skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were dependant on our parents to do anything or go anywhere that was more than a few blocks away. No infrastructure for biking existed worth talking about. Sidewalks were sketchy; no one expected pedestrians. Visiting friends was hard, and depended on parental coordination.

Any sort of outing was a Big Deal; kids had to be wrapped up and put in the car, then we all had to trundle off somewhere, then the reverse had to be put into motion.

A transit system in a dense urban area makes these issues go away.

Slightly location dependant - there were no museums of quality[0] within hundreds of miles; same for zoos, libraries[1], symphonies, operas, plays, etc. Density drives tax base and demand; any reasonable urban area has all of the above.

Suburbs, as a common rule of thumb, strive for conformity and blandness. This has held true since the white flight era in the US[2]. So you wind up with really crappy aesthetics, and uninteresting options for engagement. A very common result is the alienated suburban teenager bored out of their skull. We were, to greater and lesser degrees.

Now, as adults, we both recognize several serious problems with the suburb/exurb system in the US.

1. It's not sustainable economically. You have a huge infrastructure system on a low density population; hard choices start coming out to play because of the cost of maintenance, which generally was capitalized by developers, but the opex is borne by the government; local politics in the US has evidently generally shifted to anti-tax Republican demographics; with fewer people supporting the burden, issues come out to play. So the net result is life is getting worse there.

2. It's not environmentally sustainable. Efficiency rises significantly as you start densifying the region; new services become possible at critical masses - one of the big ones is transit. This drives pollution down, decreases oil use, etc, etc.

3. It promotes closed-mindedness; without having to deal with the breadth of humanity, you don't have to cope with all of the reality involved, leading to really terrible policy decisions. Forcing contact with The Other and humanizing them tends to work out better in the long run. Referencing current politics: https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/687997269258407937 . NYC's great strength is having to deal with other people.

Anyway, if you take some time to look carefully at the "new urbanist" movement, these themes are repeated over and over again. It's not democrat, republican, libertarian, or green; but it recognizes many of the issues those viewpoints present. I'm not ashamed to say that I'd rather live in Manhattan, NYC than in any arbitrary suburb I know of (Now, if I could afford that in a residence I could raise kids in... :( ).

[0] Local History Museum is what was available.

[1] Less of a problem as a young child, much more of a problem as a teen.

[2] Note that "urban" is often an appellation on something meaning "black people". I wouldn't actually call suburbs racist by design, but I would invite quiet contemplation of race and environment in the US.
I assume the answer is 'no', but did NK liaise in anyway with the international body that governs orbital slots for satellites, or is it irrelevant for this orbit (or likely to deorbit in a few months anyway).

I'm not sure what is more likely; an NK that goes all first strike, or gets a bit too ambitious in launching satellites without participating in the appropriate international processes and triggers a Kessler Syndrome event in Earth orbit.
The same reasons the article lays out - that the underlying aspects of the written language drives the difference. Which I thought was really interesting as I'd never really considered them.
Having biked in urban environments for quite some time, I've found the solution is is to have a crappy bike and a bigger lock than the next bike over. Note that a crappy bike doesn't have to be a bad bike, just not something flashy.
This article is obviously about a person, that is an illegal migrant, not a refugee.

> “I felt like I couldn’t live in an open society,”
> said Aqeed Hassan, 26, who plays the clarinet and,
> back in Baghdad after going to Finland, is trying
> to get a job in a military band.
> “My wife has her head covered, and I didn’t feel like they liked Arabs.”

The whole debate with migration is that IMHO the real refugees need to visit psychologists, when they arrive here. They've suffered war, laws that declare gender-inequality ( soft words for what those laws actually are, but anyway ), homo-phobic state-politics, etc. Those are all things that western world fight ages to make it right ( yes, including war ) and people that have lived in different society can't understand by just "living" there.

I'm really happy to know people from Syria, Pakistan, Taiwan & Japan. It's so cool when we all try to understand more about the way we live our every-day life , but on the other hand all of us will feel offended if forced to change it. No matter what "When in Rome, do as the Romans do ...", if you can't just leave.
Nothing worse than a website that's a cluttered mess. I'm no designer but I think a minimalist design with negative (empty) space gives things a more modern, neat and clean look and makes the content easier to read/see (that's why I'm there in the 1st place).
I'm in the market for commercial property. I have a growing company, want a space customized for us, and we plan to stay long term. But buying is making almost no sense as you can't write down the costs against profit, whereas you can with rent.. so the only people buying such property are investors or people with money to burn in my experience. If they changed the tax code to let businesses get a deduction based on property they buy or build, ownership would be so much more diverse.
I'm not saying you can't write software happily in Nim. I'm saying that Nim would be a better implementation if it didn't compile to C. There are lots of things that languages I like do that they could do better.
He's pretty clearly intentionally only focusing on labor income.

