skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houston is in exactly the opposite situation of SF regulation wise. It is famously unregulated, which did lead to massive sprawl into the flood plains. So maybe we should aim for a middle ground. Clearly letting people build housing communities in areas that are expected to flood every 10-20 years is not good, but stifling construction under a mountain of red tape is also bad. It shouldn't be hard to find examples of sensible growth with reasonable regulation.
There are also some pretty frank interviews in Ken Burns and Lynn Novak’s Vietnam War documentary in which the subjects discuss “fragging” unpopular officers. Though maybe the quote was referring just to recent cases.

Edit: Whoops, missed the “elite” part of that quote.
ARM can’t be killed at this s point. Positioning themselves as ARM killer would not be the wisest move on anyone’s part.
Makes sense, Thanks.
Then 99% of XML applications are using it improperly. I can live with that estimate.
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> Testy told me she too once took the LSAT, though she doesn't remember her score. Unlike many of today's students, she didn't spend months studying. "Honestly, I didn't even know at the time people did that." She says LSAC actually worries test-takers spend too much time preparing. It suggests students familiarize themselves with the test and the rhythm of the questions and maybe take an online course.

This sounds about right. I took the LSAT in college after doing some studying. Between my first practice test and my final test I went up 12 points to 168.

For those unfamiliar with the test there are 3 types of sections, plus an essay, which isn't really used by admissions offices nor is it a factor in your score. The multiple choice questions are a long form reading with many questions about a long passage, a logical reasoning section with a question per prompt, and logic games with several questions for a set of logical rules. The first two, reading and analytical, saw almost no difference in studying. There's a couple tips to get the flow of the test but there isn't much to learn: its fairly good test of innate skills. The logic games sections, even coming from a computer science background and solving similar problems for fun, were pretty challenging especially with a clock. However there are only a dozen or so variants to the games, with the occasional ringer and so studying by practicing a few of each variant has a huge pay off.
Seems like clubbing is the more appropriate method.

(I know HN hates jokes but come on, this was a beautiful set up)
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There's also pears search, which died sometime after being funded by Mozilla. I don't think it was malicious intent, but no one can explain why the project is inactive.
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Maybe that German paper is just an outlet of German secret service.
You don't understand the economics of what you're saying. The "capital outflows" are largely a myth.
What regulation have they created in London? AFAIK, Uber London Ltd has always just operated as a private hire firm; the only notable things with regards to regulations was what ended up with the court case as to whether their use of GPS distance-tracking was considered a taximeter.
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Bernie Sanders, a progressive, tried to win the Democratic nomination in the primary but he then campaigned for Hillary Clinton, a centrist, in the general. Calling Bernie's campaign anything like Cheeto is sheer nonsense.
> It's almost as if it's a requirement for everyone to pay up for a service...

From the article: "(LSAC will launch a free one next year.)" So it's not about making them money. More importantly, it seems to me that if you could effectively separate "I'm not familiar with the test format" from "I'm not good at this", that would be very useful in terms of differentiating the strong candidates from the weaker ones. That doesn't seem too unreasonable. (I'm aware it's also not the same thing as intensive prep courses, which are what a lot of people (most?) take.)
I think there's a "law" that goes something like "if there's a question in the title, the answer is no"
All of your issues would be solved by moving out of the city, or not living alone. I also live in a tiny one-bedroom, but definitely not because it's the most cost effective option.

I don't know where you live, but I guarantee you could find a large apartment or duplex or something to rent with a few friends, which would be cheaper than living alone and give you more space than you know what to do with. As an added bonus, you'd have a few reliable guests to seed your dinner parties.
My mistake, I meant to use dc.js not d3.js and missed the edit window. Perhaps one of the admins can make a title adjustment.
I don't mean to be contrarian but since there is a perfect counterexample near where I live...

https://goo.gl/maps/vfpo5KGRqhs
If you can excel in Excel, you certainly can do similar jobs with Python. You don't need dependency injection, semantic versioning (any version control at all!) or exception handling to write a script that turns your data from format A to format B and generates a summary. Most people can probably learn enough Python to do that in two or three weeks.

There is a large gap between what professional programmers are expected to know and the minimum skillset needed to write programs that are useful for one specific task. Many people in your typical office would benefit from the ability to (partially) automate some of the tasks they do every day. Implying that they have to invest countless hours to learn how to do that is part of the problem.
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft runs on a 12 yr-old processor from the iBook G3
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Would you agree that the decision to take lives on the basis of a theory should require a very high bar in terms of evidence in favour of that theory?

