skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We now have major technologies such as smart grids, autonomous vehicles, etc

Not really. Autonomous vehicles are still coming. We don't know what infrastructure we'll need to support them just yet. Will there be a standardized way of powering / recharging them? What non-autonomous needs will they have and how to we handle them (because there will be some e.g. mechanical repair, rescue, etc)? Sure we can "guess" based on trends but we won't know for sure for probably another 10+ years what a brand new city will really need in this regards.

Same with smart grids especially with solar power becoming more efficient they may almost be unnecessary in 10-20 years (unlikely maybe but it's theoretically possible).

> There are many high-level questions we want to think through[...]And there are tactical questions we want to dig into

So there is a bit of reason to why most cities come up sorta "organically". Like NYC there was planning, sure, but that planning came from trends or requirements from the populous which happened over time. Engineering a full city from the group up sounds good but the majority of the people using the city are, well, people. People change. Technology changes. Political opinion changes.

Maybe you'll succeed in having a solid plan agreed upon by a majority but by the time the plan is taken and put into action and built a large amount of time will pass and I do not believe that original plan will still be as optimal or valid by the time it is completed. Then you'll have to do what every city does: improve, change laws, build stuff here and there that you originally thought you wouldn't do.

Ultimately it seems like a very interesting exercise but I do not believe in its practicality.

> - Adora Cheung, Sam Altman

Wait, Adora is part of YC? I thought after all of the drama around HomeJoy and the people it may or may not have sold to she had just basically disappeared. I had no idea she was part of YC.

Edit: just to clarify (because I'm not sure it came off correctly) I just didn't know Adora was part of YC and am curious as to her role, etc not to bring up any drama or other bs. I had just assumed she went on to found another company as that seems to be the norm for many founders.
Agreed.

I prefer minimalist detailed list interfaces that maximise the use of space.

This push towards giant tiles and block colours with massive images is frustrating. It's almost like diluting information is the goal here.
Try being a fast-track user.

I get that volunteering to beta-test comes with some pain, but I literally went to go use the bathroom mid-day, and I came back to Windows 10 reverting to an older build. Bizarre.
> > Back then, I highly doubt you would get sued

Common law contract and tort principles were well-developed back then, and indeed were created for situations like ordering horseshoes from the village blacksmith, or ordering a new axle for your windmill.[1]

> So by this argument, if the first amendment didn't exist, the government would have the right to regulate speech that uses public infrastructure (anything on public airwaves, the internet, delivered via the mail system, etc)?

No, because the first amendment does not create the right to free speech, but recognizes a right to free speech that already existed. But if that wasn't the case, then I think the answer would be yes.

> So by this argument, if the first amendment didn't exist, the government would have the right to regulate speech that uses public infrastructure (anything on public airwaves, the internet, delivered via the mail system, etc)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_v_Baxendale
Is this the release of .Net Core and ASP.Net Core, or is this just the .Net Core?
You can build things that can function as roads but aren't roads. Look at most European cities' inner pedestrian zones.

There are roads of old, but closed to traffic and heavily modified. In case of emergency, fire engines can get in. Bicycles and pedestrians can comingle happily on a normal day.

My hometown's (Ljubljana) pedestrian zone is more than a kilometer across. It's quite awesome.
They are all still named OS X.
This is a gem:

A spokesperson for the company told the Seattle Times that it denied any wrongdoing and had dropped the appeal to avoid the additional expense of further litigation.

Good that in this case [0], Microsoft didn't sue to kid's parents aside from suing him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
Because I really like the power of SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) and how nicely it integrates with Visual Studio and would like to continue using that instrument if possible.

But I can't seriously build a complex product around SQL Server knowing that 10GB is the sky for my database.
>He refuses MacOs because of the stupid touchpad.

Huh? You can hook a mouse up to any Mac. Also, in what way are Mac touchpads different from Windows touchpads?
Lawnmower Man?
I worked in the retail food industry as a starving student and one of the few nice things about megacorporate control of the food supply is corporate had an excellent idea of how many boxes of granola they shipped us vs how many we sold and questions would be raised if the sales figures didn't at least vaguely match the single source shipping figures.

Some independent ethnic market, or a restaurant, well, all bets are off, but they're a very small part of a very huge industry.

Most of the anecdotes are variations on very old insurance ripoff schemes which is why they're getting caught. The concept of ripping off an insurance company is not new nor specific to food and they're pretty good at figuring it out.

The guy who sold $32K of stolen shrimp gets to do that once in his entire life... meanwhile the regular seafood guy who was selling legal shrimp is pissed off and motivated to rat out the thief, so the problem is kinda self correcting. Remember that the average small business restaurant goes out of business in three years or less unlike the supply companies who have been around forever. The restaurant has no loyalty to the supplier, but the supplier has no loyalty to the restaurant.
I would like to add to the other comments, in that I had no idea what polyvalent meant too.

