skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not drivel, it's simply the truth that often discussions about streets are framed around cars, rather than people. Now obviously people are in cars, duh, but the thing is that if you focus on the people, then you start thinking about the fact that people are capable of taking more than one form of transportation: 'hurting' cars may well be the correct solution if the people who used to drive can get an equivalent or better experience walking/biking/using transit.

> A car is a human amplifier - it takes human transportation and carrying ability and amplifies it. A lot of people find this amplification very very useful (parents with children, elderly, people who buy in bulk, etc, etc).

For sure, cars are very useful, particularly for going long distances or carrying lots of stuff or people. But there's other things that they're bad at: most notably, they're far less space efficient for the average case when there's just one or two people in each car. Because of that, as a city gets denser, you have to start moving people over to other, denser forms of transportation.

You're always going to have some cars, if only for business deliveries and emergency vehicles (and maybe the handicapped), but it's possible to cut the number of car trips way, way down.
Whereabouts in Asia? That's an interesting counterpoint and example.

I agree with you completely: I'm not a 'markets' guy because I think they're the answer to all problems all the time, but because I think in this case we could use more of them.
They are easily swayed, if you have a lot of money. Which is why we see such strong pro-corporatism is nearly every level of government regardless of political party.

There is not much money to be had in pro-socialist, anti-war, pro-voter initiatives, which is why they get so little traction and have such low amounts of money available for advertising etc.

Also, not saying 51% are idiots. Firstly, I am impartial to the Brexit vote and have no opinion on it. Secondly, you don't need 51% idiots, you only need enough idiots to change the result of the election, sometimes less than a percentage point.
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Exactly!!!
Agreed - my P90 could seamlessly transfer video from a camera, build Mozilla from source, and surf the web while never missing a frame on music playback. Even now that's not a given, although SSDs have made it at lot less common than it used to be with iTunes.
Big Brother has trained you well. ;-)
It's an easy mnemonic for Ctrl-Z to represent the end of something. Also fairly easy to type on a Qwerty keyboard.
S&P strips UK of last top-notch credit rating after Brexit vote
Rather than downvote, I'd love to see some links regarding if the Post has a liberal bias, that they knew they were publishing inaccurate and misleading information and did so willingly with intent to deceive, and evidence that they want their readers to be angry against the Brexit votes.

I totally agree with your other, factual statements, Bezos I'm sure doesn't care for Trump, and does indeed probably support Gawker. I just can't find anywhere in the world literature any evidence that supports your other claims. Or I guess I wouldn't would I?
In practice, the places with lots of traffic congestion are dense enough to have transit going to/close to the areas with lots of demand.
Good.

I'm to the point of telling my friends I'm about 50% likely to vote for Trump. Let it burn.

And I don't mean this rhetorically.

I wouldn't put too much stock in polls, this time around.

P.S. In terms of being an effective, ethical leader, I think Trump is a terrible choice.

But, I think the extant system needs to go. As I said, let it burn.
No, it doesn't make any sense, and it doesn't make any sense for Britain, either (though the US and the EU aren't the same thing.)

But the results of the dissatisfaction with the way globalization isn't working aren't optimal solutions (or even positive progress), they are simply symptoms of anger for which the political system is offering no good solutions (and often not even acknowledging).
This is a "guilty by association" logical fallacy. While some Brexitors are racist xenophobes, not all are. I find it hard to believe that 51% of the (voting) public is racist. This is the same thing that underpins the erroneous, "All Muslims are terrorists!" trope. Of course they're not!

Your last paragraph makes a solid point, but it's a tough point to make. You're asking people to effectively vote against their own best interests because it's in the best interests of someone else. Any rational voter will rightly wonder why they should have to suffer to better someone else: shouldn't there be a solution that benefits all? (Or, bluntly, a solution that impacts a minority of voters who can't change the status quo?)
I just wanted to say this is a great recommendation for anyone who is serious about learning deep learning / machine learning. I also want to note, there are other resources available for people who are less serious about it and just want to get a general overview.
Not everyone pirates. I can't say for sure, but I believe Kodi has addons for legitimate streaming services. Also, some people take pride in their physical collections.
I did use the words 'nasty' and 'boorish' and probably could have avoided them. I certainly did not mean to imply anything about you personally, nor do I think those things.

Why did I call those three words pejoratives? Because that's how they work in the context where you used them: "isms" is obviously a pejorative, "American" bound to it becomes a national slight, and "your" a personal one. Perhaps you didn't intend them that way, but I assure you that for many readers they would acquire that connotation en route.

