skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a "downtownish" area of Atlanta, Midtown is really the place to look, a little over a mile north of the official Downtown. It has a lot more residents and consistent pedestrian traffic. I lived there for a few years in the 2000s and it felt very bustling to me. I almost never drove anywhere either.

Now, Downtown Atlanta is often crowded, but it's basically a giant convention center, so it depends on when there are conventions. There are approximately 10,000 hotel rooms within a few blocks of each other, so when it gets crowded it becomes very crowded .
I may have been too harsh on Google. If Google implements: "Hey, this javascript ad code is trying to redirect to another domain, let's throw up a warning." then that would be great (no matter if it hits their own ads).

Google may also share information from SafeBrowsing with other companies, so they can opt to fix their stuff.

Also that what I may view as terrible ads, Google sees as companies gradually finding the razorsharp edge of their program policies.

For obvious reasons, we do not hear (or see) anything about the successful efforts to keep scam and spam away from their networks.
Can you elaborate on Paris? It was my impression it was full of historical buildings and is expanding outwards, which isn't an option for SF.
Small CSS/JS bug: Hovering over the grid highlights the boxes and turns my cursor in a pointer, but I can't click on anything but the text.
Not that I'm aware of. Lived in NZ for 5 years and just moved into a brand new construction in CA just a few months back. Terrible. I've had to plunge(technically I use the scrubber to generate the pressure) a few times already :(

Also, the showers mostly all have baskets under the drain caps to capture hair and stuff now.
This explanation made me feel incredibly old.
Why is that what is meant? I am struggling to think of a situation where the number of characters is actually needed.

What you get from this call is the number of Unicode code points, which doesn't reflect the number of "characters" using any common definition at all.

I'm concerned that misinformed advice like this will lead to even more broken implementations of things like line breaking.
BuzzFeed buzzkill: Its stunning revenue miss goes viral
Not necessarily. Companies like Facebook and Google build offices outside of the Valley partly because it's less competitive. Google has been expanding in Boulder because they know their employees won't be poached as frequently as in SV.
Yuri Gagarin became first man in space 55 years ago
Show HN: Send an email with Obama's identity
Ok, let me try that again: I for one would love to pay higher prices so the entire staff can get paid normal wages and I can get tastier noms.
MREs are quite tasty and good for survival situations (liquid water is extremely heavy and voluminous- hard to transport).

I haven't looked specifically at the salt and preservatives inside MREs but if they have a long shelf-life without those (like frozen veggies do), then I hope the industry grows.

Side-note, I'm actually reasonably sure that McDonalds fries have their taste and texture thanks to rapid freezing and reheating over the course of multiple weeks. The starches are broken down through this process as they are transfered from farm to truck to store to table.

I wish you luck if you want to compete with those companies but at least it is better than Soylent.
> that is probably several orders of magnitude higher than nuclear

Well I'm glad we got all sciencey and shit. Fuck it, sounds legit.

> One Fukushima every 20-30 years is worth possibly avoiding global warming.

Fixed that for you.
If Everett is right then doesn't that mean that one of him also, say, choked to death on his acceptance letter?

I like the idea of immortality (no matter what happens, I'll always wake up OK in some branch, and that is me), but I'm not sure it actually helps otherwise, day-to-day. In fact, I'd guess there's more potentially bad universes so it seems rather much of a downer in that sense.
OMG, how could I ever forget double-you double-you double-you? And the period too.

If you leave out the double-you double-you double-you period, the world wide web home page won't even work! You get like a dragon lizard or something.

Thank you for reminding me. I think.
Given a lot of money, sure. One angle is to offer internal research funding. If a university said: come here and you won't have to chase grants, just do good research and we'll fund it internally, you'd have a ton of people wanting to move there. Good salaries help too, but given sufficient funds, the first thing I'd do to differentiate is offer working conditions that look qualitatively better than elsewhere.
Paribus is hiring engineers in NYC
Paribus (paribus.co) is hiring for backend/full stack developers, both senior and junior.

Email kenna@paribus.co or apply through https://boards.greenhouse.io/paribus#.Vw1pJvkrJD8.
If you give someone a gun, they might shoot themselves.
If you give someone a table saw, they might cut off their hand.
If you teach someone objected oriented programming, they might write a unmaintainable ball of mud.
People still seem to think Pittsburgh's a hellhole even though it's anything but.

Honestly, I don't think it's a bad thing that people think this. The city's steadily drawing in talent yet rent/cost of living is remaining low and stable. Every once in a while I see people say "Pittsburgh's the next Portland!", but good god, I hope not. Too many people from SV have flooded into Portland and driven rent up to insane levels in just a few years while offering nothing of substantial value--Pittsburgh doesn't need the same.
Computer Almanac for Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Interesting to hear so much good about CMU: Long the president there was one of my Ph.D. dissertation advisers.

