skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't there quite a few unoccupied buildings in areas like the Tenderloin and Civic Center that could be made into apartments?
The point is, everyone wishes they could buy one. It's the best reviewed car in history. Nobody in the non-tree hugging camp wants a Leaf even if they can afford it.
From the article:
"Google argued that "just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people who use Web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipient's ECS [electronic communications service] provider in the course of delivery."

The search giant goes on to quote a 1979 case, Smith v. Maryland, which found that "a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.""

If this argument stands, any surveillance becomes much easier to justify.
It at least explains why I'm so smart ;)
Or the people wouldn't live so far away from where they work thus freeing up more housing and lessening (at least for a time) the skyrocketing rental situation in the city.
Her son, like most young people, wants to be able to move out and live on his own even as the city gets more and more expensive.

These articles frustrate me because they rarely manage to mention obvious factors like, say, supply and demand—a problem that I wrote more about here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/connecting-the-dots... . If you're unhappy about rapidly rising housing prices, the simple solution is to build more of it. We have the technology to do so and have for a hundred years.

One can argue that high prices are a reasonable cost for low density, but to do so at least requires some basic knowledge of how supply and demand work.

On a separate note, articles like this also show why newspapers are having so many problems: if a random commenter like me knows more introductory-level econ than the reporter writing about such issues, the reporter has no business writing about business.
How does this get to the frontpage of HN?
Companies don't pay taxes it's the shareholders and the employees who pay taxes. So if Google "avoids" taxes on its' income it will end up being paid (at probably a much higher rate) by the shareholders and employees of the company.

That their intentions aren't pure enough for some is not a reason to not celebrate what they're doing for their employees.
i think the girls did worse because they "know" that, in general, girls do worse in math than boys. boys did better because they "know" that, in general, boys do better in math than girls. apparently they were both wrong.
Will Google Car be Destroyed by Regulation?
They are substantially less massive than the number of cars required to transport all of those workers.
Nope:
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I'm happy you have this ability, but suggesting that everyone else just isn't living up to their potential because of some mental block that you have supposedly (and accidentally) overcome is, perhaps, limiting your compassion. You are very lucky to have an exceptional memory; others are not so lucky, and must work hard to do what costs you no effort. Supposing they just aren't trying hard enough or are succumbing to some crippling lack of self-faith is belittling and people will rightfully resent it.
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Also, Go as an alternative to <whatever> for very slow servers. I use Go on my Pi and the thing flies.
New episode of the Random Show with Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss
Much more so than internet posts about it, there are countless modules for NodeJS as well. Need to upload and store and return images in Monogo using streaming? Done. Need to keep servers running despite errors? Done. Amazon S3? Done. Need an alternate cloud provider? Done. Need login using OAUTH/OpenID/whatever? Done. On and on. Most times you need some general purpose web functionality, there's already a couple Node modules in that area, if not an entire framework or sample app and tutorial targeted at that area.
My understanding is that the main improvement here is that the rocket is sophisticated enough to land itself gently and intact. Why would a missile ever want to do that?
There is a huge difference between the two. Hyperthreaded cores only give you a speed up in specific situations where additional work can be squeezed into the pipeline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

The speedup is very work dependent and in practice for things like web pages and api servers you generally only get another 20-40% of performance from them rather than a full 100%.
Occupy protesters were forcibly removed, repeatedly. http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/crabapple-occupy-wall-... http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all...
If anything, the presence of company busses is a clear signal that local government has failed to provide adequate public transport (despite happily taking the taxes that these companies and their employees pay), and that is where any anger should be directed.
This was really a fascinating article.
In this same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6212695
I don't know anything about military strategy or missile technology but I'm having a hard time seeing how a missile making a turn that slow would really be effective at evading any kind of supersonic defensive weapon.

Also, missiles have to explode to be useful; a safe relaunch would be a bit worthless.

Just to add a pedantic remark, if the missile is guiding itself then it's not a ballistic missile anymore.
> Typing in Go can still be annoying for some situations. If you're dealing with external content (creating an API with mutable content that you still need to read) it can be annoying at best (e.g. reminds me of writing C). Types in Go are a nice implementation though.

