skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common argument, but I've not seen a great deal of evidence for it on the ground. Rather, there seem to be a decent number of LISP enthusiasts out there who end up working with more mundane languages in their day jobs. If you advertise a LISP position, and make it clear that it really is going to be mostly LISP rather than just a keyword to generate excitement, I can pretty-much guarantee that you'll get applicants.

In locations where developers are very thin on the ground (i.e. not Massachusetts...), things might be harder. There's always the possibility of hiring remote.
>The concept of "I want to build an iPhone app on a Windows box" is a strange new phenomenon to me.

To be fair, I can build an android app on a Windows or Mac.

Also you're talking about buying a computer to build on that computer. I think the argument was about needing a particular brand laptop to develop apps for a different device.
It's easy to spot prisons on this map.
It's meat that's driving the need for high yield, and large crops. Most agriculture is driven by meat production.

The solution is obvious, straightforward, and would be relatively easy, but human nature makes it hard to discuss, let alone implement.
> However, most of the other cities on the list were either extremely crowded downtown, available sites were actually more out in the 'burbs, or the cities were far down in what a lot of people would consider "2nd tier" (or 3rd tier) cities.

Yeah, in Boston for example (where Amazon is actually doing some fairly heavy building and hiring in the Seaport anyway), the proposed HQ2 site was Suffolk Downs. That's not out in the burbs exactly but it is adjacent to old working class towns a little ways north. It's not what your typical techie would consider being in Boston.

I think Raleigh was somewhere out in industrial parks a decent way outside the city with no transit.

Etc.

We'll see if this story pans out but the DC area always had to seen as a leading contender. Yes, it's probably a bit pricey but one wonders how much latitude Amazon would have had anyway to pick a cheap location and provide much lower compensation than HQ1 to reflect that.

Even if the area doesn't check all the boxes, it checks a lot of them--including the fact that there's a ton of local tech talent and DC is, if not everyone's idea of a dream location to live and work, is at least considered tolerable by many.
> I don’t know why people like MKBHD

> it’s entertaining to watch MKBHD thought.
Aplusdev.org used the tk part. While APL is used heavily in many financial institutions I am not sure how widely A+ is used.
Ah okay, sorry! I’m the Burak mentioned above and I’m as puzzled as anyone else on why this was posted, and why this is the highest upvoted comment, to be honest. Make a thing for privacy and the next thing people do is post your info online - Satoshi had a point. :)
I like the concept of rewriting all the code by an unbiased third party to see if they can reproduce the results, but in practice what this leads to is:

1. People will not bother. It took a lot of minds to come up with the software used (in my friend's case, several PhD's amount of work). No one is going to invest that much effort to invent their own software libraries to get it to work.

2. Even when you do write your own version of the software, there are a lot of subtleties involved in, say, computational physics. Choices you make (inadvertently) affect the convergence and accuracy. My producing a software that gives different results could mean I had a bug. It could mean they did. It could mean we both did. Until both our codes are in the open, no one can know.

It is very unlikely that you'll have a case of one group's software giving one result and everyone else's giving another. More like everyone else giving different results.

Case in point:

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.2018082...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819420
Well, this is certainly fascinating. Apparently this whole time we've all been the cool kids and the cliques of teenage girls are actually the uncool outsiders!
https://standard.tv/pages/about
Don’t strawman. No-one wants a phone with a terminal interface, and linux phones did not have terminal interfaces.
Collapse != extinction
Depends on how cheap you go. "Disposable" phones aren't going to be comfortable to use, but you can get much better value for your money with a Chinese phone that failed on the international market and is massively discounted one year after launch.

