skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, thank you, that makes a lot of sense.

So basically, if I understand correctly, it looks like munifiber would reorganize high-capex costs (buying and laying the fiber) into more manageable opex costs (renting/leasing capacity on fiber laid by the city). And furthermore, by normalizing the playing field, many different ISPs can sprout up and compete effectively on what truly matters to the end-user. That would be fantastic.

If anyone is interested in talking about bringing a FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) project to fruition in a 100k+ pop. city in PA, then please reach out to me. Email in profile.

Now is absolutely the right time. We're in the midst of a mayoral election and over the past 7 years or so we've had a NIZ (neighborhood improvement zone) granted by the state with the specific intention of doing things like this. Two stadiums have been built, along with numerous office and residential buildings, and we're in the process of building an entire waterfront. Laying munifiber would fit right in, and I think we could get it done with a proper proposal.

I need some added expertise around estimating the cost of the project. I can build and write the proposal effectively with a solid cost basis. If anyone can help me with estimating the buildout cost of a muni-FTTH network, then once again please email me (email in profile). Thank you!
Works for me. Not enough mass to hurt anything, but enough to play with precession. I like mine.
This is the tug-o-war of influencer v. influencee. A machine that just tells-it-as-it-is might hold an advantage over one that willingly ignores some data to promote a different view of the world.

Personally, I see more danger in people trying to make machines that evangelize their own biases to the world than machines being molded by the existing social assumptions of society, given that we expect machines to perform most of the work/control most of the resources in the future.
sounds about right

at the right company with the right compensation structure, a handful of $100M+ deals can set you up for a LONG time
It goes both ways, the partner can become reliant on this kind of support. And only sometimes partly you can cover the difference with money and/or power - typically much more expensive than cooperation.

In fact I'd say the housekeeping skills are always more marketable, more basic and easier to master - you can live off them, but not without. This gives rise to competition which drives both social perception of value and actual financial value down.

Mutual dependency has been the way of life for ages - for good reason.

Edit: Thought police strikes again! Instead of downvoting, please provide a coherent argument why a given point is invalid or how.
> Especially out West, for vast areas of the US, there really are no good alternatives to driving ...
> And most of the cities are too far apart to reasonably take trains between them.

Heh, that's a very USian response ;). That's largely because the US doesn't have proper long-distance trains. In a lot of other countries you'll be about as fast or faster with a train rather than a car, and can comfortably work for most of that time. Even if a 6h car-trip becomes a 7h train-trip, I'd almost always take the train.

Compare driving Cologne-Frankfurt Airport by car (2h, if the traffic gods smile), and train (45min). That's a faster track, so not quite representative, but even Berlin-Freiburg on mostly slower tracks - I've done that over a hundred times - is ~6.40h train vs. ~8h by car.

I don't see the US getting comparatively nice long-distance trains anytime soon.

> For example, there's very limited ability to visit most National Parks without a car.

Yea, that's true. I've so far done that with rental cars, works well enough unless you're going in winter... Hm, I should plan a trip soon.
Libertarians are not anti-regulation, they just believe that the good and bad consequences of regulations should be understood.

Often, those who are not libertarians will support a regulation simply because they agree with its stated aim... things like "the patriot act" or "the affordable care act".

Those names are chosen to sound good, not because they reflect the intent of legislation or the outcome of it.

To give you an example of the folly of fuel economy regulation, consider that 90% of automotive pollution is created by the oldest 10% of cars on the road. Does it really make sense to force all buyers of new cars to pay extra? Why not charge a tax that increases for every year a car gets older, so that the person driving the smoke-emitting clunker has an incentive to upgrade into something that is cleaner and safer.

