skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Independent Games Festival gives awards out to plenty of games no one has ever heard of.

Even the Game Awards, the most Oscar-like award show that video games have, gives awards to smaller, more "artsy" titles. For instance "Her Story" won best narrative for 2015 over more mainstream blockbuster titles like "The Witcher 3".
Man, this really should be a default functionality of github itself.
> My solution would be to jack up the real estate inheritance tax and allocate that money for public transportation and affordable housing.

In Silicon Valley product management there's the saying 'for every yes, there's a thousand no's."

In housing politics for every good idea, there's 100k people who will complain and sue.

The only policies implemented usually fall under the following categories

1) Irrational populism.

2) A backroom deal pushed by lobbyists and their political allies.

Sensible ideas usually don't fall into those categories.
Continuous improvement of the process itself is part of any good agile process. Corporate buzzword compliance agile is often guilty of not doing that - the "cookie-cutter property".

But importantly, I've found that a refined agile process saves more work than it costs, by figuring out what doesn't need done before doing it, and prioritizing immediate value over future value. It's very important to be able to say "This is good enough for now, but we know it's not good enough for the future". It keeps the perfect from being the enemy of the good. Likewise, it's important to be able to say "Well, I guess that didn't work", and have it be an integral part of the process. Without process, you have no guidance over what wrong turns you took and what those wrong turns cost.
Wow, I don't know what that comment has a greater supply of, ignorance or cynicism. Being paid more =/= fixing housing crisis.
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The sooner we start using IPFS or similar, the better. The current web is too ephemeral.

Just how much information is going to be lost, like tears in rain; how many blog posts, images, forums; with only the internet archive as a last resort.
Here's the latest blog post, which includes the link to the code: https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/open-sourcing-teletra...
Your comment about the blog prompted me to go check the Google Voice blog...nothing since May 2013. Crap. I've been using, loving, and recommending GV since I started using it in 2010 when I got my first smartphone...one day they're just gonna up and shut down GV and not only will I lose a service I'm extremely fond of but I also won't get, you know, phone calls, because that's the number I've handed out for the last five years.
The problem with syndromes correlated with human behavior is they're vague enough they could have 4-5 causative factors. The same is true of potential causative factors in autism, sexual preferences or depression. It's even true of very acute syndromes like Parkinsons disease (or cancer). We found one direct cause of Parkinsons; fentanyl impurities -there might be 100 of these.

We want to use science to explain things, and of course, we should try, but teasing out complex causes that may have multiple components over a lifetime is extremely difficult.
After nearly a month, yes. If significant starfighter users complained about how it worked, how long would it take for there to be a response? 2 hours? That is because you care.

A month is how long you spend when you really don't care, when you rather not deal with it at all, but somebody force you to. Of course people get annoyed when those they think cared about them actually hate them.
As you correctly state, it is difficult to know exactly what someone does and doesn't want even at the best of times, but in a professional context it is a safe assumption that the person you are talking to wants to be treated professionally.
I like Smugmug. No download for desktop, but their web interface fits my needs well.

http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1213254
There's virtually no religion or guns in Seattle. And I'm not sure what race you're talking about, but I can only guess Asian (since Canadian isn't a race!) and even growing up in the 80s half my friends were Asian.

We're not talking about Oklahoma here.
I was being sarcastic...
Agreed. Autoscroll breaks the mobile experience horribly. Small text... No pinch to zoom... Half the text is always off the screen in landscape...
No, I'm referring to spaced repetition, which is also often called spaced learning; the forgetting curve is why it works, but it is not otherwise relevant. The question about learning is how to distribute the reviews over time: all at once, or gradually over time with possibly expanding intervals. Similarly, with interleaving vs massed practice, the question is how to split up a fixed number of activities: should activity A be practiced for the maximum allowable amount of time, then B, then C and so on (analogous to massing on a single item), or should it be broken up with a few instances of A, then a few of B, and so on in a cycle until you've gone through all activities for the maximum allowable time? It turns out that for the same number of reviews or actions or exercises or time, spaced produces better recall than massed, and blocked/interleaved produces better skill learning than massed as well.
You say were experiencing scarcity then you start listing off luxuries! A mechanically constructed, mechanically harvested cotton blanket and mechanically harvested diet of beans and potatoes sounds more feasible. Maybe even too basic.

An efficient entry-level post-scarcity world is not going to overproduce pairs of jeans or transport coconut water across the world. That world would make just enough clothing to cover the populace and provide a cup of water on request. That world would want to stay just above scarcity, no want to waste, no need to introduce artificial market driven scarcities.
time to visit apple store
Thanks; kills me how corrections are placed at the bottom of a story by some pubs.
DDT?

