skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is a tech backlash, it's not about Bay Area gentrification, which is a local issue and happens in urban areas around the world. The fact that in SF the money comes from tech is irrelevant.

(The cognitive dissonance of the fortunate techies on HN who refuse to acknowledge that they are no different from self-centered 80's finance yuppies is amusing, but nothing new is happening here.)

The more universal backlash is about the industries arrogant disregard for existing values, regulations, social conventions and traditions. As if anything done by non-techies is inherently inferior, disruption has become an ideology.

Similar to "greed is good", tech promotes the ideology "disruption is good". Millions who see their society mutilated, their rights trampled and their livelihoods disappearing do not agree.

We like to see ourselves as the good guys, and things like the NSA spying or the British censorship filter as the work of the bad guys. As far as the general public is concerned however, they are two sides of the same coin: technology as a means for the elite to take away what once was theirs.

That is the backlash we may soon be facing. And that backlash may not distinguish between the NSA, the mighty Google empire and your plucky little start up.
I've had decent traction with http://www.ranksignals.com over the past year with SEO, Content Marketing and Email marketing. My app is a SEO tool to explore backlinks of competitors. There is also a SEO Chrome extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-seo-pagerank... )which drives returning visitors to the website.
What's your average monthly outlay? For TMO, I pay $110/mo (plus fees) for 5 devices and great coverage.
what is the math that leads you to say 116 entire-building evictions impacts 0.014% of the population? are numbers provided that describe the total number of tenants affected? A large apartment building/complex can be home to hundreds of tenants, many of them families.
I guess you are too young to remember the NASDAQ meltdown of '01. The recovery from that wasn't a real recovery at all, it was the housing bubble of '08. So we are still feeling the aftershocks .
"Ah! I remember reading the original web page from years and years ago about the fact that this happens. I wonder if they've discovered how they do it now (the algorithm). I will click on this presumably new (on a news site) link that says 'how'. WTF? It's just the same old page from 2004!"
Multiple gaming platforms hit with apparent DDoS attacks
which we should have achieved a long time ago, since we all always pretend that every life has the exact same value

I don't think we've ever pretended this. We've "pretended" that all men are created equal, but what anyone does from there has a great impact on how society will value them. And why not? Two guys created equal: One spends his life on his parents' couch, the other becomes Bill Gates or Michael Jordan. Which one should we value more?
A non blue eyed person will see that there are 100 blue eyed people and observe them killing themselves on the 100th day. For the blue eyes, if the 99 blue eyes they can see were all of the blue eyes, they would kill themselves on day 99. So the different eye colors have different information.

As far as I can see, the brown eyes all kill themselves the next day.
Land is expensive. In Seattle, they already own a ton of land downtown. Not an issue there.

In other cities I doubt it would be too hard to find some buildings that would let them put a shipping container on the roof stocked with some essentials for a reasonable fee.

Stocking stores is a solved problem in big cities. I don't expect a drone warehouse to carry more than a typical drugstore. They could even partner with local stores for order fulfillment.

Remember, this doesn't have to scale out to all places and all items immediately. This could just start off as a way for tech hipsters in Seattle to order condoms on demand. If it becomes successful, they'll build it out as they need to.
Raw source: http://svn.python.org/view/%2acheckout%2a/python/tags/r266/O...

Walkthrough of the implementation: http://www.laurentluce.com/posts/python-dictionary-implement...
Researchers discover possible secret to superconductivity
Android and Windows in the same computer
Whoop! Whoop! Dat's the sound of da police!
False dichotomy to set up "damned if I do, damned if I don't". Then conclusion likens SF's privileged techies to women facing literal witchhunts, a form of terrorism.

Techies are free to engage in activism to help their fellow humans.
Non-profit in health care by the largest insurance companies in America? You gotta be crazy, son...
A competent salesperson (a category which probably excludes many car salespeople...) doesn't fall for the sunk cost fallacy, but they - and their manager - might still be more inclined to offer the deepest possible discount if you've spent the last half-hour actually showing a genuine interest in buying a car, not least because by that stage there's little more they can do to influence your perception of the value of the car.
Klout could be the next BitCoin!
At first, I thought this was encouraging. But then I checked out the 3 "providers" listed for my country (Germany). One is a club maintaining connectivity for a specific student housing project, one offers only dialup/ISDN, and finally only one offers actual ADSL connectivity. I'm sure it's the same in other countries.

