skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I particularly liked the description at the end:

> So, [because of fire hazards and other complaints] the edifice was dismantled. Sections of it are still attached to Jonathon’s cube — like the remains of a Norman castle in an English pasture.
> overheating in winter

Fun story:

The double-decker buses in Las Vegas overheat in the summer. You wouldn't think that a desert city where it's 100°-120°F for months on end would have buses that overheat.

The problem is that the double-decker buses are sourced from a company in Britain, which has a very different definition of "hot" than Nevada.

If you ever go on vacation to Vegas and see one of the double-decker buses driving down the Strip with its back engine cover wide open, it's the driver trying to keep the bus from overheating. There was an article in one of the Vegas newspapers about it.

The official policy is to simply let the buses overheat and go out of service. The bus drivers get in trouble for cooling their engines that way.

Vegas also has level four self-driving buses, as mentioned in the article. The first one got backed into by a truck within minutes of being deployed.
Seriously? Another user posted "can't read this; can we get a non-facebook link please" - is that substantive?

Or, are you just picking on my comment because I phrased my concern differently?

Also, "a lot of unsubstantive comments" is false. Two of my recent comments created large sub-threads. Two others were downvoted simply because people didn't agree with my opinion.

So, I think it's fair to say that you're ignoring plenty of "unsubstantive" comments and basically picking on people who you disagree with.
What’s the best way to contact you? I’m in the market for a remote tech exec role but found all these remote job boards cater towards engineering roles.
Use any web ide like Codenvy.com and you have it at least seperated from your computer
Of those, only "Seamless Payment" really seems relevant to most people. The rest is just stuff transit nuts like to think about. But being able to pay as a regular person without buying a pass or finding change or using a vending machine is big. Just walk on the vehicle unimpeded and pay using nothing but what you carry around with you (e.g. a smartphone).

And it inexplicably misses the single biggest and most obvious criterion: SERVICE FREQUENCY. No one cares about how slick the bus service is if you have to wait 10 minutes for it to show up. Because while 10 minutes might be OK for most people what that really means is that inevitably a vehicle gets skipped or breaks down (this happens a lot more than you think) and you have to wait 20 on a day when you really can't wait 20 minutes for a ride.

If you can't get the buses to show with no more than 10 minute wait at every stop on every day, people won't take them. If you can, they're better than cars. But you have to have the service level first before worrying about glitz like the stuff in the linked article.
Mind sharing a link to your blog (if it's still active)? Thanks :)
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This doesn't make any sense. Cities exist as trading hubs: where people trade labor, services and goods.

This is also true. However, the centralization causes various forms of impoverishment -- which you might also describe as "specialization." Cities develop zones around them that lack many services, but concentrate others. Think of the places where there are lots of warehouses. If you are in a city to be connected to some kind of a hub, the fact is that not all of that city's area is going to be equally well connected.

Think of what happens to towns near large cities. This has been studied by social geography since at least the 70's.
The problem with this argument is that it is a gross simplification of reality.

Terms like "market", "nearby market", "niche" etc are all abstractions the same way a map is an abstraction of an actual territory. They help us reason clearly but they should not be used as a substitute for the real thing ala "the map is not the territory".

A "desert of profitability" is essentially a battle tactic -- a tactic where you delay the use of your moat (fortress, trench etc) by igniting trouble elsewhere, usually in neighboring lands that enemies must traverse before the war reaches your own land.

IOW, it is a tactic used in conjunction with other tactics, it is not a strategy; all it does is buy you time. Eventually, the technology landscape will shift and such economic moats, no matter how deep, will lose their relevance.
>i love how SF deals with this: every muni bus has a camera that takes pics of parking scofflaws and they automatically get a ticket! :)

At best I begrudging tolerate some amount of automated law enforcement as a necessary evil. I don't love it. Then again, I'm one of the people who reads 1984 as a warning, not an instruction manual.
Nice! Creating things using programmable logic is something that can and should be extremely accessible these days, with all the tools and communities available.

But people still seem to have difficulty getting started; computing is a bewilderingly large field of study, and it's distressingly common to see people write it off as something "for experts". Efforts like these CS50 MOOCs seem to do a great job of providing people with the basic language that they need to learn more about the particular areas which they are interested in, which is hugely encouraging.
disclaimer: i work for berkeley EECS, but have no association w/these faculty or class.

