skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya, I saw the Ben/Sam exchange when it happened. And I have to say, as huge of an admirer of Ben as I am, I think he gets it a bit wrong here. As you said above, startups are staying private longer. Much longer. This creates some really bad situations that you really can't address merely by being upfront with people. I don't think Ben really acknowledges this fact.

I think structural changes are necessary.
What happens next -- US DOJ appeals?
Non-tech people read this site too. What % of the general population knows what sudo is? My auto-correct changes 'sudo' to 'Audi'. The real problem is that the xkcd reference doesn't explain what sudo means.
`sudo rm -rf /privacy`
For those unfamiliar, you can think of Prop. 13 as an effective cartel to discourage people from selling their property.

Basically, it subsidizes keeping property and never selling it. This is because every year the owner's property taxes essentially go down, presuming any normal level of inflation. And because of follow-on propositions, you can transfer that advantage from parents to children. Yes, this does let existing residents stay somewhere indefinitely. Equivalently, we can say it strongly discourages mobility.

The crazy real estate prices you see are simply a result of the proposition-established cartel. This drives up prices for new arrivals, which California depends on to keep this going, which makes the people holding on to their property think two things: "I'm rich because my home is worth so much" and "I could never get by without Prop. 13 because my home is worth so much." This has made Prop. 13 untouchable — it would basically have to be overturned at the state Supreme Court level at the behest of broad popular opinion.

However, this is just another bubble. California as a state has done relatively quite well in the last thirty years, so it continues to inflate. However, California and local governments have also spent a huge amount of future revenue on state workers, so it has become harder to sustain. But for the huge amount of income tax receipts from the investment class of California, things would already be in rough shape.

Someday, the bubble will burst. If Prop. 13 was ruled unconstitutional tomorrow, it would cause a real estate crisis, followed by an economic crisis, that is hard to imagine. But that might be preferable to having Prop. 13 crumble in the middle of a statewide economic crisis, which is the most likely ending of this story. In the meantime, yes, it does keep grandma in her tidily-appreciating house instead of some filthy tech hipsters chasing the next gold rush.
Googling?

There's a native search box at the bottom of most HN pages. Pick best keyword, click Search, click sort type "click Popularity to change to Date sort", and you're there.

URL matching is hopeless now, as clickbait sites are all appending bogus fragment identifiers (or using other tricks) now to defeat dupe checking.
But it still wouldn't make a cloud, it would just scatter dust, and each particle of dust would fall back to the moon in a ballistic trajectory (it would not last long at all).
I like the ideas here, but for long-running processes like file watching, dev servers, hot reloading, etc. a better format is Procfile (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile). The ideas from this article could be nicely applied to it.

Procfil is a format that declares a named list of processes to be run that can be controlled by tools like Foreman (http://ddollar.github.io/foreman/) and Honcho (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/honcho). The advantage is being able to start and stop them concurrently as a group, useful for things that otherwise take a tmux session or multiple windows/tabs, like dev server + file watching + live reload: they become a simple `foreman start`. Processes can also be started individually. Procfiles can also be exported to other formats, like systemd, upstart, inittab, etc.

Here's an example Procfile from a web project I've been working on. Since it uses node I went with node tools like http-server and watch, but it could just as easily use any other web server or file watcher. The way it works is it starts a web server serving public/; starts a live reload server for public/; and watches the src/ directory for changes and re-runs make. The makefile has a few rules for compiling JS and CSS from src/ to public/.

web: ./node_modules/.bin/http-server
livereload: ./node_modules/.bin/livereload public
watch: ./node_modules/.bin/watch make src
It's been done:
http://www.shutdownify.com/
"Are there any added protections here against high turnover in infancy-stage startups?"

No, and there shouldn't be. Any company that has high turnover usually deserves it.
As a proud deletionist (philosophically, not actively), I feel I need to respond to a bunch of the comments here.

This claim that any fact, no matter how obscure and how specific, should be on Wikipedia is maddening. Have you heard of the Library of Babel? If you index everything, eventually you will have no knowledge at all, just madness.

And as for the claims that subsections or whatever will solve this problem, in practice the way they do this is through other wikis. I don't see any reason why the list of Ivysaur's attacks should be on Wikipedia. Just because it's knowledge doesn't make it useful.

And in response to the question "what's the harm?", there's always a cost to having data. If Wikipedia editors have to manage the Pokemon community, have to prevent links to obscure Pokemon concepts from polluting the Abraham Lincoln article, that's time they can't do something else.
How DMCA is being used to censor #OhMyFish in GitHub
You can't get evicted.
"It's not about what one "deserves", it's about protecting infant startups from high turnover."

Why should any of us care about that? High turnover is a very good signal that the company is a bad one. If the company dies because of it, it was probably for a good reason.
All of those were stated on the indiegogo page: 1366*768 (possible improvement if they hit $1M), 10000mAh, and 1.46kg.
This is kind of gross.

