skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I can't resist indulging in a moment of pedantry here.

The phrase "The king is dead, long live the king!", which this title and many others play off of, is referring to two separate individuals, the now-dead king in the first clause and his successor in the second. The phrase is representative of a theory of monarchy in which, upon the death of the sovereign, their authority passes instantaneously to their heir, without the need for a coronation or a formal investiture, in order to foreclose on the possibility of pretenders to the throne arising during an interregnum.

So the correct (and I know you said 'usual and not 'correct', but bear with me) form of the phrase would be 'spreadsheets are dead, long live [whatever is succeeding spreadsheets]'. Of course, historically speaking, it was not at all uncommon for dead royals to suddenly reappear and reassert their claim to the throne....
Sendmail's original model was to get the best Sendmail consultants in the world under one roof and then deploy them building custom solutions.

Sadly a new CEO came in and declared that "the margins are in boxed software, so that's what we're going to focus on" and then fired all the consultants.

So maybe you're right, maybe it would have worked if they had stuck to the original plan.

But even then, it still wasn't a path to a huge business. 500M a year in revenue is definitely amazing and I would kill to own such a business, but it's not "rocket ship" successful, which is what most of the folks with this model are aiming for.
great, now only us important people will have amex cards, as it should be...
Little of what you've said matches my experience, whether it's on intra-city buses or inter-city ones.

Buses are functionally identical to rail (light or otherwise) with less structural and infrastructural requirements (roads, possibly catenary), buses look just fine, and buses are much more flexible and "denser" (in terms of stops density) than light rail or subway could ever be. Bus stops can be moved around, buses can be surged, buses can be rerouted, buses can temporarily replace light rail or subway if these have to stop, …

You do you, but I certainly have no problem with buses in general, the only issue I have with them is that it's not as predictable as dedicated-way systems since they're sharing the environment with all kinds of unpredictable factors (the best way to improve buses is to remove the cars blocking them)
Yes there is a migration script.
As opposed to a teenager that couldn't possibly know how offensive it is?
Yes, at double the tempo.
Interesting observation, is there some data showing this?
This looks very sexy, and I don't say that often about technology. This is something I've wanted to see for a long time - the ability to seamlessly move from a spreadsheet to an application

Edit: Quick feedback

Cell names appear to be case sensitive. While this makes sense from a programming standpoint, if I can't have a cell named "a1" the application should convert that to "A1" for me.

Not being able to tab between cells is annoying. Was there a decision made not to capture the tab event?
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Link to the product landing page (since the links in the post aren't currently working): http://gravitational.com/teleport/
Your css doesn't scale
Depends on the city I suppose. In London, most tech jobs tend to be clustered within Hammersmith-ish, Soho, and City/Shoreditch, all of which are in cycling distance of East London.
Sure, but isn't that part of the issue? Infrastructure is a national issue, not just a local one. It should draw from the tax pot as such.
HR Haldeman wasn't incredibly angry. I knew him and his family. One anecdote is that around 1990 Nixon was in Santa Barbara. Bob knew when Dick's motorcade would be passing by and walked to the end of his driveway and waved to Nixon as he passed. Time heals most wounds.

Bob did the prison time and Jo started a career to support the family. I've read Jo's unpublished autobiography. The saga was difficult for them—especially Peter, the youngest son—but they paid their dues and moved on.
What does the link do?
> Then when do you add "rape" versus the existing "violence", "sex" or "nudity"? Do you have to add them all for most rape scenes?

Rape is sex without consent, big difference between that and violent (consensual) sex.

"rape" might also include some frat boys joking about rape, which might really upset a rape victim watching it.
> In fact, planners and economists call road building “induced demand” because it encourages people to hop into their cars instead of walking or taking mass transit.

In the Bay Area, building transit infrastructure is expensive and time consuming.

Case in point: a five mile extension including one new train station of an existing BART line costs $890 million and took seven years to build. [1] The resulting extension is expected to increase in ridership by 5000 to 7000 daily trips in the next decade. [2]

There are currently 400,000 daily automobile trips from East Bay to and from Santa Clara County. [2]

[1] http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx
[2] http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx/chronology
That's a tough one, and I'm not sure there's a direct answer.

I suspect, though, that it has a lot to do with taste, specifically as to what it is you enjoy about other people's writing -- not to make your writing more like theirs, but to have a better eye for one's own.

In the same way that many musicians have insisted to me that missing out on opportunity to practice music as a child or a young adult needn't be an obstacle to becoming a serious musician later in life; it's vastly more important, they say, that you listen to music, and develop good taste -- rather than worry so much about "talent" or lost opportunities.

[Maybe it's]... finding the optimal linear regression of what people want.

