skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people underestimate the elasticity of land.

While it is true that the surface area of the ellipsoid is not changing, economic resources are only counted when they can be brought to market. You don't usually create new [economic] land by dumping dredged sand into a harbor--though such projects do exist. More often, new land is brought to market by building a road to it, or an airstrip on it, or a pier on its shore.

And such land is not fungible, it most often has multiple competing uses, and some non-competing uses. And those uses can be amplified by capital improvements.

When I want "land" in a city, that's usually at least 75 m^3 of interior building volume as a safe location to sleep and store all my useful stuff. You can make more of that in the same footprint by erecting buildings with more floors--not even necessarily taller, just more floors. Or you can dig down, and again, add more floors.

And I value proximity by time, rather than distance. So you can make land "closer" to the city by enabling faster transportation. The 50th floor of a building with a fast elevator is closer to the ground than the 50th floor at the same physical height, but with a slow elevator. The suburb next to an expressway is closer than the one without convenient roads.

We really still have plenty of available land, barring situations like Hong Kong or Singapore. The Chicago-Pittsburgh megalopolis has more untapped land supply than the Boston-DC megalopolis, but those acres can all be gridded and developed to the limit of human engineering ability, which is a pretty darned distant limit.

The problem is usually that development is often politically constrained such that supply cannot change as quickly as demand. You just can't build fast enough in Silicon Valley, and you just can't demolish fast enough in Detroit.
It's almost certainly not something you can work around with a user space Android app, but "software" covers far more than just that. By the time you're triggering the Android camera APIs you're already very far removed from the software actually talking to the hardware, which is probably where this restriction lies.
I sincerely hope your feedback as well as the other feedback in this thread makes it to the people that are in charge of these decisions. It's in their best interest.
I agree with you! Here's my thought on the likely cause:

Capital is controled by a small number of relatively old people. They give that money to companies as an investment, and tell CEOs "make sure you have managers keeping eyes on your employees in the office- no remote work."

So we are at the mercy of the interpretation of optimal business practices from "investorsl and board members"
So full of clichés - blue sky brainstorm. What does it even mean? You don't need years of VC experience to know all of this is common sense.
I've always considered speeding tickets to be the small fee I pay for the privilege of driving faster. Last year I got about $250 in tickets in 40,000+ miles of driving. Totally worth it.
You really ought to read the Board's side of this in the linked documents before jumping to multiple incorrect conclusions based on his version of events.
It's not just Windows that is bloated; so is macOS, Android, and iOS. The wastefulness annoys me and I don't want to hear its okay because we have tons of disk space and RAM - it is still wasteful.

I understand why they kitchen-sink operating systems - its mainly so they can crow about new features when releasing new versions of the OS. But I wish they would offer alternate installs for those of us who are proficient.
Ok. Why not?
There are some deeply held values worldwide that are deeply offensive to others, that's for sure. For instance, there are those who earnestly believe that some class of humans is naturally inferior to others, or more genetically suited to servitude, etc.

The question of how or whether to limit some kinds of speech... I honestly think this is one of the great philosophical struggles of this generation. I am not sure why it has come up again when it seemed largely settled in the past. On the liberal side, you see people like Howard Dean and Elizabeth Warren disagree on it, which is a weird experience.

I think the question is, is there some set of underlying values where we can appropriately justify excluding someone entirely?

If the answer is yes, then how do you draw the line, and how do you protect against arbitrary lines being drawn against you in return? If the answer is no, then there's a whole host of other questions, like how do you deal with trolls?

I remember there was a great deal of consternation about Bill Nye debating Ken Ham, for instance. So many voices thought it was inappropriate. I thought the debate was a good thing.

On the other hand, I have a hard time accepting that trolling is protected speech. Heartfelt offensive speech I'm fine with, but trolling feels like a close cousin of fighting words, with intent only to destroy. On the other hand, I'm not sure how to tell the difference between trolling and heartfelt ignorance.
IF a department was going to set up quotas for speeding tickets but also wanted to slow drivers down as much as possible, why not have the quota deadline be rolling? Officer Jones has to meet his quota by the 3rd of the month. Officer Smith must meet hers by the 5th and so on. Quotas without the end of month blitz and more reliable enforcement.
To be specific, a "Realtor" is not a profession; it is a trademarked term. To be a "Realtor" one must be a member of the National Association of Realtors, which is a trade association.

It is possible to be a "real estate agent" (the profession) without being a Realtor. There are licensing requirements, which vary by state, to be a real estate agent.
This is great that they are investing so much in camera. In modern smartphone, I do not feel any difference in performance between my moto play and s7 edge. It is just the camera that makes me keep coming back to s7 edge, despite the $300 price tag difference. It is just much more convenient and I have stopped bringing my dslr on trips now since the phone camera works really good.
> A low speed limit typically is enforced with a traffic camera.