Indeed, that's probably the biggest flaw I've found working with GO's type system. Trying to work with unknown n-level JSON is real pain.
When I looked into it earlier, their zone file was pretty empty except for some ns records and www. I'm assuming that something cleaned it out a bit as even the root record didn't resolve.
> Except feats that were once fairly common, such as building the Hoover Dam under budget and two years ahead of schedule

Buildng projects on the scale of the Hoover Dam (whether under budget and ahead of schedule or not) were never "fairly common".
> but also high levels of transparency into the operations of our authorities

You are kidding yourself. How about zero privacy for citizens and no transparency and not accountability for government?? I could fall under why they don't share it with me and you, civilians, but they don't even share it with congressmen, judges and anyone else in-between.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/asked-if-justice-department-is-sp...

(bit old) http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2008/rohr022608.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57423389-10391695/gove...

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eric+holder+refu...
That doesn't sound identically distributed to me... am I missing something?
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The Trouble With ‘Readability’
Even if we were to face China in a war, we'd own the seas. Once their one (maybe two by now) carrier is sunk, even assuming they sink one of ours, we just bring in one of the other 12.

I know people fear China but they are no cold-war Russia. Anything conventional and the US is in the lead by a lot. There's no reason to discuss anything nuclear because everyone loses in that case.
Someone should write a HN post subject tracker to keep track of it all. And keep forward-porting it to the flavor of the week, of course.
I'm surprised he continues to have a relatively high profile, if he truly is responsible for running silk road. The more linkable things you do, the greater the risk of your pseudonym being compromised.

I understand that he's commercially motivated to promote the site, but having a third party do that would make a lot more sense. As the site's admin, he's both a big legal and technical liability if identified; an independent promoter would not be.
i did too, the sheer volume of useful code he ships is incredible.
great post.
www.bestptc.org
Google's mission is to control all of computing. Indexing the internet is only part of that.
Thanks for sharing this, Pierre, a heck of a lot of work went into the release.
Well it shouldn't matter that much anyway, I don't think modern kernels will put the same process threads on the same physical core.

That's the reason intel tells you to shut hyperthreading off if your operating system doesn't support it.
Never have to "sell" anything ever again. Ever.
This is stunningly similar to the kind of scathing comebacks littering my 7th grade diary. Thankfully, when I was 11 we didn't publish our snarky takedowns online. This poor author will doubtless feel terrible when she grows up and looks back on the drivel that was published under her name.
Not so good for code that runs in servers, since you have no chance to drop requests or degrade gracefully.
Either build more housing, remove rent control or have SF no longer be appealing. Those are the only options to stop rental increases. Anything else is artificial and doomed to fail by introducing flawed mechanisms to try and subvert the most natural process there is (Supply/Demand)

SF seems like one of the only places on earth where the general mindset is "I have a absolute human right to live in San Francisco". Good luck trying that attitude in Aspen or Greenwich. The bottom line is that so long as SF is one of the most desirable places in the US to live, people are going to flock here and capitalism will take over (SURPRISE)

Its really just simple supply and demand. There is a lot of people wanting to live in SF (demand) and lots of low paying tenants who dont move causing little vacancies (supply). The end result is astronomical prices.
I could be wrong here, but I thought much of SF is considered "historic district" or something, therefore new, more dense housing is not being build, thus rents rise like crazy?
I was being provocative, but as a tech worker in the valley, even I have a hard time coping with the cost of living in the area.
The name: Jaana. The photo: A woman. "He"?
let me guess, you only managed to solve "publicly available" problems right?
What the paper shows is that often it is assumed that words drawn from an IID distribution of letters can be treated as if the distribution of words is uniform (given a sufficiently large word size). However, this distribution while very flat is not quite uniform. They show how this can be exploited using the "Guesswork" framework to come up with a tighter bound on the time it would take to guess a chosen word. This bound is much better than the traditional bound used.

By it being very flat but not uniform, what do you mean? I'm not clear on this point.
This is at best an unfair critique. For example, I used to work for Apple and the BART does not get that far. That is because Cupertino decided they didn't want the BART getting there. The reasons for this are varied and complex. The fact of the matter is that buying 10 busses to shuttle your employees is easy, and getting involved in a possibly 20 year boondoggle to extend the BART is hard, probably requires approval from the voters (who will probably yet again vote against it), and even if it does get done it doesn't consider the potential downsides to the communities it brings the BART to. At the end of the day it is completely unfair and unrealistic to essentially assign the responsibility of transportation management to companies simply because they are successful and because government is incompetent (look at SF's budget and you'll see they really shouldn't need anyones help to be making transportation better). The reality is that SF is a completely mismanaged city, where we are spending 5 years extending the light rail from china town to downtown not because anyone actually needs it but because of politics, instead of focusing on the actual transportation issues people face every day. That's where the anger should be focused. Google, et al are doing their best with what they're given and I think they've done pretty well so far.
And what happens to housing cost when those folks need to live in the south bay?
Maybe Inkscape? http://inkscape.org/
>> The mind is not -- cannot be -- a source of empirical evidence. Science requires empirical evidence.

