skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! Self-driving cars makes car use much cheaper, and I can't imagine any other outcome but substantially more car use as a result, leading to more traffic. At some point we have to deal with this in some way, such as tolling, especially in denser urban areas, where land values are expensive, and the hassle/time cost of driving/parking are the only things metering motorists' use of this valuable resource.
In the UK 30+ years ago we had a scool trip to Cranfield university and they had been experimenting with using tall chimneys to fire giant smoke rings into the upper atmosphere to do something similar,
FYI that's being tracked here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/15749
You should have separated the PHP comment with the "becoming part computer". I would like to upvote just the latter.
> > No electronic scheme can do that: anything that runs in software means that the correctness of the system depends on the experts' word only.

> No paper ballot in box scheme can do that: anything that is run by officials means that the correctness of the system depends on the officials' word only.

This comparison is flawed, the entire correctness of a electronic scheme could only be verified by a few experts, whereas in every polling place with a paper ballot, there is a committee, and witnesses of the vote count. Proving the correctness of a paper ballot system such as the one described in [1] is trivial.

Ultimately, the correctness doesn't even depends solely on officials:
In the course of the day, the polling station officials ask voters whether they want to participate in ballot counting as tellers. Voters can also volunteer to do so ; candidates can nominate tellers as well.

[1] http://www.elections-legislatives.fr/en/system.asp (search for "How are the ballots counted"). The presidential elections protocol is the same as the one described here.
Seems to be very narrow group. How is this relevant to HN? Flagged the story.
> In fact it says a lot to me and many others how the Bay Area gets the most press coverage of being the "tech innovation center of the world". Center of what?

It's the center of successful consumer-focused tech companies. A huge percentage of the megahits of the last couple decades have come out of the bay area.
It's not for all though. The Xaramin homepage doesn't even mention Linux.

This is Xaramin for Some.
Trying to recall my memory -
While reading the book, i could many times relate it to the problems i have been facing in life and my day to day work. Reading the book helped me pictures those things as a 'RESISTANCE'. I used to procastinate things for next day, i was reluctant to speak up and reach out to other co-workers. After reading the book i was able to convince myself that this was just a resistance and if i wanted to be happy and successful, i would have to overcome this resistance.
I'm not saying i'm a completely changed person after reading the book, but it definitely had positive impacts in my life.
> JavaScript improvements: IntelliSense for paths in import

Does that mean we don't need those extensions anymore?

- Path Intellisense: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=christia...

- NPM Intellisense: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=christia...

(I have not updated yet)
I think it could be done, it would just have to be trained well before they put it in real service.
Insightful. (I read the transcript rather than watching the video and it made a huge difference because that afforded me time to pause and think). Good stuff.
I, for one, cannot keep track of which version we're currently at. It used to be that a major version was introduced with fanfare and broke things. The holy 1.0 or versions such as Python 3 and or Gnome 3. I will always remember if I'm running 2.x or 3.x.

Some time after the major version hits 3, the madness seems to begin. Am I running Firefox 73 or 85 or was that last years version? I honestly don't know anymore. Are the stable versions even, odd, Fibonacci or prime?

Why not be brave about it and use date-based numberings such as 16.12!
The Business of Ideas Is in Trouble: Re-Injecting Facts into a Post-Truth World
It's all about keeping the same user experience for most people (those with cars).

One thing much of this analysis is missing is how much more in demand commuter vans will be. Transportation will be much more hub based for both long and very short trips. A middle of the range option will fill the void, which is large. Given much of transit is pre planned with times and locations, for jobs, van use in self driving cars will be enormous.
Makes me happy that getting rid of stack ranking allows small elite teams to now be functional.

Before, everyone would've been stepping on each others' toes because only two out of ten people would always be rated top performers and two more would be forced onto "performance improvement plans" (aka "you're about to get fired").
The pace of development on VS code is impressive! I'm really looking forward to the JS improvements
Comparing clusterings–an information based distance [pdf]
In case anyone is curious, that blue county in New Mexico is Santa Fe county, which just happens to be adjacent to Los Alamos county.

Besides the Los Alamos connection, there is a research institute that studies complexity in the county itself, and three private liberal arts colleges.

People also like to move here for the culture alone. Last I checked the arts economy is somewhere in the top 5 in the country. Combined with the well-forested mountains, cooler weather, and a history that predates European exploration of the Americas (roughly where the central plaza currently stands was an old Pueblo village built in 900 AD), it makes for an interesting place.

Not that I'm particularly trying to convince anyone to move there. Downside of its long history is that the awkward road network is less a result of smart urban planning and more the fact that they were old stagecoach routes that became legitimized by sheer virtue of being old. Also, you likely won't have any choice but to live in a house made out of adobe (dried mud), because tourism, which might be why the housing market there is relatively crazy compared to the rest of poor old New Mexico.

