skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sit? Stand? Nifty new workstation lets you lie down on the job
True, although if the Tesla had been going at a less inappropriate velocity there would have been less need to brake so hard.

The old adage 'if you can't brake in time to prevent a collision then you are traveling too fast'.

That said, we could see an interesting era of robocars driving in ways which seem reckless but are still safe due to the superhuman reaction time.

I notice in the new Mercedes ad the line 'vehicle will not self-brake in all circumstances' which wouldn't fill me with confidence. It was often said that accidents actually increased after the introduction of ABS due to the false sense of security it gave drivers.
DigitalOcean Adds Floating IPs
> 1. Windows 10 does offer a lot of performance improvements. Even if you don't like the new interface, under the hood it's much faster. Even Windows 8 was a lot faster.

YMMV. For me, Win10 totally destabilized a netbook that was previously running smoothly on Win7. And for some reason, the backlight control worked under 7 but not 10, locking the screen at a battery-draining 100% brightness. Wasted an hour or two on the phone with Microsoft just to learn that they have no idea of the cause or solution, despite web searches turning up plenty of reports of this issue. At least the revert function worked.

edit: Uh, yikes, apparently even that's a bit broken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477988
this is pretty amazing web editor.
at the very least, comcast could buy the ad space and try to persuade cord cutters on the merits of paying $150+ / mo for stuff you can watch on the internet anyway.
Optimizely Open-Sourcing Parental Leave
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478677.
They have a "creative" section that a lot of non gaming stuff falls into. A few months ago there was a twitch plays a neural network thing, where people in the chat told the neural network what to hallucinate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IREsx-xWQ0g
> Maybe we'll figure out some way to replace our stored carbons inputs in a way that lets us keep the same energy surplus.

We already have: unfortunately, massive and pervasive scientific illiteracy, often abetted by the same people complaining about population growth and carbon-based energy, has prevented us from making full use of nuclear power. If you'd like to fix the energy problem as quickly as possible, without waiting for breakthroughs in solar or battery storage or fusion, it's Greenpeace you need to talk to.
According to the testimony of the driver, he was in fact focused on the right lane exactly in case someone tried to pull out.

He had no chance to see the car pulling a U-turn from the left.
Bullshit. The real population bomb is a certain religion called islam.
> Human intuition about what might be slow is almost certainly wrong.

He got that right. Try it for yourself: https://computers-are-fast.github.io/
I suppose it's slightly better than the usual alternative of ignoring, or suing, the outsiders, but yeah, this was pretty predictable. He's obviously a gifted programmer, but developing new software for a division without evidently consulting (let alone including) the stakeholders was obviously going to cause some kind of reaction. It sounds like he didn't have a manager to handle the politics (which is odd; most large public safety departments I've seen have their own IT staff separate from the rest of the city), and is tactless if not outright on the spectrum, so kind of an inevitable parting of the ways. Nice that SPD was so gracious on his leaving, though.
Anonymous plans to reveal the identities of 1,000 KKK members
Distance to Mars (interactive code)
Thx for your awesome advice. Yes, loving it already. It is a breeze with the hardware and 16GB RAM. No more damn fan noise :). Homestead took minutes to setup. The terminal and Xcode..just works.
Human still hasn't fully modernized/mechanized farming on the India Subcontent or Africa.

Humanity has a lot of ground to cover before we starve.
I have to say...I'm very impressed that he lasted that long. And I think credit has to be given to both Clemans and the Seattle PD...Clemans, obviously, for putting his skill and ingenuity toward the public good. But also, to the police for not only being open to change, but willingly bringing in someone who so openly antagonized them. Given the amount of political ego in most police organizations...6 months of collaboration is pretty astonishing.

Even if the Seattle PD were at fault, the onus is on them to either adopt or ignore what Tim has done for them...sometimes the attention and public scrutiny is enough to change things, so I wouldn't see Tim's departure as the end of it. It doesn't have to be be, at least, and hopefully other Seattle civic hackers have been inspired by his work.
"Cops are trained to push peoples buttons and make them lose control"

They are? I could see why, say, detectives interviewing a suspect might use that approach to try to get them to say something incriminating, but for regular cops I would think their job is made much easier if the people they interact with are calm.
See also "The Origin of Spacewar!" by Martin Graetz (Creative Computing, 1981) for the ultimate account on the game, http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/SpacewarOrigin.html, including additional notes and pictures.
yes yes and yes. I just bought my macbook pro (first time mac user) and loving it.
They might be able to do it with a minified url and a script.

curl lo.ly | bash

box is now owned.
If they'd just switched it to greater than and used a unix timestamp...
Google's 'Who's Down' app
HN Hug of death? The website is down for me. I look forward to playing around with it.
Yes, it's how they are supposed to operate. But what makes a call "high priority?" Are 911 operators actually working off this list? What happens if the program fails; what's their back up plan? What happens if there's a bug in the program, is he going to fix it or will he have lost interest? Are their regulations about maintaining a log of what was displayed in case of a lawsuit? Where's the source code, what happens if this guy resigns 3 months later?