While it's interesting as a concept, I don't really get the feeling there is much to see here. It's also not clear to me how these very few access providers would actually federate without real backbone connectivity.
Since both Jubilee and TorqBox are easy to install, I did a quick test of both on my machine with the TechEmpower JSON app to get a feel for the relative performance - https://gist.github.com/bbrowning/8244516

My laptop gets 19k req/s with Jubilee and 118k req/s with TorqBox on the same Rack app. While Java on Vertx does fare very well in benchmarks, it's incorrect to assume this directly translates to other languages and frameworks written on top of Vertx also having the same high performance.
It would never reach that state, because every blue eyed person would have committed suicide on the 99th day.
Snapchat CEO: 'We thought we had done enough' to prevent hack
Because they would see 100 people with blue eyes, not 99, and so wouldn't kill themselves until one day later, at which point they now know they have brown eyes, because of the suicide.
How do you feel about the author's other book, Design Patterns in Ruby?
Disruption is the polite word for a business model of making money by skirting regulations, e.g. AirBnB vs hotels. To borrow a phrase, it's not scalable.
Ask HN: It might be time to shutter my startup
My little startup, http://www.spaceindustrynews.com has had a wild ride in the brief time that it's been out there in the public.

In the first month of operation I ran a story so big that it crashed my server (it was down for a whole day) and I had to invest in a new host.

This new host couldn't handle the incoming traffic so I scaled up to a higher-end VPS plan which still couldn't handle the quick spikes of traffic that came into my site on any given news day.

During this time I was struggling to make any money from the site because my hosting bills were so large. Unlike other founders I never planned to get rich from the site, the mission is simple, spread knowledge.

I've switched to wpengine (can't say enough good things about those guys!) now and all my hosting troubles are gone, luckily. The cost is decent and they can handle any traffic that I can throw at them. I hit the front page of Reddit for about 10 hours and had over 300,000 uniques in 3 days and the site didn't hiccup one bit. I was amazed.

But there is another problem now. Time.

You see, I've been running this project out of my pocket, by myself, on my own time after my work day. Sometimes from 5pm when I'm done until 2 in the morning. Researching, ripping code, adding code, doing whatever I think is right to keep this thing alive and growing. It's my baby.

So there lies the ultimate problem. I have a wife and friends and enjoy being away from computer after my day job is done.

What is more important at the end of the day? A hobby website that I have no intention of turning into a day job any time soon, or real life with friends, family and loved ones? Do I push them aside for a little while longer to keep furthering this dream I have of making the best website about space and the space industry that I can? Or should I call it quits and enjoy my life outside the office?
Does anyone run docker on a production server? Can it be used for better isolation and security? I am new to docker, so apologies if this turns out to be a naive question.
Very cool. I like the way that you show 'means vs time' on the left panel and then you can dig into the actual distribution on the right panel. FYI, I think that, e.g., http://weather-explorer.com/history/country/US/state/WA/city... should read "Daily High Distribution", not "Average Daily High" or something. The mean trend line is on the left panel, and the right shows the the entire distribution. I'd be curious to see also what the 2nd and 3rd moments look like vs time, to see if the weather has an equal 'spread' month over month or if it tightens up for certain periods of the year.

Also, you need to drop in a full post with commentary, analogous to what you did with your "learning python" post. More feedback about tools, resources, learning sites, etc.
It's still better than BART, which isn't saying much.
I'm really bad with off by one errors haha. My last technique is if they verbally agree I follow it up with an email of them agreeing that I'm allowed to work on my side project. This was actually during a coop term, which is why I forgot.
I would only say this -- sticking to facts, avoiding emotionally-charged or conclusive words (e.g. "dishonest", "evil"), and -- perhaps extreme cases -- not naming names makes the claim of disparagement much harder to stick.

For example, consider the following:

I bought a widget from an online retailer. It arrived broken. It took two emails and three calls to get an RMA. Once received, it took three weeks to receive a refund.

Versus

Online retailer X is evil.
US Court Backs Shielding of Legal Memo on Phone Records
When an employer treats the employee unprofessionally, is that not an indication that professional behavior is not expected? If you have an expectation that your employer will provide notice and severance before termination, as might be specified in an employee handbook and verified by departing colleages, then giving notice before resignation would be appropriate. If, on the other hand, your company has in the past terminated people without cause, notice, or severance, and the handbook states in no uncertain terms, "You LOSE. Good DAY, sir," then I think any gestures for your personal honor will be lost.

We have no union or professional association to protect our interests in my labor category. We have only the willingness to be faithful and courteous to those who treat us well, and to be stubborn and vindictive to those who would abuse our good faith. Bite the hand that beats you.
I would be very interested if you still have one.
Strictly, all blue eyed people need to hear the statement, right? If someone is missing and everyone (but them) knows the missing person has brown eyes, that doesn't change the logic of those who heard.
Plenty of firms large enough to require a solid network with maybe a few locations yet small enough where it does not make sense to hire someone full time. Small trading shops, hedge funds, financial advisors, VCs all come to mind.
Fine. Deleted. betterunix is a mouthy clown who would never dare say his bullshit in person.

