skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was voted down and is something of an inflammatory comment but there's truth to it. You see it throughout the Valley and the entire Bay Area. It's why there is little density in the Valley in my opinion, why the public transit isn't very good among other things.

I'm afraid it's hard to change. People who paid so much for their Valley homes certainly do not like the idea of the supply dramatically increasing and their pleasant, small communities becoming drastically urbanized. And I understand that.

But the progressive nature of this area has always seemed face value to me as an outsider who travels to this region often. It's incredibly nice here but I believe it is time to begin building lots of high rises (scaled for quakes) in some city near SF and urbanizing areas while creating mix zoned housing and commercial similar to what you'd see in NYC. It's time for an experiment like that in the Valley somewhere.
Congratulations! Well-deserved!
Depends on the strain, not sure if I'd go into one of these after smoking a sativa-dominant strain.
Tools vendors each have coding guidelines that their stuff likes. At the RTL level, industry guys like myself just follow them like puppies due to fear of something in the tool chain breaking.

Then we complain to them when it misbehaves anyway. A quick google will you find some guides.

https://www.doulos.com/knowhow/vhdl_designers_guide/rtl_codi...

On top of that we had company specific style guides. Having jumped from company to company, each one is different here and there.

To be honest, I think we tended to avoid looking at other people's code when we could! Its like having to wipe someone else's butt. It all looks terrible. Everyone can pick on someone else's stuff.

Having said all that, the basic principles of engineering apply:

- Nice separation between the design and the test bench.

- modularity within the design itself.

- A convention of signal naming that will assist the verification process. Eventually they get thrown a waveform when something has gone wrong. They need to look at signal names that aren't some random alphabet jumble.

- Parameterize variables so they can be reconfigured easily.

etc.
front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936622
Hi Thomas, I am Erik and am interested in purchasing a wheelys. Here are my questions:

* Would you consider your model a true franchise?

* Does a Wheelys 3 make drip coffee and espresso drinks?

* As you expand across the US and gain brand recognition, will there be a store locator app, gift cards, loyalty programs, etc.? (I live in a California tourist beach destination)

I am an American, home of the Yankees, the cronut, and truck balls.
> Every city

Cities aren't remote parts. They also cost more, which matters if you're already stretching your paycheck. Even within a city, I've had 2 hour (each way!) bus commutes - and that's with a good bus system! You need to be able & willing to relocate, or have a car, or have your job opportunities geographically restricted even further.

>> "Not everyone has that choice."

> Yes, they do. They choose not to leave because it's not the path of least resistance. Going through the interview process, meeting new people, and having to learn a completely new set of tasks is not easy or desirable.

I'm sure if you play devil's advocate hard enough, you'd be able to think of counterexamples. Maybe most people have that choice, but everyone? What you've described is the easiest part for some without financial freedom.

> discipline

+1 and preaching to the choir on this bit, though. Just don't mistake it for being everyone's only real issue.
Roughly: the state-space of the universe isn't large enough to contain a distinct physical realisation of every book in Borges' library, though it is about large enough to contain every possible tweet (I think.)
Our rail network just doesn't have the capacity to support significantly greater passenger volumes. A large proportion of peak-time services are severely overcrowded. Inherent signalling limitations mean that we can't fit any more trains into the schedule on those services, and we can't make the trains any bigger without spending billions on infrastructure improvements. Building more lines in a country as densely populated as ours is astoundingly expensive, as we have seen with HS1/HS2; the IEA estimates that HS2 will cost £670m per mile.

Demand-based ticket prices accurately reflect the availability of seats. The cheapest advance fares from Carlisle to London are £24 each way; the most expensive open single is £239. It doesn't make sense for rail operators to offer cheap fares on trains that will be filled at a higher price.
The slim overall profit is different than the operating profit, as that article explains when talking about Amazon's capex.

Amazon is notorious for capital expenditures, some of which is probably why AWS exists.
Data-driven design produces profit at the expense of our humanity
Simple, dont use Apple products for your audio needs. Or are you refering to itunes?
How is a fast approximative algorithm better than a slightly slower exact one?

Most software done by bio"informaticians" seems sub-par, both in implementation and in theoretical properties. I'd suspect this is caused by the fact that a lot of people actually don't come from CS, but biology or other fields.
The epoch of over-conversating
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The closest thing I can think of as far as communities would be the http://www.edaboard.com/ folks (although that's a lot of students) or opencores.org (which is more just general projects).

There are a lot more "news" esk hardware design places as well but I'm assuming you're looking closer to stack overflow/github of HDL rather than the slashdot/reddit of HDL?

