skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be happy to extend a beta license for a brand new grassroots lobbying platform to the folks at YC for them to be more efficient and effective while managing this effort.

Heck, if anyone on HN is part of any lobbying effort in California and would like a beta experience of a new platform email me lane (at) fastAdvocate (dot com)

Warning you in advance, the website up today is horrible and not representative of the beta product. The homepage is about to be replaced. We focused on the product first.
Anecdote: Foreign student where I went to school flat out cheated on the final. When caught, he copped to it. A humanities prof then went to bat for him, saying that it was okay to cheat where he came from. They didn't expel him.
Now try convincing http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/ :)
China's plagiarism problem : http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/26/china-cheating-innovation-m...
Recent Samsung financial results say that their profit growth is fueled in part by Galaxy S7. So, no, there are fairly profitable android makers.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/27/11523616/samsung-earnings-...
> reserved using the city's official reservation system
A map of the toilets? Each update could still have a status assigned to it (available/broken) so you could just query the toilets which are available
> behind these products are simply engineers trying their best to create tools and products that they think add value

Nothing LinkedIn does adds any value to anything. It's like the buzzfeed of social networks. If a constant barrage of clueless recruiters doesn't drive people away, it's the insane "recommendation" engine that gets people who have never touched a line of code to recommend me for Ruby on Rails (I don't even know Ruby).

No matter how many times I told LinkedIn to stop emailing me, they always thought up new features to notify me for (and, of course, enabled them by default).

The entire app is a toxic spamfest. I closed my account long ago and I have NEVER looked back.
The point is that a whole fleet can rack up daunting numbers in a very short time.
Did the article say there was a problem? If so, what did they say the problem was?
In the wonderful world of work, these comments/questions are absolutely, unquestionably, without a doubt, inappropriate and should never happen.

Never.
I was waiting for someone to use that meme. Thanks freind.
If you are passionate about the housing crisis in The Bay Area, you should check out The San Francisco Bay Area Rentors Federation.

They are one of the groups doing the most activism on this issue.
> What was it about post WWII that was so special that actually had impact on the economy?

Lots of special things in post WW2.

- Europe was bombed and smashed into oblivion.

- A whole generation of English, French, Austrian, German, and Russian workers and professionals who would have been at career peak were instead in graves under WWI battlefields of France and Eastern Europe.

- Colonial empires imploded.

- The US had unprecedented leverage over most of the world diplomatically and commercially.
Careful with the strawmen; it was never stated that there is no difference. The point I read was that unfair advantage should be discouraged in all forms, no matter how insidious or subtle. I think it's a very valid point: You don't need to be a moral absolutist, but it's only fair to keep an eye on the nuanced avenues of unfair advantage as well as the explicit ones.
I would love a native mac client for this.
That's not really an excuse for the error. The general term for the thing in question is a legislature (which is also California's specific term.) Being wrong and calling it California's Congress doesn't make it more accessible, nor does calling state legislators "Congress members"just, it just makes it look like you don't know what you are talking about to anyone with even a passing familiarity with California government.

And if you can't get that kind of basic thing right, why would people trust you on the substance, which takes a lot more understanding of government to interpret correctly.
I only recognize it from its tile like interface... but yeah I think the ship has sailed for them a while ago about recognition
YES!

And I don't want to piss of the uhh, bros among us, but it was extremely unfair as an international student to see mediocre fraternity brothers party through the semester, and then using their 'frat-connections' (basically the DL on all the old questions sets, collected over decades, and detailed coaching by fellow brothers on likely questions and answers) due exceedingly well in the exams, and then use their frat connections to land exceedingly awesome jobs. Blame the Chinese all you want, it hurts because they're the 'other'. (/rant. Sorry. Makes me really mad. I WORKED HARD TO LEARN AND ENJOYED CLASSES.) Funnily enough, I did exceedingly well in those exams that were open book (instructors knew the 'sharing of past papers happened, so they changed questions types) to which I didn't any scrap of paper. /humblebrag. But yeah, the system is unfair as it is.

Having said that, dear Americans, as broken as things are (despite those gosh darned 'cheatin' Chinese', as Trump would say), the system is better than anywhere else. Thanks for that : )
Discussion of a previous post in the series: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11380174
I'm not sure what you are talking about, but Apple and Tesla are nothing at all like Samsung in any way.
This is absolutely true, but it's not only about being risk averse in hiring -- it's about outsourcing your selection process to the universities. If you had to find 100 young people to be the next class of analysts at your fancy consulting firm, where would you start looking? It just makes sense to go to the places where high-achieving young people congregate. There's not a better system (maybe standardized testing would work, but that doesn't solve the problem).
>> I really don't think the article was seriously suggesting what you think it was

> Then maybe it shouldn't have a purposefully click-baitingly title suggesting it does

I normally hate clickbait, and yet I liked this article and its headline. Maybe because the tone was self-deprecating, like me getting on a bicycle and saying, "Look out, Tour de France!"