It seems to be a rehash of this: http://www.aei.org/publication/the-terrible-economic-burden-...
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Microsoft uses the force: You WILL upgrade to Windows 10
They show that if the git commit has differing author and committed fields (It shows up when I reorder and squash commits on branches before merging).

All one has to do to make it go away is change the committer field on the git, this isn't security added by GitHub.
It wasn't only Germany with plans for colonization. Take the history of Königsberg resettled into Kaliningrad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast), which remains Russia's western-most territory.
Not if sufficiently many contributions from the community are incorporated into the code.
Here’s how expensive the beer is at the Super Bowl
Doesn't anyone know a Chinese/Japanese webdesigner? This question gets asked a lot and it is always answered by westerners who are second guessing.

Where are the design theories from the east? What is the "3 click" rule for eastern websites? What are eastern design students told instead of "use plenty of white space" and "keep it simple and focused"?
I've asked for examples of this in the past and nobody's been able to provide any.
A project that's copyleft and accepts contributions under copyleft without a CLI means that nobody has the power to unilaterally bypass the copyleft term for the whole project.
This article misses the point completely, that these Chinese sites are simply modeled after 90s and 2000s web sites. Go and look at way back machine and see the resemblance. This is coming from a UX/UI designer and developer who has lived in both countries and speaks both languages. To say that Chinese characters are inherently conducive to cluttering the page is straight up just a joke, it's actually the opposite. Chinese characters take up less space.
I've answered the starting question elsewhere in this thread.

> Kids need an environment where they can go outside and be kids

This is completely specifically isolated to your perception of what it means to be a kid. After doing minor reading on family history, what kids do, what it means to be a kid, and the environment they need are extremely culturally isolated to time and space. It's become obvious to me that practically anywhere can be a wholesome place to raise a child. For instance, what about a child in Mumbai today? Or the middle of Mexico City? Or Cairo? Are they so stunted? It simply doesn't compute that every child has to be raised in a suburban house to be a full adult with a happy childhood.
Indeed, In a few months you see how your brain optimizes information seeking and synchronization. Now a quick glance n mirrors is enough to know presence and distance. Before that I'd have to look at the thing like painting. I don't trust my 6th sense though, I often drop too fast too deep in the confident state.
A government which is tightly constrained in the use of violence by laws and social custom is vastly preferable to a free market in violence.
Private organizations could do the same safety checks

Someone didn't learn anything from the 2008 crash and the issue of private ratings agencies...

Privatize safety checks and businesses will shop around to get a certification.

Believe it or not, capitalism doesn't solve every problem.
What about it is a lie?
The author of the article is not writing a compiler.

I fail to see how that quote has any contextual connection with the current article or compiler design. A discussion about the merits of Unix text streams or text in general is another discussion entirely then the current one.
A person with sharp implements around your head and neck carries a modest health and safety risk and it might be good to subject barbershops to modest regulation.

Will the regulation actually be modest? A person braiding your hair (uncommon among the white middle-class American community but quite common in African-American communities) poses a trivial health risk, and there are many cases of where the relevant occupational licensing required thousands of hours of (substantially unrelated) cosmetology training:

http://ij.org/case/washington-african-hair-braiding/

http://ij.org/case/missouri-hair-braiding/

http://ij.org/case/txbraiding/

http://ij.org/case/utah-hairbraiding/

http://ij.org/case/taalib-din-abdul-uqdah-v-district-of-colu...

http://ij.org/case/cornwell-v-california-board-of-barbering-...

http://ij.org/case/armstrong-v-lunsford/

The stories are pretty much the same. "They used to require 1000+ hours of unrelated cosmetology training. Now they require posting basic sanitation standards, a written test, and a $25 fee. Thousands have entered the business." And these are just some of the cases that one nonprofit has taken and won. You can bet there's plenty more out there in many, many fields.

Of course, if we want to be fully ridiculous, note that Louisiana once required occupational licensing to arrange flowers:

http://ij.org/case/meadows-v-odom/

http://ij.org/case/chauvin-v-strain/

... or look up the cases on interior design... or the sale of headstones...
Good grief. Please don't, and please, no more "shitposts" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050922). We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050478 and marked it off-topic.

(This on the other hand was great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050562)
Rust is CLEARLY better at safety than C++. Stop seeking validation for that. Everyone who knows about Rust is convinced. I'm sorry it must be frustrating talking to someone emotionally disinterested about the whole thing. I've just been thinking about C++'s advantage in that particular instance from a software architecture point of view and you kind of failed to persuade me otherwise.

That being said, Rust is definitely a language I will continue to study. I have no doubt it's making me a better programmer.

