skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, NJ Transit has to borrow Amtrak's tunnel and it frequently has problems, as does NJ Transit's stuff. MTA/NY infrastructure is much better, but still, I don't see how one can get from Rye or Pehlam to downtown in 40 min.

https://goo.gl/maps/DYvaWBSLFcP2 1h15m from Rye train station to Fulton subway station on a Tue morning

https://goo.gl/maps/TdQN5FhWF132 55m from Pelham station to Fulton subway.

So door to door, you're still looking at 70 min to 90 min commute one way, with the added stress of possibly dealing with train delays. I wouldn't be able to do that more than a couple years.
This encodes voxel data in a binary format using OP_RETURN outputs of bitcoin transactions. With this design we can then look back into time to construct a world up until any Bitcoin block, effectively creating an immutable decentralized voxel world. Using BitDB and BitSocket as a "backend" to query for transactions we can keep our map updated with any changes, making it semi-real-time as well.

I'd love to hear any feedback. This project was very fun to develop and is completely open source if you want to take a peek at how it is implemented.
Yeah, gotta admit here, Philly has done a good job. The public transit is good. I live an hour outside Philly, and taking the train in is a real option here because the trains are good and getting around once in city has never been an issue. Couple that with easy access to NYC itself, and it's even nicer. It's not perfect, but then neither is NYC.
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Technical co-founder (VoiStory - https://voistory.com), and we just added "sharing" for stories told by users. Except this "share" form just sends us an email with their share request and we implement the link in the back end manually (after connecting with the target recipient, if needed). Eventually we'll build out an automated share/invite/link system, but for now it's just me and some node scripts.
All of that sounds familiar, yeah. I’m in the same situation as you. I’m cautiously optimistic about buying an apartment in Manhattan, however (though Amazon moving half of HQ2 here won’t do me any favors on real estate prices).

With regard to #1: I’m somewhat hopeful that the new state senate shakeup will get Cuomo’s congestion pricing ideas implemented. Not sure if that will ultimately be good or bad, but it might alleviate traffic.
To be sure, an actually thorough analysis would require firsthand experience (and I have visited Portland at least multiple times). It's just that most US cities are so very terrible at urbanism that it's easy to spot many of the massive flaws from Google Maps.
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This coupled with the Amazon news is starting to get distressing. With the amount of companies that copycat them it’s like the rich are getting richer and the economic benefits are still going to be concentrated only in the most affluent cities. The rest of the country desperately needs real industry and good paying jobs - and will go to huge lengths to try to get them but it appears nobody can come up with a business plan.

Why would godless, latte-sipping, well educated, coastal executives--some of whom weren't even born in this country--want to open up offices in places that have made it abundantly clear they hate people exactly like that?
I'm really clueless about logic and mathematics theory, but isn't this the Gödel's incompleteness theorem?
I believe you can also change that to be:

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(police police) [specifies what kind of police] (police) [people who do the policing] (police) [verb] (police police) [object that gets policed].

If (something)-police police (something), who police (something)-police? ((something)-police)-police police ((something)-police).
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When I said crashing down, I meant in my own beliefs personally, not anything about the impact on science as a whole.

Like, for example, if I built a justification for my believing in the existence of souls on top of the belief that the human mind is uncomputable, then if I turned out to be incorrect about the human mind, it might lead me to believe that souls don't exist (though that wouldn't really be a logical result, but I am not always rational). So, in order to have better foundations for my personal beliefs, I prefer not to rely on the assumption of uncomputability of the mind (nor on its negation).

Basically, I want to avoid being too optimistic and believing too much because of it being convenient for my other beliefs.
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I live in NJ, and from 2006-2010 worked in WFC near Wall Street...While the ferry option is nice and pleasant, it used to cost about 2.5~3 times MORE expensive than the PATH train (the "subway' that connects both sides of the Hudson). Also, the duration of the commute gets cut down only about 1.5~2 minutes (as compared to when the PATH is running without delays). Overall, not really sustainable - neither in time nor money. Though, as a tourist, yeah, the ferry is nice for its views of the skyline. ;-)
If you ever wondered why Dr. Seuss took his pen name, or even if you haven't:

Geisel attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1925. At Dartmouth, he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. While at Dartmouth, he was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room. At the time, the possession and consumption of alcohol was illegal under Prohibition laws, which remained in place between 1920 and 1933. As a result of this infraction, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that Geisel resign from all extracurricular activities, including the college humor magazine. To continue work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administration's knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name "Seuss". He was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey, whom he described as his "big inspiration for writing" at Dartmouth.

