skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no obviously correct geographical unit for zoning. Placing a major industrial plant is county-level (or even above), a mall probably affects people in about a 2-3 mile radius, an 6 story apartment building maybe a few hundred yards, while fence regulations should be decideable on a block level. Perhaps the solution is to flip the problem around, define (tightly) the geographical boundary of residents that will be non-trivially affected by a change, and require a vote (perhaps even of a super-majority) in that area for the planning permission to be approved. Developers who want to build an apartment block will have to convince or compensate a few dozen residents in a certain radius (or buy their properties outright) to get their assent, but residents across town don't get a say. If you want to build an airport near a city, you'll be smooching a lot more people.
unsurprising. HN encourages not reading by literally hiding downvoted comments. one could argue that the votes and the ranking should not be tied, e.g. randomize the ranking to encourage voting for more things as people are most likely to read what's closest to the top.
Learn Linux, 101 – System logging
Those hypothetical home seizures would not be on a large enough scale to make a difference. Empty houses owned by rich people are not a large-scale phenomenon.

Middle-class people, on the other hand, are not facing their single-family house being taken away; just some of its benefits being reduced and its value possibly dropping.
It's as though nobody remembers the Syrian ambulance boy who seemed to hit every single Western publication at once. Or the fawning PR pieces for the "White Helmets."

The insinuation that Forbes is not part of the propaganda conspiracy is absurd. This is exactly what it looks like when an NGO is peddling a narrative.
Door 2 – Data Science Advent Calendar: Shark Attacks EDA
This is helpful for my Asperger's. I like the part about the coffee money. Thank you!
I agree, my feeling reading this was "this is more anecdote than history". It feels a bit like the facts fit a pre-defined narrative.
What are your most preferred portable devices?
I think you mean descendants.
Not really. They also own part of the land and can redevelop. It's people in maxed out land that get screwed.
I'm not sure what he meant by "modal employee". Is it in the statistical sense of occuring most frequently?
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Good God - it's a note taking app that installs sqlite, sharp, and more than 300 other things... well into the millions of lines of code.
Tl;dr by using the photon's color (wavelength), we get more bandwidth than the current qubit encoding, which is based on polarization.

This would be loosely similar to using multiple voltage levels to build trinary, quaternary, etc. digital circuits or CPUs. (Which has been done in the past and some people still speculate will come back into fashion.)

It's also somewhat similar to the idea of FM radio, where the signal is encoded in the frequency differences.

It looks like they dropped the polarization encoding to use wavelength only. If I'm reading it right, then I'd guess there an extra easy +1 bit (at least) by using both wavelength and polarization.
Friendly reminder that most of these posts are just from engineers who don't have insight into the specific salary bands of their company. These people are just looking for good co-workers, and it's really scummy to downvote (which a lot of you obviously are doing) them just because they aren't sharing very specific salary bands.
Most people in small cities that don't have enough people for their land area don't want denser area. Basically, a small and privileged subset in cities like Berkeley is making decisions against the will of the majority of Californians - hence laws being passed easily on the state level to override local government.
Something being hard does not imply it's expensive. There are many ways hiring some kind of people can be hard even with a massive amount of them out of your door looking for a job.
I would bet my lunch that your scenario was a keyword mismatch. Always keep in mind that the "hiring person" at startups is usually the non-technical person. So you have to get past the skills list provided by the CTO/CIO/Lead Dev.

I have seen three approaches to limit this. First being to stay super field specific but implementation general, but not keyword void. Second, is to go super rabbit hole on every keyword/tool/language/platform you have ever worked with inside the field.

The third approach is to have a type one resume with a type two cover letter. That approach has usually been the most consistent for callbacks in my circles, and allows for your rabbit hole to be of the same type as the job description.
Who is Julia? Just curious. Thanks for sharing your perspective and following up with the other poster in detail.
you have checked the careers above?
As others have said, it's a great idea. My wife and I don't work from home, but it would be great to have a one-stop-shop to find out about classes/programs. Good luck. (And of course, I'll keep an eye out when/if you higher mid-level developers.)
Different kind of companies have different needs, a security team doesn't scale like the HR team or the finance team or the ... it's really hard to figure out how much you need to employ.

And when you have breaches and things like that, is it because you didn't have enough security employees? Or is it rather because its focus was bad? Or the employees were bad? Or because the branch tasked to secure the network was bad?
I live in a 7-story 28-unit Manhattan building. It sits on a plot roughly the size of my parents’ home in Cupertino, which houses 2 (6 around Thanksgiving). I don’t think the Bay Area has a 30x housing shortage.
It's probably just very rough "resemblance" :D It is said CNNs were "inspired" by visual field maps; I am 100% sure we know very little about how that part of brain works and maybe somebody just took a look at main/thickest connections between neurons there and tried to assemble them in a NN to see if it helps.
Looking at it, I think he means the statistical middle employee.
For some reason, “decide to just live” made me think of Eat Pray Love. Mental reference I don’t fully understand either, don’t worry.
My dad solved that by buying the land in front of his house so that someone couldn't build and block his view.

