skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I missing something? The result for the 6 main emotional arcs basically enumerates all the possible permutations of rise and fall of length 1, 2, and 3 which seems pretty obvious.

Length 1:
rise, fall

Length 2:
rise-fall, fall-rise

Length 3:
rise-fall-rise, fall-rise-fall (must be interchanging because for example fall-fall-rise would probably just be considered fall-rise)
If there are already smugglers transporting migrants... what has leaving the EU accomplished?
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Some of this could be alleviated by just eliminating offices where possible. The entire team of software developers I work with is 100% remote, in fact, the vast majority of our production workers (billers and medical coders) is also remote. It's a huge benefit to both the employees and the company, no more commute and the ability to spend time with your family on your breaks, and the company doesn't waste money on office space that isn't even being used 50% of the day.

I understand there are still times where an office is necessary, and in fact we are looking at getting one here in Boise where the majority of our team is located, but it's more of a small space for meetings, holding our lab gear, etc.
That's why buses have more than one stop on their route.
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i really liked your reply :)

while I agree I think faith is a bit more than just human nature, I think it's a mechanism developed over centuries to deal with the unknown while our minds continued to expand to understand the unknown.

I think of it as a bug, maybe a little hack that was put in to deal with situations that defy explanation. it helps us come up with explanations, it has a function to deal with unexplained events without loosing our mental model of the world.

faith is like a shim, there is a piece of a mental model that doesn't exist and doesn't fit with your platform, so faith exists as a way into shim that difference into your code base.

religion is code that takes advantage of the shim. however religion is a virus and it takes over your other mental faculties, weakening them. introducing functions that make no sense, but will continue to run until your mind finds a place for them.

there are several ways to take advantage of the faith bug but you can see patterns for different types of systems that use faith hooks to make calls to your reason centers and overrides their output. the more these calls override the reason centers the less they are used.

now the point at which the faith bug is the most susceptible to being utilized is during the brains formative years, and this tactic is used incredibly frequently.

so I see and agree with your point that religion is an institution and faith is a function of humanity, but faith is a bug that can be patched and I also would argue that faith is too broad a term for the reasoning functionality of the brain.

faith is a good word to use when we lack the proper terms, but personal and religious faith are a small subset of the entire faith function and I think it needs to be broken up into its requisite parts.

and maybe the overall function that applies to religion in context to faith is world-model_update(previous_model, new_viewpoint, contextual_conviction/external_conviction) and It seems to me that there is early injection malware in religious code and buffer overflow tricks when you can't get the early injection code to work.

thanks for the reply :)
An English equivalent might be multifunctional then, or flexible, as other comments have suggested.
Iceland's Tech Scene – how its land and history have affected innovation [video]
He'll try to adopt moderate, pragmatic stances, but he's still going to be someone who can't help, but respond to perceived slights, no matter how old or minor. That's a bit of a fatal flaw in a politician.
You're joking but I'll give a serious reply to why your analogy is off. This is why they have war games. The telemetry from those games would be included in the analysis.
The inflammatory wording may be a deliberate choice as the Washington Post has been getting a lot more click baity these days.
You're totally right. My example is an inner join. I will admit that doing outer joins in ActiveRecord is quite painful. Here's a more realistic example, which is not nearly as pretty:

Post.select("posts.*, COUNT(comments.*) AS comments_count").joins("LEFT JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id").group(:comments)
The "it" which I'm saying "isn't all that important" is throughput. Not biking/walking, traffic throughput.

I don't understand why everyone is coming out of the woodwork here to criticize my car-centric viewpoint and tell me how great biking or walking is. I guess it's Yet Another Example of how people on the internet can't handle the concept of disagreeing with a single point.
I hear you. We're giving the British people a lot of crap for exercising their rights. I wish folks would respect this fact rather than sensationalizing the result and causing a lot of negative attention and guilt.
F# is not a first class citizen. They pay it lip service because it's a far more advanced language and makes MS look like they're on the cutting edge. Plus the team that made it is responsible for dragging the CLR into the modern era (or into the 60s) by bringing generics. And showing off important features on .NET such as quoted code, async workflows, F# interactive. But a simple look at tooling and language announcements shows that the F# team is very underfunded.
Even something easy like articulated fire trucks would be an improvement: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a2g94xSRqSo/T7RXxkqARAI/AAAAAAAAJ1...

Maybe a bit narrower/shorter though.

You still get the volume but don't have to punish the people who live in an area for the 0.001% of the time fire trucks need to be there.
Digital Dystopia: Egyptian Civil Society at Risk
I liked one report that characterized the Brexit vote as people voting for "none of the above", which I think fits with your statement that there's no way to vote against financial capitalism.
Glad to see the mainstream media picked up on it: http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Apple-CEO-Tim-Co...

