skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> large-scale, top-down, "inhuman", car or transit-focused, urban spaces are bad

You are combining a few different strands there. There are people who think brutalist megastructures are dehumanizing but who are generally pro-car. Likewise you shouldn't conflate car-friendly and transit-friendly approaches to planning: they are very different. Top-down planning is ever-present to varying degrees.

Jacobs' nemesis Robert Moses wanted to do extremely serious surgery on Manhattan, with the assistance of the architect Paul Rudolph. Luckily it didn't happen, though other major projects went ahead. It was part of the whole post-war prioritization of the car (in Europe and America) which is now seen a mistake, and you will not find serious theorists defending it.

You ask for a counterargument to Jacobs' ideas, but I think that invites a dualistic framing of the problems. See e.g. this article: https://archpaper.com/2016/05/best-use-abuse-criticize-jane-...

In terms of examples of successful modernist planning which are seen as a desirable model today, Neave Brown's Alexandra Road estate in London might be of interest.
It's a megastructure, concrete, alongside a major railway line, with uncompromising modernist aesthetics.

There is parkland, but not an ocean of space which isolates blocks from circulation routes. (This is a common criticism of the Zeilenbau/Corbusian approach to planning, which has to be weighed against the benefits of having greenery between blocks).

It is an immense "gesture" of structure which follows the curve of the railway, but faces away from it to control noise levels.

I'm mentioning all this because it is the particular architectural decisions and strategies that make the difference. It's not a result of picking one side or the other in the Moses/Jacobs debate. You could perhaps argue that it represents a third way, but there are many possibilities.

If there is a meaningful countercurrent to Jacobs' ideas, it's the idea of pursuing architecture/planning itself rather than an ad-hoc folksy urbanism.
> After years of evolving, Slack is at the point where the gateways can no longer handle all of our features or security needs.

I don't think Slack ever cared much about the gateways. I have used the IRC gateway for years, and it was never compliant with IRC protocols.
I even had to patch my IRC client to work with Slack.

IRC is also being extended with new features [1], some of which are designed specifically for gateways to services like Slack. But Slack never used these. It does not even use features that are supported by all IRC clients literally for decades (eg. AWAY)

[1]: https://ircv3.net/

Could you be more specific about what features IRC/IRCv3 lacks?
On a related note. I always thought Xero made for an interesting case study for saas founders, as the company has went public when it had 150~ customers. That's pretty uncommon, and means that Xero's financial (including user/subscription growth) metrics are available for every year since founding.

All here: https://www.xero.com/au/about/investors/financial-info/

Disclaimer: I work at Xero: API, integrations & add-on ecosystem.
You realize that this is the only way to fund triple AAA content for the time being though, right?

Oculus is producing these at a loss given the current size of the market hoping it will pay out in the long term by growing a healthy ecosystem...it’s the only way
Snov.io: Sales lead generation supported by blockchain technology
Preaching to the choir, man. I was just saying the Slack bleeding could potentially be lessened by wielding a slightly different model of chainsaw. I certainly want my gig back.
Rhode Island senators introduce bill to require ISPs to block “sexual content”
But if I'm a huge tech company, I can afford a lot of time and resources too, if I want to. I can't eliminate it, but maybe I can make it something that rarely happens

The whole cracking scene can afford far more time and resources than any one tech company. All adding protections does is make a more valuable target, because crackers love a good challenge.

"There's always a crack in everything. It's how the light gets in."
I absolutely think you should charge for your product.

But if critical parts of the code are not available for the user to modify/fix/own, I think it will only ever be used for internal sites and proof of concepts.
Their VR product is just the HTC Vive.
The Revolution Will Not Be Supervised
Windows sys admin here. OneNote is fantastic for IT documentation. I like that you can drag and drop a screenshot (no uploading to a wiki), store spreadsheets, word docs, PDFs, etc. and easily search for information via the built-in functionality.

We have used it for years and it has worked great for us.
Rows are horizontal things.
dropwizard.io
Physical measures to enhance your digital privacy
Call me when it's a wireless & self-contained unit. Until then, I just cannot honestly see it taking off in the commercial space. Industrial & enterprise-ish use maybe, but to regular consumers hell no. It's still a mess of wires and sensor installation, not to mention you still need that high-end gaming PC (and with the prices of GPUs being what they are it's a no-go for the vast majority of people).
I wonder whether there is another mechanism at play. Often when I have conversations with friends, it's likely that either I or they search a term, or have done so recently. Couple that with the social graph and location tracking, and it's very easy for Facebook/Google to target an ad knowing when I interacted with another person and assume that I may have interest in the term that was recently searched by them.
yet there's no slack competitor that has "better battery life" or "native apps" as one of its selling points.
Then patch the signing...

