skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worse. YouTube will autoplay "next", "next", "next" videos once you stopped watching the video of interest and didn't bother the close the browser's tab.

This way youtube will suck your bandwidth and resources to force-run dozens to hundreds videos through your computer and internet connection.

This will allow Youtube to inflate actual view count numbers and defraud both the publishers and the advertisers.
The article lists a lot of major issues with suburbs, and I saw them all when I used to live in one.

Something that wasn’t really mentioned is how utterly boring some of the everyday life choices are. And yet, because none of the choices necessarily sucks, people remain “just happy enough” and never really yearn for anything better. I’m sure this setup is great for corporations but it is sad for human beings. Just observe: I mean, every single shopping center seems to have nearly exactly the same chain restaurants and a Starbucks…EVERY ONE! And if by some miracle you do find something different, it is usually a “choice” between Home Depot and Lowe’s or a “choice” between McDonald’s and Wendy’s or something.

Plenty of variety still exists outside of suburbs. The problem is that for people in suburbs, it would mean driving 45 minutes to even reach the alternatives, much less enjoy them regularly. And if you are averaging long drives all the time to/from work or to do anything else, the last thing you feel like you have time for is another long drive to experiment.

I felt it sucking my soul. Long drives expose you to more traffic which leads to anger, etc. Driving wastes a lot of money (cars are expensive even when fuel is not high-priced). And I found myself slowly accumulating garbage to fill a large space. Ultimately I felt that it was a lot more sane to live smaller, in an “expensive” place closer to civilization. While it did cost a lot more per square foot, I saved money after not too long and I definitely felt better. And I have more variety now.
In British Columbia, we used to have grade 12 "provincial exams" which were centrally set and graded; these were worth 40% of a student's final grade, vs. 60% for the school portion of their mark. Even though the majority of a student's final grade was set by the school, having uniformly graded exams made it very obvious when a school awarded consistently generous marks. (And it was useful for other analyses too: One interesting pattern was that female students taught by female teachers consistently out-performed on schoolwork compared to examinations, while female students with male teachers and male students with female teachers showed no such pattern.)

About a decade ago, the provincial government decided to scrap most of the exams, and now it's much harder to assess incoming students' grades; I've heard rumours of increasing gaps between schools' grading practices from several sources, along with "black books" with per-school "adjustment factors" -- but I doubt anyone would admit to these publicly. When it comes to awarding scholarships (I am my alma mater's alumni representative on that committee), I now rely very little on grades but instead look primarily for more qualitative facets: Has the student done anything exceptional (took 6 AP courses in grade 9; won an olympic medal; travels the world performing with major symphony orchestras; qualified flight instructor who runs a flying school; has a research paper published in a major journal), and whether they can articulate a vision for why they want to attend university ("I've always been interested in learning" is better than nothing; "it's what people do after finishing high school" is pathetic; a story about the profound impact of a relative dying of cancer and how it shaped everything they've done since, good).

I'd love to see standardized testing return, but there's a prisoner's dilemma: If one institution requires students to write extra exams, the number of applications they receive will drop sharply. And getting all the universities to cooperate when they're very much competing for the top students... well, that's not likely to happen any time soon.
What does "being green" have to do with suicide rates at factories that are, by and large, in line with rates in the U.S.?
"weekly shopping".

There's your difference. In those places, you do 5-10 minutes of shopping 7 days a week, instead of 60 minutes of shopping once a week. Those corner grocery stores are tiny, you can be in and out quick.
Your comment is more ad hominem than helpful. Furthermore, being in agreement with Trump on a single issue does not mean OP supports him in general.
That's essentially the old "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" saying that was coined by Clarke back in the day.

The interesting part of this comes into play when we're talking about a hypothetical super-advanced life form essentially posing as a supernatural being for the purpose of deceiving creatures of lesser means. It's not actually supernatural activity though, because there are still natural laws governing the advanced being's existence.

I would imagine, out there in the vast universe this kind of scam is probably taking place somewhere as we speak, and to those most likely unlucky subjects this distinction between "actually supernatural" and "magic trick" is probably entirely irrelevant.

It seems to me that over the course of known human culture, there have actually been several pantheons whose members could be considered non-supernatural in this sense. Essentially this is true whenever we're talking about hero-type deities as opposed to creator-type deities. In principle creator-type deities are still compatible with a hypothetical simulation scenario in which they also choose to take part personally.

Needless to say though, we don't appear to be living in such a universe. As far as we can tell, there is no global artificial god, and no artificial god who is local to us. But there might be many local ones elsewhere.
A slightly different version of the effect well-known to all Canadians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgefs7J1rY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjwe-BCfms

To get the water to freeze into snow mid-air, you have to start with boiling water. Cold water won't freeze in time. I've even heard of research involving using boiling water in snow-making machines.
Sentences like this exist in other languages too.

