skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really?

Average cost per year to own a car is $9000 per the AAA website.

Car storage has its own cost to cities - because parking lots generate no /little property taxes or sales tax.

Many Americans disagree about the value of walkability. ( https://www.houselogic.com/save-money-add-value/save-on-util...) :

> If you’re able to walk instead of drive to the store for a gallon of milk, you and your neighborhood home values may benefit from the exercise. A 2009 study sponsored by CEOs for Cities, a national consortium of civic and business leaders, found that homes in neighborhoods with good walkability are more valuable than similar homes in neighborhoods where residents have to drive to get to amenities.

> Walkability adds anywhere from $4,000 to $34,000 to home values, according to the study. The bigger, more urban the city (think San Francisco or Chicago), the bigger the boost in home prices walkability adds. Neighborhoods in cities with less dense populations like Tucson, Ariz., or Fresno, Calif., have the smallest boost in home prices from being walkable.

> The availability of public transportation also played a role. The higher home values tended to show up in walkable neighborhoods near good public transportation where people could live without an automobile.
They're complementary. A sibling thread on this article says that the problem with democracy is that votes based on a gut feeling that doesn't reflect reality count for the same as well-researched votes by experts with a full understanding of the consequences:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12878457

Capitalism solves this problem with bankruptcy & business failure. People whose beliefs are shown to be false lose their businesses and are forced to work for other people whose decisions turned out well. Conversely, capitalism introduces problems with inequality and forced servitude that democracy solves. Democratic government serves as a check on the ability of the economic winners to pull the ladder up after them and use their economic power to impose their will on the people.

This is behind much of the tension between big business vs. big government. You have two power structures (five, actually - the press, the military, and the academy form the other pillars) that work in opposition to each other, each according to different rules. I'd argue that the biggest problem facing America today is that business and government have gotten too cozy with each other while the press and the academy are getting eviscerated, which is letting them manipulate the voter through control of information.
> I humanely killed the shrimp using the splitting method which destroys the central nervous system (boiling alive is more painful).

How do we know this?
I didn't say you were racist. I simply explained why your nationalism doesn't motivate me.
If you are interested in Video lectures, there are plenty of resources available at this link: https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

For data structures in specific, You can go through following courses

1. CS 61B, Prof Jonathan Shewchuk, UC Berkeley -> [1]

2. COP 3530 Data Structures and Algorithms, Prof Sahni, UFL -> [2], videos are available at [3]

3. COP 5536 Advanced Data Structures, Prof Sahni - UFL [4]

All above courses focus on ideas than on mathematical rigour.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4BBB74C7D2A1049C

[2] http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sahni/cop3530/

[3] http://www.cise.ufl.edu/academics/courses/preview/cop3530sah...

[4] http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sahni/cop5536/index.html
Yeah, I'm getting this too.
Back in the days when games were written by one person, it was not that uncommon to get death threats or to have people say they were going to firebomb your house. We just ignored them.

Which is not to say it's acceptable to make such threats; more a comment on how times have changed.
Man, I didn't expect this surge in ElementaryOS articles :)
This is exactly my point though... People are being put off the new MacBook range, but if another hardware manufacturer can pull off a shiny, good looking notebook, and it has Elementary running on it - Voila! Instant Apple-like coolness for a fraction of the price.
Rust now has not just "panic", but "panic::recover", with unwinding. That's an exception system. It's just one with weak syntax and semantics. Go went down this route, too. In the beginning, Go errors were fatal. Then the Go crowd added "recover". With unwinding. Both languages now have the heavy machinery for exceptions without full language support for them. The discussions of this on Rust mailing lists show much unhappiness with the situation.

If you don't put in exceptions, you seem to end up re-inventing "longjmp".
> flat design

I do not mean to nitpick - I enjoyed your comment - but isn't that more the preserve of Windows (post-8)?
I'll say this: I switched to MacOS after smashing my last Windows (XP) laptop to pieces on the wall in a fit of rage ten years ago. Since then, I'd honestly completely forgotten how a computer could possibly drive a person to physical violence, until I bought a Windows (10) laptop recently just to play some games, and OH MY GOD. It is so, so unbelievably mindbogglingly fucking terrible.
"...until you can come to a consensus that's acceptable to everyone."

In my (admittedly anecdotal) experience, democracy rarely seeems to come to any consensus that is acceptable to everyone, but rather serves as little more than a moral battering ram that the 51% can use to impose their will on the 49%. Perhaps one day people will realize that democracy, given its cultish appeals (e.g. "but don't you know other systems are worse!?") is simply barbaric.

