skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point that some people are there already, I agree with that. I’m not though, and I give it a shot about once a year to see what’s new. I’m curious if your dad installs much software? As a developer myself, I should have more sysadmin Linux under my belt, I’m happy to get very technical and nitty gritty with my own work. But I lose patience if my OS wants me to learn super arcane things for stuff that should just work and does on other OSes. Display drivers, networking, installing new drives, this is the kind of stuff that seems to trip me up in Unix.
That's not really true, adjusting for inflation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/US...

The lighter blue line is in May 2016 cents.
Are you sure the constant is enormous?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00484
The Luas is frequent which makes up for a lot, but the schedule is given as (every X minutes) and often misses that due to sharing with road traffic for large parts of the track.

Still better than bus eireann, where if you're getting on in the last 25% of the route, the timetable is often every hour, +/- 30 minutes, which means there could be a bus at any time and it's not likely to be the scheduled time.
>Why can't we treat people from outside our community as the same as people inside?

Because millions of years of evolutionary biology tells us that people outside our community are dangerous. There are rituals an outsider must undergo in order to join the community and become safe.

This kind of evolutionary baggage can't be undone by just waving a magic wand and wishing it away. I think we are trying to direct our evolution towards not having communities, but this kind of things take a long time (and by a long time I'm thinking on the order of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years).
> how would a government pay to secure their blockchain?

What do you mean? Aren't they inherently tamperproof?

> how would they find those dealing everything in bitcoin?

A few people might live that way, but unless the entire supply chain is bitcoin someone will have to buy the food/gas/land they need with govcoin and sell it in bitcoin, thus getting caught.

> One of the reason of URSS going down was the huge administrative costs of spying / investigating, keeping up the oppression on its citizens.

Since ever single transaction is tracked, you can automate 90% of the work. Just look for businesses making the same amount of purchases but less sales, or people sending money to or getting money from accounts that aren't registered as employers or stores. With modern anomaly detection techniques you'd hardly have to torture anyone.

The USSR just didn't have modern technology. It would have taken a team of agents to tail a single person; the ARGUS-IS can track everyone in a 36 square mile area with a single drone.
I mean downvoters didn't care to elaborate, so why should I do that.
This is one of those things that I heard on QI[1] that seems really plausible -- thus I did not fact check it -- but I'm not sure if it's just because of my Western cultural bias and prejudices.

Is it well attested/documented?

[1] Which, I think, should mostly be considered "entertainment" rather than particularly correct, though I do believe that they actually do strive for correctness. It's more that it has turned into a sort of "twist the words" game -- which is a shame.[2]

[2] It seems to have gained a little bit of a second wind with Toksvig in the current season -- as a sort of a more chat-about-random-things-prompted-by-question-X type thing. Which is nice. (Disclaimer: Only 2 episodes in.)
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"Ideas" is a broad concept. Those are not product definitions explaining it's characteristics, what problem they solve and how the are bein monetized in detail. Those are just paragraphs talking about markets with potential money.

I have a really great concept I had a week ago, and I'm now writing a detailed document about it. I'm currently employed and I plan to kickstart it by means of some contact in a group chat that is going to Thailand and there she has a domestic friend who is successful at coding (I think) and is launching an startup/product. I saw his product, the concept fails.

I have a $Billion+ idea, and I'm not exagerating. This is my realist side talking about it. I already had been too optimistic about my ideas in the past.

What I want to say is I would love to start working about it with an elite tech team and some money behind it...
But there is no way I'm posting it here, explaining it as best as I can (the vision, the why's...) for the public.
No f*g way.

Do you really think ideas are worth nothing? All the first intuition about a problem you are trying to solve, that depends on parameters like motivation, experience and (abstract-visual like) intelligence. All the market analysis you can make about it. The detailing and identifying the core elements that make your service great. And so on.

All of that is inside the definition of idea. So no, I don't think they are worthless.
A key component of implementing a land value tax would that it would need to be coupled with reduced zoning restrictions. If a property owner decides to build 20 story apartment next to my property which increases my property value and property taxes, but the council blocks my proposals for apartment development then that seems like it could get unfair pretty quickly.
Ah, I thought they were referring to buying a song-ringtone. Still, it's not the government's business to be telling Verizon they must sell for $1 or allow competition into their ecosystem.
(Meta: That GIF should have been two small screenshots. No animation, no looping, no racing to understand before it switches frames. Stop making things GIFs that don't need to be GIFs. It hurts accessibility and adds nothing.)
> affects up to 2B people

"Affects." Saying it affects 2B people without saying how much means very little. The tailpipe emissions from my single car family affect 7B+ people, just very slightly.

