skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm betting you aren't a bicyclist. If you ride regularly you quickly realize that it's not a visibility problem, but that some drivers feel like bikes don't belong on the road.

I was raced on road and off, was a bicycle messenger, and used it as my primary transportation. Often cars were openly aggressive, I had a brick thrown at me, various cars would try to run me off the road. It's fairly common to be on a long distance ride and have one issue or another with a motorist that believes the bikes shouldn't be there. I've had numerous things yelled me along the lines of "bikes are for kids" and "bikes don't belong on the road". Threatening by swerving, passing way to close to be safe, revving the engine, "rolling coal", etc.

Fortunately cell phones have helped quite a bit, pictures and videos have lead to convictions. There's even boards where locals share info about hazardous drivers. The cyclist death tolls are definitely non-trivial, I've ridden by quite a few memorials. For some reason hitting a pedestrian is often considered manslaughter, but hitting a bicyclist is often called an "accident", as if it was an act of god, not a driver not paying enough attention.
It definitely is if you were to use it. In either case, as a public institution there may be a cap on the cost of these spots, and should be required reading for any critique/support of the Berkeley student impact on housing prices in Berkeley.

Typically these articles paint a picture of students rolling in as if they were forced into a 3000/mo condo.
I think it's worth actually reading the piece of legislation for the housing fee: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2017/06_June...

From what I've gathered, the additional fee is designed to incentivize developers to include at least 20% affordable housing units in new projects. If you're building less than 20% affordable housing, you pay a sliding-scale fee. That money goes to supporting staff in the city that monitor and enforce affordable housing regulations.

I can definitely see the opposing policy argument here: just remove incentives on developers and let the market figure it out. However, I don't think Item #53 is some kind of scheme to keep housing unaffordable on the part of home owners.

I wasn't able to find the de-zoning item in the agenda, if anyone knows which one it is I'd definitely give it a read. Full agenda here: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2017/06_June...
Hmm, so why do you say "but they don't help with event handlers"? Because it's not yet standard?
Unfortunately org-mode is not backwards-compatible and there have been many changes which break things unnecessarily.

For example, I once attempted to run this org-mode "notebook", ironically titled "Reproducible Research with Emacs Org-mode", and found I had to make significant cosmetic changes to get it to build: https://github.com/eliask/orgmode-iKNOW2012

Maybe things have improved since, but backwards compatibility is important for these kinds of formats.
It varies by field. Try publishing in Math, CS, or Physics without using TeX.
Think about those 5GB in a pocket-size device, 16 years back! Not long ago we still had 16GB iPhone base models.
It's much easier to keep a group of 12 people clean.

It's much harder to keep a group of 12,000 clean.
> Like many in this debate, you seem to think that preventing housing construction prevents population change. But it only preserves the size of the population, not the composition

It doesn't preserve size, either. Existing units can be occupied more densely, units not intended (or legally permitted) for residential use can be occupied, and population can grow that isn't housed.
> Consider that there are plenty of ad blockers but no "unreasonable-ad blockers" (according to some policy).

There are - such as https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads . This puts ad blockers in the ironic position of earning money via ad revenue...
Currently many cars have automatic braking (honda, subaru, bmw, tesla, etc) I'm not aware of any that actually record it for playback. Does anyone know otherwise?
why not use ms f sim X like the real flight simulators?
Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

The book is old, from IBM's heyday but most of the principles have remained unchanged.

One thing you'll find different is that they recommended offices for everyone so that each person could work in a quiet environment where they could focus as opposed to today's open area. I'd argue the open area has it's merits but everyone wears headphones so the current trend may not be all that great. Promoting a team that communicates is the goal, having an open space is merely one way to try and implement that.
For those who might be interested, and in a slightly different vein than the examples in the article, there's the "sleeping beauty" paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem

Basically, an agent is put to sleep and told they will be woken up once or twice, depending on the results of a fair coin flip, without the ability to remember other awakenings.

