skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A concrete thing you can do about this is email your local City Council or Supervisor and ask them to reduce parking requirements for new buildings. Send them this article.

Many local municipalities require absurd amounts of parking per new housing unit, and many Baby Boomers show up to meetings to complain about how there's no parking and thus a new project should be denied.
Someone should scrape all the links submitted to HN for Ads and overlays and autoplaying videos, rate the severity and provide the result via an API so that I can use a greasemonkey script to filter those pages from HN.
How Ghost in the Shell got its main characters wrong–and why it matters
Yeah, I skipped all the drama, read the spec and implemented an encoder/decoder. CBOR is just how MessagePack-like format should have been done from the beginning: it's technically superior in a sense that it's neat and simple, replacing many specialized rules with one generalization.

I agree that IETF standardization isn't a good argument (well, for some it is), that's why I replied with a better argument :) But, seriously, I won't say that everyone should replace MessagePack everywhere with CBOR, both work fine (as long as you use the latest version of MessagePack, with binary/string distinction).
Oh dear. SMART Boards. I hadn't thought about those for a while. They were all over my high school, and they were such a waste of time and money. One of my favorite memories from high school was when a teacher mistakenly drew on one with a permanent marker.
There is evidence that we build a mental map of the story based on a book's physical characteristics. Then we can pinpoint some events in the storyline because we know more or less the physical location on those events in the book (the object). Eg: when we read the book, turning pages, we build the storyline in our head but also a map based on the physical path of the pages.
I mean the conclusion is already cryptically hidden in the headline. It's just a terrible style. How I, as a non-native writer, would've written it:
Charging money for parking prevents traffic jams

Or something along those lines.
A neural network for pickup lines
I can't stand articles like this -- they bait you into reading poetry at the promise of science. So many words, so few ideas that are actually substantive. Consciousness speculation articles are a dime a dozen today, this is part of the noise. Even worse when they ramble on for what seems pages of periodic content.
I used to work in medicinal chemistry and agree 100%.

It's not to say ML has no value, but predicting molecular behavior, even in the simplest system is really dam hard.

Wheb you only under 10% of the factors influencing behavior, ML doesn't get you far.
One-based indexing lives! (ugh)
I don't see a value for TypeScript outside the browser when I can use C# and F# instead of it.

As for ReactNative, give it two or three years and maybe then I will bother learning it.

As an old dog I have already seen too many carriages pass by, very few of them come back.
How much leverage is the right amount? Regulators seem to think it is somewhere around 10x.
My father was living on his own (around 65 years old) and suffered through what we discovered was a combination of 8-9 mini-strokes. What's worse is that his doctor did not notice, and they went untreated for over a year. He's now living with someone that is taking care of him full time, but his speech/motor functions are permanently damaged, and as someone said below, the best description of his life is "forced infantilism."

He's now been diagnosed with Parkinson's as well, which I've read can be caused by strokes.

Two years ago I had an active/involved father that played golf 3 days/week. Now I hardly recognize him. It's traumatic.
a. You're conscious.

b. You're composed of matter.

c. Therefore some matter is conscious.

d. What's true for some matter might be true for all matter --- or not. That's the "hard problem" of consciousness.
Merchants in that city area might very well wish to bear those costs in exchange for having people who can afford the luxury of a private car be inclined to shop at that merchant instead of at another, more accommodating merchant area or online.
Pluggable storage engines for databases don't work that well in practice. Either you end up with the MySQL situation where the storage engine is so dumb that you can't push any smart optimizations into it (making having pluggable engines moot in the first place), or you have to write such a large interface that it's not worth providing.
Hah! Done, thank you! That probably changed when we added the Slack link
Waldorf schools have some good ideas but they come with a lot of wacky Steinerism like Anthroposophy which they swear up and down they don't push on the kids.
In https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207617 Apple admits that this may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Ask HN: How to improve your conversational abilities?
By conversational ability : I mean not just verbal it can be non-verbal, listening, mental models to thinking before replies, any classic models (like socratic..)

Suggest books, blogs, youtube-channels or notes.

Anything which will help one become a better person in active engagement with other people.
Are the rationals dense?
"the performance can be close to par with native apps"

That has not been my experience with any electron app. They are dog slow across the board
I agree—it's about not blaming the tools, but also following Vonnegut's rule: Goddamnit, you've got to be kind.

Some of our other FOSS luminaries have chosen a different interaction model. Sometimes that other approach to technical project leadership is touted as necessary. I'm sure Hadley and Wes suffer their fair share of fools, and they generally seem to do so with kindness.
Sounds like a good way to identify deficiencies in the Language Server Protocol[1] and/or the server implementations themselves.

1. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/06/27/common-langua...
While it may be difficult for you, if your father's perception of the situation is similar to that of the author's, maybe it's not so traumatic after all, in a big picture sense.
I avoid places that don't have free parking almost as assidiously as I avoid places that don't have public restrooms. It's a sign that a place is not for people like me.
One can argue that such contentless articles only reveal to us what we don't know (a "known unknown"). It might be true that we can't know this particular thing, but that's still an open question.

But I agree that there are too many such articles, with too little original content.
Free Video Tutorial: Vue.js 2 State Management with Vuex – Introduction
10 Reasons Target Is Better Than Wal-Mart
"A major patch every month" is a plus?
Smart boards are the Microsoft or IBM of schools.

"No administrator has ever looked bad in front of parents for buying smart boards."
There is one additional property that many people tend to overlook:

e) freedom: you are not told by anybody other if you are allowed to travel or not.

I think this is a fundamental property of personal cars.
This article didn't touch on the interaction between free parking and public transit, and I've seen a few comments here talk about the dearth of good public transit options as justification for free parking. I believe it's worth pointing out that free parking causes bad public transit:

- free parking siphons away would-be bus and train customers, which deprive the transit authority of revenue (leading to less frequent service, older vehicles, etc.) and also reduce the political impetus to deliver high quality transit.

- subsidized parking leads to lots of drivers circulating looking for an open spot, causing congestion and pollution -- the article mentioned that 53% of SF residential parking permit holders spent more than five minutes looking for parking at the end of their most recent trip. This congestion makes surface buses and trams run slower and with greater schedule uncertainty, making transit even more unattractive.

Obviously I would like great public transit in America yesterday, but I don't think the current state of transit is good reason to preserve subsidized parking. Preserving subsidized parking is going to keep transit in America as unattractive as it is now.
Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
I think this is the most idiomatic way of doing it in modern python:

> "".join(chr(x) for x in list_of_ints)

This article is really really really out of date
Can anyone recommend a decently up to date book on postgres administration? Or are docs really the only way? I've used SQL Server for years but would likely choose postgres for an independent project if I intended to commercialize it. That said, I don't use it at work so it's hard to get in depth experience.
>I don't know about UK laws

Probably best not to comment then?

This thread is already full of people making the inaccurate assumption that prostitution is illegal in the UK.
Though at the cost of a ridiculous amount of processing overhead because you've chosen to forsake nearly every native programming feature the OS provides, in favor of an HTML engine
You can install F-Droid, which lets you download open source apps.

At startup, there's an option to register with Google, which you can skip. It will keep popping up until you disable the "Google one-time startup" app. Also, without a Google account, voice input and voice dialing won't work; Google deliberately broke that about two years ago. There are alternatives, such as Samsung S-Voice, but it's hard to find a good one that isn't just a front end to Google's system.
You could submit such finds to one of the aggregators of hosts-file contents, so others could benefit. Just saying.
It shouldn't just be up to the merchants, though. It's a decision that has externalities. Providing space for parking, for example, limits the density of space available for other uses, which makes the whole area less pedestrian friendly.
Fake food and fake pharmaceuticals are not rumors. They are real and well documented. It's old news. Even pets and babies are affected. It's so bad that people who can afford it import baby formula.
City Council is there to make money. Free, non permitted parking = no tickets/fees/etc = no money

I hope it works but I wouldn't be optimistic that it would
Getting started with Swift 3 on Linux (2016)
At least in the United States, driving a car on public roads is a privilege doled out by the states. There is no right to drive a motor vehicle here.
Note that we don't actually know the nature of any private communication between our recent candidates. Further, the standards of communication between men of a certain rank were more formal at the time.

On the other hand, Mr. Jefferson was accused of being an atheist and of wanting to destroy the country à la the Reign of Terror. And Mr. Adams was painted as tolerating straight up acts of war.
That is exactly what validating parking is for.
You can use Electron to handle performance-sensitive large datasets and spreadsheets for a desktop app. But I think there is an even better solution for this: you could program it in DOS 5.0 batch and ship it with a Windows 3.1 VM to really juice out that last bit of performance and efficiency.
90% of my Atom plugins were built-in for VSCode.

* Terminal built-in

* Sublime style Alt-O for header file switching

* Minimap

* Javascript/Typescript support made a lot of my plugins obsolete

I have language plugins installed for Dockerfiles, protobuf, and a few others, but VSCode felt really complete out-of-the-box. I didn't feel the need to install a ton of plugins to make it useable like I did for Atom.
The feature I'd really love is master selection with Raft or similar and automatic query redirection to the master for all write queries (and maybe for reads with a query keyword).

