skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web Animations have barely any browser support, a pretty crummy API (IMO), and the Promise `finished` property which would differentiate itself from this library has still not been implemented anywhere yet :-/
A grocery cart is the classical solution, e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/Whitmor-6318-2678-Deluxe-Rolling-Util...

They do make bigger ones, but much bigger and you're better off with a second person.

> Being able to do it all at once is an enormous upgrade to quality of life.

Another perspective, a ten minute walk a few times a week is much better for quality of health (therefore life) than taking a car everywhere.
I see your point but that implies that on rare occasions hotels are sold out at a specific time and place. I don't think that is the problem AirBnB solves
> People need time to stop thinking of themselves as British or German first but rather European.

Things like this is what's pushing people to brexit. 20 year old sheltered college liberals who never saw life outside their rich parent private houses telling people what to think and what is best for them. People are tired of being called -ists and -phobes, and this vote result expresses the sentiment.

Just because some people think globalism is cool, doesn't mean everyone wants it. Globalism isn't some universal goal everyone should be moving to. There are tons and tons of people that don't want globalization, and they were silent for a long time, but their patience is running out. UK is not some kind of exception, same thing on the rise is in US and many other countries too.
This is a vast oversimplification.

See this paper [1] from the ASI which sets out the benefits of EEA membership over being a full member of the EU.

[1] http://www.adamsmith.org/evolution-not-revolution
Just wanted to second this: using BeOS for email, Usenet, etc. where each message was in a single file had an experience which was faster and more capable than email client shipped before Gmail several years in. For things like smart folders, Apple Mail or Outlook on a modern SSD-equipped system has more noticeable UI lag than BFS delivered on a mid-range Pentium.

The really cool part is that it was also portable – there were multiple email which seamlessly interoperated because they were both just querying BFS, which made it faster for developers to experiment with alternative UIs since you didn't have to reinvent or tune a lot of core functionality.
Okay, I was going off an old comment from Animats where he said "The Bravo file representation was plain text, followed by a control-Z as an EOF, followed by the formatting information. The compiler just stopped at the control-Z."
Classifying the US military forces like that just cheapens the word "terrorist". I'm not arguing that everything the US did in Iraq was morally right or justifiable, but it's generally implied that terrorists are almost always non-state actors. If you use that definition almost every nation in the world is full of terrorists. China, North Korea, and large swaths of the Middle East enforce their power using fear, so they're all terrorists. You can chuck in Japan, Italy and Germany for their involvement in WWII and inhumane treatment of PoWs.

In fact, I think Switzerland may be the only country in the world not considered to be terroristic, purely because of their lack of involvement in any major modern wars.
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Thanks for this, your methodology makes a lot more statistical sense to me.
"subtle science and exact art"
- s. snape
Spoken like someone who has never lived in a city. If the store is a 10min walk away, you go a few times a week. And/or you use one of those old lady carts.
Yeah, I haven't either, that's why I said "I'd love to see you try". You'd think the system would be smart enough to realize that it's literally never been awake at 3:30am.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987032
The problem is that actually its not the parents spoiling there kids, its that a whole industry is using them as lever to sell goods and undermines parental authority systematically.
You can not win against george lucas, without looking like you are on the dark side.

They are so much more enthusiastic consumers, it would be a real shame if those know-it-all parents could hold them back.
Of course you can. You can also, I think, reverse trackpad scrolling on Windows.

However, I dislike the fact that on MacOs they call the setting "natural scrolling" and that they enable it by default for any trackpad you hook up.

Moreover, since the "Magic Mouse" is basically a mouse with a trackpad for a scrolling wheeel, they also enable reverse scrolling by default for any mouse.
Even more details on .NET and Kestrel in a more recent episode just a few days ago: http://dotnetrocks.com/?show=1312
Apparently the book is available on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/SurrealNumbers

By the way: does any one know whether all downloads on archive.org can be considered legal? It is amazing how many old books which, however, aren't old enough to be out of copyright can be found on that site.
Assuming the universe is computable using a UTM, I agree. Why do you think the universe is computable? It would be nice if it were, but I have seen no proof.
One question: Can it play standard media files stored on encrypted USB drives? (ie ext4 or any similar format)

I'd kill for a media player that could. I think such drives are the one place I'm not fully encrypted.
I've mixed feelings about this release, because it seems a bit early to me. Some fundamentals will change soon (project.json replacement) and I am still not able to get debugging to work in VS Code on OSX. The whole situation in the .NET Core space was very confusing for the last months and this trend seems to continue. This is sad, because I'd love to code in C# on any platform and that things would just work as advertised on the website.

