skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing in Europe that can compete with Silicon Valley, but the closest ones would be London and Berlin. London feels a bit more corporate, while Berlin seems younger and wilder.
The real problem is that we are categorically unable to move on when better options are around

Every 10 years or so the industry just restarts the same loop it's been stuck in since the Amiga (actually the Amiga is probably the first loop starting with the Alto) just with different syntax and faster hardware. Software is stagnant; ALL progress in in hardware. And with the end of Moore's Law that is grinding to a halt too.
Maybe EVE is vigilant about keeping isk as play money, it other games game real money market for ingame artifacts, and real world governments due get involved in theft and vandalism. If the supposed theft is effected purely ingame under game rules, tho, that's harder for authorities to intervene in
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I genuinely wonder how long it will be until an independent (as in, not vertically integrated in another company with different sources of revenue) service like Spotify just gets bought out by one of these companies. Or is it just that the other players don't feel the need to do any acquiring because they can just siphon off (and gain new) subscribers?

(For one, I like that Spotify and Rhapsody are separate because they work basically everywhere and aren't trying to lock me into another company's ecosystem...which seems to be the name of the game for almost everybody these days.)
this is not an "excellent step forward". This is a quick fix, later to be known as technical debt. An excellent step forward would have been if you could call Police for any neighbour that misbehave, no matter how he got inside that apartment.
So sad. I wish India would step in and relocate them. Buddhism is one of the few religions that aim for legitimate rise of consciousness and it would be a shame to lose institutions dedicated to it.
Do you have any practical examples of what you mean? It seems obvious, but getting a computer to understand requirements, and also solve for them and build a realistic 3d model? Seems like an impossible task for current technology.
Because they can't track your movements or other data if you aren't using a mobile app?
> solely to make money is not optimal for the public good.

Is there any example where the sole pursuit of money is ever optimal for the public good? Or even that individual?
I'm note sure they showed which was cause and which was effect. I look at that chart and I see that unhappy people have less sex. Not surprising. On the other side, happier people have sex more often than unhappy people. Some happy have sex less often some have sex more often.
USDS is heavily involved in the VA. Part of that work depends on clear communication from the Pentagon. I don't know the specific circumstances here, but I can imagine that there are many veterans whose ability to receive healthcare depends on better infrastructure at the Pentagon.
I grew up in a similar situation, though not as dire. I definitely had to figure this stuff out for myself, and because of my own lack of research combined with memories of when my father basically lost what they had called my college fund picking stocks in the 90s (he thought things like Ricochet and wireless ISPs were the future...thanks dad, maybe 20 years early with the wrong players in the wrong country), I ended up not recognizing a great options opportunity at my company and contributing nothing to it for 2 years before our stock price increased roughly 15x (basically, I would have been a millionaire like some my other coworkers now are).

We also had the "houses are always a good investment" bit of advice, despite living in a much smaller house in a much crappier town than we could afford. They're currently back at about mid-90s levels value wise, and my family did a horrible job of maintaining our home, so the value is actually less now. This covers basically what happened: http://infographics.economist.com/2015/uscitieshpi_11_2015/?...

Needless to say, getting out a few years back was the best decision I could have made for my life and career in tech.

If you're a parent considering writing one of these letters, how can you fact-check yourself to ensure that you're not giving your children a huge disadvantage with terrible advice? I personally learned a lot from Investopedia and from messing around with Bitcoin in the early days (another opportunity where I could have made tens of thousands of dollars had I hung onto the 20BTC or so I had mined instead of selling them for $12/btc, happy to have paid for a new GPU I got just for the task).
And the property tax is there to pay for that infrastructure, as are the utility bills. The city isn't providing that infrastructure for free. If they want to raise property taxes for those using their property for commercial purposes then they should do that instead. Prohibiting someone from renting out property they have bought and are paying property tax on doesn't seem like the right answer.
> In practice, how many games opt out of the DRM

Quite a number: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

but the vast majority of the store is DRMmed.
"working for the war machine in any capacity is actively harmful to the world" <- that's the kind of absolutist statement that is never right and always poisoning a debate. It also does a disservice to thousands of people in the military who really well intended and risk their lives to save others.
Coincidentally, Blender's UI was procedurally generated as well.
I have some hope that with the end of Moore's law in sight we will finally be able to concentrate on the software for some progress. All that we've achieved to date seems to be prettier way to squander cycles.

And in a way that's a real pity. It could have been that if Moore's law had been a doubling in 30 years rather than 18 months that we'd have had a lot more appreciation for writing good software. As it was the crap won out over the good stuff simply by being bailed out by Moore's law just in time for the next cycle.