My current phone cost 1/6 of the new Pixel but has more than 1/6 of the hardware. My only hard requirement was support for LineageOS 15.1, which is already somewhat of a quality filter because no volunteer is going to support a phone that's too shitty to use.
I did the same ~4 years ago, but it's not really a reason anymore. Apple no longer makes reasonably sized phones, they stopped doing that since the 5s. The SE was a nice surprise at the time (I still use it) but it was always considered a budget phone.
She's known as JK Rowling rather than Joanne Rowling for exactly this reason. Her publishers thought her book wouldn't become popular if they were obviously written by a woman.
I think even London has better cycling infrastructure than New York... Let's not say it can't be done.
I still care about Linux winning on the desktop. But this doesn't look like the right way.
Some irony there in that it's cacheable static content, but down. Guess they don't eat their own dogfood.
Wow that’s good! I want to get used x220 and new 9 cell battery. If I could pull of 7-9h battery life I would consider it a great success. Btw i would be using only StumpWM, Firefox and Emacs. For media consumption I got MacBooks.
This article feels like an extreme example of confirmation bias, and yes, I'm fully aware of the potential reflexive symmetry in that observation.
Virtual desktops will open up opportunities of virtual phone operating systems. If you leave your phone at home by accident pick up a "shell" at the grocery store and sign into your account. When your done with your errands drop it off at the last place you were at, or some other concept. Truly portable number.
If that's the process Bezos generally uses to make decisions, it seems to have worked fairly well for him.
> I don't see how that has anything to do with it. Living costs in rural areas isn't the problem.

The people can't come from rural areas because they aren't there to begin with, or because they can't leave (e.g. because they're farmers and that's where the farms are, or they don't have the money). To get a large enough influx for the demand to overcome the increase in supply, it has to come from places that already have a lot of people, i.e. suburbs or other cities. Which is where housing costs are a problem.

> This seems like a variation of the "luxury apartments are actually good for affordable housing" argument. Which of course is popular on HN, but not particularly true.

[citation needed]

If you build more housing then people move into it. Those people used to live somewhere else. The place they used to live opens up for someone else.

If the new place is above-average that means everybody gets to move up -- new supply lowers cost of luxury apartments from $3000/month to $2500, which means the previous $2500 apartments fall to $2200, which means the previous $2200 apartments fall to $2000 etc.

On the one hand, this means the effect on $750 apartments is relatively small because some of the benefit of increased supply is also going to people with $1500 apartments and $2000 apartments. On the other hand, that's actually what we need. It's absurd to have a giant cliff between regulated "affordable housing" and market rate housing. People at the 50th percentile need to be able to afford housing too.
It means to hit the median family income at those universities you have to come from the top edge of the middle class at least, that is true. That's not very surprising given we're talking about the median at very highly ranked schools. It's moving the goal posts quite a bit given the difference vs the elite rich having to buy their way in due to scarcity.

If you want to dramatically improve your odds of family success in the US, you want to roughly be in the top half of the middle class bracket or above. At least based on school access.

A lot of the top 50 universities do as well or better at accepting bottom 20% income bracket students, as second tier schools do. For reference, share of students coming from the bottom 20% income bracket (ie poor):

UCLA 8.3%; UC Berkely 7.3%; MIT 6.2%; NYU 6.1%; Florida 6%; Chicago 5.5%; Columbia 5.1%; Rice 4.9%; USC 4.9%; Harvard 4.5%; Boston U 4.2%; Brown 4.1%; Stanford 4%; Carnegie Mellon 4%; Duke 3.9%; Tulane 3.9%; Northwestern 3.7%; Michigan 3.6%

Lower ranked schools (but still top ~15%):

Rutgers 6.8%; Illinois 6.1%; Texas 6%; UMass 5.8%; Florida St 5.3%; Michigan St 5%; Oklahoma 5%; Ohio St 5%; Oregon 4.7%; Georgia Tech 4.6%; Oklahoma St 4.4%; Oregon St 4.3%; NC State 4.3%; Texas Tech 4.1%; Washington St 4%; Arkanas 4%; Texas A&M 4%; Alabama 4%; Pitt 3.7%; Minnesota 3.5%; Kansas 3.2%; Kansas St 3.2%; Iowa St 3.2%; Illinois St 3%; Auburn 2.6%; Virginia Tech 2.3%

As a percentage, Chicago takes as many poor students as Oregon St; MIT takes more than NC State; Harvard takes as many as George Tech; Stanford takes more than Kansas St. And so on.

