skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chelsea Market is 1.2 million sqft. 111 8th Ave is 2.9 million sqft, and the fourth largest building by floor area in all of NYC. Not only is Chelsea Market much shorter on average than 111 8th Ave, its land area is smaller as well. The buildings themselves are also older and less modern, thus worth less. 111 8th Ave is an absolute tank of a building.

We got an excellent post-recession deal on 111 8th Ave. Chelsea Market looks to be at booming economy rates, hence paying about the same amount of money for much less.
The layout is like none other. You'll walk down a spiral stairway, through some cubes, turn the corner to a ramp, more cubes, more narrow hallways and ramps.
The probability may be low but the number of attempts allowed is unlimited (barring time / energy / other obligations). So one can keep trying until something sticks. The important part is to keep trying.
Automatic Time Tracking for Developers?
Copious embarrassment was the main thing. I believe the client was using it as much as possible to leverage some free consultancy, saying some of the comments obviously written by staff were unprofessional and violated good faith agreements and so on. Today I proceed with the thinking that anything I write could be read by my mother.
Languages have the issue solved until your library is just bindings to a C shared library, in which case you also need the appropriate OS package.
That only shows how bad the judges were. Kudos!
HN tends to avoid hot button political issues issues. I guarantee that if it started posting climate change/evolution/abortion/political articles on a regular basis the troll brigade would show up.

Arstechnica is another tech oriented news aggregator/comment section and the ideological trolls on that board are a well oiled machine. They're on top of any relevant article before the bits are dry; pushing their agenda and gaming voting system until it finally falls off of the front page.
Didn’t the attack on the USS Cole (a dinghy loaded with explosives driven by suicidal fanatics) demonstrated that being “comically far ahead” in therms of technology sometimes amounts for precious little?
VRChat is just a toy right now, but could become the gold standard for online interaction by the next decade.
General population voters > Tech voters making $100k/year+. Easy win when people who can't make tech salaries are barely scraping by, unable to afford food or meds sometimes because they have to make rent.
I'm not a runner but I am a hiker and what I learned was to buy resoleable boots (obviously this opinion is of no value to runners).

There are lots of decent midpriced boots but all have the soles glued on. Typically they don't even last 1000 miles before they wear out and need replacement. The problem is that by then they have adjusted properly to my foot!

Now i've had the same boot for almost a decade, having been resoled four times. (in that time my dog has gone through about 10 sets of boots)
Hearing the loading-sound of a game being read from tape to a ZX Spectrum (circa 82-86):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4umA3_9YNs

That sound is just so memorable, even more so than hearing the sound of a modem connect to the internet. (You could easily tell the difference between a 28k and 56k connection by hearing the modem responses.)

I've done a lot of things I'm proud of, like patching binaries, reverse-engineering games/tools to get extra lives or registered status, but hearing those noises? They take me back.
Does Mastodon solve the problem of migrating from one server to another? Without that I don't see how users have gained anything over, say, facebook.
Also things like copying huge arrays back and forth or hammering the database repeatedly.
Google has experimented with that idea in London: https://www.campus.co/london/en. Free space with wifi and coffee and obviously nice furniture. They use the event space to hold tech talks and the like -- I wonder if it's worked out as more than just a brand investment.
> When the house is paid off from rental income + what you had to pay in mortgage anyway (this will take between 5 to 10 years) buy another house and do a 1031 exchange. This means if you're mortgage is $3000 and your rental income is $3500, don't pocket the cash.

Just to be clear, that is not what a 1031 exchange is. A 1031 exchange allows you to sell a property and buy another one, all while deferring the capital gains tax, so you have more principal to put into the down payment [1].

I think the more accurate advice here is when your property has appreciated enough from your renovations, repairs, and market appreciation, you can use that appreciation when selling + your principal (equity) to put a down payment on a bigger unit (such as a multiplex) and repeat the process.

[1] https://apiexchange.com/what-is-a-1031-exchange/
Exactly - engine-out failures are far more common than boom failures, so it makes sense to have lots of small engines.

The Soviet N-1 failures had more to do with rushed, shoddy engineering in a desperate attempt to catch up to Apollo.
Escapism. We like vicariously experiencing drama that is more than we want to personally experience. We love watching violent movies but don't want to experience or commit violence. We love stories with convoluted romantic intrigue and yet most of us just want to settle down with our partner. We love a view into a life we're too scared to live.
Just to add my own, I had a coworker who used to do:

# Set x to 1

x = 1

...not even kidding.
Theres also an Outer Limits episode of a guy trapped on another planet who self replicates clones of himself. Although I think it does it more through "splitting" than an actual birth cycle. Very freaky episode with lots of "body-horror" as he begins to split.
Oops, the TCCON link I gave is dead. Use instead: https://tccon-wiki.caltech.edu, or http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov.
That's crazy...