...and if the signing code is also signed, then patch that.

It's patches all the way down. ;-)
Well email is due for a comeback.
Summer learning loss
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There's a shortage of COBOL developers that are needed to maintain and update legacy financial mainframes that still don't make economic sense to replace since they operate at critical infrastructure points 24/7 and over the years have become pretty bulletproof.

Replacing these systems is extremely difficult since they're so relied on a replacement needs to be nearly flawless form the start. If you stumble upon on a bug in your international wire transfer code you could be messing up a $10 billion international aid wire that was meant for hundreds of factories.
OneNote over a text editor as you can drop in screen shots.
" All children lose academic skills during the summer months, and family socioeconomic status (SES) is highly correlated to the level of academic growth or decline in the summer months. Two-thirds of the academic achievement gap in reading and language found among high school students has been explained through the learning loss that occurs during the summer months of the primary school years."

I had no idea that a) the summer vacations contribute this negatively, and b) that there is a significant gap between different socioeconomic status (because of access, family)
Definitely by IP address. I proxy all traffic for a family member in Central Europe and hilariously enough I get ads for “local” nightclubs that are thousands of miles away from me (east coast US).

What’s funnier is when google decides that it needs to localize my search results for that country. So there is a lot of tracking that assumes all traffic from a single residential IPv4 address is somehow correlated.
Are you saying someone has to either be a paragon of virtue or just give up on ethics altogether? No one is at either extreme. As you pointed out, even wearing clothes makes you complicit in the moral turpitude of pennies-for-the-hour overseas sweatshops. Are you committed enough to justice that you'll go naked the rest of your life? I'm not, I'd I'm wearing several things that I'd assume were made by terribly oppressed people, as I write this. But when I see the military (or police, or whatever) engaging in wanton destruction, should I just say "well, I'm wearing pants, so I guess I can't complain"? That's preposterous.
Too much fun with “git pull –rebase”
Move Fast and Break Things.
This is true, and really one of the more mysterious things about the headcount. This should be an example of how to keep an organization lean as it scales. I wonder why it isn't.
>Which just means the expiration date is meaningless.

how so? it merely limits which dates you can sign code, after which the code you signed remain valid, but you can't sign any more code.
Saya ingin bergabung dengan kalian
Klompok cyber..!
Non power users might have trouble using IRC with the usual clients (mIRC/irssi/bitchx).

I've never used Slack but these name drops are all familiar.

Back in the good 'oldays of Eggdrop? It's amazing that Slack was "backwards" compatible with IRC for so long.

But honestly, their API is mature. No need to be backwards compatible. Easier to sell when you are in control of access and client.
I'd love to see if I can do a 3d scan of my torso and have a sweater knit that exactly fits my frame. It'd be very interesting to see clothing made in this fashion.
Matt - if you see this I'm terribly sorry for your loss. I just married my best friend in December and I'd be so lost without her. I can't imagine how you're feeling. I don't know what else to say besides that I'm sending you love and support from across the net. Stay strong my friend, your blog has powered many of my adventures into SEO and beyond.
One thing that’s eye opening is how many of these aren’t in the Bay Area, but are in a few other cities that never get any attention for producing a lot of software companies.
This helps me participate in ICO's when I'm at a networking event or a party :)
Oh wow I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates the threads implementation. It's an awful user experience!
if you by "malware defense" mean preventing stolen expired certificates from being used to sign code, then yes. if you mean by only allowing code to be "signed" for the duration of the certificate, then no.
Subform is a desktop app, it works on Windows and OS X.
The runtime layout engine is very low-level and essentially just does arithmetic, it can probably be made to run easily on any platform w/ an LLVM backend.
You can get a long way with just Spark: https://github.com/perwendel/spark
I've got issues with a fair bit of his work, though there are parts which also seem fairly sound and insightful: Edward Glaeser (Harvard University, Manhattan Institute) is a University of Chicago-educated economist who's written (and spoken) extensively on cities. It's his Chicago and Libertarian leanings I disagree with most, but various other elements I find interesting. His The Triumph of the City lays out his model for what does and doesn't work. He both praises and criticises both Jacobs and the sterile-city auto-centric proponents, and with relatively strong basis in both cases.

