skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among large (northern) European cities, Germany is usually pretty car-friendly given how much of their economy relies on on car production.

Copenhagen and Amsterdam are much more impressive IMHO.
Depends where you are I guess - I rather like taking the train into Edinburgh. It's occasionally a bit crowded going home in the evening but 99% of the time getting a seat isn't a problem and my fellow commuters seem a decent bunch and it is faster and cheaper than driving (and I have a decent fairly new car).

Edit: Out of interest, looking at your username is it not possible that you have an ideological objection to public transport?
I find it a bit odd that in an economic system that claims to be capitalist, which is supposed to revolve around the free market, contracts that are directly meant to make the market less transparent (and thus less free) are totally legal.

Of course I already knew that much of the US, or any other market, for that matter, isn't really free market, and I'm well aware of the limitations of the free market, but it's always good to remind ourselves of these things.
If you hire a full-timer, you damn well better be able to keep them busy 40 hours a week for 48-50 weeks a year. Not only that, but your need needs to be relatively constant, because you've committed to getting 40 hours out of each individual week.

The likelihood of that actually matching well to his needs seems vanishingly small to me. More likely, his needs are wildly variable in time: He wants to get most the art together at a specific point in the development process, and then, after that, only needs bits and pieces as he notices the need. Working with contractors gives him that kind of flexibility.

Even if he could rearrange how he does things to make it meet a full-timer's needs, that doesn't make it a good idea. Now he's turned collaborating with that person into a daily task, which might play hell with the rest of his creative process. Especially if, like most of us introverted creatives, he works best with long blocks of uninterrupted concentration.
No wonder Americans are the fattest people in the world with high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes. We can't even take a day off from eating fast food and slurping down flavored sugar water.
Specially when in some corporate places GitHub is not blocked by the proxy while the demo is... :)
They do, just as immigration stances vary across all populations of people. LWT staff however decided to make a decision based on feedback from some of its members/participants. I don't think any conclusions can be drawn based on the actions of the organizers.
Yes, but isn't it scary that at some point you can't stop that? I mean, all of the research is taken place 'somewhere out there' in the world and all we get is just a few articles that say it all was a super secret operation and no-one wants to speak about it openly. I have nothing against progress but will it still be one when it bursts and can't be controlled?
>Nature has no morality

But perhaps it does? Animals kill other animals only to survive (to kill them in order to eat them or to defend themselves from being killed/eaten)

Humans may be the only species who hurt other humans just for the fun of it - now _that_ is cruelty.
Stirling's approximation says that n! ~ sqrt(2 pi n) (n/e)^n.

So n!/n^n ~ sqrt(2 pi n)e^-n.
Is there any documented evidence on the efficacy of ICE raids? They seem to function primarily as a destabilizing force in communities. We certainly seemed to be doing fine prior to 2003.

From what I can see, they're a bloated DHS organ that's sucking down massive amounts of tax dollars for what amounts to security theater. You'd think in the $47 billion DHS budget they'd find some money for things like soap and toothbrushes.
NASA, ESA Officials Outline Latest Mars Sample Return Plans
Here's a good background article, but I worried it was too political to submit directly:

"On October 17, 2018, President Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU), an intergovernmental organization that sets the rules and rates for international mail delivery. The decision to withdraw has been widely seen as another salvo in the Trump administration’s campaign against what it deems as unfair trade practices benefitting China. This post explains what the UPU is, why the Trump administration is withdrawing from it, the legality of withdrawal, how this decision is related to the trade war with China, and what could happen next."

https://www.lawfareblog.com/withdrawal-universal-postal-unio...
native bees > honey bees
Jesus, downvotes.

What I'm saying is that "Molyneux" is a rather uncommon name and that the bad fame of Stefan (for those not in the know, someone whose I hope are not true) might be rubbing off on Peter.

Stranger things have happened.
Free online placeholder images server
Palantir has a group called Palan-queer https://www.palantir.com/diversity/ for LGBT’s
I actually did get a copy of that! Unfortunately, I only have the ebook at the moment, which I find difficult to read
That's a pretty judgemental comment all the same.
I don't have the answer to these questions: who benefits from people staying in usa illegally and why? Why are (some) people illegally staying in usa being 'weaponized' as a political tool? As long as we have borders and nations, why shouldn't a country decide who gets in and why?
You'd like Efficiency Is Everything.

But I was particularly talking about per calorie rather than "per dollar"
All of my public work is open source under the MIT license.

Just because you aren't protected by the government, doesn't mean you can't protect your inventions through secrecy.
Not to mention that legal "damages" for IP piracy has an upper bound of infinity. Some fixed "cost" multiplied by the number of times you seeded the file, and how many times your peers seeded the file to their peers, etc.
As time goes on I feel more and more like this is the case. Not just in Windows, but in any application, power users are a minority.

