skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lakeview, probably in '88 I didnt go there long, we moved around a lot when I was a kid.
The first thing I thought of was rescam, not sure how this project differs from rescam
That's a total misrepresentation. It's people proposing things like Measure S in LA, which would have put every single construction project, including schools roads and parks, all of them, on ice for two years.

It's people like the residents of Beverly Hills who held up the construction of a Subway for 15 damn years. They are anti-mass transit and pro-traffic. Literally, yes.

It's people like the one lone nut that fought in the courts to make the LA expo train slow down to 10 miles per hour passing through his neighborhood. Oh joy!

It's people like the group fighting Against putting new green parkspace over the 101 freeway and reconnecting the neighborhoods.

It's people like the damn group in the sunset hills who got a Frank Gehry affordable housing project With park space cancelled in favor of keeping a strip mall from the 50s. Anti-park, anti-housing...

So no, this is the actual reality. They are anti-everything. Anti infrastructure, anti parks, anti schools, anti housing, anti everything.

They're not leftists or activists, they're just greedy stubborn dick waving assholes with lawyers. They've got zero interest in building a community, they just want to control everything.

One of the most important things we can do for more livable cities is organize against these foot dragging campaigns.
>> Global warming doom. Hyper-capitalism doom. Race war doom. Overpopulation doom. Evil AI overlord doom.

Of all these, "Hyper-capitalism" is about the only thing that originates in left-wing political discourse.

Global warming is a concern that arises from observations by climate scientists.

Wikipedia tells me that a concern about overpopulation is as old as the second century BC.

"Evil AI overlord doom" is basically the concern about Superintelligence, which is propounded primarily by a few leading figures in transhumanist circles and such left-wing luminaries as Elon Musk.

Generally, what you could say about all those concerns above is that the "political left" as you put it keeps them in mind, while other political directions (you know, the conservative right) does not.
"That segment (tech-driven transplants) also happens to be regarded as obnoxious, privileged, and undesirable."

the cheapest house on my street is $4 million. I will rest easy tonight knowing my children will never have to comingle with subhuman filth like you. don't downvote, your comment is clearly fishing for some class-war dishing, so enjoy what you've ordered
Year compass close out 2017 and plan for 2017
> Maybe less so today, when police work is an attractive option for violent people to let loose on civilians with legal sanction

Many of the early US “professional” forces were essentially violent ethnic gangs given official sanction to combat other violent ethnic gangs; the present violent condition is more a result of the fact that that culture had continued to shape US policing than some kind of recent deviation from historical police culture; it's more visible because of changes in media and some pro-transparency reforms, not because the actual behavior is worse.

If anything, the recent trend has been for many institutions to try to correct some of the long-standing cultural problems, but that's a long, slow process facing internal and external resistance.
In some cases an unarmed person can present a deadly threat. Though not from across the street.
Ironically, the only thing that came up when I googled Lyra Communications was a digital marketing agency with the same name. That's unlucky.
For sure. By area, SF is still mostly single-family homes. Neighborhoods like the Sunset and Forest Hills are shockingly underdeveloped.
> I read somewhere about splitting control and ownership, but really you can’t. You either own a thing or you don’t.

In common law countries, trusts law means you can distinguish between who has controlling interest and who has beneficial ownership.

So you can own a thing but not own the thing.

If I own something on trust for you, I can control it, but only in your best interests. If you own it on trust for me, I can benefit from the ownership, but without a lot of other legal effects that would normally ride shotgun with a full and undivided ownership.

As usual: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Vinegar or lemon juice also help perk flavors up.
You could probably build a Tracery grammar that conveyed a certain set of semantic information with a large number of possible syntactic permutations.
I grew up in Coopers Beach, and did everything barefoot (including Rugby and school!)
I knew someone would comment on the borderless account (I opened these, too), but it's not even close.

The borderless accounts are:

1. Limited to a handful of currencies. OFX isn't.

2. In the US at least, can't receive international transfers. OFX can. I'm sure there are other limitations, too.

3. It's unclear how much is to be paid to transfer the money from the borderless account to yours. OFX charges nothing to keep the incoming funds "in custody" for up to a month.
I don't understand why'd you do it this way. I would draw a full screen quad and evaluate if a pixel should be lit or not in screen space in a frag/pixel shader.
Just because we haven't found evidence of progress in early civilizations doesn't mean it wasn't there. Any small marginal gains were probably immediately lost to time, though.