What probability does the agent assign to the event that the coin landed heads?

The intuitive response is 1/3, but this poses obvious epistemological problems. The agent has, ostensibly, no new information at all, and their prior is surely 1/2. Hope someone else finds this as interesting as I do!
Thats not how it works in the real world. Reputation matters, for good reason.

If 'Animats comments on tcp/ip you should trust it more than if I do.

If 'tptacek comments on app security it's sort of the same (though I don't know he has anything named after him).
You can get involved in regional planning (such as Plan Bay Area and the RHNA) and support state bills (such as Scott Wiener’s SB-35) that put more power in regional commissions that have more equal representation. Some Berkeley NIMBYs actually have the gall to claim that cities’ rights over zoning is pro-democratic (such as Zelda Bronstein (https://48hills.org/2016/11/28/17209/) and Thomas Lord (http://48hills.org/2017/05/19/why-housing-quotas-lead-to-dis...), whereas as you point out it, hyper-local zoning disenfranchises commuters (https://pedestrianobservations.com/2016/06/18/a-theory-of-zo...). When people say that cities’ rights are pro-democracy, call them out on it.

Edit: Also add public comment on zoning decisions that affect you even if you cannot vote.
The options aren't just single family houses and high-rises. You relax the zoning requirements that raise the lot size required per resident. Lot size minimums, boundary minimums between houses, number of floors, parking minimums, and minimum unit size. Re-legalize single-room occupancy units, so that people who can only afford the bare minimum (room with a lock) can buy that and not be homeless.

Or if those technical requirements that make cheap housing illegal aren't palatable, then just add in much more mixed frame construction. It's already fairly popular, I've seen a bunch of buildings under construction like this. It's basically 1-2 floors of steel or concrete frame for commercial use, along with 3-5 floors of residential wood framed units on top of that. Replace low-density commercial with that mid-density mixed-use, add in mid-rise townhouses, and you've got plenty of room to have five times as many folks in Berkeley.

Of course, the real problem is that housing is too regional for this to make a big difference. It's a huge cost to Berkeley, and what it does is relieve pressure in the greater metropolitan area as people shift their commutes to take advantage of this.
It was about ways to create an inclusive environment. This was one of many recommendations to do that.
> As a matter of fact, the whole addon-sdk should never have happened

I agree, but there's a bit of hindsight there. Several years ago, basically, Mozilla people looked at the explosion of Chrome extensions and thought "we are too slow, making an extension is too hard, we need easier onboarding". Hence the addon-sdk project, which itself had a few false starts iirc. It might have had to coordinate with work on FFOS, so that might be the reason it took too long to come to fruition. Whatever the reason might be, by the time the SDK was ready Chrome had run away, making WebExtensions a de-facto standard, so they had to start all over again.
I agree with building more housing. There are a decent amount of empty lots in Berkeley... and a smallish downtown area that could be revamped. However, even in best case scenario with a bunch of new housing, unless people start selling their single family houses to get replaced by higher density housing, I don't see housing prices going down a ton.. it won't be cheap but it may be more accessible to the middle class.
Not quite related but I always thought Sheryl Sandberg would be a great CEO of Uber. Of course, I don't think she would want the job.
Ask HN: Why is the top bar black? (June 13th, 2017)
By no means was I suggesting to take 'The Prince' as a manual, that would be dumb and really evil. The methods outlined in it can be seen in TK's actions. Well, that or (invoking Hanlon's Razor) they are just plain dumb.
touche. lol
Payment Request looks useful...anyone using it?

