skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where I can find the announcement of the death of the pledge

The guy who was hired to make it has since left many months ago. Nail in the coffin effectively, they wouldn't announce the death of something they never got off the ground. Just silently brush the remains under the rug.

Edit: Found the article I was thinking of

https://ryanxcharlestimes.com/fix-reddit-with-bitcoin-7da3f8...

> Yishan would resign a month or so later due to exhaustion, and new leadership took over the company who set out a new direction that didn’t involve any of the work I was doing. The cryptoequity project was shelved, and decentralizing reddit indefinitely delayed. I was laid off after being at the company for only four months.
Thank you for sharing! I'd just like to add my fav resource on webdev security: "OWASP Developer Guide Reboot".

https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide

It's the updated version of their classic web security guide. All of the updates happen on Github in the open and they also accept patches. Chapters 3 and up are really great.
Are you saying the fear-mongering is legitimately disgusting? Or the idea of a "monster home epidemic"?
The rise of the carbon-neutral Nordic city
Tokyo's built-up area has population density near 150 (in persons/hectare, the SI unit of population density). It's nearly the same in the central wards and in the outer suburbs. Tokyo achieves that density with almost no one living in buildings over five stories high and the vast majority in free-standing single family homes under four stories.

San Francisco County, not including any suburbs, averages around 90, excluding big open spaces like the Presidio. The Bay Area is closer to 30, just in built-up areas, not including parks and open space.

Manhattan is about 500 and Paris 300.

Gp, of course, has fallen into the trap of including open space in his calculations. Most metro statistical aggregates include a lot of surrounding farmland, ocean, and parks and don't reflect density experienced by residents or development intensity on available land.
That's a myth, granted a myth that was taught in all of our history classes. The Great Depression was going to end anyway. Here's a paper that discusses just that: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123226?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont... and here's CATO's discussion of it. (I'm showing my bias now.) http://www.cato.org/blog/did-new-deal-help

The thing is--- when does the deficit spending stop?! Our economy is doing decently now, and we're still deficit spending. I don't think that our political system is structured in a way where we can responsible deficit spend and then take back the surplus in the future.
Right. So people are willing to live further away from amenities for the sake of having more space. Seems like the desire for more room is pretty strong. Why, then, is dense urban living preferable? Why shouldn't we be trying to start with the premise that less dense is better, and design from there?
It's because everyone wants into the content creation game.

It's odd because Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu did it because it's about the same cost as paying the content creators. And then they own it.

Reddit is already getting their content for free. They should really just focus on improving community features.
Self-promotion aside, you should disclose that you are ex-Reddit.
But isn't that Clinton? We have no real idea of Trump's policies. He barely strings full sentences together, just fragments of thoughts that people turn into the full policies that they want in their own minds.

He makes things up in writing such as who wrote his wife's speech that he really doesn't need to; surely less lies is better than more.
Ha! 15 seconds, as opposed to minutes. ;)
For a bit of a reality check, go take a look at Financial Times coverage of Tesla.

Tesla will require regular infusions of capital over, say, the next 5 years. The only source for that is more equity, and to do that you need to actually start meeting some of your self-declared profitability goals. Up to now, Tesla hasn't.

The tactic of diverting attention with "but look, here's this great awesome world-changing thing we'll do next" has worked so far but it's rapidly getting old. In general, the frequency with which sleights of hand are starting to be employed is concerning. Remember the "but don't just take my word on it — I myself will be buying $20M of new stock!" thing? Sure you will to reassure investors, given that loss of confidence will cost you personally far more than $20M.

SolarCity? "If Musk thought Tesla really needs a solar company, he might as well buy a good one. But it doesn't" [FT Lex]. Given how important it is that they are able to keep raising capital through equity offerings, taking the risk of freaking the investors out with SolarCity acquisition (otherwise expected to go into bankruptcy protection by next year) makes sense only if letting SC fail presents a bigger risk of the same. The Musk fairytale would certainly take a hit from a SC bankruptcy.

And Musk setting these crazy numbers goals practically guarantees he's setting TSLA shareholders up for disappointment.

Non-profit-making Amazon has been raised as a counterargument in the comments on this thread; the amount of trust the market has extended to Bezos for the time that it has is practically unprecedented; and Bezos has worked hard to make that happen by making investment/direction choices & providing information to earn the trust of the market. Musk, to the contrary, is doing everything to the opposite.

Now, what's the likelihood of a macro downturn within the next 2-5 years? Massive. That might trip up the availability of capital a bit—those refundable $1000 deposits too but who cares about them (by the way, much of T's capital has been raised during the period of literally historically unprecedented low cost of capital)

I didn't even begin to talk about competition. Or that Panasonic, T's critical gigafactory partner, isn't just sitting around twiddling thumbs (or the Chinese).

