skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. So you feel this way about people you dealt with over the phone long distance, sight unseen.

Imagine if you had to deal with people like this directly, some of which could be actual violent people (maybe didn't take their meds, had a bad day, whatever.)

To get a glimpse, imagine next time you get on a bus, or a coffee that someone you don't know, a stranger says, to you, "Hey asshole, you're in my way." Maybe you inadvertently took their spot. Now imagine this happening frequently, maybe daily, or more.

I think it's fair to say it's a tough job. That's not condoning the powertrips, but at the same time, one needs to understand the circumstances those people work under. In civil society some of it would be considered sexual harassment and intimidation and direct threats.
I wonder what is meant by "tangible interaction". If you touch the fairy you get burnt by the laser?
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Since I know neither the schema nor the query you're running, I can only give you so much. You can look at costs to narrow in on a few spots.

Lines 30-32 indicate that you are pulling a lot of data from buyclicks and transactions. This makes up a huge portion of the cost of this query. Lines 33-40 are very similar. Looks like you are probably pulling more data than you need, and you'll see a lot of improvement if you can reduce these two spots. Fixing those two parts will make all the nested loops and hash joins that use this data a lot faster.

Looks like there are several sequential scans (Seq Scan) that you could likely improve with a quick index on the relevant columns. You seem to be filtering for similar things on ad_codes in a main query and a subquery, which probably could be refactored out. These are small optimizations compared to the first.

My email is in my profile if you want to talk about this more.
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"Extraordinary rent" is, to me, when the property in a high-demand place is vacant for prolonged periods of time, due to the price. Probably occupancy figures are available somewhere publicly; if so, this statement can be checked against reality.
Indeed! I did support for Apple for 10 years. In the last few years I began to have nervous breakdowns and suicidal thoughts. To have to put up with abuse on a daily basis and never be able to do anything but take it takes a toll.
You seem to be following the plan laid out in Frontline's College, Inc[1]. Find a struggling college that has accreditation, take it all online, rake in dem bucks from online students who get federal loans.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/
> If you curse out a cop, you're probably up to no good

I just want to point out that this is an overwhelmingly class-based statement. If you are materially comfortable, especially if you're white, you would likely never have the slightest reason to curse at the police. If you are constantly seeing friends harassed and detained without cause, shot and killed, or experiencing it yourself (as at least a few of the folks in this article seemed to experience it), you might think a little differently. It's easy to make the fallacious argument that "anyone mixed up with the police was up to do good in the first place" when you live in a relatively affluent area, when you are not perceived as a "dangerous minority", etc.
> In the big picture an arrest and the subsequent legal proceeding isn't a big deal in someone's life if they are exonerated.

Says someone with a disturbing lack of empathy.
From what I can gather it's solid state in the sense that it's a passive system that doesn't require pumps but it still involves heat creating steam which in turn drives generators. The liquid changes phase from liquid to gas then cools to a liquid again, so it can remain self-contained.

Very cool, but feels kinda not as solid if you know what I mean. Don't want to downplay how neat it is though.
What you seem to be missing or perhaps just not acknowledging is that the police don't care. They'll get paid whether you respect them or not.
Couldn't this be solved by passing city ordinances, and state taxes on vacant properties, non-primary houses, and un-rented apartment spaces?

Without any way to counter balance out speculation, land hording, and gentrification/displacement of urban areas, syndicates of real-estate investors would just buy up everything in sight, turn it into luxury condos/lofts and set the price at a rate determined to be some minimum of %75 of the target populations' average income..
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This is really interesting. I believe this might be attribute to all the Uber promotions in Asia. I have heard from all my friends in India/China that Uber rides are actually free for around 10-15 rides. Also, they are giving tons of money to Drivers to promote Uber in India.

An average Uber driver in Bangalore earns 110000 INR per month where as
an entry level software engineer in GOOG/AMZN in India earns 80000 INR/month.

I was shocked that one of my friends who drove Uber in Bangalore told me that he made 180000 INR two months back.

It would be interesting to know Uber's customer acquistion cost and driver acquisition cost.
Putting the second if inside the body of the first is not necessarily equivalent.

g() might have side-effects, and those side-effects have to happen regardless of whether or not f() returned true.
Why taxes? Rich idiots buying just for resale would not be impeded in any way.

An effective way might be forced auctioning off if the asset was left unoccupied for more than 9 months (to allow "holiday flats"). In case the asset sells for more than the price it was acquired, the previous owner gets only this price and any surplus ends up as taxes; in case the asset has less worth, the owner only gets the auction proceeds.
maybe time is not a one way street
Tangential to OP: How does HN feel about the "evilness" of Uber?