In Silent Spring, the author predicts that DDT will cause brain problems very similar to dementia. There is also a statistically-significant increase of DDT in some patients with alzheimer's.
Assuming civilization doesn't collapse and the human race doesn't go extinct before becoming "The Progenitors."
I don't want to live in a world where encryption is banned. I also don't want to live in a world where one's political career is instantly ended by bringing it up. Those are just two different flavors of fascism.
Yeah, I thought the same, but they would move to Google+ Pages.
actually that campaign was a full success - it made MS realize no one cares about privacy, this led to Win10 spying on _everything_
It looks like Unicorn can apply operations (such as regexes) to text that is natively in UTF-8, giving it a distinct advantage over ICU, which was written back when UTF-16 seemed like a good idea and has to convert everything into UTF-16.
Are you sure? This is great news then!
Have you tried Adobe Lightroom? It's not free (you can get it and Photoshop for $10 a month), but it's the best photo organizer I've used.
Hi,

There is a gitter channel https://gitter.im/ethcore/parity
Please get in touch with my colleagues there so they can help you getting parity up and running.
I have witnessed and seen the day to day effects of a city (albeit, a very small one) that did find a solution to this problem: Aspen, Colorado.

It's a tremendous outlier - both in population (8000 full time residents) and in pricing (even more expensive free market housing than any of the big markets that are typically discussed).

The solution was to build city-subsidized "resident housing" that actual residents (as opposed to seasonal) enter a lottery to win, which gives them the ability to purchase the property (again, subsidized) and become property owners inside Aspen. Although the property itself can appreciate with the market, the owner can only realize 2-4% appreciation per year - the rest goes back to the city.

It works. There is a legitimate, affordable path to actual home ownership for regular folks in Aspen, and it takes those people out of the "affordable" rental pool which softens the pricing pressure for people who aren't staying forever or who haven't won a lottery share yet.
Ok, we merged this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11089174, which has the original source and was posted earlier.
As someone who moved from Vancouver to SF 4-5 years ago:

1. You can drive across a bridge to the east bay and find housing that is half price in semi decent neighborhoods. You can drive out for 2 hours and find housing that is the standard american price. In vancouver, driving for an hour just gives you a 100-200k discount on housing that is already over $1 million, there are no real affordable places to escape to unlike the USA.

2. Nobody in vancouver makes an income over six figures unless you're in the standard professions that make that much, such as doctors, high level managers and successful business owners. Only a very small amount of people are in those professions, and those jobs are not concentrated in any specific area. You could go be a doctor in quebec, alberta or some other small town and still make a similar income but have a far lower housing cost. There is nothing unique or high powered economically about Vancouver, it's not the center of anything. Vancouver's economic climate is NOT desirable.

3. This affordability issue has been a problem for almost a decade, and the provincial & federal governments show no real signs of having any desire to fix it. The only thing that makes it pseudo-affordable is the fact that rent is usually half price to a current mortgage. Housing has increased in vancouver 1:1 with the GDP of the city last year, which is freaking insane. People who have owned houses have gained more than their incomes for years! For comparison, the crazy SF Bay Area is something around 1:6 with (house value increases):GDP.

4. If you're stuck in canada, then there are better places to go to as far as money:price ratios go.

I could go on and on about this, but you get the general idea. Vancouver is pretty much dead to me economically and it saddens me that it will never be a good idea to move back at this rate.
Too bad Google Photos is such a pain to use. It has a mixture of terrible photos dating back to almost 10 years for me and many of these images have been organized, externally, or simply deleted. Trying to clear out Google Photos so I can restock it properly is pretty much impossible. I've wasted hours trying to do it.

I pretty much don't use it at all at this point.
I'm curious, what about bitbucket prevents it from being a real alternative to github?
There's at least two of us then. Reader is what made me swear never to rely on a Google service for anything ever again.
A citizen needs to have access to the law in order to behave lawfully. There needs to be free and easy access. A lawful society can't run in any other way.
OMG, my GV number is so precious to me, all my friends remember it because it's so easy to remember, in case if they lost their mobile phone and need to call someone.
Those hairdressers have chosen that job. Tech support people have chosen a job that is not like a hairdressing job. So I'm not sure why the rules of one would apply to another.

> The tech world, for all our declarations of being so progressive, is extremely prurient and repressed.

