skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is hard for me to differentiate users, but I don't consider your activity on HN a crutch or needing rational

Glad to hear more about your background in this area though

Jeff Bezos says his action was guided by something akin to a public comment period. Not sure how anyone would have known that in advance but maybe thats something you can contribute to in the future, or push for more billionaires and well funded organizations to take suggestions from the public
There are many cities that are as flat as Amsterdam and have a similar climate but have a fraction of the cyclists.
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Een keuken kiezen- Op wat letten bij het kiezen van een nieuwe keuken?
I don't think it has to be like that. We subsidize the suburbs by spreading the cost of roads across everyone. It's a hidden cost that makes living in the suburbs much cheaper than it actually is to society. At the same time we increase cost in high density areas with zoning regulations.
I recently implemented dijkstra's shortest path using nearest neighbor nodes on a 3D image problem. While IEEE-745 is usually just a pain for me, in this case it was pretty cool. Instead of allocating a separate boolean array of "visited" nodes, I just used negative numbers to denote visited. Since negative zero is a thing, I didn't have to add any exceptions to handle zero distance.
On a related note, "Making Space for Cycling" has compiled an excellent guide on bike-friendly urban development/renewal. [1]

[1] http://www.makingspaceforcycling.org
And I just imagined an Elsevier-like alien company controlling the broadcast bitstream for an entire star.

"...mit $700 trillion to renew your subscription to PubStar. Sol System, please remit $700 trillion to renew your subscription to PubStar. Sol System, please remit $700 trillion to renew your subscription to PubStar. Sol Sys..."
I wonder how a bike or even public transit is going to replace a car?
1) How am I supposed ro go to the beach with two kids, stuff for picnic and surfboards on a bike or even on a bus?!!
2) Public transit is all good, but have you ever been in a PEOPLE jam during rush hour in a subway? Because I had. And I will take SV traffic jam over it any day.

The truly bad things happen because of radicalism - it should not be bikes + public transit vs cars. It should be a healthy, safe mix of both.
That would be fairly US centric view there are a lot of countries that were not touched by 9/11 but very few (if any) not affected by the financial crisis.
> Which most people have already and it allows you to contribute to a gazillion of repositories.

And pretty much everyone has an email account. In fact, I don't think it's possible to sign up for a Github account without providing an email address.

> There is one important step missing here: Find out who to send the patch to

Many projects have a README or CONTRIBUTING file that describes the necessary steps. Looking at projects that don't accept Github pull requests (like the Linux kernel or git itself), there are (as of the time I'm writing this post) 225 and 155 open pull requests on each respective project, which indicates that people aren't reading the documentation before trying to make a contribution.

> In the former case, if a maintainer goes AWOL, the patches that they received are lost.

The same thing can happen in Github if the maintainer never bothers to acknowledge the pull request or just closes it. Finding a particular patch out of the hundreds of open but not acknowedged pull requests in the linux and git repositories isn't going to be easy.

>> To reply to emails, you can use any email client or even do that in the browser.

> You can also reply to GitHub issue e-mails.

I made the statement about using any email client (local or web based) because the post I replied to stated that one needed to use a TUI client like mutt.
Not all. I just put on my balaklava and some knobby tires. It's not that bad with the right clothes. I wouldn't walk around in Boston winter without my face masks either.
I don't live in the US so those aren't really concerns for me.

My quiet suburb has been able to keep the roads and pipes maintained while also keep property tax low. I think it's actually easier (read: cheaper) to maintain infrastructure in low density areas because there are less complications. Laying pipe through an open field is easier than laying it under 100+ years of city development.

Distance isn't the big cost, complexity is.
I'm not sold by this IDE, like most other products from MS. :-(

No matter how many fancy features it boasts to have, if it is not open source, I won't consider it.
Fair enough. Nonetheless I don't think the point of the article is to compare the US to Europe but simply to reflect on the wide range that exists within the US.
I wouldn't say almost flawlessly. I've consistently had issues with Jackbox. Usually midway through the game someone doesn't receive the answers screen and is forced to sit out for the rest of the game.

