skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Director of Diversity and Belonging.

Wow.
Transportation uses absolutely dwarf others, and many of the non-gasoline byproducts are only cheap because the gasoline itself is so in demand.

Gasoline itself was once seen as a useless byproduct of kerosene production.
Or by applying maintenance at the right time to keep streets in good condition -- see, for example, the chart here: https://www.bloomingtonmn.gov/sites/default/files/media/PMP-...

If you're curious about your city, key question to ask is whether they have a pavement condition database. If they don't, they have no idea what the right amount of maintenance is. If they do, they should be able to predict whether they are spending at the right rate, and predict the same for the next several years.
Sweet! Lmk if you have any suggestions for improvements.
> So where is the problem?

Whether or not its a "problem", that is an explanation of why it is an accurate description of the scenario faced by the group in question, and a useful label.

> Inflation adjusted income has barely increased at all for anyone but the top 20% of earners since the mid-1960s

Its barely increased for the averages of segments of the income distribution. That doesn't mean individuals don't see income growth over time (and even move between, e.g., income quintiles), it just means that (except in the top ranges) the overall distribution isn't moving up.

That's an important issue, to be sure, but its a different issue that individuals on fixed incomes and the impacts specific policies, etc., may have on the, distinct from the rest of the population which makes it useful to identify and discuss them as a group with a label.
We live in a time of Big Data. I think of Walmart - where they use hidden cameras with facial recognition to track all their employees (as well as monitoring every call.) This makes me think that money and power in a society should come with obligations - and one obligation should be to submit to monitoring. We need to track the wealth of rich people - and all their backroom deals to avoid taxes, manipulate laws, influence politicians, and their use their money in our society. Our society should have a say in all those decisions, since they impact and define our society. This would also allow our society to put a fee on their transactions.

We need much less monitoring and regulation of typical citizens, and much more monitoring and regulation of those who control our lives. That will help us get control of many of the non-transparent tricks used to hide their huge wealth - offshores, derivatives, fake accounting, charities, trusts, and offshore payoffs with under-valued stock.
This is correct. There is Government, but then there are the secret powers-that-be that pull governments' strings.

And they can't work effectively to further their own ends while in the light of public scrutiny.
NASA didn't become boring because of internal culture. They were planning all sorts of crazy stuff:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/dreamingadifferentapollo/

NASA became boring because they were ordered to become boring and were defunded.
>Be quiet and accept capitalism in other words.

I suppose, though I would have worded it "Grow up".
Why is there a giant heart-shaped lock obscuring most of the screen?
This title is truly unfortunate, because if the article becomes popular it will contribute to the Computer Programmer Licensing movement.
Electoral reform. Can't right the ship without being at the wheel.
"It really does help to aid in the trust between the guest and the host . . . You want to make sure that the guest who shows up at your door is the person you've been communicating with."

How does a photo do that? The photo just ensures that the person at your door matches the photo. But why is that important? That is, what info are you trying to glean from the photo?
That may be favourable in the short term but a monopoly position stagnates R&D due to lack of need. Plus Elon Musk doesn't strike me as the type to avoid innovating.
The world's economy visualized in one simple map
Or go on beating that dead horse.
"The problem here is that it's almost impossible to review intent; maybe I really DID think my vacation was going to be cancelled, but then a project at work got cancelled so it came back."

Sure, people will lie about intent, not even be aware of their subconscious bias against black people, whatever...

That's why you look at the aggregate totals. It's just not going to be the case that coincidentally black travelers have their rentals rejected at a larger rate because of random external forces like renter projects being canceled.
That warm vacuum-tube tone is just what the Raspberry Pi has always been missing
Goddam fateless tickers. Why can't they just stay put?
Very interesting! I'd like to migrate off Disqus, but I'd like to not leave my old comments orphaned. Do people know of any export services? (This may be an ill-posed question since comments arguably belong to their authors..)
The cosmological Lemaître- Eddington model later became knick named "big bang" by Frederick Hoyle later, who apparently was reluctant to "believe" that the universe had a beginning point. It's commonly speculated that many of the physics community at that time disliked the idea as a statically existing universe was in vogue and that Lemaître was a Catholic priest caused Hoyle and others to deride the model as a "big bang" (with an underlying assumption that Lemaître assumed that God was the originator of why the expansion happened, see [1] pg 6). It's a bit unclear as to the exact thoughts of Lemaître and Hoyle, but there a good history on arrival [1].

So belief in the big bang affected the physicists who figured out the original cosmological model of the big bang and it took changing beliefs (based on evidence gained day the scientific method) for it to become accepted as a theory. Belief matters quite a bit. :)

[1]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.0219.pdf
Thats just fucking awesome if true. Its like "how can we maximize the use of some 'cheaper' technology and a shit-ton of math to accomplish this in the technologically simplest way?"

