skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malls typically lack quality local retailers. Local artists renting out a store front to sell their works, local gyms, martial arts studios, dance studios, that small store stuffed to the brim with cute little decor items, clothing stores for local fashion designers, and of course small restaurants.

Malls have none of those. Maybe a couple local jewelers, and everything else is large nation wide (or regional) chains.

Density of construction drives down rents. Large parking lots are huge lost opportunity costs. They don't give much tax revenue, and they don't contribute to the economy, there is nothing on them.

When I lived in an urban core, I was able to get everything I needed within a 5 minute walk. That included an outdoor mall, integrated into the walkable city, that was a mix of local stores and nationwide retailers. In contrast, the malls I drive to have none of that.
It is! The actual article title is "A California City Measured Residents’ Well-Being For 4 Years. What Lawmakers Discovered Surprised Them."

The simple fact of a city measuring residents' well-being is not really interesting. Even after quickly skimming the article trying to find the answer, I still don't know what lawmakers discovered that was surprising to them.
Thanks for the detailed response. I'm hoping that the downward trend in the Global Leadership Approval chart that started in 2016 will reverse itself after the US political situation changes this year (fingers crossed!). If not, well then yes I guess the US dollar would be going down.

Of course, all good things come to an end eventually, and the US dollar hegemony really started after WW2. Crazy to think that a Soviet spy/asset (Harry Dexter White) helped setup the Bretton Woods accord which positioned the US dollar as the strongest in the world [0].

[0] "How a Soviet spy outmaneuvered John Maynard Keynes to ensure U.S. financial dominance" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/14/how-a...
>But that’s entirely the wrong conclusion to draw!

That the shabby looking (to the hypothetical immigrant) houses are worth millions doesn't matter to the new comer, except that it means that in addition to living in a building they don't like, they are going to have to pay an enormous rent.
> The rail system is far superior to what exists in Seattle & should support reasonable suburban commutes

Atlanta has a relatively poor transit system compared to many other cities on the list. The bus system isn't great and MARTA (trains) is quite limited. I left before the beltline was built out, so maybe things are getting better.
You also could have never guessed Trump would win the election, right? You and I are not tapped into the minds of plenty of Americans who will absolutely feel the feeling you've described. And your assertion about "trumpies" is just not true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/0...

Forget about normal/reasonable, while trump's approval rating is abysmally low going by historical standards, it's still 30 something percent - a large number in absolute terms.
Do you think the city would be better off without Comcast employees there?

This is where more subtle analysis makes all the difference.

Comcast doesn't seem like it would be a high-end workforce. I doubt they do any R&D there.
There are a few unofficial projects for a BE server though: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bedrock_Edition_server_softw...
Bootstrap's been a great asset to the community.

For my own projects, though, I've moved to using Bulma instead for baseline design.
Global Climate Report – Annual 2017
There's also AntD: https://ant.design/

Check the links at the bottom of that site for more addons (such as this: http://motion.ant.design/)
Interesting that they're all far from Seattle.
Even old computer chips were magic. Really, photolithography is magic—it jumped us way ahead in our ability to miniaturize. It really seems like the kind of thing that, in fiction, would be introduced to a culture by aliens.

I've always wondered: could we have discovered/invented photolithography earlier, and thereby started the integrated-circuit revolution earlier? As far as I can tell, there was nothing holding someone back from inventing it in the 1800s, even: they had access to all the relevant chemicals, and (in some countries) lenses were already precision-ground enough to serve the purpose down to some pretty tiny process-nodes. We wouldn't have had digital logic (no transistors), but we could have been making "electronic" watches, tiny AC-to-DC power converters, and other analogue ICs even back then.

But heck: suppose we had known the principles behind semiconductive materials back then, too. We could have passed right by the vacuum-tube era and started in on inventing digital ICs (and boolean algebra.) What could the 1800s have looked like then?

(Is there any well-known science-fiction story exploring this premise? I might give a shot to writing it, if not...)
Worth mentioning that Semantic has some first-rate React bindings:

https://react.semantic-ui.com/

They're really a joy to work with. My one beef with Semantic is that it could be easier to make themes. I know that someone is currently working on a theme generator site like Bootstrap and hopefully that will be a nice step forward.
More background on this behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
You forgot to add "fucking" in couple of places. :-D
Time Travel Debugging [video]
Amazon is one of the biggest new-college-grad hirers. This was true when I was one a few years ago, and it's very true now.
Interview with Yan Zhu, Engineer at Brave and Technologist Fellow at EFF
Link to report: http://fordmediacenter.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LB-AV-1...
I think you're missing the point. Using the example above. 1/3 has no final digit. 0.333333 repeating infinitely.

