skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But seeming to seem is a form of seeming. And the only form of illusion I know of requires seeming: things seem one way but are actually another.

When direct perception implies a false conclusion, that's an illusion. What else could "seems" actually mean?

So now we're down to the meaning of the word "perception". I hope you also agree that there's no need to imbue some subjective subtext into this word, so where else can subjectivity hide?
Creating a network with just mobile devices in close proximity of each other, like a p2p mesh? As long as you have some software running on each of the devices I dont see why you couldnt do something like this.
I bet they could get it done for us for half of the estimated 1bn cost of the "new electronic system" alone.
2008 how many company and bank CEOs were convicted of wrong doing?
Just finished implementing the national meme markets: https://eurokeks.com/memes/national?country=FR (alpha2 country code)
Why would affording to purchase a property in a large diverse city like L.A. with a high salary be unreasonable? I really don't understand your stance.
Tips to be noted about roofing estimates
I have to comment on this, even though it's almost completely irrelevant to the blog post. I saw "do_sth" so I wanted to check where the writer was from. Germany. Aha. :-)

I love how reliably abbreviating "something" (e.g. "sth", "smth" or "sthg") indicates that the person isn't from an English-speaking country. I wonder why this abbreviation has never caught on in English-speaking countries. I think the abbreviations got popularised in non-English-speaking countries by English dictionaries.

I think the more common idiomatic "abbreviation" would be "do_stuff" when you don't want to type out or say "something".
Under existing rules, developers do not pay enough fees to allow the School Districts to build new schools to support the new housing. Now you'd like to rubber stamp this?

For example there's a new development in Fremont of a few hundred houses: the school district had to zone it as "we'll provide school for you, but it'll be wherever we have space across the entire city." That's not good.

To me the idiocy is this: the state government mandates that all cities build new housing. But they don't mandate that housing and jobs balance. A city like Fremont was master-planned with enough space for both, but is being forced by the state to build houses instead for people who will work in Sunnyvale which has too many jobs and not enough houses.
Yeah, what the heck? This one needs to be discussed, and it's directly relevant to Hacker News. The rule of law is critical for anyone interested in new business formation.
Yes, it says MOST stories about politics. Not all.
Well, Sonos is actively working on Alexa integration (actually, integration with any voice-controlled assistant): https://www.cnet.com/news/sonos-demonstrates-amazon-alexa-co...

In the meantime, you can connect an Echo Dot to a Play:5 (or any other Sonos speaker that has a line-in): http://www.sam-mallery.com/2016/12/5-tips-for-using-amazon-e...
Only ~10% of California's water use is residential/urban (varies a little bit year to year) [0].

The majority of non-environmental water is used to grow cash crops in the central valley, like almonds, which take 1 gal/almond.

Overall, urban residents have far less impact on climate than exurban residents who drive around in SUVs. It is in the best interests of everyone on planet Earth to make our cities denser and more inviting [1, 2].

[0] - http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108

[1] - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/mar/23/city-dwe...
Two observations:

1. Search was better in Opera 12 than in any email client I've ever used (Gmail included). That has never been surpassed.

2. Gmail used to have excellent search, until recently. Recently I've observed many very glaring bugs with it, where swathes of matching emails are completely omitted from search results. This is something that may have gone unnoticed if I'd not begun to use the search function to regularly recall emails I knew existed, but it's become a repeated, almost reliably testable phenomenon with my own account.
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Two things:
1. Despite population growth, urban water use is falling in california
2. Residential water consumption is dwarfed by industrial & agricultural uses

http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108
Firefox has an option to search text when you start typing.
I couldn't agree more. I'm originally from the Twin Cities and we solved (parts of this) problem years ago with a regional government called the Metropolitan Council. When you have a metropolitan area that spans multiple local governments, coordinating efforts around transportation, development, and environment is critical. And coordination is difficult without some sort of central authority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Council
This is something to keep an eye on, given the fact that Congressional district borders will be drawn using 2020 data.
I have been migrating away from Apple for my music needs lately. There are tons of reasons for me to want to get away. You named one:
- Really buggy. It will arbitrarily skip to the next song in the middle of playback. Sometimes it will refuse to play a song in my library, and will move on to the next. No error, no feedback, nothing.

But what _really_ broke my music-listening back was Apple, in their "infinite" wisdom have been rating songs for me they think I'd like in my library (grey stars). As far as I can tell, there is no way for me to distinguish between my stars and the stars Apple adds, which means my playlist of songs that I've rated has now been ruined by Apple's "recommendation."

edit And, I want to be absolutely clear here - there are songs I'VE uploaded into Apple Music using iTunes music match sync whatever. Apple thinks they can tell me more about my music library, that I've purchased and cultivated over all these years, then I can.

