skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course suburban life is very appealing. That's why it's so popular. People don't do it just to waste resources or screw the environment. I like to look for the externalities and where they come from. For urban sprawl, my best theory is that government subsidy of roads and related infrastructure is the primary driving force (pun intended) of urban sprawl.
I did not mean to imply that all of Africa lacks clean water and is hostile to doctors--just the areas of the current outbreak. Sorry for the imprecise language.

I think it is instructive that ebola has not spread to the more developed areas of Africa in 30 years. Compare to AIDS, which also originated in Africa and rapidly spread into cities worldwide.
There are echoes of some zen/meditation ideas in here. I'm just starting to get into that kind of stuff. Curious to hear if Paul meditates, and what resources he (and other HNers) recommend for getting into it.
Would this even be legal, given fire codes?
>I also hope to see UEFI reimplemented as a resident domU, such that a plain old desktop or notebook computer could treat its user OS as a container-image to be slung around, rather than having it "own" the hardware. UEFI actually already supports this mode of operation--allowing you to boot "UEFI applications" that keep UEFI around to provide BIOS-like functionality--but I don't know of a single OS that makes use of that, rather than overwriting the processor interrupt vectors and claiming all of physical memory for itself.

This is really the opposite direction things are going, especially in x86_64. PV is horrendously inefficient in 64 bit mode, because of the removal of CPU ring 1 and 2.

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtualization_Spectrum#Problems_wi...

HVM allows PCI passthrough if your CPU and chipset support it, which means domU now has direct access to the hardware, with no dom0/qemu layer to get in the way and slow things down.
He is actively saying that privacy is a bad habit, but yet he won't demonstrate that he believes what he says by posting his history. Heck, all he has to do is screenshot (or copy/paste) everything from https://history.google.com/history to prove he's not "dishonest". And if "knowledge is inherently good" then it would be inherently good to know that he is not actively trying to subvert the government by browsing certain sites or reading certain books. It reads like someone drunk on idealism that believes information will never be distorted, used against them, misapplied, interjected with false data, and so on.

"doesn't mean that he has to facilitate its erosion"

It's not facilitating the erosion, it's adding evidence that what he says is backed up by fact, starting with himself. If he does not believe he should follow his own ideals, does he really believe them?
Not very helpful but personally I'm in a very similar situation - I've always worked on programming since I was a kid but never had the opportunity to get a degree and every single programming job in my area requires at minimum a 2 year CS degree, so I took a job as an industrial electrician which unfortunately means throwing out almost all of the knowledge that I've worked my entire life for.

I'd be very interested to see what others have to say about this, I doubt if it is a very uncommon problem at the moment.
> [...] driving a car on the bike roads would require a $10 per day special pass [...]

Or just determine the maximum number of cars you can support, and auction off the permits. (That's what they do in Singapore.)
Especially since platforms like Heroku makes deploying a Python or RoR app in 15 minutes really simple.
You have two bad choices here. You can either admit your philosophy has holes, or you can explain how the labor movement resulted in a worse outcome than respecting employers' rights.
Tunnels are crazy expensive. The article's ideas runs into the millions. The tunnel would run into the billions.
And the US has important historical, cultural, legal and political differences from Australia.
This is passing of "Internet access" for access to a curated* selection of different domains. That's deception in my book, because it reinforces the perception that "The Internet" is Google and Facebook.

As for trusting the competitive market on this, I just have two words: natural monopolies.

* This word has completely lost its original meaning.
2522 days here. He's pretty much spot on. You, however, with your trivial sub-500 day membership, don't understand why calling out such things are immature and not welcomed here on HN.

Seriously, calling people out merely for their account age? Really? You really think that's a valued contribution? I mean, your comment amounts to nothing more than a weakly flung insult.
At least, you will see how certain micro-assumptions play out when put together in a simulation.
If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend this long series of articles: http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/tradcityarchive.ht...
Posted a similar question on Ask HN a while ago. Best resource I use for beginning meditation is:
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22&oTopID=22
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The author rightly points out that there is, dare I say, a disruption in traditional career paths. Consulting/Banking/Large Corporate was 20/30 years ago seen as a key entry point for any career. And in that there was an informal contract: start with us, work hard, and we will promote you internally and externally so that you can move into the next big thing. This ultimately depended on said big bank/corporate/consulting house continuing an inexorable growth to support everyone growing.

Today, big banks/corporates/consulting firms now no longer offer that same social contract (they would argue they do, but they don't - with few exceptions). You are expendable and most firms would be happy for you to stay where you are (same role, same salary) and if you want to change, go find it outside the company.

