skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only happens in unique context, though. If you were in a theoretical environment where there wasn't any demand for beautified neighborhoods the value of the housing wouldn't rise if you beautified it.

The circumstance though isn't unique and is applicable in a lot of different markets. Investing in almost anything makes it more valuable. Be that housing, a country, a company, a farm or a person. That is why education is such a potent force multiplier.

Housing though has an elephant in the room being how bad the situation has gotten. Its the same class of problem as healthcare because both aren't luxury optional goods. People need housing, and that housing need requires parameters that are in conflict with one another. The worst part is that because sustainability of housing trumps all other aspects of it that means you can easily find yourself in an unsafe, insecure environment out of necessity. Beautification makes the living more enjoyable and prosperous but is trumped by the cost benefit analysis of living there. When people are already sacrificing personal safety for job security they quickly get pushed out if you make the housing more valuable for any reason but enhanced job security.
Nice. Also the python related podcasts, except the robotic voice __init__ one, which I just am unable to listen to it.
No, this is not at all how civil law works. The main difference between a criminal offense and a civil offense is that a criminal offense will be pursued by the government, whereas pursuing a civil offense is the burden of the 'victim'. And civil cases tend to involve relatively small sums of money where the defendant will often just have to pay off the suffered loss - jail time is not a possibility, whereas criminal cases often involve punishment which can include jail time.

And most importantly, civil law is still a series of well defined laws. You can't pursue a civil case on a whim, there needs to have been some law that was broken. As somebody else also mentioned breaking a contract or a ToS would only be a civil violation if breaking the contract or ToS specifically violated some civil law. There is no civil law that makes breaking a contract or ToS inherently unlawful.
Quantum advantage with shallow circuits
http://archive.is/0bfcj
I think the GP is talking about long before IE6 was a thing. Even back in the IE4 days there were web based games, HTML chat rooms, etc. I remember writing vast interactive 3D landscapes in VRML which were embedded into home page even as early as the late 90s (~4 years before IE6 was released).

But aside VRML and other browser plugins the web was ostensibly just a network of hyperlinked documents. You'd make an action and get a fresh page. Make another action and get another fresh page. Sure it was primitive by today's standards but it wasn't possibly to do half the "evil" things we complain about today (user tracking, browser mining, etc) and there were still big social hubs like the Yahoo! portal too. What's more, because the barrier for entry as well as people's own expectations were that much lower it meant you saw a hell of a lot more individuality in the content posted. People would literally put a website up about their favourite designs of bridges, the shapes of snail shells, cartoon trivia no normal person should care about, or some local landmark. There were sites dedicated to the most mundane of things yet they were strangely fascinating topics because you get drawn into the topic through the obsession and wonder that drove the sites author to dedicate his on little piece of the web to it.

These days the signal to noise ratio is so far tilted the other way with people obsessing too much about contributing what they think people want read or boasting about stuff they feel is boast-worthy that it almost completely drains out the purist content from people who just post stuff that genuinely interests themselves. This is compounded by the fact that the web has been gamified by some big names to encourage the kind of boastful content I described earlier because that feedback loop of posting content then waiting for "likes" and/or means more screen time which, in turn, means more eyeballs on adverts. The fact that everything is so bite-sized hardly helps either; Facebook statuses, Twitter "tweets", Instagram posts - they're all short, direct, "shots" of information. Fewer people engage in the longer process of having a page dedicated to a subject. Which means we lose a lot of detail, creativity and personality.

The only good thing about the modern web is that while the barrier for entry writing a website has gone up, inversely the barrier for entry publishing content has gone down dramatically.
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I'm surprised at how serious people are being in the comments... This is amazing. My team and I had a good laugh. Great work.
How many projects do you know that do that?
Yes, the original intent of OOP is message passing between objects. But no on thought about massive parallel computing back then.

And how many objects do you want to run in its own thread?
10k? 100k?
> My point is that earlier OOP documents did not implement generics.

> When they were finally implemented in OOP, it superseded the original intentions of OOP.

No, when they were implemented in static OOP, it brought static OOP closer to intentions of the original, dynamic, OOP, where generic-ness doesn't require parametric polymorphism.
How to Do Passwords Right in 2018
I think that's very subjective. The USSR actually led the way on some innovation:

* IRST on MIG-29 and helmet-targeting for infrared missiles

* Titanium welding for high-speed submarines

* Super-cavitating torpedoes

* Stealth theory

* Air dropped vehicles

* Urban tank support vehicles (BMPT)

* Radar targeting for individual machine guns

* CIWS

* Reactive armor

* Lots of other stuff I can't think of right now.

It's also questionable whether the US military efficiency over opponents scales with budget over opponents.

