skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shortening the time it takes to go from north to south.

All island are plagued with the "points of entries and congestions". Montréal is 30x40km island. With limited bridges.

So by making a large artery that almost lead people from bridge to bridge (N/S) you may think you can create a traffic that will not interfere with the inter urban traffic... (laminarizing) thus getting rid of intra congestion. (Since it is in a trench and has bridges on top).

But it also creates opportunities (like with real estates part) that have adverse consequences. And vortex around the entry points.

It also create ruptures in the city that artificially recreates partitions. Thus recreating "islands" in the island. Maybe not for cars, I admit. It also generates more pressure on the outside bridge thus congestion at the edge of the city that are way more expensive to solve. Which make montréal famous for its traffic jam when commuters leave/come.

Regarding the inside near décarie : not all inhabitants have cars some are not rich enough. And it is destroying local area business (thus jobs for the guy already plagued). Thus parts maybe gradually abandoned (unused infra decay faster) in the blocks near Decarie, and ... well, it does not attract neither business, nor wealthy inhabitants. So it is like a decaying scorch in the city, infra that still require maintaining with less income ... slowly draining money by fiscal pressure (no perequation between districts) ... making people leave ... (vicious circle)

I am really puzzled by the way engineers model flux in the city. I would really like to understand the bug in their brain. Probably education + "a one best way and no need to measure"
(Buddhist here)

Could I see quotations about the history of violence? Buddhism has by far the lowest score of violence of all five big religions of the world. Not to mention that when that violence did happen (zen priests blessing kamikazes during WW2, myanmar riots these days...) it has been condemned as explicitly not-buddhist by the wider Buddhist world (for violence has no place in the Buddha's thought).

As for it being a religion, well yes it is, however it is not a theistical religion that explicitly asks you to believe in a vengeful, retributing god.

The Buddha describes how reality works (karma - from a certain action an appropriate consequence will follow, and there's nothing fixed or permanent, just conditions giving rise to other conditions) with the important corollary that if you want to be happy, then do actions that are ethical because "good" consequences will follow from those. This is what we call a "philosophy" in western thought.

It only becomes a "religion" when one believes that one too, could be like the Buddha, becoming something that's much higher than what one is right now.
One doesn't have to believe this bit however, one could very well follow the Buddha's teachings (and meditation, which is an integral part of) just to become a happier human being.
Very geohot of you
libmill provides fibers/coroutines as well. check "go" keyword.
I recently posted on the community group with the title golang, they were pissed. The subject was diverted to "Language is called Go not Golang". So if you don't want to be facing their wrath, it'd be cool to call the language Go :D
The trick here is for "ordinary cases" ^^.

Vectorizing bitmap might not be trivial and results in crappy or huge (in size) outputs.

As far as I can, I would like to keep this conversion library as simple as possible. Ideally it should be a simple translation between EMF records and SVG with exceptions only where there is no direct mapping. Bitmap blobs, when supported, will be converted to png and embedded inside the svg.

However nothing forbids you from adding a post treatment on the generated svg to handle bitmap/png.

The day I will come back to my initial motivation for this lib (converting visio stencils to svg, including emf blobs), It's probably what I would do if I need to.
Do you guys know of any other projects of networks where the infrastructure is owned/crowdsorced by the public?
The twisted history of high heels
I sometimes think of Computer Science (in the classical theoretical sense---and Knuth is a towering figure in that domain) as having a similar relationship with programming as that of Mathematics to Engineering. A basic foundation in the theoretical background is very helpful, possibly essential, to professional work, but a deep understanding of theory is unnecessary. That said, those engineers that have a deeper mathematical foundation can realize important benefits to the quality of their work. Similarly, a rich immersion in abstract computer science is not necessary to programming, but its presence can be of great value. Being aware that a given programming problem maps to a well-understood class of algorithms with known performance and correctness enables elegant solutions.
There are apps on Android that lets you run your (old) phone as a SMS gateway. Just plug it into a usb port and select usb tethering. Then on the server/pc:

ethtool usb0
sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.100.100
ip addr show usb0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10899576
Maybe this guy found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7mVPQBgYrg

His videos are hilarious, he is always finding random stuff like wallets, go pros, i phones... in one video he found 3 go pros.
I had almost the opposite thought. When I see the full message/control it looks like "too much". The chat window is how people normally write, so it felt more casual. The other ones looked more "formal"
It costs quite a bit to maintain an empty house at a comfortable temperature. It also takes a good while (order of hours) to converge on that comfortable temperature if you haven't run the HVAC in a long time and the weather is extreme.

The ubiquitous programmable thermostats do different things at night, in the morning, during the workday, and in the evening. The idea being that the temperature is allowed to drift when no one's home, but is brought back in line by the time someone is in the house again.

