skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That concept has already been implemented. Urban planners who practice it call it "new urbanism".

It has been a mixed bag, but is better than the "malls-connected-by-highways" approach of many suburban development s.
> Briefly read, it looks like an idea and not an 'apparatus'.

It's patent law lingo. The patent covers both the idea (the "system") and subsequent implementations (the "apparatus") that are direct implementations of the idea.
I agree, pretty callous to make a word play on something that killed ~50 million innocent people.
TiC-80 is pretty cool. It's on Android, not sure about iOS.
Nice small mountain towns, especially those near ski areas, are expensive. But towns and cities on the plains (e.g., Ft. Morgan) are pretty inexpensive. And southern Colorado cities like Pueblo and Colorado Springs are also a lot more inexpensive. Denver and Boulder are quite expensive.
Trade secrets are worse because then the design never gets disclosed, and has to be rediscovered

In the sciences you'll notice that simultaneous discoveries are nothing unusual, once the groundwork is laid the idea hangs in the air, you do nothing but reach out and catch it. The Zuse example is just another instance.

In the case of mathematics and computing, the invention can be copied easily by development costs are minimal as well. These is no compelling reason why someone should reap disproportionate rewards from a government-supported artificial monopoly. Progress suffers and the economy as well.
This technique is in use for years, just get IP classes from CF website and set them in your iptables for ports 80/443 + any other IPs (yours, from your organization etc) and drop the rest.

Another way to get IPs is reading e-mail headers (register account on target website to get e-mail etc), so many sites behind CloudFlare expose their webservers IPs there.
Yes you can, if your programming language supports dependent types: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/05/07/ranged-integer-types-an...
That would be a general issue with app crashing, and a huge deal worth it’s own series of articles. iOS’ sandboxing makes it so unlikely this exists, it’s not worth mentioning and the sensational writing might be counterproductive to getting the actual issue fixed. To use an analogy, it’d be like mentioning that someone could hack Google in an article about Gmail downtime.
Yeah there are tons of 100-500 acre subdivision projects - surprising none of them are for this type of city. It would be like a new age streetcar suburb.
>I definitely would have felt safer knowing there was a drone

The presence of drones will likely encourage people to take more risks in rough surf. The same thing happened with car air bags-- when they were introduced, people with airbags drove more aggressively, negating the safety benefit.
He could use trade secrets and still have people on HN bitch about not liking what he did with his own idea.
Laneway houses.
No, but I wouldn't work for them for completely different reasons.
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Car optional lifestyle vs car dependent.
Under the title on the HN post, click "web", then click the link from Google.
You may also want to distinguish between screenshots and regular images. On weekdays I probably screenshot more 2 or 3 times more than I take photos with my camera. On the weekend it's probably the opposite (because I'm playing outside or socializing).
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It's made from stone but not of stone.
Yeah, FAAAN doesn't have quite the same ring to it :)
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Yep F#, the language, works all right in .NET Core 2.0. Some libraries, particularly, type providers, not yet, but they are working, on it. And JSON.Net also works fine on .NET Core.
I too used this, and more generally credit Neopets as a source of a lot motivations to learn by solving interesting problems. I reproduced a couple of the site's games in my first couple high school programming classes, and then eventually had a minimal logic but very reliable "Battledome" fighting script using autohotkey partway through undergrad. That autohotkey experience was helpful senior year in very quickly automating data collection from a non-automatable program for estimating atmospheric radiation dispersal.
Why does it have to be something that can't be done without it? I think the idea is it does it in a different way that might be beneficial in some ways. In dev work there's not a lot of single ways to do anything. It's more just choosing which tool would be best for the current task.
Why going back a few hundred years? Even a few decades ago the idea of patenting mathematics was still mostly considered absurd.
Imagine a world where people like e.g. Dijkstra and Lamport patented all their concurrency algorithms. Hoare patented quicksort. And so on.
You're living in a fantasy world. You're looking at the status quo: some guy has invented a better floating point circuit, and you think there are two options. 1) The guy releases it to the public for general use, or 2) the guy patents it and holds a monopoly over its use.

Obviously 1) is a greater public good than 2), but in reality these are not the only options.

Here's some other realistic situations: 3) With no incentives to make things public, this guy either stops working on this much earlier, doesn't tell anyone, or throws it in the garbage. 4) This guy goes and talks to Intel about his design. They quietly pay him some money or hire him and implement it in secret. Two years from now they launch a processor with this feature and for the indefinite future, until their competitors spend costly time reverse engineering the secret hardware, only Intel processors have this circuit. 5) Same as 4) except Intel says, "Haha, thanks for being a sucker" and doesn't pay anyone.

