skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a lot of champagne on the back wall!
The article is arguing against government subsidies, not business choices. Businesses are providing a benefit, parking, that is not taxed as income. If that benefit was taxed in the same way income was, it would be more expensive for both businesses and consumers and therefore businesses and consumers might make other choices about transit (or location).

Further, I would argue that the time for your commute is to a large part determined by the available infrastructure (roads vs subway lines vs busses, for example), which is something the public has chosen to allocate funds for. There are certainly more and less efficient ways to move people around, and I'm not saying that cars are better or worse, just that the efficiency is partly a choice the public has made.
How do use these through Dvorak? I also use Dvorak although I only type in English and Spanish which are very similar. I make my custom layouts with Autohotkey so they are portable. I also have a page how to do such on Mac and Linux although there not as portable and feature rich as Autohotkey.
Decentralized projects never seem to gain steam until mainstream users are forced away from centralized services. Take a look at this recent article looking at why the majority of mastodon users are from Japan: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-bi...
Refrigerated transport trucks.
Remember that perishables are coming to the store from somewhere else, as well.
That attribute is part of ongoing work and it's disabled for a reason. Currently it doesn't protect you against canvas or webgl fingerprinting.
Interesting dive into the tax code. I wonder how the article would have read if the author researched the amount of subsidies that go into public transportation. Public transport subsidies are a very material portion of most city budgets as rider's fares typically pay for less than half the cost of running the bus/subway/light rail system.

As an example San Francisco spends about $1 billion of its $9 billion city budget funding Muni - more than 10% of the entire city budget.
Wouldn't that inhibit someone's else's rights? Companies are made of people after all, no?
Ask HN: How would Intel's Optane going to change program designs for ever?
Taking all the attributes of Optane's into account on being a non-volatile faster than SSD with mission to combine RAM and Flash (or to eliminate volatile memory) into account, How would Intel's Optane going to change program designs from our day to day programming to distributed server designs running our current world?
Life has to be more than that.
It's a kind of trivial side-note, but F# would provide a compiler warning (configurable to be a compilation error, if you like), if you were to call myString.Trim() without binding the result to a value, unless you explicitly pipe the result to "|> ignore". This language in particular has oodles of great default behaviors, most of which can be overridden, but you must do so explicitly.

Unfortunately, I have no more data on the real-world results than anyone else. :-)
Would it be less offensive to the HN community if her degree was in Math?

And, then, given that Music is entirely dependent on mathematical principles, and Music Theory especially: What are the chances that, as an MFA in Music, she has a rock solid background in mathematics?

Does that make her choice of degree less distasteful?

Would we be having this conversation if she had no degree? (Of course not.)
A trick to 'get rid' of the iPhone X notch
Ah, yes, you could do that.

But aren't you then stuck with either one platform which does that, offering you no advantage over what Patreon offers today, or loosing a lot of the miscellaneous Patreon features for keeping Patreons and creators in touch in exchange for gaining censorship resistance?

It's certainly doable, but I think it would be a hard sell compared to Patreon or any regular centralized Patreon alternative.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm glad you found my Dad's story moving.

Like a lot of things with mental illness, I think the truth about whether depression is beatable or not is more complicated than many people's narratives let it be. It's proven that depression is cased by a combination of environmental and chemical factors, but who can say where the one begins, and the other ends?

When I was growing up, my parents were really worried about me inheriting my Dad's disease. Then, once I hit my early 20s, and started doing a bunch of things that would have been impossible for my Dad--traveling, moving abroad, earning a living as a writer, having lots of friends and girlfriends, being generally extroverted and having a good career--they started referring to me as having "dodged my Dad's genetic bullet."

But I live every day with depression. I suffer from it enough to have a regular prescription of Zoloft, and have filled out more than a handful of single-digit scoring depression screening tests over the years. There have been entire months where I have felt utterly hopeless, looking in the mirror and hating what I see.How much did I dodge a genetic bullet here? My depression is very real to me, and very hard for me to fight at times. At the same time, it's macho bullshit to say that I am "tougher" than my Dad, just because depression hasn't ruined my life. I think it's probably fairer to say that we're both right, and I'm not as depressed as my Dad, but I've also--with him as an example--set up much better habits for myself.

Treating depression isn't zero sum. You can't beat depression just by taking pills, but nor can you beat it just by riding bikes, doing yoga, or having a balanced life. You have to try everything, and maybe in trying everything, you'll find what works for you. So I think the most hope I can give on this question is this: if your depression is beatable, you can beat it. But was my Dad's depression beatable? I don't think so.
While it's likely true that there are other ways to approach the problem, we're yet unsure of how to get there. The existing biological model has as least proven itself to work to some level, at least insofar as Descartes has lead us to believe.
> The malware was written in Russian? It was a Russian who attacked you.