I am going to make a wild guess in the dark here, and say that English isn't your first language (I sincerely apologize if I'm wrong). If this is true, did you try to translate a word from your native language into English, or are you a chemist ;)

I know exactly what you're trying to say with the term, but I think you could have much better uptake of your software if you found a word which conveys what you want to convey to a programmer audience.

After looking at the etymology of the word and your explanation of what it means, may I humbly put forward a couple of alternatives, and I am sure HN users could contribute more:

Anime.js is a multi-target yet lightweight Javascript animation library.

Anime.js is a flexible yet lightweight Javascript animation library.

Anime.js is a multi-framework yet lightweight Javascript animation library.

Anime.js is a polygamous yet lightweight (and STD free!) Javascript animation library.

The last entry is a feeble attempt at humour.

P.S. Great job on the library, especially keeping it lightweight
This site got the name wrong. It's called 'vantablack'. It's also not 'ten times stronger than steel' in the traditional sense, given that it's typical use is going to be as a coating rather than a structural material. A microthin layer of vantablack may have greater tensile strength than a microthin layer of steel, but building girders of the stuff is infeasible.
Really enjoyed reading through that 3 part series. Easier to understand for an average programmer. Another one along those lines: https://www.oreilly.com/learning/hello-tensorflow
This does actually seem like the cheapest option.
I think light rail is awful. Heavy rail even worse.

I just spent a week in Paris. Do you know much faster it's transportation is than walking? It's about a 2x multiplier. That's it. I can take multiple subway connections and get there in 30 minutes or walk the streets in 60.

Several hundred billion in subway is no faster than a moving sidewalk in an airport.

We can do better. We must do better.
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An analysis of a worst-case scenario password database reveals patterns
>MS made a couple missteps, but people just love to blow whatever MS does way out of proportion (the same way they do for Apple, only for other points) so instead of having reasonable discourse, all we have is a pile of knee-jerk reactions (not even flamewars!)

>We get it, MS is bad, Apple is bad, Google is bad bad bad. Oh nasty corps. Probably end user should stick to pen+paper.

>EDIT: not even a dozen seconds and downvotes are pouring in. Is it still possible to have some reasonable talk instead of yelling at each other?

Haha yeah I wonder why people have a problem with your comment?!???!?!?!?!? You're just so reasonable here!
Its the first non-preview release of the product called ".NET Core"; it is, therefore, versioned as ".NET Core 1.0".

This is a different (but related) product to the .NET Framework (current version, 4.6) -- future versions of the .NET Framework will be built on top of .NET Core, which will be updated more frequently than the larger Framework. So, maybe .NET Framework 5.0 will be built on something like .NET Core 1.3 -- or 2.0, whatever.
First line of the blog post: We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux!
Best Seller Book on Machine Learning/Deep Learning
It amazes me how nobody has yet seize the huge demand of knowledge on machine / deep learning and do something oriented to the average programmer without deep knowledge of algebra, maths or statistics.

It will be a Best Seller if:

1) Does not include any formula, instead explain the concepts behind with real life examples, we don't need to know the details, just have the basics so we can understand the concepts in code, preferable in pseudocode so is water down to a minimun.
Example: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec3c471#.7377bbqjf

2) Show a lot of possible use cases, not only the usual ones ( character recognition, image recognition, etc) , but how we as programmers can use it on every day cases, for example instead of using 100 rules in Regex to process scraped text, use a deep learning algorithm. With both cases explained side to side.
Example: https://medium.com/xeneta/boosting-sales-with-machine-learning-fbcf2e618be3#.yjofcvrg7

Any other suggestion to the future Best Seller will be welcome
I think "old cities" are pretty good too: the kind where they were built for people, rather than cars, and where you could build things without a dense thicket of regulations almost entirely unrelated to safety. Another thing that seems to work well is limiting the amount of up-front large scale projects and growing incrementally. No one can plan for everything ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem ) .

Recommended reading:

http://www.strongtowns.org/

http://marketurbanism.com/

The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think: http://amzn.to/28W6et9

Edit - I'll add that I think it's great that YC is spending some money to look into this, as it's a huge issue for many desirable, productive cities these days. Huge as in billions of dollars:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/here-s-how...
Rather humble of you ;)
It is annoying. The preview MSIs are signed but the preview PKGs are not. The last release was so maybe it just takes some time?

BTW you can ctrl-click/right-click the installer package and select open to get the option to run it without fully disabling gatekeeper.

