skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about Nashville, but one of the common complaints about a recent rail proposal in Austin was that it served the areas least likely to use mass transit. And, it traveled within the wealthy and slow-growing (in terms of population) west and northwest parts of central Austin, even though the east and southeast sides use mass transit more, once you remove the university population, which is already reasonably well-served by the bus system and wouldn't have been served directly by the proposed train, anyway.

One could make the argument that the proposal, in that case, was outdated because it didn't recognize that much of the growth in Austin is in the east and southeast of the city. It was based on assumptions about where people live and work that aren't current. And, many made the case that it was based on serving the wealthy, mostly white, population of Austin, especially a few real estate developers, while the poorer, mostly latinx, population would continue to be poorly served by Cap Metro buses and would likely see fare increases because of the new construction.

So, even if one believes a particular transit technology, whatever it is, is technically sound and will last decades (e.g. the NY subway, which has likely paid for itself many times over since its construction and continues to serve the city, despite being very old and in need of updates and new construction), it may not be forward-looking on logistical matters. If you build a train, bus, light rail, nuclear submarine, hyperloop, whatever, that nobody rides, you haven't solved any problems for the city, you've just incurred debt.

I'm in favor of mass transit, of course. The more, the better. But, I surprisingly found myself on the opposite side of the recent Austin rail measure because of the reasons mentioned among others.

Again, I have no idea what's going on with Nashville. I've only visited. Just sharing how one might oppose a transit initiative without believing self-driving cars will solve everything in five years.
This is more or less the beginning of modern science.
I think if you took a breath, you'd realize that I didn't say any of the things you seem to think I said.

We're a wealthy enough country to give assistance to anyone who needs it. There's no reason we shouldn't.
What would that position be? You realize that this is about copying the mechanics of an existing game, right?

You could maybe adapt it to learn from hand-animated examples, which would certainly make some games easier to create. But I doubt that the effort required to specify all interactions in a 3D game by hand would be much less than just coding them.
Life insurance guarantees returns (essentially) through the magic of actuary science. It's expensive and you need scale, but it can be done.
Partly. The train will take 10 years to build (assuming it is on-time).

We also feel that ride-share will continue to expand. We don't have any pooling services (yet), but that is also inevitable.

The other big complaint is that this is one 25 mile train from one side of town. But we aren't a coastal city like Seattle (where public transit is doing well). We have 3 major interstates (i24, i40, and i65), so that means there are bedroom communities in 6 directions from town. And m at least one of those (i65 south of town) has a two-way rush hour due to so many people living in Nashville and working in the south suburb (Brentwood / Franklin). Of course, that is not where the train is going b/c that is the wealthiest suburb and they don't want a train.

So, shuttling in a few people from one side of town into an urban core with a lackluster hub/spoke bus system inside the city, isn't going to do much.

The strongest argument for Mayor Barry's proposal seems to be "We have to do SOMETNING, so let's do this."
I always thought it was bizarre that WebExtensions had no UI framework. Injecting stuff into a website seems like a poor solution
The main issue with ML/AI is that it has not been exploited yet by hackers and criminals. We actually don't know ML/AI weaknesses at all! We have some basic examples like feeding fabricated pages to google search AI to hack page rank. Or exploiting news collector AI to push fake news to the top. This area is basically ignored by researchers and mass media.
The blunt trauma might be NAFTA, which came into force in 1994.
Archaeologists Find First Sign of Jews in Ancient Abila, Jordan (2016)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Godel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - Translated by Paul Reps

Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman

Battle Angel Alita (original series) & B.A.A. Last Order - Yukito Kishiro
Just type "george takei lies" into both Google and DDG and tell me which set of results isn't just a list of his tweets.
Some of us take our humor quite seriously. Serious business is humorous, and humor is serious business.
And the way to get all that is amalgamation so that the suburban counties who benefit from an urban core without paying for it actually start paying for it...
To the extent they're exactly the same I don't think it matters. We don't need a separate English and Spanish j because they're pronounced differently. But 刃 in particular isn't the same across languages. The GP seemed to be confused, interpreting the article to mean that Koreans used 刀 instead of 刃 when what the article actually meant is that there are variants of the latter character.
They don't make internal sense because they're originally derived from Kanji/Hanzi and more or less arbitrary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#History

As a Chinese speaker learning the kana, I found knowing the etymology of the kana somewhat useful as a learning tool, but obviously this is of no help if you don't already know Chinese.

Also, Mandarin (and other Northern Chinese) pronunciations have changed quite a bit more than southern dialects, so knowing Cantonese is more helpful than Mandarin, e.g.

