skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LX40 – A New Engine in Iqaluit
That is mentioned in the penultimate paragraph.
You can sometimes put an airport in the middle of a metro area as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport

London presently needs more runways and one of the serious proposals (now declined) was to build them in the Thames like the above.
> One can consume & process content immensely faster with text than inages and video.

I prefer whatever is more efficient too, and text is great. For example, generally speaking, I prefer text to a video that is longer than maybe 30 seconds, because reading is random access and I can skip to what I want.

But as a universal statement, I'm pretty sure the above comment is factually inaccurate. Certainly for large classes of information, visuals are more efficient. For example, a graph of year-by-year unemployment rates in the 20th century is far more efficient than a list of numbers and years. Similarly, a photo can convey information that would take pages and pages of text.
Another z80 kit:
https://www.tindie.com/products/Semachthemonkey/rc2014-homeb...

2014RC Computerphile video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU2NKHJygD8
He's not jailed for having CP. He's jailed for contempt.
agree. 80/20 rule in effect here. no different than the power sellers on Ebay who drive the lion's share of transactions.
Rick Steves, no?
And lets face it, the NSA claim - and win in court with this claim - that "collecting and storing" personal communications doesn't count as surveillance, until a human queries the database and reads from the collected interceptions.

While a personal hard drive full of child porn is unlikely to be "innocently" explained away quite that easily, I wonder if owners of, say, usenet binary hosting newsservers ever need to claim that defence?
> Second, we compute the efficiency gap for congressional and state house plans between 1972 and 2012. Over this period as a whole, the typical plan was fairly balanced and neither party enjoyed a systematic advantage. But in recent years — and peaking in the 2012 election — plans have exhibited steadily larger and more pro-Republican gaps.

I think the way we normally talk about gerrymandering as a tool that one party uses to gain an electoral advantage over another party is kind of misleading and may lead us to measure success by the wrong metric.

Another way to thing about gerrymandering is not as a Republican vs Democrat thing, but an elected officials versus their constituents thing.

To use the US House of Representatives as an example, House members of both parties want the same thing, which is to get re-elected. Furthermore, they want to be re-elected by such a wide margin that their job is secure and they don't have to spend a lot of time and effort campaigning.

The voters, on the other hand, want their elected representatives to be accountable, and so they want them to be afraid of possibly losing the next election. Voters want their preferred party/candidate to win, but it's also in their best interests that elections are close enough that the implicit threat of withholding their vote is enough to motivate their representative to do their job well (whatever that means to the voter).

When party A is able to re-arrange their districts so that all their candidates have safe seats, they usually cram a bunch of party B's supporters into districts that also give a certain (smaller) number of safe seats to party B.

If you think of this as a zero-sum game between party A and party B, then party A wins a certain number of seats and party B loses an equal number.

If you think of this as a game between the voters and their Representatives, then the Representatives (of both parties, except for the handful in party B that lose their seats) won because fewer of them have to work to get votes and the voters lost because they have less influence than they did before.

The efficiency gap seems like a good metric to measure whether party A or party B is winning, but it's not obvious to me that it's a good metric for measuring how safe the seats in a given state have become.

The efficiency gap metric would say that 50% of the votes were wasted in a 2-way near-tie for a not-safe seat, but also that 50% of the votes were wasted in an election for a safe seat if one candidate got 100% and the other got 0%.

I'm not sure how best to measure seat safeness in a way that can distinguish an unbalanced result due to gerrymandering versus an unbalanced result due to one candidate running a better campaign than his/her opponent. We can look at margin-of-victory statistics in many races in many districts and make generalizations about how there are more safe districts now than some time in the past, but it's harder to say conclusively (in a way that would persuade a judge) that one particular district is gerrymandered.
By definition there must be more renters than landlords. I'm sure some early gold rushers made their money selling shovels. Most just lost out.
Crossed the border without being controlled.
regex search is slow and difficult to index efficiently.
>not be able

How about

>dont want to waste their time

This is a pretty nasty attitude you have.
yep, seems like we agree. now, what to do about it??
Feedback: Seems like a good idea, I subscribed and I'm looking forward to receiving the first email. In fact, it would be great to get the first one right when you sign up. Going further, why not just have this information on the site itself so you can view it right away, as well as receive email updates?
AMD already has such a solution and Raven Ridge (Zen APU) is coming 2nd half 2017 (as far as anyone is aware).
You are mixing landowner profits and developer profits. Developers want low prices for new land in greenfield areas that will make the resulting houses appealing. Landowners want high prices but they also want to actually be able to sell - it doesn't matter how much your land is theoretically worth if nobody wants to buy it because they can't build on it.
The silent alarm idea is excellent. Perhaps this could also trigger the machine to scan and store the serial numbers of the dispensed bills, so the bills themselves could become evidence of the crime.
> Is journalism so, so much more expensive to produce than entertainment?

