skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck with that. Problem is the Valley has been a real estate developer's dream for 60+ years and it has not had the effect this (opinionated but poorly researched) article espouses.

Rezoning alone is "dumb planning". Rail, transit, bike friendly streets, greenbelting and farmland preservation all must be in place first in order for density rezoning to work.

Problem is Santa Clara County has been all about cars and freeways for as long as they have existed. Just last month they closed the San Thomas Creek bike trail for the convenience of the 49er stadium construction. Now cyclists at the Santa Clara Amtrak station are forced to ride on Tasman which has no bike lanes, Sharrows or shoulders. It's exactly this kind of dumb planning that allowed developers to demolish the downtown that Santa Clara once had and perpetuate the kind of auto-centric sprawl that characterizes Silicon Valley.
If the market is any indicator, it believes Tesla is going to be successful. I bought several thousand shares at $17/share right after the IPO. TSLA closed today at 54.55/share.
Security is insurance. Most people don't value it until they've been burned.
Google is great at ruining their UI. Starts out really well; you get a lot of power tools, the simple stuff is really easy to access and there's nothing confusing about the UI. And then it takes a nose dive after a few updates. Just look at how awful Youtube is. It's a disaster in there. It's almost as if the UI staff has a quota of changes that they have to fulfill every quarter lest they get tossed into a cauldron.
Wall Street market participants are subject to anti-gaming regulations.
Yep, that's right. Fresh out of college in your early 20s, with tens of thousands of dollars of debt to your name, no income, no access to credit...

Starting a business is the obvious solution! Why didn't people think of it sooner?
Help Kiera with her legal bills
Our Y Combinator experience (by palletops)
"this is great for Oakland"

That is normally how these things work and I have frankly no idea why it isn't happening faster in the bay area.
True, but lets be honest: We're talking about a 4 inch driver in a tiny enclosure with nearly no power budget; Even with the 0db-12db of gain you can get at low frequency from driving into 1/8th space your not getting any meaningful output, this thing is going to roll off hard under ~200hz; Sound quality isn't even a target feature here.
This also exactly describes how HBase works. I've always preferred HBase to Cassandra for this exact reason. You put far less read load on your servers and you don't have to worry about most of the things on http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations.

Another benefit that is not mentioned is that with a master based system you can easily move who is responsible for the data if a server starts to hotspot. In Cassandra you have to use random key distribution because if you have a server hotspot then the only solution is to split the token ring which is an intensive operation that is hard to do while the server is under heavy load.
>>Mostly

I don't mean to be a hardass, but... citation needed.

Seriously, we have no data on the number of mod edits made vs. complaints voiced. As such it seems premature to conclude that mods mostly do a good job with these arbitrary edits.
Indeed, especially when hack jobs like this work: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/01/new-apple-id-phishing-ef...
I love Tesla and I love Elon Musk. I'm going all in on TSLA stocks ahead of their quarterly earnings. Financial YOLO.
What you're arguing for is better parent-child discussion relationship management in Gmail

What? No! He just wants to edit the subject.

Saying that we need better parent-child discussion relationship management is over complicating a problem with a simple solution that worked until some folks at gmail screwed it up.
"by this point" == "given the degree of understanding of Intelligence that we have reached so far"
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
Oh my god. Oh. My. God.
Polya's Urn and Bayes Statistics
The interior of a firearm with a firearm control group, firing pin, etc., is kind of detailed. On top of that, to manufacture it with more moldable soft plastic would be very hard because the resultant product wouldn't be substantial enough to withstand the pressures of a bullet's expelled energy.

