skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hyper-local regulation has proven to be a disaster.[0] It’s not just about providing housing, but about having houses near jobs and having diverse communities.

State-wide is a bit problematic for a state as large as California.[1] The problem is there is no intermediate level of regulation between the county and the state.

Federal regulation of housing has been terrible.[2] Even before you consider Ben Carson as Secretary of HUD. It’s impossible for a small group of people working in a swamp to create all the necessary regulations ranging from Appalachian cabins to high rises on landfill in an earthquake zone.[3]

There is an ideal size for each form of government and regulation. I think for housing, the ideal size is probably slightly bigger than the well-connected metro area. So, the entire San Francisco Bay Area should be one unit, but not all of California; and the Northeast Megalopolis from Virginia to Massachusetts, but not the entirety of those states, should be one unit.[4]

[0]http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/01/how-zoning-restrictio...

[1]http://www.spur.org/news/2016-06-02/governor-brown-s-solutio...

[2]https://www.recivilization.net/TheCatastrophe/331thedepartme...

[3]http://www.newser.com/story/234803/leaning-tower-of-sf-is-si...

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
They seem to have at least made iPlayer available without Flash now. That was a nice surprise.
Motors and generators tend to be way more 65% efficient. Random internet search mentions 70-98%. If they were not, pumped hydro would not be useful either.

Linked article is short on details, but the link wiredfool gave has more details including a video with numbers (2nd video 02:00). They claim >93% (Combined M&E) one-way efficiency. I don't know what one-way is, but 0.93^2 = 86%, which would make the loss noticeable, but I would still consider it good enough for storing solar/wind.
"In Lua < 5.3 a = 9223372036854775000 is not even valid code. Because only 32-bit integer values are supported."

That's not true at all, Lua < 5.3 uses doubles for all numbers, which on most computers is IEEE 754, they can represent integers perfectly up to 2^53

The value is not corrupted, depending on the rounding mode is which number you're going to get out of that (I get 9223372036854774784)
See my note above, but we have great peering with Fermilab and I failed to mention this above: us-central1 in Council Bluffs, Iowa is also quite close to Fermilab (less than 500 miles) so the latency was pretty good too.

[Edit: And I should add that by copying into GCS, they were able to grab compute anywhere in us-central1 without worrying about it. Similarly, on preemption, you don't need to transfer all the data from home, you just grab it from GCS again].

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and helped with this effort.
> If you find that too difficult, then your goal is not really something you care about, so think harder.

From personal experience, agreed that you shouldn’t have to make yourself, and instead realizing that you want it.

Disagreed with ‘think harder’, though. When mind is foggy, thinking harder doesn’t seem to help; and when mind is clear, things tend to be obvious without thinking.

When you woke up to a spinning room, you probably didn’t have to think too hard about goals or whether you’d want to experience that again. It was a moment of clarity. However, when everything is going mostly well and there are no incoming existential warnings—just normal ups and downs of life—such moments can be elusive to some of us.

I’d say regularly practicing different ways of inducing bouts of mindfulness (how? I wish I knew) might be the only habit worth development per se.
No medical background here, but I've had that same thought myself.

I know it's completely unethical to prescribe a placebo (and I assume knowing it is a placebo erases said effects) but how nice would it be to have the ability to experience some relief without the cost and side effects of a real medication!
I found the interesting part of that chapter was creating a macro to ingest search clauses and generate 'where' functions to search the MP3 database.
What kind of flaws does this kind of testing typically uncover?
I spent the time to research my arguments because I'd like to have a discussion with facts.

Literally all of my citations are from page one on Google. It took 5 minutes.

It concerns me that you are having this discussion and are not used to things like citations backing up arguments.

> just some random schmoe perusing unrelated threads on HN?

Hi. Want a link to my GitHub or personal website?

> he most likely works for CTR or some other PAC

I am a software developer and contractor. I work for myself, thanks.

The level of tinfoil hattery in this post is off the charts.
I love that idea but I think we should be more social in person than electronically. I would better go out with someone on a run or a walk than this but again I would love that for sometime
It's hardly just men. There are plenty of women with the "meal (and certainly dinner) = meat" notion in their heads.
Illinois Regulators and Businesses educate to create Blockchain legislation
From my bookmarks, The State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem, 2015: http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015
A Tribute to the Late Jon Postel
Firebird 3 by default in LibreOffice 5.4 (Base) replacing HSQL
Very impressive achievement! Even compare to Google Institute: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/olive-tr...
Reset lost admin password for Raspberry Pi
All big companies that do these use extensive ab testing to determine if they work.
The extra registers affect the way programs are written. You get a more RISC-like feel: this shows up most notably in the calling conventions, which pass all arguments in registers most of the time. You see more RISC-like three register arithmetic because the compiler has more opportunities to use LEA. Etc.
padding attacks are only really related to encrypting data not sharing the product of two very large primes. You clearly havent got the faintest idea what you are talking about.

