skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many places with colder, rainier, and snowier weather. But that doesn't change the fact that between San Francisco and Pittsburgh, San Francisco is a clear winner in terms of weather. Many people will take climate into account when deciding between job offers, and it's not a difficult choice to choose the warmer, more stable climate of the Bay area.
I miss generics and RAII when I have to use C.
Why most of the Panama Papers have been kept in the dark?
You are right in that adding good doc adds value to my work. However, there are a lot of other things I need to do, and the value of those outweighs the value of documenting this code.

Besides, that code doesn't make sense without an example. The best example is locked behind proprietary code. Feel free to ping me if you want me to walk you through what it is about.
> The electronics in precision guided mortars in the US army survive 50,000g

And then are immediately 'disposed of'. That is, quite literally, a fire-and-forget problem; those electronics don't have to keep working for months or years.
Is it really "making it too easy" if you're applying your knowledge of the structure of the problem space to make it easier for the computer to solve? Certainly this isn't easy to do with every problem, but it seems like a better idea in general to start with parameters you suspect to be correct.

In the "swiss cake roll" the circular nature of the classes suggests using a sin or cos function, and the fact that they spiral out suggests also inputting magnitude information. Sure, you can just add more neurons that will end up computing the same thing, but we might as well give the computer a head start when we can.
What is the most hygienic way to dry your hands?
I've been lucky in my career in games and have worked for some great people. Now I'm my own boss and try to treat my employees fairly. It makes me sad to hear about mistreatment in games.

I think working in games can absolutely be incredibly rewarding if you love the medium and delighting players. On huge teams individual effort can be hard to connect to player enjoyment but I've found it super fun to work on and lead smaller teams where everyone can directly impact players and get concrete immediate feedback on how your work is affecting player experience.

Unlike many other areas of software development most game features immediately impact how players perceive your game. I love the immediacy of that connection.
Right, the AAA rating is the cornerstone of the entire thing. On one hand you have originators eager to offload risk, on the other pension fund managers are under the pressure to boost their yields, but are limited into what they can invest.

The credit agencies are to blame, but they were an enabler. AIG FP was the main cause of the AAA rating by simply lending its name to the whole deal and promising to make the pension funds whole in case of any defaults.
The Politics of Backlash
The problem with you calling them is that is possible to social engineer some phone companies to put a forward on the phone line (as a bonus it doesn't prevent outbound calls). USPS mail forwarding is easy to setup online if the attacker has their credit card number. Calls should be made regardless so if the attacker couldn't do this, they can be alerted to the fact that someone is trying to spoof them.

If the fee that you charged was a random amount under $100, then you can use that as part of the auth key process. In addition, one should also overnight the rest of the password via UPS or other method where forwarding is forbidden so an attacker cannot have the token sent to them. You can recover the costs of mailing via the random fee.

It all boils down to there are very few methods right now for securely getting a hold of someone when they have forgotten passwords or have a broken/lost 2factor device.
Indeed! By global standards, it's completely preposterous. 5.5m people should be crammed into 1/10th of the surface area occupied by Metro Atlanta. At most. The downtown area is interesting, but has no imaginable relevance to the lives of 90% of Metro Atlanta residents.
Repugnant policies like this are an ongoing evolution of the profit motive. It's such a simple mechanism: profit motive -> investment in policy support -> weakened economic standing for the weaker players.

What is the corrective mechanism, the courts?
> I don't want it to suddenly infer that I'm looking for shoes for my wife...

If the end goal is a human-like level of conversation, isn't this a desirable outcome? Inference and allusion are two elements that are used all the time during conversations between people -- with positive and negative consequences.

I guess it depends on the ultimate outcome you are seeking from the conversation.
Side note: The new minimalist HP logo looks like the outline of someone's hand flipping you the bird. Once you see it, you will never un-see it.
Well, by its nature it wouldn't be an open proceeding because of the pure ridiculousness of secrecy in these types of cases, so we might not be able to confirm it like that. That said, I haven't seen anyone arrested at any of the organizations that have removed their canaries yet, so it seems like the legal theory remains as sound as expected.
I generally don't use downvote button on social sites, but this time I really miss it.

This article is contentless... I mean there's absolutely nothing informative in it. And anyone who things that curly brackets is the thing to fix in C must have been never using C in the first place.
You ever looked into the philosophy of non-dual Shaiva Tantra? Well, actually, just about any non-dual philosophies...

Here, consciousness and awareness is not a concept, but the first principle of the universe -- from which the _concept_ of consciousness reflects upon the first principle (without actually being the first principle). It's a key insight that breaks out the nihilism.

-- By "consciousness", I am speaking of awareness, not the constructed identity that most people calls "consciousness".
A Complete Tutorial on Tree Based Modeling from Scratch (in R and Python)
Never thought I'd see a post involving Zao on HN. That's sad to hear that Solid State did them wrong, regardless of the jerkiness of (I'm assuming you're referring to) Jesse Smith.
Brit here. When you say "Post" to me that means "Mail".