From the comments:

"It's not personal. It's business."

So when does business take a stand against amoral and immoral people like Ryan and Trump? So disappointed in Tim Cook. Did German businesses support Hitler in the 1930s because "it's business"?

Slippery slope then. Slippery slope now.
So linux's popularity on the cloud has nothing to do with FLOSS, and it's just the most common free OS out there.
This will hopefully trigger a Central European response (in part caused by stemming emigration). Germany pays into the coffers of the EU in order to basically pay for access to cheap labor from the East and to keep borders open to push its products without suffering tariffs. The result is that Germany experiences a net benefit but at the cost of draining the East of labor it needs to rebuild after the Cold War and stamping out competition in those countries by flooding the market with its products, thus stifling the growth of the economic base in those countries (turning a country like Poland into a giant German service center isn't creating an economic base, it's economic colonialism). This way, Germany maintains dependence and superiority. The only solution for that region is to form the Intermarium to counteract German and Russian dominance in the region. It's an old idea that sadly didn't have the opportunity to be implemented, but perhaps its time has come.
Promised for seven years, but only betas until now.
Will this attract developer interest?
I understand what you are saying, but I suspect that fb doesn't store multiple hashes but just recomputes the hash entered a couple of times on failure.
A letter to British racists (from a german), and to British racists exclusively
And that's one of the noisier traffic dense parts of the city.
I wasn't talking about marijana or musrooms. I was talking about for example heroin, which is schedule 1.
I like the idea of someone hitting themselves on the head with a brick to put out a fire, and a brick salesman getting excited
I had always assumed those media libraries were 99% pirated and maybe 1% free or public domain. Where exactly are you getting DRM-free, fully licensed, legitimately purchased content?
Yeah, my point is that it's impossible to say a priori what the mix of stores and single family houses and apartments and barber shops and other things should be, and where they should all be located. Markets are a good way of dealing with complex problems like that. They're not perfect, but better than the alternatives.
Carfree Cities is a book (and website) that I've really enjoyed and explores the concept of how to design car free cities http://carfree.com.

It approaches the problem from several levels. From how you lay out a city to accommodate mass transit, to street layouts that make living more enjoyable.
In the article they review several story plot taxonomies. Interesting that they do not include the one according to Borges that he describes in "Four cycles": (1) city sieged and defended (2) story of return (3) search (of treasure) (4) sacrifice of a god. Probably not the most complete taxonomy, but likely most dramatic one.
> so long as it's free, and it is

There is no such thing.
Tow them on a sled?
How Incredibly Successful People Find Jobs They Love
Airbnb and house-sharing firms reduced New York housing stock by 10% – study
I followed this link expecting to see a comment about some sort of "encoding" of the human body relating to long-but-not-indefinite period of physical exercise. Instead it's about stock options.

As the article offered no background, I'm lost as to what is being discussed. In the last 20 years I've never had the same employer for 10 years, so can someone ELI5 what is being discussed? Thanks in advance!
Commissioners are not voted for by the general public directly. Each country appoints one. Why is the general public not annoyed at the undemocratic Prime Minister ? He's not voted for directly either. Same for each member of the cabinet.
Is it me, or does BCPL look like Angular 2.0/typescript? (/runs)
How one man took on Wall Street and won
Paul Romer has done a lot of interesting, adjacent work on charter cities; this Econtalk episode is a decent introduction to his work: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/04/romer_on_charte.htm....

In the U.S., we've collectively done a lot, culturally and legally, to make real estate a principal savings vehicle for many if not most people, and this has had a lot of negative consequences. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation (http://www.amazon.com/Zoning-Rules-Economics-Land-Regulation...) by is a good introduction to some of them. Chapters 7 – 9 in particular explain how the 1970s saw the growth of zoning restrictions that have driven housing costs in urban areas relentlessly up.

I'd be curious about alternate land-ownership structures or incentives that make people view housing more as a service than as a good store of value. I don't know what that might mean in practice, but the idea itself seems important to me.
We can have a national highway system AND light rail around cities. We can have growth AND equality. We can have an energy intensive economy AND environmental sustainability. Beware false dichotomy.
they cannot set the agenda for the EU. Only the European Commission can propose new laws

That's unfortunately placed. The European Commission does not set the agenda for the EU either (that's done by the European Council, which is directly elected).
I think the trick to that is to get rid of sprawl. You have a lot of people thinly spread out but still emitting light pollution. Move people in closer to city/town/village centers, out of meandering suburbs, you move the light pollution to centralized locations, and are able to leave more surrounding land for rural uses with little to no light pollution.
Best Practice to Level Up: Don't make a whole new framework that is in no way compatible with the prior framework and just label it the same expecting people to use it.
I agree... the figures were all just permutations of rise and fall. When all you have is one measure (average word happiness) I don't really see what else you can draw. I guess the main contribution is that many stories have relatively simple rise-fall curves, and don't often change their emotional state more than 3 times.
<Ugh, HN hit the reply limit, so I'll have to make a sibling comment.>

From a post from davidw further down: You should look up the zoning codes in your city, as well as a zoning map.

