skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's much doubt about how awesome it is to live a trivial distance from everything you need. This much is clear from the extreme premium that housing in such places commands compared to freeway-connected suburbs of US cities. It's not surprising that abundance of public space and a lack of through traffic would make them even better.

Cars and their infrastructure are indeed ugly and dangerous, but we have them because they so drastically increase the quality of life available to those who can't or won't pay the rent in the same superblocks as their jobs (or move to tenements).

Increasing the luxuriousness of this kind of premium housing would seem to come at the cost of extracting yet more free time from those who need to come into or through these areas but can't live in them, or yet more money from those who decide to stretch their housing budgets. It'd be entirely appropriate coupled with a massive increase in rail infrastructure or something, but on its own is concerning.

I'll be very interested to see whether US cities that adopt this model can add supply faster than people who used to commute can bid up the price of close-to-everything housing. My guess is no, not even close, a few elites get great lives and everyone else is driven to exurbs.
They might pass the email around via TLS but they store their copy unencrypted on their servers[1]. Even if they do one day decide to encrypt their local copy, they hold the keys, you don't. According to the Ars article on this subject[2], Google has officially said "We haven't been subpoenaed and if we were we'd say 'no'", but that stance could change in the next few years.

[1] https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/faq/#wh...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/report-fbi-andor-...
+1 for Hickey's talks. The Changelog compiled a selection of the best: https://changelog.com/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits/
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Because the quicker we adopt it the better.

The shittiest of routers support it so when you get one from a major internet company you should expect that it has support for an internet protocol which has been out for 18 years.
Doesn't qualify as "inexcusable" for me, sorry.
The NCAA is far worse. KSP was exploitative, but at least these employees could quit and get a different job. If you want to play pro football/basketball, the ncaa owns you. And they're gonna make sure that everyone around gets paid (coaches, universities, chancellors, shoe sponsors) while the athletes stay broke, poor, and never really end up getting that supposed education either. With free risk of life-altering injury!
You can also zoom with your feet :).

If I know I'm going to need multiple focal lengths I'll usually use two bodies but I find the constraints of a prime lens to force me to think about composition and give better results overall.
It is indeed different, not just for modern Chinese speakers, but also for ancient Chinese speakers, because the classic Chinese writing is not a record of spoken language, it is a literary form of its own.

However, an educated Chinese person is expected to be able to read classic Chinese. Not many years ago, they are even expected to be able to write in classic Chinese. For example, some top communist revolutionary leaders, such as Mao, could write beautiful classic Chinese proses, which was part of their allure to the intellectual class that supported them.
From that wiki page:

> gravitating towards mathematical purity and failing to take various aspects into account

Mark Blyth puts a lot of blame specifically on the "seductive" quality of mathematical models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWbkPezgtU

It may be beautiful math, but that doesn't mean it actually models anything useful with any amount of accuracy and precision. Combine that with the social inertia and status-quo-preserving reactions of the people who created or used the bad models, and you get our current economic situation.
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I disagree. Directly, yes, the average user doesn't care. But application developers care; peer-to-peer protocols become a lot trickier with IPv4 due to the pervasive deployment of NAT; two machines ostensibly on the Internet can't connect to each other, requiring instead the use of STUN servers, which then requires infrastructure somewhere, or just doing it client-server, or some mix like having "supernodes" (like Skype, prior to MS tearing it out) that route traffic for NAT'd devices.

The ability to actually connect arbitrary devices, I hope, will be something that people will take advantage of. I know for many game servers I set up with siblings, the ability to not need to mess with a router's crappy "port forwarding" would be a welcome change. (Even if I had to mess w/ some local firewall, but that can perhaps be much more tightly integrated or at least, a better UX.)
Too bad Yahoo had a leader that was chosen because she was a woman, and not because she was qualified.
IPv4 addresses have been more expensive than IPv6 subnets on every dedicated uplink I've gotten prices for over the last two years. In fact, an IPv6 /56 is usually free, or cheap enough to be effectively free since the fee is mainly a NRC for the time to set up the route, if you ask for it and the provider supports IPv6. In contrast, IPv4 addresses often incur a MRC based on the number of usable addresses you request.
I can't speak to modern CPU design (Define modern!), but a 4004 would take more persistence than skill. When I was in school for EE, designing/building parts of a CPU like memory or adders was part of the lab and not considered a big deal. I actually had a friend who built his own CPU from logic gates when he was still in high school.
> considering that the quote was the entirety of the post, I don't see how you can then claim that responding with a second quote discrediting the first is in some way responding to the person and not the argument

The first quote laid out a case using a narrative as a metaphor. It explicitly states its position, and as such is an appropriate use of a quote.