...crazy awesome.
Amazing to see all of this design work happening starting in 1992.

I always thought of iterative design and development as becoming popular staring around 2001, and usability studies only becoming popular around that time too.

> the design documented in the spec was suddenly out of date. The team faced a major decision: spend weeks changing the spec to reflect the new ideas and lose valuable time for iterating or stop updating the spec and let the prototypes and code serve as a “living” spec.

> After some debate, the team decided to take the latter approach. While this change made it somewhat more difficult for outside groups to keep track of what we were doing, it allowed us to iterate at top speed. The change also had an unexpected effect: it brought the whole team closer together because much of the spec existed in conversations and on white boards in people’s offices. Many “hallway” conversations ensued and continued for the duration of the project.
NTFS was introduced a few years before BEOS.

More likely that they were both inspired by a common source.

Never mind that MS have been working on a fully database driven FS (WinFS?) for ages.
I think that's purely a matter of opinion and certainly doesn't apply universally. I'd rather spend three to four weeks visiting my family once a year than flying to Europe and back four times a year and maybe setting them for about a day each time.
Slightly different measurement, on their graph 20% of people made less than 10k/year and they list and use: $27,000 was the rounded median individual income in 2014. But, they are not measuring people on a salary.
> clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind

> This is why I'm bullish on Twitter.

Fuck Twitter. Its roles and permissions structure is a disaster to effective and FAIR communications and there is little reason by Twitter to disallow the more viral concepts circulating within its web. Time to deploy active measures to give humanity some means by which education on these concepts can occur.
I would support a privatized version of 18F. One we could measure impact of better and terminate more easily.
Chiptunes, UFO Wibbles, White Noise and Waveforms: Interactive Sound Wave Primer
Ubuntu because it worked first time on my laptop. Getting concerned about the end of Unity though. I don't like Gnome3 because it's to bar takes up too much of the screen. Ubuntu on desktop again because it works well in Virtualbox on Windows
Did a search for Schedule A. Got either a Schedule A 1040 (likely) or a documented disability form.

Why does 18F do contract positions only? Why not W2? The article does mention the 2 year terms, but doesn't explain why.
The lean startup is a lie
I would guess that maximizing the number would not always provide optimal results. I don't curl but if you ever watch curling you can see that they aren't always trying to provide full force all of the time. I'm sure that having a quantifiable number that gives an indication of how hard they're sweeping at any given point could be useful.
Almost all subway stations have cell towers now, which works great, but the reception in the tunnels between stations is non-existent.
It's important not to get too intoxicated with your own success. If BFR is as successful as their Falcon series, it'll be ready in 5-10 years. If there are unanticipated challenges with BFR (after all, this is literally rocket science), having a lower-risk approach mitigates that risk.
This is correct. I think that sentence should be reordered, hah.
“If your method is less than 100 LoC you have to combine them”.

“Classes less than 9000 LoC have to be combined and do not deserve their own file.”

“Method documentation is just because it is required. Contents can be just the method name.”

“Code reuse is king. If you need different functionality but share at least a field just override all methods and do not call base.”

“Just access the resources you need but don’t bother deaccessing, someone else can do that for you.”

“Method names are worthless, their IDE will suggest them anyway.”

“If you need new functionality but do not want to break the old just add another field and an if statement to enter a new code path.”

\\ cheesy US presenter voice \\
Today! in another episode of code reviews at the office!!

Disclaimer: love my job and my colleagues :)
1080 Tis were briefly in stock on the Nvidia store
In my experience NAT is almost always involved in a Kubernetes setup (for on-prem).

The container network is generally not routable to the wider corporate WAN (it'll use RFC1918 addresses by default). You typically get one set of addresses for the main container network, a different set of addresses for the service IPs and then an routable set on the ingress.
Because militarization doesn't only include items sourced directly from the military, it refers to the general mindset and mission of policing as well.
It might be helpful to have a case study of a "toy company" that became a "real company." I'd certainly love to read that.
Starting a Business Is Supposed to Be Messy–Embrace It
The libertarians I know would probably say that it's the government's fault that this situation arose. I don't think they would have an answer how to deal with the current situation.
Also this: http://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/

Climate change needs more toys
I searched for "Wu-Tang" and got nothing back, so either it is taking a long time, found no results, or knows not to fuck with Wu-Tang. Either way, should provide some feedback so the user isn't left in the dark.
The full Knuth quote: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%"

Keywords: small efficiencies.

