skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is most people don't know what they want to do. That's the reason why schools force you take a variety of subjects so you could find your niche. I had no intention of growing up and becoming a developer, but here I am, all because my friend showed me a few lines of HTML. The idea is to give people a little spark and let them follow through if they want to continue down this path or not.
I just moved to the area and have little context, wondering what solution are the local residents fighting for? I'd imagine going back to an idyllic agrarian past is probably not viable. Is the proposal for companies to pay a special municipal tax for zoning special loading curb areas (which I'd imagine UPS and taxis and the likes will have to pay as well for using public infrastructure)? Is it for higher income or newer residents to pay a special tax to give to lower income or older residents which can be used to fund affordable housing projects? What is the proposed solution that can be put into a legislation?
"Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.” - Woody Allen

Obviously it's an iterating/evolving meme.
Sorry, I should have specified that. I had already wrote too much as it was. I agree with you. I don't mind speeding on highways, but I mind the tailgating on the highways.
Hopefully, people can work together to what I think could be 2-3 good outcomes that help alleviate some of these very real problems:

1. Public Transportation: both inter & intra-city transportation is very poor. It's extremely hard to travel between neighborhoods in San Francisco, and it's a huge reason people rely so much on Lyft and other providers in the city. Also, it's really difficult to travel between SF and Oakland (as well as other cities). Creating better / more infrastructure that connects these two should help ease supply constraints that cause these price spikes in the first place. Not sure how feasible this is...especially looking at other cities experience in public transportation (example: bay bridge).

2. More supply. One of the effects of previous legislation to keep the SF "neighborhood feel" was that it constrained new supply coming into the market. Unfortunately, it takes a few years for new units to come into the market, and it's obvious it's not keeping pace with demand. There of course needs to be a balance vs. keeping SF's historic appeal, but maybe the previous compromise leaned too heavily against putting up new units.

3. Government subsidies / rent control to help ease rapid price hikes. I'm not as big of a fan of these, but largely because I don't quite understand all the economic/social effects.
> What can I do to stay that way?

Don't sign into Google's services.
I'm afraid of upgrading vagrant now like I am afraid of upgrading bootstrap.

Too many things break - it's simply not worth the trouble of upgrading and finding all the gotchas scattered all over the place in my config files and code.
D used to stand for "Dead" at some point. Doesn't seem valid here.
> Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person?

It shouldn't, but that's not an issue for a mob to take up. Call the police, or go talk to your local legislators if tech companies are being given unfair perks, but taking justice into your own hands is illegal for a very good reason.
But you're just looking for the text being in a certain range of characters. The first stage is determining the key length, you can do this by looking at the number of different character values in positions 1,2,3... then 1,3,5,... and 2,4,6,... then 1,4,7,... etc.

keylength=1 127
keylength=2 114 116
keylength=3 107 102 106
keylength=4 78 94 98 103
keylength=5 111 118 115 114 119
keylength=6 81 71 81 77 79 77
keylength=7 104 112 110 104 110 110 109
keylength=8 67 85 86 94 68 91 83 86
keylength=9 87 86 86 90 92 85 83 85 82
keylength=10 91 97 86 89 90 88 90 90 92 97
keylength=11 90 101 102 98 99 93 100 100 100 95 93
keylength=12 45 45 46 53 47 46 41 47 47 51 50 47
keylength=13 89 85 100 90 89 91 94 95 82 90 86 88 92
keylength=14 83 84 85 88 82 81 77 72 82 85 73 81 82 86
keylength=15 73 81 72 76 76 70 75 73 74 72 77 76 73 71 73
keylength=16 56 68 71 80 60 73 64 73 58 71 70 76 57 76 66 68
keylength=17 81 86 82 74 77 82 85 87 81 87 78 84 77 77 79 80 82
keylength=18 59 55 59 55 61 56 59 55 57 59 55 62 62 57 60 58 56 59
keylength=19 77 80 80 77 71 89 78 76 73 74 68 80 80 80 74 76 78 79 72

The stand out line from that is keylength=12 as it provides a local minima for the number of different characters.