I think we should start with lives lost as an easy to understand measure.

Thanks for linking the source.
So, you are arguing that New Yorkers don't make a distinction between themselves and not-New Yorkers? I've never lived in New York; what about all those sitcom references to the differences between Manhattenites and Brooklyners? Or the Bronx?

How can I, as a random Texan, tell the difference between someone from Gramercy Park and someone from New Jersey? (The part of me that wants to watch the world burn would like to see the flames between Bostonians and New Yorkers.)
oh man, i forgot about that place. expensive for a student, so it was a rare treat!
Microsoft employee here. Some basic refactoring feature is actually supported, such as rename. Of course there're a lot of other coding assistance and refactoring features could be added, we plan to further improve the Java experience, including editing, on VS Code in next months together with Red Hat and other community members.
Pluto is way cooler than it should be, and now we might know why
haha. I'm really sorry for not using the right tools. I'm also sorry for my bad English as I'm not a native English speaker.

and yes, multi-line comments are there but in atom, I can just use ctrl + / to comment and uncomment, makes my life lot easier. I would say it's not huge.

If you can help me by telling which comments are confusing I would love to work with you and fix that. Thanks for your constructive feedback. :)
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Fireball that streaked across Phoenix sky was a meteor, astronomers say
> There's a reason why Chicago was the only major city to drop in population the last couple of years.

It's because it's a shithole. Expensive, but salaries are midwest-grade; weather sucks almost year-round; the government is as corrupt as a two headed snake; one of the most segregated cities in the world; and has a huge violent crime problem.
> I'm not sure how you made the jump from race-blind admission to need-blind...

That was in response to you mentioning race blind aid. Need-blind admission helps combat the affordability problem that's more likely to affect people of color. If you're saying there shouldn't be scholarships exclusively for black people or some other group, I disagree but those make up a trivial amount of the aid available.

The biases baked into school systems are a bigger problem but there universities don't have a wait a generation for someone else. It's not about admitting unqualified students, universities shouldn't and I believe generally don't admit unqualified students (when they do, I suspect it's more for legacies than people of color). Part of what a university can do is recognize that a student who's the first in their family to go to college or who didn't go to a preparatory high school may not come in with knowledge and skills that will help them succeed; matters that are not taught in any classroom. There are white students with those needs as well and who should get such help, but they're less common.

> some people will hear "We should pick PoC over more qualified white people."

Tough, sometimes that's the way it's going to look if all you're looking at it grades and standardized tests; that's the basis for a lawsuit on behalf of Asian American applicants to Harvard. That group has twice the representation within Harvard than it does in the US but they're still suing because other students with lower scores are sometimes admitted instead of an Asian American applicant with higher scores.
I never knew that and never knew where the colon went! Thanks for pointing this out.
RISC is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrUmViN_5c
You can break up American-style property taxes into two components:

1. A tax on the unimproved value of land, also called a land value tax.

2. A tax on improvements (buildings etc).

Currently the rate of tax 1 (LVT) is the same as the rate of tax 2. The assertion here is that it would be better for society if tax 1 were higher than tax 2, or even that tax 2 is zero and tax 1 is raised accordingly.
I do prefer that over stars, but I think it potentially misses some information. Let's say most people answer "good" for all the categories. Does that just mean the place is good overall, or is it fantastic?

To put it another way, how do you distinguish the 4.0-star places from the 4.9-star places?

With conventional star ratings, you're reliant on most people using stars consistently. With a series of yes/no questions, you're relying on a potentially small pool of "no" answers to give you a useful signal.

I think stack ranking would be much more powerful. "How does this place compare to others? Average, better than average, in your all time top 5?" Everybody's feedback would be completely clear. It's not obvious how to aggregate that into a single rating number though.
The absence of other people outside your community was not an accident. Members of the government, of financial institutions and urban planning departments made deliberate choices to exclude certain types of people:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...
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You can think something is ridiculous all you want, but that doesn't make it inaccurate. You feel it's all a proxy for racism? Fine. Tell me, then: between an F-150 and a Silverado, which one is the "white" truck?
So 6k a month, which means the people using AppyGen are earning much less.. ?
Ask HN: Is it wrong for me to look at my coworkers screens?
I work at a small startup of about 25 engineers. We all work at one large long table in our office. Most engineers have either one or two screens. When I get up to go to the bathroom or get water, I don't make a point to NOT look at the screens of the other engineers at the company. Meaning, as I walk through the room I usually notice what everyone else is looking at on their computers. I'd also like to mention that I sit on the corner of this desk, and frequently have people walking behind me all day. I operate with the assumption that people are looking / can see what I'm doing all day. I broached this topic with some other colleagues and the opinions widely ranged from "How could you do that?!" to "Yeah that's okay I do this too". What do you guys think? Is this a bad habit?
Does it work in a mono repo, or where the Gemfile / package.json are not in the root of the project?
What the f..k, how is that even legal?!
There is a fourth option, though it's longer term. I think that's okay since we've been dealing with this problem for forever. Work together with other nations to raise their standards of living and labor.

