skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, no-one has a right to a particular city. But cities do get to set zoning laws, and do get to say things like "no, you can't turn houses into quasi-hotels". If you don't believe there should be zoning laws or restrictions on use, make the case for that. Otherwise, this is a pragmatic question of how we best shape cities to balance individual liberties against people's reasonable expectations of quality of life.
> If a product brags about its Bluetooth support, I immediately start losing trust in it

Unfortunately, there aren't viable wireless connectivity alternatives for commercial products other than Wi-Fi for long range and Bluetooth for short range. And both suffer from high (and rising) interference levels in the ISM bands.
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As pointed out in [1]: There is a window for PBHs to be DM if the BH mass is in the range 20M_sun <~ M <~ 100M_sun. Lower masses are excluded by microlensing surveys. Higher masses would disrupt wide binaries.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00464
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A couple of comments. Firstly, I strongly advise you to look at the repeated rise and decline of Silvio Berlusconi. I think Trump's awfully similar to Mr. Berlusconi in many ways, including some of the circumstances that caused Italians to elect him. Italian machismo has a different face than American machismo, but it's kind of the same. Mr. Berlusconi was not politically correct. The net result was a pretty poor PM... beyond scandals and giggle-worthy headlines, there really wasn't much policy advancement, unless it empowered Berlusconi's personal fortunes. He also was a leader that was not respected by the EU in any way, not a terribly good deal in this global world. The economy ended up stalled (Berlusconi fixed none of Italy's business structural problems)

Mr. Berlusconi was also anti-immigrant, similar to Trump (actually not quite as coarse, but no matter). It didn't matter much one way or another, frankly. I get the impression today's Italians don't look quite that fondly on that era.

I get that some of the above (the EU / global part) is part of the reason for things like Berlusconi, Trump, Brexit, etc. I also think, ironically, that any economic impact (which in some cases is big) might disproportionately affect many who vote for such things. Talent / company "brain drains" happened under Berlusconi, and it looks like the same will happen under Brexit. Those that can are more likely to move wherever the jobs and opportunities are. Those that can't end up in a not quite so enriched country. This really isn't a solution for the globalization / technology inequality problem. It might exaggerate it for all I know.

The second: Since 9/11, only two general classifications of terrorists have actually committed mass murder in America. The first is Islamic terrorists. The second is right-wing terrorists (right-wing as in: white supremacists, anti-semitism , militia types, anti-abortion advocates). Don't get me wrong -- the far left-wing certainly is capable of violence, the clashes at the Trump rallies are deplorable, and there have been murderous radical left terrorists in the past. But these days, I consider right-wing white supremacists in particular the most "likely to commit terrorism" category next to radical Islamists. I don't know of a left wing incident recently where a church was mass-shot; white supremacists have mass-shot two churches this decade.

It, of course, is not fair to use these right-wing white supremacists as a generalization of conservatives (as it would be the other way, as you say). But Donald Trump's unashamed nativism, macho authoritarianism, and identity politics does make me worry a bit whether this will encourage more white supremacists terrorism in the future. We'll see, I guess.
Well really the opinions of economists on this DID have real, quantifiable backing. It's not just ideological conjecture when economists assert that backing out of a trade union will have negative consequences.
Google has lots of information security engineers and lots of lawyers. Do not taught happy fun argv.
Will not happen. Many EU parlamentarians speak English more often than their own language on the floor. English is essential for the EU to function; German or French could not fill that role.

It could be easily solved by having one of the "spare" countries that only have languages that are also an official language in another country choose English. Candidates would be Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, and several others.
You can quantify it. Look at the numbers in the OP article, and thinking about how small Android must be: (1) all of Android code fits on a single smartphone (2) Android apps all have a corresponding server side.
I see it mentioned quite often that the people who tended to vote leave were older and wouldn't have to "live with the consequences for very long" but it's never mentioned that they were the ones who voted to join the EU (what was then called the European Communities) in the first place.

They voted to join 67% to 33% in 1975. They are all 60+ years old now, and polls showed 60+ voters voting to leave by over 60%.

Why were they in favor of EU membership then but against it now? If they voted to leave because of stupidity and xenophobia, as I keep hearing here on HN and on Facebook, why did they ever vote to join in the first place?

It's interesting how the people with the most historical context, the most experience with the system, and indeed the people who brought it about are seen as somehow not worthy of having an opinion on it and that their vote should count less or not at all.
If that's the question, the answer is pretty clear: we should believe they can do it because they already have and continue to do it every day.