But this, I think, is definitely not where it's at.

Though we should of course always be aware of hour others are perceiving what we create, ultimately it's not the job of the artist to survey the crowd for what they already know and "what", and give them more of it (though no doubt many artists get by on exactly this modus operandi, and some go on to achieve a great deal of notional success with it).

Rather -- the artist's job is to create experiences their audiences didn't know they wanted, or perhaps even thought they hated (or just didn't like so much) -- but because you've cast it in a new light, you've forced them to look at it differently. And this, necessarily, involves risk along with the near certainty of failure and rejection.

And because so many artists are afraid to cross that threshold -- sticking always either to what they think people will like (but which isn't their own creation), or to something that is their own creation (based on a few early successes), but never veering from that mold or trying anything really new -- we wouldn't say that makes them "fail" as artists, but they do tend to stop growing, and often never become as great as they once thought they could be.
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(Jason from Citus here)

As soon as they're built in PGDG! Our Docker image just builds on the PostgreSQL 9.5.1 image, then installs a .deb we built.

I've been wrapping up all our packaging work during the past week, but not having a OSS release yet was the final blocker for getting into well-known repos. We'll probably have a post about this in the near future.
There's problems on the operations side too. The same agency that is building that East Side Access (LIRR) still does fare collection by sending well compensated employees walking up and down every train to punch paper tickets twice per ride.

I don't know if it's an urban legend or not, but I've been told that one of those conductors punching tickets on every train is technically designated and paid as a "fireman" i.e. person responsible for shoveling coal into a boiler because the collective bargaining agreement forbids them from eliminating the position.
It's interesting that you say that. In an earlier conversation on density and walk-able neighborhoods, I seem to recall a number of people from Europe saying that noise wasn't as much of a problem as in dense parts of the US because of different construction traditions. (Europe is a diverse place, of course, so it might just be down to regional differences.)
Any Safari extensions for this? This sounds awesome!
I can't do one of these. It's the middle one of the last part. The diagram with the pentagon.
I thought it would use deep learning to do this. Silly me..
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Yes, totally. I can understand why management does this. Coders have a very high turnover rate as a profession. When your genius Clojure or Rust programmer leaves, it's much harder and more expensive to find a replacement than when your PHP or Rails programmer quits.

This then incentivizes new coders to take up one of the popular languages, because that's what most of the advertised jobs are for, creating a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop.
Hah! Just yesterday I was talking to someone about what an amazing stage presence Justin has. Couldn't have picked a better person.
As a Chicago native who has had a gun flashed at me while walking my dog a block from my house, I wish you were joking.
I think another change is needed for spreadsheets to be a more reliable tool.

Right now a sheet is a full document thing. Meaning that it starts with A1 in top left, and spreads out from there.

but what if you could break a "sheet" down into units?

So that you can have say a constants unit, with its own A1 to whatever as needed, and then another unit, perhaps called results, that hold the formula in their own A1 to whatever, each unit movable and extendable on the screen at the same time.

Now if formula A1 wants to refer to something in constants A1, the entry would look something like constants(A1).

This way one would have everything on screen, while avoiding the worry that as the sheet grows and one move things around to make it more readable, the formulas are referencing the wrong cells.
I had talked to tpearson about the ME. He left me with the impression that there is flash memory inside the chipset that is separate from the BIOS chip.

Maybe I had misunderstood as I can find no reference to substantiate that.
I agree it's a tax revenue problem. However, as a CA resident living in the bay area with a tech salary, I can attest that _taxation_ isn't the problem. An unfortunate reality is that our budgets are not being spent well. In particular, BART has some serious high-cost issues. For one, the automated trains have operators whose total compensation is an average of $130k yearly. [1] There are terrible, ineffective managers, directors, and executives that are guilty of mismanagement and greed [2].

soyiuz, you are absolutely right: BART needs more money. It also needs new people and a radical overhaul to update a system operating on 40 year old designs and assumptions.
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[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/07/are-bar...
[2] http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23416601/barts-top-paid-worker...
Have you read Rule 34 by Charles Stross? In it, a machine learning spam filter decides that the best way to stop spam is to bump off the spammers themselves. No-one realises its found such a drastic solution until people start dying in mysterious ways.

I'm not sure the robots will take over Matrix or Terminator style - instead, as algorithms get more complex and are able to take greater leaps of logic, we'll see more and more strange behaviour until suddenly things get really weird.

And then it'll be too late. Too many of our systems will be reliant on them to reverse course.

The digital domain will have become quite literally another domain of life, and we'll just have to deal with the messiness and unpredictability that entails.
Why is this article getting up-voted on HN? It is poorly written, contains very little information and completely mangles it's interpretation of the statistics.
You can't compare most mobile games to "action"-y portable games like that, because a phone largely doesn't control the same way. Strategy and turn-based games tend to work better.