My mother tongue is Shona, and this would be a grammatically correct sentence.

Vana vana, vana vana vana, vana vana vana vana.

Translates to ...

Four children, have four children, who have four children each.
a school known to the admissions department

It's worth noting that this can be an issue for graduate admissions too: When I was studying in Oxford, emails would come around the department on a regular basis asking "does anyone know anything about the University of FooBar? One of their students is applying". (Of course, Oxford is unusual in the extent to which it draws graduate students from around the world.)
The scale is debatable, but there is a lot more evidence for this than you might think. It's also a lot more than just gas, paint, water pipes, sodder, even fillings also made significant contributions.

IMO, scale is not that important as the preverbial straw that broke the camels back is important, but so are all the others that get to that point. A leaning disability on it's own might not lead to violence, but it does reduce people's options even further.

PS: Mercury was also known to have neuron toxic effects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_hatter_disease. However, lead is more of an issue at developmental stages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning
To get to 200K a year working remotely, the primary skill you need to learn is how to sell. Forget about authoritative skill tests etc. There is no magic answer to this. It is going to take a lot more than a killer cover letter though.

Networking events may work if you know how to use them effectively.
>Everyone was happy to have $30 jeans which could last one year over their $70 jeans made stateside which could last five years or more...

I'm not sure this analogy works. Surely the people selling jeans would prefer to sell new $30 pairs every year rather than $70 pairs every five.
Even worse is running a terminal inside of emacs. ansi-term can only display 8 colors, even though the editor it's running in can support (at least) 256. As someone who runs a large percentage of their shells inside of emacs, this is a particular annoyance, especially because presumably adding in the remaining colors would be a trivial task for someone familiar with the code.
Doesn't Reddit do AMAs with almost anyone? I'm missing something.
I wrote about the program a few months back: http://brunozzi.com/2015/08/22/estonia-e-residency/

(I hope you find it useful)
Relevant: http://www.wnyc.org/story/stingray-conspiracy-theory-daniel-...
It's this kind of thing that makes me see just how ignorant people actually are about this subject. You have this neat little label you've put on the box and you've never actually done the necessary research to see if your label fits, you heard a headline somewhere, laughed about it and threw it in a mental sock drawer.

Even at a casual glance, your statement is flatly wrong; the peak of the last BTC bubble was 2013-11-30, 1163 USD, a couple months later that bubble had deflated to 826.40 USD, a loss of just over 29%. In the last 20 years, the USD has lost 31.38% of its value, so no, a 29% is not "much worse" than a 31.38% It has rough parity, if we want to get pedantic about it, over the two periods you nominated, the USD actually technically did worse.

But throwing aside that shallow criticism that you happen to be flatly wrong because the statement you made is technically incorrect, and instead focusing on how one would assuage the sense that one had made a bad investment purchasing at that particular point in time, I would say the same thing to them that I would have said to those that had bought at the peak of the bubble prior to that at 220 and then saw a price collapse to half before stabilisation, and then onwards to the only bubble price you're dimly aware of from your shallow knowledge. Or the same thing that I would have said to the people that bought at the peak of the bubble prior to that at 30, which then collapsed down below half before proceeding on to 220 and etc, and that is

"That's how markets work, and if the trend follows and the next time it quadruples the previous high you will be the one talking about how you got in for a steal at 1163 to people who bought in near a peak of 5000 assuming the trend continues, and so on, and so forth".

What I'll say to the person who is all in on fiat currencies over the next twenty years though, is that if everything goes according to plan, they will be subject to the exact same devaluation that the person in their situation was twenty years ago, and that's the optimistic projection. The pessimistic projection is a lot less rosy, and involves a massive sovereign debt bust and the collapse of fiat currencies and the corrupt world central banking apparatus, all expenses paid courtesy of your shallow, misplaced faith in the benighted institutions of the modern status quo.
Which, of course, is simply an alias for M-x close-current-tab.
According to Tyler Cowen, the best food in America is found in suburban strip malls. It's found in ethnic restaurants that are in strip malls because the rent is cheap and there's a pocket of their community in that same area.
maybe the hn effect here but was really slow for me too, ended with "couldn't connect to server" the first time.

Cool idea though.
my 2 cents: would be lovely to see a few popular searches or recent searches or at least example words to speed up the understanding of the concept; after selecting the languages.
They use Fira Sans and Fira Mono in a bunch of different weights.

Looking at the source for <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/fira.css>, I can't help but wonder if mobile^W OS vendors could make the Web faster for their users if they'd just bundle every single popular free (beer and/or speech) font with their OSs and keep the fonts up-to-date.