That would make it very easy and robust to cluster pg without requiring a big complicated (a.k.a. high admin overhead and failure prone) stack with lots of secondary tools.

This kind of fire and forget cluster is really the killer feature of things like MongoDB and RethinkDB. Yes people with really huge deployments might want something more tunable, but that's only like 1% of the market.

Of course those NoSQL databases also offer eventual and other weaker but more scalable consistency modes, but like highly tuned manual deployment these too are features for the 1% of the market that actually needs that kind of scale.

A fire and forget cluster-able fully consistent SQL database would be nirvana for most of the market.
I very much enjoy my vehicle, so I am biased... BUT...

Freedom of Movement is very much not a luxury. You might argue that lacking these 'luxuries' does not prevent you from going anywhere, but it is very much a restriction of otherwise freer movement
Also, it ignores the inherent timeliness our society has developed which make lower variance delays much more desireable.
We often take this approach at my company. The heavy lifting of feature extraction from raw data (wearables in our case) are done by python/numpy models. The population level stuff is then often handled in R by data scientists with more of a maths/stats background than an engineering one.
http://www.apkmirror.com/
That they'll notice a difference, sure. That they'll interpret that difference as "adult female"... far more speculative.
Not patch in the sense of fixing a pile of brokenness, rather a rapid, ongoing series of improvements. The ecosystem is evolving fast, a slowly changing tool falls behind.
Agreed, I live in LA (near downtown) and places that have some amount of easy/free parking will be patronized much more than other places (even if the latter has higher quality goods/services).
> Note: since this essay was written, the 'B' typecode was added to the array module, which stores unsigned bytes, so there's no reason to prefer g1() any more.
By historical standards, the recent election was relatively tame.
This article would have been much better if it didn't suggest people fall into one of these two categories. It seems much more likely this is a spectrum with people distributed throughout depending on topics and contexts as opposed to just a binary this person has planck knowledge or not.

However, the linked article was a nice tidbit https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/05/elon-musk-lying-exp... and rings really true to me. You never forget those problems you spent so much time solving - I'm thinking of you IE6.
Surprisingly little is known about modafinil's activation chain, unfortunately.
The fMRI happened 3 hours after the participants dose, so sleep vs. no sleep wouldn't affect the results (you would reasonably expect the sleep vs. no sleep to be randomly distributed between participants, without being unduly biased to one cohort).

Study participants received a single-dose of modafinil or a placebo pill.
All subjects then underwent two fMRI scans, performed before and 3 h after
drug (or placebo) administration.
It's not clear how you're any more free driving (engaging in a heavily regulated activity) versus taking a bus (availing yourself of a public accommodation).
make games , html/mobile
Postgres is one of the few projects that still use a strict patch-oriented development process that's based almost entirely around mailing-list communication.

While core team members can commit directly to the repo, everyone else must submit the code changes for review to the pgsql-hackers mailing list as a clean, self-contained patch, where it's discussed and considered for inclusion. An accepted patch might be committed right away, or it will be queued up for the next scheduled "commitfest" [2], when patches are reviewed and finally committed to mainline. (I don't know how the commitfest interacts with git exactly; the commitfest database doesn't even link to git, only to email discussions.)

From the outside it seems a bit antiquated, but it's apparently been working well for them. The Postgres team is a pretty conservative bunch; they only switched from CVS to git in late 2010, for example.

They also really care about code quality, getting the design right early, and covering all possible edge cases. As a result, Postgres solid, clean, has unusually few legacy oddities, and almost never any subtle, suprising breaking changes. If you read the MySQL manual, it's absolutely littered with sloppy little breakages throughout its history: Like how, until 5.0.something, when comparing a "date" value with a "datetime" value, the time portion would be silently ignored and ('2017-04-08 14:04' = '2017-04-08') would return true; but they fixed that, and broke a lot of client code because they didn't stop to realize that a lot of developers depended on that behaviour.

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

[2] https://commitfest.postgresql.org
Also:

a) people have kids

b) people need to drive somebody who is not able to table public transportation (sick, old, disabled, etc.)

In other words, yes: if you allow only rich people to drive to come certain location (by not providing free parking, etc.) then there will be no traffic jams. Middle class will move to suburbs...
Robotic apple picking is still at the prototype stage.[1] It works, but it's too slow and the machinery is too delicate. A few more years...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU
> No matter how precisely we could specify the mechanisms underlying, for example, the perception and recognition of tomatoes, we could still ask: Why is this process accompanied by the subjective experience of red, or any experience at all? Why couldn’t we have just the physical process, but no consciousness?

