skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: But none of these conclusions were inevitable. Government intervention influenced our expectations about home ownership, tax treatment, car infrastructure, and even what our neighborhoods should look like. In the course of the next few posts, we’ll dive into each of these four topics to understand how American communities came to be what they are today."

Perhaps I missed it but it does look like they're going to discuss why. That is why the gov went in this direction. Who benefitted. Who didn't. What sociopolitical norms did it encourge/discourage. Etc.

The whats will certainly be interesting. But the arc of why would be a greater discussion.
Or you could automate it and not waste your own time!

https://youtu.be/EzedMdx6QG4
> It is not "optimising" because nobody even hopes for something "optimal".

Optimizing doesn't need to reach the optimal, just improve.

> It is not like chess. More like Poker because more uncertainty.

I would say the uncertainty is similar to chess. It isn't feasible to know the best option in any given situation, but it is deterministic.
I agree with him that social media could be very distracting, especially in the family settings, but, I get a ton of useful information and stay up-to-date with the latest research through Twitter, Reddit and HN. Cutting those out would mean putting an iron curtain on the latest insight and recent developments, and, essentially, quitting the front line.
Haha, managers are like girlfriends/boyfriends. They take the first breakups personally. Then after a few more, they mature and wish you good luck on your next one.
depends how often you need to synchronize. look at deep learning, you need to sync the weights as often as possible
In exactly the same way. Dreams are just the brain "remembering" internally generated stimuli.
Australian police sting brings down paedophile forum on dark web
Yeah 30% is not a "hard number", I use this stuff on my resume but only because I know the people who read them are not like me.
I submitted my SolarPi project: http://solarpi.tafkas.net
#666 > #333
And #666 is lighter so less contrast. You’re both saying the same thing.
And then you are doubly exposed to Google's fortunes as a company (or in my case, quadruply-exposed: my salary and most of my professional network at the time were dependent on Google). The price of Mountain View real estate is pretty heavily correlated with Google's stock price.

It's not irrational to want to have some diversification, particularly when things work out fairly well anyway.
"Entitlement" really captures the post Rich is responding to. Objections to the existence of Arachne and spec? Who is Chris Zheng to tell people what to spend their time and money on? And he wants Datomic open sourced. Waaah.
It isn't a metaphor, read the article again.
I've read the original article and, to be quite honest, couldn't actually determine what point it was trying to make. The action items seemed to have very little to do with the rest of the rant.

I actually read the response first and the weird thing is: I couldn't really tell you what exactly the response is replying to. I feel like the whole thing is a huge amount of verbiage expressing frustration and broken motives but any actual solid facts mentioned are peripheral at best to what's being said.

I could write multiple pages on how I fell out of love with Clojure but I doubt it would benefit anyone and it'd be a huge pain to do.

Clojure is the product of a singular aesthetic, for better or worse.
Does anyone see an analogy with highly processed, sugary foods? Highly addictive, thought to be miracles of convenience, but ultimately detrimental when consumed in excess, and now we are starting to realise that and demand better. I wonder if society will go through the same rejection phase with attention-seeking media consumption. Or maybe those who grow up with it will be better able to control themselves.
Any bar that someone put across your screen as a Dick move that makes it harder to read the text. https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
Anyone calling this thing the worst car ever built has not seen the Robin Reliant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin

I doubt there were many Hoffmanns built but the RR was rather popular here.

That said, I think you will find rather a lot of Brits with a deep fondness for the RR, which probably says more about Britishness (of a certain age) than anything else.
To me, Aspartame is unnatural. In that context, mosquito nets, sewage system, etc. are natural.

Maybe we just have different definitions :) But to me, progress (i.e., human's reproducing existing patterns) doesn't necessarily equate to unnatural.
The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus
The correct analysis should take into account that you now have a downpayment and extra money to invest every month if you rent compared to buy.

Buy scenario, free maintenance and no property taxes:
Living in a $2.7M house means a downpayment of $540,000 plus $6.6k/month of mortgage (assuming 2% interest rate on ~$2.2M mortgage paid over 40 years). Your housing prices increase 6%/year on average (1985 - 2015 average, http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/california-housing-histor...). You sell 40 years later your house for $22,628,579.

Rent scenario:
You put your $540,000 plus $4400 per month into your average stock market. 1985 to 2015 the performance was more than 10% per year (http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm). Let's say you're conservative and you go for 6%/year in growth. In 40 years your net worth is $77,737,237.02.