There are so many questions that need to be answered and thought out. I'm sure it was a good idea and probably should have been pursued.

As for firing him, it's not because of this program. It's because of the unprofessional way he reacted to criticism. The article says he actually had to be escorted out of the building. I would completely expect someone to be fired for that, especially if the SPD really where such a hostile environment to new ideas.

I'm not saying he HAD to be fired, but the article seems to take the tone that the SPD was being unreasonable. It would seem they where being very accommodating even in light of his childish behavior.
I tend to agree with this view. While population growth definitely comes at a cost it also provides us with our most valuable resource: human intellect. Perhaps this is the perfect time to tap our earth's carbon battery to propel us into the next orbital of energy production and consumption. Or perhaps we are not socially and culturally smart enough to make efficient use of this energy and we will exhaust our surplus and perish, another evolutionary footnote of history. Either way, I doubt we have the power to stop this juggernaut now so might as well assume (and try to achieve) the optimistic option.
"Another well-established vendor created a partner program under the guise of wanting to disrupt the EHR market (one in which they had significant market share), then later rejected our application because, they said, it was competitive with one of their modules."

Now, where have we heard that before, in the mobile device space?
Extreme data centers: From mountain to sea
I'm not convinced a 'calm and rational conversation' would help either. Seems like his superiors were filled with aggressiveness and testosterone.
Civilization Twitch. 1 stream / civilisation.
Twitch simulates quantum physics

Although I'm not sure anybody could tell the difference...
There's still an active community writing tight assembly code for vintage computers like the C64, and there was a ton of excitement around Notch's 0x10c, which was a virtual computer of the same class as Voyager's. There's clearly a yearning among modern programmers for the days where the entire system could be understood by one brain.

This probably isn't practical, or sane, but I wonder what would happen if Nasa released an open source simulator for Voyager and invited the community help implement the software fixes they need. There might some really good devs who would do it just for the challenge.

Think of it as 0x10c with a purpose.
Airpnp: It’s like Airbnb, but for toilets
Text Messaging Can Reduce BMI or Blood Pressure and Change Healthcare Outcomes
As a former Caltech undergrad it's hard to really disagree with the conclusions. I wouldn't be surprised given what I've seen / read if this changes dramatically over the next decade based on changes already taken place.

Median is also possibly not what an incoming Caltech (or MIT, or Harvard) student should optimize for though given that many of them will have relatively safe downsides. Mean for Caltech might be quite high (I don't know for sure). But given that I overlapped with multiple people who have certainly made large sums of money since graduation (about 10 years ago), I'm thinking it might look favorable for Caltech with a small student body.
Yubikey Neo security review (updated October 2014)
Saying these companies could just open their APIs is probably wrong. None of the legacy EMRs has a good underlying data model and what they have tends to be customized per site. There might be some minor functionality you could get to work consistently across sites with such an open API but chances are it wouldn't cover everything your innovative startup needs.

In summary I don't think it's only lack of willingness; bad design was baked in from the beginning and piled up over the years.

As an aside, speaking as doc and programmer whose been in this field for more than a decade, I repeatedly find hilarious the hubris from developers coming from outside the field who think they are gonna fix healthcare with their amazing new perspective. Poor bastards. I feel sorry for the ones who aren't being arrogant dicks about it.

I recently reconnected with a guy who had a super high profile successful startup (like, success level=my mom even uses it) who tried to start his next company in healthcare. Fast forward a few years (i.e. a few weeks ago) and he sounds like he has PTSD
What happens if somebody runs a VM sandbox break exploit (however unlikely that is)? Do you wipe the hardware completely?
An article about this was discussed yesterday, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476882.
Because this isn't mission critical code, and it will work 99+% of the time. If it doesn't work the author can manually intervene.
Worth noting based on a paper linked from the pypy 4.0 thread[0] that maybe the most fare would be a geometric mean of salaries instead of an arithmetic mean.

[0] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=5673
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
Unless you get up for work on Wednesday (Tuesday?) night at 3am you're fine.

>now system startup is delayed half an hour or more to configure a new batch of patches.

