skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very hard to "fix" land use once the land is already "in use". Much harder than before the land is developed, at least.

LA seems to be doing the right thing: build subway lines/high-density transit, even if it "goes nowhere," and the density will follow.
I agree, although my anecdotal experience after a decade of using Macs full time (and a few years part time before that) is that I've seen a lot more bugs and problems since Apple switched to a yearly release cycle.

Yosemite was by far the worst macOS version I've ever used. I'm pretty happy with El Capitan though and I won't upgrade until I really need to.
It's not really even cultural. It is a socio-economic and technological issue. Every rich country that settled new territory or experienced massive growth after the invention of the car has cities that are spread out.

Europe was already developed pre-car. Asia had huge population growth when their people generally couldn't afford cars.

This is why US cities that were big before the Model T have a dense core with decent public transit. And cities that exploded after the Model T are basically suburbs of themselves, LA, Houston, Jacksonville. It's always why newly formed European suburbs often are just as car reliant as US suburbs. Though it's worth noting that some European suburbs existed before cars and at the time were just outlying cities that now got subsumed into the metro area.

If Japan had a new city naturally develop in an open area, it would a lot more like LA than Tokyo.
Thanks, I have not thought about that. I figured (hoping) that it would be ok if this is a free project for the community.
You might have heard by now that Windows 10 now comes with a full Ubuntu-based Bash shell that can run Linux software. Guess that covers your use case well!
Not quite "last-minute" - the highest one year of salary was the old pension formula. New hires are required to use the highest three years.
Profits are the things that allow valuable products to scale.

Its odd to me that Venezuela thought that getting rid of profits for producers would help society.
In India I experienced low tech ride sharing. You stand at an intersection and a three wheeler asks you where you're going. You get in, and the driver heads to a major intersection near your destination.

Along the way he asks other people standing at intersections if they are going his way, and if they are they pile in. The more people he stuffs into his three wheeler the more money he makes per trip.

It was an unpleasant ride.
Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
And what is the purpose?

I'm still using bash, awk, and a bit of FORTRAN for scientific computing.
Perhaps it's worth comparing to people in wheelchairs. Airlines accommodate a few wheelchair-bound people on flights, but if more than that number want to fly, they need to pay extra. Shit luck for them, but the alternative would be for everyone else to subsidise wheelchair-bound people whenever they want to fly. If you consider, for the purpose of this conversation, being tall as similar to being wheelchair-bound that's the choice.

So what happens with people of below average intelligence and physical ability? They're likely to suffer from lower earnings. Should a person of average height and on minimum wage subsidise a well-paid tall person?

In an ideal world, chairs would adjust so that everyone is comfortable and still allow the same number of people on the plane at the same price. However, in the real world, we probably have to accept that allocating comfort based on ability to pay, with a bit of flexibility on both sides, is the best outcome.
I am not labelling all paid services as luxuries. But some are, and different people will consider different things luxuries. I mean, what is discomfort? (Should seats be leather, say? Should they recline? How far?) How much is choosing a seat worth? Some people really like an aisle, some like a window, some don't care. When you decide that a particular service is required to be included, you're saying that people that don't want it will have to pay for it anyways. I don't see why that is the default argument that doesn't have to be defended, while not having to pay for something you don't want is the idea that has a high burden of argument.

The heart of the argument made in the article is that somehow, by unbundling services that were bundled, airlines are somehow able to raise prices above what they were otherwise able to do. I don't think that's true at all.

I mean, I sure like a pop and a box of chocolate-covered raisins when I go to the movies. Therefore I demand that all movie tickets include food.

I like to watch streaming videos on my phone. Therefore I demand that all phone plans include unlimited data.

I like big comfortable seats and laptop plugs when I travel on the inter-city train. Therefore I demand that municipal buses include these things.

You see where this goes?

And US healthcare is totally not the same. Firstly, the majority of US healthcare expenditures are tax-funded, about 65%, mostly through Medicare, Medicaid, tax subsidies and other programs. Secondly, it is effectively cartelized by the government, through incentives that make it extremely tax-advantageous to get healthcare through employers, to limits on the training and numbers of doctors that drive up prices, to now, a system of exchanges that require that people purchase insurance from approved insurers at government-set prices. It is so, so incredibly far from "everyone pays for his own healthcare through a system of private insurers".
You gloss over the key management, but it is the primary failing of PGP (and GPG). The lack of built-in key management means it is only half of the solution, and the community has never managed to coalesce around a single sane solution. Instead we have people trading paper notes or using grotty services with custom protocols and if you just want to send an encrypted email to somebody there's no standard way to look up their key.

