skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived for a few years in Europe now, I can tell you that thoughtful city planning is totally possible at critical densities, and highly worth it. The quality of life for citizens is highly improved by having first of all, walkable cities. Every bus station, 4-lane road, and parking lot within a city makes it less walkable. Since many European cities were already quite large well before automobiles, they inherit their walkability through their centuries of necessity. It is going to be hard to push many US cities towards that density threshold with just buses and taxis. I'll respond to some of your points.

<quote>Subways and light rail are high cost, high visibility, negative return investments for most municipalities.</quote>

That's absolutely fine. The government and public infrastructure is not really meant to turn a profit. They are funded through tax dollars since they have positive externalities for all citizens. It's just usually the case that pay-per-use is just too expensive to bootstrap effectively. We need to rid ourselves of this mental model. The government needs to spend money to make the public system work, hands down. And that means taxes. And even if you don't use the subway, you benefit that other people do (because they don't have their huge cars taking up your road space and parking space!)

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Subways are very expensive to build, very expensive to move, and a deficit on their community if the areas in which they're built don't have very high population densities.
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So what. It works in NYC and in pretty much every major European city. These are old, well-established cities where digging is fraught with peril. As I mentioned before, the problem is that US cities usually aren't dense enough.

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If they're instead given dedicated space, they become much more expensive as extra road lanes must often be built (or easements otherwise negotiated and purchased by municipalities), and they end up much harder to move for want of further easement & road expansion.
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Well, considering that public transport is generally more space efficient than autos, replacing a lane with a tram or light rail track should actually increase capacity. Why do we keep thinking that it has to be additive (i.e. in addition to existing roads)? No wonder people balk.

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Buses require no tracks, no tunnels, no $5 million train cars, and a route can be switched in a day by putting up a couple new bus stop posts. Bus systems can actually be profitable if local governments don't try to make political wins by drawing expensive bus routes in distant, low-volume rural areas. Buses suffer from traffic like most light rail does.
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That's great, let's have more buses! (Although I disagree that routes into rural areas are for political points.) But buses won't be enough. Subways are unbelievably efficient once they are in place (you can fit literally 500 people in one train!), and again, they require critical density. We need to get there, and buses are step along the way.

Also, BIKES and BIKE lanes. Nothing really beats walking or riding a bike to work on a nice day. Hands down! Try Copenhagen.
How about F#? It feels like Python and has a Pandas equivalent in Deedle (https://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/), but fits well in the .NET ecosystem, including using SqlServer effortlessly. This report is a good starting point: http://fslab.org/report/
SOP for this site:
1. Read content
2. Think of a reason to disparage it
3. Disparage it in a comment
4. Suck own dick
It links to a copy in the article: https://fusiondotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/iterating-g...
Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
How to ship software, the easy way
Yes, 7.0 isn't out yet (it's only been tagged, it comes out tomorrow). And for a while yet it might be a good idea to stick with 5.6
Prompt.bash: a simple but powerful prompt for Bash
Few different points made in that episode, some relevant to this discussion some not and some I'm not remembering.

1) The B-29s had god-awful bombing accuracy in their original mission (high altitude level bombing) because of the as-of-yet-undiscovered jet stream over Japan. So when they flew too high and fast to be intercepted, they were basically useless when it came to doing damage.

2) This was already in the Kamikaze era of the war, and many B-29s were lost to that.

Anyway, I'm not going to rewatch the whole 45-minute long episode again. I found some stats that listed a total of 74 lost from fighters, but I'm hesitant to post because I can't dig up the original source (it 404s now). Will if you so desire. The number lost due to weather, mechanical failure, etc., dwarf the number lost to fighters by a huge factor but it does make the original quote here sound like some amount of propaganda bullshit.
Small Startups Can Compete Against Big Companies for Tech Press Attention
It seems to be one of the front contenders among the Flux alternatives now. Another one is Relay/GraphQL.