> Honestly, there's just not a lot of places that qualify.

I'm not so sure location has much to do with it or that there is much a location can do that would help.

But for places:

Sure, within 100 miles of the Washington Monument.

Federal spending? Awash in it. For technology? Same.

Universities? Johns Hopkins, Maryland College Park, Maryland Baltimore County, Catholic, American, Georgetown, George Mason, VPI, UVA.

VCs? There are some.

There is Boston with Harvard and MIT and no lack of Federal research spending. And lots of VCs and bigger bucks, too.

Then, sure, there is NYC:

Universities? Columbia, Rockefeller, and NYU and a new, growing tech educational center on Roosevelt Island.

VCs? Plenty of them, and bigger bucks, too.

Can make a good case for a large fraction of the college towns around major US universities, e.g., the Big Ten.

Maybe the bottleneck is elsewhere, say, finding the next Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Sun, Google, Facebook? If there is one and it goes through YC, then it's not in stealth anymore and, if it looks really good, can set up shop the same place as that 900 pound gorilla -- anywhere it wants to.

Net, I'm not sure location has much to do with it. And I'm not sure that the 25-29 age range PG has in mind is now the most promising. And, net, net, IMHO the bottleneck is just better ideas.
Here is the thing about non-competes. If you are smart about it, they can be basically impossible to enforce.

If you've signed a non-compete and jump ship, you can simply NOT tell your old employer that you got a new job.

What are they going to do? Sue you for working at a company they don't know about? There is nothing they can do if you are subtle.
Obligatory: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5LU4F7CUAELcIU.png
> their effects are extremely devastating and long-lasting

But barrels of radioactive waste that need to be stored for 1000s of years are basically just marshmallows and titty sprinkles, right?
Former Top Schwab Executive Joins Betterment Board
It's not so obvious that a single universe is simpler.

See http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/multiverse_sciam.pdf and the excerpt quoted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Occam.27s_Razor
What was the nature of the discrimination? How bad was it?
Your diving headlong into an incredibly sticky issue. This is one of the core fears the public has been chewing on a long time... that the sharing of medical information would become so streamlined that nearly minimal effort would be required to profile an individual.
Another vote for gandi.net here. I transferred all my domains to them during the past years and have never been happier.

Security is almost bomb proof with IP restrictions, GPG keys, 2FA and one little checkbox in their settings I like a lot: "This setting allows you to authorize or disable password resets from the login screen."

I think a good practice is to try to social engineer your own account and see if you end up getting it.
What is the plan for the only-few-gram weight space probe to transmit data back to earth?
Ctrl-v doesn't work in lxterminal.

("Paste" is on the right-click menu though.)
Yes, that is the issue. Economics makes the mistake of assuming Banks can be modelled like other companies - it's not really the markets directly though.

Banks make profit from the interest they make on their loans, minus the interest they pay to their depositors and minus other expenses. Other expenses include loan defaults.

So as a bank you can be more profitable by 1) making more loans than your competitors (and inevitably that implies more risk), 2) paying less interest to your depositors - but that would lose you deposits, which would curtail your ability to lend, 3) be generally more efficient - but they all have computers now, and regulatory compliance is both a major, and commonly shared cost or 4) make safer loans, and suffer less loan defaults.

The problem with 4) though is deposit insurance, means your customers don't care, but more critically that loan defaults aren't a nicely compartmentalised property of each individual bank's activities, since a big enough series of defaults from one of your more risk taking competitors is likely to trigger a default cascade that impacts your debtors as well. (Companies fail, their employees are fired, and can't pay their debts, their suppliers are similarly impacted, etc.)

As you say, it's a very fragile system - and easy for excitable chimpanzees to break.
>If the laser is green, by the time it's flying away at 0.2c, the laser won't be green any more thanks to the Doppler effect! I'm too lazy to calculate, but it will definitely shift toward the red.

Interestingly, you also have to deal with Lorenz contraction - at .2c the ship itself will shorten by about half a percent, compounding the apparent wavelength shift. Admittedly this is a much smaller effect.
"Don’t Worry, You Can’t Break It. We Promise."

(Nice, but it's completely unclear what's going on.)
And when it's Chip-Scale Package integrated circuits. More on the hardware side, admittedly.
> No, the point is to stop accidents from happening.

| An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm

| An unforeseen incident

So... your solution is basically to invent real-life, legit 100% accurate fortune tellers?
omg awesome
> I know if I ran a car company I would be deathly afraid of becoming another Nokia

It's far worse than that. The top phone manufacturers before Apple were Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Blackberry.

These transitions are wrecking entire fields of players. It's not enough to avoid becoming the next Nokia, you have to sprint like hell and pray to Jesus, Allah, and Vishnu that you can become the next Samsung.

