skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually a lot of low-hanging fruit that could make Silicon Valley a lot more bike-friendly with virtually no real-estate investment:

Put up better lighting on the Stevens Creek Trail, enough so that you can see the full trail and surrounding woods after dark. This alone would've doubled the amount of trips I spent biking to work when I was at Google: the limiting factor was that after daily savings time ended, I'd usually finish up work when it was dark out, and my bike's lights aren't really sufficient on that trail. I also know a number of female cyclists who won't ride the trail after dusk because they don't know who might be lurking in the shadows.

Pave the Bay Trails. There's a section by Palo Alto and another by Shoreline that get good use because they're paved. The connecting paths between them and over by Moffett and San Jose are unpaved, and only the most dedicated mountain bikers tend to brave them because it's a very bumpy ride. If you paved over the rest of the existing trails, you could bike from downtown San Jose all the way to the Googleplex via Guadalupe Trail and the Bay Trails.

Add more bike cars to Caltrain. The existing bike car can get really full during good weather. Adding more trains may not be possible, but adding another car to existing trains should be reasonably inexpensive.

Set apart the bike lane on Central Expressway. Central Expressway has a bike lane. You'd have to be crazy to ride on it, because cars whiz by you at 60 mph, they're not expecting to see you, they're often exiting or entering on cloverleafs, and there is nothing separating you from them. A concrete barrier & fence together with a few tunnels under the onramps would do a lot to improve safety, and make Central a viable North/South bike corridor. The real estate already exists for this.

Build more pedestrian/bike-only connections between streets that almost line up but don't quite. For example, a pedestrian bridge across Caltrain between Sunset & Pajaro Ave would let cyclists bike from South Sunnyvale to North Sunnyvale while avoiding busy Mary & Matilda Aves, putting their whole trip through quiet residential neighborhoods. A similar connection between Escuela and Farley (where there's already a traffic light) would connect the dense apartment complexes on California with the Googleplex via the Permanente Creek Trail, though I suspect it'd be bitterly resisted by people on the Farley side because the demographics of those neighborhoods are very different. A pedestrian crosswalk (with a light) between Sleeper and Cuesta Park and then a cut-through on the edge of Cuesta Park via Gantry Way to Rose Ave would link the Stevens Creek Trail and everything that feeds into it with very low-traffic, residential streets that go all the way to downtown Los Altos.
Unfortunately this is for Polymer 0.5, which is completely incompatible with 0.8+. There's an effort to update it for 1.0 but not quite there yet.
> I'm currently on a high fat, medium protein, 0 carb diet. It isn't environmentally friendly, but the weight falls off and I feel great.

Your personal experience is not statistically significant. There is overwhelming scientific consensus that a plant-based, whole food, vegan diet is optimal for human health. Okinawan and Seventh-Day Adventist in California diets are two frequently cited examples.
> that encompasses most of what the medium is designed to do.

What? That's wrong. UBE has always been hated, ever since the Project Gutenberg guy tried to email the US constitution to everyone who had an email address.
Static or dynamic, the cost to the ISP is basically the same (perhaps a bit more for static if it's harder for them to manage the allocation); therefore, it's already built in to the cost of the service.

Have you tried getting additional IP addresses? One ISP charges me 50 cents/month per address for my colo box, while Comcast Business charges around $2/month (IIRC).
I agree. In general, I found this presentation to ramble far more and make weird connections than some of his other ones, which I remember liking. Presentations and talks such as Web Design: The first 100 years[1] (even if it was a while back and I don't remember it all that clearly), and Barely succeed! It's easier![2] (which I saw within the last couple of days) are quite good (if memory serves).

1: http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c
If you have an interest in the 3rd party web, you should have an interest in a functional ad technology industry. The market might just drive small publishers out of business. Or drive them and their customers to walled-gardens, so we'll be reading their content on Facebook, being served Facebook ads.
Some lights would also be nice. Car roads get lights, why not bike roads?

