skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subway doesn't go everywhere, and NYC is so big that mass transit can take longer to get to places than to drive. Driving in NYC really isn't that bad as long as you don't drive mostly in midtown. 75% of the rest of the city is perfectly drivable.

Secondly, the concentration of wealth/population is so high that even if a small minority of people drive, it still causes lots of congestion.
Neither, they don't have a product. For all we know their technology stack is takeout food.
Well taxis are cars. Also a lot of traffic in Manhattan is commercial traffic - delivery trucks, contractors, ambulances, police cars. Those all pretty require cars.
Now this opens up a whole other thing. The comment you linked mentions that it is considered rude in Canada (which is where I'm from). But it also explains why it is used.

I apologize for any accusations explicit or implicit in saying "vaguely racist username".
Probably about as well as they feel about a company that insists they are contractors.
That's amusing as I posted this article, I am homeless and I have a laptop, tablet and smartphone.

Yes, I spend my days at the library to get charge for my devices, free Wi-Fi and access to public PCs. But I am dirt poor and all my earned income comes via the internet.

/PSA
In Powershell you can also do this:

ls -Recurse -Include *.docx

or even this:

ls -Recurse *.docx

which is really quite similar your find command.
I didn't know about vacuum tubes hga brought up. However, Chez Scheme posted here a while back started on 8-bit systems. PreScheme is a C competitor that's highly efficient. PICO LISP link has one plus others in the comments. So, they can be done.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210931

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

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2124
Atletas lesbicas das olimpiadas?
Did you just make up the figure "3%"? It took me literally one google to get the true figures for USA: by ton-mile, 39.5% by rail vs. 28.6% by truck. [0] Of course, this somewhat undercuts thread parent's lament, but after driving a few miles on the interstates I drive most frequently, one might share that point of view. In many locations at many times, the majority of traffic is trucks, and they clearly are more dangerous to automobiles and more damaging to the road.

[0] https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0362
Redbooth is Apple's first enterprise app
It looks like the us swimmers lied about being mugged to cover up their acts of vandalism.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/world/us-swimmers-lied-about-muggin...
Didn't know Smalltalk constraints were similar. Might have to add Smalltalk in the essay somehow. Which computer did LISP start on again?
They had an interesting start. They started as Development Seed[1] a Drupal development house in and around DC that specialized in non-profit, NGO, and government websites, web apps. They were working on a lot of Drupal projects using geographic location data. They had some cool stuff and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Knight Foundation to develop open source mapping projects. I think in the beginning, 6 years ago, they used OpenLayers[2], started creating their own tile sets and MapBox grew out of that. One of the projects the Knight Foundation sponsored is Managing News[3] which never really took off (awesome technology came out of the project but it was kinda cheesy) but all the founders of MapBox heavily developed it including Will White, Alex Barth, Young Hahn, Jeff Miccolis, and Tom MacWright. As Development Seed matured they stopped wanting to store configuration in the database which was one part of a huge battle between Dries Buytaert and Earl Miles and the Development Seed crew who subsequently dropped Drupal almost all of a sudden, stopped supporting their products (responsibly as Phase 2 picked them up), PHP, and became an early adopter of Node.js. That's when MapBox was spun from Development Seed. (I can't verify anything I say is true.)

[1] https://www.developmentseed.org/

[2] https://www.drupal.org/project/openlayers

[3] https://www.drupal.org/project/managingnews
Lyft Shuts Down Carpool Commute Feature as Drivers Opt Out
#3 holds if and only if there is affordable parking. UberPOOL to downtown Chicago and back can be cheaper than parking there, particularly for a long time.
How is disagreeing with history any different than disagreeing with a fact, like whether nor not a theater is on fire.

Setting aside other exceptions, like liable, the rule in AngloAmerican law concerns inciting or otherwise causing imminent harm. What constitutes imminent harm has varied widely over the course of U.S. history. Many people were sentenced by courts under the Alien & Sedition Acts, the argument being that seditious speech _might_ lead to imminent harm. The same things happened over 120 years later when people handing out anarchist and communist leaflets were regularly thrown in jail with even less pushback by society.

These days the interpretation and application of imminent harm is much narrower than it has ever been, and indisputably ahistorical. The conception of free speech that Americans enjoy today didn't exist for most of the history of the country and likely most of the history of the world.

In the context of Germany's history, it's not obvious to me (and shouldn't be obvious to anybody who gives it serious consideration) that their standard is intrinsically, objectively inferior.

