skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suburbs are personal space for the home.

If, out in public, you feel uncomfortable when someone you don't know stands close enough that you could touch elbows with them, you may prefer suburbs to density.

If, when you hear someone unexpectedly yelling nearby, your first reaction is "let's see what the trouble is" rather than "let's see what the excitement is", you may prefer suburbs to density.

If you would prefer scheduling to spontaneity in interactions with people you don't live with, you may prefer suburbs to density.

If you would like to avoid learning to sleep through sirens and yelling, you may prefer suburbs to density.

If you laughed when you read "People feel vulnerable and uncomfortable in open areas with ill-defined margins.", you may prefer suburbs. ;)

On that last: I think it really sums up the whole article that they present those two images in section 6 and then try to explain why "people" feel more at ease with the Saint-Germain photo. They don't try to explain why some people prefer wide open spaces, and I get the impression it's because they don't really believe anyone does. All these people are really seeking out homes to buy in places they know they'll be unhappy? But maybe that isn't it.

Oh, wait, they do consider that people actually say they like having more space, in 7. They don't seem to believe it, though, remarking that it's important how usable the space is. But it really isn't: in fact, for those of us who like lots of personal space, having large nearby areas which are clearly unsuitable for most human activity helps put us at ease. If you see an adult in a drainage ditch, there is a short list of reasons why they'd be there, and any of those reasons justifies becoming involved to see if they need help, or whatever. If you live in a dense city and someone is hanging out next to your window, which is an arm's length from the sidewalk, they could be trying to open it, or... it could be any hour of any day. If you live in the pictured suburbs and someone is hanging out next to your window, there's less uncertainty.

> useless frontages, pointless greenspace between compatible land uses, as well as chain-link fences, concrete barriers, and drainage pits

Complaining that the moat isn't chlorinated and has smelly monsters in it misses the actual purpose of the moat.

There's a lot to like about cities, but a lot to dislike as well, and those things push a lot of people to the suburbs.
I would literally rather die than move back into an urban environment. What are your plans for people who cannot be incentivized to agree with you?
Apple wants to sell you green power
thanks for asking what does "constitutional right to petition" have to do with this, by thinking about how to explain it I figured out what I meant overall. I meant it in the sense that "rights to petition" and "rights to vote" are so fundamental they flow into documents such as the Constitution rather than flowing from it.

Rights to petition are, in a sense, even more fundamental than the right to vote, because historically speaking many undemocratic systems have been sustained because they listen to petitions. The worst dictators are the ones who kill you for petitioning.

This lawsuit I'm talking about was about both rights to vote and rights to petition and the lawsuit asked for nothing but rights to vote. They were gauranteed by the legal documents, ignored by the board, and only a lawyer would twist the very clear wording to say something else, based on standards that do not actually exist; and only a judge who was an attorney would listen to such crap.

I can see that in a messier case you might see a reason for seemingly nonsensical procedures, but this was so clean that all the worthlessness of our legal system was exposed. And I chose the Declaration not the Constitution because it also lays out "or you lose your claim to authority" which is pretty much how I feel to.
Cool to see node-inspector go full circle, from cleverly re-purposed debugger UI to officially supported product.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/10/google-denie...

Response from Google.
The acquiring company removed that feature the moment they acquired SF
It might be unpopular here, and I feel slightly guilty saying it, but I like suburbia.

Mine has wide streets, plenty of tall trees, it is quiet. I like flowers in my yard, etc. I like my neighbors, but they are not within literally an arms length on each side of me every day.

Unlike probably most people here who grew up in suburbs, then perhaps started to hate it and moved to one of the coasts, to a city, I grew up in a city in an apartment. Proximity to stores, public transport and being able to walk is nice. But crime, full public transport during rush hour, noisy neighbors, or simply being flooded by neighbors from the top, crowding, dirty streets, etc. Even grocery shopping was annoying, yeah could walk to the store, but couldn't bring home a car trunk's worth and not worry about for another week.

