skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Properties included in the model have total development
potential, measured by FAR and residential units, of 20%
or less of the maximum allowed under local zoning law.
All properties above this level are considered "built
out" and do not factor in to the maximum potential units
number.

FAR is "floor area ratio" and controls how many square feet of building you can have on a given lot. I'd love to have a slider for this, since increasing the allowable FAR is a good way to make more efficient use of limited land.

(For example, zoning where I live sets a maximum FAR of 0.75, but most properties are over that limit and grandfathered in, averaging more like 0.90. Allowing people to build to 0.90 instead of 0.75 would not substantially change the feel of the area, and would make a lot more units available.)
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There are rumours floating about that Nintendo's next game system might go back to game cartridges, which is pretty much exactly "shipping software on a little SSD".
Except that the U.S. is considered to have a well-enough developed system of on-shore tax havens to not require going to Panama.
Radioactive decay is a component of geothermal heat, but it is not all of it, quite a large chunk of it is simply residual heat from time of the formation of the planet.
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Why would I want to pay extra to be a walking ad for someone else's brand?
Just like the UK 2012 Olympics. It came in under budget. Despite the budget quadrupling since the project was started.
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Tsk, tsk,

The author isn't going to make friends of mathematicians by declaring MATH as a subfield of CS in a diagram that looks like an org chart (because it's from a Forbes article? :-))

I was once righteously scolded after saying that logic was "merely" the physics of information. I learned a lesson.

We all can do better with more cross-pollination of different fields of study and less categorization.
The range of operating temperature is undefined in the datasheet. Would that work outdoors in winter or in direct sunlight? Think Alaska or the tropics. Humidity is pretty important too.
0.346% of the population over 17 years. Wouldn't be surprised if it was less than the national average death rate
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Now they will able to do so more quickly, more safely, and more cheaply

And important as well: likely more friendly to the environment. It's not all about economics.
I suspect data carriers would prefer you spend your dollars streaming rather than consuming stored media on the handset.
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I am not using a scientist role model. I am using a role model like Linus Torvalds, John Carmack or Eric Lippert. Would you disagree that these are good programmer role models? They have DEEP knowledge, not just "hey man have you seen the latest javascript framework".

And I don't see why you think the average programmer knows less about the law than someone in another non-legal profession. In my experience this is simply not the case, and yes, reading about it on the internet is better than not reading about it at all. It's not like dentists spend their time reading actual law books. Honestly, I have no idea where you get this from, it sounds absolutely wrong, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this.
It's not just a little less valuable two years later -- it's a lot less valuable, because the SSD lifetime is unknown and unreplaceable.

This makes manufacturers happy, because more end-users will buy new devices rather than get a used one.
I wonder if something based on RISC OS [0] would be more lightweight and boot quicker? I believe NOOBS is based on this and it loads very quickly. Linux is great but Raspbian may be overkill for something like this.

[0] https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi
Sold at a huge loss, certainly: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/rbs-share-sa...
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One of the seasons of the popular TV drama The Wire [1] revolved around drug dealers using burner phones for communication, making it really difficult for the police to wiretap them. So the idea has been out there for quite some time now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
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Trust and Transparency are two Silicon Valley principles ?

This mustn't be the same Silicon Valley that all of these big software companies are in then... because their core principle is making money.

Maybe things look different to the wealthy residents, or maybe they believe their own PR.
Greed doesnt care which people are active 24 hours a day to acquire money, or about the perfectly fit lazy people who live off social benefits.
Some of those items read very strange, and i doubt they can be even enforced (worldwide)? Can they actually demands things like:

"you don't make and sell more than 20 product items using the same (or a substantially similar) Unique Design. This means you can make 20 T-shirts using Design A and 20 T-shirts using Design B, but you cannot make 21 T-shirts using Design A; nor can you make 20 T-shirts using Design A plus 3 mugs using Design A;"
I recently stumbled upon a webcomic called Drugs and Wires. It may have more comedy than you'd expect from the subject matter, but it builds an excellent dystopian world.
After all, it's the city you can live without owning
cars in the United States.

I know a lot of other people in Boston that don't own cars.
Software was Kapow RoboSuite, it's since been going through a few acquisitions and can now be found at http://www.kofax.com/data-integration-extraction. The web site really doesnt tell a great story of the technical details, best thing is probably http://www.kofax.com/~/media/Files/Kofax/Datasheets/kapow/ds...
Yes, MIPS is a cheap candidate for when you need a bit more computing power than just a microcontroller.