You might have been able to manufacture some hard-plastic extruded gun in the past, but as with this one, it wouldn't have been great, and it would have cost a lot in the way of equipment. The only real novelty here is that it's doable from home on a relatively inexpensive device.
Where I'm from we have earthquakes.
Life Is O.K., if You Went to College
Hot and Emerging Startup Trends in Silicon Valley
I owned a NeXT Cube (since sold) and a NeXTStation Turbo Color, which I still have and which still powers up nicely. Monitor and NeXT laser printer still work as well. Pretty impressive for 20-year-old hardware. And still a beautiful, sleek design, if you can get past the 100-pound color monitor. Owning a NeXT in the early 1990s and the first days of the Web was like having super powers.
Colin, how is submitting a story in order to figure out if it was a local SNAFU different from submitting a story in order to report a problem? Especially in light of the FAQ suggesting/recommending/asking for people to email instead of submiting stories about problems/questions...
Implementing K-Means in Scala
It's a bit of a stretch as most people probably don't consider stopping at a gas station as a major inconvenience. In Tesla's defense, they do not automatically include those cost options in the calculation (you have to check the box to include them.

It is an interesting marketing/psychological move however. I imagine most people in the market for a Tesla are going to be well compensated, and as such, they will see the initial $50/hr, jack it up to what their going rate is (probably in the hundreds) and see the 'effective' costs of owning a Tesla drop dramatically.
Changing the subject should not break the thread. Thread displays should be generated by creating a tree out of References mail headers.
What is the cost of printing vs. CNC milling a gun?
pg, did this article accurately portray the YC process?
Anyone needs FitterSpace.com
Facebook, twitter, MySpace combined domain name, anyone needs it?
MicroConf: Go Do Something
This is beautiful. Thank you!
Quick correction, fully automatic machine guns have effectively been banned for far longer than that. The National Firearms Act of 1934 was the first stab at gun control, on the heels of Prohibition.

Otherwise, completely correct.
after a great deal of effort, I have enhanced this and ported it to a popular platform called 'unix'. The source code follows:

watch redis-cli info
Pretty sure I would double up.
ClearDB now offers more storage, features for clusters
The main investment here is time, especially compared to online usability testing services (usertesting.com etc.).

That said, early in product development in-person feedback is invaluable and you can get so much more out of it than of a simple video of a person using your product.
I put a capacitor in backwards once, went away from my circuit, and came back to smell and see it smoking and flaming.
I've posted this video a few times, recently. If you are a professional contractor / freelancer you should watch it.

http://vimeo.com/22053820 - Mike Monteiro - Fuck You, Pay Me!
Think bigger than that.

How many stores have employees dedicated just to selling electronics? How many video game t-shirts get sold? Entire comic strips like Penny Arcade, and all the associated goods that go with it.

Just an anthology book of comics, the printers, the person who does the page layout, the binding, the paper mill that makes the paper for the book, the factory that makes the glossy ink, everything is connected together.
Kicking myself for not grabbing it while it was in the $30's. Still probably a good buy, but I would recommend at least leaving some money aside for Ramen noodles and rent, just in case it blows up.
JavaScript sandbox with Web Workers
Violence & Silence: TED talk on men's anti-violence activism and leadership
Thanks! That's my book, appreciate you mentioning it.
Startup Offers to Lay Off Entire Staff in Name of Software Revolution
Underemployment is the key metric for 25-27 years olds at the moment. Very difficult to measure.
Buy A $2 Million Condo With Bitcoins
"average annual loss of 1 billion USD."

Citation? This is an interesting factoid, so I googled for about 10 minutes, and couldn't find any numbers on how many total newtons were sold, and how much apple lost on them. Really interested in any supporting data you might have.
Hopefully this is the first time that person screwed up like this so they weren't summarily executed^Wfired.
I constantly reinforce two things with my high school son:

1. How ludicrous zero tolerance policies are.

2. How scrupulously he should avoid violating them.

I will never feel truly relaxed until he graduates and leaves the long arm of the school district.
That's called modular or pre-fab housing and it exists.

