skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tips for miitigating the risks of rookie founders
Very clever design, looks great.

A few thoughts on navigation:
I'm on a mac and I felt that the zoom using the "scroll wheel" (i.e. track pad) was pretty disorienting. I was expecting it to scroll. Having to click and hold down to scroll doesn't feel right.

I also instinctively thought the arrow keys would work but they didn't. I'd suggest up/down (obvious) and left = zoom out, right = zoom in.
I like it. I've been working in a similar view.

How do I get rid of all your items?
That styling tricks people into thinking they have more space.
HN: which-skills-make-you-most-employable
They are, but they aren't universal. Most people live on a through street.
don't forget 4) Better urban planning so people don't have to commute in such great numbers / such long distances
Where's Trigger Happy 2, tho!?
I'm talking specifically about a road. There are reasons buildings are locked, &c. Also, no muni pays for roads alone. They all get state and fed dollars.
The high level thinking parts of my brain aren't active in my night terrors. It seems perfectly rational to think the ceiling is made of compressed junkyard cars. Much like it would in a dream. You aren't really awake when you are running around in the panic state of a night terror.

Not being able to see would simply allow my semi-dream state to continue while I fumbled around in the real world wearing a sleep mask.

But you are right, some things seen do filter into the dream state. When I would think my condo was on fire in florida it was often when I'd take an afternoon nap on a Sunday and the sunset would color the whole place yellow-orange, and I often thought that might have been why the idea of fire popped into mind.

However, I think the more reality I can get into my system, the faster I'll realize the nonsense of the night-terror-fugue. I could be wrong, it's just my personal theory about me.
Dare I ask whether the charts make you feel over paid or under paid?
Out of curiosity, where do you work? And are you hiring? Haha. I only know if ~5 companies currently using Elm
I thought it meant "turn up the speakers and head over to the mosh pit or die."
buzzfeed.com and medium.com are in the same category of sites, IIRC. These get mildly penalized, but there are a bunch of things that can override the penalty. This is how we try to deal with sites that produce a lot of dreck but also valuable, substantive pieces. A lot of big media websites fall in this category.

In this case it was just a coincidence that the post showed up with a medium.com URL.

We'll probably segment medium.com URLs one level down instead of at the site level, since it's really a bunch of different mini-sites. But we haven't gotten around to that yet. (github.com is another one of those, and there are a few more.)
And the output format should be

1. executable
2. machine readable

So that it is searchable/discoverable in digital libraries.
Where did the HN submission title get UDP from? I don't see anyone in that thread suggesting that the updates were done in UDP, and all the traffic in the trace file is all TCP.

The trace is indeed a total mess, but I'm not convinced it's anything to do with TCP acceleration. There's absolutely massive levels of reordering and packet duplication happening in ways which are not consistent with TCP acceleration at all. It's much more likely that it's some kind of configuration problem elsewhere in the network.

From eyeballing the trace, almost half the payload segments there are duplicates, while a much smaller proportion are retransmits. (You can tell the difference e.g. using IP ids or by TCP timestamp TSvals / TSecrs).
It's not about who can and cannot get in. It's about how people react to each other within the community/organization. If the community needs some kind of Stasi-like group to combat internal enemies than the environment is already messed up beyond redemption.
Looks like an answer is already out:

http://electrek.co/2016/06/06/tesla-model-x-crash-not-at-fau...

No idea about that source but supposedly tesla has made a statement. Similar statement also at this site:

http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-x-crash-result-human-er...
Shah mat.
> visionaries don't listen to "experts" and set out doing things.

I am stealing that quote. It is my new favorite sarcastic quote.
Totally can't be law enforcement, they forked the repo "FuckNSA".
[video]Journalist Ariel Helwani story for life time ban in the UFC
It's also not Windows 10 specific, the post also mentions Office updates
Which is a horrible precedent. If any piece of your infrastructure exists in the USA, even another service serving you, you're guilty of whatever they want.

The internet is global. If N. Korea shouldn't be able to extradite you for promoting democracy, the USA shouldn't have any legal power to influence DNS.
Context is king.
I always find it fascinating how much nutrition as a science is clearly in its infancy. It's true that rigorous science in medicine is relatively recent compared to other fields of study but in nutrition we're still seeing major changes to the consensus and guidelines.

My favourite example is probably cholesterol. Nearly everyone instinctively knows that eating too much cholesterol will raise your cholesterol levels and puts you at risk of heart disease. Don't eat too many eggs or you'll go to an early death. The thing is, that view, which has been informed from the advice from authorities over the past few decades, is completely wrong.

As the panel determining the Dietary Guidelines for Americans concluded in 2014 - "Cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption," and as a result, warnings about cholesterol has since been removed from the guidelines.

