skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a valid point, in that it serves as the other side of the coin to the arguments of your parent poster. Other than transportation and carrying ability, cars also amplify things like consumption of energy, physical space, and so on.

I think this is probably why the question in the original article, "What should a city optimize for?", is really the MOST important one to answer.

If your goal is to keep housing costs low, for example, then presumably you'll want to optimize for space (based on the prevalence of suburbs, this seems to be the presumption reason for high housing costs). Since cars amplify use of space (parking, roads, gas stations, etc), then it follow that despite their other benefits, you would want to minimize vehicular traffic to mitigate this effect.

In other words, I think when people say things like "people should make cities that are for people" what they might be trying to imply is "people should make cities that are not for cars, because there are other things that I think should take priority".
When building a city from scratch you can cut-and-cover everything, and you can choose somewhere with good soil conditions for what you want to build.
Bayesian probability cannot always be interpreted as a frequency. For example, one could assign a bayesian probability to the extra-terrestrial origin of life. It wouldn't make much sense to think of it as a frequentist probability: one can easily imagine playing the future several times, but it's not so easy when dealing with the past.

And statistics is not just probability. Frequentist inference is based on procedures that "behave well" in the long term, but may or may not make sense for the particular outcome at hand.

For example, a 95% confidence interval calculated using a procedure that guarantees that the interval contains the true value 95% of the time may yield an interval that cannot contain the true value (for example the interval covers only negative values and the true value is known to be positive). See http://learnbayes.org/papers/confidenceIntervalsFallacy/ for a discussion of confidence intervals.

Another issue is related to how the "possible outcomes" are defined. For example, a frequentist analysis of the fairness of a coin after getting four heads and then a tail will be different depending on whether we decided to throw the coin until getting a tail or we had fixed beforehand the number of trials. Look for "stopping rules" or "optional stopping."
It has been given the enterprise treatment. Enterprise devs love big.
I sympathize with 2-4. Those things make it much harder to earn reputation by asking then it used to be. Fixing those problems requires fighting a bunch of institutional inertia, so it will require either time or some sort of judo move.

But I don't understand how having separate sites relates. If you contribute to some of the smaller sites, I think you will find you'll get excellent answers from people more focused on the sort of problems the site covers. Frankly, I've seen DBA questions asked on SO that get short-sighted answers from programmers. Those questions should be asked of people who really know how a database works under the hood.

I can see how collaborative filtering might help. But a big reason people have moved to dedicated sites as opposed to SO is that they want to have separate moderation policies for the questions they enjoy answering. (I've put a little bit of thought into the criteria for spinning off sites on meta.SO: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271989/does-it-pay-t...)

(Disclosure: I'm a Community Manager hired by Stack Overflow.)
JSON to GraphQL: Generate a GraphQL schema file based on any JSON data
For sure. As I understand it a lot of the build-out in Tokyo into what were more rural areas was done by the railroad lines - build a km or two, add a station and more developed land, repeat.
and this is how incompetence lives on.
Probably none since most Kodi add-ons work by direct downloading from file sharing sites, so the end user isn't sharing any content.
I want to paint doors with this stuff. Especially red ones.
Creating a scalable API with microservices using gRPC and Kubernetes
I bet the city could really pull in some money if they were allowed to charge for 911 calls too. "...I see, sir, please be calm. I know there is an intruder in your house...again how much do you have left on your credit card..."
For anyone interested in this research subject should watch all the talks at the Architecture IO conference: http://www.architecture.io/

Talks include subjects such as walkability, city design, urban data visualisation, crowd modelling, new transportation systems, etc.
So does TLS, without the ridiculous downsides.
What is to this day unknown about surreal numbers?

What are the important/fun/etc. conjectures?
The first VPS provider (JohnCompanies, 2001) ran entirely on FreeBSD and continues to run (mostly) on FreeBSD to this day.

rsync.net runs entirely on FreeBSD.

Oh By (0x.co) runs entirely on FreeBSD.
Surreal Numbers and Games [pdf] (2009)
Ask HN: How would you improve GitHub?
Github does web based repository hosting very well. There are still numerous changes that can be made to improve the overall experience of using the platform such as [1].

Most of the changes mentioned in [1], don't fundamentally change the experience of using Github. It still is essentially a git repo hosting platform.

Is there anything you would like that can improve the process of collaborating on code (such as an irc like chat integrated into Github)?

Fundamentally, how would you improve the process of collaborating on projects, not being limited to repo hosting?

Do you feel that the developer experience of collaborating on code is broken as there are multiple tools that we have to use such as Github for repo hosting, irc for discussions, mailing lists, audio/video chat when collaborating with a small team?

How can the the developer experience be improved with Github only being a part of the puzzle?

