skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I think we're on the same page. I think the flashy Greater Downtown development is generally positive, I don't mean to be down on it--that would be especially hypocritical of me, as a former Midtown young adult transplant--it's just that a lot of times it's portrayed through this lens where it's as if the city was this completely empty and barren wasteland and here is this new artisan coffee shop charging into the wilderness to save the world and Establish Civilization. When the city is not an empty wasteland. There are hundreds of thousands of people already living there, they've been living there for decades, and a fancy bakery is nice but probably isn't going to help them with any of the public infrastructure issues they've been actually struggling with and trying to get attention to for years and years now.
I have no idea why you think this is HN fodder, on any level.
While your points are sound, and I can't argue on that basis, I would hold up another "noble experiment" which, for being too forceful in its idealism, lost the ability to change with the times when such changes were necessary to maintain power and relevance. (Yes I realize I'm making a HUGE jump here by bringing prohibition into the discussion, it's a rather handwavy/subjective argument, and as such I can't really expect a change from it, but it's still one that weighs on my mind) Simply put, I worry about the pitfalls of idealistic purity and isolation.

Your statement of "can't give the community capacities it doesn't have" is fair, if disappointing. Perhaps I'd take a slightly more optimistic spin, that even during the "week politics experiment" I _did_ see corners of good discussion even if the net did devolve, and I might have a more holistic view of trying to encourage those discussions for key issues, but that's not my role at this point.

I mostly argue this for that I would be _embarrassed_ for the tech community if we were not both informed and active within the political climate that so spawns all this trouble. I understand this may not be HNs place, and perhaps my desperation comes from not knowing what another place would be. We escape from normal media to come here; but do we run the risk of creating our own bubble, removing ourselves from being active participants opposing even the most egregious shifts of principle?

At this point I'm just waxing philosophical. I don't expect you to change your policies, and I'm frankly content/thankful that you even took the time to justify yourself rationally.
"...The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation#cite_...
> Google uses Spanner in-house extensively

True

> it is likely to be available for a good long time.

Where does this conclusion come from?

The google mapreduce paper was released in 2004. [0]

"By 2014, Google was no longer using MapReduce as their primary Big Data processing model" [1]

The google spanner paper was released in 2012.

If spanner lives as long as mapreduce it will be largely replaced in 5 years.

[0] https://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/googl...
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Is this why their market cap was going up without ANY sense whatsoever? Did some people have this inside info?
Interesting read, I have always preferred green apples to red apples. I even distinctly remember a day in kindergarten where we did a taste test - almost everyone in the class picked the green apples. I had never really understood why red apples were so popular, I hadn't realized there was a dominant type of red apple or what it's backstory was. I'll have to try a Honey Crisp or Gala next time I'm at the supermarket.
I happen to like Red Delicious since they produce a satisfying crunch without being tart (like green apples) or mushy (like gala). I'm surprised this article is using a personal preference to criticize an entire variety and industry.
This was long ago I'm afraid, not sure if still in business.
Pardon my shameless plug :), but i think you are describing https://subzero.cloud
You made a math error:

You can encode about 300 addresses, at 36+8 = 44 bits per item, not 45 addresses, at 36*8 = 288 bits per address.

The bits are additive, because we're storing an address and data, not a byte of data per bit of address.
Perhaps there's still an opportunity to provide this service - for it presents a really unique business opportunity:

* Apple gets to see how its youngest customers, and future purchasers, interact with their products. How are they actually being used? What are the real frustrations?

* Apple can provide educational services. Music, art, mathematics, engineering - it can go a long way to making these kids life-long learners.

* Bonus points for having a pediatrician on staff. No need to take time off for a sick kid.

* After school care with pickup from local schools would be a huge benefit. Imagine your children being picked up from school and brought to an engaging environment where they can learn and play?

* Ditto for a summer program.

Taking care of daily life issues go a long way to proving peace of mind and allowing one to focus and engage fully while at work. That's why so many companies provide food service, laundry service, workout/health facilities, etc. I'm thinking there's a huge opportunity here.
Yep, you're dead on. I usually work with the type of dealerships that do the end of the road "buy here pay here" type financing for people who have very bad or no credit, and that is exactly their customers' priority.

They don't care about how much money they will have paid in total 3 years from now, but how much money they'll have for food/heat/rent this month. And in America, unfortunately, a car is usually a necessity to make any money, so they accept the high interest, long term notes because they have no other choice.