I'll take you up on that, as it's been ages since I last did, and I don't recall having done so to any great detail for my adopted city of Redmond. And I get the impression that you might be a little more recently informed than I, so I should get caught up in the conversation. :-)
> I think his point is that the idea that knowing you will be retaliated against, even if it's a "net loss" in some ways for those retaliating against you, is an extremely powerful force for good in our society. Do you disagree?

If you have taken anything beyond economics in the most basic sense, then you know the answer to any economic question is, "it depends."

So in this case, I do not think that the riots did anything to the city government's or local police force's sensibilities, because it doesn't cost them anything...they get to use the house's (the citizens) money. It is the same reason lawsuit settlements do not seem to have an effect on police misconduct -- they don't care, it doesn't really cost them anything. So to your direct question, regarding the Baltimore riots, no I do not think it was a net good. The people protesting got nothing, businesses and private property got trashed, and the city paid costs with taxpayer's money, and nothing changed. There was nothing good that came of that, or the threat of that.

I do take your point about armchair economists seemingly having the solution to nuanced macroeconomic problems that stymie experts, and I agree we have seen a lot of that recently with Brexit.

However, I do not think that people can't have an opinion on something because their eduction level in that specific area is not elite enough, better to explain why they might not be right, if you have a better answer.

Maybe you could make them one of today's lucky 10,000.[1]

[1]https://xkcd.com/1053/
Agree in general - but keep in mind that $DEITY is often your neighbors.

Developers generally aren't the ones pushing for restrictive zoning laws, residents are. For decades Americans have lived under the impression that businesses near homes is somehow a corrupting influence, and that putting businesses far from homes is somehow a feature and not a bug.

The current suburban landscape in America is the result of both overzealous urban planners, too eager to create a magnum opus of central planning, and the residents who eagerly bought into the concept believing that the best life is a carefully manicured, highly restrictive one.

This is also why I'm skeptical of YC's thing here - this smells lot like how these misadventures in central planning have begun in the past. Sam's thought elsewhere about relocating startups to help bootstrap the new city's economy is also a bit disconcerting - these exist, they're called company towns, and they tend to be economically fragile (all non-diverse economies are) and good examples of central planning run amok.

I sincerely hope anyone applying to this is very well versed in urban planning and its history world-wide, because there have been many misadventures in planning, and those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Old cities were built in much more unregulated ways, without planning commissions, neighborhood meetings, zoning and other bureaucracy. Just people filling their own needs on their own property.
There's a pretty sizable difference between chrome updates and updating from 7 to 10. The fundamentals of chrome remain the same, and for 99% of users they don't notice a difference.

Granted, they've never really done a "chrome 2" style of upgrade, and I'm curious how they'll handle it.
Yes, their new site is terrible, I much preferred the simple site they had before that loaded quickly. The new animations, modals and UI buttons are a big downgrade and I'm surprised they went with it considering some of their prior podcasts.
Plenty of non-rich people with children in Brooklyn too (Sunset Park at least).
I doubt this.

Brexit has really no direct consequence on startups.

With housing prices down and no worries about EU legislation, London would be a great place.

The only outstanding issue would be how the new EU worker visa program would work.

Neither London nor Berlin were huge on startups, this won't materially change anything.
1000fps, what the hell? HDMI only supports up to 60fps (which makes sense considering the intended use is sending video to a display device like monitor/tv/projector).
Trying to find the original study. It was paid for by housing advocacy groups who generally oppose Airbnb, so I want to understand their methodology since they certainly have a bias.

Edit:

This looks like it: http://www.hcc-nyc.org/documents/ShortchangingNYC2016FINALpr...

Here's their underlying logic:

"If the 8,058 units defined as Impact Listings were made available on the rental market, the number of vacant rental units citywide would increase by 10 percent and the vacancy rate would rise to 4.0 percent"

So, in other words, if all of the full-time "entire apartment" listings were to hit the market as vacant units immediately, the vacancy rate would increase by 10%. This is not the same thing as Airbnb reducing housing stock by 10%.