We do some of that but then we also depose governments, start wars under the banner of drugs and terrorism. Those latter effects are huge and often not considered in concert with immigration policy. I'm stealing this analogy, but keeping these people out is like setting fire to someone's home and then locking the door.
S4 is part of SZU, who are vastly less reliable than the main Swiss train operator SBB. (Might have something to do with their exotic rolling stock...)
Wow. can't believe no one ever mentioned this before, Most Significant Bit bucketification would cut down seek time a lot.
For those of us who don't know what is involved in power management, would you mind giving a quick explanation of what it involves and why it's painful? What power is there even to manage unless you want to put the computer to sleep or shut it down? Or are those the sole things your are referring to?
I found this Irish Times article:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/families-fined-for-su...

as well as this 88-page study:

http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

Apparently the fee is usually around $2 million.
Why don't you implement it and see how it goes?
Facebook started with normalized tables, though they altered the schema really frequently. They added more MySQL servers as they grew to more schools. Then their users started graduating and moving around and things got complicated.
Having disabilities, animals damaging infrastructure, garden-variety traffic accidents, and suicides are all classified as "stupid shit"?
Somewhat controversial opinion ahead:

I wish the focus were on treatment and compassion rather than awareness. What I fear happening, and think we have already started taking steps towards, is normalizing mental illness to the point of carte blanche acceptance. I had depression for many years and still have my bad days, but I don't want to live/work in a society where you can use mental illness for excuses. The focus should always be on getting help and coping as best as you can.

What should become destigmatized is saying "I have condition X" or "I'm getting treatment for condition X and it's really helping", not "I did Y because I have condition X, my b".

I also think that while mental illness should be destigmatized, it's still ultimately a private matter. People should feel like they can get help and receive support, but there are a lot of good reasons to not share with family/friends/coworkers about your mental illness. If I had ever told my parents about being depressed they would have lost thousands of hours of sleep worrying about me, and would spend a lot of effort trying to help even though they really couldn't. I also don't want my boss or coworkers to know simply because I don't want to be held to a different standard / treated differently from others, nor do I want any failure of mine to perform or meet commitments to have the (implicit) excuse of mental illness.
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There's also this in Canada: https://sharingdepot.ca (I wish they'd build one of these in my city.)
True, no Turing machine in the strict sense is physically realizable!
I've never said that Bitcoin Cash is any better. It may have lower fees right now but it still takes ages to transact. I just doubt that any Bitcoin based coin will ever match my vision and that we need something fundamentally different. Maybe Lightning Networks will solve it but it doesn't seem clear.
I know. Sometime a joke is a joke. Even if trains ran on time I wouldn't advocate fascism as a trade-off.
Yeah, software development on Unix was so natural and enjoyable, even today half the time building a Linux library or app is typically spent in byzantine shell scripts trying to determine which particular occult incantation of incompatible or broken Unix you are not running and throwing various test programs at your compiler that last made sense in 1995.

The true essence of delightful and plain right software development must be over in OpenBSD land, where they run the one and only gcc 4.2.1
I just setup an account and enabled 2FA for it.

What happens is the extension fills the username and password, then when you get to the next page, just click the extension icon and choose the item again. It'll fill the 2FA field.

Or you can use the keyboard shortcut and it'll do the same thing.

Does that work any better? As far as I am aware it won't automatically fill when the field is on a second page. The filling is one and done, it won't fill again on the next page without your instruction to do so.

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When a proper developer builds a home or sub-division in Houston, they bring in fill dirt and do compactions until the houses rest on small hills. You get frequent flooding (about once a year) but it rarely reaches the house before the flood prevention systems have a chance to divert and control it. The problem here is two-fold, as discussed in the article, these people built there homes INSIDE the flood diversion systems and never did due diligence on their home purchase to find out that they were in homes literally designed to be flooded and unscrupulous developers who improperly built or ignored the creation of new flood control when up-building developments that made previously safe areas at risk like the HP plant that flooded. Of course this implies that the city code/design/inspectors/etc. were not doing their jobs as well.
In a non-NN world, nothing will stop Comcast or ATT&T from also offering an "email only" plan. Except in their version of the plan, it costs $0/month if you use their own hosted email service. And when the grandkids come over they can watch Netflix for free because Netflix is paying the ISP to subsidize bandwidth.