So how do you then store this number to the final digit or final -1 digit using this mechanism?
The Mandate of Heaven? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven
Well, at least in Google Cloud for planned updates you can get your VM host migrated and not lose a Node due to a planned maintenance. I am not aware if Azure supports this, but my guess is they do not.
With the more recent host bindings proposal[1], direct DOM access was decoupled from GC. This is expected to move much more quickly.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...
I recommend engaging with the guy who took you seriously, rather than the guy who's just lampooning you.
I haven't seen any reports about it specifically, but anecdotally SQL Server 2008 R2 runs well on Wine 2.0 and later when you install .NET 3.5 into Wine, and Visual Studio 2010 Express works pretty good with the same caveats, so I think the SSMS from around that time should work okay with more modern Wine releases.

Give it a shot and provide feedback, if no one tries it then it'll never get the support or workarounds it might need!
Create PDFs from Go
But Raleigh, NC is in the Research Triangle?
How does one keep track of each Tether-like coin's fiat backing?
I mean, why not?

It is unlikely courts will impose support, fiduciary or other requirements on Telegram, ex post facto, in respect of these tokens. Telegram could cash out the proceeds to pay a massive dividend and then call it a day (i.e. pay salaries, dabble, and take lots of vacation days). It might be contested. But on what grounds?

I think Durov is an honest actor. But what says Durov calls the shots a year, or five years, or ten years from now? In any case, if you have to trust Durov to be nice, what is the point of a decentralized architecture?

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor investment advice.
These look like they were made by a Starbucks barista with a graphic design “degree” and 100k in debt. In other words, ugly and pretentious. Yeah I know, I don’t get it.
i.MX6 uses Cortex-A9 cores so is affected by spectre. ARM has some good info on how to deal with it: https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

i.MX8M will use Cortex-A53 cores so is not affected by spectre.

EDIT: Clarified that i.MX8M only has Cortex-A53 cores. Some i.MX8 parts will have Cortex-A72 cores which are affected by spectre. i.MX8M is the version discussed by Purism's post.
And I can attest that they often presume that I'm a robot.

At this point it would be easier for me to write an alternative frontend to Google search (or just use duckduckgo), but it was be amusing to think that I might evade this by writing a script to simulate mouse movements to appear less robotic.
Kitty Perry and the copyright lessons for seven-year-olds
It is linked from their homepage: https://www.airhelp.com/en/

The linked page (https://www.airhelp.com/en/ahlp/travels/) is a terrible landing page and doesn't have much information or a link to the homepage. The homepage is much more informative about what they offer, which is more than just a map of your past flights.
Wow, that's appalling. I'm really sorry to hear that. I know there's a competitive intelligence group somewhere in Uber, and given the ultimatum email specifically targeted at that group that I mentioned in my other comment, I guess it doesn't come as a complete surprise.

I do have a copy of an email about the newest policy governing competitive intelligence gathering from Salle Yoo (head of legal) from late august 2017. Skimming through it, what you described would be in blatant violation of probably half of the document. Not to mention that it flies in the face of basic human decency.
Seems like an outdated report. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/06/30/ordos-ch...
I thought the Detroit bid was compelling because it had all of the things you listed, including the Canada connection. They were proposing a campus that stretched across the river into Windsor, with full cooperation and subsidies from the Ontario government.
They even do that for simple things like recipe websites. I google some food, find a recipe, and most of the time the first four paragraphs are describing the first time the author cooked with saffron or the cultural impact of the spice trade a thousand years ago. You know what? All I want is the recipe for my pressure cooker.
But CMU has been producing world class CS grads for decades now, and some % do stay to start their own ventures, and yet Pittsburgh is not (yet) in the same league as even the "Next Silicon Valley" list cities. (Seattle, LA, etc)
Instagram has bad engineers.
I know this issue might not affect many of you, and I don't know if anyone will care, but besides being a developer, I also run a marketing agency. Therefore, I am signed into multiple Instagram accounts on my device. Facebook/Instagram still does not handle multiple user accounts properly, and they need to be called out for ridiculously bad engineering.

I posted a series of Instagram stories to one client's account a few minutes ago. Instead of posting to that account, the stories posted to that of another client (I was logged into the proper one). This is a common occurrence. It is astonishing to me that a software company with over 20,000 employees and $27 billion in revenue could have this problem and have it for this long. This is not a brand new feature.

There are also serious issues with linking to Facebook accounts. I've created new accounts, specifically not linking my Facebook account because I wanted to run them anonymously, only to have friends tell me they got a notification saying "Your Facebook friend, Paul Jaworski is now on Instagram as x".

This would be unacceptable for a 10 person company. Get your shit together, Facebook.
>you have no ability to negotiate because they have something you want, and you're unwilling to give them anything they might want. would a meaningful fraction of the population pay even $1/mo to receive better contractual terms on their dropbox account?

