skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great if you are a white person making 60k+ a year (a good bit of money in this city). There was a huge string of neglectful decisions to lower income families who have lived there for decades being forced out. These aren't "bad" people or criminals either. You guessed it: An overwhelming majority are African American.

I can already hear someone typing "well that's just life, they should get over it." This would perfectly represent the ignorance around a lot of the city-wide issues. So much of today is around the hype-cycle issues presented from the upper-class/startup/city officials perspective.

It isn't all bad, by any means, and I apologize if I sound jaded. To declare the city or an area wholly on the up-and-up or "largely positive" is certainly a sheltered perspective though.
recently encountered the same annoyance. had to fork a repo, and then do a replace-all on all references of import to the new path
The article is weird. It is presupposing that there are no other languages that are faster _and_ makes developers as happy as working with Ruby. I count Elixir as one of those.
Buffett(BRK) is financing the deal. That's different from investing
Are you really blaming racism for DUIs?
A lot of non-technical older users still use Yahoo properties. My mom still uses Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo.com is her homepage (by choice).

I don't know how to quantify what that's worth, but I can't imagine it's nothing.
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FWIW, AMD also struck out HARD in the mobile market. When I interviewed there (just before release of iPhone 3G), I was jazzed about the "imminent" opportunity for mobile CPUs. I expected AMD to scale right down and into the phone, tablet and CPU market. We watched the world tumble around us as if on a ferry boat.

When I voiced the words, "mobile CPU" to anyone there, people were oblivious and silent. The company was just out of touch, thinking everyone was going to keep buying tower PCs and laptops. It seemed the only variable they thought customers cared about was performance. People would buy AMD if it was just a little faster. They didn't realize it was simply the wrong product/market. Performance wasn't nearly as important, sigh.
It’s time for nonprofit media organizations
The title has been modified.... it should have been posted with this title: "Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing" ... which is true.
> The study did not show that it's safe to drive while stoned, and if you read the entire article they're fairly clear about that.

Which is exactly what I can't argue with. My point was in reference to the conclusion of the article, which states,

> So, should we all assume that we're safe to blaze one and go for a joyride whenever the whimsy strikes us? Absolutely not. There's plenty of evidence showing that marijuana use impairs key driving skills. If you get really stoned and then get behind the wheel, you're asking for trouble.

We apparently cannot map concentrations of THC to driver impairment. Which agrees with my anecdotal experience in the matter, that the effects THC vary greatly with individuals.
DAE that Commodore looks like Darth Vader?
> I'm not sure if you are trying to compare my legal knowledge to that of a Taxi driver ...

Certainly not, I see no evidence that you don't have a strong understanding of the law, far beyond my own.

I guess what I'm saying is that Uber and the DAO both operate in a legal grey zone- And both of them likely have aspects that directly conflict with current law. However, I think it's clear that the legal system is a "living institution" and has been surprisingly welcoming of new innovative business models and technologies recently (as with Uber and things related to the DAO like Bitcoin) and is one of the reasons I still feel relatively optimistic about the future of the US economy.

What made Uber succeed, to a large degree, is that clearly a lot of societal pressure had built up over decades due to poor experiences with the taxi system- I think it's undeniable that this had an influence on the positive legal rulings around Uber, so far as those exist in many parts of the country.

Similarly, alternative governance systems like the DAO will keep appearing and I think eventually are likely to get some support from the existing legal system.

> Take Miami-Dade county...

Yikes! Glad I don't live there anymore, as my lifestyle depends significantly on access to ride sharing services.
Funny how for me this works completely the other way. Often people try to make things simple but in the process achieve exactly the opposite.
This is one thing that's a little annoying to me. I know if I develop a Rust app today I can't leave it alone or it will decay horribly.
Except that only a small percentage of projects need to scale. So you're generally much better off trading scalability for productivity.
If your selling point is speed, I agree that a benchmark would be worthwhile..
My belief is that lack of concurrency primitives is what will kill Ruby, not today, 10 years from now. We're running on momentum alone at this point.

That said every Rubyist should be following Chris Seaton's work chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/ with JRuby Truffle+Graal. This is our best change, imo of course, to make Ruby fast.
It seems to me that the problem here is that you were assured that things weren't public. In that sense, I would say that OKCupid should be sued.

I mean, sure, academics might get stopped by lawsuits. Russian social engineering hackers won't though.
So, we have "impairs key driving skills" versus "no statistically significant change in the risk of a crash". It sounds a bit like in vitro vs. in vivo results. At the end of the day, I'm more concerned about risk factors that actually lead to accidents on the roads.