In case you're wondering, I live 50 miles south in Albuquerque and once briefly lived in Santa Fe before the high rent got to me.
Yahoo reveals another hack where data was stolen from 1B accounts
One neat thing about this (that probably won't end up making that big a difference for most people, just those few with high-mileage commutes in low traffic areas) is minivans can safely go faster on the freeway than buses.
Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate
I was waiting for someone to mention this -- it seemed much more interesting to me. It's a real classic in the "what the hell, you can do that?" category. (Bonus points if you've done it in a language that requires "extra data" for strings, like storing the length somewhere.)

I must admit that I never actually benchmarked my implementation properly -- it might be interesting to see if there are actual trade-offs between mmap vs. copying. (I'm guessing that nothing can beat MMU support, but I think the MMU also supports copy operations, so...?)
What are you referring to? I don't see any of that in this sub-thread.
Sublime's updates are dismal. https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/ I had to switch to Atom just because the development is stagnant. I liked Sublime very much. But it's been 2 years already..
Kudos to these app experts. The dude I'd probably listen to most is Paul Kemp, known for The App Guy Podcast. He had an influencer on his show last year talking about Blockchain technology. I guess we'll have to wait (yet) another year to see if this prediction comes true.
To be honest, around 7-10 of these are either redundant or completely irrelevant. For example, look at #28 and #30. Why would anyone be complaining that mediocrity isn't accepted at Google? In fact, from a hiring perspective, that should be heralded as a great thing.

This article is clearly clickbait.
Open sourcing a client is pretty useless when the bulk of the logic happens inside a company's server somewhere.
Agree, this patch note is so big! Bravo to the team.
I agree, this isn't really a measure of "brain drain." Brain drain is when educated people leave an area (usually a country) en masse. For example, one of my professors is from Sri Lanka, and she used her graduating class as an example of brain drain— more than half of them left Sri Lanka upon receiving their undergraduate degree.
Understanding the goal one wishes to achieve may not always be the same as understanding the best way to use technology to achieve that goal. Indeed, it's very possible to both have a real problem worthy of being addressed and no good solution to it.
4200 sq ft. is mid-size to you?? Wow!

I lived in a 600 sq ft. mobile home in the bay area with my wife and son. It was a bit cramped but not too bad. Now we're in Munich in a place that's...maybe 900 sq ft.? And it feels like a pretty good size, just wish we had a garage. 4200 just blows my mind. To me, I think having that much space would feel like a burden.
Buy a template that fits your business and tweak it
In case you are looking for the important information, it seems to be MD5 hash without salt.
I hope they stopped depending upon those security questions if that is part of the leak. On a side note, this seems like a great time to be an abuser. One can collect so much information about users - they may actually have more data than any govt in the world.
I wished they had this feature 2 days ago... I spent 3h writing issues in VSCode before submitting them on Github issues, then my laptop ran out of battery (and of course it was in an untitled file so it was unsaved)... I just wanted to cry.

BTW, really awesome job VSCode team :) I love what you're doing!
I guess this is the final nail in the coffin...
It's not a big mystery. They ask for higher salaries, because that's what they are used to and end up getting paid more. It's not because their skills are more valued.
The Just my Code debugger support, where stepping through callbacks can just skip all the in-between functions handled by third party libs looks fantastic.

Especially with await / yield-promise type stuff, I could imagine this will make debugging much nicer.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_8#_just-my-code-nod...
Oh yeah, a whistleblower hotline - because that's going to be useful under a Trump presidency. And yes, government contractors mostly don't do unpaid work, but what good is "yearly ethics training" when you're already tasked with building a Muslim registry? I mean, that is in and of itself unethical! And if you quit, they'll just replace you with someone who's totally happy to build it. That's the whole reason people are discussing some kind of professional organization.
I'm not sure why not. AFAIK that's still your only option if you want to debug NodeJS code headlessly.
It's not the "feds" like the federal government -- it's the "Fed" which is short for Federal Reserve Bank. The Fed is not part of the government. It's as "federal" as Federal Express. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pVV4n2lKHk
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5i6jag/pwc_sends_...
Reminds me of "I survived the Fed rate hike of 2015" http://www.redbubble.com/people/redct/works/19325459-fed-rat...
Yes there are theoretical justifications for a republic over a democracy. But in modern practice, do you believe that the average person is more of a "self-entitled idiot" than the corporate lobbyists writing our laws?
> I'm not certain this has been thought through sufficiently. If an organization is in a position to confiscate the camera from a journalist, they're almost certainly ALSO in a position to extract the encryption password from the journalist.

