skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why fixing housing is the best medicine
It starts you from scratch and I'd say it's well done, maybe even be overdone for Lisp. But you get a good introduction to the essentials of language implementation for more complicated languages.

Shameless self-promotion: I wrote a Lisp interpreter in a single assembly file for Raspberry Pi. It also starts from scratch at an even lower level, to the point of ignoring standard libraries.

https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp

I was inspired by jonesforth, which, if you haven't read it, is a beautiful piece of work.
Seriously - the NYC-centricity of this article is astonishing. People need a basic lesson in logic - just because "if you can make it there you can make it anywhere," doesn't imply the reverse - if you can't make it in NYC you can always try somewhere else.
Broadcom released documentation and driver source code for VideoCore in 2014 so it should be easier to port things to the RPi now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

AFAIK Linux distribution for the RPi still use the closed-source bootloader, which is some commercial RTOS that needs to sit on a FAT partition and runs on the VideoCore chip (!). There is work on a Free Software bootloader: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
Or, you know, their culture really is that toxic, their ethics really are that terrible, and Kalanick really is a hyper-libertarian jerk. The first claim is what catalyzed the latest spate of bad press, but there have been many, many examples of the latter 2 claims over the past few years. All you have to do is browse to your favorite search engine and use it.
Which Chomsky book do you all recommend to read first?

BTW, I'm talking about the politic ones. I've studied him in computer science and physicology, but just saw interviews and read articles about politics.
Very promising!
Alternate title: Facebook opens up new can of worms.

Seriously, considering some of the really bad headline type PR, I know this fits in with the Manifesto about doing good...but...good tools in the wrong hands don't mandate good results. Unless there's a real active Moderation component, and even if there is, I'm pretty sure Godwin's Law is going to prove itself time and again. Or worse.
چگونگی مدیریت تجهیزات اتاق سرور
It is normal to translate acronyms. USA is EEUU in Spanish or EUA in Portuguese, for example.

I'm not contradicting you, just clarifying.
> for example if a $50 device beeps whenever there's an explosive (it sniffs the air as passengers walk past it) then it can prevent unknown attacks and I'm sure you would agree that it should be installed rather than "accept" that passengers will always bring explosives on planes.

Of course. Passive detection of illegal substances is fine by me. But making me partially disrobe, manual searches of by bags, and prevention from travel if I do not submit to the coercion is wrong and a violation of everyone's rights. A "bomb" detector is no different from a smoke detector. It's not a search (as long as it isn't also used to identify people by smell and track their movements).
Oh please. My goal was not to score rhetorical points but to make HNers crack a smile in the style of http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

If you think I'm being overbroad in my generalizations, of course I am. As they say, "That's the joke."

I'll stop but only under protest, and with the note that I think HN administration is misreading the effect this has on people. (Hint: it's funny because the average Hackernews sees a little of themself in the n-gate posts, not because they feel smugly superior.)
It's pretty interesting that all of the backend languages are all interpreted languages. No love for any typed languages?
This is a regular SSD, not a DIMM. It's not memory.
>How quickly history is rewritten. This is the same company that presented at Startup School several years ago to significant applause.

This is completely unrelated to Uber's cultural and ethical problems.
I would be surprised if the cost of running clinical trials paid by sponsors is anywhere near the infrastructure cost needed to develop the institutions which perform them. I very much suspect that the price paid to "sponsor funding" for clinical trial research serves more as a barrier to entry to reduce competition in the drug market than it does as a means to cover the cost of running the research (with the enormous infrastructure costs paid via other means that makes running the research possible) ... and if I am right -- us taxpayers pay enormous amounts of money into infrastructure processes that then are used below cost by private companies to capture patent monopolies. Socialized risk, privatized profits.

The solution is the same regardless of the behavior of other countries -- reduce the role of government granted monopolies, redirect public subsidies that go toward funding commercial clinical trials into more public development outfits, and commodities the drug production/distribution (as cost is minimal once the drug is discovered and validated for use).

If we think private drug companies are actually any good at "picking winners" and dealing with risk of unknowns with respect to drug efficacy -- establish a derivatives market where they can gamble about which drugs in the development pipeline are likely to work -- and see if any of them are still around in a few years ...
Colonialism and Google Maps
That is actually quite nice, but it also shows how incredible complex modern web development gets as there are many moving parts involved.