I happen to disagree with it, but I don't think it's unreasonable on its face. And I'll be the first to admit that my preference for the modern, American conception is largely a function of my being an American and having internalized certain normative judgments unique to not just this country, but unique to the post-WWII political and legal context and in many respects unique to the past couple of generations.
The author wrote this tongue-in-cheek, but he has a point about the appeal of a low cost of living, family-oriented lifestyle in fly over country. I'm from the Midwest and this sounds like several of my friends' lives. I made a different choice than they did. After college I moved to Seattle, Silicon Valley and then New York, working at several big name tech firms. I made decent money and kept my costs as low as a could within reason. Silicon Valley and engineering culture is a lot of hype. After 15 years of working in tech and living in high cost places, I occasionally toy with the idea of cashing out and moving back home into a big, reasonably priced house, starting a family, and living off my small fortune. I suppose you always crave what you don't have.
Libgcrypt was probably considered a top tier implementation in its time (I'm guessing), but this man page[1] brings up a lot of concerns along the lines of the things you mention.

You've got:

- Multiple "Random quality levels", defined as "weak random", "strong random", and "very strong random". How does a any CSPRNG sensibly differentiate?

- "Weak random" is described as for use in "all functions", with a specific list of exceptions. In other words, it's the default.

- A random function that doesn't "drain the precious entropy pool", which is described as producing "unpredictable bytes"

- A "secure" variant of the gcry_random_bytes function, which still takes a "level" as an input, including "weak"

If I picture myself as a developer using this, there's a horrible amount of options, and a feeling that every recommended option is a place I'm likely to make a fatal error.

[1] https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Retrievin...
As someone who recently got his first exposure to PowerShell, I'll chime in that the case I needed to deal with was one where it added complexity.

In summary:

I need to pull data from a company we're partnered with, and get it into our systems. They ship it as SQL Server backup files. OK, no big deal, we can mount those up and run queries to dump stuff out to whatever format we like and ingest it.

Except part of that data is files, which were stored in the DB as binary blobs (in a table along with filenames and metadata). Need to get those out of there and into our storage as real files. OK, no big deal, I can just query for filename and file contents, dump out onto disk and then batch-transfer into our archival storage, right?

Except no matter what kind of obvious shell-idiom method I try to use, it doesn't work because PowerShell stubbornly insists that I must be working with text data when I'm using all those handy shell constructs, and so the files end up corrupt.

So now instead of just being able to shove data through pipes like I would on Unix (which, for all its faults, doesn't really care whether I'm sending binary or text data), I have to have my script go and instantiate objects for creating a file and reading and writing binary streams, and remember to clean up after them, and my script ends up way more complicated.

What would have been a pretty simple script anywhere else now has to know a bunch of .NET libraries and how to create and work with their types, and that's less useful to me.
I think you stopped watching half way through. If you'd watch the rest of the documentary, they provide some details on how that "finders fee" was paid, it was paid out in contracts to one of the judges side businesses and then distributed to other companies to finally end up in the pockets of the judges. Does that sound like a honest "finders fee" to you? I don't care how the judges in question formulated it, the method by which the money was laundered clearly shows the maliciousness of their intent. They even admit it by stating they laundered the money both to avoid taxation and because they "knew it would look bad".
Extra battery small enough to be held in one hand or tossed in a backpack
"Sponsor" is a standard term with a widely accepted meaning when discussing Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsor_(legislative)
Pretty neat. Is there documentation for this anywhere else?
Exactly; given Uber's history of squeezing their drivers, minimizing their take home pay in an attempt to get the lowest ride rates in the market, I wouldn't be too quick to sign up either..
With that setup, I'd just find a sheet of glass to press the page flat. Cameras have resolution in the right ball park these days. 600 dpi across 8 inches is, what, 4800 pixels.
This is the first time they've spoken in depth about the next version of Relay.
The money usually flows the other way - from broadcasters to the leagues/associations/federations for the broadcasting rights. And broadcasters will bid only if there's a reasonable assumption of unbundling that bid and reselling it to advertisers in 30-second increments with some margin. XFL is a good example of big money going into a new league with little to show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL#End_of_season_and_failure
I believe he is investing in water now if the end of the film is correct. Let's hope he isn't right twice.
You understand that I never contradicted the fact you're pointing out, right?
Looks nice in Safari on iPhone too.
Netscape did that with XPCOM [1] they once thought that this is a good idea - i guess for versioning of interfaces; nowadays firefox has moved on from this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM
> Going from the airport to Coney Island takes an hour and a half by subway (according to Google), rather than half an hour by car. Now what happens if you have what to do in Queens, Far Rockaway, or NJ?

Unless if it's during commuting hours, in which case they're pretty much equal I'd say.

