skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the same thought. I actually met with my boss and HR about this, and they said there was nothing they could do. The issue is the company structure. I work for a 501c3 affiliated to another organization. The parent company provides all of our admin functions like HR, IT, etc. We share a board, and the director of each department reports directly to the board. The IT director is really well liked by the board because he never spends any money.

The average age of our board is somewhere north of 80 (not kidding), and they don't understand what IT is. True story--our parent organization didn't have a website until 2003, because the IT director thought websites were a fad. He was forced to buy the domain after someone else bought it and used it to post stuff the board found unappealing.

The only way to describe the entire situation is Kafkaesque.
The energy-saving data glasses
Will self driving cars be the panacea? Or merely a tool to make painful commutes more tolerable, for those who can afford them?
Rochester, NY. Cost of living is super cheap, lots of good food, you've got the great lakes, finger lakes, all kinds of outdoors shit, tons of festivals, and most importantly everything is only 15 minutes away on expressways. Only real issue is winter, but the change of seasons is enjoyable.
IIRC, ULA is the one that uses the RD-180s.
It's already a problem. It's not uncommon for home sales in Austin to be all-cash, and 10% over the asking price. It's not all Californians though - a coworker reports Chinese investors buying 3 homes in his neighborhood.

Combine the inflow of new residents with the existing stressed road system and city & county council inaction on mass transit, and traffic is ugly. It can take me 35-40 minutes to go 8.5 miles some days.
It'll be a large problem. The issue is that the concept of ownership is changing in the "millennial" generation. There isn't a drive to own a car, a house or other large purchases so the concept of paying $200-500/more a month for leasing an apartment isn't as cumbersome as it was for the past generation.

So as the technology folks from other cities move into these newly labeled "tech hubs" they'll drive the rent up because the costs seem so much lower than they actually are. It's a hard concept for some reason to grasp that they can pay $1500/month for a 1 bedroom in other tech cities that's $2800/month in SV/SF. However, what they don't realize is that it used to be $1100/month but landlords take advantage of the fact that $400/more/month is not an issue for someone coming from SF/SV
No really he should not. A separate translation layer is free for anyone to write though. The OpenSSL design from an API perspective is basically as far from "user friendly" as possibly possible. Having a hard-to-use API means that it's hard to get things right. If things are hard to get right it leads to more bugs. You get where I'm going with this.

A clean, simple to use, or rather hard-to-use-in-a-wrong-way API is very much needed (and there are some libraries that are nice to use but not very proven).
727 hours/10 hours a day = 72.7 days.

roughly 22 working days per month.

72.7/22 = 3.3 months

As far as logo design goes, this is actually pretty fast. Most companies I've dealt with stuff like this usually takes much, much longer depending on how picky the founders are.
Breaking backwards compatibility happens, and I don't see it as too much of a threat to the project.

What might be nice is, for every release, to provide a script that would update your org files to the current standard.

Maybe such files even exist, but they would need to be closer to the users' hands.
Public transportation is not going to come to the rescue. The communities involved won't tolerate the additional taxes, nor will they cooperate in making an efficient system.

Can we pin any hopes on fully autonomous vehicles?
I think one of the best things about Dotty is that they now have a proven theory that the language works on top of (DOT calculus http://scala-lang.org/blog/2016/02/03/essence-of-scala.html). This has allowed them to remove some unsound things (and work around others in a sound way)
Thoughts on the Technical Track (about managing other people)
Shipyard – shipyard
A GRU is a simplified version of the LSTM, not a building block.
Why would you even ask this? Please don't contribute to the ageism debate. My hunch is the programmer was qualified for the job.
HFT in my backyard – I – Sniper in Mahwah
do you really need coroutines for cert decoding and handling of handshake messages? It's not like you can parallelize these things and do something else in the meantime...
Because a lot of people don't want to live in a more-cityish city. Some of us prefer the suburbs.

