skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen the infrastructure thing come up for awhile now, and it's definitely true. In my area, as in others I've read of, they're smashing paved roads into gravel roads as the paved are too expensive.

The thing that fascinates me is that it feels like a forgone conclusion that infrastructure costs cannot be made cheaper. Have we really hit the most cost effective, cheapest, most sustainable method of laying/replacing sewer/gas/water lines and roads?

There's no innovation left at all when it comes to making pipes that are more easily replaceable without digging the entire road up? There's no brilliant ideas left at all on how to 'pave' roads so they're smooth enough in a way that costs less money, or lasts way longer? Heck, while we're talking improvements maybe we should have a way to pave a road such that we don't have such massive runoff and its more resilient to minor settling underneath without opening large potholes.

I do wonder whether the shit really hitting the fan, and massive chunks of the population having their roads smashed back to gravel might shake a few new ideas out.
A PulseAudio maintainer is running a Patreon campaign to support development
LLVM + GPU
What if you were made CEO of Apple tomorrow? It's already well established and successful, so there is hardly any risk involved there?
I wish. Have you seen the fights over increased density in left wing areas like SF, Portland, and Seattle?
I believe they have a one-time "lifetime" subscription buy
Hey, thanks mate. With the various meetups I go and corporate networks I'm using, it's always a pain to lose all my saved chrome tabs to portal redirects because I forgot to open Firefox to get through the portal first. I might be able to leverage this to help.
Thanks for the feedback! The new, updated web landing page coming soon :)
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Or you might be one of those who has realized the meaning behind the famous quote "What is written without effort, is read without pleasure".

Apply it in the context of social interaction, and you can immediately see that social networks are making people more antisocial. But don't worry, someone here will come and give you numerous studies citing why that isn't the case.

Anecdotally, though, you know this is true. You probably know of that old autistic person who was never diagnosed and somehow managed to live a higher quality life than the current diagnosed generation. You probably know of elders who actually had a much higher quality of life after they lost mobility because, you know, people actually stopped by to talk to them occasionally. You probably know of a cheery, older handicapped person who seemed to have had nothing going for them other than people who just genuinely cared about them - probably because the time others spent with them was not optimized for self-actualization.
Thanks! Will check it out :)
This article embodies a lot of magic thinking and completely avoids asking the questions about _why_ things cost so much vs. when the infrastructure was first built.

Here is a clue: defined benefit pensions
All real estate related problems in American cities are about nonsensical level of regulation. It is really cool to find so much free parking in Sunnyvale but then we cant really complain about high rents can we ?

People fail to see the basic premise that you cant really have both, plenty of parking and lower rents. They go hand in hand.
That's a fascinating link.

If I wanted to package my third-party dependency, the first thing I would do is "learn about personal interests of sponsors" and see if my third-party dependency and a sponsor's interests intersect. There's a link to a page describing the sponsoring process, where apparently I'd file a bug against a "sponsorship-requests" pseudo-package and then, I guess, wait.

Next (or perhaps concurrently) I'd file a separate "Intent to package" bug against the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages" pseudo-package. There's a whole page about WNPP and format guidelines for submitting said bug using the "reportbug" tool. Those format guidelines are longer than the JSON spec.

Then I'd still need to make the package, after all. That link you gave lists five important reference materials, one of which is said to be "must read" and has 12 chapters and 7 appendices. There's also a "New Maintainer's Guide".

Then I need to publish my package. There's an account to sign up for. Plus I'll need to create, keep up with and sign stuff with a GPG key because uploads are http/ftp only.

Once that is finished I apparently get an email response. Finally... I am done!

Now it's time to find a sponsor.

There's a whole section on what to do if you can't find a sponsor. The first is to follow up on the WNPP request I was supposed to make six paragraphs ago. The other is apparently to look up sponsors in a sponsor search-engine on the Debian website and bother them.

Then there's another section on actually getting the package into debian through an ftpmaster. (Both the sponsor and the non-Debian Debian-package maintainer are ominously reminded here that the ftpmaster's _opinion_ on inclusion is binding.)

And then maintaining it.

I would be, for the life-time of my application, maintaining the Debian package of one of my third-party dependencies. This, in response to my query about how to be a good upstream citizen in the hopes that downstream maintainers can more easily package my application! :)
Introduction to Semi-Supervised Learning with Ladder Networks
I think he is far too unlikeable for this to work, on top of being up against Trump. But sure, it would be very interesting for him to try.
This is a great question! It’s true that hardcore meditators often prefer to meditate for longer than five minutes, so we do have meditations up to 30 minutes in length to cater to that. What’s interesting, though, is that even experienced meditators can see the value of a quick meditation in the middle of their day, like during their lunch break or right before an important phone call. We like to think of meditation as a more integrated practice that’s accessible anytime and anywhere, which is why we believe that 5 minutes of mindfulness can be helpful to anyone.
That's just the thing - my upgraded '12 15 inch MBP with 16GB RAM can last me until the chassis give out. To help with weight while traveling, I've been using an iPad + VPS for coding.

