skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be fine with me. If I handled the local roads and the car drove only on the freeway that would solve like 80% of the problem.

And because such a thing would be a huge win for trucking companies I fully expect the US will eventually instrument the entire interstate system to make this happen. (i.e. there is enough money in it to make it happen.)

Fully autonomous local driving is not likely to happen till we have real AI that can understand things like: the guy down the street is unloading a construction vehicle, so make a U-turn and go down a different street.
US nuclear force 'still uses floppy disks'
Extremists gonna extreme.

(one way or another this seems batshit crazy; I have no idea what to do about it)
That is exactly how the current US law works.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Independence_and_Securi...
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If you're using their web service it's simply a dropdown box to select alias to send from.
FYI, when you're on a GitHub page you can press the 'y' key to have the URL changed to one that includes a particular blob reference. It helps prevent bit rot. Curently, your linked line doesn't point to the `ctpop` intrinsic. I think you wanted https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/34fd68668152530dcd1d0...
This is one of the top factors preventing me from moving back to the Bay Area. It's good to know there's at least SOME serious attempt at a solution (even if folks around here are mostly pessimistic.)

It still surprises me that an industry that's all about connecting the world through the internet and allowing anyone to work with anyone else on anything says "yeah but you need to work in this small area of the country to do it."

The armchair economist in me says that high housing prices in the Bay Area will cause a market "correction" of sorts with other cities exploding as tech sectors -- see NY, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Las Vegas -- as those cities can get away with much better housing for cheap, even if the opportunities aren't as plentiful (yet.)

<conspiracy theory> The cynic in me likes to think that VC's and other wealthy tech execs are trying to keep housing prices high by artificially creating this in-elasticity ("you can have my funding if you live in SF" or "we don't allow remote workers"), as they all probably own houses in the area; the incentives for them would be to have housing prices keep rising, NOT fall, as they would lose significant real-estate equity. </conspiracy theory>
This is pretty chill of you man.
Cree TW series are the best i've found. They were only bulb to meet california's voluntary requirement for LED lights when i bought them. The requirements covers color rendering, temperature, dimmability, and other important things.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/2012publications/CEC-400-2012-016/C...
When I look at this bill I have to wonder if it will really help. Outside of the city of San Francisco itself, almost nothing is being built, because the construction costs are too high. Not the permitting and planning costs, but the actual guys-with-hammers-and-saws costs. For example in Oakland there are number of properties that are fully entitled to build and have been sitting that way for years. So how does Brown's bill help?
In my experience the cheaters don't socialize outside their group at all. That's how it's so easy to tell the cheaters from the normal people! They won't. And if half your class is like that, well.. yeah :(

My take on it: There's no solutions manual for building stuff in real life lol.
Sure, but look at the python community, 3 is still not being used everywhere because of non-backward compatible changes to the language.

It's an easy thing to say, but I think the success of Java was mainly due to this. I agree that tyoe erasure was a horrible compromise, and they should have revisited it sooner, but the language never left you behind.
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I understand geofencing and connecting devices to identities, but I don’t get the “delivers ads to smartphones” part.

They appear to be banner ads, so they’re not putting targeted ads on Facebook or Google. I didn’t think old-fashioned banner ads reached “normals” anymore.
Vancouver is a bit of an anomaly, and much of the housing pricing there is being driven by foreign investment rather than occupation rates.

I moved out of the sea-to-sky about 6 years ago (I'm from Whistler) but I seem to recall huge amounts of apartment vacancy in Yaletown and even Coal Harbour areas. From what I've been reading in Canadian news, it seems that many of these properties remain empty and are not in the rental pool as the act as a shell game for foreigners to move money our of other contries (mostly China, but others too I'm sure).

SF is a very small city, even compared to Vancouver, and from what I understand, vacancies are almost nil.
> Sarah Palin would have you believe we should have the "freedom" to eat what we want. However, for the vast majority of Americans that's a straight up pipedream.

I don't know, in every town there is a grocery store that sells produce, raw meat, and other unprocessed foods. If your argument is that the shopper is so overwhelmed by advertising that he just can't help but choose poorly --- well, that's the dividing line between conservatism and liberalism.

Actually I believe that there is truth to both sides, but either side taken to the extreme leads to absurdity. Full faith in the individual, and full faith in government, are each flawed.

> no different than those who pretend abstinence education prevents pre-marital sex

May I suggest you look into that more?
That's just personal/professional networking and you should consider working at it. I try to keep in touch with as many former co-workers as I can in case I find myself looking for something new or I can help out someone who is looking themselves.

