skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) managing an office building is a lot of hassle.

2) startups are always growing or shrinking. no point putting so much significant capital unless it is an established in for a long haul at a location where talent is surplus.

3) if you indeed have that much capital, you can pretty much dictate what you want and get some tax benefits (amazon, second HQ) or work with a city build a new building suitable for your long-term needs (apple).

4) not much inventory that meets your needs in SF market because the property prices are always going up.

5) the leasing company actually has limited leverage. finding another tenant esp. the size of dropbox is not easy. you can bin pack other tenants but you lose lot of money until all new tenants move in.
I don't see anything drastically ornate that would really bump up the labor costs like something you'd see in Elizabethan fashions. Can't be the dyes used which I understand used to be pricey but are now pretty trivial in our wide color palette. Are you thinking the fur would be the expensive part today or the fit to person tailoring?

An interesting related question would be the rate tailors charged in the past vs today. I'd imagine more today since fashions have veered so dominantly to mass produced clothing that there's no demand for what what today would essentially be in the realm of costume making.
It's not #spam, it's #growthhacking – The #VIZcoin #revolution
I think that is probably more literal than a person should be with a simile, metaphor or poetical comparison
Last year, in Death Valley National Park, in a place called the Racetrack Playa (home to the moving rocks), some excrement-brained jackasses, drove their vehicle onto the playa while it was wet from a recent storm. The tire tracks they left will be visible now for possibly centuries ruining for visitors what was a pristine environment. Staking their naked, honey-coated bodies on top of an army ant anthole might not be enough punishment.
ESA Head of Communication AMA on Reddit
> Your story of success is only a single data point in answering this question.

You are, of course, right. My story is meant to inspire and serve as counterbalance to the fatalist viewpoint in the original post.
I am actually very left leaning, to the point where I make a European blush. What I am not is an authoritarian.

This doesn't fit well in American politics. My concerns are preservation of liberties while ensuring protection of the commons and striking a reasonable balance between them.

I'm just not a Statist. I absolutely think we should have things like inexpensive education, a broad social safety net, universal health care, and progressive taxation.

I've never actually been represented by a government official.

Like you, I don't fit easily into a box or a definition. I'm fairly moderate and reasonable, I hope. I didn't emote my way to these positions, I used logic and reason. I've held these views up for debate and have had this same conversation hundreds of times - some of those conversations helping me define and present my views better. I am absolutely willing to adjust based on new information and try to be both realistic and pragmatic.

So, I absolutely appreciate your civility. It is a rarity to be able to reach this level of discourse, more so on a public forum.

That says a great deal about you as a person and about the HN community which has played host to this conversation. (I've noticed the votes coming in, so we are being observed.)

I don't expect to change views. I hope to give reason and an example. It's REALLY hard to hold my position of being pro-firearm ownership when I'm in certain circles. The political climate doesn't make it easy.

So, I usually try to be really careful about what I say and how I say it. It makes for long posts but I think it easier to be clear than it is to be defensive.

Again, I absolutely admire your civility and willingness to hear a view that isn't shared often. I do confess, many of the other firearm owners make this much more difficult. They are a problem and I don't have a solution other than my above proposals.
If you've got a kernel level hack already, just use a keylogger.
It's not that I don't think girls shouldn't be taught certain information, but it's rather a mindset that is taught. A group of boys being led by men can learn a mindset better suited for the mind of a man. With their greater testosterone, men have much more aggression an desire for status overall than women, and with guidance by a father figure, can learn to harness and focus that energy in a way a woman wouldn't be able to. I worry that in the pursuit of inclusion, that kind of mindset implanting will be lost.
I've not had issues on this on Fedora (24+) -

I did have to kill pulseaudio 1st though..

might try that if you have not already
Thank you for articulating this, @PKop... All of this negative sentiment around Amazon's impacts in Seattle and now HQ2 are missing the strikingly obvious benefits of having a top-notch employer in town.

Good jobs are the lifeblood of any community, and Amazon has provided them in spades in Seattle in a way that is far from extractive. They buy land and build on it and have transformed South Lake Union from a dead, dangerous warehouse district into a thriving neighborhood in ten years time. [1]

Almost all of the "problems" that Seattle faces due to Amazon's presence are problems that hundreds of towns would gladly take in exchange for the tens of thousands of high-end jobs that would bolster their community. [2]

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/amazons-south...

