skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's just a matter of degree

Indeed. Communities can collaborate to keep things the way they'd like them by leveraging local networks. One particular and exciting example of this sort of policy is Redlining[1]. Agreements such as height limits aren't as bad (and are less explicitly racist), but it's a similar sort of idea. I understand the reasons why someone would want this for their neighborhood (and in most neighborhoods throughout the USA it's not a big deal), I just think in these examples where there's extreme tension between external demand and the desires of current residents, something has to give.

> There are historical neighborhoods for example. People pay a lot of money to live in these neighborhoods. You can't just waltz in and tear down an expensive house and turn it into a property with a couple of trailers on it.

I'm not against historic neighborhoods in general. I live in NYC and am aware of multiple, but I feel that some, such as parts of the West Village, have been harmful to the city as a whole. The point of a historic neighborhood should be to preserve exceptional period architecture: for example, the Upper East Side historic district in the low/mid 60s preserves a particular style of late 1800s row houses[2]. Many parts of the West Village that are historic are preserving a bunch of shitty 1 or 2 story buildings constructed when the area was a slum in the teens and 20s, after half the neighborhood was torn down to build the IRT 7th Ave Line (i.e. the 1/2/3 train) that would be covered as 7th Ave South[3].

To use a historic neighborhood as a chance to "preserve community" is, I think, an extreme distortion of intent (although the ultimate result for many well-positioned historic areas is preserving a particular sort of extremely wealthy community).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

2: https://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/east61s...

3: https://i0.wp.com/www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/201... (note the 1 story structures and general architectural hodgepodge)
They are using iOS device.
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Google officially dropped the "Don't be Evil" motto a while back and picked up Alphabet's "Do the Right Thing" motto, which seems a lot more subjective.
The bay area cities allowed lots and lots of commercial real estate but relatively little residential (apartments and homes) to be built more or less in the entire bay area. Where were those workers supposed to live?

A decent article detailing the mismatch between people coming vs. housing starts: http://www.paragon-re.com/Supply_Demand_Money_and_Demographi...

Other metro areas have balanced these competing needs much better.

A lot of the laws proposed still require any proposals to follow the existing zoning (a law championed by the governor last year is one example), etc. but just prevent a few motivated individuals from blocking growth.
[Cockroach Labs engineer here]

For just a couple billion rows and a dozen joins, a single node will suffice (with the caveat that you really want at least 3 nodes because CockroachDB is built for replication and fault-tolerance and you're not getting that with a single node cluster), but you'll get linear speedup as you add more machines.

Your performance on a single node should be on the same order of magnitude as doing this in Postgres right now. We are rapidly closing that gap, and intend to close it completely for TPC-H style queries, while retaining the linear performance speedup with more nodes.

The reason this gap isn't already closed is we've been focused on transactional performance in distributed, fault-tolerant situations rather than analytics performance, for 1.0. There are lots of optimization low hanging fruit that we haven't focused on in analytics scenarios that we are just getting started on.
I can't really understand the full depth from the announcement, but to me this looks like something that already existed for a few years, Xamarin.

What are the diferences between this product and Xamarin for MacOS (something that already existed)?
"And route all supply runs to alternative locations for the next two days. Order cake to be delivered to supply closet in 47 hours."
So many memories of using the AXE parser for the TI. It's a gaming engine that compiles code to assembly, and it's probably at least 10-20 times faster than TI BASIC. Anyway, I've made a two calculator pong using that engine, and the network commands are quite simple with AXE! I managed to combine the server and client into one program that auto configured on startup. Making games with my friend was what really pushed me into computer science. Here's a link for the parser if you're interested.

http://clrhome.org/tutorials/axe/

http://axe.eeems.ca/Commands.html
I have the same experience. I've never met anyone else with my name - Nehemiah.

If I order food, I use the name Tom. No one wants to spell my name out, including me. Also the consonants are easily confused, so if I do spell it out people are like, N-E-A-T...Tom is easier for everyone involved.

It does create a talking point when I mention to people that Tom is not my real name.

I do agree with the article. Having a unique name does seem to imply to other people that I am a little different.
All true, and yet I imagine a lot of people think in different terms about retirement.
Excellent; thank you! JOSM / OSM is the basis for a lot of mountain bike trail mapping work that I do. Another source of imagery will just be cake. (GPS traces only go so far...)
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My guess is that he's talking about the responsibility of technologists because they are rolling out Windows 10 S, which is a step towards leaving behind Win32, an "unsafe" API that is heavily invested in by their core programmer base.

That and they go on to show technology that can be used ways that could cause privacy concerns.
Groups pushing crackdown on police misconduct left out of talks with LAPD union
If the city/public is funding a building, i would think they are checking if it is built to code before they pay the company in full.

