skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy who owned the mansion was a former entrepreneur who didn't want to live in the Bay Area but owned this giant house, and several other very expensive properties. To pay the property taxes on all of these places, he bought/sold very expensive items, and this stuff would get shipped to his house. But he didn't want to leave it outside for long and needed someone trustworthy to bring it in doors. That person was me.

So I would once a week drag a giant box filled with something expensive into the garage, and some guy would come by later and load it into a truck and carry it off. The guy who owned the house could then live in Tahoe or Hawaii or Florida in his other mansions, with the peace of mind of knowing he could pay his tax bills with 0 effort on his part.

In return, I got to live in a 6 bedroom house with a pool, basketball court, 2 gardens...for the cost of the utilities. In case you're curious, I found this guy on Craigslist when he was trying to rent the mansion at the bottom of the real estate bust and he just liked me, so we set up this special arrangement.
You are right! I read, "Why were so many (over a hundred) of the 12500 tickets," incorrectly. Looks like there were actually 1509 records in the author's JSON object.

Nonetheless, it is an infraction type that will disproportionately target illegal immigrants since they can't get driver's licenses. If the author wanted to show racism, he'd need to pick something like speeding and show that hispanic names show up more than their presence in the area.
You have to pick your battles. It's convenient that Hibernate will do these things for you, but I have seen lots of times when the order Hibernate wants to remove something causes an integrity violation. For instance, a not-null foreign key reference in a linking table; sometimes Hibernate seems to try setting the value to null before deleting the referenced entity, leading to an integrity violation. There have been times when I couldn't figure out how to make Hibernate do this the right way (reversing the order of its deletes and skipping the unnecessary set-null step) so I instead just lifted the constraint. I hate when I have to do that, because ideally Hibernate should just live with whatever schema I have given it.

Another example is trying to depend on CASCADE in the database. The settings you need to make to get Hibernate to accept this are quite arcane and force you to manually worry about list indexes in the Java code. Yet another example of a place where Hibernate, which ought not be telling me how to make my database or my Java code, instead winds up forcing me to take certain decisions in both.
Counter steering is incredibly freaky when on the bike as well.

You force yourself to fall and let the bike catch you and damn it is disconcerting the first few (hundred) times.
Focus on logos.
Reminds me of http://www.killerstartups.com back in the days (not sure if they are still doing that though).
Oh, I thought there were going be 30 days of actual change at Yahoo.
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5889477
The colors are base16 [1]. You can find the tmux conf for the tab bar at [2].

[1] https://github.com/chriskempson/base16

[2] https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf#L...
That's exactly what ad companies have been doing for years. Ad sells the product using a story or generating one in your head.
I've personally felt this pain. Even as an engineer, I never thought to solve it myself. Massive kudos!
Are you trying to drive your audience to distraction?
Every team will always have different people. Some need more hierarchy, some need more autonomy. Some differ on SCARF. Some differ on Myers-Briggs personality type. Sometimes the differences are big. Usually they are small and not binary. The job of a manager is to create an environment, where all those different people can efficiently work together. This means every manager will to some extend create their own system in their sphere of influence.

Your GE example, fits my theory as well. ;)
Bugzilla is not your personal soapbox. The revolution is a damp squib.
All this insight from reading the constitution? I'm impressed
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a similar library for Google Calendar that's any good?
I would love to be able to receive the new one by mail with some presentation text.
I believe you could write an article with more bs in it. It would be difficult, but it would be possible.

This paints a strawman of the most dysfunctional traditional structure imaginable where no one knows who has what authority, no one knows what various managers do, individuals have no power, no one listens to the people "at the bottom" and managers are impersonal jerks whose job it is to keep their team in an isolation room.

Maybe Holacracy is the greatest system known to man. It looks like a surefire way to create ultra-political environments, endless meetings on topics unrelated to getting real work done (like restructuring the org and electing people) and eventually a centralized power base around a small political class.

But surely the narrative that Ev Williams didn't like managing, so he decided to get rid of all manager and dump the entire traditional structure because his last company was poorly managed isn't the best way to sell it.
Mayer is known for her 41 shades of blue while at google: http://www.fastcompany.com/1403230/googles-marissa-mayer-ass...

I suspect this is her way of A/B testing logos at Yahoo.
Obama is selling the lies with a smile and a nice surface to the American public. And Im so amazed it still seem to work. What is it with the president role that makes people believe what this person says?
I found the info at the following to be a bit more in-depth and its split into a number of posts.

http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multip...
Its original purpose is affiliate marketing spam - every so often it tweets links to buy crappy ebooks, and the random text was presumably originally an attempt to evade spam detection. The fact that the amusement it provides is entirely accidental in origin (we don't even know for sure whether the operator knows about it now) only adds to the brilliance.

