skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be wrong about generalizing it to America in general, since I don't have much experience outside of SF Bay and a little bit in NY (where I also didn't have a pleasant experience, even as a tourist).

Trains in Hong Kong and Tokyo are at the very least clean, on time, for the most part crime-less, and no matter what time you arrive, even if you miss a train, there will be another one to your destination within 5 minutes (likely 2 minutes).

Bart is rarely on time, extremely unclean (encountering human feces is almost a regular basis), crime-ridden (as shown in that link above), and if you live anywhere outside of SF, missing a train usually means you have to wait 15-20 minutes for the next one (even during peak hours).

I consciously choose to drive in to SF downtown instead, even considering the premium I have to pay for parking (easily $20 a day), and enduring through bay bridge traffic. I know I'm also doing harm by carbon emission and adding to traffic on the freeways and bridge, but it poses a personal risk (both physical danger and health) to take Bart for myself.
FUDing BTC and shilling Ripple? Why the *heck is this #5 on the front of HN? Come on.
Bingo. I'm sure they were banking on the project failing and they would come out clean.
I think this might be one place where that rule is broken. I started seriously using VR a while ago and I was blown away by some of the little things that make it 1000% better than a standard screen for some applications.

The most poignant example I have comes from gaming, but I think it illustrates the point. In Elite: Dangerous, some of your menus are to the left and right of your avatar. Normally, you'd have to press buttons to focus the camera on these menus; in VR all I have to do is look at where that menu is and it pops right up for me to use.

It actually made the interface _way_ more intuitive, easier to use, and significantly faster because it played on my expectation of the result. If something similar could be designed on top of Bloomberg data, I think you'd see finance people trampling each other to get it.

This would be particularly true if you played into their existing behaviors and motions; they wouldn't have to learn anything, it would "Just Work".
Not everyone is eligible for verification.

That naturally puts them in the position of having to prioritized verification, but based on what?

If it's only meant to prove identity then they should follow the lead of Keybase and verify yourself by proving control over other accounts.
The core problem is that verification comes with perks. If veryifing someone just meant "Yep, it's that person alright" I don't think there would be all these issues with twitter saying "Yep, this is really the spokesperson of the KKK" or something similar. But because there are perks it comes off more as Twitter endorsing the person as someone who has interesting things to say.
Even though it makes it sound more prestigious, Carl Sagan never was awarded a Nobel Prize.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
From the article:

> "Think of this as a blog post version of a dad joke: my primary goal is not originality, but self-entertainment, and if anyone else finds it entertaining that's just an added bonus."

We need more of this. Exploration just for the sake of exploration. I love to hear and read about these types of feats.

It takes many iterations of doing the repetitive and boring in order to finally stumble upon novelty. The canvas of life has to be explored and re-explored, the dirt tilled over every season, before something new pops up from the ground.

[edit] spelling
So... you do want the huge tax break then?

Hopefully you'll consider donating at least some (perhaps even all) of that tax break money to a homeless shelter or a food bank, maybe an animal shelter as well, especially this time of the year. That would definitely make that money go much further than it would if you paid it in taxes or sent it to the Treasury, be it this year or 10 years from now.
Thank you for sharing this. I legitimately hope that something will change, and I won't have to share your comment in 2035.
Weird analogy. But from my point of view you are the guy screaming about the database. Replace "database" with "culture". You can't even consider the possibility it's not the database. No amount of tests or other possible explanations seem to have any effect on you.

You latch on to one tiny scrap of evidence that might point to a database issue. Say, the Russian site had a slightly better packet loss. And they have a different server over there, or something.

Then you make it political. And start ranting about how I'm a "database heretic" that should be fired for daring to question the database theory.
Due to a lot of (stupid) reasons, public transportation in the US has a lot of homeless/drugged-out people on it. And due to crowding, you are often pressed up against them. It can be quite uncomfortable to listen to someone who smells like 3 day old liquor and urine tell you about how they hate all of the "niggers that keep taking the bus" (an actual quote said to me), while you are pushed up against them.

My experience of public transportation in other countries has generally been way better.
I find it very interesting that this bill is being pushed by Devin Nunes. In case anyone here is unaware, he is involved in an ongoing surveillance-related controversy - he is one of the leaders alleging a scandal that HRC 2016 campaign paid Fusion GPS to produce the Steele Dossier as evidence for the FBI to wiretap Trump Tower using an Obama-appointed FISA court judge. [0]

I find the idea of him expanding the FISA court powers contradictory to his stated purpose of seeking justice in the matter of his supposed 2016 election scandal. Note that this idea is the EFF's interpretation of the bill & not my own view.