So, it'd be prudent to curb your enthusiasm. There might not be a part trois.
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With a sea level low speed capability of staying airborne at 25mph, I suspect even given it's huge size and delicate construction - getting it down to a few feet off the ground and slowing down till it stalls, just like nearly all model gliders do, would be practical. If you look carefully at image #3 in the gallery - it looks like they've got tubular metal skids under each motor pod. I'd guess that's what they land on.
Single-atom-thick sheets efficiently extract electricity from salt water
I've seen UNC paths with port number before, so I assumed that it's possible; but apparently those are for WebDAV.

Of course, this means that it should be doable with WebDAV instead of CIFS. Which would probably mean even worse perf, but still potentially acceptable...

Can WebDAV paths be used without mounting them to a drive letter first, though?
Pao is thoroughly an MBA-type. Business schools teach that the way to wealth is to start a startup and have it acquired. Or, failing that, work your way into a nascent startup and get bought out. Every post from her that I saw simply oozed business-school sleaze. Pao's discourse was more appropriate for the boardroom than for the embodiment of alt-media that is Reddit. Gratingly so, and Yishan to a lesser extent. I honestly think they both were simply too "corporate" to succeed in an environment that resents big interests.

There simply hasn't been someone with vision and the skills to deliver at the helm.

Frankly I think it's because anyone competent is wise enough not to touch Reddit with a 10-foot pole.
The most dangerous malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, does selectively target humans. See:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.0269-283x.2002....
Anyone know if there are plans to roll this out to other stackexchanges? Would love to have this on askubuntu.com.
I'm 21 and I don't get it, I don't think it's an age thing but a personality thing.
I would love to live in this alternate universe. Thanks for the thoughtful read!
Or, somewhat the reverse:

http://qz.com/535482/italian-museum-cleaners-mistook-a-conte...
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If they were streaming spy data like that, I suspect that they wouldn't report the data usage. IMO, battery life is the strongest indicator that they aren't.
> opt-in home pages that are tailored at specific audiences. The standard one is pretty low quality.

How is that distinct from multireddits?

> more detection/policing of voting rings and vote fraud in general

One thing that'd help with this is better mod tooling for detecting when it's happening on a reddit you mod.
Gru: Open source solution for better technical interviews
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/65382/is-it-pos...

I'm not sure I like your attitude. This is readily available information
Listen to this. Tell the interviewer that he has a some shit on his face, gesturing toward the location on your own face. Observe his reaction very carefully, it tells you everything you need to know about a person. If he is genuinely grateful then that is someone who will be a loyal boss and potentially friend. If he acts defensively or if it puts him off in any way then he's a phony racist liberal and his company will fail.
That's a shorthand for telling the VCR the channel and timeframe to record; it's not related to the ability to record one channel while viewing another.

Every VCR I ever owned had that ability, clear back to my first Betamax.
What the article described is good old fashion socialism. Employee ownership is an old idea. The intellectual laziness in this article is astounding.
> So my dictatorship would consist mostly of cost cutting, economic incentives, educational reforms, reducing administration costs - essentially what every government claims to try anyway.

I recommend you hire a food taster. In fact get a dozen, they're cheaper that way.
Diagrams are good for representing and reasoning about physical things, and for mathematical concepts that have straightforward physical models, like numbers. But this is because there's a natural correspondence between these diagrams and the things they represent. There is no natural correspondence between a triangle and logs/exponents/roots beyond that fact that triangles have three sides and three vertices, and the set {log, expt, root} has three members.
It could have been located away from view on the other side of the motherboard, as is sometimes the case.

As for what the full intended purpose and potential capabilities of these secondary batteries are, I have no idea since that's not documented. I do know that it's for a whole lot more than an RTC, however.
Right on the nail. To me personally, the moves Reddit has been doing the past couple years read as if they don't know exactly what Reddit should be or what they want it to be. I imagine it's not easy, Reddit is massive and somehow not quite killing it, but somehow it feels like there's a strange lack of focus.
Summary: it's all about the bandwidth.
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Petrolheads add nitrous cannisters to their engines to get a boost in power when it is pumped in.

Check out the Fast and Furious movies if you're interested.
In statute, yes.

However, in reality, all of it can be covered by a boilerplate employee contract that makes you effectively at-will and provides negligible protection.
I'm curious about your "have a negative impact on health" approach. The density of a typical city is orders of magnitude greater than anything that our ancestors have seen in nature; and, historically, cities have been a breeding ground for all kinds of diseases (because sanitation is harder and spreading is easier). Can you clarify what exactly you meant?