There's also the issue with power users generally turning off as much telemetry as possible. To Microsoft we're much less visible than the average person who leaves everything on the default setting.
I think its a valid assumption that a company which is out of touch from their users will lose market cap soon enough
we're pushing a fix for this ASAP!
The article mentions this, but ads on the lock screen are tied to enabling the auto-changing lock screen image.
"A treaty is an official, express written agreement that states use to legally bind themselves." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty#Modern_form

The US has made treaties with many Native American nations. "American law is that international accords become part of the body of U.S. federal law." (same Wikipedia page).

It has also broken some of these treaties. Eg, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_(1868) :

> The government eventually broke the terms of the treaty following the Black Hills Gold Rush and an expedition into the area by George Armstrong Custer in 1874, and failed to prevent white settlers from moving onto tribal lands. ... The 1868 treaty would be modified three times by the US Congress between 1876 and 1889, each time taking more land originally granted, including unilaterally seizing the Black Hills in 1877.

Thus, if treaties are supposed to be legally binding, and it is broken in order to take more land, then that land is illegally occupied, yes?

Indeed,

> On June 30, 1980, the US Supreme Court ruled that the government had illegally taken land in the Black Hills granted by the 1868 treaty, by unlawfully abrogating article two of the agreement during negotiations in 1876, while failing to achieve the signatures of two-thirds the adult male population required to do so.

Thus, it's also possible to take more than a century for the courts to recognize that the land was taken illegally.

I feel like "universal moral concept" is a different concept. Treaties are also not universal moral concepts either, are they? Yet you see people refer to treaties as being legally binding.
Paglia is one of those conservatives who is incredibly transphobic and hides it behind the facade of being a “provocateur.” She has defended the completely absurd belief (in this case, proposed by Sheila Jeffries) that cross-gender hormone therapy is a conspiracy by big pharma to get trans people taking hormones for life, among other things:

“In it she [Jeffries] argues among other things, that the pharmaceutical industry, having lost income when routine estrogen therapy for menopausal women was abandoned because of its health risks, has been promoting the relatively new idea of transgenderism in order to create a permanent class of customers who will need to take prescribed hormones for life.”

From https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/camille-p...

Bioidentical estradiol is a generic medication with many manufacturers and costs very little. There is not very much money to be made manufacturing it. More profitable would be the GnRH agonists, frequently used as the puberty blockers which she claims are so potentially dangerous. However their benefit is clear, and furthermore there is an entire field of medical research devoted to understanding the impacts of those drugs, and so far nothing in the evidence suggests blockers are significantly risky at all, let alone anywhere near as dangerous as the increased risk of suicide that trans kids have going through the wrong puberty.

Source for much of this: I’m a trans woman, also a pharmacology, psychiatry, and endocrinology nerd. I’m not taking hormones for life because I “need” to, I’m doing it because I want to, as is every other trans woman I know. If that changes, I can stop. It’s as simple as that.
But what changes in a digital spring reverb is not that you switch some analog circuitry for digital. Either you simply attach a DAC to the input and an ADC to the output, but that doesn’t really mean that you get rid of analog circuitry. Or more likely, you’re replacing mechanical parts for a software model that achieves a similar sound. What’s interesting in that is not that you go from analog to digital, but from real mechanical equipment to a software simulation.
most probably, and thanks to you, I found the video again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv2YQnT6pSo
If a website was on TOR, it would be virtually untrackable by those other companies, right?

Technically the website is still using the infrastructure, but they wouldn't have details about the end user.

Can we get more "normal" websites on TOR please?
It would be pretty amusing to see other transportation providers such as airlines and train services follow suit and institute a "safe ride fee". I'm sure some consultant somewhere is dreaming up such an idea right now, totally unaware that most consumers assume that the ticket price includes some kind of assurance that they'll get to their destination unharmed.
Ask HN: How to do research on any topic?
OSTEP is the best book on Operating systems easily. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
Yes, and the issue is that the trains were put in places that never were destinations. You would have to change the long-standing habits of businesses and commuters to alter that. Even they light rail doesn't change that. Mass transit fits in the edges and cracks here, and is something of a "necessary annoyance" to the state. For proof, look no further than the aggressive privatization of bus lines to companies who can't or won't run the buses on the schedule set by NJTransit. And they aren't being penalized in any meaningful way.
Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?
I'm familiar with the rfs page, but I'm curious what HN thinks about trends/opportunities for solving problems. Could be massive problems or just low hanging fruit.

Maybe this thread could be a lifting off point for a startup - in which case I'd consider it a success :)
Should we ignore the fact that money unfortunately matters in the judiciary? There is no mechanism right now to counterbalance that greater power that comes with wealth. You are right, people who've served their time or paid their due should be afforded a second chance. After all, the goal of penalties is not revenge, it is rehabilitation: the hope that a person has changed their ways.

