skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that story, and the one where during the summer MIT students would wear a black and white striped shirt, blow a whistle and then throw bird seed out on the field. Eventually training the local pigeon population to respond to this, the early scrimmages were apparently mobbed by pigeons.
It's worth noting that they got there because at the time of development, the rail companies were able to buy up the surrounding land and develop that. They reinvested their real estate profits into more rail and more real estate, creating a virtuous cycle. (Hong Kong, one of the only other profitable systems, did something similar by having the government effectively transfer land for free initially.)

American rail systems largely didn't develop around their stations, and if they bothered to develop around their stations they sold the land after construction and that was it. For them to do so today would require billions, if not tens of billions of dollars to provide fair compensation for eminent domain for land and property around stations. And that's before the legal costs to fight all the resulting litigation, if they even were allowed to do it.
The missing point here is that as the same time as electricity was being worked on in one small lab, there were people (even in the same lab) who would publish things we would not even consider to be research today.

This is a silly article by someone who has no concept of the scope and breadth of science through the ages.

Time suppresses weaker discoveries, but there is no way to know what will last beforehand.
Show HN: How I cloned Twitter without any code
Another important aspect of Gartner is that it provides a common language and common abstractions for the reality of managing organisations. Concepts like magic quadrants, et al, are not exactly correlated with the reality, but the correlation is strong enough and simple enough that if both you and a vendor are aiming for the same abstract goal, you have a decent chance of ending up in the same real ballpark with minimal effort.

That said, there are a million different conceptual frameworks out there and Gartner only specialise in a handful.
Perhaps you are making assumptions without merit?

Off the top of my head, forced telemetry (even if you turn it off in about:settings some stuff gets reported back to Mozilla); Pocket and Sponsored Tiles, the former sends Mozilla the URL and form data for every site you visit, the latter has complete access to your browsing history so it can show you "relevant info"; Adobe DRM and Encrypted Media Extensions (some people don't like any DRM in their browser, I don't have an issue if it's trustworthy but you're asking so I'm listing); and a minor, easily corrected nitpick but they went back to Google as their default search engine. My problem with that is every update (so far) ignores user settings and changes it back. This can lead to unexpected unwanted searches via Google.
I've used their public reports to discover vendors. I always find more than I was aware of with Google and Github searches.
In "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", it is described as a 'line marriage'. I have read the book, and thought the idea was quite interesting. The more recent book "Luna: New Moon" by Ian McDonald explores similar ideas (and is also set on the moon).

I was trying to inform the parent commenter of the 'opposite' of "polygamy", but this was apparently unappreciated on HN. On that note, I think I will no longer be commenting on HN, due to the aggressive downvoting. I am aware of the guideline about commenting on downvotes, but I no longer care.
Is upstreaming hardware drivers to at least staging quality that much of an uphill task? Seems like this should be fixed at the source by having the initial development go straight into mainline. That's what seems to happen for PC hardware anyway.
Not to detract from the project, but is there much demand for this? Anything that's emailed to me is generally lost in my mailbox or purposely ignored... when I want to read a blog, I'll go to the blog.... I don't want more emails.
I made the mistake of a 30 minute walk with the dog when the AQI was around 350 outside. I've stayed indoors since, but I still feel bad.
https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi#unh
I was just bringing it up to dispute your claim

> So please don't imply iOS updates brings iDevices "ever closer to unusably slow" because that's very non-factual.

Because THAT was non-factual. They have done it, and for some it was "unusably slow." Whether the reasons were electrically sound wasn't in dispute.
You're getting down voted, but hey - I don't get it either!! The guy is utterly unremarkable and I don't get his popularity at all.

But then Jake Paul also has millions of viewers which also defies all logic IMHO!
For sure. I think this Tether thing will be a poster child to reverse that disparity. And having watched the Tether thing hitting the fan for the past 12 months, including when everyone knew something was up and their suspicious transactions were being posted, I'm disappointed the Law didn't crack down sooner.
New to Unity and need help
Hi, I am working on a 2d game with some friends and we have run into a problem with our character controller or colliders. The main problem is that our character's jump is just very inconsistent and jumps most of the time, but sometimes fails at the worst possible times. I am not sure if it is a Fixed Update() vs. Update() problem or if it is something with the tile colliders. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Open Source Has Won
In the same way that the supermarket is there to gobble money up from your inability to grow your own vegetables, mix up your own detergents, manufacture your own batteries, etc.
To continue, the Nobel prize of today is more akin to a lifetime award than a cutting edge starting out award.

