skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vancouverite here. It is an economic ghost town. Its a complete nightmare for employment as well. There may be 2-3 data scientist jobs in the city right now.
I think I'm suggesting that mass surveillance can also be repulsive to the people who are concerned about "going dark".
Which ignores the waste disposal externality and alternative uses of the resources used for replacement. The whole point of the slogan is to address the fact that being wasteful has costs that you don't see up front.

Besides that, the manufacturer has an intrinsic incentive to encourage people to throw away something only 1% broken to buy a 100% new replacement. Do you think Apple must glue the batteries inside the unopenable iPhone case, when other manufacturers have user-replaceable battery packs?
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The language barrier is about to fall, thanks to AI
Absolutely. You should check out this blog post from DCHQ. It seems it supports Photon as well. http://dchq.co/2/post/2015/11/deployment-automation-of-docke.... Here's the detailed documentation for setting up fully elastic Docker clusters on vSphere. http://dchq.co/docker-vsphere.html
The extent of pre-sorting needed depends completely on the local recycler company and how modern their systems are.

Where I lived recently, there were no specific guidelines about coloured glass, labels or cardboard dimensions.

In NYC, it's even simpler — only two bins: (1) glass, plastic, metal and cartons (mostly juice containers), and (2) paper and cardboard. By metal, they mean almost anything made of metal, including spray cans and filing cabinets (!).
Thanks for your help Dockerman!!!
Gerrit has an excellent REST API, and because I like working with code in a terminal, I wrote Gertty -- a terminal based interface to Gerrit. It should work with the Google hosted servers.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gertty
Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat on Licensing Process – BuzzFeed News
For those wondering why the title says this is implemented in rust, despite the page not mentioning it, it says on the homepage that Parity is implemented in rust.

https://ethcore.io/
What's Driving the Increase in Tech Professionals' Salaries?
That seems great, but the name doesn't really mean what the service does.
Idling the car in cold weather is doing more harm than good
Generally speaking, if a person is required to talk to you as their job, they probably don't desire it.[0] They're not in the right headspace and they get it plenty enough as it is. Similarly, if you have no idea who they are and they're not in a location (physically or online) which implies they're interested in receiving random attention, they're probably not going to be interested. Aside from that, testing boundaries is something most people seem to learn to do.

Personally, as a woman, I've been friends first with almost every person I've dated - I have a suspicion that that is what's missing from the current general dating culture. The idea that every person you meet, you've got to decide whether they're "dating material" or "friend material" near-instantly (generally based on the context of where/how you met them) is bizarre.

[0] They also probably don't desire discussions about politics or your pet dog or other things unrelated to the job unless they bring it up. They're rarely in a position of power here - the customer is. You're not equals in this exchange.
I have an anecdotal example of a friend living in SF complaining about high price of garbage disposal installation. To me it made sense, as anybody making living as a plumber is likely to be priced out of SF (unless they bought back in the 70s), so you're paying for guy's commute from Union City or Hayward or Fremont + garbage disposal installation + commute back.
You have to deal with that when you fail to avoid behavior that interests law enforcement no matter what.

IMO, a kill switch seems like a mild Pareto improvement to me.
> We allow the production of wasteful packaging, we accept planned obsolescence,

Regarding planned obsolescence, it seems fairly easy to legislate away - just pass a law that mandates a minimum of 5-10 years warranty for consumer goods (cars, laptops, smartphones, home applicances). This way, the manufacturers will reengineer the devices to last longer.
So, Google should blacklist most torrent sites as well, then?

See, I think Google's job (let's call it that for lack of something else as I'm typing) is indexing the web and showing me relevant links based on what I search for. And that's basically it. If I choose a wrong word and a naughty site pops up, hey, that's my bad. I don't think Google should filter that for me (unless it's an option that I can opt in). Similarly, if I search for software, i don't want Google giving me a curated list of vendors. Good, bad or otherwise.
Dr. Dre Filming Apple's First Scripted Television Series
I love Berny Sanders no-prisoners approach to politics for the people, and I love Emily display of bare feelings during her speech and in general. Enough said.
Google Shuts Down Picasa Web Albums
you could try scihub
http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
This is definitely not always the case in my experience, although that might be due to some addon (I have quite a few) hanging the main FF thread/process.

