skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why the live demo is broken, or why they even need is since there is a live demo on the main page, but the usability for all cases strikes me as exceptional on the main page where it works as intended. I am not convinced that your cherry-picked restriction improves the usability.
I'm not sure it's right to call this "journalism." It's an individual opinion that doesn't seem to be supported by much actual investigation, or reporting. It's how she sees the world through her eyes and imagines things to be, based on her experience and anecdote, much of which is grossly inaccurate.

Would she be happier if Google didn't offer buses, folks were forced to either drive individual cars or live outside of SF, and SF couldn't collect all those tax dollars it needs to fund its immense city budget?

If SF didn't have the tech industry and adjacent biotech industry, it would be another Detroit - a post-industrial city without a new source of external income. Instead, the Bay Area benefits from rising real estate values, tax revenues and an international profile.
Public transit, even in the densest of American cities, is a money loser and often pollutes more than if the riders were taking cars. It's badly in need of innovation and revolution.

Fixed-route transit is a mess. That's why I can't wait until we have self-driving cars. Most public transit would die on the vine as cars, which typically are utilized perhaps 10% of the day, can increase toward 100% utilization. No more need for inefficient and inconvenient fixed routes and no more need for giant empty buses riding around during non-peak hours.
I'm not sure if you have used that to do any kind of intensive code. I've used it for real time video processing (H264 encoding/decoding and playing from a custom protocol) and it's not a good development experience in the least. It's extremely hard to get good debugging working, eclipse is a giant pile, most of the other IDE's for Android don't support C/C++ ndk, and there a mountain of little special compiler tricks and options to learn. Not to mention the JNI tricks and hidden issues. It's far from ideal. I REALLY!!! wish google would step up and provide a real solution to the problem there. Compared to how easy the same things is on iOS, Windows mobile 8, or bb10 is fairly frustrating.
it's very good writing, by an award winning writer, in one of the top lit magazines.

but i don't expect people on google buses, or hn, to know that, even less recognise it.

[edit: and... the entire post has been flagged off the front page (59 points, 2 hours ago, page 2). because anything critical is clearly irrelevant, as well as poorly written, and clearly not understanding what it's really like. la la la. what a pile of shit this place is at times.]
Well I suppose it could be seen as a defense of behavioral or technical investing, over strictly fundamentals-based investing. It's basically reinforcing the fact that while we take actions in the market based off of our understanding of what reality is, our actions in turn also affect the reality.

I don't mean behavioral instead of fundamentals. I mean integrating behavioral into fundamentals, because his overall point is that both "understanding reality" and "manipulating reality" are valid factors. You get into trouble if you focus on one at the expense of the other.

Overall I'm finding the article sequence a little disappointing. Transcript #3 is interesting in comparing enlightenment to post-modernism. But it all feels like it's a run-up to something actually insightful about what we should actually do, when it actually never quite gets there, aside from recommendations that politicians should be thinking in terms of the public good rather than in terms of the market. It's like, yeah, we already understand that.

From a geek perspective it's somewhat related to subjects like complexity theory I guess. I don't know much about it, but one thing that depresses me is that even though it's possible for very simple inputs to yield highly complex (or random) outputs, it's impossible to take one of those complex outputs and reverse-engineer the simple inputs that created it. That makes me grumpy. I like those movies where some super-villain (or hero) introduces a silver bullet solution that spreads out and affects all sorts of things in exactly the way they intend. Just a fantasy, though.
I'm very curious how (or if at all) this thinking has been applied to Netflix's hourly employees. Basic customer service, distribution center folks, etc who have more structured jobs to do. The distinction is briefly touched on at the beginning, but I'd love to hear more.
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I didn't mean they care about recognition... I meant, no community forms around their product, because a huge portion of the developers that would like to use it, can't.

I never said "large" companies. Small companies can't use GPL in their software either, if they want to sell their software. For-profit companies aren't evil, in fact many of them do a lot of good things, including contributing back to open source projects with time paid for by their closed source products.

I think the mindset of "all for-profit companies are evil" is a very 2003 way of thinking.
If I want jokes, I go to reddit. I think, for the most part, they don't belong here.
beep boop boop boop i am a programmer and i am a robot boop boop beep boop
There's only one way to test the efficacy of these proposed solutions: SimCity.
Forced myself to read to the end so that I would be justified in saying what I had the impulse to howl from the third sentence: Rebecca Solnit, FUCK YOU.

It's actually quite well-written, but christ, what a pretentious, clueless, holier-than-thou, pseudo-pious pile of crap. Blamey dirges like this are why people hate liberals. It makes me hate them, and I am one. It's hard to know where to start, so I'll just dig in:

Why do you demean and dehumanize tech workers, while glorifying Latinos, homeless people, coal miners, and anyone who's lived in San Francisco since... 2006? 1996? 1976? How long do you have to live in SF to be fully human and deserving of empathy?