This is the patent system at its best: incentivizing some guy to work on this invention, then publish his work and describe it in detail. For the next 20 years, he can license it to anyone he wants and profit from his work. After that point everyone can implement it as a public good.
I'm curious on his take on cryptocurrency. TK has spent his entire career in the P2P space (file sharing before Uber). I wouldn't be surprised if that is his next move...
> Edit: whoops, they don't even want to use Android! But judging from their mockup renders they expect to have something just as good.

By not using Android, they automatically have something better.
For what it's worth, I do the same -- except for Google and Apple , employees, and also anywhere else.

Guilt by association is just you being naive.
The context in this case being the original posted article, which is polyvinyl alcohol, not acetate.
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Drone flying towards drowning person is one issue, but how accurately can it drop that "inflattable rescue device" ? It would be a real bummer if the drone made its way to a victim only to miss it by 50 yards.
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Those pesky Chinese and their great firewall. GAFAM would love to make inroads there but they can't even get a toehold. The China model destroys the Calinfornian model. What you do with the internet now in this age (walled gardens), are things the Chinese are doing at a national level.

i digress.

TLDR:

“China is like a startup. The U.S. is like a big corporation... China runs very fast, tweaking along the way. The U.S. runs at a steady pace, doing a lot of research and development. It’s hard to tell who will win in the end.”
What are two things uber is scared of?

E.g., for a long distance company fear was the cell phone. ($22B revenue to $8B in a five year stretch)
Analysing the VR market based on 2017 Steam data
Right? I remember spamming people with h1 tags, then seeing them go offline. Welp, was fun for 5 minutes.
So shipping software has an obscure bug that can cause a crash. Why is this news?
Signal Averager:

READ VALUES FROM IN.A AND IN.B
WRITE THE AVERAGE OF IN.A AND IN.B, ROUNDED DOWN, TO OUT
Their lock screen crashing bug from iOS 11 that was fixed with 11.1 came back with 11.2 and I want to throw the thing out the window. Every time I hit the power button it crashes and have to type out the pin.
>Just because an RDBMS has transactions doesn't mean a programmer who isn't trying is going to use them correctly.

Definitely true, but RDBMS provide a lot of safety features beyond transactions, like a fixed schema. Mongo et al let developers stuff anything they want anywhere, creating an abominable bastardization between a key-value store and a database. That's their "killer feature" that has resulted in wide adoption so they can't really do away with it, even if some [likely reluctant] Mongo users continue to find ways to self-enforce a schema.

It'd be one thing if Mongo was predominantly used as a staging ground for free-form, unpredictable data, but I think we all know that's not the case. People pretend like it's a replacement for a traditional RDBMS.

>a well-designed application could make use of transactionality, but putting the transactionality in the datastore won't make the application better at it if the dev wasn't thinking about it - and if the dev is thinking about it, they can usually do better at the application level.

I really disagree here. The semantics and detail involved in _actually_ making sure a datum is securely stored, including a high likelihood of being recoverable in the case of a crash, is very complex in any non-trivial system. It's dismissive and naive to pretend that your average application developer, who generally doesn't even know what `fsync()` is, can do a better job at this than a real database, which will include advanced consistency features like intent logs.
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I'm not so crazy about this criticism. Whenever I hear someone complain about echo chambers or contrary opinions being hidden it seems to me a case of "my personal opinion isn't being validated in this discussion." Does any forum on the internet ever claim that the most upvoted (or whatever metric) comments are the correct ones for all time?

A popular opinion doesn't make other opinions invalid and I think that's a mistake many people read into the situation because they're too emotionally invested. On top of that it completely ignores the countless variables that go into a top comment on a popular forum.

The best advice I can give is either 1. Don't take the unpopularity of your contributions so seriously or 2. take it so seriously that you're willing to understand how to game the system to MAKE your "objectively correct" opinion popular.
That's kind of what I was thinking, but it sounds like you or I know about as much about the cause of the bug as the person offering assurances.
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/IMX8MDQLQRM.pdf

Seems like it is available
This extension is, like, not lame: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
I'm quite sure this was removed in recent kernels, the "young" logic is now greatly simplified. Anyway - great paper. Thanks for digging it up.
These things aren't from density. Suburban auto dependent homogeneity comes with another bag of crappy things - isolation, socioeconomic echo chamber, inneficient infrastructure (eg think about how many linear feet of pipe for peripheral homes vs more centrally located).

