skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concerning Jackson, the report (not the summary from citylab) says:

> Jackson’s plentiful parking supply was underutilized. Despite its small land area and population, millions of visitors drive through the city every year so it is plausible that Jackson needs a lot of parking. But a Jackson-commissioned parking occupancy study of the residential core and midtown areas during peak tourist season in 2017 by Kimberly-Horn found, on average, 68 percent of parking stalls were empty in the residential core, and 61 percent were vacant in the midtown area. Occupancy peaked at 43 percent for the residential core and 51 percent for midtown. These low occupancy rates could suggest that parking is overpriced in Jackson, but at the time of this study, all parking in Jackson was provided at no cost. The conclusion must be that Jackson has an oversupply of parking.

I am unable to find the original study, cited as "Town Of Jackson Parking Garage Challenges to Success" from http://townofjackson.com/services/police/pr/parking-garage-c... .
Termgraph: Python CLI Tool to Draw Graphs
Isn’t that the infamous “security by obscurity”?
I love Zulip, the UI looks (to our biz team at least) less modern, but its productivity features outweigh this.

So far main complain was not being able to create a gif custom emoji :)
That's not inherent to the provided functionality, but rather an implementation detail of existing boxes.

There are objectively bad NATs, yes, but extending the lifetime of IPv4 by 20 years and providing isolation between internal and external networks are not inherently bad.
That's not an indication of a flawed design.

Displaying the menu and home icon on
screen at all times, comes with trade offs such as:

- less screen space available for other items

- implementation difficulties with floating fixed icons

- distraction from content

- overlap with on-page elements

And that's just what I can think of at 6am, pre-coffee. I would imagine the actual team has dozens of reasons behind their choice.

To choose not to do so is design choice, taking into account the entire situation.

Now you as a single particular end-user may not agree with their choice, but that's not a universal "flaw", but the essence with compromise in general---someone will lose out and be unhappy.
> every message you send has to be sent in a topic. ... Ever have a situation in Slack where two people are discussing something in a channel instead of using a thread or DM? That isn't possible in Zulip.

After some short period of playing with Zulip with a colleague of mine I found this feature to be confusing, at least for new users: it is way too easy to disregard the concept of topics and start writing to the random topic that happens to be selected in user's client atm, and in the end the conversation mess keeps being a (slightly rearranged) mess.
I don't log in to secure websites on my mobile device. When I'm on my computer, I have a TOTP generator available. I do still receive some 2fa via sms, but if available, I always use email or TOTP.
The Role of Technology in Political Economy: Part 1
There are veritable armies of psychologists trying to make this stuff as addictive as they know how to. It the same with advertising, you can consciously try to fight every ad that you are exposed to, but the simplest solution is to cut off the exposure altogether.

You too have immediate impulses that you are unable to control, you too are affected by marketing and advertising.
Uh, did you try Wikipedia? It has a lot of info with lot of links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
That's assuming that the thrusters can still output 1G within the atmosphere and that the hull of the ship can withstand the outside pressure and the weather (humidity, strong winds etc...). Also a huge ship firing thrusters continuously in the atmosphere might have adverse side effects (for instance radiation, toxic smoke, heat etc... depending on the technology).

Might make sense to optimize large ships for space only and use smaller vehicles to taxi back and forth from the surface of planets.
Based on the evaluation we did at my last job, I'd remove Mattermost from the shortlist and replace it with Rocket.Chat. Open Core sucks and functionality is about the same between the two.

Also, there's a native desktop client on the way for Rocket.Chat, called Ruqola. Qt based, so all the platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8

This April 2006 Google Tech Talk by Van Jacobson of PARC proposes a content-addressing based replacement for the IP protocol. But before doing so, he explains what shaped the telephony and the current networking paradigms.
Our all current social structures, norms and concepts evolved on the basis of the illusion of the free will.

When we look from this perspective, we put so much emphasis on the concept of personal responsibility. We assign points of success or failure to people based on their personal responsibility and our lives depend on it, in many cases it's even a matter of life and death. That's why we are so heavility invested in the concept of personal responsibility and think that it's so important.

But in the culture without the belief in free will, the concept of personal responsibility wouldn't even exist. It would be meaningless. The society without the free will would look at life from completely different perspectives, have different values and would organize itself in different ways.

