skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PGP does have a legitimate use case, namely Edward Snowden: he's technical, the NSA is his main threat vector, and it makes sense for him to spend lots of time reasoning about the web of trust, signing keys, double-checking fingerprints, and creating 12-minute explainer-videos for people he needs to communicate with (for reference: https://vimeo.com/56881481).

Here's the problem: not everyone needs the stringent encryption guarantees that Snowden needed. There is value in crypto systems that are less demanding than PGP, especially if they come with vast increases in usability.

iMessage, I think, is what most people need in their everyday life. It's end-to-end encrypted, and although it has a central key-server, it is backed by Apple, which has publicly announced their commitment to user privacy. Yes, a central key-server means that you can't verify the fingerprints Apple gives you, but again, that's not what iMessage's encryption was designed for. If you need that level of certainty, use Signal.
Large-Scale Solar, Batteries to Play Large Role in California's Renewable Future
You're in the right ballpark. I ported a network monitoring app to Linux and helped bring Linux up on a custom board a long time ago, and that device had 4MB for the kernel, shell/utilities and the application itself. It fit nicely.
Word. And if I'm getting charged for traffic, they better exclude advertising content from the meter, or give me a way to turn off advertising. I'm certainly not going to pay Comcast for the privilege of watching auto-play ad videos.
Plenty of places outside of SF are doing interesting things. Boston has plenty, as does Austin.
No one said anything about devoted entirely to art and culture; I said there are other things that fulfill people besides work. Also aristocracy's issues weren't art and culture, it was wealth and power that lead their degenerating because as we all know power corrupts. So no, basic income is not pretty much the same, in fact they're nothing at all alike.
"law makers are almost by definition two generations behind the generation that actually is native to the technological change in question"

This 1 min video clip from a UK comedy show is over 30 years old. But it captures this sentiment perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VgwxKW0J6I
Clay Shirky: The Digital Revolution in Higher Education Has Already Happened
So, it's like App::RecordStream, except very, very limited in what it can do?
In other parts of the country, the kind of money the author is paying in rent on a studio will pay the mortgage on a 2500 sqft house, in an upper-middle class neighborhood.

In an age of high-speed internet, it's ridiculous that we insist software engineers be jammed into dense, expensive globs. Working remotely with Skype calls/IM/screensharing is a better experience, all around, than trying to collaborate in the same office, at least in my experience. You do have to have employees that will actually work, though.
ICE-SAR, the Civilian Saviors of Iceland
There's an excellent site called 'archive.org', which has the quite honorable and noble goal of "universal access to all knowledge", which includes archiving the web.

They have been crawling the web for almost 20 years, and in this case they archived that URL several times in April of 2008. Here's a URL for one of those crawls: https://web.archive.org/web/20080428142826/http://discussion...

You really should explore what the Internet Archive offers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive . The various presentations by Jason Scott, 'rogue archivist' are also entertaining, and give an idea of the spirit behind the Internet Archive, textfiles.com, and similar efforts.
From your comment: "The problem is not Direct democracy or laissez-faire. The problem is that EU laws are made by lobbyist."

Direct Democracy and laissez faire were not put forth as problems. Neither were they put forth as solutions. They were put forth simply as "two other options" for the purpose of comparison with representative democracy. There are many other possible frameworks for governance. Theocracy, for instance. The two I chose where mentioned simply to provide a point of reference to discuss the different issues a society confronts when creating a legal framework. So, based on your comment stating that the "problem is not Direct democracy or laissez-faire", I assumed you understood my comment to argue that the those where the problem, which it did not.

My comment did, however, make arguments on behalf of a representative form of governance to the effect that, it allows its citizens to engage in the process. The one form of engagement which I explicitly mentioned was lobbying, stating that lobbying, as commonly understood, entails engaging so as to guide the legislative process in a manner in which directs the process toward an end product that the lobbyist has already decided is the optimal final state of the legislation. I also made the argument that there are other activities in which non-legislators citizens could engage in activities that would not be included under the umbrella of those termed "lobbying". So, to say, "That means they will not improve over time because the laws makers and the people paying those are ok with them," you did not seem to address any of these other, non-"lobbyist" activities. And so, by not addressing them but still coming to a conclusion ("That means...") it just kinda seems like you didn't read or understand my entire comment.

But please, cherry pick which portions of my comment (which I tried to make constructive, well thought out, and upbeat) to critique, while basing at least some of your argument's authority on the fact that you're aware that I've commented elsewhere, about unrelated issues, here on HN. That's totally constructive.
Strange they mentioned the Republic of Lakotah while not mentioning the Navaho Nation[1] as the latter is an actually functional government, though the fact that it doesn't try to claim statehood doesn't help, the fact that it actually operates does give it a leg up on Lakotah.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation
The point of charging more during peak times is to discourage usage during those times, which leads to a greater proportion of available bandwidth per user at that time.
Some telling quotes:

"...one student who, in a Yale Herald piece published today, criticized the invitation and argued that Nicholas Christakis “needs to stop instigating more debate.”"

