skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic analysis. One important question not covered in the article: how are lanes assigend in swimming? In rowing we have a qualification system that is geared to have the best crews start in the middle two of the 6 lanes, then going further out. For all I know about fluid dynamics, swimming in the outer lanes should have a disadvantage (swimming close to the pools boundary adds drag).
I think that the parent comment author meant the usual anti-colonialism which attacks western colonialism as something unique and blames virtually any hardships of former colonies on it. I recently saw an article which argued that honor killings in Pakistan are to be blamed on colonialism — because, apparently, palistani men felt oppressed by colonial past and had to take it out on their wives, daughters and sisters. Unfortunately, this absurd position gets a lot of support nowadays, and often when you try to argue against it you're insantly labeled all kinds of things.
Don't the swimmers get to choose their preferred lane based on qualifying times?
Let’s democratize city data
Thanks Andrew! I really enjoy reading your blog, buying the book is just a way of saying thanks :) looking forward to your future work!
‘Bird strike’ forces Qatar Airways plane into emergency landing
I loathe facebook with a flaming passion. That it has captured identity on the internet, and chained it to advertising, is a disgrace. I feel similarly about Google, fortunately there are alternative search engines.
There are always going to be disputes and there are always going to be parties who disagree with the adjudication.

It's not like everyone is happy with UN resolutions or the ICJ etc. So don't expect perfection from whoever has formal control over this system.
Why/how has it failed?
Not just topology, but visibility too... IMHO at least, Pittsburgh streets in the denser neighborhoods (east end mainly) have a real problem with blind intersections and driveways, especially because of street parking. If the car's sensor system handles this well then that's really impressive.
It's worth keeping in mind for the HN crowd that "communicating with other autonomous vehicles" will require a huge leap in secure networking including government control of the car's software, basically.
Why can't people just delete the photos and videos they receive after 10 seconds?
> and amount to a difference between "choosing which hand to reattach and letting the other go dead," and "No lap-band for you fatty."

No, it tends to be a lot of care that isn't worth the cost that gets denied. This is very different from what an American expects, which is that everything they "need" (or what their doctor says they should do) ought to be covered.

The lap-band often passes, because it can be a relatively low-cost way to add a bunch of QALYs to a patient's life.

NB: I think having care decided on a cost-basis is a pretty good approach, at least to start from, but it is immensely unpopular in the US. On both sides of the aisle.

> Anyway, in almost all world single payer systems, rich people can still pay for vanity doctors.

Often. Not always. In Canada only recently could a doctor offer the same services the government offered, and that was against the will of the legislature. Their supreme court had to rule on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v_Quebec_(AG)
Might just be that China and Russia don't trust the US not to use this control to harm them, e.g. seizing domains as part of sanctions.
Yes, because housing isn't just about any "supply", it's the right kind of supply.

In car terms : If companies only built Lamborghinis and Ferarri's, cars would never be affordable for regular people. Even if you built 1 million of them, you'd never end up with the Yaris or Camry or other regular cars that the market actually needs. Increased supply can drive up prices, if your increasing the wrong kind of supply.

This is the same problem we see in cities today. Developers build exclusively super-ultra-high-end housing. If we loosen restrictions, Developers will just build more exclusively-ultra-high-end-housing. Sure, your wealthy folks will save 5% on housing costs as supply increases and the cost of "ultra-high-end" housing drops. But the 95% of regular folks will still forever be priced out of the market. It will take 60+ years before ultra-high-end housing becomes affordable enough for a regular person to afford it.

To solve the gentrification problem this article mentions ("to stop gentrification steadily erode opportunities for ordinary, middle-class people") we have to start by building urban housing for ordinary, middle-class people. Something no city in America is currently doing.
We don't know that. The article didn't back up these quotations with reasoning, it just assumed that they were fact. This is pretty much the definition of an appeal to authority. A superior article would lay out how and why such disconnects exist; I have no reason to believe they do other than one person I'm never going to meet having said so.
While the "length" of these services is reduced, the bandwidth is not. Waste disposal and collection, both trash and sewage, needs to be able to support the housing. So the parent comment's point is that you can't just free up the land on which the housing will be built, you need urban planning around it to account for the increased population. Unless they privatize that part of the infrastructure or shift the costs over to developers of high-rises, there will need to be active public development in areas where density is at a maximum as far as local infrastructure is concerned (even if density is being kept artificially low by NIMBYism).
Interesting that Pennsylvania is not on this list considering Uber is doing this in Pittsburgh.
Nice! This reminds me of an app I worked on many years ago but never finished. A Twitter clone that only let you post 1 message per day. The idea being that if you can only post once per day you'll make your posts more thoughtful.
Algol60 could never be taken seriously as a mainstream language, lacking Algol-like syntax.
Pollution is often a good proxy for total costs ignoring profit taking. NYC is the most environmentally friendly place to live in the US.

