skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of other human activities generate toxic waste in far greater volumes than nuclear reactors do. Nuclear waste remains dangerous for thousands of years, but lots of other toxic waste remains dangerous forever. Toxic waste is a problem in general, but not a particularly severe one. Why so worried about nuclear waste specifically?
If you look at this purely from the standpoint of the benefit to a consumer, it doesn't seem like a great deal.

You gain:

* Auto-shutoff when your battery gets too low.

* Possibly some increased lifespan

* ~34lbs in weight reduction, which might deliver a small performance increase.

You lose:

* 78% of your battery capacity

* $20-$150 on the purchase price of the battery

Personally, I don't like the idea of paying more money for less battery capacity. If, however, Ohm came with a rock-solid 7-year replacement warranty, I might be able to get over that.
FYI as has been posted to hn earlier wrt why sms were 160 characters, which lead to 140 character tweets w/20 characters reserved for user names:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-...

It's rather interesting that the 160 character limit isn't arbitrary - but also doesn't account for eg: URLs in text.
Pick up The Orange Box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Box). It includes Half Life 2, (plus the two sequel episodes), and Portal. Portal is a fantastic game, with a surprising amount of story given the fact that it appears at first to be a fairly simple puzzle game. Half Life 2, is a great first person shooter, again with great story.

What I like about these games is that they're immersive, without being overly long or tedious. You can play through Portal in a few evenings, without feeling like you're missing out on hundreds of side quests. The gameplay is tight, fun and innovative.
Holy wow that is both awesome and dangerous as hell. If you hit something, it's going to basically shoot your spine out through your tailbone.
As I understand it,

* no maintenance for inside

* don't use steel wool. With a stubborn stain I use a little baking soda, which some folks say is ok and others forbid. I use metal utensils despite being told not to. I use them gently and accept a few scratches; I try to avoid cutting things in the pan. I also wear contacts while swimming because I'm that kind of rebel. Meh.

* Soap + water = great :)
YC-Backed Zen99 to shut down, return remaining capital to investors
git pull-request

Using https://github.com/github/hub
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As sciurus said, Nix can be used on other systems than NixOS. The package manager is the main idea, and the distribution is an extension of it to provide its benefits also for system configuration. The package manager doesn't touch your normal system file hierarchy at all; everything is isolated in Nix's own hierarchy; users can install packages without root; etc.
> The pocket/new tab method is good, except when you have too much stuff

So your alternative is leaving your email everywhere and every time ? Hmmm. Not my idea. Sorry. I prefer one external (general) service / solution. Like emailing to myself, saving in a new tab or saving to pocket (if I think its really worth to make time to read).

But still, that is just me. Curious how the general public will react. For example, I am not much of sharing stuff that I read with everybody. If (sometimes) I share its with argumentation to specific friends. Not very common nowadays it seems ;-)
The initial use case was for a single node setup, Chronos for an early stage startup. I/we will be adding support for it to be distributed here soon, but not until the single-node, single binary with no external requirements setup is production ready.

If you have any feature requests, please create an issue in github. The more people request something the sooner it will get implemented.

Thanks for the feedback though.
Well, the MTA in New York is certainly stupid and wasteful. But they have slowly started building new lines again (the 7 expansion, the Second Ave subway), so they're not totally short-sighted.

And as much I grumble, NYC is one of the few places in America I feel ok about going all around the city without a car.

I think it's only a hard political problem, but not a hard technical problem at this point.
You can do worse than defaulting to the ESP8266.
Very cheap, good tool chain available, simple component infrastructure.
Hacker News is a forum run by a startup accelerator - some people take it very seriously.
>make a business that is growing revenue like crazy

...so your protip basically amounts to "make money to make money"?

Thanks, underpants gnomes.
What if the obfuscation removes the ability to construct a control flow graph, but is not self-decrypting?
Even luxury places increase supply in general. People flock to the newest most luxurious places. So when a new one opens up, it decreases demand elsewhere.

It might also push the rent up in your neighorhood/suburb, but across the metro area as a whole, adding luxury housing lowers prices.
It will probably take a few years to get certified, but take a look at what goes for $600 as a flooded-cell battery in general aviation. The fact that you use LiFePO cells will probably help, as there is no way a LiPo would ever get approved.
ISTM you're both right. To challenge election results all the way up to a country's Supreme Court, if one has the right to do so, is to accept the institutional verdict on the outcome while disputing the initial outcome (of the vote count). In many developing countries, unwanted election results are followed by rioting, coup attempts, or highly public sulks and political maneuvering often enough that it's a problem for stability.

Mounting a challenge within an institutional or constitutional framework is qualitatively different - it puts the rule of law above pure power politics.
Oh dear, you have some serious anger issues, don't you?