Rather than putting the rest of us at risk by putting zero value on the security of anything you make and guessing someone [a spook] will do it for you, why dont you recommend everyone takes some time out to at least learn the basics.

Yes, there are several "mines" you need to be wary of.

But they all pale into insignificance compared to linking openssl and thinking you are done.
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Ask HN: How do I facilitate a username transaction?
Hey everybody,

So someone grabbed a social media account with our startup's username, and he's willing to sell it to us for a reasonable price. The problem is, he wants payment in Bitcoin, and for me to transfer the money before he transfers the account. I want to somehow protect myself from fraud, but he does to. What's a good way to facilitate such a transaction so that we're both protected? Any ideas? :-)
I think the article and the discussions are focusing on the wrong semantic definition of AI.

Unsupervised learning is where the revolution is. Learning has nothing to do with boom or bust.
If you believe in the placebo effect, it can still work even if you know you're taking a placebo. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-addiction/201...
"I would argue that solipsism and a universe simulation are actually very close."

I agree with you that from the point of view of testability both are very similar, but, in my view, from the point of view of logic reasoning are almost the opposite.

Solipsism is just bad reasoning or, at most, a semantic trick: I define my mind as everything there is out there, so, obviously, everything is in my mind. But we have science, precisely, to try to understand what it is out there, and "out there" means outside of our minds.

On the other hand, you arrive to the simulation argument by deduction. That's what, testability apart, make it interesting. The reasoning is: if a simulation is possible, then, many are possible. If there are many simulations in the universe, what is more probable? to be in the universe or in a simulation?

I agree that we don't know what to do with that, but you have to recognize that it's a damn good trick of logic.
It's a novelty act right now. Like Google glass. The tech is incredible, but thus far no one has found a valuable application besides games.
You want to read the book "Crossing the Chasm" if that's who you're thinking of targeting. And just keep in mind you're going to need funding to go after that market.
The article relates the example of the sales cycle for the 'church in Langley' - it took a hundred years from the first recommendation to replace the bells to actual installation! That's remarkable!

Is there any other industry with these sorts of time lines? I can't think of one.

What would software built to last/be useful for a hundred years even look like?
Arguably, that's as correct a way as any for validation for email.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

> Don't go overboard in trying to eliminate invalid email addresses with your regular expression. The reason is that you don't really know whether an address is valid until you try to send an email to it. And even that might not be enough.
Absolutely. Burt and the rest of the HEPCloud team are doing awesome work. And see above about how we went from 0 to 160k cores in just a few weeks. That's a testament to how prepared those guys were, and points the way to "Where's the best place for me to (re)run this experiment? At home, on Azure, on AWS, on Google?". Now they just have to solve the government budgeting problem! ;).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, and worked with Fermilab on the mentioned Google work.
My company has hitched itself to the AI hype train, but they're talking about NLP and conversational UIs not data analysis.
A wonderful book, well worth studying. If only in order to gain a wider perspective on programming languages, and perhaps forget, at least for a while, about the language wars and the ongoing "C bashing."

It may be not obvious to those who may only have had a limited experience with it, Common Lisp, in itself, is an extremely expressive and powerful programming language. Also, there are compilers, such as SBCL, that generate a very efficient machine code; others, such as ECL ("embeddable Common Lisp"), make it very easy to combine lisp code with code written in C, thereby providing the ability to seamlessly integrate high-level and easy-to-use constructs with low-level, performance-critical pieces of code.
Hah, wow that is really great. Super fun application and the UX is awesome. Nice job
People whose parents didn't win the housing lottery by buying in Cali 30 years ago but whose parents are from (yegads) Nevada or even (chortle) the other coast and who don't have either Prop13 protection or a convenient million dollar home to hand - but who are the ones who actually pay for all the public services in Cali with their taxes?

(I live half a world away from there and really don't have a horse in that race, but you have to be wilfully blind not to see both the injustice and the economic inefficiency.)
How viable would using this be from within clojurescript?

https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads
Being uncomfortable leads to guilt and a sense of failure for good reason: You DID fail. Be honest.

How you handle failure tells a LOT about your character. Either you're a pussy who sits in a corner feeling sorry for yourself, or you take your lumps, then get up and go again.

Feeling warm and fuzzy all the time doesn't give you grit.
I have a question as a non physics/math person:

We assume that light speed is a constant, but we also know that speed is measured as distance/time. We know that in the presence of high gravity (or proximity to very high mass), or very high speed, we experience time dilation, and that perspective and location matters WRT actual time.