Libertarians value having a clean environment just like anyone else does. The question is how to create regulations that are fair and don't create disincentives for innovation. Note that several automakers needed government bailouts partly due to the cost of complying with fuel economy regulations. But rather than letting those companies fold and allowing Tesla to rise to prominence much sooner, our regulators propped up the makers of the most polluting cars, a move which set back US emissions significantly (compared to the counter-factual I described).
100,000 miles changing oil every 3,000 miles at $30 a pop is ~$1000 so yes, within consideration.
Its not really an interesting product. Its a fad. The article really doesn't explain why fads happen.

I think humans are just dumb animals at heart who like shiny things and automatically copy what other humans are doing without even realizing it.
I wish I knew that I should keep practicing all my math skills I spent 5 years perfecting, to loose them after 10 years and now I need it to truly understand ML instead of using API's
another? what is the other one? the yo-yo?
Yes. Try it.
Wife bought me one months ago, I really enjoy it. I like interacting with the physics of it as much as anything else.
well if i were in that situation, the way i would see it is "i did my part; my grandkids got money and i showed them how to use it." if they blow it all on cars and drugs, that's on them
Careful, Misophonia is a thing and you might annoy some people. Although the spinner probably wouldn't be much better.
well if you don't like flying then nothing is good lol

i love flying so as long as it isn't sardine economy, i'm happy
The previous emoji were almost uniformly better looking. It's a shame - they were one of my favorite features of Android.
I have a fidget toy from fidgetland.com that I really like, but I haven't tried the spinner. It seems to help decently with my ADHD (I tend to bite my lip or tap my desk a lot without it).

Fidget spinners seem worse. You just hold it and it spins. That's not what "fidgeting" is, since you aren't constantly moving. I don't think it would work nearly as well. It's not supposed to grab your attention, it's supposed to help you keep focus on something else.
ICANN forbids application records at the apex of a TLD. The only TLDs that do funky things like this are ccTLDs.

And if you try to actually use a bare TLD you will crash hard into collisions with unqualifed domains and search paths. So, fun as a hack to amuse fellow techies but not useful for anything real.
Shame on me! Mixed up my units.

Note that we haven't accounted for _n_ cylinders either. For a 4 cylinder engine you'd average ~67/second. :)
I believe it's actually four bearings. One in the middle and one for each of the three arms.
thats what i thought too until my first few first rides, even domestic. nowadays if the delta between economy comfort and first on a domestic flight is <$150/pp, i'll do it
2000 / 60 seconds * 4 cylinders ~ 133 detonations/second.
Yes, cl-cont by our very own Slava "coffeemug" Akhmechet. Unfortunately, a recent site rebuild at common-lisp.net seems to have left the project page blank; nor do I see a cl-cont repo on Slava's Github page. It's Quicklisp-installable, though.
As a tmux/vim user those extra control keys look amazing, there are too many layers fighting over too many control keys in my current setup, I'd love to have something like a dedicated vim accelerator, a dedicated tmux one, a dedicated console one and a dedicated desktop manager one.

Is anyone selling keyboards like this? What happened to those really expensive customizable keyboards from a few years back?
People often describe finding pmf as an explosive, overwhelming moment, when customers are pulling the product out of your hands.

I wonder if there are any hugely successful companies that experienced in more subtle, gradual way. Instead of that one moment when they were overwhelmed by inquiries from prospective customers, they ground away slowly and steadily with hard-working sales and marketing teams. Instead of one big hockey stick moment, they just grew sales by 70% every year, year after year.
Could someone paraphrase the argument for learning Kotlin? I understand it's essentially Jetbrain's fork of Java, motivated to some degree by the desire to provide useful realtime information to programmers working in the Jetbrains ecosystem. Presumably this implies that certain features present in Java that are ambiguous at compile time (e.g. generic types) might be winnowed away in the pursuit of a language more conducive to static analysis?
This was years ago now, but I said the same thing about that "milliondollarwebsite.com" (or something like that?), that sold pixels as advertising space on a single pahe. "What a bloody stupid idea" I said, and said to my flat mates at the time, that if it makes the money I'll run round the block naked.

