skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to San Francisco this last fall for a couple weeks and actually found it far far more drive/parkable than expected. We took the subway and bus a few times but mostly drove and parked, and it was honestly never. I was honestly reasonable surprised and relieved.
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In the case of an ecommerce site, where multiple products can go in a cart, I don't see any real right way to do things with MongoDB. Atomic for one row just doesn't help much, and you can't nest arbitrary cart product mixes.

As you say, bad idea in the first place.
I don't care to know about the gossip or the preferences and peccadilloes of their clients --what interests me about these people (or the "flower vendors" and recyclers in a different way, etc.) of large Asian cities is the perseverance and tenacity of the people to make their own living as meager as it might be.

I was taking a $10 equivalent taxi ride late at night the other day, the driver opened his window at a traffic light and bought some fragrant flowers from a woman selling them in the median at the equivalent of $2. I asked why he would buy those flowers, he said essentially, "I made some money, she needs to make her money and I get a fresh car in return".

There are poor people for sure, but you will not see too many outright begging --they still offer the dignity of exchange of money for something tangible --even if it's tea-eggs on the corner (or in Mexico people peddling junkfood at major bus stops). We seem to have lost some of that dignity, I think. The only think that comes close are the people who try to push you to buy some panhandler advocacy newsletter --I have not seen them in years and that pub was utterly useless.
I'd rather not have another cold war. There are other ways to achieve interstellar probes.
Yes, as an Indian living in the US chai is one of the things I miss dearly. Also the chai latte etc. one gets at Starbucks & co are a misnomer, they are no where same as Chai.
The services you mention could be run using just a single one-way lane, alternating between blocks.

And, yes, pedestrian traffic jams do happen. There's also untold other costs of traffic, and potential uses for more space:

- Outdoor dining

- retail displays

- kids playing

- Trees, bushes, etc

- Bike lanes
Nowadays replicated (mostly) by linear actuators in stuff like the Steam controllers from Valve (intended for vibration in games). Even the Nintendo Switch joycons now have the same kind of actuators and can do this too (play sounds).
[edited to add - I think this is a fair point, and it certainly doesn't hurt to substantiate that more than I had time to last night. Here you go.]

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/task_force/harassment/upload/repor...

pdf page 15 (document internal page 8): "Based on testimony to the Select Task Force and various academic articles, we learned that
anywhere from 25% to 85% of women report having experienced sexual harassment in the
workplace.
...
We found that when employees were asked, in surveys using a randomly representative sample
(called a “probability sample”), if they had experienced “sexual harassment,” without that term
being defined in the survey, approximately one in four women (25%) reported experiencing
“sexual harassment” in the workplace. This percentage was remarkably consistent across
probability surveys. When employees were asked the same question in surveys using
convenience samples (in lay terms, a convenience sample is not randomly representative because
it uses respondents that are convenient to the researcher (e.g., student volunteers or respondents
from one organization)), with sexual harassment not being defined, the rate rose to 50% of
women reporting they had been sexually harassed."

The cited EEOC report has fairly extensive citations backing up its claims.

As I said - I have no specific numbers I believe are The One True Answer, but it's fairly clear from a variety of sources that the decimal points are in approximately the right place. For the purpose of what I was discussing, 25% and 85% are approximately the same ("Very much higher than one might guess if we use our own behavior as a model").
Huh, interesting. Wasn't aware of that :)
Cars are a huge impediment to creating walkable downtowns, even if they're green. This is downtown Annapolis, looking down Main Street: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9777543,-76.489652,3a,75y,10.... On a nice summer day (this picture is in October), the sidewalks are packed with tourists, but a handful of cars take up most of the space. Further down the street, you get to this giant expanse of pavement: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9773508,-76.487682,3a,75y,67.... To get from the main drag to the water front (in the distance in the picture), you have to cross this expansive waste of space dedicated to cars.

All for what? The whole downtown area is walkable, and there is a perfectly good multi-level garage at the edge of Main Street for people to park in.

> This is a massive reduction of comfort, a burden for families with small children and people with disabilities, as well as businesses and logistics.

Parents don't need to drive up right to wherever they're going; their children could do with a little walk. I've got a four year old, and we go downtown every weekend. It's no problem to park in the garage and walk half a mile to where we're going. At the same time, it's a big worry to have kids running around with traffic zooming by.

