skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is kind of a standard measure when talking large scale water usage. He's a farmer. It is probably habit to speak of water in those terms. His mental space is different from someone dealing with household usage.
I'm pretty sure that the range of platforms for which Go does cross compilation "very well" is quite small. Go has a sizeable runtime, and you need to have a version of the runtime that works on each platform (for exotic platforms you would probably have to write some of the building blocks from scratch). This isn't push-button, this is just "the distribution supports many common platforms"

For example, it seems like compiling to MIPS is not push-button for Go. On the other hand, Rust supports all platforms that LLVM supports, though you need a version of the stdlib compiled for that platform (you don't have to write any code like in the Go case, you just have to compile the sources with the right invocation). For push-button compilation, we just need to distribute these binaries.
Khan academy is a great resource for remediating your math skills. I went through to cover all the last-third-of-the-textbook concepts that I never learned in school. To get good at something you just have to go do it, math included.
I think work permits and green cards are separate things.
Seems like the biggest benefit to immutability is that it reduces the time spent dirty checking objects. So if you use getters/setters instead of dirty checking, immutability doesn't provide much benefit right?
I think of messaging apps as analogues to a browser, and those who offer services through them as analogues to a website.

Ultimately, any one browser can't store _all_ the links in the world that you might need to use. You need something like a search engine.

So no, I fundamentally disagree with A16Z and the wechat model - just because it worked on limited scale (think Yahoo directory in 1999) - doesn't mean its the way to the future. My $0.02 anyway :).
it's always been profitable. but now it's socially acceptable, even prestigious depending on your role. big difference.
The Closing of the Canadian Mind
The continuous start-stop wears out the engine faster, so it won't last as long as an identical model with the same engine that hasn't that feature.

It's like switching a traditional light bulb on and off in a continuous way - it won't last years (some 100+ old light bulbs still work fine, but the were powered-off just a handful times).
It's going to end up being a key part of the future inheritance proposal, but that's not a part of this RFC at all.

> I would prefer if it were simpler.

If you have thoughts about how to simplify it, please get involved in that thread! We don't actively try to introduce complexity, but sometimes, features are just inherently complex. There's also the case that sometimes features are easier to use than they are to define. I think this will be one of those kinds of features. At its core it just means that if you have a Vec<i32> and you also have

impl<T> Foo for Vec<T>

you'll be able to define an additional

impl Foo for Vec<i32>

and your Vec<i32> will use that one instead of the more general Vec<T> one.
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I am sure there are differences. But I do not assume, like some, that these differences -- whatever they are -- coincidentally make women worse at the tasks that our society deems economically and politically important.
This is a good article on subsidence (caused by collapsing aquifers) and saltwater intrusion:

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2013/12/21/c...

And here's an article with the timeline for the law's implementation:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140917-calif...
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Digital Ocean is comparable to EC2. But AWS does LOTS more.
I dream of doing such a thing someday. I'm not aware of anyone that's actively working on it.

I did a talk at FOSDEM 2015 along these lines, which apparently got lost with a lot of them :/
You are right. I stand corrected. Still, he is free to chose other ways of distribution that cost him less.
Remember that Rust CFGs are much simpler than C++ CFGs (no goto, for one), and in general CFG analysis is simpler due to ownership. It's easier to reason about Rust control flow than it is about C++.
If the measurement was originally per 1000 gallons it makes sense to preserve the unit. It may be rounded from acre-foot/year, which is 893 gallons/day.
I've always thought people desperately looking for cofounders on HN, or asking how to find them, are kind of goofy and lame. Has there ever been an even moderately successful company cofounded by strangers who met while slumming the internet for cofounders?

It seems to me that PG almost certainly didn't mean people were better off starting companies with random strangers than they would be starting off alone.

Looking at the big successful companies that were started with multiple founders, it was almost always a group of friends, or co-workers, or acquaintances from school with similar interests, or something like that. There's more to being "cofounders" than just meeting randomly and deciding to start a company together.
In-depth interview: Pen tester who probed birth/death record vulnerabilities
Fixed point arithmetic, as one of the number types, has very well-defined mathematical properties. The Computational Geometry Algorithms library describes this. I think fixed point would be a special case of exact rational numbers. They could have classification structure much like iterators do, except classified for whether they form a field or are double-constructable, and such.
The problem is that housing demand is very elastic while housing supply isn't. The solution is only easy if you ignore all the problems. It's not really unexpected that people won't magically agree to things that will affect them negatively. The far easier solution rather than increasing supply is to shift demand to other areas.
What happened to DAL1889
But my point is that it should. Any digital lock should use good crypto, it doesn't matter if for ignition or doors. The fact that it's been proven that they did it badly even when they tried, aligns with my experience that their digital locks are not secure.

