skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They gave him money, and he built highways with that money. Besides, NYC is far from the only place where this happened.

Look at St. Louis: rather than creating peripheral connections through then-undeveloped (not anymore!) land to the existing I-55 (which for miles runs along the Mississippi, completely avoiding the problems I cite), they routed not one, not two, but three different interstates (often less than a mile apart) through central neighborhoods (most often those of minorities), destroying the existing networks of travel, commerce, and community. For what? To save a longhaul trucker five minutes? Pull the other one; those truckers drive north or south of the city on 270 to avoid the mess of the Poplar St Bridge and East St Louis's mind-melting spaghetti junction, and they have for decades. The destruction of minority communities, and the poorer lives that minorities live in St. Louis today, was a feature, not a bug.
"Boy I sure hope I negotiated a good salary instead of discounting it to take funny-money equity."
"They aren’t looking for a guaranteed $1M, they want a chance at $1B or $100B" - in other words they are greedier than the greedy.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11506208
I once took a speed reading course and my conclusion was, just as the article, that it is glorified skimming.

But some text are written to be skimmed (large parts of many college textbooks for example - the author is paid by the word, so there's often a lot of filler. Most people only need to get squinted with most journal article they meet)
Not that easy, their entire military is based on western arms, retooling and retraining your entire army isn't that easy, the retooling part is especially not cheap GL hacking your Russian guided bombs (if they agree to sell them to you) to work with US aircraft, sensors, and command and control tech etc, yes it's possible but it's not like well gosh we can't buy US cars any more, screw GM, MG here we come, you can't just switch over.

Also both China and Russia don't just export anything, in some cases it would be harder to buy from them than from many Western nations.
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I agree, even as a major iOS detractor, that recent iPhones are amazingly repairable, while there's an opposite trend for many (most?) high-end Android phones these days.

But is it really "disgusting" that a phone is cheaper to replace than repair because it is extremely cheap to begin with? Following that argument, they would solve the problem by raising the price of the new phone.
Then open source the system from the beginning, so you literally lack the ability to insert secret backdoors.
Environmental forecasts must account for our pace of technological innovation
Looks like you get a lot of install customization
The trouble with the Australian 'VAP' number is Australia has a very large percentage on non-citizens. It seems from the data that they have divided the votes by the total population rather than the number of Australian citizens.
How did this riveting political discussion make it all the way to the front page? It seems to be abjectly off topic for HN.
The truth about Gandhi's sex life
If you are looking for anything but sex on tinder, you're gonna have a bad time. There are very few relevant relationship signals on the app.
>1) Housing in the vast majority of the US is inexpensive. Paying $3000 for a tiny room is something that pretty much only happens in SF proper and Manhattan.

HN is such a weird place. I can't believe the number of posts, comments, and job posts where you have to dig deep, deep down to figure out where the heck it's talking about.

And the answer ends up being "Well obviously San Francisco, California." It's the default here.
It would be interesting to see this expanded to other footballing nations where even second division teams aren't available in FIFA 16. Curious about the technology stack.
Upgrading Your MacBook Pro Retina to a 1TB PCIe SSD (+video)
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Show HN: Teach Us What You Love
When I was learning to play bass guitar, I had a discussion with my instructor about Bob Seger. My instructor scoffed, "He's a fat, aging hippie!"

That was in 1979.

So I have to hand it to my little brother, who, after 35 years of working at it, finally landed the keyboard role in a 'prog rock' band. They just did a CD and, for such a late bloom, it's impressive!

So hey, all you prog rockers, what do you think?

This one's called 'Teach Us What You Love': https://goo.gl/b3q1gL
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Did you see the specs? He went from a Commodore to a NUMA-scale machine that he will implement on a mix of Xilinx and ICE FPGA's. Not saying he can't do some fraction of it but those are some heavy specs.
Awesome. Good job.

Feature request: On hitting cancel, could that be 'resume'/ 'clear' ?
What does the bill actually, you know, do? The article has neither a link to its text nor an identifying number, and the name, "9/11 bill", is not a good enough search term to be able to easily find it. It's kind of absurd to try to discuss the bill, or political machinations surrounding it, without getting that basic information down first.
The main difference between Saudi Arabia and other countries you mentioned is that Saudi Arabia executes people for atheism.
I can't speak much for other countries, but for the Germany I suspect that a big part of the difference ultimately derives from a different voting and representation system that is much less focused on individual politicians, and therefore has a much lower tendency to devolve into a popularity contest. (It's still a popularity contest, but much less so.)