Deliveries and disabled people can be accommodated by permitting busses, special vehicles for the disabled, and commercial deliveries during certain windows. You don't need to permit all vehicle traffic to accommodate those special cases.
>I don't understand this concept of banning cars

Downtown? It's easy: they're noisy, annoying, polluting, take up space, and designing a city for them results in urban and suburban wastelands as opposed to vibrant, walkable city centers.

>This is a massive reduction of comfort

Well, comfort is not everything. And for obese car-obsessed sedentary people "a massive reduction of comfort" might just what the doctor ordered!

>a burden for families with small children and people with disabilities, as well as businesses and logistics.

And yet, families with small children and businesses have been doing just fine in more traditional and not car-oriented cities.

As for people with disabilities, they can always use mechanized wheelchairs and disability friendly public transport (something car and private-transport obsessed cities usually lack, only allowing the richer disabled people those "comforts").
Not a strict rule, however. Seeking a job based on non-pay qualities is also a thing.

For me the environment and industry matter a lot and will drive my pay requirements down, when I'm job-seeking.

So, the "sense in discriminating against" people who're older has this and likely many other trivial logical flaws.
Yes. We do.

Sexual assault:

From the DoJ:

"Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape."

Source: https://www.justice.gov/ovw/sexual-assault

Sexual harassment:

From the EEOC, the which is the U.S. federal agency that is responsible for civil rights in the workplace:

"It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.

Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.

Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.

Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer."

Source: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm

(Edited to include sexual assault, which was included in the parent comment as one of the things apparently lacking a definition)
Does Oslo have such regulations?
> MongoDB has purpose, but inventory management is not one of those purposes.

What purpose does it have frankly? The only one I see might be GridFS for what it is worth, though I don't believe one second the performances are that great, but when it comes to document oriented DB, Postgres can store both JSON and XML and query them and also do partial atomic changes. Scaling? easier maybe... Now competition is good and I'm sure NoSQL db success kind of forced traditional players to innovate. But I see no reason to use MongoDB in 2017.
Very nice! Any plans to add decibel/log-scale units? That would make this even handier.
You seek an explanation from physics which should have better been sought from psychology, neurology or AI.

I prefer to see consciousness as the ability of agents to adapt in relation to the external world. In the end, what matters is not consciousness, but the whole "game" the agent is playing. Humans play the game called "life" where reward is to exist and reproduce. Other agents play other games with other rewards - the concept is general, agents can be people, animals, AIs and other complex systems.

So, it feels like something to see a sunset because you have eyes connected to a visual area that creates a model of the external world. This image has a meaning to you because it represents a certain probability of getting rewards. Rewards matter because they guide your actions.

That's the root of why it feels like something to see a sunset. People who don't have the right reward/values structure don't get to reproduce and enjoy sunsets. So it's not so much a brain thing, but an "agent vs the world" thing.
Thank you very much.

I'll look into this. Thank you for the reference.
The people we are taking from have less money (housing is cheaper far from center) and the people we're giving to have more. This is a regressive policy, not something we do often.
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Looks nice, but is there a reason it interprets m^2 * Pa correctly

≫ 1 Pa * 2 m^2 / N
1 Pa × (2 × m^2 / N)
= 2

but doesn't automatically convert a result to N?

≫ 1 Pa * 2 m^2
1 Pa × 2 × m^2
= 2 m²·Pa

Same with W, J, s and all their relations.
Some health concern about Chai:-
1. Lots of sugar.
2. Use of Aluminium utensils.
Which height limits are there in Oslo?
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the online tools part I would take as being given such importance because of WP.
These are usually the most expensive parts of town, and of course there are offices and luxury apartments on the upper floors.

People are expected to walk two or three blocks, and that distance is kept down by the pedestrian-only zones usually being only two or three streets wide.
You put it nicely. Its a great enterprise they make, there is always a chai wallah at the railway station, office buildings, construction sites. It is also interesting to note College & university students have a cult following for their chai wallah. When alumni visit their alma matter, a trip to the chai wallah is a must.
Maybe this would lend itself well to parsing bitcode slices (serialized LLVM IR). I've often wanted to diff bitcode produced by different compiler versions.
And public transport takes twice as long because we've been focused on improving car-life as much as possible.

This is a good example of "things have to get worse before they get better", because in order to provide a decent alternative, we must, for some time, bite the bullet and ween off cars.

It's no wonder that public transport takes longer than private car travel: when you spend tens of millions of dollars on roads, when you illegalize crossing a street (jaywalking), when you optimize traffic lights to the flow of traffic, when you provide free parking, when you guarantee a minimum number of parking spaces per development, (and so on...), you've basically given public-transport the middle finger.