However they are a PITA to program (tiny cryptic LCD, 4 buttons) and basically useless if you don't follow a consistent daily routine on the weekdays. Nest's value proposition is to be smarter about when the house is actually occupied/going to be occupied. Also when you're traveling (or if you have it in a rarely-used property) you can remotely start the heat/AC when you're several hours away so that it's comfortable by the time you get there. I have none of these problems, so I don't have one, but they do solve a problem that some people really have.
Telegram Has 17+ Million Users in Iran
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Apparently it doesn't mean less ads. Apple is just outsourcing.
This is not a bullshit argument. It is similar to labor laws in some states. You can claim someone as a indy contractor but if they are working with your tools or at your job site or under your instruction ... guess what? some states don't care what you call them ... they will be processed as employees not contractors.

Not bullshit.
That would look really strange.
PersistIQ (YC S14) is hiring a front-end engineer
I think it's very important to note that the writer of this post deliberately split the chat version into 4 separate messages instead of one, while it's really only a single message (and you can send a single message with line breaks on Facebook).

This changes the perception drastically and, more importantly, isn't a fair comparison. The "control" wasn't presented as 4 different messages and it makes total sense that sending more messages would appear more desperate.

Consider other mediums:

* Phone: someone leaving 4 voicemails in a row is perceived as super desperate in comparison to someone who leaves a single voicemail of the same total length. This is literally a sitcom trope.

* Email: someone sending 4 different emails (1 per paragraph) would definitely create a different (negative) impression than someone sending a single email

The author pretends to be demonstrating a way that the Facebook UI twists a message but is actually just affirming what is likely a universal trait of messaging: sending more messages before a response signals social awkwardness and desperation.
Is there any reason not to run -current?
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How is it something new? It seems a lot like App Engine to me, albeit with less tooling.
Or just send it as a single message...
I should note that, while TAOCP is absurdly important in CompSci, it's probably not a good starting point. I'd recommend Corman's book on algorithms first, and maybe getting your feet wet with Knuth's Concrete Mathematics ( if only as a more gentle introduction to his style).
What's “The Data Vault” and Why Do We Need It?
Also, Kirsch joined the SEAC team in 1951 after SEAC was already operational.
My son spends a ton of his class time programming games into his TI-83. He even built his own Final Fantasy type game (when he really should have been doing classwork). He built a battle system, and even a merchant/vendor for buying upgrades. I had a lot of fun playing his game, and offered him some ideas for improvement (which, again, were made during class time).

And yet, I can't get him to sit down and put any time into programming on a computer. Sigh.
Speaking personally for me, a bit of both.
> File versions--who needs a revision control system when the filesystem can keep track

I think that is looking at it the wrong way... It's more, "who needs the complexity of a version control system?". Turns out, not everyone.

> Extended attributes

Umm... that has been there since forever. NFS is the only place where you struggle for EA. Again though... turns out it is not as important a feature for most people.

> Fine-grained access controls

The mother of all security audit nightmares.

> Functionality even over high-latency links.

NFSv4 and CIFS worked out perfectly functional solutions to this ages ago... and those are the filesystems that predated AFS.

> Local caching and consistency control.

Not surprisingly, same as above.

> Survival even through netsplits.

NFS 4.1 has this, not to mention most modern distributed filesystems, and while AFS has it, the problem can be complex enough one sometimes wonders if it really should be solved above the filesystem.

> Quorum and consistency management on the fly (add and remove computers from the cluster without killing yourself)

Well, NFS always had a pretty simple solution to this: stateless clients, and I can't think of a post-AFS filesystem where this wasn't handled in the local caching solution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895295
someone to watch your 4 hours of boring helmetcam video, pick out the coolest 90 seconds worth, edit it into a cool video, and put it to hip music then upload it. That is a feature I would pay for! Gopro is great but the editing process sucks and is totally boring.
That's why you write tests. Not that always works either, but it's not like a qa team of point and clixkers running over a manual set of those same tests will always get it right.
Dear Reddit, watching you is like seeing an old friend die slowly from cancer
> It's more that the financial, logistical, and personnel aspects of getting such a difficult project completed and used by anyone would drown out all of the fun.

Nailed it. I would argue that MapR is basically a company that did exactly this and figured out a way to monetize it by packaging it as part of a map/reduce system.
Hardware that searches for dark matter
I prefer the Sedgewick illustrations. Yours are targetting kids and is too verbose.
POSIX will always be there. Whether you are using it for your typical distributed filesystem use case...
Actually it's a common error. Some buffer is 4 bytes for digits and overflows when 5 are written when the counter goes to 10000
He's not exaggerating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#Roads

Urban highways in the US are a facet of the American Dream vision of the suburbs as "a safe place to raise your kids," which is basically a euphemism for "far away from the scary minorities who live in cities."
sounds somewhat similar to a "slow induction/sucking into swamp" way the Scientology consumed (in all senses) one my colleague some years ago. If it looks cult-ish, if it sounds cult-ish ...
> Seems hard to justify using MIT licensed code in that case?