TL;DR: they probably wanted to save some money by not paying our instructional group to do the hosting, and instead are (most likely) paying github for hosting. because they're doing this themselves, it means that things like real, working SSL certs are their responsibility, and most likely were "too hard" or would take "too long" to set up properly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where did you apply for your visa? I'm going to be applying for my Vietnam Visa soon and was thinking of using the E-VISA but I know there are a lot of private companies that somehow get you a Visa.
I have a much more liberal style, I suppose. I don't really look at Adam and Eve or the Flood as stories which are literally historical events. A question for you: the Bible contains multiple, divergent descriptions of the same events in places (or at least that's how I would see them). How do you reconcile these? Or is that not a problem for the framework you're describing?
Wow do I resent this headline.

It implies that people who currently take the bus should for some reason be considered ab-normal, which they definitely should not be, by any non-classist definition.
I'm going to have to question the premise of your question.

I don't believe that the "best" startups resemble cults. I don't think you should feel like you're missing something because you haven't experienced that.

I'd more likely use the word "worst" to describe places with cult-like cultures, because Mr. Thiel and value very different things.

Peter Thiel is a venture capitalist interested in short-term profitability and has a very dog-eat-dog moral framework, whereas I care about long-term sustainability and the net effect of businesses on humankind. I suspect most of us are probably better off thinking more like me and less like Thiel.

That's not to say that I don't see a place for obsessiveness or singular-minded pursuits. Profit-motivated enterprises with that sort of culture are nearly always bad news though, and I even outside of that I'm pretty wary of the sort of tribal mentality that those cultures cultivate.
I would be very interested. Thanks
I'm still on 16.04 with Unity. I switch between Unity and Xfce (mainly because the machine is old). I hope community support stays strong and addresses some shortcomings that have been around (I don't recall what they were, but there were some even in Ubuntu 16.04). I'm not a fan of the other interfaces being similar to Windows, and I like having a better experience right out-of-the-box.

If there were a way to donate money to directly help continue Unity development and maintenance, I'd seriously consider it.
Huh, I thought type annotations were unused at runtime. How can I enable runtime type checking?
One of the things the tech economies try to commedituze is developers. While you sounding nice, the whole tech company push for "everyone can code" is an effort to commodetize developers. Having free and open source compilers and languages also serves to reduce the cost of entry and commodetize developers. In the past, developers would pay hundreds of dollars for compilers and languages (which is actually cheap compared to what other professions pay for their tools). Developers volunteer to teach new people to code. Developers spend their free time making open source software that is free for companies to use. Developers contribute to free languages and tools. Finally, developers complain that they are taken advantage by business people who think they are stupid! Software developers are the only professionals which actively work to commodetize themselves.
One of the folks at the publisher was looking via Twitter. As I tried to convey, it was a small reference book - not the new "bible of <x>".

After the fact I learned that a former co-worker (sitting next to me) had been the technical reviewer for the first edition, that gave me a good chuckle as well.
The nervous system of Harriet Cole
or monitoring that you cannot turn off
Unfortunately they only offer lower res screens.
It's worse than that. It's essentially a social media feed based around a few people. Most of their articles are like this one where it's regurgitated writing or reporting that another outfit reported something. Actually if you visit many of The Vox "culture" sites you will see this trend. A lot of the times it will be a brief summary of a video someone else produced. A good example is The Vox McDonald's coffee lawsuit article[0] that summarizes an Adam Ruins Everything video on the subject.

We live in an age where blogging careers required tricking Google algorithms to thinking your site was valuable in order to increase traffic and thus serve ads to consumers (or grab their email for later product blasts, for example signing up for a free ebook on passive income). This trend spiraled into "spinning articles" which essentially was a method of using software to change articles via word/sentence substitution. The spun articles would then be posted to similar websites that then linked back to one of your main sites. All of them nicely littered with ads of course and leading you in a research circle. This of course evolved into clickbait headlines. Buzzfeed and its ilk are born to maximize this growing pile of garbage echoing, and labels itself as a brilliant strategy which is then echoed out again. Release a few high quality long form articles every once in a while, call yourself journalism instead of blogging (difference being the above strategies and highly opinionated pieces), badda-bing-badda-boom, media is changed. Now instead of reporting on a subject, we regurgitate something else for a few sentences and post the source and call it a day. No understanding, investigation, expansion, or reworking required because the author is no longer writing for an audience but instead for an advertiser click minimum.

It's not hard to understand why The Verge specifically went from long form tech website to culture slog (sloppy whatever goes weblog).