Maybe technology will render nation-states obsolete within my lifetime. I can only hope.
Sounds intuitive to me - trigger all pain receptors in the animal, or cut off the ability to feel pain, which is more painful?
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Do you even read what you write. I see comments like this all over the internet and it amazes me how the irony of your statement completely eludes you.

You basic argument is that immigrant culture has no effect on violence but the culture of another group(the white people) does. Ok, so in that case, nations completely ruled by the culture the immigrants comes from, must inherently be free of major violence. Hmmm does that sound correct.

If anything, the west post world war 2 bred a new culture that gave birth to true liberty. The democracies formed in this period shaped the freedoms we have today, and pushed for human rights and equality. There is still progress to make, but targeting groups of people is no solution.

Btw I am Indian, and if you want to argue that ruling whites are a source of major violence, just go and read the history of India from 1000-1800. No white people, lots and lots of violence. All races are the same.
Gentoo lets you choose. The default is openRC though.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=glib+definition
Are you assuming there's no other intelligent life in the universe? :-)
You don't even need sun to hang dry clothes. When there's bad weather, we just hang the clothes in the basement. Or in the living room. It'll take a day or two, but who cares.
Brew recently started refusing to install anything if your xcode is out of date, and forces you to wait for a "brew update" if it hasn't updated in 24 hours. It's actually hideously user-unfriendly, but it probably saves the devs a lot of stupid github issues.
My father was tired of having to run the dryer 3 times to get his clothes dry. The local independent applianc store guy said "I sell speed queens", and showed the difference between cheap washers and Speed Queen's home products.

https://speedqueen.com/products/top-load-washers.aspx

The owner said that the motor from a modern speed queen washer could be put in the 30-year old model. He showed how the speed queen springs are heavy-duty, while the Samsung and modern maytag springs are very light.

My dad took his old dryer to the store for disposal. When he went back a few days later, he saw his old dryer for sale. It'd been opened it up, the block that none of the Sears warranty servicers could find was removed, and it was perfectly usable. Someone else had recently abandoned a kenmore front loader into the store's possession - it needed a circuit board, and wasn't worth fixing.
Again: neglegence, yes. Malicious intent strikes me as much harder to demonstrate.

I'm going to point to the elephant in the room as well: there's a lot of politicking and posing on both sides of the issue of women, women's rights, rape and abuse culture, and the rest. There's a lot of wrong on both sides, including brigading, thin (or absent) logic, false claims, and the rest.

Rape is bad, abuse is bad. Human relations are complex, though, and there's a tremendous amount at stake. Thinking you're doing good and discovering you're not happens, again, on both sides.
The Playstation 4 VR is rather in-expensive and has a good selection of high quality content.

And I too think AR (augmented reality, known from Pokemon-Go) has higher potential/adoption rate. We will see it in our every day life soon, everywhere. And everyone has a smartphone, no need for a helmet.

(And for VR a "CAVE" is very cool. It's a special purpose small room where projectors point to 3 or 4 walls and the floor and you can just carry light&inexpensive 3D red-blue or shutter glasses and walk around eg with your friends. That's something we will probably see more and more in public locations too.)
This is big.

Go tcl go!!!!
> fingerprints are junk science?

Really? The seem to be fairly reliable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint

Also with the other, it seems to me they are not 'junk science'. More they are indicators, not absolutes. So people are using them incorrectly, not they shouldn't be used.
Seems cool... but it doesn't work for me!

> Ah snap! There was no error compiling the test kernel or running it, but the numbers don't check out. Please report your browser (+ version) and hardware configuration to us, so we can try to fix this. Deviation was 0.33731377391086426.

I'm on linux 4.7 + chromium 53 with Intel 4000 graphics
Capitalism vs socialist states. Could you define both ? In my experience it's just a sliding scale, either extreme is bad/non-optimal.
A free software enthusiast might not reach for Sublime as their first choice, but if its what you're used to, and you paid for it, and you like it, I don't see any reason to abandon it other than trying to be a hipster. Surely you've got enough things to figure out during the transition where learning a new editor is just an extra unneccessary step.
The slug could change (when based on the name or title) and then a visitor could be cleanly redirected to the new correct url.
What real world problems do you have in mind? Games are convenient because they can be easily simulated, and you can compare the performance to expert humans.

The reinforcement learning they work on is extremely general and can be applied to many other types of problems. Particularly robot control, which is sort of the same sort of task as a video game.
> we need a democratic economy

Ah, excellent idea. Put the same people who elected Clinton and Trump in charge of the most complicated emergent system in the world. What could go wrong?

> a democratic workforce

"We voted for you to work on this cotton plantation, so get to it! We also have a democratic economy, so you don't need to worry about getting payed anymore!"