As far as good mobile games that provide more than a bathroom break or subway ride's worth of gameplay, off the top of my head:

* Carcassonne

* XCOM: Enemy Unknown and it's expandalone, Enemy Within

* Hearthstone

* Tomb Raider GO and Hitman GO

* Pinball Arcade
If you are willing to throw resources at deciphering things, infiltration could be all you need.
Use RES keyboard navigation to navigate to top comment, fold it, and then go to next. With my settings, I just have to type OMJ.
The market more than doubled since 2005. An increase in the city budget from $5.3b to $9b is not that impressive in that context. They would get that if they simply held an unmanaged index fund. You would expect more growth in the bay area and better redistribution of the tax revenue.

Mismanagement of public funds is bad, agreed.
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What's so funny here?

For example, if Google gave France the right to censor content based on "right to be forgotten" laws, why not other laws? For example, nazi memorabilia is illegal in fr but not us (or most countries).

And if Google gave fr the right, why not de? Or cn? Or any other country in the world?
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Yeah I've had a few friends live south of 494 and they do that as well.

I wouldn't live out there, but my general problem has always been the freedom to go where and when I need to.
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Hogwash. What other part of life is a "if you get a little you're forced to have it all"?

Like that meal at the restaurant? You better damned finish it all or the chef would rather you not eat any!
> `I shouldn't do ${foo} because people will make fun of me...`

`... but why are they laughing from ${foo} in the first place? They're smart people, so there might be a reason. Let me research it more first...`.

This is how self-regulation works.
Ask HN: Post leftpad-ocolypse, practical guidelines for Node devs?
I'm looking for practical takeaways in the wake of the npm/leftpad disaster?

Should I still use npm? If so, should I adopt specific practices in my package.json, etc?

Should I be considering some other package manager?

Other stuff?
City living means pretty much apartment living in the US. It's a problem, because neighbourhoods can be walkable and still feel spacious. There's some fantastic low rise downtowns in Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans,.... Problem is, there's so few of them that they've all become expensive and tourist destinations. If more cities were like this, I think people would like their city centers a lot better. Now, it's either the car wastelands of urban renewal in the middle of the country, or the insanity of massively crowded downtowns on the coasts. No wonder people prefer to move out.
The market only cares about people that do pay. Those 99% might as well not exist and nothing would change.
You could typically type in a city name and that would give you a good enough idea. I guess that could be, but I've never had anyone ask me for my zip code for that.
docker-compose is kind of oriented towards what I think you are referring to, have you tried that out? I've done a bit with it and was thinking about explaining how I used it in some post but didn't know if it would be very useful outside of what I was doing. If you email me a small description I could probably whip up a docker-compose.yml as an example since it's fun to play around with.
Seconded.

I've interacted personally with him (he may not remember) and I would say he is quite thoughtful and effortlessly able to empathize and interact excellently.

My buddy in this YC batch has nothing but good words to say.

The YC network is a defensible asset I believe PG never saw coming.

Congratulations Justin!
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Couldn't people just run the red, especially if there's no intersection?
I agree, and variable names (with spaces!) are much more descriptive than cell ids. I do wish for an open source version through.
That is an unacceptable outcome for production systems.
Can we also get a containerized on-premise version of this service? We'd like the ability to spin up a couple of these behind a load balancer to let us achieve web-scale.
I doubt I'll use this technology myself--I generally prefer to see movies as they were created--but recuts and derivative works can be works of art in and of themselves.
One could have use this technology to create "Star Wars--the Phantom Edit", for example.

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

Production companies often create airplane and television versions of movies, and it isn't any big deal. I see no reason why customization of this sort is immoral since no one is required to use it.
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A lot of this stuff is slowly being integrated done with points cards and the like, but laws on the books in the NGC prevent some of the more egregious stuff from occurring that violate privacy things.
Agreed! The cure for mismanagement should be more transparency and more algorithmic government (along with testing)---a topic for another conversation.
It is added when somebody "noteworthy" has died.
Agreed the violence of the 80s was insane, especially in NYC. I was 10 the first time I was threatened with a gun, 12 the first time someone broke my bone in a beating (still visible 30 years later), 15 the second time I was beaten with a base-ball bat (20 years of chronic pain), 16 when I beaten by a group/gang. This doesn't even account the violence I saw perpetrated on others and things I forgotten. Violence was conspicuous and passerby's wouldn't even think of getting involved.

While I was nerdy, these things happened more because of differences of ethnicity than anything else.

