skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe to add to my own point, this gets at an interesting perhaps-philosophical question of the role of models and explanations in science. One extreme, closer to Asimov's arguments here, could be to say that the point of science is just to write down accurate predictions about the world. If a model allows us to do this accurately, then we might tend to accept the model without concern to whether the model is what we think is "really going on". I'm a bit more comfortable with this style of viewpoint because the proof is in the pudding (or rather the predictions) so it speaks for itself.

A more opposing viewpoint could be that the point of science is to develop these models that explain why things happen, not just how they happen. So conservation of momentum is interpreted not just as a description of what happens when bodies move or collide, but also as a reason why they behave as they do. This is a frightening viewpoint because I tend to agree with you that we are very far from really understanding what's going on in physics; for example, imagining that some variant of string theory is true, this could completely change what we think "mass" means, even if the predictions about how objects behave is not very different.
Totally agree. I'd rather barrel roll down the infield than meet the wall any day.
That's not a problem with the suburbs, that's a policy problem. I realize that it costs more per capita to supply infrastructure to us out here and I certainly don't mine paying a premium.

Plus, moving suburbanites into city centers can cause problems too. For example, Austin has been building some very nice condo towers right downtown. These buildings have attracted people that, like me, want peace and quiet. So for the past few years, there's been quite a bit of tension between these new residents and bars and nightclubs that have existed for a long time. The bars have lost some of the fights and the character of downtown is changing.
It's probably the way not to do things if you want to get to affordable supercars. The only way is to program robots to manufacture the cars from start to finish, and the development should be in software (teaching the robots to work better)
>Transparency (institutions that wish to do so could use the blockchain to be transparent about their finance)

This doesn't apply if many of the transactions happen "off chain" to offer the reversibility benefits you mentioned before.

Basically, to get all of the trust benefits of the banking system, you are saying we have to essentially not actually use bitcoin, which makes me wonder what the point is. At that stage, why not have gold denominated credit cards? Less technology to depend on and the government still doesn't control supply.
(The idea of mapcodes is great though. I've been to a few countries where even cab drivers don't know the proper street names)
I can't think of anything that isn't seen as a direct attack on the author

Don't worry, I'm not offended! :-)
Right. That "1 hour, 15 minute flight" is really a minimum of about four hours. The train is probably faster, door-to-door.
I disagree. Typical Chicago suburban area is safer than Europe. If you exclude homicides, most of which happen on the south side of Chicago, Europe has a lot more crime
In a proper high-speed system that would be more like 180MPH

The current record for highest average speed on a rail line is China's 176mph average Shijiazhuang-Zhengzhou. Prior record holder was 173mph on the Champagne-Ardenne to Lorraine run on the LGV Est corridor of the TGV.

All high-speed rail systems have stretches where they go faster than that, but average speeds are nowhere near what you're proposing. Unless, of course, your argument is that no "proper high-speed system" exists anywhere in the world today.
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If the authors compressed the JAR files into a single bundle, storing the data into a BrowserFS-created IndexedDB file system removes decompression/extraction overhead on subsequent visits.

If they didn't.... then it might be sufficient, but I am not sure how well the browser cache handles large files! How long until it evicts them? Is there an upper bound on the size of cached items? etc.
The real benefit isn't in increased speed. It's the decreased distance between cars.
Preconnect, prefetch, prerender (2013)
Wow speechless
> No. Objective-C started out as a set of C Macros, then an actual pre-processor was created, mostly to deal with uniquing selectors. Once the pre-processor was there it was used to create actual syntax.

I'm curious. What did that early form of Obj-C look like?
There is a very big difference between implicit flow control, that you have with green threads and explicit one, that you have with "reinvented green threads", as you call them. First one will force you to think about synchronization to access your memory, but the second one - won't. It will also let you do clean cancellation, etc., that you won't be able to do with green thread.
Could you point me to that? I still can't find it.
This is designed specifically for researchers in academic institutions that have quite narrowly-defined mechanisms for 'getting credit' that can be formally applied towards career advancement, tenure review, etc., where by definition there are not 'a variety of ways for one to get credit'. Changing those evaluation mechanisms to better support recognizing software development for its "inherent" or naive value would be ideal, but is not a practical option for non-tenured researchers who need to work within existing advancement systems. Anyone outside of those systems would not find this form of publication useful at all - exactly why it is self-described as an academic 'hack' and not intended for general-purpose software development.
How were you able to use the crunchbase data set without paying their high prices?
The specs are incredibly dense and hard to read, but they are quite detailed.

I found many of the protocols to be both incredibly clever and incredibly annoying at the same time.
> Sky which is cheap/free in comparison to building rails.

