skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to install an X server on the remote box you're connecting to with SSH and X11 forwarding, you just need the graphical application and the libraries it depends on for using the X protocol (xlib or xcb, usually with a higher level toolkit). Accessing real graphics hardware or putting things in /usr require root, but you shouldn't need to do either one.
When I read the headline, I thought that's what this was going to be!
This is both savvy and ironic.

Being a Google employee, this guy is probably earning +100K per annum, which puts him into the top 1% income-earning bracket IN THE WORLD.

Yet this gentleman has chosen to live out of a truck... albeit a worse option when he could have purchased an RV instead.

Looking back, I am guessing he will not have many fond memories of his 20s.
This would work well if all lessons and lectures were so carefully thought out. Unfortunately, a lot of teachers (I can’t speak of college professors from a place of experience) simply rephrase textbook concepts, couching them in knowledgeable-sounding language, and supplement them with diagrams ripped from Google Images (and sometimes even YouTube videos only tangentially related to the lesson, in an effort to retain students’ attention). From what I’ve gleaned by asking teachers critical questions, often they themselves do not understand the concepts they teach. In other cases, the teacher ends up doing the opposite, digesting and bulletizing the notes for the students and thereby severely curtailing the benefit of handwritten note-taking and stopping the critical thinking process before it starts.

In my opinion, the Socratic method wins out in this noisy environment of ideal teaching setups that are not so ideal in practice: when students are given a common goal, a resource for information, and guidance and encouragement, they not only think critically about the material, but also unwittingly develop an intuitive memory thereof. I also believe that having the teacher interface directly with students ensures that they do more than just the bare minimum—that they are enthused about and absorb the subject matter at hand.
Because a) we are squeamish and b) execution is philosophically at odds with the rest of our carceral system. If you are interested in this issue and don't mind circuitous prose, Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is a long-winded but extremely thought-provoking assessment of how and why penal strategies have shifted in western society over the past several centuries.
The future won't be like the past. I don't expect to own a car 8 years from now in any scenario (electric self driving cars on demand).

Owning a vehicle just seems like such a waste, so much capital tied up in something that sits around all day. Could you imagine airlines that let aircraft sit idle 95% of the time?
TMOUS = T-Mobile??? Or something else?
#2 doesn't sound like a problem for this use case
I doubt it, what this guy is doing is standard practice in the oil fields in North Dakota and nobody seems to have anything to say about that.
Any recommendation on a good place to post Haskell jobs?
> If your code goes deeper and deeper in callbacks, it's not the language, it's you. No language on Earth will save you from that.

You can do 20 layers of callbacks in Haskell without any problem. That's how Haskell does imperative blocks of code (ie monads).
Lockheed has allowed employees to live in its parking lot for at least a decade if not two.
Amazing how with all the complaints about overpriced real estate in SF/NYC/LA/VAN etc that more people don't opt to own a vehicle that also serves as a sleeping space.

The world is so car-centric yet there's still somewhat of a weird stigma against people who choose to live out of cars/vans/westfalias/RVs etc..?

Also surprised no one's bothered to produce affordable tiny mobile homes for 3rd world countries or college kids:
http://www.designboom.com/design/cornelius-comanns-bufalino/ (Elio's enclosed motorcycles are retailing for $6800..?!)
I knew a guy who did this years ago: lived in his van, ate the free food, showered at the gym, and had basically 0 cost of living. When he got a serious girlfriend, he bought a house in cash.
Cold Fusion
Appeal to authority on your behalf doesn't solve much either.

Read up on the electronic police state idea, then return... and try to be honest.
Since each HSM has a unique key, wouldn't you have to decap one chip for each phone to recover the keys? I think that is sufficient protection to make decrypting phones unfeasibly expensive for most cases.
Personal favorite: "The Invention of the Silicon".
I don't think <blink> every seemed like a good idea[0]. It was an undocumented easter egg that was created so that Lynx could have some of the advanced text formatting that was coming with the new graphical browsers.