At my school the general feel is that Uber is pretty evil, notably for its attitudes towards its drivers as well as towards Lyft.
Well neither will win any speed races, but if your problem requires soft-realtime functionality, concurrent execution, or incredible fault tolerance you'd do much worse than to choose Elixir/Erlang. And a simpler learning curve than many FP languages (in my experience, at least) sweetens the deal.
> Is it an investment or is it a basic human right to have a house over your head?

Muammar al-Gaddafi had an interesting take on this particular issue: page 51 of The Green Book (http://openanthropology.org/libya/gaddafi-green-book.pdf). Newlyweds were given enough money to build a house.
If you think London is expensive, try living in Sydney.

"Australian cities dominate the world's 10 most expensive" -- http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-10-most-expensive-citi...
If enough voters don't respect them, that stops being true. Police get the pay, benefits, etc., that they do as outputs of as political process that rests on those decisions not resulting in political costs to the politicians making them.
Or if you're Freddie Gray, 'You can beat the rap, but the ride will kill you'
Very similar sentiment to the Vice article from the weekend:

https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/london-its-over-and-its-n...
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Actually the C++ spec says that 0 as a pointer doesn't actually have to have the value 0 - it just refers to a null value the same way as nullptr.
but i can go to twitch and find live coders. why am i going to another platform when i can just use twitch for everything?
I'm working on an app for foodtrucks that's yelp/urban spoon on the consumer side, but for FoodTrucks it's a POS, Employee management, Catering Management tool. - List your meals for the day and location and all users will be able to find you on the map. They can also order on the app and skip the line to make you have more time to make food, than take orders. It'll also have loyalty programs built in, etc.. Price point will be around $50/month/truck. Also a free tier -just for listing current locations.
> There is no individual benefit to doing this.

Completely wrong. It is how change happens. If we accept this bad behavior, it becomes ingrained, and we all suffer.
You can talk shit to authority in a newspaper, letter, public forum, or demonstration. You don't have to do it in your car or on the street. And you don't have a right to choose the time, place, and specific officer you wish to talk to by making a scene where you can't reasonably be heard anyway.
I'd argue it's mostly a carrot. The hiring authority is either one year or two, with option to renew. Most taking a leave of absence commit to six months at the onset.

The goal is to get to 500 by the end of next year. [1]

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3046756/obama-and-his-geeks
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words#Post-Chaplinsky

Basically the fighting words doctrine from Chaplinsky has been steadily narrowed over the years.
From the article, the way they are acting shows quite obviously they do care. If they didn't care about being insulted, they wouldn't be making the arrests. But they will continue to be insulted and viewed in contempt - it's akin to children demanding to be seen as being very grown up.

They will continue to be paid - using monies from taxes and bonds and civil asset forfeiture. The will continue to demand raises, and it will continue to put pressure on the citizens. You and I don't have to do anything, there is nothing to do. Anything that don't last forever, won't.
And if you write the electromagnetic field in terms of the 4-vector potential, it's just \Box{A_μ} = 0 (where Box is the D'Alembertian operator). Then again, this doesn't really mean anything without the context of what the notation means...

Feynman has a discussion about this in Volume 2 of the Feynman Lectures: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_25.html

(I still can't get over how awesome it is that I can deep-link into the Feynman Lectures!!)
I didn't downvote you, but this should really be submitted as an AskHN.
There's a lot of "argument from ignorance" style "if it doesn't happen to me, it doesn't happen at all" thinking when it comes to understanding disparate communities and their perceptions.
I was arrested for "resisting arrest" after questioning two young punk cops that dragged my younger sister backwards from her bedroom during a house party at her house in college. I continually asked on what grounds they were arresting me and was never given an answer other than that I was arrested for resisting arrest. It was total bullshit but the whole point is that the cops can do whatever they want to you, like it or not.

PS once they put me in the cop car and I knew they were seriously going to take me to jail, the cop in the car said "I bet you hate it when men grope your sister..." as his partner was frisking her outside the car... Real quality humans.
So getting laid isn't a problem with real human impact? I guess I'm not a real human being then. Maybe I should just go slit my wrist and stop taking up space that could be used by people who haven't committed the crime of doing something with their lives.
You say that in a disparaging way, but this is capitalism at it's finest. People and IP are moving to where they're more productive.

I'm sure it's jarring to the employees involved, but not nearly as emotionally and financially draining as knowing that layoffs are coming and scrambling for a job... at the same time as 1,200 other people with similar qualifications.
Faults are not a serious issue with a fusion reactor beyond it breaking down

That's what I mean in the context of centralized vs distributed - replacing a faulty solar panel is no biggie. Replacing a micro fusion reactor, while not as bad as replacing a tokamak reactor, is significant.