I disagree. I think that it is a lot more difficult to read any kind of social cue in a text-based technical support chat, and that the instinct to assume the other party wants to keep the conversation professional is sensible and prudent, not "repressed".
I think they hardly do, they could get in trouble.
You could try this: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/i-can-haz-pdf-academics-tweet-secre...

I'd like to share but I have seen often that a cover page is added with an IP address which can lead to problems for the sharer, perhaps meta data is also added about the download? One can only hope researchers will once avoid closed journals. I think they should, especially when they are paid by public money.
There was a lot of building from sources in mid-1990's (Linux 0.99 and all that), but ever since Ubuntu came out, there's been just no need.

I'm not missing that X86Config tweaking, either. But perhaps I've grown old; when I find a laptop that doesn't come up with X in RHEL, I just think it's a bad laptop.
Fundamentals then Frameworks
Earlier post was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11081961.
Artie: Hello, classmates. Instead of voting for some athletic hero or a pretty boy, you have elected me, your intellectual superior, as your king. Good for you.

- Simpsons
Ask HN: Static site generation from mySql?
Are there any widely used static site generators that connect natively to a DB to pull content into templates? I have a mysql db with structured content that I want to generate HTML from, and the usual suspects (staticgen.com) all expect content in text format.
Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070528
Perhaps, but that's not helpful if the probability of the infrastructure to support the preservation (family who cares, businesses, or even civilization) surviving to reach that point approaches 0.
And if you point this out you're a misogynist.
The Bay Area has been really bad about building, but some of the huge explosions in housing, for example the big towers going up in Redwood City, might finally help alleviate a bit of pressure.
People are split between:

- GitLab

- Phabricator

- GitHub + Phabricator Maniphest (or alternative)
Ariel Waldman: Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I looked at them and bookmarked your comment listing them. Thanks for posting them.
A lot of fresh grads (from UBC) in Vancouver are living around Kitsilano where you can get a one bedroom place for <$1000/month. Right now I live in a two bedroom flat in the heart of Kits where I'm paying $825 and my flatmate $725.

Previously to that in Vancouver I lived in the heart of Yaletown in a 550sqft studio costing about $1300/month, and started living there on a salary of about $62k.

I've never had financial struggles living in Vancouver with salaries ranging from $42-85k, and have generally had enough disposable income to afford to travel quite a bit, ski at Whistler every weekend, and eat out and go out regularly.

That said, it's totally a renter's market. It's unaffordable for me to buy anything that I'd want to live in for the longer term, unless I go to Surrey or somewhere else in greater Vancouver, which would completely take away or hinder a lot of the benefits I see to living in Vancouver.
will do. Thanks!
Andreessen Horowitz Sells Some Lyft Shares to Prince Al-Waleed
I'd imagine that pregnancy resulting in lower years of experience at the same age as the equivalently-aged man has an effect on that disparity as well.
Only to unreasonable people.
I think maybe we seem to be disagreeing because I see it as a feature that

> If the taxes are levied indirectly then there is very little incentive for any parties to change their behavior.

I don't care about any particular behavior per se [in the context of this discussion!]. If the costs of cleaning up people throwing plastic away are being met by a tax, why would one care whether plastic continues to be used for new items and people continue to throw it away?

It's possible that the most efficient behavior – in terms of physics – is to make things out of certain materials and then throw them away after some point. It's not obvious that reuse or recycling are always more efficient than simply 'wasting-and-remaking', given all of the other elements of our environments (like bacteria, fungi, ambient energy, etc.).
NicVolf on https://gitter.im/ethcore/parity can help you
It's not just Vancouver that's experiencing abnormally low salaries for tech jobs, all of Canada is.

The brain drain is slow but inevitable.
Thanks, appreciate the updated link
Honorable mention for yhat's port of ggplot2 to python. http://ggplot.yhathq.com/
There are some frogs and turtles that can be frozen alive, then thawed out, with no ill effects.

https://www.units.miamioh.edu/cryolab/projects/woodfrogfreez...
Now I'm curious. Can you point out one (or more)?
Well, as someone who's considering Australia and NZ as potential destinations, both language and visa situations are big hurdles to clear for moving to Berlin.

Maybe you have an European or U.S. citizenship, but they're harder towards South Americans. Also, software development salaries weren't something to write home about last time I checked (that was some a long time ago admittedly).

