skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to most global city I've seen (NYC, Amsterdam, Zurich, German cities, Tokyo, Singapour, Bankgok, London...) I'd say Paris is of the least 'technological' kind.

It's actually so distinct that as a nerd I just don't feel 'home' in France, architecturally, culturally, compared to most comparable countries/cities on any continent. France feels somewhat stuck in time, which you may not be able to tell looking at all the smartphones and 1Gb fiber, but could glimpse at by talking with enough locals: they just don't like / trust / see value in high-tech in general, more like a threat / disturbance / forced upon them). Again, this is the feeling, the mindset, not 'reality' or 'objective truth' (the French are the same as everyone else in this regard, obviously; I'm talking about perceptions here, like the fact that the French are the most pessimistic on Earth despite their incredible relative wealth (less than 1% of the world's population for 3.25% GDP) and quality of life (GINI, whatever).

It's great that Paris and the French exists for those who'd rather live in a more 'vintage' environment (this can be said for a lot of European small/mid cities btw), but subjectively, France is everything but high-tech or 'nerdy' compared to Germany, UK, USA, Japan (probably topping it all), Korea, basically the world's top 10-15-20 countries (GDP per capita). Even Switzerland, which is very old-school in a lot of ways, feels more "21st century" than France in day-to-day living.
"Why is this news"

The strategic implications are quite vast on a variety of levels: political, military, technical, economic.

The 'nationalisation' of the web into various national webs is a big deal.
wonderful!

Coincidently, I read today a paper [1], which has a nice video demo here [2] describing a very similar system but with only one type of cells and a simple rule. Surprisingly enough, particles form cell type structure and seem to "reproduce".

[1] http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37969

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=makaJpLvbow
Like all things in life it depends on the team and workflow. I have my PM’s make tickets because many times I am in the middle of a different feature or bug and don’t want to have to have the mental load of remembering what the issue was. Secondly I work with very solid PM’s who document the ticket very well and it saves me time having to reproducing the issue. My team does have a lot of tickets but we make it work for us and our process flow.
Would the ternary code have been more difficult to learn, or to key by hand? How would it have been transmitted over the radio?
Lots of those people become tetralingual because they have time left over the three languages that are taught anyways. E.g. Russian and Estonian as native language, English plus a fourth language from school. Those who do not have a bilingual family only learn three during the same time. E.g. Estonian, English and Russian.

I kind-of envy the first group of people because it's cool to be able to access so many spheres of culture, I often use Google Translate to try and get a glimpse of Russian forums for example, it's just very different and so useful because of that.
Hoodies and sunglasses?
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Ask HN: Community for a Product Company
We are planning to run a Community forum for our IoT Products ( www.bevywise.com ) . What are the best options. Should we set up a separate forum on our website using some Wordpress plugins or Can we do it with Stackoverflow or some other channels already available and attach it to our site.

Appreciate your advice.
What’s the details of your project? It’s courses with exams? What type of content that user can consume: text, audio, video?
I was mostly speaking from very recent personal experience.
Yes, and what you are describing is another type of report that is distinct from a “suspicious activity report”. The limit report you described is a hard threshold requirement. This is not the same report as the “suspicious activity report.”

As you know, the suspicious activity report is completely subject to the bank’s discretion.
His reporting on anything related to Brazilian politics certainly suffers from his own ideological biases that leftyted pointed out in another reply to the comment you’re replying too.
Granted, the 4/5/6 is an outlier; due to being the only subway line running the full length of Manhattan's East Side, it carries (or carried) more people than DC's entire metro, and more than Boston's, Chicago's, and San Francisco's combined, which would round out the top 5 rail systems in the US in terms of passengers carried.

The vast majority of rail lines that exist or would be reasonable to build in the US would not have this problem.
OP: “punishing personal driving penalizes people for undertaking necessary tasks using the only infrastructure reasonable in that setting.”

You: “well in other settings it works. Of course, those settings have other infrastructure.”

You can see why that doesn’t really add much.
This is joke news. What is intellectual about? What did you learn about the world?
Those "articles" were published in the opinion and lifestyle sections, not the news sections, and were not considered journalistic pieces.

But I suppose when someone has an ideological axe to grind they don't care about finer points like that.
This is a preposterous statement.

"Retail is already dead?"

By what metric. Please enlighten us how people buying things is not a massive lever to the economy and Amazon's success?
> It would break that compatibility if there were a semantic change in the absence of the UA string. Specifically, H/3 requests couldn't be downgraded to HTTP/1.1 requests by proxies.

It would not reduce the semantic meaning of HTTP to say "in http/3, the default value of the user-agent header is XYZ (a non-specific modern browser), and if you want an empty header, you must specify the header with an empty value. Proxies and other software translating requests between http/3 and older versions of http should map an omitted header in http/3 to this value, and should map an empty string to a missing header."