Laura Poitras has been on the Department of Homeland Security "highest threat rating" list since 2006 and has her computer equipment seized and files copied by border agents every time she enters the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras#Government_surve...

Poitras is a United States citizen and there is no law to compel US citizens to reveal their passwords to US border guards, presumably she knows this and does not reveal her passwords.
Driverless Uber runs red light in downtown San Francisco
I don't think that's really manifest destiny. But sure, I've heard the stuff about dominion over the Earth. It's bad Christian theology in addition to being bad politics. That Man is to have dominion over the Earth does not imply that there's nothing he can do to make it worse for himself and his fellows. But I'm often surprised at how little many Christians I meet seem to know about the Bible or Christian theology. I guess it's mostly a cultural affiliation for many people.
I live in Saratoga and by chance met him once downtown Palo Alto. Can't believe how small the world can seem.
Why I Open Source Everything
I'm starting to think emphasis on success is necessary. It's something I have not had before, I tend to work on projects because I find them interesting or I believe they should exist because they are useful. I've always maintained a job at the same time so financial ruin is never a risk. The problem with this approach is it leads to any spare time outside of the paying job being consumed with projects/entrepreneurial pursuits which is the source of the friction, not enough of my time to go to the wife/family creating the perception of me being very selfish. Ideally you want to see some traction and then ditch the job, doing so before would add additional stress due to lack of income. However getting to traction while having a job is extremely hard. Ideally you want to move in with the parents or do this when you're young to make it easier on yourself and your significant other.
Bare Metal Clojure with Clojure.Spec
Agreed. And now I hope they could improve the startup speed.
You seem to suggest that the complement of "direct democracy" is "republicanism", rather than "representative democracy". "Republicanism" is the opposite of "Monarchism", and it is possible for a republic to be a direct or representative democracy (or anti-democratic).

You're not one of those people who think "America isn't a democracy, it's a constitutional republic" are you? I see that meme expressed online a lot, and it's really unnerving that people believe that.

Also, might I infer that your support of "republicanism" over "democracy" is because you support the Republican party in the US and have been taught to fear and loath anything which starts with the string "Democra"?

> "people are self-entitled idiots"

Actually, that answers my question, thanks.
Some of those are humblebrags but plenty are well known problems of being a googler. At thanksgiving our east-coast host was dumfounded that anybody might not want to work at Google. I mentioned when they had given every person at the company a raise to keep them from leaving and he remembered that, and said he couldn't understand why they did it.

Those of us in the Valley really do forget what life is like outside (both what is great here and what is better elsewhere).
Is there anyway to get user-defined macros? Sublime and JEdit handle them well and was wondering if there is something coming or a preferred extension?
Somalian children living in Minnesota have a higher rate of autism compared to whites and non whites. They have also noticed this in Stockhom as they also have a lot of Somalian immigrants. Researches have found "The increased prevalence remained and was now between four and five times higher in children of Somali background. A clinical observation was that more than 80%, in addition to autism and learning disability, had a profound hyperactivity." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.... People have hypothesized vitamin D could be contributing to this as having darker pigmentation makes it harder to absorb sunlight.
It would be a nice first step to resign or take a lesser position. Yes, that sounds harsh. However, he's the CEO.

If he's editing posts without permission his promise never to do so again himself is pretty meaningless. He's the CEO of a company whose staff he must hold accountable to shareholders and the public. Is he in a position to hold employees accountable for doing this in the future?

He should be replaced as CEO and take a position that while it may make business decisions clearly is barred from access to the data. Then the company should appoint a Chief Ethics Officer or Chief Integrity Officer or something whose job is to make sure things like that don't happen at any level of the organization.

This is a bigger disaster than just deleting posts outright. It's dishonest. It's disloyal to the site membership. It represents the shareholders and advertisers poorly. Just about the worst violation one can imagine on a social interaction site is to falsify another person's words.
Bloody hell. Sloppy and incompetent.
Canonical source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13180033
I think it’s attrition bias, a form of selection bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#Attrition
It was 2009-2010, so rents were lower, but my paycheck was lower as well (I started at only $100K/year base, compared to the ... well, much higher amount a few years later). After taxes and 401k, I netted $5400/month. 18 months encompassed 2 bonus cycles, so about $40K of that was bonuses, after tax. My rent was $900/month with roommates, and then $1400/month in the 1BR, and total monthly expenditures were about $2K. I was packing away about $3.5K/month; 18 months of that is $63K, +$40K from bonuses = just over $100K.
I thought "didn't they already announce this recently?" Nope, that was a different one. Boy oh boy.
Yeah, but the utility of taking those other supplements is not well substantiated. That's not to say that the utility of taking vitamin D is very well substantiated either, but at least there is some good evidence that suggests that it is.
Do you use typescript with vue? I had researched it at one point, though admittedly not too far in depth, but came away with a conclusion that vue doesn't lend itself well to types.
How to Turn Social Media Traffic into Your Own Virtual ATM Machine
Maybe that can get Verizon another $1B discount.
Duress sacrifices are a known and familiar concept. There are a couple of flaws with the concept:

* It's only as useful as the sacrifice data is convincing. This might be difficult in an active and rapidly shifting warzone.