Obviously the link between dietary and blood cholesterol is more complex than initially thought but it's still staggering to me that such a simple recommendation could have been so wrong and how government guidelines can lag the scientific consensus. It's interesting to see that much the same can be applied to salt and the solution is the same. Eat a variety of food and try to avoid as much processed food as possible.
>violates all rate limiting

Rate limiting is performed upstream; the network isn't just asking nicely. Your packets will be either queued or dropped if you send them faster then allowed.

Some ISPs allow high speeds for the first N megabytes (often 20 or so), then throttle the shit out of the rest. This trick presents an entire stream as a bunch of little streams, so that you get the "first 20MB" treatment for the whole thing.

Depending on circumstances, the "upstream" place where rate limiting is performed may be your cable modem. People have been known to reflash their cable modems with cracked firmware that doesn't honor the rate limit. This is easy enough to detect and punish further upstream.
Just to add, the book "AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming" by Robert Fourer, David M. Gay, and Brian W. Kernighan (yes, the "K" in K&R) is also freely available online: http://ampl.com/resources/the-ampl-book/chapter-downloads/ . It is not only a reference for the AMPL modeling language, but also a great introduction to mathematical optimization.
In Phoenix, major streets are on about a 1 mile grid. The major streets (mostly) go through and take you wherever you want, they're very fast and optimized for heavier traffic.

The rest of the streets connect to people's homes, they're full of speed bumps and such and while some do go through, it's a slow and twisty road with no certainty unless you know that street (or peer at the GPS) so you'd never take those roads unless you actually wanted to go into that community.

I find that it strikes a pretty good balance between helping people get where they're going and making sure that people don't have tons of cars zooming right past the front door.
Someone made something like that! https://www.reddit.com/user/relevantxkcd-bot
The JS community has been pretty good about taking ideas from Elm. Redux is an insanely popular JS library that is basically a replica of the Elm architecture (though, having used both extensively, redux doesn't come close to the beautiful simplicity of Elm).

As far as why people don't just use Elm, I think it's the same reason functional language are less popular in general: fewer familiar engineers and steep learning curve.
There is some value to precision in terminology, but here it seems to me to be merely pedantic. Are there any important practical consequences at issue here?
Those costs are going to be paid regardless of whether they write tickets for that or not. If a police officer is sitting around on an otherwise slow day, they might as well go write some tickets.
Traffic shapers usually aren't actually inspecting or tracking the internal state of the TCP stack at either end of the connection. They just count bytes and credit them to a particular bucket by identifying the flow/protocol/class based on port numbers, IPs, etc.

There are a lot of ways to do packet prioritization rules, and only some of them can be gamed this trivially. For example, a large hierarchical HTP or HFSC ruleset may prioritize new flows over existing flows but still apply an aggregate limit on the whole protocol. More modern methods like fq_codel automatically give new connections an advantage, but it only applies to a very small amount of data and doesn't treat new flows any better than sparse flows.
Except there's currently a price war going on because of fracking. There's way more supply than there was a decade ago, most of it domestic.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15866 has a list of notable games.
Really nice design! I think the simplicity compared to Google Calendar could suit a lot of people.
Unit tests value proposition
In the present day, civilians own tanks, cannons, rocket launchers, grenades, machine guns, explosives, etc. This has largely been the case for 200 plus years. If we ignore the some 200 years of jurisprudence supporting that ownership, then what?
This app looks very similar to Timepage by Moleskin – which has been around for a while.
Mattermark is hiring a Product Manager
Pathetic amount of equity, 0.1/0.02%. Startups should be ashamed. Your greed, your loss.
Can the debt John forgave be resurrected by another debt collection agency?

The video mentioned several scenarios where debt that's seemingly past it collection date or expired is still desired by these collection companies.

Or is forgiving the debt officially the only way of forever getting rid of it without fear of it coming back from the dead.
Never mind the BBC, NPR was reporting this on the drive time news.

Nothing fishy about the establishment claiming the establishment candidate has won before a big election day.
Nothing at all fishy about the sort of news that might discourage voters actually showing up.
We use Trello business account. It is highly opinionated. It gives only one view of cards. If I want activities sorted by time, there is no filter. Cards by user view can also be improved. Graphs/Charts are also good tools for understanding and presenting the projects.
US-Japan relations [pdf]
This might be the most revolutionary technology in the world, but I really have no idea because your landing page is full of the vaguest most utopian promises. You might say, well, you should go read the "technical docs", but have read about so many hyped techonologies that came to nothing at this point that I am incredibly skeptical.

If you can't tell me what you are doing in a single paragraph, then you've got a problem. If you can, why doesn't your homepage reflect that? Show me! I don't want to scroll through another website with 16 point font.

We all love the Unix philosophy and puppies, too.

Please take this as the constructive criticism it is.
I think the point of satire is that it doesn't try too hard to get the point across.

