skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've got a possibly great job offer on the table from SF/SV, but may turn it down."

This is what will kill the golden goose of the tech economy - if highly qualified and valuable workers choose not to move to SF/SV because they don't think they can live there, the tech sector will lose competitiveness. I moved here after 6 years of uncertainty, and I think it's worth it but the fact that I wanted to and still waited so long is a bad sign.

Workers are the key resource for new tech businesses, and if companies can't hire them, they won't grow or be formed in the first place.
Perhaps it's just a WebKit bug, but I've definitely noticed this before in an older iPad: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220662/uiwebview-font-is...
Either way, they get to collect IP addresses of those who try to view it.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets:  Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Because of my personal, irrational biases.

I tell myself that the UK hasn't demonstrated contempt for the rule of law to the same degree as the US has.

I accept that this is probably wrong, and had I been more aware of my bias I wouldn't have used that wording in the post you replied to.

It's good that I keep challenging myself on this stuff, so thanks for pointing it out.
You're certainly correct in that neither Facebook or Google were acquired and it's not the cash from smaller acquisitions which make the real jobs and the real revenues.

However it was the fast sale of Paypal which put enough money in Peter Thiel's pocket to put $500k straight into a young and green Mark Zuckerberg's pocket. It was also the acquisition of Granite Systems after only a year which put $132M in Andy Bechtolsheim's pocket such that he was happy to write a $100k cheque to the Google founders on his doorstep.

Acquisitions are like occasional rainfall in deserts. It may take plants which are focussed on arid survival to make it and you need to be a tough survivor. Without the occasional life-bringing rainfall though everything dies.

There is a growing number of high quality entrepreneurs and engineers starting to bed in in London (and the real ones are not the noisy ones you read about in the UK press) and given the right conditions they can create some substantial, revenue generating companies.

This is a pretty special opportunity. For what is comparatively very little funding indeed, there is the chance to get the brilliant engineers who would otherwise go into banks and getting the money that would otherwise go into property and creating some really interesting high quality new companies and job-creators.

While I think the odds are probably stacked against it happening, one essential ingredient either way is some acquisitions. Bring enough of those and the giants will follow.
It was a blast, thanks for the great idea Sina!
They do know they are being filmed (or will know once these devices become more common), as there is a red light that flashes on the glass when it is recording. However, that could easily change in the future too - with hidden cameras that constantly record everything becoming more common.
Well, pragmatism would tell you: when facts and results (or the lack of them) convinces you of it.
This effort was a lot of fun to be involved in -- it's really cool in general that this group managed to coalesce in such a short period of time.

Anyone reading this who wants to meet some interesting people, learn some things, and feel like you're making a bit of a difference on the internet: email Sina!
You'd have to include BART-accessible Oakland, Berkeley, etc in the East Bay to make that comparison fair. 40 min is the farthest any of the BART lines go from downtown SF.
Apple Is Already Using iOS 7 Icon Grid System For Its Products
Redis is memcache only better.
I would completely disagree about friend codes--Nintendo fundamentally makes consoles and portables, and games for same, that it's "safe" to hand over to your five-year-old without all that much supervision. Friend codes add network connectivity to that mixture without sacrificing five-year-old safety. Any sort of a "lobby" system, on the other hand--especially one that allows chat--instantly sacrifices five-year-old safety (and will teach your kids several new words!)
Also, since it isn't "your" car, it is perfectly reasonable that on a longer taxi trip the cars just drive to a taxi depot when low on battery and have you switch cars or have the cars switch batteries (as demonstrated by Tesla).

I don't think any of the autopilot cars will be gas guzzlers. By the time they are allowed for consumer use as taxis, the Tesla 300 mile range battery will be half as expensive.
I just use the ISO 4217 code which is KES.
What's the best route for volunteering with HfH?
Has anyone tried iOS7 out on older devices? I found iOS7 beta1 to be unusable for everyday use on an iPhone 4 because of the number of bugs, but it operated perfectly on an iPhone 5.
Circling back to Nintendo realizing how much harder HD development is. I think the WiiU will pick up once Nintendo tunes its development process for HD and gets some titles out.
They could always enter facts into the congressional records with impunity a la Ellsburg and Kucinich
Very lucid and interesting post. However, if you look at other communities like Slashdot, a level of civility is enforced by the community, without necessarily stifling unpopular or dissenting viewpoints (at least once upon a time). It becomes a matter of filtering out inflammatory posts ("trolls"), and that will ultimately depend on the tastes and preferences of the community at large.
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I disagree that it is that simple. I found out exactly an hour before the Utah NSA Datacenter event was scheduled to happen; not exactly easy to deal with on a national holiday. I also think the Occupy protests (and subsequent police actions) have had a very chilling effect on protests in the US.
The biggest difference is that nginx uses an evented I/O, and handles many connections per thread/process, Apache can only handle one at a time. This allows it to to use far less memory per connection, and lets it perform reasonably under very high loads. It also has very low latency, even for small loads, and is relatively easy to install and configure on most platforms.