Pretty sure this is why we need shadow dom.
>>Couldn't agree more. Acreage is unbelievable therapeutic compared with the city.

If you're an introvert, sure. I love the countryside myself. But extroverts get their energy from being around other people, and dense cities such as NYC are great places for that.
I just installed new switches (and receptacles) throughout my house. It wasn't difficult. The system is pretty simple, and it's marvelously stable---my house was constructed in the '70s, yet all of the new components fit into the same boxes as the worn out ones they replace. This is great!

Not to mention that the whole project has cost just a few hundred dollars, and the results will last decades. Why would I ever want my house to jump on the high tech upgrade treadmill?*

*Call me back when you can sell me robotic chicken legs for my house. That would be awesome.
Fair enough, low latency, high interactivity applications aren't well suited, but those will always benefit from being as "bare metal" as possible.
This dad used remote power monitoring to bust his daughter throwing a party at home while she was supposed to be staying with family: http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=2381
> The biggest problem is if you're selling b2b to tech companies at all, you can literally bump into your customers here.

Why is that a problem? Is the lack of separation a bad thing?
Reader's Digest Version - Rotten teeth weren't really much of a problem until we started living from agriculture in earnest. By then we had already mastered stone arrow tips, which scrape away decay as well from your teeth as from other bones. So some smaller stone tips are likely tooth scrapers or microflint drills.
Can you give an example of a problem which the preprocessor solves better than modern C++?
I wrote something really cool and the application failed to register my typing after about three minutes. Lost my work.
As much as I love GITS, I feel like so much of Minority Report is prescient to much of what we are seeing now or starting to see, from pre-crime to the personalized advertising. And that is scary.
RFC 7725 – An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
I've been using a similar self-documenting technique myself for a while now, too. Although, my version preserved the traditional part where just calling `make` starts building the program and also supported short one line descriptions and longer ones.

Slightly OT: I like how Rake handles this, which is what gave me the idea in the first place
Exponential capacity of associative memories under quantum annealing recall
It is great! I love that it is small, and love the hints feature.
You could have had the SysAdmins on board if you just added a way to connect the touchpad and keyboard via USB and maybe VGA in.

Cheap and portable crash cart? I'd buy it.
Regarding the specific case of working in SV while living in SV vs. commuting from SF:

I've lived in SV for about 9 years now. I know a lot of people who live up in SF and commute to SV. I don't know how accurate this is, but my observation is that SF housing prices are >= SV. The people that live in SF and commute to SV universally do it because they would prefer to live in SF for one reason or another, rather than for financial reasons.

When comparing what $x of housing will get you in SF vs. SV, the SF equivalent for the same price will have very different characteristics. The SV housing will likely be much newer and less unique than the SF housing, but it will also likely be in better condition than the SF housing.

Another huge aspect is the length of that commute. It's 60-90 minutes each way, every day. Some people are much more OK with that than others- I personally couldn't do it. The big SV companies have generally nice buses with bathrooms and wifi, where you might be able to get work done and might even be comfortable, but even so that means 3 hours/day on a bus. A nice bus, but still- 3 hours/day on a bus is 3 hours/day on a bus.

Now, some people will say that's great, because they use SF public transport and take the company bus to work and now they don't have to spend money on a car. In theory that sounds great, but what if you want a car? You're living in northern California, which I think is one of the most beautiful, varied, and interesting places in the world. Not owning a car means not being able to take off on a whim and go drive down Big Sur, or out to the desert, or Tahoe, or wherever. In theory a non-car-owner could rent a car when they want one and enjoy that lifestyle, but in practice most people end up sticking to destinations they can get to via public transit. That might not be a tradeoff everyone wants to make.

Ah, one might say, but you can have it both ways! You can own a car and live in SF, and still enjoy the commuter buses. Well, get ready to spend several hundred dollars a month on a place to store your car that you only use for weekend jaunts, road trips, and whatever needs pop up. Now the housing that was $x in SV that included car storage will cost you $(x + y) in SF, where $y is the cost of a parking space.

All of which is a long-winded way of saying that SF and SV cost about the same but it's very hard to do an apples-to-apples comparison of what $x will get you in either place. The choice comes down to how an individual assigns weights to the pros and cons of each locale.
I think "roll" is the right term. You "fail" the roll of the die, you get infected.
> Kamau Bobb, the program director in computer-science education at NSF and Brown’s colleague, notes that the dominant argument in support of youth of color learning to code is to “get a good job”—creating a stratified system where students from racial and ethnic groups, and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, are prepped for work as service technicians and helpdesk agents

How does learning to code prep one for work as a service technician or helpdesk agent?
Well, I wasn't describing anything, just thinking a little bit about a post I really didn't care for at first. I've never thought about the impact of travel on culture much, so I found it interesting.
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Could the government subpoena Apple's signing keys and use that to build, sign and install their own iOS modification?
> The largest non-primary residence sector is the residential property for rent. Considering that any tax increase very quickly finds its way into a rent increase, what's the rationale for punishing renters?