I have yet to find an email client that will even do the simple search of the keystores for you. It's maddening.
Is it just me (it's not) or are 80% of these fairly trivial?

Patents don't make sense when you think about it.
Because unlike the US government, WikiLeaks has a more accurate/transparent track record?
VPN > Tor: Good To know. Thank you for sharing.

As to the rest: Most appear to be under Server Side control. For the choice of IPs, I think I can filter Tors list of usable IPs... I think. Is there a list of known problem Ips? Or perhaps such an effort would not pay good dividends?
GPUs are for more than VR. All 3D rendering is moving to GPUs, All machine learning development needs GPUs.

GPU is the future of professional computing in many emerging sectors. Apple currently ships no hardware compatible with any of this.
Seems like a move backwards to me. I'd recommend trying YNAB (You Need A Budget - youneedabudget.com).
This is a very common thing around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi. And known in some places in the US, even!
Always using exact numbers and never indefinite quantifiers requires a level of omniscience that none of us has.
The parts run by the local government (Transport for London) are cheaper than or required to be the same as the private franchises organised by the national government. The TfL parts are far better, I think that even if they were the same price the vast majority would say TfL do better.
Could you clarify what "forever" means in this case? (I'm sure you meant you timed out on the operation. I'm just curious how long you gave it.)

And out of curiosity, was the CPU busy or idle during the long-running conversion step?
Not all pension systems are the same. In California, each locality has its own, even if they are all managed by CalPERS.

For example, the spiking that is mentioned in the thread (Vacation cash-outs, overtime, etc.) is not available in the State employee system.
Sounds like Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K.).
If they ran every 15 minutes, I'd never need a car! Having to wait 1/2 - 1 hour for a transfer sucks.
This is ignoring the real issue which is animal agriculture. If we ate the corn ourselves instead of feeding it to cows, we'd be using much less land, be healthier and of course, end the worst crime in history.

I highly recommend watching the documentary 'Cowspiracy'.
Indeed...furthermore, people severely overestimate the amount of calories they burn through exercise and vastly underestimate the amount of calories they consume.
Can't test the code as there are numerous compilation errors with my version of gcc and libc++. Besides what others have written, the author seems to have taken only one measurement for each case. And more importantly there is no mention of randomization at all. If he sorted all input sizes using algorithm A and then all input sizes using algorithm B (instead of doing it in random order) it is possible that there is bias in the measurements (due to cache, branch prediction, etc), specially if he used the same input, just varying the size. I'm also worried about what he used to measure time, as he mentions that for a small number of elements it takes a few microseconds (gettimeofday(3) has a resolution of 1 microsecond, so the measured time is dangerously close to the clock resolution - clock_gettime(3) should be use instead if available, having a resolution of 1ns - or the C++ equivalent for nanosecond precision). Making the algorithm code available is not enough, it is just as important (perhaps even more) to make the benchmark code available. The "tests and benchmarks" code available on Github is a .hpp unfit for reproduction. I want to see the raw data used in the plots and the code to generate it, and I want to be able to run it myself. Otherwise there's no reason to trust it.
>> Ruby remains a nightmare to install natively

I cheated and used RubyInstaller for Windows, and it's worked great for me for the past couple of years, but I guess it really comes down to how you use it and what you need.
There are some interesting theories and discussions about the case on the /r/UnresolvedMysteries subreddit[0]. My favorite one is that she might have been part of a check scams league[1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/search?q=isdal&...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3anykc...
> all needed training

Absolutely true. I do think though that such a box would be coming with a big manual/e-learning/video course to complete the hardware.
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I mostly agree with you. But I am willing to bet the the baggage fee is much more than what is costs the airline to transport the bag. Which would mean the airline is generating more profit from the bag people than the bag-less.
I fail to see what's the point of ethereum/blockchain here. The proof of score must be given by the server (otherwise how would you prevent the score fabrication after the fact?), then owners of the service can always fabricate couple of nice high-scores for themselves.
New York City includes Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island as well. Misleading title and perhaps incomplete study if footprint of cabs is not included from those remaining boroughs in this study. If you live in Manhattan, then you don't use cabs as much within Manhattan because subways cover Manhattan pretty well and travel times in cabs are hellish comparing to subway commute. You often use cabs when you commute to other boroughs from Manhattan because, for example, Brooklyn and Queens do not have great subway network.
This pseudo-intellectual quote makes no sense when what was actually delivered was a slower horse with 3 legs.
Wouldn't the Linux column include Chrome OS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
http://www.justanswer.com/immigration-law/5l4kh-american-cit...
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Well that is what I'm wondering. One of the big issues is real estate. I wonder if it would be more viable instead of just going 2D to make a more 3D system (ie stack plants ala hydroponics).