But in some alternate universe hardware progress was so slow that any gains had to come from better software.
What about the October 2015 liability shift? If grocery stores "still haven't rolled out Chip & PIN support", then they face liability for counterfeit and lost or stolen cards. Issuers can conditionally allow fallback transactions [1], do you know if issuers are generally denying fallback transactions? Is the prompt "this card has a chip, please insert and wait" for a swipe on a card with a chip due to the merchant's policy to avoid the liability shift, or is it due to the issuer denying fallback?

[1] http://www.emv-connection.com/downloads/2015/05/EMF-Liabilit...
> It should be obvious that I am Han

Doesn't hurt to check!
Yes, that's correct.

>>> from random import seed
>>> seed(10)
>>> seed
<bound method Random.seed of <random.Random object at 0x24721c0>>
>>> seed = 50
>>> seed
50
>>> from random import seed
>>> seed
<bound method Random.seed of <random.Random object at 0x24721c0>>

(You can't get it as __builtins__.seed because it's not a builtin, but you can re-import it from random to get it back.)
I was wondering the same and would have appreciated if the piece was advocating for personal finance to be taught as part of a mandatory high school curriculum.
Moore's law is essentially about density (and hence about price), not about speed, the speed was a side-effect.
Url changed from http://www.businesshabit.com/2016/06/exclusive-amazon-is-pre..., which copies this.
aliases for opening files, which i find quite useful

# open file by name
op = "!f() { $(git editor) $(git ls-files | grep -i \"$@\"); }; f"

# open currently edited (unstaged) files
eop = "! $(git editor) $(git ls-files --modified)"

# open files for conflicts (good for rebase/cherry-pick/merge)
mop = "!f() { $(git editor) $(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U); }; f"

# open files present in diff
dop = "!f() { $(git editor) $(git diff --name-only $@); }; f"

# grep and open files containing
gop = "!f(){ $(git editor) $(git grep --name-only \"$@\"); }; f"

# "show and open" commit
shop = "!f() { $(git editor) $(git show --pretty=\"format:\" --name-only $1); }; f"

editor = config --get core.editor

I wrote a bit about them here: https://wordpress.com/post/wuthefwasthat.wordpress.com/19

And all my aliases here: https://github.com/WuTheFWasThat/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitco...
>First, people who live in apartment buildings do not want transients living there for personal safety and other reasons.

This doesn't need to be a legal issue. It's simply a rule of the building. People violating it are violating their contract with their building just like when they violate any other rule.

> Airbnb decreases the supply of housing and makes it more expensive for residents.

Long term it should not decrease the supply of housing. Visitors are either going to stay in airbnbs, with friends, or at hotels. If visitors stay in Airbnbs, then there is less demand for hotels space and more space for residential properties. Demand for hotels also decreases residential supply.

Ultimately the issue of Airbnb on housing supply is a small one. Instead, question why so many neighborhoods have height restrictions and restrictions on building anything new. Most people supporting these laws are landowners and will admit that they are trying to protect the value of their property (i.e. keep housing prices high).
> Which begs the question

No, it doesn't - http://begthequestion.info
Many people aren't sold on that notion. I can't see how bring people from vastly different cultural backgrounds, many of whom won't speak the language are going to benefit the economy.
There's a list of all known Stradivarius instruments on Wikipedia and it's actually nice to see that quite a good number of them are made available to musicians via loan programs or specific bequests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instrumen...
Same with Uber IMO. If your startup is "disruptive" by virtue of doing something against the spirit of the law, do not misunderstand law to be some immutable code; even if people love your product, the disruptees will likely be pissed and whine to the government to change the letter of the law to match the spirit once again.
It's actually not that bad as far as baity self-help posts go. We changed the title to the weird trick, uh, mind hack. I think that helps a fair bit.
The Lower East Side is plagued with height limits, zoning restrictions, heavy parking requirements, etc. Thankfully, DeBlasio has been fighting these rules in order to allow more building, but for the most part, the Lower East Side's problem is simply that new housing has not really been built there and lots of people want to live there.
There are so many points in the computer industry where one or a small group's decisions changed everything. After listening to "Dealers in Lightning" you wonder about quite a lot of decisions. One of the later ones got me to thinking, what would have happened if Xerox had not got rid of its pre-IPO Apple stock and allowed the Lisa team to license Smalltalk? I wonder the sequence at that point with the Mac.
> Why should not be able to advertise/rent your apartment on Airbnb?

It's already been illegal to rent out a whole apartment for less than 30 days. The new law just extends that to advertising the unit.