I think that the illusion of free will is just a one step in our consciouscness. Sooner or later we will move forward and leave it behind.
1. No,the Zulip desktop app as of now doesn't store messages for offline reading.
2. Both on-prem and cloud based options available.
3. Zulip uses Jitsi integrations by default.
In a perfect world I would love to, but every time I've tried to submit improvements to open-source software I've come out extremely frustrated with how many hoops I have to jump through just to get my code properly considered, let alone merged. Half the time the developers are extremely resistant to changes and believe the change is wrong/unnecessary, or the current state is already correct, or that the changes are too big and/or not worth it, or that their upstream code is responsible, etc., and the other half the time they're admittedly quite welcoming but present hoops that on my end I simply don't feel like jumping through (like putting more personal info on the internet than I care to), especially when I'm already going out of my way to help people. Maybe you'd think the problem is with me, or maybe Dominic would be an exception in all regards, but wherever the problem is, I've grown very reluctant about the idea in general, so I just fix bugs on my own computer and let someone else who cares & has the time/energy to put up a real fight fix the issues for everyone else.
15 Extremely Actionable Lead Generation Strategies (That Work Fast)
If lead generation was easy, it wouldn't be voted as one of the biggest challenge businesses face today.

Imagine if you could make a quick tweak to your lead generation strategy and instantly see a boost in your conversion rate?

Now, imagine if there were 15 of these strategies…

...and each one of them would help you fill up your sales pipeline, get more free trials, close more deals and increase your newsletter subscribers?

Well, lucky for you, you don't need to use your imagination for that.

Because that's exactly what you can read about in this post:

15 actionable lead generation methods and strategies that work in 2018, and that is simple enough for anyone to implement today.
Email encryption is here – use STARTTLS everywhere
Which Water Is Best for Health? Hint: Don't Discount the Tap
Yes there is support for Google Auth.
my apologies for the taxes 101 spiel, a lot of HNers don't seem to understand tax incidence. we are in complete agreement on US style sales tax.
Doing on premise is hard. Office networks have firewalls with not so great configurations. Mobile networks can be incredibly flaky and unless you have geographically distributed servers it's hard to guarantee latency and performance. While building Flock , we faced multiple issues with firewalls which took us a great deal of time to tackle to ensure that notifications work well ( We ditched TCP with TLS and came up with our own protocol similar to Facebook zero which relies on shared secured key for encryption). Cloud based solutions are much easier to set up and much more reliable compared to on premise solutions , which is another reason why Atlassian also created Hipchat cloud and Confluence cloud.

Disclaimer:  I'm from Flock ( https://flock.com ) . It’s currently rated the #1 slack alternative on PC Mag(https://goo.gl/eGZqH8). We've also created a tool to help you quickly import all your team data from HipChat to Flock in case you're interested in trying us out. Please let me know if you have any queries !
How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
My employer provides a work phone and subscription, and I am free to use it privately. I've chosen to keep that phone work-only, so I have bought my own private phone+subscription, and never the twain shall meet.

The work phone gets left in a locker at work along with my work laptop, I refuse to bring it home with me until I have agreed in advance to work from home for some specific task. I know a lot of employers expect their employees to be available at odd hours, but I refuse to participate in that.

I made this decision after suffering under a boss who would call and email at 22:00 and expect results to be ready on his table next morning by 8:00.

Only a very select trusted few of my colleagues have my private phone number, and they will only ever use it in a dire emergency.
What part of the article gave you this impression?
I understand that’s the general idea, and that’s what every one out there says , but secretly I hope for some killer advice on how not to kill yourself doing a startup . Coz life’s short . Maybe there is some strong advice that would be really helpful
Go Environment for a Pro
Hello there; I am seeking your wisdom on the topic of learning Go.

I am a long time C# (.NET, MVC, etc) web developer, and I am "at the top of my game" in this regards. I also have over a decade of PHP/Linux experience under my belt too..

Learning Go as a language shouldn't be too hard for me, but as no one I know actually has a clue about the language and everywhere I look is focused on the language rather than the environment, I am at a loss for the most "optimum" environment.

I have a new (untainted by dev tools) Windows 10 laptop, and a new Chromebook, to play around with.

I am looking to learn Go as a programming language for web development, specifically micro-services, so I am wondering:

If you as an already "pro go" developer were setting up a new laptop from scratch - what software stack would you use on a) Windows 10, and b) Chromebook.

I'm open to all suggestions except "switch to Mac or Linux"; as those are not options I can take with these two devices. I'd also rather avoid having to use Visual Studio Pro (VS Code is fine!) as the whole point of this exercise is to use what the industry uses, not necessarily what I am used to!

Many thanks in advance.
I have been to burger king a little too often lately and I would be totally fine with a 0.75g planet now.

The "life corridor" is certainly very narrow. But I am sure there are at least some places.

Maybe we find a world near a smaller red dwarf, which will last for trillions of years. Maybe we also don't make that planet uninhabitable in a few thousand years, for once.
Top Free Messenger Apps That Are Secure
Given the whole mjs-vs-js situation with npm, it's more of a counterexample for adding dependency management late.
That statement made me feel uncomfortable. Isn't it exactly this type of attitude that creates financial bubbles in the first place?