I have not wanted to fork Bitcoin for years. I still don't - I have many better things to do, like working on Lighthouse or oh .... really anything else. Screwing about with gitian and gcc all day is right at the bottom of my list of "fun things to do on a sunny day".

But the fact that Bitcoin Core was heading for disaster was obvious for a long time now. It has been progressively abandoning things that the user community finds important: SPV wallets, unconfirmed transactions, now even the notion of growing the platform at all have all become "controversial" and therefore untouchable. Anyone who suggests that maybe these things are useful is immediately branded an idiot. Combine with a maintainer who hides any time a decision is needed and you have a recipe for deadlock.

You seem to think I hate Tor. I am actually the maintainer of a full blown Tor implementation (Orchid). I've done a lot of work on integrating it into bitcoinj and I'm basically the only guy who can actually move the needle on Tor/Bitcoin usage, by enabling the use of it by default in consumer wallets that have hundreds of thousands of installs. We're not there yet (it's still too slow) but we're a lot closer than before.

This doesn't change the fact that Tor is heavily abused. It can be useful but it's a frequent source of attacks of all kinds. So finding ways to get the good without the bad involves some tricky coding.

Below, you say "anyone can jam the network with just two IP addresses". Yes, that's unfortunate isn't it. I've been sounding the alarm about Bitcoin Core's poor DoS protection for years. Nobody listened, that's why I have now written a new anti-DoS system that can handle this sort of thing. It starts by clustering and deprioritising Tor because we've seen actual jamming attacks that came through Tor, and because using it is a lot safer and more convenient for an attacker than using your own IP addresses or using a botnet. But it absolutely should be extended to have more advanced heuristics. Instead of whinging that (gasp) loading a file from a web server is "insane", maybe you should be writing code instead.
A huge portion of tweets in my stream have a hyperlink anyway, so in some sense the "bandwidth" is much more than 140 characters per tweet. I think they could allow longer tweets without compromising much. Perhaps the compose tweet text box could even indicate what is "above the fold," which would be limited to 140 characters.
I don't think putting the emergency generators for a flood-prone site in the basement can be considered wise even given the knowledge of the time.
PC-only AAA games are incredibly rare these days. I'd say most AAA games are on as many platforms as possible to have as many sources of revenue as possible to recoup dev (and marketing) costs. The exceptions are games that get a large amount of funding to be single platform by the platform's owner and there's no real "owner" of the PC platform (arguably Microsoft, but their focus is on Xbox) to do that.
1. Live and work somewhere sane.

2. Buy some popcorn.

3. Wait for the bubble to burst.

4. Actually you don't care if the bubble will burst because you are not living in SF.
My commute is a solid 2+ hours each way. I thought it would make me crazy, but acceptance has sort of seeped in after a couple of years. On one hand, it would be nice to have free time and/or see my family, but on the other hand, my family simply won't fit into a 900 square foot box in South Bay or a hammock in SF, which is what I could afford in those locales.
I love my Griswold.
If you work in SOMA, Bayview and Excelsior don't seem far at all. Why not just bike or walk?
thanks, that's what I'm looking for!
ITG Hid a Secret Trading Desk in Its Dark Pool
Three pieces of wire makes a harness that removed the hassle and takes 2 minutes to crimp.
With pleasure.
Signify[1] from OpenBSD is also extant, and somewhat lighter than GnuPG for this purpose.

[1] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708120
I was being sarcastic—testing is not a substitute for measuring actual skill, testing is the attempt to measure actual skill. Which, maybe not so great. But any better measurement would still qualify as "testing".
Really don't think it's that hard. Plenty of engineers pulling 6 figures, which is well over double the national average (even accounting for tax).

A lot of people would just prefer to spend that money living in a nice place, and enjoying certain luxuries, but it can definitely be done on the kind of income a lot of HN readers are earning.
Then you need to do more research. Fukushima was not part of the modern nuclear industry. Its technology and hardware and culture were fifty years old, every single part of them. If you go back fifty years in literally any other major technology it's all mind-blowingly unsafe. Fifty-year-old cars are deathtraps. Fifty-year-old houses are deathtraps. Fifty-year-old elevators are deathtraps. Fifty-year-old chemistry sets are deathtraps. Fifty-year-old airplanes are barely not deathtraps. And even though fifty-year-old technologies are pants-shittingly unsafe, you're perfectly fine using modern cars, and modern chemistry sets, and modern elevators, and modern airplanes. Because they're all safe. And you should be perfectly fine using modern nuclear power, because it's perfectly safe.

