skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the main point he is trying to make (which I see summed up by the cliche "think outside the box") but most of the ideas in this article are such stereotypical notions of turning everything on it's head: Aliens? AI taking over? Robots taking over? Us living in a simulation? Challenging the concept of rape? Can we stop pretending these are cutting edge and out there? Can we stop pretending these ideas don't have very old precedents? He has come up with unique ideas on these themes, but no he is not "ahead of his time" I would argue in many ways he is stuck in the past.
Can someone explain me:

If angular can do it, so can just plain javascript? Then it's a problem with their extension architecture?

As much as I hate bundling big libraries everywhere, why ban angular?

Also, is it possible the researcher wants to get money from Google and didn't want the vulnerability to be shared?
The CIA is an arm of US corporate interests that carries out missions to benefit US corporate interests abroad.
You're a 'taxes are theft' person aren't you?
I'm not sure what you are asking here. Can you elaborate?

The bootcamp was called General Assembly (https://generalassemb.ly/).
jwz: export TERM=aaa-60
My favorite theory is an extension of #1: interstellar travel is so expensive and difficult that advances in AI and virtual reality make it undesirable. There's no point in spending a non-trivial fraction of your civilization's resources colonizing another solar system when you can do anything you want at arbitrary time scales in a simulation.
Twitter fired this guy one day after learning that he called homeless degenerate
And then Marin and San Mateo counties effectively killed it as a reasonable method of getting around the Bay Area. BART is only really useful to get to or from SF to or from parts of the East Bay and Millbrae/SSF/Daly City. It could have been much more.
In some cases, voter ID may be free, but if the nearest place that issues it is in a town 50 miles away, that's only open 10-4 on Mondays through Thursdays, it may as well cost a million dollars to some people.

In other cases, the requirements for getting voter ID may be beyond what is possible for a voter. Again - consider the homeless, the recently relocated, people who don't pay bills.

And speaking of Indiana, you realize that this is also the state that just seized ~50,000 in-progress voter registrations, on suspicion that some number of them may be fraudulent (The bar for which is surprisingly low)? [1] Exactly how many of the non-fraudulent ones do you think will be forwarded by state police to their intended destination, before the election? Would failing to do so even be illegal?

This nonesense is precisely what vouching is supposed to address.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10...
For the compliment story-

One of the challenges with things like rail is getting to and from the station, and parking. If you could step out your door, ride to the train, get dropped off, get on the train, get off, and ride to your office- rail could become dramatically more compelling for people who are not very close to the stations.

In short self-driving cars could improve rail's "last-mile" challenge
Well, Nintendo is all about Exclusives. The moment they change that they're doomed.
Fascinating. I wonder how the future firms will leverage FOIA requests to continue building the database.
Hate your job? Perfect – You should read this
i've found that, so far, the hardest things to teach u10-u12 teams are:

a) spacing
b) timing runs
c) speed dribble
Why not make a strawman argument?

I'm not advocating that we set up intentional barriers, like the poll taxes of old. What I said was that if a side effect of a legitimate effort has a side effect, it's not a bad thing. I was taking that from the idea that uninformed voters aren't helping the process; Mike Rowe explains that better than I can [1].

This is deliberate disenfranchisement.

No. There may be other folks who do want to gag people and would use this as a pretense. You shouldn't simply assume that I am one of those people. You're putting words in my mouth, and trying to say that I'm lying about what my motives are. If that's how you're going to approach debate, then I don't think it's worth wasting bits on you.

[1] http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/08/19/mike-rowe-deliver...
Why looking at A/B results more than once invalidates their significance
"My educated predictions on this chart are: We'll see Geary BRT, Geneva BRT, 19th Ave Rapid, and the M extension to Park Merced. Maybe some new signals and bike lanes. That's it."

So sad ... so sad and lame. BRT is such a half-assed, half-cracked solution.[1]

What's even more lame is the fact that the one new subway built in 40 years is very short and doesn't extend to its obvious, natural limits - fisherman's wharf.

Billions of dollars and 40 years later, you can finally walk downstairs, buy a ticket, wait a few minutes, ride a train, walk back upstairs all to avoid walking 6 blocks.

[1] To be fair, I have seen it work in Boulder (hop/skip) and in the roaring fork valley (Aspen) but these are low density places where real public transit (subway and light rail) are not workable. Unlike San Francisco.
I'm guessing you haven't tried it. TastyPie gives you complete control and customization for all parts of your api.
Is this some kind of troll question?

Cualquier lenguaje humano es mucho mas complejo que cualquier lenguaje de programación
By your logic car companies should have been charging more for cars used as taxis or other commercial purposes all along. The value of a Ford Crown Vic used by the police to stop a bank robbery is clearly higher than value of a Ford Crown Vic used to drive an 80-year-old between the retirement home and the golf course, right?

