skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be a difficult problem for an AI to solve, but I think most people could look at my comments and replies and determine that it's an issue I care deeply about.
Maybe in denser cities or downtown but where I live and work if I wanted to take a bus my easy 9 mile 20 minute drive becomes 60 to 90 minutes with 3 bus changes. That's a lot of ground to make up.
I wonder if it would be feasible to train a neural network on a large corpus of test cases where legality/illegality have already been defined, then release this neural network to the public. Sure, the process will be opaque, but it will be consistent between different users, and answers can be sought almost immediately with little to no costs. In many cases, an immediate straight up no is more valuable than a maybe suspended over months or years.
I'm wondering if this may dovetail with another piece of common YC advice, "start by going narrow & deep".

I didn't start using AirBnB until 2013, and I used them because they were remarkably polished and made the experience super-easy. They weren't at all a "hair on fire" problem for me.

But I could imagine that at some point in time, there was a group of people who were so desperate for a place to stay that they'd crash on a couple of airbeds at a stranger's place. And that gave those strangers the idea that maybe this was something worth looking into and investing time into perfecting.

The importance of that initial core group of users may be feedback. I've had to give up startup ideas because I launch them and then there is literally nobody who cares. And then with no users, there are no guideposts as to which direction to improve the product in. It's all guesswork, and random ideas don't have a particularly high chance of success.

This may also dovetail with the known advantage that you get from solving your own problem. If it's your own problem, then you know at least one person wants it, and you can use yourself for feedback on improving the product. Then hopefully once it's good enough for you, you can find some other folks that'll find it good enough to try out, and use their feedback to evolve the product.
People look out and vote for their own self-interest. Previously the two goals may have aligned, but that chart showing income growth per percentile bracket is extremely telling.

It's natural that economic policy would shift in response to unfavorable outcomes. This may mean severing free-trade agreements in favor of protectionism. But it remains to be seen whether these changes are drastic enough to alter foreign policy, and jeopardize military alliances we've since the last world war.
> An amazon affiliate link to a 2.5 star book

It's rated 2.5 stars because he was attacked by the Breitbart brigade.[1]

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/andrew-breitbart-fa...
> Suppose the grocery store was 10 minutes away. You'd still need to drive there, because how are you going to get the food back to your house?

I've carried 30+ kg of groceries on my bike panniers, about 15 to 30 min of ride to the store. Regular city bike with off-the-shelf panniers, not a cargo bike (which would easily take 100+ kg).

But quite honestly, I'd much rather get the groceries delivered to my home. I sometimes do but the websites to order the food are so bad that it takes more time to fill the order form that it's faster to ride to the store.

Bike is my primary means of transport for 8 months of the year because my city is awfully designed traffic-wise (if you need to cross the town east-west). A moderately fast bike ride beats any form of transport (including a car) on my daily commute.
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Let's be very clear - the term "abusive" in a context of treaties is somewhat ridiculous.

And the pain GB will experience post-leave is due to not having access of benefits a treaty granted them. The leave folk believe that's fine, and it'll be a long-term benefit. That's arguable, but leaving that aside: The short-term pain is entirely self-inflicted.

Blaming that on the EU is a rather staggering amount of cognitive dissonance.
> Elasticsearch is one of the easiest clustered databases to administrate

You seem to have installation confused with administration.

Off the top of my head you forgot security, monitoring, logging config, backups, handling common production issues such as splitbrains, write multiplication, garbage collection snafus, upgrades between versions with questionably compatible internal apis.

Running any database in the cloud is non-trivial, and, running elasticsearch effectively in the cloud is harder than running Zookeeper or Cassandra, for example.

Source: I founded and sold an ElasticSearch hosting company.
How is this better than greensock / mo.js / popmotion.js?
Yeah, streetcars in such a congested city only really work when they have their own rights-of-way. Is the Spadina streetcar done yet?
He's saying a university is a key step for a tech hub, not for every city.
It is difficult to measure how 'democratic' a particular government is. Some have compared the E.U. favorably to the U.K. government while still acknowledging that it falls short in certain regards [0].

But democracy is about more than just voting. It really comes down to "how much say does the average person have in the rules that govern their lives?". Will the Scottish vote count for as much being a part of the E.U. (where they are only 1% of the population) as it will staying a part of the U.K. (where they are 8% of the population)? Will the Scottish parliament retain as much independence from the E.U. parliament as they do from the U.K. parliament? Will the Scottish government be in a position to protect the interests of its people against political machinations, or will they be too often asked to sacrifice on behalf of "the greater good"?

I don't presume to have answers to those questions, so Scotland joining the E.U. may be the smart move. It just doesn't seem obviously so to me.

