skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised to see all of the pro-suburbia comments here. I enjoyed this article and found it lines up with many of my criticisms of suburbia.

The suburbs to me are a soul sucking place that gives me the heebie-jeebies. With that said, my opinion reflects my experience living in Minneapolis. When I visit other cities like Seattle or San Francisco, I am turned off by the ridiculous density and the inability to go to a coffee shop and not wait in a huge line (looking mostly at SF here).

As a white person who went to an inner city highschool where white people were the minority - I notice a huge difference in my world view than people who grew up in suburbs with predominantly white people. The suburbs around Minneapolis absolutely disgust me. I work in the western suburbs of Minneapolis and constantly deal with co-workers saying underhanded racist/classist comments all the time.
>a few hundred cursors

Dear god.
What you are saying is semantics.
'Reconquest' of city's has far more components than most people assume. Gay community who mostly don't need good schools. Bad traffic to make suburbs less appealing. Video Games to keep young people entertained and not out damaging the community. Vastly reduced Lead levels to reduce violence. Reduced pollution to make city's livable. etc etc. Even the loss of manufacturing and retail jobs has been a net gain for city's.

It's far from any one thing.

PS: And if you want to go far afield reduced threat of nuclear war making city's a viable place for your population.
Oh, there have been train fans for a very long time. And IMO rail is a comfortable way to travel for certain distances--especially given what a pain airports can be these days. But HSR is really expensive to build and distances and geography in the US make it hard to justify.
Your completely un-sourced article has nothing to do with the OP article, which detests the option of people living in suburbs. Do suburbs pay for themselves? Maybe, maybe not. But you can't also then turn around and argue for cities that have massively subsidized transit systems that themselves, despite the massive subsidies, are breaking down and crappy.
In which EU country starting a company is the easiest and cheapest for people that are not residents of this country?
> Basically America is bad because we had space for cars when they were invented?

American suburbs are bad for all the reasons listed. They force people to drive, making people fat. Ironically, they make traffic terrible at the same time, especially traffic into the nearby principal city. They kill child independence by making it impossible for kids to get around without adults driving them somewhere. They strongly economically segregate people so that people don't mix much with different demographic groups. And they're usually economically unsustainable, because they don't generate enough tax revenue to support their own infrastructure (something which isn't apparent until decades after initial construction, and thus easy to miss): http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
Self-driving is also a long way off in terms of the entire fleet. Poor people aren't driving new teslas. Even if every new car sold is non-human drivable, it will take a couple decades before the entire fleet is wholly autodrive. It would also be naïve to assume that any future tech will dominate the market when there isn't even a product yet in the market. City planners cannot take autodrive for granted.

(imho it won't ever happen. People like driving cars, but that is a different debate)
> It is just a matter of tradeoffs.

Indeed.

> It is easy to dismiss bitcoin when you are a citizen of 1st world country -- because you are insider and have full privileges

That is a very good point, and very easy for someone like me to lose sight of. Nonetheless, I think the answer is not to hand over the final arbitration authority to an algorithm, but rather to design a system where there is an open market in trust. Starting a bank should be as easy as starting a blog. The trick is to come up with a system of checks and balances so that someone who runs a crooked bank can be immediately and unambiguously called out.
I live in a newer U.S. city and this couldn't be any further from the truth. e.g. Walmart is < 2 miles away.
I'm old enough to remember the big push to replace IVR systems with web interfaces. With the business case being that customers had a huge preference for the web, since the interface was faster and more explicit.

So, for me, it's quite funny that I'm now going to be exposed to a bunch of new projects that essentially undo all of that. With no real net new functionality...these chatbots don't seem any more advanced than good IVR systems from the 90's.
To others trying to use this demonstration:
Be patient with the page, as it has to download quite a few JAR files in order to be ready to compile and run any test code. To verify that the javapoly is ready to run your code, open the web developer console and wait for it to say "Java Main started". Additionally, first-time compilation will also need to download additional JARs for the demo code to run. Generally speaking though, the compilation time is a good 5-10 seconds on my computer for the demo code, so be sure to not just spam the compile button like I did :)

----

Just a friendly note to the author of this page:
The total download size of this page's underlying Java resources are much larger than I realized (maybe a collective 30-40MB). Given that I waited almost 5 minutes after clicking "Compile & Run!" for nothing to happen (because I had clicked it well before the runtime JARs had fully downloaded), I would suggest to at least add a progress bar or something to let users know when they can actually compile and run the demo code, in addition to some acknowledgement that the code is compiling. This is definitely an interesting project though.
One of the points of FSF is to never use closed software. OSX is not GPL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...