Having a good idea of the key length you can look at which of the possible 256 values for each position of the key produce the top numbers of printable characters. A quick perl script to do this gives:-

POSS:0: n=211 chars=FHLRSUVZ]
POSS:1: n=209 chars=cdjkouwx~
POSS:2: n=208 chars=DIJKLORUW^_
POSS:3: n=209 chars=BIKSVW
POSS:4: n=206 chars=bejkntvy~
POSS:5: n=210 chars=@CDEFKQXZ
POSS:6: n=208 chars="#)+.023678>?
POSS:7: n=206 chars=fgmorswz|
POSS:8: n=208 chars=behjknt~
POSS:9: n=205 chars=GMORSTW\
POSS:10: n=207 chars=FLWXY[\
POSS:11: n=208 chars=cdjkoux~

You'll note that the actual key (SjJVkE6rkRYj) is present in this output. I'll carry on with this if I get a chance tomorrow.
Wow, very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

It's also interesting (and perhaps, sad) to me how there are stories in Silicon Valley where a top engineer or two are offered massive financial incentives to join another company. Those stories are usually cited as examples of a technical talent shortage in the Valley, but in reality, they are exceptions, not the rule.
The cryptocat issue can be viewed sideways:

* Open source applications are bad, see what happened to cryptocat?

* Open source is awesome! Look what happened to cryptocat!

If cryptocat was closed-source... would ever be noticed? I wonder...
Facebook's new grad package for 2013: ~100k base (higher for Master's students) + 100k signing + 100k in RSUs (sometimes higher).
You know, we actually tried that for a while (search for Turnpike System or Turnpike Trusts on wikipedia), and it was an unmitigated disaster. Because turnpike operators had what were effectively local monopolies, they collected absurdly high fees and often spent as little as possible on routine maintenance, resulting in high cost / low quality roads. This was a major impediment to free trade, as it drove shipping costs to prohibitively high levels. The socialization of roads that took place during the Victorian era, along with the growth of the railroad industry, helped usher in the period of great economic and industrial expansion that lead to the Gilded Age.
I wish algorithms were emphasized rather than code. Programming languages and frameworks are too much in flux right now. Education curriculum dont evolve very quickly so they would be baking in programming as it exists currently and recreate scenarios like Pascal being taught long after it was relevant in the mainstream.
> The bus operators — private companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Genentech — would pay for permits to use the Muni stops

Looks like that issue is being taken care of.
I think that's the key thing, though. I would gladly live under practically any government system if I knew that all the officials and citizens were perfectly honest, responsible and charitable. I don't think I'd like any system that was repeatedly plagued by the types of individuals that are committing these acts.
>>My father, who was born and raised in the Bronx, told me once that NYC is a great place to be rich, and a great place to be poor, with not much room for anyone in between.

I don't know about "great place to be poor," but yes, it's a great place to be if you're rich. I have a friend who used to live there, and he said that based literally on your income alone you will get invited to parties and be able to make friends with other rich people. The place is basically the epitome of rich people wanting to associate only with other rich people.
> Is America really that desperate to destroy the only real market it has left? You guys might applaud this but the only thing which this will lead to is unqualified people thinking they know how to program. <

That ship has already sailed, and in the world of corporate/enterprise software development I'd argue it was never really docked, so to speak. Hell, as recently as my last job, less than a year ago, I worked with "business analysts" who, because they put together the front-end forms of an Access database and wrote some basic SQL thought they were "coders".

They shouldn't be a source of worry to skilled programmers. These "amateurs" will never be able to take the job of a person who is truly skilled and seeking a position that actually requires that skill, at least not for any length of time.

