skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this Manhattan?

Because in Chicago I think that describes about 10 blocks (a few hundred staggeringly wealthy people in the most lavish of luxury condo towers). The rest of us have some tiny, price-gouging convenience stores nearby but have to go ~20 blocks for a real supermarket, 4-5 miles to downtown for a Target or Macy's. Taking the train is less of a hassle than parking in the Loop, but it's still a hassle.
So Bravo begat Word, and ^Z survived as EOF into DOS...
Does anyone have a video of this?
Right now Realtor.com lists the median price per sq. ft in SF as $818, Buffalo is $72, and Detroit is $22. So you could cut your housing cost by 90 percent just by moving to a different city. These folks say they don't want to build a 'liberterian techno-utopia', but it's not clear what else they're offering if they are uninterested in investing in actual cities where people actually live.
Central planning has been a colossal failure both in terms of the economy at large, and in terms of urban planning.

If someone can make money by building a store, that's great, what's wrong with it?

Zoning should be about keeping truly noxious activities away from residential areas, not about keeping a corner store away from where people could possibly walk to it.
In a walkable city with small markets, you pop into the market as you walk past it on the way home from work, grab ~4 things for supper and carry them home. It takes about 5 minutes, and you do it 7 times a week.

In a surburb, you spend some time making a shopping list to ensure you don't forget something, drive to the store, spend at least 30 minutes getting everything (it takes at least 5 minutes to walk from one end of the store to another), spend time waiting in line and checking out, drive back, unpack, et cetera. The whole process takes about 2 hours.

Which is the massive inconvenience?
Attention US-bound tourists: Social media accounts subject to inspection
:) I thought I was the only one who simply stopped using my Windows partitions. Just installed 16.04 Ubuntu Studio, too.
I guess this refers to Donald Knuth's "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated": http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/316.html
>The text found in chapter 3, verse 16, of most books in the Bible is a typical verse with no special distinction. But when Knuth examined what leading scholars throughout the centuries have written about those verses, he found that there is a fascinating story to be learned in every case, full of historical and spiritual insights. This book presents jargon-free introductions to each book of the Bible and in-depth analyses of what people from many different religious persuasions have said about the texts found in chapter 3, verse 16, together with 60 original illustrations by many of the world's leading calligraphers.
>The result is a grand tour of the Bible -- from Genesis 3:16 to Revelation 3:16 -- a treat for the mind, the eyes, and the spirit.
Since people frequently buy off of Amazon, the parent is not banking on people buying the kindle book, he's banking on them clicking his affiliate link and buying a bigger ticket item some time today which will net him more commission. The affiliate link to the $3.99 ebook is just to get them in the door and his affiliate cookie planted.

So regardless of the review content, the fact that the parent felt the need to add an affiliate link to a $3.99 kindle book leads me to believe his choice was not based on the merit of the book, but because he wants to skim a few bucks off the HN crowd.
Bill Hendricks Joins ProducePay as Senior Vice President, Head of Product
Organic Entropy
You don't "3x overprovision" Elasticsearch in particular, you should always provision a minimum of 3 nodes for any highly-available clustered DB. 1 node may fail, you're down. With 2 nodes you can develop a partition or lose a node and neither node can elect itself master, you're down. With 3 nodes, you can lose a node or develop a partition, the other 2 nodes can reach a quorum on a new master and continue operating.
Ainterface: Erlang/Akka Interop
XBMC used to mean Xbox Media Center, and it targeted original Xbox hardware. It branched out to run on other machines and eventually dropped compatibility for original XB hardware. So it's a much older project.
Googling something does not mean you don't know what it is.

Very often I google things that I know quite a bit about. Sometimes to see if there is any news about it, or just to get to the wikipedia page, and brush up on a few facts.
Absolutely. There is currently a trend in the US towards smaller emergency vehicles, and I expect that to continue.

US fire truck manufacturers are starting to look at their European brethren (companies like Metz out of Germany) for examples of how to accomplish the necessary tasks on much smaller platforms.

