skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you advocate for this kind of city to be built, despite not actually wanting to live there yourself, then all the people in your city who want this kind of city will move there, leaving more space for you.

The US has a shocking amount of uniformity in it's building styles, because most people don't want to live in the dense environment that is advocated in the article.

I wish the people that didn't want to live in this kind of environment wouldn't simultaneously oppose it. Let it be built, let people move there who want to move there.
struct rational {
int numerator;
int denominator;
};
In China, even the beggars accept cards and cryptocurrency. In South-America, street vendors accept cards.

FinTech revolution is happening in China, not so much the US/SV.
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I wasn't talking about irrational numbers.
It would go downtown Dallas if it came to Dallas. Either the Victory Park proposal or the area just south of city hall/Cedars. Plenty of land, plenty of infrastructure to support it, and plenty of tech talent there already/accessible by light rail to major suburbs.

I think it'll be Dallas or Atlanta though.
I remember reading an article earlier in the year talking about how (1) No city is going to have every characteristic Amazon was asking for so (2) this is really about how much the city is willing to work with Amazon in long-term development plans.

From that perspective, some of the cities isn't surprising. For example, I grew up in Columbus, OH and I know that one of the AWS regions is located in the greater Columbus area. The airport is international but it is is not a major hub like Atlanta. When I lived in Seattle, I remember locals there complaining about the transit system -- yet it is way better than what Columbus has.

I do know that, Columbus is probably willing to change things about its city to accomodate Amazon. Not just in terms of tax credits, but likely extending all the way out to municipal and regional planning.

The same could be said about the other cities -- Austin, Newark, etc.
Do you have a source on the bike stealing in China? I was in Shanghai and there were practically more bikes on the sidewalks than people, I don't think people even bother stealing bikes.
I highly doubt they could ruin boston, the city is big enough to absorb this.
Yes, almost all real numbers are irrational, but I was talking about non-computable numbers, not irrational numbers.
>2. The city has lost R1.6b ($130m) in water fees due to reduced usage, so now we're facing a "drought tax". To me this is bullshit but thats a whole other post.

Why?

In already deployed networks, decreased usage means the cost per client, or the cost per unit used will go up.

This is a problem with any network that charges for delivery based on usage and cannot easily cut off unused parts of the network.
Presumably it would be cheaper.
Yeah, I developed chemical processes to make monomers in my last job and was still surprised that they start from coal to do this. I didn't even realize there was a process from coal to acetylene, I just took it for granted that acetylene and acetate generally start from distillate or natural gas unless some bio-source is extremely convenient.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylene#Preparation)

"Until the 1950s, when oil supplanted coal as the chief source of reduced carbon, acetylene (and the aromatic fraction from coal tar) was the main source of organic chemicals in the chemical industry. It was prepared by the hydrolysis of calcium carbide, a reaction discovered by Friedrich Wöhler in 1862[17] and still familiar to students:

CaC2 + 2H2O → Ca(OH)2 + C2H2

Calcium carbide production requires extremely high temperatures, ~2000°C, necessitating the use of an electric arc furnace. In the US, this process was an important part of the late-19th century revolution in chemistry enabled by the massive hydroelectric power project at Niagara Falls."
after years of searching for a low cost editor I can use on either mac or Linux I found these two. Pixelmator has tons of tutorials

pixelmator for OS X ($60)

pixeluvo for Linux ($35 only) but worth 10X that.

my first go to is pixeluvo since I use linux as my daily machine.
People always seem to come up with gambling. No on in the gambling industry would want to have their business on top of a public blockchain so good theory but nope.
Same for me, except on Windows 7. CPU spiked to 100% and I warmed up my hands with the extra heat :). Closing the tab and waiting a minute or so (the usual thing I do for cpu/memory intensive pages like this) didn't work. I had to completely restart Firefox to get it back to normal.
This is a really wonderful piece of software.

Most Delphi and Win32 API apps run without a hitch, and developing under wine with mingw seems to go faster than using MS Visual Studio on Windows.
Not only is garlic not always cooked, but even when cooking, it makes a difference if you slice it vs mincing it. The more you damage it before cooking, the sharper the flavor.
The switch is heavily locked down, and afaik getting into the developer program is expansive and out of reach for most. But with some hacking, we can get around that.

Homebrew is still brewing (excuse the pun). There are two toolchain being developed, libtransistor and libnx. To run the code, We have one public exploit for 3.0.0, and a private full system compromise for 1.0.0 all the way to 3.x, which should be published Soonish.

Disclaimer: I am heavily invested into libtransistor. This toolchain is still in the early days, but an snes emulator, doom and SDL got ported to it, with visual output (software rendered), audio and input.

