skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From an expenses stand point it seems intuitively obvious that the per capita cost of individuals is lower in high density areas.

A lot of things that seem obvious aren't actually true.

>And from a tax revenue standpoint city's get ~4.5x of their revenue from property taxes than from sales tax. And most suburbanites, like urbanites probably spend most of their tax near where they live.

The city has some control over the mix of revenue sources. NYC has an income tax, and San Francico gets more than twice as much money from "service charges" as it gets from property taxes.

In terms of where people spend money, suburbanites spend a lot of discretionary income in the local city, particularly in places like restaurants and bars.

Let me ask you this: If it's so much more efficient to live in a city, why is everything more expensive in cities?
Explicitly favoring recent checkout counts over the other criteria is a bias. This is almost a tautology.

Choosing based on criteria you favor rather than equally valid or possibly more valid criteria others favor is a bias. It does not matter if you encode that bias verbally, in print, or in software. A bias is a bias is a bias.
OP, who is "we" referring to in your title? A very large portion of the US certainly disagrees with almost every point in this article.
Why would you even build a database?
Well wasn't there? Russia has multiple social networks, webmail providers, multiple search engines, multiple mapping services complete with traffic and navigation, multiple UBER-style mobile taxi services, etc, etc...

Most of those alive and kicking today, holding against megacorps' offerings.

You can say most of those are copycats of preexisting ideas, but face it, people have copycat needs that still need to be fulfilled. People don't fall for uniqueness alone.

What's technological innovation? Is maps.me one? Because it's a game changer isn't it?
> Considering the recent bug discovered in Go's runtime, we can say definitively (not merely "likely") that moving away from Go 1.7 would resolve at least one invalid memory write bug.

If you're making the point that using Go or Rust doesn't make you completely immune to security problems, I agree. But on balance, I think it makes you significantly better off.

As for this specific bug, I expect the fix to be backported to Go 1.7 if it hasn't been already, and ideally these devices would receive updates occasionally...although I know that isn't actually happening for many deployed devices...

(btw, I'd say "likely" rather than "definitively". That looks like a bad bug, but I can imagine a reasonable system that it doesn't apply to. They might not have a goroutine whose stack ever grows ever select simultaneously on the same channel as another goroutine, for example.)

> The most complex protocol typically often seen on IoT devices is HTTP. It's trivial to implement HTTP in C without any buffer overflows

You might be able to write a buffer overflow-free HTTP implementation, but "trivial" is a funny word. Would you still call it trivial if I pointed you at a list of buffer overflow bugs in C HTTP implementations? Does your calling it trivial fix all the buggy devices? If not, what relevance does your calling it trivial have to the security properties of widely deployed implementations?

These devices implement a variety of other protocols. I own some security cameras that implement at least: DNS, DHCP, UPnP, SNTP, RSTP, RTP, SNMP, SOAP, ONVIF, SMTP, SMB, SSH, a few custom protocols based on HTTP or directly on TCP. Some other likely protocols for IOT devices include SIP, IPP, and OAuth. And those are just off the top of my head. Maybe you consider each simpler than HTTP (and I'm uninterested in debating the ranking of protocol complexity), but collectively they represent a large increase in attack surface, and I'd be shocked if any of the protocols on that list didn't have widespread implementations with buffer overflows bugs.

I hear your point about the lack of implementation diversity being a significant risk to using these languages, but I think you're underestimating the scope of the security problem.
So, they replaced recalled components and a battery and charged you $300?

Am I missing something, or did you pay $300 for a battery replacement you may or may not have needed and recall rework you should have received (one would think) for free?
An old city could be bombed into a complete ruin and rebuilt from scratch; this happened in Russia, Poland, Germany, UK during WWII. Fortunately, Italian cities were mostly left intact.
Office space is usually the 2nd biggest expense for any business, startup or not. but prices certainly get inflated with vc funding and high demand. aside from the price, office space is really, really important for attracting talent and creating a productive work environment. but I agree, it's so expensive and we try desperately to find the best options for the startups we work with in order to achieve these things but also be cost effective. another issue is the cost of living, which makes it hard on employees. We really want to see more housing (both market and affordable) and more office space developed to bring down the prices and let more people work and live in SF.
> Hmpth. Conversely, while playing GTAV in completely innocent explore-the-world mode, I accidentally bumped a police boat with my jetski. Apparently this warranted being shot in the head.

I don't know--these day's I'd believe it.
Yeah that's a reasonable model that links the debt and business cycles together, but it makes a key assumption: that investors only depend on lagging metrics of credit quality (business defaults), so fail to stop the bubble from inflating.