Without a plan, or even a good reason, for that money how does it contribute to making your business more profitable or resilient to the vagaries of your market? In the short term it'll keep you afloat but that isn't going to be a big consolation when the money does run out. Stock piling cash in exchange for huge amounts of equity seems totally irresponsible.
it depends on the moisture, salt, and temperature conditions. DNA kept in dry, cool conditions with the right salt concentrations is effectively stable (very very low base transversion and strand breakage rates).
> Tweets from bad-faith actors who intend to manipulate or divide the conversation should be ranked lower

So, people who disagree with Twitter could easily fall into this policy.

I am really starting to wonder about who is feeding data into Twitter's censorship system.
The use case at the last job, was that I had an IRC bot that had a lot of stuff to deal with support stuff, like DNS configuration for the Hosted Exchange offerings (2010 and 2013 were offered), and it would do colored text for good and bad configurations. Just made it easier to point out the issues.
Trump is supposedly teetotal, whereas Juncker is a famous, sometimes spectacular drunk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJC64B7evBs
Slightly off the topic: if I have to start using Lisp now, how do I start?
I tried curating things on my own but felt overwhelmed with the alternatives and resources.

Will appreciate your take on this.
EE in the UK. I wasn't aware it was my carrier bundljng it, I thought it was Samsung!
LVT is very appealing from the theoretical perspective. i would very much like to see it play out at scale somewhere. unfortunately, while it is fairly easy to add new taxes, you rarely see a new tax substituted for an old one.
As far as I know, the opposite is true. The concept of the free was heavility influenced by Christianity and I bet by other religions too.
cryptobiosis. they have the ability to remove the majority of water, which greatly reduces enzyme activity, and package everything so it stays pretty stable but reactivates when wetted and warmed.
Chirp and TOTP (Generation and Transmission)
Can somebody explain how blogging platforms are benefitted by activity pub and why there isn’t a Wordpress plugin?
No, it said oldest living animals.
Pakistan to Urge Towards Cryptocurrency Due to Economic Crisis
Pakistan is facing the economy crisis and seeking to accept cryptocurrency same as Venezuela. Will International monetary fund help Pakistan?

https://coinpedia.org/news/pakistan-urge-cryptos-economic-crisis/
All this seems needlessly complicated just to avoid having even a simple phone.
Tree Data Structures for Beginners
> video: "... the city's jurisdiction ends when you head down those BART stairs."

That's shocking to me. Get city policy in there if the commuter cops can't handle it.

NYC cops be in there removing people stat if this happened here.
Having NaN as a name must be even harder
One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
Ask HN: News site for prescription lenses technology
I was wondering if someone knows a good news site for news about eyecare technology. I always wondered why, for example, photocromic lenses don't exist above 1.71 index.
Services like UberPool are making traffic worse
> Isn’t a pass going backward about avoiding a defender they can’t get past?

Yes, that's basically what I'm saying is bad about the statement that backwards passes don't help you score goals.

> Useful backward passes fall into at least two categories. The ones that eventually result in an impect, and the ones that run down the clock at the end of the game.

I think this is almost correct, but I think there is a third category: Backwards passes that immediately result in a shot resulting in a goal. In the example video I posted above, the final pass is backwards and is immediately shot into the net. This doesn't increase impect (ie: Messi dribbles past 4 players, then shoots and scores past 3 more, is only impect +4, according to the article).
As youve mentioned in your post, you rely on other people having a personal phone so that you don't need to carry one.

Regarding the GP, this is presumably dependent on the country you live in. In the UK you have a specific clinic you sign up with. None of the 4 clinics I've used have taken walk in appointments, all have required phoning that morning to get a scheduled appointment that day.
You can create a GIF custom emoji in Zulip, you just needed to resize them correctly using some tool before uploading. There is an open PR that will eliminate the need to resize the GIF before uploading.
safebrowsing is useless. We've reported scams of VLC shipping malware for years. They are still there.
>they're forced to invent an entire new name.

If you're Chinese and find yourself in the West, you spell your name in Pinyin. You don't have to invent a new name unless you want to (I know a Chinese person who did this, but it was for social reasons, not necessity.)

On the flip side, you definitely should invent a new name if you're from the West and want to live in China for a extended period of time, or you'll find that life can be very painful. Sometimes you can even find a direct translation, e.g. David => 大卫 (Da Wei).
The Ordinary License Plate’s Days May Be Numbered
Standing by Their Convictions
Baby steps.

Even with invalid certificates and fairly weak crypto TLS protects us against passive eavesdroppers, which is not nothing.