How it's usually used: I shouldn't think about performance up front at all.
This nicely highlights one of the huge distinctions between consumer startups and enterprise startups, and perhaps provides some reasoning behind why these two types of startups are run differently and have different results in the market.

If I'm at an enterprise startup, ideally we've identified a business problem, and created a widget to address it. This falls very much in to the tool category, and anything I do to make it 'fun' is of marginal value.

Unfortunately, in the Valley I see a lot of devs who want to work on the toys because they're fun, which means the pool of talent for the 'serious' startups is that much smaller. This is too bad, because in my experience the likelihood of having any startup equity attain significant value is much better in the enterprise startup world.
I fear though that command level compatibility is under attack these days, as fewer and fewer see shell scripting as something positive (never mind trying to do more and more via dbus rather than pipes and such).
A real nice, fictional example is the one in Quidditch through the ages by Kennilw... er, JK Rowling. A whole section is devoted to stooging, a tactic to overpower the goalkeeper that was eventually banned because it made the game too boring (not to mention dangerous for the goalies).
I think he meant “us” as HNers, who include a relatively high proportion of highly paid engineers and the like.
Schedule A positions mean a different thing in the US Federal Government employment context than the IRS context... Schedule A just means a term-limited position. Those are W2 employees, not contract.
"There are plenty of mathematicians and engineers who write great papers. There are fewer of them who, like Shannon, are also jugglers, unicyclists, gadgeteers, first-rate chess players, codebreakers, expert stock-pickers, and amateur poets."

https://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shan...
I'm curious. Why do you believe those statements to be true? Looking back through history there is a constant pattern of each generation decrying the immaturity of the generations that follow it. Either maturity has been on a constant decline for millennia, or the same mistake was being made again and again in drawing that conclusion. How do you know your conclusion isn't due to the same mistake?
You could probably automate this and write a plug-in that that translates every line of code into plain English :)
No, the Equifax breach hurt tons of constituents on both sides of the aisle. The parties had every reason to come together on this. Especially the Republicans, because the lack of trust will be bad for business. But it seems the ones elected at the moment are beholden to specific donors and not accountable to the people they're supposed to represent.

I'm not clear on how deregulation would hurt Equifax and the other reporting agencies? It seems that enforcing regulations would hurt them in this case.
"tiger" -- yup, tigers.
"dog" -- more pictures of tigers.
"friday" -- more tigers, plus a housecat.

Verdict: needs more work.
32 bit signed integer. Unsigned will be fine for a good while yet.
This excellently shows the problem with how value is currently assessed in the social media landscape. The "In case you missed it" algorithm-based organization of tweets and the focus on video to "increase engagement" at any cost are same reasons why there has been a widespread backlash against Facebook. On the other hand, building your feed from the ground up granularly is one of the larger differences between Twitter and Facebook.
> “If you need new functionality but do not want to break the old just add another field and an of statement to enter a new code path.”

Oof.

def a(b, c, d, e=None):
if e:

is way more common in my code than it should be.
U.S. outlines design for exascale computer
Blue Origin also has worse mass fraction on the booster stage than SpaceX does, which means they don't need to throttle down as much. If you look at New Shepard as a preview to New Glenn, there are a whole bunch of aerosurfaces which add dry mass, essentially ballast. New Glenn will add big side fins, which will help increase lift, drag, and provide more ballast.

Also, the New Glenn booster will have 7 engines. Not so different from Falcon 9's 9 engines per booster.

Overall, New Glenn is a good design (and will eventually have a reusable 2nd stage). If SpaceX stopped with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, New Glenn could easily give SpaceX a run for their money. Luckily, SpaceX won't stop with Falcon Heavy. BFR, once they finish getting Block 5 out the door in a couple months and crew Dragon flown sometime by around the end of the year, will be almost their sole engineering/development effort (Starlink being kind of a separate division).

Of course, Blue Origin also won't sit still with New Glenn. They'll make the upper stage reusable, then also add a hydrogen/oxygen kick stage for very high energy payloads, and then they'll be working on the New Armstrong monster.

SpaceX is super far ahead, but luckily Bezos is so rich that I expect both companies now to deliver on their equally grand visions.
Searched for "generator", got: https://pixabay.com/get/eb31b50d2df2043ed95c4518b7494f90e374...

Needs a bit more work ;-)
Great work! Love to see more datasets coming!
I currently use the web app and phone app from http://hn.premii.com/ I just installed HNBuddy, It's equally good. I'll use it for few days before I decide to switch.

What I will miss from Premii app if/when I switch.

