skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> look to what the DelBlasio administration is doing

The man's name is Bill De Blasio.

And the AMI used for affordable housing is so high, it's a joke. They include Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties in the calculation as a blatant concession to the real estate industry.

The "Low Income" units are further broken down into 40%, 50% and 60% of AMI, and nearly all the Low Income units being built are for that "up to 60% of AMI" range. That ensures they have the largest possible pool of applicants, and since the units are awarded by lottery, the new affordable housing units will take just as long to get into as a decade-long public housing waitlist.

There is a lot to criticize about our actual implementation of the affordable housing - from both business interests and progressive interests. This suggests that this is one of those politically Hard Problems that most politicians will always avoid like the plague.
>I suspect either the elites or the explorers of today are better when it comes to understanding differing perspectives of gender, neurology, sexuality, race, age (should you beat your kids?), and a variety of other dimensions

Sorry, but I don't find this to be compelling. "Elites of today" are also terrible long-term planners when you compare to most human history.

If your innovation helps one generation and destroys all others, you're not that prominent or benevolent.
Ok, thanks for clarifying.

I don't understand why I am being downvoted.
And also:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Sad%20State%20of%20Web%2...
Still, it's a better cult than obesity.
Re-reading Kahneman's thinking fast and slow and LOUD
I'm against anything to do with the no fly list, including not being able to fly, because of the utter disregard for due process and consequent inevitability of abuse.

From the article, the government offered to take him off the no fly list if he would be an informant/spy. If he could come off, then he must not be a threat. So he's on the list unjustly (as I presume most people on the list are). He should come off immediately, but instead the government tried to coerce him by selectively doling out his rights.

That's a shameful way to make a living.
I had a fantastic experience in Costa Rica. I researched on WhatClinic, TripAdvisor discussions, and various blogs where people talked about their experiences, then contacted a couple places to get a feel for what they were like. I ended up going with one of the most expensive ones there, but it was still a better deal than what my little sister paid for her root canals and crowns after insurance here in the US (she has great benefits as a teacher) - and of course, there was no annual benefit cap to contend with.

I'd definitely recommend going during their rainy season, since hotels and flights are cheaper and you'll spend a ton of time at their office and in your hotel room anyway. If your work won't be too painful and you can afford it, plan the trip to be longer than you actually need so you can build in a little more fun time. Most of the better places have coordinators who are happy to help you figure out where to stay and how best to schedule the trip.

You can send your xrays down ahead of time to get a rough estimate of what's needed, but they'll do a new evaluation when you get there. In my case, they told me that some of what my US-based dentists had recommended was completely unnecessary (and that the treatment plans had likely been more about making money). I needed a few root canals and crowns, but not as many as was recommended here in the US. Similarly, the CR dentist said there was no reason I couldn't keep my 2 remaining wisdom teeth.

I'd recommend staying really, really close to the office you choose. Traffic is pretty awful and the driving down there can be a little scary to those of us who are used to orderly driving. I stayed at the Radisson and went to Meza Dental and it was no more than 5 minutes back and forth, even during rush hour. When your face is numb and you're miserable after a long day at the dentist, that's really nice.

The only thing I think I would have done differently is to pack more of my own food, as hotel food started to get really old and food there can be surprisingly expensive, even at the local Walmart. The hotel employees repeatedly advised against going out after dark (about 5:30-6pm in June) without a large group or local guide, so I ate a lot of room service (which, weirdly enough, was the same price as walking to the hotel restaurants to eat).
How have software patents helped any of the big growing companies over the last 10 years?

Maybe explain it using the various startups which are quite a success: Whatsapp, Instagram, Wechat, Twitter.

Your entire comment reads like a false dichotomy. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FalseDichotomy
I wasn't sure myself so I checked wikipedia pages and for both brave and opera it says they are using chromium as base:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

I know that wikipedia might not be the most reliable source of information.
Ruby or Rails?
Investments are savings; just riskier.

(Did you think that your savings account at the bank is just held as treasuries? The bank invests it.)
Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0jEyOMa...
> people apply even if they aren't the kind of folks who can work 60h week for 10 years.

I think you don't know in advance how long you can stand this before you burn out.
Really? Is this what you have to do nowadays in order to just use your computer?

You sound like this is acceptable to you but what about my parents and neighbours and so on... should I tweak their firewalls?

What is M$ changes the URLS/IPs!

I am not in a position to boycott them and I don't know what the answer is except to not use Windows 10 but I know I can't use Windows 8.1 forever.
It hurts so much that the boost people decided they wouldn't even bother trying.
Server Check.in was posted about 4 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4901350) and is still running a profit (about 1 hour of my time per month maybe, and it gets around $2k ARR, $1k profit), though it never took off in a major way.