It doesn't.. It's what MS essentially had prior to opensourcing .net proper.

They had some parts of it the library that were free, and some parts that were hands-off or we'll sue you.

It makes sense to try and lure people in at first with "free" and then scare them into buying licences if they ever manage to get big.
AIs may routinely design things in the future, but it'll be a while. Before that happens, people will be doing CAD in VR. VR is going to be a much bigger force for change in the CAD industry than AI for the next few years.

I think anyone who has used an HTC Vive or Oculus Touch will agree that VR with tracked controllers is an order of magnitude improvement over monitor+mouse+keyboard for both viewing and creating three dimensional objects.
Sleeping with heating on seems a waste of energy to me. At least in Spain.

I have a dumb thermostat. It doesn't even have a clock. It just has two buttons, one two increase temperature, the other to decrease it. In winter, during the day, I put it at 20C. At night, I put it at 15C or lower (which stops heating, as the house temperature decreases to about 17 or 18 degrees during the night, without heating). It works like a charm. We are not cold at night as we use pyjamas and duvet. We also have a baby. In fact, if I forget to turn off the heating at night, I can't sleep well and I often get up to turn it off.
Bingo, thanks for explaining well. This will work if the switching costs between vendors is relatively low (like with guns); if not, the boycott would be harder, but likely sustainable for a limited amount of time, which would still extract a toll from whatever manufacturer was chosen.
Interesting. I can't stand the bible for more than two pages. That and the few historical aspects of European culture (missionaries, inquisition,...). The few bits I heard about Buddhism are much more poetic and abstract. I'd like to see the bad arbitrary / absurd part of Buddhism now.
How about orientation data that could be used for VR ?
Yahoo BOSS service to be shut down
Just got this email:

At Yahoo, we’re always looking for ways to streamline and simplify products for our customers. With this focus in mind, we will discontinue the BOSS JSON Search API, as well as the BOSS Placefinder API and BOSS Placespotter API, on March 31, 2016.

Access to the BOSS APIs will continue until March 31, 2016. Moving forward, customers leveraging the BOSS JSON Search API can instead use YPA, a Javascript Solution that provides algorithmic web results with search ads for publishers who manage their own search engine results pages (SERPs).
JS.coach
Now let's hope that this means Apple will no longer have a conflict of interest when it comes to selling eyeballs or user data.
btw, if you didn't find an in-joke [1] funny [2][3][4][5] then it's probably because of a very good reason :)

Knuth himself found it funny [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-joke

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.compute...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/38gt65/was...

[4] http://texthook.com/blog/2013/07/01/reading-knuth/

[5] http://tal.forum2.org/story_45

[6] http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb17-1/tb50knut.pdf (page 10)
Did you go to the one in Ventana Wilderness? We've mountain biked by it and I keep meaning to check it out.
it's time for: http://www.lowrisc.org/

For desktops, it simply needs to get into the fast enough territory.
Show HN: Web app to build better products using visual feedback
Article author here. Thanks for all the feedback. Many of you missed the big players like Azure, AWS (Lambda & Elastic Beanstalk), Google App Engine … Well, that's true.

Due to my perspective I am mostly interested in the "bootstrapability" of the business model here: What are our companions are doing?
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Except that at the time Jobs fought FSF, so he wouldn't need to open the ObjC sources. He lost that fight.

It's called knowing history. Just because two decades later Apple decided to fund open-licensed clang does not negate my second sentence. Clang was no longer considered competitive advantage, like ObjC was at the beginning of 90s.
Copylefts only have teeth because of these "stupid" IP laws. Free Software would be nowhere without copyright. (Yes, you could redistribute binaries, but you could not compel the release of source code for derivatives.)
That's great to hear! I'll definitely give it a try!

What C states does it currently support? My FreeBSD box spends most of its time in C8.
HIPAA mandates that the people have access to their own PHI held by covered entities, a mandate which did not exist before HIPAA, so it did the opposite of creating additional barriers to patients getting access to their own data.
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I did wonder if perhaps its name and anti-Arabic prejudice held held it back. It would be a shame if it did, because Al Jazeera seemed like a remarkably sane and thoughtful voice in the otherwise short-sighted and highly partial media landscape of the US.
Worth noting that the Hebrides is a diverse collection of many islands rather than a single island, as Mr Omvlee states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrides
People should have the right to tinker with whatever they bought.Telling them only they can, and not an expert 3rd party, make the change is ridiculous as not everyone is a rocket scientist in the respective fields.