(This is briefly mentioned in the article, but since you asked...)
I think the WaPo should start a section that's full of Hustler style porn. When people complain about porn in their Washington Post, they can just say "That's a separate department!". TLDR: if you disgrace your sub-organization, you disgrace the entire organization.
I agree. The so called sharing economy is the market attempting to route around a hyper regulated and incumbent protected economy. Just take a look at the industries listed:

Automobiles (hyper regulated). Car dealerships (hyper regulated). Telecom (hyper regulated). Car rentals (incumbent protected; try competing with Enterprise and setting up shop in 400 airports). Taxis (hyper regulated and incumbent protected). Textbooks (protected cartel; shielded both by the establishment and politics of education). Lending and fundraising (nothing is more regulated than finance and banking). Restaurants (in every major city you'll have to bribe government officials to stay open or to set-up). Major event and city parking (try not to get whacked by the mafia while you're setting up competition, and then pray you can bribe your way into approvals to get started while the incumbents try to keep you out with denied permits). Condos / apartments / etc. (that's an easy one, it's a nightmare being a landlord in places like NYC due to the burden of government regulations and committees that can dictate every nuance for housing).
Hm, I agree with the author of the article on this. I think, the default should be, that the user will be prompted to define a master password, which unlocks the password store. User might choose not wanting to set this password, but then he should be warned that all his stored passwords will be accessible by anyone using his computer with his credentials.
I do not get the idea of buying a "book" to learn a *nix utility that explains itself in a single man page when all you need to learn is just a few keyboard shortcuts.

Obsessively focusing on the tool does not magically improve productivity.
Maybe if Medium spent their time distinguishing their product instead of their corporation I would know who they are. But I don't, and I'm not sure why they think I should, considering they are a blogging platform.
Can somebody overlay this on a stock chart and tell me what to buy.
Pithy. But wrong and doesn't contribute to the discussion.
half joking... have a look at http://www.polygen.org.
AFAIK it's only in Italian, but it can generate pretty much anything with a little grammar...

-- EDIT --

on http://www.polygen.org/it/grammatiche/tecnologie/eng/manager... you can find an online example in English.

I found ff cache the page on refresh instead of reloading it, so if you want other generated phrases you need to fool the browser appending some gibberish in get (à la ?foo=1234)
I think it really depends on the culture of the company. Some companies seem to be afflicted by an unspoken pressure to keep up with one's colleagues in terms of putting in extra hours and not missing too many days. In these situations, I think a defined amount of vacation days may actually be a better policy - when you have a set "three weeks" of vacation in a year, it can be more socially acceptable to use the three weeks allotted, especially if they don't rollover. With an "unlimited vacation" policy, employees may feel pressured not to abuse the system and actually take fewer days off, because they're trying to match the average number of days off taken by all employees rather than a set time span of three weeks, or perhaps a little less in order to appear exceptional.

However, in a healthy company culture which encourages employees to take time off, it can be great. Particularly because long trips are really a different beast than short ones, and it's hard to do a long trip with 15 vacation days. Solution: take 7 vacation days one year, and 30 the next.
What a fitting farewell. If you check the source, the item is wrapped in the old blink tag.

`<blink>Dropped blink effect from text-decoration: blink; and completely removed <blink> element </blink>`

Start up firefox and give it a nice sendoff.
The problem with TypeScript is its requirement for definition files which are most of the time outdated. That makes it unusable in a real project where many JS libs live together. (not saying that's the case all the time)
Agreed. Out of the box none of the other storage systems actually allow you to not worry about range scans at all. While HBase will repartition your data to balance the used disk space automatically, in most other systems you'll end up having to manually partition your data in different ways and then aggregate the queries across partitions.

This is pretty literally the main reason why many companies use HBase. Then in the same companies you can also find a good usage for Cassandra but it'd be a different use case.
Show HN: Javascript library for full text search
My browser fills in that password for me. My guess is that would be the same for most people.
I would love to receive an email every week with new startups.

And this would be a terrific way for small startups to get the word out. There would be a moderator who would decide which startups are good enough. I would rather have the moderator decide if something's interesting enough than HN crowd.
I think the point of the story is that drivers with dark skin are (it appears) much more likely to be pulled over in the first place.

if the initial infraction isn't worth citing, no big deal

Well, no. The whole objection to profiling, whether Hispanic drivers in Atherton or black kids in NYC, is that the cops have no good reason to be stopping them in the first place.