> if you believe democracy is a failure, you're saying that your ability to control your own life is a failure.

That's interesting, because last time I checked I didn't control my life via a democracy.

Based on the fact that you're using a very new account, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is some sort of incoherent troll bait. If not, this is a strong contender for the dumbest comment I've ever seen on HN; just slap the word "democratic" on random topics and pitch it as an alternative economic system, no further details required.
A multiplayer Populous is what I am thinking.
Yes it is a failure, but everything else is even more of a failure. So we settled for a lesser failure.

Also "democracy as a failure" is a common trope that is used by those who perceive the election isn't going according to how they planned. "They are not voting the way I like, therefore democracy has failed" or if the election or polls go the expected way then "democracy and clear minds prevailed again!".

One interesting thing I found about the current election is the role the media plays. To control people in a dictatorship is easier, you just make criticism and dissent punishable, nationalize all the media and it is all simple and easy. In a Democracy controlling is a bit harder, but is still done over the media using sophisticated and not-so-sophisticated methods. Related to that my favorite quote so far comes from CNN's Chris Cuomo talking about the emails: "it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning from us." It is as if, there was a tiny crack in the matrix and the underlying code was exposed for a moment.
Any ideas on how technology would render nation states obsolete?
> Democracy is about balancing individual freedom with the demands of living in society.

No it's not. Democracy does not inherently balance individual liberty with societal necessity. In fact, democracy says absolutely nothing about individual liberty or societal necessity at all. Democracy is a form of government that holds regular public elections. It is not anything else. It might be argued that democracy is a necessary condition for liberty, but it is certainly not a sufficient one.
> At some point, someone has to evaluate how good or bad the decisions being made by the political apparatus are. Either that person is the average voter, or it is a minority group.

You're quietly assuming a lot there. Let's stop after the first sentence -- "At some point, someone has to evaluate how good or bad the decisions being made by the political apparatus are." Ah! So you're proposing monarchy?

But no, you're not, because you then introduce the fictional "average voter", thereby fitting democracy into the "someone" framework.

I think this is a bad way of looking at it. Democracy isn't a "someone". Democracy is an aggregation mechanism. You contrast having everyone vote with only having a subset vote; but you don't question the assumption that the only aggregation mechanism is the standard sort of voting.

If you ask me, there's one aggregation mechanism that looks like it could actually improve upon democracy, and that's futarchy. Of course, it's untried. But the point is that there are more degrees of freedom here than you seem to realize.
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As a friend recently put it: "Late capitalism depends upon the endless differentiation of desire and the mediation of social recognition (upon which men depend, being social animals) through commodified signs, in order for consumption to continue at a rate which will maintain profit. This means, in principle, a bad infinity of 'lifestyles'. 'No two people identify in exactly the same way', to quote a recent trans propaganda piece. And note that I'm talking about actually existing capitalism, not an abstract or even real free market. I'm talking about the system as it actually exists."
Seems to me that cabals can always form and skew the implementation away from the ideal balance that makes the concept of democracy seem so fair in the first place. I'll recite a personal narrative as my main observation of this potential outcome in the wild.

Several years ago I helped cofound a worker owned for-profit software and design cooperative. Its constitution was formulated around a mix of product incubation and consulting in support of labour solidarity through cultivation of progressively more interesting/motivating/challenging work. It was founded after we had all quit our high-performing and very profitable agency whose non-technical/non-creative ownership cut one too many corners on the sustainable systems that we were working on. Typical anti-flow type management decisions with arbitrary deadlines, death marches, and silly promises to clients despite solid contracts (which I had written and negotiated directly with the clients and our lawyers).

In the new co-op that us engineers and designers from the old company formed, there was growth early on, and a plan to expand to new cities/markets because the cost structure was horizontally scalable by design. This was before boutique remote app studios and incubators became commonplace (at least before all the really big agencies tried to get in on it, e.g. Sid Lee, Ogilvy).

Lo and behold, it turned out there were just barely enough members who wanted to take a more employee/entitlement oriented tack (as opposed to entrepreneurial) vs the other half. These members were of the same local cultural and linguistic background (the socially dominant one), whereas the rest of us were from all over. The locals formed a "cabal" of sorts and pushed for spending lots of money on a swanky office, vetoed horizontal expansion and denied the right to work for one of the members who had just moved to a new city as part of the previous plan (by voting to refuse to allocate some of our mandated work to him).

The original vision fell apart and was replaced by something more parochial. The more "ambitious" cofounders all left and the co-op continues to thrive in its own way today but as a shadow of the dream we had in the beginning.

An autocracy would not have endured these trials so early on. In top-down mode, the boss gets to enforce focus. Certainly not good if the dictator is not benevolent, but the experience provided for a lot of reflection on governance.