The problem here is not building costs, by any means. It's artificial restrictions on the market by local councils who refuse to support higher density living.
Hmmm, Dvorak? Is he still a thing? If so, why would anyone read him? There's so many, many more interesting pundits, pundits who have things to say, and can back them up with pictures, citations, etc etc.
This is great - now if they actually have status page which says that API is not working so we do not need scramble thru forums (which are closed) and StackOverflow forums (which are open, but all questions regarding outage are immediately closed). In case of previous outages (the last one happened on Mar 18), there was actually an email sent to people subscribed to google-apps-apis-downtime-notify
Well, they can email and ask. :)
It's an odd thing: the startup community often has all of the smug traits of the out-of-touch, old-money elite, but has none of their gifts for enjoying leisure. It's a particularly awful combination in my opinion.
The Windows that is related to OS/2 is NT, which was very much not the operating system of the 90's, since it didn't go mainstream until NT5.x: Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
This is HN: http://➡.ws/hnhnhn

You could make your own: http://tinyarrows.com/
Silicon Valley firms need young men to find their socialization at work and put in long hours. In a properly functioning urban society people have many strong local relationships outside work. In a normal place you leave work at 5:00 or 6:00 and connect with folks who will be around in 20 years, unlike the institution where you punched out. The monied interests arguably have incentive to perpetuate sprawl & anomie.
The writing is easy to understand, but is there any reason why you're just not using memcache's add method? For the price of a network call, you'll automatically get the LRU cache logic and a more deterministic behavior.
No, we don't. Warren v. DC states that the police aren't obligated to save you from harm, even if they are able to.

Moreover, the police are very bad at preventing crime, and only about about 20% effective at actually solving crimes that have already occurred.

If you were of enough means, you might've said "I have bodyguards for that" and the statement may have gone without quarrel, but Police, by and large, play cleanup to crimes that have already happened.

This isn't meant to be a slight against the police, as I have great respect for the profession and the hardships of their duties, but even Superman isn't great at preventing crime, because it's a nigh-impossible task... and he's Superman.
Over 50,000 MBA jobs in One Search
I'll include this next week!
No Money in Email Clients
San Francisco is Disneyland for rich people. Its a place that's designed for tourists and the idle rich.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%98%85&oq=%E2%98%85&#...

needs to improve it's seo... or maybe google could start indexing better?
Totally disagree. Android, Google Now, Knowledge Graph, Maps, Drive/Docs, Google+ itself, and the Play Store have all seen marked improvements since the rollout of Google+.

In Gmail, the new compose UI is an improvement in same ways -- for me it's an improvement overall, smart labels are an improvement, and email search has gotten significantly better.

Oh, and virtually every mobile application of theirs has gotten much better.
Interesting, using firefox, I see the star glyph not an o on the page and on this page.
I agree that for you it's 3 more clicks, but for the millions of other regular users, it's less useless info on the way.

People have to get that it's a product for many, not for all. You can agree with hiding emails or not, but a company as large as Google wouldn't hide it just for the sake of it. Obviously there was research and data that backed that change.

Bottom line is, if it was your company, you'd hide stuff to improve the experience of 90% of your customers at the cost of a few without another thought.
I hope the Octane2 was better than the Octane. While I like mine, it's really loud, the incandescent bulbs (!) in the light bar don't last very long, there's no room in the large case for a single 5.25" drive, the plastic skins are really fragile, the compression connectors are very delicate, the texture ram likes to unsolder itself, and certain generations of circuit boards fail at a very high rate.

From what little I've seen, Sun gear of a similar vintage seems better built than the Octane.
Clojure: macro writing macros
Apple dominates U.S. smartphone subscriber market share
Boeing X-51 - Hypersonic Aircraft
"It’s worth noting that nothing happened to those players, and they were allowed to keep the fortunes they had amassed while the exploit worked. “Oh, absolutely,” Lander said, laughing. “Good for them! Clever guys.”"

I wish if this was true in real world too.
#!/usr/bin/env python

print "xn--p3h".decode("idna").encode("utf8")
Also see:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/#international_domain_na...
Do you know why the Polycraft game is so much more pixelated on Firefox than Chrome?

