skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people hate small talk because of their success rate of small talk. “How are you doing?”, “yeah it’s good, how have you been?” “Not too bad”. “...”
Most Northern European systems are absolutely amazing. Not only do things just work, but their attention to detail and design is also top-notch. In most places the fonts, kerning, colors, lighting, everything is just very pleasing to the graphic designer eye. Sometimes you feel like you've stepped into an app.
The lack of new housing is radically changing the neighborhood and community. Neighborhood and community come from people, not buildings.
it really didn't. democracy was highly restricted for the first 150 years of the U.S.
Anti-NIMBY will definitely solve a lot of problems. A lot of the South Bay and peninsula are incredibly under-developed for the amount of people working in the area, and simply allowing taller buildings to be built (among other things) would substantially decrease the average commute and rent of many residents.
Raptor makes a setup that is open and high-end, but it is really expensive. $2400 for just a 4-core CPU and motherboard.

https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/purchase.html
Fake Minimalism
> Jones reported that members of Tillman's unit burned his body armor and uniform in an apparent attempt to hide the fact that he was killed by friendly fire.[23] His notebook, in which – according to author Jon Krakauer – Tillman had recorded some of his thoughts on Afghanistan, was also burned; "a blatant violation of protocol."[24] Several soldiers were subsequently punished for their actions by being removed from the United States Army Rangers. Jones believed that Tillman should retain his medals and promotion, since, according to Jones, he intended to engage the enemy and behaved heroically.[23]

Tillman had, at the time, an ongoing correspondence with Noam Chomsky on the illegality of the Iraq War and how he felt betrayed.
> Centralization already happened with BTC/BTC-CASH.

As much as I agree with you on how it's become "more" centralized, this is not a binary thing.

So my answer to this is NO, centralization has not "already happened". Yes, it may be getting more and more centralized, but it's not some switch you can flip on and off.

This type of absolute expression was exactly what I was ranting about.

Note that I agree with most of what you said. I'm just not a fan of these statements of absolutism.
If the autonomous stuff works (HUGE if) it would completely change the core business. I can't see why they'd spin it off. Why sell your future unless you think it won't work out.
The article is gibberish.
It’s as much publicity as it is building it IMO. Moving perception to new and exciting things is a useful tactic for companies.
You seem to be assuming that, once 6 confirmations have happened, a transaction is set in stone. This isn't true at all. It's true that, once 6 confirmations have happened, a transaction is highly unlikely to disappear in the absence of the 51% attack, but the whole point here is that we're assuming that a 51% attack is occurring.
"The article argues that climate change will render the Earth uninhabitable by the end of this century. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The article fails to produce it." - Climatologist Michael Mann [1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMannScientist/posts/14705390...
Seals are the golden children of the US military. Lots of nightmare stories out there of Seals "getting away with murder".
Another analogy would be how we lost the distinction between hacker and cracker.
To me, the ideal bike would be a fixed-frame hybrid or cx bike with an internal drive shaft (not a belt) and disc breaks to minimize maintenance, fenders. Basically like a bikeshare bike but without the bikeshare weight and the upright angle.

Chains and belts, caliper brakes, shocks, are all maintenance pain. Cam shafts are cheap to maintain but require a bike that is built around a shaft drive - they're not compatible with a standard frame setup.

Put all the electronics in a detachable pod on the handlebars. Light, horn, camera - all there. You can easily pop it off and take it with you.

Edit: if I were crazy enough for a hardware Kickstarter, an all-singing electronics pod would be it. A long-necked bike light with yellow leds down the side for side visibility and a pair of buttons for horns - a quiet pedestrian chime and an earsplitting horn guaranteed to cause hearing damage if used carelessly.
That's not the actual paper. This is: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172
At this point, what would blow my mind is tesla making their production goals for like anything at all.
An easily digestible kernel release log sounds like the kind of thing the Linux Foundation should probably fund someone to take care of...
I think one of them has a delaying effect which kicks, need to google it
The city "pushes" a large part of the homeless population into the Tenderloin. They seem to be quite happy with this set up and don't want to have the homeless spread out throughout the city. It may be altruistic in that it is easier to help them out when you know where they live or a cynical approach to a problem but there isn't much interest in changing the status quo
You’re working in the wrong place (if you are working in an open office)
Last time I checked, PS/2 does NKRO better than USB. I don't know if that's still the case.
"Sense of entitlement" comments like this show that what this debate really boils down to is control, with neither the "we have had control and don't want to give it up just because you want change" side nor the "we want to take some of the control" side coming off looking all that great. I happily wash my hands of all of it.
I like Aswath Damodaran's blog, Musings on Markets: http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.ca/

He's an academic who specializes in valuation and takes a very clear and thorough approach to all such questions.
We could debate how this works, but since neither of us is an economist, that would be as silly as a couple of non-scientists arguing about climate change -- when the overwhelming majority of scientists are all saying the same thing, just listen to the scientists.

