skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

The dead rising from the grave!

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
Implying people in a bad place are idiots is mean and actually keeps people from getting the help they need.
I love the mental image evoked by a startup piñata because it is so deep with symbolism: blindly swinging away at a brightly-painted papier mâché dream, hoping for the outpouring of sweets by sheer random luck.

Hopefully people are putting a little more thought into their career choices than that, but piñatas are definitely fun, and you're surrounded by your friends shouting encouragement and direction at you all the while. So while I'm positive that life isn't as bleak as this image conveys, I'm still going to borrow it to use in the future!
The gypsies would like to have a word with you. Now it's true the modern nation state puts a damper on them (the essential conflict between nomadic and sedentary societies) it can still be done.
I had multiple clients (I'm a developer and a contractor) who had job reqs open for months at a good pay scale and had a heck of a time finding people in the Boulder Denver area.

I think that the tech frenzy is great enough that people are fighting over tech folks in other areas--maybe not as violently as in SF, but still fighting.
There's a huge difference between a news app that happens to cover murders and a "murder news" app that only covers that specific subset. The app in question is clearly much closer to the latter.
nuclear energy is the cleanest energy. ALL you produce is a little nuclear waste that you can store underground somewhere.
20 days, huh? Must have been a mild winter.

Smart-assery aside, yeah, Seattle has awesome summers, albeit mighty short some years. November comes, you better head down to the NorthFace outlet and get a GoreTex jacket or two.
Grails is great. I'd avoid Grails 3 for the moment use 2.5.1. It has the power of Spring and HIbernate, but really easy to use and configure.
One cannot help but wonder if the Soda industry is/will become the Tobacco industry of 50 years ago.
Sweet! Wait, how do I ping you. I'm new here lol.
It's planned! See our roadmap on Trello: https://trello.com/b/z0HxDPNo/dynalist-roadmap
I lived in Houston and San Antonio for several years. I grew up in the Bay Area and I now live in Boulder. I've also lived in Wyoming and France.

Having sampled a fair number of places, I can safely say quality of life in Houston and San Antonio is far better than people on HN believe.
A golden age of after-work creative and productive output? If you don't have the passion to create something meaningful with X amount of free-time, what will X+1 do for you?
>indicates that solar forcing has a much lower impact on rising temperatures than increased greenhouse gases.

Could be. But I would argue that sites like SkS, which are fairly partisan in their views like to look only at TSI and ignore other solar factors.

The Sun effects us in many unexpected ways. See for example here:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08...

And here:

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054...

The last link (looking at the UV part of the spectrum) could explain the warming of the Atlantic we have been experiencing, See this graph of the AMO (yes, not the same as the NOA outlined in the paper - but related) and NH temperatures:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-amo/from:1960/mean:30/...

The AMO does seems to be "externally forced" I.e. not related to CO2, but probably/possibly some solar related mechanism.

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140225/ncomms4323/full/nco...

The whole thing is damn complicated. Different parts of the spectrum impact on different parts of atmospheric chemistry (e.g. ozone), and inter-relate with components like earth and solar magnetic fields, particles, GCRs, etc.

Science is never settled (as SkS would have us believe) it's still in progress.
No clue. You could report it and find out.
As Automation in Tech Hiring Gathers Speed, Lytmus Raises $7.2M
In your first link, I'm seeing pre-execution exonerations, not innocents executed. In your second, I'm seeing that some people have "doubts." Not exactly the same as "the wrong person was definitely executed."
In the sense that they're both considered obscene by Apple.
Turn off downloadable fonts.
Thank you very much. Other two people have upvoted my comment, so we are at least 3 happy proto-haskell-users here.
Are you're living in the 60s? Is this the part where I bring up GULAGs?
Indeed. The cost of living is a powerful multiplier as long as you don't overspend. The same car is that much cheaper in a high COL area, you can contribute more to your retirement, and so on. The problem with living in a low-COL area is, even if you save a very high % of your income, you're "stuck" and unable to move somewhere cheaper. There's a reason New Yorkers retire to Florida. You have options.

That doesn't mean it works for everyone, but do your own numbers and make your own decisions.
To avoid accusations of fraud, you should have your clickbots randomly click ads on every site they can find except those that you control.

If enough people do the same, without any formal agreements or informal collusion, you would all be able to get ad revenue without any one person having fraudulent intent.

The only way for an ad-provider to counter would be to insert in your agreement that you are not allowed to click on any ads, not just those that appear on your own sites. And then ad-blocking would become an ethical obligation for you.
> No, it wasn't (or I didn't understand it that way). He'd have said encoded somewhere.

The original comment did say "encoded". The discussion about the phrase "base52 encoding" was the base of this entire thread. The parent of your original response also used the term "encoded". The context is clear. I don't see how you could have missed it. (Edit: I see you're not a native speaker. That might be part of why we're not understanding each other. Plus I apparently keep replying in between your edits, which happened again.)