For anyone interested, I am using:
Very large NAS to store my music.
Tagging music using Musicbrainz Picard.
Multiple Kodi (formerly XBMC) front ends, all sharing the same music and video library via mysql.
That bug must be what I remembered - I missed that it got fixed, all I heard was that Apple was working on it. Thanks for letting me know, I think I might nervously shut it off and revert to manually controlling what songs are on my phone. Do you remember any sources on what it was and when/how it got fixed?

I added them from my laptop - I find the matching pretty lousy, though. Bjork recordings are replaced by acoustic remixes, live-radio performances of songs are replaced by studio recordings, etc. And then of course some of my own songs are replaced by weird recordings I've never heard before. It seems that any time I'm out and about and listen to a playlist for 30-45 minutes, at least 1-2 songs are wrong.

All of these recordings are of course still fine on my laptop itself - I know not to delete those.
650 million dollars to tally some simple demographic information? I understand there is always more to the story - but this doesn't pass the smell test. Additionally, what does the Census Bureau need 1.5 billion for on a non-census year?

I don't mean that rhetorically - 1.5 billion a year pays 15,000 people an annual salary of 100k. Where is that money going?
what? the census requires massive amounts of people to do all sorts of stuff including large numbers of people to actually conduct the census.
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You should try cloudron.io
Curious. What state.
I'm not actually speculating about some invisible hand directing the Wright brothers, though. They were bicycle mechanics who had relied on patented work. As it began to dry up, they explored new things they could patent.

They literally explored flight purely because it was patentable. Period. If it hadn't been, they would not have played in that field.

see this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613119

Regarding the rest of your response, okay, I will grant you that asking for cross-cultural comparisons across millennia is problematic. So you simply must think through very rigorously even the thought experiments you suggested. Thanks for the discussion.
>>i fear that any sufficiently strong measures to restrict empty homes or foreign investment (see: empty home taxes in British Columbia) will be met with strong resistance from Democrats.

Uh, I'm not sure why Democrats would be against this, especially considering Prop 13 was passed by Reagan.
there are more important things to ponder... than his books and children's luxury cars. good god, I still can't believe trump fired him.
Ugh, lets hope not.
Currently the max payout is 2,639 per month. In order to get $1M you would have to live to age 97. That assumes you never put anything in. The average lifespan is only 13 years past 65. I don't know what kind of math that is but its misleading.
$10k for the app, $250m for the IBM hardware, $350m for the IBM support contract, and $399,990,000 set aside for legal defense when the government decides what they spec'd wasn't what they needed and sues the contractor.
You are fucking adorable. A new collections library is so far off the table that it doesn't bare mentioning, but this whole vote is about compatibility. Last I checked, the module system proposal lists a user module system as a non goal, so what this has shown is that the JVM needs its own community process to keep external interests from paralyzing forward motion on the standards front.
Ugh, so far I've been able to avoid the Facebook bandwagon (and according to me teenagers there will never be a reason to use Facebook - apparently Snapchat is the new Facebook). That would suck if I had to get an account just to participate in the census.
What I find asinine is that the writer says substructural type systems (the concept which the names of the types are inherited from) are badly named, yet I'm somewhat dubious that he knows anything about them? I certainly don't, and although the relationship between affine types and affine spaces is not immediately obvious to me, the relationship between linear types and linearity is very clear.
It's not a matter of right-wing vs left-wing, it's a matter of authoritarian/security-above-all vs personal freedom. I mean, we're talking about a President who advocated to "boycott Apple" in response to them not decrypting the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.

* http://gizmodo.com/trump-calls-for-boycott-of-apple-products...

* https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/70079517002382540...
AWS bills
There's a circuit switching relay protocol [1] in the works which will allow multi-hop connections. This is generally useful for situations where two nodes can't directly connect to each other, be it because of NAT, censorship, or simply because they don't have a transport protocol in common (e.g. js-ipfs in the browser).

That means nodes can soon use the Websockets transport to connect to a domain-fronted node (this part already works), which then acts as a relay.

[1] https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/relay
> 1. What's the practical difference between an abstract class and an interface?

Interface? You are talking about the C++ language, right?
Yep, it's a little subjective. What I'm trying to tell you is that loudly berating people whose subjective views are different from your subjective views is a singularly ineffective way to convince them to see things your way.
I get the sentiment, but I'm asking why. There's clearly some utility to the device, right? It has some value to some people. What negative outcomes would you expect will happen due to them having that device in their homes? What percentage of Echo owners do you think will end up with regrets about installing the device?
Is there a write-up on how the rust code ends up being embedded in the iOS app?
DigitalGlobe's GeoEye-1 was also partially funded with taxpayer money in exchange for unlimited military access and exclusive use of the highest resolutions. It is time the general public got to reap the benefits too.
I'm sure both departments might like that but unfortunately they're currently in the grip of ideologues who would like to defund both departments and shut them down permanently.
> A decade ago I started learning C#. I did not notice this event. What was it in particular that they did?