Walkable doesn't have to be dense. Most of our cities that existed before the 50s have(or had) low density walkable cores.
Your comment is strongly worded and weak on evidence and insight
Interestingly, Strong Towns published an article a bit more than a week ago about why mandating ground-floor retail is also not the best way to go:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/8/mixed-up-priori...
The usual advice w.r.t. patents is to not read them.

This may seem odd, but it can be the difference between knowing and unknowing infringement. Knowing infringement results in triple damages.

IANAL — just repeating consistent advice I have received
Lately, that just sounds like the dream.
- Mr Masri said he "always reports bugs" before releasing them.

Well I don't think Apple really reads bug reports.
Neopets is the reason I’m a software engineer. Along the way looking for “cheat codes” for Neopets, I discovered some people hacking the games. I eventually ran a forum on hacking Neopets, made money from ads, got into PC World Magazine, and had a great time along the way.

Sorry to Adam and Donna for any headaches I caused during my teenage years. <3
I think I'll stick to my original plan: buy a decent house in the Midwest, and avoid the coasts like the plague.
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I see your point, but I actually think users should be _more_ alarmed when an input makes software crash, for just this reason. They tend to think of it as a harmless annoyance.

Also, while sandboxing may be designed to prevent this, Messages is probably also designed not to crash on link sharing.
Not the same thing at all, but the title of the post somehow reminded me of the synergy app for mouse and keyboard sharing.

Google 'synergy app'.

Update: Noticed just after commenting, that user falcolas had also mentioned Synergy here in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177216

Others too, just noticed.
> Guilt by association is just you being naive.

You might be right.

But there are many people making hiring decisions who are just as naive as I am, so the Uber brand doesn't help.
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You think bias against someone living in a particular city is comparable to bias against someone voluntarily working for a company with an unprecedented reputation for unethical behavior top to bottom stretching back years and years?

My cohort of friends, many of whom are hiring managers, won’t even patronize Uber, much less hire someone who voluntarily worked there without demonstrably showing signs of serious soul searching about the ethics of the company.
It's not the problem here in Minneapolis. Over 10 years ago they lifted the restriction on Auxiliary Dwelling Units and defined what they are and how they may be built (the regulations, which seem reasonable).

I want to build one on my property but it'll cost me a ton. I think that's the problem.
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"clickbait" ~~ overboard sensationalism for the purposes of getting more attention than demure/traditional language would get. Even though it's in the article, this kind of language can be added by journalists to incentivize non-expert editors/publishers to publish their work versus others.
> To many in the group, northern California’s low-rise buildings looked shabby ... They didn’t see the shared bikes ... can’t believe Americans still use credit cards and cash

I too was shocked about how unappealing Silicon Valley was. I'm an American.

It was like "wow they don't know they are imagining solving problems that aren't a problem for the rest of the country"

Pull off to any random gas station on the peninsula? Sorry you need cash at the pump. Already in the line to the carwash? TOUGH LUCK! better get out your car, run to the attendant and get cash! Don't mind that the bank freezes your debit card at this location because its sketchy af, further inconveniencing everyone in the carwash line waiting for you. Where is the apple or google pay? Nonexistent.

I digress, that has almost nothing to do with anything. It is just the reality of whats in Silicon Valley, distinct from more cosmopolitan areas.

Silicon Valley's real inconveniences are partially California administrative problems. And as the article points out, the US is like a big corporation, lots of things in your way before change.
Because Apple once prided itself as a company that made computers that "just worked".
Doesn't this ignore criticism that provides specific examples for the claim being made?

For example, I remember there was an essay by Achebe on "Heart of Darkness" where one of his arguments was the racism of the author affected the quality of the prose: "'A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs, waving long black arms...' as though we might expect a black figure striding along on black legs to wave white arms!"
I'm not sure I understand. The jobs are in the city, correct?
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#NorthKorea #Group123 involved in at least 6 different hacking campaigns in 2017
In my state (GA), early voting is a thing, and is available multiple weekends (and weekdays) before the election.

But if early voting on Sundays is a thing already, how does moving election day from Tuesday to Sunday change turnout?
Coming from an tech|infra|dev/ops background, I remember all AWS outages painfully ;)
Ning Zhu has an interesting book on it:

https://www.mhprofessional.com/9781259644580-usa-chinas-guar...
> crime, trash, prices, overcrowding, urban decay, poverty and homelessness, etc.

I fail to see how that description actually fits today's New York, or most other large US cities. It may have been true in the 80s. But just the change over time proves that these aren't necessary consequences of high density.

You may also wish to take a walk around Paris, Venice, or Barcelona to see how attractive urban environments can be[0].