Actually, it's like a fish getting on a bicycle and jokingly saying, "Look out, Tour de France." Maybe the fish isn't anywhere near good enough on a bike to compete in the Tour de France, but still, it's a fish on a bicycle.

In the same way, Git will run circles around ZFS as a source-code version-control system. On the other hand, it's way cool that ZFS can even do some of these things, because after all it's just a filesystem.
I tried to read the bill, but don't know how the old text read, and am far from a development lawyer.

Will this have the impacts Mr. Altman suggests they will? Specifically - significantly more development of multi unit dwellings?
In the US it's illegal to require a degree for almost all postitions that people around here are concerned with. Companies always try to elide this, but bizdev, marketing, programming, sysadminning, sales, and starting a company are not classified as the kinds of skilled positions for which a diploma can be required, such as engineering, finance, architecture, law, medicine, etc. I don't know if this maps perfectly to board-certified professions (IANAHR), but there does appear to be a pattern.
Instead of looking at the issue morally, one can see what it boils down to: learning vs credentialing

This shows that one wants a credential, but does not want to learn. There are tons of people out there who precisely want that.
Cannot believe I'm posting here but relevant:

I have a room in my house in the Sunset opening next month. $900. It's month-to-month rent. Looking to house a founder/hacker/designer/etc currently struggling with SF rent (or someone who wants to move to SF but didn't think they could afford to live in SF)

My email is in my bio.
> If you decide to add the cert manually, you can inspect the key and see who has signed it, and decide your level of trust.

No one has signed it, because the mythical web of trust does not exist. What now?
Interestingly, I go to a big state school that is somewhat a playground for the international Chinese elite. It's very common to see chinese international students driving $80,000+ cars and many of those same students cheating in classes. In a grad stat/software engineering class I took, most of them shared the same code for the assignments (in front of the professor). I hate to generalize because some of them are honest, but cheating is a terrible part of the subculture
Sorry, fixed. Very busy day.
What's wrong with 8" floppy disks? They seem easy to manufacture (same as a VHS tape but cut differently), are pretty reliable if you keep them away from magnets (Which is common sense), and don't really have a shelf life problem until the plastic gets brittle. Hell, if they degrade, you can even retrieve the undamaged parts with no fuss.

Who wins by moving to SD?
Huh? How did you get from cheating at a mid-western school to bashing the "1%" at Harvard? All you need are the Koch Brothers and you could post this on the Daily Kos!
tl;dr Reprinted excerpt from "The Practice of System and Network Administration" v1 ed3 . Do work in small batches for better feedback, lower stress, etc. Devops focussed anecdotes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism strikes again.
It's specifically about California. This level of government is the "Legislature" in all states.

"State Legislature":
- "State Senate"
- "State Assembly"
I just interview people. I really don't care where they went to school, or if they have a degree. If they've got the chops, that's all I care about.

In a small company it's pretty easy to avoid the automatic filters of large companies, the ones that screen out applicants without degrees, or from "wrong" universities, or who have low GPAs. Most of these metrics don't seem to matter in the long run (but they are easy for HR types to apply, so they do).

GPAs and such probably matter in government orgs, or places that are very strict and hierarchical. You probably want to avoid places like these anyway.
Speaking of that, This reminds me of the WII Mi persona that you had when you were asked to make when you started oup your Wii. What happened to that.
Hey, if it ain't broke...
This is a jr programmer mistake, sr programmers know that a couple slides is usually enough to contain the essence of the problem, and yet not enough to paint them into a corner, make something that solves the crux of the problem, and rename a couple of your classes to items on the boxes drawn on the classes, and a couple of the methods have the same names as drawn on the lines between the boxes.

If anyone questions it, show Sr Mgmt that the class and method names match, say it works, and that everyone else is just a bunch of whiners. (The most important thing is that it works enough for a sales guy to convince the customer that it does everything they wanted)

Everyone wants a Lexus but if they're stranded on the side of the road a Lada will do quite nicely. Arriving with a Lada always make you the hero. You can go for beers with mgmt after and negotiate a raise while laughing about how you're surprised the wheels didn't fall off.
User friendly CLI apps for Elixir
With the exception of changing lanes automatically, my Jeep Cherokee does all this stuff.

It does, however, automatically adjust your speed to match the lane you're changing to.

At the end of the day, it's all about sensors and software. I'm sure Tesla has better engineers than Fiat Chrysler but I'm also pretty sure it's off the shelf for them and they just bolt it into the car at this point.