EDIT: I find it funny that I'm always defending C++ here. C++ is like that kid at school who's not really your friend but you always get stuck doing project with. You end up spending a lot of time with him, so when the time comes that you hear someone talk bad about him you feel obligated to point out that he's a actually pretty alright dude.
I would love to see this type of analysis applied to other non-Latin writing systems. Also interesting would be a Chinese/Japanese comparison given that Japanese is a hybrid system.
> However if you spend enough time looking at combat photos and videos, you get a good feel for what kind of situations are captured during combat

I strongly disagree with this armchair analysis, 'gut feel' isn't good enough! Some photos happen serendipitously (not sure if that's the correct word for combat photographs). I'll be damned if the Saigon Execution[1] or the burning monk[2] were staged - yet the framing and timing could not have been any better.

1. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XwjZTVlnghk/U3Jv5jqOpBI/AAAAAAAAJF...

2. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ul72G5EX-Pc/VYjrTroozbI/AAAAAAAAJ5...
What would you suggest and why?
Interesting...the article posits, if frequencies can be discovered, it might be possible to intercept/capture transmissions from the satellite, when in range, using something as simple as a ham radio or SDR dongle (police scanner)...

My understanding of satellite coms is that many satellites are of the "relay" class, and use TDRS--Tracking and Data Relay Satellite--to bounce signals from satellite to satellite when a ground station is not in line of sight...NASA, for instance...

I wonder what the N. Korean coms protocol is...?
With retina displays what I personally found out was that having a retina display made my secundary screen partly useless, I just split the screen in half. Recently I also switched from atom to neovim and navigating files via text input, moving the importance of the screen from the "input part" to the "confirm action after input part". If my code got better... I would say screen size would be my worst possible excuse. :)
Well, regarding that small minority...

WebGL was enabled on Android on KitKat, and according to starts, that's 70,8% of installations (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html)

WebGL was enabled on iOS on 8, and that's 93% of installations (https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/)

I'd say most of mobile browsers can run WebGL, it's just that the experiences are not designed for mobile platforms (this Polygon Shredder, for instance, it does work on mobile, it's just too slow to be good, but I can probably make it work)

Other experiences like https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/cruciform/ or https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/xmas-virus/ are supported and do work as expected.

You're right that there's a lot of phones that are too underpowered to run WebGL experiences, but the browsers themselves do support it perfectly.
Yeah the only way is to make the ROI impossibly low. I made the mistake of thinking my old bike was crappy enough (low brand 90s thing with a broken pedal) to use two cable locks. Wrong. I was greeted with a McDonalds paperbag and the remains of these poor cables. Fat chain or U-Lock are mandatory.
I highly doubt that Nvidia dropped the ball this hard with Pascal.

A much more obvious and sensible conclusion is that Nvidia is currently developing their next chip, called Volta. We already know that the Department of Energy contracted Nvidia and IBM (lots and lots of money) to provide a good Volta GPU + POWER9 CPU combo for the new Summit and Sierra supercomputers set for completion in 2017.[1] This means that Nvidia knew since 2014 (at least) that they'd have very little time between their Pascal release and the more pressing Volta release. It's been their roadmap for a while now.

The Fermi, Kepler, and Maxwell architectures each had two or three years between them. Pascal and Volta are set to have a year or less.

1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8727/nvidia-ibm-supercomputers
Oh sure. I'm asking specifically, given that I'm writing software happily in Nim, what potential pitfalls am I blind to? My software is compiling to C and it shouldn't be so I'm wondering what can I expect to actually experience using Nim, outside of Hacker News posts about Nim.
The Qt C++ library does some neat tricks to avoid copying. For example its vector class (like nearly all of its container/value classes) overloads the "=" operator to perform shallow copies. So even though default behavior in C++ is to deep copy, it's possible to override.

Qt even takes it further by providing automatic copy-on-write. Methods that read data operate on the shared copy. Methods that change data cause the object to deep copy and detach first. This allows writing programs using values rather than references, while retaining the performance of references.
> Virtually no one.

Which is not the same thing as no one. And it only takes once to ruin your reputation forever (see also Sourceforge, Lenovo, etc.) Moreover, the probability of detection doesn't have to be very high at all because the cost to Canonical would be catastrophic, so any possibility whatsoever acts as a deterrent. And more so in this context because of the nature of the user base.

Your argument seems to boil down to the position that it doesn't hurt anything to go from detection not perfect to detection not possible.
I would never give up the autonomy that driving allows.