This is actually probably more interesting:

"53 percent of all Airbnb listings are located in one of the following five “macro-neighborhoods” - East Village/Lower East Side (LES), Chelsea/Hell’s Kitchen, West Village/Greenwich Village/SoHo, Williamsburg/Greenpoint/Bushwick, and Bedford Stuyvesant/Crown Heights."

Something I think a lot of people don't appreciate about Airbnb's potential impact on the housing market is that a lot of the listings are concentrated in a few areas, so while Airbnb might not impact the housing market that much overall for a particular city, it can have a pretty significant impact on individual neighborhoods.
Several times in the video he mentions loosing a piece of inspiration because it's flowing too fast for writing it down.

I wonder how many ideas and insights have been lost throughout history to this phenomenon.

Sometimes you crack a problem from an unexpected angle and an entire forest of insights fall down onto you. You take a minute to type the first one but already some of the others are lost forever. Plus you broke out from the free flowing zone.

Will we ever come up with a tool to fix this tragedy?
Showing the password can be nice in situations but I doubt I would catch most typos but re-reading my password. My eyes often see what my brain expects to see.
I remember feeling physically sad rewatching BeBox (with SMP). The low latency UI while processing 3D and video, all this dynamically... even now it's still not a given on any system. Except maybe macs ?
It's complex because there are many, many edge cases in laws. And not all of them are codified, but many are discovered after the fact, and so court rulings become part of the law.
What's your opinion on how an employee should deal with a founder who clearly believes more in the A16Z stance on stock options more than the Adam's? Apart from obvious knee-jerk reactions like "stop working there."

Obviously it's in the founder's financial best interest (at least on the very surface level) for employees to not have the option to leave the company with shares at all. It is just lost money, from their perspective, and probably annoying to have an employee leave (creating a headache in your life) and take a bunch of equity with them. (And it severely limits an employees negotiating power over time, which can be of benefit to the founder...)

What are some strategies an employee can use to make the point that Adam's perspective is a much more employee-friendly one and, thus, better for the company?

Looking for some perspective.
Combine this current sentiment with the results from the job losses to come from self-driving vehicles and automation...volatility ahead.
Alaska and DC have similar population sizes even though Alasca has 10,000 times the land area. Hell more people live in DC than Wyoming. However, Alaska's area is irrelevant when talking about DC.

Nobody wants to build street lights or a subway station in the middle of an Iowa corn field, but reasonable infrastructure where people actually live is important.

PS: America seems to have forgotten that infrastructure drives economic development. From dirt roads to high speed internet society's live and die based on past investments not what happens to rich or powerful people.
You'd still be using the firearm, though. You wouldn't have shot it, but you used the threat of shooting it.
I'd be curious to see examples of what "hair on fire" problems looked like when they were buggy, incomplete solutions to poorly-defined problems.

For example, I know that Google was a hair-on-fire problem: everybody searched for things on the Internet and nobody found what they were looking for. But was Facebook? I started using Facebook in 2004, before they'd taken VC, and I honestly didn't see the point (and still kinda don't). Perhaps I just wasn't the target market (and still am not), but then, how do you recognize a hair-on-fire problem when you're not necessarily in the target market for it?

(Interestingly, LiveJournal solved a hair-on-fire problem for me about 2 years before Facebook came out: how to keep in touch with friends that I'd met over the Internet but lived thousands of miles away. And yet Facebook is apparently a whole lot more successful than LiveJournal.)
Consider the free trade zone that is the US. Would anyone think it is a good idea to put a tariff wall around California?
>So, you want to ride in the wagon and have other domestic Americans pull the wagon?

I think your life situation and mine are very different. I've been pulling that wagon my entire life. I've been a lead horse. I don't owe other Americans anything. It's quite the reverse, actually.

>Do you think the whole consular system is just on ice until you need it? Boy wouldn't it be nice if none of us had to pay taxes--while still having the entire expensive governmental infrastructure on ice--ready for us?

The consular system would be there regardless of whether or not expats needed it. That's not its primary purpose. And as I pointed out, the US government does about what a relative would do.

>Unfortunately, in the real world, if you want to benefit from something you need to shoulder its true cost. $50 a year won't cover that.

I generally expect to pay for the services I use. $50 is an overestimate.
> Markets are a great way of finding 'the best' solution to problems like this

...assuming perfect knowledge and the absence of externalities, either of cost or benefit, since (assuming perfect knowledge of costs and benefits) markets optimize the net utility of the direct participants in each exchange, but not net social utility (because externalities are ignored.)
Relevant reading:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_destruction

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_traffic
A few years ago, I wouldn't have thought I would write this, but it looks like Microsoft is definitely changing, for the best!

Two questions:

- Does .NET Core offers something similar to Go goroutines or Erlang "lightweight" processes?

- And something similar to gofmt?