Work is ongoing to get hardware acceleration, c++ support, and various other things. Some people are trying to port Love2D to the switch, allowing for homebrew written in lua just fine.

And a lot of the console is documented. Check the switchbrew.org wiki out.
The largest concentrations of wealthy people in the world are in large high density "world cities" (New York etc).
Self-driving cars can significantly reduce the need for parking space, which in itself is not great for the environment and causes many transit distances to be longer.

I think it's possible that self driving cars could increase total driving like you explain, but i think it's also possible that they will drive down car ownership. Once you pay primarily based on usage (parking, insurance, depreciation are mostly fixed costs), you are more likely to drive sparingly.
Navy Yard makes sense since then there is also property that is cheap across the river in Camden and Southern NJ. Easy to get there over the bridge as well and there is public transit should people decide to live across the river.
Chiron is what I've been using. I like it because it's simple which means I can understand it. Currently using it with fable elmish architecture, again because it's simple and i understand it.
Scratch then Construct 2 (outputs js)
Would question if works better. I am a pretty big fan of Google services but get people concerned about privacy but question if there is something that works better and has privacy.

I also look at it that rather my data be at just one company as much as possible and have chosen that company to be Google.

I just trust Google a lot more then say my cable provider to not sell my data to a third party. Fully aware Google is going to use to Target ads.
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Columbus definitely seems like an underdog here but it could be one of the best options on this list. Great talent pool coming out of Ohio State, young people are already moving here, the local economy is doing great, and real estate is still very cheap compared to the national average and many other cities on this list.

It seems like the lack of nonstop flights to Seattle is the only real downside to it. But that's something I would think could almost certainly be fixed before the new campus was even finished.
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Re: SV is so backward.

My AM/PM here in San Diego, Calif, has debit card acceptance at each pump.
Someone will surely try your suggestion at some point, and I hope we don't get to find out what the Enron of water supply looks like.

"Newly discovered tapes have revealed how the energy corporation Enron shut down at least one power plant on false pretences, deliberately aggravating California's crippling 2001 blackouts with the aim of raising prices."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/feb/05/enron.usnew...
Bingo, it is all about culture and identity (Japan). Often used argument arguing against immigration.
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A developer friend told me that one of his biggest problems are accounting related. I probably have this wrong, but I think he was saying that if he has commercial tenants, everything can be depreciated over 20 years. If the building is residential, then the depreciation schedule is 30 years. When you have a building that contains a mix of the two, it gets complicated.
Very interesting article! Thank you.
This Is What a Designer-Led Social Network Looks Like
> The "workaround" is a complete rewrite.

No it's not, it's just swapping out a few selectors or regular expressions...
Finding the Right Software Development Methodology for Your Startup
WeChat and Alipay yes, but cards and cryptocurrency?
Why Did Two-Thirds of Saiga Suddenly Drop Dead?
And it will take hundreds of people over years to go from the POC to an equivalent product.
> The conclusion that there are somehow more irrationals than rationals depends on subtle philosophical points that have no possible proof or disproof and usually get glossed over

Can you elaborate? The proof that there are more irrationals than rationals is very straightforward, from my perspective.
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I guess that's still relevant: https://wiki.winehq.org/ARM#Running_Windows.2Fx86_Applicatio...
Self-Crashing Cars: A cyber-security expert on regulating autonomous devices
Hello Bluetooth Keyboard support! Cannot wait to try this.
Net income adjusted for cost of living for software developers in Indianapolis is one of the highest in the country. Infosys and Salesforce are planning on adding thousands of jobs here over the next few years too, so it's likely those salaries will continue to rise.
What happens to the traffic you send to the App Store?
"We want a [insert big name here] clone, how long does it take." is, in my experience, a good indicator to move on.
I buy four bags at a time from BrewSouth which last me about 2 weeks per bag, so 6 mugs per pot per day. Guess I am addicted.
Spiritual successor to /r/place?
I can’t speak for Slack, but I ship Mailspring for Linux as a Snap (and not a Flatpak) because snap provides a unified approach to automatic updates and the app is updated frequently. It’s an a major win from a developer perspective, because users that have to install the new deb / rpm / flatpak manually are almost certainly going to fall behind and then file bugs / have issues that take up time to triage.

(I know there’s a way to do autoupdate with Flatpak, but it is not tested and maintained as part of Flatpak itself, and when I looked it seemed to be a proof of concept with no production use!)
sure: http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/faq.html#part17
should i tell you who will build the roads next?
That's only possible if you pay no attention to the hardware you buy. The last time I had to do any post-install config with a linux distro was when I installed kubuntu 5.10 and since Debian 4 onward I never experienced any problem.