Switching back to Linux no longer feels like a downgrade after a year of VIM over SSH.
There are lots of different kinds of universities. If funding to universities was (relatively) cut, it was because demand surged. The California system had free, taxpayer supported universities but that wasn't sustainable due to demographics. Of course the story is different
everywhere. It's not like universities are poverty pockets.

Conservatives are not uniformly pro-corporate. There may be a central tendency towards "free markets" ( or some caricature thereof ) but that's not a central tenet. I follow the Arnold Kling model; conservatives are primarily concerned with perceived barbarism. People who work steadily are seen as less barbaric. Corporations hire people.

Think tanks are an artifact of an expanding media system. I watch a lot of CSPAN, and they are a lot on there. There are
similar liberal institutions, and varying degrees of conservatism even among AEI or the like. Much of that is simply exploiting the business model created by Wm. F Buckley.

I know nothing of who goes into university administration. but the tendency of people to go into administration in general should be apparent in the larger culture.
He's advocating greater density than the typical American suburb but far less than a Manhattan. More like old fashioned main streets, with mixed commercial and residential and less driveways and parking lots. Stores and apartments generate tax revenue. Pavement for cars doesn't.
One of the biggest obstacles for busy people is that they feel like they don’t have time to meditate. As a startup founder and ex-i banker, 5 minute tracks make daily meditation accessible and doable, and significantly lowers the barrier to entry. Studies show that brief meditation, even if it is just a few minutes, if practiced consistently, can have powerful benefits within a few weeks.
What about taking the generic domain name and redirecting to a domain name for your actual brand?
Did BuzzFeed Publish Donald Trump Fanfiction from 4chan as Real News?
Why I blog about code even though I'm not an expert
Oh man, I was poor soon after leaving my parents' house, and stopped thinking about PC upgrades for about 7 years. When income finally happened, I decided to customize a gaming PC and I thought I was just stupid. I guess it's actually a lot harder now.
The government doesn't seem to prosecute those cases anymore. Internet ISP's with their geographically bound actual physical monopolies would be an even stronger case but you don't hear anything from the feds about prosecuting those companies either
Partly that, but I mainly mean the utter "publish or perish" treadmill is the main manner in which careerism is expressed in academia.
Thanks for checking us out — we’ve been growing quickly since our launch in June on iOS. Now, we're available on Android and web as well. We’re excited to announce Y Combinator’s investment in Simple Habit!
You are aware that Dart was not released in 2016, yes? The first public release was in 2011.

Feel free to stick only to your company's Recommended Best Practices Industry Standard Languages and Libraries. But, there are lots of languages out there, and many of us have good reasons for using them. Deal with it.
It's a classic story of special interests-- they're inherently more motivated than those championing the common good.

There are incremental solutions towards this, such as "split level" property tax in which the rates for land can be shaded upward. Pennsylvania has had this for decades.

But when you implement them, plan to see the special interests make their case. For instance, a recent proposal to implement LVT in Hartford, CT:[0]

> "We do have an important parcel," said Cheryl Chase, general counsel at Hartford-based Chase Enterprises. "We are developers. If we think there is a project to be built, we would build it."

> Chase, which developed downtown's Gold Building and two other downtown skyscrapers in the 1970s and 1980s, owns the parking lot where the Parkview Hilton stood until it was demolished in 1990.

One would think 26 years would be quite enough time to find a suitable use for a valuable downtown parcel, but this parking lot owner disagrees...

[0] http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-hartford-downto...
The meditation industry is growing fast, and it’s exciting to see what other companies are doing. Simple Habit is one of the only meditation platforms bringing top teachers from around the world to one place and helping teachers monetize their content. We’re continuing to scale our platform, and speaking from personal experience, it isn’t the easiest model to replicate because it requires bringing the best meditation teachers onto one platform ;) We’re aiming to become the go-to resource for meditation and mindfulness content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
For the mobo, CPU, and RAM, I would agree, but power supplies and graphics cards have been forwards and backwards compatible for roughly a decade.
Each and every person I have observed learning this over and over has a university degree. "CS ain't coding", as they say.
I live in Russia at the moment and probably the most startling thing is how well planned many of the cities and towns are and how very clearly these cities were not made for cars. While it's a hassle for vehicle traffic because the roads were never designed to handle everyone owning a car, the benefit is that no matter where you live there is a shop nearby for essentials (groceries, clothing stores, repairs, cafe's, etc), transit is readily availble even in the smallest of towns and fairly affordable. I spent time in Pereslavl-Zalessky about 140 km north of moscow and was surprised that even a relatively small town had faster and more regular public transit than most of the cities I've lived in in the US.