I'm not sure that higher pollution is innate in lower densities, or whether that is due to the specific way our suburbs are designed today, and the technologies (such as ICE for transportation) that we use to enable them. It feels like an engineering problem.

And sure, putting everyone into a giant anthill might make it cheaper to contain and dispose of all the generated pollution. But then we should be honest and admit that it's about cost, not about what's best.

Small businesses - I don't think there's any innate value to them, in a sense that we need as many as we need to serve our needs, but there's no "right" for any particular small business to be viable in a world with changing conditions. If suburbs can sustain fewer small businesses, so be it.

Segregation is an orthogonal issue. I think you meant stuff like "white flight", but it is a symptom rather than a cause. If you prevent people from moving away, it will not resolve the tensions that make them desire to move - indeed, it may well exacerbate them.

What you refer to as "modern urbanism" sounds like an ideology that insists that it's the right solution for everyone, and those who disagree should be forced into it for their own good. I think that different people have different preferences in this aspect, as they do in most others, and that any approach should, ideally, try to respect those preferences, rather than ignoring them, or pretending that they are irrelevant.
It's so cute! This reminds me a lot of the naming schemes for large numbers, like Enneadekillion and Quinquagintaquadringentilliard. Some of these are still "modern", even if nobody really uses them.

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

Thankfully, just like numeric exponents make Zenzizenzizenzic obsolete, exponential notation mostly makes large number names obsolete.
> Well... we don't have a real long track record and past performance isn't indicative of future gains

I wasn't declaring it's success as a 'good' it's more a point of fact that other systems (e.g. socialism) weren't able to survive as competition.
YouTube comments are what really does it for me.
What is the geometric meaning of a squared square?
Thanks. Sounds like I need to do some more research on this. This isn't how I thought this was generally implemented by the big players, but I've not worked closely on auth either.

I guess for 2 and 3, you handle revocation by just deleting the relevant row or flagging a "revoked" column. For 1, add a unique id that you can add to a revocation list? Are there better/more typical ways to do this?
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I could see ads if used sparingly and subtly. I applaud their effort to find alternate ways to finance.
Wow. What a hit piece. I bet their anonymous source happens to be the ex VP of Product that was fired by Pao, and is now building a 'safer' Reddit. Conflict much? In their sources quote, it's evident the source knows a lot of the inner workings of the leadership, is a man, and doesn't work there anymore. Well, that leaves only the ex VP, seeing as though Pao was a woman.

So they took all of Dan's words as truth? The guy with the competing Reddit? Come on Techcrunch. That's pretty bad.

Now, for the facts:

1. None of these people left voluntarily. They were let go. So they need to stop with the 'people are leaving in droves' nonsense. Reddit has has almost multiplied in employee count in the last year, and has moved to a new office, much larger office building.

2. All of these people, except for Nicole were part of an experimental product that was cancelled. If this was Google or Facebook, you wouldn't even know. It happens every day. But because you got a juicy tip from an ex-employee building a shitty competitor, you run with it. Because, hell, it's Reddit, and you just might hit the frontpage!

3. Shit like this, "The plans to overhaul Reddit’s reputation as a hotbed for harassment and to remake the company as a multi-media publisher have yet to prove successful — at it seems that the departures of senior employees are impacting Reddit’s product and performance." -- WTF does that mean? They tried Upvoted, it didn't work, and they're folding it back into Reddit.com and letting go of people that they don't need for the next iteration. That's business. It has nothing to do with color of skin or your genitals.

4. Numbers always dip in the summers. Especially for Reddit. The kids are off for the summer. It would make sense that they peaked right before summer. According to Alexa, Reddit is the 9th largest site in the US, and up 9 spots this month on the Global list to #27. So it seems they are definitely growing.
Hmmm. I'll agree to antitrust, but with a caveat. Most monopolies are government-enforced in the first place. Through some means or another, the government grants a business or group of business privileges above the other, usually through making it difficult to entry a market. Natural monopolies just aren't that bad--- they get to be natural monopolies because they're efficient and they're granted consumers good products at good prices.

> Or we invest in infrastructure and R&D now to make the profit later. You know, like every sane country in history prior to the Reagan Revolution.

But, do politicians ever get away from deficit spending? In order to follow the Keynes playbook you suggest, we need to take in a surplus eventually to pay off loans. And if we're taking this money from a larger economy the deficit spending has created, then Keynes' strategy also relies on the money being well spent. It's not enough to have employed people, they have to be projects that do help the economy and help wealth creation. Digging a hole & filling it up will not generate the profit we can skim in the future. And I question the ability of the government to spend money well.