It might be cheaper for me to do some public transit + Uber or something (seriously doubt it where I love), but it'd have to be basically free for me to accept being dependent on others so much.
Cleaning the ImageNet dataset
For those looking into a standing desk, someone on HN recommended simply buying a tall desk with a tall chair, architect style, as opposed to an expensive/complicated setup to move the desk up and down. I want to look down into this option, as it's apparently cheaper and simpler.
I never managed to get into those, somehow I got stuck at the skateboard era. They do look very practical.
Apple rejects Binding of Isaac iOS port
Ask HN: Founders – how long did you test if your cofounder would work out?
Apple Responds to iPhone Error 53 Outrage
This is interesting: http://serverfault.com/questions/653792/ssh-key-authenticati...
I think it's 3 things (I have teenagers about to get permits)

1) Parents don't let their kids drive or walk anywhere due to safety concerns (real or unfounded) So kids have built in chauffeurs and thus a lot less motivation to drive anywhere.
2) Uber
3) Work returning to city centers.

Teenagers have parents driving them everywhere. They use Uber at college and then get a job in a city. I guess they could take on the expense and headache of car ownership but there's very little upside.
That depends a lot on the city and situation.
> “They were surprised,” he said. “But I told them I’d rather die in my country than die outside in a strange country.”

Well since most of the so called Syrian (and many other countries too) "refugees" are healthy young men, I really don't know what are they doing in EU (expecting wellfare money probably) instead of fighting for their own country for better tomorrow (what all young men did in their age around the world since dawn of time). Europe as it is today didn't came for free.
When the page loaded for me my IP and a street view 13 miles away from me loaded in the upper left hand panel...

Read later that it updates with each visitor...
C is more portable than the LLVM IR though. So you get an inferior in some ways, but a more portable program as your compiler's output. And if you want to debug in a debugger that uses a proprietary format rather than DWARF, C will work better than LLVM, etc.

C is an OK target for a small new language; it's probably too crummy for a big, successful one (C++ certainly is one data point here!) But IMO for 90% of new "small" languages that can choose between C and LLVM IR, C isn't obviously the worse choice.
I personally have never understood the logical difference between a political refugee and an economic one. It is OK to claim asylum because you have odious political views, but not because you children are starving.
You can't deploy something which doesn't currently exist.
I don't understand. How is this different?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040932
Schism Atop Bridgewater, the World’s Largest Hedge Fund
As per the usual, search for the title on Google and click through. I see the corporate culture of the future here and don't like it one tiny bit.
Can't you write depreciation against profit?
Here's the HN discussion of the "Dead Men Write No Code" article, which this article references:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040932
True. That's why it's common to set up two companies, one to own the real estate and one to operate the business. The business rents from the real estate company. This is OK with the IRS as long as the rent is commercially reasonable. Now, the operating company gets to treat the building cost as rent and deduct it. The real estate company gets to deduct mortgage interest and pays taxes only on its profits, the difference between rent and mortgage payments.

If the operating company goes bankrupt, it doesn't take down the real estate company with it. The real estate holding company just has to find a new tenant.
Most chinese news sites looks like versions of Yahoo to me. My thought is that they replicate the western equivalent of their site (Yahoo, Google, Youtube) and then move on. Not willing to put more resources in redesigning later.
This revision introduces a new string to indicate to Oracle employees
> : I have lived in the "woods" my entire life, so I have no dog in this fight. Do we seriously support shitty logic like the OP mentions? Anecdatae is not data.

If you've lived in the woods, you have no anecdata to support your conclusion either. However, there have been a raft of papers and other material related to governance in the past 15 years that describe the benefits of urban living and how to make it better. Further, the historical reality is that seeing Nature as better in the West is a strictly post-1800 phenomenon, being based out of the Romantic philosophical movement ( http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness... ). Historically, nature was untamed; the proper place for man was in the cities.

Look: we have n billion people on this planet. Do you want them all up in the woods, paving it over, adding gas stations, walmarts, and so forth - polluting it with french fries, used condoms, and the detrius of modern society? Or would it be better for us to build a sustainable world only in the cities, and leave the woods to go walking in for refreshment and experience? I choose the second.
Except it isn't - because of sampling biases.

> Take the most average person you know

The average person you know might not be close to population average, depending on the circle of people you know - let's say Stanford post-docs.
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This was us. I had never owned a car, had let my license lapse.

As a childless couple, my wife and I used public transport to visit friends, shopped by bike, use a car share service (zipcar here in Melbourne, Australia) to visit relatives occasionally and for weekend trips.

With child one, I got my license again, and we used the car share service more often, as we planned compound trips where we went to see friends, made a supermarket trip with the car, all with the child, which would have been too time consuming without a car.

Once child two arrived, schlepping two car seats to and from the car share parking spot became too much. Also, child one started having things to go to (swimming, playdates). So we bit the bullet and bought a car.

I plan to go carless again as soon as we don't need a children mover. My wife is not so sure. By then, self-driving cars might make our decision easier.
> (expecting wellfare money probably) instead of fighting for their own country for better tomorrow

Hacker News: Taking armchair coaching to a whole new level.

Sometimes I despair at the lack of empathy that is possible.