The latest trend that's popping up are services that work together with dealerships to file income taxes on behalf of the customer. Tax season has always been the busy season for these dealerships since that's when refunds come in. Now the dealers are trying to streamline the process. Bring your W2 to the dealership, we'll file your taxes for you for free[0], and you get to drive off the lot with this vehicle weeks before the refund is actually processed.

[0] Hard to call it free when the contract is charging 20%+ APR.
It's tough to discuss without spoilers, but there's no way he could get consent, right? And there's no family to seek consent from (save his mother who didn't seem lucid enough to consent) but he did have consent from the other people he interviewed.

I don't even know.. I felt uneasy listening at times due to this exact question, but I don't think it was unethical at all.
what is the difference?
There were probably countlessly many things that Apple had to fight with the city over to get approval on, and there are only so many concessions that they can get. An exemption to the parking space requirement was probably not a very high priority to force through.
Thank you! I am actually going to TU Delft next year :)
Would be really awesome if you could introduce me!
How can I PM you in here?
I wouldn't mind a creepy, noisy robot if it did the chores for me while I was at work and away from the house. I would be more concerned about safety with small children. Mine often find unpredictable ways to injure themselves with inert small objects, so I would imagine the possibilities with a larger, moving machine would be larger.
You can quantize it to get the parameters down to 8 bits.
Thanks for bringing up the GraphQL-Europe conference Sashko!

The sale of early bird tickets ended a few days ago, but I just created a special 30% discount code for hn: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/graphql-europe-tickets-326484042...

If you are in Europe, I'd encourage you to check it out. There are some really interesting talks lined up. And Berlin is an awesome city :-D

The full schedule is available at https://graphql-europe.org/
> Kotlin

isn't Reason supposed to fill this role?
> Things you can do to make your website easier to use include making sure that clickable links and buttons have a decent clickable area, and that pages can be navigated using just the keyboard

Hah. I don't know why this receives mention - while I'd love it if it were common practice, nobody actually thinks about this and it's unlikely to change. And it's not just web sites: let's not forget the slew of Electron apps where keyboard integration is nonexistent, partial, or an afterthought.
Yeah, the dual mouse cursors was a 10x improvement.
I was discussing about this with an old (60+) developer that still insists in making everything in PHP with his own CMS / framework that he built 10+ years ago.

He stated similar opinions to yours: "so many acronyms, frameworks, unnecessary features, etc". I don't know about you, but it sounded he was trying to cope with generational gap more than anything.

Nobody needs electrical powered car windows or even automatic transmission. Is it more complicated to build cars with those unnecessary features? Yes, but that's what the market expects.

Similarly, these days users expect all the bells and whistles of sophisticated user interfaces. They want to click a like button without having to refresh the whole window, and load content progressively without having to go to the next page.
As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely.

However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen Hero had, being able to click for the other person or type while they were screen sharing to help them out on a task, if needed. If it's not in there for this release, I hope it gets added soon.
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Removing T_D would result in an insane amount of backlash that I'm sure they don't want to put up with.

If you have to have a cancer, better to know where it is and keep tabs on it that risk spreading it out.
I read the article, but Gen. Milley doesn't make the case for why mutually-assured destruction is no longer relevant (he doesn't mention it at all, actually). After 50 years in which it has arguably been the primary strategic factor maintaining the peace among the great powers, I'm curious about why the future would look different.
Helping a stranger withdraw money at an ATM, is it right?
I'm really surprised this took so long. Hipchat has had this available for a couple of years now.