In 1998 if I had a fibre tap for a big backbone carrier, and a line speed regex engine, I could pull matching text out of basically everything travelling over that carrier, silently and with just my small box maybe labelled "Lawful intercept capability" in one corner of one cage in one data centre.

Today that doesn't get me much, because it's encrypted. Even if it's encrypted using 3DES and RSA with a self-signed certificate for localhost, I can't read it, and I certainly can't parse it at line speed and run it through my regular expression system to keep the juicy bits, so even if I can decrypt some of that later I'll need to keep it all somewhere until I get that chance. Ugh.

So now an adversary has become _active_ and that changes the nature of the game, because while I can't detect passive eavesdroppers (except with "Quantum encryption" which is a fun lab toy but not a realistic component of everyday communications) I can detect active ones.

Not everybody cares if they're detected. I doubt Chinese or Russian intelligence agencies are much bothered that journalists visiting know they're bugged, if anything it just helps intimidate them. But if (like the afore-mentioned NSA, or Mossad) your country depends upon the pretence that it is above such shenanigans it sure is embarrassing to keep getting caught... and it also makes it much harder to pretend that everybody defending is just being paranoid.

https://starttls-everywhere.org/about/ is some next steps
The ol' "do as I say, not as I do" approach to parenting a nation.
A set of slides from a presentation given by Luisa Innocenti, head of the Clean Space program at ESA, seems to indicate ongoing testing and a 2024 launch date. I couldn't find anything more concrete, unfortunately.

http://www.jsforum.or.jp/stableuse/pdf/26%20Innocenti_eDeorb...
It is also very healthy to be able to be alone with your own thoughts once in a while.
I wonder what is the best practice for building a search engine or mining data around ActivityPub. Centralization comes naturally when a search engine or analytics is needed.

I imagine a good search engine can be open sourced and data be available to anyone to analyze but the eyeballs and ads will end up in a search engine like Google.
Show HN: Online Invoice Maker with sales tax auto-suggestion
How is a site like mastodon.social different from a site like Twitter? There is no guarantee that the site will continue to operate or continue to provide API access.

I have the feeling that people confuse 'federated' (aka provides API access) with 'distributed' (aka does not rely on specific nodes).
Nematodes are funny. I was curious, so I bought a simple inspection microscope and bought some agar plates with E.Coli on them. You can easily sample nematodes by cutting up rotting fruit and putting it on the edge of the plates. the nematodes will cruise out of the fruit and cruise around the E.Coli eating it, leaving tracks. Then you can make a worm pick, isolate and clean nematodes, and transfer them to other plates or slides for closer inspection.

Of all the model organisms, C. Elegans is far and away the most amazing.
> I've been hearing about an incoming correction since 2013

We've have 2 corrections the past 5 years. We even had one in the beginning of this year.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/correction.asp

What you may be referring to is a recession, which is different from a correction.
Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud
I did say "on the boundaries", though
No, I meant a tongue-in-cheek statement that Linux is the only worthwhile desktop because it's not affected :P
I would love this, though it's not really worth it... Shipping costs are prohibitive, usually costing more than whatever I'm trying to buy. Even US eBay is no longer worth it. When I'm buying something worth $60 and have to pay $40 in shipping, I'm not going to buy American. In fact, just for shipping costs, pretty much anywhere but the US is where I look.
> but I'm sure different professors would make different choices (and even for me, I know that my choices would be situation dependent).

I think most of us would recommend books that we used. Or adamantly say "stay away from this one!" Like you said, it isn't easy.

But there seem to be a few good options in each level, and usually only a few. I think the best thing to do would be to categorize them by level and say "Here's the most popular books, this is the one I recommend." It is impossible to be unbiased but I think that's about as close as you can expect to get.
As the author says, you can follow my blog from your Mastodon account, so you see my posts as Mastodon toots, and you can reply to them and leave a comment on my post. I don't know why there isn't a Wordpress plugin, I guess nobody wrote one yet.
I only hope its a lot more stringent than GDPR.
If it doesn't, you go to mastodon.host or mastodon.whatever or just use your own instance.
It matters if you want to smuggle the stuff.
I think some WP Plugins are in the works.

The short version would be that AP would mean you could get the benefits of both having an RSS Feed and a Comment Section without having to run either as a seperate plugin.

If WP had an AP Plugin, people could follow your blog from their Mastodon Account or Plume or any other platform that allows following. They can share and like your blog and that gets federated back, you get those directly to your blog.

People can respond to your blog and it would show up as comments and they could discuss it off and on your blog.

Though I don#t think AP is panacea, I do think it could enable a lot of interop between previously disconnected platforms.
I saw the article and thought I'd add ActivityPub support to my site, but it looks like static sites can't really do ActivityPub, is that right? I'd need a server to do the posting/receiving.