skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is Boston. Most American cities are sparse and have wide roads and are not compatible with walking as a form of transportation. Boston included. Boston is one of the older cities in the country, so it retains some of the European-style walkability in a select few areas, like Beacon Hill, which is the neighbourhood in the picturesque street photo. There used to be more neighbourhoods like that in American cities, but they were destroyed after the second world war for "urban renewal"/"slum clearance" - to drive out the poor and minorites, and to build car-oriented neighborhoods and highways.

The destruction of Boston's old West End neighbourhood is an infamous example: http://www.bostonstreetcars.com/the-west-ends-transformation...

Here's before and after of Hastings Street and the surrounding area n Detroit: https://detroitenvironment.lsa.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/...

The surviving walkable neighbourhoods like Beacon Hill in Boston and Greenwich Village in New York (which was almost destroyed to build a highway) are now some of the most desired in the country. You would think people would want to build more neighbourhoods like these, but it is actually illegal due to car-friendly zoning codes, and politically impossible, and quite unpopular - car dependence is all many people have ever known, and a dense neighbourhood without copious free parking and wide roads is seen almost as a personal attack on our way of life.
Well, the Onion is considered a news or entertainment?

Publishers always had reputation (good or bad) based on their work, which maybe could be displayed with a rating - the problem is when even those with good rep are wrong...
Jeff Bezos with his 13 foot Robot
I'll happily task my Tulpa with cleaning the memory palace, after I finally manage to instantiate a Tulpa thread in my head...
I also have a very old microwave that is still working perfectly. My theory is that early products are over-engineered because they haven't had time to do cost reduction. In the beginning time-to-market is more important than squeezing every gram of profit out of your manufacturing chain by making parts as thin as possible, using snap fittings instead of screws, optimising for specified lifetimes and so on.
Because the majority of people that appear offended by Microsoft usually don't have any issue with any SV darling doing the same to their data.
Interesting viewpoint. Perhaps we should make recycling profitable for companies. Right now, It probably cost more to recycle vs making a product from scratch.
Basically Which?
Which is indistinguishable from a "crank call" Uber request (from Uber's point of view)

Not saying it is the case, but owing up to one's mistakes is the least one can do
Lest someone accuse you of exaggerating: http://www.pressherald.com/2015/09/24/teen-sexting-case-high...
> Although, coincidentally enough, mp3's patent expired recently as well. So you may not have to anymore.

Are you sure? According to wikipedia it ends at the end of 2017 (in the US) [0] Also, http://www.mp3licensing.com/ is still up and running.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing.2C_ownership_and...
Did you read the person you replied to carefully?
On a Dutch TV show they calculated that it's better to buy a cheaper washer that breaks down sooner. After it breaks you will buy a new one, which is often more efficient, saving you more money. Also, the quelity in washing results is often negligible.
webstaurant.com is awesome for getting restaurant grade stuff at reasonable prices. Pretty incredibly well designed website too in subtle ways. (no affiliation with them, just a fan)

I bought some restaurant grade coffee mugs that are just fantastic. Pretty much impossible to chip and guaranteed.
In the same vein, you could say that the intellectually gifted wouldn't have gotten arrested in the first place, but pushed the boundaries to just before the tipping point.

It could be a sign of recklessness and an inability to mesh with society.

But, arguing over this is useless. The majority of the people who've been arrested are not the "best" people. They are usually from low socioeconomic backgrounds[0], i.e usually not as educated.

We can also ignore this point entirely. A large part of the American population sees criminals as life-criminals, i.e do it once and you'll do it every chance you get. It doesn't matter what the minority thinks on this issue. As long as the majority believes this is "right" it will prevail. As will the democratic process, for better or worse.

The topic that should be discussed, is how would one go about educating the public on this issue. Is it possible to go the route of the Scandinavian system?