Why doesn't "key driving skill" impairment from marijuana appear to increase the risk of a crash? My best guess is that stoned drivers are concerned about being pulled over and are able to compensate more than 1) someone impaired but not aware/concerned enough to compensate (e.g. tired or distracted drivers) or 2) someone worried about getting pulled over but unable to compensate as well for their impairment (e.g. drunk drivers).
SF spends hundreds of millions of dollars on homeless and probably has more services than almost any other city on earth.

Whether they're effective or not is a different question...
What the Renaissance did for us
> For example, an organisation building public service websites would not build a software configuration management system for itself, this is a commodity capability that is best served by well-established tools such as the open source Git.

Hmm

TARDIS metaphor is very cool though
Anecdata alert: it increased my usage, and that of my wife. From "none", because didn't need the legal hassles even if the risk was practically non-existent in the Seattle area if you had some sense, to "pretty regular use" now that it's legal in WA. By far the biggest reason for the switch was because the hassle of tracking down weed just wasn't worth the hassle. Now the store is on the way home, takes an extra five minutes to pick some up.

So legal weed is driving us all to be pot heads, right? I mean, look at us: kindly middle age couple who are nice to animals and pay their taxes, and now they're smoking that whacky weed on the weekends! Meh, we're not the ones you needed to worry about in the first place. If it ain't weed, we'd be in Woodinville on Sunday doing wine tastings and driving home after (well, we wouldn't, but I see it every weekend). Our community is much better off if instead my wife and I sit home on a Saturday night smoking a bowl and playing video games.

Are we representative? I have absolutely no idea. But surely we're not the only two people in the entire state of WA who said, after the retail stores opened, "ya know, haven't bought a 1/4 ounce in decades, but I used smoke weed back in the day and I kind of enjoyed it. Now that it's legal, think I'll swing by that new store on the way home tomorrow."
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I've had two friends killed by drunk drivers in two different decades and I have to run on the side of the road

If you are on anything, legal or illegal that influences you, I hope you get a nice long prison sentence for driving impaired.

If you see someone step out of a bar or whatnot that is either drunk or high and goes to drive, please call the police and possibly save someone's life - you don't have to call 911, call the anonymous number for your city.
Does anyone remember Facebook Rooms? Seems to be taking that app and throwing in better share functionality.

Rooms died for the reasons many others are mentioning here - why would you use a new app, when the functionality (kinda) exists between FB groups, Whatsapp, Messenger?

I'm not sure if this will have a web client, but if it does maybe this can be a group-based Pocket / Pinboard competitor?
packaging will work great if you don't rely on any unicorn library that will put their dylib/so files in some ugly path's that aren't standard. (FFI only) actually not the worst thing for most people, but linking against a paid library will mostly end up with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH at some point.
How do you conclude that Philadelphia is a much more interesting and hip city when compared to Pittsburgh/Boston?

I can't speak to Boston, but having lived in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and a suburb of NY (Fairfield county CT), Pittsburgh has the most accessible cultural outlets. The local art scene is incredible, there is a top tier orchestra, the city is mostly bikable (with more protected bike lanes on the way), there are 3 professional sports teams that are within 20 minutes on public transportation of anywhere in the city. The list goes on. There may be more things to do in NYC than Pittsburgh, but I constantly felt like I had to pick and choose because it was just so expensive.
There's another word for that - murder.

I am totally in favor of euthanasia under the right circumstances. A nurse tricking someone who is certainly is shock into nodding their heads and saying "ok" is not under any conditions the right circumstances.
It looks like Portability is not a core focus of the core team. It looks like IBM is doing a ton of the Linux compatibility work and has offloaded the core team.

(BTW, shameless plug, I send a weekly Swift newsletter here: http://SwiftNews.co)
Drowned by a dozen WhatsApp groups, I'm for anything that improves small groups communication. Unfortunately, to make people adopt it will be really difficult. When I'm managing something, I can't even make people fill a simple Google Form.
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That should not be true. 1.0 meant that we stopped breaking things on a daily basis, if your code runs on stable today, it should run on stable tomorrow, modulo any soundness fixes (of which we have had two or three this year, which were all trivial to update).

If it is true, please file bugs. We do our best not to break people's stuff, going to pretty extreme lengths compared to many other ecosystems.
There were two directions it could go. Either more leisure time or more productivity. America has chosen option number 2. Option 1 isn't so great in a global economy--if any other country chooses option 2 then you will be noncompetitive.
Both should only be allowed to drive self-driving cars.
It's true in practice but not in theory.