I don't have any desire to ban you, but I do wish you'd take on good faith what I'm trying to explain about how HN conversations are supposed to operate. It all comes from long hard experience trying to prevent an internet forum from degenerating. You clearly have some interesting things to say, so if you'd join us in the work of erring on the side of civility, HN would be better.
I think some (many? IDK) are not unfazed by the "bad" parts of Trump's message - it's just that they agree so strongly with the "good" parts (whatever they feel is "good") that they are willing to hold their nose and overlook the "bad" parts.

Mainly because the status quo on both the Republican and Democratic side supports the economic policies that have been so bad for them.
>"He suggests paying 50% above market in stock, but including a clause that all employees must remain at the company until a liquidity event or else they cannot keep any stock at all (even if they could come up with the exercise cost)."

Curious to what feelings this invokes for startup employees (nonfounders, investors) on HN.
Those "plenty of traders" were in the small minority. If they were in the majority, then the markets wouldn't have moved so much following the outcome! So yes, before a messay probabilistic evet, there was a minority of experts who thought it would go one way...but a majority who thought it would go the other. Hardly obvious that Leave would win!
The EU optimizes the prosperity of the EU collectively, rather than the prosperity of Britain specifically. That is by design: when heads of national governments sit in the European Commission (correction: Council), they are obligated to consider the interests of the whole EU, not the interests of the nation they represent.
IIRC, you can specify a time of day to update, and mostly, you get an option to retry in 4 hours (or tomorrow, etc)... most corporate environments are using services to defer updates to scheduled times.. and at home, I just leave it on/auto. My understanding it's only after a few days of nagging that you can't defer the updates anymore.

If you can't reboot your computer for over two days, you may want to rethink your workflow... I tend to completely shutdown/restart at least every night/morning, and if I had critical pending updates, would probably let them run at lunch, just closing everything before that. This happens maybe once a month, and is just the cost of having a computer...

"Oh man, I have to stop my car and turn it off to get gas once a week. Or when I get my oil changed every few months..."
> it's completely appropriate to call them that, and worse

Leaving aside all the arguments over whether it's accurate to do so, here's a question that might be worth asking:

Is it useful?

No one likes being labeled. That's as true for people with whom you do not agree as it is for those with whom you do.

If the objective is a productive discussion of differences and, ultimately, a peaceful transition into a future that works better for everyone, then applying derogatory labels to people whose view of the world differs from your own is probably not very useful.

If the objective is to insert as many crowbars as possible into already extant political, economic, and social divides, and do as much as possible to pry them open even wider, then applying derogatory labels is a great strategy. Of course, in that case, it's hard to be taken seriously when you profess surprise and dismay at the unfavorable reception you're given by those with whom you do not agree. But I've yet to see that really stop anyone.
Precisely. I refuse to update my phone (Sony Z3C) because based on feedback it performs worse in battery life, because Google strongarmed Sony to remove their superior battery optimisation logic (Stamina) and include Googles halfassed one (Doze).

So if I'm happy with current configuration, why change it?
I think a lot of these questions posed have already been answered comprehensively by urban planners. Urban planners understand how to make well crafted urban spaces that work well and make people happy.

The larger issue is that many of these known solutions aren't being implemented due to established NIMBY interests that create an intractable political situation that prevents anything but the status quo.

For example I'd point to how NYC has been transformed for the better by the shift of road space usage from exclusive car use to being more inclusive of cyclists and pedestrians. This was incredibly difficult to implement due to extreme push back from just about everyone. Eventually once people realized it was working for the better opposition started to melt away. Even with this positive example to cite, for many cities basic safety improvements such as separated bike lanes remain incredibly hard to implement due to local and business opposition.

Additionally there are funding issues. This isn't the same country by country, but in Canada at least municipalities don't have a lot of tools to raise revenue and are very poor.

Metro Vancouver had a 10 year plan to dramatically expand rapid transit but it didn't have the money to implement it. The vaguely transit-hostile provincial government wasn't about to help out. The province forced Metro Vancouver into a referendum on a new 0.5 cent sales tax to raise revenue but it was defeated.

Here we have an example where the region's planners completely understand that they need to expand rapid transit to the region to better move people around the region and increase housing affordability, but there aren't the funds available to execute on the idea due to political ideology.
Isn't any vesting for non-founding employees completely broken?

If the employee loses the stock when he's fired early, then the company has a huge incentive in firing him a day before he vests, and thus he should regard the vesting compensation as nonexistent.

If the employee retains the stock when he's fired early, then he can just get himself fired to ignore the vesting period, making the vesting pointless.

It seems that vesting can only work if the employee is so essential that the company would never fire him because the company would then be highly likely to fail, which should only apply for founders in a functional company.
We have a robot similar to this at work. It's broken right now - maybe the battery is dead, maybe there's a software issue - and nobody's particularly interested in fixing it, because it never worked too well.