There is some legitimate cause for concern about wages. Big companies would love for nothing more than to see a complete commoditization in the wage of software developers. Hell, I'd argue a significant number already believe that software developers are interchangeable. They'd be right a good proportion of the time, but not nearly as often as they might think (or like).
Rad! Haven't run across Archive Team before. Looking into them now.
Then we're good. :)
That's not what I said.

What I said is that I'm not obligated to "reason" with someone that illegally demands my attention. Maybe abortion doctors should be obligated to "reason" with pro-life protestors, to open a conversation? Hey, a lot of time those guys aren't even breaking the law.

What the OP calls being an "uptight techie" I call being an ordinary human being in an allegedly civilized country.
As you said, density change over the temperature range where hydraulic systems are used, and corrosive properties of water. Also its freezing point. Oils just have better properties for the desired application.
see the early history of learning, it was a discovery that is actually counter intuitive and a common trap for beginners. (don't minimize the training error)

I have seen new PhDs read about it "in theory", but not internalise it for practice, and then they go off an do Bayesian structure learning without a validation set. This DOES happen.

This post is to hammer into the brains of any beginner thinking about machine learning that understanding the validation set's purpose is the most important thing to internalise first.

e.g. Machine learning is easier than it looks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6770785
The audio amplifier is designed with certain assumptions "baked in" which are different than those of a power supplying signal pin. In the case of the headphone amplifier, there is the impedance of the headphones and the duty cycle, or power over time component. So lets say you have a "1 Watt" headphone amplifier. Generally that specifies the peak power output when reproducing a signal. However, and many folks who have sent random tones through their stereo amplifiers have experienced this, if you send a 'peak power' tone through the amplifier continuously, the output stage may not (and often does not) have the power dissipation to keep that going. Instead it overheats and shuts off. You can of course design the power amplifier to be able to dissipate its peak power output continuously, but that is not generally necessary when listening to audio from it (even if you are a severe heavy metal listener).

Something designed to supply power will deliver its rated power continuously.

So the audio out signal is designed to drive headphones without distortion between a lower and upper frequency. It also has a power dissipation limit based on what the guy designing it figured you might be listening too and for how long and at what volume. If you guess wrong (as some of the imported "external speakers" for the iPhone did), you risk damaging the headphone amplifier permanently.

So "Yes" there is going to be power available in the audio out signal, how much over what time period, is not part of the externally visible specification. If you damage your phone by attempting to draw too much power they don't fix it because "technically" you were not using it in an approved way.

Does that help?
Yes, that guy was fake, but the protestors blocking the bus and preventing it from leaving were real.
I have heard a statistic before that at any given time 50% of the cars in SF are looking for parking. I could easily believe that.

It is not unusual, when going up to the city outside of rush hour, to spend 45 minutes driving and then a further 45 minutes looking for parking. Whenever possible I try to park at Daly City or Millbrae and then BART/Caltrain in, but that won't get you to all destinations...
The Science of Social Connections
> I'd be impressed if Bitcoin transactions have eclipsed the economy of EVE Online

You say that like it's a bad thing. Looks like upside to me.

I don't pretend to know the future of Bitcoin. If nothing else it's demonstrated the possibility of transmitting real value across borders without banks or governments.

That capability is worth a lot more than the GDP of Cuba.

I don't know if Bitcoin or something else will solve this problem, but now that everyone knows what's possible, it's as inevitable as any other obvious invention.

And whatever solves this problem will be worth a hell of a lot.
Googlers don't even realize that things are changing so drastically. Instead of a "nativist right" how about some respect for the people who are there? Right now they don't even see each other.
people are not ready to be in continuous collaboration mode, i.e. in the mode there they intensively, in real-time, generate worthy ideas and constructively receive(understand), analyze, improve upon and bounce back the ideas generated by the collaborating partner(s). It is very intensive brain activity requiring matching partners and it wears you off pretty quickly. It is like tennis - possible to do for a couple hours few times a week. Or like musical jam sessions - you can do it for prolonged times only when young, and usually with help of some "energizers".