[0]https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/income.html
Yes, but GPUs should only be consider for acceleration when there is insufficient local CPU power to accomplish something valuable. Otherwise, it's like buying a Ferrari to get groceries.

https://www.journaldulapin.com/2014/12/04/a-nvidia-maxwell-c...

https://tompaw.net/cuda-on-thunderbolt-egpu/

http://xlr8yourmac.com/tips/MBP_ThunderBoltVideoCard.htm

AKiTio Node | Thunderbolt3 External PCIe Box for GPUs https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WD8KS52

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME Gaming Premium Pack Video Card (GV-N1080XTREME-8GD Premium Pack) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HHC9Q3U
I think that's what is called survivor bias, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
> “It’s not always clear what is fake and what isn’t,” [Zuckerberg] continued. “A lot of what people are calling fake news are just opinions that people disagree with.”

> This is just the latest in a long string of recent responses to the issue that shirk responsibility for the content that users consume and share on Facebook.

It really isn't. This is the core issue.
Miele did have parts for a 30 years old vacuum cleaner a couple of years ago when I needed them.
That's what you have in comments sections of news articles (and in comments to posts of fanpages). It's almost always unreadable mess composed of the worst humanity has to offer.
"Has the technique of cooking food with heat, changed drastically since the 70s?"

Convection ovens and steam ovens have become a thing since then. Modern ovens have also become a lot better at keeping a constant temperature.

Also my 'modern' (~8-9 years old) oven gets a lot hotter than my old oven.
Exactly. Once you understand that coding is just a means to an end, you start looking at things more holistically. For a programmer, his code is the most important cog in the machine; but that is certainly not the case, marketing, user experience etc. are as important.
Inspired by Pascal's Wager:

Even if it's not clear that salt intake and saturated fat is bad for you, why take the chance? Three choices:

1. Salt/saturated fat are bad for you and you eat too much of both -- bad outcome.

2. Salt/saturated fat are not bad for you and you eat too much of both - neutral outcome

3. Salt/saturated fat are bad for you and you limit your intake - good outcome.

I don't think anyone is arguing that too much salt and saturated fat are good for you, so the three scenarios above are the logical choices.

If the scientific studies are wrong and you cut back anyway, you have "lost nothing".

If they are right and you cut back, you have gained. There is no benefit by taking a chance that the accepted wisdom is wrong.
Notifi – A push notification application for macOS
Exploring over 70 myths commonly held about identical and fraternal twins
One hour Radiolab worth listening to:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/
Who's happy, who's not: Norway tops list, US falls
with a kid covers a lot of ages, are you sure you actually have as much time as you think you do?
I think you're touching on an important point here: the bits of the GOPs message that resonate with their base don't seem to match what the party thinks they are. Trump demonstrated a huge disconnect between the GOP and its own base.
Many people with similar ideas all working independently to push their agendas can mimic the collective effect of a conscious and planned conspiracy.

People don't have evil plans, only selfish ones.
Which is why reinsurance companies take out so called "super cat" (super catastrophe) insurance. Some of the world's bigger super cat insurers are Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries; National Indemnity is probably the best known one.
Qualcomm 205 SoC Is Designed for Entry-Level 4G LTE Feature Phones Running Linux
Cost to hire app developer?
If you make remote work the standard, why wouldn't a company offshore it to remote workers who are often wildly cheaper due to market forces and market distortions (like minimum wage laws)?

There are plenty of English reading/writing/speaking people in India capable of remote work.
Modern appliances are crap because that's all consumers will pay for. For example, if you want a washer that could double as a main battle tank, get a Speed Queen. The only problem is it costs twice what a name brand one does at a big box store.

In real dollars, appliances have gotten much cheaper. I found a Sears catalog from 1960 that had a refrigerator for $359. According to the inflation calculator I found, that's $2948.10 today. The descendent of the 1960 Kenmore is $429 on sears.com today, and manages to have twice the capacity.
Probably not. Stuff like getting rid of parole preceded private prisons. Private prisons is a trailing phenomenon that appears to be more about serving the huge demand for prison beds created by retributive policies.