I've commuted between the Google campus and Santa Clara by bike, via the Bay Trail, before. I didn't mind the unpaved nature of the trails, I was using a mountain bike. It was fast enough. On the way home after dark though, a little scary. I was quite surprised that I was not eaten by a Mountain Lion. I was more surprised by bikes going the other direction with no lights whatsoever.
Indeed. In my personal not so humble opinion, it's Pebble that leads the actually smart watch pack; Apple Watch and Android Wear are shiny toys for non-geeks who like fitness. It saddens me that Pebble seems to turn toward this audience. Not that mind "normal people" having their toys, it's just that Pebble seeed to be the only company that tried to make a tool.
I think we are already seeing a shift to b.), one that is only being exacerbated by ad-blocking (on mobile) - and it makes me think about what will come of the "open" web.

I have no insider knowledge, but I'm starting to think Apple is placing a huge bet on the fact that ad-blocking will 1.) eventually make the web unprofitable then 2.) shepherd users onto platforms like iOS and Facebook where they can be monetized better. This, to me, is starting as an experiment with Apple Music vs Spotify (ad enabled) to test whether their platform has enough clout to get people to pay $9.99 for their platform and is now eventually moving to News where Apple is now starting with exclusive news but may move to a pay model where you also pay $9.99 for news.

If this model "works", you may see sites move inside Apple's wall garden in order to keep the lights on, and create a barrier for new sites to ever build up an audience without relying on Apple's/Facebook's walled garden.

All this stems from the fact of my fear that while everyone seems to be gung-ho about the proliferation of ad-blockers, no one, except Apple (Music, News for now) and Facebook (News), is providing any real alternative solutions to publishers for a source of revenue.
I am not surprised. I wanted to buy a book and found the physical book price was $39 but I could get it used for about $8. The ebook was $28. Even without the used price option I would have rather had the physical book for the price difference between $39 and $28.

Ebooks would be more worthwhile to me at the current prices IF you could get updated versions of the book (errata not new content).
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Yeah, I think there's more acknowledgement in Europe of the sacrifices the USSR made during the war, particularly in countries like France with a strong communist tradition. But winning the war and reconquering France were two different things. The latter was an affair for the western powers.
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Except most cities aren't on that list. SF has similar places where "good rich people" avoid -- but it still isn't in the top 10.

I also don't like this implicit because it's "poor against poor" then somehow that's ok and we can ignore those statistics. Poor people are people too. Talk about gentrifying.....
Does anyone know why array arguments decay to pointers?
Seeing Kazakhstan with 80% LTE coverage I was close to laugh but then found:

> The proportion of time users have an LTE signal, or LTE 'Time Coverage', is our proprietary metric for looking at coverage holistically, instead of just as a measurement of geographical reach.

Not sure that's the best way though.
If You Write It
Ask HN: Laptop bag for 15“ Macbook Pro for inclement weather
I frequently take Metro North Railroad in the Northeast of the US. Since we have all four seasons of weather, I am looking for a comfortable laptop bag that is easy to walk with, waterproof/water-resistant, and easy to open and use in lap to code while on the train. What would you suggest for a 2015 15 inch MacBook pro?
wisp was indeed an inspiration! A pretty fundamental difference is that eslisp macros are ordinary JavaScript functions, which you can put on npm, and write in any language. In wisp, macros are magic compiler-internal things.

Here's a brief comparison to a few other JS-lisps too: https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
It's not a flaw IMO, it's just confusing. Especially for those who come from higher languages and don't read a solid intro into C. It's actually explained quite well in K&R.
I was a sysadmin for a division of Halliburton for over a decade (until this past January) and word came down the pipe that they were going to retire/give-back 134.132.x (owned by Landmark Graphics subsidiary) and work on moving off 10.x in the next few years.

