skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great idea and has potential to help with the problem of overcrowded urban centers.

It is impossible to keep adding people to the same space while giving everybody much room for their money. Trying to cram a generation of millennials into the same area as a wealthy cohort of boomers and rich immigrants predictably makes home prices go up.

All the ways of lowering property prices usually imply killing the economy and putting people out of work. Home prices usually end up going down only because people are made not to be able to afford them. This is incredibly destructive and it only allows more people to live in the same space when they are forced to move in with their parents.

Increasing supply or nudging the new generation to go in areas with more potential for spacial growth not only allows the new community to be built to the image of its own people but building and growing the infrastructure of a new neighborhood or revitalizing a dying town creates jobs for the people that go there. These jobs would be filled by people who can actually afford to live where they work and potentially profit from property value growth with less chance of a bubble pop because prices would not be starting from so high

The best thing governments could do to help with this situation would be to encourage some of the institutions and jobs relevant to new generations to move out of overpriced, overcrowded centers. They could foster jobs creation in centers with more low cost space and less chance of spacial overload. They could maybe move some public jobs there to help jump start the migration. This would also put some downward pressure on the prices in overcrowded places until we reach some kind of equilibrium.

I say stop trying to cram everyone in the same volume. Let the older rich generation keep the expensive quarters they've spent their life building and allow new generations to create our own communities, in our own space, from choices guided guided our own tastes.

Any solution that doesn't help spread jobs out to cheaper less overcrowded regions are going to hit the volumetric limits of the laws of physics eventually.
If I'm hungry, I grab more food when I drop by the grocery store. Unless my hunger pangs are randomly distributed in time and unrelated to my eating schedule, how is that a massive inconvenience?
Christopher Alexander's A City is Not a Tree is worth reading, for anyone who hasn't.

https://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1050153.files/A%...
Anyone can upload files there, and I've definitely found recent books there. Of course they comply with the DMCA and will take down files.
Fixing now...
C# was originally designed by Anders Hejlsberg, the C# 1.0 features that weren't taken from Java (J++) were based on Delphi, like Properties.

You also have RAD development on .NET.

Although .NET always had AOT compilation via NGEN, it always depends on the runtime being available at OS level.

With .NET Native it is like things were on PC before JVM took off, with strong typed system languages like Delphi and Modula-3 that compile directly to native code.

I know one needs a bit of imagination to make the comparison, but it is how I like to think about it.
Play Nes in 3D with Your Own Imagination
Making it near impossible to fail to install != trickery.
Nearly impossible to fail installation, would be a pop-up asking yes/no. And making a short-cut on the desktop to start the same pop-up, and putting it in the start-menu.
Any support calls -> Start Menu -> Windows 10 Update. Click Yes. (Yes for some this could still be a problem :/ but these kind of people need help throughout the year anyway.)
If it makes you feel better, my mother was on an insider build because we figured she would get Windows either free or at a discount, and she ended up having to buy retail anyway.
time to get a certified copy of the case docs from that court house and visit the local one - sounds like it was a Small Claims, so not much hassle - at least comparing to the annoyance of those notifications and the final insult of the upgrade that still finally happened anyway.
Glad they point this out, although it's been quite obvious to economists for awhile. And yes, it is only the beginning. The EU will fall, Trump will win, and free trade will be scaled back until we figure out a better way of taking care of our citizens (and the welfare state/guaranteed income might be the answer, but not at current levels of immigration).
Snowden: Russian data collection plans 'dangerous'
Big regulation != Strong regulation. Seems like non-programmers don't understand this so well.
It's just the media player. It would be up to the OS and filesystem drivers to handle the decryption.
Ribbon, or "How to Figure Out Where a Menu Item Is Based Solely on UX Data"*

*Customers may not be granted access to UX data
The next release is named macOS Sierra.

Also, all Windows releases for the indefinite future will be named Windows 10.
GPS repeaters have existed for at least a decade.
Rolls-Royce wants to make remote-controlled cargo ships a thing by 2020
So it is bad when Microsoft asks to do it, but ok when Eclipse, Netbeans or InteliJ do it?

They are being quite open about it and how to turn it off.
Tracking Technical Debt to Improve Software Development
This is so much better than the old Technet approach. I especially appreciate the UX that went into creating the site - https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/introducing-docs-microso...

Is there any change this will be available as an option for local documentation from VS? Sandcastle is a little dated.
They should simply perform their obligations around providing fixes for the product for the duration of the advertised support period.

That they are running software on thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines that was advertised as an update but is instead advertware is a crap move on their part. It's probably not a strong legal argument, but IMO they should be paying me to use my system to run software of their choice, much in the way that I would pay to use Azure to run software of my choice on their systems.
It's Trondheim.
Well you can either keep up (false?) hopes or do the maths and see where the planets are located (pretty easy) and are there any potential gravity assists (not as easy, but there are software packages that help).