> Also, your whole <pedantry> block and the paragraph above is based on misunderstanding my comment

Well, you rewrote the comment after I replied. I assumed your "source data" was your logical 0xFF number. If you were referring to the "source data" for the strings in the update description, then in all likelihood, there was never a "source" number at all. These strings were almost certainly generated via random selection from a set of characters. You could generate a very long number and then base52-encode it to produce the same thing, but it would be more work and less obvious for future code maintainers. So the "source" was a sequence of characters (azAZ), not a base2 number. You could argue that this is still somehow base-2 since it's in a computer, which I guess is fine (if pointless and pedantic), but it's still not accurate to say that these were "encoded" into base52.

I was unnecessarily snarky and rude. I'm sorry for that.
no. Telecommuting was a pipe dream of the 90s.

Some people do it, but at most companies the "butt in the chair employee is best employee" thing still sticks.
That's nothing. In 1998 (I'm pretty sure) Seattle had 96 days of light drizzle with nary a ray of sunshine. The suicide rate went up massively, and I decided to move to CA as soon as I had the means.
I always cringe a bit when folks approach hardware like they do software

Not sure what you mean - was there some terrible mistake in what the author was doing?
Oh, I don't know. Now that Google et c are encrypting traffic, encouraging a few loyal people to apply in private companies sounds like just what NSA needs..
Fortunately they can continue buying released products and help the masses have an option for repairs.
If your current X=1, then you could probably do double with X+1.
Scala + Akka HTTP + database that fits the data type in question
What’s New in OS X El Capitan
Some members of the Hacker News community cannot downvote, others cannot flag. For better or worse their are different levels of privilege when it comes to interacting with the site. I see live banning on that continuum. I acknowledge that others do not.

If a person doesn't know that they've been live banned and removal of the stimulus that triggers problematic behavior creates new habits on the site, I think that's a good thing. If a person doesn't know they've been live banned, and simply goes somewhere else to engage in trolling behaviors, I think that's a good thing too. I acknowledge that others do not.
Engineers Do Stuff. CEOs Think & Share Ideas. Implementation takes more resources.
Commercial realestate owners, and the companies that serve them.
The nice thing about owning a reasonably sized home is that I have a pretty decent home office setup when I need to WFH. I can segregate it from my 'play' area enough so I don't feel like I'm constantly on the clock.

Baltimore seems like a great place. Plus you have the advantage to ultra-commute to DC if you need to.
> Mobius strip

Cute. But it's by no means clear that this is some miscarriage of justice.

https://www.readfrontier.com/investigation/two-truths-and-a-...
> When your employer goes belly up, in SF, you have to fight off job offers.

That's a chicken-and-egg problem. Companies choose to set up shop there so employees will feel more comfortable taking risks because of the demand for developers. However, the demand for developers exists because companies tend to set up shop there.
Thanks—we'll use your title suggestion. (All: it's super helpful when you suggest better, i.e. more accurate and neutral, titles.)

We also changed the url from http://www.sciencealert.com/sweden-is-shifting-to-a-6-hour-w..., which points to this.
"in a 1 bedroom" means living in a 1 bedroom apartment (might also include living in a studio. What you're referring to would be "in 1 bedroom". The article "a" changes the meaning of the phrase.
I think the US should focus on more paid vacations days for starters.
i think its interesting because most of the svp's are leaving adobe , David Wadhwani left recently , Naresh Gupta couple of months back and coming to the CIO when the industry is trying to get some level of gender equality, Adobe's leadership is just male dominated with no representation of female
You make all kind of assumptions about the sophistication behind and engine ECU. It's one of the most complex ECU's in the car.

Just as car companies may just sell cars, Dell or Apple just sell computers. Why not provide the source code which comes with a new Dell/Apple laptop? In the end, how can a car maker, using Windows/Apple SW to build the SW for the cars, can trust them to not mess up? They are part of the tool chain for making cars.

For a car maker to provide source code, they would have to get permission from a lot of people.
In this case, from Bosch. Bosch would require permission from their own OS supplier (probably Etas' RTA-OSEK/RTA-OS) and from other 3rd party suppliers. To be clear, these technologies are not directly available to the car maker. They never get complete source code from suppliers (unless some special agreement, but I doubt it). They can audit the SW/process though, which implies some level of access.

