skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. I’ve raised three kids in a highly urban area with good transit. It’s a lot easier to walk than deal with car seats or strollers - though it’s slow. It’also easier to hop on the bus than load up the car, and the kids think it’s a fun adventure (seriously).

That said we do have a car and also use it a lot. I think it has a lot to do with the time sensitivity. If you want to go some place and it’s not a quick walk or a straight shot on transit, or if you are going to get groceries or other bulky stuff, then yeah the car is easier.

I think, though, the idea is if you design a place such that you don’t HAVE to have a car, then cars would be driven vastly less. For us that’s true, combined my family of five drives about 7000 miles per year, much of that on road trips from the Bay Area to Tahoe or Yosemite etc.
Different strokes for different folks. My suburban neighborhood is very socially active, we all know each other very well. I know their kids and vice versa, etc. What I find draining is all the noise when I go downtown, and being around so many strangers. I visit friends who live in condos downtown and they don't know their shared-wall neighbors as well as I know mine in the next house over. Everyone just retreats back to their personal cave once they're done dealing with the crowds.
In 2014 I've found myself trapped in Eastern Ukraine under Russian occupation. We had both Ukrainian and Russian news available, and I've learned three things from this experience.

1. The defending side never knows what's going on. If they know, they prevent it with available countermeasures, and there is nothing to make news from.

2. The offending side always uses the knowledge they have for propaganda. If they don't, it's because their news-making activities have been successfully prevented by the defending side.

3. Never spill the third thing if you don't want to start a needless flame war.

I don't watch the news since then.
I live in Minneapolis and I've seen this first hand. The funny thing is all of the downtown areas have been gentrified so much, instead of attracting the young 20's tech crowd, all the new condo's they've built are priced too high for their target market so now the young kids are simply moving out the suburbs right away.

I have a few younger nephews who graduated, were all about the music scene and after a year of looking for a decent apartment in the city, just gave up and bought a house in the second ring suburbs. They still work downtown and take the train in and get on near a park and ride, but the over gentrification has soured them to living in the city. It was funny to hear them tell me the city had no character anymore. It was all geared towards rich, trust fund kids or millionaire retirees.
See the last sentence in the first paragraph: "Yang’s background is in the world of startups, and he is essentially the venture-capital futurist tech guy candidate for president."
Something related to this Logipedia that I'd be interested to see (or work on building one day) is a site intermediate between this and Wikipedia -- a site where users can view or create logical arguments, and combine smaller arguments into larger ones. I'm not sure how many people would actually use such a site, but it'd surely promote a higher level of public discourse than, say, Twitter. The only way we really communicate online is using strings; there has to be some potential for something more structured.
OneWeb raises $1.25B from returning investors
Now I'm an Android user with envy. It looks like that the Android ecosystem quit the development of tablets. I don't know of any that get near the features of iPads. Do you know any good Android Tablets?
How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
It's present in large quantities in Doritos, most other packaged salty snack foods, Kentucky Fried Chicken, soy extract, shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, walnuts, etc.

I highly doubt MSG has any health risk associated with it due to its natural presence in many foods.

It's more likely that it became a racist stand-in, considering there are other false Chinese food tropes: Quality or source of meat (allusions to cats and dogs), cleanliness of kitchens, MSG, etc.
Living in Trondheim, Norway here. I commuted by bicycle through most of the winter. Took the bus otherwise.
A Homepage for the JavaScript Specification
It’s not entirely clear that racial animus was the primary motivating factor. Once civil rights legislation was passed to stop housing discrimination, for instance, there was also black flight, when middle-class black families also moved to the suburbs.

It’s also not clear how one is supposed to reverse the effects of white flight; when middle-class whites move into a majority-nonwhite urban area, this is usually condemned as “gentrification”.
OpenTable says this is about customer privacy, but...

> [OpenTable] will block restaurants from giving competitors access to diner data acquired through OpenTable unless they pay new fees

Ah. In any case, not sure why OpenTable believes they own this information. If I make a reservation at a restaurant, particularly if I follow through and actually eat there, I fully expect the restaurant to own the knowledge about that reservation.
I'm a bit older than you, work in software dev and data science, main platform Linux. I'm the sort of person who has a few command-line windows and vim open, and am a keyboard fiend.

Yet...

I use my iPad a ton at home and when I travel (I travel a lot). I don't even own a personal laptop anymore -- I work on desktops with 3 monitors and at home.

I used to think that the iPad being purely a consumption device was too limiting, until I got an iPad Air 2 that was on sale at the time. It does everything I need just fine, plus it's lightweight enough to travel with.