Eliminating NN will make competition even worse for smaller and medium sized ISPs because the big ISPs have disproportional leverage to extract subsidies from media companies and make all sorts of deals. In some cases, the ISPs even own the media companies (for example, Comcast owns NBC). How can you possibly expect to compete with that?
I disagree. Therefore its up for debate and you're wrong =) I think to be a racist you actually need to dislike people for their race. Motivation matters. Saying something racially mean only because you want to make them upset and not because you actually care about their race is not racist. Why? Because you don't actually dislike them for their race.
The Amtrak Downeaster runs right outside my window. During a 24 hour period, about fifty cars go by, almost empty, usually six or less cars per train.

Every single freight train that goes by has at least fifty cars, and they roll all night....
> AFAIK, only supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies have disks of material that is falling inward

Stellar binaries are extremely common, and there is a reasonably large supply of binarys where one star has become a compact object. Their companion stars often drop lots of matter onto them, resulting in a reasonable supply of black holes. Diskoseismologists and others working on Swift have catalogued hundreds of stellar mass black hole accretion disks.

Examples from Swift:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...769...16R
https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2249 (preprint version)

Swift also spotted ASASSN-14li which was a star being shredded by an SMBH and forming an early accretion structure. The event has been followed up by other observatories (notably Chandra and the European very long baseline interferometry network). ASASSN-14li is an easy google search term (the trick is knowing the term in the first place :-) ), hopefully you will enjoy some of the hits. :-)
I find it hard to feel sorry for him. He clearly brought the prison sentence on himself. On the other hand, it is not right that anyone should suffer discrimination.
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That sounds like a city-dweller's perspective.

Sure, I would almost certainly be dead, but life on Earth would continue, our species would continue, and our civilisation would continue (albeit with some major setbacks).

Besides, I don't think anyone's nuclear war plan is actually to destroy every major to semi-major city on Earth. In a realistic 1980s nuclear war, a lot of nukes would be targeted at military bases and the like. Plenty of others would destroy every major city in the US and USSR, plus each country's nuclear-armed allies. Maybe we here in Australia would get a nuke or two out of spite. But is anyone going to bother to nuke South America?
Microsoft employee here. Thank you for trying! Actually some basic features such as getters, setters, renaming are already supported for Java in VS Code with Red Hat's language server. We'd also like to learn which features are most important for Java developers, please provide feedbacks to us through https://gitter.im/Microsoft/vscode-java-debug or submit https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-java-debug/issues for whatever you believe is missing.
> If you detonate the weapons at the right altitude

Yeah and if you detonate the at ground level there is going to be a lot of fallout. Worries are very valid.
To me, this a common (logical) error: confusing good existential directives with good political programs. As they say, hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
The Acela is more expensive than a plane ticket, but the NE Regional is usually cheaper and just about as fast as the Acela. The Acela got dicked over by some NIMBY types pretty hard and doesn't really deserve the HSR appellation.
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I think we should also be looking into progressive property/land taxes. Let's say everyone's first $100-200k in property is untaxed. Or you could make even more brackets.

Another problem is super dense developments not paying their fair share. A skyscraper's residents are using way more of the city's resources than the small building next door, but with the same footprint they are paying the city the same amount. I suppose this would have to be fixed with some kind of income tax.
I wonder if s/he save a bunch of bugs to chain together a single big exploit. From the latest report, there was 6 bugs chained together.

Imagine reporting 6 small bugs individually that nets you 6 x 1000$ = 6k$. But if you save each one, it may chain together for a potential 100k$ bounty. Of course, any insight that reveals these underlying relations is most certainly worth 100k$.
Can they make a MR to fix the terrible syntax?
> Ought is a loaded term there in my opinion because it depends on who you ask and what your goals are. A VC and a philanthropist are going to have wildly different answers.

Justin Kan's idea for buyer's remorse insurance on fine art really drives home that you're on point. It should speak volumes that YC is publishing the idea that "fine art purchasing sure is a difficult problem" with a straight face. Let’s put half the valley on that pressing issue.

Think about how that went down: oh, hey, Kyle. Great timing on your e-mail! I just bought a Manet and hate it on my wall; I have just the idea for your blog post.
Here's the full quote:

"What resulted was an expansive suite of programs and utilities (collectively, software) that were written in Linux, for Linux - much of which was never ported to Windows. One example of this is the popular version control system (VCS) called git. Developers could have written this software to work on Windows, but they didn't. "

It's just wrong.