[0] http://theconversation.com/how-democratic-is-the-european-un...
The weather is actually terrible. Not cold in the winter, it rarely snows, but just dull, rainy and windy all year round. It's so bad that in sunny summer days people wish each other "enjoy the sun", and sometimes companies give employees half a day off to celebrate.
This intel is like gold, where'd you hear it from?

The lack of transparency is my least favorite thing about AWS. I see the value in keeping brand new services or huge feature additions secret until they're released. But for small issues like when they'll update elasticsearch version or when they'll fix an acknowledged bug, I don't get why they can't share that information with customers (e.g. the way many open source projects track next version milestones on github).

Is it any different at the Enterprise support level?
How hackers hijacked petition demanding second EU referendum
http://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats#Format_...
Crowd-sourcing youth programming skills/ideas
Thats a bad anaolgy.

If the market you're in is very competitive, and all the customers buy from "mean companies" just because they're cheaper,

then being nice, if it's expensive, will run you out of business.

The airline industry is very similar to this.
It could be because it's just a work in progress, but I'm not seeing code examples like there were in the current version of the docs site.
Never said he'd answer or fix anything. But his popularity is due to the fact that he is tapping into working class anger over globalism...

Also, once the general hits, watch him come out as a moderate, pragmatic leader. All the rhetoric was to win the Republican primaries and separate himself from all the bland conservatives.
Markets are a great way of finding 'the best' solution to problems like this

No, they're not. I've seen the markets in action, and one ends up with shopping malls surrounded by four-lane streets with no crosswalks. As the my sibling comment points out, markets are great for maximizing incoming for the stores leasing space in the malls. One prime example I'm thinking of was 25 years ago, let's go to Google's sat view and see if much has changed...nope, looks like it's just as car-centric as it was when I lived there.

Now one can go all "no true Scotsman" on me, what with regulation and all, but there has been regulation long before either of us were born so one might as well argue that are no true markets because the sky is blue. It also ignores the fact that folks like the Simons (owners of malls across the U. S.) might have a little hand in how those regulations get written. What regulation has brought about in cities like Redmond is that if you're building streets, you're building them for everyone so there will be sidewalks and bike lanes.
It's work in progress - we will add them soon!
Using an extreme case doesn't really work in this instance.
>But it's foolish to conclude... that Candy Crush is trivial to replicate

It literally is, because it's literally a clone of games that have been around for decades prior. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-bejeweled-2014...

I'm not arguing that mobile developers have less right to make money than AAA developers, that's a reply to the guy above me saying that AAA developers are ripping off consumers by charging $60 when mobile users won't even pay $10. AAA games take hundreds of millions of dollars to make. There's never been a hugely successful AAA game made by one guy in his dorm room over the course of two days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird). Mobile games are inherently cheaper and easier to make than AAA titles.

>PS. Candy Crush is owned by Activision.

Yeah, I almost added a line about "that's why Activision bought King for $5.5 billion." Because they make a shit load of money scamming players and their games cost absolutely nothing to produce.
>> "I tried it - it puts 50MB of DLLs beside HelloWorld"

That's a bad test for a framework. It's like saying, "I bought an $80,000 car to drive to my neighbor's house across the street - I could have just walked!"

A good test is, "What is the full install size of a real app built on .NET Core?"

And the answer is, not much larger than any other app. All that code has to live somewhere, either in your app or in your libraries.
This is why the Windows 10 installer does a compatibility check before performing the upgrade

It fails. My father was forced to buy a new scanner (Canon I believe, one with an inlay for scanning photo-negatives) and a new soundcard (Xonar DX) because of lack of support. The soundcard itself still worked though, but none of the supporting tools (equalizer, multichannel processor, softvol control).
very glad this was written -- the sensationalism of it bothered me
Common Language Server Protocol
This reminds me of some of the tricks Apple used to pull with the resource and data forks on the classic Mac OS.

Like, a file could have plain text in the data fork and formatting instructions in the resource fork, so an application that can only handle plain text can just read the data fork, and something that knows how to deal with rich text can read the resource fork and apply the formatting.

While the old Mac OS had its problems, it was full of brilliant strokes of design genius like this, and I'm still kinda saddened that these little tricks are almost entirely gone.
^Z in DOS was a holdover from its roots as a CP/M clone. CP/M in turn cribbed it from certain DEC OSes, because that's what Gary Kildall used while making CP/M. So ^Z is a case of convergent evolution.
Gross returns is good to compare when everyone has different tax liabilities.
> Huh? If you limit supply, demand goes down?