Oh, except that value was created by the person using the car not the car itself, which just sits there until someone does something. That person does all the work and assumes all the risk, so why should Ford be rewarded for their effort?

Do you want to go to Home Depot and pay different prices for nails based on the value of the building you're going to build with them? This rabbit hole goes a long way down.
Yes, https://youtu.be/YJX0an_d3wo
This is a disaster, because the brutal conformism of villages is the reason they lag behind cities where freaks are allowed to exist in anonymity.
Grady Booch revealed in a lecture in 2007 what Snowden leaked 6 years later
Well, yeah. But because most people don't really check /new on a regular basis, if you're on /new when a lot of people are on it's more likely somebody will see you.

But to get to front, you need at least 9 other people to see your post, and think it isn't junk. Whether or not this happens is controlled by so many variables that it's essentially random: Whether or not your post is good for HN, whether the specific audience (HN carries a few) that would like your post is on at the time, how much they like it, how many people are looking at /new, how many new posts are coming, and so on.

I've gotten a few post to the front, and from personal experience I can say it's hard to know what will make it.

A blog post from Andy Wingo about concurrency and programming language design? Nope.

A talk from Bryan Cantrill at USENIX about how the conference system is broken, and how we can fix it? Nada.

An anecdote on mobile app development? Nothing.

Javascript framework? Forget it.

A garbage collector, an R5RS Scheme->JS compiler, and R7RS Large Red Edition? Zip, Zero, Zilch.

An excerpt from John Carmack's blog about the design of QuakeWorld, Two different Lisp implementations, and a blog post about how CHICKEN Scheme does garbage collection (it does, Cheney on the MTA by the way, which is a pretty cool hack to get cheap continuations, GC, and tail recursion at the same time)? Suddenly, HN cares.

So yeah, it's pretty random. Unless you post an article about an implementation of Lisp. HN really likes Lisp.
That sounds like a good fix, but a tall order for most people.
We already need it with the density we have.

Moraga/Lafayette/Orinda is my favorite example of this in the Bay Area. I sympathize with the complaint that they aren't building enough, but I think the SFBARF/Lafayette lawsuit is stupid. Building more in those places wouldn't help us, because the transit capacity doesn't exist. Have you taken BART, or the Bay Bridge, or the Caldecott tunnel at rush hour? If 20,000 people move from the city to Lafayette, how do they get here for work?

But you can even find this in the city. Yeah, it'd be great to increase density in the Sunset. But have you actually commuted from the Sunset to downtown? It's a disaster. Muni is at capacity, and driving isn't an answer. You can cycle to work (I used to from 48th Ave), but that's a 7+ mile ride with a few hundred feet of elevation: it's not an easy casual ride for most people.

The idea that SF doesn't have the density to justify this stuff is... it's just not true.
There's a difference between a low probability of success that has a net negative financial value (startups, lotteries, America's Cup bids) and fraud.

In one case, there are just big risks that on average won't work out. In the other, there is no possibility for success because one party has no intention of following through on their promises.

If the scammer were actually in love, and just taking the money with the intention of investing it, but consistently blowing it in Vegas due to a gambling addiction, that wouldn't be fraud because he's still being honest.

It's the lying at issue, not the soundness of the investment.

And frankly I don't see many people saying "take options at a random startup to get rich, that's a good financial investment". Have you?
Slack has passed $100M ARR and 1M paid users
I don't think it's possible to make a Google account without a phone number anymore. It's really unfortunate, especially because I deliberately don't set up fallback contacts for my "alternate" gmail accounts, and Google keeps locking them as suspicious when I log in from a second location, and I need to "verify" with a phone number any time that happens (at which point I abandon the account).

I understand that they want to fight spam, but I'd be willing to spend 5 minutes doing captcha type activities in exchange for not requiring a phone number, and that should pretty severely rate limit account creation.
Why Eating Ice Cream, Cheese, or Milk Might Make You Sick
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/58g7z7/grady_b...
I also thought they were all quite bad.
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It's where they place the basketball rings.
You could add "salary range provided" as a filter, or place those with salaries filled in higher in the list.
This...seems ripe for abuse.
There are three possibilities:

1 - citizen who lies on their jury duty questionnaire to get out of serving.

2 - non-citizens who told the truth on their jury duty questionnaire.

3 - non-citizens who became citizens, but were registered to vote before they became citizens.