> Due to #2, most NYers have to have a car

Definitely not. 56% of NYC households don't have a car, the highest proportion in the US among cities. Compare to SF where 31% don't have a car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
"And these devices have graphics displays but they lack GPUs? What device could that be?"

I've deployed Qt HMI projects on Cortex-M3/M4 devices like the NXP LPC1788/4088, and GPU-less A9 cores like the Renesas RZ/A1L. I've even done one on a wacky Chinese MIPS core.

They all use a raster framebuffer + LCD controller. Works just fine for a hell of a lot of things. I have yet to do a HMI project in Qt Quick, nor do I plan to in the future.
Submit a Pull Request to Inject Arbitrary JavaScript Code into Trump's Site
On the (In)Security of Automotive Remote Keyless Entry Systems [pdf]
+$20 per device (plus tax and fees).
More hours per day equates to more trucks total. If the transit between San Fransisco and Nashville suddenly takes half as long, we can reasonably assume that the number of trucks between San Francisco and Nashville will rise (maybe not double, but certainly a lot, and with reduced costs, who knows, maybe double or more).
As in change people from being the kind of person that does things that get them into prison.
Acquihires are interesting in that they might seem expensive, but might actually be cheap from the standpoint of mitigating the risk of an unknown and unproven team.

This case might be a little different given the short time this team existed though.
Document.all willful violation
Ah! I will file a bug against mdbook tomorrow,
Thanks.
(This vulnerability has been fixed, but there wasn't enough space in the title field to say so.)
They do a lot of coding, too: http://code4lib.org/

Drupal's popular with some libraries, too: https://groups.drupal.org/libraries/resources
Yes, a guy who ran an investment bank for most of their life probably had a lot of options available to him.
Link your MDN profile to GitHub account before November 31, 2016
What do you do for securing them?
It's an excellent book that takes you on a trip through a couple millennia of development of thought in philosophy and physics, all presented in an accessible and entertaining way. Highly recommended.
Off topic: Do Enterprise Java and COBOL feel kind of the same to you? I mean, as languages they're completely different, and yet...

Maybe anything that winds up trying to play in that "language for big corporate enterprise software" winds up like that?
quite interesting, but its a bit confused... and its not exactly a revelation that processes involving molecules or particles are best explained by quantum effects. this is precisely where quantum physics came from - trying to explain these things.

"The wet, warm, bustling environment of living cells is the last place you might expect to see quantum events."

stuff like this is misleading imo. its exactly the sort of place you expect to see quantum effects - because its in the universe and at the appropriate scale.
>We need 40 lashes instead of 2 years in prison.

Masochists all over the world support your cause.
Yes - but you only see those if you're watching on the network side.
"Exactly. I think once you drop down into assembler it becomes very apparent what C's goal was - to standardize assembly language and make cross CPU coding easier."

That's not in the docs I cited from the inventors. The original goal was ALGOL's benefits. Too hard on an EDSAC. So, chop off anything until you have fastest, most minimal language for an EDSAC. Thompson preferred BCPL over anything else at the time & wanted to do an OS in it on a PDP-7/11. Ritchie too. Mods needed to do that became the earliest C.

Portability across CPU's is never mentioned. UNIX and C were specifically designed for those hardware with holdovers in there to this day. A portable, assembly language from back then that was successful was P-code. It hid CPU/architecture differences, stayed efficient, and was backend of the compiler. Later, they wrote OS's in a mix of HLL's and P-code variant. Exactly the kind of thing you do if designing for portability.

C was ported because it barely had any features. These ports often had to be kludgingly forced into the machines. Quite different.

"If you code in assembly, you eventually need to begin writing your own routines for copying, appending strings/memory, etc. It begins to look suspiciously like the stdlib as it evolves. And consequently, your code begins to look like C with assembly mixed in for the control logic."

You might evolve a stdlib. What it looks like, how safe it is, how efficient it is, and whether it's auto-customized per CPU via macros, etc are totally different depending on your foundation. Most of Oberon System's OS is done like you would ordinary programs with function calls, type-checked arguments, and even garbage collection in later ones. The LISP machines were incredibly different with one able to use macros for API's or bottom layers. The Smalltalk approach was more high-level than most 3GL's with its OOP philosophy. House hid what little unsafe stuff it had in the H-Layer with rest of OS coded in Haskell with type-system & functional benefits.

So, C's style is neither inevitable nor the best. It was a byproduct of its inventors development style on two, specific machines starting with a typeless, low-level language designed for a worse machine. On other extreme, today there's people coding OS kernels, drivers, etc in theorem provers that automatically extract code in C or assembly with safety and/or termination proofs. The only C compiler, CompCert, that passed fuzz testing bug-free in middle-end used such a method whereas those written in C had tons of bugs despite years of bug-hunting. Drat.
I'm buried under manuscripts right now but making a mental note to look up Mike West's notes when I get home.
I'm completely baffled by this comment. I went back and re-read the article to try to pick up on the sentiment you're criticizing, and I just can't find it.