Then of course companies like Google are immune to this sort of issue as they even design and sell linux hardware.
Japan as a country is a bit of an outlier when it comes to crime compared to much of the rest of the world, and not just in cities but in towns and rural areas. I think using Tokyo as an example but ignoring the increased levels of crime in urban areas just about everywhere else in the world doesn't make much sense.
Similarly, Runescape private servers and bots got me interested in programming and computer science from an early age. Young me viewed Runescape as an immutable truth that couldn't be manipulated, but teenage me got involved in botting, hacking, and even the development of a Runescape private server that had it's own rules and code. It was magical to see that technology could be tinkered with. It introduced me to java and configuring tools, collaboration, and most of all how to spot a scam and the intricacies of a (granted, fake) economy. It's amazing what that addictive game gave to me.
I'm also curious if Overwatch works in this release. I couldn't get it to launch with Wine Staging on MacOS a few weeks ago.
is this like nix?
The prices would level out if other towns would also work on becoming more attractive. It seems Americans are conditioned to build towns that are mainly used to drive through and not live there.
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I haven't seen this actually happen, though. In Denver, at least, RTD has been expanding routes and light rail service (albeit slowly, but that is most definitely NOT Uber's fault), even as Uber, Lyft, etc. have become more popular.
In larger cities, even amazon money wouldn't have too much an effect.
> How do you intend to accomplish that?

Accomplishing this is simple, but not necessarily easy. You make a choice.

As I mentioned, literally barring someone physically overpowering me and forcibly injecting me with addictive drugs, I will never be a drug addict because I simply refuse to take addictive drugs. Yes, that includes painkillers that may be prescribed. I took none of the hydrocodone tablets I was prescribed after my wisdom teeth extraction. I'm currently using non-pharmaceutical approaches to managing chronic back pain from an injury rather than relying on opiate painkillers which doctors are happy to prescribe.

I am not blaming people for their choices, but I am recognizing that externalities that feed into our choices don't excuse the outcomes.
I doubt it. Congress has failed at immigration reform for years and the current administration wants even less immigration than currently occurring.
Does anyone know if this will support running SQL Server Management Studio? That's the only thing keeping me using Linux in a VM instead of as my main.
Part of me would love to have a big tech / infrastructure company like Amazon in Philly. But I take serious issue with the idea of the city paying millions or billions to bring them here, promising years of tax breaks (a free ride), and the tightening of an already very tight real estate and rental market. I don't think my fellow Philadelphians should have to pay to bring a company here that's just going to hire people who are not currently residents, while increasing their expenses and utilizing the public services that their taxes have paid for, while receiving little to no tax revenue or services in return.
How many people or projects are using freya?
Hawaii's Nuclear Alert Agency Keeps Passwords on Post-Its
Rebranding is a thing.
You're oversimplifying the economics, elevating one aspect of it above all other considerations. Cost of living doesn't prove that people "want" to live in these areas. What about taxes? Different strictness of regulations? Parking fees? Some may want to, but how many are a captive audience due to their field of work? How many simply have family ties? How many can't afford to take the steps to move out because they're living paycheck to paycheck?
Whoa. Thank you!
Yep, this is a common case with everyone's favorite repeat offender: Which city gets to host the Olympics?

And that has been shown, time and again, to be a huge money loser and not at all something that invigorates the economy or somehow makes a city "more legit" in the global sphere. It is, at best, symbolic and at worst, charitable [on the part of the host city].
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I can't get in the details because I'm no neurologist but there are a lot of news stories out there about how taxi drivers end up with a great memories from having to remember all the routes. There are also stories about how taxi drivers using GPS don't have all those memory improvements. I agree that news stories are not the best source of accurate scientific information so take it with a grain of salt.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memor...

http://www.thedrive.com/news/8686/study-using-gps-navigation...
Looked up an IQ test to see if I'm too smart or too stupid to communicate.

Apparently I'm too smart. Thankfully that can be fixed! Lead poisoning, here I come! I'll pick up my old weed habit just to be safe.
I think you and the author might be in more agreement than your comment indicates.

You said:

> The purpose of public funded transportation infrastructure is to make transportation cheap... to the point where anyone can use it.

and

> Making cities walk-able at the expense of some longer range form of transit is not something I endorse

The reason I think you both might be in agreement is because by "optimizing for tax revenue", you have to allow dense (and perhaps) walkable development.

If a dense environment allows 10000 people to access services with 10 minutes of walking, or a not-dense environment requires public transit to get 10000 people access to services, wouldn't the dense one do it better than the not-dense one?

I think you and the author both want the most people to access important things in the least time.