Home routers usually have MIPS CPUs and run Linux on top of it. This wouldn't be possible with the 8051.
The 'old boy' network that powers the country is not contained within high-finance. It is just tightly linked to through wealth management and lobbying.
You don't find that many Swiss people who are willing to go in and dig.
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All a matter of personal preference :-)

(I've been 100% on a 12.6" screen for the last year; and was 11" for 3+ years before that (and only moved to the 12.6 because I couldn't find anything smaller that was as powerful as I wanted).)

I'm always hoping for more A4-paper-sized (or smaller) powerful laptops (and I think this is the best option at the moment (just over, but close enough :-) )).
Atlantic magazine ran some photos of this process. http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/11/the-ship-breakers/1...

It's amazing what sorts of things can happen when strong, dedicated, and intelligent people will work for 250 rupees per day and be happy about it.

To me the amazing thing about this article is that owners can afford to scrap their ships after only a couple of decades in service. I guess nothing's built to last.
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OMG I just understood what you meant with 360! You can swipe to the direction you want, like in Quicktime VR, but animated! I didn't know Youtube made it possible! The video was just showing the rails, I thought it was boring until I understood the concept.
Actually, it is difficult to say that we "know" anything when truth values are just that, "values" but not necessarily something "real".
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> a link to the white paper. no idea what this does/use case

From the white paper:

"Velocity is an automated system for hedging risk on asset prices. It allows anyone to establish
and participate in a marketplace on publicly accessible price feeds. The platform enables
hedgers and speculators to take part in a market that reduces the threat of systemic risk."

Hedging against exposure to fluctuations in asset prices is very useful and necessary to many businesses.
There's already a Flash upgrade service for iPhones available in China (similar kind of BGA chip). Which is kind of terrifying, the Flash on the iPhone has undersell so it has to be milled off on a CNC router, but apparently the process works quite reliably.

Where there's a will, there is a way, and all that...
Nice post.

There are many things that aren't possible in C# but can be expressed in pure IL. Sigil [0] is an IL generator used in the high-performance JSON serializer Jil [1], which takes advantage of this.

https://github.com/kevin-montrose/Sigil

https://github.com/kevin-montrose/Jil
I highly recommend looking at rancher. It's great in every way.
The inadmissible truth about corruption in the UK is that it's endemic. And not just money laundering; the very way governments (both Labour, Conservative, and Coalition) have pursued the business of privatization of state assets since 1979 is uniquely corrupt, on a massive scale.

Hint: corruption isn't just about simple bribery and envelopes full of banknotes passing hand. Ask yourself why so many cabinet ministers retire and end up on the boards of large conglomerates that specialise in bidding for government outsourcing contracts, or why so many long-term viable agencies of government (the Post Office, the Land Registry, the National Air Traffic Control System, the NHS ...) find themselves in need of privatization in the name of "efficiency". You can make any agency -- however potentially profitable -- fail if you run it into the ground through deliberate mismanagement, then show a rebound improvement when you sell it (or the service it provides) off to your golf-course cronies. And when you roll up to the banquet later, there's no evidential chain that can prove beyond reasonable doubt that what you did was grand theft.
I think you mean Treiber, right? typo with the "n".

In 1986, on an IBM mainframe, published a white paper describing how to implement a lock-free stack (which is also a freelist, of course). It was the first lock-free data structure. I'm not quite sure why it's being called an algorithm!

The scalable version described in that paper is scalable by dint of adding an elimination layer in front of the stack.

I've added such a thing, although my own design - I've not read their paper, so I don't know how they did theirs - to the freelist in 7.1.0, but it hasn't worked well. It roughly doubled performance on x64, when there are a large number of cores, but reduces performance for lower numbers of cores and on other platforms. When there are a large number of cores, performance is rock bottom,, so doubling means going from like 1m ops/sec/core to 2m ops/sec/core, when if you run on just one core, you'd be doing say 30mm ops/sec on that core.

I'd expect it in principle to permit real scalability - fairly linear performance as the number of cores rises - so I think I've missed something, or done something wrong.
This article says that xiaomi has started shipping phones with locked bootloaders for this reason: http://www.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-locks-bootloaders-unloc...
"the share price had been at 400p as recently as February, leading critics to blast the decision to sell now and question the relationship between banks and the Treasury"

http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/595769/RBS-privatisati...
Nvidia of course has a stock price incentive to pitch a very long period of further development ahead.
I am not sure how much residual heat is left after 4 billion years, but at the near surface all[1] the heat is due to radioactive decay.

1. Ok most :)
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Ask HN: Why does AWS Lambda supports Python 2.7 but not 3.x?
The AWS lambda documentation says they support Python 2.7 (wich will be EOL'ed in 4 years - @2020).

There is a lot of work being done in the Python community to support Python 3 in almost all popular modules.