That's my favorite opportunity: helping someone find a job when they need one.
From the legislation:

(C) Candelabra incandescent lamps and intermediate
base incandescent lamps.--
``(i) Candelabra base incandescent lamps.--A
candelabra base incandescent lamp shall not exceed
60 rated watts.
``(ii) Intermediate base incandescent lamps.--
An intermediate base incandescent lamp shall not
exceed 40 rated watts.

Anything over 60 watts was to become unavailable by 2012, with a schedule to retire the 40 and 60 watt bulbs. Ironically, this meant that to get the same lighting levels, you were permitted to buy more 40w bulbs, but not a single 100w bulb.

As to the "why cover US law?" question, I thought it relevant because the discovery was made by a US team at MIT and for there to be a "return" of incandescent bulbs would require both US and UK/European markets to be opened back up. Even if only as an irony juxtaposed with the location of the discovery, it was related.

Now the law as stated would seemingly permit incandescent bulbs of equivalent brightness to old 100w bulbs, but only if they are 27w or less. Or, you know, you could just buy a gaggle of 27 watt bulbs.
Hello Erlich Bachman?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Do you have any citations for this? I'm extremely skeptical. Harvard doesn't need the $20M; they're doing just fine as it is.
Some kinda javascript plugin that opens every link on the page, and then every link inside the pages following until it hits philosophy? XD

The best part is you could cap it to 5 levels of recursion before it runs away.

Still no way I'd have that in 15 minutes haha. I could describe it though!
I'm new to the Bay Area (moved here officially at the beginning of the year) so definitely interested in meeting more people / assembling a space for hackers/founders who want to live with others who are building things.

May have an additional room opening in July as well for a similar price.

I'd also like to host as many smart/driven folks as possible via couchsurfing.
Detached homes will not fall in price, pretty well ever. Since San Francisco is pretty well "out of space," when it comes to developing land, building up is the only option and will come to the detriment of detached housing.

This sort of development however should, as you say, assuage high rents and perhaps expand the condo market in SF.
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Like a browser? I'm confused at what else it could be.
When SELinux first came out I was working as a training instructor for RH. Every single knowledgable sysadmin was kicked in the teeth by 'avc denied', one of the dumbest error messages to ever be created in Unix.

'avc' was Access Vector Cache. The Access Vector Cache was a component of SELinux. AVC denied meant selinux was denying access. But instead of printing 'selinux denied' - you know, like smb messages are for samba, and postfix messages are for postfix - the SELinux folks seemingly just wanted their audience to do a web search for 'avc denied'.

It's a small picky thing, but rather than one person fix something, they made every admin do a piece of research instead.

This is a pity: SELinux is one of the things that fixes the peering (aka 'Containers don't contain') issue with Docker.
Here's one: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/04/mar...
ha I had to Google that.
And manufactures are already moving out of China to places like Indonesia and Vietnam.
Any language with support for web crawling? I can sorta see it being done in Node with cheerio[1] and an HTTP client.

[1] https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio
Yes, there are a number of similar arguments.
100% agree with you and that's why I said "Us Americans aren't so innocent", not "we're just as guilty" (Albeit, there are a lot of us who cheat also).
(I'm white and American.) My understanding is that Black people have taken a word that was used against them and "reclaimed" it. What used to be a white person's word is now a Black person's word. That's very powerful.

That's not to say of course that all Black people agree that it's acceptable for them to use it. But I believe that's the thinking for those who do.

It's similar, with important differences, to the word "queer," which used to be an insult until the LGBT community (disclosure: of which I'm a part) reclaimed it. The major difference, of course, is that straight people can say queer, while white people can't say... well, you know. And of course the story of oppression of Black people is unparalleled in this country. As oppressed as LGBT people have been, we were never shipped over the seas and enslaved.
>more memory most of time<

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/189542/
Isn't housing just a painful side effect of an astronomical influx of people moving to one city? IMHO, the problem is the tech industry being too centralized.
The post succeeds at saying nothing concrete about actual deficiencies in SELinux beyond "it gets in the way". Yes of course it does. That's what locked down systems do even if it's only to shoulder the blame for breaches on admins who disabled protections.
Yeah I've done my fair share of networking as I mentioned. Just meant it's also a common complaint by introverted students.
Thanks! Always good to learn new things
A 3.5 is easy. I got a a 3.82 at my school of engineering, while working, and commuting for about 4 hours per day. I didn't really even try that hard in school.
If construction costs explain the high price of bay area housing, how is it possible that houses in the midwest are produced at less than 1/5 the price? Are the Kansas guys with hammers really making 1/5 the wages of the California hammer swingers?
Perhaps a dumb question but why doesn't the Chinese government crack down on this? I feel like they have a pretty good handle on what's going on within their borders, and this issue is poisoning the reputation of Chinese-born young people whether as applicants to companies, applicants to grad school, or generally as trustworthy human beings.