Yes, some people may always prefer rural life. But those currently living in Suburbia, USA have probably chosen the worst of all worlds.

[0]: Random street view link: https://goo.gl/maps/t96mDMV48rx
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The proposed locations are on MARTA (the main one is 15 minutes from the airport by direct rail), and certainly not all the way up in Alpharetta.
I'm the main author of Arb. Note that it's an arbitrary-precision library. It's ~100x times slower than hardware floating-point because of using arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers implemented entirely in software. But if you have to do arbitrary-precision arithmetic to begin with, Arb's error tracking only adds negligible further overhead.

For machine precision, I believe ordinary interval arithmetic is the best way to go still. Unfortunately, this not only uses twice as much space; the time overhead can be enormous on current processors due switching rounding modes (there are proposed processor improvements that will alleviate this problem). However, the better interval libraries batch operations to minimize such overhead, and it's even possible to write kernel routines for things like matrix multiplication and FFT that run just as fast as the ordinary floating-point versions (if you sacrifice some tightness of the error bounds).

Regarding the article, using a more compact encoding for intervals is a fairly old idea and I'm not really sure what is novel here.
Ethics should enter into as well. The fact that it doesn't is a failure on the part of the education system.
Not quite. Unless you are competing with Google, they can't be possibly covering all possible customer cases and/or requests. For example, if a big company does XYZ and charges $100/month for that, it simply doesn't make sense for them to spend time on a customer, who needs just X and is willing to pay $5/month. That's where you step in.
Thank you. I wanted a downloadable version without having to sign up to Scribd or whatever it was called. This isn't a PDF or e-book, but I can easily turn it into one.
Just walk to Orench Beyond for lunch every day.
I agree with you. But there's more "clickbait" online than actual journalism. The saturation point has been reached for a lot of people and it's difficult for them to go back to respecting actual journalism or even distinguishing between the two.
> What you do with the internet now in this age (walled gardens), are things the Chinese are doing at a national level.

When the walled garden is that big its not really a garden anymore.

Us Americans focus on really irrelevant things about other cultures, things people in those cultures don't find limiting at all.
I did not know that about Chicago amazing.

I think its interesting how people complain loudly if they lose a stretch of beach, but don't seem to complain if a stretch of the street becomes a blight for the next 100 years (or the life of the building)
Yeah, no. If you're in the position where you're told, regardless of what's on the poster, that reporting means you're fired, then you are not in a position to do so.

This fake machismo around things like this, where the immense pressure and power that employers have over their employees is completely ignored, needs to go away.
Internet makes use of one part of our brain. When I stop I can feel the blood rush somewhere else. When I solder something, or play music, I feel very differently. Interaction with the physical world isn't to be abandoned.
I've watched this video several times (probably 5+ or maybe more) and it does not cease to amaze me.

Both the presentation style and the content itself is really engaging.
He's one of the Market Urbanism ( http://marketurbanism.com/ ) guys, so a bit more on the libertarian edge of things, but it's a good point in any event: cargo cult urbanism is probably better than "suburban experiment" urbanism, but flexibility and adaptability are even better.

Edit - one of the really cool things about the growing movement that - broadly - includes YIMBY's, Market Urbanists, Strong Towns and so on is that it really crosses the ideological spectrum. For instance, this quote:

"Reforming local land use controls is one of those rare areas in which the libertarian and the progressive agree. The current system restricts the freedom of the property owner, and also makes life harder for poorer Americans. The politics of zoning reform may be hard, but our land use regulations are badly in need of rethinking."

From https://www.brookings.edu/research/reforming-land-use-regula...

Edit 2 if you're interested in Strong Towns, it's a pretty cool group, with Slack ( https://www.strongtowns.org/discussion-board/ ) and local groups that are starting to form: https://www.strongtowns.org/local/
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Smith does not seem to be a private-propery-idealist as almost anyone in the mainstream today. Take this passage for example, also from book V.

"Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. It is only under the shelter of the civil magistrate that the owner of that valuable property, which is acquired by the labour of many years, or perhaps of many successive generations, can sleep a single night in security. He is at all times surrounded by unknown enemies, whom, though he never provoked, he can never appease, and from whose injustice he can be protected only by the powerful arm of the civil magistrate continually held up to chastise it. The acquisition of valuable and*23 extensive property, therefore, necessarily requires the establishment of civil government. Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days labour, civil government is not so necessary.

Civil government supposes a certain subordination. But as the necessity of civil government gradually grows up with the acquisition of valuable property, so the principal causes which naturally introduce subordination gradually grow up with the growth of that valuable property. "

http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN20.html