Is it possible you live in NRW? It's a bit extreme there. Much fewer speed cameras in other parts of the country.
> You really do get to say whatever the fuck you want in this country, as long as it doesn't cause direct harm to someone else

The Supreme Court disagrees.
who's normalizing? Greed is understood as a "sin" (religious framework) or "vice" (secular framework) or "pathology" (psychological framework). Same with envy.
Which one is the best Ad network for Android?
Just wanna know which one is the best Ad network for integrating into mobile apps.
wild guess, the cloud is the machine, and all your application is built on cloud bits connected through and in the cloud
Same is true in most Linux distros. My stock Debian kernel comes with 2300+ drivers, and which only take ~130MB.
It's not really clear WHAT this is - why would I use it, what would I get if I used it?
Executives see the AI revolution as imminent
This is not true. DeepMind has built AI that can understand the rules of the game just by looking at the screen and then play it perfectly.
Can you cite a case? Hate speech etc has a long history of being court-supported.
What is an app I wonder? Is it sort of a codeword for frontend embedded in logic impossible for the user to decipher with invisible sys hooks everywhere because the os is opaque to the user or is it something else?
In Massachusetts, passing on the right on a divided highway is legal. I'd argue that in a lot of cases, it's the fault of drivers on the left not moving out of their lane. But you also have situations where, with lanes of steady traffic, the right lane just gets moving faster.

Now, yes, you get situations where people veer from lane to lane because the overall flow of traffic isn't fast enough for their tastes. But, especially on three lane each direction roads, you get cars and trucks that don't want to deal with merging traffic at exits just sitting in the middle.
Not only that, the article specifically addresses parent comment's concerns:

> “I don’t want to lie to people,” Lt. Megge tells us. It may make parents feel better if the speed limit on their street is 25 mph instead of 35 mph, but that sign won’t make people drive any slower. Megge prefers speed limits that both allow people to drive at a safe speed legally, and that realistically reflect traffic speeds. People shouldn’t have a false sense of safety around roads, he says.

> If people and politicians do want to reduce road speeds to improve safety, or make cities more pedestrian friendly, Megge says “there are a lot of other things you can do from an engineering standpoint.” Cities can reduce the number of lanes, change the parking situation, create wider bike paths, and so on. It’s more expensive, but unlike changing the number on a sign, it’s effective.

Read the article before commenting, people.
Road Design Factors and Their Interaction with Speed and Speed Limits (2009) [pdf]
That's true for currency from the government itself. But for the stuff we actually use, that's issued from private banks, constrained by partial reserve banking.

It's true that to some extent, their assets are land (real estate is a common collateral). It's not shocking that land busts and banking crises tend to coincide.
Is California one of those states?
> So, I don't discourage people from machines simply because they aren't optimal.

Any exercise is better than no exercise. And yeah, things like bench press you should ideally have a spotter for. Myself, I stick to the five lifts from Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" (a recommendation I got from HN of all places!), so squats I use a power rack with pins, and overhead press, deadlift and power clean need no spotters. Bench you can do without a spotter if you leave the collars off (just dump the plates on one side, then the other), but most gyms frown on that.
A practitioner’s guide to hedonism (2007)
Surely you mean twice the size of the web page.
Yep, this is actually what many police departments do when they need to generate extra revenue (to make up for shortcomings from other revenue sources).
My fear is it also makes you the first to go.
And how often are people driving at the speed limit in the right lane pulled over for obstructing traffic?
Huh. Fascinating how different experiences can be: I found the roadtrip through northeast US I made a few years ago one of the most relaxing freeway driving experiences ever.

Sure, as an Austrian I prefer driving on German autobahns as well (due to better perceived discipline), but the US trip was something else entirely - and I've come to think that it's maybe because almost every car has cruise control.

It's not even the speed differences between different lanes, but staying in lane, setting CC and not having to correct it for a really long time is not something I was used to, and going 600km or more a day left me far less tired than over here.

EDIT: Maybe there are intra-US differences as well? Since most here seem to talk about California...
>they will fail in surprising and inhuman ways

It's an improvement as long as those are few percent of the unsurprising and human ways human drivers fail.
This is essentially accurate, but I have to ask: why do you think that development is often politically constrained?
This was mentioned in the article as the main reason for the legacy 55mph limit imposed after the Saudi oil embargo.
So you don't store files in S3? Haven't diluted away your employees? Haven't been completely called out and had your execs admit the same? So we're way below 100%...what's left that actually is false?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words for example.