In this case, an overwhelming majority of economists are saying that increasing the supply of housing in our cities would bring prices down.

SF's Chief Economist: http://www.sfhac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ted-Egan-Pre...

California's legislative analyst's office: http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/hou...

The Obama White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...

Even if they're all wrong, and we increase the supply of housing by 100,000 units and prices stay the same, that's 100,000 fewer families that get displaced.
Agreed.
The webside ecosystem is in a high state of flux. It has to be streamlined somewhere. Does it need a fundamental architectural change? Would like to see things a bit more saner ;)
It's because "United States Army Special Forces" is the actual term for the personnel known as Green Berets, whereas SEALs fall under NSW (Naval Special Warfare Command) and SOCOM (Special Operations Command).
Incoming: Bay Area LSAT registration skyrockets as techies try to outdo their law school friends with zero prep.
Awesome, this startup is capable of anything!
Can't be. It's all straight lines.
You mistake the term investment to mean solely a financial context here.

There's a thing as investing in stability, investing in the ability to modify things as you please, investing in not having to answer to a landlord, investing in having a place for your dog or children...

Your desire to change the rules to favor your taking that same block of land for yourself doesn't seem inherently any more holy than their desire to keep the rules as they are today. And when it comes to setting policy based on the whims of 20-something-newcomers, some potential downsides increasingly start to poke out. Let's put a pause on YIMBY-ism, let's fix the NYC and SF Bay Area transit systems to properly serve the density that's already there, first!
OK.

But I don't see the issue. I'm sure they also had hygiene products and things as well. I don't think it's unusual to not mention them. You only need these things in trace amounts. Anyway I think any non vegetarian would pack canned or dried meat.

I see the issue with the dogs but they bought dog food and fed human food to the dogs (Why they used a whole years worth)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/rescued-wome...
> If you want to send an army into another country without local support you need a massive manpower and material advantage. After you account for that the two sides look more equal.

Or you simply need to be willing to sack and burn the opponent until they starve.

In addition, the slaves, who outnumbered free southerners by quite a bit, were not necessarily unwilling to cooperate with the Union soldiers. That's very different from trying to pacify an area that will fight to last man.
w520 should work pretty well with both nouveau and nvidia drivers. If you don't need to use external ports, just disable nvidia. No brand is good with optimus. Just avoid nvidia for your sanity. Without nvidia, all laptops will fare pretty well. Thinkpads and Dell's business laptops are still a good choice. Other niche brands have problems of their own and make different tradeoffs.
Found the picture of the ethernet bug. https://twitter.com/nblr/status/928526534226391040

That I would never notice behind a desk

Also, in the usb cable with cell https://twitter.com/nblr/status/929132160602296320
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There are many good opening lines, but I've found that simply asking "How's your week been?" works much better than a "How are you" because it nudges people to to tell a story.

Then I ask questions about that story.
>The population stands at 7.68 million ... in 2000, it was 6.7 million.

So that's about a 14% growth rate since 2000, compared to Houston's 35% growth in the same time period (3.4 to 4.6 million). And I've heard that Houston even before Harvey had one of the more affordable big-city housing markets in the country.
Backing Big Brother: Chinese facial recognition firms appeal to funds
That's true. We're warm blooded. That means we're far more capable of dealing with different temperatures than dinosaurs will ever be.

(yes there are cold-blooded mammals and warm-blooded dinosaurs, but they're rare exceptions)
This is 90's tech, we had speech-to-text working back then for full dictation which is way beyond the needs of facebook for scanning for keywords. Having high accuracy wouldn't be important in the same way it is for Siri et al.
How do we know that it's going to be used any worse?

I really wish that we, as a nation, started thinking in terms of what good works we could accomplish with our tax dollars instead of what stupid waste we could remove by not collecting them.
The San Francisco Bay Area is absolutely not by any stretch of the imagination densely-populated. At 332 people per square km (859/sq mi), it's a third as dense as Peoria. It could grow by 50% and still be on par with New Jersey, which isn't exactly Hong Kong.