[1] https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
It's certainly getting worse. I get sticker shock in my own neighborhood now and I only bought 5 years ago.

But I do think it's possible to make half the salary in Seattle and still not spend 40+% of your income on housing. But I haven't rented in a while and I've heard it's getting harder.

The thing is that if you know how to live frugally, being in an expensive town for a while can work in your favor, as long as you promise yourself you'll take the money and run. If you meet Mr or Ms Right before you get out though you may well be in trouble.
Does Microsoft have some diagram or something that shows how all the .NET things fit together (on Linux)?

The C# development I've done was... fine, but that was seven years ago and it's like Java in the sense that it's an amazingly complex thing to grasp and keep up with. Understanding how everything is layered is pretty complicated at this point.
The mechanics of chameleon spit
>Engineering a full city from the group up sounds good but the majority of the people using the city are, well, people. People change

Astana is a good example of this type of a designer city
As an outsider trying to summarize the pros and cons:

Remain:
Pros: Free trade with Eu, cheap flights, move around Europe for jobs.

Cons: no control on immigration, cheap labor stealing jobs, shitty eu rules.

Leave:
Pros: Control over pound. Control on immigration. Control on governance.

Cons: taxes on eu trade, can't move freely for jobs.

But the Uk was kind of special. They didn't have the euro. They weren't part of schengen zone. Apart from influx of immigrants they had a good deal right?

Is the biggest leave argument the proposal to control who enters the border and not pay EU fees? That is a legit argument.
I was sitting on an exam where we were allowed (although not mandatory) to use a computer to research and write the exam and halfway through reading the exam sheets I noticed my colleague's computer restarts and enters the windows 10 installation mode. It finished half way through our exam time. His computer was useless to him for the exam.

This is shameful Microsoft.
Is this completely independent of the Basic Income project?
Prometheus and Kubernetes up and running
Devil's advocate: windows 10 is awesome as an OS, hardware support is very good.
This should not be downvoted. I'm getting "This website has been reported as unsafe" on IE11 on Win7 x64. Even if it's a false positive, it's disconcerting to see this on an article linked from the front page of HN.
The Story of the Ribbon video about Microsoft and data driven design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4
I think open straight streets don't fire up our spacial memory in the same way, and as a result aren't really "places" in our minds in the same way as more intricate and varied environments.
>so long as it's free, and it is

It's free if you only consider the cost of licensing the software to the end user.

It's not free if you consider that there is a value to the user's time spent dealing with the upgrade, dealing with consequences like drivers or programs that no longer work ( and in the case of OP), rolling back to the previous OS.

For me, "free" or not, this is the biggest cost: the daunting prospect of investing an unknowable number of hours of my time.
Assuming that you can avoid the problems of "old" cities by simply starting out with the right "new" city is like assuming that you can avoid scaling a web application by starting from the very beginning building micro-services. The "new" city that plans for being big will never attract enough people to grow much like businesses that start with micro-services will never be agile enough to find market fit and grow to actually need micro-services.

Money and effort would be better spent looking at and solving the plight of cities that have seen hockey-stick growth. Then you could take those lessons and watch for the next city at the start of a population boom and ensure that it grows in the "right" way.
A large part of learning the language is learning the API. Is it possible to build a single common API ?
Suprised that Donald Knuth is making such a categorical error. Per his description of Conway's construct, these numbers are progressively higher dimensional. In a same manner that we can not faithfully order a mix of Real and Complex numbers -- is 1.000001+i > 1.000001? -- we also can not meaningfully speak of a partial order of a set of numbers that include the form <:>.

p.s. Re. "worked for 6 days and rested on the sevent" and "J.H.W.H." -- woah there cowboys. Get ye down to earth. ;)
The weather wouldn't bother me, but I wouldn't be able to move out of SV without giving up my current job and salary. That's the part I'd like to change - I want to separate the decision of where to work from the decision of where to live. Once I can do that, there are a lot of places that I would be interested in moving to.
"The public has 60 days to comment on the new proposal before it will be formally considered. Comments can be mailed to Customs and Border Protection at its Washington office."

The article seems to suggest that the proposal can be challenged but there is really nothing that the public can do, right?
If someone has that level of access to your system, they can just send themselved the session cookie. Or if the cookie is tied to an IP address, they can just make requests with that cookie from the compromised machine.

If an attacker is running code on your system, you are already lost.
Because it's no longer open source.
Local zoning ordinances don't fit in 100 pages. The huge body of real estate law that is necessary to give force to restricted deeds doesn't fit in 100 pages.

Maybe they mean their 100 pages looks something like "The Law of the City of Newcity is identical to the Law of Dallas, with the following changes:"? Well, the law of Dallas does not fit in 100 pages.