nginx does an excellent job as a reverse proxy for applications, there are many configurations where nginx acts as a load balancer, and serves static content, and everything else is passed off to a real application. It's also useful if you're running on a tiny VPS with very little RAM.

However, Apache has a few features that nginx lacks, like embedding languages into it like mod_php does, and per directory configuration, in that directory.
Interesting manipulations of data, but a shoddy attempt at analysis. This guy needs to work on constructing meaningful variables for his interpretation. "Important" means nothing. Is he looking at popularity, and if so, what kind? How representative is the sample of Wikipedia's film pages against the total films produced? What factors led to the "influence" metrics?
How do you verify the data for Middle Eastern countries which don't really have street address systems or zipcodes, and only use PO Boxes? Just check that the PO Box exists?
And lets not pretend that it isn't a stereotype without warrant. Not going to go into the racial factors, more the cultural. It's just simply more likely that blacks will be criminals in certain areas - humans have evolved to generalize things like this for survival's sake.
The same 'sophistry' that might serve authority here may be the sophistry that goes against authority elsewhere in the legal framework, so I'd be careful about drawing additional inferences from what tptacek has written. He's describing how the law actually is, whether you agree with it or not. A notable example is "treason", which has a very precise definition that is not friendly to authority.

Have you read legal code, by any chance? Often modern laws include at the beginning of each section a wordy definition of what each term actually means, despite each of those terms having perfectly good and reasonable meanings in the common vernacular. It is later in accordance with those terms that the court interprets the law (assuming, of course, that the law is not deemed unconstitutional).

Given that plethora of examples of this in the law (and case law) I don't see how pointing out that legal principles are being misapplied is somehow subservient to authority. The journalists have tried to explain things in the context of legal principles and not reason, so they should be evaluated on legal principles. Otherwise we risk people trying to rely on that flawed logic in the courts in good faith, with nothing to show for it, when they should have been taking action that had a shot at success.
About the social issue. Reading this obviously points out another social issue : the complete inability of HNers to have an informed opinion on islam.

Or maybe it should be put another way : the implied social duty to on one hand be disgusted by islam (I get the impression from many posts here that that is the feeling between the lines), and to deny that that is the case, even articulate supposed moral equivalence. The islam is bad, but so are some christians argument, where for example constant mob-based violent repression of people is equated to a parent refusing to let a minor date someone for some reason, and not report the obvious difference between those 2 social situations. Nobody in America is locked up, and nobody will be killed for "disobeying" (with the exception of criminal activity, of course).

America has freedom of speech and opinion. Well, frankly, there is something in America making people afraid of voicing their opinions on this matter. It just drips from the comments here that the general opinion it is (justifiably) very negative, yet nobody wants to come out and say it.

Why can't we have the obvious simple opinion : are muslims all horrible people ? No. Are some of them ? Yes. Are some of them horrible people BECAUSE of islam, because they want to be what they consider muslim ? Yes, absolutely. Is islam's prophet an immoral, disgusting bastard ? You better know it. Is islam itself bad ? Yes.

I'm not necessarily a fan of christianity, or any other religion, but frankly I think 99% of the islamic religion justifies opposition just as cults do, legal opposition, social opposition, ... In a way that 99% of christianity doesn't. I don't understand why openly destructive and repressive ideologies have to be given a free hand just because "they're a religion" (besides, anyone who has even a basic familiarity with it will agree islam is a state, not a religion).

So I've said it. Let the consequences of whatever dumb social contract I've just violated come. This whole thread reads like it's a bunch of twelve year olds talking to their parents for permission slips for sex ed.
Isn't it best to rely on a cloud service for this kind of thing? Addresses are being created and being changed every day, a local database would quickly become outdated.
Version 20050409-21. Ouch. Maybe rxvt-uncode and an X server would be a better option. 256 colour terms, unicode, proper bitmap font support, and not been dead for 8 years.
In case people have a hard time finding prices for this, my vendor gives ~57k GBP ($85k) as the lower end price for configurations with that SuperMicro cabinet, 64 cores (8x 8-core CPU's) and 2TB of RAM. Dropping to 1TB lets you pick from a lot of cheaper cabinets and so the price drops by quite a bit more than half for the basic configurations.
Ha! I love this! All the hackers faced with the 'register' wall. I dont consider myself a hacker, rather a game dev but I felt like a hacker just using firebug to delete the offending divs
To the author's credit, this IS an issue specific to iOS.