* It only works in an environment where the attacker doesn't know such a thing is possible. If the attacker is willing to keep torturing until they get what they want, they will. Even if it doesn't exist.
Plain md5 again. Nice.
Weirdly, I think Haskell has an equivalent: MVar. It has its (low-level) uses, but its quite hard to get any sort of non-trivial (non-rendezvous) synchronization protocol right. It's incredibly easy to deadlock. (But that may be mostly to do with the MVar's paucity of non-blocking primitives.)
I totally agree. When you release bi-annually anyway, dont really care about how much breakage a Major release introduces, totally ignore minor versions and with patch versions being more or less insignificant, why not just go with $year.$month
Ask HN: Affordable E-Sign API?
I'm currently a SignNow user, and they want $1K/yr for API access. All I want is to embed a damn document in an iframe on my website. Other e-sign companies seem very expensive as well for API access, if not quite as expensive as SignNow.

Is anyone aware of affordable alternatives?
What about using a drone to take down another drone? Also, a drone need not be taken down by physically attacking it. Its command and control system could conceivably be hacked.
I think you meant she'll have to get pissed off.
I don't think you could pay me to fly United ever again. My old standby used to be Continental, but United ruined them, too. I've never been disappointed by Alaska. As someone with an Alaska miles credit card now, I'm pretty happy about this merger.
Unsurprising given the strongly anti-intellectual thread woven through conservative culture these days.
I hope everyone stops relying on security questions!
Tα σενάρια πρόκρισης για το Κύπελλο Ελλάδας
Well, to be perfectly fair, we never "saw" it before 1943, either. I'm not trying to be flippant, our society is set up in a way to diagnose cases of autism, and it is reasonable to suspect that the increased rates of diagnosis are not all caused by increased rates of the condition.
Not if your company overrides the settings. At my job, 5 is the limit, and then the phone is wiped. Seriously.
Austin's tech scene is weaker than Seattle's, and it's missing certain amenities that strong programmers in the US seem to like, like decent transit (Seattle isn't great but it's decent), being in a politically progressive state, and having lots of interesting outdoors stuff nearby.

Also the weather between Austin and Seattle is basically a wash, while Austin is sunnier it also gets very hot in the summer.
Self-selection bias : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias
Where did you move out of curiosity?
Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4
'One billion' affected by Yahoo hack
The bay area is a blue bubble in a blue state.
I like the idea of Semantic Versioning, but it does cause problems where if I'm going to do several breaking releases one after another I have to keep bumping the major version, and I hate that. I've actually put off doing breaking changes simply because I didn't want to bump the major version number, but I don't like that either.

Thinking on it now, I wish instead of major.minor.patch the format was major.breaking.minor.patch, where the first component is for "significant" releases, and the second component is what you use when you're simply introducing breaking changes (but doesn't qualify as a "significant" release).
Yahoo's press release with details:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161214006239/en/Impo...
There isn't much learning involved with eMachineShop's CAD software. It's easy to use. The main frustration is actually a feature: you mostly can't design things that are unmanufacturable.
Congrats, I'll give it a try in one of my next side projects.

I rember reading a blog post about crate facing data loss in some cases:

https://aphyr.com/posts/332-jepsen-crate-0-54-9-version-dive...

Is this still an issue?
"Separately, we previously disclosed that our outside forensic experts were investigating the creation of forged cookies that could allow an intruder to access users’ accounts without a password. Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe an unauthorized third party accessed our proprietary code to learn how to forge cookies."

So that exactly explains how my Yahoo account was used to send spam despite having a password that can't be reasonably brute forced (despite them using MD5). :-/
You flagged the story because you don't like SQL on the CLI? Come on. Whether or not you enjoy writing SQL on the CLI, SQL is a fine language for querying data, and is probably more common than xpath. JQuery seems like a strange choice too.
You're not wrong, but I hope we can all agree that "let millions of people die to slightly reduce global warming" is very far down on our list of things to try.
Walk talk love
Sure, but it's government laws that require that engineers, doctors and lawyers have licenses. It would be a toothless organization without government backing.

This is a strategy that has little chance of succeeding. There are more effective political groups such as the EFF or the ACLU.
I've been far happier as an engineer in NYC and Berlin than SF. Gentrification has made SF a pretty boring place to be, and I felt that my overall sense of creativity plummeted there when I was surrounded by so few people from different backgrounds.