skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well London removed two lanes of traffic and installed a 4m wide 20km protected cycle super highway. This has increased capacity of the road by 5-10%. It's reduced the motorised vehicle traffic flow, but overall has increased the number of people they are moving through the same space.

If the only type of transport you support on a road is the car, then you are in a world of hurt.

In the UK, the bigger picture is that abotu 70% of road journeys are under 8km. Given good safe cycle infrastructure and maybe an eBike, most people could switch out of cars.
One of my favourite authors. I like how optimistic his books are, reminds me of the Culture series.
A very valid question, I've been a Fink user, then MacPorts, then Arch OS X, then Homebrew and now Arch OS X again, and I've got some more detailed writing about this that I ought to publish one day. From the top of my head:

- PGP-signed repo db + packages (Homebrew relies solely on git SHA1s)

- package binary deltas

- building new packages is very simple thanks to ABS (Fink and MacPorts are a pain)

- doesn't write everything as a single user in a possibly multi-user machine (yes people sometimes still do share machines)

- doesn't get clobbered by software that puts stuff in /usr/local (installs in /opt/arch)

- daemons such as postgresql can run as their dedicated user

- uses sudo, so can do stuff Homebrew won't (like populate /etc/shells, /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/Extensions)

- makepkg builds under user, "install" with fakeroot, only pacman needs root

- synergy as an ArchLinux user, so have the benefit of a single way to manage packages

To each his own, and Homebrew is awesome (I've contributed some stuff there myself) but sometimes there are itches to be scratched: no one use case is exactly the same as another.
So do I, and won't argue with your take on the situation. But I also remember 1996 and how the news predicted a disaster of Olympic proportions. Turns out my commute during the Olympics was the fastest I can remember.
A Newsletter for the Lua programming language:
http://luadigest.immortalin.com

Trading platform:
http://kloudtrader.com

Audiobook generation service (WIP)
It's not necessarily that you're required to provide services in the first place, it's that that ship has sailed once you've already sold the product, while knowingly using a marketplace which has no vetting.

I wonder how you'd feel if a company decided to disable your fridge years after you bought it, because you publicly pointed out an issue with the product and figured it's worth 2 stars. Tell me, is there a time limit on this insanity?
When judging the social and technical skills, business sense, self-preservation instincts etc. of the involved parties, consider that these people are special enough to devise and produce a ridiculously unsound IoT device and to buy it. Learning about this incident made me feel on the winning side of natural selection.
Sung to the tune of "Everything is Awesome" from the Lego movie.

Everything is broken, everything is hacked when you're on wifi!
Everything is broken, when you're living out a cloud!
Goedel's results imply some surprising and counterintuitive things about our formal models of computability: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/computing-th...
Atlanta commuter here. The bridge collapse has impacted my daily drive. The first half of the trip is much quicker. The second half is much slower. Results in a slightly longer daily commute.

There are certain areas of the city I just won't go to until they fix the bridge. Last night I had to go to Ansley Park and the traffic at Piedmont and Monroe was absurd. Not an area I visit frequently, but there was gridlock, and I suspect most people were there because they had no other route.

285, the perimeter road, is much worse in both directions at all times of day.

I've lived in Atlanta most of my life. I would prefer we spend no more money on roads and instead funnel those resources into public transit.
Short of a bad marriage or a chronic illness, few things can ruin a life like a long, bad commute. I see your choice as being very rational.
I graduated high school in 2008 and dropped out of college a few years later. I can honestly say not one person (other than my parents) ever recommended considering cost until after my Freshman year of college. The message that was pounded in again and again and again was "The best college at all costs."

I'm pretty sure that's no longer the case - at least I hope so.
I understand they are not worth it, but it boggles my mind that you have to accept their presence in the first place.

You never explicitly asked for it to be added there, did you?
Working on my blog where I talk about C# in the AWS Cloud, and working on my Python skills to try and land a remote job for a US company.. A man can dream :)
Indeed. A co-worker left last year because the effects of WMATA's Safe Track program on his commute.
All of the places you listed have massive problems with NIMBYism. If the places a 30 minute cycle away from the City of London had the residential density of Hong Kong, what do you think house prices would be like?
Have you heard about Mastodon?

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

It's like a decentralized version of Twitter, with federalization. Might need to find a instance that's not busy with signups though.
While I understand you are listing things in a general sort of way and may not quite mean it but I'd love to see a source that they export (or have developed manufacturing capability) for a fighter jet or jet engine
Doing an LTS release is every expensive, and since the bulk of Fedora is done by community volunteers rather than 9-to-5 packagers, it's not something we can really fairly ask.