The unit that really matters in Germany is the party, and the most important vote in all elections at the state and federal levels is a party vote rather than a vote for an individual. Something like a Sanders candidacy would be completely unthinkable in Germany simply because of how the elections work.

(There is a secondary vote in elections in which you vote for an individual, but that can only marginally affect the final composition of parliament in terms of number of seats per party. The details are complicated, and for the purpose of this discussion it's best to pretend that this secondary vote doesn't exist.)

At its most extreme, neither the chancellor nor the state prime ministers are elected by direct vote.

Then there's an admittedly somewhat random element of political culture in that there are no open primaries. The selection of candidates within each party is done by vote among delegates internal to the parties, and is almost completely devoid of public spectacle. (The news media typically reports once on these internal elections on the day that they happen, and that's it.)

To top it all off, parties are subsidized by the state. Once a party wins a number of votes in an election - the threshold is fairly low, and lower than the number of votes required to enter parliament - they receive money proportional to their electoral success. This reduces the need to create a huge fundraising apparatus in the first place.

I'd say Lessig is right in that campaign financing reform is probably the best path forward for the US, since changing the other aspects I mentioned would require much deeper constitutional changes.
I also recommend Welch Labs’ Neural Network Demystified-series[0]. It is a combination of the Coursera course and the YouTube videos. It get’s into some of the math, while still keeping it basic.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxe2T-V8XRs&list=PLiaHhY2iBX...
It might be more effective to contact YC.

http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
Are you kidding? Women clearly have less rights than men. They can't drive, vote, or be seen in public without an abaya, a floor-length black nondescript robe.

Additionally restaurants, banks, and other places are segregated by sex.
To expand on this, even expert programmers have a harder time adjusting to the mindset of a lot of modern programming languages, which is one of the reasons a lot of software written by experienced programmers can still be riddled with bugs. Just because they're skilled at programming in this fashion does not imply that they could not be skilled in a "more natural" style.
Hyperlexia is real. I wouldn't say it always works, and in math it can be very dangerous. But I still have enough retention to participate in undergraduate level discussions of the text after I'm done. Sadly, we don't know how to make ordinary people hyperlexic.
This is the bit that really got me. As soon as I watched that I immediately paused the talk and emailed anyone I could think of that might be interested and demanded they go watch it! The technique was stunning, really impressive stuff
Great! Bring on the fallout - I would gladly pay higher interest rates than have blood money from Saudi Arabia.
MyFitnessPal studied 4.6M users to find those who lost the most weight
I would suggest this is the perfect example of a project which should extend SCIM [1], a recently release RFS for this functionality. SCIM is Simple Cross-domain Identity Management and allows sharing of user and group information via RESTful JSON APIs. It's easily sufficient for vCard information and is also easily extensible. I think calendar and to-do information is the next step.

[1] http://www.simplecloud.info/
I read the first two sentences of each paragraph in the article, then I went back and read it again. No difference in comprehension. N=1, but then this article is a great example of the current trend in 'science communication' for the 'single study so thing is definitely true with a clickbaity headline' template, so I don't feel bad.
“The only way they could punish us is by punishing themselves,” Mr. Truman said.

The perfect solution to this situation!
Even if for the sake of argument we assume your assertion that "smart kids" benefit their classmates is correct... on what basis do you assert that those "smart kids" owe their classmates anything at all?

Why are their classmates entitled to an education at their expense, and what do the "smart kids" get in return?
which distro do you use? i see KDE in the picture.
100% agree. And not just "the two guys joking around tag" but the "we recorded this in one take and then published straight from garage band." That would be a significant improvement over the podcasts discovery tools inside of every podcasting app.

That make it a lot easier for any of the new shows coming out that are trying to be like a Radiotopia or Gimlet style show, to be discovered.
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I think they've done a good job of simplifying things to the point where the viewer feels not only that ML is useful, but it's achievable.

There are a lot of people who have been forward thinking enough to see the value and incorporate this into their ideas, but there are so many more who think it's a magical black box that has no relevancy to their world.

While some might feel like this is too simple, I think this kind of basic introduction is very powerful.
Indeed. Roy Baumeister has written about it (where I first picked up the fact, having grown blind to it all my life): http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
Which gets me to an interesting theory of how the cyber security field really resembles an ecosystem not unlike what is found in nature. For the most part, a lot of what we call the bad guys are just dumb people who get caught, as you said because they likely can't help themselves from bragging about it. They pulled of a "goof" and think it's funny, many times likely not even considering the criminal nature of the act. All of these people who pull of these exploits (swatting is just an exploit that involves the unauthorized use of law enforcement instead of a kernel) and do so in a rather large and obvious way illicit immune responses. Many hundreds of responses with no one event causing significant harm to the total ecosystem. It's our jobs in the cyber security community to react to these and develop ways to stop them before the inevitable "big one happens," in this case the mass swatter who remains anonymous because they are disciplined, but who also has at their disposal a rudimentary AI system connected to an Asterisk IVR server that can make large volumes of automated swatting calls, causing the US emergency response system to grind to a halt.

