skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really bad news. :-(

But still... there are a lot of us. It seems that there ought to be something we can do to help protect Snowden. But I have to admit, I'm drawing a blank right this minute. Ideas?
There is an inherent contradiction in this idea. Part of being able to do whatever you want is setting up a homeowners association which are defeat the goal of freedom.
I-35 visually looks like it's about 1/4 to 1/3 large trucks transporting goods. I've heard a lot of it is goods going to and from Mexico. I wonder if it would be just as crowded without all the trucks.
but it's agile, so it has to be good.
For a minute there I thought something happened in the world that I was not made aware of. I didn't see Hacker News change their bar so it was just an unexplained github style change.
'Building Cities' is a non-trivial activity that occurs on a time scale such that by the time it's substantially implemented driving won't mean what it means today. Suburbia is not so much a response to poor planning as a reaction to the mechanization of agriculture that sparked a demographic shift from rural to 'urban' living.

Mechanization meant that a minimal family farms became approximately an order of magnitude larger (from 1/4 section of 160 acres to a couple of sections and >1000 acres). Along with all those farmers the shopkeepers had to find someplace in the city too. Automobiles encouraged the migration by making it easier to relocate off the farm.

Cities had not planned for that influx. Or for cars. Moreover, cities were increasingly discouraging tenements...with sound scientific reasoning. The suburbs were about the only quick fix. Cities take a long time and a lot of money to build. It also costs more in political capital and financial capital than building roads...multiple jurisdictions will float bonds for transportation infrastructure versus multiple private interests that must agree for many modestly scaled real-estate development projects...https://nypost.com/2014/09/19/nyc-church-bags-71m-for-air-ov...

In the past couple of years, I've started thinking about real-estate in terms of monopolies. Locations are not fungible and control of a parcel is an absolute but localized monopoly. What suburbia does is disrupt (or maybe bypass do to the locality) entrenched monopolies. Forty minute commutes are somewhat fungible. Boxes made of ticky-tacky are also somewhat fungible. Chain retail is very much fungible.
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Sorry, but unfortunately your conclusions are wrong. More Asian people in absolute numbers and in percentage get "computer and information science" degrees. In fact, the trend has been negative for blacks.[1]

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_322.30.a...
Finding a replacement for Heroku seems to be on a lot of people's priority lists. Why?

What are the major issues people have with Heroku?
I'm at a loss as to what you're referring to here.

The Font Awesome icons used in 2.3 and forward are located in /usr/local/www/vendor/font-awesome

we can (and do) use the GUI when there is no WAN connection

Edit: any chance you're running a browser plugin that is blocking the font-awesome fonts?

FA started adding logos and stuff to the fonts and there are 3rd party lists you can use that are more aggressive and font-awesome is in some. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Troubleshoo...
Not really a weekend project, but I've been working on a control panel for hosting Minecraft servers.

I've started a free open alpha-test which you can check out here:

https://cloudcrafting.com
but the inherent futility of the belief that its better to believe its futile to ask people to be nice is a worse situation
I think there was a germ of a theory why companies full of smart people do dumb things, or are sometimes evil, or something like that; but it didn't get that explicit because it might criticise the employer too directly.
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I fully expect Ajit Pai to use this as proof we don't need any improvements to infrastructure in the US.
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Ask HN: Interning at Microsoft – tips?
I'll be interning at Microsoft this summer (yay!). Any tips, pointers, or things to look out for? As it is a big company I imagine that the culture varies from workplace to workplace.

Anything especially worthwhile reading up on?

I am a born and breed *nixer and they know I have not developed anything at all on the Windows platform. Any tools that will ease the transition?

Also, beyond being a generally nice person, is there anything in particular that you have done or that someone else has done for you/your workplace that left a lasting positive impression?
This is why ethereum classic exists, but it's also shown that smart contacts are generally unreliable.

Random plug for non Turing complete smart contact systems like Decred.

(I don't own any decred, nor am I part of the team, I just idle in IRC.)
My pet theory: much of 'gut feelings' and intuition boils down to having our internal black box predict the behavior of other people. When you are 'average', this often simplifies to reasoning about what you would do in the same circumstances, which is relatively easy. If you are 3 standard deviations out, you'll have to compensate that consciously, which is inaccurate and difficult and slow. This is like how UI designers have difficulty to discern which parts of their UI are hard to use, while the end user could do so effortlessly.

