skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these are great things, but I think there's a few other practical considerations the author missed:

1) Paying for parking is really expensive compared to other cities. A downtown parking spot is easily ~$300/month.

2) Most employers subsidize orca cards (transit pass) but do not subsidize parking spots

3) With Seattle traffic being as bad as it is, most buses are just as fast as cars because of the prioritization they get. In any other city the bus takes twice as long. In Seattle it's on par with driving.

4) Seattle's natural geography encourages density which makes public transit more effective. Most new hires and population growth is also happening in the closer in neighborhoods which are already well connected to transit.

5) Suburban commuting is harshly punished by the above geographical and societal pressures. If you live in Woodinville and commute to the SLU you're looking at 1hr, one way, on a good day. Similar point about population growth happening close in to the city.
I wish this weren't the case, but I don't take the bus because it triples my commute. A trip that takes 25 minutes by car takes an hour and fifteen by bus for me. I test it every time I need to have my truck repaired.

It's because it's a reverse commute, and so while everyone is trying to get into the city I'm trying to get out. The bus would be pretty good if I lived south of Northgate and worked in the city.
In my experience a lot of doctors are just happy when patients take real interest in their own health, even if that particular drug isn't the best choice. Jaded by too many noncompliant patients.
I'm not gkya (the parent poster) but I believe what he means is that the prisoners in the cave only understand reality as
presented to them through the shadows. Likewise, we as consumers have only been offered minimalist, breaky phones with modern hardware/software, so we have grown to live inside that awful reality, and not realize the true scope of what is possible/better.
They reported some results of a not yet published study. So if you allready know everything, I hope you are open for some questions about the base structure and maybe the great unifying theory of the universe?
> People don't really like the space efficiency of standing packed right next to each other for an hour.

You could give each person a comfortable chair and 5 square feet of desk space and you'd still be vastly more space-efficient than a bunch of cars.
I always thought bookies just kept moving the lines until they were making money at the snap of the ball. Their initial line isn't as important as adjusting the line so that there is equal money on both sides of the line and therefore the bookie is guaranteed money due to the small fee they build into the bets. Their profits don't depend on accurately predicting the game's score, just moving the line strategically as more bets come in.
Some motherboard vendors do make their own. I've seen a few Intel boards sporting an EDK2 derivative. The IBVs basically exist to take the hassle out of UEFI development for the hardware vendors. It's a very convoluted spec, and integrating all of the different parts is a very daunting project that most OEMs would just rather not bother with.
I'm holding on to my old HP Calculators for dear life, especially the 41, 42 and 48/49/50s.

I am glad Swissmicros is out there!
Government owned property, public property has a duty to serve the public. Capping rates and allowing antennas in certain areas provides competition in the broadband market which serves the public interest.
Because voting is a Constitutionally guaranteed right, not a privilege
There have been plenty of published studies with equally-alarming results.

The one thing that all of the studies have had in common is that the effects they describe mysteriously disappear as soon as someone tries to reproduce them.
Show HN: Fast and Simple Node.js Installer (n.gc.gy)
I found that other node installers didn't actually install node (just add repos/ppa/etc) or had super long urls (or both :O) so I decided to make my own that just does what it says on the tin. Usage is pretty easy, just curl or wget or whatever floats your boat and then bash it.
Heat is not a frequency or a frequency range.
It would take a lot for a computer to write a beautiful novel, say. But not to appreciate and create beauty in other ways. And I really think computers could write some excellent jokes along the way to becoming more human. Pretty much anything they learn to do can be used for comedy. Physical movement with “character” gone wrong leads to physical comedy. Common-sense knowledge leads to common-sense comedy (like the joke about the elephant leaving tracks in the butter dish, which kids of a certain age find funny but adults seem to have grown out of).
This is such a dangerous path to go down, and it's really easy to see where we end up.

Let's say I'm vehemently anti-abortion, and have a YouTube channel where I discuss that topic. If some sufficient amount of users find my content "intentionally antagonizing" I could be de-platformed. YouTube is perfectly within their legal rights to do this, of course, at least currently. But these tech companies have all become critical infrastructure in how we communicate. Do you honestly think it's a good idea for these tech companies to start enforcing ideological conformity? What's perfectly normal speech for one is intentionally antagonizing to another.
Yes, I was aware of it, thanks though. That is why I mentioned the novel in the first place. Was going to mention the jökulls too, as sibling comment does. One of them was Vatna or some such, need to check - it was long back that I read it :)

Update: Checked, that's the name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatnaj%C3%B6kull

Update 2: There are some interesting points in that Wikipedia article.
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stand up an old version of wordpress with poor admin/admin credentials on an external box, and wait a couple hours. You'll find all sorts of malware on a linux box. ransomware included. Pretty common, though it seems most people who compromise linux machines use them to launch further attacks, not ransomware.
The ransomware linux variants I see all do about the same thing: wipe various /var/log/* logfiles, they encrypt all your mysql dbs, your homedir files, and your webserver docroot.
> many waiting areas have no cover -- so you'll stand in the rain waiting for a late bus.