So in complete agreement with the author that a big name brand name won't necessarily move your career forward.

But extrapolating that further, what I am now seeing is that this first choice can irreparably hamper your choices down the road. Following the 'traditional' and 'secure' path of a big company/consulting firm etc is now seen as the safe, risk free, dare I say boring choice. If you have any intention of being in a risky role (ie startup/entrepreneur) the signalling from a big comfortable riskless name on your resume may do more harm than good.

I review candidates for roles in a fast paced tech startup. If I have a choice between someone from say Microsoft and someone from a failed startup, everything else being equal, I will pick the startup man/woman every time.
I've always imagined that a "human-centric" city of the future would simply move most of its automobiles one level up or down. Many dense cities already have subways. It'd be expensive but not inconceivable to move all car-width roads into an underground level or onto dedicated skyways, although the latter seems more likely to create issues with lighting and whatnot.
Yeah, I'm surprised to see them repeatedly reporting accuracy, when recall and precision are so widely established as the appropriate measures of binary classification quality.
I'm not even in a software company, but a too-big-to-fail financial company that continues to cut back and treat us as an evil expense with a bureaucracy to put governments to shame. I've been there for 15+ years and will continue to be there as long as they have me, for the simple reason of a paycheck for my family.

Try to get by with side projects - though that sucks right now as I want them to make more money - they at least are something that gives me some passion in developing.
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I'm doing inner-city barefooting just fine. But yeah, you better watch out where you step.
This being a for-profit endeavour, they would just sell extra permits to anyone who asked.
The post offers Full Contact (http://www.fullcontact.com/) and Vibe (http://vibeapp.co/) as alternatives. Does anyone have any other recommendations?
The video of the talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5w-0H-hq6E&list=PLQ-uHSnFig5...
> Regulation that violates rights

In my philosophy, corporations have no inherent rights, only those privileges society chooses to bestow upon them, and can choose to revoke at any time for any reason. So it is literally impossible to violate Sprint's rights.

You must find some other way to reach your desired outcome, because framing it in terms of "rights" leads to the inevitable question of what rights a person or entity might have. And you will never get everyone to agree on that.
Probably just you,
I haven't seen any Deliverator, nor has a girl in leather approached me in a bar asking what was I did night after night at my computer.
Your post is full of conjectures, outlandish claims, and of course no data to back any of them... "not expected to be much volume" - seriously? BitPay is seeing an insane growth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7974197 - And on CNBC Stephen Pair recently said BitPay gains 500-1000 merchants every week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8YSivdLKf0 Claiming they lied about doing $100 million in 2013 (this rumor is apparently being spread by a few anti-Bitcoin reddit posters...) is equally ridiculous. BitPay is currently processing $1 million/day in sales: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-payments-pioneer-bitpa...

BitPay has 30,000 merchants, and sells 2 plans on top of their free service: business and enterprise. Assuming 1%-5% of their merchants are subscribed to their business plan ($300/mo), and assuming the enterprise plan price is sold for 5x this value (negotiable, on average) but attracts only 1/5th the number of business plan customers (so 0.2%-1% of merchants paying $1500/mo), then it would give BitPay between $2.2 million and $10.8 million of revenue per year. $2.2M would not make BitPay cash-flow positive, but $10.8 would certainly do it. In that case it is a no-brainer that they would make their basic service free: they would entice merchants to give BitPay a shot, and BitPay would profit from the small percentage who later decide to upgrade to a business or enterprise plan.
It works fine in a bunch of the rest of the world.
What are you showing, exactly? All I see is a sign up page for a book which may or may not be finished soon.
> Especially when walking is not a convenient mode of travel for people living outside the largest cities.

This part is a chicken-and-egg problem, though: we design sprawled-out, unwalkable communities because everybody has cars; everybody has cars because they live in sprawled-out, unwalkable communities.
Don't believe anything you hear about a job requiring a 2-4 year CS degree. What's important here is that you know your stuff. Keep teaching yourself programming in your spare time (Python is a good choice, there's a higher dollar amount associated with Python devs compared to some other languages). I don't have a degree at all, and I'm currently working at my second development position making a lot more than I ever could have wished for, even if I had gotten a degree. Just keep on learning, and once you're comfortable, look for some places around you that are hiring, and don't be afraid to apply!
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Verizon's quarterly profits are a fraction of those of Google, which is a single Internet company. If you had to pick a place to be on the value chain and profitability was your only metric, infrastructure is a bad place to be.
Short answer: yes, of course. A great many programmers are very young, and so I think our industry tends to get pretty myopic when it comes to career arcs, and even just time in general. There are many, many professional programmers who have less than 5 years training+experience combined. This isn't to say that more experience and training won't open doors, because it will. But what I am saying is that there's no reason to despair.