Edit: Debugging works now for me, after the .NET Core Debugger was automatically installed in the background!
Or ruminants, 90% of tech articles are barely digested press releases...
I earn the equivalent of a few beers a month from affiliate links, but hey, if you feel that it's better to give that money to Jeff Bezos, that's your prerogative. I'm always happy to buy a beer or two (the entire proceeds of my ill-gotten gains!) at 10 Barrel or Crux or someplace for anyone who happens to visit Bend.

Mostly though, since your account is new, we're ok with capitalism and making a bit of money here on HN, as long as someone isn't an obvious spammer. I think you can verify that I'm not via my comment history.

As to why the book has 2.5 stars:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R32HZILGX1BRRX/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...

It's a pretty succinct and high level account of what's wrong with cities in the US.
I've heard of his books being required reading in some architecture courses, and I've heard many architects don't care as you said.

Whether or not his ideas were revolutionary, just going on the way new developments in my city are built, they could really stand to take a page out of his book. Everything is just a big rectangular box plopped down on a rectangular grid with ugly materials. I assume it's all optimized for cost. So right now I don't have much respect for the architecture community.
That's called a cart, see above.
I don't think so, I think it raises an interesting point about the flexibility of the definition of the word "terrorist"
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It's tough to plan for the tactical needs of a firefighting operation. I don't see any good way of getting around the need for a big mobile toolbox that has a lot of flexibility in where it positions itself (i.e. not on rails).
There are huge areas of farmland that could be cities.

Which aren't ringed by (and hence, downwind from) mega-ranches? Or correctional facilities? Which have access to adequate water resources (already heavily constrained in many of these areas) to support massive human settlements? And close enough to lakes, parks, and other attractions so that people would actually... want to live there?

Not so many.

And the genuinely fallow areas which do exist should probably be protected as such, and/or restored further to their pre-cultivation state.
No, it means he is french. I am french and understood immediately.

It's a valid but rarely used word in english. It means flexible, or 'with many functions/uses', or 'good at many things'.
Read this quickly, but my immediate thought when I saw the PCA result vectors was that they resembled the Fourier basis. Given a relatively slow-moving set of signals (which I think these are, given the 10,000 word sliding window), wouldn't you expect the PCA to give you exactly this? In other words, what is the null hypothesis here and is it rejected?
I know this is just meant in jest, but because the weapon deployment buttons are something you never want to be pressed on accident, ideally you really do want to obscure them behind layers and layers of user interaction.

If anything we had the problem of them not being obscured enough for a while (if the story of the launch codes being 00000000 across the board is true).
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I have long had a vision for building a new city-state in a relatively unpopulated part of the world and just allowing millions of immigrants to move there (the tough part would obviously be getting the government that owns that territory to go along with it).

Hopefully in 15-20 years, when energy (from solar?) is abundant and cheap, making stuff like water desalination and vertical farming cheap, a place like Western Australia would be inhabitable. That way, you could open the floodgates for ten or hundreds of millions of immigrants to escape oppressive and corrupt regimes and start anew within a liberal democracy. All that cheap labor would make it easy to build out extensive subway lines and high rises.
That's me! Our closest supermarket is 10-15 minutes away. I have:

- Carried the bags
- Used a backpack
- Used a push-cart (can carry groceries for 5 people for a week)
- Biked (with panniers)
- Biked (with a trailer -- can carry groceries for 10 people for a week)
- Jogged, when I just needed something small on short notice for a cooking project!

It's totally fine, because our neighborhood is very walkable.
Elasticsearch is one of the easiest clustered databases to administrate, and it's a lot cheaper to just run your own EC2 instances with ES than it is to use the managed ES service.

A roll-your own deployment is basically "install Elasticsearch, install cloud-aws, configure cloud-aws with a security group ID to identify other machines in the cluster, add that security group to all machines you want to cluster together, start the service". Totally braindead-easy.
Oh boy. A blank, black webpage. Tab closed.
How about this one: should we have cars at all? Is the tech-topia of self driving cars going to actually cut down the parking lot landscape of US cities or increase it?
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The site of the project (including demos of built apps for inventory management, accounting, sales management, etc.) will be up and running by the end of the week.

I'll make sure to post it in the ShowHN section. :)
The regularity and amount of rainfall in Ireland is greatly exaggerated. The west of the country certainly is a good deal wetter than the east, facing the Atlantic. This list ranks Ireland 80th in terms of rainfall, below Switzerland the UK, Japan, and New Zealand.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Ave...
What is a 3:16 experimenter?
I think solving familiar problems is a curse of the startup community. Founders go after problems that are familiar, but trivial. Product finder apps for vanishingly narrow segments. Task management. Or my favorite category, startups that are supposed to help startup founders/investors evaluate startup ideas!