It would certainly require change, and it isn't a change likely to happen at this point, but it wouldn't have been impossible, nor would it have reduced the fidelity of http. It simply would have changed the default assumption from "something too ancient to identify itself" to "something modern that doesn't want to identify itself".
That there are still good people in the world. The man didn't take any money for himself, and sat patiently while waiting to be arrested. If more people in software had this mindset, we'd all be much better off.

Unrelated: the HTTPS cert for your site expired a few days ago.
The Times ended up following up on the controversy this generated:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/reader-center/thomas-mons...

It’s clear that this author and others were really peeved by the way the times covered this, but “don’t trust journalists” is a wrongheaded message imo. You’re able to dialogue with an individual outlet as shown here. And you’re able to overlay different news sources on given issues to get a wider picture if that’s what you want to do. Overall “trust but verify” works exceedingly well, but there seems like a bit of a degree of grief in this writing.
That 'bus' still has its own page:

https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/The-P...

That's a supercool job, I was just wondering how you slept, hopefully not under your desk.
Yeah, they sell them but they're not supposed to. It's because putting an A on each end of a C cable and connecting two A hosts together can destroy the two A hosts.

Practically, since you can find them as you say, is that as a peripheral vendor in the west, you can't ship a C device with a C to A plug because you'll lose your license.
Well, our priors aren't easily expressible in terms of simple probability distributions. They could probably be modeled fairly well by gaussian process priors though.
Are you suggesting not everyone drives a Tesla?
this begs the question: is it a security liability to hire anyone with any family in China?
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Nice, I didn't expect that NixOS has its own conference. I have been at OpenSUSE summit twice, I will definitely go to DebConf once they come to a less exotic place (from my perspective). I was looking for an Archlinux conference, but could not find one. You don't need to be deeply involved in the project to benefit from a conference. I have been to Akademy twice when they happened to be in the area and I am not even a real KDE user. LinuxCon Australia is nearly a must for every engaged Linux developer, at least once in a lifetime. Still hesitating whether I'll do it a second time (I'm from Europe). I guess I need to go to my 9th Fosdem in 5 weeks.

Just today my daughter complained: Dad why do you always go to your stupid conferences? I answered: Most of my colleagues from 20 years ago are no longer in software development. One runs a laundry, another one a fitness studio, some are unemployed...

Yes, unfortunately speaking at a conference I haven't done for over 25 years any more. Back than I was a university employee and they only allowed attendance when you spoke. To speak you need to be really involved and I find it difficult to find the time on the side of my day job.
What the heck? The job of a journalist is not to tell you what you want to hear. I’m sorry if some Mormons didn’t want to hear unpleasant things about their leader, but if they were true then they were news
Also, what about books of the like of "A Clockwork Orange" or "1984", where the author defines their own vernacular? If you'd run either by a standard spelling/grammar checker such as those included with Word, both of the aforementioned books would be flagged, despite both being highly regarded classics.
You are writing all this in (1) someone's obit, and (2) even though you preface it that you don't want to detract from their achievements you do nothing but and (3) you do so with a couple of decades of hindsight. Yes, things have changed. No, without the microprocessor we would not have all the goodies we have today.

What 'most developers consider the bare minimum for being civilized today' simply was not available to 'most developers' at the time, we were happy with what we had.

And in some ways I wished developers today would not be so spoiled that they allocate megabytes like it doesn't matter because it does add up and then suddenly it does matter.
by improving metrics over time

see, e.g., https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard/
But a take they didn’t chose to take, that’s the point.
The NYT accurately reports the death of a Mormon leader who worked against women's and gay rights. This blogger does not deny the accuracy of this but thinks this is an unimportant part of the Mormon leader's life, not worthy of mention. Of lower priority than the standardization of the three hour sermon for example. Regardless, the relative importance of theses issues is his _opinion_ .

And 180,000 saints agree (the author and Mormoms generally refer to themselves as saints). But it is still an _opinion_ by a group who are so opposed to gay rights, they continue to oppose a pro-equality supreme court decision that included four conservative justices. Presumably the many millions of "non-saints" this discrimination works against in daily life have an opposite _opinion_ about this issues' importance.

The blogger, also accuses the NYT of being click bait. The NYT's title was "Thomas Monson, President of the Mormon Church, Dies at 90". The blogger titles his post "Do Not Trust Journalism" stretching what is an accurate report whose topic ordering he does not like, to imply every story in the NYT and indeed all journalism is deceitful. For example, Reuters had the same title.

I too could become an obscure blogger with religio-emotionally shaped opinions and clickbait titles if I posted a one side response article titled "Mormons Oppose Free Press". Such a story would be as unworthy of serious attention as this one.