This is where there is a very fine line between tackling exploitation via the implementation of technical controls and legal controls. Because the Internet is global, I'm of the mind-set that controlling it via legislative controls has long since past, therefore we'd better be looking for technical solutions before someone exploits the system en masse to cripple a nation.
Erm... you mean anti-gay fundamentalists like Obama? (From the article: "The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage... the administration has supported Saudi Arabia on other fronts, including providing the country with targeting intelligence and logistical support for its war in Yemen.")
I'm not referring at all to how capable it is at *nix. I'm referring exclusively to UI polish. That's why I have Windows on the list as well.
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Eh. I put a helluvalot effort in the messages I send. I can't necessarily say the same for the responses I receive. It is what it is.
You have to put yourself in the shoes of the poor or homeless person who walks through the door of our repair shop. They don't have enough money to buy a computer. So their entire life is on that phone: photos, contacts, documents, email. They've applied to jobs through that phone. Everything is centered around that item.

Then it breaks. And since the software is usually so crappy on it, there's no consistent way for them to have backed it up. Sometimes the contacts are on the SIM card--sometimes not. Sometimes they've backed up to the Google cloud; sometimes they didn't understand what that was, so they just hit "skip" when it asked them to set up that account.

So when that phone breaks, they've lost EVERYTHING. Now I know there are some folks on HN, because I've been around here long enough, who would say "They should just learn how to back it up!" And to that I would say, who is teaching them? Can you? These people are sometimes barely literate, often only with a high school education (or less.) We can't expect them to understand what a "Google cloud" is. And heck, even as technical people, many of us don't back up stuff properly, especially personal items.

So when that phone breaks, they've lost a lot. Personal photos of their kids. Important contacts. The calendar that reminded them where that job interview next week was.

Many of these same folks would be far better served buying a used iPhone 4S, which is $55 to fix when a screen breaks. But the difference between $50 for a Cricket HTC Desire and a $100 iPhone 4 could be a week or two--a week or two during which they cannot survive without their phone. That's why I say it's a disgusting market.
Well, really, music in games progressed far faster than graphics and by the early 90s you could have almost full orchestral scores in games, while still under the constraints of 2D 8-bit sprite art.
I did not claim that every SA supporter in the US government was a Christian fundamentalist.
It's not materially different until you consider the "crimes" that those people committed. In most normal places, that's usually something very severe such as murder which is one of the worst crimes a human individual can commit. Can you say the same of Saudi Arabia and its executions?
I agree, It's easy to waste a lot of time on these podcasts. I hope that over time with the voting, the best stuff rises to the top
"For women, yes, they have less rights de jure, but de facto, we don't know that very well. After all, different people have different cultures, and if we do not respect that, where is the demos in democracy then?"

What a bunch of bullshit. You respect a culture that enslaves, rapes, and murders its women out of pleasure? You think that's somehow a "culture" where women might be treated equally? Or are you just pandering to the idea of absolute cultural relativism as if there are no morals to be had in the world (some would call this trolling)?

Saudi Arabia is a disgusting "culture" and society. Defending their barbaric, primitive, idiotic practices is almost as equally disgusting.
For things I use infrequently, having basic notes is helpful...if and only if those notes are in a place where I can find them and for that hand written on paper works best for me.

Other times, I find the process of taking notes helps me avoid glossing over text under the assumption that I understand it...even if I don't go back to the notes ever.

For programming, I find the most useful technique is typing the code into the computer just like back in the 1980's when magazines were the rage. For me it trumps every other method. It also leads me to dislike example code with external dependencies because it takes me out of the zone.

Good luck.
80% of my reading is non-novel material, and speed reading comments and articles allows me to cover 5-10x more content per day. Need input...
I know many saudi's that I like but the kingdom or government (whatever you want to call it) has turned a blind eye to terrorism. Anyone who has done a little research on 9/11 will realize they did play a key role one way or another.

