skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another article which attempts to use Millennials as a homogeneous cohort to paint some broad-strokes policy questions to ponder. In fact, the generational cohorts are significantly less relevant than income [1] in correlating with where and how Americans live and work. Urban revival is driven by high-earning, middle-aged adults, working in downtown jobs that have seen the highest percentages of wage growth. But most population growth and job growth happens in the suburbs, where people with lower incomes fall, Millennial or otherwise.

The much talked-about phenomenon of urban cores gaining jobs faster than their suburbs was confined to certain cities [2], and was entirely untrue in others. In the general case, suburbs have consistently posted higher rates of employment growth [3][4], and command a higher absolute number of jobs. In fact, some of the highest growth areas are metropolitan areas that hardly even have an urban core that stands apart from its suburbs [5].

Suburbs everywhere are living on borrowed time, because as their infrastructure ages, they will develop the same problems circling back to lack of funding as the big cities that gave rise to them in the first place, but without the political and business clout that big cities mustered up to retain their relevance. As the infrastructure ages, the taxes will rise, discretionary funding on quality-of-live services like schools will be reduced, and the most wealthy will begin to move out into a new ring of exurbs (or edge cities), or back to the urban core, leaving progressively poorer people to remain and take their place.

Only suburbs which can successfully pivot to being employment centers can avoid this painful demographic crunch.

[1] http://jedkolko.com/2016/03/30/urban-revival-not-for-most-am...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/upshot/more-new-jobs-are-...
[3] https://www.brookings.edu/research/where-are-the-jobs-cities... [4] http://www.newgeography.com/content/005264-suburbs-continue-... [5] http://blog.indeed.com/2017/03/08/bounceback-for-job-and-wag...
Hhaah
Easily: an unexpected hospitalization, car problem, or some other expense.
This is odd because the "download link" that gets mailed seems to be a MailChimp email subscribe link too. What the heck? I wanted a download link, not a subscription to whatever marketing you want to send my way later...
How is > broken to quote mobile users? What is obnoxious for mobile users is using code block quotes to quote non code.
Try Keybase (keybase.io). It provides usable apps for all platforms, encrypted file sharing, git, group chats. Most important thing: it does not require to trust keybase servers as trusted party. Trust for your partner key is inferred from various proofs.

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Why is a working free market predicated on consumers having perfect knowledge? Free != Efficient
The network is still the third party.

With cash, or bottle caps, or any physical token, all you need are two people that agree it has value. Possession is the ledger.
> I know this wouldn't work during sunny daytime hours

It would; you just need to filter out the sun. Apparently this is already a thing: http://www.trexenterprises.com/Pages/Products%20and%20Servic....
The article is about building a fast and highly available API distribution architecture. You could just as well apply it to anything you want to build.

I will agree that it's not for everyone. And would probably more likely appeal to indie makers like myself.
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"According to materials published by Ohio State University, a typical used mattress may have 100,000 to 10 million mites inside. Ten percent of the weight of a two-year-old pillow can be composed of dead mites and their droppings. Mites prefer warm, moist surroundings such as the inside of a mattress when someone is on it. One of their favorite foods is dead skin, and people shed about one fifth of an ounce of the stuff every week, some of which surely ends up flaking into your mattress."
We plunge deeper into the rabbit hole. If only a citizen could decide to renounce taxes for services the government provides but that he doesn't use!

We are now all forced to contribute in name of helping the needy, but then we ask in return that they stay needy, and that attempts to rise above their station will be met with the reminder that it is the best for them and for everyone to remain ignorant of such matters.

How caritative, how empathic and how benevolent are those that get their nobility validated with their bank account statement.
Maybe it's more about risk management, in particular, mixing investment banking in where the public ends up on the hook.
"For example, if only the state was allowed to process financial transactions, we never would have gotten credit/debit cards."

Does this idea apply to small countries? It's possible that democratic pressure, by people who know what's available in Denmark etc. just across the border, would mean the country could end up getting credit cards, and then paypass, not much later than elsewhere. But nationalising the equivalent sector of the US banking system in 1950 would, as you say, leave everyone writing checks forever.