Washington State, for example still has no private prisons. But it enacted one of the country's early "three strikes laws" back in the early 1990s. Private prison companies have been clamoring to get an opportunity to enter the state, but they had nothing to do with the tough laws that caused the existing public prisons to be at 140% capacity.
> "You don't want to make your product too reliable, because people won't buy more of them, and you won't make as much money"

> Of course this site is dedicated to the idea he expressed, so I am not looking for agreement here

This feels like a comment that needs some explanation or proof (your comment, not lecturer's).
The fact that my friends still pile up at Chick-Fil-A makes me want to disagree. No matter how principled people claim to be, they always end up back with what they know and like, in this case Uber.
Unless the metrics are sent over tor, they aren't really anonymous. How many times have companies claimed they've anonymized data only to find out it was trivial to correlate it with something else?
Have you considered getting a loan from a P2P lending network? I heard good things about mintos.com, check them out or google for alternatives.
Hilarious Video of Erik Meijer Grilling Robert Griesemer on Go (2013)
How do they work for range retrievals ?

EDIT: Isn't that the point of btree ?
Amazon’s Battle to Break into the Grocery Market
The Onion is listed as a Media/news company on Facebook. For those that know what the Onion is, it's entertainment masquerading as news, but for those who don't know, it certainly looks a lot like news.
I also studied engineering and I think your professor missed the point. You don't overengineer stuff anymore nowadays, not because you want to scam your consumer out of money (aka planned obsolence) but because the design tools got better and every gram of metal or plastic and every screw and every operation like welding, glueing and so on costs money.
Nowadays simulation tools, new manufacturing processes and experience allow very cheap designs that endure the predicted amount of stress but not much more. That's the trade-off.

Not every customer needs a power drill that lasts 5000 hours. Most people are okay with a cheap drill that lasts a cumulative 10 hours because that's the amount of lifetime use they get out of it.
World wide there are a large number of mutual organisations (member owned, democratic, member led organisations) that provide insurance. Indeed for a couple of hundred years this was the biggest segment of the insurance industry.

If you don't want to hand over the gains to a private (or publicly) owned insurer then join an insurance mutual, or if one doesn't exist then start one.
Yes, I read it very carefully.
Bingo. It's not what you think you're going to get or what you want to get, it's what they said they're going to give you.

If the SLA says they're available from M-F 9am-5pm NYC time then you're SOL if you're expecting them to be around on Saturday morning.

EDIT: For the non-native speakers, SOL = Shit Outta Luck
I had to go out of my way to find a dumb TV. But when I found it, it was a few hundred cheaper than smart TVs of the same size. I saved money and headache!
Does environmentalism have a future in the age of Trump?
You've got it the wrong way around. BSH is a subsidiary of Bosch. It used to be jointly owned by Bosch and Siemens until Bosch bought out Siemens's share.
This is how a lot of Sears products worked. When I was a kid we had a little Craftsman tractor, and the entire repair manual and parts were available online. This was also true of their vacuums, and was how I got a $200 vacuum for $20 in college(a belt was broken). You could even buy parts in Sears.
Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (2014)
Google promises policy review after several big brands pull YouTube ads
CERITA PILU: SURAT TERAKHIR TEPAT SAAT AJAL DARI ANAK KECIL YANG TERBUANG
Oh, for sure. Docker doesn't replace actually knowing what you're doing once your setup grows. But it gets you further with less upfront knowledge, especially as a lot of it is really good dev knowledge for setting up test infrastructure as well. (That's why I started using Docker.)
Qualcomm 205 Mobile Platform
It's important to note that the sales line of this being purely practical without dogma is completely false. Goenka is very clear in the lectures that meditation is all about purifying yourself for reincarnation. There's tons of anti science stuff, like claiming Buddha knew more about physics than the inventor of the cloud chamber.

The entire time, he chants in a dead language, and they want you to blindly recite things in said dead language. He purposely plays with his accent and speaking in order to push a bit of mystical properties to what he's saying (repeating words over and over, laying on a thick accent, whereas at other times he is capable of speaking very clearly).