I'm not saying there isn't good journalism/ists out there. I'm saying somethings were lost and confused along the way for many reasons. /rant

[0] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/16/13971482/...
There's no assumption of manual scheduling in that text.
Medicare part b drug pricing / economics is such an unfortunate part of our healthcare system. Fortunately there aren't too many drugs under that payment system but it creates a whole lot of weird incentives for those that are. There's a great investigational video on price of part b cancer drugs but I can't seem to find it, I think it was done at MSKCC or elsewhere in NYC
Interestingly, governments also make money on cash existing; every moment's inflation that isn't realized by that cash is money in the government's pocket.
The reason is that many of those social democrats see this kind of flu/cold as a bonus, or at least a neutral thing - it's a way of getting a valid excuse to skip working and spend some quality time at home.
I never said anything of the sort, and would be surprised if you could provide any evidence of this.

Redox is not ready for production and I am not hesitant to admit so.
really? i did not know that. that's cool. are there resources I can look at how this would work with comments/edits tracked by collaborators?
Spot X brings two-way satellite messaging to the masses
I expect Uber and Lyft to likely provide a separation by expanding their carpool service to vans. They'll be as cheap as jitney vans but much more timely and everyone inside will have to own a working smart phone.
> What about Numba?

I'll copy-paste my Reddit comment:

Like pypy, numba was also on my radar, but I couldn't make it work by just slapping `@jit` decorator to the original code, and I didn't want to go into figuring out what's wrong nor making modifications to the original code.

>> I suspect it should be on par with Nim.

Somebody else [0] has run a comparison including Numba, where Numba is 1.5x faster than NumPy.

This means, if we can compare tests on the different machines, that Nim should be about 2x faster than Numba.

[0] https://github.com/henryiii/framework_compare/tree/master/li...

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> What about Cython?

I haven't tried it. It would be interesting to see the results.
This article makes very little sense with noscript enabled, and that's a good thing :)
AC Transit is a dumpster fire. The schedules are so unreliable that I wonder why they even bother posting them anyway. It's insulting when they say a bus runs every half-hour, only to see it sitting in its downtown start-of-route spot with the driver nowhere in sight, five minutes after it's supposed to have gotten on its way!

For all the bleeding heart liberalism in Berkeley, it's amazing how little pride and professionalism AC Transit has in delivering a service the working poor need to depend on.
Similar list for IPFS projects: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
Not enforced at runtime.

The Python VM does nothing with the computed type hints. It's only useful for 3rd party tools that want to check the type.s PyCharm does it natively. mypy and pyre are command line tools you can use stand alone or plug into an editor (VSCode integrate very well with mypy).

But that's it.
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The match changes here don't bother me anywhere near as much as deref coercions do, because they preserve the level of indirection.

Deref coercion makes a &Box<T> behave like a &T (removing a level of indirection). Default binding modes only make a &(T, U) behave like a (&T, &U).

I've idly wondered whether it would have been possible to replace deref coercions with something like this. Making Box<T> behave like &T kinda works but loses you the ability to control `&T` vs `&mut T`, but maybe `x.y` where `x: &T` could "pass the reference on" giving you a `&U`.
Then you belong in the cubicle. Stay there until you are good. (Which won’t happen automatically, you have to put in the work.)
on linux it is does have timing recording try with

script -tshell_recording.time shell_recording.script bash

scriptreplay -t shell_recording.time shell_recording.script
Google is going to kill this business with Duplex, because I’m in a few years I’m going to assume that any call I get from a stranger trying to sell me something is a robot.
In college I had a Prof who was a leader in network technology and was hired as an expert whiteness for the RIAA trials for people getting busted illegally downloading music and movies. I lost all respect for him when he was working a case where an elderly lady had an open wifi connection on her home router. He never brought up the fact that it's not possible to know what was going on behind the NAT wall and that because her wifi has no encryption anyone driving by could use it.

Now that I'm older it worries me that it is very possible to go to court and be on the right side and have a judge and jury who cannot comprehend these basic concepts. I've had bosses who work in software / hardware industry not understand concepts, God forbid I ever have to defend myself in a public forum.
The "Commandos, Infantry, and Police" metaphor is from t Robert X. Cringely: https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/

It's a good description of any high-risk human endeavour like a startup.
Bypassing code protection on an Intel 8752
One data point would be Germany prior WWII the other soviet russia. In Germany, the lower levels of government being composed of ex-soldiers was factor that made Nazi takeover easier (based on Evans books for example).

As for eastern block, I knew personally people of older generation that have been through draft and their memories were not rosy. A lot of bullying, a lot of having to submit yourself to bullying or various abuse of higher ups or just stupidity. (Turned out smartest profesional soldiers were not the ones dealing with draftees). One was forced to steal, many learned to smoke and generally it was exercise on avoiding duty+doing minimum once you are after basic training. Army quality went up after all those people who really did not wanted to be there were not there.

Israel has draft too, but it is real war going on there so it might be different. Switzerland has military duty, but they do shorter stints at time.