If that were the case, then perhaps his intent is to leverage the expanded NSA powers to spy on the FBI, which he seems to believe is working against the current administration. This would not be the first time different parts of the US government were spying on each other. [1]

I don't believe that is the intent of this bill. After reviewing, it seems more likely that the intent of the bill covers two goals:
1. To require added accountability to the FISA application process such that abuses of the FISA court are easier to identify. There are a number of sections in the bill which require disclosures by the FBI which were not necessary before.
2. To remove bureaucratic barriers limiting the Attorney General, who in the case of this political situation, will be relied upon to investigate the government itself.

So I can see where the EFF is coming from with their take on this bill, and certainly there is a political divide over whether or not this bill is a good thing.

Personally I am hoping it will pass.[2]

[0] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/08/head-house-ethics...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/12...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4478...
That's not even remotely true. Stocks are directly tied to the performance of a company providing goods or services. There's something you can directly gauge.

At BEST you could equate it to currency trading, but even THAT is tied to real-world governments and their policies nine times out of ten. Bitcoin is literally trading on the belief that a bunch of people are going to switch to it instead of the dollar or insert your currency of choice because...?
Still have my NeXTstation Turbo. God, they were nice. (The "Turbo" means it has a 33MHz m68k instead of the standard 25MHz, in case you were wondering why all of us olds are constantly complaining about crummy performance these days.)
As a layperson I felt like the time frame in which they were suggesting this extreme genetic shift would happen seemed a little much. The pace of the book was also completely different.
On a side note, I am trying to sell my very little stack of LTC - 7.04 - for like a week or 2. Gdax never works - the ID validation is always down - and I haven't found any other solutions. Any ideas?

Cryptos are not liquid at all.
I laugh when people tell me their address but say "Google maps doesn't show the right location". I go in and change it for them and they never have to tell people that again. Crowdsourcing is wonderful.
JOY.JS make happy little programs [Nickey Case]
Much as it burns me to admit this, for this usecase, jenkins is king. <60 nodes and its perfect.

At previous job, we had migrated from a nasty cron orchestration system to jenkins. It did a number of things including building software, batch generating thumbnails and moving data about on around 30 nodes, of which about 25 were fungible.

Jenkins job builder meant that everything was defined in yaml, stored in git and was repeatable. A sane user environment meant that we could execute as user and inherit their environment. It has sensible retry logic, and lots of hooks for all your hooking needs. pipelines are useful for chaining jobs together.

We _could_ have written them as normal jobs to be run somewhere in the 36k node farm, but that was more hassle than its worth. Sure its fun, but having to contend with sharing a box that's doing a fluid sim or similar, so we'd have to carve off a section anyway.

However kuberenetes to _just_ run cron is a massive waste. It smacks of shiny new tool syndrome. seriously jenkins is a single day deployment. transplanting the cron jobs is again less than a day (assuming your slaves have got a decent environment.)

So, with the greatest of respect, talking about building a business case is pretty moot when you are effectively wasting what appears to be > two man months on what should be a week long migration. Think gaffer tape, not carbon fibre bonded to aluminium.

If however, the rest of the platform lives on kuberenetes, then I could see the logic, having all your stuff running on one platform is very appealing, especially if you have invested time in translating comprehensive monitoring into business relevant alerts.
Detroit's pitch book for Amazon HQ2 headquarters leaks [pdf]
This is the first Mac application that I have come across that does not support my version of Mac OSX (10.11). Too bad it doesn't work in the browser version of Blockstack.
This is a symptom of the times. Even mentioning an idea is seen by many to be endorsement.
Per https://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=22150 AT&T was already required to pay this out to at least 20,000 employees because of negotiations with the Communications Workers of America union.
Does it not apply for LLC s? What about software freelancers?
That's not what cannibalizing means
sounds like someone is streaming their account..
(11) Farha R. Tasha
I feel like D would fight with Go in the realm of things I'd use it for, in which case I'd pick it.

On the other hand, D supports a lot of great C++-style stuff, but I'd never pick it in that regime because it'd be the same amount of effort without as-fast-as-possible.
I explained further here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971433

It would be trivial to fake the demo. You can buy the parts to stream HD video wirelessly for a few hundred bucks. If they're using a small server farm to render the output, isn't that cheating?

If they can show it to a journalist in a lab, why not make a marketing demo in a park? Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it.
The Bankrupt Attribution of WannaCry
Can you give an example of an app you consider impressive? I haven't been able to find much other than furniture shopping apps
> The reason rich people don’t take public transit is because no one likes it, but the rich are more able to afford alternatives.

Have you ever been on Metro North? There are tons of people making $1 million+/year taking the train into NYC from Greenwich and Westchester every morning. The trains are clean, and much more comfortable than driving: there is more leg room, your seat is more upright, there are bathrooms. They're also cleaner than at least my car.
Nobody holds up BART or the Bay Area's transit system as an example of a well functioning transit system. If Musk has done his homework, he should realize that, too. As you have noted, there are many examples of much more pleasant to use transit systems.

