skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Urbanhail app – new Kayak for ridesharing in Boston
So how do I sign up?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/FAQ#Ca...

> Can’t we use some other medium with more space?

> The conditions in space prove hostile to many data mediums. Traditional CDs or DVDs would be destroyed in space, because they are composed of layers and would come undone. It’s different with a medium made of ceramics. Also, you have to consider the dimensions and weight of your medium. The ceramic disc is light enough and resilient.

I'm guessing microSD cards are not radiation hardened.
My first instinct was to post a message on HN about how yet another company is fetishizing overtime. It's not even productive to work at that pace; IIRC, most if not all people wear down too quickly for that to make sense. If anything, this proves that the management at Pinterest can neither stay on top of their own product nor set deadlines properly.

... all judgment aside, I hope the people working there are doing alright. Hinging your self worth on your work ethic in a company can be exhausting.
Don't they have a tool to get into other iPhone's now?

$1,000,000 doesn't seem too bad.
Ah. It's a drone discussion.

Is there any advance in drone tech to make it quieter? Any time I've been near a drone in operation, the loud buzzing hits a particular psychological frequency (probably the "it's a large flying insect!") that stresses me out.

I don't think I'm alone in this. Other animals seem to dislike drones.

I think most of us animals would mind them less if they were more pleasant-sounding, or closer to silent.
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I found this to be an interesting theory:

Panama papers is not a "leak" it was a hack by the NSA and only released a bunch of info on Panama based shell companies that are largely BRIC nations, none the US - and that it is a PSYOP to get a bit of anger against specifically others to protect US financial hegemony...

The only country to prosecute bankers/Wall Street - the PM resigned after he got caught doing the same thing.

It's revenge and a pre-emotive attack - but one that kind of lost control.

Watch the Panama papers doc to see how In The 2013 doc PBS' "the warning" the DOJ literally stonewalls against all questions regarding going after Wall Street.

The whole system is absolutely a corrupt greed ponzu scheme.

What happened those three vids, please, and give me your opinion.
This only works if you're hiring strictly senior individuals. If you yourself are senior, and you need to staff a team with some more junior individuals so you can build your bench strength, odds are you won't be finding many junior/entry-level people better than you.

But I fully agree with the rest of it. Too many times managers view themselves as "the deciders" vs. supporting their teams and empowering smart people to make their own decisions.

At a certain point once someone is ramped-up, you need to let them sink or swim on their own. If they screw up, you address it, but you need to give them a chance to do that on their own.
How Military Experience Can Improve Business Operations
Human infant would also cry for missing mother much later if it was kept warm (as opposed to cold) and not hungry.

Human crying as any strenous activity generates heat.
SEO Startup Dibz Launched to Allow for a More Effective Link Prospecting
First thought was that people would protest this by flooding the relevant department with product updates, maybe triggered on each commit. Then I noticed the caveats:

- Updates don't count: only significantly large changes need disclosing.

- Can't be forced on companies with fewer than 10,000 users. Maybe commercially led open source products could claim that users are spread across many forks each with fewer users.

- New product disclosures only applies to communications companies already forced to backdoor existing products. Maybe we'll see companies akin to Alphabet evading the need to backdoor new products by forming separate companies.

Overall I'm more worried by
the requirement to backdoor communications than having to disclose new services. Security shouldn't be sacrificed. Additionally the gagging order would prevent companies from being honest with their users as well as making it harder for them to fight against it.
It's just politicking, its "worth it" because they get to flex their muscle and show the world that they don't need apple's cooperation to get what they want.
Goldman was Obama's 2nd biggest campaign contributor in 2008
This page: http://blog.memsql.com/powerstream-demo/ mentions:
"Real-time notifications push to the UI based on a `select *` query from an events table, which scales up to 2 million records.". But the docs don't really talk about doing things like that. Anymore info on these live queries?
Good. This is very off topic stuff.
CSGO gambling is fairly profitable because there is a lot of information asymmetry and a long tail of inexperienced gamblers. I believe that will change, because CS:GO is a more quantifiable game than many others:

The goals are easily defined: kill everyone, or defuse the bomb (usually kill everyone).

