skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I generally choose to use console automation to mute the spaces between the notes.

I recently had to make a promo video for my startup on short notice, with a less-than-idea setup, and I did the exact opposite. I filled all of the 'silent' parts of the video with 'ambiance' because the sudden drop to absolute silence sounded very jarring.

I have no experience will audio engineering. I just thought it was interesting that we took opposite approaches to similar problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambience_(sound_recording)
You don't speak to this exactly, but Brin might as well just suggest to not start a company in California, which demands a lot of legal and tax paperwork to be done right from a business's beginning.
This is almost the exact premise of The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton [1]

It's set in 1984 (predating Orwell's use of the same date) and considers the breakup of London into city-states each based on a particular borough. It's a very short book, but well worth the read.

[1]: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20058
Reminded me of: https://www.primotoys.com/buy/
Shouldn't it just be a helpful list of links? "How to Start" == "Here are a bunch of links to resources I found helpful".

And like another commenter said: comments that are negative for the sake of being negative are why HN has a negative reputation.
Solaris is typical "too little, too late" IMO.
> Light rail is incredibly efficient, and in a system where you are designing the city first, I'd forgo roads entirely.

Heavy rail is even better, and if you're designing a city from scratch, the biggest challenges to building heavy rail aren't as much of a problem.
Sounds like someone needs to do a _Foxfire_ [1] series around Chemistry and Physics departments.

[1] http://www.foxfire.org/thefoxfirebooks.aspx

"With nearly 9 million copies in print, The Foxfire Book and its eleven companion volumes stand memorial to the people and the vanishing culture of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, brought to life for readers through the words of those who were born, lived their lives, and passed away there—words collected by high school students who wanted to be a part of their community and preserve their heritage."

// edit: corrected link, added quote
I was watching a stream of an online gaming tournament (Overwatch) with ~20k viewers. Right before a match one of the competitors machines decided to force a Windows 10 upgrade and they had to reschedule another two teams to play while he waited for everything to finish. It's to the point where Windows OS upgrades are no longer synonymous with new features or better performance, they are 100% associated with annoying and forced upgrade notifications.

IMO it invalidates all the awesome OSS work and public outreach Microsoft has been doing. If you gut punch me with your left hand I don't care if you're holding out flowers with your right.
IMHO the full .NET is from today considered a legacy platform. I would compare the situation to WebForms / MVC - who does new projects with WebForms now?
Because "is legit" is the default for stuff you buy out in the open. People naturally (and mostly correctly) assume that if you don't have to know a guy who knows a guy and you're not paying in unmarked bills with nonsequential serial numbers, it's legitimate.

Keep in mind that recognizing an online seller as "sketchy" requires a great deal of technical skill all by itself. To the average Joe, there's not much difference between eBay and Amazon. Hell, I just searched for "kodi" on Amazon and turned up a ton of stuff there advertising free movies and TV shows. Amazon! You want to tell me that the average person should see something sold on Amazon with Prime shipping that says you can use it to stream movies and TV for free, and understand that this is not legal?
Plus the total amount of taxes (Income, VAT, GEZ/ARD) a person has to pay on a wage higher than the average in Germany, and inability to legally keep multiple citizenship, make the location even less appealing than CH and UK in a long run.
Should you test private methods?
How much money is YC committing to this project?
Hey, really, you find Android SDK terrible? Genuinly curious, which parts? I have written my share of Java (though I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore Java programmer) and I found Android... logical, well documented and in general a delight to work with (well, apart from Eclipse and sloooooow emulators).
Doom 2 just got a Seinfeld mod
Google's Project Bloks [video]
If you're serious about this, you need Geoffrey West,

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_West

http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/directory/

Alberto Hernando de Castro, and

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S_ad8ycAAAAJ&hl=en

maybe Franz-Josef Ulm

http://www.citymetric.com/%E2%80%9Curban-physicists%E2%80%9D...