Is would have been better to compare grants awarded to young scientists instead.
Please see my reply to sjwright above.
I've worked on the most popular apartment (i.e. multi-family) price optimization software in the past. Those market prices are used in the forecasting models (they are even obtained in some cases by teams calling complexes manually and asking for prices since they are not advertised). You can't easily obtain this data on your own, because these prices are only disclosed to larger entities for aggregating, they don't advertise them much. Essentially you forecast to optimize for mid-ninety percent occupancy and factor in market comparisons (with models to determine similarity) to come up with a price combined with lease lengths. It's ruthlessly capitalistic and primitively supply and demand oriented. In fact, you can do pretty well even without neighboring market data and only paying attention to yourself.

I've watched my own software used to raise my rents often. The system works very well and makes landlords lots of money, but it is incredibly simple once you have the data.
They're staying.
Have you considered the recruitment use case? Many staffing agencies advertise jobs on their website but don’t have the job alert functionality a job board would offer. If you turn this into a “alert me”, the next time they post a job matching the criteria you’ll email candidates for them. Same technology, just a different niche - one that I think will be more profitable.
It's likely that everything in the universe is constrained by the speed of light, so maybe radio waves are the best form of communication?
Taxes? I believe they were invented (let me check) in the stone age, so that might be something we could look into.

You speak like this is something nobody's ever done before, but it's been done, repeatedly and often throughout the world and even in America.
Welcome to the EU. You know that “freedom of movement” that everyone keeps talking about re Brexit? That’s what this is. I can live here without any limitations.

But actually getting ID, that’s not an EU matter, that’s national. So it’s bound to the UK. Here, after 5 years living here you get to apply for official residency status. 10 years; nationality. But regardless of that you can live here (until Brexit).

So, yes. I’m not making this up. I’m not trying to prove a point out of spite. This is my life, and that of every EU migrant here, that I know.

None of which could be a CB user, if that requirement is enforced.
Or it could have happened yesterday. Or 7,999 years ago.
I cannot speak for GP but for me the complexity comes from stitching dozens of libraries to get similar "base" to build the app on. Ember/Angular have way more stuff baked in or standardized, while in React you have to handle ball of ever changing dependencies ... For seniors it's ok(-ish) tradeoff (you get much more choice / control), for juniors it is hell on earth.

But that is more of an issue for projects maintained for a long time. If you want to crank out small apps fast, your "example" is relevant, and React definitely is the better option.
Here's my first PR to Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/4305

Note that it was rejected because I sent it into the wrong branch (we do use master these days) and so I even had to resubmit it https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/4308

I'm about to send in my 972nd PR now. The Rust book is 520 pages; that was the second version, the first of which was ~300 pages. Quite a big difference from +34/-2. I'm at +142,087/-166,524 lines to the main repo now, and #12 overall contributor.

Yes, not everyone who sends in a small patch will become a core contributor. But some will. It's a numbers game.
Thousands of years ago, the king did a levy for labor and demanded whatever he wanted.

Today, you need to build a building designed to depreciate in 30 years to maximize your taxes.
I wish physicists would dare blame themselves for (insufficiently dis)trusting their statistician, mathematician & philosopher colleagues.

The reason for physics research becoming more wide, limited & shallow instead of more narrow, broad & deep seem to stem from the foundations of mathematics.

See here for the foundations of math itself:
https://mathoverflow.net/a/25385

http://math.andrej.com/2016/10/10/five-stages-of-accepting-c...

(If you struggle with comprehending the above, try drawing Venn diagrams of the logical operations involved to gain a geometric understanding of the matter.)

And here for the foundations of probability theory:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-88-470-2107-... Gian-Carlo Rota - Twelve Problems in Probability Theory No One Likes to Bring Up, The Fubini Lectures, 1998 (published 2001)

Two decades old, but the title still rings as true today as it did twenty years ago, unfortunately.

And here, for the obligatory philosophy slap fight abound in statistics:

https://www.quora.com/For-a-non-expert-what-is-the-differenc...

The philosophical solution to which basically boils down to this image macro:

https://i.imgur.com/MPAntbK.jpg

But for which we lack a sufficiently advanced & logically consistent mathematical formalism, both due to people mostly ignoring, out of ignorance [because from where else do you get the action of ignoring!], the philosophical solution, and, more importantly, because we lack a sufficient mathematical formalism for it due to, among other things, the issues with probability theory.

And here, a small shimmer of hope in the foundations of statistics:

http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/phofstra/Simpson.pdf

There exists another, unrelated to the above presentation, avenue of highly interesting research out of Brazil, but their results haven't yet reached a stage of maturity where people throw together easily understandable powerpoint slides, which I'll neglect mentioning here for now, because I'd consider that bad etiquette.