Whether my locks open with an easily-spoofable RF signal or with a bruteforceable key, the bottom line is still that they are not doing good crypto in situations where it's clearly necessary.
Ask HN: PCI compliant service for storing credit cards?
Is there any PCI compliant service, which is not a payment gateway and allows storing credit cards?

There are many payment gateways that have the credit card 'vault' system but the country I need to make this work for is Pakistan and there are limited number of compaies that accepts credit cards in Pakistan. 2checkout.com works but they don't have a vault service and I don't want to get into the business of storing such information of my servers.

If you know of any such service then please share.
Interesting article, but I feel like I am missing something here. According to the article, California can accommodate maybe another year or two of drought, so beyond that would be a problem? Also, the drought it causing the farmers to further deplete the depleting aquifers. So I'm not seeing how this is "winning the drought." It sounds more like maintaining the current unsustainability through better irrigation and depleting aquifers, but when the aquifer is gone it's going to be bad.
Good point. It is possible that weapons research has positive externalities and a deterrence factor.
The lack of any armed forces on this list is somewhat surprising - although definitely not all armed forces roles would belong.

Agriculture and the systems built around it in much of the world has serious problems for the world and it's future.
I agree with you. I misspoke above. They are not exacerbating the problem but their hiring process could be an impediment to reaching their goals.
I have the Adobe one whitelisted and it doesn't work for me either. Can't be arsed to work out why.

Edit: I guess these are the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogU9fanQxHuSDcKXunHOgg/vid...
If this resonated with you, check out:

Mikey Dickerson (head of USDS) at SXSW: Why we need you in government
https://medium.com/@USDigitalService/mikey-dickerson-to-sxsw...

Previous HN discussion on USDS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988819
Articles like this make me love my 2000 Subaru even more. I'm gonna hate getting a newer car one day, but maybe by then manufacturers will better secure their cars.
I'd strongly consider voting for a US presidential candidate solely on if moving to metric was a big part of their platform. So much time is wasted in school on the confusing mess that is the imperial system.
You are so far beyond the looking glass you can't even recognize your own slave mentality. Gotten any transaction over at the white house on prosecuting torture?

Thinking that your masters will be so happy you improved IT efficiency that they'll listen to you is mind numbingly naïve, they simply will use you as they would any tool and when you've done your job put you back in the toolbox.

Do you think Stalins tailor had much impact, maybe his gardener or chef? You don't stop evil people from being evil by helping them.
We had that in 2003 with Marcus Frind & PlentyOfFish or Brad Fitzpatrick & Livejournal - or, arguably, in 1995 with Craig Newmark & Craigslist or Pierre Omidyar & E-bay. Multi-founder startups that took off like a rocketship before they took investment include HotOrNot, Google, Facebook, and SnapChat.

It's been possible to do this since the web came out. The problem is that it very much is a lottery, and the median startup usually goes through significant tribulations before striking it big, struggles that make most single founders quit.
But "the state’s economy grew 27 percent faster than the country’s economy as a whole", and that's all that matters!
Short Answer: No.
Longer Answer:
We are currently licensed as Apache 2.0 and are satisfied with the constraints of that license. Virtually all products released at Microsoft as OSS are released under MIT or Apache 2.0. We haven't had issues with the license we are using and have no plans to change it.

Thanks for your feedback! Also, I hope you enjoyed PyData Seattle! (just came across your Twitter handle and noticed a few photos)
Unfortunately, people are downvoting you rather than engaging with your argument.

Apartments are a very different living situation than living in your own building on land. One has a lot more open area for projects, playtime, vehicle maintenance, outdoor cooking and gathering, etc.

I live in apartments because I do not want a yard to have to maintain. And I know many people who do not live in apartments because they want a yard to use for projects and enjoying. It's ridiculous to assume that these people would want to live in apartments without asking them.

And it's inhumane to suggest that people with fewer resources should live in the space that someone else chose for them, merely because they have fewer resources.
And I suggest reading Cadillac Desert without first looking at the publishing date. It's shocking that we have been so lackadaisical about water consumption for so long.
Sure: basically when large institutional investors go to sell shares they sell them in blocks. There are not a ton of people who can afford to buy these entire blocks, though they may want to buy some portion of them. HFTs add value by buying these large blocks, and then breaking them up and selling them in smaller chunks. This is called "market making." This added liquidity makes it far easier for both the institutional investor to sell their shares as well as for the final buyer to purchase them. So the value they provide is increased liquidity to the market.