The default is that there is no configuration. The OS downloads the patches by default, installs them, then waits for the user to restart the computer to finalize things. The user can simply not restart the computer if they are in a hurry.
Given that Python is a core team strength I'd stick with it. Building a RESTful api is not that difficult if you stick with known patterns. As for which framework to use, I am not versed well enough right now in either Django or Flask to render an opinion. My guess is both frameworks have tradeoffs so you might stand up two sample production ready endpoints to see what those tradeoffs are, or spend time researching and asking people specific questions around the benefits/pitfalls.

As for scalability/availability, Python can be just as scalable and available as node.js in my opinion, but you have to take some different routes to get there. The best recommendation I have is keep it simple and clean with each endpoint doing only one thing.

I am anal about making sure any API endpoint I develop is very short and to the point, and does only 1 thing. For example, I don't like having a POST endpoint that saves three different records to a database, that should be three separate calls or a queued message to be processed by worker processes. This type of design makes your api far easier to maintain. The drawback of course is multiple calls and potentially more endpoints. But another benefit of designing it this way is that I can scale certain API endpoints individually and only add the complexity of scale where needed. In some cases too you can have an endpoint that implements some chain of responsibility to handle multiple calls and may be blocking, but this would be layered on your individual endpoints.
Huh, I'm surprised it was notable enough to have a Wikipedia page. I would have Googled, but figured the answer was in some walled garden or cryptic forum posts.
You make him sound like a cop.
A lot of scientists are ether self taught coders, or taught by other self taught scientists and so are ignorant of bad practices to avoid. Developers with experience should be helping educate the scientists in a positive way that the scientists don't feel like they are considered idiots by the developers. Respect is the key.

The problem with the startup you describe sounds more like a management problem. Hacked code that sometimes works is not code that should be used more than once and it should be rewritten before check in. If the scientists don't know how to do this then they need to be helped.
They could ssh somewhere and commit felonies.
Yeah, that supposed NSA guy is even inexplicably using single quotes.
"Top 10 500 Startups ..." is the actual title, which better reflects the content of this article since you must sign up to a free trial of Mattermark to see the rest.
How much can understanding assembly be understood as a skill? Most of the skill that goes into optimization isn't very architecture dependent but CPU and algorithm dependent.
Read a much more detailed security review of the Yubikey as it works in practice here:

http://www.unrest.ca/yubico-reinvents-the-yubikey
Why I switched from computer science to English
> Suppose you had a classifier that achieves 1.0 R^2; then since it perfectly predicts each school's expected value, it'll assign each school a score of 0. I'm pretty suspicious of an approach where the results get worse with better predictive power.

If I'm understanding correctly, that result would indicate a world where the college you attend has no effect on your earning power. ie. choose any college you want, because you'll earn the same amount regardless of which one you choose.

This would only apply to colleges that people in your demographic group actually attended though. If the dataset doesn't contain any information about people like you who went to Harvard, then maybe Harvard would indeed increase your earning potential if there was a way for you to actually go there.
Let's talk about some of the things he did. The highlighting of the most important calls seems useful, but the article also mentioned he developed "blurring of anything that moves in police footage". What is the benefit of this?
Think of executing searches. A cop needs a reason to search someone (their person, their car, etc.), beyond just being suspicious. Frequently they can prod people into providing them such a reason.
Still no specifics
Prisons are a good idea, but they're done totally wrong. Allowing prisoners to interact with each other is a terrible idea.

Here's my idea for a prison: each cell is the size of a fairly spartan one-bedroom apartment. You go in at the start of your sentence, and you leave at the end. There's a window, maybe a sunlamp, hopefully a treadmill. Food is dropped through a hole in the wall.

I know what you're thinking: "But solitary confinement baaad!" But we do what we can to keep the prisoners' minds occupied. They'll have free access to educational books and videos, hopefully whole educational programs to let them learn marketable skills. We can let then video-chat with loved ones on the outside. Probably even give them video-chat access to a limited number of other prisoners as part of a "peer support" program, although that privilege would be monitored and revoked if anyone starts misusing it. I'm open to other ideas too.

A prison like this would be nice and cheap to run because it would require fewer guards. It would prevent people from coming out of prison with new criminal skills and contacts. And while it may be less pleasant for hardened criminals who like hanging out with their criminal buddies, it would certainly be more pleasant for first-time offenders who don't fit into key prison demographics like the senator or probably you or I. I'd pick the enriched solitary confinement over having to socialise with the general prison population any day, wouldn't you?
Not to be confused with the book "Popular Unix text editors and how to nest them".
Wirth explains in one of his articles that designing the compiler and the CPU together simplifies both.
BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us);
write it, print the hex while each watches,
reverse its length, write again;
kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
sort the flock (then, warn the "goats" & kill the "sheep");
kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
values aside, each one;
die sheep! die to reverse the system
you accept (reject, respect);
next step,
kill the next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
return last victim; package body;
exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
select (quickly) & warn your next victim;
AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.
wait, wait until time;
wait until next year, next decade;
sleep, sleep, die yourself,
die at last
# Larry Wall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
very interesting that a few schools (Babson, Harvard, Rensselaer) score highly in both models.
Especially if it flies.