"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?" This sentence is much easier to read because the writer placed commas between and and & and and and And, & and and and And & and And and and, & and And and and & and and and And, & and and and And & and And and and, & and And and and & and and and.

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

"The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families".
I really do hope this does happen one day. Abag recommendations are just recommendations and cities and towns have their own prerogatives. If they all merged it could be so much better. Integrated transportation, integrated development plans, integrated politics, etc. Goodbye SF supes with their insular pet projects. Hello integrated urbanism and development, if it ever were to happen, this area could be just so much better. No Bart stopping at the San Mateo border, as initially happened.
I've seen friends destroy their relationships and careers over addiction.

I've also seen a burned out house where a dealer set fire to it with the occupant inside to incentivise future debtors to pay up faster.

I've seen the grey market involved in buying such things suck far harder on somebody's lifeblood than buying alcohol would an alcoholic.

So ... my gut feeling is that, overall, legalisation would probably be an improvement. But I think that, if so, it would be an improvement overall, and that doing the math carefully beforehand is a really good idea.

Or: I think you and MichaelGG both have valid points, and that any opinion on this subject that doesn't include both is probably going to fall short of the mark.

(to be clear, I'm replying to this specific comment largely because of your last line, since I'm seeking synthesis, not antithesis, by this line of thought)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9500/nvidia-fy-2016-q2-results

The commentators on HN are vastly overestimating the size of the machine learning market compared to the size of the gaming market.
Are people realizing this is from 2013?
I think the OP's point was more targeted toward the fact that OSX is a non-free operating system, and Emacs is part of the GNU project.
It's certainly not "sharing", I agree, but I find it useful to distinguish (in regulations) between taxi vs livery services in the sense that only the former can accept line-of-sight street hails, while the latter must only accept centrally dispatched requests. The former carries a lot of public safety risks that the latter doesn't, and cities have historically (long before Uber) regulated the former a lot more harshly.
> 1. There is a regular train from EWR right into Penn Station

There is, but it runs relatively infrequently and you have to switch to the monorail, which is only faster than walking because it has a right of way.

> 3. Although I've taken it, the Acela all the way from Boston to DC starts to not make sense vs. flying--and tends to cost more as well.

Sure. I cheat by being the smug git in the middle.

But I'd still rather take the train, honestly, from Boston to DC. I hate flying with a radiant intensity that could launch a thousand astronomy PhDs.
Do native speakers read this and naturally understand what is being said?
I understand the three meanings, but I wouldn't be able to point which instances of the word have each meaning.

I still prefer "had had had had" though:
"All the faith that he had had had had no effect in the outcome of his life"
All good points. Since we agree neither is perfect for everyone I'm curious how many it would benefit. I guess one indicator may be the competition and availability of remote jobs. Where would someone even look something like that up?
I am raising funds for a better world too.
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It's for blablabla humanity blablabla challenges blabla climat blabla together.
My paypal account is xxxx@xxxx.com.
The issue is not that the OS is not Linux, it's that the OS is not free
To put the sibling comment more lightly, your idea of "living in the city" is very narrow. Most of the world lives in densely populated areas but do not have bars and drunk people in their doorsteps. The article does try to address this.
This is an interesting principle, and it applies in this case. But it has other interesting conclusions.

For instance, your principle seems to allow discrimination against Jews/Muslims/people who engage in homosexual acts/promiscuous women/etc. And it seems to bar discrimination against, e.g., the short and ugly (at least if being ugly is not caused by being fat).

Do you endorse these conclusions? If not, then this clearly can't be your motivating principle.
I'm interpreting that chart as tracking the year on year percentage increase/decrease of the population and ridership.

So the population has more or less been increasing year on year since 2005, with a near zero decline prior to that.

The ridership has gone through a steep decrease which bottomed out at -35% in ~2005. Sure it's been decreasing less, but isn't it still decreasing? The ridership line is flat near the end, but isn't it still decreasing at more than 20% year on year?

How else can the chart be read? How am I reading it wrong?
But that's not what the rhetoric is. It is important to understand how the world economy works, but this uncouth hatred for confidentiality, anonymity, and ownership is very old and very predictable. There are still places people can keep private property — bah humbug!
> The concern raised by supporters of the bill his largely been unwanted men entering ladies rooms.

The fact that the criterion revolves around birth certificates (as opposed to, say, state ID) shows quite clearly that the point of the bill is to punish trans people.
I grew in up the northern Virginia suburbs outside of Washington DC where certain bike paths (the Washington and Old Dominion specifically) enabled my friends and I to ride our bikes from farm fields in the west to downtown Arlington/DC in the east.