This is something I don't get about the Seattle area. It's like people here are in complete denial about the fact that it rains for 9 months a year. It's not just bus stops - my daughter says recess at school sucks most of the year because the playground and other play areas are all uncovered. So all the kids have to stay stuck in a very limited covered area where there's nothing for them to do. Same thing with parks - no covered playgrounds or places where people can sit and relax without getting wet.
I'm deeply saddened to hear that the Seattle Mystery Bookshop is closing. This feels like something easily missed in today's automation-based economy; the ability to go to an expert and get quality recommendations is not to be missed. Seattle Mystery Bookshop was only one of many excellent book stores in the Seattle area, but it seems that their number is diminishing by the day. I can only assume that that trend holds firm in other cities, and we are the poorer for it.
I'm really curious what you're doing with your cables. I'm on year 6 with my MBP adapter and that includes a year of traveling through Southeast Asia where I was constantly spooling and unspooling it, not to mention the number of times it got wet. It still works flawlessly. I also had a work MBP adapter for a number of years without any issue despite being spooled and unspooled each morning and evening.

Meanwhile, I've tripped over the wire countless times and been saved by the magsafe's ability to automatically disconnect rather than sending my 30-times-the-price laptop flying. It happens so often that USB-C charging is a non-starter for me. I'm buying older, refurb Macs until they realize their error. Short of that, I'm buying a bargain-basement PC that I can replace for under $1k because I know that kind of accident is going to happen eventually.
I my experience as a card counter they'd just swap in a new dealer who would count themselves and just shuffle whenever the count got really good. Ridiculously unfair and probably illegal but what are you going to do, complain?
Sugar was not readily available until relatively recently.
They claim the market is inefficient. I worked for a company that to some extend fixed that. Can't remember all the details (I worked on a different part), but something like this:

Most big betting companies were customers. They all continuously sent their updated odds to us, and we would broadcast to the other companies. They would react to the change based on certain rules and send new updated odds back to us. This would then converge.

The inefficacy comes from promotions, company X always wanting to have odds .1 better than company Y etc.

Edit: Not sure how it works now, but:
https://www.betradar.com/ and
https://mts.betradar.com/
Breaking Up Tech
Interestingly enough, in the UK, that 1/2 million cost (345,000GBP is about 1/2 million USD) is the 14 year running cost[1]. That doesn't make it cheap, but suddenly that 2K car is not 2K when looking at the 14 year running cost.

[1] https://londonist.com/2013/05/new-bus-for-london-cost-reveal...
The reason the dingo is fundamentally different than the rabbit (or the invasive predators that prey on them) is it's had several thousand (4,000-12,000) years to reach a form of ecological equilibrium. Not to imply that nature is naturally balanced, but only that it is not threatening the survival of other "native" species. That's not true of the rabbit, which is why it's an invasive species and the dingo is not.

Environmentalism wasn't as popular when the dingo was introduced... So there isn't much we can do about its initial impact to the ecosystem... So, yes, date does matters very much... It's not about race or religion or political history... It's actually very much about biology...
I read it as sarcasm/satire of a typical HN position - impossible to tell.
A think we both really agree on the solution, just coming from slightly different perspectives.

Boring is expensive. That is why Elon Musk wants to develop new systems and thinks a factor of ten in cost reduction is not to hard, with smaller tunnels being the biggest easy gain.

With your cars on trains idea you almost get what I am saying, but why do you need the cars to go onto trains? Just get the vehicles to run close together and you have the density of a train. Imagine a tunnel with cars going at 100mph and 40ft of space per car. One gets a rate of 13200 cars per hour. BART at peak does about 60,000 people per hour. If you mixed this tunnel with buses and cars with various amounts of people in them you could get a great throughput. Like you said, charge by the total space taken up by the vehicle. Bus rides pay a $1 each while the single person in a huge car pays $20. You don't need taxes. People will pay for transportation, just not many want to pay for others peoples transportation.

Cities have a lot of their value in allowing millions of people to potentially interact with millions of others. Restricting when and where people can meet really diminishes the vitality and value of the urban life.
Betfair merged with Paddy Power, not Ladbrokes.

They probably stopped offering their service in Canada due to unclear licensing and operating regulations for their Exchange product. It has happened in a number of other jurisdictions too. What you need is a good friend or relative in the UK or Ireland, and a VPN.

However there are now other exchange betting options, with at least some degree of liquidity - Betdaq, Smarkets and Matchbook for example.