I couldn't work out why I would want to mail an item to someone else, so they could mail it back to me :)
Yep. Which if we were just creating something without a front-end, then we can ditch the whole node ecosystem.
PS. I took a look at your sig & web site; looks interesting! We should get in touch and maybe catch up next time you're in town for Dragon*Con. Drop me a private message of some sort? (same username on Twitter)
C gives you very very little in the way of tools to create and manage abstraction. Some programmers love this and for some projects it may be appropriate.

But is a reason so many large native codebases go with C++. The language provides some pretty handy tools to manage code organization and complexity at that scale.
GitHub GPG and Keybase PGP
> Alpha Centauri is at ~275,000 AU.

I wonder if it would be easier to string ~300 of these at ~1000 AU intervals, and use them for a relay? Or perhaps ~3000 at ~100 AU intervals.

And I wonder if that would be construed as mining a common hyperspace lane by the galactic council... ;-)
impressive :). long live the master
Have you done any mock interviews with friends to get some feedback on your interviewing skills and techniques?
Turnover rate is one of the best indicators of whether a place is a good place to work. You can game most indicators without significantly impacting people's quality of life. But ultimately if people don't like working at your company they'll leave. You can delay that a bit by having equity take a while to vest but that doesn't prevent some people from leaving and when it does, it really only delays the turnover by the vestment period, doesn't change the rate.
What do you mean by substance?
The interpretation I prefer: the universal quantum state evolves unitarily at all times, and there are no parallel universes. Problem solved. Parallel universes are — by definition — unfalsifiable, so the best theory then is the simplest one, and that is a theory with one universe.

For similar reasoning used in a somewhat different scenario, see also http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/
PerimeterX Launches and Introduces PerimeterX Bot Defender Service
Overly verbose. Good culture isn't compromised of four-letter acronyms, or photos that suggest conflating professional and personal relationships is a good idea.
Seems a little indirect. I've done plenty of sales in the past and it seems to me that in many cases things need to be actively sold rather than waiting for a buyer to turn up.
I was replying to a comment not saying airflow is capable of stream processing.

> Not for multinode analytics of huge data sets.

Airflow does this just fine with celery.
I agree, but it should also be pointed out that the reactor was something like 60 years old. Newer reactors incorporate many improvements based on research and new risk modeling, etc. Keeping reactors past their planned service life means these improvements don't get put in. We need to be replacing oils reactors with newer, safer, more modular reactors.
How do you report them? I see an ad with a fake download button right now. http://i.imgur.com/qJs2CO7.png

Edit: I found the feedback form: https://support.google.com/adwords/troubleshooter/4578507
...maybe because those places are also shitty places to work?
from a java background is it better to jump into C++ instead of C?
For me, pretty much. If those shitty ideas are important enough to the speaker that they've bubbled into my direct knowledge, then I'm forced to make a decision. Like, every talk I've been to could have been a speaker that thinks that I personally am the next Hitler and they're seething with hatred for me the whole time, but until I'm aware of it it's not really a problem.

This was not as clever a question as you thought you were posing.
Whut? The agencies know no ends, lol.. Who'd thunk it?
I'm surprised to find no mention of embedded development. C++ seems to have a foothold there.
>>Pitching the company on why they should acquire you doesn't seem like a position you want to be in

Curious to know why not? Seems exactly what I want...
As it predicts quantum immortality we will all find out if we wait long enough:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortal...
New features to be included in Vim 8
You start.
I think the comment is informative, but I think the attribution of blame is indefensible.
I see this warning in effect on http://kat.cr in Chrome:

Deceptive site ahead

Attackers on kat.cr may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards).
Raleigh/Durham is great in terms of cultural and employment diversity, and you can't beat it in terms of salary/cost of living. Most of the people outside the major cities and the elected officials are a ridiculous joke though.
How Does a Mathematician's Brain Differ from That of a Mere Mortal?
Show HN: Convert any file into embeddable Go source code
Quoting a big old paragraph from someone else without providing any of your own content is just lazy.
Back when I had my radio show here in Brisbane, I used Pandora specifically for discovery for music... but that's a pretty particular use-case heh.
Oh this comment by CIO led me to think 2FA wasn't...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480221

You should not be able to overcome 2FA with social engineering wtf!
Which is why you shouldn't use Bq/kg and instead use Sieverts. It's not that bad, human body can get rid of caesium-131 etc. pretty well via kidneys. The main problem was radioiodide which accumulates in thyroid and parathyroid glands and super heavy isotopes which are chemically dangerous, e.g. plutionium and uranium - but these do not disperse far at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert - Recommended reading, has a handy table. Fukushima doesn't even register as dangerous in there, equivalent to about 3 full CT scans.