One of the funny things we often get is "Fedora should be LTS. Or rolling-release!", which is odd because these things are generally at complete odds — no change, or constant change.

We think we have a better approach: consistent, quality-checked releases which it's easy to upgrade between. Personal anecdote: I just updated my system to F26 Alpha — started the process, went to lunch, came back and found it done. No hit to my productivity.

And, as I just mentioned in another post, we're working on another thing, [Modularity](https://docs.pagure.org/modularity/), which will allow us to provide consistent applications and interfaces across those releases.
peep these stats: https://trends.collegeboard.org/student-aid/figures-tables/f...

this is what system failure in the making looks like. look at those percentages who are still in default. even if people aren't in default, the cost of paying off their loans is stifling their economic livelihood.

here is the lasting consequence of student debt: poverty

poverty precludes home ownership, marriage, reinvestment into the economy, and casual consumption. the US has dug its own grave by rejecting its obligation to provide education to its citizenry.

loan forgiveness would solve these problems somewhat, but honestly the ship has sailed. millenials will continue to be poorer indefinitely.
State Bank of India creates largest bank database with 500 m users, 740 m a/cs
Harry Shearer: Why My 'Spinal Tap' Lawsuit Affects All Creators
Or more importantly,

"You'll never win a customer with an argument."
> They likely didn't have a choice

Probably, but I've read Gruber's piece twice and I couldn't help but feel as if the talk was held by a bunch of young geeks coming from a Kickstarter project.

Maybe that's an Apple's new approach at PR but it sounds like they tried to downplay the impact of bad management that ultimately led to a failure that must have cost them millions.
> a user posting a negative Amazon review BEFORE contacting the manufacturer for help is upsetting

I don't know about that to be honest. Contacting the manufacturer, trying to work with them to get it working, it's all nice but actually it's just another step to turn customers into free QA staff. Companies managed to make this acceptable for software, then for videogames, and now they try with regular devices.

If it's released, if it's on Amazon, it has to work. If it doesn't, I'm glad the guy complains about it and rate it one star, so that I don't buy it myself and waste time with a buggy device.
1) Your comment added nothing, but then this wasn't a high-value thread anyway.

2) Any pronoun in that case would be superfluous. "Holy crap! Congratulations!" would be far more intuitive to native english speakers. Choosing to add a gendered pronoun without knowing the correct gender is just... odd. That's exactly the type of situation most would avoid where possible: you omit gendered pronouns unless you know.
Looks nice, but the keyboard doesn't come up on mobile (Android), so all the demos are unfortunately read-only.
I'm working on a search engine for talks - https://www.findlectures.com

Currently working on converting the backend from Node to Scala Play. Also in the background, working on indexing slides in videos for talks and books speakers have written.
And only the most recent, large scale, implementation of the concept. I recall these pixel wars pages being popular in the early 2000s. Back then you made perl scripts to automate it. Now they (r/place teams) use python. Not much has changed.

And I don't know if the author of the ars piece was just ignoring them or not, but there were plenty of dongs and other typical vandalism throughout.
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/5iklei/ham_ra...

ahh memories.
Around the time my older sibling got into college, I remember that my parents attitude shifted from "enjoy high school, it's your youth" to "good grades = free money" (ie free tuition)...

So I got lucky, but there's definitely an attitude that needs to be battled.
Beautifully said.

As a follow-up question to your last sentence, do you have any thoughts on collateralization? Not so easy when the asset grown to pay back the debt is social/intellectual capital, but I think we could come up with creative solutions for certain degrees and borrower profiles.
Project: Hosted & On-Prem fast full-text search with faceting, filtering, multiple ranking algorithms and plenty of other features.

Not yet ready for launch but built a simple demo trying to get into startupschool ( failed unfortunately :( ), which lets you search every hackernews post while letting you filter based on domain / user / story type.

http://searchhn.com
If you spend 100 more minutes every day going to work on the second job, and work 8 hours, you're spending 20% more of your time for work and only getting paid 15% less. That's bad ROI, even without considering the adverse psychological impact of a long commute.
Everyone Hates Marketers: Podcast for people sick of marketing bullshit
If you can productize this, then you can potentially build a business around this.