You don't think that investigators can deal with misleading evidence? The country of origin is still a clue that can fit together with other clues.
I find the extension rather unreliable actually. There are a lot of sites (e.g. Twitter embeds) where turning off autoplay also seems to break manually clicking play as well (forcing me to temporarily disabled the extension and reload page).
To fix that problem, they could remove gif support at the same time.
I mean, this is distinct from Firefox Profiles, which work pretty much exactly like Chrome profiles and sync the same way.
While true, I'm not sure that it's necessarily because of the increased burden.

In Scala, for example, immutable variables are declared with "val" while mutable ones are declared with "var". Here's there's no great cost in typing or screen space (and to the uninitiated, it may not even jump out at you). But Scala developers will almost universally use val; in the language idiom var is an unusual thing that feels wrong. And I say above that it won't jump out to beginners; but to experienced Scala developers that l vs r is a huge glaring difference -- your brain just gets trained that way.

I think the key takeaway is that some languages are designed with first-class support for immutable variables, and in those languages, you tend to use immutable variables. Even in Java, modern style tends to use "final" for local variable definitions, though the support in the language for immutable types is much weaker, so the tendency isn't as strong. In a language like C, immutability is a practically non-existent practice, and "const" does not serve the same function.
What you're saying is a bit different than the premise I argued against from parent, effectively (an oversimplification, but...): "Automobiles are bad"

I come from a bias being from Silicon Valley, but when I moved to the south, it is IMPOSSIBLE to work without a car. I mean, as a developer, I can work from home, but our corporate overlords would like me in an office.

Are you aware that there are cities which have no feasible public transportation?

To get rid of "personal transport cars", you would also require a massive paradigm shift. Not just in city planning, or introduction of public transport, but with how people live as well.

A massive "unrooting" of our current structures would need to take place, with a rapid replacement of more sustainable transit options. I actually find it valuable, in the longterm, but no one will agree with me.
I was recently very surprised to see an expensive security scanner which builds apps as the service account apparently without sandboxing. A package manager which executes code or which is exploitable would give you access to what is very likely an interesting account & data, and in at least some cases might not leave many clues behind. PyPI, etc. at least has centralization and immutable versions but who knows what's serving some random repo, tarball, etc. which might not even be a direct dependency?
I was indeed referring to personal automobiles, which is what the original article is referring to.
Because, in Lisp, getting it wrong means that you don't know which one was supposed to close which opener. And which is a vector, which is a list, which is a hasmap, etc.

Clojure, in my opinion, did this right. You don't need very many alternate delimiters to get a lot of bang for the buck and break things up.
Mastodon really isn’t a replacement for Twitter. The original Wired article did a poor job of critiquing it.

I think this guy does a much better job of critiqueing Mastodon than the article linked in the parent post.

https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e...

Key points:

“The foremost problem is that federation is a lie. Well, it’s partially a lie. The benefits described above do work; if you send a message to anyone at @username@custom.website, it will be delivered to them. But if @custom.website is a domain that mastodon.social deems inappropriate, replies from that users on that domain don’t show up in your notifications or on your feed, unless you explicitly follow them.
So if you’re having a conversation with your friend, @person@custom.website, and another user from custom.website wants to chime in, they will be invisible to you.”

And

“Suppose you’re a semi-famous content publisher. You have 10,000 followers on Twitter, whom you converse with regularly and have a large history of communications with. If you decide to switch networks to something like Mastodon, you immediately come into contact with the Hardest Problem of Identity on the Internet, which is that your social graph is not portable between platforms.”

I feel these are two very important limitations to understand about Mastodon.

I see Mastodon as basically Wordpress for people who want a twitter like experience off of twitter. Aka niche communities.
I would argue it just displaces it. Instead of you needing to walk to the parking lot and get jammed in after a high traffic event (Sports, or Concert), the auto parked cars will have issues getting out, and lining up in the street to pick everyone up.
Seems like it could go either way. The hope is that self-driving cars will alleviate stop-and-go traffic (they have faster reflexes and better ability too coordinate than humans). Further, fewer cars could support more people (not everyone will want to own their own car if Lyft can get them to and from work for $0.50/mile). That said, humans are uncanny in their ability to consume (faster network speeds, better processors, cheaper storage, etc).
Cool website. I just wish it didn't break my back button.
As mentioned in a previous discussion by calibas, PHP.net has this disclaimer:

"Note: Under Apache 2, you must set UseCanonicalName = On and ServerName. Otherwise, this value reflects the hostname supplied by the client, which can be spoofed. It is not safe to rely on this value in security-dependent contexts."

