skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"so we all hopped a ride down to Rio where we spent the rest of the day at the beach"

I'm not sure I would like that hypothetical world, because that beach would be crowded beyond what one can imagine, or, alternatively, controls would be implemented to manage crowding. For example, if people now are willing to spend $500 to travel to Rio, and the price drops to $5, one could easily require non-locals to buy beach permits for $100 a day or $250 a week. The best beaches could even go higher and aim for the jet set as, for example, Monaco already does to some extent, and China and Nepal do for Mount Everest.

So far, things seem sort-of OK, but of course, people would flock to other places as well. Millions would want to visit the poles for a few hours, see total solar eclipses at the most remote places, and the trek of the wildebeest would be dwarfed by the trek of the tourists. We would need lots of new rules to protect natural habitats that now partly are protected because that are so remote.
Hey, Your Startup Is “Unsexy as Fuck”
Actually, pretty good, though I'd recommend letting body font being solid black or perhaps #330 (and no lighter).

I can't view elements from mobile, but the results look good. Layout is comfortable, good margins, well-differentiated bits, and all without being distracting.

I've got a general set of tips most of which you can likely ignore. Check that you're using em/rem rather than px or pt for font sizes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/29eqrk/web_des...
The funny thing is that there are not that many Windows APIs that don't have a length parameter for paths (mostly Shell I think).
Ask HN: What is mankind's greatest engineering achievement?
Frankly it boggles my mind to think of the crazy things humans have been able to accomplish -- all while realizing just how primitive we really are. That said, what do you think is mankind's greatest engineering achievement?

I think my vote would go to the LHC, but the ISS, Saturn V, Mars Rover, 10nm process technology are all good candidates.
Relax everyone—WebRTC is in on WebKit's to-do list: https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webrtc.
You don't need to build on any green areas to double the housing capacity of SF.

Compared to actual dense cities in the world, SF is nearly empty.
Sure, but we have this nifty thing called Occam's Razor to immediately prune far fetched explanations, like someone secretly being a space lizard from Nibiru.
The difference in cost will more than pay for a rental car a couple times a year. You sound like an SUV owner who pays for more vehicle than they need 99% of the time, because they might need to drive on a dirt track some time.
Be careful doing that. A smart thermostat isn't exactly trivial, and doing it wrong can be bad.
It's an art installation at Burning Man, not a livelihood?
So, just do the computation twice and compare the results?

OK, so there's twice the power to pay for but it seems like at $129k acquisition cost per 3.2KW consumption you could run for tens of years before break-even.
Gaseous literatwaddle.

Serious historians can tell you all about King Phillip's War. There's no need to try and parse Cotton Mather for insights about the modern US; that makes as much sense as reading Seneca to find out who Matteo Renzi will appoint to which position next.

It might be helpful to the reader had Simon noted that Philip had a brother, Wamsutta...who was given the name Alexander by the English. For all that hot air, Simon doesn't mention what parallel one might draw from the death of King Phillip, who was shot by another Wampanoag in the pay of Ben Church.
The only example I'm aware of, regarding your claim about the FBI operating a site for months, was not in fact the FBI continuing to operate a CP site. In that instance, they kept allowing attempts at signing up to access CP, they did not keep allowing access to the content; the FBI clarified that point when the story came out.
Why would I use this instead of Capstone [1]?

[1] - http://www.capstone-engine.org/
Still don't see how this has to do with gender. The FMLA guarantees at least 12 weeks of unpaid paternity leave. Sure it is unpaid, but some companies offer paid leave. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix are all examples of places that offer paid paternity leaves of longer than two weeks. Netflix offers a year of paid leave to both moms and dads. Sure some leave policies give more leave to mothers than fathers, but some groups are arguing fathers should get just as much.

You may not have had an option to take a year of paid leave. But technically anyone can take a self-funded sabbitical. Just most people probably wouldn't be able to come back to their old job.

But it's not like Jessica is really taking a risk here. She's the cofounder of an extremely successful startup incubator. I"m sure YC wants her back. And she probably has enough money to retire and do whatever she wants. Plus, I'm assuming she has the skills to get another great work opportunity if she doesn't want to go back to YC in a year.

I do think that a lot of companies are much more accommodating for mothers than fathers. But I just think that Jessica is in a position where she can basically do whatever she wants no matter what any company is willing to work with. So I don't think gender has anything to do with it. Anyone would have the same opportunities in her position. For instance, Bob O'Rear retired early from Microsoft to start a cattle ranch in Texas.
I've tried to locate the details of his crimes, but can't seem to. There is just some minor things listed from years ago being mentioned.

Do you know what exactly he has he done (to have to resign in shame)?