For the same reason, communism worked much better at catch-up industrialisation (just steal the blueprints for a steel mill, and build it) than for subsequent consumer products (where you need to experiment and feel the way).
If "decision makers" don't already respect the framework of personal liberty and individual rights, then they have no business being "decision makers" in the first place.
>Much of the rest of the world is happy to raise families in cities

Even in the Nordic countries, smaller towns have a higher birth rate than cities:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0032472070157174...

Urbanism has always been associated with lower birth rates across nations from the US to Europe to China.
As a slight counter-point, an oligopoly similarly has little reason to innovate.

Think about how slow adoption of "secure" methods of transaction are in the US and them having made fraud our problem and not their problem.
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you still need permission to do it, even if you don't need to trust the permission granter.
Actually, there are three parts. The course uses Standard ML, Racket, and Ruby as vehicles for teaching the concepts. The intent is to make you a more effective programmer in any language.
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The thing being discussed is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_method_invocation:

”asynchronous method invocation (AMI), also known as asynchronous method calls or the asynchronous pattern is a design pattern in which the call site is not blocked while waiting for the called code to finish. Instead, the calling thread is notified when the reply arrives.”
New indie project could lead to a bunch of Wear OS smartwatch competitors
Not sure if you can run them on specific regions. They have a lot of endpoints though, there is a list on their status page: https://status.fastly.com/. I count 55.
> In Germany almost every cafe, restaurant, or bar requires you pay with cash.

I suspect it is to some extent because it is easier to cook the books when you are receiving a large chunk of your income in cash, much less easy if it flows into your company through your bank account.
Good to know, Thanks. I’m sure I will be getting more questions from my co-workers, but adding these utilities is a good thing in the long run.
Where can I find this course?
> This is one of the reasons why casinos use chips rather than actual currency.

It's one of the reasons they use digital vouchers (scannable paper or loaded onto cards) instead of either, increasingly.
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It is the case in the place that the study was done, though.
But this is a movement being driven by consumers themselves. In an age where the vast majority of customers pay by card, I can't blame business owners for deciding cash isn't worth it anymore.
The debate about "technical plausibility" should not even be on the table.

Nowhere under US law does the government have any right to mandate that individuals must communicate via mediums that allow for surveillance. The idea that such a government right exists is absurd.

Maybe the NSA and CIA should figure out how to secure their own illegal digital operations first and then get back to this when they have less pressing matters on their hands.
Georgia Tech's Knowledge Based AI class (on Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/knowledge-based-ai-cognitive-...)

Fantastic course, more focused on theory than programming, but full of deeply fascinating commentary on what is knowledge, intelligence, learning, etc. and what does it mean for a program to demonstrate it (ie. what is AI anyway?).

My daughter was about 18 mo. old at the time I took the class, it was an outrageously awesome added bonus to watch a little human learn all the things I was trying to get a computer to learn at the same time.
And no it's not a strawman to introduce my intentions into the example... it's the entire point. Measure everything you like with the exception of my brain and you cannot know my intentions which means that you lack the necessary information to substitute your own judgement or decision-making for mine.
knowing I have a sweet-tooth, opt to keep offering tempting sweets and desserts anyway

No, it means you aren't actually doing what you say you want to do. If you however gave the system input about wanting to lose weight, say by buying weight loss supplements, exercise clothes etc... then the "system" will adjust to give you what you want.

Your example is basically akin to a scenario where you frequently order dessert at your favorite restaurant, then decide you want to lose weight, never tell anyone you want to lose weight, then get upset when the server brings you the dessert menu.
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The coursera songwriting course is really great. Also Python for Beginners, the one that uses CodeSkulptor.
Oh goody, more javascript.
Infinite scroll.
Less room for content, more room for sidebars and doohickeys.

The internet is a huge pile of garbage.
Why not build with -rpath $ORIGIN/../lib etc? Wouldn’t that make the rpath fixups unnecessary? The whole tree should remain portable.
I don't think that's right:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-am...

> Nationally, 26 percent of Americans described where they live as urban, 53 percent said suburban and 21 percent said rural. (This comes close to the census estimate that 81 percent of the population is urban if “urban” is understood to include suburban areas.)