The difference comes from context. It is one thing to have a feedforward network that detects tomatoes, another to have a reinforcement learning agent that optimizes for survival in nature.

The RL agent has a value function that assigns a predicted future reward to the current state and actions available. The value network, together with the sense data, is "what it feels like" for the agent to see the tomatoes. Maybe it knows that red tomatoes are good, or that red fruit are ripe, and they can give it a reward signal by reducing hunger. That makes perceiving red an experience colored by emotion. Maybe agents that didn't see red tomatoes as good, had less chance of survival and died off.

Also, the RL agent is not a simple feedforward net, but a loop: perception->judgement->action->effect in environment, and rewards. It is a dynamic process, evolving from moment to moment. In that continuous perception-action-effect loop, there is space for the inner world and all its complexities.
How about just installing noscript/umatrix?
I always print out my messages then OCR them for an airgap /s
Out of curiosity, what issues are holding you to React 0.12 on that first codebase?
What to do about the academic brain drain
Hire mentat to be your 10x data scientists...
I'm off to do some googling on this, but if you happen to know of any particularly good articles or anything else (keywords, etc) that might help I would appreciate it!
There is no way you need to know matlab or R to be a data scientist if you already know Python
Wait, since when do you have to have the consent of the creator of one serialization format to create another?

Tagged values are useful! Because of the simplicity of CBOR (compared to MessagePack), it's about 3 lines of code to implement them in the encoder.

I'm not sure I understand your complaint about canonical mode. First of all, it's optional, and secondly, it's actually good that it's defined in the spec, otherwise you'd have multiple incompatible formats like canonical JSON.
You're absolutely right about the motivations from the Levandowski side. He certainly has his own lawyers giving him advice, and some of it is clearly aimed at protecting himself from potential future criminal charges.

But that doesn't mean that his legal strategy jibes well with Uber's strategy. Uber and Levandowski are joined at this hip in this case, but they have different fears and motivations. I just wonder if Uber would have a better chance if they parted ways with Levandowski and turned this into a three-way conflict. There have clearly been some differences in legal strategy between Levandowski and Uber.

His primary concern should be his own future and well being. At the same time, from Uber's perspective, if a key employee is refusing to help your defense by withholding information (something he is legally allowed to do), then the only leverage you have over them may be their position in the company.
Even if that is true, does that mean we should make children sit still and quiet for the better part of 7 hours a day 5 days a week?

I don't think so.
like this

http://img07.deviantart.net/004a/i/2011/282/9/6/stack_of_old...
Machine learning predicts the look of stem cells
Your route and destination are less constricted in possibility in a car, obviously.
Yalp store
Wine is another such project :)

But I gotta say it's only working for those projects because they have an extremely high barrier of entry to the code itself in the first place (working on projects like Wine and Postgres is scary, even though you can get started with easy stuff).

It also works for them because they have maintainers and core committers used to the workflow, already tooled on the workflow etc. But I wonder how much productivity would be gained by using a github-like flow maybe enhanced a bit.
Maybe I am the only one, but I find numpy is like alcohol. You may feel exhilarated in writing numpy code, but the resulting code is often very difficult to read.
Python is boring now?
Yes, but many people still think there is magic fairy dust sprinkled into our brains that make them special. It's hard to comprehend that we are not magical, just the same matter as in all the physical world.

A failure of vision or imagination on their part. They don't realize that the universe, plain and physical as it is, is capable of consciousness and thus "sacred". For them the world is just dust. I believe the world is plenty mysterious and special without imaginary friends in the sky.
I don't think this post was limited on side projects. Many people reading this are working, or will work in environments where safety and correctness are important, if not critical.
That was (d) flexibility/directness. OP is making a different argument.
not sure if they download directly or could act as proxy for you

if you are in China coolapk.com should be pretty safe and they have English UI app or you can just use some apk downloader as apkpure if yalp would not work
Why does everyone think that the solution to traffic problems is to first make driving even more terrible and then oh yeah maybe get around to improving or even providing public transit? Why can't we swap the order, especially when it takes years to implement public transit improvements?

Also, we need to resist the temptation to assume that low utilization of a half assed public transit solution means that nobody wants it. In my small town, we had a bus line that had almost no utilization despite going between two desirable locations; an area with tons of apartments oriented towards students and the university itself. The city was talking about killing the line but someone convinced them to try making the bus run more frequently, and continue running later into the day as a trial. The line went from having the lowest ridership to the highest. Not every improvement will be that dramatic of course, but I think often times public transit is underutilized because it's not meeting the needs of the population.
It was preventable, but as the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office says, it was not predictable.
Aftermath is easy :)
It's great taking the time to read a large insightful article, and then coming to the comments to see an insightful post like this.