I get that people want it all but for example. Friend bought 26th floor corner apartment in a 32 story buiding with amazing view. 2 years later someone built another 32 story building next door blocking 30% of his view. Did he have some kind of right to prevent that? Another friend bought a lot and had a house built on it in a downtown-ish area. All houses in the area have no yard, at most they have a backyard porch big enough for a couple of chairs. His house now blocks most of the sunlight into at least one of the houses around his lot. His neighbor complains. If she wanted not to be blocked she really needed to by the land.

I don't see any other reasonable solution to these types of problems. The fence seems like yet another where the owner of the land should be able to build the tall fence. I say that as well as my mom used to sunbath topless in our backyard as a kid. She mostly took advantage of the fact she didn't expect anyone to look over the fence but the fence was only about 7ft high and houses around us all 1 story tall.
If you have $5 million reasonably invested, you could pay yourself approximately $200k per year until you die (the average long-term expected return from the stock market is > 4% above inflation) and likely leave some cash to your kids.
use a calendar.

i don't mean for appointments. i mean get rid of your todo lists and all similar abstractions and explicitly allocate your time using a calendar.

i wrote this up with some more details here: http://rz.github.io/articles/2016/oct/time-on-your-side.html
It's still not hard, one can use apparent ducts and sockets (instead of embedding both in the walls and ceilings). The main difficulty with apartments is social: since the garage is a shared space, it has to be approved at a meeting.
First off, don't measure your productivity against what others are doing, measure it against yourself. Perhaps some of these people you're seeing have "developer evangelist" or "architecture" roles, allowing them to spend more time posting on social, writing articles, giving presentations and less time producing software artifacts.

Second I think meditition is extremely important. Yes it'll take time from your day but you'll start training your mind on how to focus, so the hours you do spend trying to produce work artifacts are more focused (and free of depression, anxiety and mindless thoughts). You can try apps such as Calm or Headspace to learn more about how meditition can be practical for your daily life.

Second plan out your work and goals for each day and hour or whatever your relevant work unit is. Set a timer so you take frequent but planned short breaks. Go for a walk or make some coffee. Don't get on social media or Hacker News on your short break. When your break is over stay focused on your work, using mindfulness techniques that you hone during meditition.

Lastly figure out ways to block out distraction. If you like to daydream, set aside time to do so and keep your notes in a journal. If there are really noisy Slack channels, mute or leave them. Turn off email notifications, and only check it when you start the day, around lunch time and before you leave for the day. And put your phone on airplane mode during the day if you can.
Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution. You think you are an exception; you are not. You should not insist on an NDA to talk about it; nobody serious will engage in contract review over an idea, and this will mark you as clueless.

Love that so much.
If you don't do "really good QA", you end up causing more problems than you fix.
Ask HN: Unethical Software Developer Behavior?
Would it be considered unethical/unprofessional behavior for a developer/engineer to continue to work on a project where:

1.) The developer knows, with certainty, the ROI for the project is negative... by a large amount.
2.) The developer knows, with a high degree of certainty, the project will never have a positive ROI.
3.) The project is not under any type of R&D heading or mandate.
4.) The organization is a financial institution.
5.) The organization is of the mutually owned variety.
Will deffo check the book out.

Electronics aside, voyagers nuclear energy supply fascinates me.

I'm still very optimistic that someday we'll figure out safe micro nuclear reactors.

The energy density of nuclear fuel is just amazing.
Taking a sabbatical to work on Ruby profiling tools
Stuff is still being added nowadays: non-integer derivatives and integrals (”fractional calculus”), alternative formulations that rely not on the limit of the addition but on the limit of a multiplier (“L-calculus”), stochastic integration (Itō integrals), automatic differentiation (vital to estimating weights for neural networks in machine learning), derivatives of integers (???!!!!), and other things that might or might not be important going forward are all branches that have been developed since the 1960s.
Please allow for easy registry via integrating Google or Facebook logins. I know that many are philosophically against that, but it sure makes it easy to sign up and remember the password.
Ask HN: Who is hiring comments disappearing?
I've noticed that often my comments on Who is hiring threads get removed without any notice. I've also seen this happen to other comments which seem to disappear.