[2] See map after article for current HQ2 bids. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/georgia-town-of...
Regrowing teeth from your own stem cells - but that seems on the same timeline as fusion.
SRI alone is insufficient. Maybe a strict CSP policy that exclusively allows hash sources and forbids eval could serve as an indicator that the scripts executed on a page are immutable. Probably needs some further conditions to make it airtight.
There's certainly cheaper places to house servers. They were probably a big cramped already, and expecting to need that space as they hire more (they aren't limited to their current job listings).
Yep, for me personally religion was one of the major causes of my depression. And I've been happier as I cut it out of my life. Others find happiness in religion. Everyone is different, find what makes you happy.
> Without superhuman intelligence, AI is no large threat to human civilization, exposed to dangerous concepts or not.

The problem is partly that average humans are dangerous and we already know that machines have some superhuman abilities, eg super human arithmetic and the ability to focus on a task. It's like that AI will still have some of those abilities.

So an average human mind with the ability to dedicate itself to a task and genius level ability to do calculations is already really dangerous. It's possible that this state of AI is actually more dangerous than superhuman ones.
IFTT mobile app > create recipe > set trigger "You enter an area" > Then "Add row to spreadsheet"

You have to do two "applets" though, one for entering and one for leaving, but you might be able to log to the same file
For my taste dropbox.design is borderline ugly. It is definitely not pretty. The colors look like they were picked in MS Paint.

https://www.dropbox.com is in the same style and I find it looks very unprofessional, even if it is targeted to regular users. It looks like an art gallery? https://www.dropbox.com/business on the other hand looks clean and trustworthy.
Suicide rates are surprisingly bad proxies for both happiness and base needs; for example, Scandinavia is notoriously high ranking for suicide, among other big anomalies: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/15/depression-is-not-a-pro... Or closer to home:

> But American whites have higher rates of depression than blacks. There are the usual contradictory studies and arguments about how to adjust for which confounder, but I’m pretty sure this is something like a consensus position right now. More solidly, white Americans have much higher suicide rates than black Americans.
That’s one of those things that enables a lot of empathy I find - given the people I was around and what my life was like before my 20s, I certainly found it near impossible to actually make healthier life choices. Wanting to make the choices doesn’t matter as much as having the skill set and self knowledge to put yourself in a position to do them - powering through as a rule for me just leads to burnout, and ends up being incredibly unkind to myself which leads to worse habits.
The leased byte on a cloud disk is a commodity in a crowded market today, gotta stand out somehow.
Instead of "never fragment in-transit", I think IPv6 should've put a single "truncated" bit in the header. When a packet hits a link that's too small, the router chops off the end and sets the bit. Let the endpoints figure out what to do with that information.
I think the "102 job openings posted" refers to their being 102 roles listed on their jobs page. Each of those roles could be looking for more than 1 person to hire. For example, they probably want to hire more than just 1 "Senior Software Engineer" [0]

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/735139
I doubt they'd use such expensive property for a data center.
They still do today. Perhaps the average apartment in Paris was more like 200-250sqft, but living conditions were greatly worse off than today.
Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive have no official linux clients.
For the internet & social media http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InformationDesk

For the tree http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TreasureRoom & http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonumentalTheft & http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PricelessMingVase & http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WomenAreDelicate

For the vandal/brother http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThenLetMeBeEvil

For the photographer http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSuchThingAsBadP...

For the stakeholders http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurveillanceStati... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons & http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFun

For the authority http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoyalsWhoActually...

For the work crew http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustFollowingOrde...

For the quoted sage http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpiritAdvisor

For the blogger, op, and commenters http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreekChorus

For me http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MrExposition

*These tropes have many other relevant ones within a couple of clicks and searches. I only mean this as a starting point, far from an omniangular dissection. Sorry if I've offended anyone (this kind of story cuts deep).
it's a water cirulation phenomenon: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/antarktis-riesiges-...
I thought MARTA was shit until I went somewhere other than NY / Chicago / SF. Denver's light rail blows
Makes you wonder if Hunter gatherer times were better. Due to the much lower population densities than feudal times there would have been less famine I imagine.
They also manage their own infrastructure now.
DNS Redirection
I used to use Youcast (https://github.com/I3arnon/YouCast), which allows Youtube channel or playlist to be consumed as Podcast. I used it with my iPhone podcast app to watch and listen to my favorite Youtube channels when I was off the internet.
Good idea for the server at least. For my development machine I need be able to disable apparmor easily(when it breaks my desktop). Increasing security sometimes decreases usability, especially when I just need Debian/Ubuntu for development and browsing.
Ok, I am bit harsh here, but for me there ARE no other systems languages except C, C++ and recently maybe Rust. I am also told, that in distant lands with strange and foreign customs, Ada is a systems language. (I don't know - no Ada missionaries have yet set foot on our shares and preached it to us.)
1933. NSDAP was in the Reichstag for a while before that but not really involved in governing.
I have the same feeling when I hear politicians here in the UK say that they've had to make "tough decisions." Always the part being unsaid is "tough on who?"
except that is way more a 60's / 70's look..
What "interational body for regulating audits" would that be, I'm not aware of any such body...?

