skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that someday I will be moving to a small city. However, there are huge pros and cons. I have lived for the past few years in San Francisco and New York. Both are massive cities; San Francisco is a huge tech echo-chamber. It can get nauseating at times. New York has people who can be complete assholes to strangers. Just because. Yet, every time, I leave the cities to travel elsewhere, I am reminded of why I pay the expensive amounts to live here.

- Food: Walk out of your house. Go a few blocks. You will find ethnic food of your choice in New York or San Francisco. Hell, I live in the UWS in New York. Even here, in the midst of high residential nirvana, you can find random restaurants open at all hours of the night. Austin was a great city when I lived there. Except that the closest restaurant ( a subway) was 5 miles away. Ever want to do something crazy, like celebrate a birthday of a friend during thanksgiving. Not a chance. Everything is shutdown. This is not just an American phenomenon. I have been in Stockholm for the past few weeks. It is sunday afternoon and you want food? Nope, it is sunny out there so every restaurant owner in a five block radius wants to close his place and go hang out.

- Transport: If you want to live in an American city and not drive a car, I haven't found better cities to live than the two. It is ridiculous how well a city like Austin is designed for the four wheeled population. To the extent that pavements are an afterthought, sandwiched between lawns and tarmac.

- Culture: This is not going to be an issue for most people making the move. However, as a person who is a perpetual immigrant, I prefer cities that are filled with people from varying different backgrounds. New York is the most non American, American city that I have ever lived in. I wish I could say the same for San Francisco, but it really is a city of three major clusters.
this is why i find it strange people are basically saying netflix is sticking up for network neutrality, when in essence netflix is asking for special treatment because they are big.
Why does it "seem" that way to you? Do you have experience with filtering systems, and the costs associated with them?

Or, is it because you have experience with bans?
How would you pay for the upgrade of all water treatment plants? A special tax on microbeads?
These stories keep popping up, and they're all very encouraging. There was a post a while back about a startup in St Louis, another about Baltimore. There are a lot of excellent cities out there, and SF really is just too expensive (NY, too, but we're talking about tech).

I'm reminded of a quote by Patty Smyth: "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."

http://gothamist.com/2010/05/03/patti_smith_suggests_finding....

I really do think that tech needs to embrace the need to branch out. I understand SF is a great place to fund tech companies, and that VCs (and often CEOs) appear to prefer it.

But it is frustrating to see tech elites (I'm talking about the sort of people who get to pick up the phone and vent a bit to the elected leader of the world's largest military about their company's hiring woes) insist that there is a severe shortage of tech workers when they continue to create 110k a year jobs in a city where the median 3br house costs 1.1mil. I agree that SF should build more, but this isn't going to be the solution.

If you're offering 110K a year for developers in Detroit, Poughkeepsie, Baltimore, St Louis, Minneapolis and you can't find anyone, ok, maybe we can start talking about why and how the government can help. But if you're creating 110K a year jobs in a place where two full time workers are looking at roughly 50k in child care costs and a 1.1 mil bill for the median 3br house, well of course you're having trouble finding workers!
It doesn't cover package management but I found this to be a great tutorial http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html
Three hours a day on the subway from almost anywhere in Brooklyn to almost anywhere in Manhattan is a stretch. I commute from Bay Ridge - the far end of the "R" line in Brooklyn, and not express - to Little Italy, daily. Door-to-door, the commute is about 45 minutes. My rent is under $1600 for a large 1BR in an elevator building with laundry.

Coming from Philadelphia, where I lived in a 2BR HOUSE with a yard and all the amenities for $400/mo less, there was some sticker shock. But when you get to it, there's a lot more opportunity, a lot more options, a lot more of...everything. New York is about "a lot". That's what you pay for.

People seem to be unwilling to explore neighborhoods outside of a 20-minute ride to down/midtown hotspots, which reasonably cost considerably more. If you can stomach an extra 10-20m on the subway you can find very livable rents in good neighborhoods.
How foolish of me. I ought not to have even brought it up.
Mixely – An offline social network
I've been working on this side project on and off for about 2 years now. We are kinda keeping things exclusive for now but we already have over 300 users mostly by inviting people from communities like this to join and provide feedback.

If you're a curious person or just an early adopter of new things, let us know what you think about http://mixely.com/.