So, treat primary residences as primary residences, whether or not they are the primary residence of the property owner. For multi-unit rental properties, the total value of the property is divided among units proportionately to the rent charged for each unit to assess this.
This Is Pretty Freaking Nuts:Vancouver Home Sells for $735000 Above Asking Price
These seem a lot like JWT (JSON web token)?

JWT is mentioned in passing near the end of the article, but it would be great to see a description of what makes macaroons different or better.
Its pretty funny. And the movie is solid too.
> A preprocessor "trick" not mentioned in the article is the use of GNU statement expressions.

That's probably because IAR sells compilers (and IDEs) for embedded software. IAR and Keil are the popular compilers in the "bare bones microcontroller C/Assembly" world.
Belgium's Red Electrical Devils Win $1M for Innovative Inverter Design
Generally, current litigation doesn't reference other current litigation (mostly because current litigation has not established enough of a "fact" to be referenced), but you can read this statement and see that Orenstein allowed Apple to submit a brief while this case seemed to be going stale in-between the guilty plea of the defendant and his sentencing, precisely because it was being held up in 9 other cases of the "government" (whether that be the FBI in the San Bernardino case, or the DEA in this case, to the plain Chicago PD in another) leveraging the AWA to compel Apple to open this and other phones by some means.

I'm also not a lawyer, but I can see how this helps Apple in fighting the AWA used to compel them to unlock or decrypt phones seized as evidence in part of some crime where Apple was not alleged as a perpetrator or coconspirator of the crime.
Apple prevails in forced iPhone unlock case  in NY
Hey I'm curious about how your team evaluates technical writing talent, what does the process for hiring look like?
Heh, I think my wife and I accidentally stumbled on your swing dancing group. Is it the one that meets in that second floor bar with windows facing west just south of Sukhumvit from the British embassy? Looked like fun but people taking it oh so serious! Lots of expats. We were simply relaxing and amused at the difference with China, but I've since seen a similar event in Chengdu and we've since met an Aussie tango teacher who has just started up here in Kunming. From what I understand, swing is super popular with US west-coasters. Seems a bit of a thing in this area right now. Of course it's probably a faded fad by now in the more US-connected Korea/Hong Kong/Taiwan zone...

Guess I am the exception that proves the rule. 33 here, moved at least 10 times in the last 15 years, including 3 major international jumps, but still have a big circle of friends across the region in multiple cities. We are definitely more aware of parents now that we have a child but overall most friends are still without. Certainly couples are more approachable now than singles, though.
Why does the fact that it's taken so long show how insane a kludge Windows is, rather than indicating that there is simply a lot of work to recreate?
I wonder if it presents itself over USB as a USB hub with all of those things plugged into it. It seems that you would get maximum compatibility that way.
Sad state of affairs. Blockstream/Core has crippled Bitcoin in order to conveniently provide a solution which takes transactions off the Blockchain. This of course will be quite profitable for Blockstream which, coincidentally, has most of Bitcoin's core developers on the payroll. Bitcoin has been usurped.
Yes! I love SAC! The soundtrack is sooooo gooood!

Don't forget about the prequel/reboot Ghost in the Shell: Arise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise)
> If 2004 Honda Civics suddenly got really popular and I already owned one, I wouldn't suddenly be priced out.

In California, since the state has ad valorem taxation on vehicles (the vehicle license fee, which is 1.15% of the market value of the vehicle) which does not have prop. 13 style limits, you, in fact, could be priced out of your 2004 Honda Civic if the market price suddenly and radically increased.
Not all data is detector data. This is usually what we'd call Level 0 or Level 1 data. The lower levels aren't usually that interesting for analysis, because they might not be properly calibrated or even reconstructed, depending on the detector.

Reconstruction takes an immense amount of CPU time so it's not practical to do on the fly, so you have to store reconstructed data, and that takes up space. Then you might store (re)calibrated data and have several generations of that. Then you reprocess all of your data as a new pass, then you have several passes of data, constructed with different calibrations and algorithms.

Not mentioned is simulation (monte carlo) datasets. Their size is usually within an order of magnitude of your actual data size. For some experiments, the amount of simulation data may eclipse the amount of actual data they have.