This report provides no data on how many red-light running/speeding/drunk white drivers were not pulled over, or were let go and told to "be more careful next time."

While I'm sure that being very wealthy is amazing, I've never heard "amazing" used to describe Atherton.

Source: I live two blocks away.
Doesn't HSTS just mean that the browser will just always make HTTPS responses?
The "silly" label is not productive.

When we have R+W>N, and assuming N is 3, there is either a hit on read and write (W=R=2) or heavy hit on write (W=3, R=1) or heavy hit on read with a chance of temporary outages (W=1, R=3).

In HBase you write to exactly one server and read from exactly one server, which also provides for cheap atomic operations.
This is like sharing a college parking pass. Both usually have terms that state you can't share the lease, but fundamentally the problem is that mutual resources (parking spots, server bandwidth) are shared and hard to discretize to a consumer of them, and their "optimal" state is peak shared utilization, where licenses, accounts, and caps inhibit utilization intentionally to keep the saturation from degrading the system (see how public roads that don't get expanded in 30 years get).

I think it has been pretty consistently shown peak productivity gains are reaped when best-shared resources are made readily available with no barriers to utilization, but you need a pool of supporters to keep the infrastructure constantly expanding to meet demand. Throwing new servers in / paying the electric bill, building a new parking lot / maintaining the one that gets heavily treaded by saturation, or expanding / paving roads.

The most technologically functional way is to just announce traffic utilization, expansion costs, and play the wikipedia model - crowdfund your operating costs because the resources are not easily discretized into optimally-used per-consumer chunks. In public space, this is through taxes, but I don't think they have to be in the modern instant global information communication era. Or bill / meter for time used, rather than a constant subscription (which is, strangely, what mobile ISPs are doing now. The problem with that service is they use their metering to artificially depress demand so they don't need to invest in expanding their infrastructure).

You know, that is an interesting thought experiment - how would society organize if people were paying a bill for miles driven to cover road maintenance / expansion costs? (in some places this is already a partial funding source through petrol taxes, but since taxed funds usually end up in a giant pot that various organizations pull from the correlation of tax revenue from travel expenses to available funds to maintain / expand roads isn't a direct one). If we transitioned to more electric vehicles that might be harder, though.
It's kinda interesting to me to see what Californians consider a big lot. I grew up in the Northeast suburbs of Boston, and my parents owned an acre lot. I went to school in central Massachusetts, and many of my friends lived on 5-10 acre properties.

When I moved out to California, it was really depressing to see the rows and rows of townhomes on postage-stamp lots. A family friend would show me around Cupertino, where typical houses are on about 1/4 acre, and he'd say that the land alone is worth $1M as a teardown. Looking through some real estate listings, I found that if I wanted an acre lot, basically the only option in Silicon Valley is Atherton (or Portola/Woodside/Saratoga). And it'll cost around $5M.

My parents spent $60K on their home - granted, it was a while ago, but it's still not worth close to $1M. My friends' houses in Central Mass were maybe $150-200K. There are downsides to living where everybody is rich.
What's interesting if you look at a map of Atherton on Google Maps is that exactly will the city lines are drawn, it is much more green (trees, vegetation, etc). I remember reading something about how the greener the area, the wealthier it tends to be.
Pregnancy length 'varies naturally by up to five weeks'
Very cool! Reminds me of the games I was programming as a teen. Pygame seems like a pretty straight forward framework to easily start seeing things move on the screen which is really important to keep people motivated.
Tmuxinator is an awesome gem that extends tmux to allow you to set up specific sessions that can be booted up. You can customize panes, pick specific apps to run in each, and there's tons of customization that can be done: https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator
Try jingproject.com
Making the Original Tron (2011)
Another worthwhile list to look at is the Green500 [1], which ranks machines based on MFLOPS/Watt. With the exception of a few GPU and Xeon Phi heavy machines at the top, the high end is dominated by IBM's Blue Gene machines.

[1] http://www.green500.org/lists/green201306&green500from=1&gre...
Wham! [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham!
So... if being unlicensed is not a sufficient justification for a traffic stop, then why are these drivers being pulled over in the first place?

Are you saying that they get pulled over for something else, and it so happens that they are also unlicensed?

In that case, why is it only Hispanic drivers being pulled over? Are Hispanics the only ethnic group in the areas north and south that commit traffic infractions?
Yeah! It's similar to killerstartups which is actually nice, isn't it?
Is this really insightful or is this another case of "correlation not implying causation"?

