skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I didn't know that. May be something which hasn't turned up in Germany yet, or my quaint old bank has never come around to implement this. I'll go and see if there's a way to get that for my credit card.

Thanks for the info.
Use of the incredibly contentious notwithstanding clause is in no way moving some punctuation marks: It is an extraordinary action, having never been used by the federal government. So no, in the context of what I said they can't.
Driving with a broken glass raining behind bus does not sound like a particularly safe thing to do.
Can you really blame Google for this though? Seems a bit misplaced.
So don't use non-assertive redundant uninverted comparisons or otherwise use positive conditionals unless the reverse is negative because it might not be clear or unless it is the opposite.
I'm happy to state it directly:

One ought not be an NSA employee.
"kind young man".. really? Fucking spin.
Even without looking, I could tell David would be reading either Creative Computing or BYTE.

;-)

I love what archive.org is doing. I grew up with these magazines.
Zoning laws creating an artificial scarcity of housing has caused the rent prices to skyrocket - already before that the prices were high enough to cause a boom in building lots of living space, if the city (by their voters) would allow it.
Any possibility of adding a counter displaying the number of domains on the list.

May help hoarders like me to finally hit submit, peer pressure and all that :)
If you have problems parsing even that simple statement, perhaps you should re-evaluate your decision to write multiple paragraphs tearing apart the same commenters earlier short comment, as you appear to have problems understanding the contents of his writing.
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STRESS css preprocessor
Almost lost my coffee:

> Every time a new person is infected with (e.g.) HIV, from an epidemiological perspective, that increases the chances of some copy of the virus in some person mutating into a virulent - even airborne - version

More virulent, sure I'll grant that. But airborne?! HIV is in the Lentivirus family of Retroviridae. They're slow to reproduce, and airborne viruses need to be expelling many viral particles into the air to transmit. Additionally-- from where would HIV aerosolize?

The only airborne retrovirus that I came across is Jaagsiekte, and it's benefited by that because it specifically targets the lungs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaagsiekte_sheep_retrovirus

HIV already has lower transmission rates in genital->throat scenarios. It has too many evolutionary hurdles to become an airborne virus. If HIV does oneday become airborne it's morphology would look so different that we'd classify it as something else.

Rhinoviruses (the virus that causes the common cold) are easily aerosolized because they're tiny and are in a protein capsid.

Sorry, that was maybe an overkill explanation, and the core of your statement ("more virulent") is correct. It just triggered some nerding out :D
The writing is strange and sounds very biased. The repeated reference to a kind young man, for example.
From my quick read, Code Golf uses a similar scoring system as to the sport of golf, the lower the score the better.

This game is the opposite, meaning the higher the score the better.

This has nothing to do with the objectives of the games in question, just the scoring method.

To make the sport of golf have a similar scoring system as this game you would grant ten points for every stroke under par, deduct ten points for every stroke over par, and deduct one point for every penalty stroke.
"While this is taking place, the City of Oakland and Federal law enforcement are attempting to spread a surveillance network called the Domain Awareness Center throughout Oakland. Intended to secure the Port of Oakland against terrorist attacks and labor struggle, this surveillance network will actually monitor the entirety of Oakland through over 800 cameras. The authorities want to monitor the crazy and uncontrollable city that is pressed right up against the Port of Oakland."

Would be interesting to get the coords of the cameras when they go up on iSee[0], so people can take the necessary action to avoid them. It would be interesting in general if someone made a mobile app where people can stand where cameras are (and take a photo of it for some spacial awareness) and submit the coords to a public database where people can take the data and plot their own paths away from a central server.

[0]: http://66.93.183.118:8080/isee/s1
Memory barriers for TSO architectures
Who's going to maintain it, even at the small size?

The data from my dissertation is on a Zip disk. I didn't mean for it to get lost to the world, but, you know...

I'm on a project now where provision of the raw data to the granting agency for public availability is a requirement. But the metadata, database structuring, and answering questions from people who take my data and have a question about it has added noticeably to my workload.
Correction, 'affordable housing for some not all' is what's implied here - there's not enough housing for all, and the only way it's going to stay affordable, given the current housing policy, is if all the googlers get kicked out of the place for good.
There are plenty of female psychopaths out there. The difference is that women are more socialized than men (hiding more obvious traits) and they seldom take the macho (sometimes violent) route to feed their egos.
Tried what?
> The fact that "NSA should not be in any position in the cryto committee" is too far.

Why? There's absolutely zero reason to allow people taking part in the NSA's antics into groups deciding public policy.