Wow.
What is PO?
Has happened to me several times. Most blatant was a guy who had multiple open properties in Miami for Art Basel and denied that any of them were available. There should be some kind of agreement where hosts can not book a given slot if they deny a user in good standing that reservation. I'm not a host but I'm curious what are some legitimate reasons for a cancellation if the user agrees to all of the host's terms....
Had to go revisit my hobby code to work out what my hangup was.

It was specifically capsule/triangle collision I got stuck on.

I had reasoned that with just capsule triangle I could do a 3D platform game on a mesh. However, I kept getting very wrong bounces off of edges.
Seems like the landing is now around 29min: https://youtu.be/L0bMeDj76ig?t=28m58s
You mean like this change.org petition? https://www.change.org/p/jo-johnson-sir-david-attenborough-t...
> We did not exactly get a fair shake when it came to those trade deals like NAFTA that Clinton signed back in the 90s.

Minor nitpick, but NAFTA, as a deal -- that is, the agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico -- was signed by George H. W. Bush. The US law implementing the agreement was signed by Clinton.
I've been using RC for a couple of months now in production, albeit my site is very small, and has been proven rock-stable. And the code is a pleasure to read. Amazing piece of software! Keep up the good work!
>>Nature by default doesn't have nuclear weapons....

While I agree with your sentiment, just would like to point this out that nature does have nuclear weapons, pretty scary ones for that matter: the stars.

Also, if we take these things to their logical conclusion, then the nuclear weapons created by human beings are, of course, created by nature - in this case, indirectly, using the humans.

This is just to point out the logical aspects of the arguments. Other than that, I do agree with you that we, the humans, need morals to sustain a better life for most human beings.
Weakening the consistency of operations on the slow path is not going to be a speed-up. Those paths are not dominated by pipeline effects inside the CPU. They are dominated by context switches and memory contention. So, SC is exactly right: it's harder to get wrong and exactly the same speed.

It's true that WTF::Lock doesn't support priority inheritance. That's fine for WebKit's threads.
A UK company with a slightlly different but related business model https://propertymoose.co.uk
Depends whose culture. Culture in the large or just hacker (in the given sense of 'underground scene') culture ? It could be argued that Anonymous vs (e.g.) CDC is apples to oranges.

Honestly I'm not sure, after reading it half a dozen times, not finding any unfamiliar words or concepts and reading the refs I still have absolutely no idea what the word salad between the intro and the end actually means.

On the other hand I very definitely can think of a bunch of pragmatic reasons (outwith the lack of extant unisonant collectivist hive minds) that people aren't currently busy openly forming underground, anarchist, borderline criminal (more in bravado than fact, but still) networks.
I'm not sure. I certainly would never use a third party collision library because I think collisions are simple enough, but on the larger subject of whether Rust is suitable for game programming; I think so, but cannot confirm. There are a lot of abstractions that require pointer dereference, which is somewhat likely to give you a performance drain, and those abstractions are I guess somewhat harder to avoid than in C++, but not terribly so. Both languages give you the ability to do "data directed design" if you really really want to.
My preference for Rust stems from my preference for interfaces, or traits as they are called in Rust. If you want to use features like these then Rust is a no brainer. I have yet to see the true impact on performance these abstractions have however.
The points isn't to have two mutexes in the same cache line. The point is to have a mutex plus the data that the mutex protects in the same cache line.
One awesome GoPro accessory that you want, almost funded on Kickstarter
$400K/Y in salary, not an offer on a house.
Thrivist – Week in Review
The Jay Z-funded 'Uber for private jets' startup is shutting down
Mitigating ImageMagick vulnerabilities in Node.js
Not only that but we need to look at just how much of the current tax income is diverted into the military industrial prison complex around the world, if that money went back to ordinary people you wouldn't necessarily need to raise current tax rates to support basic income.
Not to be an empty-calorie comment, but genuinely thanks for sharing that. Found it to be very helpful!
Can't you grandfather your 15GB by ... asking? That's what I did.
>According to your logic we should all feel cynical and contemptuous that Mountain Dew is not now named, "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong."

Gushing Granny was more popular.
I think lawyers are still the new lawyers.

One of the major benefits of society is to remove the need for individuals to keep their own firepower. You're allowed to defend yourself, but the goal is to make it so you can feel safe in a city of 8 million people with no more than a heavy bag, cell phone, or can of mace.

In the digital world, you still need self-defense (network protections, strong passwords, small attack surface), but hopefully not everybody has to hire cyber-thugs to defend their turf. If another cyber-thug attacks you, you figure out who they are, call your lawyer, and let the state deal with it.

It's not perfect, but I'd think lawyers will learn unmasking techniques before corporations hire body-guard divisions full of black-hat crypto types. And international conflict is always messier...
As opposed to disabling the knockoffs and genuine chips.