Renting is definitely better than buying in the scenari outlined in grandparent's comment.
That's the problem I faced as well, and I ultimately decided to quit a line of work that required being constantly connected to the latest developments. I realized I wanted to pursue a line of work with a bit more permanence and, for lack of a better word, timelessness.
This is very common, specially in longer content. I think a lot of people are in the habit of just skimming through too many articles, rather than fully reading fewer ones that they more selectively chose. In response, publishers try to do anything they can to catch your eye and keep your attention “here”, rather than you quickly moving on to something else. And probably as content becomes more “skimmable” this way, people in turn make even more use of these flashy bits, re-enforcing this vicious circle. I find them annoying because it reminds me that the content is simultaneously trying to appeal to both skimmers and focused readers but has no idea which kind I am at the moment I’m reading it (I might be either).
How much peak power you got for that amount?
[Picturing Quantum Processes](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Picturing-Quantum-Processes-Diagram...) does quantum mechanics without calculations.
To me the original article read as an expression of frustration - the sort of feelings that are easy to understand but hurtful and frankly stupid to put out in public.
Yes - I got a white page until I allowed ajax.googleapis.com.
Baseball is... I mean if a team of engineers can design a rocket that lands vertically, I am fairly certain they could design a robot that hits balls with a bat. In fact I am surprised we don’t already have robot baseball.

Typography is supposed to be perceived by human brains. So it will be subject to interpretation. Baseball is absolute: you can measure where the ball flew, where it landed, and who caught it.
Blockstream Attacking Bitcoin Businesses, Reporting Them to Authorities
By the way, Clojurescript is one of the greatest tools I've ever experienced in the software industry. And it is maintained by a real smart guy that gets paid by Cognitect to work on it. Isn't this a case of Cognitect spending money to improve free tools for the world? Which is the opposite of the original article's accusations?
Macro Trends (Tim Bray)
If you study the so-called level spacing of a Hamiltonian with disorder drawn from a uniform random distribution, you will recover a Poisson distribution. As you turn down the disorder, you will reproduce the statistics the Czechs discovered in the bus system.
OpenBSD has around 500 programs with pledge support in base.

edit: and this number does not even include the ports available with pledge support, among others chromium.. and the fact that they were capable of adding pledge support this quickly says a lot, imho, about the implementation differences between libseccomp and pledge.
Segmentation, personalization and differentiation are the appropriate tactics to use if marketing response rates are a problem for your business.

Companies that separate Sales and Marketing roles split introduce a gap where none should exist. The personalization and differentiations should be driven by salespeople's insights and data. Marketing should preface the sales call and carry the deal forward to closure.

Most companies are very, very far from an interwoven sales and marketing model that efficiently uses resources and that delivers results.
A bar across your screen / webpage containing stuff that's of negative value to the user, like ads or please-share-this buttons. See e.g. this: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/03/06/whatIsADickbar.html. The term was coined by John "Daring Fireball" Gruber.
I have seen counteroffers for people who were either underpaid or should have been promoted a long time ago. Once your salary is in line with your standing in the company I haven't seen counteroffers.
I guess a non-affluent, prepubescent (cub scouts are 7-10 years old), gay boy might have missed that chance to learn the word "regatta".
Colour codes are hexadecimal numbers, 000000 is basically zero, and is for black. FFFFFF is 16777215 and is white. The more the numerical value of the colour the lighter it is, the lower the darker (well, not exactly, but kind of).
I actually disagree massively with this point. I love Rich Hickey's work, love Clojure but it's kind of an important principle that you have to be able to separate attacks on ideas or systems from attacks on people. If you identify yourself with an idea and I attack it, it's your responsibility to not take it personally and not a reason for me not to make a statement.

If you can't do that, you can't have debate, or science. You can only have tribalism and identity politics.
David Foster Wallace had the same belief about TV 20 years ago. He seemed more addicted to it than the average bear, more along the lines of how you see people tethered to smartphones today. He very much saw TV as candy - sweet, addictive, not sustaining, and unhealthy without moderation.

He talked about it in multiple places, but Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (an interview) discusses it a lot.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/7144014-although-of-co...
This is a very critical discussion that designers, technologists, PMs, founders & maybe everyone needs. Few reasons I find it to be critical:
1. Digital's impact footprint is far more than 10 years back.
2. As we move towards using more complex Algorithms, its highly important what metrics will be deemed relevant while analyzing success.
3. Technology is becoming more people centric as we speak with Blockchain & other tech on the rise, however the way their applications are designed is still the same as 10/20 years old.
I for one prefer to not have my pipes freeze solid and burst, so I heat my house to a minimum of 60 all the time, and the "unheated" basement (which has no vents from the furnace, merely the furnace itself and radiant heat from the ductwork) keeps at about 50, safely far from freezing.
I love you for creating this.
Your decoder accepts lone surrogates and overlong sequences.