It's just odd that there are no details within the articles, nor from the people that are trying to get him to resign.
Timing, maybe?
Ah yes, I have yet to venture into the magical realm of cross compiling!
I do in fact think that if the FBI knew that certain people were using FedEx to reliably traffic in illegal substances inside sealed boxes, they would put pressure on FedEx to make it stop somehow, and raid them if they flatly refused. This might involve having them open the packages, but it more likely involves them identifying the people who these boxes come from and go to, and having them drop them as customers. And I am pretty confident that this does happen, because the profession of drug smuggling continues to exist, and druglords aren't just outsourcing their logistics to FedEx and UPS. I certainly agree that some fraction of their packages are illegal, but it's not straightforward to use the service this way.

Unlike UPS and FedEx, Tor makes this straightforward, and also tries to avoid knowing the identities of people who are sending things via their service. So the police don't have that option.

(Note that the above is simply a description of what Tor is currently doing, as I understand it, and not an attempt to make a moral judgment one way or the other as to what Tor should be doing.)
I actually had a Nest in my Amazon shopping cart about a week ago and just hadn't pulled the trigger...This decision was the end of that idea.

I have (embarrassingly) come to accept that everything I own will eventually be always connected to the internet, streaming back data to sell me more crap. However, I reject the notion that a hardware device should ever require an internet connection to work. Frankly, that is and will remain a bridge to far.

Working with engineering students has taught me that often the most meaningful experience that students have is so called 'service projects' where they work for people who have had vastly less privledge life experiences than themselves. The entrepreneur, techno-weanie, early adopter loves SV and startups. The side of my brain as an educator and a member of a larger society is becoming increasingly concerned about the same people who seem to increasingly live in an echo chamber. My research and teaching focuses on entrepreneurship. A few peers and I have coined the term entrepreneursplaining for the tone deaf actions and responses in situations like this.
Yeah, I agree. As a man I see great maternal leave policies as something I want for myself, not as sexism.
There is no UI that allows you to specify that you want the merge commit to be signed.

And if you configure git to sign all commits, you get this error:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/sourcetree-com...
As far as I was aware, plane development has pretty much plateaued as engineers have eked ever diminishing returns from materials and aerospace engineering. Commercial airliners today don't look much different than planes manufactured in the 70s. Supersonic airliners are the next logical step, but they aren't anywhere near the author's dreams laid out at the beginning.
Work Club: You want to work here
It's important not to disguise any anti-piracy measures as bugs, because pirates (or even reviewers playing pirated copies) will loudly proclaim that the game is buggy, and discourage legitimate buyers.

I'm wondering why there isn't a service that lets you search for people encountering your crack-penalty. A really sneaky company would disguise itself as a hacker group, then offer a copy of the game that doesn't have that "bug." (But has another one.)
It isn't clear that they wouldn't get that same performance by caching the blobs locally. In my experience, you would, with much higher reliability and scalability.
My understanding is that we were talking about removing the idea of a business as seperate legal entity, not stopping capitalism in general and preventing people from exchanging money for goods or services.

As such, the only 'business' licence of interest is one which would prevent an individual, real, breathing human being from selling goods, or providing services to the general public.

The requirement that you must personally fill out a sales tax form is not that. This is really just on par with the law that says 'if you make an income, you must fill out your income tax forms'. The only penalty for ignoring it is paying additional administrative costs (and perhaps a small punitive fine) because you made everything harder for everyone.

Edit: And importantly, no one can stop you from filling the form so it can't be called a barrier to entry.
So have a web search that finds people talking about the fake bug, then take appropriate action.
Are you sure your numbers are right? What kind of dishwasher do you have? And what kind of oven? For the US, at least, most dishwashers are well under 1600W, and few ovens exceed under 3200W.

https://www.daftlogic.com/information-appliance-power-consum...
Odds on Romney?
For example, when you embed a disassembler in automated tooling…
Why would you get down-voted for pointing out that this is a dupe. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get it.
Forget that, the HVAC unit for my home is rated at 24.6kW.
To offer some points in favor of taxis:

1) taxis can be more convenient for older people who are less tech-savvy and can't fully utilize smartphones (think seniors);

2) I'm not sure if you can request this on Uber, but some taxis are wheelchair accessible and they have the proper equipment for loading/unloading. You can try it with a minivan Uber but a taxi would be preferable in this case.
It might also be that for restaurants and retail the employees have been so completely priced out of living in the area that many of them have a 2+ hour commute with all the limitations that entails (quitting time determined by transit availability, etc.).
Thanks for the insights.

I've been fighting this fight for over 17 years now. The landscape has changed a lot - mostly for the better IMHO. In particular, issuers are taking more responsibility for checking the validity of the cards but some of them are hopeless and there is still a way to go.

Criticise me all you like but I still have a blacklist of countries where I will never send physical goods to (unless they direct deposit the money, for one of my sites).