Fast forward a year or so later, I got sent a link (by my now old flatmate) to a BBC article saying they'd made their million bucks. So, we got together, drank -a lot in my case - and all I remember is much hilarity and that it was a cold night that night.
It's a significant portion of a salary of an average sw engineer in my country, and I live in Western Europe.
No one ever became a billionaire by homemaking
I don't have a religion or a personal God, so by definition I'm atheist, but I'm also open to using the term God as a metaphor for a creating force (anything that initiated the universe) which puts me in the new-age-y spirituality and agnostic camps but doesn't anthropomorphise a God, define my moral code or add magical/superstitious decorations. My moral code is based around the Golden Rule, but not because someone or something said I should - it's because it's logical and purest form of fairness.

So perhaps a lot more people come under the Humanist umbrella, which generally share the same beliefs and moral codes when applied to the world around them, whether they possess a belief in a non-anthropomorphised God or not. That aspect of belief is just semantic.
There is no schema change, that's the point. You just don't get it... but that's okay.
Flipping is a consequence. Availability of cheap credit is the prime cause.

If ratings agencies did not assign the issued mortgage tranches a triple-A rating, they would not be bought en masse by institutions seeking safety, and their interest rates would reflect that.

Turn on HGTV today and there are more tales of flipping than ever ("Flip or Flop", "Property Brothers", etc.), CNBC just started filming a reality show following a successful flipper ("The Deed"). Go online, and there are pitches from RealtyShares, RealtyMogul or LendingHome advertising "flipper" real-estate-backed loans. Take an amazing journey into your Gmail's "Spam" folder, and you will be greeted by dozens of experts who made incredible money flipping, selling their flipping systems and holding seminars in a town near to you.

Yet we don't see a bubble, because hard money loans are rated accordingly and turn out to be expensive for most people.
The academic market is distorted because of the withholding of final credentials (and for foreign students, the papers to be in the country). That alone suppresses wages and disincentivizes the hiring of staff scientists who demand the higher natural wage for the work performed.

It is further distorted by lacing what would be a better collaborative allocation of resources with instead strong flavors of formalized individual protectionism, whether student or PI. So now your limited funding gets spread to 10 groups secretly doing the same thing and they have to take a lot of shortcuts to "win."
Have they thought about adding in Motivational Coaching? I would easily pay for that as I need to perform at a very high level for long periods of time with little advice. I would pay probably upwards of 300 a month for regular access to a motivational and strategic coach a la the main character in Showtime's Billions.
The huge stride in efficiency recently has been made possible by direct injection. Engines no longer have to work hard to pull intake air through a mostly closed butterfly valve. Attributing this advancement to govt regulation is preposterous. Just as regardless of whether govt had mandated faster processors, industry would have created them anyway.
How does a mesh net cross oceans?
Ask HN: What do you do as CEO? How has it changed over time/scale, and why?
That's gut wrenching. I'm going to send her $10.
Show HN: Convenient Data Loader for many common NLP datasets
Interesting. What'd you find? :)
Check out how much quicker Formula E has gotten in just three years
I started project on github for loading detailed billing reports into elasticsearch so you can analyze the information with kibana: https://github.com/ProTip/aws-elk-billing . I don't really maintain it anymore, but a group of people have contributed quite a bit more to it over the past couple years. Some here may find it useful.
> A new GTI is much bigger and despite the name has no real relation to the 1984 model.

Agreed, it's safer, considerably faster and much more luxurious. It is also priced a lot higher.
I think it's possible that the economics of electricity will change dramatically in the next few years. Already, in several states, we see days where solar generation momentarily dramatically exceeds demand - and with solar so cheap now, that's only going to get more extreme. Charging batteries seems like a good thing to do with a power surplus, and it makes more economic sense to charge a consumer's battery than to fill up some grid-storage solution.
No, it would not be a good feature. For one thing, baking the bias of existing practices as opposed to constraints risks reinforcing that practice as more and more decision-making is left to ML. Second it makes your system vulnerable to verbal paradoxes designed to exploit that bias.
Whoever runs this definitely works in a bug bounty program:

https://twitter.com/cluelesssec
Why do you think that "Passwords have no requirements" is a sign of incompetence?
It’s not a fork of Java, it’s a language that uses the JVM like Scala. It’s not at all like Java, it’s a modern language more akin to Swift with lots of syntactic sugar.
Except companies that outsource such services and the whole service industry in hotels or such. Use less straw in your strawmen.