Even if you're just looking at the city of San Francisco itself -- or even just the neighborhoods of the city that surround underground train stations -- the population density is a joke: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/3qu9uv/i_made...
expensing items that aren't actually for your business activities is tax fraud.
Isn't that representable with a mixture of blue and yellow light?
If I live in SF, I have the right to vote in local elections, and I have the right to vote for people who represent my interests, regardless of whether I rent or own. If you're hoping for the ballot box to be restricted to homeowners, you're about 300 years too late.
My point is that “too much regulation” is an insufficient criticism. It means nothing, except that it suggests you think regulation itself is the problem. If you do indeed believe regulation is necessary, then we both accept that. It then becomes about what kind of regulation best addresses the complicated problem of housing in high-demand cities. I’d address your point but I don’t know what it is, beyond what I’ve already said.
While I think there are legitimate concerns about how this technology will be used I also think that there is a bit of FUD here:

> losing your social security or credit card numbers to fraud is nothing compared to losing your biometrics. While you can change those numbers, you can’t easily change your face.

What does this even mean? Last time I checked anyone can take my picture any time I am in public.

Is their theory that someone is going to use a mission impossible face mask to impersonate me and then get me put on a terrorist watch list?

How would having machines doing facial recognition change anything from having humans doing facial recognition?

If anything the machines will be more accurate, so face theft will be less of a problem, but I have never heard of any real life cases of face theft, so I don't actually think it is or will be a problem.

> However, due to the fact that immigrants and people of color are disproportionately represented in criminal and immigration databases, and that face recognition systems are less capable of identifying people of color, women, and young people, the weight of these inaccuracies will fall disproportionately on them.

This is a fascinating finding and definitely a subject of concern.

You can read the research this is based on here: http://openbiometrics.org/publications/klare2012demographics...

What I would point out here is that even if there are race and gender discrepancies in algorithmic performance for facial recognition these systems are being used as a replacement for humans who are not exactly known for being free from racial and gender bias.

At least the facial recognition system is not going to share see through images of you with their colleagues or give you an enhanced pat down because they find you attractive.

Even if the algorithms are less accurate for some groups it should be possible to adjust the algorithms to require a higher level of certainty for those groups so that no group experiences a higher rate of false positives than any other. That is something you can't do with people that you can do with a machine.
"If you live in the Mission district of San Francisco and want to get involved, come to the Mission YIMBY general meeting at the end of November."

I am genuinely interested in what it means to be a Mission district YIMBY.

The recent history of housing politics in the Mission have pitted left-liberal progressives against housing development on the assumption that: new development will be market rate, this will bring "tech workers" and gentrification, ergo: new housing will (paradoxically) force more existing mission residents out of housing.

So it has been left-liberal, progressive, tenants-rights NIMBYs vs. gentrifying developers (and sometimes, very explicitly, "tech-bus-riders")[1][2][3].

BUT, the YIMBY movement in general seems to present itself as a left-liberal, progressive response to incumbent property owners.

Given that context, what kind of reception does "Mission YIMBY" receive and where does it fall in the politics of what is the Mission district in 2017 ?

[1] https://48hills.org/2015/02/11/teachers-protested-google-bus...

[2] https://48hills.org/2016/01/25/problem-google-bus-program/

[3] https://48hills.org/2015/04/24/thebattle-over-sf-bus-stops/
I feel one of the larger flaws is there are distinct attributes of intelligence so while people may be smart in one way they can be very ordinary in others. This can lead to people making decisions on areas better deferred or advised from others. Though this can as much be due to personal confidence as much as intelligence.
Perhaps a semi truck is relatively easier than a lower budget car?
On second thought I think you are right that it is its own thing. I do not remember the details, but political scientist Fukuyama classifies the Chinese political system in "The Origins of Political Order" and due to the cultural context it has many unique properties.
A couple months ago I mounted an inexpensive (~$140) 360 view camera to my helmet for my bike work commute. Here's some recent footage: https://youtu.be/aTTEEWxJImk

It works well and might one day capture an accident. I just need to remember to charge it. I wear it even when it is not charged because it seems cars are more cautious around me when they see the camera poking off the top of my helmet.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I am wondering if its ever possible to board to later approve that those newly bought "common" stocks get converted to "preferred" i.e., have the same liquidation preference?
Even right now, most Chinese wouldn't jealous US so called democracy regarding what happened here in the past decade.
San Diego seems to be keeping up with new housing demand. It's still California and on the beach.. Probably the best place to get in now.. Tech companies will develop there.
This is awesome. I have been wanting to build something like this for a while but never had the time.
So why don't they advertise the Walmart Price (tm) in small font, and then add a multiplier which takes all that into account?

Seems like a good way to influence consumer sentiment in places that won't play ball with you, if you're an abusive plutocratic organization.
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Thiel gave $1 mil to Mercer SuperPAC on 10/26/2016
Programming on a TI-83 will be a thing as long as TI-83/4s remain the "gold standard" of graphing calculators in high school.
Investors have lost the plot.