Keep in mind that a lot of these allocations were made in the 80s and 90s when nobody worried about running out of IPv4 addresses; in addition I saw what we paid to ARIN every year just to "have" 10.x and it was an insane amount (I remember it being more than my yearly salary).
It should fit.
Here's a fast and dirty mockup: https://i.imgur.com/eC1Yjgi.png
I think the daily quota of puns had been reached on that day. As for signing packages, I think it's being worked on, I remember reading something about it not that long ago.
IANA was allocating at a rate of 2 /8s per month right before they ran out.

Recovering an /8 would take staggeringly more effort than it is worth in terms of how little it fills existing demand.

There is no scheme that will make IPv4 work in the long-term. The mathematics are very simple. You cannot fill demand for exponentially more than 4 billion numbers with a pool of only 4 billion numbers.
I tried it and it works. Thanks for the pointer.
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Unfortunately that would prolong the life of IPv4.
My favorite one, when looking for consulting related names: taconsulting

Though it says taconsulting.com is available but it's registered.

Also when I click the namecheap affiliate link it would be nice if it landed on the domain search page with the chosen domain as the keyword.

Not sure where you are doing the whois to see if the domain is registered. It seem pretty inaccurate.
Some tinnitus can be caused by sinus issues, and may clear up with medication. My physician inspected my nose and ears and then recommended over-the-counter pseudoephedrine, loratadine, and fluticasone, which have improved things greatly. It's certainly not the most common cause, but it might be worth a doctor visit.
Did you read my reply? To quote: "easy linking to C libraries, and builds a native binary with no extra dependencies, speed ... safety, robustness, compact source code size" There are certainly many more popular languages, but few with that combination of advantages. The project started in 2009, so you should discount any languages which were not mature before that date.

There are a few people at Red Hat and outside who contribute. To my knowledge none had prior experience with OCaml, but it's pretty easy to pick up.
Reading a bit too literally and presuming the worst intent behind the statement. It leads to better discussions when people assume the best possible intent unless the person later clarifies their intent. I don't think they meant "model" as in "attractive fashion model".

"Standard model" is a thing among products. For example, they give out 3D glasses at the movie theater I visit. One-size-fits-all is the "standard model" but they have two sizes of booster seats. They have the "children model" and the "adult model".

So let's throw the complete statement that you removed back in:

>but what does this look like with ten fat disney tourists?

So the standard model ("little girl" [sic] sized) works great. How does the "jumbo model" work for an obese population?

I'll agree with the implicit sexism and infantilization behind the use of "little girl". Though I also refuse to ascribe sexist intent behind the word choice and I'm someone who cares about intent and not interpretation. One can always interpret the worst possible intent and find evil in everyone and every statement. Also yes, I'm aware that bad deeds can sometimes have good intentions.

They were highlighting a physical trait (smallness). "Small woman" and "little woman" are awkward to say and imply dwarfism. "Woman" as a standalone fails to highlight the smallness. I'd personally use "petite woman" but that becomes awkward in conversation because I'm seemingly the only person who uses the word "petite" in adult context without referring to porn actresses or nude models.

TL;DR:

It works fine for the 105 lb~ model. How about the 350~ lb model?
Does that charging strategy have any impact on the battery's life? I know batteries are rated for a certain number of recharge cycles but I don't know enough about the technology to know if multiple partial recharges have a neutral or negative impact.
Agreed. My gf told me she'd never buy one because of that bezel.
>We need to move forward to Rust

In fairness, C++ containers know their size. And Rust's solution to buffer overflows is the same as every other language — run time bounds checking.
If you're sick, and it detects a lot of a cold/flu virus, presumably you could hold off on the antibiotics.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263075
Or Apache.
What does Pebble do that Apple Watch or Android Wear doesn't? I know many more "geeks" with Apple Watch or Android Wear than Pebble.
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This. Running dual stack networks is harder and more expensive to manage, secure and troubleshoot.

The faster we get to single stack ipv6 only, the better.
> Sunnyvale has been adding protected bike lanes that cross it east/west to aid that effort.