Data from Chernobyl is scarce, but I'd suspect 4x that value due to more retained isotopes.
Yeah I feel like we need some decent understanding of neural networks to have more context on this. Its kind of like being given a specialized shovel but not knowing why you need it or why you should dig holes.
Make your own Facebook Messenger bot powered by Express and Node.js
Swagger-Codegen 2.1.6 Released
When I walk around SF, I see a lot of underdeveloped spaces...abandoned buildings, abandoned gas stations, huge parking lots full of city trucks. Inexplicably, there's been a huge abandoned building on 18th and Mission (seemingly prime location) for I don't know how long. This article about it is from 2012[1].

So, yes, SF is a small space but it is far from being efficiently (or fully) developed and I think the SF Planning Department and other bureaucracies are partially to blame.

[1] http://missionlocal.org/2012/07/el-chico-produce-store-to-op...
(I'm a Google SRE, I'm on the team that dealt with this outage)

This did impact common infrastructure. Some (non-cloud) Google services were impacted. We've spent years working on making sure gigantic outages are not externally visible for our services, but if you looked very closely at latency to some services you might have been able to see a spike during this outage.

My colleagues managed to resolve this before it stressed the non-cloud Google services to the point that the outage was "revealed". If this was not mitigated, the scope of the outage would have increased to include non-cloud Google services.
Eligible voters actually voting would help.
Actually, this could be an interesting and lucrative side business for banks, identity verification. You could have varying levels of verification, requiring varying levels of authenticating documentation and numbers of employees to review and vouch that could then be used to provide a certificate of verification for a service.

E.g. namecheap.com generates verification ticket item requiring valid identification and SSN that Bank of America then uses to verify your identity for $30, and vouched for the identity. Meanwhile Goldman Sachs generates a verification ticket requiring much more strenuous authentication, and the bank charges $200 for (with increased insurance, etc), which satisfies the much higher validation standard the Goldman Sachs requires to authenticate you for your ritrement account with over $X in it, etc.
I think with C/C++ you learn how the machine really works (you could argue that Assembler would be better but C/C++ hits a sweet spot for me) . A lot of of people who have grown up with GC languages don't seem to be aware that under the hood there is still some C code that allocates and releases memory. There is no magic.
Alex this looks great and likely addresses a lot of the problems I had with cloud-config. I was one of those with a Bash script that I used to generate multiple files, so this is great.

My biggest issue so far is CoreOS' naming of Ethernet interfaces on VMWare ESXi. It always uses some eno* name for each interface. I have a unique case where each VM I spin up has up to 10 interfaces.

I've solved this by adding net.ifnames=0 to my grub.cfg. It requires that I reboot the machine at least once to get it to take.

If I could have predictable interface names using Ignition, then I'm set!
Yes, you're right. And that's one of the most ironic parts of the SF development debate: the folks who complain about "NIMBY opposition" the loudest are (usually) talking about already dense neighborhoods, like the Mission, when they should be thinking about the Outer Sunset or Laguna Honda.

That said, it doesn't change my point: to change the density of these places, you have to buy out a bunch of people who know exactly what their land is worth if it's zoned for higher density. Many of them are actually betting on that windfall. There is no equivalent in SF to the vast tracts of undeveloped land in, say, Texas.
I would say no, but then, everything advertisers say works seems to have the exact opposite effect on me, so what do I know...

I mean, the last thing I want out of ads is targeting. Nobody needs to tell me to buy things I already like.
Verizon is actually expanding FiOS again, with new fiber in Boston
you are already there for some admittedly contrived situations.

Things like simple loops that work on typed arrays in javascript can really give C/C++ a run for their money right now.
That sounds incredibly naive. Three years isn't a long time, especially when C++ has a 30 year head start.

People put too much emphasis on low level language features when promoting new languages. The pitfalls that Rust solves are known issues in C++, and there are known solutions to them and best practices for avoiding them. A lot of the problems are "solved" as new iterations of the standard come out.

To really give C++ a run for its money Rust will have to compete with the gigantic ecosystem around C++. It has libraries for literally everything. It's backed both directly and indirectly by all of the biggest software companies in the world. It's supported by debuggers, profilers, memory profilers, static analyzers, IDEs, refactoring tools, and editors. There are books, tutorials, training classes, etc.
My 2 cents (Well, 1 cent really):

Something that stuck out to me when reading an article about Hubspot that Dan posted: "Hubspot's offices were colored bright like a Montessori school" as some type of criticism.

However, having walked around their offices all too many times, I can say that it's orange and white splattered around a brick-and-glass warehouse[1]. Pretty standard way to brand your own offices, and stark contrast to Newsweek's offices[2].

If Dan is making a fuss about something like this, I'm really not inclined to take him too seriously, despite the good points he makes.

