skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crazy part about it is it's just going to get worse and worse. I was born and raised in SJ... since the 80s this tech stuff has been slowly building on top of itself like some sort of tumor, and the city does absolutely nothing to stop the gentrification and overall shittyness of the money-money-money mindset from taking over. I'm 23 now, most of my friends and 100% of my parents friends (lived there since the 60s) have moved out because of the constant influx of migrant workaholics.

It's given me a very cynical view on life. I really don't know where else to move, I feel like I need to leave the country as well, or at least leave California. Where are you going, if you don't mind me asking?
What's with this belief that the only way something can work is if it's kept secret? It's not a "sinister scheme": it's a plan. And it works not because of deception, but because plenty of people believe in it, or are willing to follow it. "Warning" people about manipulation doesn't stop manipulation at all, especially not when the goal is simply to reduce trust all around.

Dismantling institutions will not be done secretly, it is being done openly (which is what you initially seemed to doubt.) There's no secret conspiracy. Secret conspiracies are not the only thing a person could possibly be worried about.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for thay are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
In Canada, every candidate has the right to appoint representatives to observe the voting and the counting of ballots. Said representatives get a copy of the official counts from the polling places they were observing, and the campaigns check the arithmetic.

Do most people trust the officials? Sure. But any campaign with enough volunteers is able to verify everything.
Having a lot of trouble getting it to load. Congratulations on being so popular!

How do we get our community radio station on this map? I see that question has been asked here already but I can't find any answers.

Much appreciated,
Sybil A., WORT Community Radio
musicdirector (at) wortfm.org
You don't have to experiment on the "canonical" repo. Cloning is easy. If you have some code that isn't checked in and you need to experiment to find the particular method you need to use to check it in, just "git diff" to get a diff file you can move around and apply whenever.
Uber autonomous cars start picking up passengers
Google Scrubs Brillo, Reveals Android Things – Hackaday
My guess is the inversion layer is thicker than a taller smokestack could be practically constructed.

Yes, we can build buildings almost 1km high, but that's not practical for every smoke stack in the city.

A jet engine is a much cheaper and quicker to deploy option, assuming it actually works.
When discussing controversial topics, the bar for civility and substantiveness is higher, not lower, otherwise these threads fall apart much too quickly. Please leave out things like "jesus christ some of you are pathetic". We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176426.
So it's basically as useless for general processing as Markdown, because you
won't have a grammar from which you can generate parser, hence all the parsers
will be handcoded with various quirks differing from one to another and none
of which will produce a parse tree.
rkt is not a new container format. It is a thing that executes container images and implements all of the current formats including OCI, Docker Images, and appc. No other container engine can download and execute all of those formats today.

For users using rkt + Kubernetes they can execute Docker Images just like normal.

https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-docker-images.htm...
This looks really interesting! Can't wait to get my hands on the book.
Doing some goal factoring and trying to really understand what reasons would keep you in Bay Area is a good excercise. I'm guilty of noticing being stuck in this artificial prison quite late myself. :)
https://medium.com/teleport-stories/another-kind-of-silicon-...
Background here:

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16-341-...

The patent venue law (28 USC §1400) reads: "Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business."

The Supreme Court has found that it means what it says.

But the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned the Supreme Court decision and allowed Eastern Texas to take any case in the country starting in 1990.

The current case asks the Supreme Court to assert primacy and overturn the CAFC. And The Supreme Court has granted certiorari and will now hear the case.

This would be the biggest strike against trolls in decades. It would be bigger than Alice.
If it's hard to write a BNF, it's also hard to write a parser.
Ask HN: Were there any learnings from last week's political detox?
Regarding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

I'm curious if HN has done any analysis of the interactions, or if people have any opinions to share.
The problem is smog.

>They could transition to a combined cycle plant if they wanted to increase efficiency.

And who is going to pay for that? How do they fuel them? They already have to import a sizable part of their natural gas consumption. Do they spend even more and add coal gassification?