Not sure if it's relevant for "subscription" model businesses but Stripe and a couple of other providers have an option to charge the card immediately or just get authorisation for the amount. The authorisation is only held for seven days, but I have found that this has often been enough for the owner of the card to notice and cancel the authorisation before the charge happens. I haven't checked but this could also solve the "instant feedback" problem for providers that give it as "authorsied" is less conclusive than "charged" for the scammer.
I don't know about Boston, but Maine is not in any sense close to nyc. I think the difference is distance. In sf, world class skiing is 3 hours away; the beach is 20 minutes in much of the city; great hiking is across the bridge in Marin or south along 1, well under an hour away. It's not a trip; enjoying the outdoors takes an afternoon. I have an acquaintance who works near the presidio and surfs over lunch. When I lived in Manhattan, you could definitely get to the outdoors, but it wasn't anything like this close.

As for jobs, I disagree. see eg:

machine learning, nyc: 1 responsive ad (plus ads for jobs in sfbay, nonresponsive android stuff) http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=machine+learn...

same search, sf: 10-15? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=machine+learnin...

indeed has similar ratios.

As for jobs in general, if you're a good js or rails engineer with a reasonable network of friends / former coworkers, starting now at 6pm Tuesday night you could have interviews on Friday, maybe even on Thursday. And start a new job next week. I believe there's a qualitative difference.
Are you okay with someone reading your biometrics? How about using that data to determine if you're eligible for medical coverage or not?

Or using your email example, what if somebody used that information against you in your next interview?

I'm sorry, but privacy is a black and white issue. We can either have a surveillance state or not have one at all. Compromising on any surveillance, carried out by humans, is frankly dangerous and naive.
> A smart thermostat isn't exactly trivial, and doing it wrong can be bad.

That's sarcasm, right? I automated my HVAC in the '90s and even then there were a ton of roadmaps to follow by people who had done it before. It was an afternoon project using something similar to these: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/245
Instaparser
A paper in which cello was used was posted to HN two days ago. The comment thread is worth reading if you find this one interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417689
As Nest demonstrated time and again.

Their thermostats had a defect at one point (not sure if it was ever actually fixed) where if your heating or cooling system caused a surge in your wiring, your nest would get stuck with both heating and cooling at full blast, or something equally silly. The Nest thermostat was certainly not designed to fail safely or sanely.
I didn't catch it in the article, but I assume they're turning them off because they have a back end service that's going to do nothing but cost them money if they continue to run it. Does anyone know if that's the case?
why the downvote? I actually meant it's cute, not the cynical 'cute'
if temperature > max(desired_range):

activate_ac()

deactivate_heat()

elif temperature < min(desired_range):

deactivate_ac()

activate_heat()

else:

deactivate_heat()

deactivate_ac()
I didn't realize "leaving all the input of credit card numbers to PayPal" was a condition here. I don't know how to do that, although it may be possible. I'm thinking of their service where you host your own form but use them to process the payment. cc data flows through your server on its way to theirs, but isn't stored on your systems.
This is cool. Fivefilters does something similar with their fulltextrss product. Despite the name, it also works for single pages, e.g.
http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=http%3A%...

I haven't compared parsing quality.
In all fairness, Tor is something of a cesspool and cloudflare is doing the best they can[1].

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
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That's not really fair (maybe you're joking and I'm just really obtuse)—she lives in a town of 5,000 people. Much larger markets than that have proven unable to support a local news industry in the past several years. It's not a better of journalists being lazy, it's a matter of there not being enough demand to support journalists in the first place. (As others have pointed out, this 9-year-old rightly lives with her parents and does not have to support herself.)
What's the probability of being shot in Oakland in a year as a white male? Esp if you don't have any associations with crime yourself.

I lived in both good, bad and transitioning neighborhoods and I feel like people over estimate how much impact this will have on life.

Fact is, shit happens everywhere. Happens more often where there is density. You can be mugged in a good part of town (well because that's where people with money are at) and bad part of town. Before I moved back to NYC, my wife would regularly get harassed in SOMA on the street walking to her job.
I "own" a Nest Protect alarm. I liked it and was planning on outfitting the rest of the house with them during renovations this summer. I will not be buying any more Nest products/services now. The risk is too high to have them in my home.
I'm really just looking for a thermostat that I can adjust from bed. Maybe add some scheduling in. I dont really want something "smart", just programmable.
> It's very expensive, and more worryingly there are lots and lots of them available on the second hand market, almost new, at greatly reduced prices.

So why not get a second hand one?
>You and parent poster are both wrong. A politician rarely ever lies. Incredibly, most career politicians sincerely believe what they say. They just change their beliefs more often than most people, even several times a day.