Redux adheres to the basic unidirectional data flow philosophy of Flux. Where it mainly differs is that there is one store. All state is kept in a (potentially large) graph of JS objects and arrays. It is also very functional in nature.

One advantage is that it solves the Flux store singleton problem. This makes it more amenable to building isomorphic apps, among other things.

I've been using it and find that it's more straightforward than typical Flux implementations. There's less boilerplate. It also allows for more heterogeneous data storage and more flexible structure. You don't need to create a new store every time you need a new collection, for example. You can use it to store the majority of your state, and keep your React components largely stateless.
I'm not talking about a bridge meant to stand for the ages. I did say "creek" after all.

We do all understand that there's everything from bridges across creeks that we can literally step over to bridges across multi-mile spans of lake or ocean, right? 100 hours of civil engineering is only enough to get a sense of how big a problem the latter is, but is probably plenty to learn how to build something down in the single or low-double digit of feet range that will be safe to cross.

I ask this quite seriously because it seems to me a lot of people get rather black-or-white on these sorts of issues, where either we must insist that we know nothing, absolutely nothing, and how dare you claim otherwise in your arrogance, OR we went to school for at least four years and got certified and have a job in the field and their opinions are unimpeachable and perfect on this matter. Probably an artifact of too much "school" and not enough experience in much of anything. In reality there are very few fields where there is no way to gain a modest amount of skill with modest effort; all the ones that leap to mind block you not because of the fundamental impossibility of learning a bit of something, but because of high capital entrance fees.
already online: https://fusiondotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/iterating-g...
Umm... no. I was talking about the subset of devs which are just chugging along without much thought put into the craft of programming. Which includes me sometimes, as well as many PHP developers. But not all of them.

Go search internet forums: "how i script PHP mail?" folks won't use the latest best practices.

And there were dynamic webpages before PHP, PHP just gave a ton more people access to them by easy installation, configuration and most importantly, development/feedback cycle.
I've known about Hubot for a while.

But did anybody else see Hubot with a Santa hat and think that was adorable? Because I did.
Fostering the social identities of HOT online contributors
Ask HN: Finding a designer for a side project
Hello,

My side project is now at the stage where I would benefit from the influence of a good designer (both visual and interaction).

The project is TwLng.com which I'm currently spinning as a Buffer for Content.

There are three main areas that need work:
1. The landing page
2. The dashboard and setup
3. The content that is viewed by users.

What is a good approach for finding a designer for side projects in 2015?
Changing Organizations Without Changing People
Sorry to complain, but the idea that it takes some amount of time (between 10 and 10,000 hours according to the article) to achieve competency in something is vague and obvious to the point of silliness.
The context is layout not logic. There is a world of difference between the flexibility and portability of web formatting and desktop formatting.

Apps like Uber, Instagram and others use the hybrid approach.
Personally I always use articles like this to yet again change my personal to-do-list strategy, select a new fancy app/tool, pay for a year long subscription, start entering all that is on my mind, open it the next day, look at it, and close it.

I know the strategy, I have plenty of apps with an active subscription, but really making it a daily habit is the struggle.

Any thoughts on that?
Isolations are out of the question, I'm leaving when the lease is up (August 1) so I have no intent to invest heavily. Also the window/doorway will let enough noise through even with isolation on the walls.

I might try earplugs again. I bought a pack when I moved in but I never found them super comfortable, I'd usually fall asleep and end up waking up and pulling them out after a few hours.
Depends on whether the company's parts are worth more than the company now versus the future of the company. Someone looking to make a quick buck probably doesn't care that a long term strategy would net much more money over time than a quick sale. Such that, why wait ten years for ten million dollars when one can have two million dollars now? Totally depends on the company, much like your car analogy, and it may not be the right thing to do. But I suppose what the right thing to do may depend on the person you ask.
And it was easy because the PRNG had a small volume in the space phase

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/

What I don't understand is why the use of Taken's series are still not a standard for the analysis of the randomness...