I'm working on a detailed 4-year summary post, which I'll post on HN soon. One of the offshoots of my work on the project, Ansible for DevOps, did (and continues to do) much better, revenue-wise!
> make the SV startup lifestyle possible.

You say that as though it's a good thing
I'm 50, can I find a computer job? Some Elixir for getting Agile or Lean?
One thing I can say in my favour is that I'm a deep thinker, I try to understand and grok what is needed. What kind of computer related job would benefit from a deep thinker?,

How could I sell or promote this ability?
There's been a rule: encryption must have terrible UX. Most encryption stuff even has awful UX by command line Linux hacker standards.

Now we have an effort otherwise but... cannot... resist... doing... something... to make it unfriendly...
Advanced Filtering to Go Deeper into Your Statistics
I think what he's saying is that he would like the option to turn off the nagging and do it when HE would like to.

Not asking much imo.
Unreal. That was one of most one-sided pieces I've ever read of an attack on innovation within government. 18F is doing great work. They're pretty transparent, too, given they publish lots of their activities and reasoning. Nobody taking bribes either that I'm aware of. Whereas, the "lobbyists" and "representatives" in question are either delivering or taking bribes from big companies to ensure they get contracts to continue sucking money out of taxpayers for nothing. This organized, outdated corruption resisting something that threatens it. Of course, the article doesn't report on that angle which is more important than anything policy-related.

Thing is, even the corruption aspect could be done better in a win-win way if they tried. They can still rake in the big profits on government systems. Just act as main contractors that interface with those government entities, subcontract out work to groups 18F would encourage, get good results, painlessly integrate it due to subcontractors' talent, and then deliver it to government with 30-50% profit for doing nothing. Continue to pull profits due to support/licensing. This has worked for defense contractors, including those named, for decades with subcontractors just using outdated or conservative methods. It could work on the newer approaches as well. They might as well go all in on such a better form of corruption as them loosing contracts due to efforts like 18F is only a matter of time. First mover advantage suggests they lock-in a new strategy immediately.

Note: Not that I prefer corruption. I just know it's not going away in an apathetic "democracy." So, I recommend stuff the corrupt parties might actually adopt vs something that eliminates their profits and re-elections respectively.
I wish there was a universe where Microsoft just a version of their OS that is exactly like XP SP2, but with the latest security updates and a browser that from then on updates independently and Chrome-style. Most people I know who use Windows would happily use that OS. To be fair, my environment is Apple-heavy and most of these Windows users are of the "put all my stuff on the desktop because I don't understand folders" variety, but this is a pretty huge group, and I suspect, also the group most bothered by this upgrade evangelism.

EDIT: and that's not even getting into the privacy issues of Windows 10.
About 2 years ago, I posted my side project HelloBox (http://hellobox.co).

Back then, I started as a tool that lets you create your own HackerNews clone. I did this, because every now and then, I was seeing Show HN posts that went like "HackerNews for XYZ". So I thought, I'll create a tool that lets you build your own HN quickly!.

Two years later, I'm still going and it's now grown into a community tool. Still not at the level that I want, but slowly getting there and hopefully monetize it soon.
Here's the article about it I found mentioned in HN comments before: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...
In my experience the paying the lease (or whatever the money due is formally called) is the least controversial part of it. You'll have more problems with the owners of the apartments. (So all the problems of the dreaded HOAs, exist for every building if it's owned by a group - which is quite usual in Europe.)

But these are very low-level problems, and they tend to sort themselves out pretty quickly (in ~5 years, let's say, if the building needs a renovation and the owners were not too keen on participating and saving for it beforehand).
The satire writes itself. What's wrong with .org/.net?
You just caused me to discover something interesting-- the title is only uppercase due to a CSS transform rule. When I copy the text in Firefox, it copies case-correctly. Chrome copies it as all uppercase.

I think OP uses Chrome :^)
The negative stigma is not about the language, it's about the ethno-social group as a whole.

I think New England is a red herring. There's a similar negative stigma to the Southern Drawl -- and that's really as white as it gets. "White trash" or "redneck" is an actual existing stereotype.

Both AAVE and Southern American English have negative connotations. The only difference is that AAVE also marks the speaker with an ethnicity that also has negative connotations (going by studies into biases, even black Americans have negative associations with black people).

Fix the negative connotations of that ethnicity and people think of AAVE speakers no less than of uneducated white people.

The reason that AAVE even in isolation "sounds uneducated" is that it is not only related to Southern American English (which already "sounds uneducated" on its own) but also that it simplifies some grammar and phonemes from English. No matter what complexity it brings to the table by itself, those changes make it look simpler in comparison and speaking simplified language makes a speaker appear less sophisticated.