Is this YC censoring companies which are seen as a threat or is there another reason?
> like human beings with a regrettable, painful, mortifyingly embarrassing condition are untrained dogs to you

I explicitly used the example of people with a medical condition. This comment accuses me of saying they're "untrained dogs".

Which is a typical borderline re-phrasing, extreme accusation, false accusation, etc.

> I considered the possibility that I misinterpreted you here

And firmly rejected any calm, rational, analysis of my comments.

That's part of the disorder.

> ou’re talking about serious, life changing journeys that require a lot of help and support along the way, and paying them the same respect as taking the car through the wash.

I'm telling you what the end goal is. What you should work towards.

And as the typical borderline, you don't see that. You take the extreme position that I'm saying it's trivial to get to the end goal.

> I’m not blind to my impact on other people.

You're blind to your extreme comments here. You're dumping boatloads of emotion on my for things I didn't say. You're projecting your emotions onto me.

> I’m not splitting with you

Yes, yes you are.

> ... it’s enough of a display of malempathy

i.e. any attempt to make you responsible for your behavior is rudely rejected. Any suggestion that you can get better is rudely rejected.

Because you're in pain.

Again, your pain is your issue. When you project your pain onto other people (like you're doing now), they don't like it. And if they say they don't like it, you double down on the projections and accusations.

I understand your trauma. But... if you decide to project that onto others, that is an issue. It is immoral, and everyone else is correct in labeling it, and with refusing to put up with it.
ISP blocking would be the single best thing to happen to Internet privacy in the last 3 decades.

Since it became commonplace for ISPs to trace every single DNS query, HTTP and SMTP header, etc. and then record, analyze and data mine this information in perpetuity, and then leverage said analysis to inject advertising, and then provide real-time tracking information on this analysis, and then....

Basically 99% of the incredibly invasive shit that ISPs do today is legal, and remained legal under the "net neutrality" legislation we had. In fact, several laws require ISPs to keep and provide this information on request, and often without a warrant.

So please bring on the blocking, bring on the fast and slow lanes, bring on the directly visible infringements of our privacy while using the so-called "dump pipes". Because only then will people be motivated to maybe seek out and utilize the myriad technologies available to prevent ISPs from deploying their prioritization and blocking and tracking schemes, and we will all be better off for it.

And while the ILECs continue to burn themselves to the ground, SpaceX can launch their ~10,000 satellites and I'll happily pay them $200/mo for better service in a competitive market unencumbered by regulations which increasingly don't apply to the majority of consumer internet usage (i.e. mobile) anyway.

IMO, the right angle to fight any change in "net neutrality" legislation is a quid pro quo which lifts network management and QoS restrictions on the ISPs in return for federal mandate that localities are guaranteed the right to provide their own local muni-service following a local election majority vote, as well as establishing a Federal fund for low-interest financing of those deployments.
I think that's exactly what he meant.
"The great thing about Apple is that their stuff 'just works'".

How much longer before this meme dies?
> Breitman explains the use case for Turing complete smart contracts: Spending limits.

Does he have a good explanation for this? Because I fail to see how something as simple as spending limits requires Turing completeness.
That "regional" government is disjointed and inefficient.

BART is run by Contra Costa, Alameda, and San Francisco counties; CalTrain is run by San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. And so the two don't meet up, because there's not a single government for the Bay Area that can coordinate. (The new Transbay Terminal that joins them together is in part a state initiative.)

These kinds of ad hoc special purpose districts are an extremely inefficient way of running a regional government.

WRT the San Francisco vs. San Jose issue - the interests of these large cities in the Bay are largely aligned. They are relatively dense, are irritated by the obstructionism of smaller towns when it comes to housing and infrastructure development, and would like decision-making to be more fairly based on population.

(BTW, there are actually three large cities in the Bay Area, with approximately equal populations - San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.)
Most comments tend to be replies to other comments, in which case it seems likely the commented never read TFA, since their intent is engaging other users and not the content itself.

It also seems likely many, if not most, top level commenters never read TFA, since doing so would require more effort than simply extrapolating from the title. We can assume that to be the case if the article is behind a paywall, or uses javascript, or prompts for ad blockers to be turned off, because we'll get subthreads complaining about paywalls, unnecessary javascript and ad blockers. If the article is long, or takes effort, users will also feel that it wastes their time and ask for a tl;dr.

This seems to be a fundamental problem with maintaining quality on forums but I have no idea how one would solve it, since you can't force people to put in more than minimal effort.
You can’t repeatedly say “typical borderline” and “I understand your trauma” in the same comment. They’re mutually exclusive. Whatever experiences you’ve had with a person like this don’t give you any sort of insight into everyone. People are people. Notice I sniffed out what was going on with the other commenter? I can’t help but wonder who it was that patterned you like this, so armchair expert on a condition, and people, you’re so keen to dismiss. I’m guessing it was the coworker, but there has to be more to it than that.

