skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming the noise or smell was somehow contained, what's wrong with living next to a concert venue or sriracha factory? I should merely have a right to my property being as smell, noise, and shadow free as it was when I bought it. I should /not/ have a right to anything more than that.

Enshrining a right to only live next to other residences is how we end up in this problem of boring neighborhoods that require lots of travel just to get to where you want to go.

In old large eastern US cities and in towns of any size in other countries I've been in (Mexico, Japan) there is MUCH more mixed use. You might see a motorcycle repair shop in between a couple of regular single family homes. Nobody seems to mind. I don't get why we're special and weird like this.

Most of lower Manhattan, which is so valued now, could not be built legally today. It was built before zoning codes.

I'm not against mild zoning codes that merely slow down rather than block change. For example, rather than a named maximum height, say that no building can be built more than twice the average building height in the area within a certain radius. Or, the percentage of nonresidential uses within an area cannot increase by more than 2% per year, or something.

This way in the short term, a neighborhood cannot be transformed overnight. But, it can be transformed slowly over decades towards what the market will bear, ie what people actually want and are willing to pay for.

This isn't a libertarian fantasy, it's just how towns used to work in the US before zoning and how they work in many other less backwards parts of the world...
$ pdftojson input.pdf output1.json
pdftojson: command not found

Ubuntu 16.10
sytse and GitLab folks: thank you for the transparency.
Crafting the Koran
While I'm not especially sympathetic to a lot of the cities must change to accommodate what I want, it honestly sounds as if you like certain aspects of city living but not others. The problem is that they more or less come as a bundle.
On a similar note...

I remember discovering the Super Mario Bros 1 up glitch (just rather randomly, wasn't glitch-hunting) a few weeks after getting my NES/SMB and teaching everyone I knew how to do it.

I'm sure many, many people discovered it independently back in the days before the Internet spread this knowledge out nearly instantaneously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUx66ZEDjnQ
The same old service as before is an ongoing cost for everyone - loans are taken for municipal projects that the city pays back with taxes, pipes break and have to be repaired, if there's a natural disaster outside funds will repair the service, etc. To some extent you pay the utility provider for your use, but not always.

There are even more things you definitely don't and can't pay for your own use - fire stations, police, the salaries of the DMV employees that regulate drivers licenses so someone who doesn't know how to drive doesn't crash into your house. There's a huge long-tail of public goods that serve everyone in every urban or suburban area, no getting around it.
Depends what part of the company you are interning at. If you are in contact with the person that will be your manager ask them what things you should read up on but for the most part you will ramp up mostly at work.

Command prompt is getting better but one thing I found to help when going from Linux to Windows was Cmder (http://cmder.net/) it comes with a few things like ls and grep. You could also use the Linux Subsystem for Windows if you want.

Best advice I would give to someone interning at MS is ask questions, make friends, and have a great time!
Please elaborate.

Should we also TAX vacant or idle storefronts that seem to have zero foot traffic any given hour of any given day?
(SF seems to have dozens of those every city block. One wonders if those are some kind of fronts for illicit activities. They seem to never change ownership even with skyrocketing rents for office space nearby.)

Should a street level business that serves a large number of residents, get TAX BREAKS? Like a grocery store that vends fresh produce as opposed to a boutique book store that specializes in first editions?

Should they also get favorable lease terms, mandated by the city?

Should businesses that, by nature, serve out of town-ers be forced to move to designated neighborhoods?

Should empty storefronts be forced to take up tenants who could serve the needs of the residents?

Is TAXING even the solution to any of these problems?
That depends on what exactly you mean by "damage" and who you mean by "the USA."

He definitely and admittedly broke the law, though. If he's delivered to American shores the best we could even hope for him is that he's kept alive long enough for a more sympathetic administration to come into power.
> Smart people understand that there is a reason that pointless / absurd rules are there.

Understanding that there is a reason (which is often that it was made as a political compromise in a distant past) does not imply that one tolerates/accepts it. As I hinted understanding the reason can also mean that one gets a much deeper hate for the rules.
You can capture this by assessing the value of the land (regardless of what's build on top). Downtown detached houses are more valuable because the land they sit on is near other stuff, and people want to be near stuff. They are not valuable because the owner installed a new marble counter-top.
OK, then I guess all I'm saying is I think my definitions are right and others' are wrong. My definition is:

Pretend there is a dark shroud covering away all boundaries of your property line. Whatever elements, whether noise, shadow, smell, smoke, etc enter into your property volume, you are allowed to complain about. Anything outside of that, you are not. How damned hard is that?
CNet: Touring Target's (renovated) Open House for smart home tech
>Trying to restore the replication process, an engineer proceeds to wipe the PostgreSQL database directory, errantly thinking they were doing so on the secondary. Unfortunately this process was executed on the primary instead. The engineer terminated the process a second or two after noticing their mistake, but at this point around 300 GB of data had already been removed.