Besides, you know what? Even if nuclear power plants were as dangerous as the ones at Chernobyl and Fukushima I'd still be agitating for their adoption. Do you have any idea how minor and infrequent nuclear incidents really are compared to the alternatives? Chernobyl is so far out into the worst case column that it's not even reasonable. It's like badmouthing cars today because a tanker full of hydrofluoric acid crashed in downtown Seattle circa 1934. There are two major nuclear incidents in history. Two. Neither of them was as bad as an average dam burst. One of them wasn't even as bad as an average coal mine collapse. And the worst dam-bursts in history outweigh the worst nuclear disasters in history by four orders of magnitude. Go look up Banqiao Dam. Even the "green" alternatives are pretty awful; more people have died falling off wind turbines than will ever die to nuclear power. Compared to the alternatives, nuke plants are rainbows and sunshine.
No, because the absolute amount of money also matters.
"...strong, rational and tangible reasons why an employee needs to be based on-site, rather than intangibles like culture, narrative or norms."

What.

This sentiment is exactly what's wrong with trying to push for more remote work. I don't think we have the tools, either technical or managerial, to build fully-remote companies that are as effective as in-person companies. There are niches where this is true, but they're not particularly fun places to work: call centers come to mind. Companies are living, breathing, organic organizations.

The fundamental assumption that I'd challenge is that productivity towards a goal is what's hold back most organizations (or divisions / teams). I think productivity can be a bottleneck, but most of what makes companies successful is doing the right thing, not the most things. (Otherwise, startups could never compete.) As of 2015, I don't believe we have ways to get everybody in a company aligned in ways to make that happen. One of the most powerful ways of getting people working on the right things is to have them hang out with each other. Sitting next to each other, getting coffee with each other, BSing with each other before / after meetings, etc. There's a lot of unstructured communication that's simply lost, even with tools like Slack.

If that direction is there, then you can start to complain about things like lost productivity and commutes. But if there's isn't a strong sense of direction and consensus on where we're going, it doesn't matter how fast everybody is running.

(FWIW, I put my money where my mouth is on this one. I did a 3.5 hour daily commute for 2.5 years, in spite of an office 5 minutes away, because it made things better for me team.)
After seeing how PG treats people when the filter's off, I don't think I want to be in YC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ#t=2179
Mine has been an hour and a half by bus each way for 2 years or so, it's not all the bad to me. I do hate it when I'm delayed though - even ten minutes extra seems soul killing.
Winning the lottery is doable too. So is making $20 million per year as golf pro.

When people give investment advice based on the 10% average return (which they do) then it should be a pretty safe thing and easy to achieve for everybody. Otherwise it will be bad advice for a lot of people.
I'd consider selling http://getplangram.com
You might find this to be a good read:
The Agency
"From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
I use the CLI. Still, that's not the point. Mac users use the CLI too. Some Windows users as well I'm sure. We now live in a Triple-Platform world. Linux is not a sideline project. Its a major Operating System. If OSX gets it (BSD), surely it can be compiled to Linux. Its multi platform anyway so why not go the full distance?!
As a Canadian visiting Berlin, I was blown away by the way police carried themselves. At one point I was walking up to Nollendorfplatz station and I see a woman, looking heavily intoxicated and enraged, chasing around a police officer and hitting him with her purse as a handful more looked on. Where I come from (and having only traveled to the US before, where I'd been) this only ends one way... but shockingly the officers were standing around and laughing. The target of the woman's aggression was running in a circle comically as if Yakety Sax was playing in the background.
Wow. When I wrote the previous I half thought I might be nuts, but this is actually more paranoia-inspiring than what I was suggesting.

How did I not hear about this story?!?

This isn't just fake news. It's a full-blown fake event. They created -- for a period of time -- a real live sort of virtual reality in which something happened that did not happen. Unlike earlier examples of fake history, this was live! A live breaking hoax!

... and of course, we absolutely can't assume that Russia is the only government or other agency doing this. That'd be fairly naive, especially given how easy it is and the potential both for offensive intelligence and profit.

Take that ball and run with it and it gets very, very dystopian. To make something up: what if Fukushima didn't happen? Obviously I'm not actually suggesting this, but as we live more and more in a digitally-informed reality how plausible does faking a world-changing event become? Could we be headed for a world where there will be large percentages of people walking around believing that totally imaginary things are happening? Think about it. What proof do you actually have that Fukushima occurred? Unless you live in Japan, the answer is: "not much."

This isn't new of course, but the Internet could definitely take it to the next level by allowing a much more realistic simulation of a real event to be delivered to a wider audience. Could you actually create a full blown parallel universe and lure a good number of people into it?

We're sort of there already. There are whole weird pockets of people who think all kinds of strange things that are... umm... unlikely. But the scary nightmare fuel here for me is the idea of this being industrialized and well-financed. The potential for mass manipulation is kind of freaky. Now throw specialized AI sock puppets into the mix that can impersonate millions of people discussing the same non-realities and non-events. It's mechanized information warfare -- to old propaganda it's like comparing a machine gun to a musket.