The schools that rank badly on high median family income and low access for poor students are who you'd expect: Princeton, Yale, Vanderbilt, etc. Notre Dame is a particular standout for being terrible, with a median income at $191,000 and only taking 1.6% from the bottom 20% income bracket.
The complete lack of care expressed towards this, in the people I’ve talked to personally and witnessed in media, truly saddens and demotivates me. One of my coworkers doesn’t even care if foreign powers hack our election. He says “it can’t be as bad as our government does already.”
Good thing NYC has more money with which to invest in more than one bicycle bridge.
I wish I knew what Amazon was going to do!

I do believe they have said they want some folks working out of HQ2 in 2019, so that means using existing buildings, at least at first.

The USPTO buildings have a lot going for them: pretty close to Metro, dedicated parking garages, and a great view out over the airport. I had occasion to work in one of them in 2011 and it was in fine shape.

But even if Amazon does choose Crystal City, it doesn't necessarily mean they'll go after those USPTO buildings specifically. There are plenty of empty floors and buildings in CC to choose from.
Sports is a way for us to satisfy a primal part of our mind and pretend we’re going to war with people from other towns.

Shopping has been tailored by very smart people to break down our psychological defenses, cause analysis paralysis, at which point we succumb to marketing and buy whatever has been had the most advertising dollars spent on it, thereby being emblazoned in our mind as what’s best regardless of its actual quality, because our brains aren’t well suited for the sheer number of choices we’re presented with while shopping.

Maybe “stupid” isn’t the right word for shopping or sports, but both of the modern versions of these things are designed to exploit and extract profit by manipulating built in human circuitry.
Doing my driving lessons and my instructor is always ranting about cyclists. That they don't pay for all this infrastructure that is being built for them.

Mate, roads and bridges are being built from tax money and everyone pays for it.
Don Quixote
I can't wait to bring china-like jobs to the united states. it will be good, honest!
That‘s insane!

Doesn‘t change the fact that most people who know her name also know that she‘s a woman though.
Apologies, Wikipedia list km2 first for one and mi2 for the other. I still land in the middle though with Manhattan being 6 and change more dense than Copenhagen. I apologize for my haste and error.
Devil's advocate: is he really wrong?

If I'm under the thumb of a gang in Washington or a gang in Moscow, what meaningful difference does it make in my life?
A variety of companies have been vilified in the past: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and now even Facebook, Google, and Amazon to some extent, yet their employees have no difficulty finding new employment. Short of working on a controversial project, your past employer should have little bearing on how future employers view you.

Should it ever become an issue, you can always leave Huawei and cite ethical concerns as part of your reasons for doing so to future employers.
You're focusing too much on the particular spatial circumstances of this bridge (extended linear structure along a waterway).

The article is clearly calling for appealing, well-designed, grade-separated cycling infrastructure, not a literally identical solution in every city.
IP theft aside, anti-Chinese propoganda goes back 200 years in the US and UK. Is this question about proof a joke?
This issue comes up often on HN, and it used to a lot in /r/science (maybe it still does - I left that subreddit years ago).

If there's one thing I could convey to the world from what I learned from my time in academia, it is this: Most scientists at universities do not care about reproducibility.[1] Not only that, many people intentionally omit details from papers so that it is hard for rivals to reproduce their work - they want the edge so they can publish without competition. This isn't a shadowy conspiracy theory - this is what advisors openly tell their students. Search around on HN and reddit and you'll see people saying it.

[1] My experience is in condensed matter physics - it may not apply to all of academia.
What you probably haven't been told is that the "more effort" typically means paying a rather exorbitant sum of money to the publisher to have the paper opened up.