There's a temporal component here that's much more important for journalism than it is for those other two forms of entertainment.

For example, The Shawshank Redemption was made 23 years ago and is still a fantastic movie: People will still pay to watch that movie. In contrast, very few people will pay money to read a news article from even two days ago (let alone 23 years ago).

Sony could never produce another movie again and have a sizable revenue stream just from distribution rights on their existing film catalog. The NYT can't really do that, the demand for old news articles just isn't that great.

The equivalent of a news subscription then isn't really Netflix or Spotify: It's going to the movies, or going to a concert, or buying an album. All of which are notoriously considered to be expensive affairs.

I'd even go so far as to say the NYT would probably absolutely let you read older articles for cheap (a few $ a month), but the demand for that is non-existent so it's silly to even offer.
Countries with no property taxes where you REALLY own your home
1 tip to improve your site, include the expertise next to the person.

https://i.imgur.com/KAPuVPv.png

For example, idgaf their name, let alone their username on a service I dont even use yet. This screen that should tell me everything, tells me nothing.

Best of luck. Promising idea.
Parent was referring to "equivalent of VT-x and VT-d" which translates to svm and iommu.
Which is irrelevant to this topic. The UK still is in the EU and has never been in the Schengen Zone, which is the point here.
Beautifully put!
Moreover, even if you had gone to the trouble of building such an API, S3 still doesn't offer bulk operations, so you'd have to operate on each matching object... one object at a time.
>Go 1.8 will use X25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 in its TLS stack, but it doesn't offer modern application-layer cryptography in its standard library.

What qualifies as a standard library? I think Go supports both in the "x" repository which is officially part of the Go project, but is distributed separately and with different compatibility guarantees. It even gets vendored back into the main repository.
Getting Started with IonicDB
Point 1 is pretty much the end of the thread. Everything has been commoditized, when the cost of disseminating information/stories is 0, inevitably that's where you'll end up.
PGP isn't user friendly, but from the Snowden leaks we learned it is one of the few encryption standards the NSA hasn't been able to break. TLS and most configs of VPN protocols were shown to be easily compromised. PGP was basically shown to be a show stopper.

1. http://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-1010361.html
Other successful high-speed rail systems (France's TGV, for example) also have dedicated rights-of-way, not shared with older equipment, and rail physically built to different standards (specially welded). You really don't want genuinely high-speed trains (300 km/h) running on the same tracks as anything slower, in normal operation. And if you try to build a high-speed system on earlier rights-of-way, you get something like Acela, in the US Northeast corridor. It can go at ~150 mph on track that can support it, but there are only a few miles of the route between Boston and Washington can support that. Net: it's only half an hour faster than conventional rail on the same route and track -- and something like half the difference is accounted for by the conventional trains making a lot more stops.
Is there really such a strong argument about not reincorcing etc?? There were people with such tendencies for millennia before there was even the possibility of photographic reproduction of such images.
I would much rather not meet the need of a single customer if it meant I could have freedom from being forced to sell my labour.

I too would like it if others would meet my needs and I could disregard the needs of all other human beings.

Given that you don't value my needs and desires at all, why should I value yours?
Could New York City Get Its Own CrossRail?
The problem with the efficiency gap as a metric is that, even when districts are drawn by algorithms blind to partisan affiliation, (considering only geometric compactness, for instance,) often an efficiency gap persists.

I think that just illustrates that no rule will meet all definitions of fair.

The proposal in the article hand waves it away by suggesting that the efficiency gap be used as a limiting test on proposed districts rather than drawing districts so that it is minimized.
>Gerrymandering is bad, but fair and equal representation is an individual right, not something to which political parties are entitled.

Individuals vote for parties or candidates of their choosing. Regions do not have any right to representation. One person, one vote means we reallocate seats to urban areas which are currently deprived of representatives for their voters.
"Chat Now" should be your only CTA
One of my favorite Smullyan works is the lesser-known 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies. Here's one of the more amusing anecdotes from that book:

In item #249 of my book of logic puzzles titled What Is the Name of This Book?, I describe an infallible method of proving anything whatsoever. Only a magician is capable of employing the method, however. I once used it on [noted philosopher] Rudolph Carnap to prove the existence of God.

"Here you see a red card," I said to Professor Carnap as I removed a card from the deck. "I place it face down in your palm. Now you know that a false proposition implies any proposition. Therefore, if this card were black, then God would exist. Do you agree?"

"Oh, certainly," replied Carnap, "if the card were black, then God would exist."

"Very good," I said as I turned over the card. "As you see, the card is black. Therefore, God exists!"