Consider: if you devoted yourself to reading and working on open-source projects or even some contracting, going to workshops/codeathons, local user groups, and etc., you could built up some expertise and even a pretty decent portfolio of work within a few short years. Give it even just 2-3 years of being disciplined with it, and you could very possibly have more to show for it than some who have been coasting in the industry for far longer. After 3 years, you would be only 31, and you could have a programming career for 20-30 years, if you so desired.

Bottom line: you can do it. But you gotta be ready to work hard and jump into things.
> a measly 100 calories per mile

Five miles a day of walking is something everybody can do pretty easily. What the heck is measly about 500 calories a day when people eat something like 2500 calories?
The term "over-engineering" comes to mind when arguing self-driving cars vs walking. Also, cars keep us lazy and fat.
326k users? that's... shockingly low
It's worth noting that there's also a strong counter-incentive to avoiding urban sprawl. Given that cities are expanding, something new will need to be built. That's pretty much inevitable.

What's striking is how hard it is to take what's already present and build up, to modernize or expand existing infrastructure. Construction in a city is expensive, and a great many existing buildings break various codes (ADA, asbestos, etc) in ways that are more expensive to fix than from-scratch development is.

When building new is cheaper than retrofitting, people will tend to do it. Putting up a new building in Boston's financial district would likely mean knocking half a dozen valuable apartment buildings, and won't ever happen. Putting that office building up five miles away is cheaper, and Boston is already seeing a number of industrial parks on its outskirts for that reason.

The exceptions are places where land costs a fortune (NYC), zoning is impossible to deal with (San Francisco), or the sprawl is already so atrocious that "outskirts" is a death sentence for a new venture (LA).

Subsidies for expansion certainly matter, but even without them there are substantial incentives to choose sprawl over infill and development.
Obviously, there are many reasons behind why LinkedIn took this decision (and indeed made the original purchase decision) and they may be using the technology internally at LinkedIn in other ways. And, I am a fan of LinkedIn and use it everyday.

Having said that, I am baffled by this. While I appreciate that there is a battle own an individual's primary social network and spend more time/content on LinkedIn vs say Facebook. But, IMHO, wouldn't it have been more prudent to build up the functionality of the LinkedIn component while still offering the functionality that 300k plus users obviously wanted anyway? While this will probably be re-offered (it now looks that it is) as a LinkedIn only plugin, LinkedIn are limiting their reach to only LinkedIn users.

Had they continued to build the multi-network capabilities and brought the marketing/reach of LinkedIn to the product, I dare say they could have owned a significant portion of all GMail users and likely been no.1 in the space. Controlling that (and offering preferential treatment to LinkedIn) what definitely add value.

Who knows the end result, but it looks like a missed opportunity that someone else will come in and take.
> photon is a photon in both cases

With backlit LCDs you are getting fluorescent light, whereas with e-ink you can choose to have reflected daylight or incandescent ... i.e. broad spectrum sources. Definitely different on my eyes.

It's the refresh rate / responsiveness that kills the experience.
I agree with the other poster - I think your problem is motion blur rather than focus - if you have a decent lens (one of the "pro" lenses, rather than kit) the focus is very fast, smooth and does well in low light for both Nikon and Canon.
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Instead of thinking about the area of study (web dev, data, etc), how about you look at the openings in Poland to see which companies are hiring, and for what languages. Then pick a few of those companies that you think are cool, and concentrate on the technologies that they are using. That way instead of shooting in the dark, your aspiring to fulfill a need in your community.
I live in a community called Serenbe. (http://serenbe.com) which has taken a much different approach to suburban new urbanist development. It's built around an organic farm rather than a golf course, it's got miles of green space and trails, and a fantastic commitment to ecology and the environment -- for example the outdoor irrigation system is built from gray water from the homes in the community.

Also: it's got some great restaurants and about 80% of my diet comes from food that's made within 25 miles of where I live now. To get to a restaurant, we take a brief stroll through the woods.

Smartest thing I ever did was move here. I've spent my whole life trying to work with governments (mostly federal) to use technology to improve service delivery and if I'm honest with myself, it's been mostly discouraging. But since I've moved here, I've met with the mayor and we're beginning to do amazing things.