The engine ECU may not contain the new hype controls of self driving, but it contains a lot of know how, inventions, innovations. It's very nice to have a smooth running car, but it takes a lot of tech to make it run like this.
Most distinct entities aren't.
Don't there already exist several brands and models of cars that meet the standards these companies say they can't possibly meet? (I mean the Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, and Tesla models probably meet emissions standards, right?) It seems more likely that all these companies found it more cost effective to cheat than to innovate than that it isn't possible to innovate.
In a language with a modern type system it doesn't need to be a language-level feature. I use Scala and any use of unadorned String will be picked up in code review, because generally we prefer to use some specific type that says what it represents.
This is precisely the reason why I turned down an offer with a big company in SF to work for a software company in Utah. I just graduated from school 6 months ago, but I am living very comfortably - the payment on my 4 bedroom house is less than half of what I would have paid in SF for rent in a 2 bedroom apartment.
Well that's just classical logic, which is pretty much what you expect when you hear the word logic ('False AND True = False', etc) the other ones were developed to address it's shortcomings and paradoxes.

http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes#Logic
I ride a motorcycle every day from Redmond to Seattle. The new express lanes have screwed it up even for me, even though I get to use those lanes. Problem now is getting to those lanes. Traffic in the other lanes is now worse, and I can't cross the double white lines until about a mile after I get on 405. Granted, it adds maybe five minutes at most. But it poses the question: who are those lanes supposed to help if it only adds time an inconvenience even for those that have access to them?
Morals, Not Memories, Define Who We Are
Airbnb's new 72,000-square-foot office allows employees to work wherever they want inside (no fixed workspaces), so why not just let them work remotely instead of spending millions on a new building.
It's a running joke. Included on some of their slides and webpages is the disclaimer:
"This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags "
Oh, I know about the "joke". There may be an uglier side to it than some people want to admit, though.

http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Class...
Oh good point...I'm speaking from experience that is now about 7 years old...
> The room is 4 x 4 meters.

> The strips require a 5V supply, and will consume 57.6 Amperes at full brightness.

[later, really -5% or so, fine]

> The light created looks very cool, even if a bit eerie. Nothing in the room casts a shadow.

I can believe that, tossing over 250 W of LED light (some 2kW in old incandescents) into a 160 sq. foot room ...

P.S. In other news, this week I saw a youngster playing with a Bluetooth 4.0 controlled 9W LED lamp (replacing a 60W incandescent). Bought from Bee Wi, via a local FNAC sale, 23 euros. Not homemade, so less virtuous, but perhaps more practical ;-)
You're assuming a 1:1 ratio between time and productivity, which is just not the case for a lot of jobs. In a customer-facing job well yeah, you need people to operate the business as long as the doors are open. But many offices could run from 10am-5pm or 8am-3pm without seriously impacting productivity.
In his own presidential campaign in 1992, then-Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton participated in a similarly odious bit of political theater around an execution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector

I'm a Democrat, but on this issue there's more than enough crass opportunism on both sides of the aisle to go around.
does this #newasana twitter contest require entrants to flag their tweets as sponsored?

<edit> link: https://blog.asana.com/2015/09/celebrate-with-us-share-the-n...
Building Analytics at 500px
since i installed the .1 beta yesterday (which was actually released today) my load avg increased by .6 - even after several reboots.
I don't see how hard that is to understand, that some folks might hold a different worldview about surveillance than you do, and that in fact they are not idiots.

You're right, they aren't "idiots." The correct term, at least in the US, is "criminals." They have no more right to install a Narus box at the local telephone switching station than I do.
The cheap places in the Sunset disappeared a long time ago
It can I know, but it doesn't have to.

With some careful design, and not overdoing it on options you can please most (but not all) people.
Original, abstract: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/9/1469 full: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/520cf78be4b0a5dd07f51...
> If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews.

So, that's a pretty good incentive not to register.
The other faulty reasoning here is that living without roommates is a reasonable expectation for most single, urban twentysomethings. Most engineers I know have roommates as much for social reasons as economic reasons.

If you take most of those two bedroom rents and look at the cost per month per room, most are less than 30% of after-tax income. (And that's if you choose to live in SOMA, which also seems like an extravagant and uncommon choice for most engineers I know, many of whom are happy with a short commute to the Mission, Pacific Heights, or Oakland.)
The biggest attack surface is probably cgi scripts (php etc).
You realize that you could, you know, get a Seattle job that didn't have a non-compete?
Two outcomes for publishers in general, more profit-biased content and more content users are asked to pay for. Facebook and any other apps with very large audiences are the big winners.
How much does a decent house or decent condo cost in an nice (not very nice) neighborhood in SF? I can look at Zillow but I do not know which areas are good vs. bad.
Done!

http://bbrennan.info/blog/rss
PE firms kill companies over the long term by sucking all of the value out, then spitting out the (much smaller) shell of a company.

When a company becomes controlled by PE, cost-cutting is the number 1 priority. Layoffs happen, the company slow-pays its suppliers and is constantly on credit hold, pay gets cut, benefits are cut, schedules become completely unrealistic, and misconceived products are launched which fail.