Does anyone if there is a technical / non-marketing explanation to this ?

Thanks
If a trafficker uses a mule to carry opium across the mountains, then sells the drugs and then sells the mule, is the new owner of the mule responsible for drug trafficking? Abramovich is Russian and the responsibility of the people running Russia. Likewise if the Maffia recycles money into legitimate assets in Italy then trades those assets in London, it's pretty rich for an Italian to try to pin that on London.

The article also talks about British overseas territories as though their laws are written in Westminster. They aren't. All these places make their own tax laws without any reference to the British government. Is this mentioned anywhere in the article? No, instead it's spun as though it's all a Westminster plot. Suppose Westminster did start imposing laws on these territories, would the Independent be applauding this as an example of responsible action or condemning it as an illegal and unconstitutional abrogation of Britain's responsibility to protect the independence of these territories? I think we have a right to know their opinion on that.

Of course Britain has a responsibility to fight crime and work with other governments to crack down on abuses, but we can't singlehandedly be the policemen for the whole world.
That is typical for Switzerland, and it is because for the Swiss, "planning is 50% of the work". They invest the time up-front in planning and thinking about how whatever it is they are doing is going to work, and once they either ran proof of concept tests or thought it through, they set the machinery in motion. There will even be a clearly documented process for modelling the process, and a process for getting the logistics squared away! It's such a great way to work, I'm a big fan of this work methodology, because it is oriented towards reaping long term profits with interest, be those profits with interest financial or intellectual.
It depends where you want to go with your career,

If you're looking to get just any job, then a CMS is a good idea because it will teach you CRUD, and there's lots of jobs out there that are doing mostly CRUD.

If you want to get into Data Engineering / backend engineering job, then write a crawler. Pick a subject, e.g. German music, or Podcasts, or Electronic components, or anything like that, and write a crawler from scratch. Pull the HTML, parse them, store it and build a query dashboard on top of it. Building something like this end-to-end will give you lots of insight into systems engineering as a whole, and I used a project like this to get my job.
> because the SSD lifetime is unknown and unreplaceable.

I just discovered this concern last weekend when a less than 3 year old Samsung SSD 840 died. Since this is not mechanical I don't know why they don't include extra pins (e.g. address, data) to read the memory in raw from the SSD chips if the failure is in the controller or firmware.
Is everyone...

simply fired?
TEXT in mysql doesn't always mean an extra lookup, although at 2kb it will.
>"The right to turn down a job is essential for a well functioning labor market, and for a civilized society. And to have that right, a genuine right, to turn down a job, you must have an alternative: An outside option. Because desperate people will accept to do desperate things..."

i think it will bring downs the salary for a number of professions - why bother to pay when you can get volunteers on basic income for free?
Maybe one of the factors is "automating the automation" in that automation is possible for many(most) of the processes, but there is a high cost to this automation. Streamlining this into better building blocks might make it easier to adapt than ever before. I have experience with car software and there are many, many, maany ways things that could be improved over here.
The Royal Mail would be a much better example of that; but then that happened on Vince Cable's watch (a part of then David's coalition). Of course the banks involved were accused of providing bad advice according to a committee of MPs; in particular undervalued property owned by Royal Mail.
Could very well be, my MBP is from 2012 it still has a SSD module, don't know about the newer ones.
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I don't _think_ the hardware's changed?

My thought would be to try a btrfs balance (can be done through one of the menus); or trying to free some space from the internal storage.

It made a large difference in how the performance felt on mine last time I did so. (A bit sad that it's often required, the fs is one of the main pain points ime.)

(For reference, mine took ~15 seconds, but think that about 5 of that was network related -- because the browser was open and responsive at the 10 second mark. Had 4 other apps open at the time.)
I have just built a PC with a M.2 Samsung 950 Pro on a Z170 motherboard (make sure you get the Z170 so the M.2 slot can use 4 PCI-E channels).

The performance of this thing is insane. Ars benchmarked it at 2600MB/s read, 1500MB/s write for sequential data[1]. Most SSDs benchmark at less than 600 MB/s[2].

By comparison, a RAM Disk gets ~6000MB/s on the https://hardforum.com/threads/quad-channel-ram-disk-benchmar... benchmark.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/950-pro-review-samsun...

[2] http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/samsung-850-evo-ssd-rev...

[3] https://hardforum.com/threads/quad-channel-ram-disk-benchmar...
I've seen Jil/Sigil before, but not thought about it in this way.

Are you saying that you could exactly replicate a C# System.String using IL, or am I mis-understanding?
Exactly. Blair. Alistair Darling now on a major US bank.

The UK establishment have perfected the art of making the immoral legal. They are patient and wait for their reward.