Neither is waste [...] unless you insist on crowbaring into the core

Reactors still need to be decommissioned at some point, though you're right - it's trivial comparatively. I will do a dance when fusion is a thing and the world will be a better place.
What about transport of the waste? Isn't (nearly?) all waste in the US stored on-site?
The site is online again. It had an unexpected peak of traffic when I released the python wrapper and my ISP blocked the website. I upgraded to a paid plan (yes, I was hosting it with a free plan :) ) and no problem
To store it centrally, wouldn't you be transporting nuclear waste that is still toxic for hundreds of years all over the place? What if there's an accident during transportation? More reactors = more transportation = more nuclear waste accidents on the highway. Right?

> The reactors cannot be deviated for nefarious purposes.

I'm no nuclear expert but a quick search on Thorium reactors brings up some controversy over its potential for weaponization:

Thorium, when being irradiated for use in reactors, will make uranium-232, which is very dangerous due to the gamma rays it emits. This irradiation process may be able to be altered slightly by removing protactinium-233. The irradiation would then make uranium-233 in lieu of uranium-232, which can be used in nuclear weapons to make thorium into a dual purpose fuel. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Po... which cites http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a11907/is-the... which cites Nature
Point of fact, professional jib and crane ops do have to have liability insurance because they are liable if they hurt people.
I'm sorry I'm a dirty cheat: http://fetchh--captured.s3.amazonaws.com/Monosnap_2015-06-30...

while(true){f()}
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One less if the Op doesn't take advantage of his position.
Enemy of the State (2013)
It has been rising in the U.S. and Europe. I imagine you're pretending you didn't know that, but it's not clear why.
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Genuine question, how? By compromising the code of the trusted code repositories the algorithm uses?
When did the name switch to 'drone'. Was it privacy scaremongering post iraq/afghanistan that made the term enter public usage?
Before that they might have called a remote controlled model helicopter, an rc plane, a quad copter or possibly even a uav
None of those are going to be autos though, so the behavior isn't undefined.
> Could dark matter not exist?

Sure.
That's an interesting idea. I would think limited 'tours of duty' might help with corruption as well.
Inbox... That was a happy day when they turned on that tap.
> Couldn't this be solved by passing city ordinances, and state taxes on vacant properties, non-primary houses, and un-rented apartment spaces?

Why restrict these taxes only to unused spaces? If you do so, you'll have to get around people only nominally using the spaces.

> Without any way to counter balance out speculation, land hording, and gentrification/displacement of urban areas, syndicates of real-estate investors would just buy up everything in sight, turn it into luxury condos/lofts and set the price at a rate determined to be some minimum of %75 of the target populations' average income..

If only making money was so easy..
True, but pointing out multiple interpretations adds nothing unless you can tell us about the other factors. What are they?
What would that solve? what would registration do for that woman now?
There needs to be mandatory insurance, just like on cars.
It's a damn shame that folks who are selling RC or autonomous *copters aren't also pushing hard for the drone purchasers to invest in an AMA [0] membership and become acquainted with the local model aircraft club.

When I was growing up, the hobby shops in town wouldn't sell you a plane, copter, or kit for the same without verifying that you were an AMA member. [1] They understood that planes and copters can be quite dangerous in untrained hands.

[0] http://www.modelaircraft.org/

[1] Not because they were required to, mind, but because it was a sound idea.
An example of "tangible interaction" is pressing this checkbox in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=100&v=AoWi10YVmfE

In terms of what the projection feels like, this article explains that to some people the laser feels like sandpaper, and to some people it feels like a static shock:

http://www.popsci.com/secret-interactive-holograms-plasma-an...
> with extra-ordinary rents (typically 5% annual of purchase price

5% is not extra-ordinary, 5% is low. 10% is average and more than that is high.

After paying for property tax and maintenance, anything under 10% is not really worth it unless rent is just a side effect and you are really hoping for appreciation.
Typically listen to comedy podcasts:

Earwolf and Wolfpop Podcast Networks - http://earwolf.com/ & http://wolfpop.com/

Probably Science, where "four professional comedians/incompetent scientists take you through this week in science. Incompetently." -http://www.probablyscience.com/

General:

http://longform.org/podcast
So, after someone standing at a parade gets injured by a thrown or dropped baseball, do we need "unnecessary" laws to protect bystanders from carelessly released baseballs? Why or why not?
I'm still surprised that Uber is entering such competitive markets. I mean, in much of the western world, they're using a mobile app to side step cab hailing laws and break long standing taxi oligopolies. Does anyone know what market flaws they're solving in India and Asia?
That is probably the only insightful comment on this article, which is sad for hn, however relationships are based on trust and respect and based on the other comments here programmers can't even respect themselves.
Yep, and there's a list of upcoming events at http://fpvracing.tv/events
There's a great quote in the comments.