I could feel the sweat drops just from reading this.

I'd bet every one of us has experienced the panicked Ctrl+C of Death at some point or another.
+1 Read the release logs of existing projects. I wish more projects actually took the time to talk about the problems they solved since those issues usually outlive their projects as new alternatives pop up.
Against mig-29, modern enough for that time.
Lets not forget the externalities. Costs and economic comparisons leave the higher qualify of life out of the discussion. Economics lump them all into externalities (Environment, Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion or conscience, etc). What is the value or cost of protecting child labor, woman rights or saying what's on your mind without the threat of being jailed).
Um, well, then they should have to pay for their share of that too. Given that, still confused what the objection is.
People also don't want to spend two hours a day commuting.
Or desktops. Or heavy laptops. Current i7s seem designed for the MacBook Pro. That should have been the i5 or i3 segment.
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Insider trading is also a crime yet it is widespread on wall street, like snowflakes in a blizzard.
There is no downvote for submissions; only flagging. There is a karma threshold for flagging: I think it's 200, but don't hold me to it.

Edit to add: Sorry, I misread post to mean submission, not comment. Sibling is correct: downvoting for comments is enabled when you earn your 501st point.
> If he doesn't create the 10 jobs within 5-10 years his visa is revoked and he goes home. That seems reasonable, no?

Depends, is he funding the startup himself? If so, fair enough, he gambles his labour on a venture likely to benefit the US if it pays off. If not, He gets a 10-year visa, and maybe a chance at rolling the dice.

10 years is long enough to make good money without risking a startup. Put up 10 years worth of dev pay as collateral (7-800k?) and suddenly the deal is only worthwhile if, either:

a) the jobs are indeed created, and a 10yr visa becomes a green card,

b) the startup has considerably more value than the collateral.

Of course, the collateral would be so high it would be unreasonable to be able to give it upfront, so I'm not sure how you'd get round that..

> They buy various goods and services

feels like the Glass-Makers fallacy again; I have no idea how the chain of events plays out.

for example; people still buy goods and services from the US as exports, but without many of the commitments citizenship would entail.
And probably designed it quite a few years before that.
Thank you for redacting who the engineer was. Great write-up. Thank you!
What I want is a way to properly disable mobile mode, and disable the YOOGE "switch to mobile" header.

I want to see the full README and the code, not the irrelevant stuff cluttering the mobile page.
You know suburbs are a thing which barely exist outside of America, right? It's an incredibly weird, artificial concept.

You want space, you move to the countryside. That makes sense at least.
>An ideal environment is one in which you can make mistakes but easily and quickly recover from them with minimal to no impact.

This is a great attitude. Too often opportunity cost isn't considered when making rules to protect folks from doing something stupid.
Most sites probably should move to https, and it is easier to do it these days.

However, not all sites would technically need this. If you have a small blog for instance where you want to show off a few pics of your garden or baking or something and users aren't logging in anywhere or buying anything, the utility of a secure website is a bit less and it's not absolutely critical. (still useful to have as you can guarantee that the ISP doesn't alter content I guess)

My main concern with this https movement is that it adds up another barrier to buying a domain and creating a simple small blog or website. It encourages normal folks to just say "all this extra work is too complicated! how the hell do I set up an SSL certificate and deal with this stuff?" and they just say screw it and sign up for a Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest or other walled garden which is bad for the open web.

The answer is to make this https process as simple as possible, but I still think this sort of thing is an extra minor barrier that contributes to the open world wide web of random small website gems slowly dying off.
Thanks for the link, good read. Good to see Mr. Kuntsler is still fighting the good fight, haven't come across him for a long time.

> Now, the funny thing is that the New Suburbanists don’t hold any other urban place as an ideal either. They don’t point to a single urban place in the world and say, “yes, this is what I want.” But the fact is, the world has a good selection of functioning, enjoyable, pleasant metropolises. Tokyo is my favorite

> My definition of an urban environment is one where it is easier to not own a car than to own one.

Totally agree with this, and I simply can't understand why neighborhoods like this are so rare in North America. Tokyo, from what little time I've spent there, strikes me as a near perfect lifestyle, such a high proportion of completely walkable neighborhoods, plenty of green parks, plenty of incredible and cheap places to eat, and all connected by an efficient train system. Granted, population helps a lot in this, but it's certainly not something we could work towards in most places.