The actual practise may be fine, but I found the woo-factor to be incredibly high - false advertising.
All the speculation around the turmoil over seems to be missing one key component. I think a bigger driving force then this sexual harassment and CEO antics is the waymo lawsuit. Uber itself has acknowledged that without self-driving capabilities the company will most likely not find profitability. From reporting I've read, it appears the waymo lawsuit has a high probability of success.

If the waymo lawsuit essentially forces Uber to start its self driving program back from scratch then the path to self-driving viability has essentially been scrapped. To me, this is a better explanation of the recent spat of high-level exits from the company.
This is strawmanning and hyperbole.

Hastert "cannot be prosecuted for sexual abuse because the statute of limitations has expired for his conduct decades earlier."[0]

This also goes against the ethos of the article. Hastert apologized (although this cannot make up for heinous deeds) for his conduct and showed regret. If we believe for the sake of argument that he is truly sorrowful and wants to turn over a new leaf, who are you to deny him this?

The "rich" and "powerful" and "politicians, CEOs, cops, bankers, all those people who routinely rape kids and get away with it" are not the bogeyman you make them out to be. They are people with problems just like the rest of us. Some of them just have better lawyers.

[0]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-why-the-s...
He pretty much admitted it himself, what else do you want? Or do you feel that because he lies all the time we should not believe him at all, even when he incriminates himself?

I'm fairly confident in declaring Trump guilty of that, this is not a court of law, it's an internet forum and the standards for both are different. In fact, the standards of proof for criminal law are different from those for civil law (see OJ), and I think it's a bit much to require the standard of proof for criminal law to apply to a forum discussion for someone who is on the record as stating the does exactly that which others claim he did to them.
That, and also the culture that says it's OK to just play ping-pong whenever you feel it is Ok to play ping-pong.

Well, maybe that is not expensive, but it is a big deal, and a company has to back itself to know that it will come out ahead.
Do you consider your resume "private" information? If so, why? Is there a way you can edit it to make a "public" version and a "private" version?
I Quit Toilet Paper for a Month
You can argue about the Trump gesture but at least he wasn't making a lot of money out of imitating a vulnerable person in public as did Trump's critic, Meryl Streep and company with the film 'Iron Lady'. Margaret Thatcher was still alive at that time suffering from dementia. Thatcher's biographer has noted that no one asked the family for their permission or views on portraying her at such a distressing time. Imagine the feelings of family members while film goers went to see an enactment of scenes undoubtedly akin to the reality.
It's prone to rotting in the presence of fluid, if you make it wet I think that would be a quick and messy ending.
Hash indexes only support the equality operator, they're not as versatile as btree indexes (see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/indexes-types.h...).
No, it doesn't, and obviously every situation is different and needs a different analysis. Personally, I would err towards having healthy children that do not require invasive medical procedure to survive at the expense of simply making another child.

Of course this is all theoretical as baby euthanasia is illegal.
Here's one metric: The Pascal 1990 ISO Standard was under 100 pages long. The C90 standard was about 230 pages, and the C11 standard about 700 pages long.
Show HN: A utility for running exhaustiveness checks on “sum types” in Go
If you're getting the paywall, as I did, another story on the same topic: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-vp-of-maps-brian-mcclend...

Includes a list of other recent Uber departures.
It's also worth considering that private prisons, once established, create perverse incentives to intensify those same retributive policies. A vicious recursion.
Another anecdote:
My sister took over my apartment late 2014. Some time in 2015, the dishwasher (Miele) stopped working. She called support to see if it could be repaired. When she provided them with the serial number she was told that the dishwasher was in fact manufactured in 1994.

It had lasted through 21 years of regular use, by multiple owners.
> Are you on NixOS by any chance?

Yes. That's the issue I alluded to with "stack filling up temp dir".