Personally, I feel partial to blaming all of this on this Euclid translation error, albeit I say that in partial jest:

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/teaching/dm-reading-assign...

...which people still fall for, even in 2018, as exemplified in quite a few papers on the foundations of geometry published in recent years.

In closing:

Physicists don't stand the furthest to the right in this xkcd comic, and out of frame, even further to the right from the already left out philosopher, there exists a recursive boxing match between numerous fields of science conveniently left out of the graphic to maintain a sense of strict hierarchy & order in a reality that lacks such hierarchy:

https://xkcd.com/435/

Also, I'd like to point out that the title of that blog post technically represents a statistically testable hypothesis.
Getting started with global notation
Sadly on most cases there isn't much else to do than to check back every now and again.
There are a number of flaws with this argument, but one major obvious one is the idea that finding life on mars would show the probability of life generating on a random planet is high. The premise of this argument relies on assuming life arising on Earth and Mars are stochastic processes that each occurred independently; on the contrary, there could be shared featured of Earth and Mars that make life more probable on those two planets than elsewhere.

The 'great filter' could be shared between the two planets.
One of the main source of innovation in guitar amps (aside from bells and whistles like alternate channels and effect loops) are typically the "tone stack", i.e. the capacitance of the tone control caps and their position relative to the power and pre-amp tubes in the circuit. The amplifier circuits themselves are mostly taken from RCA radio amps dating to the 1930s and licensed by Fender in the 50s.
> A semi-informed decision is better than just believing the salespeople.

I think the siblings post (Gartner exists to gobble up money from incompetence) is closer to home. A semi-informed decision really isn't better. I'm not saying that making your decisions based on marketing hype is a good idea, by any stretch (which is what salespeople and marketing people will base their decision on usually). But outside consultants are really dangerous because they are targets (if not willing participants) in orchestrated attacks against your company. At best they will be trying to extract hundreds of thousands of dollars from you. At worst they will be trying to sink you deliberately. If you go with your salespeople's recommendation, the worst you will get is a bad ERP, WMS, or HR management system. A management consultant can cripple your operations if you follow their advice blindly.

You may think that hard to believe, but I've lived through it enough times to be doubly cautious.
I have a truly genuine question and I swear on my prized and treasured EdgeRouter that I have no ulterior motive except for having a real answer to give to people whenever they also ask this question (often, in my opinion, in bad faith). So, with that, here goes:

Why do you not leave San Francisco for some place cheaper or with more available housing? If it is simply due to lack of funds, would you relocate if money was offered to you for that purpose?

(I won't reply and debate your answer; I'm simply curious and looking to educate myself.)
And this is exactly why the bay area is in such terrible conditions. Every bit of regulation you add, only decreases the housing available. more regulation is what got us into this mess. The less regulation we have, and less zoning, the more housing we'll have, it's that simple. We simply need more housing, lots more. once that happens prices will come down.
Additionally, if we brought back meta-unions like the IWW, which were able to negotiate multiple industries in parallel and cause policy changes, then unions wouldn't have to resort to holding on to unnecessary jobs to protect the livelihoods of their workers. They could just make sure that an allied union is ready to take them instead.
Not to mention other extracurricular activities that Boeing employees may be involved in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘I do not believe in auto driving cars’
"Either reduce inequality through taxes and social re-distribution programs, or build more housing supply. Preferably both."
>> The latter only. "Reducing inequality through taxes and social re-distribution programs" will not put a single additional person in a house, however noble that goal may be. There are more people in a given area than homes, so some people don't get to live in one. You can force those people to leave, or you can build homes for them, or you can let them be homeless.
Apologies if I misunderstood. No offense meant anywhere.

I agree that it's rather horrifying what we settled for these days. The world to me is a lot darker compared to my student years back in 1997 to 2001 when I played Quake3 for days on end, without sleep, with only WC and food breaks -- and when I was coding my heart and brains out on things I believed could shape the future world.

These are the times I'll dearly remember until the end of my life. And nowadays almost nobody seems to be wanting to make things better. It's saddening and extremely discouraging. I get it and I agree with your overall premise.

What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now anywhere between 30 to 50 and we can only dream of the ages past when we could do the things you described without any other worries.

In the end, I am just pointing out that these past life phases are long gone and aren't likely coming back for the most of us. And I'll say it again: I have a big respect for those who still manage to truly innovate and disrupt.
Absolutely RSS, my whole news consumption process depends on it, I hate polling for stuff. Thankfully, the vast majority of blogs still provide RSS, even if a bit hidden sometimes.

I even consume HN via RSS: I have separate RSS feeds for items that reach 50, 250 and 1000 points, respectively.
No one would consider suggesting it as a "replacement" for surface transport.

