skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Chicago. I love it here because of everything else it has to offer. I have everything almost everything I need available to me within walking distance from home. That includes grocery store, dive bars, cheap restaurants, high end restaurants, clubs.

For anything else I may want to do (concerts, sports games, plays, comedy), there are dozens of world class options within a ten minute cab drive / 30 minutes on public transportation.

It's gotten to the point, where if there's a band I want to see, but they're in the suburbs, I'll just wait til they're back in the city.

I grew up and went to college two different small beach towns. There wasn't much of anything to do besides drink. If you wanted culture, you'd have to get in your car and drive at least an hour.

I have no desire to live outside of a big city, unless it is in the middle of nowhere, but in that case, I will still have a home in a city.

My guess is a lot of other people feel the same way.
Looks like racism in Europe haven't evolved much. Europeans are human rest is animal.
There's a shoe here that hasn't dropped. Clearly the ability to automate into features of third party apps is a key benefit of Workflow, which does still hook into plenty of non-Apple services. The question is, what is the blocking issue in these cases?

Is Apple asking for concessions from companies in order to put hooks into them in Workflow, or are these companies asking for concessions from Apple in return for hooking into their services?
Have any feedback?
same logic that makes off-shoring (okay, near-shoring in this case) to not work, or be at least occasionally painful experience.

to quote one client - I'll rather have a mediocre dev sitting right here so we can discuss/plan/design behind one single desk/board rather than having a star 500 (or 5000) km away. even if there wouldn't be time difference, in person contact has high value.

and seeing this daily, cannot agree more.
Nobody has said that the quality would be bad, just that some amount of generation loss [1] will occur when you use a lossily compressed [2] video (the netflix stream) as input for the creation of another lossily compressed video (the "recompressed" video file). The "recompressed" video would be slightly worse than the streamed video, which would be slightly worse than the original video.

An approximation of an approximation of a video is going to be worse than an approximation of a video.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression
But why not? There is no precedent to the contrary. Rent has always gone up, people are social animals.

The needs of business are independent of people's desire to be with other people.

Virtualization need to improve a lot before the experience of "group" is as good as real life.
Looks great! Makes me nostalgic for Abramowitz and Stegun.
The Road to Streaming Graph Analysis – An Insight Data Engineering Story
I think all almost industries cluster in the sense they are talking about in the article. The corporations responsible for creating and distributing are clustered.

For instance, Oil and Gas in Houston, Pharma in New Jersey and so on.

I don't think the economic value of clustering will stop anytime soon.

The trend may stop because people find better solutions to housing than simply building more of the same.

(And software should not be thought of as an industry, but a tool that enables other industries, but this is not the place for that.)
Regression analysis of what actually makes people happy at work
Convincing developers to write tests
Regulating behavior is completely different from regulating entry on market.

Besides, I fail to see how the GP wasn't victim of fraud. He may have better luck if he went to the police instead of a commercial regulator.
The article title is spot on. Vancouver is not a megacity, therefore our rent will go up forever.

It's unbelievable how relatively expensive rent is to income.

I'm beginning to wonder why I'm putting up with Vancouver.

I'm thinking I will take the first train out of here but that doesn't seem to be coming.
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> since using a vanilla kernel would make a public exploit in say, FreeBSD, easily ported to their device

You mean like at the recent CCC where they demonstrated using a WebKit exploit to trigger a BSD exploit via which they install a working Linux system on a PS4 and launch Steam? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMiubC6LdTA

It's not as simple as that because the PS4 is a custom board, so even though the CPU and GPU are standard AMD components, some hacking was required. But using exploits that have long been patched to gain access to hardware by Sony and Nintendo is nothing new.
Most private schools have less funding than public schools

Citation? The private schools in my area charge tuition well in excess of the county/city expenditure per student.

[Fairfax County Public Schools, $16,000/pupil/year: http://www.insidenova.com/news/education/fairfax/fcps-per-st...

Madeira School (girls prep school), $45,000/pupil/year: http://www.madeira.org/admission/tuition-financial-aid/cost-...

Nysmith Academy (elemetary school), $30,000+: http://www.nysmith.com/tuition-fees/

St. Stephen's & St. Agnes (parochial), $30,000+:
https://www.sssas.org/page/admission/tuition-and-financial-a...

Paul VI (parochial), $18,000: https://www.paulvi.net/page.aspx?pid=257
I know several devs who are within a few minutes walk of a commuter rail and still deal with the hour+ commute. The best I've seen is my own 12 minute walk I had for a few months but the job didnt pay nearly enough for the rent in the same area and I had to move on to a new job, or if you get the reverse commute, but those are uncommon
That's a very interesting and original way of looking at it.