So, how do we assume that light speed is constant? Does the distance moved change relative to the proximity to mass, and the time unit vary in value as well? If not, do we just assume that the lack of proximity to mass in between galaxies doesn't change the behavior of light when we say that the proximity to black holes does?
Look up the x32 ABI for Linux. It's exactly that.
Check out Torch7 (http://torch.ch) or Google's new TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org) - both of them are really easy to use (especially TensorFlow) and will allow you to build models with a bit of programming knowledge that run offline quite easily.
Enabling Brotli on CDNs that don't support it yet
64-bit mode is kind of a strict superset of 32-bit mode. So the program can run in 64bit mode. But for example, if a program stores a pointer in memory, it's stored as a 32bit number. Once it's loaded, it gets 0-extended to a 64bit integer.

The main thing is having a differen ABI (within the program), and using the linker/memmapping to ensure that the stack, code, and a heap is in the lower 4G. Another heap can be in the 64bit space, using 64bit pointers.

edit: one could even use trickery related to the alignment of pointers (i.e. 32bit alignment) to shift values on load or access, using the fact that the lower bits of the address. This could allow 36bit addresses that cover 16GB of memory.
I've read every comment in this thread and its filled mostly with peoples self congratulatory intellectual views. Nobody, not even Robin Hansen himself has given a good, detailed argument as to why the current progress in Machine learning will stop.
Didn't say just men; I just see, especially for red meat, men are vocal and aggressive about it. Maybe it is just places I go to ;) But I have seen it all over the world. Some places more than others.
Indeed. As much as I dislike CL's quirky inelegance (I prefer the scheme side of the Lisp family tree), it's a tremendously powerful and effective language, and one of the best choices for Getting Stuff Done Right Now using Lisp. In fact, probably the best choice.
You don’t know it, but you’re working for Facebook. For free
I agree with you, but I think the parent was saying that even controlling for one's ability to successfully do a thing, some things (i.e. those that are more strenuous or otherwise require more commitment) take longer to solidify as habits, which makes sense if we think of habit-forming as environmental adaptation. One doesn't adapt to massive environmental changes after just a couple of weeks.
"Perceived meat entitlement"? Can't imagine why you find people getting defensive.
The interaction of a system of many small pipes to accomplish computation is an active area of research, and new improvements are used in devices pretty routinely. (Really, the behavior of networks of pipes in general is still pretty open, if you want instantaneous details rather than statistical averages.)

Along similar lines, HFLP systems and systems that require laminar flow to be effective are both more recent techniques that come out of a better understanding and engineering of pipes. HFLP upgrades are a current engineering change over very recent and modern high-pressure systems.
only one encryption scheme works against "willful targeted attacks" - the one time pad (and even that has potential for going wrong)

All the others are about making the effort required greater than the will to get there in favor of usability.

All the standard libraries stop at "miniscule effort for a state".

And states aren't even "the big boys" anymore.
Chaos Everywhere (RNN-generated poetry)
One of the less-well-known features of Linux is that you can do this! Theres's a thing called the "x32 ABI" (use the option -mx32 with gcc or clang; you'll need all your libraries compiled with it too) where:

* As far as the processor itself is concerned, the code runs in 64-bit mode, so you get the extra (and wider) registers from that.

* But pointers are still 32 bits, so you get the memory savings of 32-bit mode.

In principle, as long as you're using <4GiB of memory, it should be at least as fast as the best of 32-bit or 64-bit mode for any particular program. But I haven't heard of it being used much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078124
Not all placebos are equally effective. The placebo effect seems to be going up in America as studies get bigger and longer. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-addiction/201... What if the only ways to get relief were to take an effective pill, or be in an expensive medical test?
Life and Limb
I've been following it. The last time I tried it was a bit slow for my use case at the moment but maybe it has come along since then. I'm wondering if the C++ port that MapBox are building turned into WebAssembly might end up being the winner there.

Yeah I'd love to know about people using it as well. Certainly the features would be really useful.
"Experimental" is a key here which distinguishes the simulation hypothesis. There are two things we can do:

1. attempt to create a simulated universe
2. make predictions about our universe based on the hypotheis

I would not rule either of these out as futile.
Not to me... Waiters to people and people to waiters, people at people at parties etc. What would you call it though? This thread is about killing life because rich folks want meat? If that is assumed true, then is that not a feeling of entitlement people have for some reason?
No, that would also qualify as "AI algorithm wizardry" as dheera puts it. Instead it's just a hardware sensor that measures the time at which light arrives at each pixel. Knowing the speed of light you can calculate the depth of each pixel.
I was about to rebut you, but the facts remain: The largest supplier (by far) of almonds in the world is California. So yeah, if you drink almond milk it's likely sourced from CA using up precious water that is causing the CA central valley to literally sink [1], as much as several inches a month (ie, several feet so far).

