skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel bad if my comment ends up being the first one, because I'm coming to suggest a book that I immediately thought of as I got halfway through the article. If you want to read about human society and how much of it we're missing, read The Great Good Place, by Ray Oldenburg. (I believe it came out in the late 1980's.) There is a chapter on suburbia, and what an awful mess that has made of human sociability, particularly because you have to get in your car to go anywhere.

It's one of those books that lots of people have read, but many more people have heard of and mean to get around to reading. It's very good and very thought-provoking. I read it more or less when it came out, and it has stayed with me ever since. (I did re-read it about 10 years ago.)

With respect to the article, the automobile is one of those things that has changed society so thoroughly—and which seemed like such a great idea at the time—that most people can't even imagine the impact or what they've lost. We just take it for granted.
Let me help you two out:

ABCs are like interfaces in they can be used to enforce properties (like the presence of particular functions) of a class that extends/impliments them; BUT, interfaces can also be used to enforce a particular variable always refers to something with certain properties (without worrying about what it is concretely).
I’m pretty sure this was just upvoted because of the title.
This is great. I'm currently browsing for viable, worthwhile opportunities for myself to set my girlfriend and I on the path to getting out of the city. Need more outdoors time.

I haven't worked purely remotely before outside of a couple of light projects where I was the sole eng/dev.

I'm always keeping my eyes open for new resources. Looks like it might be helpful! Good idea, and nice job.
> Were there any significant competing maps APIs for the web in 2005?

Don't forget about services beyond providing Maps APIs. Google Maps basically killed the need for a standalone GPS purchase (Garmin/TomTom) as well as purchasing upgraded maps for existing GPS systems, including those built into a car.

Am I complaining? No, but Google gave away for free something that once would've been hundreds of dollars in software. I'm surprised TomTom and Garmin weren't put out of business yet from it, but they survived on their niche products.
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It's been astonishing to me how people switched from var to let, but seem confused as to when to use const. I use const wherever I can since it's more appropriate for non-changing variables, and it helps me more easily visualize how a variable is being used in a block. But in other people's code I see a lot of letting all over the place. Maybe it's because of those articles saying to use let instead of var, but glossing over const.
Did they learn nothing from the Azure of yore? You don't roll out a change globally, ever.

While the postmortem is appreciated, I'd rather they just didn't roll out changes globally.
How did you figure out that "we" are basically shutting that part off"? I live in a part of California that is less Christian than ever, but no less religious than the deep South. And many dating profiles say "spiritual but not religious". Perhaps there's just as much of that part as in the past?
It sounds like Target is trying to do damage control.

"CEO was blind sighted".

http://www.businessinsider.com/target-ceo-blindsided-by-boyc...
What do you think about startups that give away webviews for free?
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I'm an SRE for a large software company. We call it an "incident retrospective" for this reason.
I mean, you could have the sphere cover everything except the solid angle that subtends the Earth and literally nothing would change (on Earth).
This is why I oppose "cloud services" at all points unless it's absolutely something we can't do ourselves. The second you start relying on another business for a critical service, you've ceded control of your operation. In house is more work, but worth it in the long run.

Someone you pay to care about your stuff will never care about it as much as someone who works and maintains it themselves.
You're getting downvotes because this was not a transparent and open report. It was vague and was more advertise-y than postmortem-y.

Not saying Amazon is perfect by any means either, but there's a lot of room for improvement. Good postmortems give everyone ideas on how to solidify their own processes and prevent other issues. This was just fluff.
Where did you pick up a X1C for $500?
No amount of debate, or even enthusiastic agreement, on the part of the "we" that would see this message, would ever result in meaningful changes, if this trend is being driven/caused by upper management.

I posit that it is, much like the trend toward open office plans (which have seen plenty of discussion, if not healthy debate).
No? Then tell us really why you want this and really what you stand for.

So if I'm against Proposition 13 I must have some sinister motive I'm unwilling to admit to?

I've stated clearly that if your goal is to protect elderly owner-occupiers, there are plenty of ways to do it that aren't Proposition 13.

And your proposal is basically the "last year's budget locks in next year's" model that's known to cause all sorts of perverse incentives in organizations that use it, both in the public and the private sector. So that doesn't really seem like a good fit. Plus, it feels motivated by the sort of "I want the services but don't want to pay taxes to get them" mentality that so often causes trouble.

And seeing as how increased overhead (in the form of taxes) gets passed on to renters, your assertion that renters don't have "skin in the game" is factually false.