And in spite of what the author claims, there are even solving some political problems. For instance, observe how Uber has improved governance in most major cities. AirBnB seems to be taking a crack at it too: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-27/airbnb-is-...
This is kind of disgusting.
> You're the minority.

I understand that my opinion is in the minority. Maybe I should rephrase it that the actual instances of data on the phone aren't as important. Cloud backup is ubiquitous, easy to use, and gratis from multiple vendors. Pictures, Videos, texts, contacts, etc all either get backed up, or weren't stored on the phone in the first place. With Apple phones especially, it's simple for average users to take a backup image of the phone.

>This is a joke right?

No, it's reflective of my personal experience. I haven't had an infection on an XP machine since about 2005. I have no idea what the heck other people are doing to get into so much trouble. Either I'm doing something magically right, or I've had insane levels of luck. My netbook's on at home, booted into XP right now because I forgot to put it to sleep before I left.
On average, you will expand files, not compress them.

Also, the odds of getting finding even a single encrypted file of that length which can be compressed are lower than the odds of winning the lottery three times in a row. Trust me, you didn't just happen to stumble across a working example. You screwed up the test.
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There may be a threshold response, but from what I remember, the threshold might be low. I wonder if much of the fiber in tomato is destroyed when reducing it to a sauce?
I'm sure the condo board is fine: short term renters are probably less demanding in terms of services provided by the condo board. I suspect the buildings fellow residents might differ: they're the ones that suffer quality of life issues from (eg) party rentals.

For reference, co-op boards tend to outright ban short term rentals.
The solutions are the usual bullshit. Deregulation, etc. "There should be a significant loosening of the regulations and taxation around business creation." This is YC. Anybody in the US having problems filling out their incorporation forms? Getting a business license? Getting an employer identification number? Getting permission to connect to the Internet? Didn't think so.

"The bookkeeping requirements are far too onerous" usually means "we can't go public with the creative accounting we used while private." The Sarbanes-Oxley bookkeeping requirements don't kick in until you go public, and by then you should be big enough to have a real accounting department.
Well it was a little more complicated than that. And also that whole book was amazing.
Nifty looking, but seems like accessibility is a problem
I don't think it is tech exactly that is the great hope, but the culture that it can engender. We all hate laws and regulation but constantly depend on strict standards to make things work. Just rendering a web page requires an insane amount of agreement and cooperation, all goverened by mutual interest rather than compulsion.

The hope is to align buisness in such a way that comapanies work together to promote quality and interoperability. Needing government to set standards and regulation is just too slow.
> UBI funded with high taxation, supported by low regulatory burden and a gig economy.

Why would any member member of the working class want to be relegated to the gig economy, outside of being forced there by economic conditions?
It's amazing what they did with Top Gun, making this stuff not look boring.

When airplanes get within gun range ("knife-fighting range") things are very interesting. Beyond visual range is just weapons management, but close-in it's energy management to optimize maneuvering to get to a killing position.

Also, it's much more interesting when you have something at stake besides losing a video game and having to restart.

I'm quite curious how this system would perform in WWII era dogfights where you had to worry about the stress on your plane, had to deal with engines that failed and stalled all the time and maneuvers that were much slower and closer to the enemy (plus no missiles).

By the end of WWII, properly maintained engines flown within parameters were pretty reliable. (So no pulling negative g's in a plane with a carburetor.) The concerns of fighter pilots at very close range or trying to evade when targeted by missiles can still be similar in certain regards to pilots trying to stay alive in WWII.

AI's would probably be very good at energy management and taking shots of opportunity.
In the United States you will not be penalized for having no revenue.
Apart from the political conversation I've always tried to encourage a technical conversation about how our mobile phone infrastructure is really terrible for privacy on many levels.

CCC events have had many presentations about this in the last few years, about IMSI catchers and mobile crypto attacks and abusing roaming mechanisms and databases. And it seems there's more where that came from; the system is wide open in many respects to exploitation by a sophisticated attacker, governmental or not. (I read somewhere that people in China are buying and deploying IMSI catchers in order to send SMS spam to passersby.)

Some of the privacy problems are a result of economic factors including backwards compatibility and international compatibility goals. Some of the bad decisions for privacy were made by or at the behest of intelligence agencies, and some of those decisions are continuing to be made in standards bodies that deal with mobile communications security. Ross Anderson described some spy agency influence in early GSM crypto conversations (which is one reason A5/1 is so weak), and it's still happening at ETSI now.

I support political criticism of surveillance activities, but at moments when people feel overwhelmed and powerless, there is another front, which is trying to clean up the security posture of mobile communications infrastructure, or provide better alternatives to it.

