skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep saying "admire the transparency", "appreciate the transparency", but really what's the point? Who is the "transparency" for?

I really couldn't care less about my salary being made public to the world, all I care about is working on something I believe in.

Extreme transparency has nothing to do with their business growth and it will probably come back to haunt them later, I don't know why they're going so far as to do all this.

Doing business is extremely hard on its own, why complicate matters and expose private details to the public, which can and probably will at some point be used against you? I mean even on this thread people nitpick and gossip about every single details. And it would be a lie to say they care 0% about these things. If they do care, it just means less time worrying about their core business.
You don't need a gun.
I need a gun.

See. That's the problem. I am not forcing you to own a gun. But you're forcing me NOT to own a gun.

How about we let everybody do what they want? You can choose not to own a gun. And I can choose to own a gun.

It's called freedom.
> This is very human-centric point of view. How many species will be lost forever as a direct cause of this event ?

Actually, it's your view that's human-centric. Species? Diversity? These are human concepts and mores.

> There is no time for evolution to work over the 200 years this last change happened.

Evolution doesn't "work". It's merely the process of natural and sexual selection. The flora and fauna are constantly being sculpted by the environment, even a rapidly changing one. And there is no evidence to suggest similarly rapid shifts haven't occurred in the past. In fact, there is evidence that they did and life went on.
Arguing about the past about whether we can survive in the future is a logical fallacy because we all experience the Anthropic principle [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
It's open to more of them the 10% that currently have it. Whether the OEM provides a build of Android Marshmallow or not plays a roll for most consumers. Quite a few consumers have the option to unlock their device and bypass the OEM to get Android Marshmallow on their device (Cyanogen et al).
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How the hell is this even patentable - its derivative of transmitting telephone and data from a balloon, which was done at least as early as the mid-50's.
I on the other hand, feel safer with a gun than I would without one.

So the question becomes, who is right? You? Or Me?
Montreal's urban planning is seriously underrated. The city has a winning formula of medium-density walk-ups with lots of parks and commercial mixed in, and the formula is replicated over and over to create a huge, highly-liveable area with tons of interesting and beautiful neighbourhoods. Montreal affordably houses 1.6 million people in a fairly modest footprint without ever feeling crowded.

Contrast with Vancouver, where land is overwhelmingly allocated to large, residential-only neighbourhoods of tightly-packed single-family dwellings with a starting price of $1.5 million. These neighbourhoods are often beautiful, tree-lined utopias with lovely heritage homes, but they are walking distance from nowhere and can't effectively house the city's growing population. And you can bet that the people who live in them furiously oppose any change to that status quo.
Yes, it was a big deal when it hit a billion views and when it "rolled over" the counter.
Where is "around here", Europe? Because anywhere in the U.S. is going to have a higher starting salary than $50k.
Classic soxmas.mov
> But is it even possible to sustain this many people (at
> current standards of living with foreseeable technology)?

Absolutely, there is a tremendous amount of waste which is not recaptured due to economic rather than technological reasons. Further there are technologies (like nuclear power and breeder reactors) which can provide energy forever (for all practical purposes). And ultimately the survival of humans can be reduced to simply to energy, energy to grow food, energy to process wastes, and energy to communicate and interact. Modern nuclear submarines stay submerged under the ocean for 6 months, only coming up for consumables such as food. A companion "farm" sub (not that such a thing currently exists, but is certainly possible given the extent of aquaculture today) could provide the necessary consumable. Letting the submarine pair exist under the ocean until its nuclear fuel ran out. Add a third submarine that has a breeder reactor and a fuel reprocessing pipeline and you've got a permanent colony.

It still requires Newport News to build more subs but you get the picture. With enough energy you can support the entire predicted population of the planet.

But emotionally, there are bigger problems. Nation states and large population groups are at risk of starvation and deprivation as a direct result of climate change. And those at risk populations are not getting any support from the people who are putatively putting them at risk. So emotionally, an existential crisis is probably justified.
Somerville's population density is, from good old Wikipedia, 7,253.3/km2

It's no Paris or NYC, and doesn't make the list of most dense cities in the world by any mean, but it isn't a "sparse sprawl" either. A quick glance at population density statistics

Eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_p...

The main reason being that Somerville doesn't have that many large buildings (though there are some bigger ones. No real skyscrapper mind you), but there's nearly nothing else. Very few businesses and commerce. It's just people packed against each other.
Say, I to watched The Matrix.
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Imagined Rails 6: Doubling-Down on Resource-Based Design
Google and Facebook devour the ad and data pie
Stabilized version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_hvVbxAAo
Despite this news, browsers was not able to disable SSLv2 until 2006.
The failure is also the failure
FBI built a massive facial recognition database without proper oversight
Same logic goes for hiring. If you need to use this kind of gimmicky tactic--which is obviously bad for the company in the long run--to find new hires, it probably means you need to focus more on the core product to turn it into something that is naturally attractive for potential employees.
Unknown unknowns? As much as you prepare there will always be things that slip between the cracks.
Supposedly SES volunteered to put their next flight on a used stage. The sticking point was price - SpaceX wants to charge $40m and SES wanted to pay only $30m.