The most feature filled spreadsheet component today is Handsontable. My company pays for the enterprise version of it...And we wish there was something better.
I checked that while I was writing my comment, and I don't believe there is such an isomorphism. For the identity monad, we have the following functions:

return :: a -> a
return = id

join :: a -> a
join = id

If this were isomorphic to the function composition monoid, there would be some way to interpret join as function composition, but I don't see it. Please show me if you know the isomorphism! (My thinking is a bit fuzzy on this, but it appears to me that the identity monad is actually isomorphic to a trivial monoid --- if you want, you can model the trivial monoid as the one-element set {0} under addition.)

Bind is

(>>=) :: a -> (a -> b) -> b
(>>=) = flip id

that is, function application. Still no function composer in sight, though.
I enjoyed the podcast a lot but I got a very odd feeling while listening. (spoilers if you havnt listened) It almost felt like after John got a big time reporter to interview him and gave him enough interesting things to run with he was fine finally killing himself because he knew it would be reported on and he would have the legacy he always, seemingly, wanted and potentially deserved.

It worries me that other eccentric geniuses will follow suit or that it at least opens a door to a type of journalism that I don't want to think about.
We need the state to do all that hard thinking for us. That is why we (millennials) were so enthusiastic for Sanders. We were duped when it came to education but, let me tell you, our political intuition is right on target.
Point: What Was Promised on Kickstarter and What Was Delivered in Reality
Is it a coincidence that the award is announced on 4/04?
"mostly free hanging in air above a copper ground plate"

It is impressive work, both for people inside and outside the industry.

I've built a lot of RF stuff that way, his technique is "normal". What impresses me about the quality of his work is there's no solder or flux splashes on the board and none of the wires have been burned by the iron and the board isn't tarnished like an old copper penny from all the handling. Also there's no visible reworking.

A lot of people buy non-inductive carbon comp many meg value resistors for use as standoffs which I didn't see in the pixs I saw. Most relatively low impedance ckts laugh at being shorted to ground by 8.2 megs yet it can be physically useful to anchor connections. Another option I've done and seen others do is take a piece of PCB and chop it into squares and stick the squares on the groundplane with glue or solder. I've had unfortunate incidents with the "hacksaw a grid of isolated squares" where the hacksaw didn't isolate the squares so I haven't done that since the 80s, but others have better luck. I've had extremely mixed results making microstripline using a shear and soldering the strips into place. You can buy pre-etched boards to support ground plane construction, including little boards when you need some SMD. I've done the "flip the chip over, super glue, and solder wire wrap wires to the leads" but its not fun.

I made a complete 80M ham radio receiver back in the 80s using the ARRL Hayward "radio amateur solid state design" or something like that, the title was all generic words you can't google for, using that construction technique. The brown book with the 70s era power RF transistor on the front cover (back in the bad old days when like 100 watt device cost like half a car payment and blew up if you looked at it wrong and was made of beryllium oxide heat sink and came with a toxic waste shipment bag for when you disposed of it). Anyway it looked like a war relic by the time I was done. I think I built at least two VFOs and three mixers by the time I was done (different designs, troubleshooting to get lower drift, etc) and things gradually got trashed as I modified endlessly. I'm not sure every stage was simultaneously 100% perfect at any time, but at one time or another every stage at least momentarily worked.

The truly skilled make things look easy that are actually pretty well impossible, which makes the article very impressive.
We've banned this account for trolling. Commenting like this will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
Sure, but I told windows to uninstall it. Windows reinstalled it. I told it to again, windows did it again.

It bothers me. It doesn't bother you. That's fine.

Microsoft lost points with me, doesn't mean it has to affect you in any way.
That's the point of the summary. The blog post had no substance.
Are engineers in other fields so completely clueless about the copyright, trademark, and patent laws that apply to their work? Big software companies confuse the issue for others by openwashing (many do not know that "open source" is a well defined term), "intellectual property", etc.
No. The right candidate is someone who can do the job for which they're being recruited effectively.
In this case scarcity correlates to value. Given a choice I think I would take the Turing Award. :)
Microsoft might have gone a little far on the whole "code is meant to be read first" thing, but the verbosity does make it immediately obvious what every line in your history does.
It's worth nothing that the admins did actively ban users trying to make swastikas. /b/ tried and found that out the hard way. Reddit's content policy[1] was still applicable and was very much enforced.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy/
Apple’s rare change of mind is great news for Mac users, pro and non-pro alike
Didn't people try placing the blame on that during the last housing bubble?

"You're throwing money away renting, buy a house! The value will only go up!"
I looked at college statistics once and overwhelming majority of students went for practicaly sounding degrees. Most students wanted study business in various forms. Antropologi and such had small number of students.
That's not entirely true. There are services I pay for that I don't want to run at home. Sometimes the convenience is worth it. Look at tarsnap. It's basically just encrypting files and sending it to S3, entirely open source, and he's still able to charge. I'm sure he's not living the high life off of it, but most people aren't off single products anyway.
Have a read:

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/03/drm-in-html5-is-a-v...