The available stats are pretty representative of how matches go.

There is a compounding effect between rounds, since you choose to buy weapons each round based on if you didn't die and still have weapons or how much money you have left.

The biggest issue I can think of is how many kids will lose their cash. There's no 18 year old requirement on the internet!
My cousin when he was a teenager in Minnesota got a reckless/careless driving offense when he was speeding in his new Camero around the Mall going 80MPH. He lost his license for a year, had to pay a 2K fine, had to go to a defensive driving school course and then had some 50 hours of community service to do on top of it all. He's uncle has repeatedly said he would have been better off just getting a DUI. My uncle maintains the judge was the "hanging" judge type and my cousin's other two speeding tickets didn't help him much.

The funny thing is, he never got so much as a jay walking ticket after that, so the punishment definitely straightened him out.
I'm inclined to believe the pollution from just 500,000 of these vehicles across the country hasn't harmed as many people as the GM scandal, but that isn't the whole story.

The basic idea behind the regulation is that if every manufacturer didn't follow it, there would be a lot more pollution and many more people could be harmed.

Whether or not we agree with that prediction is irrelevant. The people elected representatives who made this law, granting regulatory authority, at least in part to prevent it from happening. They have the authority to collect the fine. How many people were actually harmed has nothing to do with it (at least directly).

It makes more sense to be upset at how GM (partly owned by the government at the time) got off so easy.
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Appreciate the feedback as I put mental effort into that list. :) Anything else that should be on there that gets lots of gripes rather than one or two people's preferences?
US Consumption in Real Time
This is very very amazing. This is what I wanted :D! Beautiful creation
So you plan to bundle all the payments into a monthly bill to avoid fees on each transaction? Doesn't this assume each user will be purchasing enough content to make the fees negligible?
I'd like to hear a statement like this that explicitly acknowledges something like, "as a private company funded by Silicon Valley investors, we need a clear way to capture more and more value, and that's a big reason why we want to collect your data on our servers and use a client model for our proprietary algorithms."

That's how it works, we all get it!
I wonder if I'm going to be able to download the version of Android which was announced at last year's Google I/O before they announce another one this year?

Don't ever change, Google.
Policing in the modern sense only dates back to 1829. "Much of history" covers a huge sweep of possibilities.
They already are doing this (in China): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
If Argentina has such laws, they are breaking treaties that the country has signed.

The claims about farmers inadvertently using Monsanto seeds are rubbish. If some seeds would spread like wildfire, that would be a different thing. But they don't. The farmers using Monsanto (and any other licensed) seeds are doing it on purpose.

The most commonly cited claim here is Monsanto vs. Schmeiser, and you should read it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc_v_Schmeise...
Program/code the regulations into the financial systems instead of relying on the thumbs up from an easily corruptible human being.

Edit: immediately after posting this it occurred to me how terrible if not impossible this would be with the spaghetti code that is the tax and compliance legal code. So that would ideally have to be reformed, or rewritten and consolidated which is quite a big proposition
Well they say "machines" so it might be much more than 32GB. (Though on disk it might be strongly compressed.) And on HDDs, a few seeks is actually slower than a network round-trip.
> was not “scalable.”

This is the same James Comey that said they just were just asking Apple for access to just that one phone.
I just found HN a couple months ago and have been lurking since then. I just want to comment on how nice it is to see such sane conversations, and how reading all these comments makes me happy, and that I feel really at home here even just lurking.
It's the same story everywhere. As long as there is hierarchy (which we do need in some form in most organizations) then there will be incentive for people to do things they personally disagree with due to the conflict of interest that arises.