We needed civilization to spread out enough for commerce to protect new inventions from luddite regime changes to avoid losing progress (think Mao's book burning and communist regimes like Pol Pot's slaughtering academics/people who look smart - probably based on what Qin Shi Huang did 2000 years ago.)
Wow, even that! In the US it's normal to charge US$2.5 or even higher, although some bank accounts refund these charges back to you at the end of the month.
What progress has been made recently in making writing proofs easier? Are there any research projects targeting mainstream programmers?
I thought the Hillary Step was gone now.
If one developer is doing a single project so big that they can spare a school-sized plot of land... that's concerning in itself. The model of production that worked for cookie-cutter subdivisions isn't the only or best one.

Public money can and should be used to acquire and develop sites. The city can negotiate with developers to get schools incorporated into large multi-use buildings the same way we got museums/arts centers around Yerba Buena.

We don't need developers to plop down entire fully-formed communities all at once to get these things, and we shouldn't necessarily want them to. More, higher-value activity to tax only increases the city's ability to build what is needed collectively.
While visiting my in-laws in Taiwan (Taichung City), My son slipped on the floor and busted his head just above the eye. We took him to the ER. He got 7 stitches and occupied an ER bed for 4 hours while the drugs they used to put him under wore off. We paid after we were released. It came out to about $200 US total, without insurance. We got back to Austin a week later and had the stitches removed, which cost us $60, with insurance. Our kid's doctor, who removed the stitches, said they were beautifully done.

Taiwan's healthcare system is not perfect, but at least I don't have to worry about it. It is good AND affordable.
> How can you mistake anything someone unarmed does for a deadly threat?

A person's bare hands can represent a deadly threat if he is close enough. Not that that was the case in this situation.
If you haven't read them already, I really recommend the following two books:

"Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer was the first book to critically explore the "Death Zone" and the state of mountaineering on Everest generally- It was written in 1997, but is just as relevant now.

"Dark Shadows Falling" by Joe Simpson is another commentary on the state of mountaineering on Everest in 1997. Simpson was famously left for dead on a high altitude climb (described in "Touching The Void"), so he brings a keen insight into the morals of high-altitude climbing from the point of view of the "one that was left behind".
As a self-taught programmer I hoped for one of these to explain whatever I needed to wrap my head around "frameworks"--abstractions which make it possible to build the vast diversity of programming development tools built on top of programming languages, while themselves being written in that language.

You can learn about the idioms such as Callbacks and Hooks, but to really grasp how these are organized into frameworks seems difficult for authors. It's easier to just tell you, If you want this effect, Do that. Or, I'm just not getting something about computer science pedagogy; Maybe the domain of programming where I find my interests doesn't teach programming the way I think about learning it. I will dig into this to see what's here.
Shoe wear is an interesting investigate tool. The most easily observed wear, sole wear, is the result of friction due to foot motion relative to the ground, not force.

Midsole compression and heel counter distortion better correspond to force pattern, but they are integrative and themselves affect gait.

Seems like you'd want both for a good model.
Ha, my comment from earlier today [1] reposted as a top of front page post.

It's like when you say something funny in a group setting which only one person hears, and instead of asking you to repeat it for everyone, they repeat it loudly themselves like it was thier joke! :)

Edit: Heaven forbid that you should point out that HN is sometimes just like Reddit! Downvote away, I have no interest in MIPs†.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035487

†Meaningless Internet Points
-When Breath Becomes Air
-The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
It is closely tied to wealth inequality. Famous people without wealth are not likely to influence much, nor are they likely able to make their children famous.
Enough money === so much that even a wildly successful version of the product would at best increase revenue for a few percent long term. We're talking billions of dollars a year for a company like amazon
As far as I know prop 13 suppress property taxes of old buildings, not new ones. New buildings should therefore have an outsized impact on the ability to create infrastructure.
I imagine all such graphs in the USA will have humans as root nodes, since the 14th amendment makes it a bit tricky to create ownership edges into humans.
Conditions in US slaughterhouses are considerably worse than a lot of other first world countries. And instead of cleaning up its act the industry is doing what it can to make exposing its practices illegal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
Paper and pencil are still state of the art, pick up a copy of A Shorter Model Theory by Hodges (1997) and hire someone to check your proofs (a.k.a. take a math course at a university).

Writing proofs is quite easy. Who is going to check it?
Very nice. If you like assembly programming games make sure to try Human Resource Machine[0]

[0] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
To the "X86BSD" user who commented here: you are shadow banned so your comments are showing up as dead by default so most users can't see or reply to them. Just thought you should know.
That's not necessarily true.
"My doctor" (scare quotes included free of charge) says that it's only really important for people who are hypersensitive to sodium.