There's also a medium article that goes more in depth here https://medium.com/@razmakhin/friendship-for-everyone-d320be21fdee

Thanks,
Sean
I am life-long 'burger (aside from 4 years away for university), and this doesn't match my experience (I'm 41, so I've been around the proverbial block here--I lived through the first "renaissance" in East Liberty, and am observing the re-growth of that neighborhood now). I jumped about the tech boom bus in the late 90s, and from what I've seen, the tech boom never ended. And, in my experience, that industry is varied--want to build websites? Build medical devices? Work on speech recognition software? There are jobs here for you.

not nearly enough new-world accoutrements

Can you give examples? As others have pointed out, I think PGH does a great job of bridging the gap between a large, cosmopolitan city and a small town where you don't have to feel lost forever. Of course, as you point out, the flip side to that it is a small town--you have to very careful to avoid burning bridges because it is highly likely you may need to cross that bridge again at some point.

(Edit: fixed formatting)
Very cool experiment, and even cooler visual results!

One thing though - the tilting of the scene from the phone's perceived variance of the gravity vector is not due to centrifugal force, but due to inertia.

In other words, it's the same reason you're pushed back into your seat when you accelerate, and slam your head into the dashboard and spill hot coffee in your lap when you lock up the breaks.
My goal was to get publicity for Openmargin. I created a quick site called BetaList, emailed them about it, and as an end result got publicity for Openmargin. That was the trick.
I love Font Awesome and use it all the time....but this campaign is to help fund development of a "somewhat faster" commercial licensable version of existing icons?

I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund Dave to make more icons freely available.
Yes, I did try it out-- for me at least, on FF/Win7, it just inserts about 20 whitespace characters.
> She often brings me to social events to run interference
> for her.

As a married guy in a totally different sort of introvert/extrovert mix, this was wonderful to read! I love the "we're a mismatch, and that's why it's fun" attitude.

My wife and I are an odd mix because I'm simultaneously the "charmer" and the introvert who needs a lot of time alone. She's the extrovert, but also has trouble reading people, so people either love her or are unintentionally "rubbed the wrong way" by her immediately.

So in our social interactions we often wind up with the introvert (me) "running interference" or more often smoothing things over for the extrovert... haha.

It works, though, and it's fun. She's amazing and without her I'd probably be a hermit with a squirrel living in my beard.
Nothing is perfect. Various crypto algorithms have minor weaknesses but we still use them. Your OSS compiler could have been compromised decades ago ("On Trusting Trust"). The NSA could have hidden a backdoor in every CPU.
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Link to our talk slides: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/publications/emi-talk.pdf
> If the government has the means to do that, why is it not providing seeds/saplings etc. of vitamin A containing crops right now?

Why do people eat bananas as a staple food now? If you're poor, it's all about the efficiency of calories per dollar. You're hungry and you want something filling, but you don't have a lot to spend. You pick the thing that is going to fill you up.

If the staple food right now is the banana, it's because that's what is most efficient to produce. In other areas that is rice, in the US it is corn.

The goal is to make the staple food a bit healthier.
The statement "youtube simply won't have the license to show them anymore" reads drastically different from "His confirmation that YouTube will block videos from labels that do not sign licensing deals for the new premium tier"

What is your source for the first - i.e. where are artists revoking YouTube's license to display their videos?
Good Indian food? Inside the Days Inn on Banksville Rd. Seriously, I'm not kidding.
> Sorry, I don't mean to be a jagoff.

Fixed that for you ;)
Although slightly weird to say, I am hosting a Minecraft server for my son and his friends to play on (14-16 year olds). It is a fast machine with 32gb of RAM, enterprise drives and it holds up great with 10 people on it. They are using over 400gb a month.

But I can totally see that a company trying to host minecraft servers as a business would really need a decent amount of hardware. This all costs money, plus electricity, plus bandwidth.
I like the section on "Forward-Looking Statements". While I'm sure some will take it as weasel-words to cover his ass (and I suspect if it was absent many of these people would find something -anything- else to critique), I think it's just prudence.

It comforts me to see a big announcement with a caveat, because I feel they are trying to be accurate instead of bombastic.
>>> You can engage in a personal spirituality without feeling guilted to show up for social functions (that only seem to empower the leaders of congregations).

This.

So many people equate spirituality with religion. The deepest things I've learned about spirituality was when I was studying Native American religions and Shamanism. I was brought up Catholic, but it wasn't until I realized my spirituality didn't have to be connected to my religious beliefs that I really started to see the world in a whole new way.

It just opened up so many new paths of exploration and understanding. It truly was an "ah-ha!" moment.
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I find that my productivity goes down 90 minutes into a task. However, a 15-20 minute break does the trick and I find myself productive once again. The trick is to weed out the distractions (especially if you work from home) - TV, family, news/shopping sites, HN...
Would it kill them to fix some of the bugs in the desktop application first? You can't even sort search results any more. This is apparently marked as a "not now" concern. A lot of premium customers are deeply unsatisfied with the way Spotify handled their latest update.
Comcast is buying slightly over 10% of all US broadband subscribers for $45B, so let's say the entire US broadband infrastructure is worth over $400B. That's some serious eminent domain.
This is legally problematic, as others have posted already. It would amount to nationalization of private infrastructure.