If I could show you a ‘massive amount of evidence’ that deterrence does not work, would you reconsider?

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articl...

The problem I have with the death penalty is not that these people deserve to die. Many of those condemned to death certainly do deserve to die. The problem is that many of them certainly don’t deserve to die and some of them are almost certainly innocent, and a few have even been proven to have been innocent. All in service of a justification that holds no water anyway. It’s a form of punishment that leads down a slippery slope into deeply immoral territory and has twisted the US justice system into contortions.

So while some criminals do deserve death, I’m willing to accept merely locking them up for the rest of their natural lives instead. Sometimes it turns out those condemned to death didn’t deserve it after all and the use of such a divisive and irreversible sanction makes getting to the truth in such cases very difficult.
On a first order that's right: We don't need all the ad people now that there's no ads.

But then we have to consider that 95% of the costs/fees for running ad networks would still be needed for cost-sharing models too. You still need third-party JS.
I found the writing amusing, but I don’t understand the premise.

If I were a writer, I’d happily take any standardized test, with zero prep and zero consequences. Then I’d tell you how I scored. And, so what?

I did not find his manufactured premise of “always thinking I might be a genius at something” too compelling.

Suggestions to strengthen the piece:

1. Now, he should study hard for 5 months and then take it again.

2. Interweave a profile of another LSAT test taker who has hung his or her dreams on scoring well.

3. Take 3, or 10, standardized tests in other domains, and report on what it says about his greatest area of strength.
One way to dethrone the competition might be to focus on openness:

There are also security reasons for wanting to make a processor for India. “We don’t know really whether the processor we are getting from outside is trustworthy. Is it secure?” asks Kamakoti. “Suppose I want variants of a processor, for different needs – not just strategic, even civilian needs – I have to basically rely on the processor available to me, and fit my application to that. It is something like I bought the slipper and I am cutting my feet to fit into it.”
In all fairness, the comment he was responding to literally equated a nice view to breathable air.
But the market value of that house surely reflected the value of the view. So in very real terms, you paid for that view.

You can argue that the entire market was over-valuing the property, but... that just seems kind of cold.
The next big thing will be unsupervised spiking neural networks.
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2017/09/unsupervised-machin...
I had the impression that they're just saying that Wal-Mart's prices online are occasionally higher than their prices in-store, not that their online prices are higher than Amazon's.

I'm becoming increasingly wary of buying things on Amazon. I've received bootlegs from listings that looked genuine, fallen prey to misleading reviews for things that turned out to be of substandard quality, and so on. And it's been getting worse over the last couple of years. And this is even with "fulfilled by Amazon" items. They're not good at policing their reviews or listings for accuracy, and it often turns out that the same listing might get you different products between different orders.
And your discriminating taste is duly signaled to the teeming HN masses.

But you should make an effort to think more inclusively and creatively. I think you'll find GP's message quite straightforward.

For the record, I will signal that I have no idea where the happiest place on earth is. My guess was some cruise line or other, but that seems inconsistent with your consumer experience.
This is the one I bought: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071NPLVZH/

It looks like it might be discontinued, but there are other similar models available:
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If you try this a good helmet mount is important. This one works well for my hardshell helmet: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008BNEXH4
Great work guys!
Let them build. My only opposition is stopping at 6-stories. Populations go up and so should our housing.
> I'm 100% against new tracks being laid or any more capital expenditures...the current system needs better maintenance, first.

Maintenance of the current system requires capital expenditures. It becomes expensive to run old trains on old signaling systems, which is why both are being upgraded for the Red and Orange lines. It's expensive to be poor, and watching the MBTA operate try to operate is a heart-wrenching example of this. The downtown transfer stations are expensive failure points in part because they're handling the demand of Red <> Blue commuters who don't have a direct transfer at Charles/MGH because that would be "capital expenditures". It costs the MBTA more than $100 million in operational overhead yearly because the northern and southern halves of the commuter rail don't connect. [1]

> Here's one solution: create a new express lane on existing highways by removing a lane or repurposing the existing HOV lane. Make this new lane have a 80mph speed limit. Only allow buses. There you go.

The problem of urban transit is very rarely just how to move people quickly between stations — it's about how to insert them efficiently within walking distance of their destination. Previous generations were kind enough to leave us with a commuter rail system that is remarkably good at doing that across many towns in the region, and the solution — run more and better trains — is blindingly simple.

