skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because someone wants to live in a city does not mean the city is doing a thing wrong by not doing every possible thing to accommodate them. That Seattle article is practically bursting with entitlement; she's demanding the neighborhood change to meet her living/working preferences.

Why? Why are her demands any more valid than the people who live there already, or who can afford non-hyperdense housing and don't want to live in a neighborhood with it?

It's hard not to see this as something like locusts complaining about farmers trying to stop them from devouring their crops. Maybe, just maybe, the things that make Capital Hill so compelling for her are the very things she wants to change about it to meet her wants.
OneCoin Ponzi scheme
Does anybody know what kind of MLM (Multi Level Marketing) software uses the following site http://www.OneLife.eu.
The site is using PHP and MySQL server.
I am asking because they want to make sure their users that their system is integrated with mining system.
Do you have any additional info about it?
>How is that not unfair discrimination, or even racism?

It is unfair, and it is discrimination. The benefits of having unrestricted borders with Germany are simply more valuable. Like, I'm okay with unfairly admitting an illiterate unemployed German felon if it means that we get a bunch of highly valuable movement, trade, and collaboration between our countries. The German felon is part of a valuable package of cross-border interactions, and if you're not part of the package deal, you have to convince us on your own merit.

Another tack: being a German citizen is Bayesian evidence that you're probably like the average German. How is it fair to the German to spend large quantities of time and money to prove something we already have good reason to believe is true?
Kqueue and OS X's file watcher thing are worse than inotify. They give inexact reports of changes, so you have to do a bunch of manual scanning afterwards.

I really don't understand the grandparent's gripe. Inotify scales well, supports race free "watch a whole directory tree", and has a nice API.
I think there's a difference between learning something that's necessarily complex and learning something with an overly complex design. According to their analysis, the design changes they've made do away with unnecessary complexity.
The ill-fated tale of Phoneys that went #1 on the App Store
Couldnt agree more - solitude is necessary for creativity.
Yep. Racism has become a meaningless accusation, tossed around so lightly that I can conclude nothing when I hear it.

Unfortunately, that doesn't leave me a good term for the people like the ones that murdered most of my grandmother's family because of their race.
I don't understand this rationale. Are you saying that Git's UI is perfect, and there's no improving it? It's not, and gitless does, indeed, improve on it.

We should be celebrating better UIs over important tools, not saying "I made great effort to learn it, therefore learning it with less effort is inferior". No. If it does everything Git does, but more easily, it is strictly superior.
Very interesting article!
Ah, okay. It wasn't clear to me that Microsoft had written its own algorithms. That does seem very useful, then (though presumably those algorithms and data structures could be used outside of the SQL Server environment, I presume that Microsoft is using them to encourage people to use SQL Server rather than another solution).

I believe the second link is referring to being able to initialize and share data between functions within the R runtime (rather than having to transfer back and forth between Postgres and the runtime). Is that not what you were referring to?
From the RFA story:

data gathered during clinical trials were incomplete, failed to meet analysis requirements or were untraceable, the paper cited a source in the agency as saying.

Outside of China, clinical data is often not shared, suppressed when it does not support the claims, and p-value hacking is used to justify 'off-label' use. This is not usually spun as fabricated, and in commercial drug development my intuition is that 80% of proposed drugs having at least one of these features would be a plausible hypothesis
Nebula level01 – exploit exercises walkthrough
Well then it's copying more or less any DVCS which is not git, git(1) is the least friendly DVCS CLI I know of.
It's lovely. I've given talks internally at my company to show everyone how great it is, and why using it prevents bugs.
Historically scientists are lonely people who are (mostly) motivated by seeking truth or knowledge and satisfying curiosity instead of money or fame. Most people are practical and are motivated by money or fame more than satisfying curiosity. So most people are pursuing jobs rather than science. Fraudulent behavior is simply a result of seeking shortest path (shortcut) to a goal. When the goal is (short term) money and fame, and when the gain of taking the shortcut of fraud is bigger than the negative impact, then the popularity of the short cut is well expected.

So the problem is we reward so-called scientist too much (in terms of money or status). Scientists were historically not rewarded by money or status. In fact I don't think there is traditionally a career of science. People then were doing science on the side of their regular jobs (such as engineers or teachers or nobles who don't really need a job). Only when the reward of doing science is detached (to certain degree) from the reward of money and fame, can we truly prevent the fraudulent behavior.

On the other hand, the allure of money and fame probably can never be truly detached for any normal human, so fraudulent behavior is part of the human nature. It ebbs and flows. There is no need to make a big fuss about it.