Could VP9 replace widevine?
Right, I'm just saying being in a private tab wouldn't prompt a cookie error
The OG, Lawyer, and Porn Addict – Players Behind Ethereum Domain Auctions
Yes but these are recoverable states whereas threads suffer from partial reads in the middle of updates resulting in undefined unpredictable behavior. It's not a good metaphor to compare threads to processes as they suffer from vastly different failure modes and problems and are quite normally contrasted to each other as different solutions to concurrency problems.
Thanks! Is this a reference to FIRRTL that I've seen some light references to (e.g. Yosys's experimental FIRRTL backend)? I was under the impression FIR was somewhat new and wasn't sure if it was used in Chisel (yet).

(To be clear, I figured you compiled to a generic IR before lowering onto some chosen HDL, regardless if it's FIR or not, but wasn't sure if Chisel had multiple HDL backends strictly speaking).
This article touches on _what_ knobs you have to control in a visual design, but a beginning designer often struggles to put these to service in a bigger context.

I really enjoyed this talk from Apple's conference this year—it gives a great overview of the sort of conceptual framework a designer has when making specific choices:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/802/
I don't know how much more visible I can be on my bike! When I'm doing anything other than my short commute, I'm decked out in high-visibility clothing, have daytime-visible bright flashing lights on my bike, and am decked out with a bunch of retroreflectors. Despite this, I have to swerve to avoid a door that was opened into the bike lane on at least a quarter or half of my 15 minute rides. I have to slam the brakes to avoid a car that's decided to abruptly turn or switch lanes about every four 15 minute rides. This is roughly the same rate as when I go for shorter 4 minute rides to/from work without any special clothes/lights on. In fact, the only reason I wear the high-visibility stuff is for when I get out into the more rural areas after sunset.

I doubt you could get more people to switch to commuting by bike if you required them to take those extreme measures, and it certainly doesn't seem to help me in the city much.

[edit] A simple thing a motorist can do to improve the safety of cyclists is to open a door using the "Dutch reach"[1]. It pretty much necessitates looking to the left before/as you open your door, and makes the check easier too!

[1] https://www.dutchreach.org/
> Successful, popular concurrent platforms like [...] node.js, eschew threads in favor a single-threaded, async/non-blocking code model

Except that Node (by way of libuv) uses thread pools internally for things that it deems to be CPU-intensive enough to need it, like crypto.
Usually it means someone of significance to the community has died...
No, for real though, I thought Machiavelli said it was satirical after torture. Honestly, though, I don't actually know if is was intended as satire from the start. Was it?
Displacement is definitely an issue, but it doesn't go away if you stop development. SF has been notoriously anti-development for some time, and that didn't stop the poor and working class from getting displaced (except for those with rent control or subsidized housing, of course).

The real progressive solution here would be to use taxation for the government to build its own more affordable housing, housing that is mixed-income, mixed-use, etc. But, that can easily happen in parallel with private development.
Yes the article mentions that a 3 unit building in South Berkeley was rejected for no good reason. There is demand in that area and it would alleviate overall housing costs to build more there.

Note that just because these areas are not as trendy as others, they are still very expensive.

"Arreguin recently joined a Council majority in rejecting a three-unit project at 1310 Haskell Street in South Berkeley that met applicable zoning laws. This was after a previous rejection caused the city to be sued. The city settled the suit and agreed to another hearing. Despite the city attorney warning the Council that they would again be sued if they did not grant approval, the Council voted it down again."
Real estate is bad. Renting is very expensive, house prices too. There are, however, a few affordable pockets here and there.

Health care is pretty good, though not quite as good as UK (dental, for example is not covered by Medicare). Some doctors charge more than the govt rebate, so you may be out of pocket if you have a particular doctor you want to see. YMMV.

Schools are pretty good. There will be at least one state school in your zone which you are entitled to enroll your child in; beyond that it depends on demand. Childcare (i.e. the years before school) is a different matter, and you sometimes wait for a year or so for a place in a particular centre (apply early). Private childcare providers tend to be pretty bad; community/council centres tend to be good.
Can you give some advice on how to keep my liver healthy?
Actually, no. I think I have confused RPi with some other board.