This probably helps a bit for speed.
Delivering spam is a money maker too. Remember that USPS is paid to deliver junk mail just like any other mail; however it's cheaper than normal mail and they will make less delivery attempts — just one, I believe.
Varies widely depending on the individual situation of the developer, the company, the manager, and the relationship of the developer to everyone else, relative skill and experience, and countless other factors.

I haven't personally gotten any yet after 3 resignations in my professional career, but that may be because in all of them, I was leaving because I was already very sure, based on factors other than the salary, that I no longer wanted to work there.

Well, the first one, I might have been able to get a counter-offer or other change in working conditions if I had been fishing for it, but I had long been coming to the conclusion that I just didn't see myself there long-term.

There is a lot of discussion out there about getting and giving counter offers and whether or not you should accept one. One thing I would say to the companies/managers that I haven't seen much - if you have the budget and desire to keep the employee to make a counter-offer, why didn't you just give them that raise in the first place? Seems easier than letting them run around interviewing at other places and negotiating offers with other companies, just to save 10% or whatever of their salary for a year or two.
boom. you're up! added some specs to your submission, too. nice kit!
Ask HN: Tool to sync professional social media profiles?
I'd like to be able to update my profile in one place, which in turn updates all of my profiles. By "profile" I mean the info on my profile, like "About Me": "I'm a Full Stack Web Dev that does blah blah blah", resume, job description, etc. I'm thinking primarily about professional social media, like StackOverflow, LinkedIn, AngelList.

Is there a tool for this? Does anyone know if these social media companies' APIs allow you to change this info?
We actually agree, but I've phrased that one a bit bad. See my other comment downthread. I was going to edit to clarify, but it does not let me anymore. Comments become fixed way quicker these days ain't it?
awesome project!! Going up now!!
also the central theme of infinite jest... right? that book was confusing.
> Lots of press releases have been issued, but only Chevy has released the Bolt.

Don't forget Renault Zoe and Nissan Leaf, although they're aiming for the affordable subcompact market rather than luxury cars.

And yeah, the eGolf although I haven't seen any or maybe VW still prefers selling diesel Passats.
I’m with you here. But I’m not sure how I’d actually articulate why this practice is unethical. There’s an at least theoretical risk that the more pressure (of any kind) we put on the expected launch quality of so called crowdfunded or pre-sales models, the less risky the industry is going to be in aggregate, in terms of taking on bolder steps. While I’m sure there are numerous instances where this gets abused, I’m not sure on which side of the sweet spot we are.
Something I've wondered is whether this is basically a bluffing tactic: If an employee is persuaded that there will be no counteroffer, then it's more of an emotional hurdle to start the job search.

On the flip side, I was hired during a hiring freeze.
Low memory version:

`return false;`
There is some good quality evidence for dietary interventions snd cardio/cerebrovascular disease/cancer, although it is difficult to interpret and nutritional science in general is a disaster.

Without too much exaggeration, exercise also improves every surrogate and hard end point ever tested.

Eg
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1200303
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415727/
Show HN: Add social card info to an url
> You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company—which is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of. So Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don’t understand why people like that can’t be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be—not an astronaut, not a football player—but this.

Wow. Little did he know it would happen to himself not long after.
> I was really waiting for the semi since the math didn't seem to work out.

It actually does- they're going for long range which in the context of trucking is anywhere from 500-800 miles- surprisingly short compared to the 2500+ mile range of a fully gassed semi. Keep in mind that 500 miles is 8 full hours of 65 mph driving though! That covers 80%+ of all commercial driving.

With an aerodynamic cab the drag coefficient of a semi can get to ~.4 with a 115 sqft frontal area. That works out to 132 kW at 70 mph. Including rolling resistance and 90% drivetrain efficiency that comes to 1,200-2,000 kWh for 500-800 miles. That's 5-10 tonnes of batteries at the module level (doesn't include cooling or armor).

The engine, exhaust, transmission and fuel in a semi truck weighs several tonnes- at the lower end of range, converting to batteries could even reduce weight. Even 800 miles of range is a pretty insignificant increase to the weight of the tractor, especially if they can improve on aerodynamics or count range at a lower speed. The cost of all those batteries is 200-300k, which is expensive but not unusual for a semi truck.

In short the numbers actually work out quite well for electric semis. Charging locations and power are an issue that will limit them to set routes for the near future, and even in the long term it will be hard to replace sleeper cabs doing 1200+ mile nonstop trips. However routes like that are very rare indeed.
The logic you wrote is exactly the _opposite_ of what a Bloom filter does.
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.”