(caveat: I don't do any dev work when I'm on the road)
I still don't buy a UBI. I thought I did but the more I think about the Trump movement and why his followers are so angry giving them a monthly stipend is not going to help. They're angry because they've been made to feel worthless in a new economy and Trump is right, they do need jobs or at the very least something to make them feel of value. What about green energy jobs?
As an employee, I do not find the culture awful. I has improved considerably. As for the headquarters, Twitter, Square and Microsoft also have offices there. Do you also blame them? What do you expect these companies to do about homelessness?
> > Battery life is a little over 4 hours with the flush battery (55Wh) and 6-7 hours with the extended battery (80Wh).

> Not going to lie, that’s pretty horrible.

On the next line he says that with a newish kernel he can get 6 hours with the flush battery. That is not bad at all.

> Update (2017-03-17): I managed to get PC7 idle by upgrading my kernel to 4.18 and replacing the r8168 module with r8169. Battery life has increased significantly. I now get 6 hours with the flush battery and 10 hours with the extended battery.
I have the 11" ipad pro with the small bezels, and it's not really an issue for me. It's a very light device (at least when the keyboard/folio is not attached), and the touch rejection is good enough that you can use it even with your thumb on the screen.
Notable and disturbing here is the lack of Max simulators in existence. It looks like neither Lion Air nor Ethiopian nor any US airline had access to one.

Also linked in this article is the original FAA table of differences between the Max and other 737 models. It makes no metion of MCAS.
It's amazing that this is put up with. OpenTable provides a pretty trivial service but has good integration with point of sale and in no way have any business owning the customer relationship.
Exactly! Why announce brand new products with Lightning connectors rather than USB-C (when the flagship in the category, the iPad Pro, already made the switch)? And same with the Pencil gen 1 only support..

This could be a way for them to save on some manufacturing costs and also offer a 'new' iPad Air and iPad mini with USB-C and Pencil 2 support later.
iPad is a perfect device for my mum who doesn't know how to use computer. I would never buy any other device because of UI/UX. She uses it for browsing so there is no real need to upgrade as I keep her on old iOS due to familiarity and battery life (those who upgrade know the battery life is best when iOS isn't updated)
Lyft Aims for Valuation Near $20B in Biggest U.S. IPO
Your definition does not correspond to the one being used "in the wild", and I think it's a motte and bailey argument.
Can you clarify? They both offer chatrooms and depending on your definition of webapp framework they both are as well (external app integration, bots...).
I was wondering whether it was the same Paul Dean from SU&SD. Thanks for confirming that it was, and that I was reading the article with the correct voice in my head. :-)
> Maybe there's just reluctance to treat EU partners the same way they treat South American and South East Asian partners?

I think that was the case. It was embarrassing for the local officials to have to admit to the corruption. They know it is there and they are usually the ones involved in it, it's just that brining it to light and making it obvious is "embarrassing".
That's my guess. The model most people have is not the one that AvE took apart.

To do a proper review, you'd tear apart an early mixer that was from the Hobart era in addition to one from 25 years ago.
> Have a single monolithic versioned protocol rather than a finely granular cloud of XEPs which may or may not be compatible or best practices or implemented at any given point.

I totally get where you came from, the fragmentation within the XMPP universe is annoying. The problem is that a monolithic spec doesn't solve this issue at all. It's not like code magically updates itself when you update a monolithic spec. The problem is missing manpower on the implementation side, and ditching modularity from the spec just makes it harder to cope with this in graceful ways.
Django 2.2 release candidate 1 released
> If they'd just admitted that and given pilots extra training, all this mess wouldn't be necessary.

But if they'd done that they probably wouldn't have been able to sell very many of them. Airlines don't want to have to retrain pilots.
One of these "apposite observations" is in the section on pipes (p. 199 of link).

The authors use this convoluted bash script to show that pipes are best suited for simple hacks and might fail mysteriously under certain circumstances:

egrep '^To:|^Cc:' /var/spool/mail/$USER | \
cut -c5- | \
awk '{ for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) print $i }' | \
sed 's/,//g' | grep -v $USER | sort | uniq

Although this is hard to read, it can be simplified from 7 commands to 5:

awk '/^To:|^Cc:/ { for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) print $i }' /var/mail/$USER | \
sed 's/,//g' | grep -v myemail@exmaple.com | sort | uniq

By folding the egrep pattern matching into awk as it is supposed to be used and starting from the second field instead of removing the first four characters with cut, this script is both easier to read and fewer lines long.

By inverse grepping for myemail@example.com, there will not be mysterious behavior if $USER is in another person's email address.
P. 124:

"We have tried to avoid paragraph-length footnotes in this book, but X has defeated
us by switching the meaning of client and server. In all other client/server relationships, the server is the remote machine that runs the application (i.e., the server provides services, such a database service or computation service). For some perverse
reason that’s better left to the imagination, X insists on calling the program running
on the remote machine “the client.” This program displays its windows on the
“window server.” We’re going to follow X terminology when discussing graphical
client/servers. So when you see “client” think “the remote machine where the application is running,” and when you see “server” think “the local machine that dis-
plays output and accepts user input.”