[0] http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
If only there was any sort of work in tech outside of Silicon Valley, us engineers wouldn't have to choose between saving money and pooping indoors.

Imagine that.
This is cool and all but sometimes you need some distance between you and your workplace. Being there all day wouldn't be optimal for me.
Aerodynamics. Protruding handles are a source of drag, so it was eliminated.
I love the UI, it looks great!
The Tesla website says the $3500 battery is 10 kWh.

Anyway, the prices will undoubtedly come down over time. Competition from China, etc.
Not at all. You're just not hearing so much about that kind of thing because, in my opinion, we've beaten that dead horse already. The fact that building simple CRUD apps can be done quickly, reliably, and efficiently without the need to be on the cutting-edge of JavaScript wizardry is amazing, but it also means that you probably won't hear about it on Hacker News because it's not what "hackers" (in this case I mean people who like to experiment with new technologies) are getting into.

The only reason why this is becoming more of a "thing" nowadays, at least on blogs and in the media, is because the idea of creating a web application that actually does stuff entirely with JavaScript is a relatively new idea, at least in practice on a grand scale. As a job, many web developers (myself included) use JavaScript only when absolutely necessary, and it's really just to make things "look nice". At work, JavaScript is not the thing that drives our entire application (in fact we have more than a few tests that ensure our apps' critical functions work even when JavaScript is disabled in the browser). But I've been experimenting with Ember, Electron, et. al., and it's pretty cool what you can do nowadays with JS alone. These new toolchains have brought and will continue to allow entirely new genres of web applications to be developed with ease, meaning my job gets a little more interesting. We'll probably always have/need CRUD apps, but as a web developer, your fate is no longer sealed in writing CRUD apps for the rest of your life. That's pretty neat!
I think what people don't get is, A lot of Model S owners have no problem paying to be beta testers. Problems occur, but Tesla is fantastic about fixing them quickly through their service centers.
Mine certainly isn't: https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu80855C

That's the whole genome sequence and the called variants.
Here's an overview of several techniques used to defeat this: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c16.pdf
Large companies? Any company leasing office space with a badged security system (is, any modern office tower) would allow this.
To emulate you need to copy first.
My thought was that the whole procedure of it, with the needles and the sheet and the doctors and everything was what made it "theatrical." I feel like the ordeal is a lot more honest when a bunch of people with rifles shoot somebody in the chest. Nobody gets to feel like it's anything other than a killing.
I wonder if he stays overnight on the campus, or if he parks the truck out somewhere.
Not a bad idea, but ill take commuting via motorcycle and staying at my pops place. Although traffic on 880 is absolute shit.
Panasonic may make the general-purpose cells, but that doesn't mean that Tesla can't add value by making them more suitable for the EV market. In fact, it does sell components to other car companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#Technology
I'm not sure if anyone else feels this, but as a developer there will come a time where my skills are less relevant to the industry, or the industry's bubble bursts or cannot support me. Might as well make hay while the sun shines and squirrel it away for the later time.
We all saw the GCHQ documents, and we all know there is no way to separate bulk "American" content/metadata from non-American. The government considers the most intimate affairs (LOVEINT, SEXINT, etc) as firmly their business to snoop on for the purposes of future blackmail-- it does you no favors to deny this, and puts you in a counterfactual position.

The "Main Core" intel database has dossiers on every person they could find data on. There are no distinctions between foreigners and Americans, as we saw from the Snowden docs.

We also saw from Snowden docs that the DEA among other organizations definitely (100%, utterly indisputable, look at wikipedia if you are unclear on this matter) use "parallel construction" in which the NSA passes evidence for criminal cases to the DEA, which then obfuscates the source before going to trial.