https://cee.mit.edu/ulm

And I don't know who's been doing Chinese planning, but they've obviously had some experience building cities that never became populated.
american and german salaries are fundamentally not comparable if you look at the bare numbers. German salaries already include pension and healthcare for example, for which the employer pays 50% of the total, which goes on top of the salary. That alone makes a 50k EUR salary more similar to a 75k USD salary (not taking into account the exchange rate, which adds another 10% as of today). There's also at least 4 weeks of paid holidays and unlimited paid sick-leave. Rent difference can easily account for something like 1k to 2k per month. Rent is still comparatively cheap even in the most expensive and central parts of Berlin. Having 15 minutes of travel to the office instead of hours can also change the equation massively, at least if you're looking at your quality of life. The crucial number is how much money is left in your bank account after all your expenses are paid for - and that can vary massively depending on your personal lifestyle. The salary before taxes and other costs is a fairly uninteresting figure.
Overton window perhaps? The main way the mainstream media prevents this is, as Chomsky said, narrowly defining/limiting the terms of debate, but allowing very lively debate within those confines.
5. Skype (AFAIK).
Haha thanks! Any suggestions for an alternative word?
You are now the product. Your use of the computer is enticement to provide more actionable data.
Orbital Insight raises $20M to analyze satellite imagery using deep learning
Whether the OS is proprietary isn't the important facet of this issue. The case for encouraging users to move off of Windows XP is the same as the case for encouraging users to move off of older GNU/Linux distributions: security updates.

Even in a slow computing initiative, outside invention will continue. Take ASLR, DEP, and other memory corruption mitigations. The architects of the legacy, fixed-address systems didn't expect the large amount of vulnerability due to buffer overflows in programs that handle external input. The authors of these programs failed to write tests that exercised some edge cases of malformed input. While long/malformed input unit tests might seem germane today, they weren't then.

Custom software initiatives make sense for people who have a high aptitude and the time to undertake them. This use case doesn't fit the vast majority of people who use computers.

While Microsoft certainly deserved the $10k judgement against them, software authors have the duty to help mitigate past imperfections, errors, and lack of foresight in their software. Authors of free and proprietary software share this responsibility.
It's fascinating how Microsoft's marketing moved from ".Net - One platform with multiple languages" to "This is .Net - here some samples in C#"(without mentioning C# by name anywhere in the page).

I think that .Net would be much better if they had this kind of focus in dev side from the start.

*Hides from the f# mafia.
Not quite. I tried that (at least, one of the KB#'s early on) and it kept trying with new updates... so that probably wont solve it for anyone.
Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.0
Open Collective: A new way to fund open source projects
Hands on with the 2D to 3D convertor emulator
every command needs to contain "efounders" + command name :
efounders welcome, efounders why, etc.
I think Scotland leaving would make it more likely.

Scotland has a population of only 5 million people - and London will soon have double of that.

Also London's economy would boast in a massive way since 97% of its income goes to Westminster unlike New York, the mayor of London needs to actively lobby for things London needs. ( this is outside the boost provided by things like staying in the EU ).

Its also more practical - its far easier to secure London's borders then it is to secure all of UK's ( nothing stopping people from Spain riding up Cornwell in a boat )

Westminister could relocate to Sunderland since it would be the new heartland.
Thanks for the information! Apparently I missed that in the news stream.

Sad to hear about that though. I was hoping for a break. Will just have to continue reading that PostgreSQL book I've already started.
For a developer favoring .NET, the degree of .NET integration with SQL Server might be a compelling advantage for applications where the limitations of the relevant SQL Server tier weren't a problem.
Hands-on with the emulator that adds depth to old 2D NES games
That's fair. I'm just going to edit and say "Rail". :) The difference in terminology between the two isn't material to my point.
> a pleasant climate

I've heard that washing your car in Ireland is a non-issue; the climate takes care of that.
Although Shalizi has his own biases and is pretty opinionated, his review of "A New Kind of Science" is quite interesting and is worth considering: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
No, but you can record your screen using an app like Licecap (that's what I did for the documentation)
Oh I dunno, virtually every evolution of the web has been a reaction to what came before being roundly abused.

Sometimes it takes following an approach to its illogical conclusion to recognise what needs fixing.

I like to think of it as destructive testing of the medium ;)
You forget a very big factor: only US citizens can move to SV or NY without many hoops.

If you are from EU, you can go to Berlin with no fuss, if you can get a job. Maybe your US counterpart can go to SV, but you need a visa rain dance, which make sense only if you are a star that some company want to pay a fortune to bring there.

Maybe Google and Facebook take the 0.001 % of the top developers. But, top 1% is not bad either.

Also, there is a lot of talent in Eastern Europe. For them, there are hoops and work visas for both EU and US, but, US hoops are much more difficult to pass.

