skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being smug and white isn't limited to liberals.

Smug white conservatives talk about the sanctity of family, while cheating on their second wife, or speak out against homosexuality while having sex with strangers in an airport bathroom, or blame the drug culture on poor people while hopped up on illegal pain killers.

Many liberals have complained about other liberals talking the talk but not walking the walk. The Guardian seems to make a living from publishing those articles. In 1966, Phil Ochs wrote "Love Me, I'm a Liberal". His introduction was:

> In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.

Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me,_I%27m_a_Liberal quoting Michael Schumacher, the song "would evoke "a strange mixture of laughter, from nervous tittering from those who recognized themselves in Phil's indictment, to open roars of approval from the radical factions in the audience."
Well, a floppy disk. But close enough.
I feel like a person should be able to back their opinion up (for a specific case, not in general), instead of just mindlessly quoting a line from a bible.
I hear Drew's done some great work with this. I'd look at it myself, but flashing my calculator firmware is a bit risky for such an overpriced device.

Thank you, College Board.
That is quite nice/horrible. Your link adds the bike to my Amazon garage without any other action on my part.
> So city dwellers will always pay more per unit area because of building costs.

And yet many will pay, because the benefits of cities are desirable.

> Second, traffic from density imposes costs on transportation. So movement is more difficult in a dense environment.

There may be an absolute limit, but with well-executed transit, the density of cities can offer mobility options that less dense communities could not begin to consider.

> Eventually, these costs overwhelm the networking benefits of cities, and dispersion is the result.

I agree, but in my take, that's largely because cities are artificially expensive owing to the speculative value of land-- you simply can't build better transit because the cost of land rights would be gigantic. You can't afford to build denser apartment buildings because homeowners enforce restrictive zoning to protect their land values...

It's exactly correct that this all benefits rentiers. But I think the right solution is better land-use policy which directly targets rent.
I hope people think about this sort of thing when voting this fall. I'm surprised at how many people will agree that neither Hillary nor Trump are desirable candidates but will also refuse to consider Gary Johnson.

This year's election seems like a perfect time to re-think unflinching support for the two main parties in the US.
I just found another one (while trying my 'free trial' of LinkedIn Premium):

* You have to enter a credit card number to begin the 'free trial', for a 'seamless experience' (ie. so we can bill you if you forget to cancel).

* You have to cancel your free trial 1 day or more before the end of the trial period to avoid being billed for the next month (at least I hope it's "1 day or more" and not "exactly 1 day"... the exact wording is "If you wish to avoid being charged for your free trial, you must cancel the trial one day prior to the auto-renewal.")

* You can't then delete your payment method at the same time, and must remember to do so after the end of the billing cycle.
Huh, I had a feeling someone would do a post-modernist-style critique of ancient higher learning academies. Look, no one is saying that ancient societies were perfect; but seeing as they literally invented the concepts of a platonic institute for higher learning and for the gathering of knowledge for human progress, I think we can cut them some slack for being inhabitants of their eras. The same way that, gosh, I hope your descendants cut you some slack for being an inhabitant of a savage era of worldwide conflict, poverty, materialism and food shortage, not to mention environmental degradation.
This author's experience is extremely similar to the subject of the latter half of the first episode of NPR's Invisibilia podcast.

Anyone interested is highly recommended to give it a listen.
Why would fares be the same when they don't have to fund the capital cost of a medallion?

By the way, according to the article, Uber is roughly breaking even in the US (lost some money last quarter, made money the quarter before).
What if the earliest employees make no sacrifice and take no risk?
The threat of increased future supply should be enough to depress prices.
That new condo won't look like such a good investment if you know there will be many more popping up in the neighborhood in the next 5 years.
Wow OP, this is a ton of amazing work (in the GitHub organization). Your blog is great too. Do you have any advice for being so prolific? My butt can't take the sitting and my shoulders can't take the typing posture for the amount of time it seems to take to churn out so much (not being sarcastic in the least).
What kind of land-use policy are you proposing and how will it be kept out of the hands of politicians who abuse it for their own personal gain?
For the same reason that we end up hearing about virtually everything, eventually; people really stink at keeping secrets.
This is what nintendo should be releasing in November.
Very much not generally nor always.

Source: I am a professional high-volume database guy doing this stuff since the mid 1990's and still deeply embedded with it now.

There are projects that have chosen other nouns, and they have ridden the wave of publicity around this, but by my estimation* more than 90% of database-related projects still use master/slave.