Don't have Pi at hand to test for sure, but searching online can't find mentions of USB DFU. I think I may be mistaken.
This is your argument in favor of the status quo? Or are you just expressing some feelings?
No, they were not. Flight Simulator 1 was released for PC in the early 1980s (see 1), and even earlier for Apple II. Consumer graphics cards were not widely adopted until quite a bit later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Si...
In that case, why not go the extra mile and register as a nonprofit? After all, if you are not generating profit, why go to all the trouble of having shareholders and the like?
Hmmmm. "Hess says they tried to shop around the idea to other neuroscience journals first, to avoid the conflict of interest—but didn’t have much luck, since most editors they spoke to had never heard of algebraic topology".

Neuroscience as a field is quite comfortable with 'n-dimensions', given the importance of matrices to data. Let alone the relationship between topology and graph/network theory... It seems highly unlikely that editors would not be at least roughly familiar with algebraic topology. It reads (to me), "Our research is not marketable, because it lacks prescriptive insight, so we published it in our own journal". The conflict of interest statement in the paper is suspect, as the article roughly mentions.

From the abstract: "We propose that the brain processes stimuli by forming increasingly complex functional cliques and cavities". I can't see how this says anything not already well-established, though perhaps differently described - that biological structures in the brain support the use of hierarchical network models at the neuronal IP level.

Anecdotally, I find the 'jargonification' of neuroscience a little disturbing. This reads like false progress. I'm simply an interested lay-person, so I'm open to correction on all the above - but as I see it, additional ways of describing 'what' does not necessarily give a 'how'.
I'm thinking of driving south from Hood River towards Madras; OR-26 between Government Camp and Madras is probably going to be backed up, though (or so I imagine).
It doesn't. And the average joe isn't going to move either.

However, the Waterloo software engineering graduate who's making 150k+RSU+bonus is probably nailing a Principal engineer position at a famous american tech company in SF/SV/NYC/Boston and is absolutely going to nail big bucks. Thats some superstar material right there. The only places I've seen that approached those numbers in Canada were Canadian offices of Wall street banks. And having worked for those companies in the past, superstar engineers at Morgan/Goldman in NYC made me look poor.

And i'm far from poor.
It's so cool the source is available!
Reinvesting profit doesn't make you not profitable, it just means you've decided to grow with your profit rather than extract it. Amazon doesn't have small profits, they've just plowed their money into growth.
markdown (pandoc compatible) + mathjax mathematical notations within dollar sign is future proof. Easily convertible to html/pdf etc, easily readable in raw.
I hate bike riders. Sharing road etc. is fine but it is irresponsible for bikers to ride on the road and expect car drivers to be watchful. If there is an accident not only the biker and his family is in trouble but the driver too.

It is much better to keep a separate bike lanes or let bikers ride on pavement. Where either things are not possible have some mechanism for to detect the bikers and alert the cars through flashing lights or something.

Biking is fine in a park or for kids. There is no sense in riding bike in the middle of a rush traffic.
I did actually use dd to begin with but it didn't work as I wanted it too right away (can't remember why, probably something SUSE related) and by then I'd used up 6 mins of the 15 mins I gave myself for the job.

I also had to do the same test on windows, so python won
You're just demonstrating the same facile mindset that plagues experts of every discipline, so convinced that the problems of every other field -- of which they are largely ignorant -- are obviously trivial, and could be solved with a bit of common sense.

This XKCD cartoon, basically: https://xkcd.com/1831/

Consider the difficulty most people on this site will have encountered just getting a handful of software components to cooperate successfully. Now imagine trying to do the same with an organisation of thousands of human beings.

Left to their own devices, large groups of human beings easily fall into horrendous anti-patterns. Avoiding or fixing these anti-patterns is not just hard, it is probably the hardest problem human beings have ever faced, given that we have been working on it for the duration of our existence, and we're still mostly terrible at it. This is not trivial, it is mindbendingly difficult.