It resulted in this CVE http://www.cert.org/historical/advisories/CA-2001-09.cfm

And almost all the industry either switching to linux or as the licence authorized it they could have used BSD TCP stack since then, I guess.

Here is an horrible implementation of Taken's visualization.

https://gist.github.com/jul/0f16782ed01f18c2c72a
I am sure it did lose money but the series is still an asset, much like rental property. Breaking Bad, The Shield, Mad Men will be making money for years in streaming, syndication releases, and whatever technology is next. Breaking Bad and The Shield cost more than the advertising dollars brought in but they are profitable now.
GoPHP5 successfully forced the community to move to 5 en masse. We can do the same again for 7 if we need to.
Except he still didn't do a thing besides putting out a press-release. Do you think his real intentions will not shape the way he acts in the future? How can you say it is a good trade when no trade happened yet?
Yeah. So don't know how much web you have done. But in my experience and many others i know who have done both. It really is much harder than web.
Well, I did say 'refining' in addition to manufacturing. In some cases refined raw material makes sense to deorbit. But if you consider the costs of lifting objects to orbit, the ability to manufacture large mass components in orbit would be a huge win. Sure, the initial costs of getting to the point where you can manufacture in orbit are large. But, if space mining becomes profitable they'll need more and more gear to do this. If they have to lift all that gear off earth then it is prohibitive. Hence space manufacturing is a self-help path for mining.
Seeing that they use google streetview I think we need a metric of sheep per road kilometer.
USDA’s MIDAS computer program tarnished; overdue, over budget
How does this work internally. Its not using a neural net is it?
Some choose it because Ubuntu, unlike Debian, has a guaranteed timely release cycle, and unlike Debian they have formalized LTS.
Tectonic: Cryptographic Chain of Trust from Application Layer to Hardware
Yes, so everybody says, but I prefer forming my own opinion!

I simply don't like to call something that millions of programmers work with "pigs guts" if I haven't actually looked at it for about a decade.
> instead of playing to the language's advantages and using light-weight tools and libraries that would allow them to move faster.

Depending on what you mean by "move faster", I may have to disagree. Besides a one-off script, I can't envision a scenario where using "tools and libraries" would allow you to move faster than using Laravel.

Laravel comes with an unbelievable amount of stuff done for you, right out of the box. Routing, Auth, Database, Queueing, Caching, Asset Pipeline, Templating, etc, etc. If your goal is to rapidly develop an application, there really is no better framework than Laravel to get that going. There's even a vagrant box that's all tooled for Laravel.

TBF, I may have misunderstood what you meant by "move faster".
Test Driven CAPS(Chef, Ansible, Puppet and Salt) Provisioning with Docker
As someone who has lived in South Dakota previously, yes, you can buy property for pretty cheap - including, even now, houses for 10-20 grand.

However, keep in mind that at that price point, you're usually forgoing things like reasonable Internet, neighbors closer than a mile away, and any kind of nearby amenities whatsoever. Oh, and the house usually needs a ton of work, and the basement is guaranteed to be damp at best, if not moldy.

$250k for a 6 acre plot of land with only one good structure on it seems overpriced for the region. I bought a 5.5 acre farm with a good house, garage, workshop, and sturdy fencing for $70k. Later sold it for $100k.
which proves that having more than 140 chars is overrated anyways.
Number.parseInt is not that bad but I'll take to_json() global function instead of (new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer()).Serialize() (or was it Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject()?) any day.

Or, to keep with the JS example:

JSON.stringify()

Not exactly that bad.
Bypassing the Sandbox is not extending the capabilities.
This (or rainymood as suggested by the other reply) seems to be a decent option. Did you use a pair of speakers near your bed? Or did you buy a pair of headphones/earbuds designed for sleeping? Also what sort of volume level did you use?
A magical friend for every child – using A.I
The more I think about the letter, the more I'm reminded of the poem Ozymandius. Are you familiar with it? The crux of the poem, up for interpretation, is that all empires are led by men of great confidence and eventually they return to dust over time. You know, like MySpace did before Facebook.
This is why text-based games are king. One dot release and we're seeing a mountain of new features.