Smart people end up having to run SmartPerson + NormalPersonVM(pre-alpha) in parallel. Normal people just run NormalPerson natively. Then they complain about bugs and slowness ('smart people are out of touch with reality!', etc.)
Github should have used the eBay approach where you gradually alter your look to avoid triggering revolt. Fade the banner from light gray to dark gray over the period of a few months!

https://articles.uie.com/death_of_relaunch/

> At eBay, they learned the hard way that their users don’t like dramatic change. One day, the folks at eBay decided they no longer liked the bright yellow background on many of their pages, so they just changed it to a white background. Instantly, they started receiving emails from customers, bemoaning the change. So many people complained, that they felt forced to change it back.
This is a fantastic and concise explanation. Thank you for posting it.
It can get very expensive very quick.
You need to read the "fuck counter" story. I woldn't work for someone like this:

>"Bill doesn’t really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you’ve got it under control. His standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don’t know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared."

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
If the rest of us get burdened by the cost of providing services to said property owner in perpetuity, we do have a right to have a bit of say over what things get built. We can build win-win for the property owner and the community, it is possible to align incentives.

When you bulldoze black neighborhoods to build the expressway that serves your suburb of single family homes, that's when there is a problem.

When the tax base of poor neighborhoods subsidize the burden of infrastructure support of affluent neighborhoods, that's when there is a problem. [0]

0. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborh...
Now I'll highlight a concern I do actually have about a fully robotized economy: weapons proliferation. The key pieces of information needed to build a serviceable anti-tank missile or a jug of nerve gas are already lying on the shelves of thousands of technical libraries. The details may be classified, but the broad outlines in the open literature are good enough for someone with patience and a technical background to fill in workable solutions. Fortunately for civilization to date, {diligent, technically educated, sufficiently well funded, homicidal} is a set of attributes that rarely co-occurs. We've seen homicidal maniacs who were patient and well-funded enough to make their own nerve gas just once so far (Aum Shinrikyo in Japan in the 1990s).

Things change if machines do all the real work and a would-be killer doesn't need any special skills to get deadlier weapons. The unhinged man who rage-kills his ex-wife and some of her coworkers with a gun today could, in the future, ask the makerbot for kilograms of RDX or tabun instead of a gun. Outbreaks of lethal violence might be rarer, since people who are materially well-off are generally less likely to murder, but the rarer killings rooted in rage or ideology could become a lot deadlier.

In a few post-scarcity science fiction settings impulses to violence are stopped with direct human nerve implants linked to a machine panopticon that can halt dangerous actions. I don't consider that a plausible or even desirable future. In my favorite space opera setting, the Culture of Iain M. Banks, killers are pre-empted by omniscient benevolent AI oversight running millions of times faster than biological intelligence. That sounds dreamy to me, but it involves a lot of made up Space Opera physics so I don't think it is plausible. Thinking about a future where AI is capable enough to manufacture anything people ask for, but not capable enough to act as benevolent gods, leads to some odd mixtures of prosperity and catastrophe.
Yeah, I thought maybe someone important died but couldn't find any references.
I chose to run a bleeding edge distro to be on the bleeding edge. Requiring me to make the changes to be on the bleeding edge manually makes no sense.

Expecting that is as weird as expecting super stable LTS releases to run the latest-and-greatest of everything.
I found this entertaining, even if they did later admit that it was a hoax:

http://serverfault.com/questions/587102/monday-morning-mista...
Reading this, the thing that stuck out to me was how remarkably lucky they were to have the two snapshots. The one from 6 hours earlier was there seemingly by chance, as an engineer had created it for unrelated reasons. And for both the 6- and 24-hour snapshots, it seems just lucky that neither had any breaking changes made to them by pre-production code (they _were_ dev/staging snapshots, after all).

I'm glad it all worked out in the end!
39th Street was the cutoff between the 14th St grid and uptown. The huge co-op development in West Chelsea between 23rd and Penn Station has its own generators, but the rest of the area was blacked out.

-signed, was w/o power for 4 weeks in West Chelsea
It still is for me. This is the new web reality where everything is only eventually consistent and at any given point in time you're being A/B tested on some bullshit idea.
> Not enough realistic businesses - there is no legitimate reason to be on the street, other than wanting to 'hang out' in public spaces.

What's wrong with that? "Hanging out" is what public places are for.
To those who asked: A smart contract runs with the predictability of code. Courts don't. In particular, arbitration clauses are often not upheld.
I started out scraping sites manually, and started automating more pieces (a lot of sites use wordpress, so they are pretty structured). I'm working on a talk on the subject, so I'll have an article soon that explains better :)
(Ellie is really cool, apologies for the meta comment, but):

It's a shame that all that hits me in the face with Elm code examples lately is awkward style conventions. Why do they have to be so user hostile?

Trailing brace on the next line even for this?

type alias Model =
{ counter : Int
}

Instead of:

type alias Model = { counter: Int }

Comma first, when trailing comma is so much more intuitive, why this?