A place like Houston or Phoenix is perfect for me. Actually, I live in suburban Dallas (and I work farther out in the suburbs), and I have no desire to move. Though it's possible I might have to move out of state next year, in which case I'm seriously looking at St. Paul, MN.
Inflated real estate prices and a tax base driven by a cyclic industry that pushes everyone else out of the housing stock?
Good decision. I am originally from Europe and I am on a Visa here and consider going back home despite the lower pay. I mean I like tech stuff, but I do not like it that much.
It's not pure luck. It's not pure talent/drive/etc. It's the mixture of the two.

And yes, I had heard of Mike Scott, but I'm an old geek who's a Bay Area native.
This SMBC comic makes the same point on survivorship bias.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/path-of-a-hero
Anyone know what the % drag on SF's economy caused by the lack of housing is up to?

SF has had a shortage of housing for decades, and it just gets worse and worse. Is there any point at which the NIMBYs will be defeated and zoning policy adjusted to allow real densification? Or is power stacked so much in their favor that it will never happen?
Loki MISP IOC
Does anyone has a working and up-to-date MISP IOC for the Loki scanner?
We're talking about wasting time(money) in meetings.
"Americans tend to value abstinence above all else, an all-or-nothing approach that British advocates see as rooted in the United States’ Puritan culture, said Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health."

This is true.

You can see the same thing during the (alcohol) prohibition era: because ethyl alcohol is necessary for other uses, it was mandated to be "denatured" by adding chemicals that made it less appealing to drink. When they found people still drinking it (or managing to separate the alcohol from the denaturants), they increased the toxicity of the chemicals until they were actually poisoning people.

In this case, the primary goal is to prevent new smokers. Since many of the e-cigarette flavors are pleasant, they regard it as attractive to children. Now, getting someone who doesn't already smoke to vape is bad, but I haven't seen any significant evidence that vaping leads them to smoking, so there's that.

On the other hand, if you are already smoking, your soul is lost and, to a first approximation, it would be better if you were to die as soon as possible---outside of pharmaceutical companies, there is no serious interest in cessation. Inside those companies, making nicotine gum and patches is big business, and I know people who have been chewing the gum frequently for nearly a decade.

There is a certain amount of the same feeling in those who have quit smoking. To paraphrase an old joke, how do you know someone quit smoking? Don't worry, they'll tell you. If you can quit cold-turkey, good; if you can't, you are weak willed and a lesser human.

In any case, the bottom line is, like in all Puritan situations, that results matter less than perceptions.
gonna need some sources for that data, friendo
Is this significantly different from the Facebook implementation or is it just something you did for the sake of it? Either way, good job :)
Sparta: A Go Framework for AWS Lambda Microservices
So, something like this [0]?

I saw it the other day and found it interesting, but not that useful to me.

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ockel-sirius-a-the-world-...
Mega Commuters in the U.S. [pdf]
OK, now it IS flagged. But when it disappeared from ranking, it wasn't. And here is the evidence:

All [flagged] stories becomes automatically also [dead], so they are closed to new comments (please check out another stories which become flagged, all of them are also [dead]). The fact that I was able to post the parent comment 10 minutes after story disappeared from rankings means that it wasn't flagged at that time and it must disappeared from rankings for other reason.

Moreover, you apparently removed [dead] from this story manually, in order to disprove my words that adding new comments to [flagged] stories in impossible. Please take a look on other [flagged] stories, all of them are also [dead]. This in the only one exception.

And the fact that you perceive the title as 'editorialized' (despite it ideally sums up this research findings, word 'tolerant' perfectly suits here [1]) is the best indicator of your bias here.

[1]:

> tolerant - Showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behaviour that one does not necessarily agree with.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tolerant

Moreover, I don't believe that users flag all of these politically undesirable stories. Users have a mechanism of downvotes, which they can use to suppress stories which they think are bad for HN. However, most of flagged stories don't get many downvotes. It's rather the opposite -- flagging is used to get rid of stories which get many upvotes! Like this one.