I've always dreamed of getting together a big budget to make a text adventure (e.g. Zork) of incredible scope, both in depth and "interactibility" -- a complex object typologies system, bring in learning chat bots for NPCs, and a system where users can add new objects, rooms and descriptions while they play, a complete object relational system (so it can tell "on", from "next to", from "above"), a very complete state system and so on.

Perhaps an "adjectives system", so it knows a huge amount of adjectives relating to any one object, and can generate simple novel sentences about that object on repeat views.

I think that at some point someone will be crazy enough to do it, and it's going to be most excellent.
Am I missing something or isn't profit generally net income less taxes?
Lack of Affordable Options Will Drive First-Time Buyers to the Suburbs in 2016
I can almost guarantee you that if the deal went through then very few would know what Google is/was. Unless there was a brand change at the outcome of the deal. Even then, it wouldn't be the same.
What concerns exactly are you referring to?

If I hear someone expressing a view that I dislike, I'm well within my rights to do any or all of the following things: a) stop associating with this individual b) let them know that I dislike the view they've expressed.

Choosing to do both a) and b) is a normal social response, and the individual that finds themselves expressing views that go against the cultural majority will find themselves in an awkward position. If this view being expressed is worth expressing, then unfortunately the individual will have to endure hardships in order to get the message out and convince the masses ... much like MLKjr being willing to go to jail to communicate the idea that civil rights were for all.

So if someone wants to share racist jokes, then toughen up that skin and let the vitriol fly! They should be proud of what they are and let everyone know ... if it's a worthy viewpoint, they'll find others will rally to their cause; and if not, they'll find themselves awkwardly cast out by their social circle (or at least, their social circle's kids/younger generation).
I was hoping it was about @BoredElonMusk
OK, great! Clicking the main page[1], see the top of README:

"build error".

Wait, what? You just released it, it should definitely work! Clicking that icon[2], checking the failed build[3]:

ERROR: no certificate subject alternative name matches

requested host name `pear.php.net'.

To connect to pear.php.net insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

Really? See what's in http://pear.php.net/

> The server running pear.php.net had a fatal hard disk failure and gets replaced by a new machine this week. Until the new machine is setup, this page is up to let you continue installing PEAR packages via the PEAR installer.

In 2015? Cool.

Connecting to the https website ...

% openssl s_client -connect pear.php.net:443
...
Certificate chain
0 s:/CN=mail.cweiske.de

So you're using CN=mail.cweiske.de for pear.php.net. I don't even know what to say.. Well, happy hacking!

[1]: https://github.com/php/php-src
[2]: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src
[3]: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src/jobs/94372493
I suspect lsaferite has space uses in mind for the resources. If you wanted to build a large moon base, or maybe a giant telescope dish on the moon, not having to lift your materials out of Earth's gravity is a huge bonus.
I never suggested I wanted to get into PHP, I just want to see modern PHP to see how much of its reputation is still deserved.

Curiosity is a perfectly good reason to do things, isn't it?
aspiring web developer

Did he already know javascript? if not, why didn't you point him to that instead?
Weird, I've been using my IKEA bed, wardrobe and drawers for many years now and they're fine. Maybe I'm just happy to make do with convenience - like many PHP developers.
Holiday lights can interfere with WiFi
The trains almost never go that fast, and even if they do, it's for short periods of time. Average speed is the key thing.