I'd love to see a 'task manager' that can show CPU usage as well as memory use by individual tabs, because occasionally I see CPU use spike (noticed by laptop fans spinning up) and am reduced to closing random tabs in the hope it'll get better.
For Pandora, they use a vector distance algorithm (with some other nudges to keep it from being repetitive, I'm sure). They break down a song on a scale of 1-5 across hundreds of "genes" and then pick songs based on how similar or "close" they are in the multidimensional space.
7 New Cool Features in C# 6.0
I'm always amused when someone rebuts their own thesis in their conclusion. Thanks for the laugh!
You can donate your CDs. Many organizations will pick donations up from your house at no charge, too, so it's barely harder than throwing them in the trash.
Off-topic, but why is attention from "fat chicks and gays" undesirable? I personally do not discriminate when someone compliments me - it does not necessarily mean they want to have sex with me and even if they do, so what?

It is nice to be appreciated (especially since happens less and less often as you age :-))
71% of homeless people in SF once had homes in the city
The article was at #2 on the front page when I went to sleep last night, i.e. far from hidden, and we didn't penalize it. (HN has a longstanding policy of penalizing stories less, not more, when they say something negative about YC or YC companies. That's the first thing PG brought up when he taught me how to moderate the site.)

That doesn't mean we turn off moderation altogether, though. Many commenters were pointing out that the article's claims about wrongdoing exceeded the evidence it presented. In such cases it's normal HN practice to replace a tendentious title with a more neutral and accurate one, preferably using representative language from the article. We do this routinely.

A good title on HN is accurate and neutral. A bad title is misleading or linkbait. In my view the article's title was linkbait (making a juicy claim of wrongdoing and a reference to "The Facts" as if there is one set of Facts and they know what it is). If people feel strongly about this I'm happy to change it back, but this title replacement is so standard and the current title so much more factual that it would clearly be a breach of normal practice to do so.
Probably the most useful resource is EOPortal directory of Earth Observation satellites: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio...
Also, the Github Repo is here (took me a few clicks to find): https://github.com/ethcore/parity
Openconnect does not serve https it's http, although they are evaluating using https.
Because there are contexts where bringing that up is appropriate and contexts where it isn't?

At a party: Appropriate.
Support Channel for a Service: Not appropriate.

This sort of thing should never happen in a professional context.
San Francisco is an outlier given the extremely dense concentration of high paying jobs which drove housing into orbit

San Francisco's housing policies drove housing into orbit: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/. There are numerous other discussions of this: http://www.amazon.com/TheRent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp....

We have the technology to build lots of units (steel-frame construction, elevators): http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valle.... "We" just choose not to use them.
Chris Lattner on adding garbage collection to Swift
gRPC bindings for languages that aren't popular at Google (e.g., Ruby, Node) aren't particularly mature. Each of the different language bindings is independently maintained, so there is no guarantee of feature parity across the languages.

We do not have Quark/DC running in production yet. Most of the adoption has been in the realm of testing scenarios (it's super handy to be able to generate client stubs).
Google would probably integrate it with their existing play music offering. And I think they've backed off on pushing the Google+ logins due to the backlash.
Does anyone know about the relative trade-offs of composting and recycling? Many of the trendier environmentally-aware people I see around me seem to prefer composting, including compostable disposable cups, etc.

But it's not clear to me that composting would be better. What is the chemical composition of this compost of somewhat random materials? Is it safe? Is there waste? Is it usable as quality compost? Does it get used? How much demand is there? etc.
It's not gonna happen. You can't kill the daily convenience for the edge case of travel.
From Kon_air in the other discussion thread.

And then you discover in Questions Section; "Our analysis (not in this paper -- we've cut a lot out to keep it crisp) shows that women are harder on other women than they are on men. Men are harder on other men than they are on women." https://peerj.com/questions/2002-do-you-have-data-on-the-gen....
Try serving a warrant on a satellite.

Warrants have never had the power to do the impractical, much less the impossible.
Fake SUPEE-5344 Patch Steals Payment Details
What's sad/funny to me is that people are making a bigger deal about this because Harvard study.

Encryption is like a knife. It's not good or bad. It just is. I find that using that analogy helps a lot especially when talking to lay people. Banning one/one kind of knife means a bad actor is just going to use something else. Ergo, it isn't a fix.
> One complaint I've heard from a number of women about tech environments directly relates to this; a social butterfly who organizes parties and hackathons has lower status than the fat neckbeard who fixed all the performance problems.