Stop shilling, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Continuous Quality for Mobile App Dev and Testing
I sat next to Neil Lincoln while he booted a ETA 10. Kinda sad that people don't know him. Mr Cray was the shit, Neil was pretty close.
Sorry but this isn't really helpful. The author might as well have just stated the Feynman Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem

2. Think real hard

3. Write down the solution
This is a very interesting point. An RNG that fixes the high bit of every word to zero still makes reasonably secure private keys, but start signing stuff with DSA and that RNG and you're screwed.
I happen to live in Isla Vista, the college town of UCSB. Although not explicitly in writing, the rule of this town is that bikes have the right of way. We have somewhere around 14,000 cyclists that ride to campus and back everyday. From first hand experience this is a much safer system. The drivers are much more attentive at the wheel and the heavy bike traffic enforces that cars really don't go faster than the 25 mph speed limit
Try NYC, Boston, or London.
You can't. Crypto is done on a separate piece of silicon and dumping memory or NAND will get you nothing but scrambled bits.

From a cold boot user data is not loaded into memory until a correct pin has been entered once, and since A5 nobody has managed to compromise their bootchain it is not really viable to exploit either.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/why-cant-app...

To break such a system is not impossible, but would require some heroic effort, even nation states would probably resort to some side channel or the proverbial five dollar wrench.
Why is the issue closed and locked?
Becoming a Great American Business Owner
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422017
Reading the comments on the article is fascinating. Drivers (of which I am not one) have a bunch of disdain for cyclists. I agree that some are just plain stupid, unconcerned for their safety and for others, but many drivers are just plain stupid, unconcerned for their safety and for others... and stereotyping in either direction. isn't fair.
may be they are doing hard work for the new idea from google
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422017
Sam: Any reason why you couldn't set your phone down in a stable position, or just tell someone to hold it steadily for you?

edit: I don't mean it in a mean way, just curious.
He mentions on his blog that he already had a run-in with company security. The verified that he was an employee, apologized for waking him up, and left him be.
It's hard to gauge how widespread these failures are if only people who had problems report in. My anecdata point is that my 2014 Ford had no issues whatsoever and I would find it extremely annoying if I had to waste time driving to/from service centers for things that most modern cars haven't been failing at for years. Even more so if I paid as much as the Teslas cost.
Did Bezos ever actually compare Amazon's work culture to Darwinism? The Times article quotes a former HR executive as saying that, not Bezos.

I've often seen newspaper articles that report XYZ, and then follow-up articles that comment on or extrapolate from XYZ without ever considering whether the original journalist got it right. I think that's what's happening here. The Times says that a former Amazon HR executive compares the company's work culture to Darwinism, and the author of this piece assumes that because the HR executive used that phrase, Bezos himself 'equate[s] “Darwinism” with “ruthless competition”' and then argues that Bezos is wrong. But the commentator has not considered whether his original assumption about Bezos' beliefs reflects reality.
Umm, if you can find a decent place in the bay area for $1000/mo, do let me know.
For awhile it was illegal: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/11/18/palo-alto-stri...
I would so do this if I didn't have a family. Also, I don't think he's the first one at google to do this.
Python 201 – An Intro to Context Managers
"If you leave things in to appease the box-checkers, you end up with, well, OpenSSL."

Whoa, who, let's not be so cruel to other crypto developers. You can appease the box-checkers quite a bit without being an utter, insecure mess like OpenSSL. There's libraries that do while making the box-checking stuff optional.

It would be true had you said: If the only thing you do is leave things in to appease the box-checkers...
From first hand experience this is a much safer system

Right until someone visits thats not aware of this unwritten rule?
So we regulate X-Ray machines keep the radiation leak below the level that would oblige to ask people in the area for consent. GP has a point. The concern in this thread is based entirely on the notion that "radiation" is a scary-sounding thing.
The thing that gets me is I read that it causes people to be locked out of their cars if it doesn't work right. I've seen plenty of cars without protruding handles that don't lock you out of the car.