Is it because the college students benefiting from these operations are the children of influential people? That's the only explanation I can think of that makes any sense.
There's some reasonable sized photo's of this monster here:

http://www.nist.gov/pml/div684/grp07/million-pound-deadweigh...
There are more ways to learn than asking. Like I said elsewhere, spend time with the person, get to know them. Make a new friend and experience their life. Chances are, those experiences dwarf anything else that they might care about.

you don't have the data and knowledge necessary to make decisions that affect this

What decisions are you making that are based on questions like "why do black people sit together at lunch?"

Look, I get it. Everyone wants to dive deep within someone else experiences ostensibly to be able to relate better or whatever. There is no shortage of these stories to be read in books, online or elsewhere. Where in my opinion it crosses the line is when it's in the work environment.

The only exception I can see for this is if your work revolves around deeply understanding or catering to a specific racial/other demographic that is not your own. That's problematic enough as it is, but in those cases it wouldn't be personal in the same way that these conversations seem to go.

The whole thing is voyeuristic.
Have you really been looking outside of SF?

Redwood city, about 30-40 min south of SF, has been booming with building growth. Developers are building, but can't get approvals with local governments fast enough.
Would X-rays corrupt the data on the floppy disk? Honest question, I have no idea.
This comment doesn't really add anything to the discussion especially because colleges have different grading scales and culture of grade inflation or deflation. For example in mine most GPAs hovered around 3.5. A 3.8 would be rare.
> Take off my glasses

I was wondering if that was the problem for me, but I'm so near-sighted that if I were close enough to actually see the cursor, there's no way the camera could see my eyes to track them. :-(
Shit like this, plus the leaked passwords is why I decided to deactivate my LinkedIn account altogether
Why should the Chinese government help Chinese apply to American universities and companies? They certainly want the best and brightest to stay home.
The affordable housing requirements to qualify for the streamlined process should mitigate this effect, to the extent that it's real in the first place.
It's a good theory but I think the investors are pretty straight-up about wanting their companies on a short leash.

The key will be those other cities/hubs having their own successes, bringing in the capital and expertise to nurture new talent. It's likely that the number of successful hubs that can be supported is pretty low. I happen to believe that the amount of (awful word) synergy needed to flip a few percent of startups from fail/borderline to success is pretty high. In other words, all those know-a-guy-who-can-help connections have to have a high concentration before it starts to pay off.

But then mine is just a theory as well and has a high chance of being wrong.
I wonder what the cost is to maintain uber legacy systems like that? Like at what point does it teeter over to being the most expensive thing like it? (while remaining less capable)
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I know the YN guidelines say to give preference to the story's original title, but "anti-choice" is a pretty loaded term.

In mainstream news coverage, the more neutral "anti-abortion" is typically used, as opposed to "anti-choice" or "pro-life."
Good idea but I think that wouldn't be practically possible. We redirect you to third-party sites but we don't know what the first results on those sites are.

Technically I suppose it's possible to "scrape ahead" and get the top result in the background before redirecting the user, but some sites change search results based on your profile/behaviour so it could be inaccurate. It may also be against those sites' terms and conditions.
I'm not naiive to the fact that is is an issue. However, it is possible.
True, but they also want their young people to get the best quality education available, especially in STEM, which is currently (and probably not forever) disproportionately situated in America.
While most of the tax goes into bureaucracy.

The idea of taxing automation sounds like discouragement of increasing the efficiency. If anything we should subsidise it!
While in general, there are sometimes people who feel put upon and don't feel like answering questions and/or having that difficult discussion of race, a job interview isn't the place to have it.

The power dynamic is too skewed for you get anything like a real answer to your question. If the question was designed to see how the interviewee handles pressure than that's a shit move to do.

Either way it's a terrible question. Also, it's an unfair one because other white applicants aren't getting this question. By definition, there really isn't a way for a white interviewer to be able to judge how well the interviewee responded to "Why isn't it OK to say nr". It can easily end up feeling like a personal judgement or worse a judgement on a person's entire race of which there is no way they could represent every perspective.