If majority of users thought that these stories are 'bad for HN', they would get many downvotes and have zero or negative score, instead positive one. Therefore I think that flagging doesn't reflect the will of users and is used against their up/down-voting decisions.
Yeah, I definitely get the impression that Telstar might have lasted two years instead of one if not for the nuclear tests, but not decades.
The article makes disingenuous claims about measure B. The county plans to spend nearly all of that money on freeways, which history has shown will not relieve traffic. Their plan calls for almost nothing for public transit.
8) Writing blog posts.
Well there's always my plan: wait for some one else to win the lottery and then sue them.

I figure the chances of winning a frivolous lawsuit are huge compared to winning the lottery.
But if you look, only some parts of SFO are dense, the rest is a joke.

Paris: 55,673 ppl/sq mi

New York City: 27,016.3 ppl/sq mi

San Francisco: 17,179.2 ppl/sq mi

Zurich: 12,000 ppl/sq mi

Vienna: 11,205 ppl/sq mi

San Bruno: 7,505.0 ppl/sq mi

Mountain View: 6,034.8 ppl/sq mi

San Jose: 5,256.2 ppl/sq mi

Cupertino 5,179.1 ppl/sq mi

Menlo Park: 3,271.3 ppl/sq mi
Fortunately, the election's just around the corner, and if you'd like to help solve these problems, you can do so with your ballot.

http://www.sfyimby.org/endorsements-nov-2016 Is a good pro-housing voter guide for San Franciscans.
and moves and copies won't have potential for other memory management bugs? You'll still have memory management overhead and now additional complexity.
How We Increased Our Demo Signups by 40%
Pretty sure I would rank immunodeficiencies [1] as a menace, but I'm not a doctor of any kind..

[1] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306444.php
A community that was close or far from Google? Because that's what this article is about
Well no, it isn't valid to call it a Super PAC. Especially given the availability of the word "partisan".

If we were just discovering that groups took sides a little bit of linguistic fuzziness would be acceptable. Not knowing what some jargon means and using it sloppily is just sloppy, again, especially in the face of a meaningful general term.

I did say I guess it would be more accurate to just assert that you believe they are partisan. in an attempt to make it clear that my comment was about the language.

As far as whether get out the vote is inherently a partisan activity, I think if you believe that voters skew differently than the general population, the test for partisan activity is that it skews in the other direction, not that it happens to skew less than the population of voters.

If it makes you feel better, I'm generally a crank. Here I am 6 months ago telling the founder of Vote.org that their tax status isn't an interesting defense of the activity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11718069
Bring a book (or an e-reader) or a handheld gaming console.

Don't think of it as a commute; thinking of it as blocking out two hours every day to play video games!
> I see the opposite, however, they got strong incentives NOT to do shady things, because if they are caught even once doing shady things, their reputation is in the gutter and nobody will ever listen to them again

Quite the opposite happens even in this thread. Are you aware of [1] and [2] and [3]? Do you think that incident sent their reputation to the gutter?

(edit: added one more link)

[1]: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-r...

[2]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12864328/wikileaks-threat-r...

[3]: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/26/1552616/-Russian-Hac...
May I ask what you do that enables you to travel all over the world? I've been thinking of ways that would let me travel more without quitting my job or switching out of tech entirely so any tips would be appreciated!
Yes, we should just do that. Although I think it's very expensive. We would need 5x the funds that Measure B provides, I'm guessing, and even then transportation would still lag job growth.

And a lot of places are "built out", so there isn't really room to expand roads, or it is very expensive.
How to create an I2P darknet site
UK government wants prisons geoblocked by drone manufacturers
Yes

Or they are using $(Obscure new Functional Programming thing) which makes Haskell look like VB in ease of use and only two people on the team know how to use it (kind of)

Or using (invented here thing that could be replaced by regular DB/other existing system) but since it was one of the founders that did it nobody is allowed to touch it or fix bugs
I don't like the obsession with the newest, most shiny stuff myself, but to me it looks different from a business perspective.