Basically, the law now prevents you from advertising a service that was already illegal.
Are you familiar with a country called the United States? I hear they've done pretty well with immigrants from vastly different cultural backgrounds, many of whom don't speak the language.
The bug was in Ethereum's *language design* itself (Solidity / EVM)
There is a lot of stuff you can't do to your own house/apartment without violating some rule or law. This is old. Airbnb can be disruptive in many negative ways and not every community feels that the trade-offs of letting them do as they please are worth it.
For one, it's against every rental agreement I've ever signed (no subletting clause). Another reason people don't like it is due to the party people who frequently rent these, the extra parking spaces being used, people moving around at all hours, people not caring about the space because they don't own it, etc. Basically all the things which are incentivized in normal multi-month rental contracts which are not present in Airbnb contracts. People who live in an apartment building don't want a hotel room next to them.
This is both anecdotal on observations and subjective on the assertion that rust is better than C for MRI. Also rust adoption is yet to bear out and speculation at best that rust would bring more contributors. A good comparison point might be Rubinius or JRuby to see what a non-C approach does for contribution.
Yeah, they even have a state called California which gets quite a few people from Mexico coming in across the border. Many of them speak little or no English. I hear it is doing okay.
Apple's new search ads are a kick in the teeth for app makers
I can't recommend CIS 194 (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/) enough. After a first weak attempt at learning haskell, following this course did it for me, and I've managed to write some significant haskell programs.

It covers all the fundamental abstractions found in functional programming, and the homework has some close-to-real-life examples that students must do.

5 stars.
Ask HN: Which company has the best tech team as of June 2016?
So where do you suggest all these people are going to work as you seem so sold on the idea? Many countries in the South already have high unemployment.
Exactly. I figure the same thing will happen with "we deliver gas to your vehicle" startups and others in the future.
Sadly you did not reflect to anything I wrote. I bet the Scala book is pretty good, however I would still learn programming from SICP if I just wanted to learn how to write purely functional programs. This is just a matter of taste.
lag/latency most likely due to combination of high/increasing traffic plus imperfect arch/code. but traffic is a Very Good Problem to have for a game, especially if his revenue comes from advertising, and is passive.

if I were him I'd focus first on identifying & fixing his bottlenecks, and consult a cheatsheet list like this to see if he's overlooked anything:

http://synisma.neocities.org/perf_scale_cheatsheet.pdf
And SICP is a great book. :)
So you're going to call the police five times a month and say what? "My neighbor is renting his apartment illegally and his guests are loud and left trash in the hallway?" The police have better things to do. The building managers are a better place to start but this kind of abuse is quite widespread and not easily stopped. There are some people who have purchased or rented multiple units and then AirBnb them out like hotels. It's unsafe for the other residents, it's annoying for those who are paying rent and living in those apartments, and, it's illegal. This law now makes it easier to actually enforce since perviously it was very difficult to catch violators. Now, someone can just browse the site and find them without having to set up some form of sting operation.
I really like this essay on the general theme (referencing Frankenstein, Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina, Paradise Lost, Prometheus, etc.): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/06/04/robots-are-winnin...

Perfect quote from 'Ex Machina' that captures the dilemma: “It’s strange to have made something that hates you.”

What's interesting is how similarities in these narratives span ancient Greek ideas (Prometheus) to Genesis to Christ-like figures. Consider how Robocop is cruelly killed then 'resurrects'... There is also the childbirth angle mentioned in this article.
Airbnb Key Exchange in London
The Jacket
Looking at your comments- it seems like for all of your karma, you generate a lot of content on HN that is strictly policing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

Just imagine if you will if all members of the site created similar comments constantly. That would hide all of the discussion relevant to the topics being discussed.

But, I agree with what you said- I don't like it when people enjoy suffering either. I just think that possibly the best way to handle it would be to just ignore those posts, as you might elicit more response from them.
That's a stupid idea. Totalitarianism is the natural state. This relative state of freedom we enjoy is the abberation. It is the forest fire. A narcissistic authoritarian personality like Trump will dump water on it.

Send a dull apparatchik like Hillary. Whatever. Keep the lights on and work on things that are actually important. If there is to be a revolution in any positive direction it will come from that.
Thanks. Yeah, I'm mostly fine with just having the physical MP3s. I'm often on airplanes or otherwise don't want to consider whether I have inexpensive data network access or not. I actually had Apple Match but canceled it because I wasn't using it (after I matched a number of sub-optimal song version I had initially).
After writing my comment, I went for a walk and ate some Chipolte and thought a bit more. And thought about JWZ's:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

And now I'd put it like this. It doesn't matter what changes are made to the syntax. It doesn't matter what tools we build. The problem with regex's is that they won't balance parenthesis and not balancing parenthesis is counterintuitive to the ideas of matching and patterns.

Even worse, there is no way to understand why problems like balancing parenthesis are impossible without a mental model based on regex's mathematical underpinnings.