The backend suggets Python, Ruby, JS or PHP and I agree that choosing one of them is probably a good decision, as there is lots of documentation. However if one goes down the Java or Go road, are there recommended packages - or do people just use the standard libraries?
Yeah, it's missing my favorite tactic though. Trading expensive mortgage properties for cheap mortgage properties to players with little to no money. Even though you give them a monopoly on a more expensive set they can't do anything because they have no money.. mouhahah.
It would be good to see the serverless architectures (eg. AWS lambda, API gateway) added to the backend and/or devops section.
Perhaps even something more abstract like circle or boundary (drawn on the ground with chalk) and in and out.
how is this "free" when you have to pay for the cloud instance?
Yep, surprisingly good. My only criticism is of the implied simplicity of the "backend". In reality the choices are vast with a huge long tail.

That's because backend, as opposed to frontend or mobile, is really just good old fashioned general purpose computing with a sprinkling of networking and http middleware, and distributed systems glue.
I'm afraid the answer, like the answers to so many other soul-eating questions, is that it's random.
True, but their willingness to seek out and plaster their names all over these shows (and no doubt pay for the privilege) is a good indication that it is the sort of thing they seem to be into.
Growth of world’s total data storage capacity vs. demand (Economist, 2015)
Could some one explain how stock fish does its magic? What are the underlying algos it's using to beat humans like a fly swat.
Yeah exactly, the game shows that monopolies naturally emerge from player actions, just as in real life. That was the entire point of the game being created.
Related WSJ article (Facebook non-paywalled):

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...

Another non-paywalled news article:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/27/15077864/elon-musk-neurali...
> ISIS is an English-language acronym formed from a (bad[1]) translation of the group's name.

Former name; they dropped the geographical modifier years ago, and it's just (translated) “the Islamic State” now.
That 'growth' has included subsidizing rides, so their userbase once the 'growth' levels off will look radically different - likely diminished - from now.

Obviously in larger cities the taxi model can and does thrive, but as Uber's price goes up, more frugal users comfortable with installing new apps will likely move to other platforms that offer the same basic service minus massive investor pockets to fill, while others might use it as a niche transport service for longer-distance ridesharing or as one of several taxi services in cities.

Autonomous could save the margins there, but imo it's another front that Uber won't be able to afford fighting. Once the subsidizing ends, there'll be no love lost between Uber and users eager/happy to stick it to Kalanick and save a few bucks in the process, nor drivers who might've felt slighted/affronted by his or Uber's treatment of them, nor employees/users who don't care for the company's culture.

Time's running out for Uber; whether or not it survives as a big fish basically comes down to how soon autonomous goes mainstream.
Avoiding primitive obsession in Swift
I'm not so sure. Wouldn't it be better for society overall if these companies were condemned to die by their own hand, instead of being able to be saved by an outsider? If they're saved, then all the people who participated in creating this toxic culture are rewarded. If the company goes belly-up, then any valuable assets can be bought by other firms for pennies on the dollar, and those and other competing, and hopefully better-run firms will have a shot at success, with this toxic company cleared out of the market and leaving a void.
This is not really an answer to your question but.. The one liner for Rust suggests that it's a systems programming language. It's designed to solve problems of software engineers who deal with lower level stuff than most application level engineers. Personally, I would try to pick a language that's more suitable for the job.
Tolerating anything except the outgroup (2014)
19 years, just wow. I'm on year 3 and can't fathom doing this 6 more times. Thank you for your hard work.
That's a big revision of your original comment ;)
There is no serious competition to Uber in Toronto.
This actually happened a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_changes_due_to_the_Islami...
World’s first human head transplant to take place in 8 months
Helsinki is currently building a metro expansion for $103 million per kilometer, at least if I got the numbers right. Of course the setting is very different in New York vs. outskirts of Helsinki, but yes, it's cheaper.
Facebook is working to adopt as many "social network features" as possible. That means that they replicate features at will to maintain their position at the table. Personally, I do see less up to date sharing from my friends. The new real-time constant update stream is from Snap and instagram.

The idea of posting an update (whatever it may be) to a personal thread that is then displayed to your network when an algo decides, removes the "true" sharing sensation. I would argue instagram has made similar updates (Fb company). I prefer the real-time non-adjusted update stream path. It feels more natural, if I miss something from 2 AM, that is fine. I wasn't there to experience it at that time (around that time). It takes away from the spontaneity of sharing and being exposed to shared content.

I imagine teenagers would feel this at an accentuated rate. Their lives revolve around friend groups at school, sports, hanging out. Seeing shared updates at non-related algo determined intervals would impact their FB experience and leave an "uncool" feeling.
[I have my copy of GEB beside me]

In GEB, Hofstadter talks about the Three Layers of Any Message:

1 - The Frame Message

2 - The Outer Message

3 - The Inner Message

He uses the example of a "message in a bottle" washed up on the beach. The "Frame" is the recognition that the bottle is sealed and contains a dry piece of paper. The "Outer Message" would be the fact that the writing on the paper is in French, and the "Inner Message" would be the actual contents of the French writing.