Yes, you've accurately described the power relationship in the contract "negotiation" and how it allows exploitation and abuse.

>whoa there. there's allll sorts of stuff that can go into a contract besides waivers of "fundamental rights", that you'd really not want to agree to willy nilly.

Agreed, I was being hyperbolic. You should of course read EULAs (though there's an argument to be made that they should be required to be streamlined, or expressed in plain-language and short)

But you don't have to check the EULA for a "slavery clause" that promises you and your children in eternal servitude to the company, similarly you shouldn't have to check to see if you are giving up other fundamental rights.
>not useful for decisions like this which are made by a small group of people

I'm not sure that's quite true. For example, a Wisdom of the Crowds consensus approach can do really well in picking Academy Awards winners for example.

It's not immediately obvious that you can't take the same approach here. The bigger issue is probably that, while with the Academy Awards experienced pickers can bring a fair amount of historical perspective about the types of things that win, precursor awards, etc. in this case:

- There's no track record to look at

- No one outside of the people involved know what's going on behind the scenes

- No one knows how Bezos & company are really thinking about this, what they really value, etc.

So in the end, the crowd has so little real information to go on, any Wisdom of the crowds is going to be incredibly noisy. The wisdom of the crowds assumes everyone is not just throwing a random dart at a map.
Too far southeast?
The difference with those offices is they didn't tease 20+ US cities before building them. It's a nonissue to you, but it won't be to millions of Americans.
I rarely use big words when there's a simpler one that has almost the exact same meaning.

Sometimes I'm communicating something quite precise and nuanced.

In those cases I may use big words because it is the right word to use.

English is my 2nd language as well, so if nothing else I think I would deserve some credit for having developed a good vocabulary.

It annoys me when people dismiss the precision in the language as "big words" or "trying to impress". It shows that they are not listening carefully enough, or that they have such a weak vocabulary that they are just overwhelmed by a few words they are not familiar with.

Context is also important. I rarely do that with basic day to day conversations. But hey if you throw some big complex question at me about a professional topic in a professional environment then don't expect a 1st-grader-friendly response.
Exactly, NYC has a glut of unused ground floor retail space and a housing shortage, simultaneously.
I'd say go ahead. The nice thing is that you can start with virtually nothing and if you realize later you need really nice widgets, then you can just use those mixins.

Bootstrap is the only framework that looks nice, is responsive, and fully addresses accessibility. The only thing I can fault it for is using Jquery, but I don't use the javascript features, so it doesn't matter (to me) anyway.
That's an interesting point. I wonder if tax-incentivizing mixed use development by allowing a short depreciation period could create the same desired result as mandating it.
I'm curious to know why this comment dropped from near the top of the page (2nd comment) to near the bottom (2nd-to-last). The points have consistently increased, so why would it drop?

I purposely didn't write a "this title is misleading clickbait" comment, opting instead to describe what the blog post is actually about. I know a lot of people check the comments before reading an article (esp. from unknown blogs) so they can avoid wasting time if the article is not what they're looking for. Allowing this comment to stay at the top of the page would help people who are interested to know this.
This is not brutalism. It’s more like dada.
How to get Press for StartUps in 2018
I'm not sure why one wants to bother to do this.

With tools like Sikuli script (sikuli.org) already around for ages, automating a headed browser isn't rocket science. So the best-case scenario for detecting headless browsers is "The bad guys just use headed browsers and another automation solution."
Anecdotally, I don't know a single person in my network who uses Telegram but I know numerous people who use Signal (including some very surprising non-tech folks). Is this a common trend or do I just have a really weird network?
Don't believe online IQ tests...
Best Startup Idea Contest by Zeroqode
You have to marry Chinese.
Wow. I would never speak to my mom again after that. What she did is child abuse and I suspect this happens with regularity in a lot of cultures. I could forgive actual physical abuse but not this. I was the same way growing up except my parents were very supportive. While they robbed me of the fun of adolescence by being controlling, that is nothing compared to trying to rob one of learning.
Authentication best practices for Vue.js
They are refundable tax credits so WI could be paying money they wouldn't have.
Your comment reminds me sports stadiums being built millions spent for rich professional sports teams. I'm not into sports at all it seems unusual to build what to me seems like a church for worshippers of team X.

I'm all for being active but professional sports these days seems like they are a religion.
Middleware utility for your “promised” methods
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> depend on where you live and your specific situation

So it's not better in every facet. It's better for your exact current situation. Most people do not have a 5 minute drive to work [1].

On the whole, I think if we took the best car situation and the best city/public transportation situation (some EU city like London for example), the car situation does not scale and lags behind the car situation.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/22/the-a...
I'm so sorry this happened to you.
Hey all,

I've recently made some big changes to the landing page of my marketing website for startups and small businesses, Instaaa (www.instaaa.com)

I've added CTA buttons, buzzwords and other additions which I hope to drive more conversions and clickthroughs to pages. Instaaa recently hit $12K MRR and I'd love to push that even further with small adjustments.