My recommendation is that if you're a "technical founder" - a programmer who wants to be CTO - don't look for problems to solve. Look for business partners who already have domain expertise and a problem that they can explain succinctly (so you see the value proposition), and work with them. There's a whole world of people who can see a massive problem that could make money with a good technical solution, but they don't know how to code and don't really know anyone who can code and is willing to help them.
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like my current strategy would have protected my PIN and likely detected the fake.
It does a compatibility check, then upgrades anyway. I rely on a VNC client that Microsoft decided won't work in W10. Microsoft helpfully uninstalled the VNC client.

After W10 started, it did tell me what it had done. I was able to just reinstall the exact same client it removed and it works fine.
Tamara Exmplains The 7 Keys to Avoid SameCity, the Place Inventions Go to Die
The benefit of faster speeds isn't driver convenience, it's that you get cars off the road quicker for a given travel distance. Each city has a carrying capacity for the number of cars that may be on its roads at once, which is determined by the length of the road network and number of lanes. They also have a certain number of trips generated, which is determined by population. The number of cars on the road = trips generated * average travel time per trip. When that exceeds the carrying capacity of the city, average travel time increases, which causes a cascading effect that eventually results in gridlock.

The same effect plays out locally, on each individual stretch of road. When integral(# of incoming cars - # of outgoing cars, time) > carrying capacity of road, the road backs up, which increases the time required to traverse it, which further exacerbates the backup. This is why multi-lane arterials can reduce congestion; they can move a lot of cars off a given stretch in a short period of time, and provide a linear buffer where momentary oversupplies can collect without backing up the previous intersection.

You can also see this effect by looking at traffic maps of say, SF (grid layout) vs. Sunnyvale (arterial/collector):

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7811106,-122.4106957,16z/dat...

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3724565,-122.0375532,15z/dat...

Both of them have shitty traffic, but in SF the traffic spills away from Market street onto many of the side streets, such that no matter where you go it'll be gridlock. In Sunnyvale, much of the traffic is confined to major arterials like El Camino or Matilda, which are slow but still move, and side-streets that parallel them are often relatively clear.
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Oh, and subsidize coffee houses in the Austrian style. Don't expect private businesses to create the kind of places that create a sense of community in cities and facilitate chance interactions between different groups of people.
I get this impression that everywhere we look, things out a lot more interesting than we had expected.

And I am certain that Juno will discover lots of unexpected weirdly interesting things, just as Galileo did before.

But Uranus and Neptune - and their moons and ring systems - are still fairly blank spots compared to Jupiter and Saturn. I am sure there's lots of interesting stuff waiting to be discovered.
You've missed the point.
As a Spaniard myself, I am baffled since it is a word kind of common in the sciences. I don't think it's a translator problem, it might be a false friend problem; in Spanish it's "polivalente" instead of "polyvalent"

I would say that, from knowing the Spanish meaning AND use, there is no "decent" translation since it can be precise or simple, but not both. But this is the one I like most even though it has slightly different meaning:

- Anime.js is a flexible yet lightweight Javascript animation library.
To clarify, I didn't mean that the discrimination/abuse of the Roma happened a long time ago. I meant that most discrimination/abuse of the Roma has happened in Europe, not in the US. Anti-Roma racism in Europe is obvious, ugly, and contemporary. In Europe, Roma people are a coherent social group of millions of people; in the US, without mass immigration, they are a scattered minority so small that the only thing most Americans "know" about them comes from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". With nothing to refer to, the word has been bleached of reference to Roma people in American use.
If there isn't a backup, it should at least notify the user of the error. But the OS would know about backups, since it has a built-in backup system.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple adds a cloud-based backup for macOS once APFS is the default filesystem, since change sets would be extremely efficient.
I have never understood how open sourcing a core component of your business makes sense.
CCP is Icelandic and while it's "nordic" it's kinda far out there, it's also not a particularly big company.
Unity Technologies started in Denmark but they moved to SanFran quite early and effectively Unity grew up in SV AFAIK Unity Tech doesn't have an office or any presence in Denmark and that has been true since the very early days.

There are quite a bit of other game related successful ventures up in the north, DICE, Remedy, Nordic Games, Funcom and quite a few others come to mind.
Dublin has a housing crisis, with a huge shortfall in properties for rent. Construction has largely stalled since 2008.
Now that we have the Internet it will be much harder to stamp out and erase from history this nascent resurgence of labor politics.
Printing misleading charts and presenting as fact is often worse than printing nothing at all.
[ANN] Halva 0.1.3 – Scala Idioms in Java
"Idiomatic Scala... in Java!"

https://github.com/Randgalt/halva/blob/master/README.md

I released Halva last week and the response has been really gratifying. I got great feedback and have released a new version with suggested changes.