What makes an amazing place to live, though isn't the lack of automobiles (as the author of this post seems to believe), or great architecture -- but rather an attitude of community. That you all have a shared role in the success of each other's life environment. Human beings are wired for that, and both urban and suburban environments tend to separate us from that.
A really great documentary that partially covers the history of suburbs is called "end of suburbia". Its mostly about the theory of peak oil, and how that would destroy the "american dream". Despite all those flaws it has some interesting buts about suburban development itself, and some original implementations. Specifically, a lot of transporation from city suburbs to city centers happened via light rail, versus individual cars.

Personally I dont think the suburbs are going anywhere. Im absolutely fascinated by the possibilites of electric, autonomous vehicles, and the small house movement. To me, those elements in combination might strike a reasonable balance between the desire to have ones own space, and the transportation requirements.
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Because the ramifications of that simple and obvious fact are probably too painful for most people (and for society as well).

But, in defense of this reality rejection, you never know until you try. If you follow the nonsense kindergarten line of "You can be anything you want to be if you just try hard enough and dream!" you likely are going to be better off than if you give up early because others are better than you are.

But yes... far too many people wind up in areas they don't belong, and they struggle, meanwhile they have real gifts in other areas that remain unused.

The ability to sync your natural talents with your efforts are probably one of the unspoken keys to success.
Sure, if you have shitty insulation. The proper strategy is to have good insulation, and then to have the heat on constantly using a CV system at low temperatures, because heating constantly with water of 30 degrees (C, that is) is much more energy efficient than heating in peaks with much warmer water (60, 70, 90 even 20 years ago). So yes, in houses with crap insulation warming constantly is less efficient. However in properly build houses, warming constantly is more efficient. (I'm living for a few months in New Zealand - oh my the quality of the houses here is atrocious. It's one of the main reasons I couldn't live here permanently. And then they put in a 'heat pump' (an air to air one) and call themselves 'green'. Don't get me started.)
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Seems like a great concept for a book, however, perhaps just a little bit more detail on the landing page? I definitely know that this is the route you should be taking (per Nathan Barry, if you haven't read Authority, check it out), but I'd like to see just a little more detail.
Next up, FCC chair accuses scapegoat of not providing good enough distraction while he dismantles net neutrality.
It could also be that those three people had started practicing earlier than him (AP classes, community college, retaking the course after failing), had tutors which provide knowledge at a vastly higher pace, or had related knowledge (highly advanced math, physical chemistry) that gave them an initial advantage. Also, a college class provides nowhere near 10,000 hours of practice. Perhaps things would even out after the first 5,000 hours.
But, under the ECPA, it is not a felony for system operators to do the same thing (for operational and diagnostic reasons) on networks carrying voice traffic. And yet nobody is suggesting that voice traffic isn't subject to wiretap laws.
Totally heating dominate energy use. I'm rather disturb to hear people pay much attention to so call "phantom power" from idle electronics and adapters. Adapters plugged in the socket do not consume measurable power. Wifi router uses about a few watts. The worst offender is a set-top box that uses 18W irrespective of power on or off. It is piece of crap anyway so I unplugged it. All the electronics in the house probably use less power in a day compare to running a 1500W heater for 15 minutes.
That, by itself, is not trivial.

Compounded with a hundred small little annoyances, it makes the code comparatively unpleaseant.
It does not work that way in the US, unfortunately.
I would have thought it pretty obvious that some people have in intrinsic "gift" in certain areas. This is completely obvious in physical sports and I don't see why - considering that our minds are underpinned by the physical structure of our brains - that this wouldn't also be the case when it comes to mental activites as well.

Just because I may not have the intrinsic gift that allows me to become the best physicist or investor in the world doesn't mean that I couldn't get pretty damn good at it if I put the time in, though. It doesn't necessarily mean that I would enjoy what I was doing any less.

I remember hearing about a study that I think was by Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck[1] that basically found that praising kids for being smart (i.e. having an intrinsic gift) was far less effective than praising them for putting in a good effort (i.e. putting in the time and practice). While it is incontrovertable that some people do indeed have an intrinsic gift for certain activities, I think we should not lose sight of the apparent fact that just about anyone will do better when this view is at least not assigned greater importance than the need to put in a good effort. Lest we unintentionally start sending messages something like "Oh, well you're obviously not as gifted as Michael Jordan at Basketball, so you should probably not even bother learning the game at all." That's an intentionally exaggerated example to get my point across, but particularly when it comes to early childhood development I believe we should not underestimate the effect of even a stray word of encouragement/discouragement. I know that such words had a definite effect on me at an early age if they were from the right person - e.g. an authority figure - and often more of an effect than the authority figure assumed their words had at the time.

1. http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/
yeah, definitely not very web scale!