Reminds me of this explainer video I saw recently from CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&t=344s

No matter the exact loci of power, there are always gradients between the points, and forces that can bring imbalance are very hard (perhaps undesirable) to control.
I have over 1000 HN karma, I have some karma to spare.
Though you've got to swim a bit further to cross the border.
> I would interpret democracy as the ability for others to control my life

That's probably because you're thinking in terms of how things actually are, rather than in terms of vague emotions tacked onto political buzzwords. A classic mistake.
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Typically they train the AI against itself. That gives it a continuous skill gradient. Otherwise it would lose all of the games without learning anything. Since there are no successes to learn from. Or it would win all the games after it figures out how to exploit the built-in bot. With strategies that probably won't apply to humans.
Absolutely fascinating, and slightly terrifying! I've heard a sound like this in Portland, OR several times over the past couple years, on the second occurrence my neighbor managed to get a video of it [1].

It sounded like absolutely nothing I've heard in my life, like a giant didgeridoo but so powerful you could feel the vibration in your chest. Many others in my neighborhood heard it too, as referenced by this Reddit thread [2].

Have thought about it for a long time and no explanation makes sense, I still get shivers listening to the youtube video; Play it plugged into a sound system for full effect!

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbH8jd8dz0
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/3gf6qf/what_was_t...
I think I misunderstood your comment, I can see what you were trying to say now.
"WAIT GUYS! Half A has 1 more vote than Half B. Looks like we don't need to do any science, let's just assume the people from Half A were right".

Democracy and religion share beds, occasionally, I might even say they were married on upon a time. Barbarism indeed.
> If other browsers can also jump into this

The other major players being Google and Apple, they'll almost certainly want to push their proprietary app platforms to increase their market power, instead of open technologies which are in the interest of and benefit the consumer.
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> Interesting, I'd disagree though. Say you live in a fascist society or a feudalist society, you get absolutely no say.

These are hardly the only alternatives. In case you haven't noticed, the other people here aren't implicitly contrasting democracy with e.g. monarchy; they're implicitly contrasting it with anarchy (probably anarcho-capitalism).

Again, there's lots of possibilities out there. Personally I like the idea of futarchy, though it's untried. But that's not the point; the point is, there's a lot of degrees of freeom here.
They're like the BMW turn signals of the free software world. If you spend more than a couple hours a day editing, you use Vim and Emacs.
>Ah, excellent idea. Put the same people who elected Clinton and Trump in charge of the most complicated emergent system in the world. What could go wrong?

The people that placed them on the frontstage already are in charge of it? If you think the people decided on these two I'd say you misunderstand the process by which these two reached the forefront. A very small minority selected Clinton and stacked the odds in her favor for selection, as to the rise of Trump, I'd say that's perfectly representative of the type of misdirected anger that rises out of repeated failings of the system. Remember the individuals Trump was running against? Trumps a protest vote, and a terribly dangerous one at that. Choosing between three different people put on your plate by people you don't trust isn't a failing of democracy, it's a failing of the underlying system.

>"We voted for you to work on this cotton plantation, so get to it! We also have a democratic economy, so you don't need to worry about getting payed anymore!"

You fundamentally misunderstand what I'm saying here. I'm not proposing elected slavery, and truly fail to see how you reached that conclusion. I don't know what part of my pro-democracy comment implied I believe in forced labor, but I'm interested in hearing what process you went through in your mind to reach that point.

>That's interesting, because last time I checked I didn't control my life via a democracy.

I'd say your ability to vote, and decide mutually with other people the form society takes is your life being controlled by democracy.
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A worker controlled economy. Many different forms this could take, perhaps a syndicalist approach. Not state controlled, no central control.
I use stock ubuntu with i3 on a Dell XPS 13, with no issue. Once I moved to i3 I realised I just don't care about the DM of the day. Dependencies go in their docker containers, where they belong.

OK that's not true: I can only use 2.4G wireless, and sometimes I have to unmute system audio after using headphones.
> At some point, someone has to evaluate how good or bad the decisions being made by the political apparatus are.

Technically true, but you're glossing over another way to approach this fact; we can reduce the number of "decisions being made by the political apparatus" as close to zero as practical.
A socialist state is one which claims to be a transitional state between capitalism and socialism, i.e. the USSR. They're states which have nationalized most industries in order to prevent capitalists from seizing control until such time the state is no longer necessary and withers away into the establishment of a socialist society (some obvious flaws in this though). A capitalist state is essentially every other modern state, parliamentary democracies,republics etc. all with capitalism as the underlying economic system. Socialism is not state control.