I think we're still a long ways from being able to do away with fire trucks entirely though. Firefighting is a very dynamic activity, with a lot of contingencies that need to be covered, and the 'big toolbox on wheels' model works very well.
How Do Committees Invent?
Disclosure: I am Bill Hendricks and this is shameless self promotion ;-)
While Ionic's not native, even Ionic 1 is close enough for most apps. Ionic 2 is supposed to be 3-5 times faster. So for startups that need both iOS and Android support, but have small teams, Ionic's 100% iOS-Android code reuse remakes a lot of sense.
Good thing the woke guy showed up to remind us that military veterans are terrorists
So am I getting this wrong? Isn't this exactly how a float described in bits? If you had infinite memory then this would possibly be implemented with floats.
It certainly contains security updates, but also the opportunity to nag me a little more with apple music, icloud, apple pay, etc... But it's all for my own good!
But that doesn't solve the problem that all of that is still "Wish-It-Were-Two-Factor". Secret questions and secret answers are still passwords by a different name. (At this point I even keep them in the same password vault and am starting to pseudorandom generate them thanks to support lines treating them as passwords and giving people access to accounts based on easy to find knowledge.)

Instead of all the work banks put into chicanery around this secret question and answer security theater, they should just roll out real Two Factor and save us all some hassle.
My bad. I think I meant that one! There website without JS enabled is terrible these days, so I search around with Google and that was from a FB post I scanned.
This is an incredibly fascinating story. Thank you for posting!
To track diet, smart glasses could monitor every chew of food
Ask HN: How is “Deep learning” different than traditional AI?
I have a Masters in AI, and here in my desk is a copy of Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach, 2nd edition. Neither in college nor in the "bible of AI" does the term Deep Learning appear, however, I see it everywhere now.

Is this a buzzword, new terminology for a suite of old techniques, or a different approach? I've read the Wikipedia articles and it seems like it's just a rebranding for multilayer neural networks.

Thanks!
You don't store it in main memory, you store it in the directory, aka snoop filter, or whatever you want to call it. The paper actually estimated the overhead and came up with the number 2% for 512 cores, not that high.
Productive assets aren't necessarily high-risk, high-return though: that's what blue chips like IBM and GE are for, and they're far more predictable than, say, the Florida real estate market.
Do note that Kodi said to "ask them to stop." Not "tell the police and YouTube and get them shut down." That's where the "And let us know" comes in: Kodi will then presumably write up official C&D letters and all that.

But if someone I follow on Tumblr links to one of these pirate boxes, I'm going to message them about the shadiness of the whole thing. Not report their blog or anything major like that, just message them. I think that's all Kodi is asking us to do.
If we build our city like a cruise ship, we can choose our climate.
Any ideas how to do GUI development with .NET Core? Is there a version of Xamarin? Are there plans to port Windows.Forms, WPF? There is this massive thread about it
http://forums.dotnetfoundation.org/t/cross-platform-wpf/421/...

and an issue here
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/5766
I'll leave 'strong' aside for the moment. Looking at united/cohesive, how united/cohesive do you want to see EU member countries become? Would you like to see a United States of Europe? If not, where do you draw the line, what decisions should national governments retain control over?
I agree with your point but I have one nitpick.

> unlike the American expectation that city centers feature enormous skyscrapers that pack people like sardines

Most skyscrapers in Manhattan at least are either for commercial use or feature large apartments/luxury condos (designed to solicit foreign investment). Average urban joe working a nebulous media job does not live in a skyscraper, although they may work in one.

People in NYC are "packed like sardines" into similar 3-6 story low-rise row houses just like in many European cities. This is because NYC was built up prior to many now-standard zoning regulations, so it follows a more similar pattern to older European cities.

The issue is affordability -- apartments near my office would cost 3x or more per month than where I currently live. How does Rome handle this?
I'd say the core problem here is that people are insufficiently cynical about plurals. If you see a headline that says "Belgians are going crazy about a roller-blading echidna", you should be asking "How many Belgians?". If there's no answer in the article, the answer is "at least two, maybe". Google Trends is just one of many ways that headline might come to exist.
One of the only places in my recent experience that has managed to capture the opportunity of SF with the quality of life of Singapore, is Shenzhen.
Well, until it is not interesting for them as a PR strategy. I do not want to lose these people when the pendulum swings back the other way.

And you and I check Github. That does not mean anyone being engineering managers care. I am curious what else we can do beyond starring GH repos. I do that, I just do not like my lazy armchair form of support and worry I will lose a culture shift at MS I have quickly fallen in love with after years of reviling the company as a whole, short-sighted or not.
All multi-core Intel chips have cache coherence. Intel might not have incorporated the paper's approach to scaleable cache coherence because they don't have a substrate to put 512 x86 cores on.
It would be inconvenient to drive the American suburban minivan in traffic to the megamart on 5 acres of parking lot 3 miles outside a suburban sprawl, yes.