Uber is nothing more than a taxi company using VC capital to undercut competitors. There are no self driving cars. That’s just a story to get money and make the brand bigger than its product. Come back to reality.

There is no futuristic mars colony with Uber robots driving everyone around. It’s just a bunch of taxi drivers with dispatch replaced by an app.
Techendo predicted the rise of Elon Musk on an old episode way back in the day. Now I'm quite honestly tired of hearing about the hype. The fatigue is real.
> I don't know how much research has been done on the subject,but personally I don't mind ads in general,I mind ads that target (stalk) me and intrusive ads.

That used to be my position. I think I still don't mind honest-to-goodness advertising: this product/vendor exists and has these features. I actually do still see this kind of ad on sites connected to electrical engineering; presumably other competitive technical product areas like photography or scientific/industrial equipment have it too. But the more I've experienced the dissonance of being hit with bursts of mainstream advertising after moving to a generally lower-advertising lifestyle (ad blockers/NoScript, cord-cutting, more judicious selection of news sources, etc.), the more distinctly I've felt the reality that we're almost a century into the general trend of "advertising" being a euphemism for psychosocial manipulation. In other words, modern advertising is for-profit propaganda. In my view, it's not enough for the media of advertising to be more passive. The technology is amplifying it, but the overall strategy is what's fundamentally exploitative. Many people think that merely by being cynical about this, they're immunizing themselves. It's tempting to think that if you study the techniques and make snarky remarks like, say, "oh, look how cool this Lexus is; if I buy it that means I'm powerful and important", then you've somehow defeated it. Make no mistake: that's just another strand in the web. The idea that the advertiser wants to push is still being normalized in your mind, even through the filter of irony.

I don't intend to be alarmist here. Humanity has just about survived a century of this crap, after all. Life goes on. Revolutions, both figurative and literal, haven't been rendered obsolete by the sheer marketing budgets of incumbents. But I think we have evolved a warped view of what qualifies as normal, honest communication.
I am not really good at this stuff, but I see separating focus. Call it UberAuto, Uber would become UberAuto's parent company. UberAuto could receive new VC rounds and a new CEO appointed, focus on the autonomous development, while the parent company focuses on its core business and get ready for IPO.

Waymo is a spinoff from Google (and Alphabet is Google's parent company). Ebay, HP all have its own spinoffs.

Edit:
In fact the new Uber CEO Khosrowshahi guided Expedia spinoff. See [3]. So a spinoff isn't unlikely. The spin-off could be just a research entity, but license to parent company later.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/technology/google-parent-...

[2]: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/companies-seeing-the...

[3]: https://qz.com/1063313/new-uber-ceo-expedias-dara-khosrowsha...
I'm guessing no, but SF does have a concept of "right to light" that blocks construction of tall structures that cast "significant" shadows on public spaces.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Long-shadows-crea...

>But critics argue that economic benefits don’t justify a violation of 1984’s Proposition K — the “Sunlight Ordinance” — which blocks construction of any building over 40 feet that casts an adverse shadow on Recreation and Park Department property unless the Planning Commission decides the shadow is insignificant.

>The project would throw a shadow on Portsmouth Square between 8:05 and 9:10 a.m. from late October to early February. It would shadow St. Mary’s Square, also in Chinatown, in March and September. It would also shadow Justin Herman Plaza, at the foot of Market Street, from mid-October to late February, and Union Square from early May to early August.
The Richer Scale
You can look up the costs - and even sign up for the seller programs - really easily. For small items, it looks like FBA (Fulfillment By Amazon) costs $2.50 a pop to handle prime shipping/customer service/returns/etc. And I think you have to pay for shipping to their warehouses, too. Plus warehouse space, but that looks very cheap for small volumes at a glance.

So if you see something that costs $5 with multipack options of 3-4/$10...well, there you go.

And you too can make any product available to a huge audience with 2-(ish)-day shipping...no wonder they're going like gangbusters.
Ha, absolutely not. Other commenters here have already made the population density comparisons pointing out that there is plenty of room, but I think it's best conveyed visually:

http://acme.com/same_scale/?48.84937,-357.65363,37.7749,-122...
And the subsidy for roads is?
Climate change is already making the earth too hot for SOME humans, specifically atoll dwelling people who are being forced to relocate.

It could make the earth too hot for SOME humans, as in it will force the human population to decline, something guaranteed not to be pleasant.

We're a long way away from any prospect of climate change making the earth unable to support the species homo sapiens, and it's a waste of breath talking about it.
really cool to see live updates like this.

thanks for the good stories.