Do you actually have anything to offer? Perhaps you should tell us what you really stand for, hm?
The distinction between what an object is and what an object can do is an artifact of bad object modelling (specifically, single inheritance OOP.) Any “can do” set has an exactly corresponding “is a thing that can do” set, so there is no logical need for different constructs to model “is” sets and “can do” sets.
You got some plastic bullets then?
It’s still illegal to do it, and if you’re making a run of them you’d use a mill, not a 3D printer.
> It takes essentially zero time to soak beans overnight, and no time to simmer them in a pot with olive oil or butter or anything else you have (carrot water/cabbage water/stubs of vegetables if-you-have-any water).

No it doesn't. Be realistic. Beans are going to take about 90 minutes to cook tender. Soaking beans takes pre-planning the night before. It is not low-effort cooking.

You are probably right that there is a lack of planning, and probably poor decisions being made in these households, but I'd suggest volunteering your time to go teach these people how to sort their lives out, and perhaps you'll find it's not as simple as beans and rice.
Being a user of Python only gives you the rights granted to you in the software license. If you'll read it over you'll see it doesn't include any right to make any demands of the developers.
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Yea, I think const in JS alludes to the way const works in C++.

If someone knows java though, it can always be explained that const in JS is identical to marking a local variable as final in Java.

More so than const, I was perplexed by the JS choice of the `let` keyword. Are there any other languages that use let for declarations that can be reassigned? Did BASIC allow lets to be reassigned? Can’t remember...
Think of it this way. If the distance to earth is a furlong, then its just shy of a couple of rods.
The same way they do now, presumably.
I hope the first HN comment is always a book suggestion. :)

I recently got rid of my car after four years of living in a city. I don't know why I held onto it for so long, but my life has improved dramatically. Not only can I go anywhere I want, but I never have to worry about permits, tickets, or parking.

This lifestyle can't work for people outside of cities, though. There's no way to get anyplace without a car, and there isn't enough density to make uber very effective. No one wants to wait a half hour for a ride.

Being in a city has downsides, but for this reason it's wonderful. There's even an app now where you can just use someone else's car. (Getaround, I think?) I've used it twice: one when I needed to go buy something about 20 miles away, and another to go on a trip a hundred miles away. And the price was very low.
Hyper.sh is faster, launching your Docker image in 5 seconds.
Classic monopoly example
When you read the Bill of Rights, "due process" is not a right reserved for US citizens. No person should have that right infringed, so it's just as unnerving to see the government explicitly authorize the death of a fellow person without due process of law.
Even scarier: attach it to a drone
Oliver, since the Udacity days I was really looking forward to a player in the field that was serious about open source and open data.

For all the gripes I have with Comma AI, they have been the only ones consistently sharing progress with the public.

For people in medium income countries like myself avoiding a monopoly from Google is very important for the next 10-20 years.

Does Voyage plan to share some of it’s progress with the community on a liberal license?
The fact that python decided to use a different syntax doesn't prove that it was good either.

What you volunteered to me is a mirror image of an argument you think I presented, then suggested my version was wrong.

But I'm not actually advocating for JavaScript syntax here. I just don't think list comprehension syntax, as presented by python, is particularly better in comparison.
You said it's much better, then demanded that I agree with you.
They've got easy to use exclusions that eliminate the cost if you don't want the logs (and can be pretty picky about what to exclude, even to the point of doing percentage exclusions) and they announced it in advance and pushed the date back a few times.

My issue is with devs that write software that spits out a couple of gigs an hour and refuse to trim it down or exclude things.
I don't understand what you mean by that. 32% growth sounds a lot better than "damage control".

Also why are you posting things from 2017? Was there some news about Target that I missed?
Anecdotally, I always loved having a car and the sense of independence and freedom that came with it. Then at the age of 25, I moved out of the country to a small, walkable town in Latin America where I either walked, drove my scooter, or took motorcycle taxis everywhere. After two years of living there, I moved back to the US, bought a Jeep, and was super excited to have the autonomy and ability to travel between cities easily in a day. I didn't have a commute at the time, so I never really had to drive in traffic. A year later, I ditched my car again and spent a whole year traveling around the world. I got around by walking and taking trains and taxis. By the time I got back to the US, I hated driving. It felt so isolating and boring. Then I got a job where I had to commute for an hour and a half a day in heavy traffic. It was one of the most miserable periods of my life. I started resenting having to drive anywhere. I started resenting places that weren't walkable. I started resenting how roads designed for cars break up and eliminate public space. Finally, two months ago I sold my car and committed to a car-free lifestyle, probably for life. It's completely changed how I do things; I spend more time out of the house, I spend more time socializing, and of course, I walk more. I went from walking less than a mile a day to walking an average of five miles a day. I'm much happier with this lifestyle, and I hope I'm never forced to go back.
If you don't know about references, I feel like you shouldn't be touching react. React is quite easy to pickup if you have an understanding of JavaScript and the Dom. The tooling surrounding react is an entirely different story.
I think this idea is propagated by Swift developers because that’s the only place I’ve ever seen const used this way at all, ever.