Edit: Whoops, I'm incorrect. This is a description of market making in general, but not how HFTs do it (which have a variety of strategies). But the general premise is that the value provided is still increased liquidity. That being said, not all HFTs employ a market making strategy.
I've gone through much of this book. It's really good, but it's definitely not a book on machine learning fundamentals - more on complexity and simulations.

That chapter however is a nice intro to neural networks, and the previous chapter is a nice intro to genetic algorithms.
Related discussion from a few weeks ago;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895094
Yes, I am all for greater male participation in the child-care industry. (I really am!) So say we all. Are you satisfied? Will you now please join us on in constructively discussing the exclusion of women from tech, law, science, politics, accounting, carpentry, the military... and how to fix it?

If the child care industry were representative of men's exclusion from most high paying, socially powerful fields, then I would expect the 'bitching' to begin. But, as it is, the child-care field is not a field that a lot of men would like to get into, it pays fairly poorly, (unfortunately) confers little power or respect, and is largely an anomaly in an economy where most jobs, especially powerful ones are dominated by men.

The "confers little power and respect" bit, by the way, seems to be true of most woman-dominated fields (child care, teaching, nursing...). Do you suppose this is a coincidence?
Pentagon LESO Data: ~195K records describing military gear sent to civilian cops
Are we really all that are left? Interestingly, Octopart and Weebly were among the companies in the program I would have enthusiastically invested in, had I had that option.
I imagine the vast majority of cross-compiles for the core tasks that Go targets will be to x86 or ARM, which it does support well (from everything I've heard).
They were considered, see:

"Military decision-makers"

and

"Working in the army"

They didn't make the top ten in part for the reason you gave.
> But you are making an assumption that just because someone enjoys living in a trailer house, they must also be ok with living in an apartment. That may not be the case, at lease that's not the case for me.

good point. a home with a private yard for the kids to play, no shared walls, a porch to sit on while you wave to neighbors on their evening stroll -- these things aren't possible in high-rise apartment buildings, which by comparison might feel like confinement.

also, many people who've never lived in a trailer park, or don't know any manufactured homeowners, might not understand the sense of community that a lot of trailer park residents feel.

i'm not saying that a sense of community is not possible in a high-rise apartment building, but in my experience, high-rise apartment buildings have a much different atmosphere than gated communities.

> Also, I am not familiar with the area in question, but isn't it quite susceptible to earthquakes? I am not saying don't build a multistory building, but 40 stories?

SF and san jose have lots of high-rises, as do other big cities near fault lines :)
Yeah, it could be used like that. The main use case that kept coming to mind while I was writing it is interactive tutorials. You could easily build an interactive "what happens when you multiply this expression by [some user input]" type of thing.
Runit is / was awesome but how is this news?
You should use the International Fixed Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

The failure to adopt the IFC is the proof that human beings will forever be shackled to their ancestral beliefs.
Hi stvswn: I think a really important thing to take into consideration is that California caps property taxes under 1978's Proposition 13. At the same time, Palo Alto has a particularly strong "residentialist" ideology that prevents additional development. What that means is that landowners are able to accumulate supra-natural returns in on their holdings, while doing nothing on their land. It incentivizes property owners across Silicon Valley and California to sit on parcels and ride the price appreciation without redeveloping the property. That in turns imposes a sort-of tax on innovation and productivity in the region as a larger and larger share of income-generated merely goes back into the land, instead of to other productive uses. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-i...

It's hard to argue that the prices that exist in Palo Alto are "market rate" in this context, since supply has been so consistently restrained since the 1970s.
I think you're vastly underestimating how quickly markets change, how technically difficult it would be to provide breaking information fairly at the ten minute mark and how important liquidity is to the market. If we slowed trades down then the economy would be significantly less responsive and markets in other countries would have significant advantages.

Shorter answer: If I can gain a profit now instead of in 10 minutes I can reinvest just as quickly and the entire economy benefits. These small chunks add up.
The engineer in me has to wonder: is this something we can synthesize?

If it were possible to induce this "dishwasher-like" surge of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during waking hours, would we be able to live off of significantly less (or no) sleep?

I'm not saying that it's necessarily a good idea, but it would have a plethora of practical applications -- pilots, truckers, etc. would be able to stay awake in a healthful way, rather than by ingesting stimulants.

I've been interested in the science of sleep for a while -- I wrote a side project, http://sleepyti.me, that actually gets quite a bit of traffic -- but neuroscience is mostly lost on me.
> The agencies and the governments make the agenda (unfortunately).

Pretty hefty accusation on the integrity and journalistic ethics of the Associated Press. Do you have a reliable and credible source for this claim?
Kids, this isn't hard. Just apply a little logic. Statements like "all I care about is what you have done/created/accomplished" is predicated on the notion that everyone is already equal. That we all have the same access to opportunity, encouragement, resources, etc. Whether through malice or simple disinterest, you've managed to hold onto a basic assumption that would be exceedingly trivial for you to disprove.