Then they'd only need to deal with the FAA, and no one is looking in that direction.
Well, (1) it's an easy way to solve the coordination problem, and (2) is MUCH lower cost through having to update every single instance where a person or organization's working hours are mentioned :)
> It is a very crowded island with expensive land prices.

But that is only a popular image of Japan. Areas clustered close to the central districts of large cities are crowded with expensive land prices. But even in the suburban outskirts of the Tokyo metropolitan area (pop. 37 million), there is plenty of space. Farm land, forests, empty tracts of land, golf courses, ... you name it. Most residential dwellings are fully detached single family homes.

We have Google Street View; anyone can check this easily.

E.g. Noda City, area close to the Edo river, not far from Umesato train station:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9133252,139.8796061,3a,75y,2...
Yah, I'm not sure the assembly is the hard part (I know a couple engineers in their 20's that do just fine with assembly), or for that matter layering fortran on said engineers. The problem is that none of them will likely be interested in working on a piece of hardware for 10 years that effectively is a dead end. Its the same decision that I looked a couple years ago with regard to mainframe development. Its a dead end and the longer you stay there the less employable you will be for your next job.

AKA, if whoever gets the job at NASA is younger than the 50 Y/O's they are looking at, it should come with a pension, because getting the next job will be hard.
Or make energy consumption more efficient?
Never is a strong word, I think it's too strong.

You are absolutely correct that he had no authority to perform modifications to a critical public service, and that his actions bordered on reckless and negligent and that his response to the captain's accusations was cringe-worthy as well as indicative of the ignorance of his actions, but I think it stands to reason that the captain could have handled the situation more diplomatically.

Granted, I would probably get into a shouting match with Clemans for what he did (and I'm just another developer), but that hardly justifies barring him from entering the premises until further notice.

Clemans' actions can be chalked up to youthful ignorance and exuberance, whereas the captain has no excuse. He is the central source of truth and the ultimate arbiter in the situation, he should know better than to react so aggressively to one of his own staff members.
The Japanese get the most production per hectare of land. The rest of the industrialized world isn't even close.

Humanity has a lot of ground to cover before we starve.
It's for privacy. Before this feature, the SPD had someone manually blur out faces to protect privacy. The burden this placed on police resources was a large factor in why they didn't want to or couldn't comply with public records requests.
You need go to build it (see: https://golang.org/doc/install)

I can add pre-built binaries in the future, especially since go let's you cross compile easily.
Not surprising, computer science isn't for everyone
Reminded me of this fantastic talk about demoscene programming called "Poems for Bugs"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZNjB5jmHdE
Not yet, but that feature has occurred to me. Since it looks like there's some interest, I may do another round of feature development.
3 Startup Failure Horror Stories for Halloween
No (I don't agree with the poetry definition put forth), but programming is LIKE poetry is some ways. Here's one way: analogies in poetry are like libraries in programming; an analogy (like a library function call) can convey a mountain of meaning.
Twitch moderates the Republican debates.
He accepted it would be “far too intrusive” for officers to
be able to access content of internet searches and social
media messaging without additional safeguards, such as the
requirement for a judicial warrant.

When you need to scale the walls of a seemingly impenetrable castle, it is easier to slowly and quietly dig under the foundations until they fall of they own accord.

Once they have this, then don't be surprised that in a few years time they will need some kind of "temporary emergency powers" that actually end up lasting 45 years, allowing them to access the data without a warrant.

Which funnily enough they are doing already. They just get the NSA to do it for them on UK citizens and GCHQ return the favour.

It's like asking for a apple after you've stolen one already.

As a side note the Anti-Tertorism legislation was supposed to be temporary emergency powers. They got extended and extended and expanded and expanded. Didn't matter which government came and went. They all bent the knee.
Popular Unix Text Editors and How to Exit Them
I assumed it was for automated privacy. So they can release all video footage without review.
The chat on the twitch page is live already and well worth looking at. They're currently arguing over which desktop environment to use. Some people just want to install FreeBSD instead.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux

Click the arrow in the top right if you don't see the chat.
The most complete YC Active Company List I have seen
Not just healthcare, but pretty much any enterprise sector from travel to gov.
Could be the double martini lunch talking, but this is one hell of an intense read! Politics, what a trip. Thanks for sharing OP