There are more limitations but that's an easy and possibly counterintuitive example.
For enterprise customers, sure. For many consumers, now that they use more modern OS and browsers daily (iOS/Android), it's painfully obvious how terrible this strategy has been - even if they can only articulate that on a subconscious level. Honestly I'd love to see what Microsoft could do if they ditched backwards compatibility completely, except in the server OSes. While hardly revolutionary, Surface Pad Pro is a good indicator/example that there's at least potential there.
I'm curious. You have a dozen+ services running in a container platform. How many people/teams run software on this platform? How many customers use this platform? How much money does this platform make?
> ... service mesh for cloud native applications

Need I say more? Paging Alan Kay to tell these folks what the origins of an unnecessary complicated mess looks like.
you're a committed ideologue so it isn't worth the time to engage with you, but I'll say one thing. don't expect another response from me.

How many other Yahoo workers are also losing their jobs? Which of them are getting compensation packages like Marisa Mayer?
> Take care of yourself, deal with your mental issues

Aside from your other complaints, what's wrong with these two pieces of advice? They seem like completely sensible things that far too many people eschew.
Even if it's presumptuous, what's the worst that could happen? I think you should email and see what happens.

As a consultant and employee, I would be a bit surprised by such an email because I'm not in a position to hire people. But my manager is always looking for people and we have a referral bonus system, so I would get some money for introducing someone to my manager who gets hired. Both me and my manager would have selfish reasons for seeing you, apart from just being nice people that want to help others out.

If you suggest a coffee close to their office, I don't see a problem. They'll either ignore your email, tell you they're busy, or meet up. I would definitely suggest that you make your intentions clear that you're looking for a job, but also that you're interested in learning more about the job or the industry. I would also suggest that you say how you found the person, otherwise they may be more suspicious or confused. Just say if you found them on LinkedIn, on the company website, or wherever, so that they know where you're coming from.

Good luck!
Why doesn’t Pakistan reform its blasphemy laws?
Neat!

My teenage daughter put together a one-person show for the National History Day Competition a few years ago on the Radium Girls. (Shameless dad bragging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTmBhQCI0as)
Show HN: Blog about Real-Time Strategy Game in ClojureScript and WebGL
Some of the best apps I use are one-off payments. Rainlendar Pro which I've been using for years. FreeFileSync which is donationware.

I totally agree that when there's a free version and a paid/donation version hardly anyone is actually willing to pay though. The pay-once model is really good for the consumer... until the company goes out of business because they're not making any money. Which is why I also buy products that don't require an ongoing service!
no comments here about diversity and immigration increasing just as labor's share of GDP decreased?
Speed limits can act as a target, though. It'd be a little weird to have a 'realistic' speed limit of 35 mph, and then introduce traffic calming measures designed to slow people down to way lower than that, no?
Congratulations to the team!
I am frankly both surprised and unsurprised at the same time with the comments from those supportive of government regulation of software engineering. If your a hack who didn't learn to program until you went to school, I suppose I understand, you want to limit those entering your field to those who paid the same to play. However, how about all of those who are likely far smarter than you and learned to program as children and got into the industry right off the bat - does your jealousy dictate that they should have to pay some sort of admission cost?

It's pretty cute how the same yuppies who are supportive of strict regulation are lining up to praise childhood programming courses. By the time our children are grown, programming will be illegal without a license - ushered in by the mayhem created by hipsters programming insecure IoT devices. These are the same people who praise curiosity out of one side of their mouth, but insist no one should practice cryptography because it's far too hard for mortals to understand.

I would be delighted if academic America would get off it's high horse. You're starting to look an awful lot like Hollywood circa 1998.
er, yes!
>Maybe it is a cliche, but it seems the drivers' education, and the condition of cars and streets, is really good in Germany.

It is not a cliche. I have lived in the US for the past 5 years and lived for 20 years in Germany before that. Germans roads are like 5000x better than US roads (at least here in California).

Road paintings here are a joke, especially at night or when it is raining. The only exception is when a road gets painted freshly. Then it is good for like 2 months.
Yeah, it doesn't makes me less sad but I can't blame MS to try to keep their position and backward compatibility. Also there were many other partners that didn't want to change their code, so MS had to keep many deprecated or even non public API in early windows 3/95 releases
Man suspected in wife's murder after her Fitbit data doesn't match his alibi
Data Visualization “Versus” UI and Data Science
I met Chris during an Uber Pitch ride a few months back and just meeting him was a remarkable experience. Looking back, in the course of conversation he did use these "7 Rules for Making Memorable Connections" and they worked.
I have not noticed this reviewing code for clients, and would be equally disturbed --- anyone suggesting that prepared statements should be avoided in favor of escaping is perpetuating a dangerous falsehood.
according to the talk I just watched, latency/performance was their concern coming out of the gate and was the impetus for writing it in C++...
"Tech people" usually don't think outside of the context of producing code.
I don't have any experience with social anxiety or treatment personally, so I wanted to escape that portion of the discussion with what is essentially a disclaimer. I assumed the advice would apply but wasn't sure, so thanks for confirming that.
Cool.