か 'ka' comes from 加, which is 'jia' in Mandarin but 'ga' in Cantonese

A syllabary that 'makes sense' would be Korean Hangul, where the relationships between the various parts of the mouth were purposefully encoded into the relationships between the components of glyphs.
You mean like how Google+ replaced FB?
I'm moving from San Francisco to Nashville in December for a plethora of reasons, but I can tell you that Nashville is growing and expanding like crazy. I believe it is in the top 10 fastest growing US cities and it is VERY business friendly (no state income tax) and has favorable small business conditions. While Nashville is certainly a music city, the business environment continues to improve. Even with a 1% increase in sale tax to support Let’s Move Nashville, I think this has a great chance of passing. I'm very bullish on the Nashville economy :-).
I'm rich and white living in Williamson county. I moved here when I wasn't rich (but still white) because Franklin (seat of Williamson County) is a great place to live.

I would welcome rail from here to Nashville, I don't get up there much primarily due to traffic. I've lived in many places, including Manhattan and San Francisco, and I sorely miss the convenience of the train.

Simply put, rapid transit would be great for commerce in Nashville and it would either alleviate in some way or at least mitigate traffic congestion that will be compounded by the rapid growth of Nashville's suburban communities. I think costs of extensions into these communities should be shared, but ultimately funding rapid transit through sales tax makes sense because commerce/tax base should increase.

Anyway - just came here to give some perspective - don't get the impression that Williamson County, Tennessee is full of racists. It is not as diverse as Davidson County, but nonetheless a wonderful place to live.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm anxious to see how autonomous cars will affect situations like the one facing Nashville.
Bombardier bought airplane mfr that was founded in 1940s. Airbus was just pooling of several air companies and expertise in 1970. ATR was founded and backed by another plane company. Etc...

I think your list shows how difficult it is to start a company in these two sectors .
Is it just my perception, or is getting into security a bit of a pain? It seems like there's a lot of domain specific knowledge (I.e. stuff you won't know/remember coming straight out of a regular math/cs degree) and practicing/learning isn't necessarily free either (e.g. buying routers/switches/firewalls etc to set up a lab)
All the kana are easy to learn if you use mnemonics, though I admit handwriting recognition might be harder. It took me a moment to recall some of the mnemonics themselves, eventually you just see them as they are... For tsu, I can think of Two sewing needles, for shi, I can think of "she has a funny face", for so it's one "so-ing" needle, for n it's a cyclops who can only say "nnnnnn". (https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/ and https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/ have some great mnemonics to start out, I remember only altering a few.)
So you figured out how to monetize?
Absolutely! Social security was designed to help the elderly avoid being desperately poor. And has succeeded at that to a large extent. But a full fledged retirement program it is not.

The average monthly payment as of Jan 2017 is ~$1400/month: https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/Article/3736/Wha...

Depending on your cost of living that may help (maybe a little, maybe a lot) but it's not typically going to be a replacement for your own savings.
I never ever name a number first. Doing so puts me in a weaker negotiating position, and if my number is too high, it could disqualify me from consideration even before I get a chance to interview and make a good impression.. not to mention that everything is always negotiable (remonstrances to the contrary not withstanding).

Even if I wind up not getting the job, if I had an interview, I'd have still had a chance to make a good impression, and the people who I impressed might want to hire me later on when they have a bigger budget or perhaps when they're working for another company. If I disqualify myself by naming too high a number, I might never get the interview or the chance to connect or impress, never mind negotiate. It's a lose-lose for me and the company. So, no, I never name a number first.

Some recruiters have pressured me very hard to name a number, some even telling me that they were paid by the employer to get that number. Well, I'm not getting paid to give out that number, and I'm not going to participate in a free salary survey that puts me in a weaker negotiating position. Fortunately it's still a seller's market for IT talent, and there's no shortage of recruiters, most of whom respect to keep my current and desired salary confidential.
A lot of stuff in those links that I'm not familiar with. I'd expect challenges around what will happen when the log doesn't fit in memory? What if even the index you need doesn't fit in memory? If I understand, zlog is key-value-time, so I'm not sure what type of queries are interesting on that. Datomic is essentially a triple store with a time dimension so it can do what triple stores do. What do you think the use cases are for a key-value-time store?
I'm still astounded by all the different things people mean when they say "consciousness." I think a better term for the discussion surrounding Jaynes and his theory is "awareness"--understanding and conceptualizing reality via a semantic framework, rather than merely processing inputs and directing outputs.

The ego (or the default mode network, in which I hypothesize the ego "resides") basically connects those disparate parts of the brain and makes the leap to turn the brain from a few interacting modules into an integrated whole, giving rise to the sense of the self as we understand it today. This must somehow activate our self-awareness by us understanding not only that we inhabit a body, but that the mind doing so can also be identified.
Allow yourself and your pretentious shit.
> there's no way of going back now and recording it all, or interview all those people I had an opportunity to interview then but didn't.