SpaceX claims several customers have volunteered to be first. I don't think we're going to see a test payload unless SpaceX is concerned there's such a high chance of failure the PR hit would be to big to risk it.
> Everyone is a NIMBY in their own way

It certainly seems that many people want to be the last person to move into their neighborhood/area.
No, capitalism is realizing that Zillow.com can find you a host of cheap properties in minutes, and HomeDepot.com or Tumbleweed.com can put a house on it cheap. ...while you start a company.
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So just hire more people? No one is irreplaceable. Buffer is a very well known, and well regarded startup. An employee exodus would be a minor hiccup (and something that is very unlikely to happen at all).
What is the bulk of the 1 minute delay? While I would hardly call that real-time, it shouldn't matter for most reasonable usages.
The article came off as incredibly sophomoric, like it was written just with a dictionary and a thesaurus. I didn't really understand the point of it, even though it was written by a veritable expert in terrorism.

I was hoping for some more intriguing and specific insights in what the tech community could do to help. Also their headquarters is a massive building in Santa Monica, on 1776 Main Street. Certainly RAND could produce something better than this?
I think the MOOCs seem the be on the wane. Excellent idea, but not getting as much traction as hoped? At least the MeetUp stuff would cover the face-to-face conversation piece.
That too but the fact that he's using this as a "look what I did guys! I'm being transparent!" post opportunity is what really offends me.
I find it odd to see people criticizing each other because their comments are too human-centric. I happen to be human, and I believe the same is true of most of the commenters here. I don't really care very much about what happens to the Earth as a whole, but the survival and prosperity of humanity matters a great deal to me.
I definitely think these are the most interesting questions one can ask of early Christian scholarship, but they appear from the outside to be pursued solely by those with an ulterior reason for doing so, and it seems very little progress has been made on resolving these questions over the last 1800-2000 years.

So FWIW, I don't think this comment should have been downvoted to gray.
Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves (2003)
It's a good thing this is _very_ illegal :)
Depends on how good your soundcard's drivers are. But I think Mac OS X is capable of something like 48 samples at a bare minimum? Therefore it depends on the sample rate you're using as well. Higher sample rates yield lower latencies but higher CPU usage. At 44.1khz that's about 1ms.
AMT is full of holes too: http://people.kth.se/~maguire/DEGREE-PROJECT-REPORTS/100402-...
I think the effectiveness of any gun control measures in the US will be determined by what any legislation is trying to stop. Is it these (relatively?) rare incidents of mass murder, is it gun violence related to drugs/gangs/poverty, is it trying to stop accidental deaths involving children and unsecured firearms, or is it trying to stop domestic violence related deaths? From the perspective of someone who enjoys target/trap shooting a handful of times a year, the hysteria in the media about "high powered military grade automatic AR-15's" seems to be pushing gun owners away from a reasonable middle ground (perhaps a registry of guns to reduce domestic violence and mental illness related deaths or make it easier to track straw buyers fueling gang related violence?). Personally I think the failure to act on this is just another example of how broken the political system is - both sides yell at each other, the media routinely reports half truths, and the middle ground of common sense that most people seem to have is lost in the "debate".
The Constitution defines 4 types of powers.

Powers that are granted by the Constitution to the government (for example, Congress ability to pass law).

Powers that are implied to be given to the government (for example, the President's cabinet).

Powers that are left out and to be decided by the states and the people at a later time (for example, any new laws that are not in conflict with the Constitution).

And finally, powers that are DENIED to the government (these are powers the government must NEVER have).

Now, let's read the 2nd Amendment: ...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

>shall not be infringed

In other words, the Constitution specifically DENIED the government the power to regulate arms. The government does not have that power. The government was NOT given that power.
Everyone driving cars and eating meat is not sustainable.
China’s Didi Chuxing raises $7B
The coin used for size reference is the (rather large) Swedish femkrona. It is 28.5 mm, or 1.12 inches, in diameter.
I would venture that seaweed or algae is more likely.
Arbitrage acts as a price finding mechanism, which does have value in the long run. See price convergence.
That's how you act when you have nothing to prove.

I like that they treat 'web' like an acronym.
There's a long tradition on HN of users flagging stories on highly politicized topics, because such discussions typically become ideological and uncivil, two qualities that we seek to avoid in discussion here. That's what happened to that AR-15 story: [flagged] means users flagged it.

