skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Density brings costs of its own, though

That's very self-evident. What matters is that density means costs rise at a slower rate than income and because density tends to raise prices (the area is more desirable all else equal).

Most of the cost of installing water pipes is in digging up the street and paying people to lay the pipes. By comparison putting in a small pipe costs the same as a huge one. Suburbs need small pipes spread over a larger distance to reach X people. High-rises need large pipes over a much smaller distance to reach the same number of people. Even if you assume property values per person were identical and taxes identical the dense area has a massive cost advantage.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/
I don't think you understand how insurance works. What do you think would have happened to you if you got a serious chronic medical condition and exceeded your lifetime coverage limit on the old (pre ACA) policy?
What thing does a Mac can do, others can't?
Been used Linux/GNU for decades. Recently got a MacBook Pro. And want to know some benifits which Mac can give us. Some tips?
Hazardous Marine Toxin Could Rise with Warming Water
A concrete road is good for 50 years at best. Water and sewer lines somewhere between 50-100 years.
Semantic Folding Theory [pdf]
I'd add that I followed John Oliver's recommendation, and checked out Propublica (non profit news organization).

While I was at it I listened to my local Pacifica affiliate. Pacifica generally leans left (to say the least), but they're also independent / contrarian. They ran a few stories I was happy to hear, and doubt I'd hear elsewhere:

- Two examples of fake news (one at the NYT, one at the Washington Post), social media and the (mis)handling of the retractions.

- Gerrymandering in Pasadena, TX gets struck down with help from MALDEF

- Improved OSHA regulations for Beryllium exposure (yay!)

- Bill Binney interview about the intelligence community's three great scams (incorrect intelligence that cost > $1T): The 2nd Iraq War, The War on Terror, and the thing I mentioned in the other comment.

My new years resolution is to find 12 high-quality, independent news sources this year. It is not easy.
Dark pattern pet peeve once you click the screenshot. Why does dropbox plaster its login form to completely cover the image?
That makes sense. I wasn't aware of the details, but looking into it now, "onion"/hidden services are a way of establishing tor circuits which are then used normally. Thanks!
I just wrote a script to do this in, like, 5 minutes :) And the whole thing runs in 7 seconds on my machine.

https://github.com/adtac/123456789/blob/master/output

Admittedly, it doesn't have every number. I suspect it's because I haven't included bracketed expressions.
I'd been using a Tom Bihn briefcase (not sure they make the model anymore), which I really liked except that the floppiness of it made it hard to get things in and out of. It eventually started to crunch my shoulder on trips, too.

A few months ago, though, I switched back to a backpack: the Cannae Legion Elite Day Pack (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C05CRI0). It's a little much around the edges (there's a LOT of MOLLE on there!), and I'm still figuring out the best use for the helmet flap, although I think it'll work well for a jacket when traveling. Lots of pluses, though: the laptop slot perfectly fits my 15" MBP, and the interior is large and roomy with just enough straps and pockets to fit the few small items I have so they don't rattle around and just enough open space to let the rest of my stuff fit without having to play Tetris to get something in or out. There's a small zipper pocket on the upper flap that fits headphones and other important small items, too, and the design of the pack means I can just open the top and slide things in and out without impedance, or open it a lot wider for packing.
> Can you give an example company that can serve as a proxy for the counterfactual National Biscuit Company that never changed its name?

If I could then it would be an evidence that the thesis is false. Look around, among most successful sites and companies in the world which one as a clearly generic name?
I'd be curious what that level of money would do to the culture at SpaceX. I work here as a tech and I get the impression from top to bottom that a big part of the overall culture centers around doing things as inexpensively as possible, largely out of necessity. People here genuinely get excited when we find ways to shave off even small amounts of waste.

I'm not knowledgable enough about the psychological/sociological aspects of this but I wonder if it's possible to maintain that kind of culture when you have $200 billion sitting in the bank. It might lead to a kind of resource curse that some countries suffer from.

I wonder if there have been studies done on this at the corporate level.
Living in such a manner that one can pay for necessities is a conservative virtue.
Longturn: play multiplayer FreeCiv with 23 hour turns
When you're depressed find something you are truly enjoying. Sometimes it can be a hobby like it was in the author's case. Depression is often caused by forcing ourselves into doing something that we don't like. Up to the point where we start forgetting what we like at all. Question "what do I like?" stops having not just clear answer -- any answer at all! That's why strong and stubborn people can be more susceptible to depression -- they can be exceptionally good at doing something they don't enjoy. If you find yourself depressed -- find something that you enjoy. Honestly, truly and deeply.
> let's not forget that it's at least 10x if not 100x harder to be a good VC than a good entrepreneur

[citation motherfucking needed]
If only the greatest of us didn't rot away and die. I think Feynman would be great to still have around.
I think you were using debootstrap rather than Debian bootstrapping? They are two quite different things.