Also If Symantec won't trust their customers to that degree, why should a foreign government or their key industries trust symantec software?

If a US audit firm audits US software, why should an international government trust that there isn't a US backdoor in there? Or perhaps that the US audits have uncovered issues but instead of patching them they handed them to the NSA for later use in their TAO teams... (wannacry anyone?)

Obviously symantec are free to withdraw from a given market as they have here, but to suggest that trust is a one-way street seems well a bit unbalanced.
The science of love – TED talk
For public companies that are covered by equity analysts, converting PP&E to OPEX is typically favorable from a valuation perspective.
"That's the joke."(TM)
Reminds me very much of my school's CS building.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gates-Hillman_Comple...
Mold Slack entirely to your liking with emacs
If you look at the side-by-side comparisons on YouTube, the Audio Technica AT2020 USB+ sounds much better than the Blue Yeti. Note that you need to watch in high res with headphones to fully hear the differences.
As a counterpoint, ayahausca is a big part of the reason I'm alive today. In a few trips I achieved more than in a lifetime of therapy and antidepressants. I say, if you're on the verge of suicide, what have you got to lose?
Anti-depressants have done wonders for me (sertraline) and also for people I know with depression. On the flip side, I've read stories that they make people more suicidal. You won't know till you try different treatments. Some things work better than others for different people.
Charging Infrastructure Is a $2.7 Trillion Barrier to Electric Cars
Other than being just about the comfiest pair of headphones I've worn, the Kingston HyperX Clouds have a detachable mic with great quality. Also reasonably priced, regularly go down to $50 on sale.

https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-KHX-H3CL-WR-Gaming-Headset/dp/...
Not to say that's Dropbox's reason, but in my experience many, many large companies host servers in places that are far from being the most cost-effective option.
Also take away multiple garments, shoes, a varied diet, modern hygiene, daily transportation.
I don't know what people feel or do when meditating this way. But one thing I felt in the last years is that our mind is a bit two-part. One feels, the other kinda decide to focus or amplify that. Meditating is a bit like relaxing the second and avoiding vicious feedback loops.
I am an American Citizen. As is my brother. We're about as white bread Oklahoma kid as they come. The path is there, it's just really freakin' hard.
The distinguishing feature is that the claims are provably false, but the sheer quantity and repetition of claims overwhelms the ability to debunk them. The current US administration actually has quite a few examples of this, but it's arguable whether it's due to incompetence or malice. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/stateme...
I met my wife online. The first time I ever saw her was when I drove 3 hours to meet her. She is black and I’m not. Prior to dating online I would have probably not dated a black girl, but because of the internet I had the best thing that ever happened to me. So...I totally relate to the article.
No, I guess a corpse has nothing left to lose.

Short of death, everyone has something to lose. Risk is the ratio of cost to benefit. And as long as the cost and benefits of some action are non-zero then there is a risk.
Their current location feels crowded (IMHO). I'm also suspicious of the 1500 employee number; that was the employee count nearly 2 years ago (see http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-cutting-at-dropbox-and-s... and what I was told when I last visited).
Yeah it's not as bad as it sounds. Hard to describe, but it's sorta like if somebody flashed a light in your face, you'd probably wince and kinda lose your train of thought. It's like that but without any obvious stimulus (and obviously without the retinal damage). And (at least for me) only happened when I was sort of sitting "idle" - not while I was standing or walking or actively programming, more just when I was half-heartedly reading some boring news article or whatever.
My co-host wrote a better guide.[1] Can say there's some overlap, but I definitely think my co-hosts pick of mic is way better, after having experience with both.

[1]: http://smull.net/podcasting-equipment/
To echo the other person, I'd say the music drew too much attention =) Something mellower and more static perhaps? Just tryna give a concrete suggestion.
I'm glad that these people exist but on the other hand It's hard to imagine what they do in everyday life that this topic is so interesting to them, that they want to feel this responsibility for the plant.
a tunnel does not protect against any of that. OP was already assuming it wasn't publicly accessible, or at least was ACLd to your company's public IPs.
Reminds me of a non-VR game called Quadrilateral Cowboy [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/g0mi9J5b4Xs?t=24m46s
poor being relative historically sounds consistent with things I've read from Thomas Sowell. I remember him using Air Conditioning as an example...

"""Looking back over the years, as old-timers are apt to do, I see huge changes, both for the better and for the worse.

In material things, there has been almost unbelievable progress. Most Americans did not have refrigerators back in 1930, when I was born. Television was little more than an experiment, and such things as air-conditioning or air travel were only for the very rich.