However, it is a valuable augment to the surface system. The point is that it helps "connect the dots" (providing more options for people to get from A to B) - hence making the system more effective as a whole.
In this "It's actually votes that counts after all"-scenario, how would you explain the vast difference in worker rights and benefits, who surely constitutes the majority of the eligible voters, compared to West-European countries? I also think you're overestimating the "age of connectivity"-populace with regards to actual voting power.
That's an interesting way to look at it, and you're not wrong. The way I was considering it when I wrote the post was more along a consideration of the Golden Rule; that is, "drinking" is really only a danger to yourself (at least, to some degree; it is possible, I suppose, that you make decisions while under the influence that do effect others), whereas the other comment I was referring to is pretty encouraging active harm to other individuals. (Although, I suppose if you expect that that's the playing field, one could argue that it isn't a violation of the Golden Rule? That is, if it is "par for the course"? Nonetheless, it seems like a good way to ensure limited collective success, which is perhaps my real objection to it.)
Watergate-gate?
For reference, I created an optimized implementation and tested it with a string containing all characters from U+0000 to U+FFFF in order and got the following times. The original implementation took 5202.766 ms, the optimized implementation took 0.079 ms for a speed-up of about 65858. That this is pretty close to 65536 is probably a reflection of the cost for the linear search through almost that number of characters and the test pattern I choose but I am not entirely sure, intuitively I would have expected a factor of 0.5 in there to account for the average case. But I am too lazy right now to do the math.
Seems we're on the same page but we argued different parts.

IMO the original statement implied some ill will from Apple -- a myth that has been debunked pretty quickly. That's what I was arguing against.
Can you imagine the bargaining power that tech workers would have if they unionized? Our industry relies on tech workers for training and hiring, so hiring scabs during a strike would be basically impossible.
Interesting setup, which reader do you use?
"Polyandry" is the opposite of "polygyny". Both are "polygamy".
Because if we say that some of those alpha_i physically go to zero at any point (e.g., "after"), our predictions are wrong, in agreement with the paper. We have to account for the fact that those alpha_i|i> are still nonzero and "existing", and that our projection onto them is only zero for the time being. A different choice in EPR or a quantum eraser experiment may bring our projection onto those states back out of orthogonality-- or maybe not, if we never make those choices. But if we believe we have the physical freedom to manipulate our experiments, we can't get away with saying those extra "universes" (basis states) physically disappear.

In some cases it is a safe approximation to ignore those extra states for the remainder of our experiment/calculations, but with a small change to the experiment we can make that a bad approximation.
except start-up cost

Which is, well, hugely significant when you think about it.
Let's say the actual role involves, for example, writing a health and monitoring system for a Windows-based service, and you're hiring for a long term FTE position. Do you ask something Windows+C# specific and eliminate the very talented guy who's been focusing on Linux+C for the last few years?
All dense cities are blue. When you live next to an immigrant neighbor with a radically different lifestyle, and you two become friends, you start adopting some blue political leanings. Compound that with density.

Over the past 10 years I frequently visited some suburbs near Ogden, Utah (I lived there before). 10 years ago there were no homeless panhandling anywhere outside of downtown SLC. Now, they're not only in Salt Lake City and Ogden - I see them in the tiny towns of Clinton, of West Point, outside of Walmarts in extremely red, extremely religious, extremely suburban areas. All while the state's official story is how they've "eradicated" [1] homelessness.
The visual record, just driving in all these places, does not support that. It looks like what they've done is eliminate shelters, spread people out over the whole state (sometimes by force via operation Rio Grande), then introduced new "numbers" showing how great they've done.

Observing Utah is when it first began to dawn on me how national of an issue homelessness is.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/utah-homeles...
> I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward.

My most popular open source project, by the numbers, is a ~40 line Rack middleware I wrote when jetlagged at 2am. ~29MM downloads all-time, 984 github stars.

I think about that all the time.
Printing a 400 byte payload is pretty easy, but printing a 400 byte payload that's readable at high-speed(100 scans per second) is quite a different story. You'll find that in many usage scenarios the practical upper limit for a data payload is determined less by the symbology and more by the speed and reliability at which the symbology can be read by the equipment. Many thermal printers can do 200dpi or better which would allow you to print a QR code at maximum capacity into an area a little less than an inch, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a device which can scan those barcodes at a reasonable decoding speed and reliability.

You're much better off using the QR code to encode a unique key which points to a record of the desired size in some database in a networked system.

Edit: this is actually a discussion I've had in a professional context pretty recently.
Probably not. The FAA says you can have any number of lithium ion batteries, if each one is 100 Wh or less.

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...