Not to mention that Berlin has a great nigthlife. SF? Only complaints about the male/female ratio and nerd-dominated culture.

So, while SV is certainly the center of the industry, 100K in Berlin can give a much better life than 200K in SV, especially for people with EU citizenship.
Is a 51% success rate really good enough to justify unleashing the OS upgrade right now? Why not make the upgrade opt-in, continue improving the migration wizard over the next years, and start the upgrade campaign in two or three years when it becomes both stable and more pressing to migrate people over?
Language and tooling wise? Yes, or very close to it.

There's a lot to be said about the huge amount of value in the main maven repository vs. what's in nuget.

Java's decade long head start in that area doesn't seem so huge when you look at what the node.js community has put together in only a few years.

If you were considering .net on a new project, however, I would probably recommend comparing something like Scala. Scala has the benefits of being a "modern" language like C# with the full support of all or nearly all of the existing JVM projects.

That being said, there are a growing number of reasons to choose .net on non-windows platforms.
Blockchain.info Named Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
I noticed you didn't fill out the question regarding online identity. Do you have an online identity?"

And the punchline? Making "materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representations" to federal officials to questions like these can (per 18 U.S.C. § 1001) -- and the way things are going in this country, soon enough most likely will be used obtain felony convictions plus jail time against those so audaciously naive as to believe... this sort thing could never happen here:

Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, even by mere denial. A number of notable people have been convicted under the section, including Martha Stewart, Rod Blagojevich, Scooter Libby, Bernard Madoff, and Jeffrey Skilling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
Hacking the Kokonaut Weather Sensor
> Light rail is incredibly efficient, and in a system where you are designing the city first, I'd forgo roads entirely.

While I'm a firm believer that private cars (at least at a scale seen in the U.S.) and dense cities are fundamentally incompatible, I'm not quite onboard with getting rid of roads altogether. What about bicycles? Emergency vehicles? Construction equipment? Furniture deliveries? Deliveries of merchandise to stores? None of these things are going to be able to get around without a road network of some description, albeit hopefully one significantly reduced in scope from a typical American city.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/27/global...
no one is stopping you from offering your employees higher wages
Funny? It was an act of terrorism.
There is another blog post here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/06/27/announcin... (they have 2 blogs, one for ASP.NET and one for .NET)

The stream on Channel 9 is about to start.
Because Windows updates break things sometimes. In fact they do so fairly frequently.
"Upgrade" seems to get used when there's a major version change and "Update" when there are minor changes. Since Windows 10 is supposedly the last version of Windows, it should be nothing but "Updates" from here on out.
Exactly, I have two notebooks on which Windows 10 Update claimed "everything's OK" and one is completely unusable under Windows 10 because the WiFi card driver is unsupported by Intel and crashes the whole system, and another is unusable because the touchpad doesn't work anymore.

On the former, even rolling back to Windows 7 turned bad, as all tasks (created by Microsoft, not by me) became somehow invalid.
Not only is the material "super black" it:

> conducts heat seven and half times more effectively than copper, and the material is ten times stronger than steel.

Both of features are very useful. Heatsinks, spacecraft... all sorts of awesome uses.
Post-Brexit scramble over EU agenda launched in Prague
Public transit infrastructure and especially rail/subway seems like a huge common denominator for 21st century cities that people are really attracted to living in: See the Bay Area, Boston, NYC, DC

So I think, "how do you build legitimate rail transit into an existing city without it currently" is an interesting question for people researching and thinking about this topic.

Good luck!
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973022
http://i.imgur.com/v4QOYbf.png

Annoying as it sometimes is, I'm starting to love uMatrix.
I don't understand, why does the package name for Linux say preview2?

apt-get install dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview2-003121

Isn't this the final release?
.NET Framework = the whole shebang, the full runtime including Windows-only bits.

.NET Core = portable subset of .NET Framework. Therefore not entirely compatible with .NET Framework.

ASP.NET Core = portable rewrite of ASP.NET. AFAIK not fully compatible with previous versions.
What I meant was that's just not enough. You can toy with it in a hobby project but in production that will be exhausted pretty soon.
Cities are largely about people, and people are largely about the difficult-to-describe sense of 'opportunity'.

Cities reflect networks effects as strongly as anything, which is why the same cities that were important 100 years ago are, by-and-large, the same cities that are important today: there has been no doubling of exciting, the-place-to-be kind of cities in at least North America despite huge increases in population.