So its both questionable that it leads in innovation and that this leads to superiority.
Ethics in statistical practice and communication [pdf]
This.

While there are a lot of issues with the current design, I don't mind if it stays same, as long as it just gets at least a few times faster.

We've been looking for other solutions because of poor Jira performance.
apparently art is like software.. You have a license to enjoy it?

Any private land owners is going to think twice about art on their property after 5-points in NYC and the artist that stuck a small girl to stand down the wall street bull which lawsuits.

http://gothamist.com/2018/09/26/5_pointz_judgment_appeal.php

http://gothamist.com/2017/04/12/fearless_girl_charging_bull....
I get really intrigued by these designs (went through a folding obsession phase) then try to judge how usable/learnable the design choices are. FWIW, I constantly find myself comparing the current wave of home automation / IoT to the 1958 film Mon Oncle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9t98Gox60

This said the heinlein house sounds pretty usability-focused: “There are no rugs or any need for them. All floors are surfaced with cork tile that provides a warm, comfortable and clean footing. Nor are there any floor lamps or table lamps. The illumination is built into the house. General lighting for the living room comes from cold-cathode tubes concealed behind a box molding. These illuminate the ceiling. Adjustable wall spotlights are located at all work and relaxation areas in the house. All electric convenience outlets are at comfortable hip height. I'm through stooping over to the baseboard."
like most things in the world - assets are getting consolidated including the web, but I dont think the www will ever fully consolidate. there will always be small blogs, websites, and social networks. I really think in the next few years we are going to see a massive disruptions in the www infrastructure a lot of p2p solutions out there that look really attractive so the slate might get wiped clean soon regardless.
Wanted to state the main idea first. I definitely agree about one-liners, Perl and APL come to mind.

There are some other aspects to this idea of code economy: correctness and reusability. This definitely depends on the programming language.

In Java(or oop for that matter) you can get correctness but to get reusability you need a whole hierarchy of classes, lots of added code/cost.

In Python you get more reusability out of the box but to get correctness you need to add swaths of unit tests, lots of cost.

In contrast with a functional language such as Haskell you get both with less effort, fp plus a rich type system reduce code enourmosly.
This looks cool. Just wondering, how do you define a meeting? Is it any calendar entry with multiple attendees?
> And, crucially, he did them to preserve the Constitutional order, not to overthrow it.

Quite the opposite really. Many of the things FDR did were highly populist and there was no existing constitutional framework allowing the federal government to do them. Then when the courts started striking down his legislation, he threatened to pack the court if they didn't start bending to his will.

But that meant there was no constitutional framework. There was no reasoned debate over the expansion of government power, nor constitutional amendment setting out its limits, only a threat by the executive to dismantle the court as a check on his power if they didn't get out the rubber stamp.

> A good analogue to FDR's unique situation is Abraham Lincoln

It is a good analog, but Lincoln is subject to many of the same criticisms. If the Confederacy had won the war, he would have gone down as the President who dissolved the Union.

He's a legend because he won and the winner writes the history books, but that's no proof that the extreme measures were actually necessary. A President who resolved the conflict through diplomacy rather than bloodshed would have gone down as a footnote in history. You get a lot more credit for winning a war than preventing one, whether you should or not.
Bicycles for the Mind: The Slide Rule
Artists absolutely can choose whether or not to sue their customers for putting a wreath on a goose sculpture.
I think you need to listen to those bits again, because he was clearly saying we were going to be screwed by our own actions. ie, yes, we're potentially causing our own demise with global warming. Same with the PTSD one- his point was that adding more euphemisms was not helping those who were/are suffering.
DeepMind Open-Sources RL Library TRFL
Tried the standalone version and the smartphone version. Both didn't really work out for me, but YMMV.
A New Culprit Is Identified in China's Choking Smog
Mixins can be modeled as inheritance or as composition.
A poor model for computation that is pervasive in the industry. Poor models usually don't become pervasive.
RAII is my primary use for objects in C+++, and I believe Rust is similar. Inheritance has fewer uses for me.
damn thats really helpful, thank you
A lot of these are pretty drastic... not sure I'd want to commit to them without really talking it over with the team and getting all the stakeholders involved
I think the typical way to do DNS over HTTPS is to run a DoH client/DNS proxy and then point your nameservers at localhost.

I'm not really sure what benefit there is to doing this compared to DNS over TLS with a resolver like Unbound but I suppose that's a different discussion.

What Firefox seems to be doing, unless I'm mistaken, is running their own resolver that implements DoH/connects to Cloudflare and bypasses OS settings.[1][2]

I haven't dug into the details yet to see how it interacts with the hosts file.

It does sound like it falls back to the OS if it fails to resolve with DoH but this solution at first glance appears unideal.