I should probably admit my bias, if I'm in an IDE or a text editor (or even a browser window), the last thing I want to do is reach for a mouse.
Almost certainly still relatively few.

There's something to be said for being able to see more code at once, too. This is something the vector language people emphasize (also Chuck Moore, IIRC). The APL/J/K style is a different way of both writing and reading code, and the standard objections ("readability", "that looks like line noise") mostly are just because of the gap between that experience and the more mainstream way of experiencing code.

Btw we once had a long HN discussion about pg's suggestion that one should measure code size in tokens rather then lexically. I remember arguing in favor but being persuaded out of it by someone who was even more radical about small codebases than I am.
Manhattan could be much denser. Most of Manhattan is not skyscrapers or high rises.

Manhattan currently has a population of 1.6 million. In 1910, it has 2.3 million. In 1950, it had 2 million.

The current density of Manhattan itself is just 12 people per 5,000 square feet. There's plenty of room to grow, plus, why just consider Manhattan? Many of us are happy to live in the nearby boroughs (which are also, unfortunately, very limited in what they're allowed to build).
Also heard about US/Mexico borders, green card quotas, h-b1, etc. You practice immigration quotas (which may be smart), we do not. I would be interested to see the outcome of a massive muslim immigration in the US.
It's not even Vermont, he just wanted to trash it.
Why would a power lusting narcissist disrupt the source of his power?

If he lands in that chair he will grow the power and size of government more than anyone since maybe Johnson or LBJ. It will be his vehicle. Finally the world will have to recognize Trump for the genius he is. He will have the whole Fed and all its money and power to write his name on history.

He's not a conservative. He's not a liberal. He's a Trumpist.
This is such a important vote for the entire World. I really hope they will stay, I can't imagine what would happened if they decide to leave.

Just bear in mind that next years are general election in Germany, and if Britons will decide to leave, I can see that exit of Germany would become primary goal of all campaigns.
You will be getting a wall soon enough.
Greece had a referendum on the euro. We voted NO that became YES within a matter of hours. These are too tense years for hasty decisions. I think the UK should hold a second referendum some time later before deciding to leave the EU.
The problem is that you're trying to treat sessions and authorizations as one and the same thing. They're not.

What kind of services are you envisioning? Direct-to-database services like Firebase are a horrible idea for a plethora of security-related reasons, and if you control both service B and C yourself, then you either a) use one-time authorization tokens for stateless services or b) exchange a one-time authorization token for a session on a stateful service.

In none of those three cases do you use the token as the session. Tokens are handed out on a single-use, as-needed basis.
I don't disagree with your point, but why would Airbnb or anyone else build a real hotel then rent out rooms for less than comparable hotels in the area? They could build a hotel and get probably $300 a night in midtown, but they won't, because they're not in the hotel business, and if they were, they would have no good reason to rent out rooms cheaply.

The appeal of Airbnb, at least for me, is that you're staying somewhere novel, in a unique place, with unique hosts who may help you have a more fun experience than a hotel would provide. For example, I've had hosts show me around the city a bit, play board games with heir guests, or even just sit around and chat about life for a bit. It has a similar appeal to the good parts of CouchSurfing with a more mature vibe.

Edit: I'm sure some people use it for not-good things, but Airbnb is more comparable to a traditional vacation rental company than a hotel company.
It's a very interesting combination of a lot of HN related subjects. Like networking, cryptoanarchism, decentralisation , computer science and scaling problems, cryptographic solutions and finance platforms.

What not to like about reading about news and opinions about this ? I find the current obsession with deep learning/AI here much more uninteresting

And also, just read the first word of the name. HACKER news, which is very self explanatory
a. That's not a child bullet, it's a paragraph continuation. This exactly demonstrates the problem with RST.

Check the specification: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex... See "examples of incorrectly formatted bullet lists", or http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/rst/problems.html#b... or http://docutils.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#could-the-requireme... It's a well known problem.

b. Check the spec. It must be exactly aligned. If it's not exact it's not a child list. It's just an independent list with random indentation.

See e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5550089/how-to-create-a-n...
There are almost no migrants from middle east in France, all of Asia makes up for 15% of the immigrants in France (and they are mostly from Turkey and China).
Finding government customers with BigQuery and 17 years of federal contracts
If we do too good of a job of keeping out Mexicans, we will have serious food shortages. There will also be other areas that suffer -- like upscale landscaping that seems to be mostly maintained by Mexican workers -- but the whole food shortage thing worries me lots more.

So, I hope we don't get too clever about it.
Kossow does collect Univac mainframe stuff, though there are gaps. (Last I checked, bitsavers didn't have any Flow-matic docs, which is frustrating considering that language's historic importance -- though whatever exists would be a couple of decades older than the Alto.)