We need to make working for the NSA a big red 'untrustworthy ' flag, regardless of alleged level of involvement.
Now we know where Google can deploy Boston Dynamics!
By providing free transportation from SF Google employees are encouraged to live there. Why not live closer to work? It would probably result in a few more cars on the road but a lot of the employees would move closer to Google freeing up apartments for people who actually work at businesses in SF and HAVE to live there.

NB: I have no stake in this, I like in Ireland.
Everyone lies and manipulates you, not just psychopaths.
Ah yes, I completely forgot about places like Hunter's Creek Village. Those areas are insanely expensive too. =]

Apartments are definitely a bargain in Houston, though. Even the "luxury apartments" are half the price of a normal apartment in San Francisco.
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Johns don't passively sit in coffee shops or stand in line at Best Buy while beset by offers of sex for money. They roll up on girls and women walking down the street in an attempt to purchase sex.
In that case they should be smashing windows at City Hall (or not anywhere, preferably). The municipality must be up to its gills in property tax cash and is the only people who can properly manage the response to this skyrocketing demand for housing. This isn't Vancouver or Tokyo or Manhattan, there's room to build more housing and drive down the supply/demand imbalance, and money to be made doing it... but without the municipality leading the way on intensification, it's not going to get better.
I haven't bought any of it. Guy seems to be just full of himself. Maybe it's just because I'm also a keen observer and bit psychopathic myself.

Nah. I'm kidding. I'm just generally distrustful of words and people that utter them.
Suddenly, Google's purchase of military robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics makes more sense.
No, the bus is owned by a third party contractor. That does not count as Google's workplace.
Killer tricks for speeding up your Android phone.
The fact that there is not enough housing is a convention, not a domain constraint.
Here's an idea: the world doesn't need more ideas, just more people implementing, so throwing out ideas as if they're original and have innate value is unhelpful.
You seem to be trying very hard to start off with getting off on the wrong footing on HN given how confrontational you are being. Your "highly upvoted analysis" can't possibly be that highly upvoted given the low karma of your account.
Pain and fear do not tend to lead to rational approaches to complex problems. People's lives are getting worse, and they're not thinking through the problem fully - just lashing out at the most visible, proximate cause.

It's the same pattern one sees in anti-immigration efforts - outsiders competing for a limited resource (jobs, housing) reduces the consumer surplus of the in-group. The traditional response to this throughout most of human history is along the lines of "attack the encroaching tribe", so we're actually doing better than the historical baseline.

Of course, the much-better-response - "let's respond to an increase in demand with an increase in supply by lifting zoning restrictions and allowing for more housing" - isn't intuitive enough or emotionally evocative enough to get a crowd.
ha! I'd love to see a paid license model, where you can use this software in any proprietary way for an annual/one-time fee.
I don't really buy the whole rape is all about power and not about sex meme, and it seems odd that the sexual urge aspects of rape are so often downplayed. The biological imperative for sex is very strong, and prolonged abstinence certainly seems to be correlated with increased impulsiveness and poor decision making. The assumption that someone who has abstained from sex/masturbation for a prolonged period would be more likely to perpetrate a violent crime (such as rape) seems to stand to reason.

I think that this meme is more likely reflective of our society's relative comfort with sex vs. violence. We're more comfortable with discussing rape if we can cast it as purely about violence or power, but if we acknowledge the sexual aspects of it, then it somehow becomes more taboo. But this aversion to the sexual aspects of rape and crimes involving sex clouds our collective judgements regarding these crimes, inhibits our collective understand of issues surrounding them, and ultimately serves as a disservice to past, present and future victims of such crimes. To wit, if a society denies the existence of a primary cause of a particular socially negative human behavior, then it creates a blind spot for itself in trying to mitigate such behavior. And that effect is evident in the likes of laws reported in the article because they only exist due to our collective inability to have rational discourse concerning issues involving sex.

As an aside, I think that the fact that I am responding to a throwaway account (with such a sexually repressed and juvenile handle) is telling of the discomfort in our society regarding discussion of sexual matters. The comment is composed entirely of the word "Masturbation", and an on-topic cliche, yet is apparently too risque to post under a real name (and if you're not going to be revealing your true identity, why not use "buttsex", and get the accompanying anonymous thrill of public naughtiness?). I find this moniker a sad reflection of our society.
The reality is private companies is where the value creation happens. The public market is too unwieldy.