Vancouver Canada has quite a few neighborhoods that are fairly similar, but the problem with moving forward is the demand for housing is so high such that as soon as something is zoned for building towards this model, the price of the land immediately rises to the point where you practically have to be a millionaire (at least) to buy anything more than 500 square feet. Because of this, this city center is doomed as far as I can tell, but I see no reason we couldn't start building mini-self-sufficient towns like this in the suburbs with the "town centre" surrounding the train station...yet, I'd bet money that we will not for reasons unknown to me.
I have to say - if they were using a managed relational database service, like Amazon's RDS Postgres, this likely would have never happened. RDS fully automates nightly database snapshots, and ships archive logs to S3 every 5 minutes, which gives you the ability to restore your database to any point in time within the last 35 days, down to the second.

Also, RDS gives you a synchronously replicated standby database, and automates failover, including updating the DNS CNAME that the clients connect to during a failover (so it is seamless to the clients, other than requiring a reconnect), and ensuring that you don't lose a single transaction during a failover (the magic of synchronous replication over a low latency link between datacenters).

For a company like Gitlab, that is public about wanting to exit the cloud, I feel like they could have really benefited from a fully managed relational database service. This entire tragic situation could have never happened if they were willing to acknowledge the obvious: managing relational databases is hard, and allowed someone with better operational automation, like AWS, to do it for them.
Simple, apply money. Ungodly amounts of money.

An example, Tyson's Corner, VA was developed over the decades as a car friendly tangle of office parks and commercial shopping. It has something like 160,000 parking spaces with a population under 20,000. The area is in the beginning of a major 40 year redevelopment plan that will cost a nontrivial percentage of a trillion dollars.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/03/29/the-audacious-plan-...
I don't have a specific link/reference I can provide you, but it came out during Q&A at one of the HTTP/2 presentations at Velocity Conference 2016.
> Social programs aren't revenue, they're an expense.

That's nit-picking. Social programs are negative revenue. If you want to maximize income, you can increase income, or decrease expenses. This is grade 5 math.

> "Greater good" is a feel good (no pun intended) term that has no objective meaning.

"Greater good" can be define to mean that it matches societies preference. i.e. long life, healthy life, whatever.

If only the constitution defined greater good.. perhaps something about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
It's amazing how quickly it descends into "one of the engineers" did x or y. Who was steering this ship exactly?

It's really simple to point the finger and try to find a single cause of failure - but it's a fools errand - comparable to finding the single source behind a great success.
>>Amazon unveiled their plans of providing 100000 jobs

So now, to add to the endless crowd-funding campaigns announced as if they were actual products, we're getting stated intentions reported as actual occurrences.

<slow hand-clap>
Emails require more of my attention and they arrive whenever they are sent. Tweets require zero attention, they are easy to ignore, and I never see them unless I specifically seek them out by opening Twitter. Basically Twitter is much more voluntary than email.
The probability of a major flaw that forces you to throw away the whole chip goes up with die size, so presumably EMIB would allow Intel to manufacture and test smaller chips individually before assembling them into a bigger processor, and that may result in less waste and lower cost.

It also might mean large-core chips could be available sooner on new manufacturing processes (which tend to have a high failure rate until they're thoroughly debugged).
Speaking of leverage, if UBI money can be used towards credit cards, we might expect to see even more people get hooked in perpetual credit card debt. Always just enough cash to swipe the plastic, never enough to wipe away the debt.
Thanks so much for the post and transparency Gitlab! We had just finished recovering from our own outage (stemming for a power loss and subsequent cascading failures) and were scheduled to do our post-mortem on 2/1 so the original document was a refreshing and reassuring read.
Places that don't require driving more often than not have high cost of living.
Protect him against prosecution?

Protect him against being assassinated, and/or being railroaded by some kangaroo court and then assassinated. Or buried in solitary somewhere for the rest of his life.

C'mon, no way is the USG going to let Snowden face a fair trial, and that's ignoring the fact that he shouldn't be tried at all. The man is a hero who risked everything to expose crimes committed by the US government. Who cares about the technicality of whether or not he violated some inane statute? He did us all a favor and - IMO - we have something of a moral obligation to help him stay alive.
no source repository? Looks like a great opportunity for someone to grab all the release tarballs and build one to chuck on github. Bonus points for putting changelog contents in the commit logs!
I don't work for gitlab.

Isn't that a put you out of business moment? I guess there is enterprise installations but the main website would be toast.

I guess there is the chance there were still older backups taken intentionally or by chance that would have been worse but recoverable from
am I missing something? why would you assume it's included by default in Ubuntu?
> Assuming the noise or smell was somehow contained, what's wrong with living next to a concert venue

The massive amounts of traffic (foot\car) these things can generate, depending on the city and size of the venue. The noise from that many people on the street is not containable.
The same with a new 1000 unit apartment complex going up next to you - it's going to have a massive impact on local services around you, depending on what was there already. Your idea about disallowing large changes isn't horrible.
There are cities where the zoning only allows houses in an HOA. Viera in Florida is an example of this.