What is required is a good theoretical explanation for why investors fail to predict the point they are in the bubble and rein in speculation, since obviously this cycle has happened many times in the past.
s/ sounds so seriously standardy: https://xkcd.com/927/
what the hell is "one America news"?
I work at a company that makes ROVs, and your story sounds very similar to a story I heard a few years back. I wonder if it was one of ours that got dropped.
I always thought "big box" referred to the size of the store itself, not the items it sells. Wikipedia seems to agree with me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-box_store
I've always been opposed to folks who grumble about suburbs and urban sprawl. I thought that new developments and neighbourhoods meant a growing population and a bigger tax base. I've always lived in the suburbs and love it. I still think there's lots of great things about living in the suburbs, and there will always be demand for it.

I like how the author says that sprawl isn't the problem, the problem is that new developments are large scale, single-purpose, and with no room for improvement or addition.

The graph/map showing how downtown and poorer areas bring in more tax is what did it though. Even just thinking about ploughing in the winter makes it pretty clear that winding suburbian roadscapes are costing the city a lot more than we pay them. That's without mentioning schools, fire halls, garbage collection, etc.

I guess one of the more difficult issues is convincing North Americans that they don't need a private single-family house, large yard, 2+ cars, etc.
Considering that all developed economies are deep in the liquidity trap and therefore unresponsive to marginal changes in monetary policy, looks like we will be in for some tough times.
Awesome podcast! Tim Sinclair is a tremendously talented host. If you're a podcast professional or aspiring to become one, I have to believe that you'll gain value from listening to the podcast.
It's just a normal stock game or some mod added.

Some use the GTA V. director:
http://kotaku.com/on-youtube-millions-watch-shows-for-childr...

The creepy thing is that this video is targeted at 0-3 year olds who randomly tap on mom's iPad. If you think like that now it's clear why the title is just keyword stuffing, the lame music and the spiderman outfit.

80 million views in a month is a lot of money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipTJNNvW-Gw

Just checked their channel: 4,316,098,805 views
This example is very straight forward, but it's probably an outlier.

The alternative might be too costly in terms of storage or computation...
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I think it tried to be super realistic in many ways and deserves some credit for it. Its like they made a realistic world simulation, and then tweaked a few parameters so it would be funner to play as a game.

Like obviously no real person would be able to survive the injuries my character gets every 10 seconds. But if I was dying all the time it wouldn't be fun to play.

The one thing that really bothers me, as far as realism goes, is lack of persistence. Leave a car somewhere, walk 10 feet away, turn around, and it vanishes. Cars and NPCs vanish when you aren't looking. Damage you do gets quickly reset as if it never happens. And a number of small details like this. It's not just that it's unrealistic, it really limits what you can do with an otherwise awesome sandbox.

Still, I think the game that deserves most credit for realism is dwarf fortress. It will be a long long time before AIs master that.
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This is exactly why national US voting is held mid-day on a Tuesday. Sure you have mail-in ballots now, but the default in-person voting time/date is surely deliberately designed to favor a particular demographic.
You are totally right. It was heavily focused on SF. there are great options outside of SF, but all along the Caltrain stops there is really expensive space because they are more accessible. Castro Street in MV can be very expensive. It matters a lot where the founding team lives and also where you want to recruit from and at what scale. there is a ton of talent in SV as well as East Bay to pull from. Good luck on your startup! thanks so much for your comment.
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> Israel has no interest in Gaza, they just want them to stop trying to attack

This is false and one-sided. Likud, the ruling party in Israel, has in its platform an explicit denial of the right for a Palestinian state to exist west of the Jordan river.[1] Everything you've heard about Palestinians/Hamas denying Israel the right to exist is actually true about Israel as well towards Palestine. (In fact Hamas has stated they would respect a two-state solution; not the case for Likud.)

There are atrocities back and forth, for example "A month before [the murders of Israeli boys that set off the attack], two Palestinian boys were shot dead in the West Bank city of Ramallah."[2] However the scale of Israel's atrocities in military operations is massively larger, and the conditions they maintain in Gaza through sanctions and violence are unconscionable. One could argue the conditions are calculated to foment discontent and keep the conflict on the military field, because politically the settlements and occupation have no standing, as regularly condemned by the whole world in U.N. resolutions.[3]

[1] http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/charter-destruction-palestin...