If we buy car/tractor/phone/whatever, we should be able to modify it(its hw/sw) however we want. I fail to understand how it breaks copyright. No one is copying and distributing anything. Copyright law should be to protect IP theft. Fix the law instead of having a stupid meeting for exceptions every 3 years. Or copyright yourselves into stone age
minor erratum: "The effects of meditation and solitute" should be "The effects of meditation and solitude" :)
I've always thought about this when responding to emails in clients where the text in the mail you are replying to is formatted differently than the text in your input window. Sometimes the incoming mail may look like a huge wall of text compared to the one you are typing due to fewer column count and you are feeling this pressure to put more text into the response as your text looks so pale because the input window is wider.
Any email you have that is 6 months or older is free to be read by almost any law enforcement from local to federal level, without warrant.

Why do you think President Clinton setup a private email server in the first place? The law was signed just before his presidency and he was advised of this.
It's already difficult enough for humans to understand humans, so I wouldn't worry too much about this. What I do expect is that the least sophisticated parts of jobs like conversion optimisation will eventually become largely automated. Humans would still input the constraints, but the machine generates the inputs for a multivariate test, measures results, decides which variant performs best and rolls it out to all users.

Think The Grid [1] mashed up with Multi-armed Bandid Experiments [2]

[1] https://thegrid.io

[2] http://analytics.blogspot.nl/2013/01/multi-armed-bandit-expe...
> Surely any bugs that were fixed in LibreSSL would have been shared with OpenSSL, right? Or is it legacy code that was removed during the Valhalla cleanup?

hannob gave the reason, but bug could also be unwittingly removed by separate cleanup e.g. generic replacement of unsafe functions/practices by safer ones.
What+Hot+Dogs+Look+Like+in+Different+Countries+Worldwide
Pf-kernel
It still is popular, even in new construction, in the Pacific Northwest.
Prolog satisfies that description much more closely than Haskell. In fact Haskell is really closer to C than Prolog, if that's the basis for the comparison.
Some staffers saw that as a tacit admission that falling oil prices were behind the closure
Yes, that's what I meant - I remember it was an issue when they started to gain traction in the US market. For someone not familiar with them, Al Jazeera likely doesn't sound a like a legitimate news source. I wondered if that's still the case. Persoannly, I found their reports to be excellent in many cases.
It might look like this because new line in facebook chat is "shift+enter", I believe only a few percent of facebook users know that shortcut.
So if you want to create a longer message on facebook than "sup? wanna hangout?" you probably will compose a few messages and treat them as one.
I'm getting a webpage not available error. Has anyone got a mirror?
Scaling Uber [video]
Bitrig does not have support for ZFS. Must be something different from Bitrig the poster is talking about.
Victim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency
Which patches from Bitrig are you exactly talking about?
"We checked the work account on your work computer"? That sounds pretty proportionate.
So if you have the right to modify the software in a tractor, doesn't that imply that you have the right to modify the software that Microsoft is selling as well? The fact that the software we're discussing here is installed on a tractor rather than a PC shouldn't make much of a difference?
Valve Released the Steam Link SDK
The Google interview process is harder (but less horrible) than Apple’s
You should be able to change the file handle limit without much effort? I'm not saying you made the wrong choice, if you don't have some pretty deep sysadmin skills, you should probably be outsourcing your hosting, but that seems like a weird justification.

All that really matters is Heroku is cheaper than people. When it no longer is, you start thinking about hiring.
If we really put this into law in a way that works, what's going to happen is that companies will stop selling people tractors and instead lease them to people for an unlimited amount of time for a one-time payment, or something similar.
>It might look like this because new line in facebook chat is "shift+enter", I believe only a few percent of facebook users know that shortcut

This convention is used in a lot of IMs on desktop that predate Facebook
Ann Caracristi, who cracked codes, and the glass ceiling, at NSA, dies at 94
Planned obsolescence is way more profitable anyway.
ECHR should have considered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
Does this mean iOS 10 will have a system wide ad blocker and all apps will be required to allow their ads be blocked?

Or, will there still be this split where if you want unrestricted ads you need to make a native app instead of a web page/web app which coincidentally helps lock-in and potential makes Apple money if the app charges for anything
Selling this as a service to the merchants seems like a great idea. It would feel less creepy than allowing Yet Another App access to my inbox and credit card details.

Supplying merchants is also likely to provide a more _predictable_ income.

However...

Are giants like Amazon really likely to listen to a pitch from a startup, even one incubated at YC? (No snark, genuine question.)

There is another option: open source the product and give it away, charging for the hosted service. Obviously this may not be an option for Paribus, which would be a shame.
You're kidding right? R# has lots of benefits to VS2015.
Of course I should be allowed to modify the software that Microsoft is selling as long as I am not redistributing the modified software. I paid for, and thus own both the software and the device that the software is running on, so why shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever the hell I want with it? End User License Agreements be damned.
Yes, he will revisited the first three books after the fifth finish, cmiiw.
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