Law is complicated because we have built a complicated society. This cannot be willed away by talking about 100 pages.
I hope that as part of this, some investigation will be done into pluralistic representation and better voting systems (e.g., Condorcet method[1]). If there is a minority viewpoint that can get, say 20% of the vote, but cannot get a majority in any given district, it would be nice if that minority viewpoint could still get some representation on city council, etc., as opposed to "winner take all" type of elections.

(I'd like to see this at the state and national levels too, but that's a big task, so starting at the city level seems best.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
Different times, and maybe that'll be a good place to start - with lots of land available.
And for each, it respects your wishes. That it's annoying is besides the point, also you're not getting telemetry forcibly installed, either.

It's only a dot release that contains security updates.
Yeah but so what. If the "best" language always won, why isn't the entire world running on Haskell and Rust or whatever? Java's eco-system is ginormous and it's deeply entrenched as the "corporate stack" in non-MS shops, with more than 15 years of history.

I'm afraid this is just too late to make a big dent. C# is nicer than Java, but not that much nicer to warrant switching over or rewriting your stuff in a very immature eco-system.

Maybe they're hoping to capture some of that elusive start-up market- and mind-share? That one is already pretty hostile towards MS...

Either way, this is a good thing, I just wish they had done this in 2005 or so.
Juniper JunOS is a FreeBSD-variant. Many other manufacturers use neither Linux nor BSD.
This is about cities. Highways between LA and NYC are not "cities" (cities shouldn't have highways in them, see Robert Moses's destruction of New York), so I don't see the relevance (also, fly?).

That image also doesn't include that one of those drivers might kill someone, and most of them will turn aggressively into crosswalks. I see and experience those turns every day in New York, and read about the unpunished deaths almost daily. Enough of it.
Ummm ... I'd call that salesmanship.

I also heard the CEO of SAP (I think) talk about a sales call he made while he was a JR sales rep at Xerox. It was also pure salesmanship but the end of the story was that he closed the deal without the woman who owned the company even turning on the copier or typewriters.

So, I think the thread that ties these two pitches together (one that was all demo and the other that was zero demo) is probably that the salesman got the decision-maker to trust him.
I started https://scrap.me as a soloprenuer though we are still very far from reaching 1M ARR but we are doing good. I have started this tool as a helping tool for my other venture but launched as a seperate product after our customers started to ask about the product.
I get the feeling that a bike share program of electric bicycles could have huge implications.
Why would you want to keep the financial services jobs? The finance sector ruins whatever country it's located in and corrupts the local politics.

The best result for England of a generally deplorable Brexit would be the complete exile of the City to the continent.
This is interesting stuff. Where'd you learn about this distinction?
@salomelunarojas good question. We're just starting to spread the word so thanks for your (positive) reaction!
"Infrastructure runs mostly on Linux. Just try finding a BSD based router."

You mean, like Juniper routers and switches ?[1]

Host-based routers have historically been nearly completely comprised of BSD. Almost universally. This is because for almost two decades the BPF[2] was far superior to anything linux had to offer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junos_OS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter
Public transit in Portland is incredible. I hope that's included in part of the study.
>Infrastructure runs mostly on Linux.

Uh, no. Telecom infrastructure is routers and switches by proprietary vendors like Cisco, Adtran, etc. The world's fiber isn't connected to some kid's linux or pfsense box for routing. Its connected to a RTOS that's battle-tested, supported, etc.
Windows 10 runs on 32-bit. The actual requirements are very confusing. And Intel still is making 32-bit processors for embedded systems.

I’m surprised that a 2-year-old machine doesn’t have the required CPU support. I just upgraded a 32-bit Core Duo system from 2007 to Windows 10.

I think the “easiest” way to check for compatibility is to look up that particular processor in the Intel ARK and check that it has the Execute Disable Bit.

But that doesn’t guarantee that it can run 64-bit Windows 10. Early-model 64-bit processors can’t run 64-bit Windows 10, because of missing locking primitives. Fortunately, that is a pretty small number of processors, most of them retired by now, because they were power-hungry and slow.
New cities are happening, just not in North America.

Consider Astana (Kazakhstan), Ordos (China), Shenzhen (China).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_City
Well, "detached from emotion and any sense of duty towards other people" would directly be an improvement if that is what you specifically mean.
The naming is really confusing, but then naming things is hard. As Phil Karlton famously said:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Since my LG G Watch is awful and I stopped using it, this might actually be fun! Thanks OP.
I am of the opposite view; if the people do not know and understand the rules, then then they cannot be expected to abide by them. There are so many criminal, civil, and regulatory laws that the people could not possibly be expected to know, that the system is unfair. Lawyers will often say that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but that is a manifestly unreasonable doctrine when even the regulators, legislators, and prosecutors have no idea of how many laws there are, and what is illegal.