Have they? Where? I'd love to see some on Evelyn.

Really anywhere there isn't street parking, changing painted bike lanes into protected bike lanes seems like a no-brainer. Much more (perceptual, at least) safety, without any significant change to how the road space is divvied up.
Rural areas in Denmark have awesome cycling infrastructure and a much lower population density than Silicon Valley. Urban areas have awesome cycling infrastructure and a much higher population density.
There was an interesting follow up on this which pointed out three things, one GM killed people with their ignition switch cover-up and the CEO didn't resign, the "fix" is a software patch to leave the engine controller in 'minimize emissions' mode all the time, and in spite of this 'cheat' emissions overall have come down 76% in the last 10 years.

So was it more damaging that a small percentage of cars were cheating on their emissions? Yes. But how much more damaging? Not much, especially since diesel cars are a very small fraction of VW's sales in the US.

Overall it is better that this group of cars were cheating as opposed to say Toyota's gasoline powered cars. The overall effect was so small it was not detected by the EPA's and CARB monitoring efforts on air quality which they model against the assumption that people are complying with the regulations.
My understanding is that at least ARIN holds the position that IP allocations are not property that the recipients own.
The width of the tyre might not affect your speed - but the fact the path is unpaved will :)
Another thing that has impacted average human life time is peace. We have enjoyed 60 years without war on the European main continent, with no destruction or contamination of food sources.

Go back in history and all you'll find is death everywhere. Epidemics (pest, cholera), decades-long wars with despicable tactics as "scorched/salted earth", natural disasters without a way for people to defend themselves (earthquakes, floods, volcano eruptions).

Now that we can control most of these factors, it's natural that life expectancy rises.
Akamai has direct connections to those "difficult" ISPs, CloudFlare uses transit to reach them.

To provide an example: transit to DTAG via GTT (CloudFlare) is always saturated at peak hours. So Akamai has a big advantage (direct connection) if you want to reach Deutsche Telekom customers.
Ugh. Now, I've been a big fan of Pebble, and a two-time backer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9101787), but I'm skipping this one. Truth be told, I'm not even particularly happy with my current Pebble Time/Time Steel. The screen still has a huge bezel around it, and the colors don't pop nearly like they did in the pictures. In fact, I'd describe the new color screen as a bit washed out. Voice replies and quick replies don't work on iOS (I know what the reason is, and I don't care because that was a listed feature when they wanted money).

The new ones are delicate, too. I've got an actual scratch on both the bezel and screen on the Time (thankfully, a screen protector covers that up) from just brushing against a wall. The Time Steel has a scuff on the bezel from who knows what.

Now we have the option to have even a bigger bezel, and the battery life has been cut to about the same as Pebble's competitors. Might as well buy an Apple or Android watch (or Microsoft Band, if that's your thing). And were I to buy another smartwatch, Apple is what I'd buy. For $100 more, all of the advertised features work, and the battery life isn't all that much worse. Or if I just wanted notifications, one of the Garmin devices, which I could also use to go running without toting a phone.

For the moment, Pebble's remaining advantages are price and battery life if you don't get the round one. And Garmin can meet or beat them on both right now, depending on one's need of other features. I'm interested to see what the next version has to offer, because it better be a big jump if they're going to stay competitive.
One could argue, if one was so inclined, that releasing smaller cheaper books is better for the consumer.

Right now, you'll spend $4-11 on a book. A lot of people know within two or three chapters if they like the book, and will make a decision on finishing it. If you're buying books in parts, that allows the reader to try the book at a smaller financial risk. For example you can find out if you'll like the book or not for $1 rather than $6.

Even the example you linked, it would have cost me $5 previously to try the author/book out, but now only costs me $1. That's a win for me (PS - and I might try out that book as it sounds pretty interesting as a SciFi topic).

> Conversely, this gives them more shelf space in Amazon's recommendations, and because they are the same book, it lowers the signal to noise ratio in the marketplace for finding something relevant to read.

