skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OH NOES! Hey Eric! :P

The problem we have with our project is that we're dealing with a ton of subdomains and not a lot of data I would consider "sensitive" enough to really necessitate encryption. While I appreciate the sentiment of the project, and value your commitment to privacy, for our use case it's definitely a bit of a pain in the butt.

That, and I know getting IT departments to move to install certs on their old infrastructure for things that might not require encryption is definitely painful. And the errors generated by expired certificates and "insecure content warnings" are confusing, and don't add value to projects that don't benefit from encrypted connections. We've been hearing all about it.
It sounds like they're choosing between selling to the highest bidder, or keeping it as a trailer park for the benefit of the residents. There's a third option. If the land is more valuable as a vacant lot than as a trailer park, I hope they consider selling it as a vacant lot and distributing a portion of the difference to the residents as compensation for moving out. Using these numbers as an example:

> his appraiser had valued the property in 2013 at $14.5 million with the mobile homes and at $29.2 million as a vacant lot.

He might sell for $29 million and distribute $8 million equally among the 400 tenants. That's $20,000 per person, which could be more-than-decent compensation for having to move, and the seller still keeps a large portion of the difference in value: 29 - 8 - 14.5 = $6.5 (million).
For those who don't know about TAI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

International Atomic Time (TAI, from the French name Temps Atomique International[1]) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.[2] It is the basis for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is used for civil timekeeping all over the Earth's surface, and for Terrestrial Time, which is used for astronomical calculations. As of 30 June 2015 when the last leap second was added,[3] TAI is exactly 36 seconds ahead of UTC. The 36 seconds results from the initial difference of 10 seconds at the start of 1972, plus 26 leap seconds in UTC since 1972.

Time coordinates on the TAI scales are conventionally specified using traditional means of specifying days, carried over from non-uniform time standards based on the rotation of the Earth. Specifically, both Julian Dates and the Gregorian calendar are used. TAI in this form was synchronised with Universal Time at the beginning of 1958, and the two have drifted apart ever since, due to the changing motion of the Earth.
The specifics of how to exploit it do not contribute to pushing the manufacturers to fix it. Disclosing the general vulnerability does, the specifics does not.

> Meanwhile VWs are still being stolen using this exploit

Holy fucking [CITATION NEEDED] batman!
What? How do you read the opposite meaning because there isn't an explanation?
My response whenever I hear the "life style" label is to ask who's life style are we talking about? For me, the only difference is that in the traditional VC startup case it is the life style of the VCs that is being enhanced.
As someone looking to use Rust primarily on the Raspberry Pi and other embedded systems, this is a big deal.
Off the top of my head: any time you want to run a computational thing in another thread without doing something like an entire celery process or somesuch.

It's not about being THE solution for such things anyway. It's about being an option.
Just a quick preview of one video indicates they aren't all white. A lot are, but not all.
All this talk about ASCII control codes and no one mentions 0x07 aka ␇?
Factory farming considered worse than weapons research? Unless it refers to a specific kind of farming of which I'm not aware, I think the author led their own views cloud their judgement.
Why you should use open data to hone your machine learning models
It was sort of darkly funny to be reading along as you're quoting the guy then all of a sudden hit so matter-of-factly, "He's dead, but you can still get the thing from...." A real splash of cold water.
You really think your typical car thief is going to go find and purchase specialized tools?

As always, relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
The US government has become practically unresponsive to even the gravest of crimes, such as torture and pervasive surveillance of it's own citizens. Crimes committed by those in power are either ignored, fined a percentage of their profit, or wrist slapped while those who oppose the powerful have their lives ruined.

Yes, a morally good person can no longer work for the US government, a threshold into evil has been crossed -- was it acceptable to work for the Stasi, for Mao or Stalin? No it wasn't, and isn't acceptable to assist the US government.
64 Stitches is a simple language to explore textile pattern
GSMem: Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Computers Over GSM Frequencies [pdf]
OnboardIQ (YC S15) Helps Companies Screen and Hire Their Workforces
agreed, someone to bounce ideas off of and someone who encourages you to continue when you're down.

The closest things i've found for solo-support:

a) micropreneur academy ($50/mo-in 2009- but all solo software folks)

b) mastermind groups

Other Suggestions?
Lots of good answers in the comments here.

Similar to the PathEngine concept, when I compress 3D meshes to 6 bytes per xyz, I could use float16. But, there's no point to having most of the precision focused in the center of the mesh. The verts are usually fairly evenly distributed if not biased towards the outside edge of the bounding box.

Bit-level, cross-platform floating point determinism is harder than it should be. That and associativity is important in physics, financials, replays and distributed simulation.