Also: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
Homeowners associations are abominations. They put "property value" above everything else to the point that you're not allowed to have the wrong brand of car or put your garbage out before midnight the night before it's collected. They should honestly be illegal.
> Customers don't care about tracking, as you say, but not because they've thought about the issue and concluded the trade-off is in their benefit -- in reality they've never thought about the issue at all. Regular people are indifferent to iPhone privacy until they're asked if they ever have conversions or ever take photos they don't want to become public. And then it all clicks, and then they do care about their privacy.

Yes I suppose if you draw an unrealistic line between data collection and Facebook suddenly sharing photos you could scare up any sort of response you want.

Sharing content vs app usage metadata are quite different in point of fact though.

> People don't care, until they do.

Yes. I suppose this is true in the sense that it's tautological. I only bring that up because of your meticulous dedication to discarding social context in:

> When you call telemetry "benign" you're begging the question: the definition of benign implies you can't reasonably be opposed to it. So that's fallacious.

(P.S., this is not "begging the question". "Begging the question" is not "Obviously we should ask." If you're going to use a technical term, perhaps look up its technical definition? I do not think this assertion is unusually cyclical.)

> I see this as an effort to appease disgruntled customers, not as PR stunt.

I sure do wish people would hold desktop to the same uncompromising standard they hold Windows to...

> And as somebody else pointed out already, it still isn't possible to opt-out entirely.

Actually, they were referring to the current state of affairs for specific editions of windows. We are not entirely sure how this will change with the new edition.
During the civil rights movement, the federal government was on the side of blacks. It was the state governments that resisted things like desegregation (which the Supreme Court had found to be unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education) and allowing blacks to register to vote.

Having the federal government on your side is very important. The reason is simple: it has the power to enforce its will. For example, when the governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to prevent nine black students to attend Little Rock Central High School, President Eisenhower countermanded the order and told them to return to their barracks, then deployed elements of the 101st Airborne Division to protect the black students while they attended the school for an entire year.

In contrast, Aaron Swartz had the federal government against him. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on four felony charges, which were later increased to thirteen. Unlike with the civil rights movement, he had broken federal law, and could not turn to a superior authority for justice.
> This is not true. One of the best test for predicting a child success is seeing if they will defer a treat now for more treats later. Many people have the sacrifice now for a better future instinct.

Surely, any intelligent child would factor in the rate of interest (additional treats earned per unit of time) and bond price (how many treats are sacrificed right now) before making their decision. Automatically saying yes to more treats later is analogous to not caring whether you earn 0.1% interest or 10%, and that's certainly not intelligent.

Promising more treats later in exchange for treats now is exactly what a bond is, and any wise investor would factor in rate of interest/coupon rate.
Interesting.

Rust has two playgrounds (official: https://play.rust-lang.org/, unofficial: http://play.integer32.com/), and each is a completely different bit of open-source software (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-playpen , https://github.com/integer32llc/rust-playground)

They both use docker for isolation, with a bunch of things to make it work. IIRC we haven't had any issues with this. Furthermore, the official playground used to be a third completely different bit of software until it was rewritten in Rust. It also used to use https://github.com/thestinger/playpen.

I'm skeptical that the problem will take that much effort since Rust has solved it (to some degree) twice.

At the same time, it's likely that Go's playpen does a lot more mitigation, e.g. the time.Now() probably futzes timing attacks. Though in that case they would need to mess with mutexes or scheduling as well (since you can use shared memory to build a timer), which complicates things.

(For timing attacks I still think the solution still lies in how you set up the container, specifically isolating its memory accesses -- instead of tweaking the compiler itself)
It might be interesting to split those native linters out into separate projects so that other meta-linters like flycheck, check-all-the-things, various IDEs etc can also use them.
I just wrote a tiny script that does this: https://github.com/adtac/123456789/blob/master/main.py
Switched out my backpack to a briefcase from linjer.co. It's really clean, functional, and the leather is aging really well.
When you test google.com with this, you get captchas as a preview.

And I guess the captcha page is what this tests then.
You could set one up with a regular router but you need something you can customize, be it the router itself, a raspberry pi, or a desktop PC acting as a server. And yeah, you've got it, the router needs to allow DNS to be customized so clients get pointed to a system that (intentionally) MiTMs requests and returns a http 302 redirect to go to the portal page.
Why are high rises so much more profitable to the city? Is it just that a larger part of the infrastructure (stairwells, elevators, power distribution, water supply, sewage, and related) are privatized and managed by someone with an eye on the bottom line?