I'd heard of Magic Lantern, but never looked into it as it's for Canons. I own a Pentax :-(
Size is definitely a problem. Bertrand Russell touched on some of the issues it creates (e.g. signal - votes from the people effected by an issue - gets swamped by noise - votes from people who don't really care).

Personally, I'm a big fan of a couple of approaches that I think would work well in concert:

* Federalism. Devolve as much power as practical down to the State (or, as I suspect will happen, the City-State, level). Taking the USA as an example (I'm not American myself), you'd pare back all of the unconstitutional three-letter-departments (FCC, FDA, EPA, ...) and leave those up to the States.

* Sortition. Don't select the Government by voting, select it by random poll of the citizenry, in much the same way as jury duty is arranged in many countries.

* Libertarianism. Legislate to protect rights and in the case of collective problems (e.g. atmospheric pollution, which may surprise people by being the go-to example Rand reached for as a case where environmental legislation may be justified by human costs), but nothing else.
How about the default sort?
Ouch or no ouch?
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but the Constitution is but one piece of law in the US. There's a litany of state legislation (and I presume federal, as well) that regulate the use of job titles (e.g., doctor, engineer, lawyer, dentist, etc.). Most of them still on the books, and most of them attempting to nip the "direct harm to someone else" in the bud. That is what this article sort of willfully ignores: sure, this guy didn't exactly go out of of his way to harm people, but others have and do for their financial (or otherwise) benefit. [1]

I doubt that these laws are going away any time soon. Perhaps modified as more and more influential people see "programming" as "engineering", but doubtful that they'll go away for things like civil/mechanical/electrical infrastructure.

[1] http://laist.com/2016/01/30/fake_civil_engineers_may_have_bu...
We already trust computers to operate all vehicles to some extent. Almost all vehicles sold today have large amount of software controlling them.
FCC Chairman Pai's Network Neutrality Plan Unworkable
Mobile App Videos Get 5x More Results
Oops, I see that now. My fault for only reading the first section of the article.
I cannot to speak to all schools, but at Georgia Tech Computer Engineering was (circa 2005) EE with 3 CS courses, and instead of taking courses like power engineering the focus was on courses related to computer hardware design or applications.

Looking at it now, it seems they've dropped that 3 CS course requirement (at the time it was the same first 3 courses as CS majors) and replaced it with 1 required CS course: Computing for Engineers. Everything else, required, is ECE (electrical and computer engineering) with options to satisfy some major electives via CS courses (up to 7 by the hours, but no specific sequence, required to be 3xxx or above meaning a student would need to take at least 2 or 3, depending on present CS curriculum, to even qualify for them with prerequisites).

I picked this one as it seems like the quintessential CMPE program from what I've seen, and it's one of the top engineering schools in the US so it ends up influencing or setting the standard by which other US schools do things. And specifically, it's not halfway. It's often (from a perusal of other schools I'm familiar with) heavily biased towards the hardware side (by requirements, electives of course permit the student some leeway for individual breadth).

EDIT: I did misread the current GT requirements, seems they moved 2 of the programming courses into the ECE department and out of CS.
When Restrictions on House-Building Meet Growing Demand
A more interesting question, to me: would it be more or less dangerous to create a fictional person, who "is" a lawyer—or a fictional LLP, run by such a person†—and then send a letter written "as" them, representing you?

By sending such a letter, I'm not claiming to be a lawyer, right? But then, what am I doing?

† The law was at least smart enough here to require a partnership structure. Imagine if your fictional lawyer could be "employed by" a real shell corporation!
> Rather than speed limits, we need to look at other avenues to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths. Just shooting from the hip, I think that we could do more to communicate to drivers the presence of pedestrians, and to make sure that rural highways and boulevards have shoulders or sidewalks for pedestrians.

I've seen it argued that shoulders/sidewalks actually make roads more dangerous, because drivers drive faster when they're present.

> This gives us a pretty targeted demographic! Start a "dangers of the road" campaign targeted at pedestrians who are men, aged 25-44, drink at night and who live in rural areas.

Isn't that classic victim-blaming? Getting pedestrians off the road would reduce pedestrian deaths, but it's the wrong way to solve it as a matter of principle.
To me, this read like Alan Sokal's Postmodernism troll piece. I understand Tegmark is a reputable physicist, but the abstract could have been written by Deepak Chopra after skimming a math text.
How Technology Is Hijacking Your Mind-From a Magician and Google Design Ethicist
A friend is working on providing access to abandoned ski areas in the rockies, how timely, and what a relic!
Well, you can't yell fire in a movie theater unless there's a fire[0]. You can't assert that you are a doctor(lawyer) while giving medical(law) advice. There are good reasons for these laws.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...