Ruby can't defragment memory pages - if there is an active object in any heap page, it cannot be released back to the OS. Technically, Ruby does release empty pages back to the OS, but in practice, heap pages are rarely completely empty.
click-baity title?
Deep Neural Network Hyper-Parameter Optimization
I'm toying with the idea of writing a GUI on top of my console-based mail-client. This would be interesting to experiment with, because I'd probably decouple the UI from the back-end, allowing others to experiment with unusual layouts and options.

The downside is that GUI stuff is hard to do right, and I'm not really sure I could force myself to complete the job. I just don't like any of the existing (linux) mail-clients.
Ruby is not fast enough for machine learning
Btw reach out to me at @xiki on twitter if you're looking for a place...
Try Vimperator add-on for Firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/

Given enough proficiency, you will not have to use your mouse while browsing.
Will that talk be available online at some point?
I consider Federated and decentralized to be very different solutions.

pertaining to google wave specifically, by joining the federation there is still a heiarchy of how connections are made.

If you join a federation for google wave all of your messages still go through the top tier of that federation, to my knowledge this was by design (obviously this is all deprecated) if my statement is incorrect please let me know, but I see federated and decentralized as have some similarities but at the core are different solutions.

I am referring to this message [0] from Apache Wave mailing list in regards to how the Wave federation was designed, I took it as face value but do not know how to verify for accuracy.... above my head.

[0] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-wave-dev/...

wrong link earlier...woops
No offense as I'm sure there's some awesome stuff happening in Pittsburgh, but EVERY "up and coming" city with an innovation ecosystem can write this very same piece about themselves. See how Detroit, Baltimore, Philly, Raleigh, New Orleans, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Omaha, Miami, etc. etc. etc. all write about themselves. There's nothing here to say WHY a gigantic shift in the way investment capital is being deployed should be redeployed. Why people with talent and knowledge capital should LEAVE their current places of employment and residence to pick up and move to an unknown. Why people with experience and mentorship building substantial and sizable companies should all of a sudden start doing it in places that they aren't already doing it. WHY? Those questions are never answered. And this is why all those cities above keep striving. As they should. But to say that Pittsburgh is doing something special that other cities aren't doing in many of the same ways requires observing what's happening out there.

I'd love to see an update to this article with a compare and contrast. With a list of the successes. With comparisons to other cities successes (especially those of similar size and grit). And perhaps some analysis as to why it's happening in Pittsburgh and not other places (if it is indeed happening like that)
It's been interesting to see the emergence of the Android Developer-Advocate-Comedian in Fireside chats and at Google I/O sessions.

Maybe some of these folks are bored with their jobs, or just tired of trying to do the impossible: convince the developer community that the Android SDK is a great and well designed thing that makes creating great, robust, secure apps easier and faster.

"We know we can't give them world-class, visionary, insanely great engineering, but we can try to give them something entertaining."

Bread and circuses ...
> This is one thing that's a little annoying to me. I know if I develop a Rust app today I can't leave it alone or it will decay horribly.

No, it won't. Rust has been stable since 1.0, as the article itself mentions.
They must be smoking good stuff when they decided to publish this article :D
> The world that many thought could only exist in a dream or a science fiction, the world that others, such as George Orwell feared, is finally here.

Why yes, yes it is.
This is incorrect. American cities are usually designed around car dominance, at the expense of walking. Examples include:

- Primary metric for road design and evaluation being "level of service", which means "how many cars can move through here in a given period of time". Pedestrians are second-class citizens.

- Minimum parking requirements subsidize car use and make urban environments pedestrian-unfriendly by spreading out points of interest.

- Zoning regulations mandating that most of a city's residential area consist of detached single-family homes on large lots, mixed-use generally limited or non-existent.

- Under-investment in transit (transit use is generally paired with walking at the start and end).

- Freeways running all the way into and through cities split urban areas into sections that are difficult to navigate between by walking.

I could go on and on about how American cities are hostile to walking, but that covers some of the big ones. It's true that these decisions have or had popular support, so it's not a conspiracy, but it was certainly designed.
> The only mystery to me was why Intel never just sucked it up and made a low-margin x86 chip to compete directly with ARM.