How many years would you say we are away from the first AI-powered industrial scale hoax delivered say... the day of an election? There'd be two choices: let the hoaxers sway the election, or cancel the election and play into their hands in another way.
The classification is binary, so there are no more or less open minded liberals or conservatives. “Neutral” sources are excluded (and rare). You could have an effect of what either side choses to share, say, blue links are outrageous; red one are more mature – but measuring that objectively would be difficult.

Also, Liberals are the one who click less (i.e. “are open minded”) than Conservatives, not the other way around.

That result is a classic: I remember (but can't find the reference) more liberals say they could not marry (or let their child marry) a conservative than the other way around, for instance.
Cool fact: The average NYC commute is 79 minutes a day, 40 minutes each way.
Biking is fine if you are a prof at a college campus, or the boss of some hip startup, but I cannot arrive at work sweating through a horribly wrinkled suit. We don't have showers.

I have yet to meet anyone who has communized by bike in my city (Vancouver BC) for more than a few years without a major altercation with a motorvehicle. It might be healthy, but it is also physically dangerous.
It looks like reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's request and blocked this post for Russian IPs - I get a simple page now:

>403 Forbidden

>Request forbidden by administrative rules.

It doesn't look like official Roskomnadzor's page which is shown for blocked sites.
In NYC, it takes 87 years and $4.5 billion to build 1.5 miles of transit: the 2nd Ave subway was originally approved in 1929 and the first phase won't open until 2016 at the earliest.
It's really common in Android (10-20% of apps), but happens occasionally in iOS too.

The most common Android obfuscator is Proguard, but we also see Codeguard and others. The most surprising thing we found is that many developers build their own custom obfuscator. I think it's because they're trying to keep people from ripping off their code or hide secrets on the client side. Because Android allows a variety of techniques (custom classloaders, native code extensions that can overwrite their own code), there's a proliferation of methods there.

In iOS, it's less common. You'll see a few frameworks like RNCryptor used to hide client-side secrets. Some apps use UAObfuscatedString to try to hide class names and selectors, but our similarity algorithms are based on a number of independent program features, including control-flow graph structure, which are unaffected by this.

There are obfuscating compilers too, but it's very rare for anyone to use them.
Really good point.

This is definitely meant to serve users who have a loyal association to a brand/blog.

I imagine it as a middle ground between email newsletter.
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I would be interested in pointing a (distributed, imprecise) symbolic executor at each app to gain a sense of the "state depth" of that app, and then correlating that with bugs discovered and rate of code churn in the app, and comparing the "state depth" across apps in a given 'vertical' and all apps globally.
I had not seen Nextdoor's scheduler, which looks awesome except for the required external requirement of SQS. Kala was built to not require anything except for the Kala binary.

Yelp's Tron is awesome, but I wanted an JSON over HTTP API and ISO 8601 Duration Notation. Plus there are a few over problems with it that I currently don't remember.
You know, I don't think everyone knows this. Many people I know chose living with their parents and no job over paying rent but getting savings. Not to mention thinking no retirement account and a tax refund is better than a 401k and $0 back on their tax return.

I'm still working on explaining why a savings account with .75% interest is not a good place to keep money long-term.
You're in denial. 4k a month gets you a very nice place in the NY metro area.

NYC also has a functional transit infrastructure. My cousin makes around $250k, commutes a little less than an hour by train, and owns a home that is essentially a mini-estate.

SFO is a gold rush town, but the model isn't sustainable. A shit-ton of semiconductor research has moved to save $$$ to Albany, NY of all places.
Multiplying minutes by millions of people does give a first approximation to how much energy use, pollution, and congestion you are causing. Commute times matter even if you don't care that people are sitting for 15 minutes (or 45, or 90).
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6x what the median family income is should be called fantastic, yes. It's literally in the top 2%, even in SF/NYC.
Nice summary.

I recently picked up an ESP8266 for a project, but yet to start farting around with it. Excited to find some spare time.
> Does a limo service as a startup idea sound cool to you?

Do you think they didn't recognize the potential to move downmarket right from the beginning? Starting as a limo service was just a way to delay regulatory issues. Travis shot down Garrett's idea of owning the assets right at the beginning.

> What about just another online file storage service when there are hundreds of others out there already without any significant traction?

It definitely wasn't the presence of "hundreds" of competitors (at least not ones that didn't require sysadmin expertise) that people were criticizing at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Counter question: Is there any professional organization where code commenting is not important?
Even if I work alone I write comments because I can't recognize my own code a year later.
The DOT regulates your ability to physically ship batteries through the mail, but there's actually no formal stamp of
approval that the DOT gives car batteries. They do have approval processes for other car parts, including electric car batteries though. We've been doing our own temperature and lifecycle testing so far, but we're still having 3rd party labs repeat all of that and also do destructive safety tests.