But is this an inherent problem with the books/authors themselves, or Amazon's site? If Amazon grouped all of the chapters or parts into a single "volume" then it both wouldn't negatively impact recommendations or flood the genre list with duplicates.
It's a 1.07% increase. Not all that many people know what basis points are. ;)
I know nothing of the wine world beyond $10/bottle. If there is a parallel, what is the equivalent for wine of the art gallery? Quoting from this article, "art galleries exercise a level of control over prices that, as economist Allison Schrager writes in Quartz, “would be illegal in most industries.”"

For wine this would be ... ?
Our now-maligned cheater TDI really doesn't sound any different than other 4 cylinder engines of its size and power. The exhaust does smell different, I prefer it to gasoline exhaust (don't _like_ it, but find it less offensive).
I have not inspected the full source of Linux but I have read parts of it. I suspect other hackers also read parts of the source and will spot if there is anything fishy in there.

The point is that should be able to read the source code like a recepie for your cake. If someone hides the recepie and tells you its a yummy cake but you know its full of exploits its not.

Main point is, if it can be hacked it will be hacked. It´s better that we can read the source code and verify that the software in our devices has not been tampered with.
Correct. They're bred for shipping and storage, not for taste.
> More like, all domesticated meat animals will go extinct since they're not needed anymore and they can't survive in the wild.

That's a gross oversimplification which neglects to acknowledge the fact modern, industrial-scale animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.
There are two recent, positive things Apple has done for IPv6:

1. They updated the Happy Eyeballs algorithm[1], which is what's caused the jump in the article.

2. Apple will mandate IPv6 support in all apps starting early 2016[2].

[1] https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg22455...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=08282015a
For flight, the problem is that the only acceleration that really matters is variation in vertical acceleration. Linear acceleration can briefly simulate that, but it can't be sustained. That's a fundamental problem that can only be dealt with by creating that kind of massive vertical acceleration environment - even that will be limited in terms of how long it can simulate sustained > or < 1g. You can create sustained accelerations by spinning something round on the end of an arm, but there's always that pesky downward gravity vector that keeps getting added to everything, unless you build your simulator in orbit.
The problem isn't Mountain View alone, it's balkanization. You can't just build housing in Mountain View unless you really believe "Alphabet" will be there forever -- that's different from believing that tech will last a long time, because one company does not an industry make. It makes more sense to build 2000 units in each of Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, San Mateo, East Palo Alto, Cupertino, San Jose, and Los Altos, than to force any one of those to build 20000 units. But coordinating this is easier said than done, and it took a long time to type, at that.

Annexing the suburbs has been mentioned as a possibility for SF, but the real balkanization is worse further south, and it would actually be easier for San Jose to annex most of Silicon Valley -- for one thing, it doesn't cross county lines -- than for San Francisco to reach all the way down the peninsula. The end result is the same, if SJ city authorities recognize both the problem and the opportunity it represents.

But hopefully some useful public transit pops up in the area, too.
A $1b valuation on a common stock is a different animal from a convertible preferred at a $1b valuation. The convertible preferred is almost closer to a bond with an attached warrant struck at a $1b valuation, with additional protections like non-dilution, IPO guarantees. Those terms make a big difference. Try to do a deal without them and see...will be a dealbreaker, or a vast change in multiple and other protections for the investor. If they didn't matter investors wouldn't demand them.

https://www.fenwick.com/FenwickDocuments/The-Terms-Behind-Th...

http://avc.com/2011/07/financing-options-preferred-stock/
To be fair, US DoD was the first organization to use TCP/IP. Perhaps these 210 million addresses are a legacy of ARPAnet.

I agree that they should probably be returned to IANA.
Some good options http://www.cio.com/article/2852390/laptop-computers/top-12-l...
Throw it in a zip-lock bag. They're like $1/each and even the touch interface works through them.