The "bureaucratic jargon" you mention is just the specialist language that the field of management of human resources has created to talk about the problems they're trying to solve, and the structures they've designed to solve them. And really, it's hardly impenetrable in comparison with even a mildly technical blog post.

When you dismiss problems like this as easily solvable, or the recommendations of experts as bureaucratic jargon, then you're the pointy-haired boss waving away technical arguments why something is infeasible. You're the politician saying ISPs need to put more filters on the tubes to censor the internet. You're the cable host smugly dismissing climatology as fake news.
You're right in that the original IBM PC shipped with optional CGA graphics.

Searching around I'm finding conflicting information on Flight Simulator 1's use of the black & white 640×200 CGA mode and support for a colour mode targeting NTSC composite output. Maybe the original release supported both?
You are confusing threads with processes.

Processes are isolated and do not share memory. Threads within a process share memory. For example, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

Nginx is single-threaded, multiple process: "Each worker process is single-threaded and runs independently" https://www.nginx.com/blog/inside-nginx-how-we-designed-for-...

Erlang code is single threaded. Each Erlang "process" is an isolated, share-nothing single sequence of instructions, and you don't use semaphores, locks, or critical sections in writing Erlang code. The BEAM VM is implemented as a multithreaded process, but this is not exposed to the Erlang code, and Erlang code can be transparently distributed across multiple instances of the BEAM VM (processes) even on separate hosts.

You're correct on node.js, and "basically trying to re-create preemptive threading provided by the OS."
Couldn't find anything in the news. Maybe someone related to Y Combinator that HN is paying tribute to?
I commute by bicycle. Cars are generally something I don't have to worry about because my commute is mainly not on roads and where it is there are generous bike lanes (although I have been almost hit by cars, deliberately, before). The non-road portions of my commute are on paths that are marked at regular intervals with words and symbols noting that the paths are shared between pedestrians and cyclists.

Every "close encounter" with a pedestrian I've ever had has been because the pedestrian, usually with his face buried deeply into his phone, starts swerving to the side or, worse, abruptly turns. Responsibility is on all parties in spaces where there is shared traffic, not just cyclists or cars or pedestrians.
Nation-states are the law. Punishing a nation-state means going to war.
There are some hiccups like newlines that don't transfer too well between unix/dos in plain-text.
You hear accidents happening to people with thousands of hours handling weapons. No mistakes on their part, just the gun going off. I can't risk the biscuit.
> Business is almost always all about share price for the shareholders

And there's what wrong with the world in one short sentence. The market was supposed to be about raising capital so companies could go out and earn profits, the company shouldn't worry or care about its share price in the secondary market, it should be taking the capital and making good business decisions that lead to making profits. Letting the share price be the metric that decisions are made on is letting the tail wag the dog and leads to short term quarterly thinking and bad decisions all around; it's not how a good company is run. Profits lead to good companies which lead to good share prices, you aim for profits and good share prices are the result, not the other way around.
Don't fret about the downvotes, these magic internet points aren't redeemable anywhere :)

It's completely possible for the data to not (all) leave the CPU. If the caches are large enough, then the pages full of "y\n" will be still resident in the cache when the next iteration of the program overwrites the same pages again. Then the CPU has no need to send the original page out to main memory.
I suspect it is this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548030

In Memoriam: Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker: 1943-2017
Microsoft Joins Hot Open Source PaaS Project Cloud Foundry
My city had 47 pedestrians killed by cars in 2016, and back in 2010 we had the first and last known pedstrian-cyclist collision fatality, it was an 80 year old man.
Contribute to open source projects.
A detail you seem to be missing is that you are not limited to a shell script. The shell sets up the pipeline, but the members of the pipeline can be written in arbitrary languages and just have each stdout linked to the next processes stdin.

As a result you can process very large volumes of data and consume (not waste, consume) significant system resources to perform your processing.