Edit: Read his comments, he often is uninformed. I am very sympathetic to Aaron but joking about those injured at the marathon is stupid.
I think an important distinction here is that the greatest value the tech industry creates is monetary value. There are others measures of value that it doesn't exceed at.

I'm not one to say that all tech innovation has ceased, but I would love to see more startups addressing the rest of the world's real problems: starvation, poverty, water, oppressive governments. Otherwise we are playing our part in ensuring a grim meathook future: http://zenarchery.com/full-text-of-the-grim-meathook-future-...

Besides, the tech industry didn't crash the economy -- but we sure had a lot of fun benefiting from large-scale economic speculation that came from it the first time.
Yeah, a lot of good programmers have alternatives to libc, either for reasons of history or taste.

I was just reading DJB's daemontools (less than 6K LOC, very tidy!), and he doesn't use libc. Actually his code has been collected in libdjb, which seems quite nice:

http://www.fefe.de/djb/

And also the Plan 9 / Go guys don't use ANSI libc as far as I remember.

Those are two examples of people who don't even use the ANSI libc interface. But there are plenty of people who don't use GNU libc, and use uclibc or various other source-compatible alternatives. I think Debian switched to eglibc awhile ago.
If you're speaking of code reading, I find looking at the source code of Rubinius very interesting.

Ruby has so much utility wrapped up in places like Enumerator, that you don't see a lot of examples of low-level data structure implementation in the wild. You could look at MRI Ruby, you'd be looking at a lot of C, which tells you a lot about how Ruby works, but doesn't show you much actual Ruby. That's where Rubinius is really great. You get to see how a smart team would implement Ruby... in Ruby.

https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius
Personally, I'm convinced the blue-eyed people die on the hundredth day if they haven't earlier - I am not convinced there is no shorter path to the information (though I certainly don't know of one).
You're correct in that how hard someone works doesn't result in how much they earn. However, I got into the industry I'm in through hard work. Going back to my main point, people don't want to see that - they just want to see the success which fits into their narrative where anyone with any success got it because they exploited someone else.
This problem doesn't have to be solves with warehouses. Drones are a solution to the last mile problem. Simply make delivery trucks into mobile drone launching platforms and then Amazon or UPS can drive into a neighborhood and drones will deliver all the packages light enough and the driver will deliver all the heavy ones.
Doesn't that presuppose they know there are 100 blue eyed people in their tribe? When that information is presented to the reader, it's presented as outside knowledge.

If they knew the color counts, they would know their eye color and all would have to commit suicide. The fact that the tribe still existed means, they didn't know the totals.

For example, if I know there are 100 people with blue eyes and I can count as many without including myself, then I must have brown eyes and must kill myself.

So again, there is no possible way the tribe had any idea what the exact counts where.

As a brown eyed person, there are either 100 blue eyed people meaning I have brown eyes, or there are a 101 blue eyed people and I have blue eyes. If a census was ever taken and the exact number known everyone would have to commit suicide.

Since the visitor didn't mention an exact number then there is still no way to know if you have blue or brown eyes.

However, the tribe now knows that the visitor knows he himself has blue eyes. Will they make him follow their ritual?

Update: OK, after reading the link in the first comment, I get it.
amazingly written. that's a keeper right there.
It's a lot of unnecessary, time-consimung back-and-forth that could be easily done in a program like Sketch.

Every approach is unique to its designer, and it's situation. But I have yet to (personally) find Photoshop (or a hybrid approach) more effective and time-saving when you deal with a large project. Artboards are MUCH easier to keep track of and group, and with something like Mirror [1] you will save hours in exporting/slicing/sharing over the course of a project.

Photoshop was not made for UI design. It can do it, but it will rarely be the best tool because Adobe is not catering features for that niche.

[1] http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/mirror/
It is unfortunate that companies must resort to Termination Agreements and wave money in front of your face to buy 'brand loyalty'. (I Call it that)

Additionally it is downright shameful that companies have forgotten to communicate better; some empathy and you'll find letting go of employee's does not have to be as negative. Worst part is companies expect the negativity when letting go employee's; they expect them to blow up.

I think the worst part is how I've seen companies set up the firings at times to add extra 'pain' to the employee's departure. Personally I spent almost 2 years at a company who was Acquired by Twitter to only be let go less than 45 days after the merger (right before Christmas). They let a peer go right after he got back from his Honeymoon! I have seen worse but this is just the tip of the iceberg!

Nothing better than Congratulations on getting married; pack your desk and GTFO.