Update: It looks like Firefox's WebGL anti-aliasing is off by default. You can toggle this "webgl.msaa-force" pref to control anti-aliasing.
Outside the book, this is also a frequent topic on his blog. I highly recommend reading some of his previous thoughts on this. It's land that is valuable, not the construction on it. And we should be maximizing that value.
Val for Mayor
One of the greatest guys that I know is running for Mayor in a charity election in my local town of Charlestown Co. Mayo Ireland. Now I could go on for ever about this guy and his struggles in life but check out the site for details of the issues that we face with our local primary school and where all the funds raised will be going. The Mayor has no affiliation to any party left or right.

As many of you may know Ireland is going through tough times at the moment what with all this austerity. Many friends of mine have kids attending this school. A good deal of my friends are working as civil servants (cops, nurses, prison officers) farmers, builders and are getting paid peanuts, yet some of the mortgages that they have to pay adds more pressure. Farmers are under pressure as well, with the incredibly cold start to this year times will be tough this year.
We have applied for government funding but we have received nothing.
With one month left, we are trying to find every avenue and so that's why I am on Hacker News.

As an independent IT contractor times are better for me but I really feel for a lot of the people in my area who are struggling to make ends meet. Now I know this is happening all over the world but if you can spare something please do. I wish we could offer you something in return like Kickstarter, maybe we could offer you a good Irish session in this part of Ireland which I can tell you is a lot different from other parts. I think we are more welcoming this side of the Shannon.

Even if you like his Facebook page, it would be greatly appreciated!!!

Anyways thank you for your time and
Go n-éirí an bóthar leat!!!!!!!
Strikingly would be a good acquisition for Weebly
Don't freak out. I'm personally dubious of most things he says. The ideas are often evocative, but I feel he has no grasp of the practical difficulties of his claims.
Holding money for a Nigerian prince is also inherently risky; doesn't mean it's not a scam...
AVX2 optimizations in x264 followup: overall results
Interesting. Considering we never took the cap off and lit it off with the spark, wouldn't the amount of energy in the bottle go up with the pressure? Some people were saying here that a 3 liter might take as much as 250psi. We waited until the bottle was visibly distended. How would the calculation vary with pressure? I'd be interested to know the best(worst?) case scenario!
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598010

Relatedly, it'd be cool if one of the AMD people involved in the OpenCL work (which was committed at the same time) could do a writeup of those optimizations.
It depends on whether you're asking about sold options and actual cash or what unsold options are worth on paper.

I imagine the two amounts are significantly different for many people.
Waverider Makes Hypersonic History
Maybe it's time more of us thought about the drawbacks of relying so much on a program that is proprietary, that we can't even hold onto a particular version of, and where the users are (mostly) not customers but part of the product offered to someone else.
FTFA...

Develop better mechanism for quickly delivering status notifications during incidents.

I can't be sure how the numerous references to monitoring failures being related to status updates, but at some point, you have to assume your "status page" will have "bugs" too.
You could certainly do that. By that measure San Francisco is actually denser than New York at 6,266 per square mile versus 5,319 per square mile (and 3,524 for Chicago). L.A. wins it all at 6,999 per square mile. Which really puts a hole in the arguments that the Bay Area and L.A. are not dense enough for commuter rail.

It depends on what you're trying to measure, really. If you're talking about space constraints driving up housing prices in the core city, I think it's useful to look at density in the core city and whether it could be higher to create more supply.
"Bad things come in threes"?

1) I have to change my name at social security cause it got messed up. The mental health like to stress me. One time a person knocked on our door needing 911. They employ actor/agents all the time.

They store away shit they can pull on you like warrants.

2) Jury duty. They cut my phones so I cannot call. I'm gonna get a warrant. This replaces the shit they can pull on me.

3) Blood work

----

Evil fucks. I know God is perfectly just. I'm supposed to worry or some shit.

4) Dad had surgury--fucks with me.

5) I got a plugged ear

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The shit gets piled higher if you don't give a fuck.

----

6) Cut the phones.
What exactly are the density restrictions on residential buildings in San Francisco? I'm slightly familiar with DC and Philadelphia and in neither case is building height or zoning the key issue. Unions and crime figure in.