I didn't ask if there was a test for that, though. So you know, take it with a - I'm so sorry I can't help it - grain of salt.
Steel frames are only easy to repair if they're lugged, i.e. the tubes are brazed into lug sockets. This was once a common method of hand building frames, but it's now rare and expensive. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugged_steel_frame_constructio...
I think ten years is an extremely conservative estimate, since he's giving real-world examples in the talk.
There is a point in here. We have a competitive system where the winners are able to capture more resources and power relative to everyone else, and we allow some of these benefits to carry over from generation to generation. It is only natural that some families will acquire so much power and influence relative to most others that they sit in an uncontested position indefinitely.

This has happened many-a-time in history. The Hapsburgs are a powerful family even today. The Japanese royal family is the same family it was 2500 years ago.
Actually, I might as well do an ICO. Does anyone know how to do one? I'm going to put various perks in, such as customized spam to all investors.

(I made Spamnesty)
this particular situation was not Life:Death. Which is the important thing to remember when the media becomes complicit in the coverup of police brutality.
> Our detailed rules (all 900 pages of legalese!) will be public soon enough.

I look forward to taking a squiz.

I imagine there's a fair amount of wording intended to allow rules to be updated quickly as bugs are uncovered.

How are you insured? I imagine there will be a few lawsuits fired across the bow.
You can join/support a radical organization (and you should) but the basic reason there isn't something like an EFF is money. Sure, the EFF goes to bat for consumers against government and giant corporations, but there really aren't that many of them.

In contrast, there are a lot of law enforcement agencies, because there are 300 countries, many towns, most college campuses have their own police, most transit system s in cities have their own police, many federal agencies have their own police. The total is estimated to be about 18,000. If you use a narrower definition the total is still about 15,000.

That's a huge number for any single organization to keep track of or to hold accountable. Even if you just follow up on every single death with a law enforcement angle that's ~1000 homicides by police annually and ~4000 deaths in jails and prisons. That's a huge amount of data to collect and organize before you even begin to evaluate questions of avoidability or accountability.

Say it takes an hour just to receive information of a death, establish the identity of the person involved and the data and location and create a database record or standardized wiki page that can act as a stub for document submission and information collection. With ~100 deaths a week that's a full-time job for 3 people just to produce a barebones list, and I'm being really optimistic with the time estimates. Realistically it's probably 2 or 3 times as much.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jul/10/...

Here's the report mentioned in the article, because it's no longer available at the original doj.gov link:
https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-p341-pub.pdf
Sometimes a diagnosis is useful, sometimes it's a useless (harmful) simplification. People are always more complex than their diagnosis.

Specialists have a stranglehold on medicine: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/opinion/sunday/the-specia...
Not OP but I'd guess this means "don't do anything where one bad move takes you out of the game, and invest a little in a lot of long shots"
Hosting Provider Steadfast Fights to Keep DMCA Safe Harbor
> So more money goes to doctors, who are in the top 10%?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2015/01/05/doct...

> Medicare, which provides health coverage for seniors, pays doctors, on average, about 80 percent of what private health insurance pays. However, Medicaid, which provides health coverage for the poor, pays a much lower rate, about 56 percent.

Imagine that sort of downward pressure on prices and how that would enable the poor to help educate their children, etc. It isn't always about cutting down the wealthy. Sometimes it is just about improving the quality of life so the bottom suffers less.

You are seriously arguing Doctors are eager for a 20-44% paycut per hour worked.

Please donate 44% of your income to charity for the rest of your life if you believe this is the case. Beyond whatever contributions you make now. I will believe you if you do it.

> So more money to MTA workers making $100/hour: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-....

http://work.chron.com/much-highway-construction-workers-make...

> About 197,920 construction workers were involved in highway construction, as of May 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They earned a mean $45,940 per year, or $22.09 per hour. The largest number of jobs belonged to the 73,490 construction labors who averaged an annual $38,030, or $18.28 per hour.

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/dams/

To claim it has anything to do with the pay scale of subway workers is absurd.

> So more money to privileged, highly-educated folks who are in the top 10%?

Basic research is about growing the pie of opportunity for everyone and the fact it is not normally rewarded in a capitalistic society. Do you genuinely believe technological growth has not improved life for everyone?

> This is my point. Politics in the U.S. is a battle between the top 1% (represented by the Republicans), and the top 10% (represented by the Democrats). This spending won't reduce the inequality the article is talking about.

No.

It is a battle between the economic interests of the 1%'s vs. literally everyone else.

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/tax-reform-2

Independent economists whose paychecks are not cut by people with political agendas rated the latest "1%" plan 1 in favor, 37 against.
> maybe like 0.1% of people in SF are candidates for walking to work

Everyone says SF is seven miles a side. Walking speed is maybe 3mph. If you want a commute of 40 minutes each way, you need to live at most 2 miles (straight line) away from your office.

0.1% seems low. Divide walking speed by sqrt(2) to be conservative about directness and you get about 20% of the peninsula within 40 minutes walk, and 40% of it within an hour.
Author here.