So it seems to be clearly a Word Press issue.
Money and the quality of life that it brings. If you have material desires at all, you shouldn't stay.
Chrome doesn't have this. Chrome has profiles, which Firefox has had for years.
Nice, thanks for the suggestion.
So it says "In 1986, Geoffrey Hinton co-authored a paper that, four decades later, is central to the explosion of artificial intelligence." Is it just me that considers that 3 decades? I am curious which is the typo. Was it 76? or 3 decades?
That's where I got the link for Zircon :) I thought about posting the Go discussion initially which is really interesting on its own.
NES cartridges also could have their own hardware too. Don’t like the NES sound card? You could ship your own inside of the cartridge. I think notoriously castlevania 3 shipped some custom hardware in their cartridge. Some of the cartridges for the famicom came with an fm synth chip.
I'd venture a guess that many people who don't like wikileaks now didn't feel that way when wikileaks was exposing the democratic president. Many likely thought and continue to think of Snowden as a hero. I find wikileaks sensationalist in a way that mirrors the sensationalism of grocery store checkout-aisle tabloids.

Promoting conspiracy theories about satanic rituals, pizzagate, the seth rich lies, and clinton-organized child kidnappings is not in any way exposing something resembling truth. They promoted conspiracy theories criticizing that the Panama Papers release was a George Soros-funded conspiracy to target Russia and the former USSR.

None of these claims had evidence attached to them. Leaks of truth are valuable, but I have lost all faith that wikileaks publishes in a non-partisan "truth for truth's sake" mission, rather, I think they have specific targets in mind and publish whatever it takes to harm those targets and help others.
Yes – to the degree that it's uncommon now that's because many people in the community spent years loudly advising against it.
IBM is not unionized and has fought unionization since forever. They didn't need unions to have ridiculous rules pegging people into hyper-specific roles at the cost of productivity.

If the company cared about that being a huge drag on productivity, it would bring it up with the unions. Pathological management is around everywhere.
The UK does the same thing, too: https://www.gov.uk/expenses-and-benefits-parking-spaces/what...

I could never quite figure this out. It seems to be actually more hassle, in terms of paperwork and reporting, to pay for your employee to park a work vehicle during work hours while on a job made at your request (which is entirely a business expense) than it is to pay for them to have a reserved city centre parking space (which could easily have a significant personal benefit component).

The other weird thing is: I don't even think the employee has to use it! Would their SO find such an arrangement useful? Well, there you go: they could use it instead! There really don't appear to be any restrictions on this stuff. It's extraordinary.

On the flip side: this does mean, if you're negotiating a new job, maybe you could think about trying to get them to pay for a parking space for you, if that would be useful. Because it's entirely a business expense and so cheaper than raising the salary.
This is how I use the Qupzilla browser, always in private browsing mode - each window/process is a separate session shared across all contained tabs.

https://qupzilla.com/download
Yeah, and by the year 2000, we'll all be eating meals in capsule form. Oh wait, what's this? It's your 1950's techno-utopia calling. It said it's never coming. Something, something, more like mad max.
I don't understand. Could you help me understand? I'm not able to see the connection you see between an MFA in Music and the Equifax breach, and I'll need you to describe it clearly in order to comprehend what you're trying to say here.
I wonder if this will also apply to YouTube.
I totally forgot about the case where find gives no output.
I have a "purpose" I am aiming to achieve I suppose.

I believe there are some universal truths and that they are able to be understood by man. I try to identify these very very basic truths, confirm them, then apply them to my life.

I am still young (24) and recently have focused on learning about what other people think those truths are, to give myself a basis of understanding. Part of this is freeing myself from my own beliefs, so I purposefully don't totally follow any religion/political allegiance/ideology. So for example, I have studied some of the major religions (Hinduism & Buddhism so far) and have delved into philosophy. I think understanding what other people think is truth will help me understand.

We'll see how this all goes in the long term, but it has inspired and motivated me to keep learning.

On the career side, I am setting myself to start a PhD in Accounting so I can hopefully become a tenured professor. Helping people is a big part of what I want out of my career, and this falls in line with that.
> Give them chores to teach them the value of work

How does this teach the value of work?
> Travis Geiselbrecht of NewOS fame

To save others from bit of googling, apparently NewOS eventually became the basis for Haiku kernel, Haiku being FOSS re-implementation of BeOS. Travis also worked on some kernel stuff for BeOS, so that lineage makes some sense. Not sure if I missed anything?