The first have committed perjury and are ineligible to vote. The second are ineligible to vote, plus there is some weirdness associated with them even being selected for jury duty, read on. As for the third, jury lists are drawn from voter registration as the requirements to vote and the requirements to be on a jury are the same. It's unlawful to register to vote if you aren't a citizen. So the third group has also committed a crime and are ineligible to vote. And ineligible to become citizens and would face deportation if anyone bothered to followup.
LOL. Nobody is saying "What is San Francisco doing? Let's copy them!" It's cute how much of a little bubble SF folks live in and how much Kool-aid that has been guzzled.
What's wrong with being a living room hub? Since cutting the cord, my PS4 has been the ideal set top box and is the only device attached to my TV.

Blu Ray Player (that I never use), check.
Plex client, check.
DLNA client, check.
Digital Optical Out, check.
Netflix, Amazon Video check.
Gaming machine, yup.

It completely removes the need for a HTPC.
On the talk that they did, the guy from F* team mentioned that their goal was to be able to validate that the C code is correct and they can match 1:1 the language constructs, to allow for proper verification of the generated code.
Thank you very much, that was awesome! :)
> I knew this would get downvotes from a crowd that simultaneously abhors surveillance yet trumpets spyware like Nest as innovative. Cognitive dissonance is strong here.

Shouldn't be a big surprise from the same crowd that thinks "gut bacteria" trumps CICO, never mind that gut biome being different in overweight/obese versus healthy weight is probably more an effect than a cause.
Modifying DOM is not enough to cause a vulnerability. In Chrome content scripts (the ones that are injected into a page from an extension) have limited privileges though there still can be the ways to exploit them.
I think there is really no doubt that the storage prices itself ( for all types) are pretty amazing. But let's face it: traffic costs are the huge elephant in the room. By charging 12ct and more per GB, the traffic costs easily become your biggest expense, and make the storage price reduction from 2.6 to 2ct per GB almost forgetable.

For me this is in no way acceptable and it seems to be a vicious attempt to sneak in some extra profit without having the customer noticing this upfront. Shure, these harsh words seam like a big exaggeration, but I literally never ever hear or read something about traffic costs in Googles fancy blog posts, and I would make the assumption that only a fraction of the HN community is aware of this fact. 120 bucks for a sloppy TB of traffic is just way too high.
Being governed by those who can and will go to a weekday afternoon meeting to speak their mind doesn't feel that far from being ruled by YouTube commenters.
You should just wait until both the framework and tooling are RTM if that's the stability you need - the framework is already great but if you need the tooling then wait until it's ready.

Why complain if you understood the status and assumed the risk?
Can Americans explain me how can you just do things like that by calling customer support? Wouldn't it make more sense to go and show your ID if you want to make changes like that?
This raises a good point. Even when languages are "close" it usually doesn't mean "mutually intelligible" unless they are really close. I grew up in the US but I have Italian parents who came over somewhat recently in immigration terms - the 1970's. My first language is/was Standard Italian, as my grandmother really pushed my parents not to teach me their dialects. My mom is from Genova and my father from a small town in Abruzzo called Alfedena - since you are Italian, you probably know, very different dialects. Zeneize is considered its own language. Anyhow, to my point, Standard Italian is extremely close to the spoken dialects in my family, probably closer than Sardo to Latin, but I still have trouble understanding either side of the family in dialect. Part of that, of course, is that I was raised outside of Italy, but not entirely as I don't have trouble with the Florentine dialect since I speak pretty close to what they do.

And don't get me started on written versus spoken! Then again, my dad's dialect might look like Welsh if anyone thought to write it down. But on my mom's side, Zeneize does have a sort-of official written form, and if I read carefully I sometimes have an idea of what's going on :)
I believe this is widely known as 'dark profiles' can't seem to find that many articles but here is one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2165543/Faceb...

Also they keep track of that info easily when somebody migrates their phone address book on to the Messenger or Facebook app, on first install it prompts you to push all that data. They have your name, number and the connection between that user and you.
> They're expensive to maintain. They don't actually keep perfect time. They're heavy.

The first and second items are true enough (although I don't know how much I care about perfect time: as long as I don't have to fiddle with it more than once a month, I don't really care), but the last need not be true. My mechanical watch is not noticeably heavier than a quartz watch.