The fact that it was in a job interview just shows the that interviewee either didn't understand the context of the question which is strong evidence that they are probably a bad manager or they didn't care, which is even stronger evidence of a bad manager.
> First group don't want new houses and dilute value of their property

Increasing as-of-right development opportunities can potentially actually increase land values. Definitely bad for condo owners though.
I'd rather have floppy disks and air-gapped systems for our nuclear arsenal than have them all connected to an insecure network (which is pretty much any network these days).
What’s the path to VC cash?
Maybe the California hammer swingers have to pay higher rent.
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This is what I observed at McClellan AFB during my time there. No matter how hard I fought to do the work as a government engineer, management continuously turned the work over to contractors.
As to why? I was taken aside and given the most ridiculous reason. If the project fails or overruns, the manager just gets more money to give to the contractor. Being screwed by the contractor was acceptable. But if done organically and there were problems, the manager gets a ton of grief. But this is the government, what terrible fate will come down on the manager? I also noticed that a lot of these managers retired from government service ended up working for the contractors, and the process recycles itself.
This came back to bite McClellan AFB in the arse later. Come BRAC time, the contractors made it an easy choice to close the base by taking the work back their sites at a much reduced cost.
I imagine it's a lot tougher if English is not your native language.
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> The cynic in me likes to think that VC's and other wealthy tech execs are trying to keep housing prices high by artificially creating this in-elasticity

I think the benefits of more people meeting, networking, and starting new things in the area vastly outweighs their interest in their homes. It's not like this really affects the pricing of mansions much anyway, and if they aren't living in a mansion, it's probably such a small amount of their overall wealth that it's inconsequential.
I think its wise to have a healthy housekeeping policy if you're going to use lvm snapshots. Any point in time copy on write snapshot is going to cause performance degradation. However, it really depends on the volume and you can't speak universally for everything/everybody. For example if you have a drive with 100 files but only write to one of them. (for simplicity) The first time you rewrite those blocks are going to endure the hit for the copy on write. (dual writes) After that first rewrite of all those blocks you can't really tell the difference that the snapshot exists. This obviously assumes that you don't have a ton of additional snapshots compounding writes..
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This would sound much less impressive if they just said 500 tons. Also, why the dead weight? 500 tons is easily doable with a (smallish) hydraulic press.

The actual title of the article is "How Do You Lift A Million Pounds Of Stainless Steel?" I feel like they didn't answer that question either. It turns out that the weights are in fact lifted by hydraulics.
What possible purpose could it serve to ask that question in a job interview?

I always believe that job interviews are two ways; the applicant interviews the company as much as the company interviews the applicant.

Also, he didn't whine. He rationally explained as well as he could in a few minutes and moved on. Ultimately, the company liked him but, he wisely didn't go with a company that would have such terrible interviewers and allow such terrible questions in the interview.
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This is the exact model that LucasArts had. If you listen to stories from the original LucasArts crew, like David B. Fox, they tell stories that they were not allowed to make Star Wars games (originally to their disappointment) because George Lucas knew there was always somebody else willing to pay him gobs of money for the permission to make a Star Wars game. They take all the risk, and he makes money.

So this model is proven. Despite the hypothetical risk to not owning the IP, there was always somebody willing to pay and take the gamble.
Maybe i'm missing something but isn't this just like Urban Airship? Basically you need to have an app already in production, and you push through Twilio instead of directly hitting APNS. I do understand the benefits of having a 3rd party manage expired device tokens and sending broadcast push, etc. but having a hard time understanding what's novel about this.
It's a hard decision to make, whether to tell people your perspective from a marginalized position. They feel bad and don't know what to do with that knowledge, or how to integrate it with their own different experiences. I love the bullet points of advice Makinde gives here for people hearing unfamiliar experiences from their coworkers or friends, to figure out how they can be okay with that discomfort.
I'm currently renting out my upstairs walk-in closet. I live in Potrero, near 26th & Rhode Island. The closet is pretty big and can easily fit a double bed and dresser. $900 + utilities, but we might be able to work something out.

edit: this is a serious post
The article describes the IT systems as "creaky" and referred to the "jaw dropping" GAO report that inspired this article was described as "sobering". So, it would appear that the problem the article referred to is the obsolete systems.
That sounds like exactly what happened in the crash scenario. The driver tapped the break, said "meh, the car will handle it" and then plowed into the car in front of them.

I'm pretty leery of these systems at the moment due to people using them like this. That's just not what they are ready for at the moment and people's unrealistic expectations are leading them down dangerous paths.
As I said, for display, too, film beats them all.
That's cool and all, but sort of counter to the point being made. Subsidizing housing for those already on top doesn't really help with wealth inequality.
More likely scenario is that the professors have been told by the school to turn a blind eye.
I suppose it's a different shear force to apply all the weight at once rather than hydraulically.
I assumed that too, but the additional implication I'm reading into the parent comment is that the professor might be in on it too.
It also depends on the quality of electricity in one's house. I've lived in places that chewed through CFLs at a rapid pace, and yet the same sourced bulbs would last for years in a different house.