So we need an entirely new series of metrics for companies. This is one of them.
This isn't a news article - it's a post on "East Bay | Global Justice and Anti-Capitalism"
I don't know if you've ever walked down a street where there are desperate streetwalkers (usually drug-addicts; e.g. crack addicts on Hastings here in Vancouver) but even if you say nothing to them, they'll follow you for blocks trying to get you to pay them.
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If you used your card at Target between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, you were caught up in the breach.
The account was written by a participant.
Better article describing 2 more bus incidents from this morning - http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters...
I'm not too familiar with the SF housing legal environment, but in some places a lack of new housing is caused by preservation boards that are willing to declare, e.g., chain link fences as historical structures to prevent new development in their areas.
Tindr is the straight one.
Here: http://paulsparrows.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/ismycreditca...

Your question reminded me of this and I see someone already responded. In any case you should get a new card if there was a chance you were affected.
I wouldnt take a bus if it got attacked with a brick and had a shattered window.
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The question and its implications are obvious.
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Ken White has a post titled "Ninth Circuit Clarifies First Amendment Rights of Public University Professors" [0] which goes in to some detail about the various legal issues at the nexus of free speech rights and professorship.

[0] - http://www.popehat.com/2013/09/05/ninth-circuit-clarifies-fi...
I believe a referendum to allow for some new housing to be built was voted down "because it would drive rents up". Sigh.
Rent adjustments in Oakland are pegged to the CPI except in special cases. So long as you do not move, your rent will remain relatively stable.
I bought something from Target in this window with a credit card (Wells Fargo).

I called them up to proactively report it stolen - the problem is they will immediately deactivate your current card and it takes 7-10 business days for the new one to show up. It is not possible to get a 2nd card number without deactivating the first (to avoid a no-card for 2 weeks situation). Or you can have them overnight it to you for $16.

Kind of annoying to pay $16 for a merchant error, or to not have your primary card for 2 weeks during the holiday season (and also the card you use to pay all service bills like cable tv, internet, city/trash/water etc).

Ultimately I decided to do nothing and just keep a close eye on account activity until January when it is less inconvenient to wait for the new one.
Can you please tell me, in which country, age 15 students generally don't know to eliminate nonsensical options in multiple choice questions?
nice bit of humor to start my mid-day. I'd actually like to see this become a legit pre-processor.
And the office could be rented. I think it is clear that Google expect people to check emails and do 'work stuff', it was mentioned several times.
Someone tweeting a picture isn't exactly verification. There's no real way to tell if that picture has anything to do with the location or bus in question.

I'd really like to see some more verification - especially after the way the last Google Bus "incident" turned out. (A guy who at first appeared to be an employee trying to shout down the protesters... was actually a guy there to support the protesters, and make an artificial 'scene')
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Yup.

Would really like to see a real news article - or at least several other sources discussing the incident.
As if the real problem with Oakland is that there are too many Google employees living there. Let's be honest - the only reason they do this is that Google employees sitting in a bus are a "soft" target. There is essentially zero chance of reprisal or consequence, at least if it's done as a one-off thing. You get to feel self-righteous for fighting "the man" without any risk.

Let's say they win this quixotic crusade and actually manage to force everyone with an income above $N to flee the area. What is the next step toward a better Oakland?
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What the hell? And people are still skeptical about trusted computing having backdoors?
What he hand-waves is that he's got something that looks like this:

def signed_out?
# Code
end

def signed_in?
!signed_out?
end

Which can easily start to become its own problem. On the other hand, with Ruby, it might be worthwhile to define something like Class#invert such that you have this:

def signed_out?
# Code
end
method_invert :signed_out?, :signed_in?

Dunno. I haven't ever found myself in a position where it mattered.
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In the get started section, the background style you have doesn't seem to work properly on Firefox (fine on Safari), so it appears as white text with a drop shadow against an all white background.

Looks like an interesting tool though.
They should consider reviewing their tactics then, because it sure as hell seems as though the buses are one of their complaints.
" Additionally-- from where would HIV aerosolize?"

Clearly you haven't visited Bankok :-)
I'm not talking about psychopaths, I'm talking about the author of TempleOS and his posts here. And frankly, it was mostly a figure of speech. I wish the guy health and happiness, is all.

> Whether the personality type is a disorder or an innate talent/ability is up for debate.

Well, if it's the inability to feel empathy, remorse, and other things, shouldn't that be obvious? For me it's not a special talent of a dead person that they don't have to eat, or of Eliza that it's not really sentient. That lack in one area can lead to overcompensation in other areas still doesn't make it a special talent, it's just the expected result of practice. Everybody can be cold or calculating - to my understanding the the difference between that and a psychopath is the ability to NOT be cold and calculating. If being calculating is all that's on your palette, you get real good at it. This is my non-educated guess, anyway.