India is building out nuclear, obviously after Fukushima retards made sure to obstruct as much as they could

Again, the issue is smog, that is killing right fucking now. Should they just ignore the problem and develop a massive program so you feel better?
I moved (internationally) to the bay area. In my specific circumstances I would not say that it was financially clearly a good thing to do, due to the MUCH higher costs of living.

However as a place to live it is quite nice. Technology is everywhere. You can go to a free meet up and literally see the creator of the language doing a talk (e.g. Guido tomorrow with the baypiggies). It has A LOT of opportunities to pursue the career that interests you. It's warm, close to the coast and a manageable drive to skiing in Tahoe.

Some times it is not all about the profit loss.
I get what you're saying, we were in a 1800sqft home before this and a 780sqft home before that. After the first month or so in a space this size, it doesn't feel that big. You just get kind of used to it, although you kind of appreciate the space. The only time we notice the size of it is when we get back from a vacation. Also, once you have kids, homes feel much smaller. Before kids, we lived in a 600sqft rental duplex and a 800sqft loft and they both felt like more than enough room.

As for energy costs, in MN homes are very well insulated, you frequently have a fair amount of trees providing shade, and you have a basement that's 30-40% of your sqft, so heating and cooling costs aren't quite as dramatic, even when it's -20F like it will be this weekend.
I love this!
There are some missing stations in Norfolk, UK, Suffolk, UK and London, can I submit these?
You are missing:
Future Radio (107.8fm)(Norwich, Norfolk)
Radio Caroline (DAB)(Norwich, Norfolk)
North Norfolk Radio (96.2fm, 103.2fm)(Norwich, Norfolk)
Norwich 99.9FM (99.9fm)(Norwich, Norfolk)
Kiss 105-108 (Norfolk 106.1, Suffolk 106.4)
TheBeach (103.4fm, 97.4fm)(Lowestoft, Suffolk & Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk)
Town 102 (102.0fm)(Ipswich, Suffolk)
ICR FM (105.7fm)(Ipswich, Suffolk)
Dream 100 (100.2fm)(Colchester/Clacton On-Sea, Essex)
Magic (105.4fm, DAB)(London)
Kiss100 (100.0fm, DAB)(London)
10 Data Science, Machine Learning and IoT Predictions for 2017
Here’s why super-commuters are traveling five hours to work (2015)
If I say you can forget the $10k for your vote and accept that you either vote for my preferred candidate or you're fired/beaten, suddenly the secret ballot starts looking like a good idea again.

And that's even before we conclude the preferred candidate of the plutocratic oligraphy would actually be massively aided by being able efficiently purchase the votes of the indifferent rather than having to inefficiently purchase airtime to convince people their candidate actually has merit.
(And of course they'll still be able to continue to organise their vote-buying operations through shadowy umbrella organizations to the extent they can be bothered to disguise who they want to win)
Donald Trump meets with tech leaders
The problem is salary for tech workers in Montreal are way lower than other NE cities. 5 hour south and you make 2-3 times the salary you could make in Montreal (from personal experience) but cost of living does match that increase. You are better off net in the US. I know a few people that spent time working in the US and returned to Montreal with a good amount of savings which lets them live very comfortably.
Yes, but in french, (en)"bit" is also pronounced with a longer "i" sound than in English, so "bit" in french is also pronounced more like the english "beet".

Try playing with https://translate.google.com - the audio is very fair on it (albeit spoken much slower than you normally would).
VS Code is, along with Typescript and Vue, one of my favorite things to have entered my world in the past 6 months. They have been rapidly improving VSC and I am exceptionally happy with it.
I think clients are plenty powerful to do their own searching. Server should store encrypted data, client should decrypt and manipulate the data as desired by the user.