However, the problem of crime isn't the fault of the transit system, but of the society in which the transit system operates. Transit doesn't generate crime in the Bay Area, that's caused by the history of inequality and concentrations of poverty.
> I can't donate to a charity and have them repair a local bridge for example.

You actually could probably send a check to your state/county/township/borough's public works / infrastructure fund.

> There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in my situation.

All of whom have the option to write a check for as much as they want to the Treasury.

> That is the whole point of taxes, to pool our money together for the greater good.

And trust me, we as Americans pay plenty in taxes, and those who disagree, are welcome to pay more - it's perfectly legal, even encouraged. The real issue is government spending.
I have read the article -- don't you think that there is the possibility for a catastrophic error with this kind of research?
If only we had technology that, when subjected to an electrical field, turned glass from opaque to translucent and were produced in sufficient quantities for applications such as airplane and building windows as to make this technology relatively inexpensive.
Because more people like to play games than work with abstract information, so that's where the money is. I think your notion that the sale of 3bn laptops means 3bn want to work at all hours is a little naive.
8|
A rust library for building interactive visualizations with D3.js
Thanks for the wishes !
The Law is "keep your appendages to yourself". Apparently I am my brother's keeper and I need to tell y'all that, because y'all can't do it.
Jean-Louis Gassée is on the record saying Apple made the right choice.

Gil Amelio thought the 20th Anniversary Macintosh was really awesome and clones were a good idea.

With (seriously cash strapped) Apple doubling down on Multimedia on rebranded BeOS as a licensed OS for Clones, they would have gone head-to-head with the entirety of the PC market that already had a taste of BeOS.

BeOS was quick and fun, but barely had a TCP/IP stack. See BONE.

Apple probably would have switched to Intel earlier.
Perl is honestly the best language in my opinion.
You know how when you watch movies and because you know so much about tech you can tell that most of the stuff done in movies regarding hacking etc is bullshit and not real.

Now I have a lack in knowledge of biology at this level, but can someone maybe explain to me how all those disease mass extinction movies cannot be real? I feel like my lack of knowledge here causes my concerns when reading stuff like this article.
@Woodshedagency just hid all their tweets. This isn't looking good.
Thanks everyone for your comments, both here and via email! I'll work through the comments here and start working on updating the article with your feedback.
Have you looked at https://acorn.tv/
This looks interesting, but I don't think I can commit to mac-only software for this personally. I stumbled on TeXstudio [0] about a year ago, it has been very nice, though I still have a ways to go as I had not used any TeX before... It's GPLv2, cross-platform Linux, MacOS and Windows.

[0] https://www.texstudio.org/
Any money, cash, or equivalent, that you are in posession of at time T, that you did not have possession of at time T-1.
Thanks it's incredibly impressive.

EDIT: I bought his previous app for iPad. It was equally as impressive but very quickly discontinued....
The brilliant thing is, if the author controls the host server of this article and it gets near the top of Google results for its title, watching the article hit-rate [1] should be a neat way of predicting the inevitable bitcoin crash! Probably several hours in advance. He could market out this service for Big Bucks.

[1] After the article stops being front-page-HN'd, at least.
No, nor do I speak to people who cold call.
Hah, classic. How cheaply could you put one of these together?
We don't want to have to decide which thread will handle each connection, just pick an idle one.
Startups Take on More Risk to Popularize ‘Co-Living’
High I/O systems usually spawn multiple reactors, e.g. one reactor per CPU core, and run these reactors on the same set of file descriptors.

Does that library support such use case? Or does it imply 1-to-many relation between reactors and files/sockets? The latter doesn’t scale well.
I've never trusted the MFA for transfers on GDAX, what I do is transfer to my Coinbase account and then create a bank transfer there where, for some reason, their MFA mysteriously works.
There are two instances where Google has not accepted my changes:

1) A restaurant in Vancouver was known for their oysters. I went back years later and although the name and reviews remained, the owners completely changed the restaurant. Completely different style of food, seating, service, everything. I reported that their reviews should be wiped clean, and Google didn't change anything. Disappointing.

2) When you hop on a road while navigating and Maps says "follow this road for x kilometers" you expect to be on that road for x kilometers. In my town it seems that google decided that the road should change visual style in the more trafficked part of the city, so it seems they split it up. Now navigation says multiple times "continue on road for x kilometers" but with shorter distances. It's not intuitive. They wouldn't change it.
No. There are a lot of lines of code that are not inside a single printf statement. This is nothing special, just an unreadable clutter of random code.
11 affiliate links in that article. I wonder why this was written.
Intentions don't matter; it's a function of the underlying asset. The worst stock market crash in US history was Black Monday in 1987 which resulted in a 22.6% drop in the DJA. Bitcoin has already experienced much worse crashes than that, multiple times (like the time it dropped 94% in 2011).