Off the top of my head, other issues include:

- Bootstrapping GHC from old versions. This tries to run a script with a non-existent `/bin/bash` shebang. A more portable version would be `/usr/bin/env bash`, but since bootstrapping relies on out-of-date versions this can't be changed. Since such paths can vary depending on the OS, the right thing to do is using what the OS provides, rather than making yet another attempt at cross-OS/distro packaging for a one-off app.

- When using "Nix integration", to try and avoid GHC bootstrap hell, the "lts" releases written in various project's "stack.yaml" files is assumed to correspond to a key in the `(import <nixpkgs> {}).haskell` attribute set. Except that a) different projects use a variety of these identifiers, which may or may not correspond to actual keys, b) nixpkgs doesn't actually contain any of these identifiers anymore https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14897
Asian flu strains can enter North America through Alaska, study finds
New iPhone 8 Leaks Reveal the Four Horsemen of Apple's Apocalypse
Thank you for that, but this will not work. She will not believe in comments of some random people on the internet.

My choice is to leave her and self medicate, but that will be viewed as "marijuana changed him" and I am pretty sure she will call police on me (she did this once).
A 3 year warranty is not the best warranty. It's just the legally required minimum where I'm from. I was thinking more like 10-15 years.
Very bad looking site and really unusable.
Article 50: Theresa May to trigger Brexit process next Wednesday
Inner layer is always wool, which really doesn't have to be washed that much unless it's stained, but not everyone knows this so most still wash wool as much as cotton. Wool is very breathable, so just hang it out and it's as good as washed with less wear.
SF is by far the dirtiest first world city I've ever been in - significantly fouler than the outskirts of Naples, as uncollected garbage is less rank than SF's human faeces.
You have to have a savings in order to amortize. Most people might have a few-hundred dollars that they need to feed a family and drive to work on until their next paycheck. This is the demographic that will pay $300 every ten years instead of $500 every 50, because they would have to choose not to eat for two weeks.
Indeed. In the UK, the drip feed of fake news over the last decade from the traditional print press must have contributed to the Brexit victory.

The Daily Mail is still running stories about straight cucumbers now.
Regarding the definition of AI, I find lecture notes for intro to AI courses in various university [1] very useful:

> Views of AI fall into four categories:

> Thinking humanly - Cognitive Modeling

> Thinking rationally - “Laws of Thought”

> Acting humanly - Turing Test

> Acting rationally - Rational Agent

> The textbook advocates "acting rationally"

Indeed most of the things we see today in AI community is solving the problem of "acting rationally" whereas the other categories have their respective fields (Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy) that are no longer closely related to computer science.

[1] http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~hzhang/c145/notes/m1-intro-6p....
You're totally right. I was trying to weigh the convenience and time savings of automatic ice for 12 years vs the low cost in time and money to keep it working, but I only cited the latter in my response.

Your observation is spot-on.
My anecdotal experience (and my parents and grandparents) tells me that:

a) devices back them broke about the same and had similar lifespans. Yes, some devices lasted for a long time but I suspect that it is just a survivor bias.

b) there were less devices overall (no dishwashers for example), they were harder to get and more valuable.

c) they didn't have any modern electronics. All failures were mechanical, while today they are electronic (and usually non-reparable, only replaceable).

d) some of the devices were built using post-war production lines, e.g. ex-military electric motors, heavy metal bodies etc.

e) those devices were not even closely comparable to today's. Vacuum cleaners that were a metal body and a motor basically. Washing machine for <6kg that was twice as big. Fridges that couldn't keep temperature, had no proper ventilation, multi-zones or sound proofing. Rubber elements that degraded faster than now. The list is endless really.

tl;dr
Article paints old tech as better overall which is maybe applicable to top models in some countries and still not even close. But he is right of course and we do need to strive for more durable devices.
Effort put in and results put out.

If someone steps on the back of your shoes, is reacting the same way as if they had stolen them not counterproductive?
[Screencast] Intro to Docker on Windows
In other words what the smart folks already do. Heh.
A TPL Actor Pattern
20 years ago things weren't moving quite as fast.

But I do agree with the sentiment.