I'm not sure if this a typical case, but the reason I use serious-ish math is my major in physics. When I see a simulation problem calculus comes to mind first.

In my experience there was not a single time calculus was applied in everyday engineering on my projects.
> It isn't making them richer unless they sell,

Jeff Bezos is not the richest person in earth unless he sells.

> at which point the wealth is further distributed.

They basically exchange Monopoly money for real money. If that’s what you mean by wealth being distributed, then you are right.
RPG aphorisms
I had the same reaction as yours. I clicked many links on the website, only to find such fluffy statements about machine learning algorithms, but no information whatsoever about the metrics and ground truth. They basically dodge the most important questions and therefore I conclude that they are not in any way trustworthy.
I do think horses move their legs on a higher frequency than humans when running. But I am still not convinced they are too fast for seeing.
"Oh, yes ... Oh, so late ... so late, already ... Listen, you have been so friendly with me, but I really have to feed the ducklings. It's well ... beyond their hour ... May I hand you over to my wife, Gertrude? She is such a nice person and knows these things better than me ..."
Aren't virtually all printers able to print via wifi these days ?

Note : I don't own a printer, so I am not entirely sure.
It really is worse in Europe on the fiscal front. About half of German municipalities have busted pension funds, for example. The problem is also huge in America, but it's an order worse and more imminent in Europe. Ceteris paribus the USA will probably blow up around 2025 or so, but instead hopefully in the wake of Europe's more imminent fiscal crises we can correct course somehow to avoid their fate.
The cost of doing this would be enormous - program shader for each pixel would have to calculate this function for every line segment. Instead, only triangles that cover the segment are evaluated.
Ask HN: What's your journaling setup?
For those of you that consistently journal, what's your set up? Do you use paper? Do you use an app? Do you answer specific questions?

Thanks.
Congratulations on being a reasonable human being.
Wind jvm: A JVM written in C++
The Wikipedia entry explains that much of Stephen James Joyce's efforts to silence academics relates to his aunt, Lucia.

> In 2004, Stephen Joyce threatened legal action against the
> Irish government when the Rejoyce Dublin 2004 festival
> proposed public reading of excerpts of Ulysses on
> Bloomsday. In 1988 he destroyed a collection of letters
> written by Lucia Joyce, his aunt. In 1989 he forced
> Brenda Maddox to delete a postscript concerning Lucia from
> her biography Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom. After
> 1995 he announced no permissions would be granted to quote
> from his grandfather's work. Libraries holding letters by
> James Joyce were unable to show them without permission.
> Versions of his work online were disallowed. Stephen
> Joyce claimed to be protecting his grandfather's and his
> family's reputation, but would sometimes grant permission to
> use material in exchange for fees that were often
> "extortionate".

It's been more than 20 years since I've studied James Joyce's work in an academic setting, but I remember very clearly the family controversies surrounding James Joyce's wife, Nora, and their daughter, Lucia. The only thing I feel can safely be asserted about Lucia is that she suffered from mental illness, usually understood as schizophrenia.

There are also rumors that Lucia shared a bed with her mother and father well past puberty. Such rumors gain strength given that James Joyce's erotic behaviors (documented in his letters to Nora and elsewhere) are considered by many to be fetishistic at best and depraved at worst (coprophilia, for one example).

In 2004, Michael Hastings published an article in _The Irish Times_ about his writing a play about Lucia Joyce. [0] In that article, Hastings writes about the troubling hint of incestuous intimacy between the father-daughter relationship that sits at the heart of Joyce's avant garde masterpiece _Finnegans Wake_.

> [In _Finnegans Wake_] is a hint of intimacy between father and daughter here
> that borders on incest. Lucia once remarked to her father
> that no matter how many loves she had, she could never be
> unfaithful to him.
>
> Even today among Joyceans this subject remains taboo.
> Regarding Lucia, academics have toed the Joyce party line -
> that she suffered fits, had uncontrollable sexual urges, and
> endlessly shouted forensic sexual details with involuntary
> abandon. For the sake of being allowed to quote from Joyce's
> papers, writers have repeatedly cast Lucia as the "problem",
> just as James and Nora always did. In effect, Lucia has been
> vaporised from history; memories of her obliterated. She is
> a "vanished woman".

Given these details, one can understand the intensity of Stephen Joyce's efforts to restrict research surrounding the life of his family, even if one disagrees with the execution of such efforts. As James Joyce's sole surviving descendant, Stephen Joyce may well have decided that squelching such academic and biographical speculation is preferable to seeing traumatic personal details of his family and his most renowned ancestor exposed for all the world to see.

[0] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-life-and-loves-of-lucia-...
That's a good idea. And cadets at police academies are never armed outside of a firing range.