My view is that there should be two classes in grade 10; one on criminal law, and one on civil, and the laws should never be more complex or more numerous than can be explained to a 15 year-old in those two semesters.

I think most people would agree that using a firearm is shooting it, but that problem would easily be solved by changing the word to "discharging" it.
I think that probably depends pretty heavily on what your app is. One of my clients has about 200,000 user accounts (and 40K actives/week) in a database that's well under 4GB, and it's been live for three years now. It's in Postgres, but there's nothing that'd stop them from using a 10GB-capped SQL Server Express until a point where having to pay for SQL Server is a good-problem-to-have.
> "The Leave campaign has no plan" comes from the aftermath of the vote.

Specifically, this report on Sky News: https://youtu.be/2Gybrn6XLh0
I don't believe it works outside of using EF. Last I checked no database drivers existed for .NET Core for MySQL and PostgreSQL. For that reason I've stuck to Django.
>more people that want to stay in SF than there are hotels available at prices people want to pay

The price discrepancy is enormous. Last time I looked, I could generally find a room on Airbnb in the neighborhood of $90-100/night. The shittiest national chain at the airport (I'm deliberately excluding the Tenderloin) was going to be at least $200/night.

"Hotel taxes" is an intellectually lazy explanation. If you actually price out a hotel stay in SF, you'll see "taxes and fees" are around 10%.
That's more true that than you think
http://www.pcgamer.com/counter-strike-go-mapper-threatened-w...
What are "green arrows"? And why do they significantly improve throughput?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969686
Curious, how would one capture the knowledge of a good glassblower?

As far as I can tell, automation changed manual skills two ways - by capturing and automating simple actions, it decreased the skills needed for a number of jobs but by freeing up resources up resources, it allowed some people to develop skills to a far greater depth than previously for specialized purposes such as science or art.

But capturing the skills of these remaining highly skilled individuals seems like a tough task especially since there's no incentive to build a machine to duplicate their activities - the total value of the product they isn't that high.

On the other hand, if someone figures out a way to 3d print high quality glassware, the whole field would go out the window.
Yes, thank you! I came to post exactly this. ;-)

"Pattern Language" anyone?

-and-

"Wherever you are in the world, if you are intent on planning and building a thriving neighborhood, this website is for you."
~ http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm

Please PLEASE integrate this stuff into what you're doing.
The image below shows the Hello World program with multiple fonts and centering applied. Since the compiler ignores any formatting, the program runs as before."

Mind. Blown.
consumer grade

The Slow, Sad, and Ultimately Predictable Decline of consumer grade 3-D Printing.

Constant advances are made in additive manufacturing as well as subtractive manufacturing (machining). Serious hobbyist probably gets more joy from small CNC milling machine or lathe that works with metal and wood than 3-D printer that squirts out glue.

Buying your own 3-D printer is usually completely unnecessary. There exists many companies that print what you want using high quality equipment if you send them blueprints. Making prototypes and special parts is getting much easier. You can print carbon fiber, titanium etc. or get precision milled parts from the net.
I'll second that. I lived in both the US and Israel, eventually settling in the EU precisely because the culture here is much less risk-friendly. People value security more than potential in much of middle EU.
also on HN frontpage:

Woman wins $10,000 judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985904

As everytime a negative MS news is featured on HN, suddenly two positive news suddenly appear with many upvotes - what a coincidence.
I'd be interested to see a large group of remote workers move to a small town and try to build a community. You don't have to move the entire company to these places, only some of the people at each company.

Small towns frequently offer tax incentives for manufacturing / government contracts. The same thing could be provided for those working remotely. It seems absurd but I think it could work. Two examples:

- Local/state tax credits for remote workers that live in a given area for > 2 years

- Subsidized loans for remote workers that decide to buy property

It might be considered unfair by the existing population, but the workers would provide a major jolt to local economies. One would assume that service industries would build up around them, in turn creating jobs.
there's almost no room left on the planet for building
"new" cities of any significant scale (meaning of
course not just the meticulously designed city core;
but the whole meta-city that will grow around it --
with suburbs, transportation links, etc)

No way. Spend some time in satellite-view in a mapping program and you'll see that there are huge areas of farmland that could be cities. There's a lot of space on the planet.
> Having a partner doubles your income.

That's only true if the partner earns about the same as you do. Being married (or in an official relationship) lowers your tax burden if you're earning unevenly (you're basically taxed based on the average of your wages in a system with a progressive tax rate), but that's all. It doesn't magic any money into existing. If you're both earning the same, you savings are exactly 0.

What having a partner really helps with is sharing costs. You only need a single flat (but probably a larger one), a single household, maybe share a car, ...