Because of this, our generation is stuck on the wrong side of the supply/demand bit for property. Property in uninteresting cities is very cheap, because nobody wants to be there. Property in Silicon Valley or Toronto is on fire because it's the place to be.

I think there's a critical mass kind of problem. In many ways, my quality of life in a smaller (or even very small) city could be several times higher than it currently is -- except for the people. And, for better or worse, it's the people that matter. I don't have any real desire to be the best educated, or most creative, or most entrepreneurial person in a city: I want to be surrounded by them and call them my friends.

So perhaps there's some kind of Kickstarter-like critical mass sort of system that could be put into place to kickstart small cities whereby 50 or 100 mutually interesting people committed to moving to a more remote city iff their compatriots did as well.

Of course, to make that work, there would be have to be some kind of "opportunity", which is why I'm happy to see yC-folks looking into the problem.
The preview refers to the tooling (CLI, VS etc.) [https://github.com/aspnet/home/wiki/roadmap#schedule]
They already check your phone and messages.
They could keep patching XP to avoid the security issues.

This is more about taking control away from users than anything else.
Hollande is on way worse than shaky ground. It's hard to see how he could ever get reelected now, he may not even bother running.

I've written a blog post on the upcoming votes in 2017 that could, if they go the "wrong" way, completely wreck the EU or at least radically change the negotiating outlook:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/ok-what-now-e3f64d38f7

I am finding it very entertaining how people who see themselves as cosmopolitan, worldly and intellectual so drastically fail to pay attention to what's going on elsewhere.

The EU is a disaster zone. It's run by an alcoholic who has turned up to summit wasted and then literally slapped world leaders in the face. Faced with the worst blow the EU has ever faced he gave a press conference in which he answered only two questions, to the second of which he simply said "no" and then walked out. The president of the EU Parliament said he thought the UK was "holding the continent to ransom because of an internal fight in the Tory party" AFTER the vote took place.

The people arguing that they need to secede from the UK in order to rejoin the EU, don't seem to have noticed that the EU is rapidly becoming a basket case that is seeing radically anti-EU politicians topping the polls in major, important economies ... whilst its leaders submerge themselves in denial.
And the cl0ud-to-butt extension too, I see :)
I made 50k in a more expensive city, Paris. From that my partner and I were able to buy a flat, put our son into a catholic school, travel (squeezyjets €20 flights), dine out, and save a little. This would not be possible anywhere in the US including SF. Child rearing costs are punitively high in the US. Medical was less than 10% of my salary.

If my calculation is right the typical 2BR apartment in SF is $5000/month. Or $60000/year. That is almost 1/3 of $200k SF salary. Add childcare at another $12000/year. And medical.

It doesn't seem as far as lifestyle they are that far off. CoL plays a huge role. This is the typical American attitude at looking across the pond and not knowing how the other side lives but just assuming it's that bad.

You really do need to hire experienced people, often with families and expectations for a higher quality of living conditions, etc., who aren't particularly interested in the youth culture offerings of Berlin.

And yet these startups, everywhere, are able to do exactly that. They use equity as a carrot to lure experienced people from a sure thing all the time.
This is a good idea when considering how people will get around in their daily routines, but I'd be interested in hearing your perspective on how goods, services, and infrastructure would operate with entirely no roads?

Specifically getting food/goods/supplies to businesses, restaurants, hospitals, and other facilities that are required for such a city to exist. You could potentially utilize rail for this but then you face the last mile problem. Additionally considering things like emergency services, rail seems like it would be entirely inefficient for getting someone immediate medical attention.
You can go ahead with PostreSQL if you use Entity Framework and Code First approach. I used it many times and I was able to quickly jump from PostreSQL to MS SQL and back. It just works. With EF I don't see any reason why I should tie to any particular SQL database
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640214
To some extent I feel that if you go all in on education (and I don't mean schools by that) and access to information, the rest will follow.
Yep but hard to tell just by numbers. All my friends that visited it, including the ones that love Christo and have books and drafts of his projects, were highly unimpressed by the experience, and by the not excellent organization.
I think it's entirely appropriate. The exact same point is made just as well in other comments, so it really doesn't add anything, and the offhand comment at the end spawned a flame war.
So yes, so far the ineffectiveness of the west plays hand in hand with Putin.

On that we definitely agree.