The PlayStation1 and GameBoyAdvance didn't have FPU coprocessors. Software floating point was completely impractical. So, you pretty much had to use fixed point. To the point that the PS1 did have a fixed-point vector math coprocessor! :D
This team used patterns of memory access instructions to modulate a memory bus to generate GSM-band signals that can be read from a hacked baseband. That is a thing that happened.
"Even when" as in he's not the reason the meetings occur. The boss is there because he too has things to report that inform the team.
Not really more information about that, per se, but if you have ever seen Ken Burns' documentary on the Great Dustbowl it is interleaved with a lot of really fascinating things about how groundwater/water effects the overall affluence and economy of America as a whole - enough to cause Great Depressions and so forth. At the end, if memory serves, they discuss the Oglala aquifer and how it is at currently dangerous levels that could potentially cause another Dustbowl/Great-Depression like chain of events.
The US has promised not to seek the death penalty if he returns to face trial.
It takes 10 seconds to bypass a window. Alarm systems are a deterrant, not prevention.
As others have noted, this is addressing a different type of business than PG was talking about.

The author is talking about bootstrapped businesses. There are many niches where a well run business can earn revenue of $100,000-$500,000 per year, and be ably run by a single person. These niches do require upkeep, but they are not so likely to be invaded by major competitors or large companies. The returns are too small. However, the returns are excellent for a single founder.

It is also true that it's easier to scale such a business than it used to be. So there is probably more bootstrapping potential than before, especially as more people move online and there are therefore more niches to fill.

But this approach also rules out many types of businesses, and with rare exceptions it rules out larger revenue streams. These are among the trade offs.
How are you going to bridge between rust and the Android Java apis?
that's all fine and dandy, but no one is bitching about the fact we have very very very few men working in the child care industry, for instance... better start subsidizing their jobs too?

men and women were both given the same choice of universities and classes in high school. the tech sector did not turn its back on women or minorities, they turned their back on it. now that its profitable they want a piece of that pie.
The broader USDS family is focused on delivering better services. But one area we're starting to focus more on is policy itself. One thing that struck me about the federal government is just how little internal harmony there exists between agencies. Just because the NSA does or says something doesn't mean everyone here agrees with them or even really has to support them. Because the USDS HQ team is located in the White House (and OMB), there exists the ability to engage directly with decision-makers and influence policy and (at least sometimes) the behavior of agencies.
Yes, the OP makes that point as well and it's also very relevant. PG's point on that issue is dated.

Today we have a "stack" that automates a lot of the grunt work: ZenPayroll, Clerky, Stripe, etc. A single founder can just set up a business and run it using these services to do a lot of stuff that was once manual.

I personally think the single-arity is near. (Title for a blog post I never wrote.) The single-arity will be when we have the first one person "unicorn." It won't stay one person forever, but pretty soon we will see an example of one founder -- working as the only full time employee -- building something with astronomical growth.

On one hand it's pretty cool, and on the other hand it speaks to the degree to which we've created a winner take all economy with an insane hockey stick compensation distribution.
This seems to completely invalidate even the idea of justly disobeying unjust laws.

The rule of law as a principle has utility in political philosophy, but saying there can be no exception is arguing for a complete embrace of authoritarianism. And if there's no way for laws to be challenged, then all civil disobedience is illegitimate.

I like Hobbes as much as the next guy, but as a society we seem to have moved beyond his idea that the government can do whatever it wants to sustain itself, because it's better than no government.

This is not a personal attack, but this argument often infuriates me, because it's similar to people arguing that MLK was a troublemaker, and that the civil rights movement was just "agitators" who refused to play by the rules, even though the game was rigged to destroy them.

Why can't people just always obey authority, no matter how wrong, destructive, inhuman, or immoral it may be, amirite?
I guess because otherwise they would have to have a different code base for Windows, Linux and OSX. They are probably relying on Chromium to solve the multiplatform aspect of this.
There have been plenty of abuses that came to light without the person who exposed them going to jail. There have even been NSA whistleblowers that stayed in the US and didn't get prosecuted (see e.g. William Binney, who has called Snowden a traitor http://www.businessinsider.com/william-binney-and-snowden-tr...).
As for the process, I think Sam Altman's startup class at Stanford might be the best intro resource out there: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/. It's a lot of information, from a lot of different people, but it's fairly comprehensive, and the matter-of-fact style is extremely orienting.
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You mean like email? Email is still used for just about everything: "instant" messaging, to-do lists, appointments, letters, bills, etc.

SMS could do most of that as well, and if you add an "AI" messager it could be pretty powerful. That said, an "AI" email interface would be just as useful.
For anyone interested in this, I would recommend checking out The Water Knife (fiction) and Cadillac Desert (non-fiction).
Rich Media Built In HTML5 Is Coming To The Facebook News Feed
12. Corollary: Have a paper notebook. Writing by hand is incredibly helpful to organize and create ideas.
Reddit is now censoring posts and communities on a country-by-country basis
Same here, the borrow checker in it's current incarnation left a sour taste in my mouth. What made it worse, the language market keeps plugging the borrow checker as this great fully baked feature. And (like you said) in real life it's fairly easy to run into cases where the borrow checker has false positive that are hard to work around.