If they aren't adding the pairing features that made Screenhero so good (dual mouse pointers, dual control, resolution adjustment and scrollaround windowing) then what's the value add?
Some people probably think Uber got run "out of Texas..."
We've come back around to <blink>, but with more obnoxious multi-element components. Even better, it's somehow accepted as a good thing to do.
I keep my main collection in source format (preferably flac), then transcode it down to mp3 or opus depending on my target (eg. my phone can handle opus but my ancient USB mp3 player can't). In particular, it's important that I can use opus on my phone because I want to fit as many songs as possible, and by my own personal listen tests, I need to double the bitrate for an mp3 to sound as good as an opus (though granted that wasn't blind tested or anything).
The new Cosmic Crisp sounds so good, and they're going to absolutely flood the market this year.
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i think it's ASLR with more entropy by skimming through the paper, but most exploits have read primitives or infoleaks anyways so i don't see how more entropy affects them. If i am right it protects against attackers guessing the ASLR slide, but that's very unreliable and no FBI grade exploit should ever do that.
Ask HN: Is there an easy way to attach notes to each pane in tmux (or screen)
I am heavily multitasking (as a way to hide the latency caused by ridiculously long compile/test cycles) using multiple tmux sessions and panes. I find myself constantly trying to remember what i was doing in each pane so i am looking for an easy way to attach a note/memo to each pane.
I'd guess that it would be close to the size of the adjacency matrix for the human brain, if it is given that the brain has ~1000 dendrites per neuron.
the Red Delicious in Latin America are fantastic
What orbital eccentricity? That moon has a nearly circular orbit. Much less orbital eccentricity than Luna.
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Is it possible to just refuse the bitcoins that have this wallet in the ledger? That way they cannot spend the BTC they ransomed?
I was certainly a new programmer once. I don't remember this one catching me offguard anymore than most other things. Lambda, in particular, was much more to wrap my head around. Or defun. Even define is somewhat awkward.

So, sure, first is more descriptive than car. However, first also should have applied to an array. And it does, just not in the same way. Which is itself confusing.
Yes, programs that do more stuff tend to use more memory. That's what memory is for.
How does that help the situation?
1) I doubt the subjects were aware of the context their statements would be framed in.

2) "I would argue the subject of the podcast would consent" is not the same as consent. It's one thing if it's a public figure. The subject of this podcast was not a public figure.
It's factually correct though - it's not built on the latest version of Android, but the latest version of Marshmallow.
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The trick would be getting people to have and grow their own edible lawns. Then the cost is the same as keeping the lawns of today, but there's a more useful return.
It's only a values issue. In Russia for example small gardeners produce 40% of the nations food.
http://naturalhomes.org/naturalliving/russian-dacha.htm

And perhaps the evolution of tools like https://farmbot.io/ An intelligent 'lawmmower' makes your permaculture for you.
Fujis are also delicious, and very widely available.
It's called Moravec's paradox. Basically the AI things that we thought would be easy ("computer vision, pfft, give it a few months") turned out to be really really hard. And the AI/computer things that we thought would be hard were actually not that hard (Some scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation have data pausing for a moment to return the result of a query. Google has faster response times today)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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Skyliner is shutting down
I wasn't claiming it and I even qualified my statement. I am not sure what more I could to make it clear that no languages have actually been replaced, while retaining a nuanced message that many people see replacements depending on their perspective. Then I even cited source to back it up with some some numbers.

If you want to argue with some several post up, please go several posts up. If you want to argue against me, than please do so on the merits of what I said.
I suggest you email the team that did the C formal semantics about doing one for Rust. They did it in K Framework (Maude-based) with a front end, KCC, designed to be usable like GCC. Their other work includes functional and logic languages. A team that did an executable semantics for all of those seems ideal for a formalized compiler for Rust given it's like several styles combined. Their rewriting based tools could probably handle at least a subset. Then you get DDC for free plus a way to equivalence check reference compiler for certain features.

https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics

http://www.kframework.org/index.php/Main_Page
Honeycrisp fits this bill for me - in fact it stays crunchy much longer than RedD.
i've never had a mushy gala.
We can exercise our critical faculties without moralizing.
Red Delicious are absolutely the best apples for throwing at your enemies. They are also the best fruit to be stacked on a cart and driven through during the car chase scene of an action movie. They are also quite useful for making your business look like it has made a token effort towards providing fruits and vegetables for customers.

They are certainly poorly suited for actual eating.

Fujis have a good taste/price ratio, making them my default value option. Honeycrisps are great, but currently rather expensive. Hopefully that price can come down as more Red Delicious orchards are demolished and replaced.

The most bizarre part of the article is where it says people buy Red Delicious and just throw them away. While that would be insane for private residences, the Red Delicious is somewhat of a symbolic icon for "fruit". If you manage a convenience store, truck stop, or hotel breakfast nook, you can buy one Red Delicious and keep it around for a few months, secure in the knowledge that no one will be foolish enough to eat it. And the whole time it is not being eaten, you can advertise that you offer "fresh fruit".