It would take all day to do, we'd stop along the way at shops for food/drinks, and it was amazing.

Because of that and other experiences, IMO suburbia is made for kids on bikes.
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This is current state of the art, not sure if its compared or not https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
Truly, the subjunctive tense is dead.
With every additional compiler check, you reduce the set of possible programs. It would be interesting if the checks could be easily programatically defined and inserted by those who care. I think Perl6 is probably the best modern compiler that allows this.

I agree, it should not be the compilers job to decide the set of possible programs. The hardware guys figured this out long ago. Afterall, CPU registers are untyped.
Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water
I'm always confused by the high-speed rail numbers. Exactly how many trains would it take to get 2/3 of the US population using rail?

Take the average international-sized airport runway. It can land a 747 every couple minutes. That's hundreds of people every minute. A high-speed rail line cannot take even a fraction of that number. The trains cannot run at speed without significant time/distance between them. That's the limit of one-dimension travel (rail) v the three dimensional world of aircraft. It would take dozens of parallel rail lines to replace even a medium sized airport. While we all might want to use rail for some journeys, I don't see it ever competing with air travel in the US market.
https:// site is down, http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ is live.
Actually, the master version of Doppio can run Rhino AND Nashorn!

(I'm the primary author of Doppio.)
The observable universe appears to have finite size. I don't know how you could prove it though.
Sure. Just sometimes, they accomplish that by adding the number into their internal inventory as if it already had ported.
Thanks, I took a look to the services linked from the article. What I still don't understand is the need of a physical address in Estonia, instead of one in another country, if you're an e-Resident. How does it work in Delaware? Reading the Stripe Atlas FAQ, I understand one doesn't need to live there, but do you still require some kind of physical presence there? For example, an office. (See: https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#incorporation)
I don't mind the meta comments when they're confined to one thread, but it gets annoying when there are more meta threads than on topic ones.

People, read the comments before you comment. Chances are someone already complained about the slide format or the font color or whatever.
JavaPoly uses Doppio. As a result, you can run both Rhino and Nashorn in JavaPoly too!
This would be basically why after breaking my hip and having it reassembled around a Dynamic Hip Screw, every week I dropped my dose of codeine so that the pain was back to being as bad as I'd been dealing with a week ago. I do wish people being prescribed opiates for situations where that's possible (i.e. the pain will lessen over time anyway) basically got a guide on doing that, not everybody's an ornery bastard like I am.

The only time opiates for control of pain that wasn't going to lessen over time seems like a good idea is in the case of palliative care for the dying; my father got several months of mostly-pain-free end of life out of it, and whether it was increased pain from the cancer or decreased effectiveness due to addiction that eventually meant the maximum dose allowable didn't help, he was dead within a week after that so even given all the obvious caveats I think he picked the right set of trade-offs.
You just happened to be located close to it. It's still designed to accommodate people coming in with their cars. Unless it's a different kind of Walmart, there is usually a huge parking lot, and entry on foot is a bit cumbersome sometimes.
What’s a GMO? The Answer Could Change the Future of Food in Europe
UK probably. But resident requirements for starting companies are somewhat rare these days. Getting a bank account or sorting out your taxes is another story though.
If you're willing to bet actual money on your argument, I'll take the opposite side easily.
Huh - could this run existing Java tools like Google Closure Compiler in the browser? That would be handy for simplifying distribution, especially since the Java installer started bundling crapware.
So any day now...
London is three times the size of Houston. If you did the same comparison for, say, Birmingham you could easily afford to live in a good suburb within a 30 minute commute of central Birmingham
Yes. I use LeapIn. Take into account that an address alone is not enough. If you operate, you will also need accounting/tax-filing services. LeapIn provides all of that in a very professional way, and with reasonable prices.
Maybe he'll only get half as upset because of OSX's Darwin base
Amazingly, there's a feedback mechanism built in where you can report this and they'll follow up.
Science, or at least math and physics, works by modeling the world with imperfect but useful models. And evolution in these fields happens by finding newer models that are more and more precise in modeling the universe, but such breakthroughs can't really happen without the help of old models which shaped our understanding. Einstein stood on the shoulders of giants. And when we'll have a unifying theory between general relativity and quantum theory, you can sure that it wouldn't have been possible without the theories before it. And when that theory will happen, it will not disprove current theories, just as general relativity did not disprove Newton's theory, it will just replace it with something that is more precise. And I think the article does a good job of explaining this.
tl;dr
I don't like the environment I've chosen to live in so that environment sucks.
This doesn't make any sense, something is not adding up here. I absolutely do not see a problem with drivers submitting to fingerprint background checks. Why is this an issue?? Is it cost? Uber is a massively profitable company, why do they fight so hard to pay their drivers a reasonable wage, and work with communities??
Probably the United Kingdom. It costs £15 (about $21) and can be done online in 15 minutes. Your company will need a UK address though (which can be obtained easily from any of the "virtual office" businesses).
I believe it is the fault of bureaucrats over-zoning. I would love to have a pub and a market next to every neighborhood. I love the idea of the Post Office providing basic financial services such as checking and money transfers. Let's make it as easy as possible to have peaceful neighborhoods AND retail/business in the same area. Dangerous or loud industrial businesses still need away from residence, but other than that... loosen up!
Right, but easy enough to select a second bank.