One could have easily written this article:

"People with trust funds are the worst. All they do is travel the world, not really talking to anyone, and posting pictures of ice cream on Instagram. Man I hate those people. They're the worst."

The author took a different approach and let you decide whether or not you hate that type of person.
you sound like a speedrunner yourself maybe... ever visit /r/spelunky or submit your pbs to mosstier?
As a cyclist, I avoid these mandatory-turn mazes like the plague. It's just as confusing as it is for cars, unless you put dedicated bike lanes in many of the streets - which of course isn't going to happen because, you know, they're quiet little side streets with few markings and overprotective NIMBYs. Not designed as through streets also for cyclists.

If the intention is to scare vehicles away, it's unlikely that they come out specifically for one type of vehicle.

I'd rather take the straightforward road and share with cars, thank you. (Yes, think Toronto, not Atlanta.)
Open a file with everything on one line in Atom, and you can bring it to its knees, even if the file is only a couple of kilobytes.
Old, but after skimming it for an hour, it seems very applicable. I had been researching genetic algorithms to do scheduling optimization in the past based on a 1996 thesis 'A Genetic Algorithm for Resource-Constrained Scheduling' [1] (PDF download alert).

I am not an operations manager, but I seem to always have a need to perform similar analyses or be in a position to comment on others. Operations management texts tend to be very broad, or geared to a non-mathematical manager, so I am finding more texts like this one to be more enjoyable and informative for my purposes.

The last optimization problem WRT to OM I worked on was to review an OEM's recommended spares list for validity given lead times on certain items, and the FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to see how many of each spare, and when we should order replenishments to achieve a 95% or greater confidence level that we would have stock of a particular item, and not have any downtime.

There is huge software that automatically does this for large companies, but for little to mid-level companies, it is great to be able to dig in to the algorithms to gain a better understanding, and heck, just for the fun and learning experience especially when said company doesn't see the benefit of the larger software.

Thanks for the link!

[1] http://lancet.mit.edu/~mbwall/phd/thesis/thesis.pdf
Which has no effect on the principle. Increasing the demand will increase the price regardless of whether the existing price is $2 or $4.
Boosting 25 Years(2014)
As mentioned, it looks vaguely like some kind of horrible insect or a spider or something. Probably close enough to itch at your subconscious.
Reminds me of the Fisheye Calendar from UMD's HCI Lab, which was doing experimentation with Zoomable UI's: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/learn/fisheye.shtml
I wish I'd seen this and had a chance to reply earlier. I think a lot of commenters are missing some key points. First, this is still pretty early-stage stuff, and it's quite likely that almost everyone working in this field right now is not going to get rich any more than most of the people working on gasoline-powered horseless carriages got rich.

My personal prediction is that this kind of thing is going to be a lot more common in 40 years regardless of whether the current stuff is going to be used for growing pot - and pot itself will become a much less profitable crop with legalization, though the security advantages of this kind of indoor volume growing (fields and fences? why bother?) may prolong that.

What's going to be a bigger factor over time is climate change - not in the form of "zomg we're all going to cook and the plants will all die!" but in the form of increased atmospheric water and energy and extreme weather events. How many monsoon-style torrential rains per decade does it take to have a significant impact on farming? Growing up in the Midwest I used to regularly hear "farm reports" on the radio about crop damage due to hailstorms and heavy thunderstorms; for a lot of farmers it won't take a lot of damage to make their farms economically unviable. Some of this may disproportionately impact areas where a lot of food is grown[1], but it's not going to be isolated to those areas [2]. The water carrying capacity of air increases by more than 38% between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius (20g/kg to 27.7g/kg), and while a 5 degree change might be extreme, we're certainly going to blow right past a 2 degree change. That extra water (and the heat energy it holds) are going to be seen in weather.

There may also be some significant changes in building - for example, an all-glass skyscraper (if unobstructed) might well have an outer "shell" 5 feet from interior windows, with vertical plantings of some sort within that space - plants/greenery either for or just visible to the occupants, and if you go more extreme you might see exteriors covered with transparent photovoltaics [3] that pass through frequencies of light that are used by plants while simultaneously powering LEDs that convert the other frequencies into something the plants can use.

Remember, the folks working on this stuff right now are the Apple Newton developers of their industry. What are the iPads of the industry going to look like?

[1] http://www.water.ca.gov/climatechange/docs/dwr_extremes_wksh...

[2] http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Water/page3.ph...

[3] http://mitei.mit.edu/news/transparent-solar-cells
It is getting phased roll out, so you should get it in few weeks. MSFT should improve its roll outs, It is getting all the PR today, but I can't access it. By the time I'll get access, would have already forgotten about it. This wastes PR effort.
It could be very useful to deliberately pursue SUPER lossy compression. As long as no one can really tell based on the end result, it doesn't really matter.