Professional punters still have ways of getting on, which circumvent the online restrictions. Once all their accounts have been limited or closed with the online bookmakers, the next step is usually a string of agents across multiple locations, working on commission, and placing bets on the punter's behalf. It's still possible to get on for farely large amounts like this.

If horse racing is your game, Hong Kong is where the money is at. Huge totalliser pools (park-mutual) where the size of an individual's bet is unlikely to move the market very much. Now that there is co-mingling with a number of other pools around the world, one doesn't have to be in HK to bet there.

I've recently started having a proper go at the Daily Fantasy Sport option, now that Draft Kings has opened up in the UK and a few other European locations. Moneyball in Australia is also quite good, albeit much smaller prize pools. However, this weekend they just launched a DFS horse racing product which looks pretty interesting.
What lack of understanding is there though? We already know that doctors are unable to preform reproducible science, so we cannot trust them to prove that cell-phones are safe. Physics tells us that cell-phone radiation enters the body and interacts with cells. Of course, the panic that often accompanies such uncertainty is irrational and unscientific, but the steadfast belief that the radiation can do no harm is equally so.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph250/lu1/
I lost ~10Kg and all of my belly fat after cutting off cakes and cookies (the only sugary things left in my diet). I still eat plenty of carbs though (bread/pasta/semolina/müesli/fruits and sometimes honey). I've stabilized at a weight slightly below the one I had when I was 18.

It freaked me out initially, I didn't expect such a large (or any) drop.
> Seattle should look to a city like Vienna

+1 on this. The Vienna transit system is so fantastic that I was able to get around the entire city without even speaking German. I remember one day I was riding the U-Bahn with a local friend and asked him what it was like during rush hour. He said, "this is rush hour". There was still plenty of space for people in all wagons. Simply amazing.
Yes, but I don't see this same difficulty with say, MobX. People seem to 'get it' and are as productive as Redux from what I see.
A1c test at home? I had no idea, thanks for sharing this!
If the police are given any sort of beneficial presumption, either formally or informally, at least that presumption should be discarded in cases in which body cam footage turns up missing.
I can't recall where i viewed the information about banks using them - it wasn't equivalent to a whitepaper but it wasn't flimsy either - it was dry and explained the networks somewhat. Recall that what formally is happening has a delay to what is actually happening behind the scene.

You have formally aknowledged produced quantum computers for sale (that "leaked" as quantum computers officially still would be long off - disregarding this article date) as http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Quantum+comp... D-Wave Two.
You also have networks in the works and alot more efficient quantum computers (University of Tokyo et al) coming out to the open market.
https://youtu.be/_EDpuQMpyYw
What if we allowed 0 as a digit?

Are there infinitely many 0-enabled left-truncatable primes?
"The self is a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike. It's a story we tell ourselves... there is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive."

-- Dr. Ford, Westworld (video contains spoilers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94ETUiMZwQ
Home sweet micro home: sleep-testing a pod for the homeless
Is PCT filing worth it for product startups?
Hi,

We are debating the pros and cons of filing a PCT patent application for a new kind of shoes. At an early stage, filing a PCT application is costly and if this is not going to be beneficial, then we would be wasting a significant amount of money that we could rather spend in other areas.

If you have had such a dilemma, and have decided to go one or the other way, we highly appreciate your opinion in whether a PCT is worth it or not.

Appreciate your time. Thanks.
I was considering doing this but at that point I would have to be doing annoying analysis of user agents and who is installing node from cmd anyway
I don't totally understand why the bookmakers would limit their accounts.

The bookmaker wants to balance his book for each game to make sure he makes a profit no matter what the outcome is. To balance their books they might give better odds for an outcome than what a statistical model might suggest.

But what difference does it make if the bettor who helps them balance their books is a consistent winner or not?

Do they prefer to give these "good" odds to people who are losing money long term?
Well, I haven't thought about locked mutexes. It makes sense.
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I would guess that there are infinitely many primes of the form 10^k+1. If so, that would be a yes.
Easier said than done.

Suppose your book is balanced, and you have $25,000 on each side. Then a new bet comes in, size $250,000, on one side of your book -- what to do?

Or, more simply, when you set your initial line, what do you do when a known sharp immediately wants action on one side?
Diverging Life Expectancies and Voting Patterns in the 2016 US  Election
> dramatically more energy efficient than single family homes.

what about the people who want an actual house?
Indie book stores are doing fine actually. The model is closer to thriving than done.

https://www.voanews.com/a/indie-booksellers-hold-steady-toug...

http://publishingperspectives.com/2016/01/independent-bookst...

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_edgy_optimist/201...

http://theweek.com/articles/573874/4-reasons-why-independent...
That is a fruitless battle. You are asking people to behave superrationally to escape a collective action problem. That's not how people work. People behave according to their individual self-interest. If it's faster or overall better (comfort, privacy, safety) for them to drive, they will drive.
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> I continued to take other natural sweeteners like jaggery and honey.