When I left NYC I met someone who claimed that he had "never been punched" and I thought that was the craziest statement I had ever heard.

I am near two high schools in downtown Oakland and I have seen only 1 fight in the past 2 years. I think that today's kids are much less prone to violence even in the rougher neighborhoods and adults are much more likely to intervene.
Nice toby :)
thanks fixed
Gosh, it's almost like there are worse outcomes regardless of housing policy.
Yeah definitely an inspiration (and mentioned twice in the blog post). The main differences (unless I'm mistaken), are the parameter name mapping (which make it easy for differing APIs to interact well) and the idea of separating function application from argument binding, which allows for both re-currying (which actually unifies default parameters under curried parameters) and also for leaving fully-curried functions in a callable state.
I don't understand that. Using a chef reference I made below, if you cooked a nice dinner, but someone didn't like the brussel sprouts, should they not have eaten anything and skipped your dinner party? If you listen to some of The Donald's speech, should you not be allowed to skip some of it? Why is art all-or-nothing?
I think the joke here is that javascript has a long history of thinking that this:

null

is the same as this:

"null"

...Which it isn't.
It's just poorly done. The bits like "I hope you're proud of yourself" and "Just use Ruby - probably with Rails - and get the fuck out of my office." are actually how you write in this style; the rest just seems like a templated "I'll write it like this and then come up with something better" first pass, that never got fixed.
That's what different worksheets are for.
The real reason Slack became a billion dollar company (2015)
The Times should really stop referring to the "right to be forgotten" madness as a privacy restriction as it only touches on public info, it's a censorship law.

They are being fined and ordered to censor public record items globally, say what you will about China but even they don't do that.
Awesome project! This is a step in the right direction for better access management.
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. Fixed now. I actually got it wrong in all three places I mentioned him :(
They'd look a lot like us except they'd all be 1930s gangsters or ancient Romans.
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Great Highway in SF is timed to exactly 35mph IIRC.
In one of my previous houses (in Washington), we were on a hill with several other homes sharing the main private drive up the hill. We had a centralized apartment style mailbox with a slot for each house, and two big slots for larger packages. The postman had the same system of inserting the key for the bigger mailbox into your personal box.
Why does it only work "when cars are traveling at exactly 45 mph"? Wouldn't any constant speed work? You would simply play the song in a different key depending on the speed, like changing the speed of a record player.
This is a good post with a lot of ideas to stew on.

I think my only criticism of the current approach in the linked GitHub repo [1] is the use of `eval`, as that could make it tough to utilize in low security/sandboxed environments such as mobile apps and CSP-controlled sites.

I'll save attempting an actual code exercise for later, but my first thought was maybe using JS implicit `this` to your advantage (even while trying to stray away from classes) and using `this[functionName]` to index into it. (You'd still have security concerns with `this` defaulting to `window` or `global`, but you'd avoid the need for `eval` and you can take advantage of the depth of abilities of constructor functions and ES2015 class syntax.)

[1] https://github.com/tolmasky/generic-jsx
Tough shit, lol. We now have reduced TTL times for future occurrences, but there's nothing we can do for those users who are still experiencing an outage.
it is hard to understand that knee-jerk reaction to animals in US ( personally i think it is rooted in basic Puritan habit of blaming somebody else [government, immigrants, regulations, dogs, ...] for your own problems). I understand that Russia isn't a good example of civilized society. Well, in France you can take your dog or cat into any restaurant, cafe, bar, etc ... pretty much everywhere. The public and personal health situation in France is among the best in the world. Sanitary rules in US prohibiting dogs is just red-herring.
Coming from a web-dev background, it feels like the "really lazy desktop app" solution of the day is Node-Webkit/Electron. Everything else requires multi-platform testing.
That's a pretty bold claim. What's your justification?
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Shout out to Rodeo IDE as well -- they're doing a great job at making an "Rstudio for Python"
Monument Valley is indeed very good, but you can beat it in 2-3 hours so it's more akin to watching a movie than having a game you can play a few minutes per session several times a day.
They're also good because of the commitment involved. You can build around a light rail or a subway stop, safe in the knowledge that it will still be there in ten or twenty years. You can't build around a bus route like that. Ironically, the high expense and lack of flexibility are features, not problems.
Why does signing up for the beta require agreeing to a non-disclosure agreement?
Yes and no.

Yes you can do it with worksheets, but no its not quite what i am talking about because worksheets can only be on screen one at a time.
this is hilarious and timely
Would love to get some feedback on the product I'm working on. We get users to record video reviews that reflect on using a product for the first time.

Effectively, we try to learn whether a product lives up to user expectations. I'd love to learn what works/doesn't work about this product, and what questions you may have!
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