There was a fairly vibrant OSS community around .net at the time filling many of the gaps. ORM (nHibernate), MVC (monorail), build (nant), IOC (Autofac and many others), unit testing (nUnit and others).

MS decided to go all NIH and create their own, almost always worse version of all of these tools rather than work with the community. The message they effectively sent was "don't do OSS on our platform, we'll crush you're successful project with an inferior clone".

>But javaland has many of those devs? I'm really wondering if anyone outside of the Lucene team and Google even has a clue about how to build a modern search engine.

I think you're right, there probably aren't that many with the know how. The even bigger problem is there aren't many with the awareness that tools like lucene exist, it's database queries or nothing to most developers.
"Most recently, Census 2010 employed 635,000."

https://www.census.gov/history/www/faqs/agency_history_faqs/...
Honestly, why is it so expensive? If you created a startup with $50 Million, and gave them 4 years to implement this system, I'm sure it would be done much more efficiently. Then you "buy" the startup for $200 Million at the end of it, and all the employees get a nice payout.
Maybe the answer is to stop growing and let other parts of the country grow. The brain drain to SV has been disastrous for other communities. It's contributed to inequality and deep geographic/political polarization.

Yes, you can downvote me but consider formulating a counter-argument.
> the wallstreet custodians get to play with it in market

More like they get to siphon off a percentage as rent seeking leaches.
Per the article, spending typically jumps in the years leading up to a decennial count.

And it is pretty important, as I'm assuming it gets fed in as base data to a lot of models (and our representative democracy).
Very nice, I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage... so far. Looks like this can replace it.
Apple Acquires 'Beddit' iPhone-Connected Sleep Monitoring System
There's a big jump from dissatisfaction to hatred, though.
Positions like Last Thursdayism, solipsism, brains in vats and other skeptical arguments were already addressed by Moore over a century ago. A rational belief is only justified by considering the ontological commitments it requires of us.

So while I can't refute Last Thursdayism, given it's ontological commitments, it has such a low probability on the scale of possible explanations for reality that I need not concern myself with it (see Solomonoff Induction for justifying this logical ordering of hypotheses).

As for the "feeling" of time passing being some kind of ontological test, I honestly don't know what you think this proves. This "feeling" is just the competition between signals from your perceptions and signals from your memory of your perceptions. Such a comparison is trivially present in any feedback circuit, which entails that something time-like does indeed exist.
Ah, yes, Google are not taken seriously in academia because they are not releasing the code source to their models. Google is usually the largest contributor to most ML conferences (NIPS, ICML, etc.)

Most papers are not about implementation and more about the concepts or proofs. They are rather straightforward to reimplement, and I don't think anybody is accusing them of faking their results.
* 64.7989 mg of salt
The argument put forward here (and elsewhere) seems to be that

we want Clojure to gain the advantages of being on the bootstrap classloader in Java 9 while still targeting Java 7

That's pretty unconvincing to me. If you're shipping jars that are intentionally compiled against old JREs then you might not get the benefits of new JVM features. Them's the breaks.
>They are effectively a hidden British government job scheme.

There is inherent value in simply having an existing capable defense contractor in your own nation. It isn't about dollars and cents, it's about being capable of fighting a war without outside help (or not being wholly dependent). So you throw money at the local defense contractor to keep it alive. It's expensive to do this, but if you don't you pay for it in other ways because if you buy all of your equipment from foreign defense contractors they can use that as political leverage against you.

A lot of money is spent being prepared for wars that won't happen _because_ everyone is prepared for them.
Right now cities have all the incentive to create office space to bring in as many jobs as possible, and the taxes that come with them, while leaving housing and infrastructure as someone else's problem.

There needs to be an incentive in place for this not to happen. Perhaps we need to force the municipalities to split their employment tax with the city where the employee actually lives?

Admittedly I have no idea what legal mechanism would make that possible, but something like this would give cities an incentive to build more housing along with increasing their employment/tax base.
That's... not really how it works. Or, you could also argue that's what the area has been doing for the past 40 years, and look at the current state of housing.

EDIT: I didn't downvote you, but I will elaborate: there's very little you can do to stop people from moving to California, short of forcefully putting them on buses and sending them away (which is what some cities actually do[1][2]). What you can do is figure out a plan before they show up to provide them decent housing for a fair price, or else they'll figure something out, something likely to be illegal/extremely uncomfortable/look a lot like homelessness.