Html.program
{ view = view
, update = update
, subscriptions = \_ -> Sub.none
, init = ( model, Cmd.none )
}

instead of:

Html.program {
view = view,
update = update,
subscriptions = \_ -> Sub.none,
init = ( model, Cmd.none ),
}

(... which makes for better diffs too). And weird bracket soup for DOM:

div []
[ div [] [ button [ onClick Increment ] [ text "+" ] ]
, div [] [ text <| toString model.counter ]
, div [] [ button [ onClick Decrement ] [ text "-" ] ]
]

... when it's going to be translated to DOM anyway, why not?

<div>
<div><button onClick={increment}>+</button></div>
<div>{toString model.counter}</div>
<div><button onClick={decrement}>-</button></div>
</div>

This is needlessly distracting from all the things that are nice about Elm.
Go isn't comparable to CUDA or OpenCL in terms of parallelism, which is what matters here. Go doesn't even have SIMD available without writing assembly.
The "super 7" as they're called, account for ~60% of Intel's data center revenue, which accounts for ~60% of their profit.

7 companies provide Intel with 36% of its profit...
It's the same kind of thing as how when you accidentally cut someone off while driving it's because they were in your blindspot and you're having a bad day and it's the first time that's ever happened etc etc... and when someone else cuts you off they're an idiot who shouldn't be on the road and they probably always drive badly.
> Uber is the first major company to avoid all of the taxi unions and the medallion systems and hire any driver off the street for what amounts to some extra beer money for the drivers.

Oh come on. As if these Uber drivers would have been able to navigate an unknown neighborhood in the 1980s.

The enabling technology here is the GPS, specifically the free GPS in everybody's smartphone. Without that, the entire Uber model fails because the typical Uber Driver has no navigation skills.
I wonder how much human potential we're wasting by putting "smart people" on a pedestal instead of having higher and better utilization of regular people. Regular people are far more capable than working at McDonalds, Walmart, Amazon, or whatever wage slave job BigCo is offering.

It's pretty hard to prove, but I bet that we're barely even at 1% utilization of humanity's potential, given our technology and population.
We too are glad we had those snapshots. And while it was the worst thing that ever happend at GitLab it is humbling to know that it could have been worse.
This was in my top 5 books I read last year. Highly recommend it.

One good thing about it is it also includes biographies of lots of other interesting greats like Darwin and Muir.
Sure. Yes we are promoting the software but only because we think it is better.

You can achieve similar effect with tools like Burp but it will not be that easy because to get it right you need a lot of manual work.
some numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_California#Demo...

census says >80% are white and the typical household income was nearly ~$90k, too. That isn't a bad thing because of Beverly Hills per se, but it does seem typical of wealth not flowing freely enough in this country.
Very much agree. Would be great to let neighborhoods or cities experiment with alternative zoning and planning policies, but sadly it seems every place is following the same templates.

Some random pointers for those interested:
http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
http://narrowstreetssf.com/
And be net cheaper because of 1/2 the benefit / supervision load.
Go(Lang) backend + plain html, jquery and gulp on the frontend. After doing Rails for a while, I was tired of the slowness and layers upon layers of abstraction. Go is simple in comparison - the language philosophy helps you keep everything close to where it's executing. No assumptions. I've borrowed some lessons from Rails in structuring my code (models are separate, api for controller logic, views are static pages that interact with the Api through JSON). The performance of my sites is so incredibly delightfully fast now, that I would never go back. Almost all of my server calls return back in microseconds. I'm rewriting all of my sites in Go now.
The whole point of government is to ensure that your neighbors don't act like oricks. Obviously you don't want the neighbor to build something high that puts your property in permanent shadow, or otherwise ruin your property.
Doesn't putting smart people on pedestal's, like in charge a the design of tool, enable them to make things that can be part of the workflow of regular people?
The vast majority of "the right" do not believe in the plausibility of Pizzagate.
I remember when Google search stopped using underlines on their search result links... I couldn't stand it. Now I'd probably have the same reaction if they switched back.
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I've been working on Otter, which is an Operational Transformation Engine(think google docs real-time collaboration). https://github.com/TheAustinSeven/otter

The hope is that this will make it a little easier to build collaborative apps. More recently, though, I have been spending some time designing a new programming language(I know, I know, we already have so many), so I haven't spent as much time on otter.
Aha. Well that’s no different from any other public service, subsidy, or restriction then. The “leverage” is voting, the specific content of legislation/regulation, and the legal system, and if those don’t work mass protest.