Why are we only impressed by megafast trains? They aren't really cost efficient and probably won't be built at all. The best train is the one that exists! 200km/h is already probably reaching. Even 150km/h means you could go Chicago to Cincinatti in 3 hours (vs 4.5 by car) or San Francisco to LA in under 5 hours (vs 6 hours by car). At 5 hours, that beats the hassle of an airplane, IMO.
relayr || Front-end JavaScript Engineer|| Berlin, Germany
Full-time, Onsite

Berlin-based startup relayr is looking for Front-end JavaScript Engineer: relayr is all about bringing things to life. We have three technical pillars: an Internet of Things Platform as a Service, open SDKs and a Hardware development platforms designed to allow developers to quickly build Internet of Things solutions.

You will build Dashboards/Interfaces/Adapters that will connect these devices to an end-user. You will build tools that will enable other developers to use our system. At this position you will be able to create Single Page Applications, WebApps, Cordova Mobile Applications, Node-Webkit Desktop Applications, Ecma6 JavaScript code and more.

Requirements: 3-5 years in web engineering, strong proficiency in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, experience with AngularJS, Backbone, LESS, SASS, Grunt, experience in ECMA6 JavaScript and DevOps is a plus, interest in prototyping hardware like the RaspberryPi and Arduino.
For more details, follow the link: https://www.relayr.io/jobs/front-end-engineer/
Which is there every time the seek for the new investors begin.
An Apple hugging festive spirit ad from Microsoft
They didn't release it. They just tagged it in GitHub. The HN title is wrong.
Android Engineer | Canopy Apps | New York, NY | Onsite

We’re seeking a full-time Android Engineer to join our small, collaborative team and own the end-to-end development of our Android applications.

You'll be responsible for building, launching and maintaining the next generation of our Android apps that help 30+ million non-English speakers in the US gain access to better healthcare by enabling clinicians to communicate instantly and accurately across different languages.

Why Canopy?

- We're a small, tight-knit team located in the heart of NYC, working to solve the language barrier problem in healthcare and improve the health of millions.

- Canopy has won multiple innovation awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and is a winner of the 2014 PILOT Health Tech NYC award.

- Our products are used across 2,500 hospitals / clinics and 35 medical schools.

If you're interested in joining a sharp, motivated team as the 4th developer and 8th employee -- send your info to mcullinan@canopyapps.com
>anyone who's honest probably isn't police anymore.

The only reason anyone is aware of this story is because it was officers who took it upon themselves to leak the record and are agreeing to testify.
I'm optimistic about it, though I admit that I haven't tried it. Code written by a mob would have the benefit of receiving intensive review at the design phase. There wouldn't be many opportunities for a mob project to spiral out into duplicate functionality or mismatched modules. It's also potentially less taxing than pairing because you'd get the chance to sit back and ponder higher-level issues without constant prompting to fill in the next line. So the overall result should be higher quality in the average case, with less siloing of knowledge, and smoother daily output.

There are cases where you'd want the team to work more independently, but they have to be weighed against communication costs. Those pile up quickly on any team.
This is along the lines of hotbits https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
It's already online, the article links to a PDF scan.

And there are 140 original copies, but the article notes Farrar, Strauss and Giroux reached a deal with the authors to publish it.
What military doesn't teach navigation with a compass? I would also imagine that most, if not all, teach rangefinding to those who might need it; snipers/sharpshooters, gunners, etc.

My only military experience is from my compulsory service in the Finnish Defence Forces, where everyone does have to learn how to read maps and use a compass (we never used gps/other equivalent). I was in signals myself, so I didn't have any training for rangefinding.
What No One Is Telling You About Zuckerberg Donating to “Charity”
Not to mention, if they namespaced all math functions it'd break backward compatibility badly. Given that no core PHP functions are namespaced, I don't see why they should start now.

Also, with the functions in the global namespace you can implement a namespaced copy that takes precedence within the namespace and its children. It can easily confuse people, but I've seen it used to force people away from string functions to their multibyte equivalents (it threw exceptions).
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Ruby on Rails E-commerce API for Beginners. Part 2: Product Search