“So, my question is: are you going to say that? Or not?” she asked. “Cause then, I could just leave if you’re not gonna say that.” - Not particularly telling, but I find the sheer lack of expressiveness amusing.

"""
“As your position as master, it is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live in Silliman,” one student says. “You have not done that. By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. Do you understand that?”

When Christakis disagreed, the student proceeded to yell at him.

“Who the fuck hired you?” she asked, arguing that Christakis should “step down” because being master is “not about creating an intellectual space,” but rather “creating a home.”
"""

The ignorance is strong at Yale, apparently.
Some corrections/comments/questions:

> Opaleye ... no join support (simulated via sub selects)

This is true for exactly one reason: despite being raised frequently, nobody has ever been able to demonstrate any performance difference between subselects and joins (in Postgres)! As soon as someone does, they should file an issue (https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/haskell-opaleye/issues/) and I'll add joins forthwith.

> Opaleye ... tough syntax to parse

What do you mean by this? The Haskell syntax of Opaleye, or the generated SQL?

> Esqueleto ... Postgres only

You're incorrect about this. From your Esqueleto link:

"It has many kinds of backends, such as SQL backends (persistent-mysql, persistent-postgresql, persistent-sqlite) and NoSQL backends (persistent-mongoDB)."

> Esqueleto ... can't/doesn't prevent invalid sql

But you're right about this.
Wow, just wow.

Please someone do some journalism and go ask the employees what they think of this policy...
I looked into a business plan, but wasn't willing to sign a 2 year contract. It's been longer than 2 years and I still have Comcast, but I would drop them so fast if there was any other option that provided reasonable service.
The obvious solution to high rents is to build taller buildings, but people don't seem to want that either.
Why would you want to live in a city center, when you could have 40 acres of good land in the country for the same money, or less?

Suburbs are a compromise, where you get a little of column A (room enough for decent living) and a little column B (urban wages and access to capital), which equals a lot of column C (long, shitty commutes).
For some reason, Coursera doesn't seem to have the page up any more, but there was a great MOOC about programming for musicians[0] that featured ChucK as the main language. They even featured the creator of ChucK in some of the videos. He's also the creator of some of the popular Smule Apps for iPhone, like the autotuning app "I am T-Pain"[1], which all feature ChucK under the hood.

[0] https://www.mooc-list.com/course/introduction-programming-mu...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HaIMA9YkSg
"they better exclude advertising content from the meter"

Am I understanding correctly that you want Comcast examining the content you are downloading and deciding whether it counts towards your usage or not? This sounds like the complete opposite of net neutrality.
CBOE probably has them, or possibly through your broker, but they handle compliance so the nuance of the rules isn't terribly important (if you can buy or sell options for a security through your broker they have already met the standard).

The numbers I mentioned are in the Federal Register, but quite a while ago. The numbers are still current, though other parts may have changed:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1994-02-07/html/94-2716.htm
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As Dr. Phil might say, how's that working out for you? I'm sure Mr. Sandhu believes he's the most benevolent high-tech-sweatshop manager ever, but what are the results? How productive are those 80-hour weeks? What's the attrition rate? Health outcomes? Divorce rate? How about diversity, especially when it comes to hiring and retaining older workers? How do alumni feel once they've gained some distance?

It's easy to get a few kids to drink some Kool Aid. Whether they keep drinking it, get any benefit out of it, or remember the experience fondly, are all very different questions.
And again for all the people who seriously think this is a good idea:

http://www.igda.org/?page=crunchsixlessons

> There's a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago:
> It's the single most expensive way there is to get the work done.
I wonder if his employees read hacker news.
Eventually startups are going to screw the wrong guy and someone's going to walk back inside with a gun and nothing to lose.

At first I laughed, then I went back to look for a punch line, then I felt sorry for everyone at this company.
Correct. And now they encrypt all the inter-data center traffic.

Question: Is that done on an end-to-end basis? Or do they encrypt the links between data centers?

I want to encrypt a 10g ethernet and all the solutions look quite expensive.

Has anyone done high speed encryption (i.e. 10gbps/1500 byte packets) with strongswan or similar?
I've had pretty good experiences with translating LaTeX into SVG via DVI. The tools for this come with TeXLive and they're quite fast.
SQL is an awfully-designed language and has WATs coming out of its eyeballs. Two things (out of many) off the top of my head:

1. Every subselect must be given a name, even if you never use that name.

2. This orders by the second column

SELECT * from table ORDER BY 2;

whereas this orders by the constant 1 + 1, i.e. 2.