At each stage, the reader needs to have some set of concepts or language with which to grapple with the nested messages, if they have any hope of finally decoding the Inner Message.

For example, a wild boar wouldn't recognise the Frame Message in the first place, while a German person might recognise the Frame Message, and recognise the Outer Message ("This text is definitely French"), but be stymied by an in-ability to actually read French.
Release of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions Unix Source Code
For Go people use stdlib.
They are valued at 70 Billion, how does that just wither and die? One lawsuit can be dragged out a long time and their lawyers will do their best to reduce and fees no matter how wrong Uber actually is (or isn't I don't know).

Consider the size of Uber now and compare that to the size of Microsoft 15 years in the DOJ antitrust trial. They are about the same size, that gives them lots of options.
"Hope I didn't take up a gem name somebody else wanted"
I make a habit of talking to taxi drivers about Uber. Consistently they say they drive taxis because there is no money in driving for Uber (which of course that tells us less than it seems, because they are self-selected to be people who prefer driving taxis). One told me something new: I asked, as I often do, if they don't make money then why are there so many Uber drivers?

This man said that some Uber drivers are trapped by car loans: They are working-class people who took out loans to buy their Uber cars. All cars lose value the moment they are driven off the lot and these cars are driven hard and for high mileage, so their resale value is low. He said these drivers keep working for Uber because they have to try to pay off the loans. (I know nothing else about that story other than what one random driver told me; I'm hoping others can contribute some better knowledge about it.)

It struck me: Not only does Uber treat their workers like contractors and give them no benefits or other employee protections, but they ask (often) working class people to provide Uber's capital. Arguably, it's like General Motors calling factory workers 'independent contractors' and asking them to bring their own machinery. In contrast, taxi drivers lease the cab for a shift, AFAIK; they have no long-term capital investment or debt trap. It's almost as if Uber's main business proposition is a loophole in labor rules that allows them to shift almost all costs onto their own workers.

That said, I hesitate to pile on, even for a company I don't like personally (which is why I take cabs). Let's not let the hype exceed the reality.

EDIT: A few clarifying edits
Show HN: vp4 a vim-perforce integration plugin
Not sure how I'm ignoring the forest, I'm just saying you may need a different chainsaw depending on the trees ;)
Just installed, compiling a fairly large project gives me "Command failed due to signal: Illegal instruction: 4" without any further information. Smooth...
I think the main advantage of this crane is that it is bolted to the building, therefore falls under the general insurance policy of the development, whereas tower cranes require a separate policy, which as the article states, are basically impossible to secure right now in NYC. It's interesting to see this article now, as I was just reading about the litigation following the crane collapse at One57 which involved a dispute with the insurer over whether it should be covered by the general insurance policy.

If your crane can be deemed a part of the structure itself, you save millions in insurance costs.

Insurance costs for tower cranes are insane in NYC due to the risks - there were big payouts after a few collapses which killed people. As there are not that many tower cranes in NYC to begin with, this risk pool is not very large.
As far as I know, SSDs are closer to 0.1 ms latency (~10,000 random read IOPS at zero queue depth). That's still an improvement of more than an order of magnitude, though (0.009 ms according to the article).
Rootless containers feature merged into runC
I'd never actually played with auctions (had no idea they were in the rules, which I'd learned from friends/relatives and not from reading the rulebook) until I played the video game version for NES (years after it came out), which also happens to be the least-hellish way to play the game that I've experienced, I think because it handles running auctions and the nuts-and-bolts of keeping track of mortgages and crap like that that's so tedious in the real game.
got this error when it was trying to verify the update while I was connected to my VPN, once I disconnected the error didn't come back.
He should try peddling it in Toronto. There are over 100 high-rises under construction in the area.
I continue to be bewildered by the opacity of the process. You (the politician) are getting free market research. Why would you try to impede it?
Few things are more subjective than humour. I watched the first one and I'm half way through the second. I thought what I've seen of them was pretty good.
Loading Microsoft 4K BASIC on ALTAIR 8800 with Papertape
Errata Security: Assert() in the hands of bad coders
I don't use FB, but the overwhelming "temperature check" from friends who do jibs with your assessment. In general people are saying they get far fewer genuine "friend-to-friend" updates, and more "news in my bubble", "come to my event" etc type updates. Almost to the point where they wonder if their (real, actual) friends divorced / got depressed / decide secretly de-friend them (only to eventually find out that "No, I just don't really have time to post all my shit all the time anymore.")

So it may not be "dying" per se -- but does appear to be slowly transitioning from a "stay-in-touch-with-friends" service to a YANA-type ("yet another noisy aggregator") service / thingamajig.