PS: from what I heard, China today has so much (relative to its capacity) science money floating around and that got to distort the goal of science significantly.
Doesn't seem to have pricing publicly available. :(
Time has not been kind to certain architectural styles--either in terms of the aesthetic impression they make on most people or on how the look of the materials has held up. Brutalism is one of those styles.
https://medium.com/@BigMeanInternet/the-fascist-bogeyman-137...

Our global system is supposedly based on something like collective
self-determination, but it’s grafted onto a map drawn by colonial
violence and pseudo-scientific ideas about Gauls and Teutons. Fascism is a
particular combination of Romantic/Victorian ambitions and modern tools
that sparks to life as the two eras grind against each other. Frankenstein
with the arms of capitalist industry and the heart of a monarchist.
Patriotic young Hitler inhaling mustard gas in the trenches, like a panel
from the first issue of a comic book.

Modern liberal states have never truly reconciled their racial character
with their democratic pretensions. I’m not clear on how such a thing
could be possible; where would a truly pluralist state draw its borders
and why? Flipping through a history book it’s hard to argue that the
nation-state system doesn’t exist for the arbitrarily divided glory of
western Europeans. The official line is that we’re supposed to ignore
that part, or be sad. But some people don’t want to ignore it and they
aren’t sad. Instead they wonder why we have the nice borders that their
conquering “ancestors” drew but all these people on the wrong sides.
If taking Mexico’s land for white people was illegitimate, then why
haven’t we given it back? And if it was legitimate, then what’s wrong
with a wall to protect our side from a reversal? The liberal patriots,
they say, are lying to themselves; there is no nationalism that is not
ethno-nationalism.
How are they forgetting merging, remotes, etc? The commands are literally on the front page. The only thing it doesn't have is a staging area, which is a conscious decision that I happen to agree with.
Fanotify does not replace inotify, it is a super limited thing for hooking into the vfs. It's intended audience is "people porting windows antivirus style things to linux". See the man page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/fanotify.7.html
I imagine a group of people whose base commonality is "we want other people's stuff for free" will find that they jumped into something of a moral tarpit on many levels.
This is actually really awesome. Good job!
Conky (software) alternative
Hello everyone,

For the past one year I've been the sole author and maintainer of https://gitlab.com/void0/pinky-bar , and it turns out that without announcing your projects in websites like this one and reddit, people will not be aware about their existance.

Will be happy to add more features to the program that are linux and *bsd compatible, doesn't require X11/xcb to work and others will be interested in obtaining them.

Have a nice day.
Gr-satellites – A collection of GNUradio decoders for satellite telemetry
I'm not an architect or tiny house owner, but I have friends and family stay in my large studio apartment fairly often.

A modern, open floor plan is a big help. If you stop building walled-off kitchen/dining/family/living spaces, you have a lot more efficient use of the space you actually use.

Reuse of space is also huge. You can temporarily rearrange furniture for a big dinner and put it back before it's time to sleep.

Another angle... if you stand to save $100k building your house, you can save a lot of money by putting up your family in a nearby hotel overnight.
> First, the half-a-bil price tag is absurd and I don't see how it's remotely justifiable.

If you deploy civilian personnel into an active war zone, you gotta pay them huge amounts of extra money as a risk reward. Even soldiers get up to 110€ a day extra (http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/gefahrenzulagen-fuer-ausl...), so you're looking at least 40k/year/FTE in extras, plus normal salary. I'd say it's safe to assume 100-300k/year/FTE in salary, plus accomodation costs, travel allowances, ...

Therefore, I guess payroll was the biggest block on expenses.
I've been wrestling with these issues this morning, because I'm launching a podcast soon that might, sometime down the line, be big enough where ads to defray the cost of operating it makes sense. And whether that makes pre-advertising content commercial is an open question. So while I've browsed Free Music Archive, to be safe, I'm omitting anything NC from my searches.
That 80s Heathkit Ham Radio in Netflix’s Stranger Things
Not sure whether it has a FUSE dependency any more.[0] Code says:

TUP_MONITOR = inotify

[0] https://github.com/gittup/tup/blob/master/linux.tup
There are NC Creative Commons licenses that would be reasonably monetizable on YouTube, though. (But it would require a human to actually figure out if it's a commercial work.)
Born in France doesn't mean socially and culturally integrated. Many of these attackers were children of immigrants who either didn't integrate because of their own cultural beliefs or because the host society didn't provide the necessary conditions. Whatever the reason, these people didn't feel like they belong to the host societies and radicalized. If anything, these attacks are examples of unsuccessful integration and of the failures of free movement and immigration of people of radically different cultural beliefs, and not the other way around.
> But with CC-licensed music you have already given people that permission.