Sigh.
I predict that the next hit in the poverty industry will be the gambling businesses and loan sharks getting banking licenses. ...aaand it's gone!
In the case of the time wasting abilities of the internet, it's a rathole.
I'm loudly anti-car and I live in Scotland. Honestly, when it comes to weather most people are pathetic. A bit of cold/rain won't kill you, just need gloves and a light waterproof later.

I walked or cycled miles to school my whole life in one of the wettest areas of Europe. Parents need to toughen up, wrap their kids up, refuse to give them lifts and kick them out the door.
Couldn't agree more, it is confusing to the consumer.

They should be given model and year designations like how cars had them in the 1980's. There was cachet to having a 'GL' ford instead of a base 'L' model and you didn't have to know the engine size. The model year and the badge enabled you to know what you needed to know. Nobody 'needed' anything better than the 'L' model to go from A to B but you had to have the 'GL' or better and didn't have to know what 'GL' stood for, all you knew was it was better.

These naming schemes changed with the times, probably because the likes of Citroen started complicating it with things like 'GLDTI16' that were getting silly.

Some sports variants just had a spoiler and speed stripes tacked on to get an extra 'S' on the badge. They still had the stock lame engine and brakes. The 'GTi' version had real performance benefits.

By this way of thinking, Apple could do a 'sports' iPad that just comes in a rugged case. People would fall for that. Same with the 'GTi' moniker, people would pay for a red line around the bezel, the black anodised body and a top yield CPU that was notionally faster.

The 'eco' model could be the lame version without the RAM and pixel density and maybe a plastic case, only saving grace being battery life. 'pro' could be the 'air' variant, the base model merely 'deluxe'.

'Max' could be the big screen variant of all the above.

I think customers could relate to the auto-analogy names and spend accordingly.

Henry Ford only ever wanted the Model T, no GM style built in obsolescence and variations beyond necessary with fancy names. He has probably been rolling in his grave for decades now.
The fact that they exported their data in form of RDF for other's convenience doesn't mean they built it on RDF.
Can this guy stop talking and actually take some action and put his (substantial, Facebook derived) money where is mouth is? I feel like this is the same quote I've heard from him over and over.
> I just hate programming in windows and haven't touched one of these that are powerful enough to run Ubuntu in a VM in a reasonable fashion.

I have a hard time understanding where this sentiment comes from. WSL is categorically better than using Homebrew on macOS. It is basically an Ubuntu userspace with apt, running directly on the Windows kernel. Using Ubuntu in a VM seems pretty superfluous when all the useful parts are already there with fully native performance. As a longtime Linux user, I am increasingly convinced that Windows is the best desktop Linux distribution.
I used to be a Goodreader user but I like PDF Expert better now. I'd recommend anything Readdle puts out, frankly.
Off-topic, but look into getting TSA PreCheck. You don't have to take devices out at airports (among other nice things like shorter lines, etc). It definitely helps a lot, especially when you have kids with devices.
I agree. More details:

The main problem is that photons only can interact with charged particles, but photons have no charge, so the photons don't interact (directly) with photons.

The gluons that are the bosons of the strong force can interact between them, so it's not a problem of bosons vs fermions. In particular, gluons have color that is the equivalent of charge for the strong force.

The idea is that the photons can sometimes create a virtual electron-positron pair that is very short lived [1], and the other photon can colide with the electron or positron before they annihilate. This is very rare, and you can ignore it unless you have a really huge amount of photons flying around.

[1] Insert here a technical remark about "virtual" and "very short lived". It's more complicated. Take this as a metaphor to hide a lot of math.
Yup, it looks like I glossed over the optimization part and latched onto the circuits part.
About this:

"Hanging in the Louvre Museum in Paris is an imposing painting, The Preaching of St Paul at Ephesus. In this 1649 work by Eustache Le Sueur, the fiery apostle lifts his right hand as if scolding the audience, while clutching a book of scripture in his left. Among the rapt or fearful listeners are people busily throwing books into a fire."

Okay, but in the USA, over the last 60 years we've seen an astonishing loss of religious authority, as well as parental authority, as well as teaching authority. There is no way to bring back scientific authority without also discussing the wider loss of authority.

Nor is the USA alone, but it is not the entire West that is effected. Anyone who wants to see the contrast can visit Britain, and then Poland. In Poland, you can still see the older social structures, and older notions about both religious authority and teaching authority and parental authority.