Have you ever stopped and considered that perhaps some of your coworker’s behavior had nothing to do with the condition he claimed to have and that you’ve associated? I thought about responding that some of the things you described aren’t indicative or symptomatic, but inferred it’d be a waste of breath.

You’re wrong, and you’re so convinced I’m wrong on account of something I was brave enough to share, that we are never going to meet on this. You can’t position yourself as trying to help when you just say “typical borderline” to comments you think you understand — which your reply makes clear that you genuinely don’t. You bet I reacted emotionally. You’re generally indicting an entire group of people, including me, with completely wrong perceptions of a disorder you clearly do not understand.

You want me to explain my position? ‘Kay: Your comments make you sound like an asshole. I don’t think you are one. I’m trying to guide you to somewhere in the middle of that, with the added bonus of lightly educating you about a condition you think you know, and you’re resisting and turning it around on me like I’m pulling teeth and doubling down on practicing psychiatry with a flawed mental model for even understanding the people you’re talking to. And I’m coming from the disadvantage of everything I say being interpreted in that flawed mental framework of behavior, with the added irony of the person turning comments around being able to lean on that being a condition of my disorder to disregard what I’m saying even though I have a point.

Step 1: Avoid ever using the word “typical” about any behavior you observe in someone else and try listening, instead. Your conceptions of “typical” might be (and, in this case, are) wrong.

Step 2: Try reading my comments as if they’re someone you respect and admire speaking, someone who’s not a random who you’ve safely labeled in a box that you’ve built from past trauma.
Yet different groups have different cultures, religions, customs, languages, etc. It's idealistic to act like everyone is the same, when in reality, different groups are quite different, and often don't interact well together.
> You have two sides that don't even accept the same facts or reality.

That is equivocation.
I just wanted to outline that investigating baseless claims if perfectly normal. How could they even be qualified of baseless fore sure if they were not investigated?

The payout is a different matter, that we both agree doesn't contribute to their defense.
What's wrong with High Sierra? When I upgraded to Sierra, my OS got a bit buggy. I was hoping High Sierra would fix some of this. But I haven't upgraded out of fear that it would make things worse. Sadly this may be the case.
Thanks. (I prefer the pronoun they.)
Who would that be?
If everyone clicked "unsubscribe", there would be no harm in spamming you. Because if you don't want it, you just opt out with no fuss

If you click "report spam", their spam rate goes up. And after it goes past a certain %, Gmail and other clients will filter them into the "spam" folder
Space Junk and bio-contamination are two separate things. Should the car fail to enter orbit and crash onto mars or any other body there's a possibility that it could introduce life where it does not belong.
I couldn't find any details in Reuters article, so I read the comments. Someone gave a link to Forbes, but there were no actual details about the robot either. Fortunately at least the name of the competition was given. So I went to https://robotex.ee/en/, spent some time there and found nothing. Even the "Results" link is misleading. Does anyone have any idea what these girls actually built? Even a smallest detail regarding hardware or software used in the project?
First: you don't know that. There's nothing in the article to suggest that they "won because they were unprivileged" rather than on the merits of the device they created.

Second: you don't know what the criteria for giving the price out is. What if the idea of the prize is to encourage kids to get into tech? Who would benefit more, some kid who went to a Palo Alto school and whose parents work at Google and Apple, or some kid from a developing nation with not nearly as many resources?

It's very cavalier - and very disturbing - to assume all you are assuming just because they are Afghan. Have you ever wondered if you'd had the same concerns if they came from -say - Brazil?
I don't think a lot of people speaking of free market have a deep knowledge about it. Arguing in that direction puts them in the uncomfortable situation of not having the words together to defend their side of the argument.

Try some tin foil hat argument about laying new cable being too expensive for the small guy, their internet ending controlled by "X" company CEO who may be part of "Z" cabal, and planted government moles not letting POTUS see the truth.
> If I didn’t give a shit, I wouldn’t be trying to explain it to him.

That's not what's happening here.

You do give a shit. You care that someone, somewhere, poked you. You're not explaining your position. You're making false accusations, projecting, splitting, etc. You're focussing on your pain, and attacking the people who want you to stop inflicting your pain on others.

All of which is typical.

Look, I'm not mad. I understand what you're doing, and what you're going through. But that doesn't mean your behavior is appropriate. It's not.
Truly congratulations! Amazing.
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> Their hardware products are truly incredible

For example? All I see is outdated design and hardware. Only "incredible" hardware I can think of is the new chip in iphone x.
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