See if that changes your mind.
ASK HN: How is this startup idea?
We are a group of developers building an app which would let you prepare for life's little emergencies.

https://go.breakglass.co

Whether you're a parent who would like to provide your teenage child with a safety cushion, or a loving partner, this may be relevant for you.

We would like to gauge the level of interest and get some feedback from the community.

Thanks!
We chose not to define what value means in practical terms, with Internet infrastructure. That is to say, we allow unlimited access to compute resources using conditionals, which themselves may or may not be valuable, or secure.

By turning the golem on its head, and making compute resources use value to return value, we will eliminate this problem. That won't be easy and it won't happen immediately, but it will happen.
The average age in my city is over 60. "Most people" arent going to be rollerblading to the clinic for thier blood tests. Not everyone is a fit and healthy millenial, nor will taking away thier cars and busses make them so.
The development of the area in general is though. Limassol 5 years ago is no where near to what Limassol Now has become. And that has nothing to do with Tech/Dev's moving to the area.
Magnet has been working well for me for years - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
it's just boomer re-framing of the issue to make it less clear.

buying a home isn't something that is up to chance. it's not like you are cruising one day, and BANG!, you buy a home. you save up for fucking years, then you put the down payment.

having student loans precludes saving as much each year, making home ownership extremely distant for most.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14029690 and marked it off-topic.
I think this was a pretty neat experiment. For the first 24 hours everything was chaos, then it settled down in the middle as communities formed, then at the end it was just annoying as every subreddit was trying to take over real-estate, and far too many people were taking it way too seriously. It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with "Man the decks, we need to defend this!".

The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics. I think the one thing this really showed was most people on reddit don't really care about politics, but the vocal minority on there makes it seem like it's the forefront of every issue. I don't think there is anything actually political on the final /r/place piece other than country flags. Maybe this was more about how disinterested the majority of redditors are with politics rather than how politics were being squashed out by other users?
Barbers used to perform surgery.

I wonder if in the future there's going to be a divergence in the field of software between programmers who do the software equivalent of haircuts <insert PHP joke here> and those who do the "hard work", whatever that will be.
"There's more to it than that for me. No matter how good the AI is, shooting at AI feels empty and dull compared to shooting at actual people."

It could be true. Making them people-like might get close to that mark, though. When I did multiplayer on COD Ghosts, I thought I was playing against actual people since they were acting like players. Then, I asked my brother which company he chose for Internet. He said he didn't have Internet. That I was playing against bots. One of few times I was speechless over an AI performance.
The issue for linux are often things you can't solve at all. Like poor power management.
Having worked for the state, I learned licensing is about protecting jobs of the license holders now protecting the public. Case in point. You need to go to school for two years to be a beautician. You only need to go to school for six months to be a Cop and carry a gun.
Fund for life's little emergencies
What's special about that date that makes you ask that?
Edit: Oh, I get it now. 404 Not Found.
How do you like the Surface Pro 3 for software development? Do you have an external monitor/keyboard setup?
The article is pretty scant on the rules details, I agree with you on that. It's not just that he took a wrong turn (which is common and small deviations are somewhat expected), he went a couple miles off course. Laz (who runs the race) made that point in the video that was linked from the article.

Laz made it even more clear in a post on facebook per [0]:

“[…] gary had just come in after having run off course
and missing the last 2 miles of the barkley.
that is, of course, not a finish. […]

i never expected the story to somehow become that he had missed the time limit by 6 seconds.
he failed to complete the course by 2 miles.
the time, in that situation, is meaningless. […]

now, the class with which gary handled this terrible disappoinment
at the end of a truly magnificent performance…
that was exceptional,
and is, in and of itself, a remarkable achievement.

but he did not miss the time limit by 6 seconds.
he failed to complete the barkley by 2 miles.”

As far as a hypothetical counting times of someone who correctly completed the course but came in over 60h as someone who finished, we'll have to agree to disagree. Finishers must touch the yellow gate in under 60 hours. Arriving after that point means you didn't finish the race in the allotted time. If you would prefer that Laz refuse to check his watch after time elapsed hits 60:00:00 so we wouldn't know how late anyone arrived, I don't have a specific problem with that, but that would seem to be up to Laz and the runner involved.

[0] - http://trailrunnermag.com/people/news/2017-barkley-marathons...