My own family did not have electricity or hot running water, in my early childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the South in those days.

It is hard to convey to today's generation the fear that the paralyzing disease of polio inspired, until vaccines put an abrupt end to its long reign of terror in the 1950s.

Most people living in officially defined poverty in the 21st century have things like cable television, microwave ovens and air-conditioning. Most Americans did not have such things, as late as the 1980s. People whom the intelligentsia continue to call the "have-nots" today have things that the "haves" did not have, just a generation ago."""
https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/12/16/farewell
Online dating is not just Tinder, but also questionary-heavy sites like OkCupid. "Substance, not just selfies" is their current slogan.
Agreed - far too "Mad Men" looking in style, color, font choices, there's nothing about this that makes me think 80's.

The response from 'ordinary' users on Twitter has been tepid at best, I guess people just want their files reliably synced, rather than "inspiring creative energy" (Dropbox's word choice, not mine!).
dmix is hard to configure?
> Japan's homogeneity is also part of a massive racial/cultural superiority complex which fed their imperialistic ambitions and propelled them into ww2.

WWII marked the 50th anniversary of the Japanese occupation of Korea and Manchuria. They have a peaceful island but a bloody history.
I used Python to automate generating a chronological email/sms/phone contact archive when a home renovation project went wrong. My builder made a bunch of mistakes, tried to fob me off with excuses, and then pretended everything was ok. This integrated log was invaluable in showing discrepancies between what he said at the time and what he subsequently claimed.

My Python script reads my Google Contacts csv extract to identify relevant people, the lxml library parses my mobile phone call and sms logs, the mailbox module reads my email inbox and Sent Items to extract relevant messages, PIL resizes attached images. Then I use docx to reassemble the results chronologically into a Word document suitable for submitting in court proceedings.

The resulting Word document is an intimidating 130 pages long. I have shown my builder enough excerpts for him to accept liability for most defects. I won a County Court judgment against him last week. Now for the financial settlement!

I thought about putting my script up on github, though haven't had time to scrub some personal information from the source code...
1) I've built a WordPress site to archive and backup my tweets https://tweets.kingkool68.com it fetches new tweets every 15 minutes. Source code at https://github.com/kingkool68/wordpress-twitter-backerupper

2) Whenever I post to Instagram I have a script that automatically posts it to Twitter including the image directly in the tweet like this https://twitter.com/kingkool68/status/916853781911838721

Source code https://github.com/kingkool68/ig2twitter
This is an interesting train that was derailed into the boring track of race.

I'd be more interested in what the long-term genetic effects of matching up fairly similar people across larger and larger divides (distance, social circles, habits, professions, etc.) might be.
If we're talking about this [1] call, then it could be argued that it's malformed. Unless I missed it, the documentation does not specify that a NULL pointer may be returned there. Defensive programming practice says it's wise to check for NULL, but the function, as documented, would appear to be behaving incorrectly.

1: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...
> So, there's justified reasons to own a pistol.

Well, that depends. If those are justified reasons, then there are justified reasons to own and operate a .50 cal BMG rifle, a grenade launcher, or landmines. You can make a sport out of anything, and that something is used as equipment a sport isn't a good reason for its legality. Of the things you mentioned, the bear safety is the most compelling, but that's easily solved by circling widely to the front and putting an extra round in the head. That's safe. It would be nice if handguns could only be used responsibly, but they have specific attributes that I think make them problematic for society.

> Additionally, I rabbit hunt with a .22 (Ruger Mk II) frequently. Opportunistic rabbits are delicious and easily taken with a small round.

When I was young I watched my grandfather take a golpher in the head while it was diving into its hole at 30 yards using a .22 rifle. I pulled the body out of the hole it landed halfway in. I'm not convinced a handgun is required for this either.

> When the Revolution really got started, the British were marching their way to Concord to confiscate the powder, shot, and cannon. They were going to go disarm the citizens.

Sort of a on-sequitur, since we're not talking about removing all firearms, just a specific type of firearm, and one of less use in an armed conflict than the ones I'm proposing we could keep. I believe the right to bear arms is important. I believe in the citizenry's right and responsibility to be a check on the government. I'm just not sure how handguns really support that in a way that isn't by other firearms, and I do think they have unique disadvantages for society.

> Freedom does come with penalties. Liberties come with associated risk.

This argument is all too often unqualified. Should we all be allowed access to RPGs, land mines and missiles? I believe there exist weapons that the regular citizenry don't necessarily need regular access to. If you believe the same, I think it's entirely valid to ask for what criteria makes some of those items valid for that list and not hand guns. That may be easily answered by some, but others might find it hard to justify their initial reaction.

Edit: Fixed some typos