Isn't flying the most expensive kind of transportation ? Plus it relies on fossil fuels big-time.
The problem is that there aren't any other areas in the country that are as well-suited for busy inter-city rail as the Boston to DC corridor.

A lot of money's being pumped into trying a high-speed rail corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco. And to be honest, I'd think there's at least a moderately good case for running up to Portland, Seattle and possibly even Vancouver. There's an awful lot of tech-industry commuting by air on those routes right now.
I haven't ever brought free food outside in a software company, although I could have (except when going out to the nearby park for lunch with a colleague). I felt it immoral. I feel that the price to pay for the food is to talk with colleagues (team building, even if it's not about work). It could be just disallowed (as a form of cost cutting)
The whole point is that they are finding real evidence through illegitimate means. If you try to say they are fabricating evidence out of whole cloth, no one will believe you.
Interesting write up, to me clearly 'grit' is not 'the' answer but it certainly is either a component or proponent for at least some people.
I have to wonder: do any of these pro-suburban commentators live in the Bay Area? And if so, do they live in San Jose, Fremont, or Daly City? Or do they live in San Francisco.
> There in Germany, Gröbenzell actually has a population density 30% higher than Seattle

Population density doesn't always tell the whole story. Portland, OR has a lower population density than Beaverton (one of the surrounding cities that is basically a suburb).
I'm sure you could run elisp scripts with mod_cgi.

But who needs Apache? Just M-x package-install elnode, and you've got yourself a web server.
While I agree that more high-speed rail would be amazing in the US as a viable transit option, a lot of the calculus around efficiency of it rests on it being exempt from the likes of TSA. TSA has been making their way into train stations for a few years now:

2013: http://reason.com/archives/2013/08/08/tsa-to-ruin-train-trav...

2015: http://www.infowars.com/tsa-airport-style-searches-on-all-am...
How many airports are landing anything like a 747 every 1.4 minutes? Especially given that the Shinkansen runs in both directions, so your airport is going to have to handle exclusively 747s, with high loadings and a headway of around 40 seconds. That's slightly more planes and massively more passengers than London Heathrow.

In terms of carbon emissions you'd need the flights to be long, and the trains to be pretty inefficient and empty (think current Amtrak trains), and even then there is evidence that the high altitude appears to make the emissions significantly more harmful than the equivalent ground-level emissions
People say that about operating systems, yet you have businesses running Windows XP still simply because they don't want to update. Yes, there's ones that don't for compatibility, but there are some that don't upgrade simply because they don't want to.
https://github.com/wsjdata/clinton-email-cruncher
Once ES6 support is everywhere, you should be able to use WeakMap and WeakSet.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I agree to what you are saying, to an extent. Yes I comparison shop when buying air tickets and buy the cheapest, because I am not aware of the environmental impact differences between airlines. While shopping for grocery on the other hand I try to buy from local farmers even at higher costs, though i am gaining much more here as the local products tastes so much better.
When it comes to clothes though, it looks like it is made in china or nothing.
If clothes were made profitably in the US till 70's and real wages haven't gone up since then, why is it impossible to make clothes here without the astronomical price tags? The raw materials (cotton for example), as the article says, already comes from here.
So Asimov says this: "It seemed that in one of my innumerable essays, I had expressed a certain gladness at living in a century in which we finally got the basis of the universe straight."

Whatever misconceptions our English major has about how science works, this strikes me as incredibly unlikely. If you believe in the law of accelerating returns, then it's almost infinitely unlikely — that the number of scientific revolutions yet to come is vastly larger than of those already past. So it's certainly not correct to say that we had "got it wrong" before, as if each attempt is like rolling the dice all over. It's also wrong (though, as he says, not AS wrong) to say that we've "finally" got it "straight".
I would say the simplex algo, ridiculously useful and efficient (most of the time)
Very slow to load on a mobile device, looking at the page size it seems quite heavy, especially for a site aimed at promoting or representing a text editor (and a lot more I know, I know).
Here is another, http://www.hartforddenimcompany.com/

Same thing though, basically a luxury product.
+ Bezier surfaces: http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/

Talk: https://youtu.be/Zkx1aKv2z8o?t=15m54s
Tell that to the Google fleet...
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This is where, and bear with me on this HN, Donald Trump is right.

We in the west, especially us smart folks, cherish our environment, and we think it is shameful to force people to work in inhumane conditions. How fair is it, then, to force our fellow westerners who didn't win the intelligence lottery to compete with labor in countries that don't care one whit about either?