"Ah yes!" replied Carnap in a philosophical tone. "Proof by legerdemain! Same as the theologians use!"
and nearly 100k commits... time to start making some PRs!
I'm aware that "terrorist" often connotes "islamic terrorist". I'm deliberately pushing against this connotation - I don't think white people should get a pass when they engage in similar actions.
Differential dataflow progress report
The solution to that is large HOA fines. They will quickly stop doing AirBnB or make sure the people are quiet. If a bunch of college students or emotional people moved in next door, you would have similar problems.
You can configure it with SMTP, so it's usable with or without a local MTA.

Buuuuuuuuuut, that's still more effort than I'd be comfortable imposing on a new contributor, honestly. Guess why the kernel community keeps pushing away drive-bys?
This is a tenuous argument at best, even more so considering the protocol in question is freenet. Sure it's possible to force a commercial model onto any system, but I'd think freenet would be an especially terrible way to monetize. (And "industry" - seriously??)

Furthermore, there is presumably enough existing child pornography out there to satiate any viewer for their entire life. Perhaps increasing access to it is the way to discourage more being made! At any rate, paying for it could still be a crime, as opposed to the insanity of strict liability for bitstring possession.
Let's suppose we want to introduce other factors. We now have to ask:

* who gets to choose the factors?

* when and how can they be changed?

* how do we measure them?

Let's suppose we go with the "community of interest" approach. As you pick and choose particular communities of interest to include in the algorithm, it changes the resulting district. This means that the districts resulting from such an algorithm can be adjusted by adjusting the types of communities. Thus, a party with great influence over the process will petition to have communities of interest that it knows will produce districts favorable to it. This will work for a time, until the opposition party realizes that they too can influence the districts by petitioning for particular communities of interest.

Then, when the opposition party comes into power, they will also try to get those communities changed. No factor is immune to this -- even the influence of racial categories on districts can be chosen and manipulated (and both parties ARE doing that, including the "good" party).

So, while the algorithms could be "better" than the pure compactness approach in an ideal world, it would only work if we could 100% prevent the adjustment of definitions and weights of communities of interest. And given the nature of politics, I think that will be very unlikely.
True, very much true, but some are more resistant to others: mixed-member systems tend to be less resistant, whereas STV tends to be more resistant.
> On the other hand when I'm visiting a foreign country on a visa, I'm in a similarly disadvantaged position.

US citizens need to expect that this kind of thing will spread to other countries. Unless your government will be able to pressure other countries to make americans excepted from such laws abroad. I think what we essentially will see in the future would be a different kind of border control based on nationality even through the travel agreements would basically be the same.
That's assuming a hypothetical crime actually happened in the first place. In many cases it's possible that no crime ever happened. (For example, if the man in the article never actually had child porn that doesn't mean someone else did.)
Never did this before but after reading your comment, I thought there must be a better way. Click the "n units ago" timestamp next to the commentors user name, there's a "favorite" option you can then access through your profile page "favorite stories / comments".
How AirBnB's Data Hid the Facts in NYC [pdf]
Looks like one would need to wipe their phone before traveling to US from now on. What about laptops though? :/
If he was using Freenet, there's no doubt that his node handled chunks of CP files, and that at least some of those chunks remain on the drive. Let's say that he never viewed any CP. Even then, can he be sure that investigators won't discover evidence that could be spun to demonstrate that he did view CP?

It is quite a quandary :(
>They were shocked. Their adored boss, billionaire CEO Ev Williams, best known as the cofounder of Twitter, seemed to care so deeply for each of them.

LOL, as if CEOs (with the exception of some outliers in small businesses) ever care for their employees at the personal level. As soon as the company is in danger, it's off they go. And when the company does well, they aren't going to share the loot that much either.
Neat. But what if your body is more prone to converting calories into fat than muscle, and/or breaking down muscle tissue when in starvation mode rather than fat?
Not the same kind of case, since there was an issued warrant. This isn't the same type of case at all.
My understanding and part of why I support the high speed rail project is this.

Airports in California coastal cities are near max capacity. And expansion is either very expensive[1] or near impossible. And would face even more community objections than the high speed rail project. So the airlines likely wouldn't try to compete with high speed rail. Instead they would try to attract more national and international travelers. Paradoxically to high speed rail would increase the airports area of service. Because one could then take the train + cab to the airport rather than drive 100 miles or take a puddle jumper.

[1] I offhand remember, between 500 million to 2 billion _each_.
Intraprocess Communication
In my experience, in communities that use mailing lists for patch submission as opposed to just discussion, it's the norm to keep posting open to non-subscribers. In the Linux kernel we use so many separate mailing lists that to subscribe to all of them when you just want to send a couple of patches would be a complete disaster. Protocol is to keep posting open to everyone and to ensure that you always use Reply To All to keep every list and individual in the loop on replies.