Let's also make a note that people with $250k+ in cash savings are a tiny group that should have no really bearing on whether cash is trustworthy.
"You are a high status, mainstream person with values within the Overton window." - that is a very strange thing to accuse tptacek of.
Lead author of Doppio here! This is quite cool. I don't recognize the authors of this work, so I was unaware of the project and was surprised to see it on the front page of HN!

If you find any issues with Doppio or have any requests, feel free to open up an issue on our GitHub issue tracker.
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Hmmmm, the website seems to be taking _forever_ to load

resists urge to make emacs joke about this
> We need to break these bubbles, redraw our towns and cities with integrated services, focused on walking, biking, and as little driving internally as possible. You car for should be intra-city travel.

How about you live the way you want to live and let me live how I want to live?

I choose living in the suburbs because that's where I'm happiest right now. When I was younger, I loved the energy and action of the city. In my mid-40's, I love the peace and community of my suburb although I suspect once self-driving cars are within reach, I'm going to move even further away from the city.
> Your completely un-sourced article has nothing to do with the OP article

Yes, you noticed that I was addressing something in your comment rather than the OP, good job on noticing the obvious.

> which detests the option of people living in suburbs.

He does not, in fact, detest the option of people living in suburbs. He detests American suburban design. I'm sure he would love to live in a more European-style suburb, but in most of America (and especially somewhere like Atlanta) they don't even exist.

> But you can't also then turn around and argue for cities that have massively subsidized transit systems that themselves, despite the massive subsidies, are breaking down and crappy.

Wow, way to completely misunderstand both transit and sprawly American suburbs. Here, let me explain it to you:

Transit is subsidized, yes. So are roads built for cars, so are sidewalks and bike lanes. Every form of transport is paid for by taxes.

Property taxes are ostensibly designed to support the extra services and infrastructure that more people and businesses require. If the replacement cost of infrastructure for a new suburban development is greater than the amount of tax revenue those suburbs bring in, when it comes time to replace that stuff, the city will go into the red. Meaning, either it draws the revenue from somewhere else, likely the more economically productive urban core (or even more development, furthering the problem), or it goes bankrupt. That's not good!
I'm surprised they weren't captured from within Emacs using some janky elisp video encoder.
In a fairly straight line and in good weather? Very fast (compared to current US highways). 150 mph or more.

The primary factor I can think of in terms of risk, are wild animals crossing and vehicle malfunction (eg tire rupture). Censors/radar, both in the vehicle and along the perimeter, should take care of the animal threat. On the mechanical side, well, the goal would be to get the rate of death down to perhaps airline-like numbers.
You can use simulated threads with JavaPoly, which allows you to utilize the full Java threading model (including locks). If you enable the native jvm, you get true threads.
The reason you wouldn't want to use WebWorkers as a primitive for building threads is that the javascript memory model doesn't allow for shared memory, so you would take a huge performance hit while crossing the serialization boundary for virtually every memory access. You'd be better off just using the simulated threads at that point.
I've heard that to start a company in UK, a UK bank account is required, and it is pretty difficult for non-residents to get.
I think what you are seeing is that not all suburbs are created equal. I grew up in the burbs and live in the burbs now. Nothing in the article matches up to my experience. I am also on the coast in a smaller city so it is hard to have explicit city and explicit burb.
Google helps kids send love letters to moms in prison
But do I dislike competition because of my social status, or is that the other way around? Which caused which? Is that really sufficient to sum up my opinion through my subjective point of view ? Look at the politics of dealing with losers in our society, it's not pretty.

I think that at some point, if there is more competition than cooperation, a lot of people will get alienated, and that won't always be a good thing. I mean trade in general feels more like competition than cooperation.

I agree that competition yields benefits thanks since the economy manages itself, but it also has huge costs. I mean I don't like society for its competition, I like it for its cooperation. If I'd really like competition, I'd live as a hermit. And to be honest, if society become less and less cooperative as a whole, what's the point of it ?