Good stuff, though. Can't wait to see full point A to point B navigation.
The linked report is worth a scan:

http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/677454.pdf

Pages 15 to 19 are what the CNBC article picked up on:

This system coordinates the operational functions of the nation’s nuclear forces. This system is running on an IBM Series/1 Computer—a 1970s computing system—and uses 8-inch floppy disks - from page 19

The IBM Series/1 isn't that ancient (well for me anyway) and was comparable to 16 bit Data General (I trained on Data General Nova 3's, 4's and Eclipse S/130's back in the mid-80's) and DEC mini's of the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1

As long as you keep up with the usual preventative maintenance (filter changing etc), these old boxes just keep on working. Sometime in the early 2000's a buddy of mine still had a preventative maintenance contract on a DG Nova 3 [0] attached some astronomy kit. John asked if I fancied a day out to see this machine and go along with him on his PM visit. I hadn't seen an old Nova or Eclipse machine since the early 90's, so why the hell not? When I asked why such an old machine (probably manufactured in '75 or '76) hadn't been replaced with a faster smaller box (e.g. top end PC server type of thing), the reason was at the time nothing could come close to the data channel speeds this old box could sustain when collecting data from their astronomy thing.

If anyone from St Andrews astronomy department knows about this old machine I'd love to know what happened to it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova
APN (apple push notify service): Apple lets you route a push notification to a cell phone

FCM (firebase cloud messenger): Google will let you push notifications to either android devices or iOS through APN, transparently abstracting device differences away from you

Twilio Notify: Twilio will send either over SMS or FCM, abstracting the presence of the app install away from you

I know this is a good thing as software gets easier, and I'm aware that all software works through abstraction, but for web services in particular this seems like crazy nested service glue.
Silly brag. I often work out of a local library where the blinds don't work, so I always carry a towel in my bag which I use to block the sun.

I always know where my towel is. Every day is Towel Day for me.

Thank you, Douglas Adams!
Hardly. She seems quite adept at manipulating and threatening employees who question her behavior.
I highly doubt this bill would pass without severe modifications. The problem is that we have two groups in population: One who own houses and other who don't. First group don't want new houses and dilute value of their property. Politicans very well knows that making this group unhappy will end their careers. The second group is often in minority outside large cities. This is why its very hard to pass laws that would allow build new houses. It's great that SamA is taking interest in this. If enough valley billionaires can pay for lobbing then politicians can finally ignore their majority constituents and do the "right thing" :).
A long time ago at a university not far away, I and a few classmates all turned in the same report for a group project. The teacher absolutely and rightly thought we were cheating, after which we explained that we interpreted the instructions to mean that a group project would have a group paper. He seemed to accept this and gave us like an extra week to compile our own papers, but he must have smoked an extra bowl that night. I know I would have if I was a professor in that situation!
I don't know if it's useful to you, but I can link you to Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis (2006):

http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

He also wrote this InfoQ article on the subject of Nix and NixOS which may have some useful information (2014):

https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-management-with...

The Wikipedia pages for Nix and NixOS also have some interesting references.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NixOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_package_manager

Edit: I have been playing with NixOS at home for a few months and I think it's very interesting, but I'm a bit surprised I haven't heard more about it over the past decade or so. I'm thinking that the recent industry focus on deployments and provisioning has caused more people to come across it.
Because of this article, I decided to review my settings.

To avoid LinkedIn from sending out these dreadful 'In the news' emails, I had to mouse over 'account', then click 'Manage Privacy Settings'. Then you don't actually get privacy settings, but you get 'Account' (go figure.) So you have to click on 'Privacy' again. Then you get 16 different privacy related options. You need to click on 'Change' on "Notifying connections when you're in the news" and click on 'Yes'.

And then you need to review all other 15 settings to make sure they don't do anything nefarious as well, if you're lucky.

Very straightforward, really.
People should actually call in! Over at the SFBARF, we have a thread of people reporting on how long it took to call their representatives: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sfbarentersfed/7G4Kr....

I managed to talk to someone at both of my representatives' offices within a minute, without any sort of delay. It's very easy, please do call in if you support this measure!

Also, when you do call in, post here afterwards with how long it took you. A lot of people don't bother because they think it'll be a hassle, but it's about a 100 times easier than calling to book a restaurant reservation.
!gview is one of my favorite, quick pdf reader when the embedded ones fail to render correctly.
(I am not black or american) I am going to come across as clueless here but why is that 'nr' is offsensive for black people.. and yet every movie with black people has them screaming this word all the time. And the rap music is filled with them. If they find it offsensive, why do they keep using it.

I have asked this to my local population here but we don't have the necessary insight into this phenomenon. Is there any parallels to this where it's ok to call each other something but others cannot call you that (so it can help me understand better)? Thanks!
Sure you can cheat as a developer. I have had contract firm setup interviews with candidate A and then send candidate B on-site.