And it looks a lot nicer than that Casio digital. One can see just as well through Birth Control Goggles (e.g. http://media.oregonlive.com/oregonatwar/photo/10469092-large...) as through wireframes, but the latter looks a lot nicer. Function is not the only important thing: form matters too.
What I recall reading over the last year is that:

- phonelines can be hijacked (this article)

- DNS can be hijacked in a similar manner

- SMS can be hijacked (for 2FA via text message)

I guess 2FA using an authenticator app is the way to go for now. Do you guys agree with the removal of backup phone numbers recommended here? Seems reasonable to me but scary; I've lost my phone(s :( ) before. I do have backup codes generated though.
Since you guys are doing things with 3D models, I would love to throw out my 2c. My team (flair.co) sorta splits electrical and mechanical design along people lines (even though we are comfortable with both sides). I don't end up doing much board layout but in terms of vetting a relay or some Caps for fit, being able to drop them into my mechanical design would be great. My flow right now is, go to the internet (if in the states) or sometimes the market (if in shenzhen), measure the parts with calipers or look at the data sheet, build a model in Fusion360 and then import that part into my design. If you made a plugin for Fusion360 and perhaps a few of the other popular mech e packages(solidworks, onshape, etc.) that would be fantastic!
>Eventually, with the help of Google’s customer support and some ex-colleagues who still work at Google, Bob was able to get his account back.

I bet I know which one of these resources was more important.
So do we. Until then, there is such an expanse of publicly available data that hasn't been touched: local ordinances, lobbying at the state level, campaign contributions at the state level, just to name a few.
Probably because it's written in Elm ...
1. Comparing the range of an actual 'currently being produced' vehicle to the stated range of a vehicle that's not yet in production is disingenuous in my book. Expect the leaf (v2?) to have at least 25% more range by the time the Model 3 is being produced.

2. While 'more acceleration' sound nice in theory, using all this power is usually pretty bad for your range.

3. While the battery swap sounds nice, in practice battery degradation hasn't been that bad according to many EV owners I talked to. Will it actually be necessary? If you're thinking about swapping the battery for a quick 'charge' I'm not sure that's going to be available for the Model 3 (and even if available, what the costs for doing so will be.).

4. Some might like the flat screen, I'm personally not a very big fan. Plain old fashioned knobs and buttons are really easy to work with.

I agree with the rest of your list but I'm pretty sure EV sales (especially for the near future, say the next ten years) are not a zero-sum game. Plenty of Leafs, Bolts, Souls, and Model 3s will be sold regardless of the fact that the Model3 may be 'better' based on your definition.

Disclaimer: I drive a Kia Soul EV with 'only' ~100 miles real-world range.
> I haven't had a Facebook for years, yet I'm absolutely convinced that Facebook has maintained my social graph through pictures my friends and others have posted with me in them.

Considering that Facebook is known to construct shadow profiles of people who don't even use the service "yet", this shouldn't come as a surprise.
> What I would really like to so is a repository of 3D models. Footprints are a dime a dozen and faster to churn out than 3D models.

Actually, most footprint maker plugins now happily generate 3D models for you. They're almost always good enough.
There is a lot of speculation in the community that when docked, additional video processing will be available in the hardware within the dock.

When undocked, they can scale down resolution and frame rate for the smaller screen.
closer to the value they have created

This isn't really how free markets work, though; either it's a competitive market in which the profit margin tends to zero, or (especially for SV unicorns) it's a monopoly or market-dominating company that gets to charge monopoly prices.

The market valuation for Uber isn't based on today's profits, it's the expected value of a string of future profits which can only be realised without strong competition. Likewise Tesla. Only one of them can win.

(The argument that DRM on blu-rays enlarge the movie industry really needs substantiating and accounting for the increased cost of blu-rays and players. This is separate from the copyright rules on public performance of recordings.)
Check out this job ad for an idea of what some of these businesses are like.
https://www.amztracker.com/blog/jobs/
I'm subscribed to GetApprenticeship.com. They sent me this last week.

>In the past year our team has grown from the 3 original co-founders to an amazing team of well over 40 people around the world.
>Be prepared to move to Bangkok Thailand by December 1st for at least the first 3 months of your employment. (We cover travel expenses!)
>Live anywhere after that. (although I would love for you to stay with the team wherever our next home base will be)

As far as tech goes, beyond very well known examples like Basecamp, off of the top of my head there's ConvertKit - an email marketing startup - and JungleScout - another SaaS tool for Amazon sellers.

You'll notice many of these cater to the marketing crowd. Even Rob Walling's startup is an another email marketing SaaS called Drip.

A good idea might be to get a job out there and let yourself be exposed to this community. These guys talk business like most guys talk sports.

What do you have in mind? I've spent most of this year consuming this stuff non stop before deciding to learn to code. I've easily spent about 20 hours listening to silicon valley founder interviews and things like Startup School. Even more reading blogs, watching conference talks and listening to podcasts from this world.

If you want to shoot ideas around my email is ryanacalvo at gmail.

MicroConf talks are also a good source, https://vimeo.com/user12790628
Haha, if you thought that one was good, check out this¹ one where the scammer is scammed into sending a lot more than a photo (although he is scammed into doing that too)!

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