*as in I haven't done any formal record-keeping, nor will I.
I didn't follow the "chain reaction" argument. Why can't a landlord drop a price on an under-performing asset without it rippling through to the other assets? And even if it did happen, their current tenants are locked into contracts. only their vacant lots would go down. Surely if the concern is devaluing their other locations, but those locations are also empty, then that "value" only existed on paper in the first place.

Also why not just subdivide the vacant space into several stores at the same price per sq ft?
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right. all has been resolved after we submitted screenshots.
Are you kidding me? Dunno, but $3k/mo for a 3bdrm apt is pretty unaffordable. Add $500 for duplex, and $1k for a single-family.

That's literally double what it used to cost 10y ago.
I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that most of the people going to ITT-esque schools are getting Pell Grants (free money, not loans) first and foremost to cover their costs.

I didn't even know this was a thing until after I graduated (I never got a Pell Grant because my parents made too much money).

Some schools have over 90% of their students funding their entire costs through Pell Grants (look at University of Puerto Rico or Interamerican University of Puerto Rico for some extreme examples).
That stuff already exists. In many cases, it's the only thing that still exists. In the podunk little town I grew up in, every scrid of industry has been outsourced or regulated out of existence, but the schools, hospital, local college, government services, and utilites are still around, and are the primary sources of employment, by an overwhelming margin. If you could halt the brain and youth drain out of the area, and put some people that were making real money back into the community, you could support some actual businesses, besides the WalMart and the gas station.

I actually have faster internet when I go visit my parents up there than I do where I live in the suburbs...
I dunno. I'm in like 3 slack teams and dozens of channels and I maybe spend an hour in the morning catching up with everything, then I glance at it a few times a day during builds and such. Every once in a while it'll suck up half my day, but I rarely think of it as wasted time.

I learn a lot in slack and we have a big company, so I feel like helping people out with stuff during the day raises your profile. I'm kind of a python dabbler, but now I have people asking me directly about stuff because I'm 'the python expert' since I answer questions in the python channel a few times a week.

Doing my own work is obviously important, but I think helping other people get work done is important as well.

Just this week I introduced a guy on a totally different team to cloudformation, and in the process learned quite a bit about how they were using elastic map reduce, something we've never touched on our side of the company. He learned something, I learned something and I think the company as a whole benefits (even though I probably delayed my own work by a little bit)

It's really good at blowing up silos if you're a large-ish company. The difference in how connected I feel to the rest of the company is night and day since we switched to slack.
Rendition is a radically different thing than extradition. Hence why different words are used for them.
Turnig off notificwtions wouldn't solve it for me. With email I read through what others thought was important enough to include me. Even on mailing lists I can mute threads I'm not interested in

With slack I have to read everything. It's like having to read through not just my inbox but also everyone else's inbox and on top of that no way to mute threads period. Sure I can not follow a channel. That equivalent to a unsubscribing from a mailing list. But, like I said above, a mailing list has threads so I can mute or ignore any threads I'm not interested in. With slack I have to read it all
So this argument is just a technicality. Please understand a little more about the background:

There is basically one person writing the app[1], and given the company has just a few[2] people _volunteering_[3] for them, you cannot expect them to release a large amount of code across so many devices. They prioritized the highest volume first.

Open Whisper Systems primarily develops a strong encryption protocol (Moxie's efforts). If you didn't realize, this protocol was adopted by WhatsApp[4] and also Facebook Messenger[5]. So, the developers of those other applications needn't spend time/resources on the encryption, but can release Desktop clients for people like yourself to enjoy.

People who use Signal trust Moxie. People who dislike Signal _may_ care more about features than the security properties of the software (note, WhatsApp doesn't open-source their software[6], and Telegram instead bets people cannot break their encryption[7]).

Also, their app will supposedly run on any OS that Chrome runs. I'm sure that was the intention.

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/commits/mas...

[2] https://whispersystems.org/#team

[3] https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/

[4] https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepap...

[5] https://whispersystems.org/blog/facebook-messenger/

[6] https://www.whatsapp.com/opensource/

[7] https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest
Yep. In addition to that, it’s also FOSS¹ and you aren’t limited to only getting it from the Google Play Store; it’s also distributed² on F-Droid³ too. One thing to note though is that the version of Conversations on F-Droid doesn’t support push notifications, since that functionality uses Google Cloud Notifications.

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¹ — https://github.com/siacs/Conversations

² — https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=eu.siacs.convers...

³ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid
My ideal reform would be the Land Value Tax[0], which admittedly has run into problems in execution with poor implementations.

It depends upon assessments on land value that reflect current market value of that land. In one notable case of the LVT in practice (Pittsburgh), assessors made a real hash of it, with assessments well out of proportion to market demand.