These days, builders always create an HOA. The options to avoid an HOA are very limited. You can settle for something really old. In theory you can become a builder yourself, but buying 30 acres and putting in streets and storm drains and... is a huge investment and a huge amount of time and effort. Even then, there are places where you simply can't do it due to zoning.
I like to put it and think of it this way: Other people aren't for or against you, they're for themselves.

Focus on those whose goals align with your goals. Then help them.
Talent is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not.

Check out Andela :)
Wow this is a better and cleaner/streamlined keyboard layout than I have on my 2015 MacBook Pro :(
Ask HN: Can we set apart upvote and downvote buttons?
A small request/suggestion/discussion: Upvote and downvote buttons are so close to each other that you can't know which one you've pressed (especially on mobile).

Can we have them separated a bit or have the "unvote" button (appears after voting) renamed to "cancel {upvote, downvote}" or similar?
A great number of issues can be attributed to the selection of Azure as the platform of choice. That said, a little bird told me that the decision was largely a cost factor. "You get what you pay for" never rang more true.
Hm, not really, unless you care about being able to read the data from anywhere else. Zlib, like any of the other "traditional" libraries out there, is supported pretty much everywhere and has bindings for every language you can think of. But that shouldn't drive your project.
The idea is powerful, and does this mean we have to train people on the job?
Tentative new title: "The Curse of Stifled People"

Well, maybe that sounds a bit mean, but the constant fear of saying something wrong about one's employer (past or present) is a bit sad sometimes.
Misread that as "The engineer was terminated" at first. Poor guy.
The law strongly disagrees, and for good reason. See: manslaughter vs murder.
Do you expect management to be staring over your shoulder every time you do some kind of `rm` on a production server? With great power comes great responsibility.
It's not "anything", it's "intent to defraud". The prosecutor needs to provide a minimum standard of evidence to bring charges, they don't need to prove intent (to hear the case). The rest is like I said.
I think the automakers realize they need self-driving technology and are willing to pay a premium for the right team to jumpstart the program.
UP+polls+begin+today,+UP+Assembly+Elections+2017,khabar+special
For me, it was when I meant to execute this...

rm -rf ~/foo

... but executed this instead:

rm -rf ~ /foo
This reads like an article written by someone who just heard about article spinning in 2017. Also, all the submitter's submissions are from this site, and they have no comments.
In my case I knew when the owning Rust struct was destroyed, and it was guaranteed to be the only thing holding the element handle so I would just free the DOM node during the destruction logic.

For something more general purpose I'd probably just use a destructor (whether C++ or Rust) with the same guarantee of single-ownership of the underlying ID, and the DOM node will automatically be freed once the native handle goes out of scope.

Edit: Of course, you'd have to prohibit copies on the native side.
Actually it's not facetious at all. The point comes from his mentor Benjamin Graham, which relates to the difficulty in recouping investment capital following a loss (ie: making your money back after you break the rule).

eg: You have $100k in your investment account. You have a bad year and lose 50% of your money, leaving you with $50k. You now need to have a 100% return in the next year to just make your money back, even though you only had a 50% loss. Seth Klarman, another highly successful value investor like Buffett is also a proponent of this way of thinking.
I understand that modern techniques are different than older approaches and I'm enthusiastic about their potential.

But going from saying that these approaches will improve things to claiming that they'll destroy the middle class and effectively end employment everywhere is a crazy leap that the article and excessively optimistic people often make.

We can agree that the tech is wonderful, but disagree on the future it leads to.
Stunning amounts i can't wrap my head around!
Unfortunately not, neither for Tolstoy. Anyone?
Ok I think I will take that into consideration, I was thinking about doing it in the first place already.
Hey Miles!!! Good to see you here on HN! :)
Right. You can do all this stuff now, but with cash. If you don't want to report it, you don't have to. But you're still breaking the law and subject to serious penalty if the right people find out.

Also, all it takes is one lawsuit from an angry customer to pull back the veil on the ethereum libertopia, free of taxation and regulation, you've created.
Personal anecdota: My parents' house shared the block with a carpentry shop (now bankrupt) and a Christian church (which later moved to another site). The sound of the carpentry shop was a thousand times more tolerable (although it was daily) than the sporadic religious celebrations with its drums and electric guitars.
>The U.S. has almost nothing to gain from Snowden's return

As the article itself says, Trump wants Snowden executed.
There is a definition of device I read somewhere a while ago. "Devops is developers performing ops using automation". So, the real question is whether or not an organization possesses the capacity to reliably build, test, deploy, and monitor their infrastructure.

There does need to be a team that is responsible for the production environment but they should be using automated tools built by folks who understand both the technologies in use as well as the key performance indicators of the business (as measured by the monitoring system).
doesn't everyone alias rm to rm -i on prod?

likewise all tty's have red backgrounds on prod.