So rationally, on a general scale, I can understand why suburbia sucks. But as an individual, I don't plan on moving to a city, the trade-offs are not adding up for me.
The service department is a huge profit center for dealerships, enough to make up for the minimal margin they make on new car sales. Some people may be more sensitive to that cost than others.
As usual a Stupid and Kneejerk reaction - BAN IT.
No efforts at balancing security concerns with convenience for regular citizens. If you think this is strange try to photograph a few Court Houses or colonial era ministry building in New Delhi - see how quickly the cops get on your case.

"Satanic Verses" hurts religious sentiments - BAN IT (never mind the freedom of expression debate).

Couple of Files on very popular file sharing sites violate copyrights - SHUT IT DOWN (never mind the convenience).

Plastic Bags causing pollution - BAN IT (never mind the convenience or the fact that no one enforces it).

Alcohol Addiction is a problem in some states - BAN IT (never mind that the so called "dry states" of India have some of the highest alcohol consumption rates).

and so on....

So in India BAN IT is a very popular Judicial/Legislative response.
Don't forget annual battery checks. Mandatory for warranty.

Your logic is not too far off actually. Our cars have no spark plugs(and cables), radiators, starter motors killing the 12v battery, gas pumps, fuel lines, fuel filters, oil, etc. So much less to worry about.

Heck, even the brake pads should last longer, due to the regenerative braking.

So barring any unforeseen events (such as something like the inverter or the internal charging burning out, which I haven't seen in the Leaf forums), the maintenance costs should be pretty low indeed. These things you mention are pretty cheap.

Honestly, they should depreciate way less than they currently do. Those things are incredibly reliable, and the current battery chemistry is way better than the first model, even if it is not thermally managed.
It's not even so much about higher default level of speed to me. I'm used to driving quite fast.

I'm worried about physics. ΔV will kill you.

I try as much as possible to eliminate the compounding effects of things-gone-wrong. ΔV is a multiplier in an accident.

Edit/Aside: The ultimate oversteering screaming death car is the Omni GLHS. Man is that thing a hoot. But yeah, even if you don't hit them, I think that you should be able to see where the limits of a car may lie. I don't get that sense driving some of the modern "accessible" sportscars and that feeling actually makes me more nervous to drive them.
According to google a progressive web app is a website that progressively becomes an app the more you interact with it.

So I guess at first visit you get things like service workers and notifications. Then after like 5 or so visits you get to install it to the home screen and the address bar optionally gets hidden or played around with or something.
Amplitude as a function of time.

Images have (r,g,b) as a function of (x,y).

Edit: or (h,s,v), or however you slice the color 3d space.
Which one is that? Because Austria also has no Street View and the reasons for it are ridiculous.
Good luck getting someone here to pay $450 for it though…
That's pretty much the shtick of qz. From the footer:

"This post originally appeared at Likewise A Blog" (linked to https://likewise.am/2016/05/08/why-suburbia-sucks/)"
Redox is close, but they have pipe-like, rather than call-like, interprocess communications semantics. That means another layer of overhead. More important, it breaks the tight integration between scheduling and interprocess calls required to make a message-passing OS work fast under load.

Here's the QNX architecture document on this, which discusses how message passing and CPU scheduling integrate.[1] Microkernel designers need to read this very carefully. A good test is to run a message-passing benchmark on an idle system, then run it again with a CPU-bound process of equal priority in round-robin mode also running. If the message passing-task starves, or the CPU-bound task starves, message passing was misdesigned. If, on a multiprocessor, a simple message pass causes a CPU switch, message passing was done wrong.

If message passing and scheduling do not play very well together, a service-oriented architecture (sorry, "microservices" architecture) will be sluggish. This is where most microkernels fail.

[1] http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.4.1/neutrino/sys_arch/i...
> I knew that you were talking about the US and Brazil even before you finished.