I thought the use of Comic Sans for other devices was pretty funny, myself.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-com...
It's important to remember that this sort of gape has enormous costs, costs that could be avoided if they were addressed from the get go. When there are good jobs and affordable housing, crime rates are lower (see http://rri.wvu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/REU2001-19.pdf ), and there is less need for spending on security, police, etc. The average prison inmate costs $47,102 a year, while adding little to nothing to the economy (some prisoners work for less then a dollar an hour, so they do have some minimal economic output).

That's paid for in taxes. That's a good middle class wage, and could support a family in the city, or if spent by the government, could go towards useful services like public transit, or education. Instead it supports one individual, and doesn't include the value of their lost labor, the cost of the trail, and other associated costs.

In fact, given that education reduces crime rate (see http://emlab.berkeley.edu/~moretti/lm46.pdf ), and also prepares individuals to work, and given that investing that money in education, for example, provide a 7 to 10 percent annual return for the public in terms of increased productivity, and decreased crime (see http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/spring2011/Heckman.... ) income inequality ends up costing tax payers quite a bit more then you actually think.
> public transit disappears? though driverless buses would be cheaper too.

I don't think so, I think public transport becomes more important. In the same vein as automated cars reduce human dependence, subways and its ilk can become faster and more automated.

In the end, on-rails 1d motion is still much more efficient than 2d rubber on tarmac motion, and the in case of a short airline flight 1d is still more efficient (because you expend most of your fuel ascending and descending from an airport).

In terms of efficiency though, maybe putting everyone in maglev tube pods and having them input a destination and fly along nanotube personal rails like in the Jetsons will be the future.
You might think so, but that immunity excludes felonies, and felonies are cheap these days.
I've been using YCM for a few months now and I love it. It's a big part of my coding experience now. It's a bit of a pain to get a supported vim version up and running, but completely worth it.
Indeed.

What I hate is that even after having a good understanding of software development and computer science fundamentals, and having a good picture of the solution to a given problem, I still cannot today program without having to perform multiple Google searches, reading Stack Overflow messages, etc. to deal with what should be trivial stuff.

Just for example, if I were to need a set, I would search for "set" in Go documentation. If the set itself is not included, on the very least the documentation should talk about what should I do instead. But they won't even have that in there. Result: Few more Google searches.
Not really sure to be honest. I started with them when I was in HS and helped build houses. I was impressed that they actually gave me a nail gun and stuff to do instead of stand around and pretend like I was doing something. Any organization that empowers youth and makes them feel like they are doing something is one that I want to patronize.

So I go back and just do the same thing for a week or so every summer - build houses.
Perhaps it feeds to a so called hackers lust for anarchy, rebellion etc. I don't know, maybe it is le reddit cancer.
> Just look for the agency with the most interest in their documents.

Maybe it would have been done by a group interested in having it look like the government was trying to steal data relating to this whistleblower case? Even weirder things than that have happened IRL.
The point isn't collateral damage, though. The point is to make violating devices unprofitable to buy and sell.

Re. customs, that's an interesting angle. I'm sure there are 'Intellectual Property' protection laws that could be invoked to, say, seize pirated shirts or CDs at the border. Perhaps those laws could be invoked against violating devices?
My friend rents and has 2 pit bulls. His rent is actually quite reasonable. Even has some outdoor space...
Cool. It's a much easier problem to bite off, I suppose. Timbre works great for me, since my city is small enough that I can easily skim a few weeks of shows in a few minutes.
Wow, people are taking this way too seriously. Great article!
> So, back-patting and hi-fives, but no actual criticism?

I didn't see that in the blog post.
tx!
Completely non-judgmentally, it's piques my interest, so you can spell it right next time. (I have the opposite problem: I spell things right and say them wrong.)
Hello Justin,

yes, but that's exactly the argument I expected. Not using the mouse on GUIs is entirely possible, but your argument let's GUIs look as if they are antiquated technology not able to handle hotkeys or vim motions or anything else you want to improve efficiency.