Granted it all comes with a slight adjustment to get used to some of the holdovers of life in the USSR, but when I lived in Seattle, it used to be if I missed the bus I had to wait ~30+ minutes for the next one home, and I needed to plan whether I'd take a side trip to get groceries or not, adding an additional mile or two to my walk home. Here it's nice to just be able to walk a few hundred meters at most to the nearest store for groceries.
You sometimes want to be able to distinguish positive underflow from negative underflow. In the same way you sometimes want to distinguish positive overflow (infinity) from negative overflow (minus infinity).
It's go.microsoft.com. I Think you can be pretty sure that will forever be without https as well since it is hardcoded into several Windows versions
This all is suddenly less surprising for people who learned some modulo arithmetics in school (or university). That is, calculating with the remainders of division. For example:

- Calculating "modulo 60" means calculating time with a round clock in mind, considering only minutes and ignoring hours (and seconds).

- Calculating with angles (in degrees) means just calculating "modulo 360".

- "modulo 1000" means calculating with the last 3 decimal digits of an integer, ignoring the front digits.

The fundamental result here is: No matter modulo which number you calculate: addition, negation, subtraction and multiplication work "out of the box". And you'll quickly notice that "two's complement" just means calculating modulo 2^n, where n=8,16,32,64 or 128. But this all really works for any m >= 2, not just m = 2^n.

(One drawback though: division doesn't work here, it works only if m is prime, and even then it is slightly different from what you'd expect, although completely logical.)

In short, the elegance comes from modulo arithmetics. It has nothing to do with "two" or "binary", it would e.g. work with 3-state logic machines the same way.

EDIT: To those who downvoted this: Do you care to elaborate? The author did't mention modulo arithmetics with a single word, although it is an essential part to truly understand how and why two's complement works.
I don't know if income would be a sorting dimension here. Account history and delinquency maybe... But if the service is say $40/month from an operations or BI perspective, what advantage do you gain by prioritizing wealthier customers?

A far better solution would be to have a 900 number for the wealthier customers to call where you charge them a premium for faster service.

They'll self sort and you don't have to do anything.
For ascending solution taking a lazy approach, it appears to be a trivial inclusion, considering for any n with a solution using 1-9, a solution which includes 0 will simply take the form:

n = 0 + <ascending_solution_n>

without any additional consideration. Similarly for descending solution:

n = <descending_solution_n> + 0

The descending case also looks like it'll produce a crap ton of solutions for n = 1 of the form:

1 = <arbitrary_descending_permutation> ^ 0
There are no videos of the lectures of the material the book is based on. The videos Gates put up are the Messenger Lectures that Feynman gave at Cornell.
Somewhere there's the intersection of:
(a) what you want to do - i.e. your interests & 'passions',
(b) your skillset, or potential to learn a skillset
(c) worthwhile problem to work on
(d) something that will financially support you; but this is not a concern in your case
(e) something that provides you with dignity, purpose and meaning in life

I like the idea that it's an optimisation problem, to seek something which achieves these criteria and maximises beneficial impact to society.
> Filipinos, Samoans, Latinos, African Americans, and other persons of color?

Plenty of non-white people working at Google. What does this ethnic diversity have to do with your little free market rant?
> LLVM enabled ARC, a beautifully simple approach to memory management that removed much (not all) of the need for the developer to implement details in code, while providing high efficiency and, perhaps even more importantly, predictable performance (no garbage collection pauses). These are all essential for safety-critical realtime software.

A GC algorithm known since the early days of Lisp GC research and used in languages like Mesa/Cedar in the late 70's.

I can think of lots of other examples, like how VB, Delphi and C++ Builder interfaced with COM in the mid-90's.

Yes, ARC PR made automatic memory management to those without background in compiler research more easy to accept, specially if they weren't aware of the stability issues that trying to implement a tracing GC in Objective-C semantics meant.

However it goes without saying, that Lattner is really brilliant and his work on LLVM as a compiler building tool, as well as, clang in regards to improving the status quo of C static analysis tooling and compiler error messages, is really notable.

In regards to ARC, maybe also in terms of PR, as now there is a whole generation of developers that thinks reference counting isn't garbage collection.
Ha, that's interesting, what caused this shift in perception?
https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast...
Start-ups are no longer about innovation but rather about eyeballs, aren't they? Russia is in economic recession so Russian eyeballs nonlonger worth very much. So many new developments target wider world audience, and they don't even have to be startups. Make a good mobile game, for example. But often, just outsourcing is simpler.

Atmosphere is bad mainly for internal projects which we don't see much of, anymore.
I'm currently interchanging daily between the Waterfield Vitesse and smaller Waterfield Cycling Musette.

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/our-favorite-messenger-bags...

Great for subway commuting, and great for casual situations too. Both bags give me good options to fit my 13" and 15" MBPs. No lifetime warranty, but they're well built.