For one, on our model, there's zero peripheral vision. This makes it really hard to orient yourself in space - how far away is that wall? Did I scoot far enough past that doorway to swivel 90° to the right and go through it? Am I about to hit someone?

The same problem occurs when you're trying to talk to people. You can really only see two people who are standing in front of you. I'm not even sure if there's stereo sound - as there appears to be on the Snowbot, since he swivels towards people who are addressing him.

Other minor difficulties:

* it was difficult to park it into its charging station, which meant that sometimes it would just go comatose in a hallway.

* there's still a fair amount of lag, which makes it slightly annoying to have a conversation. Dialing someone over Skype/Hipchat/whatever-video is almost always the better option.

* sometimes you'd remote in, and be in an unfamiliar location because the robot wasn't returned to its parking spot. Since the whole point is to be able to access remote locations, we typically weren't familiar with the office layout, and would have to wander around aimlessly trying to get someone to help us get to where we needed to go.
I agree with this, but what do you guys think about minimum service periods? Like requiring 2 or 3 years? Companies like Pinterest and Coinbase have added that condition.[1]

Greater portability could in theory lead to higher turnover even among happy employees. They might go on to found their own company sooner. They might see good financial sense in diversifying their options portfolio. Yet young companies need the team to stick together for a certain time. Especially very small startups at the YC stage -- turnover is very harmful.

Note: In Adam's example, nobody leaves the pre-IPO company in under 4 years of service.[2]

[1] https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows

[2] "imagine a company takes 10 years to IPO. Employee A works at the company from years 0 to 4. Employee B works there from years 4 to 8. Employee C works there from years 8 to 10."
I don't know of any green threads in .NET -- at least, not built in. However, .NET does have a built-in thread pooling / task execution service. You generally interface via `System.Threading.Tasks.Task`[0], which has static `Run` functions, or use the `Factory` property to get the underlying `TaskFactory` for more fun. Since the executors are pooled, the creation costs will be amortized over your program's lifetime.

Then there's `async`/`await`[1], which is built on top of tasks.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.ta...

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt674882.aspx
Well, they might if California traded more with the rest of the world than they did with the rest of the US, and staying in the latter's free trade zone meant mandatory tariffs on trade with the former. And if US federal government overrode California state government while having almost zero democratic accountability to Californian voters.

I sometimes have a hard time working out what Americans understand by "the EU". Sometimes they seem to think of it as a country like the USA, sometimes they seem to think of it as a free trade zone like NAFTA. It's neither; it's a customs union with supranational governmental aspects designed from the start (for laudible historical reasons) to be heavily insulated from populism. The problem is that it's practically impossible to disentangle "insulated from populism" and "insulated from democracy".
Things like the currency markets had way more money implicitly bet on the results than the pittance with bookmakers / prediction markets.
But these days, past a certain price point, you don't really get much cleaner. It's not like it was when you found studios with a ( relatively nice say, Peavey AMR ) console and a Fostex 1" 16 track, to where a nicer console and better tape machine were audibly better.

I have a CD or two done with a D&R console and a Mitsu DASH, and I'd say this is comparable. Room and human factors dominate.

You can get 8 channels of A/D-D/A with Lightpipe for 8 more for $500 bucks and while I can't say definitively it's as good as it gets, it loops back to < -90dB for noise & distortion. It's good enough to where the "worst element" is usually me :)
when heads of national governments sit in the European Commission

Heads of national governments do not sit in the European Commission, they form the European Council.
dang/mod account, you host many political threads and then frequently censor viewpoints contrary to yours. Deleting off topic comments, spam and abuse is appropriate. Attacking and censoring all who are reasonably critical of the american military's torture and surveillance state, its illegitimate wars, and its harm to civilians, in the context of related discussion, is not appropriate.

To maintain the credibility of HN and ycombinator, I suggest you review your censorship and control issues associated with your moderators. Thank you.
I mean GPS repeaters are a thing, but there's even better options, you could install small radio beacons in the tunnels and triangulate using those. Much more precise, and cheaper than GPS repeaters.
A purpose built application if built well will not only do the job more efficiently but also be easy to maintain. If you write exclusively attached to a framework it creates just as much work for someone who knows the underlying technologies but not the framework as it would for someone who knows a framework. You'll end up tying your application to that framework. Sure, say you want to quickly hire 20 coders to work on a project - use a framework (or be like Facebook, or Google and create your own...). I've found hiring framework developers is a good path to getting work only in that framework. Devs who are more versed in the underlying technologies have in my experience been more flexible and put out better products for the domain they're working in.
I disagree. There's a large grey area between 'completely unknown' and 'scientific certainty'. I prefer guessing and doing computations with my guesses than throwing my hands up in the air and calling it unknowable.