In 1956, Dartmouth awarded Geisel with an honorary doctorate, finally justifying the "Dr." in his pen name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#Early_years
Yes, Hobo/JC if you're near the Path station is an exception. But it doesn't apply to many people commuting into NYC.
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None of the tech jobs are in San Francisco. Unlike most cities, people live in SF/Oakland and commute to the suburbs in Mountain View and Palo Alto to work, and that commute is closer to two hours door to door.
I'd hope they negotiate a ferry (maybe NY Waterway) from Hoboken, PATH is fairly crowded already and that Christopher St stop is a one–exit nightmare.
I would certainly use a mostly-compatible Make extension/reimplementation. The issues I have with Make are very minor: the syntax clashes between indentation and condition blocks, better built-in functions for string parsing, correct handling for filenames with spaces, a cleanup of built-in targets, etc.
> it would fit in the 3x annual income rule for housing affordability

Could you please expand on this rule? Where did it come from? Feels like impossibility in some countries.
Of course, the reason we invest so much in mathematics is because it is somewhat mysteriously effective for describing the observed world, not just because it's an arbitrary formalized language of symbols.

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...

> The first point is that mathematical concepts turn up in entirely unexpected connections. Moreover, they often permit an unexpectedly close and accurate description of the phenomena in these connections. Secondly, just because of this circumstance, and because we do not understand the reasons of their usefulness, we cannot know whether a theory formulated in terms of mathematical concepts is uniquely appropriate. We are in a position similar to that of a man who was provided with a bunch of keys and who, having to open several doors in succession, always hit on the right key on the first or second trial. He became skeptical concerning the uniqueness of the coordination between keys and doors.

> Most of what will be said on these questions will not be new; it has probably occurred to most scientists in one form or another. My principal aim is to illuminate it from several sides. The first point is that the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it. Second, it is just this uncanny usefulness of mathematical concepts that raises the question of the uniqueness of our physical theories.

(The article happens to mention the Brouwer-Hilbert controversy but only in a footnote).
If he's really dedicated to learning about CS, I would recommend the curriculum at https://teachyourselfcs.com/. It outlines a traditional CS curriculum and the best online books/courses related to each topic.

As a high school student interested in CS, guidance like this has really helped me out, since I don't really have a mentor.
It's nice that the English translation is nearly as selfsimilar.
I’ve never been to Denver, but I’ve been to Oregon and your comment reminds me of the beautiful hiking and scenery available there. I can definitely sympathize with that. My partner and I typically flee to a nice area upstate for a weekend every so often so we can enjoy nature more.
American here. Never heard anyone use “buffalo” as a verb either outside of this puzzle.

“Police police” (as well as extensions) is reasonable enough:

“Internal Affairs is like the police police.”

“So are their supervisors like, the police police police?”
I certainly, never, in a million years would use a proprietary build system.
Hi all,

We’ve created a simple task management web app but with one important difference; it automatically schedules your tasks and calculates your workload so you can see:

•	if your workload is achievable

•	which tasks to do next and the time to spend each day to meet deadlines more sustainably

•	when you’re likely to finish your tasks if you don’t have enough available time

•	when you’ll become free to take on more work

We built Bigticks because we needed a simple way to visualize our work against our available time, so we could quickly decide if we needed to work overtime (and how much) or get extra help, or negotiate extensions before it’s too late.

There’s no need to manually allocate time slots for your tasks or create your timeline.

All you need to do is specify your to-do list and your time constraints then hit the Schedule button and it’s done automatically.

At this stage Bigticks is a simple MVP to demonstrate our automatic scheduling, timeline creation and workload balancing. We’re trying to assess if others find these features as important as we do in managing work.

We’d love to get some early adopters who could also provide some feedback please (its currently free).

Thanks and we’d love to hear from you.
I happen to co-moderate a tiny little subreddit about Mercury: https://www.reddit.com/r/mercury/ . It has a few links to blog articles with examples, slide decks, etc.

New members are more than welcome! Mercury is an interesting language, and it would be nice to bring enthusiasts a bit closer together.
No, the incompleteness theorem only examines how formal systems relate to themselves, not to reality. It shows that no significantly expressive system can be designed that won't allow paradoxical statements.
It is a pity that English doesn't have the distinction between people riding bicycles and people riding in lycra, the Dutch Fietser vs Wielrenner
> Unfortunately, the documentation, FAQ and User Guide all failed in succinctly giving me the information I need: what can it do well, what does a known snippet look like implemented in <Lang>, how does it compare to other languages, etc.