SELECT * from table ORDER BY 1 + 1;
The limit has NOTHING to do with peak or non-peak bandwidth!

It's a measure to prevent customers from watching video on-line and stopping their TV service.
Microsoft Edge extensions support delayed until 2016
I don't really understand the policy. Earlier this week the article about the journalist who tried to bit a barrel of oil had its title changed after the fact to not match the original.
0.2 + 4.5n + 0.3n^2

Percentage loss of productivity where n is the number of hours over 8 per day, for a 5 day week.

e.g. for prolonged use of an 11 hour day :

0.2 + 4.5 x 3 + 0.3 x 9 = 16% loss of productivity over the whole week.

According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics - Bulletin No. 917 [1]

for more info see this research :
http://www.weblem.org/upload/OT1.pdf

[1] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/scribd/?title_id=4359&filepath...
The area of the midwest referenced in this article is a fascinating area. It's essentially undiscussed and unthought about in mainstream American thought. But it's so interesting to drive around out there, so much land, few people, and when you do come to towns, everyone in them is Native American. It's just different than anything I've experienced on the east or west coasts.
World Cup 2010 in South Africa 'triggered baby boy boom'
Wow this guy is fucking delusional. I can't believe he seriously thinks his employees are smiling every day, and that they aren't burnt out because they "believe in the mission"
In Germany he would be committing a crime.
Don’t eat Dungeness crab, California health department warns
The Uberization of Money
> why does the vast majority of new tech continue to
> A) establish themselves in such an uncomfortable location
> B) not embrace distributed teams

Hiring networks. You want to hire people based on referrals and not experience or qualifications, you need to hire through your extended friend network, which if you're raised in the SF startup scene, is all in SF.

It's also a state of affairs that ends up being unintentionally racist, since probably most of your friends look like you, and probably most of their friends that they'll refer to you when you're hiring look like them
People criticize 80 hours and then I wonder about all the financial analysts in investment banking... aren't they putting in 100+ hour work weeks, at least for the first year or two?
i'm not entirely sure this is worthy of a paper... its pretty much a common sense conclusion to reach if you've ever tried to use these things that the UX is usually terrible - even by the standards of a technical user.

too many manual efforts need to be made, even after setting up software that is purely designed to make this sort of thing easier.

mailvelope is a good example though - i've tried using it, but its not very clear what to do with it, and even once you get to the point of having the button appear in your gmail or whatever you have to then go and do even more things before you can actually send something that is encrypted. optimising this workflow should be trivial... a lot of this stuff can be done for you, e.g. by automatically enabling for common webmail sites, automatically generating some keys for you etc.
Funnily enough Knuth was opposed to footnotes (or maybe it was his wife). Only at the behest of some colleagues in the humanities were they later added in TeX.
I absolutely have. It could be that reddit trains people to automatically think of puns for social gratification. It could be also because HN is basically a subreddit, and people automatically associate this format with puns and cynical one liners.

It's been known since the days of BBS's that communities get worse as they get bigger.
Author here. As we lived in that apartment I constantly reminded myself that compared to all families from around the world and across time, we had a luxurious life. Clean water, climate control, safety, food 3 times a day, etc.

We definitely had company over, often gatherings of 10-12 people and one time we had 5 overnight guests (that was a bit crazy but fun).
That's a pretty abysmal report. You basically can't count on any of those features to be available across databases.

You are correct about the fear-of-SQL amongst most application developers.
I like this line of thinking. It seems that the word "key" is not the problem so much as the terms describing the respective key's status as opposed to their function. Perhaps something along the lines of "locking" and "unlocking" keys, or "encryption" key and "decryption" key (and, of course, "signing" key, no one has to know this is the same thing as your "decryption" key).
The answer is by being a complete and utter asshole. Any employer who expects that much is not someone who should be managing the night shift at a Denny's, let alone a whole company.
> What would be a first principles approach to "What should every kid learn" if we were to start from scratch you think?

It's a question humans have been asking for centuries, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education
Yes, but San Franciso has the most. Plenty of other cities have theaters, ballet, and opera—but people move to New York.
Saab had those rims long before Tesla did.

I could be totally wrong, but I believe this Saab doesn't really have anything to do with the Saab of old, besides the name and reusing an old design.
A Visit to the Amazon Books Store
Thanks, I fixed it. If only there was a way I could let people open up PRs to my blog posts to fix typos and grammatical errors :)
There's nothing to say they won't. The article says they're operating out of an old Nissan research facility right now, not that they've bought a factory in California. Everybody else doing autonomous and electric vehicle research also seems to be operating out of california right now as well. It's where the people who know that stuff are, so if a Chinese company wants to build an electric car, it makes sense that they'd set up shop in California too. When it comes time to move to manufacturing, they can do that anywhere.
Any fellow Europeans here, who remember the good old time, when we used to make jokes about American Politics being so stupid?