[https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3434]
Business Development and Technical Evangelism were meant to be together
I use the Magewell too and wrote a blog about my search https://natalian.org/2015/03/13/HDMI_in/
I hope the winner of this call get all sent to live for 2 years in small (and not so small) unknown towns in Europe that have been growing organically for thousands of years and offer a great quality of life.

Places where rich and poor, kids, young adults, adults and elderly all live happily together (modulo the usual father-and-son generational problems).

Seriously, planners in "new" countries should be forced to spend some time in "old" countries, if not to learn the good things, at least to learn their mistakes.

And another compulsory thing should be listening to James Howard Kunstler talking about Suburbia: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
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The problem arises if someone says they have no social media account but really do.

If someone has a distinct online presence - i.e. a journalist - they will be targeted.

If someone has twitter, facebook, etc. installed on their phone, they will be discovered for having lied.

Since gmail is tied to G+, if someone has gmail - they must have a social media account. Did that person use gmail as part of the visa application process - for example to get notification of the visa status?

Can the Border Patrol, http://www.skipease.com/search/pipl/ to tie that person to their social media accounts?
This is FUD. A Red Hat employee developed an init system and Red Hat chose to use it for their Linux distributions (which they have every right to do). They didn't force other projects to adopt it, it's actually solving problems for those projects. They're not locking in anybody.
Damn, I wanted to learn more so clicked Learn -> Get started with .NET Core and ... 404

Not the best start :-/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/index
Storage Made Easy Introduces Support HTML5 PDF Annotations to Their EFSS Fabric
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I suggest you check out Spybot Anti-Beacon. It will help you in turning some of those Telemetry services off.

https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
That's not an excuse. Microsoft can and has been pushing updates to 7 to enable the constant upgrade nagging. They've even been continually pushing new updates that get more and more naggy. There is nothing preventing them from including an update that makes 7's restart logic less sadistic, but they've chosen not to do that.
The webstack is pretty fast, they're working on getting listed officially in the techempower rankings [1]. Here's an older article from Feb explaining more details. [2]

1. https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks

2. http://web.ageofascent.com/asp-net-core-exeeds-1-15-million-...
“Selfrando” makes the Tor Browser stronger against hack attempts
The article mentions https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

does anybody know:

- How much work is required by week?

- Pre-requisite?

- Programming language used?

Other feedbacks?
Entering partial passwords prevents MITM. OP was just explaining how partials could be implemented securely by hashing each combination; he wasn't saying hashing prevented MITM.
This is just ridiculous - if you want me to read something, don't print it in light grey on barely lighter grey:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/GreyOnGrey.png
I disagree with you that his comment cheapens the discussion. I do think that your comment cheapens it. His point that the US military, with its illegitimate wars, torture practices, and widespread murder of civilians, is reasonably considered to be a terrorist organization is a reasonable and good comment which advances the discussion intelligently and productively. The fact is that US military are in fact terrorists, as is the citizenry that supports this terrorist regime with tax money. So the honest and true response for US citizens at least would be to answer yes to that question.
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Interesting, the language re-purposes the 'where' clause to declare unit tests within function scope. In general, I like the idea of putting testing front and center for a language targeted at teaching programming.
I want an old-fashioned city, with cobblestone and stuff, thank you. I'm sure it's not the most efficient according to one measure or another, but it's for living in, not for being a machine in. Actually, it might be the most efficient at making me happy.
This is the exact kind of thing I'd love to see more of. I would still call it a road, though, if it can support limited vehicular traffic. "Pedestrian road", maybe. It's a good point, though, that you can support the use cases I mentioned without resorting to the more typical "road-for-cars, sidewalk-for-people" paradigm.
I have always really liked stuff from https://www.thevenusproject.com/ some of their ideas might seem crazyish but overall I think anybody thinking about designing new cities ought to at least take a look.
Personally, I prefer writing SQL by hand. That way I know exactly what will happen in a query. A database really is an important component of a system and shouldn't be treated like a dumb data store where you just throw in any stuff you like through an ORM and hope it sticks there somehow.
Getting started with container hosting and management
Edward Snowden’s Strangely Free Life as a Robot
Will it matter to Scotland's goal of joining the EU after getting independence from the UK that they would have the worst deficit in the OECD [0] and have, in the past, only been a net contributor to the UK economy in three of the last fifteen years [1]?

It seems to me that the EU might require Scotland to make huge cuts to public spending. Would Scotland's independence be worth more to them than say free university tuition? I guess the SNP would avoid making cuts to certain nationally loved items, but something would surely have to give; either they would get higher taxes, or public spending would have to fall.

Of course, the EU might agree to let them remain and also allow them their deficit, but there looks to be an increasing strain on the EU's richest members, so who knows whether that would be allowed.