I personally favor a different solution: liberalize frequency allocation and open up quite a bit more of the radio band for last-mile local/regional wireless.

The cost of building out infrastructure rises exponentially as you approach the last mile, for obvious reasons. Allowing the last mile to be wireless opens the field for quite a bit more competition. You'd have a whole raft of local and regional Internet service startups.
I just keep my .emacs.d in git, including any installed packages. Seems to work.
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Black Tie is a completely new icon set designed from scratch. Different look and feel than the original Font Awesome.

Supporting this will also give me more time to work on the original Font Awesome, too!
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China cracks down on Apple’s iMessage as national web cleanup continues
Can't edit now, but you're 100% correct, my typo was overlooked by me... three (or more) times!
DevconTLV talk given by Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Packer
Good point about "communicating the entire time that its death was imminent".

Regarding the power tests I think the relevance is that the drives lie to the OS about sync, and just claim they completed it when its in their cache, and then hope they can write it to flash before power loss / before the capacitor runs out. The cache wouldn't be a problem if it could be reliably flushed.
As it is they will corrupt the integrity of anything that relies on syncs / write barriers like databases.
"How do you make a small fortune in the airline industry?"

"Start with a large fortune..."
Yup. An array of Vec3 (3 floats) will just take N*12 bytes, as you expect.
The complexity depends on what constraints you put on yourself. Here's an example, suppose you have a UI panel with a number of checkboxes, radiobuttons, and sliders, and you want to synchronize the state across several users, without blocking (i.e. if a user changes state, he doesn't need to wait for server response to change change state again). Global state exists on a single server. Let's say your users start changing state furiously, what happens? ...well, the object state will live in several places (and slightly different for every client):

1) Local: In the view but before event dispatched to the model.

2) Local: In model but before it was synced to the server.

2a) Local: After model sync and in queue waiting to be sent to the server.

3) Remote: In transit to the server.

4) Remote: On the server (i.e. the one true state).

5) Remote: In transit to the clients.

6) Local: Received but before it was synced to the model.

7) Local: In model but before synced to the view.

8) In the initial state sync (e.g. when a new client joins)

So at any given point, every client state is inconsistent with every other client (maybe even significantly if the latency for one or more of the clients is bad) since pieces of the eventual state are spread across all these locations. If now every user stops changing state furiously, every client should eventually be consistent. It's not a hard problem but not completely trivial. For example, you will need conflict resolution rules on the server and in your client and traditional distributed issues like (temporary) network partitioning and latency need to be taken into account. Message ordering will probably matter.

>It sounds like the client is just trying to receive a stream of updates, which could have been made by a single writer

Not necessarily. You have the same synchronization issues whether the updates are coming from a single source, or from multiple sources.
For those behind the register-wall:

>>>

China cracks down on Apple’s iMessage as national web cleanup continues

Spam messages originating on iMessage will be heavily monitored in the future

China’s Ministry of Information and Information Technology (MIIT) intends to lay down new regulations governing Apple’s iMessage, the default messaging app in every Apple iPhone and iPad.

The measures include tools to monitor and prevent spam messages, which the ministry says are prevalent on the iOS default messaging app.

According to a report by Chinese technology site TechWeb, iMessage’s vulnerabilities to spam have cost users “millions” of RMB.

Up to this point, TechWeb notes iMessage has been in a “vacuum” area void of regulation - particularly when compared to other messaging apps such as Tencent's WeChat.

Chinese authorities earlier this year embarked on a nationwide campaign to combat fraud, pornography, and other illicit goings-on via the internet.

Just last week, Tencent cooperated with officials to wipe out millions of WeChat and QQ accounts used for activities ranging from phishing scams to prostitution.

While the MIIT's announcement may be an extension of this crackdown, it may also be a jab at Apple.

MIIT has accused the American software giant of not taking sufficient action to curb criminal activities on iMessage, and Apple has also been the focus of many a labor rights investigation in China.
> A significant amount of this infrastructure was built with government subsidies and stimulus money by local monopolies with no competition.

No it wasn't, if we're talking about cable and not copper. The cable companies industry is not the phone industry.[1] Almost all the existing cable infrastructure was built after deregulation of the industry in 1992, in which granting exclusive cable franchises was made illegal under federal law. Indeed, almost all municipalities use their cable franchises as a revenue source: imposing a franchise tax as well extracting lump-sum payments to support internet service for municipal buildings, public access television, etc.