AAVE by itself sounds unsophisticated to GA or RP speakers. That simply cannot be helped. It's inherent to the language itself. The only thing you can hope for (short of replacing GA with something that makes AAVE sound less jarring -- or having AAVE somehow become the language of the sociopolitical elite) is that the association moves from "hoodlums" to "inbred rednecks".

Note: I'm not saying AAVE "is" objectively less sophisticated. I'm saying it objectively sounds less sophisticated to a speaker of GA or RP. Even if you had never met a black person before and never heard AAVE before, as a GA speaker you would think AAVE sounds less sophisticated than GA because of the objective reasons I laid out.

If you can think of a scenario where AAVE becomes a language everybody wants to speak in order to show off how sophisticated they are (like French in medieval England) or where GA is replaced by a language that is different enough to simply make AAVE sound completely foreign (like if the official language of the US was Chinese or Spanish), I don't see any plausible way to fight its negative connotations (unlike those of blackness in general).
no mouse over?!?

thats half the joke!
I read something once that had a real effect on me in these situations. It was "who says you have to feel like doing something to do it?"

(Is it magic? Of course not. Will it work for everyone? Of course not.)
Artists and musicians can get away with invoking (haha) such names for effect. But tech despite its abandonment of the suit is still pretty straight laced and Ivy League at heart and interfaces with a high corporate and financial world that is even more so.

It's okay if your audience is strictly other tech people, but this is built for general use.
I wrote a filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with authenticated authentication for self use (https://github.com/netheril96/securefs).

It got a modest number of stars now, but few from HN (mostly from Reddit, judging by how upvoted the post is).
Software has diseconomies of scale, not economies of scale
Do you know if there is a specific bill or other measure that needs to be supported? Is it useful to write a general message in support of 18F?
I tried this once. All the local groups that took computers only wanted machines less than 5 years old, and even then only if they were capable of running the latest OS (ie win 8/10). Obviously my definition of "end of life" is different than most and I decided to continue using the machine. In fact, I am typing this on said machine. Continued use is better than recycling.
The parent is not talking about "savings" in the sense of savings accounts, but in terms of the macroeconomic sense of the word where savings denotes anything you do with money that is not immediate consumption (and therefore savings=investments).
I'm on iOS 7 and I get the same constant nag-screens. And I'd say if those hundreds of vulnerabilities are unpatched on iOS 7 too, that's a problem in itself.
Guess you better implement that down-right view you mentioned in another comment ;)
Personification of the Facebook Feed Algorithm
The template being inline is a bug, not a feature in my opinion. You can actually write arbitrary templates into HTML using <script type='text/template'> (or really any type other than 'javascript'), and with a simple function get ~90% of the power of template strings in languages such as ES6 or Python. Writing your templates into JS like that is plain ugly and unmaintainable.
> I suspect either the elites or the explorers of today are better when it comes to understanding differing perspectives of gender, neurology, sexuality, race, age, and a variety of other dimensions.

With the exception of age, the modern elite opinion is these distinctions don't exist or exist only superficially, a perspective belied by their own demographics.
Listen all the people! I'm RE-READING!

PS. See the comment above about the css styles. Probably it's some browser dependent handling of small caps
Allow me to go to your page just by entering a different domain, meaning having a URL schema similar to that of youtube, that would make things much simpler.
Why does your brain need to rest? What exactly 'builds up' and why don't regular tasks like the visual perception of the world cause this? And so on.
This is question-begging. 'We get fatigued because we get fatigued.'
I'd expect energy costs of a data centre + wages to dwarf the actual HDD costs.

A half-hour support call is going to cost something like €10 - for which you need to service 5TB-months of data (ie one month of 5000GB of data at 0.2 euro-cents pays for the support cost in min. wage employees).

It's great if this is a sustainable business as I only have 1TB of data at home and probably only a third of that needs backing up. So 4TB-months of data per annum, €8 - that's much cheaper than buying a HDD myself c. £50 [currently €60] which I expect to have c. 5 years of life. Though the A in ADSL then starts getting really annoying.
I think you're confusing monolingualism with everyone having a lingua franca. Your argument sounds like "We should all just have one common language; therefore, we don't need others."

Bilingualism has existed in countries for centuries without either language dying out. I'm all for everyone speaking English. I want people to know as many languages as possible. What I don't want is everyone speaking only English.