Why? Well large buildings have less surface area to volume and thus need less heating and cooling. Public transit is vastly more efficient than cars idling. Further, fewer cars per capita is far less stuff to manufacture and maintain. Restaurants are vastly more efficient than home cooking, and density reduces energy costs of takeout making even that better than heating up a stove to make a single meal. Yes, that iPad had to travel from china, but it did so in a huge efficient boat and could be unloaded right at their harbor.

I could keep going but for all their talk about environmental awareness SF adds a terrible burden. Now sure, it's a high cost of living area but that's mostly rent being paid both directly and indirectly. (Your chef also has high rent, and his doctor also has high rent...) Yes, taller buildings cost more to construct, but they also last a long time.

Keep digging and limiting new construction is a large part of why things get so expensive. Many really expensive buildings where built to hold poor immigrants.
Thanks for the claudiajs link - that's nice and tons of examples too!
Ty. Love to follow this as it progresses

Government has to get involved. Sometime and somewhere. Public safety is one aspect

I suggested to one town councilman that our town introduces a bill (ordinance) banning driver less vehicles. Just like we can ban oversized vehicles and parking in the winter. Our government should ban then now while it is not yet happening.

He thought it would be a good idea not to ban them but to capture a licensing fee.

Hopefully this will get introduced at the next meeting
But...the other drivers on the road?
Do we hate the ad's or the ad experience?

The other day I was walking down the street.

Few people approached me offering stuff, magazines, religion leaflets, food coupons and whatever. While I appreciate that those people are trying to feed themselves, I find it way too intrusive for them trying to approach me and me having to say no to every single thing.

On the other hand I saw a small free magazine stand. I checked it myself and I liked it so I took it.

The kind of advertising we have on the web is the first one I mentioned, the one that they are trying to force the ad on you.

Why can't we have ad's that are like those small corner free magazine stands that you'll pick the item when you really want to.

My point is while I don't use adblockplus, facebook should stop playing around and find a way to serve better ad's.

Also noone mentioned the fact that a lot of facebook ad's are not filtered e.g fake products all over the place.
Fuck San Francisco. Orbiting satellites are where it's at.
Thank you so much! Very kind words.
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Instagram Event channels – another Snapchat clone?
Yes, just pointing out that the USG cannot be trusted, free speech laws or not.

In the 90s I considered the gTLDs (.com, .net, .org) most attractive, because I wasn't quite sure how local governments would react and USG seemed reliable.

Now the situation is reversed, I value domains in local ccTLDs more than the gTLDs. Of course, ICANN creating an insane number of gTLDs doesn't help either.
True. Sometimes these colonial abuse stories are whitewashed with "Yeah, the old timers were racists, but we're better now."
This looks really nice, I always hate managing servers when I really just want to run containers.

Does it connect easily with Docker Hub?

And what about running databases? How would I do that so that I don't loose any data?
Ask HN: How do you manage your projects?
Internet trolls simply serve to validate the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes; people are nasty short and brutish. This is hardly a new thing. What is a new thing however, is the frequency at which people allow some anonymous online person to completely dictate their own sense of self-worth. If people stopped spending so much time caring about what others think, then maybe they would realize its just meaningless static.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but README file was a convention for decades literally.
There are thousands of books and dozens of schools of thought on the best practices for these things.

But I would suggest just searching around on the web for companies doing work in fields that you have experience in or fields that interest you. Go look at their website and see if it looks like a group you want to work with. Then check to see if they have any open positions. If they don't have anything you'd fit well, but you're confident you have something to contribute, contact them anyways. Write them a cover letter saying that you think you can contribute something they haven't thought of and send your resume with it.

edit: Brudgers raised the really important point that there are many practical considerations to make before contacting companies. Figure out what's possible first.
The way to make more old buildings is to build more new buildings, ten years ago. We're just playing catch-up.
There was no suppression of the Guantanamo abuses in the US media. It was widely reported.

I also wonder if you misremember. It's plausible that the person you described refused to believe that the abuses were systemic. It is implausible that a "very intelligent professional" would legitimately deny the abuses entirely. They were widely reported and well documented.

Edit: Actually, you could have just been dealing with someone who actively chooses ignore this stuff. That is a sad possibility. It was still widely reported, though.
Yes one of the great quirks of European history is that the British Empire is not held in the same esteem as the Nazi empire. The British Empire was bizarrely racist and killed tens of millions of people worldwide. Maybe even more than that if you include the promotion of slavery as a business on global scale. England is so lovable now though.
Milo's backdoor into Synapse?
Strategy and Role Playing games account for 30% of all mobile game revenue
>Humanity cannot progress by leaving people behind.