The second quote is entirely composed of appeals to emotion and its sole purpose is to ridicule the author of the first quote as well as any readers who might agree with it. As such it is not an appropriate response.

An appropriate response would have first established the premise of the first quote, then argued for or against it.

> "mid-20th century" "21st century"

The age of an idea has no bearing on its quality. To an extent, humanity refines and builds on ideas over time but the basis of Western civilisation dates from Antiquity. To take your specific date range, this post is typed on a browser, operating system, machine, and global network that all date from ideas from the mid 20th century which themselves build on a few centuries of reasoning.
What about Cyc?

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

I think it could work, and best if paired with an application project. Not everything is scalable and a long, hard march may be required to create some kinds of systems, especially with respect to Agent based computing.

Personally I think Agent based computation is the next big thing after Social, but it is hard to tell what form it may take. I am far from convinced that Apple or Google have the chops to do what is necessary, because it would surely require them to violate their own interests and probably legal obligations.

Talking of that sort of thing, you should look into Urbit.

Urbit is a network computer that could hypothetically allow Agent based computation to actually work.

https://urbit.org/

Urbit is definitely fringe science stuff, I'm sure Walter would approve.
I don't mean to show support for either the "rewrite everything in X/Y/Z" crowd or the "C is all we need forever" crowd (or their non-straw-man equivalents). I just thought the early state of the comments in this thread was funny, is all.
Gotta love easily NSA-dioded consumer gear which falls over under load, reboots randomly and doesn't play nice with standards.
Blockly developed by Google is adopted by many educational projects:

https://developers.google.com/blockly/

Go to "Built with Blockly" which includes BBC MicroBit, MIT App Inventor, code.org, LEGO (3rd party), PBS, Minecraft (3rd party), etc.
Only those things that one is hoping to sell in those boardrooms...
Have they every published false information before? Guccifer seems to have a pretty good track record.
Hearing loss can start with the inability to hear consonants in words.

My mother has it but won't get it checked and won't get a hearing aid. The slightest bit of noise to her is like the world is roaring and we are all mumbling.

I also worked with a guy who had almost no hearing in one ear and he was similar where any bit of noise and that was it he was gone no longer able to hear.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787079/

I have experience the other way I worked evening shifts in a casino and I learned to hear through noise through crowds and could understand a person. I could hear someone ten feet away in a roaring crowd most times I could tell they were looking for help but I could hear them too.
>I live in Mexico, I've never seen anyone in Mexico make minimum wage, ever. And I do know people from all walks of life.

Sorry, but have you really met actual working class people that work in "maquilas"? It is not uncommon to see people earning around 600 MXN pesos a week which is barely enough to count as minimum wage.
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The other day I was searching for the words for bronze in Tibetan for research on possible etymologies of some Tibeto-Burman phonetic transliterations in to middle Chinese.[0] (As you do) Anyway, I found some low resolution entries in scanned dictionaries online without romanization, but was unable to translate these to codepoints to obtain a phonetic approximation, even after using online keyboards, due to the hassles of combining characters. I have studied a lot of abugidas (Tai/Lao/Khmer/etc.) so am not exactly coming at the problem from scratch, either. Also rather shocked that the Tibetan community hasn't managed to put a decent dictionary online yet.

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu/Chapter_7#...
That's what Free Software is about. And it does.

The problems are of establishing protocols and standards, and seeing that others adopt them, and of creating self-contained systems that are bulletproof to set up and operate.

There are projects working on this, but the hurdle for having Joe Random User operate their own server is fairly high.

I'd much rather see a highly, but not entirely distributed system, with pervasive security, and very strong legal protections. I don't know if that can happen.
Nice! This looks really cool. Anyone familiar with the other titles on the site?

http://runestoneinteractive.org/library.html
Do they use it?
Wow. Not only an interesting perspective from experience so far removed from my own, but also just really well written.

My favorite quote:

"Why do gravitate to the eye of the storm? Because in a world with no job security you have to make your own luck."

Really resonates and seems like good advice to apply to many endeavors.
Basically yeah, it looks like Cardboard was their prototype / tech demo, and this is their "ok that worked, let's make it into a product" version.
In open source you keep the rights. Which for this game probably means millions. They did not get the rights or Rúe money. It just baffles me to no end.
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The US had no monetary policy for the first 100 years of its existence, going from subsistence farming to superpower.
Sounds like a poor design, most places will have people boarding from sidewalks or a raise area.