Why they don't reserve your session based on a cookie or something like that is completely beyond me. Hell, even the phone going to sleep in most cases is enough to bump you out of the game.
It depends heavily on what you're interested in. I'd probably categorize GG&S as general history, so here's an excellent curated list:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/general

I strongly recommend both _How Humans Evolved_ and _Why the West Rules, for Now_.
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Let's wait christmas ;)
It's kind of disappointing, but I'm not at all shocked to see the South having the largest area in the red, and the North East and the West coast doing well. I'd really like to see this map over time, though. I think that would be a really interesting addition to the data, as it would give a really good picture of which areas are getting better or worse.
And the train will not fail if one single brakepad fails unlike a truck convoy.
Reading further into the article, this wasn't my only "wait, what?" moment...
I'm a broken record on this point these days, but what the law is about matters less than what it does and the precedent of heavy-handed internet governance it sets.
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I might suggest replacing javascript's parseInt() with Number()
To a homeless kid it'd be viewed as "free". I've known many people who would steal from stores where there was actual security. This place doesn't even have a physical checkout.
Right. I don't think the flatness and climate are the sole reason for its success, but they're certainly a big contributor.
Not in any city with a real winter (-10F to 20F)

I already loath going into my ice cold car and waiting for the heat.
In the Netherlands the fraction of cyclists that keep riding in Winter is much larger than in cities with similar climate. Cycling in winter is not that hard, it's not worse that going on foot. What's important is that snow is removed.
no, but it all comes to the complexity of the operation.

Like the article said, something like this is better than an if else loop: $variable == $x ? $y : $z;

But if you write stuff like this:

$variable == $x ? ($x == $y ? array_merge($x, $y, $z) : $x) : $y;

I am going to be annoyed. In the second case, please use if else.
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This is a political opportunity. If the current statistic is misleading, build your political platform on a new statistic that better represents reality and commit to improving it.
You are far too certain. 70 years ago a prognosticator wouldn't be considered insane to say "the ship sailed on cities 50 years ago, Americans live in downtown and that's not changing". These things do change, often quite quickly.

Personally, I think the Boomers are in for a big shock when they try to sell their homes for a "fair" price, and discover that Millennials neither want nor can afford large suburban homes. Once that happens the market (and politics probably) are going to do some really freaky things.
RT is forced to close by the US government? Citation, please?
You could say the exact same thing about the financial crisis when it comes to being a symptom rather than a causal event.
Objective Reality VR lets you live life as an inert, resentful appliance
I think it's an interesting bend of language. I've wondered if phone is just getting slowly recycled as the word for "handheld computer". It's not a bad reuse of the word, but does lead to a lot of interesting questions about future usage of the word. Would it colonize other computing spaces? "Deskphone" and "Lapphone" instead of "Desktop" and "Laptop", for instance?

That's kind of the future of the word that AT&T envisioned back in the 1950s and 1960s Worlds Fairs and Advertising strategies, so it has a weird retro sci-fi charm here as well, were that to happen.

(Though I'm very pro reusing old, small tech words in new ways. I very much advocate that we should recycle "facsimile machine" aka "fax machine" to mean "3-D Printer", giving us the word "fax" back as "thing I 3-D printed", which currently doesn't really have a good word.)
Gotchas with using JSDOM for client-side testing
How far northern are we talking? There are still a lot of bikers in NYC in my observation, and Amsterdam is pretty far north.
Another way to look at the problem:

Locating offices unnecessarily in the middle of high-density cities creates long commutes.
Yes. That’s a problem for MP too. But maybe you can select a proper slice of the application that can work without these libs and implement that code as a shared MP lib.
I sure like the search result settings (lanugage and search results for which country), but it doesn't show nudes in the image results. My theory is that a search engine that doesn't show nudes on default, will not be able to gain wide spread usage.
This seems to contradict the 8-80 rule mentioned in the article. "Getting in better biking shape" is a realistic goal for someone healthy and middle aged, but notsomuch for an 8 or 80 year old.
People got along just fine before the car.

And heaven forbid that you have to interact with other people on public transit. How ever will you survive?
Maybe you should keep your car for the rare occasions where you actually need to transport a lot of stuff (you could rent a car if that happens infrequently enough) and not clog the roads every day when a bike and public transit could take you to the office just as quickly.
That or the 'bug' where they collected all SSID and MAC of all wireless networks when taking photos on their Google Maps cars.
What really helped me grok git was https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ which taught me that the commands and the documentation of git really are pure nonsense, which relieved me from the feeling that I just wasn't seeing the underlying beauty.
The financial crisis had a broader reach around the world than 9/11 did.

9/11 made it harder for me to fly, but the financial crisis cost friends jobs.
You're correct. I didn't look closely enough at the finalized piece of code. I misinterpreted and thought the offer was unsatisfied with the original, appropriate use for a ternary operator ($variable == $x ? $y : $z)
> it's happening because of attrocities commited by their own governments in middle East

This narrative again. Specifically which atrocities are you talking about? And where are all the Japanese, German, and Vietnamese terrorists attacking in revenge for the atrocities of WWII and Vietnam?
Jackbox runs on Android TV, Fire TV and Apple TV.