I was disheartening to see what it was not a priority to tackle it. There's long standing bugs (2+ years) filed in github against it. And so far the answer has been it's hard to fix this, so we're not going to do it yet.

I'm really happy to this development. I hope this is sooner rather then later (have to wait to 2016)
Practice making tough decisions
Problem with low-fat diets is they lead to hormonal deficiencies, sub-par vitamin absorption, and let's not forget that fatty acids are precursors to the hormones and chemicals produced in the brain. Depression is fairly common in long-term low-fat diets as well.
The N.W.A Flowchart
> Here at latitude 51.5° and given an Earth circumference of roughly 40,000 km — one degree of longitude is 69 km

The math is wrong here. If the earth circumference is 40,000 km, then divide by 360 to get one degree equals 110 km. I notice dividing by 1.6 gives 69 miles, so perhaps there's a units error here.
Input methods don't need to align with encoding.
Perhaps another way to look at this problem: Isn't it strange, and not very efficient for such a large number of very prosperous companies to be located all in one area. Apple, for instance, is building yet another campus in the valley. Couldn't they build a facility some place else, spread the wealth a little, so to speak. There are lot's of towns north of SF and south of Monterey that could use the influx of capital.

I am not saying we should force companies to move headquarters, I am just pointing out that Silicon Valley has huge, one might claim unreasonable, concentration of wealth. This concentration of wealth really shifts perceptions. For instance, 4 years ago or so I visited a friend in SF. We were to meet in a restaurant. An Uber car pulled out and he got out. I asked him about how it worked. His reply: "It's awesome, I order it on my phone, it picked me up and dropped me off here (~3 miles away) for ONLY $40! Isn't that awesome!" I am sorry, but for me at the time $40 was a lot of money, I would have walked the damn 3 miles for that money.

My point is, sometimes I think the entire Silicon Vally is in the bubble of affluence, and might be slightly delusional about what other people, outside the bubble, might think is or is not reasonable. The solution isn't giving the poor people free money, the solution might be to grow (geographically) and spread the bubble around, making lot's of people better off by reducing housing strain in the valley, and economically improving other communities throughout CA or even the grater USA. Just an idea, I might be wrong.
OK. Is that bad, in this case?
Why Apple Will Never Join the WebRTC Party
I wonder what'd happen if you used this on base64 strings.
Quite impressive. One improvement that I don't think would increase your lines of code might be to use a `realloc' for your variable storage, so you wouldn't run out of space or have a hard limit.

https://github.com/bbu/simple-interpreter/blob/master/src/ru...

And of course I want to test this myself with a few interesting programs.

In terms of computing power, I think this language is just shy of being Turing complete. It's probably in the same class as regular expressions.

I'm working on a similar project, with a minimal compiler for an integer-only language, and I expect it to have the same limitation at first. I think the easiest way to remedy that is to implement dynamic arrays or some form of recursion, although I'm not sure if the latter is sufficient.
They hedge your risk of time and effort by giving you resources of capital, networks, IP to make things happen plus a bonus if the startup gets traction enough for a public offering or profitable exit sale. There are many devils in the details but getting paid to do something you are committed to completing is not a bad offer.
Hah, this is pretty neat. I've been working on a hobby project to build something very similar myself using an ESP8266 + sensors crammed into a hollowed out wall wart. This sort of project is really fun, I recommend trying it.

As a product, the PocketLab looks like it provides a jump start into playing with sensor networks. I would have loved to have something like this as a kid in school. The price seems a bit steep considering the specs on the guts, but I imagine part of this is the software + the fact that this is an early adopter preview. If it's rugged enough to last and the software easy to use then this would certainly be worthwhile for educators.
You know, I hear this all the time. And honestly, this isn't meant to be snarky, but I don't understand how wanting to be paid for your work is a silly business model.

Or am I missing something?
> 70 percent more tomatoes per 1,000 gallons of water

Am I reading this wrong? The "1000 gallons" seems superfluous since we're already talking about percentages. Replace it with "gallon of water" or even "amount of water" and the 70% doesn't change.
Belle Vista trailer park was one of the very few low-income areas from which students could get into the Palo Alto school system. Palo Alto is very strict about that - they even have an online form for reporting out-of-area students.[2] For poor people, there's the crappy Ravenswood school district. On the other hand, the trailer park is mostly retirees.

There are trailer parks all along the coastal area of the bay on the SF peninsula, dating from when that area was used as trash dumps. Google HQ is next to a former trash dump; Shoreline Park is a landfill, and in its early days had methane fires. Because no one wanted to develop that property, it came with a permanent tax exemption, which SGI exploited when they built there. Menlo Park had a dump too; that's now a park. Palo Alto recently closed the last section of their coastside dump and turning it into a park. (All the local trash is being sent to a huge canyon east of San Jose.)

Here's the trailer park nearest to Google HQ: [1] That big square thing in the background is the air intake for NASA's wind tunnel.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4172537,-122.0736559,3a,75y,...
[2] http://www.pausd.org/registration/proof-residence-requiremen...
Good idea. Hopefully someday electron will provide an optional feature where mac downloads can drop chromium and use the system webkit.
It could be a bad thing for the user that was the victim of a copycat AV but how is that not due to their being a copycat?
Does it matter? You have no real response than childish name calling. Instead you rather forget the awful crimes the US engages in on a routine basis, as if helping them free one hand isn't the same as assisting the other hand in murder and torture.
I would disagree with that in the abstract. Delays in workflow can be addressed, or at least surfaced, by better back-end tech and reporting, and 18F's repos are public on GitHub.
Exactly. And it's insanely easy to physically break into a car. If you have the chance, watch a pop-a-lock guy. They essentially bend your car door backward at the upper portion, and then stick something into your car to pull the lock up. Not difficult.
Would $20,000 actually be decent compensation for having to move in this case? They'd either have to start paying huge rents locally, or move pretty far away. In the former case, the $20,000 won't last too long, and in the latter case they're being uprooted from their community, they might have to find new jobs. (Or be unable to!)

Certainly it would be a nice thing to do and would ease the blow. And I wouldn't fault the owner for selling. But I don't know if distributing that amount would really make it up to the tenants.
Metric's nice, but each day being 10 hours in a 10 day week just doesn't work for me. But at least it's Fiveday, and I have a 20 hour weekened to look forward to.
And probably because it's more "stable" in the sense that the bundled chromium won't change independent of the rest of the software.

Plus storage is cheap and plentiful, and while webkit is pretty close to chromium, it's not identical and then they would need to support 2 separate "platforms", even if only for that 2% of differences.
I'm really sorry about your experience. In many ways we're still a fledgling startup. We don't trust the regular federal government's hiring process, which means we have to build our own from scratch, so we have our own recruiters, coordinators, and when we aren't fighting fires or developing software, we're the ones actually doing the interviews. The process was maddeningly slow for a while but it's improving.
I feel like this isn't a bad point. Anyone have a response because the whistlerblower tag gets used a lot but he did release a lot that seemed to be normal spying.
Wow, people are getting upset because Target won't label toys for boys/girls? Seriously, I think people need to get a grip and stop trying to force a social norm on a private company. If they don't like it then they can shop at Walmart (barf).
They aren't in order from worst to least worst. I've added a footnote to clarify this.
It's exhausting to keep having this same conversation over and over, but I suppose that's the purpose of comments like yours.

Look at the graduation rates for women and minorities from CS programs; then look at the industry participation rates, particularly over time and particularly with reference to seniority. They're not turning their back on tech, they're being driven out.
Thanks egusa, its been a lot of work :)
These actions harmed users who had essential system files wrongly quarantined by their anti-virus programs. These users may have spent many hours and dollars trying to resolve the problem. Quote from the article:

"Microsoft's antimalware research director, Dennis Batchelder, told Reuters in April that he recalled a time in March 2013 when many customers called to complain that a printer code had been deemed dangerous by its antivirus program and placed in 'quarantine'."
Have you seen luka.ai they have been doing it for quite a while. Doing something very similar.
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I can't tell you how many times I've said to myself "if only these very short ASCII strings were even shorter!"
Well, then it fits; many terminal emulators don't support \e[5m as blink anymore. Xterm, URxvt, and Konsole do, but the Linux terminal doesn't (gives it a grey background, not blinking), VTE-based terminals (gnome-terminal, lxterminal, ...) don't (ignored), Emacs term-mode doesn't (treats it as bold).
And total crap.
Regarding co-founders, my non-expert advice is to only look inside your own co-worker/friend network. While there's a lot of data that points to 2-3 co-founders being a good number, I tend to think going solo is better than finding a stranger to co-found with. Founding a startup with a stranger adds another huge variable to the equation.
> I appreciate the apology but the really disappointing thing is talking to your recruiters who say it's hard to get good technologists into government and then looking at your process that seems to exacerbate the problem.

Not even the worst of the descriptions of experience with USDS hiring I've seen could possibly be reasonable viewed as exacerbating the problem (mitigating it less than an ideal process would, sure; but to be exacerbating, it would have to be worse than the average non-USDS public sector hiring process.)
let me ask you this simple question, whether you take it in context or not is upto you :) ... do you really think and know I might add, that there are no differences between men and women? especially in their brains??