It seems like one of the hardest problems to solve in our society because it seems to be so tied to our nature. I can recall doing things in grade school I knew was wrong but felt obligated to do because my peers and those I looked up to do too. While that isn't the same exact situation, the dynamics at play are the same. What can be done to combat this innate in-group/out-group behavior more effectively in our organizations and society?
> fails to meet up with the reality that plants have plantable seeds.

This is a terrible argument.

Is Microsoft to blame for Windows piracy because CDs are easy to copy?

These cases aren't accidental - the farmer was very clearly copying the technology and using it to their benefit without contributing to the IP costs.
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I seriously looked at Redis and SQL Server 2016 in-memory DB. Redis was rejected because it isn't really a database. And SQL Server because it can't scale out, only up.

MemSQL was easy to install and do a quick test. Plus, you can just fire up a MemSQL appliance on Azure.
https://kite.com/

You sign up for an invitation. I am curious to know how long that invite typically takes. I just signed up about an hour ago.
They should still know the relevant law instead of relying on technology. There isn't that much you need to know.

In the UK, article 166 and potentially article 167 of the Air Navigation Order (http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?appid=11&m...) are relevant. In any case, the drone should be within line of sight, lower than 400 feet above ground level, and not be in controlled airspace or near an airport (which should be checked on an aeronautical chart - they're only about £25 and look good on your wall).

This gives a quick summary of both articles: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/drone-rules-everything-...

And bear in mind that there are cases where pilots might be flying light aircraft well below 400 feet AGL away from an aerodrome: during ag operations (crop dusting), during a forced landing, or during a practice forced landing under instruction, so even with the ANO rules there's still potential (albeit unlikely) conflict.
Combining higher pay with putting various legal limitations on people who move between the two sides to combat the conflict of interest would certainly help.
Really? Github's whole business is selling on-prem versions of Github.
They can't go more than a couple hundred feet from the phone before the wifi connection craps out.
I've gotten a hefty ticket for 7mph over. This was on a rural road with wide shoulders and broad turns. The spot where I was busted is a really long straightaway with absolutely no driveways or other sources of entering/exiting traffic. The road would be perfectly safe if the limit were 65mph rather than 55mph.

You probably won't "see it" until it happens to you. Highway patrol is managed for revenue generation rather than public safety.
Libvbyte – Fast C Library for 32bit and 64bit Integer Compression
Greek talks with lenders fraught as fears grow of default
What you are asking for, "post-redirection" (a term I just coined) is not an easy task. Redirection is, but that's set up prior to the program run (warning: pseudocode ahead):

child = fork()
if child == 0 then
stdout = open("output","w")
stderr = open("error","w")
dup2(stdout,FILENO_STDOUT)
dup2(stderr,FILENO_STDERR)
Close(stdout)
Close(stderr)
Execve("someprogram",arglist,envlist)
End

Standard Unix stuff. But doing that after the program is running isn't easy. The only way I know of is to send the program SIGSTOP (stops execution of the program---said signal can't be caught), and using ptrace(), inject code into the process to open the output file and call dup2() to get the redirection going, calling said code, then resuming the program.

I suppose one could script gdb (or whatever Unix debugger exists on the suystem) to do such a thing, but the fact that no one has really done this might mean something.
Intel’s Layoffs: What Will Happen to the Older Workers?
Wonder how much lead you'd have to wrap an sd card & reader in for it to be "safe" for space travel.
Thanks for warning me it's by ESR. Saves me having to waste time clicking and the inevitable headache I'd get from the powerful eye-rolls his writing induces.
GOOG/GOOGL's 'other bets' revenue is more than doubled yoy, though they spent 27% more yoy ($657MM just for Q1!!) for their 'other bets' operation.
Same here too. Fish on all local machines, bash on AWS instances, and all scripts written in bash, simply for compatibility.
Wait, the Web Isn't Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It
Slackware jumped from Version 4 to 7 back in 1999.