In general though, it just becomes an engineering/finance problem. (And whenever we can turn an emotional political problem in a boring engineering/finance problem. that's a good thing.) I suspect that highway expansions are usually worth it. Subway and light rail are questionable. I agree that subways are really awesome to ride, but the true cost of subways are masked from the consumer. The $2.75/trip new yorkers pay is about 40% of the actual cost. https://tcf.org/content/commentary/in-defense-of-the-cheap-s... (I suspect that they're only looking at operating costs, not capital costs.)

> No, I wasn't proposing my ideal economic program. That would start with a lot more of Karl Marx and Henry George.

I know you weren't, I was just noticing a pattern in your thinking anyway. :) I'm pretty Austrian so..... yeah. TIL Henry George though, he seems like a cool guy: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val... Anything to motivate cities to develop more is good in my book!
Except it's not.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/65382/is-it-pos...

Do you have a vested interest in the matter?
If you read his story about his SF arrest you'll see he and his friend were drunkenly interfering with paramedics trying to treat an accident victim, even after the police told them to stop. He then threatened to commit suicide while in jail and got put on psychiatric hold.

And somehow he turns that into a story of injustice. So yes, he likes storytelling.
I don't think that's it's "cruise speed", I think that's it's minimum flight speed.

In the context of Challenge #3, they talk about Aquila's "25mph" speed comparing it to a commercial airliner at "200mph" - that's about takeoff speed for a 747, which then goes on to cruise at somewhere around 700mph, so if the Aquila has a similar operating flight envelope you'd expect a "cruise" speed of perhaps 80-90mph.

Also, it's entirely possible the Aquila is designed to have a wider efficient flight envelope that a 747, which a) was mostly designed using the best aerodynamics available in the 50s/60s, b) is limited by the sound barrier at the top of it's speed range (it'd hit Mach1 at ~750mph and things go strange aerodynamically there), and c) needs to be highly optimised for air-breathing jet engine fuel efficiency - which requires some tradeoffs electric power isn't constrained by (the thin cold air at 70,000feet doesn't change the power output of an electric motor the way it does a kerosine-burning jet).
This version was actually built from scratch.
Think about all the future and derivative opportunities, too...

Heck, we could do high-frequency house trading!
Uh, I think that was the <5 year plan and the exit was selling to Condé Nast ...

Like Google or FB, Reddit could just gradually become unbelievably massive. It already is approaching that level of name recognition. Monetization should be subtle, with an appropriate long-term view.
I live in Kazakhstan and this story is absolutely true in my opinion. Yerlan (Irlan is incorrect) just wanted to get "easy" money from foreign. I even think this was a first time when he'd wanted to take a bribe as he hadn't known how computer system works.
"Cops being happy to have some "criminal" around for getting drunk and they even pay?" - lol he was just a poor student whose visa expired, he wasn't a drug dealer. In Kazakhstan, most people are hospitable. And paying for guests is absolutely normal.
"The girl's story did not make much sense" - in our country sexual education is at a very low level. Abortions at young age is a big problem in poor small cities like where author have been.
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So why if there's demand for certain jobs, why there aren't more programs to train more of them.

Medicare (i.e., the federal government, congress) sets de facto limits on the number of new residents that are trained each year.

"The Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) increased the limit for rural teaching hospitals to equal 130% of each rural teaching hospital's 1996 resident count (BBRA Section 407)."

https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html

Debates on these matters constantly criticize the few elements of freedom in our existing system. Rarely do people acknowledge any of the controls and regulations that have been in place for decades, and have brought us to our current crisis...
Ask HN: What would happen if AI would write Presidential Speeches?
I recently watch idea channel video on ai (link at the bottom), while this video tackles art. I was wondering a lot about what happen on with Melania Trump speech, and would happen if computers would analyse and process past speeches in order to create a new one. Has anyone used google ai tool to make art? I'm wondering after seeing films written by Google Deep mind AI. How would a speech written by AI sound like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbd4NX95Ysc
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Microsoft spent my trust with the Palladium incident, but I left beforehand for greener pastures/uptimes.

- Linux-only since 1999.
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You should also disclose that you're the source for the TC article. It's pretty obvious.
I think so. Actions toward others have a much larger societal impact than privately held beliefs.

For example, if someone has racist beliefs which do not affect his actions in any way, his effect on other people in society would be exactly the same as it would be if he did not have racist beliefs. In other words, beliefs that are not acted on or expressed have no effect on society.

There may be some social benefit to knowing who the racists are. But if they are anonymous, that benefit is probably lost. Their speech is protected by the first amendment either way, but Reddit is not required to enforce the constitution, so they can shut down the accounts if they want to.
It's a good way to cover your ass if you need to kick people out of the community later. They can't credibly accuse you of making up ad-hoc rules if your code of conduct has existed the entire time.
Important privacy matters aside, would this even work? I didn't realize that 3D printing had improved to the resolution of a fingerprint.