I do have a GoRuck that I use when I need something more robust.
And they have relied on treaties with, or protection by proxy from a former colonizer or nearby superpower. In other words, they rely on others for defense.
ARC is automatic memory management.

"The Garbage Collection Handbook", chapter 5

http://gchandbook.org/
Australia to tax all digital transactions
The windows 10 "telemetry" is not a man-in-the-middle attack, it's a compromised endpoint. You don't know what's in the telemetry -- it's encrypted, and there's no (known) mechanism for you, the owner of the computer, to inspect it. It /could/ include what Microsoft claims it does, or it could include all of the above and more.

I'm so confused why anyone would want to normalize the idea of backdoored computers that let Microsoft collect whatever data they want from your on a routine basis. Normally we consider this kind of thing spyware or malware and try to get rid of it stat, why does Microsoft get a pass?
ARC is a GC implementation algorithm, you probably mean tracing GC algorithm.

"The Garbage Collection Handbook", chapter 5

http://gchandbook.org/
AdWords isn't useless, but it's pretty overpriced. Which can often mean it's useless.

The big players run AdWords campaigns like... you know, ads. They cost money. Then you sell those new customers more shit down the road. Requires complicated analytics and customer tracking. A lot of people are just in it for the big data.

It's not supposed to be a slot machine. But Google isn't arguing with you if you want to treat it like a slot machine.
>> Did Consumer Reports indicate in any previous reviews that this is an aspect of their methodology?

Probably not.

>> It's my understanding that this aspect is just now being revealed.

That's probably because nobody cared to ask before. The new Macbook Pros were already under a microscope even before Consumer Reports did their tests. Any less than stellar review from CR was going to get lots of eyeballs. In any case, the big reveal is not that caching was disabled, it's that there was a bug on Apple's side that is the likely root cause, and I'm guessing that bug didn't exist in the previous versions of Safari that were used to test the previous Macbook Pros that got the "Recommended" badge.

CR's response today: http://www.consumerreports.org/apple/apple-releases-fix-to-m...

Some key quotes:

"We turn off caching as part of Consumer Reports' standard laptop test protocol" -- I can only take that at its word. It doesn't say "updated" standard protocol.

"At Consumer Reports, we test every laptop from every manufacturer in a comparable way. Because people use laptops differently and because their usage can vary from day to day, our battery tests are not designed to be a direct simulation of a consumer’s experience. Rather, we look to control as many variables as possible, then perform a test that gives potential users a reasonable expectation of battery life when a computer’s processors, screen, memory, and antennas are under a light to moderate workload. This test has served as a good proxy for battery life on the hundreds of laptops in our ratings."

They don't review hundreds of laptops per year, that's spread out over multiple years. So I don't think it's a huge leap of faith to assume that they turned off the cache on prior Macbook Pro models.

FWIW, John Gruber does not "think it’s fair to say that disabling the caches is unfair or a flawed method" -- which says a lot.
This is based on the fact that the downtown area provides more tax revenue. All he's managed to prove is people do their shopping in the city core.
My little suburb is far from dense and we're not having any trouble paying the bills.
I feel obligated to to point out the blog McMansion Hell (http://www.mcmansionhell.com) which ridicules and explains why these details are ugly.
Oh hey, new Maddox!
App not available in your country (BE). Meh.
What's the point of that article?
> In my opinion there are three languages that need to still exist: Java, JavaScript/TypesScript, and C++

How many languages do you know well and which are they? How many years have you been programming? Do you know Haskell and Lisp? Have you done any work in econometrics or bioinformatics?
Soviet union planned cities are mostly awful. They mandate helluva lot of open space between high-rises which doesn't get any care. It also creates corridors for fierce cold winds to blow. Most of buildings don't have space for commerce making area either as dead as suburbia or blistered with shackles selling stuff. Transit stops are far between and you have to get there thru ice and hail. Roads are few and congested while still getting in your way.

http://pora-valit.livejournal.com/4740340.html it mostly looks like this

It was fine up until the 50-s and then worse and worse with each year (even now)
The only concern for enabling in some of the non-English speaking countries is that often users give 1 stars for not having meditations translated in their languages, and that's challenging to do so quickly for a small startup, as you might understand :)
I don't know how well you know MIT, but at least when I was there I got the impression that the majority of undergrads' parents were middle or lower middle class.

My high school sent a lot of kids to Harvard and other Ivy League schools and those students were about 1/3 wealthy suburban kids and 2/3 city kids, many of whom paid no tuition at all.

At MIT I thought I was unusual for having attended a private school.

I think the small number of schools with huge endowments (mostly not huge schools) can afford to be less financially selective. It's the fat part of the bell curve that can't afford to take the same attitude that gives rise to the problems discussed here.
I think its around 30kb.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/08/understanding-criti...