Most historical evidence suggests the opposite.
Here you can see imperial life in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhKYg641K3c&feature=youtu.be...

Surreal imagery.
> My road has cars parked on both sides. Sometimes vans. Sometimes they almost block the road.

Somewhat ironically, once self driving cars figure out how to do this at scale there won't be cars parked on both sides of the road.
I don't know of a setting to delay outgoing mail.
The public option isn't supposed to be government supported. It's run by the government, but with a private budget, taking all their operating fees from users. A lot of people on the right are skeptical that it will become either de jure or de facto government supported, and comments like "I don't expect that many private insurers will continue to participate in the exchanges if they have to compete with a public option" are the reason.

I'm skeptical of that the public option will work as well as its proponents say it will. We already have non-profit health insurance companies, and they haven't completely eaten everyone else's lunch. But it's worth a shot, as long as it really truly sticks to that mandate of not being government supported. The argument would need to be really convincing given how many of its backers think it ought to be government supported any way.
Seems just break all boxes into cubes, then draw in z index order is the best.

Also as some say, just throwing it into 3D and locking the perspective is waaaay easier on the math. For example, 2 of my own projects.

http://chad-autry.github.io/hex-grid-map/#/demo
vs
http://chad-autry.github.io/hex-grid-map-3D/#/demo
Tips on staying creative day in, day out
Microsoft open-sources PowerShell and extends it to Linux
So they cannot be trusted.

This implies there is someone who could take over that can be trusted. I'm not convinced there is, personally. The question then becomes "Who do you trust more than the US" in this context. I think the answer to that question would be more interesting.
Then you were dealing with someone willfully uninformed. The abuses were widely reported in the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12312825
Good overview. Wrong conclusions.
Walking away has to be a fundamental right.
If you use this for something, please be sure to keep the data fresh! Especially now that new TLDs are being added at a steady clip.

I once had an issue where a mobile user's browser would do a Google search every time they typed one of our domains into the URL bar. They weren't doing anything wrong - other domains worked fine. They were using some Android phone from 2013 which had been abandoned by the manufacturer, and it turned out the stock browser was using the public suffix list to decide if the input should be treated as a URL or as a search query. The list was as old as the browser, and since the domain ended in ".link" (added in 2014) it didn't think our domain was a domain. (The workaround was to type out http:// or https:// before the domain, but that's crappy UX.)

If you use this in a server-side app, please use cron or something to keep it updated. If you embed it in a client app, make sure to update it as part of your build process. And if you know your app won't be updated very often, consider having it update separately from the app itself. (Does anyone know if this is hosted on some public CDN somewhere? I assume having a client app fetch directly from publicsuffix.org isn't kosher.)

Edit: My mistake, on https://publicsuffix.org/list/ they do recommend having client apps pull directly from their site, and limiting updates to once per day.
>If companies only built Lamborghinis and Ferarri's, cars would never be affordable for regular people.

This is nonsense. If companies produced exclusively luxury products in excess of demand, they would become affordable because that's the only way they'd be able to sell them. Of course that wouldn't be profitable, so they don't do that.

Houses aren't expensive because they're "luxury", they're expensive because they're scarce. Building "urban housing for ordinary, middle-class people" doesn't help much if there are still lots of rich people who want to live there.
I like the idea of this. But it should be an email client.
Quantum Game with Photons: In-browser quantum mechanics puzzle game
You can always charge a fee on new construction to pay for these costs. A 30k fee sounds insane, but on a new 300k apartment that cost 100k to build it's nothing.
Ask HN: Effective ways for finding top quality education online? I know one way
I want to expand my bag tricks for finding quality education. Going to websites like Coursera is often a hit and miss. Currently I know one trick and its success is amazing for finding quality education.

I go to the search bar of HN, type in what I want to learn -- while trying to have an idea of how the algorithm will pick that up -- and look if I see a recommended course that scores higher than 50 points (preferably > 100). Then, I'll check the comments to see if it's a good course. If the top comment says it's a good course and there are no clear objections underneath it, I will learn that. At the very least it assures for an above average quality course but almost always it is stellar material. It definitely beats Google.

Do you know other tricks? Or do you know other communities (e.g. certain subreddits) for which the same trick would work?
The computation is, but the scene description isn't. In the general case, any ray can hit any object from any intersection, which means effective use of cache lines is the hard bit.
That problem is that loans are easy to get the gov stamp.

It's more that the fee the government charges for its stamp is too low, such that if the loans sour, the taxpayer ends up paying back the loan.