You can certainly do that - but nobody does because for that fee you can pay two postdocs' salaries instead. Also good luck justifying that to the university bean counters - "Why do you need this $4000 fee paid when you can publish it for free?!".

The deck is intentionally stacked so high against open access publishing that it is basically unviable in the form it exists today.
Hello whataboutism!
The problem here isn't private equity control of the industry...it's state & local governments choosing to actually use these things. PE can call a lemonade stand a voting machine, that's what it means to live in a free country, but that doesn't mean we have to use the damn thing. It's a joke. It's not like we don't know how to design reasonably secure electronic voting mechanisms[1]...these companies just don't bother. There is no reason anyone should ever be using these things.

[1] https://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/crypto/voting.html
Donald Glover says he writes in the morning because it is "closer to dreaming"

This is really the crux of it, in my experience. The first things I write down in the morning are usually continuations of subconscious creativity that began in the last dream I had before waking up. And usually my dreams are emotionally rooted in whatever problem I was solving the night before, which is especially helpful in making the stimulus of dreams fruitful.

First thing in the morning, my recall is very good, and I am lucid about the essential concepts needed to explicate what I am really trying to solve in abstract terms. After hours of working on a problem that's going nowhere? Not so much. But then a break or evening hike, and I am just as creative again until bed.

That said, for skilled activities like coding and playing a musical instrument, the temptation to be too creative before warming up and trying some experiments can probably only hurt your productivity, because if you sink your teeth into an idea before figuring out where your real problems are likely going to crop up, you're just committing to something that's probably unworkable.

So if I have lots of code to write, I instead simply collect a list of bugs in the morning that I intend to squash, grab a bite to eat, and then start hacking away. Then very often, by early afternoon, there's the chance to reach some kind of minor epiphany, where it becomes painfully obvious that something simpler can obsolete the need for the kind of hacking done in the morning. ;-)

If you're doing independent research that requires coding AND creative writing, I recommend going back and forth between the two approaches, perhaps alternating by day.
I don't see how that's any different from other fandoms, sports clubs fans for example, but those usually have to deal with the far worse stigma of being "dumb and violent".

In that regard, I don't see how the author can differentiate between "deliberate use of excitement and passion" vs "accidental use of excitement and passion" or whatever else is supposed to be the opposite of that.

Adding the gender angle to this feels kinder surplus, especially in the context how it's usually done in one direction. I'm pretty sure with a bit of time and effort one could write a similar piece about the culture of the "seduction community" and how their antics are just a manifestation of "community building and empathetic development" with their fellow peers.

No need to talk about objectification, after all, I didn't see it mentioned in this piece either, even tho it should be equally relevant.
Yeah, but that's sort of the point: for most web applications, most performance issues are not the result of the implementation language but of the chosen architecture. If a fairly inefficient language like Arc can handle HN loads (for the most part, at least), almost anything can.
> That's why the current EU open access policies are, as noble as they seem, quite problematic

The purpose of government funded research isn't to help university faculty build portfolios for professional advancement. It's to find new original knowledge about topics that are in the public interest. That goal is frustrated if the public can't access the knowledge afterwards.

> have a potential to destroy many promising careers

"Destroy careers" sounds too dramatic. I'm expect there will be some churn, and some exceptions, but I expect that a strong P&T case will continue to be a strong P&T case, with the committee noting that some publications were in less established journals because the corresponding research was publicly funded.
Not the poster's job. Facebook is a business. If they want a solution from the poster, pay for it.
Depends on the method used. Virgin Media in the UK intercept HTTP requests (and send resets to HTTPS connections), so even tunneling my DNS traffic over a VPN doesn't help.
> May be enough to skirt the NN law, or not.