If you just want to eyeball the situation, take a look at Celestia.

I think orbital insertion is out of question for the outer planets using conventional space craft propulsion because the difference between high radial velocity required to reach the planet and the low tangential velocity of the planet itself is greater than the spacecraft's delta-v budget.

But there won't be another Voyager mission in our lifetimes, a suitable arrangement of planets happens only once in 400 years or so.
So what banks out there actually have password systems that let you use secure passwords, or maybe even real 2FA that aren't German banks with their TIN systems?
Ah, that's why VCs were so bullish on food delivery companies.
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Having centralized mess halls serving bland, but nutritious meals (rather than individual kitchens and nice restaurants) and hot-bunk dorms with people sharing beds in shifts (rather than individual bedrooms) would also be "more efficient".

Efficiency isn't the end-all of life.
A podcast, eh? Now you're talking my language. (I'm a dev looking to build software for podcasters. In the mean time, until I settle on what needs to be built, I've been building an audience by helping podcasters promote their shows.)

Will your podcast be the common "two-dudes" format or are you planning to deviate from that somehow in order to stand out? ;)
Terraform if you're greenfield, but doesn't currently support creating configs from existing state.

No one has written a provider-agnostic language yet.
The directory is basically main memory, as far as provisioning bits of storage are concerned.

The number 2% also is achieved only if you do three-tier organization of processors, and (IIRC) you need to limit the cache broadcasts to within each tier--which puts some sharp constraints on how you lay out cores in a chip. Intel's many-core chips, IIRC, are laid out in a single ring connecting all the cores, which means it's completely the wrong topology implied by the paper.
I agree with Adam's post and intensely disagree with A16Z's post on this topic.

I don't think companies should take back stock compensation on a technicality. It'd be silly to even discuss taking back cash compensation when someone leaves a company!

I appreciate Adam starting this trend years ago.
Proposal Would Force the Internet Archive and Other Platforms to Censor the Web
React In-Depth: Component Evolution and Composition
Supreme Court takes next patent case, poised to overturn Federal Circuit again
Ah, Australia, that explains it, I've live in both the US / UK, so I'm used to 25c or 20p, but not 20c.
Show HN: GoPlay – An alternative for Go Playground
Or Phoenix, which the founders of Tuft and Needle recently recommended[1] and is cheaper than Austin.

[1]: https://m.tuftandneedle.com/if-you-re-building-a-startup-you...
what do you do with the young kids in the winter?
>rebranding for multilayer neural networks

Yes that's exactly what it is.

You're welcome.
i can't speak for the author, but my first thought was the speed. Delphi was almost as easy to develop as Visual Basic, but the result was fast. a native EXE, no big framework-dependencies.
Affiliate links feel spammy because it makes it hard to determine whether your recommendation is altruistic or financially motivated.
All of these issues with cities can be addressed. In many cities they aren't being addressed currently...but they can be.

Natural/alive areas -- parks, and greenery on sidewalks.

Space and privacy-- better materials can be used to filter out more sound, which is the usual big complaint.

Community-- Intentionally building public spaces where people are likely to convene and meet, hold events, and even shop is good for both business and allowing people to get to know each other.
Being from the area Waltham is more desirable for business for a lot of the reasons Brin mentions in the article. It's cheaper than living/working in Cambridge and local ordinances have done well to make that a really desirable place to be. For Boston most of the startup tech industries linger most around the ring roads around Boston rather than in Boston properly like it seems SF/SV tends to be. It's also much more practical to attract talent that lives outside Boston and inside Boston in Waltham.
Show HN: Event Calendar App – An event calendar widget for your website
If it was so obvious to those economists that "Leave" would win this particular referendum, they could have made millions trading on that confidence.
Show HN: What Is Throughput in Performance Testing?
Am I the only one who leaves the Windows Update service entry disabled under the "services" settings?

Seriously, it's that simple. I check once a week, tops.
Eating what food you buy right away precludes storing food at home.
...my money is on @TheFitBot
The biggest issue is the investment money to build the infrastructure, housing, etc. And of course, crucially, business draw to live there.

I suppose if Silicon Valley types like YCombinator who invest the money, and Google (Larry Page regularly talks about Google building a city) who is a large industry were to go forth on one of these model city type projects, the initial draw would be those exact things. If Google wanted a model city to work, Google should ensure that Google is the first business to move a large portion of it's workforce there with major incentives for people to do so. People serving that initial seed workforce other services would follow.

A new city would be founded much the way they did in the old days: Company towns.
> Can people stop spreading this meme?

How about stopping the meme that everyone should accept spyware?

> anonymized telemetry is hardly spyware

Without the explicit informed consent - which means opt-IN and an accurate and full manifest of what is included - then "telemetry" is spyware, by definition.