> Perhaps humanity is the only species burdened with distinguishing the truth.
Ask HN: I'm a 16 year old looking for a job with no degree or prior employment?
I'm a 16 year old without a computer science degree, prior work experience, or formal training in programming. I'm searching for a job but all of them require a computer science degree or being over 21. How can I find a job in a programming related career without either of those. However I do have 4-5 years experience with computer programming and building and four published apps. Where can I start?
> ... it looks like they're balancing things out.

Or throwing things out?
Good question. I think a lot of rich-person spending is essentially buying status. So I think trying to get them to consider the ways their new dream home could be later retrofitted to suit the poor is working in contradiction to the motives. It is exciting to me when goods with some public benefit also become status goods, though; the Prius and the Tesla are examples of that.

I agree that do-goodery is hard. Of course, so is producing value in a for-profit context; I'm not sure which is relatively harder.
Outsider's perspective looking in: This is hacker versus cracker all over again.
I can confirm that working around this issue is horrible. That dastardly 300ms makes quick operation of a mobile app a complete pain in the arse. Constantly having to wait for iOS to catch up with you. It really makes the experience horrible.

But that's how iOS want it. If they made webapps that performant then they'd have trouble imprisoning everyone in the App Store.
The same is true in New Zealand, where the only real requirements to be a taxi are around having a passenger endorsement to your license and police background checks.

> Does anyone know what market flaws they're solving in India and Asia?

Well the only market flaw they appear to be solving here is that they aren't hoarding more of the money in the market...
Note that the C99 (I'm not up on C11 yet) standard specifically allows type-punning through the use of unions (and disallows it in essentially all other cases except when one type is a character type).

Also, there seems to be some confusion about storing and loading pointers, when the standard speaks to this as well; roughly: a pointer which is converted to a "large enough" integer type will point to the same object when converted back. It is permissible for an implementation to not provide a large enough integer type, but excepting that, the behavior is well defined.
Hey,

It's really interesting. A couple of remarks:

1 - I don't know if you are aware, but there seems to be a bug for lack of a better word.

How to reproduce it:

- Get on the site (not logged in).

- I'm interested in Python for now, so I scroll down to the bottom and click Python in the "Languages" list.

- ISSUE: This doesn't take me to anything Python related, it only takes me to: https://www.livecoding.tv/livestreams/.

- So then I have to click on "Category>Python".

- ISSUE: It still doesn't take me to anythong Python related, it only takes me to: https://www.livecoding.tv/videos/

- So then I have to click on "Category>Python" again, and finally this takes me to: https://www.livecoding.tv/videos/python/

Maybe I'm not really tech savvy, but I think it's too many clicks.

2 - When I'm about to sign in with a GitHub account, it says "Livecodingtv by @MrTomato8 would like permission to access your account". Now, I know it's a serious YC funded company and all, but giving information to Livecodingtv would be easier if it weren't a MrTomato8 asking.

Furthermore, when I click on the GitHub profile, it takes me to MrTomato8 with only one contribution in the last year. This doesn't sell very well for an entity having a channel about coding. I assume the GitHub profile doesn't necessarily reflect on MrTomato8's real skills, but it just doesn't look right for that profile to be asking me, a beginner who wants to stand on the shoulders of giants, for information.

Keep it up and I look forward to signing up in the near future.
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Bordeaux faced a similar problem with a submarine base. It is much bigger though: 450,000 sq ft. It is now a cultural center. According to my dad, who was involved in the conversion, working with 22 feet thick walls was very challenging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BETASOM
It's an old browser feature. I think the idea was so you could easily reference other elements in inline-HTML event handlers (onclick= etc.).

Personally I find it handy for messing around in jsfiddle and the like:

<pre id="out"></pre>

[...]
out.innerHTML += some_result;
My point isn't that the NSA should suddenly become that agency. My point is that it would be pretty handy to have an agency like that. And the joke is that the agency we have under that name is doing the opposite.

> That leaves the question of whether the government should be subsidizing the business world's failure to meaningfully invest in bug fixes and security improvements.

One good way to sum up what government is good for is "things the market can't or won't do on its own." So I'd say yes.
> "The concrete Java declarations that make up an API are a protectable work of authorship. The abstract operations they describe are not."

Oracle was claiming rights to the "structure, sequence, and organization" of the APIs, not the text of their declarations. They were unmistakably going after something that was at least in some way more abstract and broad than the text of the declarations.
>he himself pushed property prices up, and directly contributed to gentrification.

Not nearly as much as those Russian oligarchs and Arab oil barons did.
UberPool requires the driver to accept fares during navigation.
You inferring something does not mean the writer implied it. This is all you, pal.