> but once you consider the commuter rail is already underutilized it's hard to imagine

The commuter rail carries 42% of passengers bound for Boston at rush hour so "underutilized" is a relative term. [2] The infrastructure (trainsets and railyards) makes it hard to run more efficiently at off-peak hours, which is again an operational cost that can be offset over time with capital expenditure.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/561e6ed5e4b039248a6a9... (table EX-3 on page EX-10)

[2] http://amateurplanner.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-many-people-u...
Then buy all the land between your place whatever it is you want a view of. Otherwise, why should you expect other's to lose out just for your own view?
This made me giggle:

Q. What's so great about ISO standardization?

A. It is often said that one of the advantages of SGML over some
other, proprietary, generic markup scheme is that "nobody owns
the standard". While this is not strictly true, the ISO's pricing
policy certainly has helped to keep the number of people who do own
a copy of the Standard at an absolute minimum.

[ Ed. note: I'm not exactly sure why this is seen as an advantage,
it's just something people say. ]
You should have kept reading, because that was discussed as well.
It doesn't sound like he was executed. More like a beating gone wrong.
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Don't put science up on a pedestal. That's the magic: There is no priesthood. Anybody can do (and talk about, argue about) science.
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On a related note, have any of you tried FindX?

https://www.findx.com/

https://github.com/privacore/open-source-search-engine

Looks promising but haven't used it much yet.
Writing a regex at a Google onsite? For SWE?
I think one major point here is that reputation is tied to the ability to mislead. Unlike most media today the The New York Times still has an air of integrity. And their writing quality is, if not the best, then certainly near it. These things combined result in ability for the things they say to have a much bigger impact, and they've been becoming somewhat looser with their standards of publication and often in a biased way.

As the eulogy on the events of today has yet to be written, let's look at an older issue. This [1][2][3] is the NYT's reporting on the rape claims against the Duke lacrosse team. Read those articles, and then consider that it was eventually found that the entire event was completely and literally fake. Not as in a 'it happened, but not like that' but literally - it did not happen, at all.

The 'what eventually happened' is nearly as sordid as the reporting on the event itself. The prosecutor who brought charges likely did so for political reasons. He was in the midst of a tightly contested election and needed the black vote, which coming out strongly against the players helped him to gain. They are white, the person that made the claims is black. He won the election by 883 votes with large black support. He was disbarred shortly after his victory as a direct result of his actions in this case. The individual who made the false claims is now in prison after being charged with attempted murder of one boyfriend in 2010. She was let out of prison a few months later after getting off on lesser charges. In 2011 she went all the way and killed another, different, boyfriend and is now in prison serving a sentence for murder. The police supervisor who led the investigation killed himself in 2014.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/sports/rape-allegation-aga...

[2] - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/sports/duke-players-practi...

[3] - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/sports/sportsspecial1/2-du...
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The GPA is an important caveat. I scored in the 99th percentile on the LSAT, and still couldn't get into any of the top tier schools I applied to because I slacked off too much in undergrad.
The US is a tough place to build out High Speed Rail because:

- the dense cities with good intra-metro transit are either all already in the Northeast Corridor or somewhere else entirely and too far apart from each other: Chicago is much too far from NYC, DC, San Francisco, Seattle

- elsewhere, you find big metropolitan areas that are the right distance apart (~100-200 miles) but are impossibly spread out and have bad transit, such that only a small subset of your potential customers can get to where the station would be, or to where they're trying to go within the metro once they arrive; e.g. Texas Triangle (Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston), Florida V (Tampa, Orlando, Miami), I-85 (Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh)
The comes across sounding like a "The Civil War was a conflict over States Rights" argument.

This is one of those cases where the entrenched local interests have no intention of ever solving a blatant and growing problem (sometimes referred to as: "Got Mine, Fuck You") and it is in the State's interest to force a little sanity at the local level.
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Glad to hear that they'll be taping out one of the Shakti chips so soon. Can't wait to see what comes of the higher-end server (or workstation, if you're me) chips.

That said...

> “The capitalist computing bourgeoisie want to enslave us all with proprietary processing architectures, but the proletariat eventually produces its own processor alternative – an ISA for and by the people, where instruction sets aren’t subject to the whim of the royalty-driven class, and where licensing fees don’t oppress the workers’ BOMs (bill of materials),” writes Kevin Morris in the Electronics Engineering journal, lending colour and gravitas to what’s at stake in the processor industry.