As for making the data "anonymous", have you seen the specifics of how that works? When Google claimed they made the IP addresses in GA anonymous they only masked the lowest 8-bits. Uniqueness (and the ASN) was completely recoverable.

The only way to make "telemetry" anonymous is to cook it so much that it isn't useful anymore. If you doubt this, you don't understand how easily modern methods can find correlations between data sets. But that's only about the data inside the packet. Just logging arrival times of packets that have any kind of common identifier can build a detailed picture of someone's pattern-of-life. Just because think it's ok to spy on users doesn't mean you get to make that decision for everybody else.

> regular people around me love it.

So what? It's a fallacy to extrapolate that opinion onto other people.

> support ends next year

Which means support is still available.

> Oh nasty corps.

Willfully misrepresenting the people that criticize Microsoft (et al) is never a good way to argue.

> Probably end user should stick to pen+paper.

Insults like this are why you got downvoted.

> reasonable talk instead of yelling at each other?

see: stones, glass houses
We don't have any announcement for this yet, but stay tuned on our blog and Twitter (@docsmsft). Feel free to also submit this piece of feedback here: https://msdocs.uservoice.com
You know, I have a lot more sympathy for the under-privileged and the under-served who have politics with which I disagree when I see articles categorizing them as losers. Maybe sympathy is a good lesson here.
Exactly where you would expect to find it: the data use and access section of the technet article on the feature, and in the Windows privacy statement.
Those words are translations into conventional words, which are fairly real-number-oriented. They aren't really quite accurate. (It's fair to say that English words aren't really real numbers, but it's also fair to say that's what most mathematically-educated people would interpret it as.)

Look, taking on one or the other of Conway or Knuth on a topic like this would be a sobering prospect, but both of them at once? Maybe you should be phrasing your "objections" in the form of questions.
In San Francisco and Chicago, I experienced no shortage of tiny, expensive corner stores, restaurants, boutiques, etc. That's the kind of stuff that seems to go into the ground floors of residential towers. The hassle was accessing (the local equivalents of) Target, Kroger, Best Buy, etc.
Somehow I doubt Trump will be able to answer these questions.
see also: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/mark-ames/33836/we-the-s...
Large IoT CCTV Botnet Leveraged in DDoS Attacks
No, you can't take a grocery cart on a bus.
I do among other things elasticsearch consulting and a significant part of the urgent jobs I do is fixing braindead-easy ES setups. It's easy to install and configure, it will probably even run fine with a small dataset or few queries, but it will start to fall apart if you're putting load on it and haven't thought at least a little about your setup. That's not a surprising thing in itself, practically no piece of software will just eat any garbage you throw at it, so ES is at least on par with a lot of other options out there. It's often just a small thing, tweaking shard counts and index sizes, using the appropriate instance type, something like that. But it's still easy to get wrong and a lot of people do.
Largely automated delivery infrastructure - pipes between places, or entry hatches in roofs to inside offices/homes (drone delivery) and hatches within buildings to some storage area within the building are required the way other infrastructure is required, so things can move between people within the city very quickly. Maybe this is also used for garbage management city wide.
If computers killed 35,000 Americans a year, your analogy would be valid.
It's true that financial capitalism doesn't work for most people. A consequence of globalization has been, to coin a phrase, "rising inequality."

Financial capitalism puts the developed economies on the same track toward inequality as the underdeveloped extractive economies.

For example, Tim Cook's Apple has a huge hoard of cash. But their powerful investors (Icahn, for example) won't let them spend it on developing new products, training workers, building new factories, paying taxes to help develop infrastructure, or even raising wages much. So it just accumulates. It serves as collateral so Apple can borrow money to buy back stock. So the wall street boys can have bigger megayachts.

There's no way to vote against financial capitalism. So people vote for proxies. The Brexit vote, and the strength of the movements behind Bernie Sanders and the casino developer from New Jersey are those proxies.

I wonder whether the developed world's political leadership can figure out how to unwind financial capitalism without the help of a global pandemic, famine, or great war. It's seeming less and less likely.

As for "the end of history," I'll have some of whatever Fukuyama was smoking when that vision flitted across his consciousness.
I lived in three different apartments in uptown and edgewater and was able to walk to a supermarket within a half-mile. Two of the locations were also close to other general shopping choices. All three were close enough to the El to get us whereever else we wanted to go. Downtown Evanston is similar or maybe even better. I get your point that this model is not common in the US - but I believe that's the entire point of this article - how can cities be designed to be more livable?
Something that I've always wondered in relation to city design is why it isn't standard for high-rise buildings to be 50% office space and 50% living space. It's one of those things where I assume there must be a good reason why it isn't done, but I've never been able to find one. It seems like such a huge waste of human resources to force people to commute for hours each day, spending money, wasting gas, lost productivity etc.