I'm also fairly partial these days to Vaclav Smil, whose metier is not cities and urbanity, but whose focus on energy and sustainability has an exceptionally strong intersection with the field.
Seriously? From the article

> The proposed acquisition by the Singapore-based Broadcom would have been the largest deal in technology history, creating a major force in the development of the computer chips that power smartphones and many internet-connected devices.

I mean, if the company is a Singapore-based company, then how is the author not reminding us it isn't Chinese? Broadcom is only mentioned twice in the article, so a 50% reminder rate isn't that bad.
To that effect:

I don’t have any kids, but when I do I’m going to write an article entitled: How I helped potty train my two year old with a feather duster and an onion, or some such.
or rather, forget to move and break things.
Google will keep distrusting your certs. Forcing you to reissue every couple of weeks.
There's no such thing as a copyright notice. There's no need for them, copyright exists automatically on any creative work. What you may have been looking for is a copyright license. These give permission to share the work, possibly subject to certain conditions.

The absence of a license simply means you ARE NOT licensed to share the work in any way shape or form.

Your intentions seem to be good but you may want to reconsider.
I gave 6m/s and 8m/s as realistic numbers to show the dramatic increase with a little bit more speed. Further offshore you can have average annual speeds over 10m/s (This time, a roughly x4.5 increase in revenue compared to 6m/s) [0].

The large turbines typically operate up to 25m/s and then shut down for safety. Really large offshore turbines operate ideally at an average of 11m/s [1]. You can also see some real data here [2].

However, what investors (or farm operators) really care about it LCOE. Levelized cost of Energy over the lifetime of the machine. It's that $50/MWh and considers the revenue (roughly proportional to v^3) and all the costs. After that it's an optimization game:

- Too far = costly maintenance, costly installation, longer cables, rougher seas
- Too close = not enough wind (but "cheap" installation)

(Plus many other important factors: risk, incentives, NIMBY, access to capital, wind turbulence, etc, etc)

[0] https://goo.gl/images/NFny2a
[1] http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uceseug/Fluids2/Wind_Turbine...
[2] http://www.wind-power-program.com/large_turbines.htm
Check out recirculating systems. It’s a similar idea. The modern ones have timers to run approximately when you’ll be using the hot water (ex: before morning shower).
Sad that the correction has fewer upvotes than both of the HN threads with the original dubious statistic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501017

I think this speaks volumes about HN's user base being far less enlightened and fact-oriented than we like to think. Instead it seems that the articles reinforcing our biases are the ones we pay the most attention to.
Ideas do not necessarily translate into creativity. All Humans have ideas. But, extremely few ideas are creative.

Most ideas are like monkeys tapping on a keyboard - that is, it doesn’t take much to propose ideas that ‘bend, break, and blend’ (as the one author describes the process). Children do those things well, but children rarely create. Creativity requires things like bounding, insight, awareness, extrapolation, and intuition among other things. And, the truly creative person usually knows that what they’re doing is the ‘creative’ thing to do.
Or consider another scenario: your friend went to said restaurant and paid for something; read an article about the restaurant; viewed/interacted with an ad for the restaurant; liked a social media post for the restaurant; or was geo-tagged at or around the restaurant. Any of the above would be sufficient to associate your friend and the restaurant, and I'd wager targeting your social graph after you've interacted with a product/service would have a good ROI.
I think you'd run into other problems then, for example if your test machine needs to communicate with https sites powered by letsencrypt, all those sites will appear to use certs that "expired" at least 9 months ago.
It’s not even necessary to test. Once you’ve done it a few times codesigning is a piece of cake. But there a few flags you absolutely pay attention to or else it’s going to bite you in the ass way down the line.
For those wondering who Matt is, he’s a fifteen plus year Googler, ex head of Safe Search and web anti-spam, now acting director of the US Digital Service.
No doubt. Add some spaces to to the title. Give those letters some air to breathe.
Might have something to do with the fact that in the past few years, more than a few "journalists" from respected major publications got caught red-handed with citing sources that were later proven to be less than credible. Here is an example of that reported by Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...)

>Just because you don’t like what the anonymous sources have to say doesn’t mean that it’s worthless.

I tend to be suspicious of anonymous sources a lot of times even when they say what I like. That statement was just a baseless assumption about me on your part.
I’m so sorry. She sounds like a wonderful person and a blessing to everyone who knew her.
My solution is to legally pay for ebooks and keep a [partial ;)] backup of each.
Why wouldn't they just say "We observe Atlantic Standard Time year-round" ?
"Almost never."