Have you paused to consider the geography of these cities, their respectful populations, commute profiles or other socio-economic data? Of course not - you're a busy person just like all of us and we all rely on others to provide digestible, bite-size chunks of information arranged "just so" to help us come to the same conclusion as the author.

But I digress. Please look at the above replies and consider that few things are as black-and-white as people want us to believe.
Why Do So Many Jobs Pay So Little?
What's weird about North Fair Oaks (unincorporated SMC) is that it's not really "Hispanics", it's "people from Michoacan state (in Mexico)". I'm not sure what causes large numbers of people from one relatively small area to move to another specific relatively small area far away.

They do make really good bread.
Show HN: Apps ranked by valuation
In my experience, there are less non-profits formally working with Holacracy mostly because they can't afford hiring the consultants to help them adopt it. And it's not easy to adopt on your own - it goes against a lot of oft-entrenched habits. That said I know that many have tried, though I don't know how it's going because I'm not even indirectly involved.

Interestingly, the distinction between for- and non-profit is less relevant with Holacracy. The bottom line is effectively the (explicit, written-down) purpose of the organization. More on that here: http://holacracy.org/blog/for-profit-non-profit-for-purpose
I would not be at all surprised if there was a high correlation between "People who turned off Javascript" and "People who declined to provide telemetry", so there could be some selection bias in those results.
I'm surprized there are very few apps presented from a user centric point of view. "This app is a ..." bad, "Make better ..." good.

This makes it clear and easy to grab how the app will contribute to make my life better, anf why using and buying it might be worth for me.

Hey Kalzumeus, your marketing lessons are starting to work on me! I was just a dumb programmer before.
Ah, I understand now, that's a good point! When it comes to "ideas as tools", finding a source that's on the same wavelength as you does make a huge difference.

And hey, if we end up reaching your goals, then who cares what book helped us get there? We win and just like with a firefight, who is left standing is all that matters at the end of the day.
The fact that I have to ask means I have no way to predict which they consider "better". It could have just as easily gone the other way.

Personally I'm glad it's in the visible direction though.

An option should only be removed if the "better" way is obvious.
I think I just posted the same thing you did. Also:

Strawman: 'Well these people all drive crappy cars with stuff wrong with them'
Teardown: Where's all the traffic violations for poor white people? Poor black people? Further, what about all the other kinds of traffic violation (drunk driving etc.)? Are Hispanics the only people who ever do anything wrong on the road?
Tmux is definitely a nice piece of software.

For me it has been the last brick in date in my terminal-based IDE, which is made of zsh/vim/ssh/tmux.

Everything is running on a remote dedicated server, and I can access my dev environment wherever I can find an internet connection and launch a ssh tunnel (which is, in my case, almost everywhere I would find myself wanting to work).
In that case, tmux's sessions are god sent.

I would have say the same for screen before, but with Tmux you can have this sort of niceties : https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline. Basically, it's a statusline with bells and whistle.
how about organizing a campaign to hire some protesters in front of mozillas office to bring it back?

( http://www.vice.com/read/its-now-possible-to-hire-fake-prote... )
Cool, just signed up and submitted Soulmix (http://www.soulmix.com). Would love to see how a listing on KickoffBoost turns out :)
Sure, there are differences between Soylent and Ensure, but the comparison is inescapable. Soylent is a new twist on an old idea, nothing more.

I guess Soylent can say whatever they want in their marketing spiel. Some people may even believe it.
Latvia to extradite computer hacker suspect to U.S.
Also, if it's totally not racist at all, then why did they stop providing the information as soon as this analysis was put up? That makes them look way more suspicious than they already did.
Do you happen to have more information on that book?
Sounds really smart to me: get tons of feedback on a critical branding decision, while having a fun, unique, and potentially buzz-building little experiment that could drive users to your home page daily. Perhaps most importantly, it requires no commitment on Yahoo's part, considering the bad PR Microsoft and eBay both recently experienced when announcing their new logos.
A main content area and a sidebar with each having different colors and both maintaining the same height such that they expand vertically with the content (without having to hard-code pixel values).

I saw a page showing how it could be achieved using only divs, but really, it was a complete rube goldberg machine, the sole purpose of which, seems to be to adhere to the religion of not using tables.

I get that table layouts have their own issues but I think its silly to be dogmatic about refusing to use them where it's clearly the best hammer to drive in that nail.
How to profit from Bitcoin Arbitrage
Going to hijack and tell you that you've got all the right buzzwords to get me interested but I still have no idea what you're offering from the landing page.

So much so as to dissuade me from signing up (to what?)