It isn't right. The multinationals will shriek bloody murder about it, because they've made a killing engaging in moral arbitrage, but it's time to tariff the hell out of products produced in ecological and human conditions we would find deplorable in our own countries.
I think it was. Here's an old article that covers the "what's old is new again angle": https://books.google.com/books?id=WG785CwKw4cC&pg=PA76&lpg=P...
The nuclear option – China is vigorously promoting nuclear energy
Sadly. This is one of the negative effects of having mostly-foreign entertainment media, and I’d hope that the effect could be countered soon.
California voters approved that project because they expected it to be a bit of priming that opened up the federal dollar spigot. If that doesn't actually happen the project will almost certainly be scrapped.
I cut the last part of the lead text because titles are limited to 80 characters.
Hi, author here!

I am very familiar with Kunstler's talk and do cite it from time to time, but it's hard for me to see the basis for the notion that I ripped it off. Kunstler is hardly the only one to make New Urbanist architectural talking points or to formulate them in the way that he does, notwithstanding his rather specific sense of humour.

That said, I just rewatched Kunstler's talk (for the first time in maybe a year or two?), and I can certainly see why you say what you do, though I don't agree that it rises to the level of plagiarism; I sat there and made my formulations quite originally. It's probably a case of subconscious diffusion, as you suggest. I added a citation for his talk to the bottom of the post to reflect the discernible overlap.

That said, you really need to look at some other critical literature in this sphere. If you do, you might be led to accuse Kunstler of plagiarism! :-)
> I'm happy to give up grime, drug trafficking, and violence for an internet tongue lashing.

This statement assumes that if you did not make the choice that you have you would be assured to have these things happening right outside your door.
Cyprus and Malta are popular for internet companies.
If you let a ten year old use transit themselves today, there's a decent chance parents will get a visit from the police. I think it's ridiculous, but that's how it seems to be.
Haha, I've actually tried to do this. The only missing link, I believe, is to add a Nashorn/Rhino backend to BrowserFS (Doppio's file system library) so that Doppio can access the filesystem that Rhino is running in to load the JDK.

If that sounds like fun, I take pull requests [0]. :)

[0] https://github.com/jvilk/browserfs
To me as somebody who was raised in NYC and still lives there. American suburbia is just lovely.

I find nyc dead boring and claustrophobic. Yes there nice restaurants in the city but how many times do you want to eat out? How many shows or do you go to? How many of this and that.

That's the conclusion for me. Sure there are restaurants I'd like to visit. I can commute to go eat once. I don't need to live there and once I have eaten at all the good places (which takes a few weeks at most) you're done.

I'd hate for the suburbs to be undone. NYC is really not a pleasant place to live. So many lunatics walking around and people have no concept of space.
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IN the case of the video linked it is a one man shop, in Oakland CA USA. 20$ in material is probably right on the money. other costs are probably 20$ (power, equipment upkeep)...

The rest is pay for himself. It probably takes 6-10 hours to build a pair of jeans at the level he is doing it at, and that leaves him making a reasonable hourly rate
A large amount of Show HNs are not startups; they are personal projects.

Relatedly, using "the startup is not dead" as a metric for the startup alive is a bad idea. People do not shut down everything when a Hacker News submission does not get upvotes (especially in the case of Show HN, where many are hosted on GitHub pages and are free to host, although you account for that in the regression).

The regression has a few issues:

> It's a classification problem (alive or dead) so OLS doesn't make sense.

> Score and Comments are multicolinear and cannot both be in the same model.

> You don't answer or give statistics toward "how well" the model predicts.

> Related to the comment earlier, you don't comment on the magnitude of the on_GitHub coefficients, which are huge and skew the entire result of the regression!

While I always appreciate analyses of HN data, the conclusions raise more questions than answers.
What is the keyboard shortcut to exit the website?
Guile[1], Octave[2], Guix[3] and GRUB[4] have nice designs too.

[1]: https://gnu.org/software/guile/

[2]: https://gnu.org/software/octave/

[3]: https://gnu.org/software/guix/

[4]: https://gnu.org/software/grub/
I think you're conflating Bitcoin (the system) with Bitcoin opsec skills.

Yes, I agree: Bitcoin is probably easier to steal from people who don't know what they're doing. (And yes there is probably is smaller chance of the thief being caught).

But as of now, properly secured Bitcoin can't be stolen by any criminal, government, or bank. Even if they have physical access to the owner's shit!

The same cannot be said for any modern national/fiat electronic monetary system.
Step by step towards the universal killswitch.
> Suburbia, with all their HOAs and such are the physical manifestation of the cultural preferences of a large majority of Americans.

My numbers put the number of Americans in HOAs in the suburbs at ~16%. Suburbs without HOAs ~37%. So, a small majority of Americans live in suburbs and a much smaller number live in a suburb with an HOA. More Americans live in urban areas (~26%) than in a suburb with an HOA.