It works for cars, since there are acceptable alternatives (biking, walking, carpooling, Uber, etc). It works less well for housing, as leftist NIMBYs often advocate, since one alternative (homelessness) is very unappealing, and the other (living somewhere else) just exports the problem.
I agree with most of that, but I don't understand why you think DTrace is less invasive than another filesystem. They could have shipped ZFS all along and only now declared it stable, if they wanted to. They also could have integrated it again, now that it's actually more portable than before due to OpenZFS. I don't use Macs, so I don't have a direct interest in ZFSonMac, but using a filesystem which can be accessed from Linux, illumos and FreeBSD has some practical aspects which are definitely missing with APFS. Someone will eventually, unless Apple prevents it with IP and Patents, implement APFS for BSD or Linux, but just as NTFS-3G, it will never be fully stable and reliable as a Mac version of OpenZFS could have been. Apple's own APFS implementation will be stable of course, and for other versions to be good as well, they would have to open source the critical bits.
Probably going to get down-voted to hell for this, but you all ever think of supporting those whom you are reading double digit number of articles a month from with a subscription? They aren't terribly expensive. Decent news sources are dying off and being replaced with junk.
Deep Learning: multi-level representational learning that works.

Here is good authoritative definition:

"Deep-learning methods are representation-learning methods with multiple levels of representation, obtained by composing simple but non-linear modules that each transform the representation at one level (starting with the raw input) into a representation at a higher, slightly more abstract level." from Deep Learning, Nature Volume 521 issue 7553, 2015, LeCun, Yann; Bengio, Yoshua; Hinton, Geoffrey

History: Multi layer neural networks, convolution networks, recurrent networks etc. are old techniques that have existed for decades. They used to be very slow and using them seemed to be dead end theoretically.Canadian Mafia (Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio) from University of Montreal worked diligently and solved many theoretical and practical problems and made these algorithms usable in practice. GPGPU:s hastened this process.
I guarantee plenty of traders say it coming. But most traders aren't writing for mainstream publications either.
On the other hand, many/most distributions have major releases every 6-12 months, and the upgrade process is a lot more hit and miss. I have Debian and (unexpectedly enough...) Fedora services that I've managed to drag along two and, respectively, three major releases. On the other hand, I can't remember ever managing to get a clean upgrade on Ubuntu after 8.04 or so. My latest attempt has been miserable, I spent half a day nursing my Ubuntu station at work back to health.

Besides, it's a trend that I expect to see reversed soon enough, given the direction in which Linux desktop is heading nowadays.

Edit: empirically, what has greatly simplified my life in this matter is being old-fashioned about partitioning. I keep /home and /opt separate, so upgrading typically consists of saving a list of packages, wiping everything but /home and /opt, doing a fresh install and reinstalling the packages. Depending on what I'm installing (OpenBSD on my laptop, Debian on my desktop) it takes about five minutes of accepting defaults and waiting for progress bars to fill, then another ten minutes until the packages installs (most of those ten minutes is spent on LaTeX, to be honest).
What's the current status of the CoreRT runtime [1], the one designed for AOT compilation? Can it be used for non-trivial programs yet?

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/corert
also, for some reason, if you google the article title and enter WSJ by clicking a link, it shows the whole article
I would say that is a worse analogy. Are people in Germany going to die because of the UK leaving? Or do you mean the government in Brussels? I think it is more the later than the former.
I can see the good and bad in both.

I grew up in suburbia, as a result I hate commuting as its just such a waste of time. I love the mountains and spent a few year living in fairly small towns. But there are no jobs there (for a techie, and remote working is hard to find), and night life is limited. Now in a dense city and I have tons of options for going out, but like you say no space, and a hassle to do any outdoor sports in comparison.
> The benefit of faster speeds isn't driver convenience, it's that you get cars off the road quicker for a given travel distance.

Yes but that isn't actually what happens because the use of a street or road isn't by one car from A to B but by the continuous use over time across a section of the street.

Say you had a single 1 mile arterial in a city, and it's the only way of getting from one half of the city to the other half. There are few points when a cars are "off" of it (except maybe late at night) - the rest of the time it is a near constant high speed flow.

You're not wrong to say that it gets any given car off the road quicker, but that is if you're focusing on the one driver's trip, as opposed to focusing on the use of and experience of being at that section of road. If it was an old town which had its main street become a high speed arterial, you now have an experience for any pedestrians who might want to use the (probably few remaining) stores along that road be not unlike walking along side a freeway - unfun and dangerous.

By focusing on any one driver's trip experience, and not the street experience, you're essentially damning the street experience for the potential sake of some extra time saved (if its across a city, perhaps on the order of 10 or so minutes).

Of course when you have nothing on the street worth being around (like most of El Camino Real), you want to get passed it ASAP. (SF problems are a whole other hairball of outside commuters plus residents who insist on using cars.)
> one ends up with shopping malls surrounded by four-lane streets with no crosswalks.