Just look at your fruit at home. All that stuff gets eaten and replaced. If you go out on the road, the standard fruit basket becomes Red Delicious apples, small, hard oranges, and bananas--literally the three cheapest fruits you can buy in any grocery store. And the apples might as well be wooden apples, painted red, because when the bananas and oranges go, they remain.
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It's not my favorite, but there's no objective metric for discerning apple "quality."

One man's red delicious is another man's ambrosia (apple, my favorite variety)
> why I wanted to leave my original post as a "riddle" rather than coming out and saying it.

Because the comment was fundamentally irrelevant? You could post "step up your game" on every single tech submission. It's white noise.
Presumably what one wants to have happen is development that improves the tax base --> increased city revenues --> improved city services --> people returning to city --> repeat cycle. But bootstrapping that process isn't easy.
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I don't understand what you're trying to say. How is morality relevant at all here?
I think serverless currently means " I don't have to think about servers, provisioning or scaling". It's === to function-as-a-service. S3 is the best example so far since people see it as no servers at all, just static file serving (there USA server running S3, but as a user we don't really care)
I don't actually have the book anymore but that might be it. It was a big, red Wrox book.
Swizec Teller is running a free course at https://school.shoutem.com/. Stephen Grider has a few good video courses on Udemy such as https://www.udemy.com/react-native-advanced/.
So the customers of the popular bowling alley don't park in the parking lot of the neighboring businesses. It's forcing every business to play nice with their neighbors, rather than free-ride off of them.

Most mall parking lots are sized for the demand of the busiest day of the Christmas shopping season, and are consequently underused for most of the year.
I've heard that the difference between an entrepreneur and a consultant/freelancer/contractor is that an entrepreneur makes money while they sleep and a consultant/freelancer/contractor only makes money while they are working.

The premise of this question seems to be related to that. Not that I'm pitching entrepreneurship so much as reframing the question. Maybe there is a middle ground where the commute time is used for business...phone calls and so forth. And maybe those phone calls are invested in looking for a better paying job or freelance work or something that increases income.
The article seems oriented toward raw consumption, I like to experiment with food canning and I've made many single variety batches of applesauce to experiment with. Pure grannies are a little acidic to me. My kids like red delicious applesauce, for something thats basically sweet with a texture its not bad. Ida Red results in an extremely pale nearly white applesauce which is interesting looking but the taste is boring. I'd have to find my notes I've experimented with most every variety at one time or another. Its a fun relaxing hobby.

Something I like about home canning my own applesauce is bug-leg-free applesauce is commercially unavailable in stores, its safe to eat buggy applesauce but pretty gross once you have a source of bug-leg-free applesauce. Also if you follow the USDA/BallBook you can't vary lemon content for food safety reasons but you can vary cinnamon and its an eternal experiment to try different ratios. Also there are USDA approved low/no sugar applesauce recipes but in the store you can only buy corn syrup or artificial sweetener applesauce.

Anyway to make a long story short, store applesauce is gross, few hobbies are as delicious as home canning applesauce, and I've had "OK" results with red delicious in applesauce form. Its not pure red evil or whatever as the article claims.

Next story, lets debate Concord grapes, vs Flame seedless, in raw and home canned jelly form.
Why is that impressive?
I wouldn't consider this creepy.

https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XV2kBAa21cI8yKgmfm90EwYalA0...

Nor these:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2b/87/e5/2b87e5634...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2e/a5/fc/2ea5...

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire...

https://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com/images/kuri-home-robot1.jpg
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Given that Convox is older than Skyliner, I wonder if the Skyliner team look ad Convox and can point out any features that distinguish Skyliner from Convox. Looking at both from the outside, I can see two:

1. Skyliner sets up AWS application load balancers, whereas Convox only supports classic ELBs (though the Convox team bogged about a proof-of-concept ALB integration several months ago).

2. Whereas Convox uses ECS, Skyliner runs each container in its own EC2 instance (using a standard Amazon Linux AMI plus DOcker). So in that respect, Skyliner's run-time configuration is simpler, though it might not use AWS resources as efficiently.

I wonder if there are more subtle differences in the way that Skyliner deploys an application compared to Convox.
The guidelines are unclear if the article uses another article as a direct source, but adds additional content. The Quartz article does use Wired as a primary source, but it also adds additional content as the Wired article doesn't mention daycare at all. Additionally, the comments on this post pretty much all talk about daycare as it's in the title and a major talking point of the article, rather than just the building itself.
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