Wouldn't it be best if Microsoft/Apple/*nix distros/ISPs/third party nameservers used resolvers and nameservers that support DNS over TLS?

Then end users/administrators could choose who they trust and everything would still be encrypted.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434852
> My point is that earlier OOP documents did not implement generics.

So what? Early cars didn't have AC, therefore AC superceded cars? Or therefore I'm somehow arguing we should use AC instead of cars?

> The question is, are we now supposed to remove generics because they don't conform to the early literature of OOP?

Who ever claimed such a thing in the first place? It certainly wasn't me. If there is any question like this under discussion, it is whether OOP should should be removed because generics somehow superceded them (your idea), not the other way around. In either case the answer is clearly No because the idea is obviously ridiculous and not something anybody suggested.

> Looks like the OOP edited his comment though, so my point is irrelevant.

Not sure what this is referring to, but I haven't been able to agree with your comment since it was initially written.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18241477
I am interested.

Is there a system for uploading things into collections? Plans for including OCR? I'm looking for a way to manage my library of reference ebooks.
Not too far from it: "Pteromys: Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-ﬂight Model Airplanes"

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.648...
Well... Spam was not a real thing at the usenet golden age, killfile largely suffice. Today thanks to the experience we have from emails we can easily apply antispam to usenet.

On rich text... Well, while I welcome an org-mode-formatted usenet I still do not see any point in having text formatting capabilities, most of formatted text on the web looks really ugly and it does not help reading. Also if we re-learn to write down text in terms of formatting (for instance knowing that more than 80 columns start to be hard to read, using short URLs etc), with the classic netiquette rules we write down better contents, and perhaps with more attention. Try only to compare readability of modern web-platforms respect of ancient usenet posts in a good client and also compare the "medium quality" of posts. Photos can be a problem often circumvented by base64-encode stuff, fidocad etc, however when you really need to insert an image or video in something you post?

On upvotes, well personally I think gamification in general as a really bad idea and in general anything that pave the way to aggregators a bad idea. To let ideas, thoughts flow without soft-censorship we need to control us, individually, our information flow. That's why I favor RSS/Atom instead of modern aggregators, that's why I dislike HN interface etc.

Generally speaking if you make a business well you have to follow or try to drive client's interests but if you make a free software o technical stuff you have to do what you think it's technically best, didactically best. Think for instance about child educations, or simpler think about Ubuntu's Unity desktop: nearly all of us GNU/Linux users from few years before Unity we start to put "launchers" on left or right side of the screen simply because we feel the need of more vertical space and we know that too long/big launchers list it's practically unuseful like having classic dummy users forest of desktop icons, we all have ha small top bar from Fluxbox to Gnome or Enlightenment. Unity devs see this and "force a bit" their users to choose this superior model. At first it was not much welcomed, now it's "The Standard" of modern GNU/Linux desktop, same for "hit a key, type something, hit enter on first mach" workflow vs classic menu-based searches. That's "education". Usenet is about users, a free software/protocol, not a commercial product.

Of course it have rooms for improvements, but improvements does not means reinvent the wheel in a limited and anti-users way.
Sigh. A $400 all-in-one solution, released just a few months after I spent $950 for their prior setup. I'm still making payments on it...
US military logistics had a big coming of age in Vietnam. Marc Levinson's book The Box talks about this at length, but there are other articles and podcasts which get into it, eg: http://digg.com/2017/containers-episode-1

A lot of that was originally about shipping in basic stuff like rations and equipment, but maintaining an inventory and supply chain of spare parts is I'm sure a huge part of it, especially nowadays.
More interesting is that the “self-taught” group as a whole has the highest average salary of all the education levels. That is one of the two big surprises for me in this survey. The other is the leadership roles having a narrower range and lower top end than dev positions.
Honey, I built a chatbot, but no one will click on my buttons
At least in the theoretical example it depends on whether its more economical to build the machines closer to the farms in exchange for sacrificing farmland to do so.

Even if the world isn't so cut and dry to turn all of Iowa into one giant corn farm if Iowa is the best place to grow corn than corn production should naturally trend there, pushing internal business out that can operate elsewhere while subsuming corn production elsewhere where its less profitable.

That kind of effect is very minute on the actual day to day operating economy and decision making process of business entities involved which is why we don't just see all of Iowa turned into a corn farm, but those kind of effects have positive efficiency influence over long time frames.
You can always go to the cashier to pay in private.
yep totally, we are not sure if anyone wants those too as they are pretty severe. The other option is we just feed that back into analytics so you can see how much it is happening and it does the software based coaching.
Children are a hell of a thing. We have three and will start working on a fourth soon (and hopefully continue beyond that).
> "One early idea was to place a magnetic coil under the asphalt surface of a road to detect the approach of vehicles along a single route to an intersection and then adjust the duration of the green and red phases accordingly."