What do you have against German tourists and "Asian male nerds?" You are a bigot.

Why should people "drive themselves?" That's not noble-prole, it's stupid and wasteful. Fewer people should drive, period. Private or public, mass transit is mass transit. It's a Good Thing.

Why is capitalism "Janus-headed?" I think you don't understand capitalism. It has one face, with dollar-sign eyes. Which is ok. It's capitalism, not poetry. It's about capital.

Are rents being driven up, does growth create problems? Yes of course. Let's deal with those problems. Whining about them is just annoying, and paints you as a bitter person.

There's a solution, though. I say this as an erstwhile journalist, now software developer: Rebecca, you should learn Python. Then maybe you can get on the bus too.
How can a natural monopoly have competition?
Laravel never came up in any of my googling. Watching the screencasts right now. Thanks.
Because many people who design webpages aren’t very great when it comes to typography?

It’s just a bad idea to use those light fonts for anything but headlines or other kinds of large type. For the headline that light font is absolutely ok. For the body text it’s just embarrassing (especially since this is from Adobe).

I have to say, though, this blog is written by those at Adobe who develop new standards (for HTML/CSS/JS), so probably very technical people who are more often than not not very knowledgeable about design – that is to say, those involved here do not necessarily have a strong design focus (and neither do they necessarily have to have that).
I'm a founder at DropTask - thanks for giving it a go. Ordering within a group is definitely something we are thinking about, though we're unsure of a sensible implementation as yet!
I was commenting that the g'parent poster's assertion was incorrect, and not about the term "space marine."

From the NewsRadio episode "Space": "Your space pod is so cold and drafty." "Fine, I'll get a space heater." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NDiBCD55-Y#t=10m40s
http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100

There is an indie artist #1 on the charts right now, first time in 20 years, and second time in history.

"...won’t talk about how much money they’ve made, but it’s enough to make a major label’s advance offers seem inconsequential."

Is this an anomaly or is this a trend?
It's worth noting that they're in the process of extending BART to the Caltrain (which is relatively recent itself.) There's a ton of cut-and-cover work going on down 4th street to do this.

Why would you see big residential buildings in Menlo Park or Palo Alto? SF, unlike most cities, has a lot of people commuting outwards towards the suburbs from the city each day. It's SF where you need the extra housing, not SV.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll quote Jamie Zawinski.” Now they have two problems.

Attributed to Mark Pilgrim in a comment at http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/who-said-that/
You are perfectly welcome to start your own mass transit system (rail, bus, boat, helicopter, etc). Chances are that you'll quickly find that between he high capital investment, highly variable fuel prices, environmental requirements, and demand challenges that it will be really hard to turn a profit.

Hence, not very many private entities want anything to do with the market.
Nah, it’s still too light on OS X with Safari. And on a Retina screen, no less. If this would work anywhere, it would work on that combination of screen, OS and browser. But no, it does not.

It’s just bad design.
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"Damn you kids, gettoff my lawn"
In some areas, yes. SF's Filbert and 22nd St make the top 10 steepest streets in the states:

http://www.fixr.com/infographics/top-10-US-steepest-streets....

If you get the opportunity... No, scratch that... Make the opportunity to visit San Francisco some time. It's a beautiful city within a short drive of some incredible parts of the West Coast of the US.
Fantastic! I learnt something new today. I did not know that the world was projected using Mercator projection and the how that played a role in distortion of the land size.
They are in the process of building the Transbay Center [1] which would bring Caltrain closer to the heart of SOMA. Slated for completion in 2017. You can see the construction of it on google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/iMfZx

[1]: http://transbaycenter.org/
Declare Everything - declarative vs imperative programming models
Linksys sells hardware, not software, it's not a valid comparison. People can copy their software all they want - they still have to buy the hardware to run it on.
Of course, yet more lines of code = more bugs. The browser landscape these days is much more stable if you ignore legacy IE.
Good writing isn't the same as good journalism. If you have one without the other, it has very different implications for the impact of a piece.
It's interesting that while Netflix is quite successful overall it has made some hugely bad decisions (silverlight, qwikster, house of cards release). You wonder if Netflix culture is a contributor.
I stopped reading at " It means that unlike gigantic employers in other times and places, the corporations of Silicon Valley aren’t much interested in improving public transport, and in fact the many corporations providing private transport are undermining the financial basis for the commuter train."

This is such complete bullshit i don't even know where to start. Every single company in the area has either offered to help, is helping, or had their help refused when it comes to public transport.

It's not even a Google vs Apple vs whoever, they are all trying to help here in any way they can.