Of course, you should be sending along far-future Expires and Cache-Control headers, but this'll still be slower than local() accessing fonts that're bundled with the OS when someone visits a new site.
Kids on the Street in North Korea
The relationship between the algorithms employed to solve a problem and their actual ability to solve that problem are facts about nature that you can observe and write papers about.
Yep.

"Why is this surprising?" There are reasons to discuss it other than surprise. Better evidence may allow for official reactions, inquiries, or prosecutions.

"Is anyone so naive that..." Yes, we weep for our lost innocence. Now we see that your jaded nihilism was justified all along. Forgive us.

"Of course, nobody really cares..." Back that up with stats. Are you sure nobody cares? Are you sure that is a permanent state of affairs? If you're also asking "Why is anyone surprised?" that's acknowledging we've got a delta in collective interest here, so the complaint is self-canceling. And how many people's attention is needed? A very vocal and effective 5% of the population can get a lot done.

"Of course, nobody can do anything..." Despite various pronouncements of the end of history, things continue to happen.
Call it GNU or call it Linux. GNU/Linux is just stupid
Can assert() actually function this way? Can you use assert to tell the optimizer it can assume something is true?

I've noticed that memcpy(x, y, 4) on x86 can generate very efficient code (register move), but on ARM it expands to something much more verbose because the addresses might not be aligned.

Could this effectively function as a way of promising to the compiler that the addresses are aligned?

void move4_aligned(void *dst, const void *src) {
assert(((uintptr_t)dst & 0x3) == 0);
assert(((uintptr_t)src & 0x3) == 0);
memcpy(dst, src, 4);
}
Seems to be somewhat true.
https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/filter/prop...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11629488
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11629488
Whenever the author of an article I criticize shows up, I feel like I was over-bearingly rude. Was I?
It sounds to me like you have a great life and should be pretty happy with it.

If you are in the top 10 on UpWork currently, then very few people in the world know how to achieve what you have already achieved, much less improve upon it. You can try to look for ways to improve your income further, but most people are not going to know an answer for you.
Even a minivan can have surprisingly high performance. A Honda Odyssey can run rings around classic sports cars.

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/soccer-moms-reven...
Suburbia kills us ADHD-people. Guess I'm not the only one here who sometimes feels an urgent need to move. And what is more convenient than walking (or biking) to the grocery store, your office, the metro tube, the bar or your friends' house?

I grew up in Holland and Spain. No problem to walk or take a bicycle there. I've lived in New York City and it was fine (better then Barcelona for running and bicycle, because of cleaner air). But other US cities are just soooo stretched you that you can not do it on a bicycle. Not to mention that time in sone Canadian suburb when they called the police, for chrissake, because I walked on the pavement. Normal person don't walk, only thieves do,apparently ?

Anyway, aren't suburbs "motion unfriendly" Is this changing nowadays? Now that it's known that being outside, & moving makes many people feel good?
Since writing the paper is expected to take no more than an hour, given the software is already written, I wonder if they're worried about receiving a flood of submissions. Perhaps it's less of a problem since reviewing a paper should take much less time given their length?
Do you think that by using tariffs for political pressure, we can force China to raise their standard of living to developed-country levels? Otherwise, this just amounts to a transfer from the Chinese poor to the American poor, which seems like a big net loss morally.
Well, if I could use UTF-8 with CreateFileA() et. al. and never have to use wchar_t again, that would just be like Christmas. I don't know whether this survey is for blanket win32 UTF-8 compatibility or whether this just means making the admittedly hugely improved cmd.exe work with UTF-8 command parsing, but anything that gives us better UTF-8 support is a step in the right direction.
It was considered a big deal at the time, though you could consider going from the sitting President answering questions on Reddit to shoveling large amounts of money to Facebook to ensure your message gets seen a retrograde step that's happened since.
This is probably fairly naive, but does having non-identically couloured bits of fabric help? Maybe by using temporary dyes that can be washed out at the end of the fabrication process (or evaporate before that)?
What if that $70 jean costs them $60 and the $30 jean costs them $29.
Of course. Buy buyers mainly see "cheap jeans!". They don't always think about quality, craftsmanship, etc. They've been primed for yearly changing fashion which enables cheap jeans made from sub par materials.
Very much agree, but do you really think it's all that different at the NY Times? I'm sure at FB no one thought they were going to beat Trump by being deceptive or manipulative. No, they would just link to stories they thought were more accurate, had less spin, covered more sides etc. Likewise, I'm sure many NY Times reporters are driven by a feeling of duty to concentrate on issues where they feel they can bring truth/illumination to the campaign and get Trump defeated.