Cities seem extremely poor paying for infrastructure based on performance. Water supplies should be paid for uptime, percent of the population they deliver water to, and quality of the water. Road companies should be paid by lanes * miles * years they last (according to some quality metric for common road failure methods). Bridges similar. If someone builds a building for the city they should be paid by the usable square foot and an incentive for delivery time.
Reading TFA, it seems like that's about to happen. But when you do it you'll break voice control and they will not be doing it for 3rd party apps, which they can't negotiate on behalf of anyways.

I don't really get why OS metadata is so disturbing but the fact that every other app and website you visit (including this one) is a blinking light of information with effectively no overarching privacy policy is overlooked. This website is run by people who fund companies that use data collection as a primary business model and early revenue driver. Why are you here if you don't support that?
What about the 5-10% performance boost? For me thats like getting a few hundred thousand dollars worth of free hardware...
We skim conversations at parties. I think we can technologically enable this cognitive faculty.
Julia is a general purpose language
> The simple idea that money is limitless has led to municipalities over-promising on pension benefits for just one example.

Would I be right in restating your argument like this? "A fiat currency allows the state to inflate away loans. That incentivizes taking very large loans, which in turn means the state builds infrastructure it cannot actually afford."

Assuming it is, I'd like to note at least a few things.

On fiat currency

This is implicitly, in my reading of it, arguing fiat currency is distinct from commodity currency vis-a-vis inflation: If we had the gold standard, the state would not be able to inflate loans away, and the issue would go away.

As I'm sure you're aware, this is not the case - every major state in existence have inflated their commodity currencies away to pay state debt. If you had tried to buy a pound (lb) sterling silver using a Pound (£) Sterling in 1913, you'd be sorely disappointed.

If you're not aware of this, Adam Smiths extensive exposition on policy and inflation through dilution of metal currency in Roman, French and British history is a fascinating part of Wealth of Nations, albeit dreadfully boring due to Adams use of prose instead of tables to present his data.

On inflation

Independent of this - the argument is nonsensical to me. Yes, the state can pay off loans through inflating currency. There is a crucial aspect missing to the argument: This would only be a problem if the state acted as if this were true, but it in fact was not.

The fact is that the state can pay off debt by inflating the currency. Hence, the argument must be restated as "1) The state can pay loans through inflation, 2) the state takes on loans, because it knows it can pay them off through (1), and 3) the state is then unable to pay these loans". This is obviously a logical error.

On loans

And finally - this is not about loans. The article is a simple calculation saying "here's how much this infrastructure costs to maintain, and here is now much the tax base around it can pay for". It's not about the cities inability to pay off the initial leverage it used to first build the infrastructure, it's about building and paying off infrastructure that is incorrectly dimensioned for it's tax base.

The fact that the initial construction can be discounted through inflation does not remove the cities incentive to build infrastructure it can then pay for in perpetuity.
No. OSX does not.
Google and Pivotal Engineers Talk Cloud Foundry on GCP
Indeed. However, you can run just those native linters with coala too (on specific files or entire projects). And we currently have plugin support for a few editors.
I went and searched for memcached redis because up until now I haven't gotten around to checking out the differences. Here are some things I found.

http://antirez.com/news/94

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10558465/memcached-vs-red...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3063161/application-develop...
Like I said, I appreciate Clojure and I took the comment as someone's expression of enthusiasm for the language. Part of the design rationale for Clojure is to improve the lives of Java programmers and Common Lisp isn't usually a viable option in such a context and hence there's less justification for a comprehensive analysis of its features. If someone is more or less committed to the JVM, the numerical sophistication of Common Lisp doesn't change the criteria for choosing a language very much, if at all. Like a lot of things, it depends on context.
gccgo?
My sense is that the major issue is not the algorithms. The algorithms are plenty fine today. The major issue is data. Not "more" data. Just data. There are vast swaths of the economy where people simply haven't figured out how to digitize the data yet. They have no idea the gold mines they are sitting on.

Imagine everyone who never took multi-dimensional calculus in college (most of humanity). Where are they today? Those folks have data they're not using.
Shamoon disk-wiping attackers can now destroy virtual desktops, too
>It should not be forced to change how it works because it wants to contain some Go code.