Of course, that's response-based, but if you look at the character of most American cities, there's very little truly dense urban areas. Though even the definition of suburban itself can cover a wide range, since "suburban" Los Angeles has a lot of 8-10K person/sqmile areas and "suburban" Dallas generally is more like 4K, and then others are even less.
Interesting theory. So you think if women make more, than men will try to increase the wealth inequality in other ways? I'm curious about that.

Alternately, they could also just learn how to validate and be with women's emotions (and their own).
Not surprised by this at all. Swedes have never been exactly the sharpest pencils in the drawer and their recent politics heavily support this. (anti-freedom of speech, no interest to tackle rising violence and sexual crimes etc.)
If there were any sensible way to quote on HN, I'd surely use that instead. Could you suggest an alternative?
Microsoft is working towards binary compatiblity: 2015 and 2017 have (some) compatibility:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2...
Since that person is no longer in that list, we detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16743065 and marked it off-topic.
Perl 5's twofold approach to solving this mess is to use compile time checks to manage new features. The use VERSION syntax lets you specify a version of perl. The feature pragma lets you enable or disable new features on a case by case basis. In my experience, this works really well.

The feature pragma (see https://perldoc.perl.org/feature.html) lets you manage new features on an individual basis. You just write: feature NAME_OF_FEATURE;. For example, feature signatures; In this case adding subroutine/method signature support. This is a compile time check.

If you don't want to hassle with enabling features on a piecemeal basis, you can also specify a version of perl you wish to rely on with use VERSION (see https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/use.html). For example, if want all of the standard features of perl 5.26.1, you say use v5.26.1.
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Not true. Cryptography does work.
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By "from the loader", do you mean the linker? Most of us regard that as part of compiling.

Or are using .dll or .so files?

For a static C program, regarding compiling and linking as part of the same (build) process, I see only two possible outcomes. Either I get an error at build time, or I get an executable that I can drop on the target that will run.

The one exception I can see to this is if the program is going to make an OS call that some versions of the OS don't support.
I figure that so long as there are PC-using developers building the engines, keyboard/mouse support will make its way into a lot of Xbox games naturally (because why disable something that works great for testing/debug?).

I've also seen enough people that are quite skilled with a controller that they perform better than the average keyboard/mouse player, that I think we'll see less people worry about cross-modal play.

I love having the option to game with an Xbox One controller on my PC, and I love that keyboard/mouse preferring players sometimes have that option on the Xbox. Let everyone play what they find fun.

I've been playing a bunch of Sea of Thieves lately, and it's almost surprising there isn't a controversy about cross-platform/cross-modal play, and yet it is open PvP. I don't feel like it matters if I'm using keyboard/mouse or controller, much less if an opposing player is, and that's a weird sort of magic. (It matters more if the opposing players are jerks that don't follow the Pirate Code.) Props to Rare for pulling that off, and maybe that will be increasingly a thing. (The Gears of War cross-platform/cross-modal playlists have gotten good reviews as well, from what I've heard, though I've not specifically tried them.)
I will not escalate this discussion as I feel it diverges from HN ethics of deliberation. I hope you have a great day!
I'm not sure the case for revealed preferences is overstated as much as it is so often misapplied.
This is a code block and using > within the block, so perhaps he mistook the > as the root cause of the problem, when it usually (and in this case likely) is code blocks that cause mobile users visibility issues.
Cambridge Analytica's targeting model explained
Top tier schools are a proxy for people who score high on SATs, and/or have wealthy networks that can get them in. Many of the companies that pay the most only recruit at specific schools for this very reason, the high hurdles of getting into the school itself give them candidates that have higher chances of being successful hires.

SAT is not a good indicator of success for a specific individual, but when sifting through thousands of people, it seemingly is a useful metric.
> Can this happen in any language? Sure. Play with enough deep, dark stuff and I'm sure you can can unleash run-time equivalents of nasal demons anywhere.

Also databases, caches, REST APIs, syscalls (e.g. libc), docker, dependent libraries, browsers and much much more....

In spite of that I don't see it as being an intrinsically difficult problem to solve. Just make a best effort to run the same versions of stuff in dev and test as you do in prod (with python, pyenv and dependency pinning is your friend here) and make liberal use of sanity checks - if it's only tested on versions x->y, put in a check that fails with a message if it sees anything else.