We can find lots of reasons why this is hard ("Bellhead" communities are much less ideologically committed to privacy and opposed to surveillance; communications infrastructure is highly regulated in many places, and it's hard to get access to radiofrequency spectrum; people want worldwide compatibility; there's a huge installed base on both the client and server sides; many of the infrastructure providers around the world are directly beneficially owned by governments; spy agencies do actively try to influence standards-setting in this area, plus sabotaging implementations and stealing private key material) and it's probably going to stay hard. But maybe some of the people reading this are going to some day be tech billionaires or working in or running companies that have significant influence in the telecommunications space, and be in a position to personally make future generations of communication technology take privacy and security seriously.
They ascend through the dark sky, breaking through the balloon layer that blocked out the sun. "I wonder what these glyphs mean," mutters the navigator, as he steers his ship around the formation of mylar Happy Birthday balloons.
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Well, my 5 minute number is how long it takes me to climb a steepish local hill, when I'm doing a few reps. So it's imprecise, and there's like one significant figure. 250-300 watts is my guess. And half as fast as cat3? Yeah, I could see that.

My point still is, it's possible to calculate the upper limit on losses from wheel flex under power load, and I'd assert that they are small enough to not matter. And what's more, the effect of torsional spring type flex goes down (at a constant power output) as speed goes up.
The Chromium codesearch instance is public: https://cs.chromium.org/
I wonder if it's a situation in which parents struggling to get kids to just eat your damn food have created market forces that have gradually pushed mainstream bread to suit the preferences of children. We parents (at least in the US) often compromise on food for the sake of our kids, and it seems plausible that collectively we've unconsciously adapted our preferences to match our children, and so lost our taste for truly wholesome bread.
Perforce is a perfectly reasonable choice given certain technical and organizational constraints. It is a bad choice for others. Git is a good choice for many projects. It is a terrible choice for others, and was a much worse choice in the past.
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A raw audio stream is a constant bit rate stream. If you compress it, it becomes (in general) a variable bit rate stream. The bit rate contains information about the raw audio which survives encryption.

If you compress a document that simply obscures the size of the original document.
I paid a speeding fine in Seattle and paid very dearly with an insurance raise. So much that I had to sell my European car and get a Toyota.

Then I learned to always get a lawyer and contest it. Those lawyers have found a good hole to exploit.
I always read both side of the story the thing that is as the top (database design, overall architecture) basically the abstract principle. And the bottom part the actually precise drawing that executes as a program. Actually reviewing only unknown code from in an unknown file in an unknown function is very rare. You always come from the design/architecture point of view diving into more details. The translation of the big picture into code has also its pratice just like high level language of your code.
Secure clouds for secure agencies
I wrote this post the other day comparing four of the top Swift web frameworks on GitHub, maybe this will help?

https://stormpath.com/blog/swift-on-the-server-today

Be aware that all of the frameworks are targeting Swift 3 right now, so it's a bit unstable until Swift 3 is officially released. But the ecosystem is going really strong =]
It might always be a lot easier to find one and two it, than it will be to manufacture one in terms of total energy output. Imagine a far future with mature gravitational and neutrino astronomy, and good AI. You could send a fleet of drones to search for black holes that met your criteria, establish orbit, then send for help from a "tug".

The biggest use for a black hole would be dropping garbage into it and harvesting some of the energy.
It was company-wide. Every month or two, there would be a "documentation fix-it day" or something similar. The theme would vary: sometimes it was docs, sometimes unit tests, sometimes localization, etc. If memory serves correctly, the idea was that unless you had a high priority/production bug, you'd spend your day working on the theme of the fix-it.
Or Deus Ex: Human Revolution's Shanghai
I was invited to try it but haven't pulled the trigger yet (I'm currently working on simex.io, an A.I. related project, on the side and am trying to get closer to launch and monetization testing before incorporating). I am very, very interested in people's thoughts regarding it!
The idea that government should govern based on what the majority want is a fallacy.

That's why I said "this is a case". Maybe it's a problem for a certain set of people and maybe it isn't. You have to listen to them.
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Actually it's more that the loser has to genuinely believe the result of the outcome. And amongst a population, the demographic of rebellious young adults tends not to accept outcomes like that...but of course that also becomes part of the calculus: can you accept expected losses of occupation forces?
Sure, but even "only 80% of Google" in a monorepo is still bigger than the combined size of most everyone else's constellation of small repos. And the the separation of repos is based on deployment environment: Server, desktop, and smartphone, where code has almost no cross dependencies because the environments of software never communicate via internal channels.
What's the point of compressing if you're just going to pad it anyway? If you're worried about security just encrypt and don't compress.
How about shutting down a company? Anyone have any tips on that?
Fixed. That was a typo/thinko.
They don't need to. The city already made laws limiting short term rentals. We voted on them in a citywide referendum. They were passed. This change is merely enforcement of rules that already exist.
what a shame noone is actually responding to the substantive points here. This is without a doubt one of the better "programmer describes politics from a programmers point of view" to turn up here.
Where did you get such detailed demographics for this secret ballot?