But for a large fraction of the world, it's more like this:

1. Step off bus you took home from city center job, having decided dinner recipe on the ride.

2. Buy fresh produce from independent grocery store on same block as bus stop.

3. Walk remaining 2.5 blocks home.
> "What should a city optimize for?"

For people. What's the point of even building something for human habitation if making it a good place for people isn't put first?
A lot of this is very true. Though it doesn't factor highly talented looking at quality of living beyond disposable income. The one thing I would say is a shared motivation for many of these types moving to Berlin is they are looking for more diverse environments provided by a city not yet choking on its housing costs, or cities that relegate them always to the bubble of the financially fortunate. Disposable income models don't capture this factor. I personally think a company that chose to pay well in Berlin would find a ton of highly qualified talent. Meh, I could obviously be totally wrong.
I made the rounds to my relatives last year and upgraded everyone's 15+ year old PCs from "Windows" to "Lubuntu." It's like breathing fresh life into an old machine.

A huge chunk of users have no need for a new computer, or a new operating system for that matter. They want to have a web browser, e-mail and open documents. For some, that's meant switching over to using a tablet. But for others, they just want to keep using the machine they've got.

And it's not even really a Windows vs Linux thing. If Microsoft would continue to provide security updates for their old OSes or make a paired down version of their new OSes to work on a minimalist or older machine then I would have upgraded them to that instead.
> What use is kodi if not watching pirated media?

Watching non-pirated media, presumably. A lot of people use it as a front-end to their media libraries.
According to Wikipedia, Take-Two's revenue in 2013 was $2.3b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive

>I didn't choose to work in an industry that raced to the bottom for pricing.

I'm sorry but it doesn't matter how long you've been making games. If you choose to produce mobile games and then choose to make them F2P with IAPs and gems and bullshit, you did make that choice. You don't have to do that. Sure it might be the best way to make money on the iPhone, but selling drugs is a pretty darn good way of making money on the streets. It's a great way to make sure your family can eat. It still makes you a horrible person.

If you were making money before the iPhone, then there's your business model. Otherwise, go back and read your comment again, this time imagining a drug pusher explaining why he sells to addicts. "Sure meth is bad, but hey I'm making money and I'm giving people what they want, you just have to come to grips with the economic realities".

Thanks for killing the industry. Glad you're making a profit though.
The assumption here is without cars cities would be laid out exactly the same. What if there were by laws that every high rise above x floors has y retail space on the ground floor. In this case most of your daily needs would be serviced by a trip down. Once a week/month you may go to a larger store.
So why aren't we all programming in Basic right now? It was supposed to be a simple programming language understandable by everyone.
This quite interesting, I've been toying with building a capture box myself for presentation/gaming streaming and recording. It takes two inputs: HDMI-in from monitor, and HDMI/Other Digital for the camera, and one output: HDMI out back to the monitor. It can be configured to record to its internal SSD or stream (to popular streaming sources). I run a meetup and would love an easy way to record talks, there isn't much out on the market currently which is unfortunate. I'm really happy to see stuff like this surface in the OSS world.
The only words that come to my mind when I hear the name Donald Knuth are "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".

The original context is different but I wonder if we can ever compute all the wealth and impact that has been created by the practitioners of his art.
You have to pay to have the option to not be spied on, because only the version designed to be used for serious business supports disabling the first-party tracking, because business users are important and home users are just another revenue channel.

I now have even less moral issue with not paying to use Windows for personal use. Seriously, they should have just made it free for home users regardless of Win7 license state (I've had terrible luck with "upgraded" versions of Windows -- clean installs only for me, and yes I know about the Insider program and the exception to this...I didn't stay up on the news and I missed the "must be installed by" deadline).
Open-source project for smartwatches seeks developer contributions
Cache Efficient  Functional Algorithms [pdf]
I've paid money for more than enough games that pull the "buy more gems" bullshit on top of my purchase price. You can't win.
Samuel Brannon established his tool monopoly by diverting church money and using thugs to keep out the competition. Once he made his money he lost it all in real estate speculation and a divorce.
Flask - Nancy
SqlAlchemy - EntityFramework, nHibernate
Deployment - AppVeyor (cloud), TeamCity/OctopusDeploy (self-hosted)

Having said that, there is probably very little reason unless you're just doing it out of pure interest.
No, not sarcastic at all. It never occurred to me that we could have a simple rich-text rendering for code. For example, render code in html, and strip all tags before passing through to the compiler. Why don't we do this?!
Just because a government-funded institution creates a webpage describing the history of a subject, doesn't mean that government funded institution created that subject.