Shoot me a message if you'd like to help out. me@bitar.io
Heat:

A combination of insulation, thoughtful design (south-facing glass, adjustable awnings, solar water heating, heat pumps vs. resistive electrical heat, etc.) and renewably sourced electricity go a long ways towards the heating issue. I live in a cold-ish city in a 2 bed apt with only electric storage heaters (which are awful) and pay for supposedly 100% renewable (wind/solar/geothermal) energy and my bill peaks at €65 a month in the winter.

Commuting:

There are also thousands of businesses within a 30 minute walk from my home. Not turning cities into parking lots and skidpads with a building dropped here and there helps. If I cycle, the number of businesses in that range increases by about a factor of 9. (I cycle around 3 times as fast as I walk, so can cover a distance roughly three times as far, or area ~9 times as great). If I don't like pedaling, an e-bike or 50-150cc scooter/motorcycle will get me even farther.

Food:

I'm not well informed enough on this to comment. Where I live already has pretty bland food with loads of bread and potatoes. Good burritos, though. I'd miss that. We'd probably eat a lot less meat. I could do with a better supply of soyrizo, anyway.

Effects:

Sea level rise is far from the only concern. Stronger storms, drought, the displacement of peoples and an ensuing refugee crisis as their crops fail and water supplies dwindle, ocean acidification, and changing weather systems from the loss of the Arctic ice cap (and possibly a chunk of Greenland) are just a few of them. Also, I suppose this makes me impossibly impractical but hey, the loss of polar bears would make me sad. Maintaining the civilisation we built at the cost of the natural world we inherited isn't fantastic; watching the forests of my home (California) be completely devastated by drought, heat, and beetles is a bummer, to put it mildly.
106 Startups Who Received Investment from the C.I.A
You're underestimating Amazon. I still think it can achieve same returns if not more in next 4 years like last 4 years
That's a really cool point I never realized!
Amazon already has an "Amazon Locker"[1] service in selected areas. Drone delivery could certainly be integrated with some of those.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Locker
Sean. Is that you?
President elect meets Silicon Valley elite after mutual mistrust in campaign
I've went a step further and decided to build this as an open protocol. See https://standardnotes.org.
The parent wanted to diversify. Diversifying means that one gets a smaller part of the winning ticket - not nothing, but also not the complete piece (just as the investor only gets some smaller part of the profit than if he invested all the money in the winning company). If this is not what one wants, one should not claim that one wants to "diversify the job among many opportunities", but instead honestly say that one is simply jealous of the success of other people that got the better ticket.
Interesting quote:

> By the way, I actually think that computer programmers are not going to be a white collar job in the long run. Machinists were the programmers of 100 years ago. It was a highly paid job, and can still be one even today. My grandfather had a great job. He was almost a petty bourgeois guy after being a prototype machinist. That’s not true for that job anymore. I actually think software programming will go the same way.
"also been an opponent of the Obama administration's "net neutrality" rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing consumer access to web content."

How will this play out on business models for startups pushing pixels?
Hot Exit is one of those features that I didn't think I needed or wanted...until I started using Sublime like a notepad to store text, but not save it. I'm excited that this feature is now in VSCode now, and it also works with files that have never been saved just like Sublime.
Well that's one doodad, and apparently it has had the effect I predicted. Never mind, go ahead and have fun with your new super-markdown. One rather doubts it will displace actual markdown anytime soon.
Note the article's author.
Fair enough :)

The product looks and feels like a memory card, and identifies as such to a laptop, camera, dictaphone, or other device.

The biggest functional difference is that all files written to the card are automatically encrypted on-the-fly. Files written during the same session can be read back by the host device (decrypted on-the-fly). As soon as the card is removed from the host, or the power is turned off, all files are hidden and unreadable until decrypted by a private key, which is intended to be stored elsewhere, for instance the user's laptop.