If its not built to code, the contractor didnt finish the job and will not be paid until the building is up to code.

If its a private investor building the building, thats on them, they shouldve hired better contractors or been more thorough in their management of their contractors
And I bet any real system would accommodate for the exceptions you mention. However, it makes for a very poor presentation. The presentation here is a marketing device, not a product spec.
That's not very documented. How would someone use this?
If Satan was forced to compete, he'd probably offer a wider range of options as well.
> I think it's one of the worst names I've ever heard. Both because of the bug, but also because of the first syllable.

You sound like you would get offended by a slight breeze of air.
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Sadly, I bet this goes into employee documentation.

Eg. If an employee has a workplace accident, company distances itself / minimizes cost by citing all your workplace safety violations that were conveniently recorded.

More optimistic use would be for re-training, identifying superstar employees. But saving on lawsuit costs is the big dollar win and probably the motivating factor (In my cynical opinion)
Thanks for the long answer. Much appreciated. The question came into my mind when reading some of graphics and specifications.
Cockroaches are highly resilient creatures. The name, I assume, is alluding to the goal of this database being a highly resilient system. Whats the problem?
I (semi-seriously) expected to see the fictional "L. P. Waterhouse" listed as an author of this paper.

Edit: relevant passage from Cryptonomicon:

The sand at the surf line has been washed flat. A small child’s footprints wander across it, splaying like gardenia blossoms on thin shafts. The sand looks like a geometric plane until a sheet of ocean grazes it. Then small imperfections are betrayed by swirls in the water. Those swirls in turn carve the sand. The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and some times carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks. Plodding through the surf, Waterhouse strikes deep craters in the wet sand that are read by the ocean. Eventually the ocean erases them, but in the process its state has been changed, the pattern of its swirls has been altered. Waterhouse imagines that the disturbance might somehow propagate across the Pacific and into some super-secret Nipponese surveillance device made of bamboo tubes and chrysanthemum leaves; Nip listeners would know that Waterhouse had walked that way. In turn, the water swirling around Waterhouse’s feet carries information about Nip propeller design and the deployment of their fleets—if only he had the wit to read it. The chaos of the waves, gravid with encrypted data, mocks him.
Now marketers can actually read your photos on Instagram and Facebook
Just use Amazon RDS and let them deal with it.

None of the theoretical scaling benefits of Mongo outweigh the clusterfuck of maintenance, data inconsistency, and other general problems that shitty, shitty piece of software has.
I suppose we're at an impasse then, because the claim wasn't mine; nor is it even sufficiently formalized as to be falsifiable (which really was my point here). We cannot apply scientific methods to claims that are only semantically meaningful. For example, the definition of "coin flip" was never even specified, which is why the constant use of the analogy is absurd.

When firms like RenTec exist and continue to empirically generate market-beating returns over 20-30 year timespans, the burden ceases to be on the critic of a claim to empirically disprove it, especially if it's not even falsifiable. Here, you are doing the same thing as the previous commenter, except you're not using the analogy.

You cannot open your argument with the premise that returns are purely stochastic if that's not self-evident - you need to prove that. But I have never seen a single individual attempt to quantify the analogy, not even in a forced way to make it support their thesis. It's taken for granted that superlative returns are purely chance, and the goalposts are constantly moved whenever someone brings up successful funds.
I am tired of NIMBY's in Bay Area and all over California. I am wondering if there is some economic analysis on the impact of NIMBY on job growth and poverty. I am convinced that at least some of the joblessness in Central Valley is due to NIMBYism in Bay Area.

Having said that, I don't believe any amount of legislation will solve the housing problem in California. The appeal for living in California extends beyond US borders and there is a large population abroad willing to move to CA.
https://crates.io/crates/duktape
What is Puppet? And why should you consider it for your cloud and servers?
it should just be called "terrors" because only terrorists care about the news

actually, can we just call all of the news people terrorists and throw them in jail?
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Thank you!
This is helpful also about fq vs fq_codel - https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/bbr-dev/4jL4ropdOV...
Jest uses jsdom. You just need to add it to a project ("npm install --save-dev jest"), write a spec, and then run npm test (maybe update package.json to have 'jest' as the test command). It's really, really easy.

There's even a repl so you can try it in a browser first - https://facebook.github.io/jest/#use
Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25: study
The Many Layers of Packaging: Why PyPI Isn't an App Store
Have you tried out Jetbrains CLion? I used it briefly back in their EAP stages and it seemed to be going in a VS quality direction...
Supposedly the people getting ripped off by AirBnB are the neighbors of the hosts.
What I really really want is: a fitness tracker that does not look like a watch and can be worn with a normal watch.

I prefer wearing classic watches, surely I cannot be the only one out there with this need?