I've also heard this about the Philippines and Nigeria.

But maybe Brazil has the largest number of would-be tourists who experience this level of skepticism.
TPP binds governments from requiring local data storage, not private contracts.
To offer an alternative viewpoint.

In Canada we have laws that protect personal health data. For instance my doctor cannot save my patient data outside of the country. This is a major pain for SAAS vendors, and I understand google's position. However, as a patient I appreciate knowing that my personal health data is not being sent around the world to other jurisdictions that may not have the same privacy and data protection laws that we do here.

So, I have to wonder do we have a problem of countries requiring local storage for reasons that are questionable? Or is this simply a preemptive strike ensuring companies like google continue their easy access to global markets? Given my example above I suggest its the latter.
You're making some strong claims here, care to back them up? I'm not convinced that suburban/rural life is unsustainable just because you say it is.
I'd love to hear an actual beta tester's experience with this app. I shop at a local CVS a lot because of its location, but their ever-more-complicated schemes to get me addicted to couponing (I guess that's their goal, but regardless it ain't gonna happen) may eventually be enough incentive to get me to drive an extra mile to go to a store that doesn't actively try to waste my time. I seriously considered not returning the time the cashier walked around the counter, and took me over to a kiosk in the aisle to scan my card, wait 30 seconds for several coupons to print, then pick out and tear apart the one that was going to save me 25 cents on my two-liter of soda. This with people in line. No, it's not worth it to me or to you, surely! Luckily it hasn't happened again.

What I read about CurrentC's process reminded me of that debacle. I'm genuinely curious who enjoys this stuff or what the consumer theory is behind making shopping at a convenience store more of a hassle.
Even then, it feels like intel got a foot in AAPL's door which is one big door.
Clearwater, a Front-End Web Framework in Ruby
At the moment.

Senator Obama opposed quite a few things as well.
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Safari is the new IE.
We're not talking about motorcycles though. Their bikes are fantastic.
i had a ford focus 2002, ran to 150,000 miles and it got totaled. The only things were replaced: timing belt, tires, brakes, fuel filter, plugs, O2 sensor, alternator, one of the solenoid (maybe 3rd or 4th gear). Besides the solenoid and the alternator all items are maintenance.

Does this count as good reliability?
One specific part I don't like is that it would require signatories to enforce a DMCA-like ban on circumvention of DRM mechanisms. The US already has such a ban, but putting it in a treaty makes it worse (harder to repeal), and it would create one in countries which don't already have one. In general the intellectual-property related provisions seem not good to me, almost exclusively in the direction of more restrictions on what regular people can do with their data and devices.
Ignoring my other answer: This is how I feel in "I need to sleep soon" simple bullet point statements.

1) "She didn't have the right visa and therefor wasn't allowed to enter/had to leave"

Fine. Bad for her. Her fault. Figure this out in 30-60min and help her to figure out a way to head back home.

2) "You should say … and not …" suggestions.

Awful. Especially combined with all the "Just state the truth. But try to avoid saying …" ideas. I really feel that these are out of place. Just look at this thread. You're trained to answer according to the protocol, instead of stating the truth.

3) _Anyone_ suggesting that the "detention" for hours at a time in a grimy place without any contact to the outside world and decent legal counsel is a valid reaction, whatever the potential immigrant failed to explain?

In that case, you are quite messed up in my world. I wonder what's wrong with you.