It would also explain clustering in other areas (finance in NYC, Oil and gas in Houston etc).

Do you have any links or references exploring that idea in greater detail?
> For one thing, it made sense financially because the gov't stopped counting my parent's money (that I couldn't touch) when determining how much aid I received.

Can confirm. If my (now) wife and I'd gotten married freshman year instead of waiting until junior year we'd have saved a hell of a lot of money.

> It was also nice just to have someone to help me out with things (eating decently, remembering to print homework, etc.)

Works both ways. One person's ice-cream craving easily becomes both people eating ice cream, to pick an example. Or "I'm in a hurry and hitting Arby's, do you want me to bring you something?". Well, I didn't, but now I guess I do.

Much easier to eat healthy solo unless you marry someone with significantly healthier eating habits than yours, IMO. Even if they're just similar to yours there's a good chance you'll end up eating more junk for the above reason. And such habits can drift over the years.
Is it possible you're not qualified for this job, and you'd be more successful (and happier) at a job with better fit?
History is written by other side as well. Unfortunately layman does not bother to read/listen alternatives.
Apple patent describes iPhone or iPad docking into MacBook-style dumb terminal
Domino’s stock has outperformed Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon this decade
No, however that is a great idea I had not thought of before that I will add to the roadmap. In the meantime, if you need a somewhat-nicer looking output format, I have a basic web interface setup at http://tt-web.bwel.ch/
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Do you see the circularity in your reasoning? A machine can't be held responsible because it's not a legal person..and it's not a legal person because it can't be held responsible.

You also claim that some legal persons are persons simply because society benefits from allowing groups of persons to act as one. If this is the threshold for personhood - society benefits - then I am confused why this threshold would not also extend personhood to machines.

I guess I'm looking for a clear bright line for defining personhood that includes humans, rivers, and corporations while excluding machines, and I'm not seeing it.
Do you not have student loans? A few people in my social circle managed to get out of college without them through parents paying/scholarships and they have a much different calculus than the majority of us
Of course! I'm not saying that only people with 180s on the LSAT will be able to program.

Instead, I'm arguing that writing an air-tight specification of your goals can be tricky, time-consuming and requires a certain mind-set, even if we assume perfect natural language understanding and ignore all the implementation details by saying that wizards...err...deep neural networks solve those issues. As support for this argument, writing contracts is still tricky, despite everyone involved having perfect language understanding and the sort of generalized intelligence that computers lack.

Therefore, if there ever is an English-to-bytecode compiler, I expect that the "programs" written for it will look much more like a contract with lots of awkward but precise language and much less like "Yo Siri, build me a chatbot." You can call the person who spends all day drafting these things and interacting with the code-generating software something other than a programmer if you want, but if the shoe fits....

I'm also not convinced that optimal defaults exist for many things. You could certainly recommend a data structure based on the way it is accessed (if it's always being queried for the min, throw it in a heap, but use an array or hash table for random access), but how do you gradient-descent your way to a fun original video game without also assuming a decent model of human psychology? At some point, you have to specify that "when the player does X, Y happens", which is programming.
Not really. In my mind, they won the battle but lost the war.

It all depends on your point of view. If you look over the last millennia, the Huns didn't leave a lot of legacy beyond finishing off the corpse of Western Roman Empire, which wasn't really an empire then anyway. Their culture was absorbed and we only know of them because of that.

End of the day, they were ultimately just another band of warlords.
I'm guessing it's the grinding the beans. Electric grinders are LOUD.
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Software Companies only have two real requirements on their location... skilled programmers, and money. Both are easier to come by in megacities, so that's how it ends up working most of the time.
> I submitted the driver's text messages to the T&LC as evidence and eventually got a phone hearing -- Lyft and the driver were required to appear in person. Lyft failed to appear and got a $1,000 fine. The driver showed up but was found not responsible for lack of evidence. It was a complete waste of time.

Any explanation for the "lack of evidence" piece? Seems like the record of text messages would cover that.