High-margin addiction is typically deeply embedded in a company's culture. Every manager who is accountable for revenue is keenly aware of the incentives of toeing the high-margin-culture line. As a result, you have low-margin products and ideas killed off by mid-level managers. For big companies, there is no choice: you either get lucky with high-margin addiction, or you die.
Very good thought experiment. I would choose marijuana over any of the others in a heartbeat. The only exception would be if the driver is not a regular user. In that case, probably the antihistamines.
Less relevant these days with Docker, but yeah, I get your point. There have been a number of posts on HN in the past few months about the complexity of dependencies between gems, and how many of Ruby's performance issues are actually due to these types of dependency issues (your app's performance used to be good, till someone changed a method in a module that another module you use depended on and made it 5% slower, except that module used it 30 times per call, so the resulting code was 50-100% slower).
Good news for you: this is a complete misconception. Rust has been stable for a year. With a minor caveat for actual bugs in the language, your code will compile on all Rust 1.X compilers from now until the end of time. Upgrading Rust versions has been a breeze.
Are you suggesting that Ruby has not improved its speed? Are you suggesting that Ruby is too slow for the web?
I hope so. I gave it at FOSDEM in 2015, only intending to give it one time, and then they lost all of the video from the keynote track :( So I'm giving it again there to hopefully get it on the record.
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I said that it mattered years ago, and doesn't matter now. Also, I wasn't talking about backwards compatibility, at least not directly. ISA matters a great deal for compatibility and software, but not at all for performance as of the past decade or so. None of the x86 lock-in tactics I describe above would be possible if ISA didn't matter at all -- it just doesn't matter for performance/watt.
That's gotten much better since 1.0. Prior to 1.0, you needed to revise your Rust program about once a week so it would compile. Now the language has settled, but the libraries are still churning.

One of the big advantages of Go is that it comes with a coherent set of libraries from a single source (Google) that do most of the things you'd want to do on a server. Rust is more like Python; many people write libraries, many of which overlap and some of which work.
Nothing like in sf.

Between me + SO, 9 years in nyc, 10 years in sf.
There are also rumors that Google may be looking at using Swift as an alternative interface to android, that sounds a bit nutty, given that they have golang. But....

1) go is not a suitable candidate for android, as most of the api's are object orientated and involve subclassing sdk classes, which would be awkward and painfull on golang, but not so hard on swift.

2) they would pick up a bunch of companies and devs that are currently building high quality apps for iOS, if swift does succeed in abstracting the foundation classes and provide a reasonable abstraction of the UI classes, it would open up the potential of a universal "app" language, for Mac, Linux, android and iOS.

This may be wishful thinking, but it's worth pushing a few Braincells in that direction.
vanilla Node.JS instead of Meteor, Vue.js instead of Blaze
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Check.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/19/yahoo-qua...

Yahoo announced falling revenues and a quarterly loss of $99.2m on Tuesday - from April 19, 2016
a) Mormons drink caffeine. I am a card-carrying Mormon, so if you argue this point with me your sources had better be pretty good.

b) Sure, companies pop up where they pop up, but for a city to become a hub for something, you need more than a couple of companies popping up. I wouldn't say Orem was exactly a tech hub in the 80s. You could argue the point better now, judging from the recent BuzzFeed article.
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Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1
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A typical request to our rails app will be served in under 100ms, with the majority of that time being data access. Even the fastest Go app is one bad query away from a horrible response time.

CPU in the web layer is not the bounding issue for most web apps.
the article speaks about 'embedded' systems - these are not x84-64 systems (intel cpus need too much power) so they don't have a 'zero cost' exception table (that is also not exactly zero cost)

Can you show me an embedded system with zero cost exceptions?
I hope your comment was meant as a sarcastic jab lol.
The problem for most startups is that they're not even sure that the CPU is spending its cycles on the right thing.

A language/framework that helps you figure that out faster is superior to one that is slower to code with. And Ruby/Rails are pretty good from this point of view.

I'll add: perhaps the time will come when there's something that's equally adept at being light on its feet, and is also faster. Elixir/Phoenix look interesting from that point of view. But even there... Erlang is certainly not the fastest thing out there.
IRB would likely not review this if the researcher pitched it to them as a public dataset. 45 CFR 46.101(b)(4) enumerates topics which are exempt from IRB review, one is:

"Research involving the collection or study of existing data, documents, records, pathological specimens, or diagnostic specimens, if these sources are publicly available or if the information is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that subjects cannot be identified, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects."

[0] http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/4...
"The same way" like having good technique and being athletic? They may suck at blocking and passing, but they may rock at shooting, stealing and dribbling technique. The argument simplifies too much and draws conclusions that make no sense given other factors. Apples vs oranges.

Ugly people are just ugly. They aren't inherently creepy. Lots of ugly people are very pleasant and nice to be around, you just wouldn't want to fuck them. And lots of attractive people are creepy as hell.
You could also be fired because your boss wants to hire his nephew.

You could also be fired because you would be better at your boss' job than he is and he wants to get rid of you before his boss notices.

You could also be fired because you refuse to do something dangerous and insist that it should be done in a less-dangerous but more expensive way.