(the you in this case isn't addressed at the parent - it's the general "if the shoe fits" kind of thing)
Disappointing. The were a loud voice against SOPA/PIPA. All it takes for them to do an about-face is a bill that includes a few bits about protecting multinational internet companies.
Paper bag laws are enforced where I am, at least the store cashiers always make sure to charge you $0.10 for each one that you get. Don't think we have the option for plastic at all. What do you propose is a better solution for plastic bag pollution?
I'm almost 100% certain "John Averi" and "John Carroll" aren't real people (notice you can't see the faces). Would be worth looking into who's actually running these companies (doesn't seem to be any public information available).
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Good point, think they are broadly used? My experience with the SDK generation has been hit or miss but the intention is good!
I would better trust EFF on this: https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
Unless you're playing your alternate account via Tor or a VPN or something, Riot can presumably notice that both accounts are used from the same IP and put the pieces together. And that would be a long way to go to hide your behavior.
Having spent some time in India and Pakistan, the actor's accent (Kumail Nanjiani) is upper class/elite Pakistani English, most likely influenced by going to a good quality private school. His pronunciation of certain words is similar to the English spoken by, for example, senior Pakistani journalists on their domestic television channels or politicians in Islamabad.
Of course, the forks are still there:

https://github.com/THANAKIAR/facebook-sixth-sense/commit/cc7...
I don't really know, but I'm guessing it's a comprehensive deal. With tons of players with their own goals. So there's probably plenty of stuff like "your eggs aren't round enough to be labelled like that, but we'll allow them if we can call our meat like this". And "we don't like your copyright law, but in exchange for ... we'll allow it". Layer on exceptions and whatever else and the page count goes up real quick.

Even selling a company for just 8-figures is more than 5-10 pages and these deals far eclipse that amount and probably directly involve hundreds of people if not thousands.
This reminds me of one of Paul Graham's essays, "Made in USA," http://paulgraham.com/usa.html, where a friend visiting from Italy remarks that American cities are so ugly. He goes on to explore what America is good at and what it is not so good at.
It's how you publish bad news, specifically.
K&R et al are dirty, dirty men.

…still not as bad as O_CREAT though.
It's possible for the actual justice system to be fair but to still have unfair outcomes if money can influence who brings cases and who can afford to defend them, especially without some sort of loser pays or frivolous lawsuit system. Say you get hit with some lawsuits lawsuits. In each case, the justice system works perfectly — there's a full discussion of the merits in court and after careful deliberation the rulings were all in your favor. Did you still win if the legal fees were enough that you had to cut back your business?
I was personally surprised by this as well. In fact, it's the single biggest reason I didn't purchase a hybrid vehicle outside of the initial cost being much higher at the time. My thinking was, yes electric cars are quite a bit simpler and have enjoyed a lower repair rate due to that simplicity but here's a car with all of the repair issues that would be found in a gasoline vehicle, all of the added repairs that might come up from the electric engine and then repairs associated with all of the fancy features like regenerative braking and such, not to mention the battery. And they're in the extreme minority meaning I'd either have to hunt for a third-party shop that happened to have a really skilled mechanic who happened to understand all of these odd systems (say goodbye to trusted family friend who's a mechanic and really inexpensive) or get utterly hosed at the dealer. I had a car that had to have the transmission rebuilt multiple times -- a very costly repair ($2400/time in the late 90s)

I guess, though, when I think about the common repairs that car owners experience, "Engine Failure" is rarely one of them, so maybe that's one of the core reasons that having two engines doesn't affect things much, but the battery, which is a part that has a guaranteed wear associated scared me quite a bit.

Impressive for Toyota, for sure.
I've never worked in a protected-anything state, but why would someone fire a valuable contributor because of orientation after they've gone to the expense of hiring and training them? Was your fear irrational because you were young - or was your fear rational because humans are jerks?
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>At the moment.

Well, yes, people lie. My point was that Donald Trump wasn't a special case in terms of his position on the TPP.
Anecdotes are not data but I have a 2002 Ford Focus that I'm hugely happy with. Approaching 200,000 miles and zero significant issues. Also previously had an F150 that was great also until it was totaled in an accident. I would buy Ford without hesitation.
I have a coworker with an Audi that spent months without driving. For some reason, it has 6(!) catalytic converters and multiple failed. The car refuses to drive if they are not working properly, so he had to save up to replace them all.
> "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - This quote highlights precisely why I ended up choosing software engineering over maths.