Or is this a dispute as to who exactly is responsible, i.e. the driver or Lyft?
Neat. Is there a PDF version?
Good enough, I was just wondering about the brand. It being a Miele makes sense that it would be built that way. The machines I had were a late 90s Maytag (their first front-loader, the Neptune) and a mid-00s Whirlpool Duet. Both were definitely not designed for the counterweights to be removed for transport. You can take them out but it involves a significant amount of disassembly.
It's really not the same thing. America always feels like America. Travelling in the US is no substitute to travelling abroad.
The article points out temperatures rise "up to almost 10,000°C"

I had no idea!
Maybe HN readers are preternaturally mature for their ages, but marrying young for material benefits has a pretty bad track record in the military, where young soldiers do it in order to live off post.
...and Romans were drinking Soylent and sending probes to Mars?
Before the rewrite all the GNU utilities were in the base OS. How large a percentage that was to the rest of the base I couldn't say off the top of my head. But all the GNU utilities were in there as well as the compiler suite which has also been removed and replaced with Clang/LLVM.
But college is not a necessity, whereas living somewhere is, and you can somewhat easily get money from the government (at least in the US) to support your degree, whereas you can't really get that for your housing.
That's why I wrote "supposed". In reality it's a lot more complex than that, but it is usually one argument brought forward to explain why CEOs are being paid more than the workers they manage.
I'm not seeing what mechanism is assumed to counter that.

Increasing supply. Which in this case is difficult due to the alliance of existing property owners and useful idiot "anti-gentrification" protestors.
This 50 Year-Old Economics Book Helps Explain the Corporate Republic We Live In
Doctor Turns Up Possible Treatment for Deadly Sepsis
Your lifetime earnings are probably determined in your 20s
Every large city has some schools.

Why is it that Austin is a tech hub (UT) but Houston is not (U of H, Rice)?

One theory: it is not the school, but the kinds of jobs people get after. Austinites went to work for Dell, and Houstonians went to work for Exxon.
I mean sure, if you want to build a lifestyle company, and by the way there's no shame in that.

But the dream, and the reason all the coastal co's are in it, is to be the next Google or Facebook, or Twitter or Snapchat.

You could say an app to get people to come over to your house won't change the world, but people think hey maybe it will grow, or we'll just pivot, and wind up with the next Flickr or Slack, and that's certainly good enough.
No - because 2.7% (or 0.7 efficiency difference) increase is not insignificant when you scale up. As an analogy, think of what 0.7% tax saving would mean to you annually.

In reality solar-cells and batteries are not at all cheap to install and maintain. We can scale up the solar cells and collect more energy. However, that needs more surface area to be covered with these panels. We still need better ways to store the energy efficiently.
Russian man pleads guilty over $500m malware scam
Maybe for you, but for the people this product is targeting they already bypass security on the way to their private jet.
I'm going to go off on a tangent here, and will happily accept downvotes, but I feel like venting for a bit.

I love the NYT. Years ago, when I got into it, I was blown away by Krugman, Kristof, Friedman (yes), and even David Brooks. They sounded sensible, nuanced, and intelligent.

A lof of that hasn't changed (except perhaps my opinion of Friedman!), but NYT's comment section is a cesspool. I'm as liberal as they come, but every NYT comment section is effectively blaming the right-wing regardless of the context of the article. When Brooks talks about values for example, or "social fabric", I think he does a good job of being reasonable, and if the article were from "anon" vs. Brooks, people would say "Yeah, sounds about right." Instead, all we get are "David, your party caused this, blah blah blah".

Even in this article, there is a lot of data and lots of food for thought. And yet, the top comment starts out: "Is the problem "single mothers" or is it the right-wingers who conspire to create, perpetuate, and steadily increase economic inequality?"

It's as if you only care about establishing what side the author belongs too, argument be damned.
This seems like it could be a great series. I would be more likely to read it if the code the JIT is built for wasn't BF. It's just too tedious to follow along by copying everything into another interpreter to make it readable.
"Not to mentioned that people criticizing work-life balance of engineers in the us haven't visited google offices."

Google and other tech companies in the U.S having nice offices doesn't mean the work life balance of Googlers is something to envy. Probably the opposite actually (three meals a day makes you stay there for dinner, nap rooms to let you stay even later). Not a great work life balance.

Source: know Googlers, have been to Google offices
Software engineers most of the time get fed by the company and i distrust, at least with my spending habits, the cost of consumer prices like clothing or gadgets being cheaper in europe than in the us.

Housing is the main difference: you can get a fairly large place in berlin, and you can have a family there. But SF is one city, there are pleny of other cities in the us more family friendly (if not any other city).

I remember recently a map showing the purchasing power by salary per state, and the biggest purchasing power was nebraska.
The rise in college tuition likely can't continue forever, either.
Rent has always gone up

This is not true, see e.g. http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/07/housing-pri..., http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/02/676..., and http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/lai... . The housing sector is excellent at providing housing services but has not over long periods of time and a wide array of places shown supernormal investment returns, adjusting for inflation.

Robert Schiller has written extensively on this. Here is on pop article on his work: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/05/...
The number of downvotes will reveal how many are disconnected from the fact that racism raising (once again) in Europe.
Emails still have a higher conversion rate than other methods. There have been a number of blog posts and podcasts recently about how much better cold emailing is. This could explain the recent uptick.