If you want HDL best practices any of the resources you can get your hands on from http://www.sutherland-hdl.com/papers.html <-- those folks are excellent

and I would highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/SystemVerilog-Verification-Learning-Te...
To all those complaining about the lack of details or the lack of need for yet another format, please note that this looks more like a personal toy project for its creator (and others) to learn about audio compression rather than something being proposed for general use. Please don't needlessly punish people for open-sourcing their code.
They could well be making that profit exactly because servers are free. AWS operating profit q2: $400m, for a $1.6B/year run rate.

A fascinating post from Benedict Evans looks at Amazon's capex/sales ratio from 2009 and looks at what free cash flow would have been had Amazon preserved that ratio through 2014 instead of incurring massive capex. They would have had another $5B over the year previous to that article. [1] Obviously some of that is warehouses, but unless they speak to how much of that is datacenters, I don't see how anyone can assume aws is actually profitable.

[1] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
JPEG2000: Choices and Tradeoffs for Encoders (2004) [pdf]
That's unlikely an option due to North Island, though.
I occasionally get the "culling" bug and spend an hour or two doing it. Then I realize that time is better spent on making new images, postprocessing images, or doing my day job to pay for the next photo trip. Most professional photogs I know spend very little effort or time on culling.
Thanks for the feedback. With regards to initial blocks, the advantage of using them on an FPGA design is that it's just the initialization value of the registers in the bitstream so doesn't have any real cost, but doing it with a reset would take logic, no? Does that really qualify as multiple drivers?

For the memory loading, I don't know how you'd infer a ROM another way - aren't hierarchical references only supported in simulation/test benches?
Hey everyone, I developed a place on my website Nanobash.com where anyone applying for YC Fellowship can voluntarily post their applications and have it commented on by others. Please feel free to check it out! http://www.nanobash.com/applications I will personally review the first 20 or so applications that are posted.
Love that workflow demo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4uviG8S0o
I like Starbucks even if it is overpriced in my opinion. I think the coffee is good. But mainly, you are right, I am willing to pay more for the welcoming atmosphere and ability to sit and get work done without being bothered. With that said, I was in Boulder last winter and was running early for a meeting. I swung in the Starbucks downtown to stay warm and do a little work. I didn't purchase anything, but had to use the restroom. To my surprise the restroom had a keypad on the door. When I asked the cashier for the code she said I had to purchase something. I was rather shocked, although at that point they pretty much had me on buying something :) Ended up using one of my rewards, calling corporate to complain, and having my reward refunded back to me. A lot of work to go through just to use a bathroom. On the flip side, I live in a resort town where the population swells by the hundreds of thousands over the summer. The Starbucks here could care less if you are a customer or not.
Hm, I was trying to contact them a while ago, as we seem like a good fit for each other. Never heard back, and I just accepted a offer from someone else.

Oh well. Good luck with that pile of money, CA.
Is there a reason that you couldn't store the transaction IDs in the row headers in a more compact form - for example using the full 64 bits for txmin, but storing txmax as a 24 bit delta from txmin?
In the United States, franchising is regulated by the FTC and state agencies. Wheelys makes multiple references to "franchise fees" on its Indiegogo page but I did a search in California, which requires registration, and could not find any franchise disclosure document associated with this company.
Are there any good brownfield (old industrial land) sites left in SF that can be rezoned to high density residential? If you build residential in those sites then you'll typically get little to no push back from progressives as you are not evicting existing, low income, residents in order to build more expensive housing.

By extensively rezoning vast swaths of downtown industrial land to residential Vancouver got around these problems SF is currently encountering for a few decades.
Could you see something like this expanding into Canada?
Using Yelp to Map Epidemics
Good enough for me. I'll send you an invite shortly. Send me your email address to jordigh@octave.org
I also don't see why Amazon wouldn't want to be a tech conglomerate. They'are already deep down that path and it seems to be working for them.
You're comparing two different solutions, removing rent control & allowing new housing to be built. For the sake of the argument, let's keep the rent-control, but let's let developers build new buildings! If they build on a property with rent-controlled units, they have to replace those rent-controlled units in the new building and provide housing for the tenants somewhere else while the building is being built.

It's just a supply/demand problem. We should to increase the amount of housing available in SF to lower prices so we can bring in the new generation of creatives, freaks and outcasts. We've got a big hill to climb, and there would be a lot of apartment towers going up, but SF could do it.

As far as rent-control goes, there's a moral argument to be made. What makes the person who's already living in SF more deserving of a place to live than the person who wants to move to SF? Rent-control is fundamentally anti-immigrant.
Yeah, because that's a logical reason they make billions and not because large companies like Netflix (not to mention pretty much every tech startup these days) use them so heavily.
The beacons them selves have proximity sensing built in, that at least how the "ibeacons" works...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#Proximity...
I agree. They didn't intend this to happen, but they hold blame for being ignorant.
Right, and I specifically would not patronize a cafe or cart that didn't allow me to hang around for an hour or more.
Hi Tomas, Hi Maria! Congratulations!