Plus you have plenty of various social and card games on the Android TV Google Play store.
It's just the concept that unfamiliar ambient noises can become very grating to some people. Someone used to a particular fan might struggle with the sound of a different one. Someone used to the sound of a CRT TV might ignore it, while other people can't. Likewise, someone not used to silence can be uncomfortable with the lack of stimulus. It's a common aspect of sensory processing abnormalities, such as autism. It's well documented and entirely reasonable. Just because it's not a standalone disorder doesn't make it fake.
Either that's factually incorrect or we have a disagreement about what "specialization" means.

In my mind, "specialization" means ad-hoc polymorphism. That is, you can change the behavior of a generic function, depending on its instantiated types. C# does not have this.

However, that does not mean that you get the same machine code for both object and reference types. As an optimization, when you use a template in C#, code is generated for the instance you are actually using. For value types, this means that the code will not box or unbox. This is clearly not specialization, at least by the definition I'm using, but it also avoids unboxing.

> The interesting question is how does .NET compile the generic IL of the server to machine code. It turns out that the actual machine code produced depends on whether the specified types are value or reference type. If the client specifies a value type, then the JIT compiler replaces the generic type parameters in the IL with the specific value type, and compiles it to native code. However, the JIT compiler keeps track of type-specific server code it already generated. If the JIT compiler is asked to compile the generic server with a value type it has already compiled to machine code, it simply returns a reference to that server code. Because the JIT compiler uses the same value-type-specific server code in all further encounters, there is no code bloating.

from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379564(v=vs.80).a...

Also this gem,

> Because the generic code does not force the boxing and unboxing of value types, or the down casting of reference types, performance is greatly improved.
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What if I told you...there was an app on the market...
Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase
That's at the heart of the problem. Once traffic time is lower 'cost', then people will likely immediately start spending that savings. A one hour acceptable commute becomes shifts to 4 hrs being acceptable, and you get maybe 4x more traffic into the same commerce centers.
because it shouldn't matter.

The separation of powers from any reservation to the Federal Trust is completely arbitrary and is only active when it is convenient. Congress can do anything it wants to a reservation and faces zero consequences. Host States can and actually do almost anything to reservations and face zero consequences.

and that can extend to building up and improving conditions closer to a base line. even when recognizing that each reservation is entirely different, despite some common outcomes.
Though I think apples "pro privacy" stance is likely just a happy accident I tend to agree.

Either you choose a somewhat open platform, or you choose privacy. One would have thought/hoped that they were tightly coupled.

As it is today I can not buy a phone without having a deep bottomless disdain for it. Not the hardware but the software. And I don't even expect that much.

I have given up entirely, the slither of hope is that in the future we can decouple the smart in smart phone with the phone. A truly dumb phone that I can interface from another device, a device I have some control over that I don't have to sell my soul to.
I thought this was going to be a polyglot[1] demonstration of writing code for X Windows. However, I was not disappointed in what I found!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)
Worth noting that this allows the httpd executable to bind to a low port. Meaning that any call to httpd now has this privilege. A reverse proxy is much more targeted.

For httpd this may not matter as much because it's only used as a serve. But if you use node, giving all node scripts the ability to bind to a low port is uncomfortable.
Speaking of which. My little theory is that human is innovation without evolution. It's useful long term: to save the planet from an asteroid.
Ask HN: Do you use bug finding tools?
I'm interested in developers opinions about current bug finding tools and static analysis tools, about their usability and usefulness in everyday software development.

So, do you use static analysis tools or bug finding tools, either yourself as a developer or in your company? If so, do you find them useful? How well are they integrated into your workflow? What kind of information or diagnostics would like them to give you? If not, have you ever used this kind of tools in the past and what was your main concern?
hopefully carbon fiber continues to get cheaper, because having a lighter bike really does make a difference on climbs. that said, anybody can go up a hill in a low enough gear(!), but psychologically it can still feel like a lot of work to pedal so much and go up so slowly. so part of it is learning how to ride. for that reason i agree hills are a (surmountable) barrier to entry and probably hillier places have less cycling. everyone quotes Amsterdam as a great model, but its flat geography is easily suited for cycling -- a better model would be a place that has challenging geography AND still succeeds with great infrastructure. i do think things are moving in the right direction though, people are starting to wake up and realize that there are countless personal and social benefits to cycling
I'm genuinely curious: do you wear glasses? How do you keep them from getting fogged up/iced over when riding in the winter?
> Millennials neither want nor can afford large suburban homes

I see this often. Very few people want large homes when they are either single or don't have kids.