Anyways, Powershell is pretty amazing and they did get it right. However, some of the syntax leaves much to be desired. I mean this:

Get-ChildItem $Path | Where {$_.extension -eq '.DLL'}

It's the worst example of a recursive search for a specific file extension, easiest being "gci -Recurse -Include .DLL", but the syntax using {$_. ,'*'} is used in many places, most of which I've been able to figure out less complicated replacements and achieve the same results. This includes being able to pipe out each "object" in the resulting text appropriately.

This isn't a bash against powershell. They did get it right, but I'm left wondering why they bothered including this kind of syntax'ing?
Not necessarily true. People better than you might want to be a part of the company and the problems you are solving more than they care whether their "boss" is more skilled than them.

Also, depending on the role, it might be different skillsets. Perhaps you are a better manager, but they are a better coder. That's often a good fit.

However it does run the risk of hiring ambitious people who expect to grow, and if they feel you prevent them from doing so, and they bring more to the table, it might turn the relationship sour.
Why startups can’t disrupt the mortgage industry
Dmitry Grishin Doubles Down on Robotics with New $100M Fund
> Think about finding an extraterrestrial storage device like this from our perspective.

Let's suppose the aliens already did this, but instead of a small disc, they wanted to send a message that no intelligent being could miss. Over a short span of 150,000 years, they redirected a bunch meteors into the moon in a pattern that encodes the last few digits of pi in a simplified resonant-fractal numbering system, which proves they know the angular momentum of the universe with fair precision. Clear and convincing evidence that would be visible throughout the solar system.

So yeah, I think no matter what we do to try to communicate with an alien intelligence, they would have to be very much like us (probably our own descendants or - who knows - ancestors) to even recognize the presence of the simplest message, much less decode it.
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It sounds a lot like the VMS shell (outside the directory manipulation and file redirection which was horrid, it wasn't that bad of a shell and the help facility was first rate).
I lived in Mountain View down the street from Google the last few years but here's where people will/should be going:

Hotels: If you want something nice, you're going to go to Palo Alto or Downtown San Jose. If you're fine with budget basics, hit all the hotels along El Camino between Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. Personally, I would choose the Hampton Inn on Moffett Blvd. between the 101 and Central. It's clean, pretty cheap, and two blocks from Castro St. with all the restaurants and stuff.

Restaurants: Castro St. and Downtown Palo Alto are your best bets. There are a lot of options on Castro St. so expect it to get crowded but the food is actually pretty damn good. This is not Michelin rated new American food like in SF, so stick to the Asian options if you don't want to go wrong. Get Hot Pot at Little Sheep or Sushi at Sushi Tomi or any of the other 5 ramen places within walking distance. In Palo Alto, you can get finer dining options.

Touristy Things: The museums and cultural options are more limited so take a short CalTrain ride directly to SF if you want that. If you have the weekend to spend, Mountain View is about an hour closer to Santa Cruz than SF is so head over there to get your tan and enjoy the beach.
Why can't people excel and be experts while being a regulator? That's like saying police have to be criminals before they can be police or they won't be experts.

If the financial industry is doing things so complicated that they cannot be policed, then they should be made to define their actions so that they CAN be policed, or their actions should be illegal.
How did they miss earnings, after buying back $2.3B of stock in Q1?
Where did that $1M come from? If it's from tax I'll say that a big waste.
Yup...I immediately thought "Really? Someone is predicting the final demise of the AS/400? Like someone has every year for the last 20 or so?".
I was looking at this as well. Is there only a video?
Please don't post content that is behind paywalls.
I'd be curious to know what happens in a mixed-DPI setup, e.g. internal 4K screen and external 1080p screen.
How we use custom emoji for Slack to quick poll groups
I love being able to delete redundant stuff, but I have to admit, there are a few commented out but not deleted lines in my code!