However, almonds pale in comparison to cows or other livestock in terms of water usage (esp when used as meat) - while consuming large quantities of almonds may not be sustainable, it's a lot better than eating meat... just may be as water-unsustainable as drinking local milk (if you live in CA).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/28/california-c...
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So the basic criticism here is than Hanson, in suggesting firms clean up their data and then apply simple analytics to it, is defining away the problem that ML solves?
Fission provides.
The dark art of Growth Hacking
>" however most data sets don't fit well with machine learning"

Could you elaborate on why this is?
Isn't this just shifting the ambiguity into your choice of state definitions, rather than the states themselves?
The testing conditions that are used when developing websites aren't the same as what users experience - especially when they are on a mobile device which has lower bandwidth, power, etc. It is important to ensure that the site is usable from the user's perspective. This kind of testing is usually required for you to see how your site performs when there is higher latency, packet loss, single points of failure (when a domain is unreachable) and so on..

Though these are great tools to help us test, I still strongly recommend using real devices with real network conditions to do tests like these.
Why should soldiers be forced to take assignments and pay they don't want? Contractors don't get forced to build a project for the military's price, they get to negotiate.

Soldiers should be able to choose whether to accept an assignment or quit their job. If the nation doesn't want to pay for a certain war/fort/whatever, the nation can sacrifice it, instead of impressing soldiers into service.
Why do you love math?

I don't walk only because of enjoyment. I want to do serious long term travel, and I know being able to walk long periods of time is going to be part of that life style.

If I REALLY want to spend years traveling the world (which I do), then I need to do things that help move the meter towards that goal. It should be exciting to do these things every day because it's one step closer to where you want to be. It's measurable progress and at the end of the day, that's a big win.
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Yeah, but most of the large key-value stores are distributed hash tables.
What K compiler do you have in your phone?

I have the awesome J Android app[0] on my phone, but J doesn't seem as polished as K.

0: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/JAndroid
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out." -Bjarne Stroustrup

I've had a not-specific-enough idea of what that language would be for a long time. As far as I'm aware, nobody has created it yet.
Hey thanks! If you're still reading this, I just soft-launched (I will get an email but I plan on automate it) a way to add new datasets
Why can't I just see how much memory my process is using?
These services already have apis that give up the data. So anyone could build data extractors that allow you to regularly pull your Metadata from them and store it in this new datastore.

Only the consumers of the data need to change their behavior. If there's easy to use libraries to access the data store and enough demand for it then more and more consumers will adopt it over time.
stargazing is more broadly skygazing. Santa is no more or less astronomical than a meteor (nee asteroid) -- both fly through the sky at incredible speeds, and light up (when Rudolph is present)
I would be surprised if the death knell for neoliberal capitalism is really sounding. And what, pray tell, is the replacement? Fascism? Plutocracy? Probably not Socialism or Communism...
"Hey Google" works as well, and I find it much easier to say than "Okay Google".
The biggest problem in spreading lisp nowadays is the fragmentation of the documentation.

"Lisp" means so little when you're writing real code.

Each implementation has its own quirks and even venerable books fall when confronted with real world code at learning.

For example: I was reading the SICP and using racket that looks like an interesting runtime nowadays. Turns out that a while a go the dev team made cons immutable and that's okay I guess but it broke (at least for me) the experience of reading SICP because I now have to pause and learn this quirk of this specific lisp implementation.

And don't even get me started on common lisp. There are at least 5 or 6 major common lisp runtimes, each of them incompatible somehow (try and read some of the StumpWM "makefiles" and you'll have a taste of what I'm talking about).

Also, common things (threads, for example) are still not provided in a uniform way across all of the implementations, and are often more or less quick hacks.

Scheme? Cool! Srfi! What part of scheme does your scheme actually implements?
Would you use a C compiler without structures? And write code so that it can be compiled with another C compiler that has structures but doesn't have foot loops (only while loops are provided).

Lisps are awesome languages, but for me, no wonder they remain niche languages.

And before you downvote, please keep in mind that I am now booing Lisp, I would just love it to be more "sane" minded and less schizophrenic as a language/runtime, and more real-world-usable.
Apart from JK Rowling, I have also enjoyed reading Patricia Highsmith and Fred Vargas (she is a woman, despite of the name). Haven't read Rand yet. I also remember that I liked Earthsea, but don't remember the details.

I think many of those "read more women" lists tend to be heavy on feminist topics, therefore less appealing. Of course in general good female authors exist. (Just remembered that as a teen I was also impressed by Virginia Wolf's "The Waves").

Edit: and of course Agatha Christie
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