For instance, “the ruling classes” could just as easily decide tomorrow to cut road maintenance, police response to violent crime, fire departments, emergency rooms, public schools, food stamps, public pension plans, access to parks, agricultural subsidies, grants for scientific research, government-backed loan programs, access to wifi spectrum, air pollution controls, carefully controlled monetary policy, bank deposit insurance, ....
They probably did, I did too... there's no change. I see the good old white header. Text and the octocat are the only black things on screen.
While we like to think of Grammar as a perfect logical structure, in practice, "the brain" (or some higher level structure) processes things in a highly probabilistic fashion. This is how we are able to understand imperfect information (and the mention of the animal "grammar" is on point - a pet can learn and find their way around a house easily)

It's probably something more complex than a LTSM structure, but the point stands.
This seems like it would result in the consolidation of real estate (and therefore policy) by the wealthy.

People still live there.
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So now you want to even debate what qualifies as a debate. Clever way to bow out.
"Traffic is such a waste of life"

Fully-autonomous driving can mitigate this; you will still be commuting, but with an added benefit of being hands-free (to check your e-mails, to finish up your TPS reports, to nap) for much of society this can be highly efficient if utilized correctly.
"Some 6000 changes in the database are performed every second."

Things have changed a lot in 15 years!

https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/performance
10k QPS per node...

https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/pdf/FISConsolidatedAuditTr...
"2.7 Million FIX messages processed
and inserted per second"

Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud.
I think this is sort of silly - many disruptive technological advancements have happened without causing a war.

Many of the advancements you speak of had nothing to do with war time even, they were made by private companies building things like faster and faster microprocessors.

Yes, war spurts technological advancement, but not in all areas - it might be more realistic to compare something like rockets or nuclear power.
Am I missing something or didn't they mention 'test recovery, not backups'?
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Why, you're in luck I guess, that should happen again within the next two decades. Thankfully (or unfortunately?) the world is more globalized than ever, people will be moving all over the planet.
Do youove house every time you change jobs?
I would hope that the U.S. wouldn't give in on sanctions over that exchange. The U.S. has almost nothing to gain from Snowden's return.
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+1. Someone mentioned the Los Angeles Staples Center elsewhere in this thread as a positive example. I live in South Park (the neighborhood that Staples Center is part of) and it is either empty or gridlocked. Same thing with the Coliseum, Forum, and Dodger Stadium.
The article gives an explanation of their particular issue, but in general the most common one: price, or forced downtime, depending on whether you use or not free dynos.
That's pretty cool, but in order to use it on my desktop, do I need an all-new font widget that can control every aspect of the specification? Or do I fiddle on a webapp until I get the one that I want, download it and use it as normal... and now I have a thousand variants of Decovar that I have to squint at very carefully to differentiate?

I'm not complaining about choice, I just want to know if anybody has thought about usability.
That's fine, as long as a propertyowner not currently in a HOA cannot be forced to join a HOA, not even if 99% of their neighbors voted to join.

You can still go somewhere where there isn't a HOA or there is a competing HOA. In many US cities today, there is no option, because zoning is municipal, not a HOA rule.
It flickers for longer than what the timeout is set to, which makes me think that it takes a split second for the extension to run. But no, I couldn't figure out a better way to get it to fire than wrapping it in a timeout :( An event listener for DOMContentLoaded didn't do the trick either.
MARTA in Atlanta is pretty good from what I've seen. Rail has been on-time (+- 3 mins) every day since I started using it 6 months back. Service is decent, facilities are pretty clean imo, and the MARTA PD is always present.
What do you think would have happened if you had total data loss/failure?
This almost seems like a cliche or a troll. I think smarts also lead people to miss the world around them and trivialize anything that isnt a "challenge". To some very smart people I know -- chill out and laern to enjoy the absurdity and mundane as well as the challenge. Be bored once in a while. Know satisfaction in the simple.
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Yes just not for many products. You can tour it in Chicago.
Human eyes focus differently on dark on white vs white on dark. The new dark header induces switch strain as well as focus issues (for humans). http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/53264/dark-or-white-co...
GitHub also lost a bunch of PRs and issues sitewide early in their history. They claimed to have restored all the PRs from backup, but I was pretty sure I had opened a PR and it never came back. I emailed support and they basically told me tough luck.
Do you have any privacy plugins that might be blocking font-awesome files?
This may be a contributing factor, especially in places where they are building small apartment building and each has a garage, but I don't think it's a dominant factor.

First, a couple of ramps that go underground is really not that much space in the footing of a big tower. I see old neighborhoods with lots of shops that nevertheless have underground garages. Second, I don't think shops are that deep. New city blocks, especially hosting skyscrapers, are much deeper than the typical blocks in (say) the West Village. Those shops seem to do fine with very little floorspace.
Hasn't Chomsky's idea been fairly comprehensively disproven? I seem to recall a survey of language features that concluded there were no clusters of grammatical constructions of the form his theory predicts.