I tried to guard my work email, but someone signed me up for some things they thought would be useful to me. Suddenly, my email gets sold to list after list. I am thankful our company has a really nice anti-spam system that prevents 99.99% of the spam from reaching me.
Thank goodness we are too smart to try that with Healthcare.
To be completely honest, that's what everyone was doing back then. The Romans were just better at it and all things considered they were quite benevolent as far as empires go.
I find something oddly therapeutic about tearing up credit card offers before tossing them in the recycle bin.

The bundle of grocery store ads that comes every Tuesday, I could do without. I don't shop at any of the included stores, but the bundle has such a mish-mash of odd sized circulars that I have to go through it since important mail gets mixed in frequently.
Americans supported the government and military which waged those wars. Americans absolutely do own the result, morally and financially.
I don't mean to have this come across as snarky, at all, but really the reference for this is the whole of human history.

Wealth is basically self-concentrating. Our political systems tend to end up with a few capital (and often Capitol) cities where the spoils from the plundering, both metaphorical and literal, end up.

The original article does present some interesting and relevant examples of countervailing forces at work as well, and is insightful. But the elephant in the room, as always, is that returns to capital and rent extraction are the primary drivers of wealth, and that the winners tend to keep winning and vice versa.
We are seeing an opposite side to this: we have customers using Stripe that had very low fraud rates previously and now are getting more false positives causing grief because their customers cards are getting declined.

I can see that it is a good feature, but the lack of easy programmatic control is an issue for us.
Chargebee is something I will look at once my MVP is out the door. Their product is compelling, and even more so by the fact that you can easily transition from Stripe (plans, customers etc.)
However, it's not cheap! Hence it's a case of 'see how far I get with Stripe on my own'
https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/bck-l...

FrTime induces construction of the dataflow graph by redefining
operations through an implicit lifting transformation.
Lifting takes a function that operates on constant values
and produces a new function that performs the same
operation on time-varying values. Each time the program
applies a lifted function to time-varying arguments, it builds
a new node and connects it to the nodes representing the
arguments...

...Unfortunately, this implicit graph construction can be very
inefficient. Every application of a lifted function may create
a new dataflow node, whose construction and maintenance
consume significant amounts of time and space....

...The technique works by collapsing
regions of the dataflow graph into individual nodes.
This moves computation from the dataflow model back to
traditional call-by-value, which the runtime system executes
much more efficiently. Because this technique undoes the
process of lifting, we call it lowering.

edit* or maybe?:

http://physics.gmu.edu/~joe/PHYS428/Topic5.pdf

slide 16?
What's wrong with taxis? I've taken plenty of cabs, but never an Uber or Lyft. In a city you can easily flag them down, or find a number and phone for one. Many cab companies have had phone apps for years, too. If you prefer Uber, can you explain why? Because there are tons of complaints here about the company.
Fixed in test, not in production yet.
But most people would be willing to work remotely regardless of where the company headquarters is.
...and then pass bills and laws to strip them of that aid.
Was engaged during college, didn't realize what a difference it would've made, had I did I would've pushed harder to go through the actual ceremony.

Marriage could be considered a serious life hack.
Most Americans don't even travel far within their own country. The vast majority have never seen New York or San Francisco, for example. Or the Rockies, even.
In Workflow you can create custom actions that hook into third party apps using the iOS URI scheme. Can that be used to re-create actions on third party apps that are no longer provided in the app by default?
Islam is not a race. Also, an act of terror by someone that just happens to be Christian is completely different than an act by someone doing it in the name of a religion, like Islam.

"plain old racism"

It's not racist to recognize patterns. You can't even draw Muhammad without getting death threats or even killed. The same can't be said about Jesus. The majority of the major terror attacks in the last 10 years have been done in the name of Islam.

I also find it odd that the progressives in the US are all for women and gay rights. Yet, as soon as you have a Muslim majority, these are the first to go.

People like you are the reason it will just continue to happen. A barbaric religion and culture allowed to destroy our way of life because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I suspect something similar happened to the Roman empire.
With these new details requested, I wonder if it would be possible to request that competitive companies do not see your application.

Now that YC is 1,000+ companies, I can see overlap becoming more common. A snapshot of finances may not be the end of the world for a company, but does give insights to a competitor(s).
For those interested, rentier classes appropriating all surplus value in an economy has been dealt with outside the typical marxist context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Georgism was wildly popular in the United States, but was memory holed after WW2 (along with distributism and Texas-style populist banking).