And unless you have a major government behind you, odds are you're not the next Samsung.
Why do you need access to so much money that you can't get it in Pittsburgh or remotely?

Seems like an insanely cheap place to bootstrap. Get to break even far faster, etc...

If you're living in Manhattan now, you could reduce costs by over 75% by moving back and put it into the next venture instead.

Plus, the kids get the dog and a yard.
Yes. Be sure to jump straight into the most modern C++ practices and avoid thinking of it like C (with all its focus on non-type-safe pointer manipulations).

Other people have other opinions, of course. Care most about the opinion of your boss and team mates. If you show up with a C++ style far beyond what they are used to they will think you are a nut.
Welcome to the jungle. Kumbaya.
I'm incredibly happy that boulder is under the MPL. Not enough new software is copyleft these days.
and perhaps even more relevantly defined in an HN post...
The furniture in C++ seems better, or at least more numerous - boost, std::, Qt.. . This being said, if you make your own furniture, I still rather like 'C' better for that.

'C' is used in kernels, drivers and such, in tools and in embedded work.
Who needs a React engineer in about a month?
Do you need someone to help you develop on react and/or rails? Comment here, and give me some way to reach you. I'm looking for my next great project.
The changes you mention seem pretty limited in scope. I think that's the only sort of change that can occur in such a late stage of the Lee Dynasty. LHL and his heirs would be negligent if they tried to introduce big changes now to how society or industry is organized. Even if they felt they knew what should happen, they are well-practiced in maintaining the status quo, not undermining it. Singapore will go through one or more "Yeltsins" before a new order that effectively governs in a new way is found.
I don't disagree. There was some discussion on the W3C mailing list about the idea of a resource file (something analogous to how we have CSS and JavaScript resources). I proposed a means of composing static policies with dynamic overrides via the existing header in https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2016Ja.... CSP provides a great centralized place to define all sorts of security constraints, and it would be a shame to run into header size limits as an artificial constraint on what new things can be added. I'd love to see existing security headers moved into CSP so we have one, and only one, place where we need to solve the size problem.
I'm not writing this to be argumentative, but to get a better idea of what you mean by "protocol level vulnerability". Do you mean, "vulnerability intrinsic in the DCE RPC protocol, and not in the application layer functionality on top of it"?

Because, didn't the Welchia worm target DCE RPC?
I don't understand the UI. My guess:

I have to put a few red and green points in the image below. (Actually, at the beginning some of them are added automaticity.)

The neural network tries to find a function that is green where the points are green and red where the points are red.

It's not very clear. I'd put the red-green graph avove the graph of the network.
Interestingly if you try and set up a Messenger Bot, there is a one-time fee of $99[0] to take advantage of Customer Matching - where they use phone numbers you have to find existing customers to contact.
Facebook ads? Make a LP specifically for said purpose, stack geos and jobs. You can waste a lot of money, but it may create awareness/interest for your product with a relevant audience.
Hey there. I didn't take Algorithms in college and am also not so good at it. Don't fret -- you'll get it. Grab a couple interview study books, the Algorithms Design Manual, etc. and study. It'll be hard and you might not feel like you're making progress -- it's ok. Keep practicing and don't lose hope. I interviewed at over 15 companies over the span of 3-4 months (I also did mock interviews, but my algs skills were so not good that the practice didn't really help) and was rejected by most of them (like, 12 of them), but finally I received an offer for a position I didn't think I'd get.

Keep your hopes up, look forward to beefing up your theory, and most of all, landing a position. :) Good luck!
How old are you? You still got a chance if you're under 35.
Potentially quite a bit. Just imagine with the sort of stuff we're doing right now. In 100-200 years we might be able to send a fully functional AI there for that much which could potentially start building civilization from scratch there. Or maybe even enough DNA to clone a human. It's a good idea to do this ASAP, because sooner or later we're going to mess up this planet and probably the solar system. It's what we do best.
That seems like a useful engineering problem for Facebook to try to solve, rather than this bullshit rocket science optimization stuff that adds yet more complexity for only incremental gains.
You can't extend your lease?
I am pretty sure you just sent out a new boat of supplies every year make it or not. Worse case the mission fails and the next mission has 20 supply ships in orbit waiting for them. I have no idea on the minimum mass required to send supplies, i.e. if you can recycle 99% of the water you need, would only need a few drops per day. If you can only recycle 50%, you are going to need a bunch.
Updating now!
I think knowing what CA stands for is prerequisite knowledge for being a sysadmin.
They already do this, that is track all the locations of cell phones to see if there are two people that "magically" happen to travel somewhere together in unusual pattern. Example I saw was two people at random times "happening" to get on the same mass transit system.
Can't speak of other countries, but anti-nuclear paranoia is alive and strong in South Korea. (After all, we're right next to Japan.)