Huh? This is already common practice, why is this "an idea"?
It was not required to implement the tls heartbeat feature, and IIRC most tls implementations did not implement it - except for openssl. The real problem there was openssl (and it was a big problem, being both the widespread default choice, and too hairy for most competent engineers to bother to dig into, at the same time ...)
sadly OpenCL seems to always get ignored
ASK HN: Devs/devops folks willing to talk about using object storage services?
I'm looking to do some research on the object storage service space and want to learn about people's experiences..things they've liked, disliked or things that can be improved on. Would love to do these in person in SF, but can do them remote too. Will compensate for your time.
> (and, separately, pick from any DNS provider that supports DOH).

But why do I have to? I already have a trusted DNS resolver operated by myself wired to my OS. Why require the whole DoH rube goldberg machinery to let me try ESNI?
Yep! We throw out anything over 8 hours long as well.
The house they moved to after this in Santa Cruz is unique (from the outside at least)
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/history/bonnydoon1.html
that makes sense - I could see it almost as a daily task, families hunt for food, graze, and spend a few hours digging then sleep. really interesting stuff
When a song fades out, I always like to picture that the song didn't really end, and that the track I heard was just a small window into a universe where the band just keeps jamming on the last part of the song forever.
Building a LibreOffice Development Team [pdf]
This is a very strange point of reference for a foodie, as McDonald's burgers are not even remotely close to anything tasty.
I have three laptops, two run OpenBSD, the other one Debian stable. Not sure how well battery utilization compares (don't need battery for more than an hour usually). Both work fine, and from a user-space perspective are very similar (esp. if you automate configuration and dotfiles). OpenBSD is about a magnitude less work to configure, especially if you have a non-trivial network setup (and some things, like IPv6 LLA aliases in /etc/hosts, Debian stable does not even support). If you are reliant on garbage like NetworkManager and Gnome/KDE auto-mounting the story is probably different, but that is just a good opportunity to learn better ways of working on Unix.
No intention to do anything of the sort. Rest easy.
To be fair: you can do that with probably any unixoid OS. IMHO, it is just much easier with BSDs because a) documentation of how to do it is much easier to access than on linux or the other two(TM) and b) BSDs tend to follow the KISS-principle - meaning: even with the superb documentation one can just read the posix shell scripts to save some time.
>That said, I realize that one anecdote doesn't mean anything.

Nevetheless, I appreciate the hack you suggested of excluding books from allowance. As a parent, that's something I'll now implement. Thanks for sharing.
Can you give an argument why it's a good model?
I use their current (now prior, I guess) chip reader, and it completes the transaction within just a second or two. Most of my customers are surprised it's so fast, compared to other chip reading registers around town.

That could be because I'm using a cellular internet conneciton however. My town's cable internet is notoriously throttled.
And of course, the plastics come from oil, which is affected by things like the petrodollar.
Author of the post here.
Part of the point of the matrix was to show that not all distributed filesystems have native support for Python frameworks commonly used for Data Science - Pandas/PySpark/TensorFlow. The other part is support for NVMe hardware. Having been a professor for 17 years, i barely know what SEO is.
Very interesting, I wonder how regional these are.

For example I grew up with this one as the "basic" / default:

https://www.origamiway.com/plane-nakamura-lock.shtml

Notice how it has a high air time and distance. I used to launch them them from my 8th story apartment in the city. On a right day, some would take off and would be carried by the wind to where I lose sight of them.
Both Flavor-style mixins and Bracha style mixins utilize inheritance. All mixin definitions should fan out from that early work.
I think you misunderstand the parent, which is precisely arguing that the "boring" things about the US military are actually the things that give it strategic superiority - not innovation. In fact your point is totally consistent with the parent - others may have innovated well, but that's no guarantee of success.
elon musk needs to hire some of these paleoburrows to finish his jobs - but seriously this is so interesting.

does anyone know if anyone has casually mapped these out? it would be scary to explore these, I imagine all types of animals / bears (maybe not as much in South america) use these caves as their homes.
I would've loved to see the creativity that went on between you trying to get through as many pages as possible and your mom trying to ensure you read them
I came to Postgresql from Oracle. the ability to hit the up arrow in the CLI was groundbreaking :)
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Atlas was only ever a mac app right? Starting out with a chrome extension and web app seems the better way to go.
"Because the thing about repairing, maintaining and cleaning is, it's not an adventure."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUHECxS6IEU
That's a "hipster" feature, not something that the "enterprise" customers of these products are asking for.
In my mind it's clear, when I see those animations, that it will be slower. Maybe it will even have a splash screen with a progress bar.