Zoning regulations that separated hazardous or noisy manufacturing from housing make sense, but for office work, I can't see why there is a need to keep it separate.
>Am I the only one who leaves the Windows Update service entry disabled under the "services" settings?

I really hope you are.
It's unnatural for anyone that grew up with mice and trackpads.

It's 100% natural for phones. Most people don't realize "natural scrolling" on OSX is phone scrolling.

Makes sense when you realize they ripped the magic trackpad code out of iOS's touch screen event handler.
Something else I have thought about on this subject. Look at some of these post apocalyptic movies where you have scattered people living in these former cities of glory.

Which cities do the best? Those will access to natural resources and access to water both fresh and salt. We are always going to need fresh water to drink, and boats have been the best low tech mode of travel for thousands of years.
Reality check: Majority of cancer cures will take decades
The world has not had losers in an absolute sense for a while now. Relatively there is always a loser but as far as survival matters are concerned if you are in a stable region of the world then it is mostly a solved problem. I don't think this is an example of "losers revolting" but just another instance of the less organized masses working against their own interests while being cajoled by slightly more organized political savants in order to prop up their own interests.
The problem is this slows the traffic in urban areas. A simple radar controlled signal solves this
If it was so obvious to those economists that "Leave" would win this particular referendum, they could have made millions trading on that confidence.

I keep on telling people that there is an extreme disconnect between the "upper" and "lower" echelons of society. The cultural/societal disconnect is stark and huge -- to the point where people can't even overcome it for millions of dollars!

Warning: There is now an extreme disconnect between the "upper" and "lower" echelons of society!
​Red Hat's JBoss moves to the cloud
People. Lethal choice of CEO. I'll avoid names if you don't mind. Our product was essentially like Twilio, to start with at least, until the company was dragged into a more social arena (with deals with then big, now defunct social networks). We had some pretty cool features like the ability to trigger calls, sms chats, voice blasts etc, via text commands ("call humpty, dumpty and numpty tomorrow at 5pm", or "text johnny, bonny and sonny: Hi guys"), so you could communicate with the system via IM, email, web etc. We then essentially took all that lovely stuff and instead of being the API behind Telephony, or even the Telephony behind the social, we did stupid marketing stunts for some singers and stuff like that.

The whole story is a fascinating tale of human nature more than technology. Maybe one day...
His primary value is as a symptom. He is the blood in the stool.
Fast, Elegant Regexes in Haskell
It may be a case of "Commoditizing Your Complements".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1250958
PostgreSQL is the right choice, no matter what.
Checking if the page is available on http://archive.is is also a nice trick, and it's totally browser-agnostic.
How to Write Great Content?
Seriously, read my comment. I've lived exactly like that. It's awful.
What happened to the so called promised "dynamic compilation"? There was supposed to be a great improvement in compilation times...which is still quite long on the default sample.

I don't feel like Microsoft has improved enough for me to make the switch from .NET 4.x.
Yes. To decrease demand, you limit supply so that the price goes up. This can work dramatically if you increase price high enough that alternatives are cheaper.

In the case of transportation, price is measured in time and convenience as well as dollars.
I wouldn't say disabling all security updates is a good solution.
Unfortunately our industry's mainstream systems for the most part have badly done half-hearted implementations of past innovations. What's most disheartening is that for example stuff like low-latency audio isn't reliably available on mainstream platforms. There's always some dance you have to go through if you need it. On one platform the dance takes longer than on others, but the fact remains that even this was no problem on BeOS. I'm not saying BeOS was without faults, but it was a general purpose system and excelled in some regards which hasn't been available in the same quality since, unless you're willing to restrict yourself to certain hardware or API restrictions. The saddest part is that the BeOS IP has since been tucked away inside that Japanese company (Access Ltd?) and is lost to the world. I've tried Haiku but it's not the same. Just imagine if BeOS had been open sourced under an acceptable license back when it actually had good hardware support for its time.
It's also worth noting that it doesn't seem to be possible to buy Enterprise as a regular user, so it's not even a matter of me not wanting to spend the money as it's a matter of the company not giving me the option.
It means "multipurpose", polyvalent is a really common word in French, but apparently doesn't have the same signification in English, or is less common. I'll replace it by something else.
"The world's losers" is linkbait, and taking the article's argument on its own terms, Brexit is hardly the beginning, so that's misleading (and linkbait too). Therefore the HN guidelines mandate a change of title. If anyone can suggest a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Financial capitalism puts the developed economies on the same track toward inequality as the underdeveloped extractive economies.

Not quite the same track. The poor in the developed economies are far better off. The feeling of injustice is equally strong, however, due to the way human psychology works. That is a real problem societies need to address.