I really don't think you can solve racial divisions by that. Racial divisons are a lot about ideologies and believes and legacy of history and so on.
When it comes to childrens' programming, there are similarities, but major differences, too. Broadcast and cable television is programmed ahead of time, so parents can know when shows start and end, and it's usually predictable week-to-week. This, along with interstitial/mid-roll ads, cause the impact of constant availability and immediate access to be minimized compared to YouTube.

YouTube makes an effort to construct a unique and never-ending journey, filled with unpredictable outcomes. This constant "freshness" is something that they should have been a lot more careful introducing to the public. It not only makes viewing habits unpredictable, it also adds to the addictive nature of the platform.

EDIT: I'll also add, that it is not at all flattering to be considered on the same level as cable television. YouTube has simply taken their awful concepts and multiplied them to the Nth degree.
Double parking is not even close to the number one concern making buses unpleasant.

1) Time it takes to walk to the station.

2) Waiting for an indeterminate amount of time, often in excess of 10 minutes, which is considered a good peak-hours frequency for some reason.

3) Standing-room-only, overcrowding, the relatively intense motor coordination task of staying upright while the bus lurches around, the unpleasantness of holding an arm over your head for tens of minutes.

4) Difficulty of escape from
someone trying to talk to you or polluting the cabin with the smell of urine or music from a shitty phone speaker.

5) Absurd travel times 3-5x what it would take in a car due to frequent stops and use of surface streets.

I rely entirely on public transit, and the only good bus experiences I’ve had were with a suburban commuter express which behaved like a car (or better, due to priority lanes) for the vast majority of the trip. But it was so infrequent, and the subway from my office to the bus depot had such high variance due to extreme congestion among trains, that it was no better for end-to-end travel time than a car.
Those are completely different concepts. You're confusing dynamic typing with type inference.

Dynamic typing: C# "dynamic" keyword

Type inference: C# "var" keyword, C++ "auto" keyword
It works with common font families, such as Times Roman, Helvetica, and Calibri, and is compatible with most word processing programs, including Word and FrameMaker
Which chipset? It was documented (albeit not super well) in the handful of Intel chipsets I've had to support for firmware updates.
That's like saving every webpage you've ever visited to your favourites because you MAY need it in the future. The internet is vast, learn to traverse the noise in search of what you're actually looking for. You don't need to know where everything is, just that it does indeed exist and then your detective skills can determine how to find it.

If you haven't needed them by now, you probably don't actually need them. Data hoarding is cool and all but at some point you're creating more clutter than is necessary.
Weird, this shouldn't happen. If you set GitHub's certificate up correctly it should work. I'm assuming they never set up HTTPS at all, but someone linked to HTTPS here anyway?
I'm really surprised that so many employers use the middle man to find contractors. How do you tap into that market and skip the middle man? Seems like a win-win to me. (Except for the recruiter who's left out in the cold)
I wonder is this even possible in small scale. Does anybody have some intresting examples of startups or even side-projects "commoditizing their complement"?
Love the narrative style!

setup instructions

1. Get a server. Not a tiny one.
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"Other links" means things other than smartphones. You read the comment incorrectly, I think. They're saying Apple would have more power over other actors (including google) if they had a smartphone monopoly.
It doesn't imply that people who take the bus are abnormal, only that people who love the bus are abnormal. Do you really believe anybody but a small minority loves bus travel? AFAIK most people who travel by bus only tolerate it.
Not hyperbole, a real problem that leads to interop issues. For example, the hellish filesystem wars of the mid 2000s.

Most distros STILL ship ext4 despite there being better options.
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But it requires "Ruby (MRI) 1.8.7 and 1.9. Bud also has experimental support for Ruby 2." which means it's on life support. Fair for a research project started when 1.8.7 was current but not much for doing any real work today.
Pure capitalism can never become reality because it's a philosophy. No philosophy that seeks to organize a potentially infinite number of sentient creatures can be fully implemented.

So no, it's not an argument against capitalism, but it is an argument against policy. Most policy in The US uses capitalism as a justification for implementing bad policy that doesn't serve the argued purpose. Arguments like that are based off the premise that capitalism itself is enough of a justification because it's assumed it improves the state of affairs. Even if in most cases that it true it's a faulty place to argue from. Arguments on policy should directly concern how it improves the state of affairs, not how it serves an abstract philosophy.

De-regulation and regulation both have their place and need to be addressed case by case. Although as an aside when regulating to protect an industry it's important to match those regulations with regulations to equally protect their customers--something that The US rarely does.

Right now we have a lot of lazy and greedy policy-makers who have the power and money to continue business as usual and the last thing we need to worry about is what ideology a solution conforms to and not what the solution actually does.