And that's why programs like this are still necessary. Because it isn't about you. Nobody gives the tiniest shit that you "couldn't care less" (which is obviously untrue given your blatant condescension, but whatever). Is there gender discrimination in technology? Yes, obviously. You can't turn around without running into research supporting it.

We could all continue to imagine there isn't; that our personal metrics for measuring the worth of another human being is the source of truth for an entire industry or society. As someone who suffers no discrimination, it's the most convenient thing for me! But, hard as it is to believe, some people actually lose in this scenario. And apparently they're still upset about it!

Whether through gender discrimination that continues to limit a woman's choice in career and within her own body, or the systemic racism that has managed to convince many that black people simply want to be poor and shot by police, we (the U.S.) as a society have no shortage of willfully-ignorant assumptions about equality. How about doing us all a favor by becoming a little less ignorant? It doesn't hurt, I promise.
I think you are missing my point or I did not make it clear because we are in agreement.

"MSFT/GOOG could just do it and kill your [service]" is a very common response to anyone who is launching anything new or groundbreaking and it's also a misguided response.

So worrying that BIGCO will do that is basically a worthless concern and saying that because something is obvious in retrospect that it was inevitable is not particularly useful.

That said, they still can do it and on the rare occasion when they do, instead of doing an acquisition it usually does kill the newcomer. So to the original point, it seems like it's actually becoming more common than less for them to spin something up rather than acquire.
Cybersecurity in science fiction and science fact
New Experimental Private Browsing and Add-Ons Features in Firefox
Subsidence is a huge issue associated associated with aquifer depletion. http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/anthropogenic/subsid... http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/anthropogenic/subsid...

That fact alone tells you a lot. Some formations are more resilient; these tend to experience less subsidence. In systematic terms, sticky bag vs rigid tank.
Some parts of Palo Alto don't even give permits for TWO story houses (to preserve the privacy and character of the surrounding one-story houses, particularly those Eichlers with the entire rear wall of the house being made of glass).

Expecting a high-rise development on this property is fanciful. Expect 2,000 square-foot townhouses, selling for $2 million. That's what they built across the street.

[1] http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/19506109_zpid/
I think there's a lot of overlap in the two audiences though. Someone who doesn't want a corporate job might say "I should start a startup." Maybe in their head they're thinking a one-man shop, but then they google about startups and read PG's essays about these larger efforts involving fundraising and such, and get deterred from their original (quite do-able) plan.

This article is saying to those people: "Nevermind what you hear, go back to thinking you can do it on your own, because you can. I'm here as proof."

You're right though, for the people who are squarely in the YC/fundraising camp, this article is not speaking to them.
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The compiler itself (rustc) does no form of incremental compilation: it just takes an input crate and compiles it entirely, unconditionally.

I believe cargo (which calls out to rustc) is using timestamps at the moment.
Thanks for providing the code as well :) Pretty neat work.
As a hardware guy who has never touched rust, and I know nobody will agree with me: the solution is to not have type inference. You knew you wanted u16 or whatever to begin with. For low level programming I think explicitly defining type makes so much more sense.
IPA would be nice, too.
Because "70 percent more tomatoes per unit of water" is too abstract for most people.
Im seeing charts which lack the data saying what they mean. Most others have numbers, indicate higher/lower is better for given benchmark, etc. That's my gripe.
Personally, I wish everyone used the 24:00 clock. Maybe the military has messed me up, but I really prefer seeing something like 18:22 over 6:22pm. It just seems simplier.
Again, what's important to remember is that the Ravenswood School District and East Palo Alto were created by racialized housing practices that confined African Americans moving to Silicon Valley the 1940s through 1960s to a subpar, excluded neighboring suburb across the highway. African Americans were not allowed to own property in Palo Alto and other parts of the region because of racialized restrictive covenants that existed until the 1968 Fair Housing Law, and this set in place a permanent set of wealth and home valuation differentials that persists to this day.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/
Parallel Out-Of-Core Dataframes in Python: Dask and OpenStreetMap
For those wanting real info, watch this video from the state's water board's director to the MIT NorCal alumni club. It's super fascinating.

http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/31839-california-water-2015-felici...
Not only is it simple and does the do-the-one-thing-well thing well, which is true, it's also _correct_. It's hard to overstate how valuable runit is in production because of that. It does the right thing with regard to clearing the environment, detaching from controlling terminal, logging, and many other subtle aspects of operating a service. I never worry about runit.
Wow, really impressed when watching those videos, wasn't expecting such human looking movements and gestures when blowing his nose.