The crypto primitives used are Curve25519 and ChaCha20.
Agreed. This is my favourite new feature. It didn't hold me back from using it at all, but now I can get rid of my other "scratchpad" editors.
That reminds me - gmail hangouts vs inbox hangouts vs hangouts hangouts vs hangouts android - contact sharing is essentially useless. No way to search for a contact in your contact list from ANY of those except android. So if I want to text someone I haven't in a while, I need to first text them from my phone before having access to the conversation thread in web clients.
In Germany, every citizen is allowed to control and inspect the counting process, as long as they don't interfere with it (and likely to be deputized to help in the counting by the folks doing it, if they are interested). Assuming you have enough people interested, it'll be very hard to counterfeit (or just sow distrust in) a general election.

Then again, it appears in some countries you can just claim millions of fraudulent votes without any proof without being called out for it.
Boost dependency, which I always have bad luck getting to build in a reasonable time. Isn't Boost going away?
It's like the author didn't even crunch the numbers. The same for stating that the facebook salary from the bay area is higher;

249 * .133 + 18 = 51.2, suggesting that a Microsoft engineer makes more in take home pay than a comparable Facebook engineer at Level 3.
Australian Federal Court to decide today on blocking of torrent web sites
You can swap in any other distributed storage system in jgit or libgit2.
You can ask for whatever you like, doesn't mean you'll get it
Ironically, the thing we've been told to cut out of our diet for the last 50 years might be what we've needed all along.

Vitamin D is fat soluble and generated by sunlight. Lard from a factory raised hog is going to have almost 0 IUs of Vitamin D. However, if you raise hogs on pasture with access to regular sunlight, their lard becomes highly enriched with Vitamin D.

We raise hogs and render our own lard and use it to cook with instead of fruit or seed oils. I've no empirical data as to the efficacy of such cooking, but I will say no one in our family has ever struggled with anything remotely resembling SAD, even living north of the 45 parallel.
Why the New MacBook Pro Will Cost You Twice as Much
Even sidestepping the 46% less "For Whom" :
Qwerty/dvorak/whatever .. No one is really worried about cranking out Words per minute anymore.
Nor is it going to significantly change RSI injuries where one wasn't already going to happen.
They have actual honest to god outlets at their seats, so no problem for me.
Unless the government decides to nationalize Uber, what's your point?
It's worth pointing out that is just for the down payment. If you want to get ahead in life you need to be "saving" that much and more every year. And oops, your expenses just shot up dramatically because now you're a home owner.
Google has a massive search business that composes the majority of its profits, apple has huge enterprise contracts for stuff like apple TV and the like that have nothing to do with their iphones, Microsoft has the obscenely large business side of the operation that has little to do with the Surface.
Applying autoencoding neural networks for better ui in JavaScript
I've carefully cultivated non-tech friends in SF/South/East Bay, to the point where I actually need to meet more tech people now since I have no idea what work life is like at other companies.

It's been worthwhile and we do plenty of stuff, but you have to be prepared to drive very long distances to see anyone. And many people who don't get into tech move away, so practically everyone is younger than me (and male) and can't afford the hipster restaurant visiting hobbies.

Oh, but the commute here is really not that bad compared to other American cities that aren't "world tier" (LA, Atlanta, DC) because those cities refuse to build mass transit.
You don't need to apologize to me personally. For what it's worth, I agree with a lot of what you are saying regarding climate change and I do think we, humanity as a whole, should be doing more than what we are currently doing. Even if climate change is absolutely not man made, cutting carbon emission would still be good thing.

My point is, from the viewpoint of conservatives, most liberals think conservatives are dumb hicks who don't know anything and are just brainwashed by big oil and the GOP. This viewpoint is perpetuated by statements similar to those you, with no malintent, made. You lament about the politicization of climate change yet you yourself initially related conservatives to those who use ignorant excuses to ignore or reject climate change. For the most part, when someone disagrees with climate change, they are instantly labelled as an ignorant science denier who has done no research on their own. That's not a good way to have a fruitful conversation with someone and it will never help solve any problems related to climate change.
Fantastic update. The node debugging tools are some of the best out there.
What if you apply that logic to today's cars: own vs rent?
Productivity Patterns
So how does this stand up to "show me the private key you used"?
That seems kind of absurd. Where does all of that cost come from?
> "Imagine if insurance covered a yearly mental health checkup."