I can't comment on the size and composition of ATLAS/CMS data, but my guess is the rate at which data is generated for the experiments, using a broader definition, is easily within an order of magnitude to that of Youtube.
Thank you for this. I was curious, but didn't want to see any images of rotting or drilled teeth. Did they also mention lifespan issues? I expect rotting teeth is less of an issue if you don't live past 50.
Could a diet tailored to your DNA save your life?
I want to thank you for making me aware of this. I had never thought of the ability to track me merely by energy usage. That one's "silent" enough to not even have crossed my mind and shy of wasting energy (and money) I don't see a way to "beat the system" here outside of getting off the grid.
Brilliant Life of Brian reference in the explanation example:

> This request may not be serviced in the Roman Province of Judea due to the Lex Julia Majestatis, which disallows access to resources hosted on servers deemed to be operated by the People's Front of Judea.

Are there well known websites making use of this status code already? I know reddit uses it for content blocked in some countries (Germany & Russia) [0][1]

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChillingEffects/comments/3gw9g1/201...

1: https://i.imgur.com/r3GVPfu.png

Edit: As someone points out in the Reddit thread, 451 is not a coincidence [2]

> The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperature of paper.

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
Is your primary goal here to extract more revenue from timeshare owners and people who own a pied-à-terre? Don't those constitute negligible portion of California real estate market (as opposed to some places like Hawaii, where absentee ownership is significant and property taxes on timeshare / second home owners are very high)?

While it's probably not a bad idea, I don't see it moving the needle much.
Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.

To summarize:

1. Make a blog post how to tweak's GitLab CSS

2. Consider using another font

3. Allow people to showcase their work

4. Move the search icon back to the left

One thing we can't do is customizing the interface of GitLab (except for the colors) since this causes things to break without a lot of testing.

1. Good idea https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/153

2. I've shared this suggestion with our team, if you care deeply about it consider opening an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

3. As a showcase we ask people to open a merge request on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests with before/after screenshots

4. I've made https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13919

Thanks again for the feedback and keep it coming.
Yeah, PDF's are generally horrible on small screen e-readers. On a larger color tablet like an iPad, they look pretty good.
> My view is that property taxes fund the very things that make a particular neighborhood desirable, like good schools, roads, parks, and other local services.

In California, that's less true than it might otherwise be, given the prop 13 limits on both assessments and tax rates. Lots of those things are funded by sales tax revenue, income tax revenue (primarily state income tax funding local programs), development fees, and other revenue sources other than property tax.
0 to Microservice in 5 minutes with Go, go-microservice-template and Minke
We employ a "technical" writer of a different sense. The answer is yes.

To get started, find industry blogs or websites with an aggressive content strategy that are willing to pay. Build up that resume and keep moving up and making contacts within your field.

All the better if you can snazz up the content with good-looking HTML/CSS and images so that the editor has less work to do.
I saw a good talk by someone who worked on the TV series. He mentioned that the writers were big fans of American cop dramas. They wanted to make a cop drama where the cops happen to be cyborgs. Not a sci-fi that happened to feature cops.

Anyway, much agreed. I think GitS:SAC is a much better predictive commentary than Black Mirror (of which I am also a fan). IHMO, it predicted Anonymous much better than I think most techies understand Anonymous today.
Very nice, and one for the "good guys". Lets hope we can continue in this vein.
I don't have a CS degree, let alone a bachelor's degree (I have a couple of associates unrelated to my career). I'm principally self-taught, and while I occasionally see gaps in my knowledge, I perform at a very high level: I've been a tech editor on major publisher titles, run a user group, spoken at conferences, and my current role is essentially CTO. I presume my technical education is similar to someone learning just the job.

Counterpoints: I always excelled at math, and while I did grow up very poor, I am a white male.
Check the Ars article. The images.shodan.io feed (available to paid accounts) allows you to get the actual feed data.
Biology has been used for NP-hard before. Travelling Salesman was run in a petri dish maybe 20 years ago IIRC. Answer was encoded in RNA fragment concentrations.IIRC again) the base sequence was the solution.
Even after stage A funding, it can be a significant chunk of money.
I would rather NASA focus on the SSTO aspects of this instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_%28spacecraft%29
Using Apache Spark to predict attack vectors among trillions of events
Try CParser: https://github.com/MatzeB/cparser
Hm, why wasn't this possible before though? seems like something every ad company would have built already, given the presence of ad-blockers, etc.
> Is your primary goal here to extract more revenue from timeshare owners and people who own a pied-à-terre?

I'm discussing ways to achieve the goal upthread of insulating people from property tax uncertainty on their primary residence.

I would expect that the larger purpose of that is to allow full-value taxation on all other real property; of which non-primary-residence residential property is a subset (and a fairly small subset, at that.)

Remember that Prop 13 applies to all real property, not just residential property.
Beep boop.

Its still assets at the end of the day, no? Just because they don't sell it or they put a lot of money into it doesn't mean they can't. A renter doesn't have that option. I'm not making claims about its efficiency as an investment vehicle, I'm simply pointing out that in the example that I replied to you they'll end up with an asset worth more than the $40,000 they saved by not buying.