Sorry for the confusion. I noticed that English speakers place "only" before the verb in such sentences and I'm monkeying them even though it doesn't make sense to me either ;)
TED: The Mind Behind Linux – Linus Torvalds
https://medium.com/humane-tech/against-don-t-read-the-commen...

"We’ve made a habit out of telling people not to read the comments online. But what started as a cynical in-joke has become a bad habit, and an excuse for enabling abuse across the web."

Just pointing out that while comments are terrible, it's Huffington Post that enables them to happen unchecked.
No, Apple Music is not deleting tracks off your hard drive
S/He was just one integration off. Let's not be too harsh.
This comment on the post is pure gold!

Fascinating! It’s not about asking questions, it’s about asking the right questions! The first framing question is efficiency from blade to outlet, but it’s really about effciency from capital markets to factory floor to farm to outlet.

That should become a mantra. It's about efficiency from capital markets to revenue per customer.
Pre paywall ""Europe must take stock of what is happening in the United States , because if nothing is done , in ten years, our launcher sector will be in big trouble. "
Faced with the offensive for two and a half years in the space by Elon Musk , who breaks the prices of commercial satellite launches, Arianespace boss Stephane Israel sounds alarm . The distortion of competition will intensify as the founder of SpaceX was awarded on April 28 , its first contract with"
Keep in mind that legal vs illegal is a completely different question than right vs wrong. Whistleblower protections need to extend to cover more than just exposure of illegal activites.
Break up corporations that have grown to large and powerful into smaller chunks, turn the chunks into worker co-ops.

IMO, regulating bad behavior of huge international corporations is a losing game. It addresses the symptoms of the size of corporations, but not the problem.

If you're a small government fan:

Doesn't it make sense that governments have to grow to compete in power with these huge NGOs? If they were smaller, the regulation of these entities could be passed onto city and/or state level governments where the people are (supposedly) better represented.
The Polaris Project and Palantir Partnership Against Sex Trafficking
The post details why we spin for the amount of time that we do. It turns out that there is a wealth of measurements that support our 40-spins-while-yielding rule. It worked for a strangely diverse set of workloads:

- IBM Research found it to be optimal on the portBOB benchmark on a 12-way AIX POWER box in 1999.
- I found it to be optimal for DaCapo multi-threaded benchmarks on both AMD and Intel SMPs in ~2007.
- I again found it to be optimal for WebKit these days.

The point of spinning for a short time and then parking is that parking is hella slow. That's why you can get away with spinning. Spinning is net profitable so long as the amount you spin for is much smaller than the amount of time the OS will waste while parking.
Google-backed Yieldify sues Bounce Exchange over alleged patent infringement
Recently fascinated by the thought of piping donations directly to poor populations and allowing them to use it as they wish. I watched the documentary Poverty, Inc. [0] regarding the "poverty industry" and how endless foreign aid in these countries is killing the economy. If Toms shoes dumps 1,000 pairs of shoes in the city center every week, how the hell would a cobbler stay in business. Or if the U.S. pumps an endless supply of rice into Haiti, how could Haitian rice farmers sell their inventory?

Instead, give these people the cash to purchase locally sourced goods or open a business of their own. Economies don't spring up out of a pile of free rice.

[0] http://www.povertyinc.org/
I was impressed too!
I hope not. The book was needed because these conditions were part of the landscape and couldn't really be changed, so travelers just had to deal with them. This behavior was known and expected.

Now, it's not expected and not typically tolerated. It survives by being obscure. Far better to draw attention to it and fight it than to just advise people of where to avoid.
> Does nature by default have morals?

Define nature, and, particularly, what things are excluded from it.
I think you've misunderstood the innovation. The innovation in using a generator that is smaller than the blades and tower are capable of supporting isn't in the light-load efficiency of the generator. Its in the lower capital cost of the electrical system.
Whether a person is honest or whether a liar, they generally trip over themselves to cough up the proof that they say they have, if they actually have it.

"Too many people didn't believe me, so now I will NEVER show the proof, so there!" --- that's completely transparent bullshit coming form a grown man. If it was a nine-year-old girl, I might continue to believe, due to accepting the drama as emotionally genuine.
Because when searching in 2017+ knowing the year of the article might be nice. With the Wayback Machine and its ilk around the Internet is not ephemeral.
Moving capsule triangle collision is much more complicated but certainly doable. I would have to describe that algorithm in a blog post or by email (if you want to know more, feel free to shoot me an email). The basic premise that allows for simple capsule plane collisions, that the closest point on a capsule will always get closer, breaks down when the plane is bounded.
Why must there be trust in the transaction, and how is trust built by verifying the identity of a person you still don't know? The guest's credit card information is on hold and AirBnb has insurance policies in place. Of course the host can always bring forth a civil suit in worst case scenarios. There are protections in place for the increased risk of personal property being compromised.