Currently packages are shown on the page after initial submission. I would like to keep it this way as it's been successful so far. I'm toying with the idea of infographics or images to help spruce up the homepage.

Any help or feedback is appreciated.

Cheers!
Garage apartments have long been a standard feature in Houston, enabled partly by loose regulations and a lot of historical houses in what were once surburbs but what are now very central. Like what dwater described, but without the NIMBYism. Even though housing is already cheap in the city, you can be downright skinflint and still get one of these in a walkable neighborhood.

Newer opportunistic building is tearing down many of the historical homes, however, and the upper-middle class townhome colonies being put in their place lack this feature.
Google are miles ahead of the other big players in terms of transparency and user control. They actively prompt users to review their privacy settings. They provide a plain-English guide to what data they collect and a simple process to choose your privacy settings.

I do find Google's level of data collection a bit creepy, but I also don't see how they could reduce the amount of data they collect without reducing the quality of their service.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6227261

https://privacy.google.com/your-data.html

https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup
what about the their EU taxes?
Once there is a proper infrastructure for trusted Oracles, there will be lots of interesting applications: small group crowd funding, payment distribution from trusts,execution of wills.
May be related to this. I have the feeling that white rural Americans dislike "smart" people more than they dislike immigrants, blacks, city slickers and even billionaires.
First of all, I don't think your tone is very kind or conducive to a productive conversation.

You state with no evidence whatsoever that rideshare services "can't or won't compete with mass transit" while the truth is that millions of people decide between the two on a daily basis. In places like NYC and SF where transit is viable, it is widely used by the lower, middle, even upper middle classes. It has become much more prevalent to simply take Lyft to work every day (some employers just pay for it) which leaves less people on MTA or BART. That hurts funding for maintaining extremely expensive public transit systems which often leads to cutbacks in service during tough times as "we can't support the long hours with so few passengers"

Yes some of the lower class benefits from ridesharing (in the short term at least) and I acknowledged there were two sides to the argument. But ultimately if people get some cheap rides for a few years but then have to choose between expensive rides or degraded public transit, then they've almost certainly lost out unless driverless cars or some other innovation saves the day.
Kinda, but if no one offered such incentives, than Foxconn would've presumably still built its factory, and someone (maybe even Wisconsin) would've collected those taxes. So while for any particular state you can say that those taxes wouldn't have been collected, the general system of States competing for large businesses means someone somewhere won't collect taxes from Foxconn that they otherwise would've.

Plus, the taxes exist for a reason. Companies rely on public goods like roads, schools, etc for their business. So if Foxconn never came to Wisconsin, Wisconsin wouldn't have had to pay those taxes, but they also wouldn't have to pay for whatever extra public goods are consumed by the factory.

Of course, in reality, someone somewhere is going to pay for Wisconsin's schools, police, etc. So what really will happen is that Foxconn shareholders (who presumably don't, generally, live in WI) will have their share price subsidized, while other companies, or Wisconsin workers, or property holders or some combination thereof will make up the difference.
I think that's far from truth. It'll just be another issue that splits opinion.
Yes (== trouble), unless you have specific written agreement allowing you to use patent as well or use that specific technology.

I guess you don't have (such agreement).
Weird - I visited Chicago a couple years ago from NYC and was shocked at how pedestrian-unfriendly central parts of Chicago seemed (e.g. River North). There were parking lots everywhere, with aggressive drivers pulling in and out. I walked through a parking lot to go to a liquor store and was almost run over. Sometimes crossing a large street felt like a race against the green light. Jaywalking signaled to drivers that they should speed up, which is the mark of a driver-run city IMO.

The whole experience contrasted heavily with the east coast cities like DC, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Boston. Maybe it's changed in the last few years, though.
It was actually two changes, one which required a much more intensive request regime because of a public caching (SOLR) system change, and then the much more aggressive scraping detection. The first caused us to change from requesting data 78 times an hour (items changed within 2 minutes requested every minute, 6 minutes of changes every 5 minutes, 11 minutes of changes every 10 minutes for overlapping coverage) to many thousands of checks an hour for much less accurate information. In the end, we ended up doing very targeted checks and much less accuracy for different classes of items. Having people actually do the checking just wouldn't be feasible for our size and resources (very small company, <10 employees), even through mechanical turk (I suspect).
With the best kind of leader, when the work is finished, the people all say, "We did it ourselves."

~Tao Te Ching
I don't think Amazon is going to pick Chicago, but there are underdeveloped areas in/near the center of the city in Chicago. There are parts of Chicago that are quite expensive (like West Loop, where McDonalds is moving its campus), but Chicago is really big.