I wonder if anyone would care if they were shown the math behind the amount of drag it reduces vs. the possibility of temporarily being locked out of their cars on random occasion.
exactly! And so is reckless driving. I'm looking forward to this law being passed in more jurisdictions.
That was about iOS automatically downloading the update file in the background (and at the time lacking an option to delete it), not automatically installing anything.
>It's funny, with so many brilliant minds continuously rewriting coding languages no one has stopped to make human language less of a symantic ambiguity.

People have tried. Check out "In The Land of Invented Languages" [0] if this interests you. Specific to your point, I would refer you to Lojban (a derivative of Loglan).

[0]http://www.amazon.com/Land-Invented-Languages-Adventures-Lin...
>The verified that he was an employee, apologized for waking him up, and left him be.

Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Don't most companies' liability insurance policies prohibit employees from sleeping/living on company property outside of work hours because of their liability for injuries that happen while the employee is squatting in a truck in their parking lot? I would be surprised if Google's legal team didn't shut this down real quick.
"if the police get access to your email account, they can force a Apple ID password reset"

That's an interesting assertion. I mean, yes, sure, they could do that, but it's an interesting question of whether they are legally allowed to do that. Effectively they'd be misrepresenting themselves to your email provider and to Apple as if they were you. Is that acceptable 'undercover policing'? Can they reset your banking password too? Can they do this only while they have you under arrest?
I would also guess most of the drivers who complain live in a city that lacks proper bike lanes. Bikes wouldn't need to interact as much with drivers if we defined space for them.
A banana dose is equivalent here to light bouncing from my skin directly in your open eye. Does my skin need to be FCC-approved?

I didn't expect HN of all places to fall into "radiation sounds scary therefore its bad for you" line of thinking.
Hot Chip – Dancing in the Dark (Official Video) [80's and Computer References]
It's cool to see other people doing this. Until a couple weeks ago that's what I was doing. This is even my throwaway account for topics like this.

I lived in my car and didn't work for a big company so accomodations were a little less plesant. However even after 6 months I didn't really mind it. I went to the gym and lift every morning then cleaned up and went to work, then when I was unemployed I went to the library.

Not having an 'official' place to sleep was the worst part. I slept in Walmart parking lots. I rotated between 3 but had one main one. I got harassed by cops pretty frequently which was the worst part. Never had a single person (not cop) bother me, and I wasn't exactly in the best areas (as many walmarts aren't).

That wasn't the first time I was 'homeless' so I guess I'm used to that lifestyle now, and I'd do it again in a heart beat. (I live in a cold state now, so it's a little more difficult)
> We don't have a PR firm. I do think YC paid for an ad once in 2006 in the Stanford college newspaper, but we don't really do marketing. The thing we rely on most of all is founders we fund telling other people about our program.

Really? That answer seems somewhat misleading, I don't know if intentionally. YC's biggest place to advertise is HN. In fact, look below right now -- 'Apply to YC'. In addition to reminders of when the applications are due showing up in frontpage, etc.
Thanks for the link -- great story! If only more web nuisances could be killed off so easily.
Well, not if they've also decided on this money-saving option. Coming soon to downtown Mountain View: Japanese-style love hotels.
yeah I'm sure a software engineer intern living in a truck definitely has a partner
More Than Two Years at a Company Is Bad for Your Career
The TS compiler will complain but still generate working JS code, so you don't lose anything.
The point of onboarding emails is to boost your activation rate. Users frequently get distracted during onboarding and drop of. A drip campaign that highlights the benefits of completing the onboarding is highly effective. The majority of people consider emails spam if they aren't relevant. Someone who intends to complete an onboarding process but was sidetracked usually finds these reminders useful.
More power to him, it is his life after all, but I've seen this attitude of extreme frugalness/cheapness and it seems to be a trait that engineers are almost proud of, and brag about. Disclosure: I am myself an engineer, but also founder.