Of course, since the author cites absolutely no statements or support for any of their claims, i'm just going to file this in the "not even wrong" category
As I ponder this more, I think it's useful to consider the concepts of simplicity and complecting as articulated by Rich Hickey in his talk "Simple Made Easy". As he explains it, to complect is to braid multiple things together, whereas in a simple system, multiple things are composed. He has often pointed out that simplicity does not necessarily mean fewer things; as I understand it, it's not about how many things they are, but how they interact.

In that light, the single flexible tweet list function presented in this post is indeed problematic because it has a few things braided together: a tweet list, a profanity filter, and pagination.

So we should be suspicious of repetition, but at the same time avoid complecting.
I am the author of this post. I don't disagree with anything you wrote. Several
posts on my blog say exactly this. The software I wrote however is open source
on github [1], has it's own website [2], has man pages for each command [3],
example projects [4] and three screencasts guiding how to install and use it
[5].

I did this because I wished that all bioinformatics software had this attention
to usability and documentation. However now I wonder what was the point of all
of this if no one ever ends up using it? I could have done the minimum for
publication then spent this time working on finishing other manuscripts I have
waiting.

As I wrote though, I agree with what you wrote in your comment. I just don't
think there is any incentive for post-docs in academia to prioritise writing
good software over pushing out additional papers.

[1]: https://github.com/michaelbarton/genomer

[2]: http://next.gs

[3]: https://github.com/michaelbarton/genomer-plugin-view/tree/ma...

[4]: https://github.com/michaelbarton/chromosome-pfluorescens-r12...

[5]: http://www.youtube.com/user/BioinformaticsZen
None of those companies sell the firmware. They sell the hardware. The firmware is only useful if you buy their hardware.
If you're talking about the Transbay Center, that's supposed to be completed in 2017. http://transbaycenter.org/construction-updates/project-sched...
The "4.5:1 requirement" can be found in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, part of a series of Web accessibility guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/

Here is a detailed explanation:

http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contr...
Don't be silly, i'm sure the author even has one of those shirts that says they are a nerd!
What about the House of Cards release was a hugely bad decision?
I'm afraid I don't understand your point. I never said anything about wiping data or canceling a contract because that's totally and completely irrelevant. The point is a car title shows proof of ownership. Beyond paying a bill, you don't have that proof of ownership for a cell phone. But even last month's Verizon bill isn't proof to Verizon or Apple that I didn't just sell my iPhone today. You certainly don't have anywhere near that proof of ownership with a Kindle.

Amazon isn't doing the easy thing. Amazon is doing the thing that isn't going to make them liable. If they don't hand over personal information, it's going to piss off an internet commenter. If they hand over information (not required by law), they are opening themselves up to liabilities as a result of releasing private information.

If law enforcement follows the proper channels, it's a non-issue. If we're arguing that an Amazon rep provided the wrong information to the customer, well, then there's nothing to argue about.

I find it mildly humorous that we jump from an individual claiming their Kindle was stolen to the FBI requesting information from Amazon. I'm not arguing what Amazon should or shouldn't do. I'm simply sharing my perspective on why they don't do it for everyone that comes asking.
How are buses a natural monopoly? I could see trains with right of way issues, but buses on publicly accessible roads?
You do realize, of course, that all of these companies have offered to help pay for new bus routes, or are working on helping to build rail bridges, or helping to propose private/public partnerships on better light rail, or ...
I agree that it's not so great for others, but I never claimed it was ideal for ALL genres.

If implemented correctly, a M/K control scheme can be just as good if not better than an analog controller for a 3d platform game. I played both Tomb Raider and Super Mario 64 all the way through when they were released (which was around the same time), but neither control scheme seemed to have an obvious advantage.

More recently, I played some of the Assassin's Creed games on the PC, and the control was pretty much perfect. When the first one came out, I remember some reviewers were surprised to find that they liked the PC version's controls more than the console version's.

For racing games, I agree, the analog controller is superior. It's also superior for fighting games and sports games.
Just based on the Wikipedia article, I don't think you're right that fiat implies manipulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency

So, based on that definition, it is true that Bitcoin is not a fiat currency because it is not given value by law or government. However, although it technically does not have a centralized issuing authority that can arbitrarily create Bitcoins, Satoshi Nakamoto did hard code a creation rate for Bitcoin. In a sense, he is the original issuing authority. The only difference between Bitcoin and fiat currencies, when it comes to currency manipulation, is that Nakamoto committed early on to a specific plan for issuing currency. The government (or the Fed) not only does not make that commitment, but it is unable to make such a strong, unbreakable commitment, although it verbally makes similar commitments all the time.
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The exchange rate has no effect on Silk Road. People will still want to buy BTC.
Look again (the GP is correct).
For (1), we choose well hidden geological location, e.g. stuff that is about a mile deep. My guess is we don't have such an extensive knowledge of geologically stable locations one mile below surface.