We've learned that such flags are an important community signal and it's a bad idea to override them unless there's a clear reason to. I didn't see a clear reason, because (a) the article was deliberately provocative, (b) its timing was particularly provocative, to the point of trolling, and (c) the discussion (though not as bad as it could have been) was close to flames, and likely would have become a full-out war if we had intervened to turn off the flags. Flags are a pressure valve for the functioning of the site.

On HN, a situation like that is complicated and involves multiple factors other than intellectual curiosity, which indeed are stronger than intellectual curiosity and tend to drown it out. In your description of the article above you highlight only the intellectual aspect (clear description of a little-understood technology) and omit the problematic ones, but the latter nearly always overpower the former. By contrast, stories about contested 8th century papyri are clearly on-topic and not particularly likely to violate the values of the site (marginal religious skirmishes aside).

If you were particularly interested in the AR-15 story, I can understand the frustration of seeing others flag it. Most HN users have the same frustration, but we all have it about different things. Other people complained yesterday that the AR-15 story was (in their opinion) being featured on HN while the latest post about Jacob Appelbaum was (in their opinion) being suppressed. In fact it was the same factor—user flags—working the same way in both cases, and the application of HN's standards wasn't selective. It just seemed like it was, because we notice it more in any case we dislike.
Not that surprising considering it doesn't really matter how outdated their website looks.

Stocks will still allow themselves to be bought by BSHW.

How did this make it to the front page? grin
See also: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

One thing I've noticed over the years is that a pretty design has very little correlation with the size, success, or market share of a company.
Birchbox, a Pioneer in Subscription Beauty Sales, Scales Back
Loads instantly, looks fine on mobile, the thing(s) you are probably interested in are linked right from the front page. As usual, Buffet is onto something here.
I don't disagree it has some "cool" features, but we've been bitten pretty hard in production when Terraform takes action that wasn't expected (and fell outside of what the plan called for before performing the apply).

Doing devops, I prefer boring and reliable over cool.
i don't know - the eastern orthodox churches don't have celibacy for priests (only for bishops), they base this practice on the third council of Constantinople in 680; so in the eight century it was ok for priests to marry in these quarters, also Egypt was home to many sects considered heretical by the official church in Constantinople.
It'd be less cluttered if "in" wasn't in there.
Pretty crazy to think some YouTube series like AVGN have been going on for ten years—only a few TV shows make it that far.
The best part is that the home page is 6KB or 4 Internet Packets :-)

The median webpage size is in the order or some 2MB
Really. You get angry at a baby?

To answer your question... kick him out this week by getting a relative to take care of him for a night and catch up on sleep.
So this is kind of like ASIO drivers for Android? I hope it gains wider applicability, it's about time.
Plans for Electric Planes Gain Momentum
Yes!! Man those were great.
I've been reading about the Younger Dryas [1] transition recently. This was the ice age that we're still warming up from; before it started the world was at least as warm as it is now. Then, over just a few decades, the global temperature dropped 2-6C and lots of animals went extinct. Humans got hammered badly too. The cold lasted about 1200 years, then over a few decades it warmed up again, and it's continued to warm up ever since.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
> You aren't lucky if you make those returns for 20 years.

That's not what I claimed. I claimed there were two steps. Step 1 is to acquire enough capital that you're okay losing it. Step 2 is to use that capital. Step 1 is what I claimed he was lucky. Step 2 is the one that lasted 20 years. Without step 1 (and there are many ways to do step 1 that don't involve luck, as well as many ways that don't involve investing), you can't proceed to step 2.

> Learning more about the math, etc would be interesting.

That is definitely interesting, and I agreed with that point upthread. You don't have to use actual money to learn about the math, though. If you want to learn stuff on simulations, everything I've been saying about capital you can afford to lose doesn't matter. However, the one and only thing simulations can't do is get you rich.
They work well together. The drama students like wearing costumes (for example, robot costumes) and even the dumbest drama student is still way better than the typical robot AI. It's all an act.
The man lives in a house he bought decades ago. Did anyone expect he would be going bananas over the latest web trends?
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Microsoft to help with legalised marijuana sales
It might be some kind of play on Warren E. Buffett.
I'm glad the dude behind AVGN found success with that show. Seems like most YouTube personalities are broke.
Definitely need to mention: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Realistically, in areas where housing cost and shit is a big problem, prices will always go up even if you build a skyscraper in my backyard.

My personal issue and why we've fought against some developments in the past, is because city noise/animal/traffic/blah blah rules are just not being enforced. At all. So if I ever want to be able to sleep (not sleep in. Just sleep at all...like at 4 in the morning or whatever), I had to buy a place that was totally overpriced, and in a totally sub-optimal location, just so I'd have tolerable neighbors.