In my experience, the code you write within a third-party framework rarely works the way you expect it to the first time. So you often do "debug" the framework, just to see where your code goes while in the framework to see what you missed.

That's not a bad thing, though--it's a great way to learn any new framework!
Yeah. For example, if you don't own a cat, you could just talk about cats and brands of cat food in front of your phone for a while. If you end up with a bunch of ads for cat products, then that would be seriously weird.
I wish I had something poignant or heartfelt to say, but all I can really say is I'm terribly sorry to hear this.

Words fail me this time. I can't imagine what it must feel like.
How to do research as an Engineer?
I am a Data Science Engineer and I work in a big corporate. I have been contemplating to do phD. But first, I want to get some research experience.
How does one do research in a lab with a full time job? Specifically, I want to know if people approach the professors of these labs to work on these projects?
I am not able to think of a good way to do so with my main goal being to get some research experience..
thank you!
I love this attitude. I backed the Kickstarter last year, because I feel the industry is greatly lacking in quality tools.

What you guys have built is worth far more than $25.
Tangent:

I think you should really have someone who hasn't seen the app test with the blindfold.

Is that double blind, or just single blind plus literally blind?
I'm so sorry for this loss. Matt spoke at UNC my freshman year, and his talk confirmed my itch to pursue computer science as a career.

So Matt, thanks for the influence you've had on my life, and I owe thanks to Cindy, too.
Just curious — how do you effectively program blind? Seems to me like a really difficult problem because coding is about jumping around so quickly and needing to be able to scroll and grok at high speeds. You also have the issue of all kinds of specialized characters that are difficult for any kind of text-to-speech. Are there specialized Braille displays for this kind of stuff? How do you go back and forth between keyboard and such a thing effortlessly?
It's actually very little work to maintain Steam once the core functionality is there.

Valve is actually a good example of a company that's now incapable of doing anything really ambitious that has real demand. You know, like Half Life 3...
IQ of Neural Networks (2017)
Alright here's another anecdotal experience. To preface it, i don't have Fb app or messenger on my phone but have WhatsApp and Instagram. I opted out of whatsapp's data sharing policy when you were able to do it.

So i was walking with co-workers for coffee and somehow we talked about a college. Now i can assure you that i have never ever searched for that college and i didn't even know it existed before that conversation took place. And 30 mins later, i'm browsing instagram at work and there is an ad of the said college. If this isn't creepy af, i dunno what is.
People don't want air shooting out of their faucet for 5-10 seconds before water starts to come out, even if the water is the perfect temperature then. For this system to work every faucet would need an air valve out of the way that could vent the pipes before water started coming through.
Relative to say, the 1980s, China is less authoritarian. I'm not in any way excusing or diminishing their authoritarianness , btw. I find it truly frightening, and reprehensible. However, what i'm worried about is that they've found a way to thread the needle such that they may maintain most of their authoritarian surveillance state, while also getting solid economic growth.

In the past, in order to develop a modern economy, it's been necessary for authoritarian states to relax their grip substantially. China may have found a path forward that allows them to relax substantially less than in the past, and that deeply concerns me, because it may mean that the liberalizing effects of progress are muted in that part of the world - and eventually, maybe the rest.
AT&T marketing piece written by Quartz Creative.
I'm reminded of: https://qz.com/475975/video-robot-is-bullied-by-children-so-....
Beyond the Ergodox, this might be a good resource for the mechanical keyboard enthusiast community at large.
So sorry to hear this.
Please don't get a recirculating system, even a smart recirculating system, if you care about the energy efficiency of your home.
TL;DR: "In this paper, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for solving geometric pattern recognition problems [i.e., Raven's Progressive Matrices]....Our CNN is able to solve problems involving rotation, reflection, color, size and shape patterns and score within the top 5% of human performance."
Who will be most technologically valuable to humanity?
Reviving the age-old question: should we use certs against aliens?
Dollars aren't backed by assets, dollars are backed by debts. Collateral is nice but not required.

At its core a dollar-bill is a uniformly-sized, freely-transferable IOU, representing a credit held by the bearer with the US government as the debtor.

Even if nobody else wants your rectangle of paper and linen, the US government has to honor it when they do things like ask you to pay taxes. That's the foundation of the dollar being worth something.

See also: "Debt, the first 5000 years" by David Graeber
If you go down to page 5 or 6, GNU Emacs is listed.