Airbnb bookings are business transactions. I don't see why the host has to trust the guest anymore than a hotel/motel has to trust their guests.
So You Want to Start a Monitoring Company
It is evidence that the guest's online persona that the host has been communicating with is the same as the offline persona who shows up at host's door.
They sure are good at this. Next, it will be moved to 500 MB.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-reneges-on-unlimited-...
"This ones been up and back, it works. This one hasn't flow yet but we think it's good"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM
"this is about local, city-maintained streets. Unless you live directly on a state or federal highway, those gas taxes, state sales taxes, and income taxes do not go towards the street you live one."

This statement in the article is untruthful. The Ames budget he references explicitly lists gas tax money as going to local street maintenance.
> Snowden revealed both legal and illegal behavior.

Pretty much all whistleblowing addressing illegal behavior will reveal legal behavior connected or related to, supporting, etc., the illegal behavior. So what?
I have never made use of the 1tb space that comes with office 365 exactly because ms do these sorts of things. If you're storing 1000gb and later they suddenly decide to reduce you to 500gb, what do you do? Any course of action is going to be painful.
Lyft/GM partnership to put self-driving cars on the road within a year
> the point on a capsule closest to a plane will always get closer to the plane, unless the capsule is moving away

What if the capsule is spinning like a boomerang while moving toward the plane?
I think this greatly overestimates the importance of IT and high technology in the modern economy. Outside of the pure tech companies that are well known on HN, most technology is used to facilitate the rest of whatever the company in question does. It isn't the business itself.

Most economic value is due to labor and tangible products, and cyber attacks can only indirectly touch those. Cyber attacks are unfortunate, sure, but they're hardly all that damaging to the core operations of the organizations they affect, unless, of course, it's something like Stuxnet, where physical damage is done.
That's definitely on the To Do list.

I need to add a little authentication interface for the admin - the complexity starts to pile up. But I think it can be done nicely.
It is amusing that you insist your speculation about something you've never done is more valuable than the experience of someone that has pioneered it.
While initially in favor of basic income due to the income trap created by the traditional approch, I have come to oppose it due to a better understanding I now have of the nature of money. Consider that basic income works when you think of money in the micro context as a means of exchange for goods and services, but not when you think of it in the macro context as a reflection of the wealth of a society. Simply transferring money from one group to another does not make the second group wealthier.
I don't know that I agree. Lawyers represent the interests of their client and sometimes apply the law to achieve it. Law is not machine code that operates a lawyer with no room for deviation; I would expect counsel to use discretion and ethics, and perhaps not use every law available to represent me in a way I do not prefer.

I don't think that's "politicking." I think that's jurisprudence. The law lets you do a lot but a lawyer has advice exceeding the law in many situations, and should advise you based upon your interests. I'm in a position to completely punish someone legally, for example, and the law is on my side; my attorney advised me of this but also illustrated some of the risks of doing so despite the legality. Another client might ride that lightning and be a dick, but she knows I'm not so she advised against doing it. That specific situation came down to just fairness and understanding me personally, not even ethics or law. Maybe I misinterpreted your comment, but it sounds like that's second guessing to you and she shouldn't have done it, in your opinion.

I would expect nothing less of counsel I retain, and I appreciate it. That's why we hire lawyers. Not law robots.
How about Maintenance Free Servers (MFS -> miffs)?

I could go on and on about the MFS, but I choose to leave it at that... the MFS are awesome. It even leaves room to the imagination. ;-)
I'm thinking I would like it to start off small and local first... and then see where it takes the group.
Setec Astronomy is just a code name of the project, not an actual place.
Snowdens role in exposing the rubber stamp fisa courts may be exposing something legal, but clearly broken.
Hey folks, this is James from Dropbox. As with the last post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282948) a few of us will check in from time to time to see if there are any questions.

Apologies for taking so long to get this blog post out! We'll follow up with a few more posts going into more technical details.
Mastering the Toughest Part of Sales
One-blade systems do have a counterweight. There are two parts to the vibration problem: One is that the flow field on the lee side of the tower is quite a bit different from the rest of the blade's sweep, so there is a once-per-turn torque pulse in that part of the path. The other is that the air flow field above the height of the nacelle is different from that below the nacelle. Since you are still in the planetary boundary layer, the airspeed varies with height.
Of course. But the cognitive load required to be made aware of one and then process and make a decision to watch is nearly instantaneous.
Basic income isn't designed to make the recipients wealthier directly (OTOH, access to greater goods and services produces more opportunities to become wealthier over time, which is more the point.)
I wonder how much MS is saving by cutting the free storage from 15 to 5 GB. I assume most people using the service are using less than 5 GB anyway. Is it worth it considering the huge amount of PR backlash that this caused?