By default, Loads article in Text(pocket/readibility) mode instead of actual web page. 90% of the links I click are articles (save for the Show HN )

Integration with pocket to save articles for offline reading.

Ability to choose Navigation position. I place it at the top so i don't see it when scrolling up and reading stuff down/below

Another feature that's missing on all the apps I tried, Ability to share(to pocket) without actually opening/loading the article. As an example, An article PaulG, I want to instantly share/save without actually loading it in the app.
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I don't consider you weird! But I do do this. I have a large screen and a wandering mind, so it helps me keep my place and thus read faster than if I don't highlight.
I'm guessing this material has more compressive strength but less tensile strength than steel? If so, how could you replace steel with compressed wood as the title implies? They're totally different materials from a mechanical engineer's point of view.
1 in 5 Highly Engaged Employees Is at Risk of Burnout
Was going to say the same thing. ASAN would have probably flagged this, I've seen this exact thing with a read overflow. In the wild it only crashed if you were very very unlucky. The code would do something like copy 2x as many bytes:

xyz\0XXXX

instead of

xyz\0

Since the \0 was still there, it would work fine as long as it wasn't at the end of the heap.

As it turned out, the test suite itself would abort if ran with ASAN enabled.
This is not the sense of the word "toy" that the article discusses about. He brings up facebook as a primary example of a toy project, not in the sense that it was fun for the programmer (aren't they all?) but in the sense that it was fun for the end user, not serious business. Google for example was not trying to be fun from the get-go, maybe skype was, i m not sure. Facebook is a tool that brings adults back to high school, with all the ensuing drama of the glass house that schools are. In that sense it was a toy, even though from the get-go it pretended to be the more serious counterpart to myspace (look, real names!). The article also implies that facebook somehow turned more serious after growth, which is simply not truth, the sillyness has just moved from pokes to the collective comment cringe.

now thanks for digging my ancient comments , but it's obvious that i meant "programmer's toys", in the sense of a fun project back then. Also my crypto simulator game is indeed a toy in both senses, its a fun side project that a few people found fun to try.
The flu doesn't last 3-4 weeks
Did a quick search to find out the background - it turns out that the author had almost no prior Android development experience, and in 2013 it won the first place in the Android app challenged conducted by Telegram.

https://vk.com/wall-55882680_36 [in Russian]
That is happening in a sense -- for quolls. See the linked story in the article.

Scientists make sausages out of toad meat and add a nauseating agent. Quolls are learning to avoid toads. Might take a few generations.
Well, they ruled Apple had immunity because their petition could not be construed as a sham. Also, they ruled there were no facts to support the Apple/Amazon conspiracies the plaintiff suggested AND ruled there wasn't even any hope that such facts could be supplied where the suit to be amended.

Whatever lie you think Apple is guilty of, there doesn't appear to be any sign of it amongst the material of the suit. Going to court is expensive and time-consuming, so I presume that if such facts were available, the plaintiff would have used them.

You can believe whatever you want, but it seems like you'll have to do it despite the absence of supporting facts, at least in this case.
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A previous HN discussion, possibly on Equifax now that I think about it, had a comment recommending the book "The Chickenshit Club", about why the justice department doesn't prosecute.

I just finished in it a discussion of Enron and their auditors, Arthur Andersen. The justice department prosecuted Andersen (one of the "big 5" accounting firms at the time), and there was a lot of backlash about the Justice Dept "killing Andersen".

The details of it are that Enron was way crooked, lying to investors and the public saying everything was great, when it wasn't. Andersen audits didn't reveal this, and also was responsible for increasing document shredding from 80lbs/day to >2,000lbs/day in the few days before the SEC subpoena. And this was after Andersen had been shown to be negligent in the auditing of Worldcom, QWest, and Globalcom.

Basically, they recommended fraudulent practices with WorldCom, got caught and said "We promise we will never do that again" and did it again with Enron.

Justice Dept prosecuted, and then there was all this backlash about the prosecution.

So, is prosecution of Equifax likely? Seems like we as a country have trained the government not to.
I do it pretty often, in fact I was doing it as I was reading GPs comment and had a good chuckle. It started out as a way to differentiate which line I was on in dense text since I have some vision problems and it just sort of become a habit.
Can't someone just add a style sheet that works well with mobile?
As with all geoengineering, it is hard to test. There no beta Earth. So, while the risks are not absolutely intractable, and acceptance of some form of geoengineering seems inevitable, it would be a mistake to embrace it without first reducing harm to a minimum.
Yes, with sufficient investment they could eventually have got their content taken off Facebook, after most of the revenue had been given to other people.
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