I would like to see a proof of concept to fix this, mainly an automated algorithmic assessment map of land values, based off of public sales records. It's a fun project to attempt; I should start up a repo some time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why?
I'm constantly switching between ArchLinux and macOS. I feel so much more at home with ArchLinux. But macOS gives me 12 hour battery life and closing the lid hibernates it properly.

What are you guys running and why?
I actually think about that all the time. But instead of doing it on Geary or Divis, I think the real win is in SoMa. Our city has six lane streets in some cases -- that's absurd. Build a strip of housing, retail, and parks down the middle of Brannan, and you've turned what I consider one of the least walkable and desirable neighborhoods in SF into somewhere potentially very nice to live.
A 50% graduation rate is literally double a 25% graduation rate. You're arguing that the only reason for the US government to care about the fact that students at for-profit institutions are half as likely to graduate is because they've got a grudge against them, as though this is some minor difference that no-one should care about.
It looks like FeliCa is based on/compatible with NFC (on a physical/radio level).

Is this something Apple could conceivably add into an iOS point release? Or is the chip the controls the NFC in the iPhone probably hardcoded to what it does now and not capable of being adapted (like a software radio wood) to a different protocol?

Even if the phone could do it with a software update, is this one of those things where that wouldn't be allowed because their implementation probably wouldn't match the required security specs (Wikipedia seems to say that there is some special crypto on the cards which they may not want in software).
We're not talking cattle, pets, and so on. We're talking software that does a combo of performance, integrity, and availability at multiple locations for a database. A lack of QA can wreak all kinds of havoc. I'm not even sure such a system is safe with bullet-proof, 3rd-party clustering if the core algorithms lacked the QA.

I'll reconsider my opinion if you link to a reliable source showing that failed logic in software continues to work so long as an extra node runs the same, failed logic when the first one crashes or corrupts data due to failed logic or hardware. Maybe redundant, incorrect computations add up to success. Like multiplying two negatives gives a positive.
RockStor is a Linux/btrfs equivalent to FreeNAS - I've been running it for a few months and have been pretty happy overall.

http://rockstor.com/
>you can use equipment that will make it easier for you, but then others might not feel as impressed.

Put another way if do something in a non-orthodox way (free ascent w/o oxygen) that might be MORE impressive than a traditional ascent with O2 assistance but that doesn't mean the traditional ascent isn't impressive on it's own.
"black people" isn't necessarily anti-PC. Lots of people identify that way in preference to African-American. (And PoC is a wider group, not an equivalent alternative.)
Really? You don't think people are capable of being traumatized by pregnancy, death, or insects? Personal injury and insects are among the most common phobias and pregnancy should be fairly obvious as to why it's on that list (I don't want to elaborate because that could be traumatizing).

Maybe you should try having more empathy for oppressed groups and individuals rather than writing off anything you can't immediately connect to your own experience as infantile.
Wow this WAP Push SL thing seems egregious. It's understandable that somebody thought it would be useful, for like five minutes. But how could a standards body or any of the several different OS companies who have implemented it not have realized how monumentally unwise it is to just automatically run shit that randomly gets sent to a phone?
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Me too. It instantly reminded me of the old PC game, Star Control II (the spiritual precursor to Mass Effect), in which an advanced alien race leaves behind artificially-created planets with similar properties, which when plotted together on a map, converge towards the location of their homeward, as if a galactic arrow pointing the way.
What I will give your team is credit for owning up to this mess. Many would try to hide it. I hope you all resolve it in near future so you succeed later on.
Thanks! I just spend a lot of time working. Maybe you can look into more novel keyboard designs and nicer or novel chairs? I use a mechanical keyboard with cherry MX blue switches and an above-average desk chair.
>Must I now stop wearing my wolf shirts?

That's probably a good idea either way...
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Generally, if that happens, it got "bought" for less than was invested. That's a rather mediocre outcome.
What a heartwarming story that completely distracts the public from the real political scandal behind EpiPen.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-epipen-ceo-bresch-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/business/mylan-epipen-sena...
FWIW it's very difficult to brick a calculator without doing so intentionally. The boot sector has a recovery mode built in for reflashing in case of the worst and the boot sector itself is write protected except in some very exceptional circumstances.
In the case of the EpiPen, the FDA approval process is _long_ over (as in, decades ago). The price has increased several times over in the past decade, despite no increase in the production cost (it's $0.50 worth of epi and a couple bucks worth of plastic).
The above-average desk chair has made a huge difference but I've been using a cheapo keyboard for ages now, will have to get on that. Do you use a keyboard tray?
It's been the most consistently effective method for at least 2500 years, probably longer than that. The oldest formula in the book is land=wealth.
Hilarious introduction text.
This. There are all kinds of rural US towns with existing infrastructure that are slipping beneath the waves because there aren't any jobs. Not everyone wants to live in Manhattan - if I could telecommute from a more rural location I would.
Who funds their "crack our encryption" contest[1]? I imagine also the same pot?