I've seen this all happen in the last company I worked for.

if you working for a company and it gets bought by PE, leave ASAP.
I have a feeling that whoever made this video wanted to shoehorn the 'Designed by Apple in California' [1] video style into their own Asana version.

It simply does not work, because it uses the dots from the logo (nothing to do with usability, as opposed to Apple who uses the dot theme as representative of touch) as the central 'play theme' and idea behind the motion of the film... Pity they were so superficial.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmV3KMniZuQ
Prop 17 in CA magnifies the effect. When your property taxes can only go up by a small amount every year, there's literally no incentive for your property values to not go sky-high.
Angola for life [video]
a lot of the houses that are built with wood are undesirable -earthquakes, fire risk etc

Many American houses are colloquially called "stick houses"[1] because they are built from 2"x4" or 2"x6" lumber. These are often also called "wood frame"[2].

In an earthquake I'd rather take my chances in a wood frame house over one built from bricks, concrete, and rebar. After earthquakes, I've seen too many collapsed concrete buildings on TV, with people buried under tons of rubble. A wood frame house is generally too light to collapse in such a way as to pancake the occupants.

I agree with you in terms of other risks. E.g. we've had a lot of forest fires this summer, and many wood frame houses were lost. All that remained were the concrete foundations and the brick fireplaces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick-built_home
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-frame_house
Disclosure: I work for GM.

All of the regulations CAN be met... but it is increasingly difficult to meet emissions, MPG, and Safety regulations, AND satisfy customers.

Safety equipment increases weight, which lowers MPG.

More efficient engines are generally smaller and less powerful, which does not satisfy customers.

In the VW case, reducing NO2 emissions lowered MPG due to the burn-off process.

One change to the fuel economy law that is sorely needed is changing the standard from MPG to Gallons per Hundred Miles. Differences between GPHM measurements are easier to understand [1].

1. http://billso.com/2008/06/21/gpm/ - See chart
Base52 is still not really accurate. Base52 implies an encoding. Further, Base52 is not a standard so it's not even meaningful to say that the characters are from the Base52 set. You could also represent Base52 by including 0-9 and excluding Q-Z. Any string that "looks like" Base52 (azAZ) also looks like Base64 and any number of other encodings.
Microsoft rep: your app just left LA
Yeah, except it occurred to me that for the price of Hue bulb, I could buy a RasPi and a Unicorn Hat that could be controlled via Wifi.

OK, I don't know the brightness difference, so maybe I'm talking out of my hat, but those high-tech controllable RGB LED light bulbs are still way out of reach for anyone without a lot of disposable income.
I did not advocate eliminating anything but raw hypertext. I like CSS and javascript when they are used well. I like web apps.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10294720
It's amusing the solution you present is code review.

I'd bet naked strings never get that far, because your business libraries all expect CustomerName or whatever.
It is not mentioned in the article but a many places has also opted to implemented a 2 team shift. This mean that instead of having production during 8 hrs each day and seeing significant drop in production during the later hours, they instead got 12 hr of very effective workers. One hospital that did this has reported significant increase in number of surgeries, decrease in mistakes, few'er sick days, lower turnover rate, and easier time to recruit. The doubling in employees are paid not by taxes but instead with higher efficiency, and as such we might not need to build new hospitals in a while if this was implemented as a national policy.
Sounds like cargo cult.

Whatever problems Yosemite had, they weren't caused because of "file accretion", nor would they remain after the OS is updated (as if it somehow reads old problematic files and goes back to its old buggy ways).

(That said, I had zero problems as a heavy dev+audio/video user of Yosemite, and zero too after updating to El Capitan GM -- with the exception of Cubase and NI audio units not working in Logic).
RUSSIA+STOPS+US+UK+REGIMESTUFFED
Right, this was meant in a public sense.
Given it's Jack, the guy who obsessively imitates Steve Jobs, I wonder if we'll see this "interim CEO" (gee, wasn't Jobs that for a while in the 90s at Apple?) who becomes full CEO, eventually get Twitter to introduce a mobile hardware device to the market, in the hopes of continuing to go down the Jobs path, a la iPod.
Just one clarification, CO2 recapture is a thing, for example in coal power plants built after 2014 in US. But yeah for car, really impractical.
I have definitely found that electric vehicle companies advertise very sound and realistic figures for their mileage.

My personal case is a Zero motorcycle, but I've heard confirmation from owners of other kinds; the range it gets is more or less exactly what they state for the test conditions (straight level ground, no winds, etc etc). Mine did in fact improve when I adjusted the aerodynamics, but that's another topic.
As you said in your post:

> Most women still want men who are their equal or superior in terms of career success and income, as the article makes clear.
also, comic sans ;)
I don't think the US will ever switch at the federal (or even state) level. Any changes would be driven from the industry and individual company level.
Some commentary by the author:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/a-look-i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297674
You mean like killing OpenSolaris or sidelining the JCP, for example?