You should look up the zoning codes in your city, as well as a zoning map. They are incredibly detailed, and extremely prescriptive. What we have in the US is very far from a market-based solution!

And those rules and regulations absolutely have worsened with time. Look at cities from 100 years ago, how they had nice downtowns where people could walk around (and also drive, but slowly) and they were relatively dense.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-p...

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
Universal Windows Platform ".NET Native" stack is aligned with (built upon/merging towards) .NET Core. It's XAML-based like WPF and Silverlight.

ETA: Other than not cross-platform. Other option is Xamarin.Forms and would be useful to see more Xamarin.Forms targets.
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Or FreeBSD, or DragonflyBSD? Because part of the nature of software is that you get the most out of it when you're using what everyone else is using, and doing much the same thing as they're doing, so that the costs of figuring out how to do a given thing can be paid once and documented for everybody else to copy.

That counts whether you're using Windows or choosing to use something else - you'll never hear someone suggesting that you run Apache on Windows, as IIS is standard and what everybody else uses.
Think about it this way: in an area with a given population, raising the population density of a subset of that area lowers it somewhere else, and you can live in that somewhere else.

That being said, better sound insulation in walls, windows, ceilings and floors is absolutely necessary in most cities, and that is where regulations should focus on (with limited or no grandfathering), not setbacks and heights.
Remember that in 1915 there were only 100 million people in the US. There are a little over 300 million now. Picture how big the US is, almost 4,000,000 square miles. A country like England has 50 million people in just 50,000 sq miles.

Sure, there were a few rail lines running across the country, but building the nations highway system, plus the luxury of the general population to own cars really allowed people to travel the country for business and pleasure. Without the automobile the country wouldn't have been as well connected and arguably wouldn't have became what it did.
Amazon grows its education footprint with Amazon Inspire
Ah, I took a different take on your original post. I'll leave my original reply, as I still agree with the point, but I see where you're going with this and heartily agree. One of my main complaints with where I live is that it's a round-trip hour to walk to any store, yet $DEITY forbid that we put a corner store anywhere in my neighborhood lest a developer be prevented from plopping another house on that plot.
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Most of the big money (at the bookmakers at least) was being staked on Remain and the currency sell offs are largely down to traders being stuck in the wrong positions.
Yes, and no one wants to go back to the pre-GPS days.
The State of Technology in Embedded Systems
> TS which has a decent community even outside of Angular

We've converted all our node backends to typescript. It's been a game-changer in productivity.
I'd question those numbers: 5 minutes for urban shopping and 2 hours for suburb shopping. So you're saying that in 7 5 minute stops (35 minutes), you're able to accomplish what it takes someone else in a suburban mega-grocery store to accomplish in 2 hours?

Apart from that, though, almost anything that you can easily plan out and do in bulk is going to out-efficiency something done in smaller iterations involving a lot of repeated steps (going in, walking around, checking out, etc.).

When we go shopping on the weekends, we mostly buy for the entire week. We buy quantities of food that can make plenty of leftovers and buy water/soft drinks by the cases that last several weeks. We try to make the process as efficient as possible and we could stop by the store more often since it's close - but that would waste a lot of efficiency.
I've had various problems with running a long job, and then Windows popping up and saying it's going to restart shortly to install updates. Or I want to open my laptop to check something, and it demands the power plugged in so it can spend 10-20 minutes installing updates. I've worried about it doing this nonsense when I'm using it to do a presentation or something.
I was afraid the article would go with the bad connotation of losers (i.e.: people that 'deserve to lose') but, reading the article, it felt more just like a descriptive connotation (i.e.: people that are losing money and quality of life)

Still, your point is generally valid
Wow I guess since employees should already value most stock options at near zero it's hard to value them any less.
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Best thing I've ever done was to buy two iPads for my parents. I'd strongly suggest that.
Changelog: https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=Change...
I'm skeptical.

I want to believe in this, but I can't help feeling cynical--likening the results with that of privatization of prisons in the US.

Red-Light Cameras that infest my city were sold to public by claiming they would increase public safety, but instead are just another way for the city to generate revenue, much of which likely goes back to the camera builders.

It's hard to imagine a very for-profit entity like YC having an impact on city planning without ultimately driving towards a monetary return on investment.
"There are precious few places where you literally can't walk or bike."

Where you literally can't? No. But where current infrastructure has made it hugely impractical to? I'd say that's most of the country, especially suburbia.

"I would even argue that it isn't all that important."

If you're ok with driving everywhere, then no, you wouldn't think it was. Not everyone wants to do that, though. And making things friendly for cars tends to make it harder for walking and biking.