That's literally the opposite of true with -nc.
I recently read something (can't remember where) about how a lot of people have trouble sleeping because lying down to go to sleep is the first chance their mind gets to do something without outside stimulation. I think most people who don't have the mental peace to do nothing would get it if they did nothing more often. That isn't an option for everyone though.
It's too late for that, and the other populist parties are often far more worrying than the Pirates.
There's a good chance that anything on RT is either false or presented in a very misleading way - they are a propaganda outfit for the Kremlin after all.

See eg. http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-c... or http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/putin-fights-wa...
A lot of people in these comments seem to be confused over the word "tiny", despite the article never using that word. Tiny homes are a vague category but generally under 400 square feet [1]. 800 square feet isn't small by my standards (I grew up in a mobile home) but compared to the average American home of 2,600 square feet it is [2].

By the way, more space-efficient housing is desperately needed for new real estate developments in Portland. As a matter of fact, it should be mandated. Real estate developers should not be able to treat this city like a personal casino while working class families (many that have been here for decades) get pushed out. In this regard, treating the issue as an outlet for "design statements" is reflective of the problem. Shelter should be a basic human right; hyperinflating the value of it when there isn't enough to go around is to rub salt in the wounds of lower income people.

[1] http://thetinylife.com/what-is-the-tiny-house-movement/

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/04/real_estate/american-home-si...
Been using tup in production for about a year now and absolutely love it. The speed is nice, but compared to make projects where you need to 'make clean' to be sure everything gets properly rebuilt the confidence that tup will do the right thing every time is fantastic.
My knowledge is at very basic level. Current projects are extremely modern and exploit very sophisticated techniques. I'm in the "Hello, World" step. I need some basic text or papers to get some ideas.
Don't you ever remember a time when you had a choice between thinking and not? If not, you're far overdue for some meditation.
If you are developer then you could submit a pull request with the desired feature to be added.
A reflection on types [pdf]
I'm concerned about opening up the borders before we understand why some countries are corrupt and others aren't. In a place like the US, trying to bribe a police officer is unexpected, and everyone who gets involved in the situation ends up working to punish those involved in the bribery. In a place like Venezuela, bribing a police officer is expected, and everyone who gets involved in the situation ends up getting paid or threatened into supporting the status quo.

Corruption isn't the only cultural artifact that's under threat, but if we understand what's going on well enough, I'd be much more confident that opening the borders won't cause existential threat to what makes the host nations great.
I am not talking about a toolset. I'm talking about how I believe you have a "I'm right, you're stupid and wrong" attitude. So I'm not disputing your opinion about Gitless, I'm criticizing how you presented it. I don't think the sentiment is ridiculous, because I think it's correct; clearly if you write it off as ridiculous then we're just talking past each other. Similarly, I don't think I am labeling you in a negative light for "no reason": the reason is that you are acting in a way that I think deserves to be called out negatively, so as to hopefully dissuade you from acting that way.

I do happen to think Gitless is a noble effort that will not change the world or be adopted by much of anyone, as with many interesting projects that are posted here, but I still think you should be non-hostile towards it, and sympathetic instead of dismissive towards the problem it is trying to solve (since clearly there are heaps of people who feel the same way, as evidenced by these and many other comment threads).
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Symbian was simply atrocious compared to the other systems. The problem was not that they tanked it, but that they didn't tank it early enough.
I hadn't quite realized the simplicity of the POODLE attack previously. There was an article covering similar ground in LWN recently[0].

[0]: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/701956/4dc5a506c0a6fd82/
> People said that when they were on their own mostly they were focused on how they were feeling, so on their body or their emotions

I've always been pretty introverted, and also a night person. I used to roll into work around 10:30 or so, after a long chill morning.

When I got married and had kids, that schedule wasn't feasible any more. For a couple of years, I would set my alarm as late as I could get by with and then rush rush rush in the mornings to get my daughter ready and at day care and myself ready for work. That way, I could still be as much of a night person as I used to be.

It was a disaster. I felt tense and unbalanced all day. Lots of fights with my wife. By the time the evening rolled around and the kid was in bed, I had a little free time, but I was too spent to do anything useful with it.

At some point, due to commute changes, I ended up getting up at 6:00 to avoid the worst of rush hour. That was even worse. There's nothing quite like getting up early to stare at brake lights ahead of you for 45 minutes every morning to make you lose the will to live.

When my commute fortunately got much better—a five minute drive—I decided to try keeping my 6am wake up time.

Holy crap, it was amazing.

I had a solid two hours before the wife or kids woke up. The house was silent and all mine. I could have a quiet cup of coffee, read a bit, work on projects.