I guess it's plausible to me that a new company like FB lacks some sort of important company culture for reporting that the NY Times has by virtue of its long history, but this seems minor. The real issue is (1) the consolidation in the news industry and (2) its political homogeneity. FB and the NY Times are each examples of both.
> It's not actually supernatural activity though, because there are still natural laws governing the advanced being's existence.

I would say that "supernatural" doesn't necessarily mean unbound by laws. It just means that the laws in question are not yet well-understood.
Not sure if this is what you're referring to but I created a programming language after a late night discussion I had with my housemate who was studying this a few years ago. The idea was to give the sentence a syntactic meaning as well..

http://bfalo.com/ and github project https://github.com/bfalo/buffalo-lang

It was also a good excuse to learn about tokenization, compilers & interpreters.
Second Oracle v. Google trial could lead to headaches for developers
they're working toward making it Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
A tour of invariant techniques
A blanket statement over an entire socioeconomic class ("people who didn't win the intelligence lottery") should not be the target for upvoting in a site appealing to modern people.
Yes and I think the map is too old and outdated and lacks detail.
I'm going to choose to be literal. Artificial is defined as "being made by humans". God is defined as "the one supreme being, the maker and creator of the universe".

The only way you could have an artificial deity is if human-kind were gods themselves.

P.S. thinking of these things in terms of video game powerups is something I find sort of amusing. I can only imagine what Chun-Li vs Jesus would look like.
There was a recent study looking at this possible issue. They called it Search Engine Manipulation Effect [1]:

"The fifth experiment is especially notable in that it was conducted with eligible voters throughout India in the midst of India’s 2014 Lok Sabha elections just before the final votes were cast. The results of these experiments demonstrate that (i) biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more, (ii) the shift can be much higher in some demographic groups, and (iii) search ranking bias can be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation."

[1]: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.abstract
Genuine question: what do you do when you want to implement your own loop mechanism, iterator, array type, or whatever?
I went to Cal for undergrad and Stanford for grad school.

I'm comfortable with my intellectual abilities.
As someone semi-new to using emacs, (I knew basic keybindings but never bothered to set up init files, etc.) coming from the IDE world, my biggest complaint was the amount of things I had to do to get vanilla emacs to behave in a civilized way, even using the GUI version. I spent hours scouring peoples emacs files on GitHub to try and find all the things that looked "obvious in retrospect" and settings that looked silly to have turned off by default (e.g. commands that act on regions should act on lines when no region is selected). Then my second biggest complaint was the analysis paralysis of all the plugins. I'm starting to get a stable emacs file, after a few months, but there's still several pieces of functionality I miss from my IDEs that I chunk out time every now and then to research and add. I think having a "if you're coming from IDEs you may want to install X Y Z" page would be helpful, as well as package download rankings so that people can find the popular projects (e.g. helm, use-package). It should also be prominently encouraged to use something like guru-mode where it disables the arrow keys to force you to use ctrl and meta as your movement keys.

Also you can pry Magit from my cold, dead hands.
What are your thoughts on WebAssembly? Do you see Doppio suppporting it as a target in the future?
A supernatural God is inherently morally good if you subscribe to a monotheistic religion. A sufficiently advanced "mechanical God" may or may not be moral at all.

In practice it might be impossible to tell the difference.
How far does the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine go? If someone is caught using illegal evidence, and then let go because of that, can the police follow them around to see if they commit more crimes, or is that all poisoned (because if the original evidence hadn't been obtained, they would never have found this person to follow)? Would they need to wait until the person came up in an entirely unrelated lead? Would they be able to add the information "person was previously let go on technicality for crime X" to a database which generates leads when cross-referencing other data (e.g. people in proximity to a crime, which might be crossed with known criminals? (I don't know if this is actually done))
Which gets to their real advantage, they are easy to create by dragging around a few points.
Another piece of "marketing" collateral that can help popularize Emacs is a "tour of Emacs" video. Awhile back, I watched Russ Cox's "Tour of Acme" video and became an Acme convert as a result.

In the end, an editor is a productivity tool, and the best way to evaluate it is seeing it in action as part of a workflow: video is an excellent format to capture and share this with newcomers.
> inability to go to a coffee shop and not wait in a huge line (looking mostly at SF here)

To me that sounds like an extrapolation from only observing high-traffic areas like SoMa, not the neighborhoods most people actually live.
As a long-time rider, the VTA infrastructure is excellent, and the route coverage is good. It even has wifi.

In the short-term, if buses left and arrived on time, that would be a helpful improvement. Longer-term, ride analysis from Clipper data could optimize routes and frequencies.

When looking at farebox recovery numbers, remember that the bloated bureaucracy, driver salaries and pensions have to be paid from that.

Doubling the speed of the light rail would make it much more usable.
Uber is now offering flat fee $5 carpool rides in Manhattan during peak hours