> Since that's clearly not true of the brain's behavior, you seem to be making a claim that the mind is supernatural.

No, only that the mind is not a legitimate source of empirical evidence (a negative assertion). Consider the areas that science doesn't (cannot) cover, and notice what they have in common -- usually, the inability to gather empirical evidence on whose meaning similarly equipped observers can agree.

For me to say that the mind cannot produce empirical evidence is uncontroversial -- it's certainly true. For me to claim that the mind is a supernatural entity, I would need to produce evidence for that conclusion. But I can't, so that assumption is itself unscientific.
Yeah, that's part of the bumpy transition. But, just like other totalitarian power schemes, it's inherently unstable.
This is an interesting case of a disadvantage becoming an advantage. The CEO suffers from significant hearing loss, but that enabled him to see a huge market that most 20-something founders overlook.
"Some argue that the government has no right to investigate the contents of an individual's email accounts, even with probable cause"

Who is arguing that? In this case, the issue is not about whether the government has probable cause. The issue is that any system that allows Lavabit to respond to a warrant can be used for mass surveillance, industrial espionage, etc. This conversation happened 20 years ago when people were arguing about key escrow. Almost nobody argues that the police should not be able to investigate crime; the argument is that backdoors are a massive vulnerability that leave innocent people, for whom the police have no warrant (or no "specific" warrant), at risk.

"Cloud-based email is...cloud-based...which means that it's susceptible to man-in-the-middle and other forms of attack."

The problem is not that the mail service is run by a third party. The problem is that encryption, decryption, key storage, and even key generation are being performed by a third party. I send encrypted mail through GMail all the time -- and Google is not able to decrypt those messages, even if they are presented with a warrant. While it may be problematic for the police to face such a situation, it would be problematic for me if criminals and spies could read my emails, and at the end of the crypto wars Congress determined that the need for good civilian crpytography vastly outweighed the government's needs to enforce laws and spy on other countries.

It is also important to remember that the police can still get messages that are encrypted/decrypted offline, they just have to work a bit harder for it. For example:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/00/12/06/0255234/fbi-bugs-keyb...
SQL Azure != SQL Server running in my clients network.

Say I've got a medical or heavy industrial client. They're not going to be very likely to push their production databases (or even snapshots frankly) into the cloud simply for this product (honestly they all have zero desire to push their data into the cloud as the majority of them have heavily invested in infrastructure over the last decades -- it's simply not an option at this time for them).
I spent a good 6 months restoring a Bosendorfer (competitor to Steinway, no umlaut here, sorry), even just repairing a grand piano is a lot of work. Making one from wood, iron, brass, steel, velvet, felt and shellac is an enormous amount of work. Those instruments are worth their sticker price, the brand really is a measure of quality.

The one I did had it's strings cut out, the outside was sanded down to wood, bits and pieces were strewn all over Poland. I got to know an expert piano repairman/tuner from the local conservatory and he gave me a mountain of tips&tricks to work off, without that I would have never managed the job. That was a fun project. And not just a little bit dangerous, tuning up a fair sized piano from scratch is a delicate job. You really don't want to unevenly stress the frame and find out what it is like when 13 tonnes of tension is released all at once.
I'm not sure if you read my comment before becoming offended by it.

Your response makes it all about me, but I specifically mentioned other people being surprised by their own memorization capabilities after I asked them to consider that maybe they're more capable of memorizing numbers than they believed.

Your comment also says that I memorize through "no effort" when I stated, "almost no effort" which is > "no effort". When I originally memorized pi to 50 digits it took about 15 minutes which is what I could consider "almost no effort" but that's more than 15 seconds which is what I would consider "no effort".

And I'm sorry my comment made you resentful. Hopefully you don't resent other people telling you how with little effort they were able to increase their vertical jump or learn how to play the guitar.
> In general, whenever something happens to the human body that we cannot explain by chemistry and mechanics, we call it a "placebo effect".

If by "we" you mean you, sure. If you mean scientists I call bullshit. You're going to need a good citation to make that claim.

> having spent 8 years trying to cure joint pains, I finally got rid of them just by thinking

Not surprising. Pain is the one thing you expect to be able to change by "thinking." Pain is perception and placebos (and thinking) change perception.

> Oh, and the throat infections and allergies? Gone, too.