As soon as you do have kids and they start to grow to an age where they want to play outside, having space to run, play sports, be away from traffic, have their own room, etc gets a lot higher on your priority list.

You can also get a suburban home without it being "large" and still get a lot of space to go with it. People used to get "starter homes" and then periodically trade up if/when their incomes increased or they had some equity in the home.

It seems like the biggest barrier to this today is that people want to go straight to the HGTV home. I can't tell you how many people I've known who, straight out of school, overextend to the most expensive house they can afford.

If you want more house, for your money...that usually means buying farther away from density.
I wish Privacy was a bigger deal to people I knew. Apple, despite it's faults, is doing really incredible work at raising the bar for privacy. I know so many technical folks who just shrug when privacy comes up. It's amazing to me that people can just seem to not care. I know that awareness is rising but so many people are willing to trade a little money for something they can never reclaim. It seem so short sighted.
Indeed. Russia is the only plausible candidate.
The whole “low power mode” debacle was such a perfect example of this. Android permissions management is an insecure disaster. It’s something that would have been physically impossible to do on iOS.
> Also, I think you should perhaps reconsider whether it's a good idea to have Donald Trumps face on your front page, no?

"Our algorithms display the people who are most talked about by the media. It is not the result of an editorial choice by Qwant." This shows when you hover over the (i) on the personalities. I sincerely hope they keep it this way, as we have enough internet outlets letting us know what their politics are. I'm even a bit dismayed they have to disclaimer it, and I have doubts that disclaimer would even exist if DT was not the first person pictured.
Here in Salt Lake City there are a number of people who commute year round. It really isn't bad as long as the snow is removed - which they do quite well here.

Unfortunately, my bike commute only happens occasionally now that I work in the 'burbs - which, at least here, is where all of the new office complexes are moving.
> The unemployment rate has also become less meaningful than it once was. In recent decades, the number of idle working-age adults has surged.

This is a pretty significant error in the article. The Brookings blog post specifically talks about men rather than adults. U6 unemployment is has fallen to the same level it was prior to the dot-com crash.

There's a solid argument that looking at U3 rather than U6 understated the severity of the great recession, but by any sort of unemployment metric the great recession is over.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-a...

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

The Brookings blog post also makes no attempt to compare unemployment/marriage rates among men and women, so its entire tone is severely misleading since it's basically trying to paint a simple equalizaton between women and men as a crisis.
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Mostly it's for incoming mail. I will try that and if I need to reply then I might add an alias..
This cheatsheet has almost as bad UX the git itself
Isn't this #9 Prefer internal functions over custom solutions?
We're not eating our seed corn, though - at least, not to the point where we won't survive. When you start looking for conspiracies like "plastic in the water will make us all sterile", you're really bending over backwards to find reasons to believe we're doomed. Think about that!

Food productivity globally has skyrocketed, to the point where we are supporting the largest population in history, with the cheapest food prices and lowest rates of malnutrition and famine in history. Climate change is a serious problem, but it's unlikely to end civilization, and even more unlikely to end the human race. At this point, I'm pretty sure the world would recover well even from a full-scale nuclear war between the US and Russia (which hasn't happened in 70 years anyway). That's because it wouldn't affect everyone directly, and massive, vital infrastructures are in place - the paved roads, power lines, working vehicles, communications systems, and most importantly, the documentation and literacy to read it. We could rebuild. We would rebuild.

Population growth has stabilized at the beginning of the process, where it matters. Right now, there are two billion children in the world. In a hundred years, there will also be two billion children in the world. The growth in global population right now is coming from the drastically increased lifespan of previous generations - adults that were once children who, contrary to human history, weren't struck down by disease or famine or war.

The biggest "seed corn" is fossil fuel, but we're moving toward a clean alternative energy future at a fine pace. By the end of the 21st century, clean wind and solar power will dominate, and fossil fuel will be a thing of the past. With a tremendous supply of clean energy, free information, and health... a lot changes.
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locating them in random suburban office parks is much worse, except for those in that particular 'burb.
I’m simply never going to support any policy framework that would require me to cycle in Chicago in the winter. I know it’s possible but I’m not doing it.
I met Spencer in NY. Super cool guy, does really interesting research outside of BM.
I'm glad privacy is a valued feature and wish it were the norm.

But more importantly, I come to HN to learn news or tools for programming. Less of this sponsored content and more "Show HN: Here's how I used computer vision to make a robot throw spoons only and specifically at my roommate, Tom."
Speaking of bans, can private companies censor government communications, from a legal PoV?

Say company “X” runs a comms medium, and either an official office channel or an official with a private channel is contrary to the views of that entity, can that private entity legally censor government communication?
It says you inhabit a different hierarchy.