It is one of the reasons why email is such a mainstay of collaboration.
Asking the American people to code is not going to solve the nation's problems. What it does is add one more tool a citizen can use to make him or herself more useful to society.

What the president should encourage people is to become a MAKER - a general term for DIY manufacturing.

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

People will not learn to code unless they have a reason. Maker is more people trying to solve their own problems. It may happen that others may have the same problem and there may be some opportunity.
This is an intriguing article, which sparked a significant discussion on HN some from 18 months (or so) ago. The discussion there is closed (of course), but there might be some value in seeing what HN of 18 months ago thought worth saying:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184317 (68 comments)

There are other submissions, a few of which have a handful of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6863866

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6317998

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193531 - points to the related Google Tech Talk, "No Time to Think" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGcvj3JiGA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184651 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183452

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183314

Related - Have You Fallen Into The Busy Trap? :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4274349
FTC Questions Popular Developer About Privacy in Flashlight App
> How long until bicyclists stop pretending that traffic rules don't apply to them?

Yes. Making sure that every bicyclist obeys the traffic rules is so much more important solving the problems of people dying because cars hit them. Rule and order is way more important than people's lives. Let's get angry about it.
Putin should be cutting ribbons on a library; going to Soccers games; and raising money for charity.
starving artists can put on some pretty good parties
Who is in the lead. What Regions/Districts are what majority. I mean if you can theoretically get real time data on voting machines. There is a lot you can do with that information. Everything from 'what days of the week will democrats vote' to 'predicting who will win the election'. If names are stored with a timestamp, they could potentially know exactly who you vote for and the time you do it. I think that part is far fetched. But it is an idea. All the information could be used for skewing future elections. For that parties favor.
I agreed totally with the every american should change a tire thing. And learning to code is awesome, we need more developers, or even if people won't be developers at leafs they have some idea what is involved.

Next step, teach everyone in america, how to keep windows free of viruses... nah... maybe teaching everybody to code is easier. :)
I think the new color scheme is nice, but the contrast is way too low for the tiny, low-weight font they're using. A bold or larger text or increasing the contrast a little would make it work. To meet http://accessibility.psu.edu/contrasthtml they'll probably have to do all three.
And what gives pyrith that mellow glow?
I don't get it. The buses are cutting down on personal driving (a universally acknowledged evil), and paying for permits to use the stops (generating revenue for the city). Would these people rather the Google employees all drive personal vehicles, increasing wear and tear on the roads, congestion, pollution, etc., costing the city money?

Also, is it really the companies fault that the value of housing in the area is going up because they exist? Can you really expect them to get up and leave?

I don't really see what the companies are getting out of this in the first place. They don't have to shuttle their employees in to work, could save a whole lot of money by not renting/buying buses, but they do and it does nothing but positive things for the employees, the city, and the environment.
Civil disobedience just means deliberately breaking laws. For your argument to make any sense, you still have to demonstrate that blocking a vehicle is breaking the law.
But true. How many jobs will you have during your lifetime? Will you only use one skill throughout all of them, or even just one?

Specialization isn't just for insects. Its for robotics and software. Anything that can't learn and evolve.
I had hoped that their Docker support would be some magical mechanism that would treat Docker as a kind of VirtualBox. That is, instead of using VirtualBox to create VMs, they would use Docker to create containers. 'vagrant ssh' would then SSH directly into a container instead of the host VM.

Sadly, their Docker support is just a provisioner. :( I can do that myself too in a shell script.
FMV defined from my textbook recollection: Highest price at which property will change hands between a willing and able buyer and a willing and able seller, acting at arm's length and under no compulsion to transact, in an open and unrestricted market and with full knowledge of the relevant facts.

Check all those boxes off and you can say: "YES, I'VE CALCULATED THE FMV!" but the truth is you can never be sure that you've determined the ONE TRUE FMV(c).
Are you saying that Microsoft provides no information to the NSA that it doesn't also provide to its other customers? If so, I'd love to see your source.