Obviously the sun is way more efficient and preferred but if you live in an area where the sun isn't exactly available that much of the year it might be worth it for some automated easy to use large indoor like closet system or cabinet particularly in more urban areas.
Apple themselves have a support article specifically addressing how to handle their power cords gingerly... ;)

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201600
I'm in America and i completely agree with his view. You're being overly sensitive.

Generalizations aren't bad, they're just one persons understanding of a group of people. Clearly, based on his/her experiences he is able to generalize the above statement, and that isn't incorrect - it's just his/her generalization. We all have them, and they just represent our combined experiences.

Generalizations are only bad if you condemn others based on them - but that's not the fault of the generalization, but rather the fault of the person. Generalizations are how you live life. You get mugged 10 times by the same race/class/location/etc, you might start to generalize against that combination, and you're not wrong, it clearly happened. That's not to say that all of that race/class/location will be the same way. Same goes for animals. If i get bit by a snake 10 times, i might start to fear snakes. Are all snaked bad? No, but my experience with them is bad, so rightfully i have a bit of a stigma and fear towards them.

This culture of fearing assumptions is bewildering to me. Can we just blame the actual actions of people, and not assume that because they generalize that might, at some point, be classist/racist/etc? Can we have some sanity here?
if you mean in toilet then do it say in delhi and good luck on your flight, hope you have seat next to toilets and no empty plane.

if you mean buy overpriced bottled water then yes, that's an option. but imagine some people want hot herbal tea on that flight, say 1-1.5 litre (ie they are sick). good luck negotiating with some airport 'restaurant' having say 8 tea servings for you (easily costing 20-30 usd/eur together)
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Non-profit doesn't mean the company can't make a profit on what it sells or even pay employees a fair salary. It does mean that profits go back into the company, rather than having profits siphoned off by investors and shareholders. Non-profit is pro-reinvestment and therefore pro-scaleup.
This is a great idea! There are undoubtedly many great solutions to be found through here that were either before their time, or simply ignored after filing.

Great work!
> Just 2 inches! Take out, like 2 or 3 rows, and expand.

The problem is that increasing the other basic economy tickets by the lost revenue (even all seats regardless of class) prices the seats out of competition, not to mention the costs in actually ripping the seats out, moving all the other seats, and getting the plane recertified/inspected.

> when someone reclines in front of me, the seat is literally 6 inches from my face

Serious question: would 8 inches be any better?

> I think they cram us in as tightly as humanly possible (literally) so that they can cajole more people into the first-class cabin and it's attendant price. It's not just awful; it's manipulative!

I think the intersection of people who can afford first class but who would consider taking basic economy with 8" of room but not 6" is exceedingly small.
Who is your target customer?

Someone who runs a website that needs a chatbot, to try and find an off the shelf chatbot?

Seems a tricky value prop. Most websites don't need or want chatbots. Those that do, how many want off the shelf but not free chatbots?
btw, what do you mean by Node when "natively" installed. I used the Windows installer from the node site. Is that what you meant?

The issue I get with watch is that it doesn't properly detect added files in a watched subfolder, although changes and deletions are detected with no issue.
> I too think a power actuated toilet seat sounds like a fantastic foundation for a business

I take it you haven't been to Japan or the more trendy hotels and condos in China (where Japanese stuff are significant influence). In this comment, you appear to be equally gut based on what appears to be Western cultural influence.
How do you fix the Internet of Things? A better router
Scott didn't manage the "macOS" team sorry. Bertrand, Craig & Andreas, not Scott.
Downgrade to El Capitan
I thought the same. It's interesting that this kind of comment gets downvoted without explanation. Is there some kind of culture on HN that implicitly forbids us to voice criticism?
Every time it comes up, I rant about the need for a human-sized seat that's only perhaps 50% more expensive, but it virtually doesn't exist. (Save Premium Economy on Lufthansa and Air NZ, neither of which I've ever tried due to arcane rules about what seats you're allowed to pre-buy on what codeshares.. thanks, United).