— Donald Knuth (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html)
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Hiring Android, Full Stack, Infrastructure Engineers and More
Demand Media counter offered me a few times and I took it since the pay bump was substantial. The last one I told them they had to bring the rest of the people on my team up to my level. Once they did I quit for good. Take that DM.
If you want GUI configuration tools for FreeBSD, then look to TrueOS (formerly known as PC-BSD).
Jesus. definitely looks like a swing app
> That 230 calorie expenditure costs you:

> * 1.5 to 2 hours of disruption to your daily life

Or a replacement of meditation. Or, as another user suggested, listen to e-books, podcast, music, conduct a phone call, or record whatever interesting thoughts come up.

> * An hour spent being extremely bored and uncomfortable

Boredom is a matter of adaptation. See above for some suggestions.

Comfort? Do you mean because you're overweight and at the gym? Seriously, get over yourself and fuck what other people think about you in that regard. You'll be laughing the longest on the long term. If its such a big barrier consider to see a psychologist to aid you.

> * An ever-growing amount of generalized aches and joint pains as you put together consecutive days of doing this

Start with light exercises and go to a gym where there's qualified physicians with low amount of overbooking. Those gyms cost a bit more. You can also do like me (I follow a TV program with varied daily exercises, 15 min a day). Take a day rest in between heavy exercise. If you get muscle pain the day after it was heavy exercise according to _your_ standard.

That said, changing your eating habits is going to have more meaningful impact: eat less calories, eat less sugar, eat less salt, eat less saturated fat, and have a critical look if you get all your nutrients (consider blood analysis). Guaranteed you'll lose weight just from #1 and the rest is going to aid your health. Finally, don't drink or smoke are an obvious no-brainer.
If you read the additional comments in the original article, comments by the same author, you can see that Rich is directly addressing those when he identifies himself with the system.
Please tell us when LN will launch. Not some half-baked beta that chokes on 10000 channels, but the real thing.
I know you said you have Java experience, but it sounds like it's not a lot and so sticking with Java doesn't seem like a necessity to me in this context. I don't know Java so I'm not going to give you any suggestions that include it, but hopefully others here will.

Websites. Learn WordPress and basic Web Dev stuff: JS, Sass (instead of CSS), and HTML. In my world it seems everyone needs a website, and I could make ~$50-75/hour~ $50-60 in my small-ish area (300,000 in the tri-county area). Basic, nice, professional websites are not impossible, you can do it :)

EDIT: I lowered the hourly rate. I might've exaggerated. See https://skillcrush.com/2014/03/11/how-to-charge-rates-web-de....
I got that. So everyone will have a SSN and only some people will have the new thing. My point stands. We have lots of evidence in security that this type of suggestion leads to problems, see for example export-grade crypto.
There's a difference between compartmentalization and limiting your platform's extensibility.
If you're working in Silicon Valley and/or a software developer, chances are the time you waste is worth a lot more than the time they waste, even if they waste more
Yeah, that's the math that was running through my head. Again, this all hinges upon housing prices being so overinflated: usually, rent vs. buy is a wash when you do out the math, and you spend about as much on rent as you would on a typical mortgage payment. The Bay Area is just in a very weird place as far as housing prices go right now, because of foreign buyers, massively-appreciated stock options, development restrictions, and lack of land.

Also, I was considering a number of tail risks in our decision. For example, I'd bet that the house in the Bay Area will be worth roughly $0 in 40 years, because:

1.) Tech will have run its course, leading to a Detroit-like situation where everybody moves out and you can't sell what you've got.

2.) The housing stock here is objectively terrible by the standards of anywhere else in the country - many were cheaply built in the 1950s to 1970s, and they need major repairs and upgrades now, let alone in 40 years. Friend of mine was recently buying and was like "I offered $279K over asking on a house that needs at least $100K of repairs", and he didn't get it anyway.

3.) Termites are endemic here. Every house has termites and few of them have concrete basements. There's a good bet that the house you just spend $2.7M on doesn't actually have a foundation.

4.) Earthquakes and wildfires. The big tech companies assume that there is a 100% chance that the Bay Area will be hit by a major earthquake in the next 30 years; I don't see why I should assume any differently.
But at what cost? Having read "deep work" recently, I've started thinking much more about all of this, and for me, the cost mostly outweighs the benefits. By cutting back drastically on my use (phone typically lasts 3-4 days instead of 1 now), I'm getting a lot more done, in less time, feel better and am much more present than I have been in over a decade. I hadn't realised the creeping effect of it all, and I don't feel I've missed out in the way that attention technology was making me feel that I would be.

I realise that the balance of this particular equation is different for everyone, but I also think many people are convinced they will be missing out when in reality they won't be.
If you need more background or a write up, let me know (I submitted my email address too).
This is why electron is so popular
I think I am observing it being destructive in a family setting. I fear for what this will bring in 20 years.
it happens a lot. every time ive quit a job my employer has tried to counter. same story for most co-workers that were good/highly valued.