[1]https://media.glassdoor.com/l/48/40/0b/62/new-lounge-area.jp...

[2]http://www.dc4mf.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/articles...
I'm not actually sure about that (I assume you're referring to shipping a Blackphone?). The Blackphones are a semi-separate division that I don't have much contact with, unfortunately.
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2014/01/30/bandcamp-app-now-with-m...

Bandcamp's Music Feed feature is basically the streaming radio bit you're after, and Bandcamp itself will let you purchase and download lossless copies of the music. I wish Bandcamp was even bigger than it is, because it totally deserves to be.
Would be better to have a private school, I think. I'd probably go either graduate-only or do something crazy like graduate + coop/internship with $0 tuition, and small.

Realistically you have to start small, so I think it's better to be focused.

Olin College would be my model for the undergrad program; probably takes a $200-500mm commitment which is about the upper bound of a high net worth endowment.

Combine that with a heavily industry-funded graduate program (maybe start focused on a couple specific industries -- say, security and hardware verification, if you could get HP/Intel support), also small and focused. MIT Media Lab would be another model.
That's a whole lot of typing to say nothing.
BadLock Vulnerability Falls Flat Against Its Hype
That's probably because people aren't by default searching the internet for services, but for information and news.
No, you have to make a better idea so people switch to you. You cant replace something with a vacuum.
Born in Pittsburgh, raised in Pittsburgh, started (and failed, 2009-2014) my own company in Pittsburgh, currently have an excellent tech job in Pittsburgh and am going to launch the beta product of my new company (YC reject) in Pittsburgh in June.

So. First off, I nearly cried reading this headline, and did tear up reading it. So whether or not he reads this, thanks, Paul.

Second. To the hard work of it all. I agree with every point he made, with the caveat that Pittsburgh needs to be careful with the historic preservation aspect of things: they vascillate between 'hey let's forget all of our history and blow this place up' to 'we must preserve every nook and cranny exactly as it was, even though it's detrimental towards progress'.

We could also stand to improve tax policy (lower them, significantly), and get our major employers here to knock it off with their ridiculous IP agreements. Also, I'd love it if our politicians stopped directly trying to ape Silicon Valley (or New York, or perhaps most ridiculous, the Paris of Appalachia). Let's be Pittsburgh.

Here's the thing that perhaps Paul missed when he was here, and perhaps others who aren't here can't see: I feel we've reached a critical mass of people who just DGAF (in a good way), because the opportunity costs of testing out your vision here are so low. By that, I mean that you can try out your weird (read: innovative) vision of the future, and no one bats an eye. On top of that, if you are producing a signal, it's much easier to cut through noise here. I spent a fair amount of time interviewing in SF for startup gigs, and it's not a good value proposition compared to here, to me. Finally, while the investment scene is terrible, that can be very beneficial to the right founder, because obviously one will retain more for themselves, and one don't NEED very much capital to get started in Pittsburgh. I bought my first house for $80,000 in 2013. 4/2, hardwood throughout, 1944 brick single family, 2 car garage, yard, granite, stainless, wine fridge, etc, in a good neighborhood. It's that cheap here. Anecdotal, but if you're smart with your money here, you can build your own runway.

All of that said, I'm hoping it happens. More than that, I'll work for it to happen. Onwards and upwards, fellow Yinzers. And Let's Go Bucs.
Long time SE Michigan resident here. You are spot on. Gilbert may be actually be making a change though. Starting to feel different downtown.
I think you're exaggerating when you say you see "a lot" of these spaces. There are some. And they're usually vacant for a reason that involves money. Or there's a more serious problem (like contamination).

For example, the reason that space at 18th and Mission was vacant is right there in the article you linked -- the landlord pushed out the previous tenant, and turning it into a grocery store required extensive renovation. It's not as if the space was sitting empty because nobody had a use for it:

"So when the 99-cent store closed — because of high rent, according to neighboring businesses — and the vacant building went on the market in May 2010, he seized the opportunity and bought it two months later."

But yeah, it would have been nice if the new owner allowed someone else use the space while waiting for his redevelopment plans to go through, instead of letting squatters turn it into a drug house.
What were the optimization algorithms you had most success with? Were they more successful in the sense of better out-of-sample error rate or in the sense of quicker convergence (or something else)?
It doesn't have to specifically a CS research university... A good research university does much more than CS. I'd argue that having a great CS research university in close proximity is somewhat irrelevant to creating a great startup hub. Startups are SO much more than just tech.
It begins training the network using the backpropagation algorithm.

> Next, the network is asked to solve a problem, which it attempts to do over and over, each time strengthening the connections that lead to success and diminishing those that lead to failure.

On each iteration, it calculates how bad the predicted output is, then adjusts the weights between neurons to lessen that value. Google backpropagation for more info