Some anecdotes: one friend of mine lived in a house-boat in Berkeley for 2 years while going to college. Another lived out of his van in Los Angeles. These are regular young people, both born in California, trying to make things work.

It has been extremely hard to build new buildings in hotspots throughout the state for quite a long time. You could argue that preventing growth to meet demand is, in a sense, what it means to "stop growing" (short of turning folks away at the state line). This is what I meant by my comment.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html

2: https://thinkprogress.org/nevada-gets-sued-for-dumping-homel...
The author explains the process briefly here: https://gist.github.com/michaelfairley/d86137085307d2e5c16ee.... I think the most obvious pitfall is the native API calls for both platforms. Maybe a cross platform framework like PhoneGap for Rust?
Wouldn't you need to grow more food supporting the growing in-population though?
I'm sure it's not valid across the board, but most of the internet shortenings that we use in english are acronyms---lol, stfu, wtf, rofl, hbu, asl, etc. I'm actually having a hard time thinking of some common abbreviations. I guess "func" short for "function" is a common example.
> And it comes less than a week after a prickly hearing at which Thompson told lawmakers that cost estimates for a new electronic data collection system had ballooned by nearly 50 percent.

I'd love to know the details of that project overrun.
Hmm. This is pretty damned cool. I'd subscribe to Spotify if this were a real interface to its catalog.
Easy to hide behind a simple interface if you already know the programming language. My suggestion is that someone perhaps should do just that so that beginners don't have to learn how to construct a simple interface at the same time as they are learning the language.

The MiniFB code does seem to be a good starting point for this sort of thing.
DigitalGlobe has multiple satellites with ~30cm pixels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-4

The layers here are satellite imagery. Mapping sites definitely bring in any other sources that make sense though.

I haven't looked at it a great deal, the "Premium" layer appears to be more carefully produced with the "Standard" layer favoring fresher imagery. So both are nice resources.
Wait, developers should pay for schools? What are property taxes for?
I think that now having auto, decltype, and decltype(auto) all in the language is confusing at best. constexpr also has slightly unintuitive semantics. The problem with all of the additions to C++ isn't whether they're useful individually, it's how as a whole the language is basically a gigantic ball of special cases. C++ is extremely powerful, but also nearly impossible to understand fully.
My girlfriend is a trained classical singer whereas I'm a self taught musician. She doesn't really gravitate towards the rock music I like to write but because of her training she can easily jam, riff, or write anything far quicker than I can. Songwriting is a very technical skill indeed.
And what you are describing are isolated instances that almost no one experiences with email or sms.
I know you're joking, but for those who may not be familiar, the Census is mandated explicitly by the Constitution. So that would require a constitutional amendment.
US Census can't really work with anyone when it comes to their data. They take their responsibilities under Title 13 [0] (which prohibits them from sharing information they collect) very seriously.

They're trying various options to share some limited data (like address data) [1], but haven't gotten very far. They've done some work on "Community TIGER" [2], which aims to give validation information back to local governments for geographic data, but not the improvements that Census generates as part of the decennial census.

The US Postal Service has no motive to share with the Census Bureau. For one thing, the USPS makes all of its money selling limited access to its address list to advertisers. Additionally, the USPS's address list (or delivery points) doesn't necessarily correspond with people and where they live.

PS: I'm interested in this sort of thing because I help run OpenAddresses [3], a community-built list of authoritative address data sources from around the world. There's a lot of data out there!

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13/9
[1] https://fcw.com/articles/2011/09/14/census-bureau-title-13.a...
[2] https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/gssi/Community_TIGER.pdf
[3] https://openaddresses.io/
> I also know many remote Chinese

Hey, they're not all remote. Some of them are outgoing, a few even garrulous!
C coder here (former pre-C++11 C++ as well).

Another point to mention (which I think adds to the conclusion) is that by losing compatibility with the C preprocessor you'd lose compatibility with, well, C.

This means breaking of both C++ code that uses C libraries legitimately and "C++" code that's actually C with new/delete (or "the horror" as we put it).
In my experience, the generalization that "it" is about a "rush" isn't the case. For one thing, mountaineering at almost any level, but especially on 8k peaks, is a long, slow, march. There will be some moments that are a rush, but if one is interested in a rush then BASE jumping would be a lot more effective.

The other thing is that mountaineering involves lots of specific skills - rock climbing, ice climbing, long unsupported approaches, self arrest, winter and extreme cold conditions, the ability to acclimate - all of these have to be put together to solve a problem: getting there and back in one piece. And that problem solving, combined with the ability to overcome the mind game of suffering is the motivation for all the mountaineers I know.