[2] http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25343-noam-chomsky-%7C-ni...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_UN_resolutions_con...
It's not a lie. Terminology has nuance, and its meaning may change based on context.
Interviews are a lost art and usually the key to a great podcast. Great podcast to listen to for tips.
Spot on. It is amazing that after 20 rounds of interview, you get a generic rejection email "We have decided to not move forward at this time, although we liked your profile blah blah blah". If I recall correctly, Google actually started this trend of over interviewing. I remember my friends started bragging about how they got a job after 17 rounds at Google, or how they cleared 22 rounds, but were rejected at the 23rd round. I wonder if this is truly about weeding out or just that no one wants to make a decision and just punt the ball to someone else.
Awesome podcast! Tim Sinclair is a tremendously talented host. If you're a podcast professional or aspiring to become one, I have to believe that you'll gain value from listening to this podcast.
Well, it's no Of Mice and Men, but:

- Steinbeck is a major American writer (Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize). I feel like any library should have a complete collection of his works, if possible.

- He wrote a sequel called Sweet Thursday.If you're going to keep a copy of that, you'd best keep Cannery Row too.

- It's really thin. Like maybe 1/6 of an inch. Won't take up much space.

- It's often assigned in schools.

To be honest, I didn't like it very much. Now that I think about it, maybe the algorithm was on to something. :)
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This is way easier said than done. Even with added noise, the sensor data from the real world is nothing like simulation.
I'm a Jewish American with holocaust survivors in my extended family. I have not personally experienced that kind of hate but certainly it is known to my family.

You, I think, need some perspective. There's nothing more to be gained from this conversation.
I actually did get phished by this. I think I just got lucky I had 2fa on and they didn't phish that too

http://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/

The worst thing is I don't know how to help my less technical friends not fall for it. They are unlikely to use 2fa I think
Since it seem that they're showing working prototype, does it mean the wider world will get some hand on too ? (not the layman of course...) Would be a fun toy to tinker with !
Gathering large number of humans in the same place (factories then offices), well away from their homes, is a relatively new thing. For hundreds and thousands of years, they have been working in (craftsmen) or around their homes (farmers), seeing mostly family and close neighbours.
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A lot of people don't seem to agree with me but I think even expect is too long of a name and terseness for commonly used names seems more important to me than reading like natural language.
That would be really awesome!
I don't understand the author's argument. Is it "spiff up the 'poor' neighborhoods so the inhabitants will pay more property taxes?"

When I look at the map, it looks like most of the city is lightly in the red and it has several extremely red areas which may drive most of the losses. What is driving those? Are they stadiums or large government facilities that aren't taxable? Or maybe middle-aged neighborhoods with severe drainage problems that can't withstand a hurricane?

What’s driving the difference between the lightly red and the green areas? Some of the comments here propose that people in those neighborhoods aren't asking for improvements or the infrastructure is naturally cheaper. It could also be a city-favorable tax to liability balance since the larger portion of the green area is rented and thus doesn't get a homestead property tax exemption or growth cap.

"Putting in street trees, painting crosswalks, patching sidewalks, and making changes to zoning regulations" might put a city in better financial position if they think gentrification makes sense and is possible. But that by definition is not a social justice argument.
Not sure why you think it's a "cynical view that doesn't reflect reality" -- the OP indicated it was their direct experience which appears to be vastly more than an armchair commentator's....
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That is amazing. Would kill for an interview experience like that
It's not just Netflix, and it's not related to broadcasting vs. on-demand, or interest-based recommendation algorithms vs. an externally curated playlist.

Rather, today, we have a vastly increased reach of content production houses that produce niche content -- and ability for that content to find its audience and vice versa.

In the "olden" days, mass media had to be safe and maximally inoffensive to the largest plurality of people: remember the interracial Star Trek kiss? Today, this is largely still true, but mass media competes with niche media for people's finite attention, and has to overcome virtue-signalling snobbery as well.
Not all that much has changed. SSL Pulse[1] shows that use of OCSP Stapling went up about 3% in the past 12 months, currently putting it at 25% of observed sites. OCSP Must-Staple is now available in Firefox and can be added as an extension to certificates issued by Let's Encrypt. No other browsers have plans for Must-Staple AFAIK. Otherwise, OCSP is still soft-fail for everything but EV in most scenarios.

[1]: https://www.trustworthyinternet.org/ssl-pulse/
I think it's time for Google to implement the personalized icon thing Banks have when logging in. I definitely classify my email to be near as important security wise as my banking information.
I agree, it often seems like money flows from the investor right to the landlord, bypassing the startup. we talked about this in the article. aside from the value of office space and its cost, to your point about the role of the broker, there are very good reasons for brokers to be involved, as it is such a big expense and there are a lot of factors to think about when finding and negotiating a deal that we help with. In my last company, 42Floors, we made (and they continue to make) listings available on a website, and even when founders find a great space themselves, it turned out they still wanted to have a broker on their side to help with the process. In any case, I totally respect your opinion and appreciate you joining the conversation.
The article, like most, makes a big deal about the (not yet really extant) memristers but the other interesting technical advance in this device is the optical interface (optical-to-the-die interface) which is only discussed in passing in this article. That alone could potentially carry HPe, which is good since what else could?
the current residents reap the increased value

No, the current homeowners reap that value. Many residents are renters, particularly in low-income areas, while the owner often doesn't live anywhere near the place.
Thanks for this — always good to hear from people on the ground, so to speak, away from all the prepolarised babble.
It seems to me that optimizing for the 80% is exactly what they did.