If I link to a NHTSA website on the history of cars, are you going to argue the government invented cars?
Tip: If you've run out of 'free articles' to read this month, you can open an incognito window (or 'private browsing') on your favorite browser and paste the link in. The 'web' button works for the WSJ, but not the WaPo.
This is low-tech, but have we considered surveying a large number of people with these two questions:

- Why are you living in this city/metropolitan area, as opposed to some other city?

- Why are you living in this particular dwelling, as opposed to a different dwelling in the same city?

I hypothesize that most people will perceive objectively positive outcomes as a result of their choice, while objectively negative outcomes as a result of necessity ie. factors external to their free choice. This would imply that the most negatively affected population anywhere is also the least mobile to relocate, for factors that are often, but not solely economical. Many of the non-economic ideas behind "New Cities" won't help these people, albeit some of the infrastructure and public transit proposals would enable them to better participate in the local economy.
What example workload cannot be implemented efficiently if your cores communicate using coherent caches, but can be implemented efficiently if they work in some other way?
I live in the centre of a largish city in Europe. Here there's a few supermarkets less than five minutes away on foot, and the last one closes at ten every day of the week. They're also on the way to and from most other places I go. Usually I just buy what I need for tonight and tomorrow on my way home, or go after dinner when I'm likely to want a quick walk anyway.

Of course, I don't have kids and am generally not a very busy person, so it might not work for everyone.
At Cannes, the Ad Industry Confronts the Rise of Facebook
Ditto for the New York Times and The Economist.
I am looking into ways to move everything we do off of MS Tech completely because I don't trust their direction with Windows 10.

I posted this because I thought it was an interesting and relevant part of the announcement. If MS was this straightforward and transparent with Win10 (allowing easy disabling of telemetry and the option to control upgrades at all levels) then I wouldn't be looking at alternatives. Although off by default would be better, but they would get approximately zero feedback with that. Best would probably be ask on install with a checkbox easily unchecked.

Whoever decided their .net tools telemetry and messaging needs to be in charge of that aspect across all products.
It seems backwards that on the Alto you could style your code with a WYSIWYG editor but 40 years later putting a <b> tag in your Javadoc is about all you can do to code.
Merkel and Hollande want Britain to bleed to scare other countries from following suit. But you forget that Britain has immense economic leverage over the continent that Switzerland and Norway do not. Britain is a huge market for French and German goods (more so than the other way around). Many of these, like German cars, are easily substituted with goods from other countries. The gloves are coming off. The British government would be doing a disservice to their people if a threat to sink the German car market in the UK is not on the table. We all know that Merkel does not like to play dangerously. I suspect Britain wins this game of chicken.

This could play out very well for all of Europe if the EU disintegrates into what it really should have been, a European trade agreement and not much more. But that will have to come from the people of the continent, not their leaders, who are totally sold on the concept of a European superstate. "The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony."
Costly Mistakes Made by Startups
I like how Y Combinator takes classical sociological questions, and they pretend to look for the solution. They seem to have a "final boss" approach to social science...

Aren't urbanists, sociologists and architects working exactly on the same questions since forever? The idea that a new study can find a new “disruptive” solution is naive at best, or dangerous at worst. But, of course, I welcome more money to social science. Those questions are well worth study...
Same here. My mother called me in tears because she was tricked into installing Windows 10 on her PC and she can no longer sync photos from her camera.
You mean like a Chromecast?
In the majority of intersections that I've driven (in the midwest) with no right turn on red, there is an obvious obstruction to see fast moving cars passing through the intersection.

Also, in some areas with many one-way streets it is legal to make a left-turn on red from one one-way street to another.
I just finished the course last week. I really liked Andrew's teaching style and enjoyed it very much. The work load is light compare to on campus courses at my school. I strongly recommend anyone interested in ML/AI to take the course.
Feel free to enjoy our 40000 - 50000 EUR salaries (I'm not saying whether this is bad or good, it's just something to be aware of; don't expect any SV silliness regarding salary here).
This right does not immediately cease to exist. If you lose your job you very likely have access to unemployment benefits for some time and there are certain conditions that need to be met before you can be deported. If you have lived there for at least five years it's basically impossible.

This is far stronger than anything you can get via other immigration routes and such deportations of EU citizens are really rare.