Interesting perspective. On reflection, since I'd find any pressure to attend stuff like parties or hackathons and such kind of annoying, even if attendance isn't strictly required and especially if they're outside normal work hours and/or project schedules aren't adjusted to account for them, it likely would lower my opinion of someone if they kept advocating for or organizing that kind of thing. Even under the best circumstances I doubt it'd raise my opinion of them.
Twitter needs to be Twitter. It's not for everyone and that's perfectly OK. The people criticizing it seem to care more about market cap.
Cassandra + Neo4j: Transferring Data from a Column Store to a Property Graph
Why not consume less?
what site(s) should I be using to look for jobs in Montreal in software? My background is in mechatronics but a ton of the embedded engineering jobs I've seen require some French language skills.
Apart from that it isn't. As Figure 5 shows. But ok..
Or I am always a fan of putting a checkbox in the project's Settings page "show 'download source code' link" and a text box underneath it with "source code download label", enabling the project to use language they are happy with

That said, I am also cognizant that "checkbox overload" is a real thing, so merely "for your consideration"
I loved Pee Wee as a kid. I always thought it was so stupid that the media made such a big deal out of his arrest. So what of he rubbed one out in a theater. Not a great move, granted, but our society is so incredibly sexualy repressed. It's sad that a character on screen can murder with impunity but God forbid someone masterbates. Things have changed a lot since the days of Pee Week's Playhouse though.
What's wrong with separation of concerns, extendability, optimal speed, etc.?

More often than not, I observed doing it right the first time is actually a huge time saver compared to hacking some stupid prototype nobody can understand later.
That's akin to saying if I tore up the road leading to your house, your house is still accessible. You're not wrong, but you can't deny the power that Google has when it comes to access to websites. Furthermore, if Google started delisting some websites, you probably wouldn't even notice, which makes this all the scarier. There's a solution to be found that doesn't involve Google acting as some kind of pseudo-internet police.
Clarification: Code School is owned by Pluralsight. O'Reilly sponsored this course, making it free for anyone to take.
Interesting that you say "screw up", which implies error rather than malice. Maybe that's an important part of it that we look at intent of individuals and then label them "bad", whereas the intent of a business decision is harder to label?
Indeed. I love Montreal but the health care system in Quebec is absolutely ridiculous. It's not unusual to wait 12-15 hours at the ER. In Vancouver, without an appointment, you have to wait about 10 minutes to see a competent doctor.
Most Github users don't read HN.
This is known as a Pigovian environmental tax. It isn't done for the same reason we continue to subsidize the living daylights out of industries like industrial corn farming - while it's likely a good idea in the long run, in the short run it's a fast way of not getting elected for another term.

It's also a really hard thing to do fairly. How do you determine "costs" of specific environmental ills? How much is a pound of waste cardboard worth in tax dollars? What about something entirely non-recyclable, like a designer thermoset plastic?

(I'd love to see it happen though - I just doubt that the political will exists to see it through)
People get into this really nasty habit of thinking law exists in a vacuum free from the existence of human nature. This is sounding a lot like a gun control argument.

Instead, think of this from a goal based perspective. Your goal is to reduce stuff getting thrown in the trash.

Therefore, you want to encourage recycling.

Making recycling expensive harms your goal. You want to encourage people to recycle, not discourage. Don't do it, then.

Trying to force people to recycle doesn't work. It's economically infeasible to track down who threw that oil can in the curbside bin. Negative reinforcement being off the table, use positive reinforcement.
Unable to compile algo!
You would have a point if Twitter was a non profit, but it's a publically traded company and, thus, has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to make money.
lhmiranda put together a Windows wallpaper system tray version: https://github.com/lhmiranda/live-earth-wallpaper
No, tape recorders are not part of the normal operation of phone networks.

The point is that even if a user intends to have an ephemeral conversation over an internet service all kind of middle-boxes may keep more persistent copies.

Something that normally does not happen with either face to face or telephone conversations.

With unencrypted digital communication on the other hand past conversations can be dredged up from all kinds of places.

End-to-end encryption basically abstracts ephemeral communication over channels with some sort of persistence.
I'm pretty sure the concept of petty or mechanical offenses for which you aren't entitled to a jury predates the Constitution, so I'm not sure I see the erosion.
Traditionalists Rebuffed as Parliament Turns the Page on Parchment
Cloud Computing Weekly Digest with Joe Kinsella: February 12
Can you file a bug report? It can't be fixed if Mozilla doesn't know about it.
Don't get me wrong. I am Pee-Wee Herman's biggest fan. But why is this on hacker news?
It's easy to complain about zoning, tax policies, NIMBY-ism, lack of investment in public transit, etc. etc. But the reality is that you could turn all sorts of dials to increase the supply of available housing over the course of years and decades and you'd still have a situation where not everyone could live in an affordable condo/apartment in whatever $TRENDY_CITY.

I suspect that the current concentration of certain sectors of the tech industry in the Bay area is just unsustainable. There's an upper limit to how much companies can afford to pay for employees relative to other areas, how much employees can afford to pay for housing, and how long commutes they'll tolerate.
It's not immediately obvious, but the tag and commit links to the left of the release (under the green "latest release" label) actually do that.

The tag link points to the tree (in Github's file browser UI) for the release, and the commit ID link points to the specific commit for that tag (in Github's diff UI).