[0] http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/if-scotland-had-gone-in...

[1] http://chokkablog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/simple-summary.html
All the React stuff is starting to sound a bit to me like "MongoDB is web-scale"
CABLECard is dead and until the FCC gets sabers rattling against the cable conglomerates for cable box reform (again) and (presumably) universal cable apps, it's tough for anyone to support TV on the computer. (Yeah, that leaves broadcast and broadcast is still open, but broadcast alone has never been a priority for Microsoft and there are still vendor/OEM apps that work with broadcast tuners in Windows 10, at least.)

The apps that Media Center was split into are getting better in Windows 10 and with the Anniversary Update and the Xbox One in mind are getting better support for running on couch screens again, but TV viewing is something that currently seems like it will take a while to sort out thanks to the cable conglomerate stubbornness and also the Xbox One needing to pivot and meet gaming stubbornness first over the fight to rebuild a modern Media Center (aka "OneGuide" now).
Is anyone surprised by this?

Just wait until the class action hits.
From the release notes:

"We used industry benchmarks for web platforms on Linux as part of the release, including the TechEmpower Benchmarks. We’ve been sharing our findings as demonstrated in our own labs, starting several months ago. We’re hoping to see official numbers from TechEmpower soon after our release.

Our lab runs show that ASP.NET Core is faster than some of our industry peers. We see throughput that is 8x better than Node.js and almost 3x better than Go, on the same hardware."
> I’m a smug, bourgeois liberal who lives in North London – so the result felt like a powerful rejection of my entire worldview.

This sentence said just about everything I needed to know about the author. Being smug isn't a badge of honor, and describing oneself as 'smug' is as much of a red flag as a date that shows up late and describes themselves as 'A jealous person' or 'high maintenance'. They believe that they are so special and unique that annoying behavior is actually endearing. Heaven forbid something happens that shakes his worldview.

Edit: Apparently it's ironic humor. This isn't the first or last time I've underestimated just how subtle British humor can be.
It's like that parable of the monastery that used a main support pillar made from a very massive 80 year old tree. They planted another tree like it on the grounds of the monastery for when it needed to be replaced. A century later, the central pillar is in bad shape, so they cut down the tree and carve a new pillar. ... and never replace the tree they just cut down.
Fair enough, I'm afraid I didn't explain it properly
related to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987264
"One main resource" as in, it goes through all the underlying math required in details etc. It's usually assumed that people entering into DL have some experience with Machine Learning. Of course, for someone staring with ML, CS229 is the first thing she should pick up.
This has been tried before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California
Interesting, I could swear that the first time I clicked the link it went to a product page. I never saw the blog post.
Yep... Just ignore the fact they bought CentOS too. Nothing to see here.
I'd argue that it will be a while for Nuget to catch up.

When I go on Maven Central I expect every library to be cross platform except for those marked as platform dependent.

For Nuget... all bets are off for now. It's the exact opposite, I assume that things are not portable or at least have not been tested on say, Linux.
Recommended reading:

Jane Jacobs "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"

Ray Oldenburg "great good place"

Booker T Washington: Up from Slavery

I'd skip figuring out cities. Start with how to create neighborhoods that work? Where citizens can be educated, participate in their local government, and find work at the neighborhood level.
Your comment didn't link the two groups; you have effectively repeated yourself.
FYI, from the announcement. Probably the most important part at the end, italicized by me. Also note (elsewhere) that licenses are MIT and Apache2:

.NET Core Tools Telemetry

The .NET Core tools include a telemetry feature so that we can collect usage information about the .NET Core Tools. It’s important that we understand how the tools are being used so that we can improve them. Part of the reason the tools are in Preview is that we don’t have enough information on the way that they will be used. The telemetry is only in the tools and does not affect your app.

Behavior

The telemetry feature is on by default. The data collected is anonymous in nature and will be published in an aggregated form for use by both Microsoft and community engineers under a Creative Commons license.

You can opt-out of the telemetry feature by setting an environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT (e.g. export on OS X/Linux, set on Windows) to true (e.g. “true”, 1). Doing this will stop the collection process from running.

Data Points

The feature collects the following pieces of data:

The command being used (e.g. “build”, “restore”)

The ExitCode of the command

For test projects, the test runner being used

The timestamp of invocation

The framework used

Whether runtime IDs are present in the “runtimes” node

The CLI version being used

The feature will not collect any personal data, such as usernames or emails. It will not scan your code and not extract any project-level data that can be considered sensitive, such as name, repo or author (if you set those in your project.json). We want to know how the tools are used, not what you are using the tools to build. If you find sensitive data being collected, that’s a bug. Please file an issue and it will be fixed.
Have you tried it recently? I don't think I've had this problem with recent versions.