What I figured out is that, while I like being around people, my personality or sense of self kind of deflates during it. I don't have enough courage or force of will to be me in the presence of other people. Their own circles of identity sort of press into mine, and I'm not confident enough to easily push back all day.

That solitary time in the morning is exactly what I need to reinflate my bubble. To sort of gather around myself a sense of who I am, and what it is about myself that I like and feel good about. When I have that time in the morning, I can go out into the day feeling a little more secure and insulated. Without it, I feel exposed.

It's so worth becoming a morning person to get that feeling.

(Alas, now my kids have to be at school earlier, so they are getting up shortly after me and I don't have much quiet time anymore. I'm tempted to try getting up even earlier, but getting up at five is really hard.)
It's particularly baffling since Manhattan is the only place I've been where taxis are a credible competitor. UberX isn't, in my experience, cheaper than the cabs and even X is slower than hailing a cab. The last time I tried to used Pool, it assigned me a driver 20 minutes away; I could have walked the route before the driver got there.

Every other American city I've visited, cabs are impossible to hail and twice the price, but in NYC there are options.
Prior to my current role I worked at a very large public university. Accessibility was always a "requirement" for our projects but as 1% of our audience it was less tested and less focused during development cycles. This was frustrating to me as it always felt like we were leaving an audience out of the equation but usually these discussions were treated no different than debates on which versions of IE we would support.

My last year at the university accessibility became a up front and center focus. This was a strange shift from my prior few years but it was told to me that there is a group of attorneys that are targeting public institutions who lack accessibility and suing them for discrimination. It was presented similarly to the way patent trolls operate. Find a large target (public university or government entity) and sue them into a settlement.

Internally I was conflicting because on one hand this was forcing us to finally support an audience that deserves to be supporting and treated equally. On the other hand taking advantage of this situation and scooping up legal fees in the process was not something I felt was proper.

Anyway, my point here is it is great to see companies like Facebook support this. More specifically by having part of your target audience on the dev team you end up actually being accessible and not just following the standards.
Goodbye QWERTY: BlackBerry stops making hardware
Seriously, have you really used an N95/N97?
How can you even think to compare it to an iphone 3G?
Runstar: app turning running exercise into a game
Best Music Apps for Android and iOS (2016)
Old side projects are the inverse of Moore's law - project relevance is cut in half ~every 2 years. Wait too long and projects become useless/outdated. Go after it soon or drop it. Work on something new.

A site for freelancers needing extra manpower from skilled "sub-freelancers" isn't such a bad idea. It could be sustainable and profitable. I wouldn't discount this idea too quickly.

IMHHO ignore "eventually will have to move toward xyz" thoughts creeping in at this point. No path is a must follow. Maybe there are third or fourth directions it could turn toward.

Again, hard to give concrete advice with the limited info, but:

(I) The site is not ready or close to ready. Start with a newsletter or email list maybe? Can be weekly or ad hoc. Potential hook: "Are you a freelancer who would like to be notified by email ONLY when a fellow freelancer needs some extra help on a big project that pays $ and requires skills you have?"...Time needed, skills needed, pay involved and lead FL contact info will be listed. Sign up here!!! (you can have check boxes for skills during sign up - verify if you can).

Or

(II) Decide if you want to compete/join freelancer.com and upwork.com market. Why? How? What's different? How different? Are you sure you want to?...Networking with freelancers won't be your problem - they will come. Client side noise is a bigger problem (some people call/lump this with "CAC"). Displacing or joining market incumbents will be a pain; Need a =>product and money and luck and energy. Not impossible biz to get into but a slog.

Start a new HN thread when that project #(II) is actually beta ready and you have a 1-2 sentence why your site vs freelancer.com or whomever.

I vote for #(I). I bet there are freelancers who need help on big projects and are looking for quality, reliable second pairs of hands to sub-contract work to. Use that experience and email list to decide if you want to devote your life to #(II) as that option is a not a side gig type of endeavor. GL!
Even in California there are many houses around 70sqm.

My advice regarding NYT trend pieces remains the same: always disregard them.
Renault ZOE with new battery gets 400 km range
I know my Mini with "Google-backed" maps sometimes has terrible taste in routes and very out-of-date traffic info compared to actual Google Maps. I wouldn't be surprised if somehow the API isn't the same quality as the direct maps results.
Fourth option would be to extend the benefit only to people who have a place to sleep at night, ie. house owners, renters, staying in a hotel etc. That places a natural limit on the number of people who can stay (the size of the housing stock), and doesn't present any problems for existing citizens or tourists.

You could combine this by aggressively deporting people found sleeping rough (which given the extreme cold in Iceland would also be helping them).