But instead, this story is taken seriously. An indication of how far down the anti-press, anti-reality, pro-religious-nationalism rabbit hole we have fallen. A result of a trend where tales from the most obscure parts of the web are sought out to match the readers preconceived opinions and then taken as complete gospel over all else regardless of implausibility or internal inconsistency.

Religions and certain secular leaders and their followers often dislike the press and much of literature, it will never be too hard to find someone somewhere claiming things they don't like are deception and thus presumably "evil". For example in Italy at this same period, you will find outraged denunciation of press "lying" criticism of Padre Pio.

Conversely, it would be nice to talk with clear headed people about a solution to the rise of religious-nationalism including its war on the press rather than debating obscure right wing blog's cry of "Lügenpresse". Just as it's nice to talk to informed people about climate without repeatedly facing a stream of deniers.

Ultimately I image many will decide that truth is between these two: that reality lays halfway between the uncomfortable facts they learn and the things that they wish were true.
I wish we had that on the tube in London. Instead, you ride an escalator and see upwards of 20-maybe 30 video ads on the way. And that's before a marketing firm commissions the redesign of a tunnel so an entire stretch of walkway is 100% ad, like a shitty Disney ride. Or you arrive to one of the big terminals and gigantic screens are blasting even more ads at you. This is, of course, after you spend 40+ minutes on a train that has a continual row of adverts placed just above the eye-level of the person sat in front of you.

Then you look at what the older tube stations looked like and they're quite pretty; lots of mosaics and other works of art, each station having a distinctive style. Now it's white tiles, white LED lights, and adverts.
Bike share helps reduce this problem quite a bit where it is available.

For a commute: zoning often requires parking for cars. It should be updated to require parking for bikes.
such a CPU could have been done in less than 30x30 cm.

That's far too big for just the CPU of a home computer. Look at the form factors of the C-64, the Apple ][, the TRS-80, the ZX Spectrum, etc. You had to be able to take it home and plug it into your TV. Something the size of a mini fridge is not really a 'personal' device.
> every 3 minutes in busy times

That is extremely important and awesome.
Well... the question of one million dollars....

First, you need an model that you can train to try to forecast the best direction....

Then, you need to implement triggers to your trading api and backtest to validate your model.

And finally you need to implement the decision engine to trade based on your forecast.

It’s an long journey...
Yes, the original PDP-11/20 came with as little as 8 KB of RAM.

But early operating systems and languages for the PDP-11 were painfully primitive. We're talking paper tape and assembly only, in 1970 on the base 8 KB of RAM.

On the other hand, consider the memory requirements of UNIX v7. It required separate instruction and data address spaces using the PDP-11's virtual memory features, as neither the kernel nor some of the compilers would fit into only 64 KB of data/code. 128 KB was necessary to boot a minimal single user system. 256 KB was realistically required to run multiple processes.

By 1979, that's software requiring 16x as much memory as in the base configuration of the original PDP-11 of 1970, just to boot. It just would not have been possible to write something like v7 UNIX in only 16 KB of RAM.
Right on empowering random Amazon users to edit one's book with no oversight. The customer always knows best.
Don’t follow tutorials. They kill your creativity. Instead think about something useful to you and build it. Get stuck? Learn and ask. Build more. And so on.
Jeff didn't say Amazon is at Day 2, but he did outline what that would look like: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/2016-letter-to-sha...

Employees frequently use that framework to discuss how they think Amazon (or the org they work in) is truly done for.
Truth matters. And selective editing of the truth to fit an agenda is journalistic malpractice.
I'd rather not be seen anywhere near said device, flimsy disguise or no.
Oh, sorry I didn’t get that. We had company dorms in Bad Cannstatt.

Yes; that was the bus. My computer system would often be driving the green monitor visible on the right side of the instrument cluster while testing. (That shot is just a camera image, sadly.)

Network of Inmos transputers, running Occam. I’d never heard of Occam or message passing or done parallel programming when I got on the plane and within a few weeks, I was pretty up to speed (thanks to good mentorship).

https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/picture....
I love this minimal approach, but I've learned the hard way that there's a missing word - "resilient".

"you consolidate your finances in the minimum resilient number of accounts & cards"

I almost lost my iCloud data when my single credit card at the time was compromised and the new card got delayed. I now think one should carry at least two independent credit cards of some sort, if one is paying periodically for critical IT (cloud data, domain names, etc).

Another anecdote: a relative had to pay cash (the venue didn't accept cheques) for an expensive rehearsal dinner, because their only credit card was compromised the day before at a business lunch.

Likewise for emergency funds. I've now split my e-fund between two banks to reduce the risk to paying my mortgage in a financial crisis.
I agree though I think blaming journalists is a red herring. Ultimately most journalists are just trying to make ends meet and are in no better position to change the rules of the game than any other average person (the ad-revenue game). Or, to use a Bezos quote: “Good intentions never work, you need good mechanisms to make anything happen.”