Do not care about notifications, viewing messages etc. So something that has HR and great sleep tracking.
This feature is planned, but I cannot give you a concrete timeline. We want to do this right, and we need other parts in place to do this with high performance, in a transactionally consistent fashion, in the face of high contention, and for arbitrarily complicated "views".

I will say that this is the single feature that I personally am most invested in at the company, so it will happen.
Its not 2004 so you shouldn't be as impressionable as a child any longer.

If you are fawning over a corporation's motto you are playing life by an ineffective set of rules.

But .... now that I think about it, scratch that, maybe you'll be interested in being part of my Amway downline.
That sounds kind of nice --but this can lead to a very sterile and stifling environment. It has the potential to be overbearing, if abused.
Trump plays into hands of Iranian hardliners
If you make technology stack decisions based on your feelings rather than what the product actually does, then you shouldn't be employed as a decision-maker.
I agree with all your points. That being said MongoDB, Aerospike and Hadoop have all gotten good traction even with their slightly silly names.
I hesitate to ask, but what did Nintendo do to justify this lifetime ban? ;) (also, I kind of want a Switch, but anyway)
Divvy also seems to be available for Windows: https://mizage.com/windivvy/
Or maybe a sort of "Xcode for .NET?"
it's not at all unfortunate that the world works that way. What's really unfortunate is the founder of this seemingly great database system has decided to not care about how human psychology works.

Here's an Wikipedia excerpt on cockroach:

> They feed on human and pet food and can leave an offensive odor.[60] They can passively transport pathogenic microbes on their body surfaces, particularly in environments such as hospitals.[61][62] Cockroaches are linked with allergic reactions in humans.[63][64] One of the proteins that trigger allergic reactions is tropomyosin.[65] These allergens are also linked with asthma.[66] About 60% of asthma patients in Chicago are also sensitive to cockroach allergens. Studies similar to this have been done globally and all the results are similar. Cockroaches can live for a few days up to a month without food, so just because no cockroaches are visible in a home does not mean they are not there. Approximately 20-48% of homes with no visible sign of cockroaches have detectable cockroach allergens in dust.[67]
> I come from America honey, our names don't mean shit

this is the scene in pulp fiction where Butch has just killed the other guy in the ring
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Mac is over
Implementing Forward Kinematics
I think you're thinking of somewhere else. The up/down votes are a way of agreeing or disagreeing without cluttering up the comments with a bunch of "me toos" or "nuhuhhs"
Name doesn't bother me. It's memorable and I'd definitely consider using it, whether in a startup or enterprise. Better than "Postgres" -- how do you even pronounce that?
Alphabet code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/code-of-conduct.html

"Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (“Alphabet”) should do the right thing – follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect."

"If you are employed by a subsidiary or controlled affiliate of Alphabet, please comply with your employer’s code of conduct."

Google code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

"Don't be evil."
I've always been baffled at the 'last piece' cult. That piece is no more important than any other piece of the cake. What's with all the emotional baggage surrounding it?
Now you've done it!

My 11 year old daughter is named Sarah, but we just liked it. Her mother is Jennifer, and frequently tells me about how ridiculous it was to be named Jennifer in the 1970s.
I think you're right about the syncing protocols. I held onto thunderbird to work with my company's gmail server for six years and it was awful. Sure it was more configurable, but since I switched to the web client I no longer deal with:

+ 2+ minute wait for new emails to hit my inbox,
+ spinning wheel every time I load the inbox, and
+ oddly formatted html mail from coworkers.

Maybe those issues are to do with google's slow imap servers, but I finally realized no matter where the issues come from I need to get work done. That can't happen with the combination of gmail, large accounts, and any external client I know of.

And I have to say, after installing a keyboard plugin I can read email without using the mouse. Something I never got right with t-bird.
All posters are more or less right in this comment chain, but talking about coin flips and renaissance in the same breathe _seems_ to be silly, if you've read about the latter. (Not an expert so I might have been mislead by what I've read...)
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
Someone with a twitter go page Scott Hanselman with this thread.
My question is what's the point of clocks at all?

I would highly recommend to read the link by irfansharif. It's probably the best primer ever written on the subject.
Ma Bell's monopoly has never been "natural". It has been enforced by FCC, ever since FCC was formed for that specific purpose in 1934. Even before that, ICC through the Kingsbury Commitment had adopted an ill-considered and unjustified hands-off policy with respect to Ma Bell's anticompetitive actions.
On linux desktop can my Opera Tabs be at the top for the screen yet?

No? Oh well, back to chrome.
If I were a hardware guy I'd seriously consider it. In a couple months I should have the time to prototype it, but that's about as far as I can get. My time is stretched very thin these days.
Anarchist minister leads Taiwan's drive to become a digital powerhouse
Ask HN: Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning vs. Probabilistic Programming
I am currently working on problems related to record linkage on big data sets that link inconsistent customer data between different data warehouses (no unifying keys).