Also bear in mind that it involves the same technology that could be used in preparing nuclear weapons. You don't just have to overcome your garden variety environmentalists. You also have to get the approval of Uncle Sam.

(Well, maybe not for China or Russia, but in their case, they have enough unused land and a forceful government, so they can just shove the "waste" somewhere deep in the desert and that will be last anybody hears about it.)
Used to be easier when you could directly trade digital cards for paper cards..
That's not a plan, that's "and then magic happens!"
Ah. So similar maybe to how 60% of a Toyota is actually made in the USA?
Team Uncommunication: The Art of Silence
I've worked in SV my entire career and had never even envisioned other states allowed no-compete contracts in this day and age. Everybody I know and have worked with has had multiple jobs and wouldn't have it any other way. Yet one more way CA is far in front of every other state in basic worker rights.
Trying to buy my upgrade now - but it keeps telling me my Arq 4 license key is invalid.

I've tried both the licenseKey field, and the hash field from the license XML file I got when I bought Arq 4.

Has anybody else had success buying an upgrade license?
Real-life place transformed using virtual reality to a game space
Worst case, if it doesn't work, maybe we can at least use built infrastructure to send new iPhones to Mars expedition.
Uber for Seniors and Poor Visibility
> programmers who don't yet realize that the business perspective of your code is where your career growth and potential come from (not from learning more and more advanced coding technique).

Yes and no. I think programmers get the biggest lift, career-wise, from being able to put themselves in the shoes of a stakeholder while coding and being able to talk intelligently about what they produce to non-technical people. But that's just the price of admission to work in an environment where you don't get treated like shit usually.

Beyond that, if you want to work on problems that you really enjoy then finding a technical specialization that gets you excited to go to work is a must. Then find a job where your knowledge in that area translates to business value. If that sounds hard, spend some more time socializing with other people in your industry. Consulting or working on OSS projects helped me a ton in this area.

That's the arc my career has taken at least, and I'm still early in it.
I'm pretty impressed by ASAN (and MSAN, UBSAN, etc.) It catches uses after free trivially, as long as you have unit tests, which I always do.

I wonder at the cost of these 2 strategies, for the huge legacy of C/C++ infrastructure we have:

1) refactoring it to be testable, adding unit tests, adding test coverage automation, adding ASAN/MSAN builds, etc. (LLVM is a game changer IMO in addition to C++ 11; things have changed so much in the last 5 years)

2) rewriting it in Rust

I'm not claiming anything specific, but #2 seems strictly more expensive, since you still need unit tests for logic bugs anyway (and yes I have written OCaml and get that you can replace control flow with typed data, etc.) #1 also has a straightforward migration path.

More to the point, most open source software has TERRIBLE test hygiene. If they don't even have time to write tests, I wonder how they will have time to rewrite in Rust.

I'm all for new software in Rust, but I'm thinking about all of Linux user space, web servers, web browsers, every programming language implementation, etc.

Also, fuzzing can be combined with ASAN.

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/868-How-Heartbleed-couldve-b...

Yes it would be better to know these things statically and not dynamically, and I'm glad that Rust has innovated in this space.
You're not Delirium from K5, are you?
naiveté
From a code writing perspective, Rust's support in Atom and other editors thought Racer is pretty good. Debugging is my big issue right now. For that I drop into lldb in UI mode, which works fine, but I would love to see that integrated into one of the ide's out there.

Anyway, the lack of an IDE hasn't hampered my ability to be productive in Rust. Unlike Java, C++, et al.
When you do R&D, there is lots of stuff you learn that does eventually lead to magic. Lots of stuff that is happening now already happened 20 years ago, but the market and the technology are right for it now. Same with this. We have lots of stuff to learn, and even if this totally fails or is a partial success, it's a huge opportunity for the future of space exploration.
> If it had been a factory producing solar panels, the whole production capability of solar panels would be set back by decades

If it had been a factory creating coco-pops the whole pacific ocean would have become a chocolate milkshake. We can make random "if it was.." statements all day, but most of the other things it might have been wouldn't require it to be so close to such a large body of water for cooling purposes.
The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is extremely diverse and multi-cultural. Between the major universities here (UNC, Duke, NCSU) and all the big companies in RTP (IBM, Glaxo, EMC, Cisco, etc.) people come from all over to work here or go to school here. And this area (colloquially, "the Triangle") is much different than most of the rest of NC in terms of being socially tolerant and inclusive.

Yeah, the whole HB2 thing was something of a stain on our state (OK, we're the laughing stock of the whole damn country, fine...) but that really does not accurately reflect what life is like in the Triangle area.