As to preferences, my anecdotal experiences have been that I know people who moved to suburbs out of necessity due to cost, but I have never met someone, other than the homeless and those in subsidized housing, living in an urban area due to cost instead of personal choice.
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The dataset interpreted my site as dead because it 301 redirected to the SSL connection. This is probably quite common, so take the living/dead stats with a grain of salt.
It may be hard to justify a national high speed rail network, but the coasts easily have enough population density to make it work on a regional basis.

The big problem with rail in the US, at this point, is you'd have to build out an enormous number of track miles to make the system actually work for people who wanted to use it, and that's going to cost a lot of money and displace a lot of people.
The author of this story, who obviously has no kids, is confused as to why a family of 4 might not want to live in an apartment over a bar in downtown. That's my worst nightmare of life. I'll drive, thanks.
This strawman argument detracts from a bigger point: many people dislike the idea of a CEO getting bonuses no matter whether the company's chips are up or down. It's not revolutionary, but the signaling is still appreciated and important.

Tangentially, I think it's disingenuous to say that Elon Musk hasn't had a large amount of input in Tesla Motors, or any other venture he's a part of. Even a cursory glance of his Twitter shows that he clearly has deep knowledge in the automotive/aerospace fields, and further searching shows he was involved heavily in the Roadster design[1], which was a pretty important piece of establishing Tesla Motors as a bonafide manufacturer - both from a "cars people want to buy and drive" and "cars which are pushing the status quo" aspect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Tesla_Motors
FWIW, the most recent study I've seen from Amtrak sets a target of about 4 hours from Boston to DC. (Which would be quite competitive with air.)

https://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/214/393/A-Vision-for-High-Speed...
If you look at the states'-rights arguments for why schools should be controlled and funded at the hyper-local rather than federal level, it seems many people in the US believe standards should be out of alignment across the country. People with political power honestly believe that kids in Kentucky ought to be educated differently than kids in Wisconsin.
"After doing a tour in Facebook’s news trenches, almost all of them came to believe that they were there not to work, but to serve as training modules for Facebook’s algorithm." ha! aren't we all.
Yes, heuristics are a very good guideline and I am grateful to have learned those at a very early age (that's how you were introduced to chess in the GDR).

I too apply them but my point is, in mid-game I'm much more free to ignore them than in openings or end-games in which I usually let my forearm do the thinking.
>German urban areas tend to barely have any road traffic for the density since almost nobody owns a car, a quiet train that passes by once in a while and most things closing at 8pm latest.

Everything closes at 8pm? Jesus, I thought that silicon valley was bad, just 'cause it is hard to get a decent meal after 10pm.
Microsoft Revenues Surpass $1 Trillion
http://www.medpagetoday.com/upload/2013/7/24/FA-5548.pdf

"Safety in Numbers: Are Major Cities the Safest Places in the
United States?" by Myers et al, Annals of Emergency Medicine
On the other hand if he was allowed to walk home your parents would likely be arrested for child abuse.
That's fair, and thanks for digging up those actual standards - they are indeed not easy to find these days. I think though that tends to be the standard speaking to the intended usage of the ASCII codes, more than it does to an attempt to standardize behavior of all input and output devices. It's more a suggestion that some equipment might choose to use backspace for diacritics, and some might separately effect X and Y movement, but others might not. Certainly in practice terminals have always exposed their different capabilities by giving special terminal code meanings to ASCII sequences, and, when terminal capability negotiation was not an option (e.g. in specifying a file format or defining how to separate SMTP headers) ASCII users have made their own standards for these things (I guess this is the sort of 'agreement' the standard alludes to).
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

Rank by "Starting a Business".

Looks like it's Lithuania. Denmark wins overall, but that includes things like property and electricity that you may not care about. Sweden and the UK are also not bad.

And holy shit Germany and Austria do badly in this ranking when it comes to starting a business!
I'm guessing Google street view doesn't do a lot of photography between November and March.
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The intended improvements have changed, but they're still there. Hopefully we'll end up with electrification and level-loading, which should increase Caltrain people/hour to be the same as a BART line. 38% of tech workers in Palo Alto take Caltrain, just imagine what it could be if Caltrain wasn't running over 100% during rush hour.
Okay, perhaps Venice wasn't the best example. How about Barcelona?
“It was degrading as a human being,” said another. “We weren’t treated as individuals." hmmm. Trying hard to feel sympathy/emapthy for these victums but my algorithm is throwing an exception.
It really depends. Many large metro systems in Asia do better than 100% farebox recovery. Europe hovers between 30 to 60%. In the US anything above 35% is pretty remarkable -and there are a few over 50% but not many. Most recover less than 30% from their boxfare. And that's mostly due to being too "diluted". You have lines in suburban-like areas who cannot sustain the lines via ridership.

I'm a fan of public transit I love punctual, clean, timely, dependable mass transit, but I realize it may not be the best answer for agglomerations like we have in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in the Bay area or Dallas-Ft Worth, TX.