Partly because the state charges too little for the guarantees it offers, taxpayers are subsidising housing borrowers to the tune of up to $150 billion a year, or 1% of GDP. Since the government mortgage machine need not make a profit or have safety buffers, well-run private firms cannot compete, so many banks have withdrawn from making mortgages. If there is another crisis the taxpayer will still have to foot the bill, which could be 2-4% of GDP, not far off the cost of the 2008-09 bank bail-out.
Helsinki can get as low as -30C in winter. I don't know if you've ever experienced it, but if it's -15, -20C or lower, you really don't want to be walking or cycling anywhere, the cold just bites through any clothing and it's really uncomfortable on your face.
I'd display the hour for three seconds then the minute for one.
This is still irrelevant.

You were asserting that the majority of programmers think Linux == UNIX and have never tried to write a portable application.

Thst is clearly false as the majority of programmers probably confuse Mac OS X for UNIX and most modern unix-like software is portable to at least Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Portable is more general than "portable across every UNIX that has existed."

Increasing the specificity of your argument mid-way to avoid the incorrectness of your initial general argument isn't very genuine.

But yes, your revised second statement is probably correct: most UNIX programmers have never tried writing portable code across "DG/UX, Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, FreeBSD, Red-Hat, Debian" exactly because there is no practical reason for it.
Building and Securing a Modern Back End API
Amen. E.g. - I had to pick up a project after these 2 guys in the place I was at in the late 90s that solely survived on the skills of the (rather good) QA in the project.

Alas, it was a C program, and any significant change in the (batch) input data would cause the thing to dump core. I'm not blaming the QA for failing to provide all possible variations of the client data (spec???), just the chumps who couldn't do "defensive programming" (e.g. - I/O error or null pointer checks)

Leaving these guys unattended for any length of time would be a disaster.
The timeframe is slightly disappointing since I think a lot of people were expecting Q3/Q4 2016.

The architecture itself sounds pretty much like what everyone was expecting, a traditional fat and wide core. Their power management and foundry process will probably make the difference as to whether final performance is impressive or not, may also be the cause of the delay.
Unity on WebASM looks really solid though. I'm expecting that's what they're going to be focusing on in the coming years.
In other news: people who have to focus on detail oriented tasks often make mistakes.

Happy now? Sheesh.
Sorry, you are right, X should be set to 94-ish.
San Francisco has no adjacent municipalities that aren't separate counties, since the city and county boundaries have been identical since 1856.
Founder is here.

Yes, "hyper pull" work seamlessly with any Docker registry, public or private.

For persistent workload, Hyper_ provides the EBS-like volume, e.g. "hyper run -v vol:/path", but the volume is not local, instead it is distributed and replicated. And similar to EBS, you can create snapshots and restore to new volumes.
Powershell on Linux – Powershell Is Open Open Source
Well, it depends on where you are.

As far as I know, where I have lived most(Western Australia) it is not considered vandalism.

This is the third result on Google for "vandalism chalk"(though it seems to have some mixed messages):

https://itsartlaw.com/2013/09/02/california-court-rules-that...
The simple reason why this will never happen in SF is because property owners have both the means and incentive to restrict housing supply.

New York is rather different in that NIMBYism never had the formal tools to block development as effectively.

In order to convince homeowners to allow expansion, you would need to pay them off somehow. Perhaps a large tax on new developments that is redistributed out to nearby property owners?

EDIT: I suspect people don't like the implication that property owners should get even more, but fundamentally property owners are the ones that vote and go to city hall meetings because they have the most skin in the game. Political and economic power are already concentrated in their hands, so there is no workable solution without their consent.
Business Hacks Part 2: Business Optimization and Analysis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313179
Let me tell you about my issue.

There are too many apps and websites. This makes life so complex. I want a one-stop interface that let me do everything.

Build it and you will win.
FidoNET was greatly efficient in a time of limited connectivity. I find I often schedule emails. Even wrote a plugin for my ticketing system that scheduled emails to maintain a sustainable flow of interactions with one client and not burying them in emails. Can't wait to it to be reinvented like slack brought out a modern IRC client. What would today's FidoNET look like if there was little to no internet available?
The value from all of this technology/automation is being captured by a smaller and smaller number of people. When your employer introduces technology that makes you 50% more productive, they are not going to pay you 50% more or let you work 50% less for the same pay. They're going to pocket the surplus as profit.
The causality goes the other way: places become dense because people want to live there and bid the prices up, and developers respond to those prices by building taller. The really high prices happen when people want to live somewhere and bid the prices up, but no one can build to make room for them because of zoning regulations.
I can recommend Ghost it's a light blogging cms
indeed tell us more...
Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves: Political Theory from the Future
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux