skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Security is an issue, but with my work machine I'm not hitting sites that would put me at risk.

What add-ons do you use on this extremely restricted set of internal-only websites?
Any ideas how to effectively police that type of permit? My gut says the infrastructure and manpower needed would be incredibly expensive. Possibly enough to negate a significant chunk of the revenue
I've lived in Los Angeles/the US for 4 years now.

They just started implementing them on some freeways, like I-10 (maybe 2 years ago?). They eliminated the (free) carpool lane and put this in place.

I know city workers who brag about getting their transponders subsidised and get to ride in the cool fast lane.

EDIT: The FasTrak lanes/"ExpressLanes" are actually combined with the free carpool lanes. Sorry for the confusion.

EDIT 2: This is how it works: https://www.metroexpresslanes.net/en/about/howit.shtml

The transponder and opening an accuont (both required) still costs money.

Further info: http://media.metro.net/projects_studies/expresslanes/images/...
So was it an anti-counterfeiting measure masquerading as an anti-drug message, or an anti-drug message that worked as an anti-counterfeiting measure?
I pay close attention to my breath and heart beat at the same time.
My experience as a UN intern in NYC was incredibly similar. My department did nothing of note, and the person leading the department would routinely harass, disparage and humiliate her employees, sometimes in public. No one was even competent, and people spent most of their time doing nothing. It was one of the most demoralizing positions I have ever had, and was of course paid for none of my time while living in Manhattan, which was a great financial burden.

That being said, I'm convinced this line on my resume has worked wonders for me. I have switched industries twice (UN -> Non Profit -> Tech Software Engineering) and in most of my interviews, people still ask me about it after 5ish years. While it would be hard to say for certain that it has gotten me jobs, it does make my resume continue to stand out. This doesn't take away from how unethical it is to not pay your workers, or how insane it is that most of the UN does absolutely nothing but take most US tax dollars and pay their employees (at least in NYC) an incredibly insane amount of money to do nothing.

Edit: I want to make clear that there are hugely productive and beneficial parts to the UN like UNHCR which runs refugee camps throughout the world. I personally met the head of UNHCR, who was then a former Prime Minister of Portugal, and he was one of the most impressive people I've ever met. He ran over 150 refugee camps and knew each of them by name, location and how many people were there. Incredible person doing a very important job. But this is the exception, not the rule.
More importantly, natural gas often decides the price of electricity in areas where it is only a small fraction of electricity production.

Google "Location Based Marginal Pricing"
I don't think this matters much for companies like Tesla. Electricity is already extremely cheap for a car. The average cost of electricity in the US is about 12.5 cents/kWh, which works out to 3.75 cents/mile for a Tesla. That's cheaper than a Prius at $2/gallon, despite being a substantially larger and heavier car. If you can get in on time-of-use rates and charge overnight when demand is low, it can be nearly free.

High gas prices can be good for Tesla, but lower electricity prices won't move the needle for most people.
Ask HN: Average budget for a development company? (Gigster, Appster, etc.)
I've seen a few of these companies, and now Gigster at YC, but I haven't seen any information about what a general budget or cost to use one is.

I know that the main answer will probably be "it depends", but looking past that, what would be an average budget for a full project from scratch? (web, mobile, backend, frontend, etc.)
...is this the string library you are referring to?

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/strings.html

...or something more extensive?
We need to keep oil in the ground but also massively reduce our meat consumption. I think animal agriculture accounts for something like 50% of all greenhouse gasses, whereas the burning of fossil fuels accounts for less than 20%.
Well, not all of OPEC, but the Saudi intent is to destroy the US shale business. While doing so, they seem to be hitting Russia and South America pretty damn hard. This is worrying since shale can go lower than Russia and Venezuela ($34 - $50 is the bottom depending on area of the balkans). Canada oil sands is higher since the oil is of lower quality.
There is a refinery problem in Indiana which is why gasoline is staying elevated even thought crude is falling. If anything happens along a refinement chain, there is a disconnect between market prices. The full affect is on the Chicago area, not sure how it is affecting other regional markets.
It seems like they should really call that top-line, $10 bn, number 'bookings' and the second, $2 bn, number 'revenue'.
> The way extensions work in Firefox is a bit crazy, it's like opening your belly and say "here, change whatever you want".

...and my god it has been awesome. Certainly more awesome than any instability it may cause.

> It's the equivalent of a desktop OS where any installed application runs in kernel

Most major operating systems give extension capabilities to enhance them in deep ways. My Windows install has ClassicShell as a start menu replacement and DisplayFusion for multi-monitor taskbars. I have explorer plugins for Zip files, Git, and Subversion. Any one of those tools can crash and take down the whole desktop process.

What you're describing isn't a modern power user OS -- you're describing iOS. A safe secure place where nothing interesting happens; only exactly what Apple has already imagined you could want.

> Not only a bad written extensions can have disastrous consequences

My browser crashes? Hardly disasterous! And then I can just uninstall any unstable extensions.
The current drop in prices seems to mostly be a price war between the Saudis and new producers in the US. It's probably not sustainable long term.

But, if increased crude production in the US has lowered the long-term equilibrium price, the US could increase fuel taxes to discourage increased consumption.

The only downside to this is that it'd be a very regressive tax increase.
It might depend on where you live. For a teenager who lives in a reasonably dense area, even using Uber/Lyft to get around could easily be less expensive than car ownership. (I mean, geez, even just insurance premiums for teenagers are off the wall these days.) If that summer job is accessible without a car, that means it can be even more part time without sacrificing the ability to get around.

I lived in a very rural area so for me car ownership really did represent freedom. But if that weren't the case then I think that calculus would have been pretty attractive to me. Having the freedom to not spend so @$@#% much time doing menial crap like flipping burgers? Heck yeah.
There are also some refinery problems in Indiana which is keeping gasoline at a premium when compared to oil.
I always thought the cassandra multi datacenter cluster on rpis was interesting.

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/32-node-raspberry-pi-cassan...
Systems like this are already in place. Generally via RFID and license plate camera readers.
I think you're both right and wrong. Those other issues you mention are real problems, but labor is becoming a much less important factor of production in those fields than it used to be. I think the Harvard academics are observing that in a climate of automation and global supply chains, social skills are becoming more valuable because they are hard to engineer a replacement for, which is no longer true of many physical, cognitive, or administrative skills.
Here's a snarky contrarian view: social skills matter more now because there is less meaningful production and creation occurring.

When engineering consists of making CRUD apps and serving up ads, you're better off politicking to get a bigger piece of a not-so-expanding pie.
Elixir for the Functional Rubyist crowdfunding campaign
Time redistribution. People with more time will be required to pull over to the side of the road and wait for some time interval to redistribute their share of excess time to people in a hurry. It's part of the self driving car program and will be administered by the Federal Dept of Transportation. It's only fair.
Turning bootstrap modals into Ember routes (with URLs)
You actually have a great point.
FBI was more focused on self-promotion then on actually fighting drugs.
90% of the screen is dedicated to the FBI logo, which kids just don't care about.
But, as an advertiser, the majority of marketing campaigns directed to kids fail to properly communicate with them and are just a waste of money.
Actually, those are the very languages I had in mind. Perl too. Yes, they have many more active developers than Smalltalk. But you know what? I was part of the Ruby community before Rails, and it was tiny. That was after it had been around for 10 years.

So I'll say it again. If you want to create a new language, go for it! But I wouldn't sneer at Smalltalk and Scheme in the process. Those communities are relatively small, but they're still huge compared to your brand-new language, and they will be for decades. And if you judge language success by innovation and influence rather than developers... well, you have even bigger shoes to fill.
Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Data Science Interviews
> To wit, an impressive amount of my career has been about nothing more than applying mass manufacturing techniques to previously bespoke work, and I'm proud to say that it has transformed the way some organizations approach certain classes of problems. And it's often nothing more than me coming into a workplace and saying "let's see if we can get this problem up-to-speed with the industrial revolution"

That sounds fascinating. Can you give some examples?
Debian just added support for the MIPS64 architecture
Gas prices are about 50 cents more per gallon in Chicago than the rest of the US right now due to this.
Bertha and Seattle's Money Pit
"Peak Oil" just says we stop mining as much oil with a certain graph shape, not that the world ends. Transitioning to a new energy source is compatible and preferable.
Blackmailers Demand Bitcoin from Ashley Madison Customers After Data Leak
Lower oil prices seem to be driving the major US indices lower lately.

Why is that? Lower energy expenses seems like a good thing for businesses.
Sounds like a giant pain. Nobody (passengers or airlines) wants yet another card to carry around when we already have perfectly usable devices.
From the TC article about Uber today:

> This year, the firm expects to clock $10.84 billion in revenue which — calculating the 20 percent commission that it takes — should bring in around $2 billion in revenue for the year.
The article is for LA. Anyway, it's a traffic system. You open that lane up to general traffic and it unburdens the other lanes.
Soooo, the funding has to come from somewhere else, I get it. How about a sort of kickstarter for hacking deserving people/organizations? Just brainstorming here.
> but if the difference is astronomical, then wouldn't it be astronomical too for less intelligent people who already have good study habits?

The weighting of college admissions exams (which are heavily weighted toward measuring ability rather than study skills) and high school grades (which measure a combination of study skills and ability, such that you can't pull the two apart distinctly) in admissions means its easier for someone with high intelligence and weak study skills to get themselves in over their head in the college program they are admitted to than for someone with less intelligence and stronger study skills to do.

Plus, the difference between not having study skills and needing to learn them from scratch and having study skills but needing to study more is one of kind, not merely of degree.

(But, sure, lots of people have transition problems with college, even though those problems can have different sources, natures, and manifestations.)
"Transfer rate" is not synonymous to speed. Latency is. GDDR5 latency is greater than any DDR3 memory lest DDR4. And HBM that is the new video memory is much slower than GDDR5 (even though it's physically GDDR5 the implementation s we have run it half the clock of normal GDDR5).

Bandwidth is great though, but if bandwidth had been speed you could also say that a container ship is faster than a supersonic jet.
Have you seen a therapist? It's hard work to reprogram your own brain, and even harder if you try to do it alone. I think of it as a microscope trying to examine itself.

Even a few sessions can do a lot to point out your blind spots, give you objective feedback, and drill down on questions that you subconsciously avoid asking yourself.
That isn't going to happen. Fracking isn't going away, it's a technology. The Saudis are openly acknowledging their misjudgement of the situation at this point. The fracking technology shift is permanent, so long as regulations don't stop it. And it's going to spread across the globe with a little bit of time. What has been done in Texas, can be done in Mexico, for example.

If Pioneer or Apache implode, then Exxon will scoop them up at a big discount, and when oil rises back to $50+ or higher, Exxon starts the production back up. These wells are incredibly inexpensive now, they know where the oil is, and they're producing three times more oil per well than they were a few years ago.

Texas oil is now down to $10 to $20 / barrel cost wise, and the Bakken is down to closer to $40. The Saudis need $100 oil to balance their budget, they're currently vaporizing their reserves to play this game of chicken. Estimates are those reserves will be exhausted by the end of the decade if oil doesn't return to $80+.
I did this for Strongbad emails years ago using some off-the-shelf flash to mp4 converter but a number of the videos had issues because they were interactive (and not just at the end but sometimes in the middle). I got the majority of them (at the time) converted so I could watch them on my iPod video. This was before I went full-on-data-hoarder and so I deleted them forever ago. Recently I tried to do it again and have all the swfs downloaded but haven't found a great way to mass convert them so I can put them in Plex (media server). If anyone has a good way to do it on linux via the command line I'd be very interested.
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What does "trued up" mean?
I'm skeptical this is a true refinery issue/problem.
Do you think it's bleeding into other regional markets at all?
Ya, i'll definitely be exploring. I always loved hackpad, but didn't use as much as I would if it was a native note taking app (like JustNotes which I use)
A bit: http://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap
you don't need the developer edition, you can use the unbranded version which is the same as the regular version except without the branding.
From a technical point of view, what is DownThemAll? It seems like it looks at the structure of the current web page, identifies all links, and then downloads them (in some cases using range requests, as with '90s-era download accelerators), with options for pausing and resuming downloads and renaming them in certain ways.

What prevents this from being done using a Chrome extension to look at the page structure and render some UI, plus a bit of native code using the native messaging API to actually store the files on disk?

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging

"Developer frustration" is a more-than-valid reason, but I'm trying to understand if this is a claim that no software like DownThemAll can possibly be written without Mozilla introducing purpose-built extension APIs.
That primarily impacts Canadian heavy crude exports. The BP Whiting refinery was the primary consumer of Canadian crude.

Few other refineries (other than some on the Gulf coast) are configured to handle the product.

That's why Canadian crude prices are collapsing...and why the price of gasoline in the upper midwest is going up.

The only other option for Canadian crude to pipeline export to the Texas gulf coast. The problem is pipeline capacity (that's why some much Canadian oil goes out by train), but even more critically, the pipelines typically offload at the giant Cushing OK storage center...and Cushing is right at 100% storage capacity. (you can't just pump crude straight into a refinery...there a timing mis-match that has to be dealt with via storage).

The Canadians are about to really get squeezed.
Of course I agree, it had upsides as well.

But you can't add such a switch - if it's there, malware can access it. A switch might prevent other problems, but not that main one.
I like to refer to DNNs (specifically back-propagation on them) as the world's most lucrative application of the chain rule from Calculus...
> Much of the impetus for this change is to make sandboxing possible.

The whole parade of extension signing, deprecating XUL, privileged extensions and XPCOM are all necessary to make sandboxed e10s processes work? I thought the child processes already are somewhat sandboxed right now.

> Multiprocess Firefox is incompatible with many of the things that addons are doing right now.

And yet a transition seems to be possible without telling developers "you will never ever be allowed to access internals again". It's more of an outreach thing "headsup, you should fix your addon".

And really, isn't that new deprecation and eventual no-AMO-approval policy equivalent to breaking them anyway? So why not just go ahead and break them and let those people tinker who don't mind occasional breakage.

> So, this statement is equivalent to "we didn't need sandboxing before; why do we need it now?" Is that what you're arguing?

To some extent, yes, but not quite. I'm asking why it is suddenly necessary to increase security at the expense of features.

But I'll follow that train of thought anyway: Is it necessary? Wouldn't it be sufficient to write safer, less exploitable software? Isn't that part of the goal of Rust for example?
Wow, 530 points in a system where a $10 stock going to $1 (-90%) is weighted the same as a $200 stock going to $191 (-4.5%) — 9 points in each case.

In other news, the Dow is down 3% today. Doesn't sound as much like the end of the world as 530 points now does it?
Refining capacity doesn't increase because of a drop in crude oil prices. If supply of gasoline cannot be increased, prices will not fall even if the raw crude price falls.

The EPA has been hostile to refinery expansion or new refinery construction.
Different approach then, have you tried having one or two beers (wine/scotch whatever) before? Not enough to get drunk, but enough for some of that paralysis by analysis to fade?
> Rust

So instead of using C we should write our security-critical software in a language that was released 3 months ago and has no major deployments.
Darwin on the Origin of Species [1860 book review]
I still use Firefox, but I looked at the status of some of the forks after today's news. It seems that Pale Moon, at the very least, is a true fork, but I don't have a whole lot of confidence that it would be right for me. In particular, it seems that they take a _very_ old-school approach to media on the Web [1], they really only bother with XUL addon compatibility [2], and an attitude that they should only open-source what is legally required of them [3].

There's nothing wrong with these views, but they don't work well for me. I just want my browser to work, with the extensions I like, and until now the way to go about that has been to stick with regular Firefox. Looks like that might not work for very long either.

[1] "Media support is a regularly-discussed topic for Pale Moon users, [...] This is, however, not a goal of Pale Moon because of the inherent shift of focus from document content to media content." https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml

[2] "If you still like to develop JetPack add-ons for Pale Moon, you will likely have to make a completely separate extension specific for Pale Moon targeting." Ibid.

[3] "There is no requirement or even reason why I should be forced to also release helper applications that are in no way tied to browser operation as Open Source as well." http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7818
Well of course not. If you could fit any neural network to any function quickly, you would have super powers. But in practice, local optima do seem to stop being an issue in big neural networks.

Also this article shows a method of how to construct a lookup table from a neural network in linear time. So in the worst case you can just memorize the input to output table, quickly. In the best case you can fit a simple elegant model, which fits the data perfectly with very few parameters. Given unlimited amounts of time to search the parameter space. Real world NNs are somewhere between these two.
> if it's there, malware can access it

If malware is already on your system then your system is already compromised. It could also patch firefox or download a firefox with signature verification disabled.

Or it could just send your password store file to some server in russia, encrypt your harddrive and extort money from you.

Really, if malware is on your system then some extension sideloading is not really a big concern in the grand scheme of things.

I totally cannot follow that argument. To me it's like being relieved that your wallet hasn't been taken after someone knifed you and you're rapidly losing blood.
Not sure why you posted this? Anyway keep in mind that the 13GB email dump seems corrupted, so it won't do you any good to download it.
Not an expert, but I've been read that demand for oil is typically used as a leading indicator for economic growth. Seems like the global economy is slumping, and as a result doesn't need as much energy (oil)
Just buy an LG Nexus 4 and flash Ubuntu Touch from the stable channel on top of it. It's the reference target and the hardware specifications are virtually the same as the BQ and Meizu phones out now, only several times cheaper.
I remember a time when I enjoyed AVGN and his ilk, but man, I find it harder and harder to stomach the obnoxiously over-the-top outpouring of anger over such inconsequential things (e.g. the Pixels rant).
It's particularly frustrating seeing this sort of thing in contrast to the story of the struggles the Virtual Boy developers went through.
Ask HN: Need Advice from Ex-Google Contractors
My wife is interviewing with Google about a contracting position and had some questions and was wondering if anyone here who have worked for Google as a contractor in the past can shed some light...

1. Since its contract work does Google have a history to honor the full length of the contract period or is it common for contract to end pre-maturely?

2. I've read some online reviews about how regular employees and interns get treated well but that contractors are often treated worse and wanted to know if anyone here had any experience with that.

3. Of course every contracting job may potentially lead to full time hire but does anyone know the historical percentage of convert here? I think I saw on Quora for interns it was something like well over 60% but curious how that differs for contractors.

I am aware this may also differ from team to team but any feedback you can provide is greatly appreciated.
I think I can imagine what this is proposing, but it's really ambiguous to me. I'm kind of imagining a super autocomplete that's forced, always requires code to be in a valid form (barring TBD sections), and lets you navigate syntax/concepts instead of characters. I'm not sure what I'm completely missing though, as I'm sure there are some things.