I'm not saying don't put money into Bitcoin/cryptos; I'm saying don't put in more than you would feel comfortable losing at a casino.
I've lived in LA and Seattle. Seattle is rough, but I can absolutely see how LA could legitimately cause you to need professional help. It has all the bad parts of being spread out like the suburbs, added to all the bad parts of living in the city.
It was a question of genuine curiosity. Thanks. How do the regulations or whatever it is that was repealed stop them from doing so?

I actually have no idea what was repealed.
I wonder if it'd be simpler to just eliminate all taxes except sales tax and have a progressive sales tax.

For example:

$0 - $20,000 - 0% (yes, poor people wouldn't pay sales tax. You could even make it so poor people get a discount, even.)

$20,001 - $40,000 - 5%

etc.

The above tiers would be defined by income plus assets times some interest rate, to represent potential gain on assets, if it were liquidated and invested. So if you had 1M in assets, and made $100,000 a year, your income would be $100,000 + 1M * federally defined interest rate.

The main difficulty with this would be that debit/credit cards would have to be issues by the government or there would have to be some collaboration between the government and banks in order to accurately determine purchases.
Took me a week before ID check worked (more than timeout, it also forgot my data uploads 3 times.. not reassuring). One day I got a mail saying I was in.

some use localbitcoins to sell hand to hand (never used it).
Not much! Which is the point. You choose index funds based on lower expense ratio, how spread they are in the market (more spread means lower risk and more likely to just replicate performance of the overall market; less spread means higher risk and less likely to replicate the performance of the overall market), and how much you trust the institution running it.
Is there a consensus regarding trusting these exchanges with scans of verification documents? Bitstamp is asking for scans of a drivers license or passport to verify the account and proceed with transactions.
Frat-like behavior on trading floors is for members of the rich kids club or those willing to go through the initiation rituals. The lower-level staffers who support the traders are not invited to participate in such japes and are expected to look and act professional, not to be goofy individualists who have just as much fun at work as the traders.
One semi-positive mention of Ripple in a long article about selling BTC and someone is immediately a shill? Please be reasonable.
I'm a Tesla fan but in Elon's worldview would public transit be ok if it was barely used and all passengers were college educated and polite?
A bet about sparticles theory of physics may soon pay out
OP is not the site owner.

I haven't had any people saying they had any issues with the looks of the site, but I have updated the main font color to be black. I'll look into more improvements after I get the article updated.
There may be many more potential uses of this data in the future. Augmented reality, indoor mapping, robotics, etc.
Agree. I suspect Musk doesn't get how efficient good public transport can be (NYC when the system is working well), and the author doesn't get how substandard most public transit systems are.

I have strong doubts that single- or low-occupancy vehicles could outcompete trains or buses on efficiency. I also think public transit could be way better than it is. I'm not sure I buy Musk's vision (which does seem out-of-touch), and I definitely don't buy the author's position that "nothing is wrong".
Bray mentions Ripple as a better crypto to buy because it has an application (ie ledger for enterprise banking and other financial institutions).

I disagree for two reasons:
1. I’ve become convinced that the crypto currencies with applications (ether, xrp, and others) are actually riskier than the simple store of value coins like BTC. If, for example, dapps don’t really take off in popularity and the “application” of the crypto currency fails, I would expect that would tank the value of that currency. BTC or LTC, which seem more like simple store of value coins at this point, would appear to have less of this type of associated risk.
2. Ripple (XRP) in particular seems doomed to me. I do not believe that any major financial institution would use a public blockchain and associated currency. If they need / want to use blockchain, there are non-public options that would better serve banks, some being developed by the hyperledger group and others.
You get a somewhat reasonable commute. Fairly high value.
>You may be earning x10 more than a the average "poor" person, but after income taxes, sales tax, property tax, etc, it's barely x5 to x6.

lol, you made me laugh.

"Look, I know it looks like I make more than you Mr Grocery Bagger, but I have a lot of property taxes on my mansion and Ferrari. So you see, I barely make 5 times more than you!"
Seems the site is down and Google didn't get a good cache of it :(
I'll read through this, and see if there's anything I can add to my article.
Your assuming the very rich purchase proportionately more taxable goods and service than the lower classes do.
>They smell bad, are unattractive and grouchy.

>I certainly won't miss riding the BART with sketchy looking characters at 12am.

I wonder if there is difference in the amount of, erm, sketchiness of your sketchy looking characters in public transit and what I see here where I live (Helsinki).

Taking a bus or metro during the normal daylight hours, I usually see a reasonable cross-section of the society, no less or more attractive than people you would see in any other public space. I can't recall anyone who would have smelled that bad (not counting the occasional overdose of perfume), not even the beggar who tries to sell The Big Issue.