[1] And even in the phone industry, the subsidies overwhelmingly go to supporting service in high-cost rural areas, where no profit-minded company would otherwise bother to build infrastructure.
If you want to use version control for your theme development, there's already Roots: http://roots.io/
What I'd really love (and have looked for in the past) is a way to automatically push a song over to a specific spotify playlist every time I tag a song on shazam (thinking like an IFTTT recipe). It looks like that might be possible with this new api.
When you've added enough patches, operations, and hardware to the initial game, I think it's totally reasonable to be able to charge for that. Mojang should just sell a license of the server software (perhaps with better patches, yeah?) to resellers, ala cPanel or what have you.

They basically have this one-trick-pony which is now effectively maintained by the community at zero cost to them--no wonder they're being silly.

EDIT: Somebody should just release an extendable open-source clone of the game, with art assets, and just force their hand.
The critical difference is the SSDs all indicated they were "past expiration date" with the SMART wear indicators. The Samsung indicators were overly conservative it appears, dropping to dead long before the drive actually died. Their software is garbage though, reporting a healthy drive even though the SMART indicators are telling you it is close to death. Obviously they never bothered to test a nearly-expired drive... probably the same reason the Intel drive bricked itself instead of coming up in read-only mode. I doubt they tested this scenario very well (not that we software engineers ever just test the golden path either...)

In any case, all the drives so far indicated they were destined to keel over via the SMART attributes long before it actually happened... Certainly long enough to buy a new drive and copy all the data, even for the less reliable TLC drive.

In fact even under a heavy workstation load you'd have enough time to save up money working a minimum wage part-time job, order the SSD when it goes on sale, wait for it to arrive via ground shipping, forget that you need an external SATA adapter, save up for that, order it, wait for shipping, then copy the data.

My original Intel X25-M G2, which I used for several years in my daily workstation, had around 4 TB total writes before I replaced it. That's two orders of magnitude lower than the apparent limit for these drives.
The tricky part is how to handle incoming packets. Since you didn't send them you can't mark them.
> I have a hell of a time explaining this to my more extraverted
> friends -- many of whom "don't see it," because I'm not
> particularly shy or reserved in social settings. [...]
> because people don't "buy" my introversion. They just think
> I'm avoiding them.)

God, yes. Huge sad ongoing thing in my life. This is a constant thing I do. I'm not awkward, so I make these friendships, and then I unintentionally hurt people with my introverted tendencies.

I feel you.
Ha!

As someone who grew up half an hour _outside_ the city, it's been interesting to see which chunks of Pittsburghese I picked up, and which ones I didn't. Some if it is also age: my grandfather speaks with a more significant amount of it than I do, even though his home was half a mile from my childhood one.
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As a skier I look forward to the winters, we get both Pacific and Arctic weather so the winters are cold enough to keep deep powder around in the mountains but warm enough to stabilize the snowpack and reduce avalanche danger for backcountry skiing.

The climate is actually reasonably mild in the valley (3,500'), it snows but it usually melts within days or weeks if it is a very cold spell. I'm able to run outside all winter long wearing a light fleece layer and occasionally using microspikes for traction if it is icy.

The local ski area is in a pass at 7k feet and closes if it gets much bellow 0 F which only happened a couple of days this year.

Missoula and the Flathead vallies to the north get inversions causing haze in the valley bottoms much of the winter but the bitterroot gets more sunny winter days.
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linkBait spammy spam spam.
Bah.
Is Chromecast anything like Google TV? Google TV is more like a Smart TV in an external box (or indeed integrated with Smart TVs); it takes your cable/satellite as input and provides features to go with that. Chromecast is more like Miracast; you tell it where some content is and it displays that on your TV.

They seem like they are the same thing, but are actually different.
This was the best article I've seen so far for describing and understanding the conditions inside:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
Sorry, fixed that and thanks for the heads up. The h is very unusual.
Group actions like this can fall apart pretty easily. One company feels some pressure and changes their mind, and then everybody else follows.

I think a good case can be made that a major purpose of law should be to codify the unwritten rules that people already follow, to ensure that everyone understands them and to make it easier to resolve disputes.

Looking at it from another direction, making a law like this can make it easier for everybody involved even if they're already voluntarily following it. I like to make the analogy to safety regulations in car racing. There's an inherent conflict between safety and speed (if nothing else, safety equipment adds weight) which puts drivers at risk and sets up hard choices for people who have to weigh their desire to win against their desire to die in bed. Regulating a certain level safety equipment settles the question and provides a fair playing field for competition without having to feel like a chump for trying to do the right thing.
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Forward Looking Statements are a boilerplate disclaimer that publicly traded companies typically include anytime they talk about anything other than historical fact. If they don't include them and their plans change, they are at serious risk of being sued by their shareholders.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-looking_statement