What snippet in a purely functional programming language would be simultaneously intelligible and communicate the power of FP to someone who knew only imperative programming? I can't think of a single one that would be meaningfully representative of idiomatic FP. Making sense of FP from IP requires hard work to change your thinking on control flow and data flow.

Mercury is a constraint logic programming language. It's a fundamentally different paradigm, so you're asking for something exactly like what I described above. If you're familiar with constraint LP, then you don't need this sort of snippet, and if you're not familiar with it, I don't think any such snippet would be intelligible to you without hard work.
Police police = Internal Affairs [1].

Who polices Internal Affairs? Internal Affairs-police police Internal Affairs.

As I used a hyphen myself in that sentence, you could make a decent argument that English requires a bit more punctuation in the original sentence. It certainly allows it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_affairs_(law_enforcem... , for those who don't watch as much police drama as my family does, or who live in a place that calls it something different.
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Make is trash, but some in house tool made 2 weeks ago is guaranteed to be a worse choice. Just generate Makefiles with CMake like everyone else.
Yes, the strip of land from Jersey City to Edgewater is an exception in terms of travel time, but that doesn't apply to many NJ to NYC commuters.
That's a fair question. I think reviews shouldn't be about performance but rather about employee growth. It is a touch base to make sure everyone is on the same page. It should also direct an employee in their career path. These are discussions that also lead to "Would you like to manage people or remain an individual contributor?" "Okay, to do that you need to improve your skills at X".

As far as bonuses, I think they should just be split regardless of performance. I think raises are tied to promotion but if it is CoL, then people just get it.

As far as promotions go, this should be a broader discussion with lot of ancillary group managers as well and should focus on "Has this individual contributed at a level above their current pay and role?" "Do we all think this individual can handle this new role/level and be effective?" "Do we need more people at this role/level?"
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Do you have kids yet? Genuinely curious.
I'm going to have to agree. Out of all the technologies my team had to juggle while I was on a web team, CSS and its various components (CSS precompilers, sass/scss/less, frameworks, etc) were the hardest to keep neat.

You don't _have_ to write CSS well to get it to work. People wouldn't follow naming conventions, wouldn't group common components near others... some people didn't understand CSS precedence and it could lead to incredible confusion, spaghetti code and extra work. Often people re-implemented functionality that was present elsewhere. And problems were exacerbated with sass.

From my perspective, tools that prevent people from writing additional CSS code will have a niche to fill for the foreseeable future.
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I think it's

> If (n + 1) police (n), who police (n + 1)? (n + 2).

which reduces to

> If (2n + 2), who (n + 2)? (n + 2).
Thanks for serving and glad to know someone with your passionate commitment to knowledge is helping advance medicine.
I often enjoy Electrek's coverage, but they aren't a reliable news source. http://www.thedrive.com/news/24025/electreks-editor-in-chief...
I grew up in Michigan and moved to greater NYC after grad school, and I want to push back a bit against the idea that nobody on the coasts even considers the middle of the country.

My spouse and I would love to move somewhere less expensive than NYC, but we just can't make it work. We're both in fairly specialized tech fields, and prioritize walkability, diversity, great schools and career growth opportunity. Outside of say Chicago, it's hard to come up with a place that checks those boxes.
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No offence to anyone at facebook. Its just that I donot get that how would the experience be any different from using a laptop or a mobile phone for making video calls?
BuildInfer is not a build-system.
It is a tool to migrate between build-systems.
> People who understand the lower salary is easily made up for by lower living costs.

But it's not for lots of people who can afford positive savings in both locations, unless the absolute pay difference is less than the absolute difference in CoL at the level they would maintain in each place; even people who would prefer the lifestyle and environment of a cheaper (often rural) place often spend most of their working life in an area with a more robust economy and higher pay and CoL to increase savings, and then retire to the cheaper place. (A lot of the net domestic migration out from CA is, I suspect, that, as people executing that strategy reach retirement.) And that's not to say anything of how that utilities balance for people who actually prefer the lifestyle and environment of the more expensive location.
I didn't know from the title it was the "5000 fingers of Dr T"... definitely a classic of weird and metaphorical.
Yeah, I mostly agree; I did Metro North for a couple of years before switching to Amtrak. It's less flexible and a little more expensive than Metro North, but the train is usually faster and it drops you off by Penn Station which is a pleasant walk to the Google office (and like 5 minutes by subway if you don't feel like a pleasant walk).

My personal limit is 12-13 hours out of the house each day; more than that and it burns me out fast.
It definitely wouldn't work for me with an employer who was less flexible about when the work day starts or who had expectations of large numbers of hours spent with butt in chair.
Not a fair comparison.