The main problem isn't that ^^ that is hard, it's just that nobody really does it or recognizes how much time can be saved by doing it.
Careful. This doesn’t fit The Narrative, and could cost you your job.
> What regulation? The regulation saying that you can't screw people over? I wouldn't find myself in that job to start with.

For example, city regulations in San Francisco has made it very expensive and difficult to build. Hence, the rent of everyone that lives in the city is much higher than it would have been because of city regulations. When will I, an SF resident, get my compensation for the cost of regulation?

The government's mistakes are like spilled milk. They can only replace the milk spilled by taking it from someone else, and they drink the milk on the way to deliver it.
> They literally ban you if you post on the source post or even downvote it.

1. Reddit is a site where you can create endless alt accounts without any verification. That type of "ban" threat is meaningless.

2. Targets of SRS have been posting doxx and violence threats from its members for years.
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I've had the pleasure of working with OPPO Digital on a couple of joint projects. They were the best, most put-together company I've ever worked with.

They made, hands down, the best Blu-ray player. I've worked with every blu-ray player under the sun. Theirs was fast, featureful, and stable. It was something to be proud of; their engineering team always out-did themselves.

OPPO Digital will be missed.
I don't think they're saying that the cities are overbuilt in the short term but could be overbuilt in the long term. It can take decades for a large apartment building to show an ROI. A significant decline in renters, even over 10-15 years can leave large development projects without the money to maintain the buildings and grounds. Gross looking buildings of course struggle even more to attract renters and a neighborhood can go into a downward spiral in as little as a decade.
I prefer a Hollywood Director as my AI Chief
Personally, I prefer apps over websites almost always unless the app is just a dedicated browser window to the company's website. I feel like the mobile experience on almost all websites is absolutely terrible when compared to a dedicated mobile app offering. Unless companies start investing more money into making their websites feel as good and snappy as their apps do, I know I'll default to the app over the website, always.
In the US there are several cards marketed to travelers, so zero fees for intl transactions and competitive exchange rates are becoming common.

Even so, most tourists may not know their card's terms, and probably couldn't immediately tell you if the cash advance fee would be preferable to the international transaction fee, and so choose poorly.
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The bios imply it's a cerebral art piece, of the kind people outside the domain generically call "conceptual art." The notion being to cause a more self-conscious (re)examination of what's going on in that town (which sounds kind of Atlas Obscura-interesting on its own) by trying to heighten what's absurd or upsetting or "problematic" about it, by drawing attention to it.

This kind of intervention is a well-established practice; whether it's successful or interesting (or "art" in a pre-20th century sense) is a different matter. :)

--

Joseph Moore is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art at the City College of New York. His work investigates topics such as perception, interpretation, and similarity.
[snip]

Stephanie Vella is a PhD student in Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she researches European theatrical modernism and its engagement with spatial, temporal, and racial otherness in primitivism, classicism, and orientalism
[snip]
Some people store data in RAM not software.
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And this, actually, is why those "hundred-million-dollar boondoggle" fighter jets are really so expensive: they're extremely fancy routers, connecting the (cheaper) planes around them into redundant mesh networks (well, redundant when you have more than one fancy plane) and connecting that mesh network to ground control with redundant-per-fancy-plane ground relays/satellite uplinks over several different physical media (broadcast RF, directed microwave, some kind of laser, etc.)

Since at least one of the fancy planes is pretty much guaranteed to stay connected to its flight, you can—if you have the room—stick your CIC in there, rather than on the ground. Then, rather than remote-controlling your fighters from the ground, you can remote-control your fighters from another fighter. Which means that now you only need one crew to pilot, say, 8 aircraft. (Well, for now, doctrine would still require humans in the cockpits of the subordinate aircraft; you just don't need to train them nearly as much on how to execute precise group maneuvers. Like driverless cars on highways!)

This is oddly easier in the air (because aerial maneuvers are something fighters need to do as a unit); the hard part is takeoff and landing, because there's not enough hands in an aerial CIC to pilot all the planes up and down. So you want these hypothetical subordinate drone fighters to be able to be passed off automatically between aerial CIC and ground control. (It's convenient if they mostly launch and park themselves, because you then need less ground-control staff on your aircraft carrier or whatever, but it's important that they can be passed off to humans on the ground when necessary.)