I've heard engineers complain about $49 a month for X or Y SaaS solution that would save a bunch of their time and effort. "That is expensive, I'll just build that myself..."

It is like they try to optimize everything in their life. In my opinion this attitude is toxic, especially in startups.
how expensive is it to rent a normal studio apartment near Google? I seem to be the minority here, but it seems crazy to me to live out of a van, rather than a normal apartment.

edit: somewhere around 2200 a month? it doesn't seem worth the savings to not have an appt
Apple has supported encrypted iTunes backups for years. I remember having it enabled when I upgraded to the iPhone 4. A quick Google search finds articles talking about it from 2011.
Lockheed Martin invests billions each year in clean energy development also, doesn't mean that some people won't take offense with their other activities.
There are standard components, and then there's the work done to make and certify them as EV-ready. Tesla currently sells components to Daimler-Benz and Toyota.
The data from the outage is all here:

https://blog.thousandeyes.com/ultradns-outage-october-2015/

Check it out.
It's a case of in-group vs out-group, self-identification, etc.

If you said "I'm not going to respect drivers because they speed all the time," everyone would think you were a nutter; but the same sentiment for bikes gets a thumbs-up.
now supports encrypted local backups.

iTunes has supported encrypted local backups since the beginning of iOS.

restore your data onto a new device without needing permission from you or Apple.

and that's a great reason to verify your iCloud backup is always disabled on all devices (if you care about privacy). You just have to be vigilant about not accidentally enabling it during any setup process since iOS wants you to enable the feature, but it's easy to disable everywhere.
Is visiting HackerNews like Smoking?
Do you feel a little better or does it give you sense of peace while coming to HN? And when you leave after long time, feel regret?
I think SQLite would work well for most local storage application. It also helps that it is well known, well documented, and supported.
Business Intelligence? We Still Live in a Stupid World
they sound like an ideal candidate to chair the UN Human Rights council
Journalists don't go to the oilfields of North Dakota and don't socialise with people who work there, so they might as well not exist.
Someone should create a monitor that reacts to directional x-rays and squeeks. Then you can go outside and find them and yell at them. Also, take pictures, plant a tracker, spray paint flowers. Use your imagination.
Adding Support for Mac OS 9 to QEMU
Not everyone's got a workplace that has free breakfast, free lunch, free dinner, free gym, free shower, enormous parking lots, and laid back policy.
>Coming soon to downtown Mountain View: Japanese-style love hotels.

I had to google that. Interesting concept.
companies could build a bunk bed on top of each cubicle, that would solve this issue perfectly.
What's more is the app update mechanism. From a technical standpoint, Apple just has to deliver an app update via auto-update to a version of an app that has the necessary access
Well, given that the Secure Enclave is a processor, I suspect the relevant statement in the whitepaper just means that it's done by software on the SEP rather than the main processor, not that it's done purely by hardware. I could be wrong. But if I'm right, note that the SEP will take firmware upgrades signed with Apple's key, same as the main processor.
Have there been any cases of police illegally forcing fingerprint unlock against a person's express consent?

Finger unlock is nice when you're in a non-hostile environment, but now with a 100ms finger brush, the entire phone opens up wide and says "take all my data!"

I wish iPhones had a feature like "if dropped on the floor (or after any 'significant' impact), remove session key to disable finger print auth and require password again." Then when you gotta cheese it, you just throw and go.
Now try replacing "alcohol" with "a bullet through the head" and see if it's still funny. Or try doing a Google image search of "fetal alcohol syndrome". Smart asshole.
Movies that have done the same to appeal to American audiances:

U-571 - "Ayer told BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme that he "did not feel good" about suggesting Americans, rather than the British, captured the naval Enigma cipher:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_%28film%29#Controversies...

Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World - "...as the producers wished to avoid offending American audiences [...] the fictional opponent was changed from the USS Norfolk to the French privateer frigate Acheron" (Original book was only loosely historical, but my point remains.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_and_Commander:_The_Far_...