The natural in sugar is irrelevant. Sugar is sugar; as in fructose is fructose, and glucose is glucose.
Agreed. I found SO MANY of my favorite authors based on recommendations from that place.
Correct -- the market maker (or casino) is under no obligation to take your action. And, why should they be? The penalty for refusing action is that you take your business elsewhere.
In Sweden, it's increasingly common to contribute the heat from crematoria to the municipal heating grid: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/294963
It's hard for me to think of any way antenna regulation needs to differ on a city-by-city basis.

National radio quiet zone? No, that's specified on a federal level...
That's why they advertise on Superbowl, TV shows and everywhere else. To make people think they have something and their pill can make it go away. Doctor Johnson doesn't prescribe it, another one will.

Otherwise they'd only target doctors, in their offices, trade mags and all. http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-america-is-over-m...
At the end of the Talk Python To Me Podcast, the host asks about the interviewee's favorite package on PyPI, or for a package which should be better known.

One common answer is "requests". A couple of people suggested "doc opt".

The podcast transcripts are at https://github.com/mikeckennedy/talk-python-transcripts/tree... . For example, https://github.com/mikeckennedy/talk-python-transcripts/blob... says:

> 00:55:14 Michael Kennedy: Yeah, awesome. And, a notable Python PyPI package, there's over 100,000 of them now. Like one that maybe you've run across lately that was really cool?

> 00:55:23 Kelsey Hightower: Well for the keynote I actually used the Kubernetes package. Which allows you to write integrations for Kubernetes and Python, and that was a very interesting package, mainly because it's generated from the Swagger API of Kubernetes, so if you've never used Swagger before, it's a way to kind of instrument your API so that it can be, you have this machine representation of, hey, here's every endpoint, here's the input, here's the output, and that Python library was generated from that, and then the documentation was also generated, so there was an example for every function you have. And it has pretty good coverage across the board of doing things in Kubernetes, so that's a well put together package, and that's what I've been using lately.

Since you're interested in this topic, why not go through those transcripts, search for "PyPI" towards the bottom of the interviews, extract the information, and blog about it/post it to HN?
> You could totally just write the FdWrapper class

Which, BTW, is exactly what folly::File does :)
What I see happening is many morbidly obese people who adhere to keto will initially drop weight, roughly until their BMI reaches around the upper normal range. Then CICO kicks in with a vengeance, and they have to be much more careful compared to before. Keto is a useful on-ramp for many to a fitness (or at least more-fit) lifestyle, but not a magic bullet, and I don't see anyone claiming you can skip counting calories while on keto, then still reach 12-15% body fat, and reveal abs. If you see someone writing that, then yes, they're quacks.

My personal rough rule of thumb is once you reach the low 20s percentage body fat, you either keep increasing cardio (preferably HIIT), or dropping counted calories, until your moving average weekly weight keeps trending down. Fit keto around that or even drop it, and it won't matter (unless you're the same subtype diabetic like me, and then keto is an essential ingredient to avoiding medication).

If you go in once a quarter for a VAP lipid panel (the most extensive lipid panel I could find), then as long as those numbers trend in the right direction, keep on doing whatever works for you. After being diagnosed with Type 2 and having to figure out myself how to beat the fucker into remission, I've concluded that medical science can give rough guidelines for describing metabolic processes, but it is up to each of us to hack our own bodies. Try one change, test the change with measurements, and repeat; commit the changes that work, fork away from the changes that don't, accept failures and setbacks as signals of what not to do, and move on.
$20 per car, 13,200 cars per hour, eight hours a day gets you $770,880,000 a year.

The Big Dig in Boston cost $14 billion, but some estimates put it at more like $22 billion when all is said and done.

So if you run your big cars through the tunnel for twenty years, you'll pay for one small tunnel.

But fine, Musk can get it down to 1/10th - but the Big Dig is 3.5 miles, and you need to effectively replace highways. Unless everyone in their big car pays up front for decades of highway use (this is HN, so maybe we can use an ICO, why not), you're going to need cash up front - the kind of cash that governments that want their constituents to live in a nice place and prosper therein are willing to provide.

(Someone double check my math and assumptions, please, I'm neither a civil engineer, nor a city planner, nor an economist.)
Not sure how deliberate your example was, but you can't hardly beat Coca Cola as a damaging influence on society. Coca Cola spends millions on propaganda disguised as research, designed to convince people that their product is not a health hazard. They're no better than the big tobacco companies.

And let's not forget that the sugar industry as a whole has done this on a vast scale over decades, bribing scientists and funding shoddy research in order to encourage abusive consumption of the substances they promote [2].

I don't think it's at all controversial to state that the sugar industry has cost millions of Americans their health or their lives.

1 - https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/the-food-industry-is...

2 - https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/sugar-industry-bough...