Now we're going down anecdote road. You do realize that allergies change as you age right? My anecdotes: until I was in my late teens / early 20's I didn't have allergies. Then suddenly one year I had them badly. Years later they went away again. My dad never had allergies until they came on strong in his 50's.

Similarly infections come and go.

> And I learned that doctors really hate saying "I don't know".

Good doctors don't. The problem is that the medical profession is full of egos. Egos don't go well with admitting you don't know or are wrong.
The bombs they drop are not free either, some of the smart munitions cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"cultural acceptance of deviancy"

Really?

So at the height of the next privacy/NSA/Snowden debates, I guess, I should expect society to be vigorously defending the privacy rights of the next Anthony Wiener.

Yup I am sure that day will come.

Sounds like parent doesn't get much human contact.
Not necessarily. I hate these articles just as much as the next techie, but there is no denying that Google is solving a problem they are creating: if they didn't offer these buses then people wouldn't live in SF anywhere NEAR as frequently and there wouldn't be as much traffic: so they offer the buses.

I do think they should be paying some sort of fees to use public bus stops etc., but everything else I disagree with in the article and think it's bullshit.
Without the buses a lot of those workers might choose to live closer to the office, freeing up space in the city.
One of my friends loves to throw the pizza restaurant analogy out all of the time. There are many pizza restaurants and they all have some different level of success. Each pizza place offers something just a little different than the others. Ultimately, the winners will be the ones that offer a better overall service. You already have "out-compete" in your mind set so you should be fine.
Ask HN: So which email service does provides privacy?
I'm a gmail user, and though I like that it's free and easy to use, I've become concerned enough about privacy that I'd like to make a switch. Are there any existing email providers out there that you trust, as far as privacy goes?
just curious, how much does it cost to send/receive SMS on a cell phone in Rwanda or other parts of Africa?

I see there is a limit of 30 messages in 30 minutes, is this carrier induced?
Is Harvard/MIT/BU for Boston any less? I think in addition to great universities, there is definitely something else to SV.
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>Companies don't pay taxes it's the shareholders and the employees who pay taxes.

This is false. What do you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_Sta...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-22/google-joins-apple-...

>if Google "avoids" taxes on its' income it will end up being paid (at probably a much higher rate) by the shareholders and employees

Also not true. Long term capital gains tax is 15%. Dividends are taxed at the same rate, unless you make over $400k per year, at which point you pay 20%. Corporate taxes, in contrast, are 35% at the federal level. Taken with state taxes the effective rate is close to 40% (http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/services/tax/tax-tools-and-res...). So it's a net loss when Google dodges taxes.

(And I didn't even get into shares held abroad or in retirement accounts.)

(Edits with slightly less confrontational language.)
Well, it's an order of magnitude closer than the 355K that was predicted without accounting for relativity, and I think the point was that a melting point of 355K (82C) means it would be solid at room temperature, while 250K (-23C) means it is liquid at room temperature, so they can conclude it's the relativistic effect that's responsible for its weirdness. tl;dr: close enough.
Hey, Park, I am Jean and I was in your Aiti class 2010 in KIST. Nice to seevyou here. I am a fan of Textit and the company that created it. They are coming up with great sms technologies that are appropriate for Africa. Big up to Nic and Eric, you are doing a wonderful work.
Plivo makes it much easier to build out a telephony app without having to worry about the phone system complexity!

I was able to finish a high-volume, robust solution in less than a month thanks to Plivo's APIs!
It's funny how the article doesn't consider technologists to be intellectuals.
Paper abstracts for Tcl 2013 Conference
I've not read any books of his, though I've yet to see in video him say anything that was non-sensical. What are you referring to?
The idea that you actually get to perpetually live in an apartment even if the owner doesn't want you there is quite generous. The idea that it's socially deemed "the right thing to do" is rather progressive.

this concept confounds me (and I stayed in a nice rent controlled apt in SF last week). still, someone else's property, which they invested in/ care for, which they no longer get to control.

IMHO - these are all symptoms of problems that have more to do with astronomical salaries - a symptom of a perceived labor shortage - a symptom of the 'gold rush', et al.
I think one big problem is that it allows workers to easily get from the city to the office outside the city. Without the ease of transport a lot of these people might live outside the city freeing up space for people who actually need to live there.
if I had to play a hunch, name based virtualhost settings got messed up. Or a proxy/caching server not handling hostname passing correctly.
New York Times Website goes down, maybe hacked, maybe not
So what's preventing Muni or BART from offering 4th & King - Google Campus route on their own?