Let's say that I'm a startup CEO and don't have a lot of money, but want to hire great engineers. I'm competing with giants with a lot of money, so I'm trying to offer everything I can - and all I really have is creative freedom. And if engineers choose to use it to learn new frameworks and in general, get a little crazy, it's fine by me, as long as it keeps them happy and not looking for greener pastures.
Oh, they did. But they were surprised and angered the EU will send anti-Brexit negotiators nontheless.

It's something we have come to expect from the British: They get cranky once they find themselves on a Level playing field.
Watch a drone hack a room full of smart lightbulbs from outside the window
A large, "boring", global company. Offices all over the world, let's me pick and choose where I want to visit for corporate IT work. Also affords me the free time to work on my own side businesses, and travel more :)
Meteor and GraphQL Conference
> the original referendum (a mere poll, as you put it) on the basis of which the British government signed up

You seem to be trying a reductio ad absurdum argument here and failing.

The UK joined the EEC in 1973, without a referendum but based on an act of Parliament. In 1975 they held an explicitly non-binding referendum that supported staying in the EEC. In other words, that referendum voted to maintain the status quo. You can "disregard" it if you wish, but that would also just mean maintaining the status quo.

The UK has never held a binding referendum on EEC/EU membership. According to the UK's crufty "constitution", this means Parliament gets to decide. If Parliament does nothing, the UK remains in the EU.
After visiting the Palo Alto region for work I don't understand why anyone would drive anywhere. It was so extremely friendly to biking, I could get from Menlo Park to Redwood city and even across the bay to Freemont with no trouble whatsoever.
Dolphin Progress Report: October 2016
This just looks like someone who is aware of the complex legal history associated with cryptography and has considered embedded devices in the design of the library.

Considering the recent events around IoT having good crypto libraries for that seems like it could be useful.
Thomas De Quincey's works are on Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Thomas+De+Quin...

Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which is autobiographical, is his most famous work.
>> This is because any mature rocket technology can trivially be adjusted to be a nuclear weapons delivery platform.

There is also the issue of maintaining the capability domestically. If someone else is too cheap it would destroy the local capability. Imagine the US losing the ability to launch it's own satellites - like it lost the ability to launch people.

That said, there needs to be a way to make domestic launches competitive, so helping SpaceX or others while blocking foreign competition seem like a good idea all around. The goal should be to maintain domestic capability while hindering foreign nukes - not to maintain some company monopoly.
Again, it's clear you do not understand how any of this works. It has nothing to do with technical necessity, or even expenses of delivering a specific user's service. Your focus on that indicates you have no understanding of the market. An explanation of business economics is beyond the scope of what I can fit in a reasonable comment.

This is a simplified example of how tiered pricing works in a business sense I wrote up a few weeks ago to explain it: https://plus.google.com/+JakeWeisz/posts/8dSeCHrzZpo
Yeah, but a "suburb" like San Jose is just annoying. It has the population of a city, but the life of a suburb (=nothing going on). So basically the worst of both.

I mean, I am like you, that I would rather live in a smallish community where it's calm and everything over a city, but if you combine that feature with "there are people everywhere" then it is not that great.
Boosted (YC S12) says to stop riding e-skateboards after battery malfunctions
> if you term the Americas that

Hardly so. "The Americas" indicate some second-world middle-American Country, which more often than not is in the process of failing (because of - amongst other things - tax Evasion).
Indian PSU research centers are well-known for being incompetent (including DRDO, CSIR, HAL...) [1]; in this ISRO is something of an oasis (or so I've heard). These orgs are generally neither nimble, nor particularly interested in acquiring talent, unlike their American competitors (or even NASA). Hiring is often one large nationwide JEE-like exam held once a year to recruit new engineers. Not surprisingly few Engineers that end up working there are from top colleges.

Given all this, it's not clear how long ISRO will be able to hold on to its first mover advantage, with regards to cheap launches. While INR being undervalued may be one advantage, it may not prove to be enough to compensate for bad logistics and attrition. Admittedly though, the latter are not as big problems for ISRO, as they are for manufacturing companies.