Wanting enough space for my elbows to be able to stay within the confines of my seat should not cost me 10x as much.
I see this complaint often here, but I don't get it. Is some Linux driver not working? You can't use the mic, Wi-Fi etc? Linux just works fine on my machine, and also for a large user-base.
I think drugs have a social component too. No one is addicted to drugs before trying them for the first time.
Inspired by Mercurial, we built such functionality for GIT backend in RhodeCode.
So the numeric identifiers are used now for all 3 backends we support. Kallithea has it also implemented for GIT.

I personally never like the meaningless hashes. Those numbers act as good identifier of project size and progress. It quickly shows what kind of ranges we're taking when doing a compare, or simply looking at files and seeing those numbers.

It gives a lot of context. Just look how much more useful information a compare shows
r1808:39334bf35fdf...r1819:3e8df3a82397
vs
39334bf35fdf...3e8df3a82397
I think what jandrese meant is that's the whole point of the modern patent system with fixed expirations.

This is as opposed to the earlier system of letters patent, which had the advantages you cite but no requirement of invention or fixed term; Elizabeth I of England, for example, famously issued a patent for salt.
Interestingly this is very US specific. the big European legacy carriers have way worse frequent flyer programs. Living in Germany, the obvious choice of FFP would be Lufthansa where status is incredibly hard to obtain without flying Business or First and then the benefits are small then with US programs - for example no complimentary updates. Lufthansa rather flies an empty Business cabin then upgrading someone. (With the exception that you get domestic lounge access too)
What the sibling said about noise and vibration, plus the fact that you are in the seat for less time (the rest of the time spent in airports, walking from point to point, standing in line, etc.), plus the fact that you can get up and walk around at any time (I always get aisle seats).
His only whines are about hardware that is too thin/light and does not have legacy ports and OS that won't work on some junk and don't let you publish hacks in some rarely visited moderated store (just like windows, or linux)

And instead of ordering dirty cheap hackintosh with up to 4 CPU Xeons with all memory he can get and compatible wifi, that will be no thin and no light and he can run familiar terminal window to remote build his diamond code while listening to sound of coolers,

He starting to search OS with better GUI than OSX (Elementary it is) and dreaming about hardware you can run FreeBSD (like PS/2 mouse and glorious VESA 2.0 12801024?)

I expect next article will be a tour to the wonderful world of 15" 1366768 Celeron laptops that let you upgrade memory (up to 8Gb!), spacious replaceable 4200 hard drive and have USB 2.0 ports and VGA in addition to HDMI 1.4.
People will know in detail how good terminal window run there on FreeBSD with Elementary OS theme (without 2D acceleration of course).

He makes alot of sense, that mate.
There are multiple projects that give you a Linux user land on windows. Including bash, csh, perl, python, gcc and full toolchain. Msys2 project provides that. There are also alternative terminals.

A smarter way is to use python for automation. There are lots of graphics libraries and bindings to do what ever you want.
Correct; a PDF can indicate an arbitrary page number for every physical page. Stupid PDF readers navigate in physical pages; more sophisticated readers use indicated pages, even when taking user input (go to page Intro-6).
Feels like just an experiment with this new technology. Maybe over time they can improve and upgrade to make scores more verifiable.
> The intent he thought was required was as I described

Again, cite the law. It doesn't exist.

> The statute - 18 U.S.C. Section 793(f) - says nothing about intent.

Again, that section was anulled by case law, in particular Gorin v. United States, which establishes the bright line of scienter for applying this law. That is why Comey said that no prosecutor would bring this charge.
I know what you're saying, I'm often bad at meandering past the point I'm thinking of with a non-focused example.

I guess in a nutshell I feel like these dashboard products, while well meaning and often very well crafted are just throwing things at your eye sockets. Showing data because you have data is not a solution in of itself.
> The further implication that a particular macronutrient ratio could cause obesity is particularly concerning. Weight gain/loss is determined strictly by whether someone consumes more or fewer calories than their body burns in a day. The ratio of macronutrients may effect other health indicators like lean body mass, but a diet of 100% sugar and fat will still lead to weight loss if the total caloric intake is lower than what the body requires thereby requiring the body to burn muscle/fat for energy[1].

Perhaps, but people in the real world don't usually carefully measure out a portion based on calories before consuming; they eat until they're not hungry anymore. So any food that is calorically dense but doesn't satisfy hunger is likely to contribute to obesity.

The government warns against fats and sugars for similar reasons here https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2010/dietaryguidelin...