Public-transport and private (car ownership) transportation is an opportunity cost, and we've disproportionately spent our time and money on the latter. If we want to improve the former, then we're going to have to make these tough decisions to dis-incentivize private transportation.
Get out of that resume submitting/job seeking black hole!
The cynic in me is suggesting those errors are deliberate. Politics. Sorting data should not change the data. Why would a measure of a good thing negatively influence the rating? I know... Don't attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by incompetence, and all that. But when is government, politics has to be lurking.
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> I have a very small child

One is easily manageable, but consider families or single parents with 2-3 small children and the amount of stuff they need to carry with them, buy when shopping etc. ...

Not everyone can afford to move to expensive suburbs or hire a nanny.

I live on the outskirts of a larger-sized european city with perfect public transport and still prefer my (electric) car, since it's so much faster, cleaner, safer and more comfortable. I'd use it much less if I lived in the city center, but it'd still be a reduction in living standards (carrying shopping bags 500m vs. perhaps 100m total etc.).
pREST is not vulnerable to SQL injection, recommend you run tests
Using a TB3 -> TB2 adapter and a TB2 -> FW800 adapter definitely works on Apple hardware with every FireWire device I've tested (hard drives, cameras, and audio gear)
What city (that would plausibly do this) doesn't have a rent crisis?

The people who get a more "livable" city (where livable apparently does not include navigable) are those who can pay the most. The people who get locked out of the city are those who can pay the least. Few suburbanites could afford a bedroom per child in the city center, yet this is standard in the suburbs. This is under current prices; think how much worse they'd get if every suburban resident was trying to move in.

The city is going to be less livable if people have to pay higher portions of their incomes for less space, and waste more of their lives in transit.

We should do this so some people paying $3500/mo rents don't suffer the indignity of looking at a parked car?
Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
It's an interesting review but I think you need more than a few agent-based simulations to be able to broadly claim than ethnocentrism works in real evolutionary systems.
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programming language writter,
postgrest.com = haskell
postgres.rest = golang

Read more in: https://github.com/nuveo/prest/issues/41
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At that time memory was as fast or faster than the CPU so it mattered little. In particular the TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A had fast static RAM onboard -- only 256 bytes of it though! The rest had to be accessed through the video circuitry and was slow -- unless you bought the bulky, slow Peripheral Expansion Box and 32k upgrade which gave you more CPU RAM.

For its time the 9900 could have been revolutionary. But the architecture of the TI-99/4A was odd in its own right.
I think the true answer is: we don't know yet if it was due to bad regulations, building contractors ignoring regulations, inspections not happening, the whole system, ...
Actually I am wondering how much these companies can make by doing this so that they may be able to afford the $120M fine.
When I have travelled around the world, I enjoyed public transportation. Everything is new to me, and I have plenty of time to enjoy it. A couple hours to make it somewhere is no big deal.

But I have to wonder if it's still as nice when I have things to do and need to get somewhere further from the main transit lines. Or when I need to finish something at work and miss a train. Or when I just want to be home for dinner.
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This rant isn't true at all. Philly is a good example of a city where there are tons of affordable neighborhoods along extensive commuter train lines.
Public transport is not a valid alternative because cars create endless neighbourhoods.

You can't make an effective transportation system with low pop density because few people will be able to get to stations on foot, and you can't make a fast transportation system because low density means downtown is very far away.

On the other hand, in downtown, cars are a big nuisance: they take most of the public space, they pollute, they are dangerous, etc.
Thank you for the feedback. That is intentional. Whitespace (or even lack thereof, as in "2x") is implicit multiplication. Otherwise, you'd have to write multiplication signs everywhere:

2*sin(5*cm/(2*m))
The postwar boom was a demographic and economic situation that is not applicable today. The US had been in a depression for a decade, and then spent another 5 years producing nothing but military hardware. There were 15 years to catch up on -- all economic growth is faster when you're starting from a low state (see: China)

Just as importantly, the demographic pyramid of the 50s looks absolutely NOTHING like today. The vast majority of the population was either working age or younger -- families had 3-4 kids average, we had no pension / medicare / SS liabilities to worry about (not to mention: end-of-life health care was incredibly cheap in comparison to today).