//If service reverts to this behavior, this is the spot where $ESOTERIC_CALL should be.
The same is said here but our current FCC chairman actually has some balls and was actively involved the past few years helping fight for net neutrality (though sadly at first being on the side of the ISPs)[0] which was kind of mind blowing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler#Net_neutrality
So many wheels on that truck. How does that truck make turns? Does it make turns?
I'm struggling to think of something more irrelevant to the technical needs of legislators than some fad storage technology.
Sending its competitors an influx of drivers who are lying about their identities would be a brilliant move on Uber's part.
Agreed. I'm done with making pithy comments about this sort of thing. It sounds a lot like an unhealthy culture, but I don't want to make that call based on a single article.

I wish the Pinterest team well, and I hope (for their sake) that this sort of behaviour isn't chronic.
Kim Dotcom Warns Mega Users to Backup Their Files
It was worth it to get out of a court case they were obviously losing that would establish precedent.
>"I know not one brave soul, not one"

Just because you don't recognize them doesn't mean they're not there.

Sometimes when you're "behind enemy lines" or consciously trapped in extreme group think, being tactful means being subtle, delicate, or unnoticeable.
Conor McGregor Just Announced His Retirement
World's First Variable Compression on Mobile Devices
About the amount of energy wasted, it is true, the energy used for securing the network is a waste, yet this waste is competing(or at least wants to be competing) with the alternative of physical security, of surveillance cameras, vaults and secure transport vans - or, alternatively, with banking electronic security systems. Compared to those, is the waste bigger or smaller for what it can offer? If you look it like that, at least for me, it makes sense and it seems quite efficient.

As to this point, what do you feel for example, abotu hight frequency trading? Is that not a waste also? I think it's an even greater waste, but it seems, as long as something is making money, nobody bats an eye.
When you consider the real reason you are getting the ticket isn't that you were speeding, everyone else was as well, but that you are an easy money with an out of state plate or maybe the color of your skin wasn't appreciated by the officer. Now, real speeding tickets are given for people who are violating even the extended limits, but for the reality is that legal realism + over arching laws + selective enforcement means that the law actually is that being the wrong skin color or from the wrong location or displaying the wrong political bumper sticker is a ticketable offense as long as the officer doing so is being discrete enough.
> Say someone makes a good proposal, spend $20 million. In return a get product line worth 100 million yr gross and $40 million net. Manager thinks, $100 million a year isn't going to get me a VP position at a $50 billion dollar company.

You could also be describing execs at Apple.
Besides, you have all the character bios for the full Marvel universe(s)...

I'm only half being sarcastic, as I've gotten lost in some of those articles trying to figure out who someone is... while I'm not sure of the encyclopedic value of those articles, they definitely have some entertainment value. For that matter, it may be worth clarifying fictional characters from those that are historic, or based on historic events.

One concept that always got me is the premise of an alien culture without sarcasm. They would have a very hard time with human culture/history.
Pedantic stupidity.
For those complaining about surveillance. people in countries like china/india, don't trust cab drivers as easily as they do in the first world.

If I can get into a cab in China and the app can tell me "yes, this is a driver that we have verified", this seems very useful and will make me feel safe(r).
Clickbait headline on site that blocks adblock users.
Hmm. I didn't know about her. It mentions strategic investments in INFOSEC and many of my good papers are DARPA funded. I wonder if there's a list of what hardware/software architectures were funded under her time there. It's the lower-level people that decide on the projects that I'm aware of but the Director usually sets the culture and priorities with significant effects.
I really appreciate this... Wow. I love your UI choices. More documentation should be written like this instead of a monolith table of contents.
You mean 33 feet. Height and altitudes below the transition level are in feet, not metres.
I'm actually at the point of considering graduate school to help my chances of establishing a life science based start-up in the future.

Is getting a graduate level degree (at least a Masters) a necessity to be the head of such a company? From what I've seen, most other companies in the space seem to be headed by people with either a PhD or MBA.
So go with the four-years-ago version.