I feel sad, very sad.
I'd love to know how much he pays his employees.

Doing something you believe in is really fantastic but it's higher on the hierarchy of needs than "put food on my table" and "keep my spouse from resenting me for never being around". If you're working 80 hours a week, then you should be compensated for that. Financially.

A few months ago, a USAF Colonel came and gave an address to the employees at my job site. "I know you all do this for patriotism and love of your country," he said. Sure, those are reasons...#9 or #10 on my list, maybe, for dealing with the insanity of flight test. #1, as the great Randy Moss would have said, is "Straight cash, homie."

I wonder how highly Mr. Sandhu's employees would rate the mission to "truly reinvent banking" on their list of reasons for coming to work?
How Sweden ended its addiction to prison
One of my favorite parts about living in constraints is it forces me to build new mental models.
Of course if you include SVG we can eventually create TeX quality... because SVG allows us to draw arbitrary images. If we're going to be using SVG we don't even need HTML and CSS.
I entertained a business minor while I was in school by taking a few intro courses. I ultimately chose against it because of a general ethos I felt that was also present in this article:

Given a large lecture hall of ~500 students, how many would agree that working your employees 80/hrs a week in an underpaid fashion is a stroke of genius that proves you to be a successful businessman/businesswomen?

I don't think their is a difference in character or morality between majors, passions, or what have you. I believe we teach a brand of capitalism in regards to business that is highly detrimental to society.

Furthermore I think this methodology is inferior to that of other models, models where workers are fairly compensated, maintain work balance, and ultimately are significantly more productive per/yr.
I won't work at a company with an 80 hour work week; nor can I support a company that asks that of their employees.
Software developers describing their work in 1973 (Finnish national TV)
A simulator to get the truly dangerous drivers off the road
Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class
Hey, it's your funeral!
(from the article)

working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk

Specific to the realm of programming, I wonder if the conclusion factors in Ballmer peak performance gains ;)
I'm still amazed at how the marketers are only starting to realize the health benefits of fermentation. 'Actimel' for example is a yogurt drink they sell in my parts, and the ADs for it always overplay the importance of it, as if probiotics are some life giving elixir.

What they overlook is that probiotics are indeed that: 'pro' in that they prevent rather than treat. Do I eat yogurt because I like it? Probably not, but I feel wonderful 2-3 hours after eating it, and can almost feel the PH in my gut getting more balanced.
How do you get your employees to work 80 hours a week? Obviously you pay them now.
Wait, you are paying then less? Then the title should be "how to take advantage of people."
No, you're jumping to conclusions and changing the subject. I said I don't want to pay for advertising. If Comcast is going to enforce limits, then Comcast needs to provide a way for me to pay for the content I asked for, and not charge me for content advertisers deliver without my consent.

The point of my comment is partially tongue-in-cheek, because this is a problem Comcast can't solve, and they're setting themselves up for a rampage of angry people, as the amount of bandwidth being used for advertising increases every year.

But, since you brought it up, Comcast already examines your content. You are mistaken that net neutrality is broken if they filter advertising from your meter. Net neutrality is about not prioritizing or throttling responses to your request, not how Comcast bills you. And, for that matter, auto-play advertising is already worse for net neutrality than it would be for Comcast to categorize your surfing for billing purposes. Your internets are already being jammed and throttled by advertising video that in many cases is much larger than what you asked for.
That makes the headline sound even worse. Something like "New company hopes to start selling electric cars in 2017" better reflects the content of the article (which hilariously talks about other attention the company has gotten as hype (I realize an editor probably wrote the headline, not the author)).
Your hypothesis is perhaps ten thousand dollars of noise panels and hours of a CEO's time is material to a company and/or a factor in its success. Neither of those make or break a company. It's hardly "swagged-out", and is cheaper than other office space according to the very video you watched. Low noise levels do contribute to both productivity and someplace being nice to work in.

There's plenty of counterexamples (including several I've worked for) who have somehow succeeded despite spending relatively modest amounts of money to make the office a pleasant place instead of a loud dump with sawhorse desks and 20 year old carpeting. If you're complaining about sfbay rates, well, that's what office space costs here.

Believing spending well under one engineer's annual salary made a bad outcome more or less likely is nothing other than dumb.
"Once launched with administrator privileges" which is very difficult unless the soft goes out of its way to ask, and most open source software doesn't ask
There are other platforms that do that. Take a look at Kiadis which can identify activated T cells and kill them and then reinfuse rest of white cells back into the patient.
Meditations on learning Haskell
Paddle and Fastspring are two that handle VAT collection and remittance.