That said I started writing articles on JavaScript and React and TypeScript in medium and please subscribe and check out my post history of you’re interested in this topic! I only did two so far but I plan to do one every day starting tonight, with this very topic!
Rust makes a similar decision, despite having Option and Result.

If you want the Option behavior, there's .get()

Anyways, very cool looking language.
Maybe that one was less reflective than the others?
Not very.

However, with printed metal (which exists today) it's very possible to print something more reliable, or mods for an existing gun, etc.
> Lily uses reference counting for memory management with garbage collection as a fallback.

I'd just call this GC where it's rc + (presumably) a tracing GC.

> .reject(|r| r.is_space() )

This is nice. I've always found "filter" to be a confusing name. Filter in? Filter out?

'reject' is a very clear name - if it is a space, reject it.

Code looks really reasonable.

I find `: {` to be a strange idiom. Why not one or the other? Seems to distinguish between single vs multiline? I guess that's reasonable. A bit noisy.
Of course, it's just a sloppy excuse.
Huh. Basically like uranium?

But what compound? PbH4 isn't stable. PbF4 is barely stable. Maybe Pb(CH4)4 ??? Naively, I guess that you'd get even better mass resolution. Molectual mass of UF6 being ~352, vs ~267 for Pb(CH4)4. Good use for all those leftover centrifuges ;)
The receiver for the AR series of rifles does not need to be that strong. It doesn't handle any of the pressure of firing the cartridge; it's really just a mount for the rest of the components. The other components are not considered the actual firearm -- in a legal sense -- so you can just buy those without running into licensing issues (well, maybe local ones). Just add a barrel, a trigger group and other stuff and you're good to go.

Printing something that handles chamber pressures is a lot more challenging.
I’d disagree a bit. There are competitors but the quality and the service is not on the same level. Google have made it hard to compete so that they stay in the leadership position. More importantly google maps “owns” more market share than all of them combined so it is kinda a monopoly.

I might not have explained my point well but I do think you get what I’m saying.
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Because PSF says they will support Python? What happens when there is a bug? You fork Python? PSF gets 3 million in revenue per year. Where do you think the money goes? Python is not a hobby project.
>He seems to have been radicalised by speech in the same way that other mass shooters were.

During his calls to 911 he said directly that the US bombing campaigns in the Middle East led to his mass shooting. He seems to be a direct example of how backwards US policy is.
For one, the geography of car use tracks with income and wealth: Car-dependent places are considerably less affluent. Metros in which a higher share of people depend on their cars to get to work are poorer, and those where more people use transit or bike or walk to work are considerably more affluent.

I always hated driving. I gave up my car more than a decade ago. I am happy to see stats like this.

In spite of how sprawling the US is, I think it is a myth that we have no choice but to build a car-centric America, a myth that serves as self-fulfilling prophecy. And I hate hearing it.
My friends always used to do:

A) Build a navy!
B) Stop building a navy!
A) Build a navy!
B) Stop building a navy!
Glassdoor has avg total comp for senior swes at google at 193k...
Ah, gotcha. That makes a lot more sense.
Same experience here. I buy books from them frequently (Prime) and it's been years since they had proper packaging for books. It must save them time and money. I can't help but wonder if they're playing a numbers game, with a spreadsheet model showing it's more profitable to do it that way because "enough" customers will tolerate it and not demand an exchange. If a book arrives damaged I request an exchange, and have never had a problem doing that.

PS: Been reading HN for a while now. This is my first post.
thanks for the real link. this is the first time I noticed their slogan is "democracy dies in darkness". I think this says enough about who wp is catering for.
The thing that blows me away is the idea that nobody knows how to make a pencil. Essentially no one on Earth knows how to make a regular ol' number 2 pencil in it's entirety, from scratch with no materials to a finished product. I saw it in a TED Talk over 9 years, but I don't remember which one. I googled a bit and found a Wikipedia page on a book I'd never heard about called I, Pencil. [1] That's probably source material for the video I watched, which may be the TED talk referenced in the the external link section.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
People are making bad choices. How do you get them to make better choices, or do you just put your hands in your pockets and tell them it's their fault?
What way is that?
Unless you need to pick up or drop off kids at childcare services. An eight hour day, with commute time is often a rush against traffic to get to the centre before it closes. An extra two hours at the head of the day would mean I’d have to drop the kids off before the centre opens.