AFAIK in the US standard health insurance policies _do_ cover mental health visits. Also, where I live (Boston) there's really no stigma.
You fill it full of junk. If you are a single male not addicted to vanity you can likely fit all your belongings in the backseat of a car. My largest belongings were the computer and the truck load of military clothing. Women tend to accumulate more stuff than men regardless of vanity. When you get kids people just give you more stuff than you need (or want) for the kids. The only limitation on the ever increasing accumulation is the space available.

Honestly, the two biggest rooms in this house just store stuff. I can absolutely live without that space. I do enjoy having an extra bedroom to use for... fill in the blank. I bought my house as a foreclosure for 125k and now Zillow lists it for 235k (a bit inflated). The value of my house is about the down payment on a house in San Jose and what I paid is half that.

I have a 2900sq ft home in Texas and we spend next to nothing on heating and AC. Our electric bill per month averages around $160 and peaks around $200 in the summer when we run the AC a bit harder. More than half the expense there is all the electronics in the house, primarily: kitchen utilities, computers, and large screens.
Try Meetup or joining ridiculous activities like crossfit. I read someone here call them "secular cults" - why do you think people go to church everywhere else?
Just take it.

You need to consciously take a very high dose to have an excess Vit. D amount

"according to some research, the tolerable upper intake level (UL) is 4,000 IU/day for ages 9–71,[51] while other research concludes that, in healthy adults, sustained intake of more than 1250 μg/day (50,000 IU) can produce overt toxicity after several months"

Common supplements are 5ug/10ug per day
America's educational excellence: We've exhausted all other options
Most likely (very very likely) the branch would be faster. It will almost always be predicted correctly (exceptions on the rollover) and cmov can be moderately expensive.

The general rule is to only use cmov if your test condition is mostly random.
Does that mean that we could implant a third kidney to people in the future?
Consumers don't have good information; applying for car insurance is a big pain, so they usually don't know. They probably apply once, then have the same car insurance for years... which might mean that they are paying too much.

Same basic problem as an employee who has worked at the same company for 10 years, and gotten their 3% raise every year - the market may have changed radically, but looking is a burden (emotionally, and otherwise) so they are unaware of that.

Enter a tremendous flood of car insurance advertising... to get people to actually evaluate if they are paying too much.
I believe a physical notebook is much better for me than an e-notebook
...I have to ask (of course, you don't need to answer): how did you tear your spleen in half? After all, most organs go on the inside, and are fairly well protected...
We're definitely getting there, but it will take effort and time. To start with, we're building an open standard for encryption and ownership of notes. See https://standardnotes.org.

Would love any feedback/help. If you're interested in contributing, shoot me a message.
Thanks for posting the xkcd comic. I was intrigued by the phrase "distributed graph theory tree model." It is definitely missing some hyphens. Ultimately I decided it should be "distributed graph-theory-tree model." That is, "graph theory" is an adjective modifying tree, and tree is an adjective modifying model.
Microsoft releases tool to build chat bot from FAQ
For transactional email I like liquid templated markdown. We render each through liquid, then send the resulting markdown in the text/plain part, and render it with redcarpet and github's sanitizer for the text/html part.

We used to downsample from HTML to plaintext with many irksome artefacts arising. These look a lot better. It does oblige a certain discipline on the part of template writers, I consider that a good thing.
Grandma with an UZI
Yep, sure is. He addresses that on the knot's Technical Info page: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknottech.htm
>>There are more restaurants per person here than NYC

Seems like dishonest to make a comparison like this given the density of NYC. You killed your credibility right there.

It reminded me of the saying:
>>There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics

It also reminded me of: https://xkcd.com/1102/