Trouble is, this isn't very discoverable, given that those two links aren't styled as links-- they're the same font and color as is used for the subheading with date and commits since, which aren't clickable elements.
Cool. I've wanted to try GitCop (which seems to do something similar) for a while, but didn't get around to it yet.

> Magically enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines.

Looks pretty non-magical and quite straightforward to me. I even get to set explicit rules. Why the 'magic' branding?
Not trying to be a capital A but https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop/blob/maste...
The article's gist is that Vancouver lacks the "otherwise desirable economic climate" that makes the SFBA, Manhattan and London housing markets at least tolerable. Rather than being a side-effect of explosive economic growth as in SF, the housing prices are totally out-of-step with the local economy.
How is this pricing model sustainable?

https://get.digits.com/pricing
Part of the problem is that e10s Firefox by default still uses just one UI process and one "content" process, shared by all tabs. So a web page can't cause the UI to hang, but it can cause all other web pages to hang.

Curious testers can go to about:config and set "dom.ipc.processCount" higher than 1 to increase the number of content processes. I suggest trying this only in Firefox Developer Edition or Nightly, and not in your main browsing profile, since there are still some serious bugs and active development related to this configuration (so consider it a chance to test future improvements, rather than something that’s ready for regular use):

http://bugzil.la/e10s-multi
Tools and Processes for fixing a Website
> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

AFAICT, there's nothing to try yet.
I'm pretty sure you're misinterpreting that.
Sublime text 3 isn't even out of beta. Here's the response I once got asking a question about the Sublime Text 4 upgrade fee.

"
Thanks for your email.

The license you buy now is a version 3 license, even though the production version of 3 has not yet been launched. This license will work on version 2, 3 whilst in beta as well as on the production version of 3.

Major version releases will come with an upgrade fee; we expect major versions to be released every 18-24 months, so you are not looking at upgrading for at least two years.

We haven't built our pricing structure for upgrades from 3 to 4 as yet, but please use the policy we have to upgrade from 2 to 3 as a guide:

Upgrades from Sublime Text 2 to Sublime Text 3 will become available when version 3.0 is released later this year. Until such time, upgrading is not required, as Sublime Text 3 will accept Sublime Text 2 license keys during the beta period.
For customers who purchased in the 90 days prior to the announcement of Sublime Text 3, we are reducing the cost of upgrading from $15 down to $11. Customers who purchased Sublime Text 2 before this time period are still subject to a $30 upgrade fee when 3.0 is released.

"
I guess I got confused about the details of all the superfluous legislation that our Congress is passing under the pressure from lobbyists...

Before the internet, we had concerns about privacy. Records were locked away. But a physician could get records at the hospital to care for the patients (who, by the way, stayed in the hospital until they were well - none of this 'profit seeking' length of stay limit).

Release of records to the OUTSIDE required a letter from the patient or a court of law. Now that electronic medical records have supplanted the old system, we are all worried about privacy because the new tech. Can you honestly say that electronic medical records have turned out to be a good thing for patients?

I offer patients a USB stick with all their data for $10. And they would not have to type a thing- I already do all of the data entry as part of my encounter with them. 9 out of ten patients choose not to buy it. ( A telling fact is that if I offer it for free, they say they would take it) A simple usb stick with all your files and meds would save so much hassle. Security? Zip up the data with a password, use true crypt, there are so many options for protection. But the main advantage is that the data will only be on the stick and not on the net. So who REALLY benefits by having info about YOUR body on the cloud?

You'd think people would keep a record on their smartphones-there are so many apps for this. But instead, when I visit patients in the hospital, they are playing temple run or candy crush.

Privacy is not really the issue. It is a straw man for hiding other agendas
That's true, but the state does have the power to outlaw commercial devices that provide default-unbreakable encryption. People who really want encryption will get it anyways, but it's the default state that animates the "going dark" concern.

What's important to public policy is what Apple and Google, and whatever their analogues in 2030 might be choose to do, and how they're regulated.
There's still going to be emissions though, right? What are the emissions? Just steam and CO2?
Why I use ggplot2
Why wouldn't the government just get a warrant to have you decrypt whatever communication they'd like to see (if you're being investigated) and if you don't you are held in contempt of court?

Of course if all communication is encrypted it would be harder for a government to get a warrant but I think that's probably more in line with the 4th amendment.
The sad thing is, one of Twitter's core values is to reach every person on the planet.
This reminds me of a similar problem observed in a distributed file system. Eventually it was tracked down to a single bad network card. Why do you think it was a kernel issue? Hardware has "bugs" too.
Expanding on this, typing '?' will bring up the help, like gmail.