The UK doesn't have labour mobility with the rest of Europe. Even within the EU it's not as simple as 'move from Poland to France and get a job'.

Most of the countries have different languages.

"Europe" isn't a country.
You’re right. Ada has come up in this thread and there was a time when I was excited about Ada (I actually worked in a group that was competing in the early Strawman—Ironman proposals that led to the design of Ada), but Ada really is too verbose for my taste.

Rust might end up being just right, not too concise, like Haskell or APL, and not too verbose, like Java or Ada; it could be a Goldilocks language.
> MAX is not that handicapped by being at grade

Yes it is. It limits how long the train can be, because it can't block traffic downtown, which limits its capacity.

It also limits how fast it can travel. Having its own lanes is better than not, of course, but not as good as being completely physically separated. For an example of this that I'm particularly familiar with, a big part of Caltrain's unreliability comes from it having so many at-grade crossings.

> Zoning laws are changing and have changed to allow infill.

Yes, but very slowly. The current state is that they're extremely bad. Less extremely bad than the US average, probably, but still extremely bad nonetheless.

> There are entire streets where vehicle through traffic has been blocked in favor of bicycles.

Yes, and that's a good move. Would love to see more of those across the city. The way Portland has done it isn't as good as, say, Munich, but it's still a nice thing.

> There are still bike lanes on the major roads a block away too which is why you probably didn't notice the dedicated streets.

Eh, I mean the neighborhood greenways are good, don't get me wrong, but there should still be more off-street paths and physically protected lanes on arterials.

> look at any major street west of 82nd and you will see new apartment buildings on almost every block.

I'm aware of the steady upzoning in Portland, and that's good. It's still true that they're decades away from the kind of urbanism that many cities in, say, Western Europe take for granted as the norm, where "only single family home" areas do not really exist in major cities.
Some alternatives to consider: https://buckbuild.com/ https://bazel.build/ https://please.build/ These have been deployed for years in major corporations.
The EU's demand that "30 percent of content on streaming services must be created in European countries" seems rather unreasonable to me. I'm all for more diversity in content, and it's great that Netflix wants to make more shows in other languages, but if every country expects 30% of the available content to be in their own language, Netflix would only be able to conform by excluding some of their content from their offering in that country. That wouldn't be good.

Showing local productions more prominently than American ones sounds like a better idea to me.
An interesting question. Why would it seem awkward though? I have mannerism that always did seem different to others which didn't bother me much, even when I was being bullied for that. Why am I different, just because I refuse to modify my mannerism, or modify others to accept that? Lacking the guts, or the strenght to stand up to bullies is not easy. But it should prevent any further damage to one's personality or identity. Self-acceptance is crucial.

I've always understood such drastic moves as acts of desperation. My point is that I want to understand what causes such desparation. I suspect that what you call gender dysphoria isn't the prime cause. But I can't know for sure without talking and learning about personal/individual experiences of trans people.
great timing, i was actually reading a wonderful book about wwi called “a world undone” by g j meyer, probably one of the best books about the war out there.
It may not be the original video, but a video presentation of it is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk by the original author, contrary to the link's claims. It is probably the better way to approach the paper, due to the importance of timing in comedy and the fact that paper presents so much to you in a way that it can't control the timing, though unfortunately the video resolution is quite low. Plus the Q&A is pretty good.

It is an amusing combination of video that is a trenchant commentary on the excessive similarity of the vast bulk of hard science papers, and a video that my four year old enjoyed back in the day. That puts your standard "family friendly" comedy movie to shame in terms of how much comedy ground it is capable of covering.
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Most Midwestern cities are indeed sprawling, pedestrian-hostile, car-philic wastelands and that's what you're going to see on Google Maps. But, thankfully, they didn't destroy all of their pre-war housing and infrastructure and so most of them have at least a couple interesting, walkable neighborhoods. If you're moving to NYC, then you can throw a dart at the map and you'll land in a walkable neighborhood. If you're moving to St. Louis or Cincinnati, then you'll need to do some research. The dart is a bad strategy.

So, look, it's totally fair to say, "I don't want to live in a city like that." But there are people working really hard to make their little pockets better for bikes and pedestrians and so on, and I think people underestimate the extent to which that's going on and the extent to which they could be happy in a neighborhood like that, especially when housing is 1/10th the cost.
I just wish my alma mater's website could make the front page of HN for something other than this!
Ironically, this article is some really great trolling in itself.
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Never heard of that client or Apple's proprietary VNC protocol (sounds like something they'd do). Thanks.