As for the 2nd, people run into stuff in the cars all the time. Around 50-100 people die each day on US roads. And in the story you mentioned only the people in the car were injured, nobody on the train.
He didn't mention the big reason for in-house: security

Telling an outsider about your needs (revealing insider info, trade secrets, etc.) is risky. It's even worse if the result will not be fully air-gap isolated from the Internet. That gives somebody a hole into your business.
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"In the "first half of 2016" (the most specific we're permitted to be)"

I note that the documents use a proportional width font, and there's been previous research into using the width of blacked-out sections of redacted documents along with information about the font to work out possible character combinations that fit appropriately...
I don't understand how people keep declaring RSS "dead", when I have never yet found a site I wanted to follow that didn't support it.
My entire family uses different Moto G versions. I have the G4, one of my sisters has a G3, and my parents and my other sister have G1s. They just seem to work and are very good first-time smartphones for my parents. It has been several years since they got them, and I don't even have to provide technical support. Honestly, I see very little reason to unlock the phone.
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Plenty of people have exploited casinos' unknown unknowns (first card counting, then other tricks)
What the hell do you think you're going to be doing? You'll be parked on the couch.
Setting up and using PGP personally isn't all that hard, though it's got a few twists. Above and beyond any learning-curve issues:

1. It doesn't protect metadata. Who you communicate with, and when, and what subject you specify, are all available to any system which can read the packets. Unless you only accept and transmit TLS (secured-session) transport (HTTPS), this means that your communications patterns are in the clear. If your receiving party are fetching messages via a cleartext protocol (IMAP or POP, say, and in some cases HTTP, rather than the secured variants IMAPS, POPS, and HTTPS), then the headers and possibly mail body will be clear.

Cryptography has to be end-to-end to be effective, though attack surfaces exist at many levels. Ultimately the viewing device itself may be compromised, but that's a rather unscalable attack.

2. If you're using PGP but nobody else you're communicating with is then you're not gaining much. Keep in mind, I've been yelled at and/or chided by highly technical people with strong security backgrounds over sending PGP-encrypted emails. Including senior Google technical staff and Gene Spafford, of recent memory.

Much of that is due to a wide range of email clients not playing well with PGP, which gets again to vendor issues.

I recently posted a long critique of email on HN, and ultimately it's the lack of privacy, security, encryption, authentication, and reputation which make me think it's time to scrap it and start over, although learning from it and taking the best bits along.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620997
Great to see this as part of the core language! Say what you will about Go, the core libs and tools are well designed and really useful.
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> Seriously, Google? You want $650 for a phone with a 1080p screen?

Apple wants $650 for a phone with a ~720p screen.
The problems with this are the same as the rest of the things announced today(except the pixel, in my opinion): Too expensive, and not much to set it apart.
Good they didn't, I'm pretty sure anyone willing to buy a franchise would just milk out every penny they could out of it and let it rot. KSP progressed pretty nicely out of beta and through several updates.

That said, it's pretty sad to see development stops. At least they AFAIR sorted out the modding API issues, ensuring a stable platform for the community to work on. Honestly, that's what makes me believe KSP will be still improving in the coming years - the modding community is strong and have already pulled off incredible feats of programming and science (this game attracts a really specific crowd).
I had an HTC One with a defective camera and HTC had no process like this. I would have had to send them the phone and wait.

Verizon helped me out and sent a refurb phone without me having to return my phone first. The refurb camera was even worse.

After that I went iPhone. No reason to pay the same price for Android and get crappy service, especially when the iPhone has resale value. A used Android has no resale value whatsoever.

However, if the Pixel is like other Androids the list price is a joke and carriers will be discounting it shortly.
None of those technologies you listed make it harder for Google to collect information from you, but instead make it harder for 3rd parties to intercept that data in transit.
I think Rust has the mindshare, what it needs is people actually doing it.

Redox is a ground up OS, but I wonder if we shouldn't instead be taking more of an Oxidization approach where we rewrite more and more pieces of an existing OS in Rust piecemeal. This would add some overhead (programmatically not instructionwise) of a lot of context switches though between the C and the Rust code, which is to say it would be a little ugly for a while.

It might be cleaner to go after a microkernel to do this though, like L4 or rumprun.
No OIS. No MicroSD card. No waterproofing. No stereo speakers. Huge bezels without any function. Derivative design. It's not anything special.
I'm pretty sure KSP will continue. The modding community is strong, and has already created several addons that are more advanced than anything the original devs ever wrote.
> Getting older doesn't increase your changes of getting in a car accident.