The fact that they are threatening with such high stakes confirms the fear of what else may be discovered when looked into.
vendor lock-in ftw
I think the problem is that you really need to meet in person to figure out if you're attracted to someone else. One of the main points in the article is that people don't really know what they're attracted to. I know I've been really into someone based on what they seem like on tinder or over text and then had a really flat date with them in person. On the flip side, I've had people I felt kind of ambivalent about who I had a great time with once I met them in person. My strategy now is just to use attractiveness as a screen (since realistically I'm not going to date someone much less attractive than me) and try to meet for a drink as soon as possible. I'm sure I lose out on some people who want to move a bit more slowly, but that doesn't matter since I save tons of time by avoiding people I have no mutual attraction with.
It appears to be the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism act:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/204...
Instead of a big selloff they can probably do what the soviets did. Move their assets to a foreign bank and then the foreign bank stor its assets in the US. Any assets in the us is then owned by the foreign bank, and can not be taken.

This did becom so popular that we still have something called an Eurodollar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
I wonder if this is being kept hush-hush by even certain quarters here in America, although others are equally trying to give it as much exposure as humanly possible, especially in this frenetic election cycle.

This could add some context to the whole thing:

(From my comment below, near the bottom, in this same discussion)

Here's the recent 60 Minutes piece on the White House's potential declassification of the "28 pages" of the 9/11 Commission Report.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/28-pages

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> The term gender apartheid refers to the economic and social sexual discrimination against individuals because of their gender or sex.

I hate these post-modern redefinitions of terms. By this definition, US is gender apartheid (men are subject to involuntary draft), as well as the UK and many other EU countries (men have to work longer to get pension).

That's as ridiculous as when some people equate rape with drunk sex or sexual harassment with catcalling. It really reduces the the victims of actual crimes (rape, harassment, and apartheid).
Vice mentioned it in their article:

https://news.vice.com/article/this-bill-would-allow-a-lawsui...
Plenty of tutorials on YouTube using aqua regia. That's not the issue. The issue is having enough circuit boards on hand to make it worth it.
A fork on Github that claims Python 2.7 and Lua 5.1 compatibility: https://github.com/bastibe/lunatic-python
People make the excuse that the West needs an ally in Middle East. Yes, it needs an ally in ME. But SA is not an ally, it's a back-stabber. They are exporting extremism all over the world (I didn't use the words terrorism because someone will come and start arguing there is no proof SA has funded terrorism and they have issued a diplomatic condemnation when a terrorist attack happened). The West has the diplomatic power over SA to force it to stop exporting its extreme ideology all over the world, it's late, the damage has been done, but further damage can be stopped. Not a single politician or all the altruist medias even call out SA, let alone do something about their back-stabbing.

Decades ago, my country was liberated from Pakistan on the value of secularism. Then SA started to fund madrassas, mosques filled with their extremist ideology and now we are heading back to being another Islamist country. As a third world country with majority of people living in poverty what can we do more when Saudis fund terrorism with their unlimited petro-dollars and the West being their ally.

Like many, I find the West has contributed to Islamic terrorism. But not in the way that the West has invaded other countries, but it has been allies with extremism-exporters like SA and let SA export extremism all over the world.
Ask HN: Has Google Stopped Showing Page Rank to Public?
They had earlier declared they will not update page rank (may be they might do internally but will not show in public) but now even the old data has gone.
You're out of your fucking mind.
How hacking team was hacked (ES)
Text of the bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/204...
It amends the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow the bringing of suits against foreign states for terrorist-related claims where the entirety of the alleged activity did not take place on American soil. Basically, KSA had gotten some civil cases tossed based on FSIA immunity, so this is a bill to remove that bar.
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We should remove the importance of the primaries.

Anyone that wants to be on a ballot for a particular position should have to do the same thing as anyone else (probably collecting a modest number of signatures on a petition, maybe with some rules to limit the number of candidates).

I guess parties might be allowed to place an endorsement on a ballot, but if not they could still release a list of endorsements.

In that arrangement, contesting the national delegate convention to get the endorsement of the party might still happen, but it would not be so inordinately important.

A party organization would still be hugely useful in getting wide ballot presence, but an incumbent organization would not have the huge advantages that they enjoy today.
Don't be so quick to rate yourself ugly. Women actually consider 80% of men to be worse looking than average average: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati...

That reality can make a lot of average to somewhat good looking men feel ugly.

Are you in incredibly good shape?

Have you hired a professional stylist?

Have you hired a professional photographer?

Have you taken professional pictures shirtless, with dogs, traveling, and with cool friends?

I'm guessing you haven't done all of the above, so there is hope.

Women are attracted to your overall value, not just looks. Find a way to show it online.

Implement all of the strategies from this online dating guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3l310a/the_red_...
Amazing, I think if we keep identity management as a part of configuration then it will be easier for development, till one protocol becomes standard.
I will try to add this as a default identity management.
Thanks for the link.