Of course this is often parasitic and I suspect you meant directly. Even then, thing called "gold digging" has a long long tradition. (Though being misattributed to women while it works on both sides just slightly differently. Often with more than a hint of slut-shaming etc.)

Edit: excellent. Call a thing like it is, get downvoted. People jump to conclusions, proving the point.
Anyone else see the irony of using aws services to understand your aws bill? It makes complete sense, just funny.
One (probably forgotten) reason people validated email addresses with convoluted regexps is that there are multiple (actually valid per RFC) email addresses formats that can do nasty things. Like explicitly specifying a series of mail servers to go through. They're (hopefully) deprecated and rejected by most servers nowadays, though.
Britecharts.js demos
> Glassdoor sifted through the resumes for the job titles that appeared most frequently in the five years following graduation. Median pay was determined based on salary information self-reported to the site from May 2015 to this month.

I'm not sure if this is a good way to quantify it. It was always common for people to get low end jobs after graduation. It's not the jobs they've done in the last 5 years that are of interest, it's the ones they hold after 5 years.
I'm sure non-libertarians also believe regulation should be understood.
Length seems like a reasonable requirement, e.g. it can't be "asd"
So if you just want to serve 5 TB... there you go.
On Quora someone asked what the longest search query time was. I was able to craft a query that took multiple seconds to complete. It used wildcards and undocumented iteration allowing one to stuff thausands of queries into a single query. Turns out it is someone's job to measure result response times, and he/she came into the thread to kindly ask us to stop messing up their statistics.
The permissions needed for Twitter signup are somewhat off-putting.

These are okay:

> This application will be able to:

> Read Tweets from your timeline.

> See who you follow,

These are less okay:

> and follow new people.

> Update your profile.

> Post Tweets for you.

> See your email address.
The obvious question, of course, is what you would've recommended for us to use between 1950 and 2000?

Transportation and moving around fast is pretty dang valuable. It lets us do a lot of things, markets become larger, and the different number of highly specialized people I can interact with increases.
What exactly are you proposing? What do you do with the OH?
How does a mesh network cross oceans?
Uber Freight launches to connect truck drivers with available shipments
We have billions of rows of data and very complicated CTEs doing joins on a dozen tables matching based on GEOS radius data, and it's the primary query for our application. We're running PostgreSQL 9.5 and need to have all the data in memory for the fastest results.

Part of the problem is that the network disk that EC2 provides as EBS is 100x slower than local disk, so keeping all the indexes and data in memory is the only way to replicate physical hardware performance.

If anyone knows of a better EC2 setup for PostgreSQL, I'm all ears.
Unrelated question: Do you see any similarities between prison life and corp/work environments?

Did you get mistreated by any of the prison employees?
Martha Stewart got halfway there.
Less financial assistance from parents != less financial assistance overall. My guess is that plenty of the women in the age range they look at (25-54) have husbands or boyfriends who assist them financially.

Women are more likely than men to get married young (while still in college) and to marry someone older than them (who might already have a job).
Volvo says no more diesel engines, the future is electric
How does it pay less? You get to have a place​ to live, eat, sleep, all for free, without having to stay away from your children for an extended part of the day.
The coolest thing about current F1 engines is that they eliminate a major inefficiency of turbos. In a modern turbocharged, once the turbo hits maximum boost an electronically actuated wastegate opens to avoid over boosting the engine which wastes all the energy you worked to create.