If you still have copies of your old email inboxes, there are good tools to find your most interesting conversations with any given person or on any given topic. E.g. Stanford has a tool called ePADD: https://library.stanford.edu/projects/epadd

And then those emails can be donated to a university or museum with relevant collections, and/or published on the web. (Our startup, FWD:Everyone, does the latter.)
...people would say the NYC subway is a great example to follow?
Would it be called murder??
Struldbrug
So interestingly, for 左 and 右, the etymological stroke order is the japanese one. It was "simplified" in mainland China and Taiwan.
It’s not like Nashville can make Brentwood and Franklin build rail to match the rail that Nashville would supposedly build. And given that those cities have shown very little interest in building rail, it makes a lot more sense to focus on what we can impact.
I have a hard time imagining the combination of self driving cars and VR not having a DRAMATIC affect on cities. As I’ve said many times before eye contact will be the killer app for VR. What happens to cities when you can look someone in the eye over the internet, or place them alongside you while you use your laptop? I don’t understand how that could be anything but transformative for the economics of cities.
Come on now "white flight" is your attribution to why people are moving to the suburbs? Maybe it's just they got married, had some kids, and want a home with a backyard and non-city living. The simplest answers tend to be the right ones.
> I don't think it's possible to make a call-blocker app which functions as a whitelist, sadly, because I think this is like their browser content blockers and operates as the app providing a list of blocked numbers for privacy reasons.

There's only 10,000,000,000 phone numbers, not even eliminating area codes that don't exist. I wonder if iOS will break on that...?
A great place to start might be reviving alt.binaries.slack. Or a countdown ticker for is-it-x-day-yet.com :)
breaking news, joke religion was a joke all along
President Bill Clinton Lost USA Nuclear Launch Codes for Months, Memoirs Reveal
What's surprising about this is that people find it surprising. I'm surprised that so few podcasts have figured out the formula is: pick a subject and talk about that subject. It's really not hard!

So many people in the media seem to feel that what people want is interviews. Bill Simmons is a great example, he has very good podcasts when he just sits around and talks to his friends/coworkers about sports (or pop culture or whatever). But he seems to want to be a talk show host and do interviews... and very few people can do interviews well. And even fewer people make a good interview.
My experience mirrors this. For basic input/output dags are a rock solid model for reality. I make a distinction between 'what' and 'how' that seem to be basically identical to your config/exec. Many of the issues I have encountered are indeed in the parts where you want to describe the precise execution without making a noun out of every action you take (which tends to inhibit clear communication).
I'm moving to Nashville in mid December from SF and looking to meet fellow tech entrepreneurs. We should grab coffee or beers (my info in my HN profile).
I agree. My businesses now all have remote-able workers, though most of the time we want to work together. VR bridging that gap could make a huge difference (think whiteboard sessions). I think in general alleviating the requirement to be somewhere such as the majority of peoples 8-5 jobs will change traffic patterns dramatically.

This alone might make it appealing to take normal methods (car or autonomous car) into the city for leisure.
Whenever I take a rideshare I have a habit of asking the drivers how they like the app they’re driving for — Lyft/Uber.

Hands down Lyft drivers have better things to say than Uber drivers. Lyft pays more, reportedly treats the drivers better and was the first to build tipping into the app.

Anectdotely as a rider, Lyft drivers tend to friendly. Good to see Lyft growing.
Read the reviews and do some external research to make sure the reviews aren't bought. Exactly like on Amazon. Amazon has the same level of quality control as AliExpress. Same process applies.
4 sigma event assumes normal distribution and its abundantly clear that stock market distributions are far from normal.
Add spammers phone as a contact, then select "all calls to voicemail" for that contact.
After reading this, I just started experimentally sending all calls to voicemail. Here's how I set it up; it should work with GSM phone carriers:

- Dial the below number. It'll show a bunch of information, including your voicemail number. Remember/copy the number.

*#67#

- Create a new contact. I put "Phone Off" in the company name field. Use the below number as its phone number, replacing the "X"s with the number from the first step, including country code. Calling this contact will tell the network to forward all calls to voicemail without the phone ringing.

*21*+XXXXXXXXXXX#

- Create another new contact. I put "Phone On" in the company name field. Enter the phone number below. Calling it will cancel call forwarding.

##21#

I added both of these contacts to my favorites and can tap them to enable/disable calls. Right now, I'm only planning to turn off forwarding when I'm actively expecting a call. It turns out that my phone puts an indicator in the status bar when forwarding is turned on, which is cool. Let's see how it goes.
Clean Code: Maths: Find Binary Representation of a Given Number
I'm not trying to downplay the plight of people who lost a lot of money in 2008 and I'm not trying to say "well it is their own fault" to trying to justify not feeling bad for them.