In the USA, in the year 2019, it is common to see these things:

1. a person at a party says they are "spiritual, but I don't believe in organized religion"

2. a parent spanks their child because their child misbehaved, and the parent is then investigated by the authorities

3. a teacher goes off script to offer their personal opinion of the Vietnam War, and then finds their whole career is at risk

Every single profession is now under attack in the USA. The older spirit of independent professions is now under attack.

I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just pointing out it is a fact of life. There has been some progress made in stamping out certain abuses of power, but at the cost of stripping most of the professions of their previous independence.

If you'd like to bring back scientific authority, you need to address the wider issues.
Other options you might want to consider -- but at a substantially higher price point -- would be Fontographer or Glyphs.app. In my experience they're substantially easier to get to grips with than FontForge. (I believe they both have free demos available, so you could play around a bit before deciding if you want to spend a couple hundred dollars on this hobby.)
Logical Fallacies with Easy Examples
They needed type-c to lure in "pro" people
Redis Manifesto
Didn’t grow up there but visited. Istanbul is on the sea, so there are plenty of seagulls - aka “sea rats”, since they feast on trash. The few open / green spaces I’ve seen had plenty of birds, mostly pigeon-like if i remember correctly.

Been to Rome a few times too and that’s also pretty full of pigeons, afaik. The feline colonies in Rome are the stuff of legend, several Italian writers used them in stories. I bet they’ve been around since Roman times...
> The plane could be perfectly safe without MCAS

It depends on what you mean by "perfectly safe". Many people believe that having the yoke effort decrease at higher angles of attack instead of increase is not very safe. That's why the FAA certification requirements force manufacturers to do whatever is necessary to make sure the yoke force increases with increasing angle of attack, so the pilot has to exert more effort to pull up at higher angles of attack. Without MCAS, the 737 MAX as designed would not meet this requirement.
Some things with kids are easier on the bus than on the car. For instance, you can just roll a stroller onto it, rather than dealing with the car seat dance which is so particularly annoying in the winter. And once they're past the stroller phase, the kids love not being strapped down in a 5 point harness and having a parent that can interact with them rather than concentrating on driving. And the train is cool.

But of course we do have a car, so can have the best of both worlds.

I imagine that if we didn't have a car we would be using delivery a lot more often. Hard to do a Costco run without one.

I can imagine life with kids but without a car. But of course that life would heavily rely on Lyft & taxis, so is that really car free?
Or they have an irrational fear of it. Same goes for GM etc.
4 million a day is full capacity in a city of Delhi’s size? They better start building then

https://m.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/capital-chaos-delhi-...
Using Slack is a choice for someone in your organization, even if you aren't that person. You probably also don't get unilateral control over your working hours, pay, and office.
I don't think HW update would justify the abandonware on macOS. They simply shifted the whole focus on iOS.
I haven’t seen many jobs that are for explicitly replacing C++ code, for what it’s worth.
Getting an A12 Bionic for $400 seems like a pretty remarkable deal to me. Is there a catch?
Black box data shows “clear similarities” between Lion Air, Ethiopian crashes
agree...
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Title would be improved by adding reference to SPOILER. There's too many processor vulnerabilities bouncing around right now.
AI Tackles Mahjong
If you can elaborate on the nature of hardships, I can try and help working around them, without resorting to wxWidgets.
What are your thoughts on M-Discs?
Create a Geofence API Using the Haversine Formula, PHP, and DreamFactory
Only a partial explanation, but Superfish was not installed on the business-grade laptops, i.e., the T, P, and X-series, and those are really the only ones that the HN crowd would use. LSE was definitely a major mistake though they at least relented and offered a removal tool for it.

Huawei has been the target of a pretty unprecedented effort by the US to eliminate their hardware from both US and US-allied countries. I doubt many of us have the knowledge of the necessary facts to evaluate the appropriateness of that action against Huawai, but either way, Lenovo hasn't been singled out like that.
737 MAX disaster pushes Boeing into crisis mode
Reading, they're great for reading. If you read technical content, especially, where Kindles and other e-readers are either too small or don't provide the color you'd want for seeing some diagrams and other content.
Stop eating chips? Your body will thank you.
How about a "Rosetta Proof" wiki in the style of "Rosetta Code"? You wouldn't need to settle on one language, and it might help clarify the advantages of one language or another.
10 miles? Uphill both ways?

Admittedly it can be good for a child to be self-sufficient and do their own planning.
"What's a computer?"—classic iPad commercial
That's what "airborne" means. Nobody thinks viruses are riding nitrogen molecules.
Easy enough: call the restaurant yourself then.

When you use a service like Opentable, it's hard to claim you thought it was a "one time transaction" that would be forgotten about when it shows your reservation history to you every time you log in.