The easiest buttons to get to are those at the bottom, and coincidentally they are the most common. I am guessing that is why AirDrop the ~1% case is hoisted to the top. Also, most likely, people do not use more than three to four apps to share information (Messages/Mail + 2). Giving a list of 10+ seems a little but too absurd if that is the case and makes it hard to select them. The UI seems to be pretty sufficient and even allow users themselves to optimize to their own 80% case.

I don't know to me their current UI seems to be the better option.
The "How I built a $5k/mo side project" reference as a successful post due to good writing is odd, since the post was recently flagkilled due to spammy behavior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361080
The things you described are just V1 of the visual cortex. The first area (not actually the first layer, but there are 5 other visual areas that aren't convolution-esque).
let us know if you want to move to Seattle, we know some great people there that can help with an office! good luck and happy new year!
Read it and weep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

Israel has a history of attacking itself and blaming it on Muslims.

Israel is Awful (Government, not all the people).

IDF (Israeli Military) was established by Israeli Terrorist groups.
They never said anything about their target audience being homeless. The target audience is low income.
That maybe true. But nearly 99% of the Jews did leave Tunisia, according to the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Mu....

In 1948, there were 105,000 Jews in Tunisia. Now there are 1,500.

How do you explain that?
No it isn't, you must have mistyped something. The diameter, not radius is 5mm, not that it makes a big difference. The top speed is a little over 30 meters per second or 70 mph. (Edit: possibly because you turned seconds into 1/s for some reason? Either way, the edge of the disk is not going hypersonic or anywhere close to it)
Author here. This post is about an idea we're considering implementing. Would greatly appreciate the feedback of HN community. Thanks!

I'll be around for any questions or discussion.
I wish BitTorrent Live was made open source. There are a number of companies working on "P2P CDNs" for live streaming[1][2][3], but all of their work is proprietary. The companies' sales pitches are usually around efficiency: it allows providers to pay for less CDN capacity.

I'm more interested in the decentralization aspect. It makes live streams hard to censor and easy to distribute.

The closest open source equivalent we have is PPSPP (Peer-to-Peer Streaming Peer Protocol), or RFC 7574[4]. Unfortunately, the reference implementation, libswift[5], was seemingly abandoned a few years ago. In addition, PPSPP only deals with a stream of bytes, and while it was made with video in mind there is no implementation that handles video well: making different swarms for different quality levels, intelligent chunking, perhaps even deterministic encoding[6].

[1] https://www.peer5.com

[2] https://viblast.com/pdn/

[3] https://www.streamroot.io

[4] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7574

[5] https://github.com/libswift/libswift/blob/devel/TODO

[6] http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/mmsys14.pdf
Sorry I wasn't clear about "high level".

I was mostly speaking about math professors in college. I have degrees in Math and EE...advance math isn't an issue.

Having abstract intuition (aka "high level ideas") in math is incredibly value.

Sometimes things get hairy in the computation and you need to step back and consider the bigger picture again.

If you don't understand how the math works then you don't have the intuition and vice-vera.
Why do they need my email address during signup? Isn't access to my twitter account enough?
Yes, putting MC and check it's time after a device-lifetime of use would be quite an interesting experiment.
I think the downvoting is uncalled for. When I hear Frankish, my associations are of Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Empire and Romanesque building boom. I wasn't aware of the Machiavelli reference until civilian legitimately queried the use of the term (in a non-snarky way).
> despite literally having discovered electricity.

Braggart. Fat lot of good it did you, until the Italians came up with batteries.

;-)
I get what you are saying. What strikes me as different in the other frontpages are: the claims are made in terms vague enough to be unassailable.
> You are overgeneralizing.

A bit, I know. But Morocco and Tunisia have some of the best relationships to Jews among the Arab countries. You have to be aware that they are the exception, not the rule.

> I am extremely proud to have Jewish brothers and sisters who share my culture. My grandparents (from both sides) had very close friends who happened to be Jewish.

And it's people like you and your grandparents that give me hope for peace in the world. May there be more like you, and may you have much success in both your personal life, and in influencing others!
Every company is working on that optical stuff and it keeps getting delayed. It could only save HPE if they get it working and their competitors don't.