Coupling the turbine shaft to a generator allows you to recapture that energy normally lost to the wastegate.
Taocpp/PEGTL: Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library
A society may decide that its worth educating its own citizens. Several countries around the world do that.

Several countries even do that for internationals.
In that case, 256 bit encryption keys are security-through-obscurity too, they're just realllllly obscure.
That's just it. Servicers of student loans have certain obligations that aren't required of other types of loans. There's a 600+ page book called the Common Manual that lists all the rules. I don't even know most of them, because I only ever worked with initiating consolidation loans.

These articles from The Consumerist give you a better idea what the outrage is about:

https://consumerist.com/2017/04/03/navient-claims-its-under-...

https://consumerist.com/2017/01/18/student-loan-giant-navien...

I think the first covers the "moral outrage" a bit more than the second when it mentions how Navient's public statements are all to the effect of "we're here to help you," while their actions all point the other way. The second is just some straight up shady shit they've been doing.
You may be interested in seeing art from a different perspective.

http://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r2/index.htm...
But in practice, what we get is VW.

It is "contra-survival" to poison the air. You cannot breath profits.

The world is bubble-shaped, and we are all trapped together sandwiched between hard vacuum and molten rock.

Poisoning in the short-term to make money to make laws to stop poisoning in the long-term is a poor strategy, and I think we as sentient human beings can do better.

"Never let ideological purity interfere with effective action."
I don't think any of those are bad in isolation, or even in aggregate if you remove the experience one. It doesn't look all that different from the path I took, I graduate community college/trad school faster, but dropped out of high school.

We're extremely luck to work in an industry where meaningful experience only requires a time investment, all our tools are free (or near free) and we can collaborate with other people around the world.
PayPal hit with lawsuit alleging it aided Ponzi scheme
That makes more sense. So your chance of dying in an auto accident is 0.7% over your lifetime.

It's probably less than that since I'm sure the average fatality per accident is >1.
Ha. That second sentence is exactly what I said as a teenager; I've since found out how ignorant I was.

It's only equivalent to saying "I don't know" if you follow a line like Pascal's Wager, with any sort of faith or conviction you're saying you have established an answer.

The Big Bang is widely accepted yet is by normal definition impossible (you need time in order for something to change, the Big Bang requires a change before time existed). It's a cop out that allows people to curtail metaphysical enquiry at the bounds of known physics ...

People will challenge a theist "who created god" but don't challenge "who/what created the Big Bang". For some reason ex nihilo is fine for the Universe but preposterous for a creator? (The reason is usually a religious reliance on certain assumptions.)

>you stop looking for the actual answer. //

Your petitio principii is showing.

If I find "I get wet standing outside when it rains" I don't need to find a contradictory reason why I'm getting wetted by rain unless the original theory fails. Of course you stop looking and only consider then opposing answers if they present themselves.

When you wake in the morning do you enquire as to the nature of your reality afresh or do you assume it has the same realism as when you went to bed? (Until that realism is challenged?)
> Electric vehicles are a tough sell now though. The Bolt EV costs $36,620, the Prius $23,475.

You could split the difference -- buy a Chevy Volt for $34,095 ($26,595 after Fed Tax Credit). Drive electric up to 50+ miles per charge, but still get 42mpg when driving on gasoline, with over 420 miles of total range per fueling.

> In general people buying electric vehicles in 2017 are buying them for non-economic reasons. They lose money. Hybrids are likely the best bang for your buck.

I'd argue plug-in hybrids are where the real sweet spot is.

It's only an extra $3k over the Prius, to get ~90% of your driving miles via zero-emission electricity, but still have full gasoline available for any long-distance trips. I think that's a really compelling argument. It's really easy to save more than just $3k on fuel alone, after a couple of years with that car.

Regular hybrids are cheaper up front, but are wasteful. They cheap out on tiny batteries that are way too weak to take full advantage of the vehicle's technology. Stick a wall-chargeable 10-20 kWh battery into a hybrid, and you get the best of everything in one vehicle.