I beg to differ.

> In 2012, there were almost 36 million licensed drivers ages 65 and older in the United States.1 Driving helps older adults stay mobile and independent. But the risk of being injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash increases as you age.
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/older_adult_drivers/
Q. Why do you rob banks?

A. Because that's where the money is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%27s_law
What's the conflict? College graduates from where? A college graduate who has gone through the entire Chinese education system would be required to learn reading comprehension of classic Chinese.

Granted, there are always students for one reason or another claimed that they have leaned nothing from school. It's either a false claim, or if that's true, calling them educated would be a stretch, isn't it?
Yes. HDMI is digital, VGA is analog. You could rip the video from VGA, but it would not be a perfect copy. If you do an HDMI capture, you'll get a bit-perfect recording.
I feel like any area that is already so unstable that a handful of ex-Marines have a real shot at knocking it over is probably about to fall over on its own regardless, so why would they bother hurrying the inevitable?
I used to work for a govt contractor. The only chance freedom has is for people to say shit like this to signal some of the bs I witnessed under those circumstances. Nuff said.
The courts will accept a hell of a lot, due to Chevron deference. Statutes will use a term (eg, "readily convertible" or "replica"), and the administrative agency will decide this term means different things depending on the day of the week and which party is in power. All it has to be is "plausible", not consistent, and the courts will defer to their interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....
In this case, OnHub has pretty much no configuration other than the SSID and password.
I'm not looking forward to stepping down from a Nexus 6 to a smaller screen. But then I'm a 6'3" dude. Phones under 5" screens feel like toys to me now.
I rely on RSS for podcasts (which I love) and also for both news and information.

I've found nothing better for having a single place where you choose the content and absorb the information at your own pace.

I'm in the minority preferring a desktop application though - so it an sit in the background and I can switch to it for short 5-minute burst every couple of hours rather than visiting a web site.

Sadly there seem to be no desktop apps that are maintained anymore. I'm currently using RSSOwl, but it's no longer being maintained and has started crashing regularly.
Also, thanks for the Oauth2 recognition. It's perfect for a client like Cypht (I wish more providers supported it!).
It won't, since VGA is analog and HDCP only applies to digital outputs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921
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I'll raise my hand to this. And I'm not a mere mortal, I've run wifi for 1000+ attendee computer conferences. And I have problems with my home WiFi to the point that I got a OnHub a year ago to try to help.

Oddly, it basically did solve it except in a couple places in my house until a few weeks ago when the drop-outs got a lot worse (again, at the edges). The conspiracy theroists will love that. :-)

A real problem is that 2.4GHz is crowded not just by wifi but by other things. My old AP I couldn't use when I used my Microwave, and it is a brand new high end microwave. Not something I'd expect to leak. The OnHub did much better than the previous Buffalo (which in other locations has worked great for me).

So, you want to go 5.2GHz, because there is more spectrum. But there is also less interference because --- wait for it --- it doesn't go as far and penetrate walls as well. Which reduces interference. But it really means you want an AP directly in the rooms where you use WiFi the most. Which means you want something like this where multiple APs can cooperate.

The OnHub also is supposed to have stupendous antennas and multiple radios, even allowing it to do spectrum surveys. That's according to the marketing literature.

But it's not just me. My inlaws just built a 4600 ft^2 house and their A/V guy installed a AP in the centrally located laundry room. Wifi was terrible in the living room, and unusable in half the other rooms. Not sure if it was a crappy AP, or the location or what. I put another AP in the Livingroom and solved most of their pressing problems. But when I go back at Christmas I expect to put in an OnHub or Eero or AmpliFi... They have Ethernet all over the house, so I want something that can do wired meshing like the Eero. The AmpliFi doesn't seem to support it, IIRC, and the OnHub doesn't say anything about it with todays release, but the old OnHub is supposed to support it, according to a line item in their FAQ. I'm skeptical until I see it.

My brother in laws new house ALSO has similar problems. He had wireless drop outs, and was going to get the Eero, but I pointed him at the AmpliFi, which he got and has been VERY happy with.

If Google WiFi supports wired meshing, I will probably get that. If not, I'll either get a second OnHub, or maybe switch to the AmpliFi, especially if AmpliFi supports wired meshing and PoE. Ubiquity's cameras support PoE, so I'm hopeful there.

So, do these fancy products solve a problem that doesn't exist? Well, I'm glad your wifi works so well. But I'm definitely having problems at home, and am not alone. At least at work the WiFi is pretty uncomplicated, oddly enough since we have steel stud construction.