At any rate, you misread my comment, read it again, taking the post it's in reply to into account :)
My mom grew up in Silicon Valley before it was Silicon Valley, in the days of "bussing". Surprise surprise, dumping a bunch of kids of different backgrounds, classes, and races together in the same school doesn't magically make them friends. They segregated themselves.
It is mind-boggling the number of employees that Google manages to stuff onto their main campus. A large number of employees do live in Mountain View, but many also live in SF and in East Bay.

Those who live in the city proper have plenty of financial incentives to not live there; I can't imagine that they'd suddenly move en masse to the suburbs just because Google took their double-decker WiFi-enabled buses away.
Here you go: https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/status/414074094578307072/ph...

Edit: The SF Chronicle is currently reaching out to the witnesses to get a better feel for the story. I'd expect something to come out in the mainstream news real soon.
A bus in San Francisco, too. Claims of it being an Apple bus. http://www.businessinsider.com/protesters-an-apple-bus-2013-...
I meant to say NSA employee. My response is directly to this: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03556.h...

The moral issue is about someone's affiliation with NSA makes him or her a spy, unworthy in the crypto community.

If people have different opinion when they were young (or in the case of a student who just want a god damn internship), it sounds like we will punish them and discriminate them in the future, given their past involvement with NSA.
I am not taking any side, but I don't think this argument is valid. If there were no shuttles, I think most of the Google employees would prefer to stay close to MTV instead of an hour away. I know that I would not like to drive for at least an hour on each side in traffic on 101 everyday. I would just rent an apartment in MTV or Palo Alto.
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You're setting up an infalsifiable framework where your worldview must be right (anyone who chooses not to live as trans is not really trans).

But ignoring that, there was definitely something going on with me. In elementary school for history dress up day, I wanted to be Betsy Ross. In college, I always hated dealing with chest-thumping groups of males, and I preferred female friends. Halloween was my favorite holiday for obvious reasons. Trans inclination was something long enough and strong enough that an "open-minded" parent or community could have pushed me that way.

But over time the importance of those inclinations seemed to fade. I'm a reasonably happy, reasonably successful mostly-straight male. And my success in the workplace and success in family relationships is more important to me than playing with my gender identity. Given what I have heard from trans people, I am pretty sure that I am better off than I would be in a less traditional lifestyle.
We just hit 300 people/domains who have signed up. Is that enough for you? ;)
'The kind young man' 'An unthinkable horror they could not endure'

Holy shit, the hyperbole that hurts my heart!
West Oakland is a traditionally black neighborhood that surrounds the Port of Oakland. It has been heavily gentrified, developed, and restructured over the past three decades. Now there is an upper class enclave that has been established near the West Oakland BART station, in Jack London, and in the city of Emeryville.

Oh fuck you and your dreadlocks.

There are only two photos on that page, so I don't definitively know who these protesters were (although there are no "traditional" blacks in those photos) -- but I know (I have a strong suspicion, I don't factually know) that the protesters were not drawn from the group mentioned above. These are Burning Man hippies, self-styled artists, people who graduated from great schools with useless majors, and the usual constituent of the Bay Area's overprivileged poverty tourists: 20-30 y/o white kids from middle class families.

The actual, working, poor people in West Oakland were at their first of the two or three jobs they hold. Or they were spending a few rare moments resting, or with their kids. Or they were lining up to get a meal at community kitchen. Actual black people were not part of this protest, because a mob of black people attacking a bus would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on every channel. It would have been responded to with a swift and overwhelming police presence.

The same thing happened a few years ago when these same non-workers shut down the Port of Oakland in the name of workers. The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- Viva El Proletariado!

What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them. That they wrap themselves up in the image of the poor (and yes, mostly black) -- whom they themselves displaced by rushing in to bid up rents with mom and dad's money -- makes this appeal all the more ludicrous. At least the tech gentrifiers will actually improve the fucking place, unlike these leeches!

(Source: I live and own property in Oakland)

Edited as suggested below by bonemachine.
They changed this in the newer machines, it takes your card and gives it back before the rest of the process now. Also emails you a receipt instead of printing one out.

Of course, I'd prefer they not print my email on the screen in giant bold letters.
I don't see that happening unless the people who already own property in the city suddenly decide en masse that they're okay with repealing laws that prevent you from building tall apartment complexes to preserve the "look" of the city.
> Why not live closer to work?

It is a bit funny to hear people say that the lives of Google employees do not revolve around their employer enough already.
From a political standpoint, absolutely it's extraordinary; from a legal standpoint it's relatively simple, just needing a majority vote. I'd be very surprised if they did invoke it, but prostitution is something a lot of Canadians (especially conservatives) feel pretty strongly about.

(And mainly, I was just trying to bring up an interesting legal quirk of our constitution, since it's fairly unusual and most of HN's audience might not be aware of it).