I came across Wheelys online a few weeks ago, and it literally spoke to me, because it combines so many great things:
(a) bicycles
(b) tech
(c) environment
(d) coffee

Anyway, how did you connect with YC? What do you plan to do with the funds you've raised?
I hadn't heard of Jot before. Looks really interesting and useful for a bunch of applications.
My reasons to achieve a given goal X are to follow a vision that I have of my future. Those visions if I follow their reason, probably come into all 3 of the orwell categories. Which I guess is a good sign - it is very motivating if you can make your own life better, and others, and at the same time it feel like you are creating (being artistic).

The downside is I find it very hard to achieve a goal Y that has been pressured on to me by someone else. I just try to find ways to avoid that goal, or just passably do it :-)
Their truck is also much bigger than those carts, meaning they can store a lot more coffee (and water, for that matter).
The problem is that San Francisco is/was at the epicenter of two cultural explosions (the hippies and the hackers, to put it bluntly), and they kind of clash just a little bit.
You'd think they could include hardware acceleration hooks for the video processing, at least in Chrome, but alas, doesn't seem so based on CPU usage
Using an HTML image was a great tip, saves a lot of time. Thanks for the tutorial.
this is a pretty cool startup idea, mate.
> That seems like a dick move that condemns a whole slew of new developers to permanent misunderstanding of what they're writing, and a fundamental lack of clarity on prototypical inheritance.

Do you feel the same way about Python's use of the word 'class'? Because Python also uses prototypical inheritance under-the-hood. The abstraction is clean enough that most people don't know the difference, but it still really is "just" prototypes down there if you peel back the layers.
Notifications are application specific, so that would prevent Chrome from prompting notifications completely, not a solution...

A better solution is to turn BT off :)
Experts in what?

Where I work the actual IT staff/server admins are pretty safe. They update, patch, and in general choose good passwords.

The programmers... ugh, good lord. They have the worst practices ever.
And not a totally unreasonable approach if the politicians want to maintain a specific capability, much better than making the entire market inefficient.
Or maybe, just maybe, he was joking.
How much public space we cede to cars
What do you mean by 'diversity'? Can you please define it?
Exactly. And it's not like FLAC is the only alternative: there're plenty of good lossless codecs: wavpack is great, TAK is really strong and probably could be considered even better than FLAC in the technical sense, but it's closed source so fuck it. There's really a lot of codecs with their pros and cons, and it's nice combination of features (good design, popularity, some hardware support) that make FLAC so great.

So one more "free codec" with no mention what is it and how does it compare to the existing ones is really worth nothing. I wonder why it made it to the front page at all.
For me money is a tool. It is an important factor in any major decision, but not my main motivation. However I will tailor what I do to take into account the importance of money.

There are bills to pay and mouths to feed. There are also short vs. long term money issues to resolve. And retirement and unexpected future health costs to consider.

Having a $250k sports car is not important to me but having a few million in property investments so I don't need to work is quite appealing. But if I have to lose 10 years of my life away from my passions to achieve that then ... well meh!
It's very difficult to build a city to serve two populations, one rich and one poor (or at least average). I would love to work in SF but have zero desire to live there because it's too expensive for everyone but the IPO crowd.
Woah. I don't think any of these arguments even touched on the ones the article brought up.
Yes I came here looking for discussion on that. A good store does $200 a day after COGS?

Say 8 hours/day and you're looking at $25/hour, which I guess is pretty far above minimum wage, but is someone for whom $25/hour is an upgrade in a place to spend the $3k to buy in?

And if you're operating in a slower area you're not that far from making minimum wage. If I wanted to operate a fleet of them I don't see how I come out ahead after salary, overhead (increased loss from the minimum wage employee) and taxes. Even at $175/day your looking at $21/hour income after COGS, pay someone $12/hour plus taxes and overhead and you're profiting maybe $3/hour/bike.

I guess once you get to 30 or so you're starting to make real money. But at that point you have to wonder about saturation of the good spots.
Do you still have the email from Jeff?
"People with diverse incomes" satisfies his argument.
I don't drink coffee, but I could see this working in the Adelaide CBD where the streets/footpaths are flat and in decent condition. It'd be easy to move around. Shame about the council's recent attitude to food trucks.
IPv6 only has space for 10^19 networks, so you would need to heavily chop up /64s if you wanted to number the universe.

But IP is not designed for high-latency networks, so this only really matters if FTL communication is invented.
Well, I was using thisless style all along, and it's nice to get company. I'm a little saddened 'class' will probably win out.
It's fairly easy to come up with a long list of shady practices that force me to not trust LinkedIn:

1. To start with, they sneaked in the request to access all your email contacts and constantly spam them in your name which can be embarrassing at times to say the least.