If there are folks from ISRO here on HN, I'd love to know about their management/coding practices and the like. In any case, the whole "defense" line is a non-sequitur

- Everyone knows that the Indian bureaucracy leaks like a sewer.

- DRDO is hardly an organization that needs fearing; apart from the above anecdotal data, most of the components/tech used by the organization are imported. A Homi Bhabha is not apparent in the current state apparatus.

- The state has hardly had any real geopolitical goals (after Nehru-Indira Gandhi).

[1] Haldane called CSIR, "Center for the suppression of independent research".
Isn't a big part of the problem that it's not really all that dense? Most of it is a sort of endless suburbia, not the kind of packed city where mass transit really shines. I'm sure that public transit could be improved anyway (it certainly seems quite poor to me, from a distance), but I'm not sure "such a dense area" applies.
It would be interesting to understand where they work. Back in the dot com days there were people living in Livermore and driving into San Jose (aka "the South Bay") but now it seems more people with "long" commutes are driving into San Francisco. And one of the people who worked for me (at an office on the peninsula) was thinking about moving to San Francisco, even though they currently lived much closer because they enjoyed the more urban lifestyle offered there.

As a result of all these different forces I realized how challenging it is to not have some bad commutes. And in Sunnyvale we're in the midst of a debate started about choices the city council has made to allow more local housing to be developed. There are a lot of apartments and condos being built and some residents are complaining about traffic and change. It will be interesting to see if folks approve additional transit dollars.
The Art of the Awkward One on One
"Chinese investors buying 3 homes in his neighborhood"

Here's a problem...
I can make my programs work, but it's not a good allocation of resources. Two hours of my time costs as much as that computer. The computer that would allow me to do my job with the most efficacy is equivalent in cost to about 10 hours of my time.

The question is whether the better computer save more than 8 hours over the course of a year? The answer is yes. The amount of time it takes to load stuff in from the disk slows down programs immensely. If my computer had 16 gb of memory I'd be able to store and manipulate all my data in memory.

That's not even counting how much time is wasted optimizing code that I run rarely. That time is much better spent doing other things.
As long as people keep playing the sub-ohm game, thus keeping the majority of heat dissipation in the battery (I've seen 5 milli-Ohm coils, imagine where the heat's going when an 18650 has a typical resistance of 100 milli-ohms fresh) then yes, these things will be a menace. Just the other day a sub-ohmer at the mental health facility I was re-wiring had his battery explode on him. POPFIZZLE! It was just sitting on the concrete in the shade, he wasn't even using it and it hadn't been used for at least 10 minutes.

Ohm's law really needs to get more exposure in the classroom.
I had to sell my house in Berkeley because my commute to San Francisco was eating up 3 hours every day - the time I allocated to side projects.

Our politicians have given up, no one even talks about making our transit system better. Total losers.

(12 miles)
In practice, there's often no useful difference between a thin cloud of vile-smelling smoke and a thick cloud of fruity-smelling vape: many people would prefer to avoid both. (Also, the vape cloud leaves much more residue than smoke did, just much less foul). Best policy seems to be to use the things only where actual smoking is allowed to try to avoid annoying bystanders.
Multiple friends who moved to the USA for their higher education (MS/PhD) in fields such as Aerospace Engg complain about the very tight regulations in the field. For many people, even being top of the class means coming back home, because companies like Boeing/ SpaceX etc have very tight US citizens only rules imposed on them. This is almost completely opposite to the Comp Sci. graduates who assimilate almost immediately into the workforce. In a way, this has helped India develop it's own space program because many graduates from top universities do come back home and join ISRO (albeit I'm sure many others don't for various reasons).

Why is there so much country-based regulation in these fields? Is it because the traditional patriotism associated with the field (US vs Russia in the 60's was legendary)? or is it simply resistance to change?
Eben Moglen on GPL Compliance and Building Communities: What Works