Changelog here: https://github.com/Randgalt/halva/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Sorry about the delay, I'm rate limited here on HN.

As another commenter suggested, emergency vehicles especially could still use pedestrian walkways, which would still be needed to get from station to endpoint, and should be sufficiently wide to allow a lot of free movement. The so-called last mile. As a perk, pedestrians and bicycles are easier to move to part ways for emergency vehicles.

I think that a lot of freight could be handled the same way. A limited number of licensed carriers could operate light mule vehicles to bring freight from the nearest station (assuming rail stations had decent cargo-unloading stops as well) and operate along pedestrian walks during low traffic hours. (Your mail and your deliveries should not be delivered during regular starts or ends of the work day, or mealtimes. I'd go so far as to say construction traffic should be in the dead of night.) Since they'd need to coexist with pedestrians, but only travel a very short distance, from the nearest station, I'd propose these would be slow as heck, and since they wouldn't be traversing rough terrain, they could have extremely low ground clearance as well.

The key importance is that these pedestrian walkways be first and foremost, for pedestrians, and that personnel transportation vehicles be non-existent along them. The occasional off-peak freight cart isn't going to be a huge burden on transportation efficiency or pedestrian safety.
I think that kind of engagement is present on their github repos.
Come and try Barcelona. I have a number of supermarkets within 5 minutes walk of my house. Driving is a bit of a pain in the arse here (mainly because I don't want to pay for parking for my crappy car, so I park it 15 minutes cycle away).
It's all relative. I live in Eastern Europe part of EU and I can tell that either it's London, or Stockholm or Vilnius, they all look and feel very alike. Biggest difference is amount of non-white people in western cities.
Particle Love - a series of GPU burning WebGL demos
I know of three paths right now:

- Get a Master's or PHD

- Work at Google and wait for your turn to do their internal ML bootcamp

- Udacity Nanodegree Plus (I would love to hear from anyone who has gotten a job through this)
Our company had a horrible experience with Elastic Cloud:

1. We were provisioned hardware that was less performant than promised (HDD rather than SSD-backed.)

2. The dashboard suggests significantly lower memory utilization than reality. We spent days going down the wrong rabbit holes, when we were getting timeouts simply related to out of memory errors.

3. When there's a shard failure, your only option is to reach out to support. You can't upgrade the database or anything.

We switched to Bonsai and it's been much more stable.
The supposed "millennials are moving to cities" trend isn't the universal trend it's often made out to be. The actual trend seems to be more along the lines of college-educated 25-34 year-olds are moving to a small number of mostly coastal urban locations.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-millennials-are-less...
I think you have this internal representation of what "going to the store" means which is based on the North American suburban lifestyle of doing everything by car. This is not the model most of the world uses, especially not in old European cities.
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> Over the past few years it’s become clear that many users have been watching pirated content using unofficial and unsupported add-ons that frequently break, and they are installing add-on repositories whose trustworthiness is questionable, leaving themselves open to numerous security exploits

Sounds like Kodi lacks proper plugin sandboxing.

> So while we don’t love this use of Kodi

What use is kodi if not watching pirated media?
O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it look better for you now?
I love streetcars, but since there are too many cars on the road, trying to get around downtown is a joke. That said I take the King which is known for being one of the worst I think. It's faster for me to walk a lot of the time.
The US does not use terror as a weapon in the same way terrorists do. The US Military does not purposely target the innocent.
I feel like a broken record at this point, but... The European Parliament has less power than every other parliament that I know of in one crucial way... They cannot propose new laws. Without the power to propose new laws, they cannot set the agenda for the EU. Only the European Commission can propose new laws, and Commissioners are not voted for by the general public. That's the key reason that the EU is not as democratic as the UK's political system, elected representatives do not have the full power to represent your interests, they can only shape what other people propose.
O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it seem better now?
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Do you have ideas/tips for attracting top Product Designers(UI/UX) to your team?
Hello, I recently joined the startup community in Denver, CO. We are looking for a talented Product Designer (UI/UX) to join a growing bootstrapped startup. Any advice/tips/ideas on attracting top talent is greatly appreciated.
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Benchmarking with YCSB for MongoDB vs. Couchbase Server
To be fair, buying an antenna entitles you to any broadcasts you can pick up with it. And to a lot of people, that's "TV."
"Predictable price" is itself a value for consumers, so any system that puts that in jeopardy has to provide extra incentives for adoption.