Because all I have found is inferences and supposition.

E.g. The New statesman meta analysis

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/06/how-di...
we were turned down because we aren't located in a disadvantaged country... (in usa). kind of lame tbh.
Telling a story... good use of color, etc... These are not really lessons FROM K-Pop. I guess K-Pop as much as any highly popular and commercialized product is going to have to fit the bill though, but why study the shadow on the cave wall instead of the perfect form?
I sometimes use it as a polite stand-in for far less kind modes of address.
We use Kotlin. Their JS transpiler stuff is still pretty new, though they are back to working on it post 1.0.

If you use Kotlin, use the JVM - at least for now.
FWIW, nearly all that advice agrees with "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt, with the exception of rim selection. Rim selection though is tricky these days, as most wheels are now sold as a unit rather than parts.
I just watched the Canvey piece I think http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36646709

They seem quite sophisticated compared to the voters in Merthyr Tydfil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCP0R3Z6T58&feature=youtu.be...

That said I don't think anyone including the PM or the Brexit leaders really thought it through. This from the Economist:

>IT WAS a troubling exchange. On live television Faisal Islam, the political editor of SkyNews, was recounting a conversation with a pro-Brexit Conservative MP. “I said to him: ‘Where’s the plan? Can we see the Brexit plan now?’ [The MP replied:] ‘There is no plan. The Leave campaign don’t have a post-Brexit plan…Number 10 should have had a plan.’” The camera cut to Anna Botting, the anchor, horror chasing across her face. For a couple of seconds they were both silent, as the point sunk in. “Don’t know what to say to that, actually,” she replied, looking down at the desk. Then she cut to a commercial break.

...

>As Mr Cameron reportedly told aides on June 24th when explaining his decision to resign: “Why should I do all the hard shit?”
I've recently discovered AdonisJS and it is easily the most productive NodeJS framework out there.

It uses some good OO design principles that takes some of the wtf out of working in Node.
If anyone at SpaceX is reading this, please, please, please make sure Elon Musk has not been exposed to dangerous chemicals or radiation. /s

More seriously, in 10K years we may be the first to even care about running simulations that detailed. There must be a first for anyone.

If there are glitches in reality or a wall that we hit and somehow fall of the edge of the universe, then OK - it may be a sim. But until then, assume everything's real and that belief that we're in a sim is no different than the superstitions of sky gods that watch your every move and will smite you if you don't follow their extremely vague and conflicting instructions or the superstition that the earth was flat and you may fall of the edge if you cross the Atlantic or that the universe is balanced on the back of four elephants themselves standing atop a giant-ass turtle.
Consider leaving it, and them, out altogether.
I think this is a completely irrational level of doom-and-gloom. Just because the United Kingdom has voted to exit the EU, doesn't necessarily mean that it is about to become Nazi Germany.

There are certainly currents of nationalism affecting Europe right now, and it's important that we don't bury our heads in the sand or run away from the problems affecting people. There has to be a way to deratchet politics without slamming the door angrily and fleeing the country.

The questions I think about are: Is it possible to create a better economic arrangement for our people? Can we create a safety net for working class people that stops the growth of nationalism?
My mostly uninformed gut reaction is that such an outcome is unlikely. The EU would probably /need/ to be too punitive to anyone attempting to leave to allow that; otherwise it risks everyone opting for that deal.

The outcome that I hope for is that Article 50 is not invoked, and that instead everyone in the UK Government is replaced in a general election of no-confidence.

What would be simply amazing is if some scheme for making multi-nationals pay taxes and environmental impacts properly was enforced in the first world markets.
Dave Asprey is a bullshitter. He's trying to sell you expensive, high-calorie coffee. No matter what you eat, if you eat too many calories, that is also bad for you.

Ketosis can also raise your resting blood sugar levels to prediabetic states, I have observed it myself in my own blood tests after trying it for nearly 6 months.

Moderate carb (low GI, low GL variety), protein and fats from whole, unprocessed foods, will always win out over fad diets like paleo, keto, zone, or anything else that pops up.