Edit: According to Glassdoor, Berlin Software Engineer Salary: €48000 (average)

Sydney Software Engineer Salary: $80000 (average)
The performance test data shows 32MB blocks are the absolute maximum block size that can be handled on desktop PCs today [1]:

> After simulating the creation of blocks up to 32 MB in size, we have arrived at some interesting conclusions:

- a 32 MB block, when filled with simple P2PKH transactions, can hold approximately 167,000 transactions, which, assuming a block is mined every 10 minutes, translates to approximately 270 tps

- a single machine acting as a full node takes approximately 10 minutes to verify and process a 32 MB block, meaning that a 32 MB block size is near the maximum one could expect to handle with 1 machine acting as a full node

- a CPU profile of the time spent processing a 32 MB block by a full node is dominated by ECDSA signature verification, meaning that with the current infrastructure and computer hardware, scaling above 300 tps would require a clustered full node where ECDSA signature checking is load balanced across multiple machines.

In addition:

> Aside from the obvious network and storage constraints of running a full Bitcoin node at large block sizes, it appears the Bitcoin network is capable of handling a substantially higher transaction volume than it does currently. The CPU time being dominated by ECDSA signature checks at high transaction rates suggests a clustered full node architecture could process credit-card-like transaction rates by using a load balancing / offload approach to ECDSA signature checking, e.g. a full node with a 10 machine cluster would top out at >2,000 tps.

> The resources and know-how required to run a clustered node like this may impose a significant centralizing force on Bitcoin. Backpressure against the centralization of Bitcoin may well drive alternative solutions to having all transactions on-chain. Alternatively, it may end up that Bitcoin adoption grows slowly enough that the computing power of a single node grows quickly enough to avoid requiring a clustered full node architecture.

Under Gavin Andresen's original plan, the 32MB limit could've been crossed in Jan 2018 when the size doubled to 40MB. Importantly, Gavin has since dropped the idea for a block size of 2MB. Hence you really can't claim that your own preferred plan for block size won't result in "a high-fee, low-transaction network". It's 2MB - that's a very far cry from VISA and it's only 0.4MB more than the scaling roadmap - that's a difference of at worst 3 tps out of VISA's 56,000.

Unless your intent is to quite literally put 100% of Bitcoin full nodes in datacenters, it's as clear as day that raising and re-raising block size ad infinitum doesn't work, as it usurps control of full nodes from individuals. It effectively turns Bitcoin into an enterprise database only accessible to the rest of us through garbage proprietary SaaS platforms. Clearly this isn't a benefit and we should be pulling out every possible stop to avoid it from happening. Look, if your vision for Bitcoin is that it should be like Parse.com for credit cards, I'm sorry but we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
Vancouver is on the way to becoming the bar from the joke "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
It may be overkill for what you are doing but if you are looking for a desktop application, Lightroom supports tagging multiple images at a time.
> motherhood drags female earnings down. .... Yet one minority appears immune to this scourge: lesbians.

> if employers promote them on the assumption that they will not have children and so devote more time to work than straight colleagues...

(Edited Some Spelling Issues SRY)

This seems to be the correct empirical evidence for me. I greatly admire people with a strong work ethic BUT it usually comes down to how many priorities you have above your priority to work. I feel like I have a strong work ethic but I can not compete with single, no children workers who put work above everything else or Frank Sinatra / Jimmy Johnson (Football Coach) who placed their work above their families.
We just moved to the reactjs GitHub org
Would it be as big a problem if people had a strong incentive to rent their property? I know most people like owning property, but renting often makes more economic sense. Especially when the cost to rent is significantly below a monthly mortgage.

As a city, Vancouver has the ability to vote for significant property tax increases. Which would encourage investors and speculators to rent out more of their (currently empty) property in order to offset the yearly cost of ownership. Right now, it probably is more expensive to sell property that currently has renters living in it, because evicting people is a messy, expensive and difficult process. But higher property taxes make it more expensive to own: a tax of 3% per year completely eats up a 3% yearly increase in property value. Unless you offset the tax through other income.
JSPM already uses it for sfx builds

https://github.com/systemjs/builder/pull/205

ES6 modules allow devs to easily specify and import only the parts of a library that are being used. The bundler takes care of pulling in the necessary parts. No magic required.
But, see, until someone successfully recovers, we don't know if we successfully preserved enough for a successful recovery.
Also, the risk of maternity leave should lower wages, (depending, of course, on its specific implementation in any given case.)

In most of the U.S. there is no equivalent paternity leave, so this risk (to the employer) is asymmetric.
Price is reasonable, but an hour outside Vancouver is damn far.
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in Scala Land
Alternately, all the people who would have been working on solving those problems say "I'll get my brain preserved so I can wake up and live in the awesome future after someone else solves how to thaw me!"