Obviously not an issue for everyone, but makes things complicated for a large part of the population with child caring obligations.
Presumably, because the only sex offenders that target girls have penises, and the facility staff that formerly would verify that no penis entered the women's rest room would no longer be doing that.
>Why can't I just pay the website that as a microtransaction directly?

There have been multiple attempts at offering that. The most prominent is probably the current iteration of flattr [1], but it seems really hard to get people excited for that model which in turn means it isn't worth the hassle of signing up for content creators.

Patreon is probably the closest to a working model, but that means a few people have to really love your service.

1: https://flattr.com/
Mine just came in the mail today. Pretty stoked.
'reject:' is originally from Smalltalk, along with 'collect:' (map), 'select:' (complement of reject), 'detect:' (first matching element), and 'inject:into:' (foldl). I agree that these names are better -- they even rhyme so they're easier to remember!
It could be a good intimidation tool for stick ups. All it takes is one shot so most people will be scared enough to comply as they would when faced with any other gun or weapon.

On the flip side, the barrel doesn't last fore more than one or two shots if you're lucky. You can't reload fast and have a single shot. I can see it being a useful tool for an assassination. But that single shot better count otherwise you're either captured, dead or you lose the target.
Well, yes, that's how I prefer to read it myself.
FYI: It's really annoying to read quotes when you have to move the scrollbar left and right all the time. Please avoid using codeblocks for quotes. Just put a "> " at the start of each quoted paragraph.
The limits are the resources that are available for sale in your country - goods, labour, services. Ultimately this is limited by the available natural resources.

It’s all about the real economy - to the money issuer the debt is just an accounting detail.
Hip alignment.
> We should focus on high density housing around transit hubs and then build more transit hubs

I couldn't agree more!

Why should those hubs only be inside, south and east of SF, but not north of it?
Check out Azure Maps: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-maps/
I believe they have an autocomplete component....

I was investigating the Google Traffic API for an app I was working on just as they were making this change. They went from something like 10,000 free requests a day (which would have been plenty for my purposes) to 0 free requests a day. "Don't be evil" my ass. Anyway, the Azure Maps (which uses TomTom data) is much more generous.
Yep. Or maybe we’re all wrong about quantum mechanics or any of a number of theories. There’s a huge portion of the universes mass that we can’t explain. The unknowns are far too large to extrapolate.
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I only consume alcohol socially, and only a few times a month. I probably drink around 5 Cokes per day, I need to cut back.
Baby's still die from parents giving soy milk.

Don't ever discount how foolish people can be.
None and none.

Getting off caffeine was much harder than giving up alcohol because coffee is free in almost any office.

Getting off sugar in addition to caffeine helped my health, reasoning and sleep significantly.
Then if you resign without taking a single day of leave in 5 years, you receive 6 months of pay checks at once.
Damien Hirst has dozens of technicians and they crank out paintings for him.
> The worst thing that people can point to that this kind of advertising has caused is fake news on Facebook

The worst thing about targeted ads is that we're building an insane surveillance infrastructure that the government is already eager to tap into, and will be even more eager if one of our governments devolves into dictatorship.

I'm from East Germany; and while I'm too young to have experienced it myself, the Stasi is still fresh in our minds. What we build today in the name of improved advertisement would have brought tears to Mielke's eyes.
That is surprisingly high. Presumably the queries weren't actually made years ago. There are many possible explanations: incorrect DNS clients, incorrect system clocks, automated scripts scraping into a DNS database, misconfigured embedded/IoT devices, etc.
Stone of sufficient hardness might work, or plastic pellets.

It depends where you aim too. A girl was shoot carelessly in the eye with a pellet gun at a drinking party in the woods and had to relearn how to speak and read and walk.

There's a whole continuum of damage that can be done by accident or malicious intent.
Is the "proof of function" really important? Most muggers and store thieves don't find themselves needing to fire warning shots, despite the existence of toy guns, due to most people's rational risk aversion.
Does anyone else here get slightly annoyed when Nature articles are shared here? It would be nice if there was a bot that tried to find a mirror/alternative source to the same paper. There's something incredibly disappointing and frustrating about paywalled scientific research.
> How would people living north of the Golden Gate commute to their jobs in SF? The only option is driving across the bridge, which already has horrendous traffic during commuting hours.

I don't want to argue against this.

I want to point out that people can't even imagine building new bridges or tunnels anymore!

The GG bridge was built in 3 years in the thirties. Today we have enormously better technology and are vastly richer. Why can't we build 2 bridges and 3 tunnels the next 10 years?
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You mean Google+ needed promotion so the Reader product was killed.