Based on the wording of 3(3) (without doing further research), I'd suggest probably not:

> Providers of internet access services shall treat all traffic equally, when providing internet access services, without discrimination, restriction or interference, and irrespective of the sender and receiver

https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publi...
Lots of factors, but I suspect at root it's just a matter of political will. Does a high enough proportion of all cities want bike bridges and do they have a responsive and resourced enough government to build them? I live in Boston, where commuting by bike is unfortunately still very dangerous in a lot of the city. Bike advocates are a small but vocal minority and the city has sort of responded to them, but is not moving very quickly to build out our bike infrastructure. It would take a lot more to make this happen anywhere in the ~five year frame.

There's a real chicken-and-egg problem, too. Safe, pleasant bike lanes would likely do a lot to boost bike ridership while at the same time, higher rates of bike ridership are needed to "justify" their construction.
This article's premise is Peter Pan thinking. ("I don't believe in fairies")

It's premise is that it people don't believe elections are fair, then that makes them unfair by definition.

Such a premise seems odd on it's face.
I don't know of any other way of paying Patreon...
Is that a URL shortener? Please post the link with a fully disclosed address. I’d like to see the content on the other end, but don’t know where it’s going to take me.
They’re also read to them and not by them up until a certain age.
It recognized an iPhone X as iPhone 8 plus.
How do you deal with ads in Android?
I personally use Virtual Hosts app (https://github.com/x-falcon/Virtual-Hosts), with my own hosts file from 4 different sources, I'm blocking every single ad, even from youtube app. No root needed, used to have AdClear from Seven, but they collected data, that's why I'm using Virtual Hosts now :) I even paid on google play to support it
The article didn’t even go into gerrymandering, arguably the biggest voting hack of them all...
>> In a world where housing prices stay the same, or become slightly cheaper year by year, everyone is better of.

I think you made a good argument here against fiat currency and Keynessian economics in general. Let's have gold standard and deflation again.
Could you make the life span settable by the speaker? That is, the default is 6 months, but perhaps I want less? Or more (to be archived locally some way)?
Yes, but I’m under the impression that CVs are a few pages and more common for academics with long publishing and speaking histories.

I’ve never seen a CV in the business world, but resumes are of course very common.
Pedrommcarrasco/Brooklyn: Screensaver Inspired by Apple's Event
I've not updated that page for the new release as yet. The first paragraph summarises the changes.

OA has an example of the new wifi autofind feature which I need to bottom out.
There was an excellent article posted to HN a few years back about Clifford algebra you (and GP) might find interesting:

https://slehar.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/clifford-algebra-a-v...
Bbbrumley/portsmash
"Keep in mind that the original goal is not to have a faster Racket, but a better-implemented Racket with acceptable performance."
I understand the principle. I understand you have a belief. I share the principle, and used to have the belief. What I am asking you to do is test the belief on the basis of evidence. I am also asking you to do a cost-benefit evaluation of the principle in terms of other principles.

As you point out, free speech isn't absolute. There are many crimes of pure speech, from false advertising to inciting violence and soliciting murder. Society already has a complicated balance between principles like "free speech is good" and "people shouldn't be murdered".

There is also conflict here between "free speech is good" and "ethnic cleansing is bad". America has a long history of ethnic violence and ethnic cleansing (see, e.g., the Trail of Tears, or the Tulsa Race Riot, where white Americans carried out a ground and air assault on a prosperous black district, killing 100-300 and terrorizing thousands). As we saw in Pittsburgh, that era is not over. Reasonable people have concluded that a) Gab aided Bowers in his path to radicalization, and b) they do not personally want to support that.

Now you could argue that you are ok with some level of ethnic violence as a cost of free speech. You could even argue that unfettered communication is so important that we should diminish the freedom of association of people and their companies, requiring them to host Nazi. But if you are going to argue that, you have to argue that. Talking about warm and fuzzy principles is great, but if you aren't grappling with the costs, then at best it's useless. At worst, though, it's taken as a sign that you don't care about the body count. And it gets taken that way both by the marginalized groups supplying the bodies and by the people who are looking to create more corpses to further their principles.