Comparing RISC-V to communism is pretty grody. RISC-V is precisely a capitalist revolution, shedding a layer of state protection of the ISA from the market, and unleashing the greed, passion, and proprietary zeal of the world on the task of bringing designs to market.
> Fortunately there are still men and women with integrity working in and for our government.

There are millions of people working in and for the government. Its only natural that a few with integrity would slip through the cracks.
I once had an interviewer tell me you can't implement paint-fill with a DFS. I was about to argue but ended up just using a BFS.

Got the job at least.
I hate to stereotype, but most of the "criminal justice" majors I've met have been... not high academic achievers.
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For me, judging by their cars on the streets and all the technology advancements since they started, missing production goals by a few months or even a couple years is irrelevant.
I think we are all too spoiled and tend to dismiss real technological challenges because “I want it now!”.
I run an lsat prep website. A cold 158 is a very high score. The median LSAT is 151. Most students can improve about 10 points with practice.

Beyond that, improvement gets dicier, as it depends on actually changing your patterns of thinking. The LSAT is a test of precision, and gets to a level most people are never called to think about when making everyday arguments.

It’s actually a very interesting test, many people here on hacker news might find it fun to try. You can print this free version: https://www.lsac.org/docs/default-source/jd-docs/sampleptjun...

I strongly recommend doing it timed, as it is as much a test of your intuition with reasoning as anything else. It also uses subtle psychological biases to lead you astray. Each section is 35 minutes. If you only have time for one, try the logical reasoning.

Law school admissions is in flux right now, as there is a move to start using the GRE as an admissions test. At the highest level of schools, this will likely help get a few STEM graduates into law school. Mostly though, it’s seen as a move by schools to pad their enrolment, as law student numbers have declined in recent years. Skyrocketing tuition is the main cause.

The big open question is how the GRE and the LSAT will be compared in the rankings. My impression is that the GRE isn’t very important in grad admissions, so people don’t study for it. I suspect that motivated law applicants will be able to achieve a comparatively higher GRE percentile than LSAT percentile, as the GRE’s subject matter is more trivially learnable, and the motivated prelaw students will be ranked against the unmotivated GRE takers who are using it for grad school admissions.
Even if your company was able to hire only people who work well from home, all of those other people have to work somewhere.

Plus, how is a recruiter supposed to measure someone's productivity at home?
Anti-gentrification isn't the same thing as xenophobia. It's not a fear of new (or even rich) people entering the neighborhood, it's the fear of even higher property values raising property taxes and rents for existing owners and renters, respectively.

The problem is that it's a virtual impossibility to build enough housing throughout the Bay Area in a short enough amount of time as to have a meaningful decrease in property values in every neighborhood, thus preventing gentrification. So in the real world, with limited yearly construction, developers' aims will be to build upmarket housing.

You can't really work around this without dictating to developers what they can and cannot build. SF tried to do that with community approvals being a way for the community to de facto dictate to developers what they can and cannot build, but it's clearly not working.
How do you have experience running hundreds of forums? :O
Advocating for these types of boring improvements is a good way to make a difference with your local City Council or transit organization.
I don't think you understand how English works.
Or better, slight variations on the most recent purchase
It's a good thing to do when you are in sales. Your entire job consists of contacting people. My job, as a programmer, is writing code. I will write and re-write code until it works so I understand you. However, contacting people is not my job. If somebody contacts me and then goes silent - it's just unprofessional in my view. Why would I want to deal with a company, which hires HR who are not able to respond to emails? For all I know they also hire accountants who are unable to cut paychecks.
Thanks for adding those details. Some brackets are absurd not only in the top being very low income level but the difference in rates being negligible.

Oregon has 4 brackets but they are 5%, 7%, 9%, and 9.9%. But the 9% kicks in at $8400, so even those at poverty-level incomes are paying that high. The fact that the next bracket starts at $125,000 would be notable if the jump weren't so pathetic. But the extra less than 1%? Come on… absurd. This does NOT count as progressive taxation by any real measure.
But in the case of ARM, you _do_ know, if you manufacture it yourself. ARM licenses intellectual property, not sells chips. Once you buy a license, you can inspect it and make sure it doesn’t have the bits you don’t like.
A single landfill can have dozens or hundreds of blocks, which are covered and sealed when they become full. So a single landfill can operate for decades while still packing trash into compact blocks.
There were several bills in the CA Leg this year that passed thanks in large part to YIMBY support.

See:

SB2 - Subsidized housing bond

SB35 - Streamlining construction

SB167 - Housing Accountability Act enforcement, written with help from YIBMY affiliate CARLA (carlaef.org)

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...