Curious what the community thinks of the effectiveness of more traditional machine learning algorithms (logistic regression, random forest, xgboost) relative to more recent developments in probabilistic programming (http://edwardlib.org/, Figaro, Anglican, etc ) in solving this problem.

Also, I had heard rumors that when dealing with big data sets where there is a lot of incomplete or inconsistent information then deep learning algorithms are not the way to go.

Anyone had any experience in this area? Thoughts?
What you say might be right. But there is the purely ontological question (do traders exist that outperform consistently?), and the different pragmatic question: Does it make sense to part with my money and give it to active asset managers?

The answer to the theoretical first question might well be "yes, there are exceptional traders outperforming the market". The second "real-world" question is much more involved:

* can I reliably identify them, ex ante? That's pretty hard.

* do I have access to them? Many of the examples cited (Renaissance Tec, individual traders trading personal account) are closed to outside investors. Many golden investment opportunities are channeled to people that are very well connected (either in the finance industry, or old money, or close to politics). Similarly, there might be legal access restrictions - you must be a qualified investor, or reside in a certain jurisdiction, etc. etc.

Personally, I think most of the asset management industry is basically a giant rent seeking exercise, charging extraordinary fees (over the long run) for very little value. There are exceptional performers, but they are not accessible to most people. (As a side note, much of their exceptional performance might come from insider information more than exceptional analysis.)

Thus, the standard advice stands: put most in cheap index funds/ETFs, and maybe develop some expertise in certain areas and dabble in it with a fraction of your assets, if you're so inclined.

The reasons that the finance industry is particularly prone to unproductive money skimming (rent seeking) include:

* massive information asymmetry (similar to real estate)

* psychological biases (most people don't realise that someone taking a tiny 2% fee per annum has basically taken half your savings by the time you retire)

* mostly experience goods (or even post-experience goods): enormous difficulty of evaluating quality ex ante, or sometimes even ex post (your pension pays you X per month. Could a competitor have done better?)

* regulatory capture

etc.

The coin analogy is a perfectly legitimate parable to highlight how difficult it is to evaluate asset manager performance. Sure, the actual analysis then still needs to be done, but the outcome, from what I can tell, remains pretty damning.
The Parkinson's device is awesome
I'm certain that I'm not thinking of somewhere else. I'm completely open to the possibility that I just remember it wrong, but I'm sure that it was HN that I was thinking of, and not another site.
Interesting to compare trends on SO vs other data sources.

I know of one language where SO use has greatly decreased, anecdotally from other forums because of SO culture, yet other measures show it's increasing in use. SO Trends is perhaps displaying popularity /on Stack Overflow/, which is actually a fascinating insight into the popularity of SO itself.
I've actually found this to be a positive, in a sense. No one can find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or anywhere else without adding my middle name.

First Last = there's ~5000 in the US

First Middle Last = there's 1 in the US, as far as I can tell
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Disclaimer: I'm a msftie, I've even had some "history" internally with codeplex, but I'll try to answer this as well as I can given public knowledge and speaking as an "outside dev"

I think it's a hard decision to make, but they've made the right choices in how they're doing it. An archive in perpetuity allows the content (the important bits IMO) to be preserved. Code-hosting-platform-ecosystem is another argument I've heard for preserving it, but a legacy platform with (from the public numbers I've seen) comparatively negligible usage and very little forward investment doesn't to me seem like it's doing much to contribute to competitiveness in the ecosystem anyway.

Re: Long term validity of products, all I can say unbiasedly is that codeplex is over a decade old. That, next to the usage trend, competitors, and the ramp-down plan, paint a picture that wouldn't make me worried about product existence. (And I say this as someone who was very sad about the XNA decision, I thought it was a swell little engine, and was parent to some games I love playing even today)
Again, the conclusion doesn't follow. DMCA being abused doesn't mean that copyright is inherently wrong or that software that makes it possible for copyright holders to find offenders is evil or a "crime against culture."
Have you ever been a manager? Do you really think dealing with people, all of whom have different strengths and weaknesses, is this simple? Do you appreciate that putting someone on a PIP may very well lead to them quitting? Maybe they don't work well from home, but you still need them. Hiring has overhead, causes some amount of friction and (hopefully) short term loss of productivity as you ramp them up (bigger problem for small teams).

>This isn't nuclear fusion. If this is difficult for a manager they shouldn't be a manager.

That's what makes me think you don't actually have any experience here. That... or you've just been blessed with more luck in your management endeavours than I have (or maybe I am just bad, certainly a possibility.)
I am eternally grateful that googling my first and last name returns pages and pages of links not about me.