It's not ok to lose some of our knowledge. Uniformity is bland, dull, uninteresting, and sad. There's a reason why we think knowing a lot of languages is cool. There's beauty to be found in other cultures and their languages. I don't want to force everyone to learn languages, but it'd be tragic if we lost French and with it Hugo, Voltaire, Verne, Baudelaire, Dumas, Asterix and the rest. It just isn't the same in English.
If you're going to invert meanings, you need to be careful about the polarity. The way politicians (and corporations) do it is, as you observe, to take something bad (that they want to support) and put a good label on it; for obvious reasons, this is a winning move. What's going on here is taking something good and putting a bad label on it; for reasons which should be equally obvious, this is a losing move.
it is expected to take a few hours to un-archive datas
as for the bandwidth, we have well enough (we have about 1.5tb/s global external capacity at the moment with various global IXes and many tier1 transits),
the C14 platform network itself is designed to scale very easily (10g/40g unit base connections)

Mik (Online.net network)
A Natural Language User Inteface Is Just a User Interface
That's not ironic inversion of meaning. That's straight up deception.
MIT's Swarm chip architecture boosts multi-core CPUs
Can we get an update?
The resting metabolism is very high, because the brain is expensive to build and run. But it's not much more expensive to run on one task rather than another. This is one of the major flaws in the blood glucose theory of willpower as discussed by Kurzban: some additional sugar can't be 'gasoline' for the brain because the brain doesn't use up that much more energy working on something than not working on something. (As one might guess from the basal rate of 20%! Not much room left. Or from thermodynamics: when you walk or do physical exercise, you can feel your body heat up from how much energy you are burning. Your head doesn't heat up while doing arithmetic.)
It depends what you consider "the web" to be at this point. If you consider domain names, web server software, and data formats / protocols created for the web to be part of "the web" then I would argue that nearly all of the mobile apps use "the web" in some capacity. If you're referring to only browser-accessible web properties then I would say it's increasing at an incredible pace, just not as incredible a pace as mobile. Mobile is king right now but it's hard to predict the future, perhaps Augmented Reality takes over, or perhaps mobile is the first to enter emerging markets but as the cost and size of computers decrease we may see an eventual surge in desktop machines with web browser access. I look at the web as the "safe zone" or default last-resort method of accessing the Internet. I don't think it will go away anytime soon until we have a superior alternative that provides the convenience, efficiency, and level of open access to information that we see today.
I will explain the methodology better. My goal was to avoid false negatives.

See the methodology description: https://kozikow.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/top-pandas-function... .
Yeah, probably right- Thanks for the correction.
Key takeaway: Don't obsess about getting motivated. If you're not, let it go. But prepare a routine for next time.
Yeah that's one of the reasons it is so simple and easy to use a service like http://unreddit.com/. Great suggestion.
Closed-eye hallucination
DeepMath – Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection
thank you guys for sharing.
Genetics of Success: Education SNPs influence life outcomes [pdf]
A simpler type of holism might simply state that information generated by a system is distinct from the individuals that compose that system. Bits form a computer, but only in groups.

Its more complicated with businesses because we are aware of the greater system and attempt to influence it.
Ask HN: What did Bash for Windows give you?
This is not a troll question :)
I am honestly interested - what tools did you bring from your Linux toolbelt into your Windows world when Bash for Windows became available? (if any).

Any suggestions, tips and tricks are welcome.

Thanks in advance!
How to disable country-based content suggestions?
New Hillary Clinton emails about Iraq released
> "Liberty is America centric."

I wouldn't say it belongs to any nation, though if it had to belong to one it'd probably be France. The first two things that come to mind when I think of the word 'liberty' are both of French origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
It's really easy when almost anything is more miserable than X.
Oh, I'm not arguing governments are inherently and permanently trustworthy. I certainly wouldn't trust any government in existence right now.

However in principle a government is tasked with overseeing the protection and prosperity of a group of people (its subjects) whereas a company is tasked with protecting the interests of its owners (e.g. investors).

A company merely operates on its customers (or its users in the case of companies like Facebook where the users are the product, not customers). A government operates for its subjects.

At least that's the general idea if you follow Thomas Hobbes, John Locke or Rousseau. I'm certain there are quite a number of governments around which disagree with this definition.
The UK government's digital services implement Open Standards for most of the code they develop. While this isn't something that third party vendors have to do, GDS/PDS/MOJDS/HMRCDigital are all rapidly reducing the amount of work external vendors do for government anyway.

https://github.com/alphagov
Reddit story from yesterday? I wonder why the article shows as published in April.
Yeah, it still harkens back to when I was young and my parents had NPR on in the kitchen while preparing dinner.

I do the same thing in my house, though I have to say, I don't think my wife and kids appreciate it as much.

I'll miss Lake Wobegon, always a wonderful place to visit on the weekends.
Bulgaria Got a Law Requiring Open Source