I don't disagree with you though that mailing lists are painful - and I particularly agree that the archive experience is sorely, sorely, sorely lacking.
Notes: Applied Machine Learning Days 2017
blogspam of

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2017/01/title-196132-...
I had a similar 'aha' moment a few years ago about inner product (aka dot product) and the choice of '.' as an operator to access elements of a structure.

struct Example {
int elem1;
int elem2;
...
};

Example ex1 = { 1, 2, ... };
int a = ex1.elem1;
int b = ex1.elem2;
...

If we think of ex1 as a vector, and elem1 as a constant vector [1, 0, 0...] (and elem2 as a constant vector [0, 1, 0, ...] and so on) then ex1.elem1 is literally the inner product of ex1 and the constant elem1.

I have no idea if that was the original thinking behind dot notation but it's neat and I like it.
TL;DR - the writer dismisses common lisp because he can't be bothered to learn emacs.
That was the first thing I noticed too. No CTRL+U? It looks like a cool project, but I'll hold off until there are better navigation options (unless there already are, and the video producer simply wasn't using them).
Hi! Thats a good idea. I'm planning on building out a vault in the next few weeks where you can see all the interviews I have.
"Sadly XOR doesn’t appear as an equivalent to NOT, AND and OR, as a logical operator on booleans, being relegated to just a bitewise operator in most programming languages."

Well, in C there's just no need. The main raison d'etre for && and || over & and | is that you can exploit their short circuiting behaviour. A hypothetical ^^ operator wouldn't bring anything extra to the table.
Great freedom, huh?
A couple of technical reasons might be: ensuring that you can "grep" for any 4-digit year and find applicable files; or, that a "diff" makes it more obvious what is being added.

I prefer ranges personally. Also, I believe only the year of first publication is technically required anyway.
Better still - Copyright (c) range(2001, 2018)

;)
I'm not sure why, but I've seen this elsewhere - in particular I think it's FSF policy to number every year individually.
> What about those, if you're not interacting with the customer, requires a certain time

Well, two things. First, the article mentions having to be in a certain place at a certain time. You're just addressing the time component. Most jobs still need you to actually be there, such as trades and long haul trucking. (long haul trucking is the most common job in the united states http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...)

> Most of the things you listed are customer facing

I don't know what your definition of customer facing is. Long haul trucking certainly isn't, and if you're a welder, you don't actually have to see the customer. In fact, you usually talk to your account manager who dispatches you out to customer sites.

> as long as the job is done on time

No man is an island. Most of the time, you're part of a long chain of dependencies to get things done.

If you're part of a team, you have to show up when they show up. You also have hard deadlines in order to unblock the people downstream for you. If the framing isn't done on schedule for a house, the electrical can't go in, and if the electrical isn't in, the drywall can't go in. You can't just "make up time" on the weekends.
I just checked my copy of Fooled By Randomness; the price tag on the back says $15.95, not Free For The Good of Humanity.

Not that I have a problem with someone making money. And it's great for Taleb that he got rich through financial trading; he's clearly good at that.

But he strays well into pseudo-expert territory when he starts arguing that he knows more about GMOs than biologists, more about climate than scientists who study it, etc.
Is it solely or even mostly a logistics issue?

IMO, the software industry is one of the most flexible industries. I've had flexible hours ever since changing into IT more than a decade ago.

And yet we have a large gender imbalance.
> Encryption is nothing new people, you are just putting your data in a safe.

I know this is an old argument, but what if I put the contents in a paper shredder, in the safe? It's still the data, it's just that it went through the shredder. Why is ok for the government to compel you to change the state of the data from encrypted to unencrypted? They couldn't compel Apple write software to decrypt a phone. Why can they compel me to write an encryption key to decrypt data.

Discloser all of my data is encrypted, and if the government asked I would really be torn about giving them keys.
Are you sure about this? Usually you can be stopped and searched quite far inland as long as they can prove that you recently crossed the border. This is often used to take smugglers.
In Switzerland, where the train schedule is stunningly efficient, you can do this very reliably. Check in and security procedures make this impossible with airports. Unfortunately, this is also an issue with international high speed trains (TGV) where there are queues and checks.
Personally, I respect Ev more for his decision to put on the brakes, even when Medium seemed to be a financial success. We already have enough blogging platforms. We really don't need yet another one.

Ev Williams' mission to change the way journalism is funded and operated though, that's a truly noble ideal. Yes, it's likely too ambitious to succeed. Yes, it's a moonshot. But it's exactly the kind of moonshot that Silicon Valley needs to be taking. It's exactly the kind of moonshot that the world could really benefit from. I applaud him for his decision to put his unicorn at risk, in order to build something that could truly change the world.