In response to the Bloomberg story that first described this situation, Microsoft's spokesman made no attempt to deny the specific accusation that the U.S. government has special access to MS exploits.
If Nelson Mandela really had won, he wouldn't be seen as a universal hero
Did you read all parts? Yeah her story is sad, but there is a lot of hope for Dasani...
"President Obama calls on every American to learn code"

We tried that already. It was called Visual Basic. It's arguable how much value was created.
LinkedIn is trying to become one of those compulsive check services though, with their upstart blog and news thing they've started recently.
There's plenty of data on the world wide web that pertains to you but isn't linked to Facebook - yet. AI that can do context aware authorship analysis could have huge returns for Facebook.
Lazy blogger rant imo. You're making business connections on linkedin, not connecting with friends to gossip, post memes, and keep fake friendships going (yet).
>The real issue with dams is the scale.

I couldn't agree more.

>I agree; however, this is not an infinite supply.

Well no system can provide an infinite supply, but rainwater harvesting could support the current human population at a first-world standard of living (something our present system does not provide). Many areas famous for recent crippling droughts suffered from flooding only months before. This is a spectacular failure in water management.

As to cost, I haven't seen any comparisons of the lifetime cost of rooftop rainwater harvesting vs centralized pumped underground pipe distribution. I know rainwater harvesting is much more common in Australia, so they might have more data. I suspect it's strongly dependent on the cost of energy.

One thing I forgot to mention about desalination: current technology (specifically the Affordable Desalination Collaboration’s pilot plant) is at 30% of the thermodynamic limit. So we can expect a 3x improvement in performance, but no more. http://www.usbr.gov/research/AWT/energy_use.html
If this was an issue about net neutrality, trade treaties, bitcoin, or any other number of issues then we'd have a thread full of people celebrating those protesters who were making their voices heard.

Instead we're rally behind some people who had to sit in a bus for an extra thirty minutes than they normally would. It's a miracle those poor souls managed to last as long as they did- can you imagine what kind of tragedy it would have been if the bus's wifi had broke down?
use a different browser? (if this is allowed)
All this talk about being easy on your eyes, and their body copy is 13px. Typography goes a long way toward easing eye strain.
Link appears to be /.'ed (HN'd). CoralCache/NYUD.net doesn't seem to have it in cache. Anyone got a cached page/mirror?
> pleading guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter and avoiding a jury trial that could have sent him to prison if he were convicted.

So we'll see this cop sentenced to vehicular manslaughter? Let's see if that happens. I'd love to be wrong.
Here's a talk in the 80's from Douglas that covers some more details:

https://archive.org/details/XD302_86ACM_Prese_AugKnowledgeWo...

The Q&A session at the end is very interesting. People asking about gestures and using a pencil (stylus) instead of a keyboard (note this is back in 86).
No alternative? No one is being forced to use Facebook.
Why not make % accepted requests the KPI instead of # sent requests? The former would encourage a message for every request. The latter encourages mass emails to address books, accidental requests, etc.
Thoughts on Silicon Valley's Latest Anti-Spying Position
You'd need to target the enterprise/security conscious markets.

Getting widespread consumer support will be next to impossible.
Curiosity Finds Evidence Of Ancient Freshwater Lake On Mars
please make it readable asap, cause it is not.

- darken the text, low contrast destroys eyesight.

- make the text bigger for god sake

- use a serif font for the main text,really,you can keep the headlines sans.

- your website has a big whitespace/negative space balance problem.

I mean,i dont understand designers today. Do they care about readability? or that a site look fancy on their shiny new mac ?

As for performance problems i would suggest moving to a static site generator, a doc is the perfect use case.
Yeah, it's nice to know that if I break the rules I can get the city to retroactively change them for me, assuming I have enough money.