Go is not like Python, the end result is a binary, not interpreted source code. You can simply write a build script that sets a custom GOPATH inside a temporary folder, pulls all dependencies, builds and pops out a binary ready for use; and you can either discard or save your custom GOPATH anywhere for caching purposes.
That is what I see going on. Lots of abstraction and glue code and very little actual logic. There seems to be a tipping point where code goes from utilities informed by best practice to a collection of best practices informed by utility. I think Laravel can be an abstraction too far in some circumstances, but it is a mostly clean and enjoyable framework to work with. Certainly in the historic context of PHP frameworks.
A Bootcamp is an object; A Person is an object, too. We cannot make any comments to an object, right? If a person enters into a bootcamp, it only creates the one to many relationship. That's it. Bootcamp.successRate = 99% has nothing to do with Person.landAJob. What makes a Person become an ideal candidate depends on what methods and properties you put into the person's instance. You have to work damn hard to build stuff(methods) within this object to stand out in the job market. Colleges, bootcamps, nowhere build the roads for you. They just hand you tools to learn a bit efficiently. You need to handcraft everything by yourself.

If you want to land a job, you can check out this repo.
https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university

Everyone just works damn hard to get a job that he/she dreams about. Nothing comes easy.
Yeah these would not be considered the world's best HU NL players anymore.

Names like Ben Sulsky, Doug Polk, Isaac Haxton would be big favourites over your lineup.

Galfond while still playing is playing mostly Omaha
I like LLVM. But in the world of programming languages/compilers, someone like Xavier Leroy (a real, proved correct C compiler) is much more a name that I would associate with a drive for "software correctness and reliability".
Pentagon successfully tests micro-drone swarm
Do your linters support the Firehose static analysis results format?
What happens? Nothing as far as I'm aware. The code is still one line.
I'd also recommend Calculus for the Practical Man. It's what Feynman used and is quite good for learning how to calculate various things with calculus.

Incidentally, my college calculus class also used Stewart.
Can you point me to more information regarding Github and rejecting pull requests that are strictly formatting changes? Sounds interesting...
Because every year as an entrepreneur you might need to be in the top five or ten companies to have founded a unicorn, but realistically you probably only need to be in the top 500 or 1,000 companies to have a good life outcome. E.g. if it's only you and your cofounder and you haven't raised any money, even if you get literally zero users you can still potentially get acqui-hired for $5M if you're both high-level devs. Obviously not what you were going for, but still a great life outcome for something that only took a year or two. (Unless you had an unusually large opportunity cost in starting the business or are coming from a large previous success or something.)

Whereas for a VC, in order to be successful you really have to invest in one of the ten unicorns that gets created every year. But that's not the bad part, the bad part is that 9 of those 10 are probably going to raise their series A from the same firm (Sequoia). Which means that you either need to invest before there is any evidence of traction and gamble on getting super lucky, or else first spend decades building up your reputation to the point where the biggest startups will consistently let you into their rounds as additional capital.

When investors all talk about how much better it is to be an entrepreneur they're not just blowing smoke up your ass. There is way more capital than there are good startups, and it's a brutally efficient market where the odds are very much not in their favor. YC is consistently taking a good percentage of the best seed-stage startups that exist, and think about how much everyone complains about how shitty they all are every six months.
*.onion.link is an example of tor2web
Forceful+and+tearful,+Obama+says+goodbye+in+emotional+Latest+hot+speech
Dart is also a first class language in Google's new OS codenamed Fuchsia.
Google Interview University: I Didn’t Get Hired. Here’s Why
Not when it demonstrates such technical incompetence.
The Author should spend time in Chicago. We've got ridiculous taxes on everything, general sales tax itself is almost 11% now, and nothing in this city works. The trains barely function close to on time, the streets are riddled with potholes, and the police are afraid of PR problems so much crime is escalating.

Also, the weather sucks.
check-all-the-things does exactly that already. Only knows about Debian dependencies so far though and still working on how to do automatic installs.
HTTP/2 only supports HTTPS, which means HTTP connections don't benefit from HTTP/2's speed improvements. In addition, recent versions of Chrome only allow use of the location API by sites served over HTTPS. These are just two immediate examples that come to mind, but more exist.
If >50% of the cost is maintenance then those companies could still build it cheaply then laugh all the way to the bank.
Fair.

Note that this wasn't the only reason we had to fork. Go doesn't (or didn't) provide a way to pin to a dependency, so we would have had to fork anyway, and then rewrite all the paths anyway, so I went the way of using local paths in the fork.
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Let me put this to you in another light... Would you rather simply update the definitions on your satellite server and then check the status of your upgrades the next day, or would you like to upgrade 1500 assorted servers and VMs manually?