That is, the same transitional state that all of its (smaller-scale) predecessors (Digg, FriendFeed, Myspace) wallowed in for so many years before meeting their inevitable fate.
Two things that just aren't comparable I'm afraid.
Yahoo just made it super easy to find all your e-mailed photos
Apparently the regulators thought it was mounted on a truck, but when they went in person to inspect it they discovered that he had built some sort of jury rigged contraption to move it around instead. This made it fall outside of their definition of a mobile crane.

The article insinuates that the union was behind it all, but I'm not convinced he didn't just piss off the regulators in this case.
They do a really good job of painting the union as the culprit here without any evidence whatsoever. The first comment on the article suggests a competing crane company was responsible. I think that is just as likely.

Anyhow, as others in this thread have pointed out, the skycranes are back in business.
We can cross "negotiate less" off the list, since the article controls for that and finds women who do negotiate are less successful. It is possible that women are three times worse negotiators across the board but it strikes me as far more likely that the well documented tendency of assertive women to be perceived as "shrill" or "bossy" is a significant factor.
I compared Authorea and ShareLaTeX early on and have been subscribing to ShareLaTex for several years. The biggest selling point at the time was the option to setup a ShareLaTeX server at any point when I got around to it. That, and the track changes in ShareLaTeX when working with my team is its biggest selling point for me at the moment. However, my institution recently signed up with Authorea so it may be that they have been able to catch up in many respects to convince the decision makers here (or else, on the pricing).
The only sub-area of blogging I know of that has reasonably healthy communities of regular readers (vs. only people coming in from search or Reddit) is for communities of bloggers based around some programming languages. Language-specific aggregators like http://www.juliabloggers.com/, http://www.planet-rust.com/, and http://planet.lisp.org/ have regular readers. Unlike Reddit and HN they don't depend on getting upvoted; if you blog regularly on the topic, you can ask for your blog to be included, and the aggregator then pulls your posts via RSS (if you sometimes blog on the topic and sometimes on others, you can make an RSS feed for just the on-topic tag, and ask for that to be included).

It's possible something similar exists in other areas, but these PLs "planet" aggregators are the only high-quality blogging communities of this type I know of that still exists.
Congrats to Max and team.
I think its MathML webkit rendering, with the LaTex being translated to MathML
Cyber criminals targeting healthcare orgs’ FTP servers
Supplier Responsibility (Apple)
Dries has always been a "benevolent dictator" http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/375567/dries_buytaer....

I feel that your observation is correct, with one caveat: Several people kept pushing on this against Larry. They, too, are the problem. Blackmail is NEVER acceptable.
>why the US is such a special snowflake that what works in various ways in every other first-world country cannot work here.

I don't care for this argument simply because the US was the first country to throw off monarchical rule. Why the need for homogeneity? Shouldn't we have as many different implementations as possible? Personally, I don't care for centralized power (i.e. Facebook).

Didn't Google take a different approach to site ranking than every other search engine? If people want to see what state-level healthcare looks like, check out MA (so-called Romney-care). We had an amendment to the CO state constitution this past election that I voted for, but ultimately failed.
Spring Boot for Java
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> The earliest known version of Monopoly, known as The
Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth
Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early
as 1902. Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally
intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic
consequences of Ricardo's Law of Economic rent and the
Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value
taxation.

> The game was created to be a "practical demonstration
of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual
outcomes and consequences". She based the game on the
economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry
George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich
property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some
people could find it hard to understand why this happened and
what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist
ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might
be easier to demonstrate. Magie also hoped that when played
by children the game would provoke their natural suspicion of
unfairness, and that they might carry this awareness into
adulthood.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
Tipping is why I won't drive Lyft. Uber is st least honest in that regard, tell me how much the ride costs, don't underquote and expect me to give the driver a bonus for providing the service you agreed to provide.
Small ISPs Oppose Congresses's Move to Abolish Privacy Protections
Even if we exclude accidents with multiple drivers from consideration seat belts reduce mortality.
Night Shift is cool but I wish to have a quick shortcut to toggle it or disable for some apps (like f.lux). Any idea how to control Night Shift via AppleScript?
The Red website has it somewhere, but they're focusing on the Lang and not the site at the moment, so it might be hard to find. I think the Rebol website (successor language that is mostly compatible although interpreted only) should have a lot of those.
Badly. Suppose you have a 16GB laptop and the 16GB optane. When you close your laptop to take it to a mid-morning meeting, you've just done a whole drive write. Do it again at lunch, twice in the afternoon and again when you get home, you're at 5 of your 6 drive writes.

Now imagine you open your laptop 8 or 12 times a day...