There are outliers, of course, but that’s the nature of large groups of people.

If we as a society want deep, accurate, journalism we have to figure out a way to make it more profitable than clickbait.
Stealing ATMs with forklifts is a victimless crime! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQAmnj7Fll0

(Anybody know where I can rent one in Amsterdam on Christmas eve?)
Since this thread's been flagged off the front page, I'm going to use it for something off-topic.

I found the paper you said you were looking for in this comment[1], and sent a link to the address you have in your HN bio. It probably got spam filtered.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805140

I can't legally post a link to a non-paywalled copy on HN, but the ACM allows for authors to host copies on their sites, so you might want to ask Klotz if they'll do so.

The digitized title is "Turtles and Defense" by the way.
But they didn’t even report the accomplishments: they focused on their agenda and not the whole story. They omitted the parts that didn’t support their premise. And it was an obituary! By definition it is supposed to be about the life and times of the person and their lasting impact.
More metro areas should have mass transit along the ring highways connecting the edge cities and close in suburbs. Airports and commuter rail stations are also often along the ring highways or on short stubs off them.

There is no reason to focus business in the urban core, rather than in office parks and industrial areas around the periphery. People who want to live in the urban core can reverse commute to jobs on the ring.
Also see … I mean hear: Radiolab's piece on the early days of snowflake photography (featuring Pope Kenneth, of course): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/25720...

> […] how it all began in a cold, snowy farm in Vermont in 1880, when a kid named Wilson Bentley put a snowflake under a microscope and started a lifelong quest to capture perfection. […] But his crystal-clear vision of reality was tied to a set of ideals that ultimately blinded him from the cold, hard facts in front of him.

Don't miss the companion blog post: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/25728...
Oh fuck, I am banned here from getting points. Time to avoid selling my own profile to whoever sniff on HN users.
Managed to allocate 4 hrs/week for a sport

After 4 years of trail and errors finally launched a product that is generating revenue

Next year Goals

continue the 4 hrs/week for a sport to sweat

join a startup by first quarter

restrict to 10-15 hrs/week for the current side product

work on another side project
Why are you “building servers”? Was there something about your business that precludes you from using a hosted solution?
Are there journalists you trust?
Thanks for the NYT POV. To bad you didn’t notice that the OP addresses the NYT response and judges it lacking.
Ask HN: Describe an interesting non-tech startup that you've recently discovered
Tech gets all the attention. I'm curious about non-tech startups, and the discussion around growth, expectations, personal experience, etc.
On the other hand, a central facility can often be more efficient (other things being equal) than a bunch of small facilities. (A central generating facility, for example, is more efficient than a bunch of car engines.)

That said, my money is on the higher concentration of CO2 winning by far.
The law could be written so that individuals could sue companies that advertise with opinions rather than facts. Kind of like ow ADA laws are set up in California. The bureaucracy would be the court system.
I created an Open Source Project Management tool (Re:Backlogs)
Yes. I still don't understand why Wikipedia doesn't fall apart. But pretty sure it doesn't.
As a male in my early 30’s without kids but who eventually wants kids, these studies on age related to autism risk scare me a lot.
Whitewashing the reputation of a famous person—although it happens all the time-would be far worse malpractice
As a European with little knowledge of Mormonism apart from the basics of its history, this obituary was far more informative of what the religion and its leadership stands for than the article linked itself.

Most outsiders don't care, at all, what effect a leader had inside a sect, but how their work affected the outside.
Great point, that's something an automated checker wouldn't catch. Sounds like an opportunity for crowdsourcing. As a simple example, the interface could allow a user to report typos and view any other reported typos, then submit upvotes/downvotes on previously reported typos.
Tesla managed to do it and I haven't seen a lot of Tesla ads.
Even assuming 0 tax we're talking more likw 2200-2600 and there are gonna be some taxes, especially in CA.

Assuming this is investment income of course, and not just spending down the principal, which obviously wouldn't work.

So probably under 2k, and it's not fun money, it's everything but housing starting with food and transportation.

Doable? I guess. Fun? Eye of the beholder, I'd say. And that's assuming kids don't enter the picture, say goodbye to every part of this plan if they do.
Unix pipeline a category, with text be object, and executable be morphisim converting text to text(monoid).
Forth is a category, with stack as object, functions as morphisim.
There are many examples. Best learn from haskell.
One has to assume they considered moving out of SF and decided not to.
Thank you! I must have missed that. Please try sending it again with the searchable keyword "froboz" in the subject, and I'll watch for it.

Somebody I won't name opined: "Since PGS runs a robotics company now, he might not relish the publicity." ;)
I think tutorials can be useful, especially for something entirely new. If I just open a text editor to a blank page it's really hard to get going. If I have a demo project it's much easier to start to modify that to do something else.