For (2), I'd venture to say that this is based on what we know today. But then, nuclear reaction or coherent light or traveling to the moon were not exactly "plausible" in 1900 either.

What we know from physics is that there's still a lot of residual energy that could theoretically be extracted, to the point where these isotopes are naturally radioactive.

So to me, that means we are likely to one day figure out how to harness that residual energy.
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Many people think that limiting "competition" and forcing people to use their preferred method of public transit is a legitimate public policy goal. The intent is not to provide efficient transit that works well for those who need it, the goal is to ensure that Very Large Capital Projects get the federal funding they need to fill the gigantic money-losing gap they create.
If housing is so expensive why the hell aren't they building more?

Lumber(or brick) doesn't cost more in California.

It's not a lack of capital. Interest rates are extremely low thanks to the fed.

It can't be a lack of labor. I personally know several carpenters and electricians who would happy to work in California for 6 months building apartments. I don't think my experience is that unusual.

What is going on?
For further reading on the geography and political economy of California, I strongly suggest Mike Davis' City of Quartz, which is a series of essays about LA:

http://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Angeles-Edition...

Warning for HN readers: the book is written in the same critical and class conscious vein as this article, so you may not like it.
Suppose that your code does become widely visible. How is that a bad thing for you? Your reputation will be enhanced, you will have contributed something that other people find useful, and if there are serious bugs affecting your results, it'll be nice to find those.

You might want to automate the process of re-running your analysis, though. It's a good idea in general, and especially if you anticipate needing to make minor tweaks to the software involved.
> Peter Sunde seems to be the only person who who seems vaguely normal.

I wish teenagers don't aspire to be "normal", as you seem to think they should.
Same here; there was recently a pay it forward thing going around social networks where you offer a gift of any value to 5 friends who sign up if they agree to do the same. All my gifts are sourced from the rewards of Kickstarter projects since that plays into the altruistic/community theme.
There's also a guy who's written a script to randomly buy him presents from Amazon, which ties in a little with the per month budget for an investment in something random theme. It probably won't be long before someone does the same for KS.
I never said large. Small proprietary companies also can't use GPL. I guess, fuck them, too? Fuck anyone who wants to actually make money writing software for a living? How very 1998 of you.
Doh, I did say large. Well, crap. How about "thousands of small proprietary companies..." ?
I have been told that it looks "expensive".
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Quantopian Looks to Break Wall Street's Lock on Algorithmic Trading
Your analogy is also ridiculous. You're suggesting that taking a bite of ice cream and shooting somebody are morally equivalent.
No, it's actually stuck. http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2012/06/10/noe-valleys-23rd-street...
That's not at all what the author is trying to say. He's pointing out the shortcomings of mathematics notation and why that can be off-putting to otherwise motivated programmers.
The TransBay development looks awesome. Reminds me a lot of Ogilvie in Chicago (exiting into the base of a skyscraper with integrated retail). It looks like the future--I'm sure San Franciscans hate it.
How exactly is Solnit an expat? She grew up in Novato and lives in SF and has since well before the '89 earthquake, at least. I suppose she is if you interpret expat as "moved into SF from outside the city limits of SF," but that's an odd usage.
I don't believe that programmers in Denmark is more skilled, or more focused on security.

I have just often wondered why a lot of the webshops in the US that I use stores all my information, I have never seen it here.

And no, I don't believe that I use more US-based webshops than Danish.
Whoa, hold on there! No need to swear.

> It sounds like you don't want to release your code because someone else might find a bug that you missed

I already said at the end of my post that I decided to release my code. Everyone will be able to see it.

> You would rather leave potentially incorrect work standing than have a bug corrected?

Of course not. You missed the whole point of my post. My point was "Here's a situation in science that needs fixing". "People are hesitant to fix it because...". "I'm going to personally work towards a solution."

Let me ask: what incentive does any scientist have at all to publish their code? You're not going to make money off of it. It's in an obscure niche so you're not going to be world-famous with it. You may get citations to your work, but you're just making yourself vulnerable to having your reputation destroyed because of a bug that nullified all of your articles' results. This is why nobody wants to do it. I'm not saying it's right; I'm saying that it's the status quo.

Most big scientific packages are funded by the DOE, NSF, and others. That's likely the only reason they are even out there.
I'm a young person who works in tech in Oakland, and I don't like the young people who work in tech in SF and ride the comfortable google bus every day to their jobs in the valley.

Ride public transit. Get out of your tech bubble and experience a sliver of the lives of other people who live in your adopted city. Not everyone owns an iPhone 5 and is downloading the latest app.

Work on something that will actually "change the world", not just disrupt a market and make you rich.