For example, if you can only tell something was lossy by directly comparing two instances of the same video during playback, then that's probably good enough in most situations.

It occurred to me that we could compress the hell out of written works by translating them into some super dense language, and ultimately only retain the basics of the meaning/concepts/some of the writing style. Then can re-translate that back to whatever language we want to read it in.

For compressing pictures or videos, there could be some similar translation to a much more compact representation. Would probably rely on ML heavily though.
I used VIM / Atom for a long time but after switching to Webstorm I just can't look back. I don't even use crazy IDE features but the click/symbol mapping and knowing what's in use or not is really dope. Atom didn't have anything that sophisticated when I used it. There was a click to tag thing but it wasn't as thorough as webstorm.
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136102/magic-spee...
a spooky name relating to a literary figure who
killed himself

Ha! Oh man, talk about a stay-puft marshmallow moment.

The name was supposed to be borrowed from an absolutely harmless carmel candy. Something that could do no wrong, but I had to truncate it into something that would fit into HN's 15 character namespace.

No good deed goes unpunished.
Aren't they already HP?
And now those developments with convoluted one way in and out of a subdivision/neighborhood, which I used to loathe, and still do, seem like the perfect anti-dote to Waze re-routing...
I'm flattered but I'm not skilled enough for that! Getting a sub 8-min run was hard enough and I have yet to get a no gold one.

btw, for those who don't know the game, the added longevity that comes from these self-inflicted challenges people can come up with (like speedrunning or no-gold) is another neat thing about Spelunky
Google map of 113 silicon valley security companies
We got 8 for a remote-friendly frontend dev position.
I agree. What it really needs is an 'example' page, or a walkthrough of how/what you'd use it for.

I just spent 10 minutes reading the docs and I'm not sure I get it. Is it like Owncloud? disapora*? ITTT? Is it an interface to mirror all my content from other social media sites, and interact with them? You say I can use it to authenticate with sites - is it an OpenID provider? Something something blockchain? All of the above?

This page explains a little bit [1], but a walkthrough or video or screenshots or something would help immensely

[1] https://urbit.org/posts/vision/
You do realize that Stuxnet required a failure of physical security. Either an agent inserted intentionally via USB or an employee inserted a compromised USB unwillingly. Neither should happen in a secure facility.

The paper shows simple yet sophisticated POC. The simplicity is the scary part. BTW, do you think the University of Michigan spends more on research than the NSA, GCHQ, BND, DGSE, 3PLA, etc.
I'm sure Tony Fadell still thinks he did an amazing job at Nest.
University Pals Make Ideas Pay
Rookie founders are used for their ability to work insane hours and lack of business insight. Most are spit out the other side with little to show for it and the ones that actually make money are the investors.

The mitigation is a provision in place where if the VC sees fit, the founder will be replaced by a person that is more experienced. I've seen it time and time again.
Urbit is a republic. Its government has one task: promoting, preserving and protecting Urbit. It may take any legal action which advances this goal.

That sounds a bit scary!
Yeah, I had mentally tagged Elm as "interesting language that future browser languages/frameworks might claim as an inspiration".

But, I thought the same about Coffeescript. And then Rails gave it massive traction. I wonder if the same might happen to Elm, should Phoenix adopt it as their browser language of choice. That might also offset concerns about Elm's fledgling status and key man risk.
The next thing we need to do is change the language of the road to "incidents" instead of "accidents". An accident implies that there is no way to avoid the outcome of an incident. An incident implies that a traffic collision has occurred. Once we rule out human error or any other cause for the incident, then it becomes an accident. We will find that many of the traffic collisions that we are currently referring to as accidents could have been prevented in many ways:

- remove vast amounts of human error by automating driving and being much more strict for driving infractions (Inattention, reckless driving, DUI)

- infrastructure that encourages speeding / leaves no options for pedestrians or cyclists causing incident hotspots.

This will allow us to focus on the safety issues that really are accidents, and usually caused by poor maintenance on vehicles and infrastructure.
I completely agree with this sentiment. LaTeX is far too complex for what needs to be highly accessible and Markdown, while super easy, is too limited for showing things like complex data sets (or really even simple ones to be honest).

The biggest problem with the idea of getting people to make a new format is essentially this: https://xkcd.com/927/

What's to say the ultimate result will be something most think is usable? Design by commit is rarely the answer as well.
There's also a note at the very very bottom of the article that "it seems that the energy issue might be reduced by the introduction of a new generation of LED grow lights which reduce the energy required by just providing the plants with the part of the radiation spectrum that they require for growth."

It's not clear whether this is from Monbiot or the person who provided the numbers, but either way I invite you to consider the changes in quality, availability and pricing for standard LED bulbs as replacements for incandescent bulbs in the six years since that article was published.
You can manufacture firearms for personal use across the US -- even in California -- provided those arms otherwise comply with the law[1].

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license...