However, in this particular case, insofar as events have even made it to a court decision, it seems at no point this person changed their ways, and simply used his wealth to fund the legal details of continuing his behavior. I'm not sure what methods exists or what methods could be invented to account for such misuse of wealth, but it is clear this person was afforded too many second chances: he seems to have never intended to correct his behavior. It seems to me that in that space it is valid to exercise your personal right to not associate with a lastingly suspect character.
ok so it saves an extra (typeof x) check.

To be honest I rerely see the typeof check in clojure code.
Secrecy only works for some types of work.
define: Self
Regarding

...the elements of a language are features of a world I inhabit:

Environments are values floating above my head. I have an urge to glance up when I’m thinking about what’s in scope. A closure is a one-way tunnel or pipe or wormhole back into the function environment. But the program itself can’t flow through the pipe. Asynchronous control flow is a stream that I imagine myself floating down. I think about where the stream will take me. Functors are giant structures, like a sculpture by Richard Serra. Functor operations act like cranes, helping me to move around those structures.

27 years ago I began working on a programming language in which computational abstractions had concrete animated analogs [1]. ToonTalk was my attempt to make a Logo for the 90s. You programmed in a virtual world where you trained robots to put things in boxes, give birds messages to deliver, etc. The mappings are: computation: city, actor or process or object: house, methods: robots, method preconditions: contents of thought bubble, method actions: actions taught to robot, tuples or messages or vectors: boxes, comparison tests: scales, actor spawning: loaded trucks, actor termination: bombs, constants: numbers, text, and pictures,
channel transmit capabilities: birds, channel receive capabilities: nests, program storage: notebooks.

ToonTalk became free and open source 12 years ago. 5 years ago I had time to re-implement much of it as a web app [2]. But as Don Hopkins wrote - I'm focussed now on adding AI to Snap!

[1] http://www.toontalk.com
[2] https://toontalk.github.io/ToonTalk/
> Maybe we should focus on making it a better option.

I think everybody agrees with this until it comes time to talk taxes and then everyone with a car says they're happy with their commutes and they don't want to pay for somebody else to take a train, don't want a whole lane for a bus, and so on. So instead you get some meaningless token effort and everybody goes on driving

Making driving "worse" (or at least refusing to invest to make it better) gives transit a competitive advantage. Optimizing for personal cars gives cars a competitive advantage, which is the story of the 20th century

> Also, why would you block existing roads? That's a ridiculous proposition.

It's not even remotely controversial when I've seen it done, like downtown streets in Boston made pedestrian only. The vast majority of people (who are on foot) love it.
Glassdoor is different, disclosing your salary is often (depending on jurisdiction and details) protected by law, and many companies don't have a NDA that purports to prohibit it in the first place.

For instance, I think it's likely that glassdoor would be federally protected in the US under section 7 of the NLRA (which protects talking about pay when it's part of a concerted effort to improve pay), and even it's it isn't it's almost certainly protected in California by section 232 of the labor code, which states:

No employer may do any of the following:

a.Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing the amount of his or her wages.

b.Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose the amount of his or her wages.

c.Discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee who discloses the amount of his or her wages.

(IANAL)

Edit: Good resource with more information - https://www.dol.gov/wb/media/pay_secrecy.pdf
Kotlin has [] but it can't be used with the null-safe navigation operator (?.)

If you want to index a datastructure that could be null, you use ?.get(...) instead of ?[...]
Humans and cats, actually.
> I don't think there is a well-tested reliable way to harness energy from falling objects and convert it into some useful form.

We do it with water. I'm not sure why the GP leapt to "crane" rather than "pump" but for sure we can achieve that. As for objects, a few designs spring to mind but they all seem less efficient than just pumping fluids.
Not US :(

But a good incentive to do less than 10 trades per year across 6 accounts.

I just sit in a small number of big ETFs.

The brokerage would make a lot more money off me if they charged $1/trade.
Not Linux, but I'd recommend this lab from MIT.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/overview.html

I completed this one, but they may have more recent versions. They give you some initial code that you need to complete, as well as tests to check your work before going to the next step. It covers a lot of material. It takes some patience and it's not for complete beginners but it's a great fun project. Not sure, but I'd say it took me 1 or 2 weeks full time.
Here's some Iowans that might work against that stereotype:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ragbrai&ia=images&iax=images
> Here is what the critics don't get.

> You are game devs. You are Jeff's peers. You are not representative of his customer base.