Nobody would be crying for austerity politics if we didn't have a massive population of retirees supported by a wobbly 1.9 fertility rate. It is not comparable to the 50s.
The parent comment is not correct. No, you will not be "legally complained against" (I think you mean "am I breaking the law") if you compliment your coworker's hairstyle. See this: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
It supports text (ASCII and Unicode modes), PNG and SVG.
I agree that specific formulation is asinine but the whole point of regulations is that businesses cannot be trusted to put public welfare above economic incentives. It's not about who is more to blame, it's about the government failing its constituents which is heinous regardless of how many people died. Businesses do immoral shit all the time and while we should punish them accordingly, if the government abdicates its duty in regulating them even that becomes impossible.
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Oh well, we did know how well that stuff burns, why it's not used in many countries except Britain, how toxic the fumes are etc.

The industry knows how to not build a 70 m matchstick.

This is clearly not a case of "but we didn't know!" / "who would think of that happening".
Do you have good ideas? And can they become viable side businesses?

I do frontend mainly and know a bit of backend as well. But don't have good ideas to work on :(
I'm talking about bringing the same thing to American cities, as many in this thread advocate. Outside of a few, a building over 5-10 stories is seen as a big deal and neighbors will fight it tooth and nail.
I don't know, but it does look as if the UK is undergoing an experiment to find out. As someone living in the UK, this chaotic government is shameful.
>How can it be debunked? It's all internal to a person. I'm not comfortable telling people what they feel/who they are is wrong.

Yes, but there's this thing called science, that doesn't care about hurting feelings...
Today pREST not accept MySQL, more pREST developer working adapter environment, check in https://github.com/nuveo/prest/tree/master/adapters

I recommend you open issue on pREST and recommend MySQL support
I suspect we may be close to it.

There is a palpable anger, all throughout the UK right now, directed against the ruling class. We've all known instinctively that the ruling class don't care about us, but now it's real and painfully visible.
Fun fact: Current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (who incidentally meets President Trump for the first time this week) was a "chai wallah" in his younger days at some train station.

The term "chai wallah" was used as a jibe against Modi by senior Congress politician Mani Shankar Iyer but the people of India chose the chai wallah instead of the "crowned prince" of the Nehru-Gandhi family with a thumping majority.

Despite being a democracy India has been ruled by the Nehru-Gandhi family (via the Congress Party proxy) for more than 60 years since its independence in 1947.
The building recently went through a refurbishment that cost £8.6m. Part of that refurbishment was adding the cladding that probably played an important role in the spread of the fire.

Money is being spent, it's just a question of how. And guess who was in charge of that refurbishment...
No question this is embarrassing for the military. These ships are supposed to be able to detect and shoot down missiles arriving at mach 3. But they didn't detect a 40000 ton cargo ship traveling at 15 mph? A cargo ship that was broadcasting its GPS location constantly?

That said, this article really adds nothing to that which is already known about the incident, besides that someone tweeted "people weren't paying attention".

Very lucky there weren't more deaths.
> to hollow out the power of government,

It's important to remember that in many matters, the government are the people.
Yeah, I was wondering how they pulled a sphere off! (So I suspected it was just a flat torus instead -- for non-geometers, a flat torus is what the game Asteroids is played on. Unlike the usual embedding of a torus in 3D, the curvature of a flat torus is 0 everywhere.)

I think the only possible convex sphere made of squares is six nxn square grids stuck together into a big cube. Supposing n>=2, then there are 24 squares with the defect that they only have 7 neighbors. Flat tori don't have any defects, so game of life creatures can't locally measure they're not just in two-dimensional Euclidean space.

A wilder topology I've never seen the game of life take place on is 2d real projective space. Instead of just gluing bottom to top, side to side, you reverse the orientation as you glue. So, if your Asteroids spaceship is flying upward near the left side of the screen, when it goes past the top edge it would appear at the bottom edge flying upward near the right side of the screen. You could also play on a Klein bottle by reversing only one of the orientations.
Not really. You don't prove non-existence -- you prove existence.

Else we'd also have some burden to prove that fairies don't exist.
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I have friends with multiple young children and no nannies who do just fine walking their whole brood around the (urban) neighborhood.

You can easily carry quite a lot of shopping bags for 2 or 3 kilometers in a wagon if you need to.

Or if you like, you can use a car occasionally for shopping trips (or even a taxi), and for a workday commute and the great majority of other trips, stick to walking/transit/bikes. Even if people just ditched their cars for 80% of their trips it would make the city overall much more pleasant.