U.S. citizen traveling anywhere to always be on guard. Humans just don't have this capacity for eternal heightened vigilance, nor do I think it's even healthy to ramp people up this way when their real change in global risk seems very, very limited.
Then therein lies the problem. If you want large returns, you need to make good contributions to large or well known projects.

Otherwise, your work really has no context in which it can be judged favorably.
It complies with the changes you have to make in the software. You still have to deal with the use of trademark around it, such as the names you associate with the software when you sell it. If you make those changes and then don't claim that what you're selling is RHEL or stick any Red Hat logos on your website, Red Hat won't sue you. It's unclear whether or not that's sufficient for Canonical to be happy.
Interesting, because I saw only mine, but 6-12 Slack posts.
I am leaving for Paris tomorrow. Trip was planned a few months ago. We are still going but this alert is a bit concerning.
https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers#ar...
> And somehow everything worked. It worked better and was infinitely more manageable, and was mostly dependency-free.

You and I apparently remember things very differently.
here's the bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/226...
Teslas sell for over $100K a pop.
It's a rich man's toy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397162/tesla-and-its-s... ...
Every time a Tesla is sold, we witness a transfer of wealth to a rich hobbyist (most Teslas are their owners’ third or fourth car), while average Americans are on the hook for at least $30,000 in federal and state subsidies. Tesla is more a regulatory arbitrageur than an auto manufacturer. In its 2014 annual report, Tesla made clear that continued special tax benefits are critical to the company’s business plan: “Our growth depends in part on the availability and amounts of government subsidies and economic incentives.”
It has to be higher than that. Probably 99.9, maybe 99.99%. Possibly greater. But yea.
Patroni used to be called Governor. It was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9902871
Thanks for the links, though I was looking more for people's experiences implementing them with a separate frontend.
What, exactly, is the point of these vague and overly-broad travel alerts? To try and kill the tourism industry?
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I make this type of argument pretty often and it is more to counteract the psychological impact of terrorism than anything else. We should feel that our safety is in jeopardy only relative to the likelihood of a given threat. Any more so only empowers the the people who are threatening us.
...Meanwhile Canadians visiting the USA are 2.7x more likely to be murdered in the USA than if they stayed in Canada...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
First of all: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_De_Gucht#Belastingontdui... ( dutch version) - here is more information then the censored english version.

And second, i "know" people who were pretty acquanted with the sale of the justice building in Furnes ( West - Flanders ), where Karel De Gucht was one of the so called secret investors and let's not forget who was closely involved with that: Yves Vanmaele.

There was a "documentary" on Terzake about him.. Where there is smoke, there is fire. But people who live nearby, see more smoke than others :)

It's hard to put in hard evidence, when politicians and judges shake hands and forgive each others sins without a trial. It's like bringing in kadhafi under the condition that he will be judged by his own friends ( to put it in the extreme).

I know personally 3 friends who's cases were influenced ( good or not) because of "Vanmaele" personally.

If you speak Dutch: http://nieuws.vtm.be/binnenland/90071-integraal-de-gewraakte...

I hate to say this stuff above, because it sounds so conspiracy like. But it's more like a well known secret in the West-Flanders. Everyone here knows, but why would you take a risk, with something you have no business with and agains very "powerfull" / influential people. ( judges, politicians, Trade Commisioner of the EU)

Edit: I'm watching the video again, it's practicly everything i'm saying here (although i mostly forgot about the video )
De Gama and Magellan actually had a reason for their expeditions, namely, making shitloads of money in trade.

Let me know when Mars ceases to be anything but a colossal gravity well for us to throw money into.
> Shameful. I want my government to be less afraid.

It's not that they're afraid, it's that they want you to be afraid, so you'll either look the other way or cheer while they fuck you over some more in the name of "security".