2. Their mobile apps do the same with your phone contacts, cleverly hiding the checkmark (in smallest font) to disallow the uploading of contacts. I have unknowingly let them look through my contacts at least two different times prompting me to never install their app again.

3. Letting others know that you viewed their profile. This is fine as long as you know about this feature but I bet that a bunch of us were taken by surprise in the early days to find out that our "online research" on someone was not private unless if you're incognito.

4. Charging you beyond the free trial period without any email or notification about it. I agree that many businesses do this but some of them like Amazon and Netflix are nice enough to allow you to disable the future payments before the trail ends. Also they tend to notify you about the payments.

5. Letting people have access to my email and other contact info even when I haven't accepted their request to connect. This may have been fixed with the recent change but may just have been one of those hidden features that led to their popularity with the recruiter world in the first place.

I am sure I missed out a bunch of other things here but these are the reasons why I can never trust LinkedIn.
Ask HN: Why does Oracle keep VirtualBox alive?
Myself and a friend are discussing this and honestly can't figure out why. It definitely is widely used, but we don't see how it is anything other than a cost center like Oracle. If it was a company with open source in their blood I would understand, but it kind of baffles me why Oracle has kept VBox alive for so long, almost like it's out of some sense of obligation to the huge community which is using it.
@zaguios See you in YC '15 ;)
Are you sure it will be probably less than 1 order of magnitude? Unless there is some restriction that limit the plane of the orbit around a star with relation to the galaxy, which is unlikely...

Assume the plane needs to be within 1 degree from the line joining the star and kepler. I would guess it probably less.
It would be a function of size of the planet, size of the star, radius of the orbit and distance of star from kepler.

That would give about 179 planes that we cannot see, which is two orders of magnitude, but the probability calculation won't be that simple.
> Progress is the exception, not the rule, so far in human history.

You're either cherry-picking your intervals or have a very weird definition of "progress".
Nikola, Pelican, and Jekyll are frameworks built around a similar philosophy.
That's nice, but I don't see anybody "needlessly punishing people for open-sourcing their code". Enough people found this project interesting enough for it to appear on the frontpage of HN. Other people are obviously confused and curious why this is the case. It's not like there's one and only "toy audio-codec project" on github, you know.
Nice, I'll check them out!
As part of a project I worked on, I did a daily review of fact-check sites. Politifact is great if you're a liberal and want fact checks to suit your partisan view of the world. This is easily proven by looking at the people who comment on their fact checks on Facebook, who are overwhelmingly liberal. If you are actually looking for unbiased fact checks, you should look elsewhere.
What's being done to change or reverse the damage these policies have inflicted on San Francisco?
It's funny you mention homelessness in SF and attribute it to liberalism, because it is partly attributed to Reagan closing California’s public mental health institutions and releasing the mentally disabled into the streets.

It sounds more like you have a bias than a point.
You refer to "franchise fees" on your Indiegogo page. Are you operating under the assumption that you are legally a franchise?

If so, have you filed franchise disclosure documents as required by law in the United States?
the city reveled in its diversity, with groups claiming distinct neighborhoods as their own in a modern twist on the tradition of ethnic urban enclaves.

I live in a similarly diverse area where people of all backgrounds hang out. The surrounding cities are ethnically homogeneous yet this one is not. Individualism, despite some of the shittier aspects of human behavior it can bring to the table, broke people up from being in ethnicity X and thus area X to being defined by sexuality, political leaning, consumption habits and expressive tendencies, seeking those who had similar traits. Ignoring any narcissistic aspects, defining people by those traits has the benefit of producing better social liquidity.
That reminds me of Apple stores and their free to use computers.
All of the comments here that talk about price are saying how cheap Compose is. Really? Looks like they charge $12 per gigabyte per month for PostgreSQL, $18 for Mongo, and there's absolutely no free/hobbyist tier. That seems pretty expensive to me, at least compared to the other IBM cloud DBaaS offering, Cloudant, which is priced at $1 per gigabyte per month and is completely free if your bill is less than $50/month. Cloudant charges for transactions (gets and puts), while it looks to me like Compose doesn't, but based on my (admittedly limited) experience with Cloudant that wouldn't do very much to close the yawning gap for most applications.

Would someone from Compose care to explain why their pricing isn't really 12X or 18X greater than Cloudant? (And whose pricing is going to change? I'm kind of worried that IBM is going to quadruple Cloudant's prices, and then quadruple them again, to bring them into line with Compose.)
My favorite Berlin airport joke:

"Did you hear about the new grammar reform? It includes a new tense, Futur III, to allow us to speak of the completion of Berlin/Brandenburg airport."

http://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/neue-zeitform-futur-iii...
That's exactly what I go for :)