I'm rather against high-rise residential construction. Big buildings are fine for hotels, but for homes it leads to really shitty residential neighborhoods where people can't recognize their neighbors. I'm all in favor of three story limits. Just make thin row homes. God forbid people actually have to deal with neighbors and maintain sidewalks and so-forth. Maybe some people actually do like checking in and out of their concrete cell block on floor 50.
I think it's relevant. I expect app designers to use the keybindings that make sense based on what the user wants to do instead of blindly adopting whatever guidelines the OS suggests.

If you're in the shell, "tab" should tab-complete, not move to the next terminal you have open.

If you're in a shooting game, "tab" should reload your weapon or show scores or whatever, not advance your cursor to the next target.

If you're in MS word, tab should indent the next line, not move to a different control.

If you're writing an email, same thing, because "writing" is most like "writing in MS word."

Re: your second point, Gmail is a really good "real" web client, at least for most people, and this is a small step away from that.
Are you very, very sure about that?
How A Distillery Ages Bourbon In Days, Not Years
Love the legends on the graphs. "Higher is larger" and "Lower is smaller".
Apparently, one of their innovations is a longer loan term - it might be 7 or 9 years.
> Is this necessarily so?

No; they're just two correlated characteristics of the program, without necessarily any causal link.
San Francisco is Disneyland for rich people.

Isn't the same complaint levied against Manhattan?
It's great for small, experimental indie games that want to reach as big of an audience as possible. Think Ludum Dare. For bigger games, though, I agree completely.
Today I saw the future
Nice story. Very very similar to what happened with Lucasfilm's Habitat, in the mid-80's.

http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html

The entire paper is a gem, but if you're in a hurry, search for "You can't trust anyone".
And public libraries. For example, if you live in the Houston area, the Harris County Public Library has several licenses to Safari. (hcpl.net)
I sure wish O'Reilly had an affiliate program. I would collect the name of every public library system that offered Safari, SEO the name of O'Reilly books, and direct people to their local library's license of Safari with a helpful affiliate ad to buy their own copy.
Note: the public library version of Safari is not quite the same as a personal (or corporate?) license, but it is very similar.
No, I got that.

What I'm saying is that this doesn't really matter. Cockpit doors lock now, and waving a gun isn't going to make the pilots open them.

If terrorists just want to shoot somebody, there's no reason for them to bother getting on an airplane.

The most such an attacker could hope to accomplish would be to take someone hostage and negotiate over intercom for the plane to land at a different airport, the way hijackings used to work. This is undesirable, but not a threat of nearly the same magnitude as the 9/11 attacks. It barely even makes the news when it happens.

In any case, the hijacker's game is up the moment they actually shoot anybody, as their zip gun is almost certainly difficult and slow to reload, and they will be trapped in close quarters with scores of angry and frightened passengers. With this in mind, they'll almost certainly have better luck producing realistic looking fake guns. A submachine gun, even a fake one, is more likely to scare passengers into cooperating, and that cooperation is what gives them a chance to succeed.
Who is Tim?
This reads more like a warning to inform parents about its existence. Nowhere does it say not to let their children use it, it merely says "If your child has access to this particular application, please consider having a conversation about watching, creating and potentially sharing videos." It seems like quite a reasonable message, really.
Exactly my thought too - surprised that wasn't mentioned.

Also funny in this is that this gun was produced by the OSS (pre CIA) for WWII resistance groups. It was dropped en masse behind enemy lines in hope that they'd find their way to the partisans.
I do think pro-regulation liberalism is fundamentally "conservative" in many ways, in that it is risk-averse.
If the way this incident is described is accurate I definitely would like to support Kiera, but it's all been very one-sided so far. I'm yet to see anyone detail what the chemicals were or what the setting was in which this occurred. Those are important details to understand in order to tell if this really was something reckless or if it was just a proper science experiment. Anyone know of such sources?
Well, if person A makes a lot of money off of population B in a legitimate way, should A be punished?