When presented with new evidence it's better to write a number down for your degree in belief in X, ask how much you should change that belief based on the new data, and update your probability estimate, than to just go with your feelings. You're not doing actual bayesian computations, that's totally untractable for anything that's not a very well defined problem, but doing 'pseudo-bayesian' updating is better than not.

I think of it as the fermi approximation of probabilities. You won't get accurate numbers that way but you'll get better numbers than if you just invent the answer.

EDIT to add: most of the time you should then throw out the number. Just like a fermi estimate, you get a ballpark sense for the answer, not a precise answer.

In the superforecasting experiment by Tetlock the best forecasters did this. They were writing down probability estimates and methodically updating them based on new data (news articles, data, etc.). They were forecasting geopolitical events, not dice rolls, and it worked (better than the alternative, obviously no one can forecast geopolitical events with high certainty).
I don't think it's necessarily a stupid question, because of the psychology involved with lying.

This question would likely weed out any wanna-be small time people intent on causing harm to the US. Something similar to how many criminals in the US are arrested due to routine traffic stops.

If asking this "stupid" question prevents 1 single undesirable person from entering the US, then it's served it's purpose.
When an article about Angular is posted here, It seems standard practice to ignore the article itself—in this case, a writeup of Angular 2 best practices. Instead it becomes a discussion on React vs Angular, Angular 1 vs 2, frameworks vs no frameworks, etc. I’m not sure how to fix this problem—and I see it as a problem because the article bears discussion. But even with this comment I’ve derailed the original poster’s intent. So: is there a similar forum where Angular-oriented articles are posted and the starting assumption is that Angular is, well, good?
I don't think you can do anything here once a culture's already been set. I also think that repeatedly pestering execs to ask about their efforts on this (as I've done at my current company every few weeks for the last 6 months) makes them think you're about to jump ship and want "free money", so watch out :)
iirc asp.net core does not contain the web framework part, just the server stuff
I constantly laugh at postings here that Germany is going to take Finance and the Tech center from London

I know people working in finance in the city who believe this, large banks like Morgan Stanley believe it and are moving staff, what makes you think it won't happen?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-eu-referendum-a...
Alan Kay was posting here... probably he comes from the future.
I said power, not representation. But you're right, I should have said 0.3% (1/331), not 1/650.
you're overlooking the price differences between these two modes of shopping.
> The other thing worth mentioning is that bikes/pedestrians can go anywhere cars can, but the opposite is not true.

Your statement is only true for low speed roads. At higher speeds, it is impossible or unsafe for anyone to use the road unless they are also going at an equally high speed.

So in practice, cars do NOT function as a lowest common denominator, but actively drive out other means of transportation because the roads they prefer -- high speed roads -- cannot be safely used by pedestrians or cyclists!
Not to mention that federal taxes to run the federal government during this period were largely dependent on alcohol sales. Prohibition only got passed when an income tax passed. Suddenly the interests of the federal government was in line with workers.
From the article you cited, it appears that the law in question prohibits investment by the State of New York, not by individuals:

> WHEREAS, the State of New York will not permit its own investment activity to further the BDS campaign in any way, shape or form, whether directly or indirectly;

Is there more to it than what the article mentions?
Not necessarily. That wealth may accrue to people and in ways that are not easily taxable.
They decided that ios9 on 5S should stutter while scrolling throughout the OS. A smooth working device experience on 8 was broken by an update and 10 minutes later with no option to revert anymore.

Interesting it coincided with release of SE couple months later...

All vendors suck, they just all have their own incentive.
Torture and attacks on civilian populations are both terrorist actions.

If you define terrorism as necessarily non-state, then you have to discard the state sponsored terrorism of Libya, ISIS (which is in fact now a state), Afghanistan, Nazi Germany, etc. I do not believe that discarding state sponsored terrorism as "not terrorist" by defining terrorism as not possible by states to be a useful definition, do you?
Wow. I had the idea this was mostly a thing you'd find in the sketchier corners of eBay, and that at least to some extent you'd have to go looking for. But that's not so, which rather cuts my argument off at the knees.
Much of that isn't specific to Elasticsearch; security, backups, logging config, etc is all going to be extremely common across just about every similar product. I didn't say that Elasticsearch was "trivial", I said that it's one of the easiest clustered DBs to administrate. Anything distributed has a whole set of caveats that you have to be aware of and know how to handle, but using managed ES vs hosting your own doesn't really change any of that.

My point is that the value-add from AWS' managed ES product is much, much smaller than it might be for other similar products because of the relative ease of administrating ES.