Then someone decided to build a rental-only land-locked high rise where the only possible access point is through my development's parking lot. And said high rise, even though it is in my backyard, is technically in a different city, so when there's neighbor issues, it gets really complicated.

If it was in my Canadian hometown, it honestly wouldn't matter: some asshole decides to throw a party at 3 in the morning or play hockey in my yard, I call the cops on them, 10 minutes later problem is over. Here? They'll just laugh at me and tell me to grow a thicker skin.

So the only thing I -can- do is prevent it from happening in the first place. If it was like in other countries I lived? Knock yourself out, build away!
Unfortunately it does not pass the W3C Validator: https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkshir...
That too!
It's the website equivalent of wearing socks and sandals to a Lamborghini dealership.
Oddly enough, sometimes letting things fail is the cheapest way to create a better design. Not necessarily in direct costs, but getting a great product out in 30 years is rarely an option.
Aha factors fizzle out quickly. What they have for a holding company is appropriate and error-free.
It's an interesting-looking piece of tech, but the article is ridiculous. "Man those airport security lineups are so annoying, time to drop $100k on a one-seater plane with a 300-mile range!" As if it fills the same use-case as a flight from a major airport. More comparable to short-range commuter flights, (e.g. Vancouver-Victoria), which fly downtown-to-downtown, have negligible security-related inconvenience, and don't require you to reserve a field and hangar at each end to land your craft.
I've been watching him since I was in middle school—I graduated college this year. It's pretty crazy and it speaks volumes about the power of the Internet and YouTube.

James Rolfe studied film in college and spent his whole childhood/teenagehood making home movies. It's probably a dream come true that he's able to entertain millions and got a "real" movie out. Pretty cool!
It's super loosely enforced. I even knew someone in Cambridge who was -renting out- their affordable housing unit. So you had someone who qualified at some point for a $850,000 3 bedroom in a prime Cambridge location for just a few hundred bucks a month, who just moved out and rented it out for 2500 bucks a month. They never got caught.

Someone is always paying for that 20%. Hint: it's not the builder.
It's the website equivalent of driving by the Lamborghini dealership in your 10 year old paid off and perfectly maintained Toyota Camry.
This might explain it. From the site source code for http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/sharehold.html

<META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot">
The headline is pretty misleading. AT&T is launching a loyalty program named similarly to Citi's, which could be confusing, in part because there are co-branded Citi/AT&T credit cards.
If this was successful the title would have read "Elon Musk breaks record for most landings on drone ships."
I'm burying this submission despite the home team's love of plain-text websites, because its title is baity and the discussion is unsubstantive and unlikely to improve.
Another one I found amusing was the website of Jump Trading[1], an HFT firm. It's minimalist in a different way: there's very little content and, at first, I couldn't even find any links at all...

[1]: http://www.jumptrading.com/
The original is better. Can't stand websites that take up 1/3 of my monitor. If I wanted it that narrow, I'd resize my browser.
> But why can't the interpreter/compiler implicitly...

"Explicit is better than implicit" -- PEP 20

Python was the first language I ever learned and I just took it for granted that you had to manually specify "self" like that. When I see code with implicit self, it reads strangely to me. Like, "Where does 'this' come from? Oh yeah."
Almost none of the houses in the article are of "free standing houses" (at first glance, there's only one building that might have been a single family).

That's just how multi-families and condos look in the area.
If you got narrow streets, they'd be bumper-to-bumper spewing exhaust. You would be unhappy.

If you excluded cars, the place would turn into a downtown version of a strip mall. (expensive tourist trap) There would be no jobs other than things like waiter, retail clerk, manicurist, etc. -- is that how you wish to be employed?

You are focusing on the bad of cars, and ignoring all the benefit they bring. They even bring benefit to people without cars. Heck, you can rent one. I bet you've done it.
> the survival and prosperity of humanity matters a great deal to me

Just curious about what drives that particular viewpoint. Why do you care about the survival of the species? When you die, the world ends. It doesn't really matter what happens after that, does it? You could be dead two milliseconds and then a big rock hits the Earth and everything is gone. Still it doesn't impact you, because you are dead. And I am asking for the sake of discussion, purely.
Now check what the website prominently linked to looks like: WWW.GEICO.COM

The insurance industry is currently in a fever pitch over "Digital Business," "IoT," "Wearables," "Disruption," "Millennials," "Big Data," "Social Media," "FinTech/Insurtech startups" ... Executives in blue suits, who in better times would have prided themselves in not knowing how to type, are falling over themselves trying to eek out 1% organic growth by trying to understand this whole Internet thing that's been all the rage lately.