You don't really think any of the people criticizing him online are game devs with a track record as long as his, do you? People falling into that very, very small category know exactly why he operates as he does, the niche his games fill, the financial tradeoffs involved, and so on.
Piracy basically shaped Brazil's video game industry [1]. I'd say the market we have right now would not be the same if it wasn't for a whole generation (or more than one!) getting hooked to games that would never be accessible if it wasn't for piracy.

It is anedoctal, but I never bought an original game until my late teens. When I finally had the means to buy original copies and support content creators, I did. If I don't want to pay for a game that I find too expensive or not worth, I don't download it anymore, since I already have so many options to choose from.

[1] https://www.redbull.com/nz-en/the-history-of-video-games-in-...
I agree with your assessment that the lifecycle of a game is much shorter than other pieces of software, but that doesn't change the the fact that "if people don't pay for this product, all the money we spent making it will be wasted" is just how capitalism and sales work.

Also, you're looking at subscriptions in games wrong. Think about micro-transactions on candy crush or similar games. Nobody charges you for monthly access to the game, they charge you for increased access to specific features.
> But it's work that needs to be done to secure the border, even though it's heartbreaking sometimes.

Does it? How much violence is too much for this? What is the nature of this security and how many deaths is it worth? Or is this just another Vietnam/Iraq endless meat grinder of ill-considered purpose?
>How does this particular issue trace back to Trump exactly?

Well, I'm feeling lucky, so I think I'll pick; 'The increase in frequency directly following his election campaign promises and attempts as President, to institute a ban on muslims travelling to the US.', for $200.
What if I host my server at data center? Does data center network hardware logs connections? I know that technically it can do that, as it only have to watch for TCP connection start (and, may be, collect statistics for each connection), but are they really doing that?
As an aside to this thread, I think Palantir has been floating on Ivy League hires and prestige instead of money for its positions
Among other things, the line between online and local to your computer has been blurred quite a bit. Before all this JavaScript tracking became common, the only information a website would get when you visited a page was... the page you loaded and the IP you loaded it from. A third-party may have gotten similar information if there are embedded resources.

Now, though, thanks to client-side analytics, that website and any of those third parties may be recording your mouse movements, checking to see how long you stay on the page, fingerprinting you based on what addons/fonts you have and what your screen size is, etc.

It's more than just on the web. If you took a photo on a camera, it stayed on the camera. If you take a photo on your phone... is cloud sync enabled? Because it might be by default. I was pretty shocked at how pushy the preloaded apps were when I recently bought a budget Android phone.
The Firefox page doesn’t cause the browser to freeze up for 30 seconds while it loads all the crap. That’s my point with IE/Edge, not that the page exists to begin with.
With the large scale agriculture in America that native bees aren't well adapted for, we do need honeybees to pollinate the various plants. Especially if we want to reduce our consumption of beef and other animal products.
You’re missing the fact that while doing « important » things, they are tearing families apart, putting little kids in camps. Proud of more people standing up against palanatir, hope more do it.
> exactly, there is a difference between the "right" way and the "way that works"

His post wasn't about the way that works, it was about the "only way that works".

If that was a post about how he made games, I would have made an amazing comment on it, congratulating him on working so hard, most probably saying how I wouldn't have though there was so much works behind the scene, even more so on new engine on such an old looking games, etc...

It wasn't that kind of post though... it was a post that said that art doesn't matter, that you just can't make it works (even though there so many games that does it).

He just don't want to make it works. It's fine, it's not different than me that am a simple employee.
Tell that to Nike. Their stock price has nearly doubled. You may not like it and you may not agree with it, but it's smart business.

It's like saying Fox News should be less conservative. A very bad idea: there's big money in conservative television media.
Ironically many people already want this (as reflected by housing prices), but can't afford to do so
I think I've found a secret -- One Weird Trick that will allow you to bring an artist aboard your game project for the bargain basement price of $0. The secret is this:

Learn to draw.

It's a lot of work, and it's not for everyone. But I taught myself the basics of art so that I could have art for my game projects. It may not be the greatest art in the world, but it will accurately reflect my vision.

That said, I also find resources like OpenGameArt terrific -- as inspiration. If I want to create, say, a tile set for a particular scene, I might go look up someone else's tile set, and then create a similar one from scratch.
that is a very long chain of ifs, any of which can evaluate to false
EDIT: there is also no precedent for what you propose and if we go by the partial match of grass-fed beef, the yield will be so small compared to the population as to be pointless
Yes, this thread right here officer.
let a:[Int]? = nil
let ai = a?[0]

and

let b: [Int:[Int]]? = nil
let bi = b?[0]?[0]

are valid in swift. ?. is used when you want to access a property, but i've never thought of it as an operator. Rather, i see it as "a?" (aka : unwrap a) followed by "." dot operator to access a property. I basically just replace a with a? every time a becomes nullable, and that's it.