Haha probably the most unintentionally funny and ironic comment I've read in awhile. Given more than 50% of software projects fail, which is worse than chance, I think it's safe to say the no one really understands software engineering either. Like math, they just get used to doing some things that seem to work better than others.
>To have failed in this manner, it would have needed to go un-noticed for some considerable time - I've had ones which have had a year of abuse in extreme circumstances and still been nowhere near as bad as this, so I think you have to ask about the servicing that had been done on this car - whether or not it had been inspected. In addition, this would have had significant play in it for some time, leading to noise which would be noticeable to most drivers when on the road...

Take a gander at the carnage over at reddit's /r/justrolledintotheshop . You'll see a complete ball joint failure about every other day, and that's faaaar from the most egregious offenses.

There is a segment of the population that is some combination of amazingly ignorant, lazy, and/or cheap. Don't underestimate people. ;)
I wish this article had gone a bit deeper than just being a couple of first-glance whinges. Sure the daemon autostart is a reasonable complaint, but it's easily worked around. Presumably the folks who are concerned about locking their OSes down this tightly are not building their images on a public network.
It's a sad day when one regrets UML.
Many VPNs do actually leak your IP address. Beyond that, your VPN traffic could be associated with your billing information for said VPN. Also by coresponding the traffic to the VPN and coming out of the VPN. Or if you have any personal information associated with your Google account or have ever accessed it with an IP associated with you.

Look out the window. They're in the ice cream truck.
Jaguar owners don't care about maintenance costs, anecdotally speaking, of course. Executive VP at an old job had a Jaguar (XJ-12 I think) that would occasionally catch fire and 'need some work'. I swear it spent more time in the shop than on the road, but he loved Jags.
> Should proximity make what has happened any more or less significant?

Yes, in the eyes of those further away.
Also interesting: All current Presidential candidates have come out against the TPP. Presumably Obama is pressuring Google to help him push it through before he no longer has a say in the matter. If he can get it through, it's going to be very hard to repeal, but if he doesn't get it through, our next President, whoever that is, will do their best to block it.
The Journals wouldn't be an issue in the first place without copyright law. And fixing copyright solves problems beyond scientific Journals. You could have nonfiction books in general, textbooks, etc, all available to the public domain.
Having players who are employees always explicitly identified by the game seems like a bad idea from the get-go. It exposes them to unusual user behavior, both from users that will not misbehave when they see an employee is present, and from users who will deliberately antagonize the employee. It also places employees in a situation where they may be tempted to pull rank on their customers; if they aren't identified as employees, they have no way of credibly doing so.

Most other online games I've played have had a policy of not identifying players as employees unless they're actively acting as a moderator (e.g, gamemasters in MMORPGs, who aren't really playing the game anyways). I'm very surprised that Riot isn't following their lead here.
It's quite ridiculous. In 1997, my parents brought a telescope to India. The Indian customs claimed my parents would "spy on Indian satellites" and never released it. As a young astronomy fan, this made me particularly sad.

In 2013, I went backpacking with a GPS in the himalayas. I was stopped by a park ranger who searched my bag, and claimed that a GPS can be used for 'terrorism'. He took away my ID (but luckily not my GPS), and I could only pick it up when I left the park 3 days later.

Later on the trip, I witnessed incredible amounts of pollution generated by the armed forces in the border regions. Not to mention the consistent human rights violations perpetrated by the Indian Army in Kashmir, all in support of "security".

I don't want to go on a long political rant against the Indian defense system, but I really wish my childhood telescope wasn't stolen.
Google's internal traffic is (supposedly¹) encrypted as of 2013.

¹ I have no reason to doubt this is true, but AFAIK the only evidence is that Google said it would be, in response to NSA/GHCQ's MUSCULAR program.
Might even be people taking the spin of the description as an excuse to act like that.