Let's have another enquiry into it all! A "thorough" one that takes 5 years and costs millions only to find "systemic" issues with no individuals to blame.

The UK's USP is "no time for financial crime".
Yeah - I've done that journey and have in mind that it takes about 4 hours right now from Zürich to Milan by train (with various stops)
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Thanks for the comment.

BTW Make sure to open the video in Chrome or Opera, the 360 thing does not work in Firefox
This is more than slightly tangential, but that article led me by two steps to the Wikipedia article on OCaml based prop trading shop Jane Street Capital, which contained this very odd paragraph:

"A number of people involved with the effective altruism movement have recommended Jane Street Capital as a place to work at for people considering earning to give, and some of the full-time employees as well as interns have been from the effective altruist community.[7][8][9][10][11] In September 2012, Tim Reynolds, one of Jane Street's co-founders, stepped down from the job to redirect his energies towards the philanthropic pursuit of teaching poor students to master photorealistic painting.[12]"
This isn't necessarily the case. The article explicitly talks about physical standards for putting them on M.2 cards, and how some are already shipping on M.2 and PCI-E form factors.
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http://rain.today - Great to put in the background to help concentrate :-).
https://medium.com/@dconrad/how-new-long-range-radios-will-c...

Post by Beep Networks cofounder.

> Our team at Beep Networks is now working with LoRa radios here in San Francisco, and we’re getting signals through at over a mile of range. That’s in the city, through walls, with a tiny battery-powered sensor device — no towers or giant antennas involved. We know folks who are getting 10 miles in every direction when they put these radios on towers in rural areas, where there’s less interference.
I picked a project at random -- the Tarantino one, which lists every death or curse word in every Tarantino movie -- and browsed through the data:

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/tarantin...

I found it interesting that the author was willing to catalog each curse word by writing it in its entirety -- except one, the n-word (which, by the way, appears 179 times in Tarantino's movies, with the bulk in "Django Unchained" and "Jackie Brown"). The article for which this data set was compiled similarly censors none but the n-word:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/complete-catalog-curses-...

I happen to think that no one of any ethnic group should use the n-word, and I do not use it myself, but I think in the context of cataloging curse words, where you're writing at a sort of meta level (i.e. writing about words, rather than invoking them yourself) it's just as acceptable as in the other cases to write the word out. But the fact that the author made this one exception reveals a bit about how he sees the word in relation to the others.

For instance, you might argue that the varied versions of the f-word might be strong language, but in a different category than the n-word because the latter is an ethnic slur.

But the author has chosen to write out other ethnic slurs in their entirety (e.g. the w-word, referring to Mexicans, and the j-word, referring to Japanese people, and the g-word, related to Asians), and also slurs related to other groups (e.g. the f-word, referring to gay people).

So, even if you're talking about just the set of curse words that insult a particular group of people, the author has set the n-word apart.
> If people find those things fulfilling to do themselves, they will do them (and basic income allows them to do it unpaid). If other people want them to do those things, they will pay for it. If no-one wants them to do those things, there's no value in them doing it.

So it will bring down salaries - why bother with paying a salary when you can get volunteers on basic income for free?

Unpaid work by basic income receivers is an interesting question on its own - on the side of the employee there would be the question of motivation; on the side of the employer there would be questions of reliability - can one trust an unpaid employee to appear at work reliably and in time ?
Because until recently, the library was license-free.

Licenses are important as a concept. Licenses can exist, and when they do, they must be honoured. They are an aspect of the property rights of the owner of the software.

That doesn't mean you have to use one, and the library was not using one, so it was license-free.

There might be some confusion here in that when I speak of licensing being important, I mean the concept - I do not particularly mean licensing as it exists today in practise.

As was pointed out in an early post in this discussion, the matter is now not so clear cut. I've added per data-structure information on licensing, and it's no so straightfoward a situation now as to be able to say, in a blanket fashion, "license-free". I'm thinking about what to do about that. The library is much closer to license-free than anything else, but it's hard to explain the situation in the one-line description while keeping it short and to the point.
I imagine Eiffel, Modula-3 and Ada are possible candidates, but would need to research it.
Haven't we had our fill of Call of Duty? Why not a game where you can talk to the monsters.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7402571 (~2,5 yrs ago, 96 comments)
Well, I can't speak for myself but there is this comment from a Linux kernel developer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11812763

It's the project git was born for.
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Yes, but I think even `healthy' is not enough of a qualifier.

Ie healthy old people (who are well off enough) might be expected to go on cruises etc. I wouldn't count their voluntary unemployment for much, when I was trying to forecast what effects a universal basic income had on the general population.

(On the other hand, I would count their voluntary employment for a lot.)