Lastly: I did not sign a non-disclosure agreement personally about my last $client and I can speak freely about how much vitriol was spewed there on a daily basis.
Hire someone?
I had no idea it was actively used in Slovenian...I think even Modern Greek has "vestiges" of the dual, though.
The islanders don't know that there are only blue and brown eyes. For all they know, their eye color could be green, red, etc. Hence, the logic only applies for the blue-eyed people.
Looks like you had the good sense to install WP Super Cache. I don't know how much traffic you're seeing, but my blog has held up under some HN traffic using the same setup (Dreamhost+WP+WP Super Cache).
It bears mentioning that the sugar content of modern fruit is much higher than that of Paleolithic fruit. It's been bred to be sweeter and larger.
The industrial capacity of the US was not intended for the conversion needed in the lead up to our entry into WW2. Two things:

1) I pointed out aircraft as a potential special case, and I'd likely add seacraft to this as well. Some amount of capacity specifically for military craft will need to be maintained, and systems modernized periodically.

2) We now know the risk of not being prepared so we can plan our industrial sector partially around this potential capacity. Give a monetary award to companies that maintain some degree of readiness, for instance. Test it out periodically (just like a backup plan, if it's not tested it's worthless).
I'm not aware of anyone going to court over licence agreements on games.

I am aware of very many court cases involving contracts of employment. Some of these cases are famous and reported in national newspapers, but many of them are everyday cases.

"Just sign it" is popular but terrible advice for some contracts.
1. Start small - I was way too ambitious on the first part of the project.
2. Start with python- my back end data work is all python and it is SO much easier and more learning-efficient than the Web stack.
3. I'm torn on this one. I PROBABLY should have learned more rigorously before jumping in- with angular especially- but I personally find it much more motivating to learn with a specific problem in mind. Though my goal this year is to go back and learn comprehensively what I spot learned in process.
Have you considered updating less frequently, or perhaps sending out a newsletter?

That way, you can spend perhaps one day a week or every few weeks preparing stories, and then you'll have to time to enjoy life and your hobby again!

Don't burn out over this. :)

~

Tech idea: host a simpler, Jekyll version of your site on S3 (http://www.savjee.be/2013/02/howto-host-jekyll-blog-on-amazo...). Host the source on a public Github.

If you're just doing this for love of the game, you should be maximizing your enjoyment and minimizing your costs--so, open-sourcing your stuff in exchange for free hosting makes sense.

Don't pressure yourself too much.
It's not mean spirited, it's an honest reaction, one that I myself felt. Lopes is baffled and is asking HN for the truth, not for commiseration. "I'm interested in knowing the point of view from the people of HN." By "point of view" I don't think he wants anything less than the point of view.

By the way, the 10% who abandoned their subscriptions probably did so silently out of politeness.
I understand the induction steps, but what I don't get is why the foreigner's statement triggers the logic induction. This quote from your first link sums it well:

What's most interesting about this scenario is that, for k > 1, the outsider
is only telling the island citizens what they already know: that there
are blue-eyed people among them. However, before this fact is announced,
the fact is not common knowledge.

It seems natural to me why they didn't commit the suicide before the statement (somehow induction doesn't work here), and why they did it after the statement, but I don't understand why. Isn't the fact that there are k > 1 islanders with blue eyes common knowledge too?

I mean, what bit of information is added here?
What an excellent reason for a 35 hour week...
>In every other growing city, swathes of older, low-density housing are torn down and replaced with higher density apartment and condominium blocks.

…which generally means going from bad design to worse when it comes to human health. Mental illness, social isolation, physical inactivity, and poor performance in school are all correlated with living in high-rise buildings (even after accounting for socioeconomic factors).[1]

This isn't to say that healthy high-density living can't be done, just that it generally isn't what's done. Singapore is a good counter-example.[2]

[1] http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/gifford/pdf/ASR%20High%20Rises%20pro...

[2] http://www.livablecities.org/articles/high-density-livabilit...
The practical answer is probably to blend the technologies. In an urban environment, the bikes do the last mile. Very small drop off points with tiny specialized helipads would accept a stream of fast deliveries from the more distant real warehouses. Since the routes would be established, the computer technology demands would be modest.

Get the package to the drop off point in 30-60 minutes by quad-copter. Get the package from there by bike in 30-60 minutes. There would be uncertainty based on the availability of human messengers, but routes and delivery times can be estimated/calculated by computer. "Estimated delivery in 79 minutes. Click yes?"
I'm doing this out of my pocket, I have no $$ to hire someone to help me. I've had so many people "volunteer" to write articles and help with the site but when it came down to actually doing the work, no one did.
The site (now) says: "Note that payment is currently processed semi-manually, and thus there may be significant lag between payment and build"
I don't know, I've been surprised by just how many of the people I know either don't know anything at all about this, or simply don't care.
I found that out the hard way. Six months ago I got a job in SF that paid me 50% more, and moved to the East Bay where I pay almost 3x the rent (for the same square footage, in a much crappier neighborhood). I could buy a nice house where I'm from (WA) for what I'm paying in rent now, and that stings a bit.

It's definitely been a fun experience (there're TONS of cool things to do here), but had I known 6 months ago what I know now... I'm not sure that I would have made the transition.