Also see this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271839
Agreed. He may not be a software engineer or IT professional like many of us are on Hacker News, but he is a true hacker in the way he explores ideas and thinks about the world. It's a pleasure to read him every day.
The reason that the word of all 3 letter agencies is a gold standard for proof (just as good as the proof we have that we landed on the moon) is because they never lied to us before, or tried to do anything shady. /s

Just kidding. What should I cite? Everything awful the FBI did to MLK? That the NSA lied to us about domestic spying? The fact that Iraq was actually trying to disarm while the Bush admin and 3 letter agencies engaged in a cover up so as to not disrupt their plans in the ME?[1]

In fact, I'd like to know why I should trust 3 letter agencies because their accountability to the public right now seems to be nonexistent.

1 - https://theintercept.com/2016/12/15/if-donald-trump-is-so-up...
i wish this was about the band.
Odd this explanation doesn't get more attention. I suppose the media wants to milk the story for as long as they can.
Not really sure what point to take away from this article. It's not Twitter, because of some differences in the way the network is set up? It doesn't really seem to make any arguments to the first article (or more so comment thread) that it links to. Obviously Mastodon is a different service than Twitter, but to ignore and dismiss the comparison seems lazy and misguided.
I am not sure how it was calculated but the article did do that (but it seems like an underestimation):

"True, there’s also a tax benefit for mass-transit commuters that costs the government about $1.3 billion a year. TransitCenter says that while it’s good as far as it goes, “it is overshadowed by the parking tax benefit’s much larger adverse impact.”"
Yesterday I subscribed. Today I get spam. Anyone else?
I'm still wondering why Youtube isn't ALL OVER this model.

Given that many are getting paid for publishing videos of what they do, it would be a great feature.
That's true, but after college you are an adult who can choose how to deal with that based on your own talents and goals.

It's not like the children submit themselves to a life of hard work and surveillance because they really want to go to college. Their parents are the ones who force them to do it.
There are paths to knowledge which don't pass through the Ivory Tower.

Dan Gillmor at University of Arizona comes to mind. Many lawyers, doctors, and computer science professionals. An enormous number of politicians. Military officers. Political activists.

I'd strongly recommend you consider some of the existing and prior examples, your response doesn't do the reality justice.
The next step - and my favourite future scenario - is the self-driving motorhome that picks you up from work and drives you to the beach while you eat dinner or sleep.
This is the one feature that keeps me from using Safari.
This was what I got:

"Mastodon is different. It has all of the same functionalities, but it's different. Also, following and contacts and everything are the same, but you can export your info, and that's different. People don't understand, but it's different."

I honestly can't tell if I'm reading a piece of satire.

Having started with no knowledge of Mastodon, at the end of the read all I know about it is that it seems to have all the functionality of Twitter?

At the risk of being crass, this sounds like a desperate founder or investor trying to self-validate and coming up woefully short on evidence.
How is that worse than the same thing with human drivers? All of that parking lot space could be repurposed as loading space for humans, and more humans would probably be happy to use a cheaper ride-share service in which they can take the first available car instead of waiting for their personal vehicle to get through the line. (Note that ride-share isn't going to be "register with a particular car and wait for them to find you", but rather "get in the nearest available car"--automated taxis instead of automated Uber).
Yeah. As it is right now I'll just stick with the multi profile extension.
I've been in the Ops Room of a UK warship (Type 45 air defence destroyer) during training. Lots (~20?) of people looking at screens, each with a different system. Plus team leaders, coordinators and senior decision makers. On the bridge more people driving and fighting the ship, and checking local seaspace for intrusuion. In the damage control centre, more guys. Propulsion? More crew.

On a complex system with multiple sensors and effectors you need a lot of people.
Does anyone program in <= 12pt type?

I do. But the 10-point characters in my editor are the height of the 13 pt characters on that page. For comparable readability, my 10 pt "Droid Sans Mono" is more readable than the 18 pt "Hack" on that page.
"Engagement" is one of those words, like "value-add", that mean someone is trying to fuck you over.
I'm not buying it. Cars are good for short-term economics but not human health.

No car: walk/bike to the store/work; get aerobic exercise

Car: sit on your ass and pump harmful fumes and CO2 into the atmosphere and let your muscles and bones atrophy away
Oracle preps autonomous database at OpenWorld, aims to cut labor, admin time
The issue also, why it take 40 minutes longer to take a subway than to ride in? That is not just the market, it's also often to do with zoning, separating residential and commercial, restricting height, and also things like requiring that all apartments have parking spaces. Similarly, policies prioritizing roads and parking in the city spread out the centre of the city, making it less pleasant to live in the centre rather than the suburb, and impractical for getting around on foot, or by public transport. A market might just as well be responding to government incentives, as much as driving the thing itself.