However, I think it is entirely reasonable to assume we will someday experience another similar event. If there was something about this event that caused some people who were following sound retirement investment strategies to lose all of their savings, I wanted to know about it. That is why I was asking.
King County Metro (Seattle area) is very highly rated.
Democracy isn't just about choice. It includes access, privilege and equality.

I think the imbalance in school district efficacy has more to do with classism and a "just universe" than anything else. The betters should have it better.
We've asked you already to post substantively or not at all, and we ban accounts that won't. Would you please take a look at the guidelines and try to change this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So you are saying there is no proof that blowing up a super expensive rocket booster is less affordable than reusing it?

I was going to drive my car to work tomorrow, but now I’m thinking of setting it on fire and buying a new one. You know, to save money.
We replicated the 10x claim in benchmarks we did on our deployment. ScyllaDB has some amazing optimization under the hood such has disk io qos, preventing compactions from impacting reads and writes much. This is killer in update heavy workloads.
> I'm moving from San Francisco to Nashville

As a Tennessean who wouldn’t mind moving to San Francisco, I’m curious if you can share any of your reasons? I haven’t noticed many tech benefits in Tennessee over SF beyond lower cost of living.
Do they have knockoffs of the Lego education stuff, like WeDo and Mindstorms? I've been searching on Aliexpress just now and don't see anything like that.

US name brand stuff like this is particular troublesome for me because I am not living in the US. So I pay big shipping costs and then risk corrupt and extortionate customs actions. If I buy local the cost is just as high.

Also, have you seen anything that looks like Vex Robotics knockoffs? Same story - I have a Vex IQ kit and want to buy more but shipping costs are way more than the price of the item I want to buy.
Inside San Francisco's Underground Tunnels
Good. I'm tired of being replaced (and have been a few times!) by outsourced workers/company who are being paid drastically less than I am.
It's what "everyone" knows about, moves 5.7 million per week, almost a million per day on average; many who are just visiting NYC have used it.

It hasn't broken down too many times, and is reliable enough that many New Yorkers don't own a car (which IMHO is the gold standard for trust in a public transit system).
There is a bit of separate ui, both for the config page and the div (popup panel) that pops when you click the extension button.

What were you looking for instead?
Already out of the bag. You can manipulate the clipboard now from extensions.
I have a hard time imagining the combination of self driving cars and VR not having a DRAMATIC affect on cities.

Ah but what will that effect be? There's nothing about a self-driving car that increases road capacities. And since a self-driving car doesn't get bored or frustrated, there's less of a disincentive for a self-driving car to drive during rush hour. So it seems like if all else remains equal, self-driving cars are going to make traffic worse, not better (sure, if you could combine them with ride-sharing, they might reduce things but lyft and Uber right now could be ride-sharing but they aren't. No reason to expect a self-driving taxi would better unless something impels it).
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"I’d rather folks go on creating such experiences for themselves than watch my highlight reel and never really get since they weren’t there"

Don't worry, 99.9% of people are consumers and do exactly what you desire: nothing. We'll never know much about their lives.
"art-forms"
& is simply a ligature of et, is it not?
God, typing on these things is the worst. And yes, it can take 45 minutes of texting to poorly approximate the amount of info that can be exchanged in a 1 minute voice conversation.
"And when you are done eh Hiragana you realize that it is on its own not enough to actually communicate in Japanese, so now in addition to those 46 characters, you have to memorize 2-4 thousand kanji. Oh man that is disheartening. I keep plugging away but it is slow going."

Don't worry about "learning kanji": learn words. A few kanji are used in isolation as words, but most kanji have meanings that you can only infer from context (as part of words). Furthermore, even if you "know the meanings" of kanji, you'll find you just have to memorize words anyway, because you usually can't combine the meanings of the kanji to come up with the meaning of a word. Not easily, anyway.

Too many westerners try to learn Japanese by memorizing 2,000 kanji, because that's easier than memorizing 30,000 words. It doesn't work. The way you "learn kanji" in immersion language schools is that you get word lists, and you're quizzed on how to read (i.e. write the readings) and write (i.e. write the kanji) those words. You quickly start to see patterns.

Memorizing lots of words is painful, but then, language learning is painful. This method comes with the huge advantage that the sooner you start learning words, the sooner you'll get positive reinforcement from the real world. You won't get that by memorizing kanji.
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Well, if I share my opinions of why I want to move out of downtown SF I'm sure I will just get downvoted here on HN, so instead I'm just looking for a change. Ready to settle and slow life down. I absolutely love music (played drums and piano) and really enjoy the amazing live music scene in Nashville. I also found that people are super friendly, charming, and ultra polite in Nashville.
Interesting idea. As I understand it, you must give it a file with all the objects that will be shown in the game first. I think the general idea might be applicable to 3D but I think you'd need to give it all the objects that could appear as 3D models first.