You refer to efficiency as driving point, which I'm a big fan of, although you probably know quite well that you wouldn't use an OS if it had no GUI. The cost of entry into the IT community isn't just time, but capability and intelligence. These are the reasons why still many people are digitally divided and can't use computers efficiently. The GUIs aren't easy enough for them, forget about the terminal efficiency.. You only reach efficiency when you have the possibility to collect enough routine. How will your Grandfather get that routine, when the "cost of entry" is too high for him to master in his age.

We're not on facebook, don't expect anyone to go phishing for upvotes. We care to improve the knowledge, efficiency, health and productivity of startup people on HN.
That still means 30 million writes instead of one. That the size of each write is smaller is not going to help you all that much if each write still worst case ends up forcing you to rewrite at least one disk sector.

While I'm inclined to favour a fanout approach, a "full" fanout can easily be incredibly costly on the write side.
> For example, COD [...] Virtually the exact same game mechanics.

For single player, sure, but COD is a multiplayer focused game. The meta game in Black Ops 2 (the pick 10 system) is new to COD and has really changed up the game mechanics. You see a lot of diversity in player load-outs and strategies, making the game on the whole a lot more entertaining and have a lot of replay value.
I've noticed this effect also, and across a number of apps, on both an iPad 4 and an iPad mini. It's most obvious on the mini due to the low pixel density on the iPad mini.

I can't read the mini in portrait mode mostly because I haven't found a font+size combo that I find acceptable.
1) If it's your own country's traffic, at the choke point in the network, which you (ie. govt) have full control over, since they are domestic.

2) Since you already have 100,000 disks, run 5000 of them in parallel. Each disk interface does 200MB/s, for an aggregate of 1TB/s. If necessary, use fibre to transport data from the collection point to the storage point.

3) Don't. Record the lot.

4) Spend a billion on a super computer?

I think it comes down to the bandwidth of computers now vastly exceeding the bandwidth of human thought. It is now possible to record an person's entire life, with plenty of headroom to spare, to account for any attempt to overwhelm the recording system.
> This is already the case in urban environments. Many people do not own cars but just use taxis. I think there are even some subscription taxi services too.

There are people that share a small garage of vehicles, or are members of a club that rents out a lot of vehicles on an hourly or daily basis. It seems like an economical choice for people that don't need a car every day, but sometimes. Plus, the assortment of cars is varied so they can probably get things like a van if they are going to move out of their apartment or something.
You need to have Vala installed. You've got a long list of dependencies before it's going to finish compiling.

This is pretty standard for compiling and installing any software from source.

Read further down and you'll see there's a shake-n-bake PPA ready to go.
What conspiracy are you referring to?
And honestly, I'm not sure why they haven't. I mean, it's not like Oregon wouldn't re-elect if they had a Senator famous for sticking up for civil liberties, and they must be well aware of history and precedent. Are they afraid that the First Lady won't invite them to the Christmas dinner?

Perhaps they're afraid they'd get kicked off of the Intelligence Committee and lose what little ability to provide oversight they already have?
That sounds nice, but 1 hour is a major commute in my book.
I use EasyPost for this and verifications are free. Is there a major reason to switch?
I didn't really explain myself very well, because as I said, I'm just a layman when it come to the subject of stock options and equity. My post was mostly a question. I wasn't trying to say that the new shares shouldn't detract from the overall value of each share, clearly no matter how many there are the company will still only have 100% of it's value to distribute amongst shareholders. Unfortunately, that's the way I sounded.

What I'm really trying to understand, is how a person can go from owning a significant percentage of a company, to having his shares become worthless, even if the company is worth quite a bit. It seems like any system of regulations or laws that allows something like that to occur must be fundamentally flawed.

I've taken some economics classes, but they don't really delve into issues like this. Can anyone recommend a good resource for learning how this works?
Verifications are free for Lob for US addresses as well, but we have support for INTERNATIONAL verification...Easypost only has US.
You can also right click in Chrome or Safari and hit inspect element. It's not hard to figure out which nodes to \backspace from there.
Well, this thread is certainly full of people completely incapable of taking a joke.
Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed
Sure. An analogous application of secret policy working within the framework of a law that delegates huge amounts of authority to the executive would be military strategy. Another would be FBI investigation priorities.

If you remove the "secret" constraint, but keep unilateral authority to do rulemaking without line-item approval by Congress, you can come up with zillions of examples.
>There won't even need to be any surveillance; the gov't can just review the sousveillance footage.

“If the NSA is big brother, Glassholes are the new little brother.”

`Godwin's Law' Reductio ad Hitlerum:

"Our NSA-Youth Corps wears Glass, shouldn't you?"(tm)