The derision w/r/t the woman's educational choice is so trite I'm wondering if it might be satire. Not everyone's goal in life to maximize money earned. Some people value a certain passion over riches, and many other believe that those with a lesser-paid passion deserve to live decent lives, not burdened with excessive debt.

As for the 'tech' comment... it resonated well enough with me, and seemed genuine. I didn't detect any 'high horse' as you call it.

It seems like you went into this article looking for something to criticize instead of attempting to empathize with the situation the individuals face.
We dont have a good understanding of the brain because our techniques of observation are very limited. No need to call for quantum physics at this stage.
And with this thread, we have conclusively proven the assertion upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309120).

Good day.
IBM 704 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Hi...
I hate this statement because it usually means the person making it doesn't know very much about free speech laws.

As another user points out, the limits placed on our free speech are all directly related to actions that can harm other people. Like yelling fire in a crowded theater. That can/will result in a stampede which will hurt or even kill other people. It isn't limiting what you're saying because it's some dislike political opinion, it's limiting what you can say so you don't kill people. There's a huge, huge difference.
the Unix shell has been quite static in recent decades; its a sign of success, sharing unstructured text through a pipe is good enough for most administration tasks and people got used to the many command line options of grep/sed/ps and friends.

is this really the best of all possible worlds? I think that its good that the shells get some new competition in the form of PowerShell - maybe some new ideas will come out of it (maybe like passing s-expressions or json around the pipe - something more structured so that we could do with fewer command line options - maybe)

doing structured data 'right' is difficult (right meaning uniform and expressive ways of handling it); historically it was easier to stick with unstructured text - but maybe there is a better way that would be easier to learn and handle.

(Well a major problem of structured data is that there are many possible ways of structuring - leading to more problems for the consumer of the data; maybe it was not adopted in system administration because there is not common/agreed upon culture of how to structure things).
Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
Note that most of what we call placebo effect is actually return to the mean. True placebo effect exists but its much more limited than what people usually think.
I wonder whether they were upfront during recruiting all those team members that the intention was to "sell them" to Uber?

(You know, just like that real estate developer is always scrupulously honest when negotiating for that last plot of land, they always say something like "This is the last piece I need to make my seven digit profit! How much did you say you wanted for it?", and would _never_ try to tell the owner of that plot "This is exactly the same house design that my alzheimer's affected mother has lived in all her life - it'd make her last few years _so_ much more comfortable. Would you accept $market_rate*0.8?"...)
I'm sorry, who's high horsing here exactly?

I thought it was a poignant article about the general anxieties that myself and my peers feel. I'm well off right now being in tech, but nearly all of my friends who aren't are debt-averse so don't want to mortgage their future to go back to school. Making it in king county which is the only place say a paralegal can think to make more than $40k in the state is fucking difficult. The jobs that pay well are all in the denser areas, which are hugely expensive. People are moving there because there aren't many opportunities in rural communities - you have to be in a major metro area.

Houses aren't places to live for those that own them, they're investments that they will fight tooth and nail to make sure the value of which never goes down. The #1 rule of buying property within 2 hours of where jobs are - already own a house. There's no bottom rung of the ladder anymore.
And i would add that homeopathic drugs are not required to prove their effect in blinded trials to be registered. Thanks to Boiron and their powerful sugar-coated pills lobby.
Wasn't that Google's "growth strategy" a decade or so back?
I'm thinking about avoiding it for my IoT device node work.

I'm prototyping a node project right now for a large customer (>50K deployments) and while Qt helped me get code running quickly there won't be a way to comply with the dynamic linking model on my final hardware. Can't afford the Qt license in my BOM (probably would be 25% of my bill) so out it goes.
Any time you see mid- or light-grey text on white, you know that the designer is on OSX and doesn't care one jot about other viewers.
"And adding inline assembler to manage the hardware - caching, that sort of thing - is just how it's done. Maybe it's possible to make a library ( or a bunch of #defines ) that manages this for you?"

The current ones might be like C on that part, might do something different. I haven't evaluated that. Here's a few:

http://www.astrobe.com/Oberon.htm

http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/#

http://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic/
Its a slice of life, not a technical discussion. There's photos, not spreadsheets in the article.
DSer/Mapboxer since 2010 here. More or less accurate.
Drama queen. Is not that bad.
Email is already doing this too. I've had sites tell me I can only register for x or y if I use an email address from a major email provider.