I'm sorry, but I truly believe that not only is this view utterly naive but apologist as well, and I simply think it tries to blot the sun with its thumb.
Politicians of some sort are in charge of whether leap seconds exist or not. afaik it is mostly a particular kind of religion (belief that human time must be in all ways bound to the heavens) that drove the political push for leap seconds. Like you I only discovered they existed when my kernels locked up..
Ask HN: Strong typed language for data analysis?
Seems that the languages used for data analysis are all interpreted:
R
Python
Matlab / Octave

Are there strong type languages used for data analysis?
Bonus points if it uses vectorization ala matlab.
Because I don't want to commute. 2 hours a day worths more than $2000/mo to me.
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Where are you getting this difference in cost? The MSRP for the Leaf ($29k) is only 13% less than the Volt ($33k).
How to Install New Languages on Windows 10 in 2016
At least in North Jersey, the persistent problem of making left turns does lead to more altruistic behavior. Many people will yield unnecessarily to drivers and bicyclists who are stuck waiting to turn. It is still aggravating when a signalized intersection lacks a left turn phase, "just because".
>...and the people here just don't give a crap about life

Yes and to finish my OP thought, I would argue that this was without a doubt the worse of it as well.
Please don't post things like this here. On HN, comments should be civil and substantive, not snarkily dismissive.

Fortunately, good examples are close at hand—you got two fine replies from fellow users. Be that way.
We bought a Dropcam, which worked great until they decided they no longer wanted our non-US credit card. Replaced with Ubiquiti UVC cameras. What a waste.
Not quite, those meddling chumps write the laws, which the bureaucrats implements.
Presumably they have that data. That's how they found these correlations.
I'm about ready to cry uncle. Maybe now tech companies will consider remote work. Everyone will be happier.
I wonder who much it would be worth to sign the output of

git ls-tree -r HEAD
Code review #1: You're going to want to add debounce logic, or you're going to be erratically turning on and off your heat and ac when the temperature is exactly equal to the ends of desired_range.
Permission needed? Hit https://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc and see ;)
While I can't say I've sat within a Tesla, I do know they began by making sports cars not luxury cars.

Personally, I've always felt sports car companies---Porsche, Ferrari, and Mazda for a low-end comparison---all have interiors that feel far less luxurious than any luxury car available for 1/3rd the price, and many family cars of 1/2 the price.

Porsche didn't have cup holders until their 2001 editions, and as an unfortunate owner of one, I can attest those are the flimsiest cupholders ever to grace the face of the earth, and the entire interior is filled with so much fiddly plastic that's just waiting to break and often does. Any Mercedes, even one from 10 years previous, would have a nicer interior.

Did that prevent me from buying another Porsche? Well, no it didn't. I like the way the cars drive, and eschew luxury features if their weight is going to do anything to the handling or performance of the car.
> In the 50+ year history of amateur mycology clubs in the U.S., there hasn't been a single recorded death from mushroom poisoning.

Are you doing some kind of special counting because even cursory googling suggests that this is not the case.
I don't personally use it for that purpose, but Scala has some traction in data science. E.g. from a quick Google search:

[1] https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/scala-as-a-platfor...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-learning-Scala-useful-to-a-data-sci...

[3] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/advanced-anal...
That's one of them, though the food after 10 is a little more iffy. Sometimes there's pizza and bread from the bakery brought over for the pub's patrons.

I'm there fairly frequently.

The Asylum serves regular bar food til about 11 I think. Still later than what I was seeing in SF.
While it's tiresome to read comments on HN like the GP's that seem to come from a "Look at me, I'm more Catholic than the Pope" mentality, the reality is that a good thermostat algorithm is a fair bit more complicated than that.

You need to take hysteresis into account, temperature overshoot/undershoot, your compressor's duty cycle and startup latency (especially as it impacts MTBF), emergency/backup furnace control, failsafes to make sure the house doesn't freeze or overheat if/when any of the above goes wrong... lots of stuff like that.

The spec for an HVAC control system isn't overwhelming but it does warrant some thought.
I wish there was a chrome plugin that kept all of the scripts and data for your gmail/gcal accounts stored and, when you actually went to that url, would intercept that request.
> There is no UI that allows you to specify that you want the merge commit to be signed.

Ah ok, I see what you mean. I don't think theres a way to have rebase re-sign things inside SourceTree either, I run in to that one constantly and have to open a terminal.
I would say windows and it's developer tools. It was the first platform that enabled engineering collaboration on such a scale that the world has never seen before - between any hardware/software/library designer - all while making the fruits of this efforts extremely accessibly to the common people.

And it succeeded in running the "mind of the world" for quite a few years.

On the same note i would add the internet, but i'm torn, i think(maybe mistakenly) that windows is a bigger engineering achievement - something much harder to pull off, and the internet on the other hand is brilliant in it's conceptual simplicity{ routers + links + packets + redundancy + intelligence at the edge} - although the implementation has definitely pushed many boundaries.
Pretty sure you just illustrated GP's point