[1] https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest
That Share Tech Mono font gives me a headache.
Anybody know if and what limitations iOS and/or Android put on WAP Push SLs?
...how does it do that?

You call attr.asdict() and it searches the attribute values, including inside lists, for more attr objects to convert into dict values?

What kinds of values does it search through? The documentation doesn't say, it just gives an example where it works inside a list for some reason.
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There's a differance between being abstraction challenged and wishing to understand the abstraction.

We don't have a name for what you call values, as they're either irrelevant, or nonexistant in most contexts, and barely mentioned. However, we can't call them values, as that name is taken. Most CBV languages call them atoms, but that doesn't fit because they aren't necessarily atomic.

Let's try... Symbolic value? It seems to work: a given symbolic value represents all other equivalent symbolic values, and it's value that behaves like the symbol type in most languages. So that works unless it's already taken.

The point is, your definition of value needs a name that doesn't collide with the names of similar concepts and ideas. It doesn't really matter what it is. Unfortunately, this is one name clash that gensym can't handle for us. :-)
Although, realistically, that's what tends to happen anyway and has been for a long time. I know lots of people who liked the urban lifestyle even before it became as popular. Walk to a bar or restaurant or head to a play after work.

At least many of them started valuing a yard, easy access to a car, and better public schools after they had children.
Playing devil's advocate slightly, but as a web developer recently getting into ML over the last year, it's really nothing that fancy. Even the cutting edge like "word2vec using long short term memory neural networks" is still at its heart a "dumb" approach to 'intelligence'... treat the phenomena like a black box, let your system figure out the 'unknown parameters' automatically from data, don't ask too many questions. Sure there are a lot of aspects to tweak and tune, but at its heart, it's still a 'dumb' approach. It can still get a lot of mileage for a lot of types of tasks, no question, but it's pretty straightforward all in all. Today you can use very accessible Python packages or frameworks like Tensorflow to implement pretty much any of the best learning algorithm almost instantly. There are likely entire fields of ML that I am short changing, but as far as anything popular you read about, which at least I have been exposed to, it's certainly very interesting, but not particularly 'scary' in any sense.
> Also why not just subdivide the vacant space into several stores at the same price per sq ft?

Zoning, frontage, accessibility.
That is only one of many factors involved. We are talking about communities. When a big new software innovation comes out people have meetups and talk things over. That doesn't work with a highly distributed workforce. No matter what employers do the same forces will be at work concentrating high end labor.
if you're just using python for simple scripting and a random failure now and again isn't going to ruin your day, it's fine to just use json.loads, IMO. I've written quite a few scripts where the time it would take to do it 'right' wouldn't be worth the effort.
Google disagrees with you: "the avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against." Nothing in that relates to 'trigger warnings'.

It's nice, though, that you just declare me wrong by fiat, without any evidence to support the definition that you believe (or even what the definition is).
But for whom?

For instance, consider John Arrillaga[0]. Land in the Silicon Valley made him billions. But does that make this a sensible system?

Silicon Valley would exist whether or not people speculated in land, and yet we consider fishing for gains to be a noble pursuit. I think it actively holds back actual improvements in communities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arrillaga
>I would like to see this, at the national level: federally strip all downzoning from urban cities, then increasingly tax single-occupancy houses, focusing on subsidizing and activating high-density housing for all income strata.

Washington already exerts too much influence on far-flung localities. This is the last thing I want to see - people who live in a place should be the ones who set the rules for that place.
Off-topic question but I'm curious about this: In my five years in NYC I've seen many stores closing, some that were great but just couldn't afford rent. This article shows a lot of storefronts that closed and haven't been rented.

Why then, are there so many bad, generic souvenir shops and massage parlors? I used to work in midtown and Chelsea, and there were at least two or three of these in every block. In Chinatown, there's a block that is just souvenir shops. Never been to a massage parlor, but all the souvenir shops looked the same and sold the same (overpriced) stuff.

What's weirder is that most of them (the souvenir shops) are pretty empty most of the time.

I understand the relationship between massage places and fronts for prostitution and that money laundering exists but I just can't believe all of these are able to exist for years and years without either being busted or going out of business, yet many other businesses come and go.