I have interviewed candidates on the strength of a resume only to find out that someone in the building at a previous position was working with a technology.

Once on the job, I have seen people pass off code from Java tutorial sites and StackOverflow as their own. Eventually, they find someone who will protect them and then they can collect pay while generating excuses and blame storming.
> The government at every level, just does not have the expertise to insure that contractors perform to the letter of the contract.

Ideally, they would have even more expertise to make judgement calls, so that they could rely (in some sense) on the spirit of the contract and not just the letter.

I guess comparisons to public sector and military procurement in other countries (and times) might be instructive.
Actually, I agree with you as far as it being a good test of character... on both ends though... i have been on and seen these kinds of interviews where the applicant is deliberately put in uncomfortable positions to see how they are going to react... In general i have found the that it works, it is a simple and incredibly efficient way to find out who can handle themselves, at the same time it clearly exposes the mentality of the interviewer.

The interviewer is showing they will use psychological manipulation to get what they want from you as efficiently as possible even if they know it causes you discomfort.

I personally don't think the interviewer was some extreme racist, he was just more or less a just a dick.
Of course they knew it was round. Under the belief that the Earth isn't round, land discovered by sailing west would have been taken for granted to be a new discovery, and not India, which lies to the east. Its inhabitants wouldn't have been dubbed Indians.
But what if one side, realizing its weapons are getting stale, decide that the other side's weapons are staler, and thinks it can launch a first strike with relative impunity?
I think I understand your point, and it's been a while since my MCSE expired, but unless Cygwin has improved a lot I would estimate a VM wrapped by Windows would be much easier to manage and admin.

Now if you're saying that the webapp itself would be required to be a Windows process, there's really no way around that. But as I implied elsewhere, the biggest stumbler for Rails on Windows has always been the lack of a compiler. Whether you compensate for that by installing a subsystem with that capability or by using a VM with the capability is largely a local problem to the company.
I looked for some statistics and didn't find much with historical depth. In recent times, this shows the trend in heroin use:

http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_1943/S...

I think there is probably an argument to be made that there isn't really a preference for heroin when ~0.5% of the population is using it, there is a fad (perhaps a different word would be more appropriate). Cheap, abundant supply would certainly help set the stage for such an occurrence.
Won't work. Imagine supply is met, housing is cheap. People then want to live there more. Eventually the point of equilibrium is restored which is that banks keep on creating fiat money until land prices reach a point where you can just about eat and afford the interest repayments.

Land value tax is the answer for all those who don't simply want a quick in so they can get on the gravy train and actually want their kids to grow up in a society where wealth creation, not money creation, makes you richer.
Exactly, this isn't so far off from tape drives which most orgs still use.
Absolutely.
When I was in USA high school in 1997, this was taught, discussed, and believed.

A large number of adults in US today take it for an indisputable fact.

[I cannot claim how it's taught in schools nowadays, so perhaps there's hope for the next generations :]
These guys are insane overachievers...
Fun story, but to my knowledge most military computer systems have always been radiation hardened in the nuclear age. Enrico Fermi correctly predicted EMP prior to the first nuclear tests all the way back in 1945, and made sure that the test equipment was shielded. Although, we did explore high altitude nuclear explosions (produce huge amounts of EMP) in the late 50s to early 60s and managed to accidentally fry some of our own early satellites in the process.
Hmm, I was a bit confused by your multiple negations at the top. Also not quite sure what your point is.

> That's going to be a massive decrease in competition, job growth, etc, overall [when producers move to a cluster].

Can you expand on that? I don't see how---especially if we agree that the clustering is more economically efficient. (If we don't agree on that, we need to talk about it first.)
This is exactly what is happening. Those who own homes don't care what the consequences of preventing new housing nearby are. The consequence is income segregation, especially in areas zoned for single family homes. Single family zoning is inherently segregationist—you can only live in those neighborhoods if you can afford the most expensive type of housing. Our homeowner-run local governments feign concern about housing costs while it's literally illegal to build cheaper homes on less land in so many neighborhoods.

To repeal segregation laws that are supported by the public, you're going to need a desegregation movement. Here's one: https://www.facebook.com/DesegregateATX/
Nebraska has only chamber, but it's still called the Nebraska Legislature.
Yup! If you're interested in a low-effort way to influence the local market, please consider voting by June 7th: http://www.sfyimby.org.

Fun fact: some of you may have seen us canvassing at tech bus stops in SF.
I have a relatively uncommon last name, so I got my domain name at the standard price for a domain name ($11/year at Dynadot)
Obviously does not work:

"Who will win the US presidential election?"

"No."