I'm inclined to think that dense environments better serve more people than sparse environments with public transit tacked on.
NAFTA has a provision for no-visa entry as an "internal transfer". Having a Canadian office is not unheard-of to invoke this position, by stationing an employee they really want at a US office in a Canadian office and then transferring.

While politicians may be motivated, there's no indication they would be motivated more by THIS business than by ANY OTHER business, all of which have the same concerns, have had the same concerns for years, and immigration has generally been avoided.
It takes the right policies and a lot of time. We have seen American cities become less walkable and more auto-centric in the last ~60 years thanks to policies designed to hollow out urban cores and increase suburban sprawl [1]. We have also seen Amsterdam embrace "human-centric" urban planning, leading to significant transformation toward the vibrant, walkable, bikeable city that Amsterdam is famous for being today [2]. If American cities want to be more like Japanese cities, they can start by looking at the policies that make them possible, such as the relatively-sensible Japanese zoning laws [3].

[1] http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/

[2] http://sustainableamsterdam.com/2015/12/livable-cities-campa...

[3] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
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Ask HN: How did you get into programming?
I just read the article on the Neopets website and read many comments on HN about how many members of the community later became Software Engineers because of Neopets.

So I am asking you, how did you get into programming?

I got into programming in my freshman year of high school. I always messed around with TI BASIC on the TI-84 calculator. I eventually wrote basic programs that would handle basic formulas that we had to remember in Algebra II and Trigonometry. Eventually, I had to take a Java programming course in my Governor's School program. I learned a lot but felt a bit jaded by my teacher so I never pursued programming much after high school. It wasn't until I transferred from my community college to a 4 year school that I gave programming a go again.
I think the lack of support for compiling on other platform is a huge issue for CLI, Go compiles on many platform very very easily it's a one liner and you can do it from any platforms, Pony can't do it. So why would you bother doing CLI on language that don't support that?

CLI should be a single binary or having a very minimal runtime that can run anywhere.
I go out to client locations quite often and it provides a reasonably good means of time/location tracking when I do my billing reviews.
> Yet.

According to the current management under the current financial circumstances. What happens when they run out of money, get sold, or get their C-suite management replaced by investors who want to make back their investment?

If it's stored somewhere at a cool startup, odds are it will make it into a third-party's hands eventually.
Are you paying 5+ digits tax and in the process of moving ? Then yes you can get the same special treatment while paying fraction of what you used to pay.
But certainly scapper blockers also have a big disadvantage, which is that the number of (reliable) scrapper detection techniques is finite, and probably pretty small. It's relatively possible (though no easy task) to find most of them by going through the Chromium source and looking at what is done differently when running in headless mode. And you can also probably find more by occasionally running some more real browser and doing differential execution of the JavaScript code. And once all trivial detection techniques can by bypassed, it becomes exponentially more difficult for scrapper blockers to find a new one.
Ask HN: How useful are current crypto coins?
I am talking mainly about BTC, ETH, XRP, NEO - the most popular ones. Do they really solve some problems in today's systems? Why should banks and other businesses start adopting them rather than keep on using the current system?
You might be right, I don't know everything that is in Raliegh and Virginia.

But Toronto has perennially top 25 world ranked universities, Waterloo and Toronto.

Toronto may not be the best of these 20 cities for workforce and universities but they can more than hold their own in this regard.
You can install 3rd party libre roms like Lineage OS which don't have any proprietary Google spyware on Androids.
sufficient evidence was provided by Rothbard, et al.
Use good Android forks like CopperheadOS sans Gapps.
Catering for lunch is much cheaper than paying salaries or overtime and it gets people to stay in the office for longer.
> I don't think my fellow Philadelphians should have to pay to bring a company here that's just going to hire people who are not currently residents, while increasing their expenses and utilizing the public services that their taxes have paid for, while receiving little to no tax revenue or services in return.

If you applied these views at the federal level than you'd be anti-immigration.

It amazes me how people can be so protectionist towards their local communities for the above reasons and have totally different views at the national level
Tend to agree. Is the data saving option with Chrome somewhat doing this?

I am in the US and our cable providers are now allowed to sell our Internet data on sites we visit. We use Google DNS instead of ISP because of this and hate how ISP injects into DNS with an ad and Google does not do this. Which they could and make a ton of money.

But our ISP still has routing data in where we visit. I would like my data to just be one place if possible and trust Google to be that place.
> I don't understand the point of the blog post then. Why is it so upsetting, if you have the ability to turn it off?

I'm not sure the original author knows that they can be turned off.

... or perhaps (if I'm being less charitable) the original author doesn't care; they don't want to be asked in the first place, ever (and are a touch naive about exactly how it is Google Maps gets the data it can vend to end-users).
Sad to see how the mighty have fallen