skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much details on a note makes me wonder, if a message could be steganographed within notes.

Something like: If you can see this: Call 1-800-FED
> you cannot just cram more transistors onto a chip in order to double it is speed
I don't see the big government argument here. If the residents of San Francisco are voting to keep the city a certain way, how does that align with traditional "big government" narratives of over-regulation, bloated spending, etc?

You could say the residents of SF are using city regulations a certain way, but that doesn't imply big government to me.
Everyone in Detroit has a car.
If tech companies pay their workers generously, then it's their fault for rising rents. But if they are misers and pay little, then it's their fault for mistreating working people (see: Apple and Foxconn).

If the tech companies all move to San Francisco, then it's their fault for changing the fabric of local communities. But if they leave San Francisco, why, it's their fault for crashing the local economy.

If the tech companies try to establish a libertarian utopia, this shows they don't care about average people. But if they stay in SF and try to work within the current system, well, that's the nefarious influence of money in politics.

If the tech companies send buses to pick up their workers, this is terrible because it drives up housing costs. But if they don't send buses, why, traffic would be so bad that 280 and 101 would grind to a halt, and clearly that's the tech companies' fault.

"Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, a priest who heard the confessions of condemned witches, wrote in 1631 the Cautio Criminalis ('prudence in criminal cases') in which he bitingly described the decision tree for condemning accused witches: If the witch had led an evil and improper life, she was guilty; if she had led a good and proper life, this too was a proof, for witches dissemble and try to appear especially virtuous. After the woman was put in prison: if she was afraid, this proved her guilt; if she was not afraid, this proved her guilt, for witches characteristically pretend innocence and wear a bold front. Or on hearing of a denunciation of witchcraft against her, she might seek flight or remain; if she ran, that proved her guilt; if she remained, the devil had detained her so she could not get away." - http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence...
The crack was about it costing $11k/yr, not that remedial math is bad.
> Now days the sales guy can do some of that, but in the end the big saving for consumers is in the financing office.

Yeah, it's astonishing how much the car will cost you after you pay everything off through the loan vs. the agreed upon price. A 10% interest rate on a 5 year $30,000 car loan costs $8,244.68.

It's not uncommon for people with so-so/bad credit to get rates in the 20+%. A 22% loan on $30k over 5 years costs almost another $20k! That's like buying an entire extra car!
Instead of the article, better read Vonnegut:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_%28novel%29

A much better, if also significantly longer, exposition.
Between a bus and a broken window: The fight to unite tech and social justice
Docker on Linode
Mice come to mind. If there was no predation, wouldn't they rapidly overrun their food supply?
Salts, in a cryptographic context, are considered to be public. Salting does not mitigate a brute force attack against a limited search space.
And do the islanders know that there are 100 blue-eyed people? Remember... they don't talk about eye state.

Each Blue-eyed person may think that there's 99 people with blue eyes and still not know their own state. So basing any logic on the fact that there is 100 people with blue eyes makes sense to an outside observer, but to the blue-eyed people they can't use this fact in any logical conclusion.
I always liked Common Lisp for this, since you could so easily inspect data structures like hashes at run time.

I think CMUCL had a really interesting and unique hash implementation that relied on two identically sized arrays, one for the keys and data, and another for a "next" index that showed you where to go for a key collision.
Does this article remind anyone else of the culture in Atlas Shrugged?
That must be my confusion. Thanks for the info.
She'd be asking(?) for drugs, you're right. However the hapless father who can't do anything but look on would.
>the GNU tools are used in a huge number of operating systems

Fair enough, I read "in" as a synonym for "on" but read in a less casual way the difference could be important.

Even in the "in" case I think many BSD's used GCC as the default compiler (CLANG seems to be taking over now).
You are correct -- if the employer was providing nothing more than their existing legal obligation, there was no consideration on there part, and thus no contract. The point of course, then, is that signing gave away nothing.
Anglo-American common law tradition allows me to manage my own identity. I am who I say I am, and I publish the name that I will answer to when strangers say it. And I am also free to have multiple nicknames, which might be associated with my public name, or not.

I am very disappointed in the cultural trend over the last few decades that makes a third-party entity, usually a government, the final arbiter over who someone is. If I want to be a certain name in person, and "logfromblammo" on HN, or another pseudonym somewhere else, I question the motives of anyone who wants to undermine that separation. I think it is a fundamental human right to decide who you are, and the ability to separate your social circles by the identity you use is essential to privacy and free discourse.

Several of the positions I hold as an on-line personality--religion, political views, spectator sport preferences--could be used against me in my job or hometown. An atheist anarchist that doesn't even like football is just one step away from social assassination in my physical location. If I cannot establish a separate and distinct identity to discuss such things in another venue, I cannot be free of the social prejudices of my neighbors, ever.

So I believe your assertion is incorrect. Real name policies promote self-censorship for everyone who is not blessed enough to live in a socially tolerant locale. I am content for logfromblammo to have a separate karma rating than my in-person name, and for it to be a discardable on-line identity. That arrangement can certainly be abused, but making that abuse impossible hurts far more than it helps.
It was not just unrealistic. It was pretty much flat out impossible.

For a given charge, the law specifies a range of possible sentences. The particular sentence is determined largely algorithmically, with one of the inputs being the defendant's prior convictions. Another input in how much damage was done.

With no prior convictions in this area, even if the court found that Swartz had caused the maximum alleged damage he would not have been able to get anything remotely near the maximum. If the judge had for some reason ignored the rules from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and imposed a longer sentence, it would have been easily overturned on appeal.

Second, there is a kind of redundancy in the charges. Congress sometimes passes several laws that all cover essentially the same kind of wrongful act. A defendant can be charged under all of them, but is only sentenced under one of them even if convicted for all.

The 35 year number comes from a press release. The press release authors just take the highest number in the range for each charge, and add them all up. They do not take into account the grouping of similar charges for sentencing, nor do they take into account any factors (such as lack of prior criminal record) that lower the maximum for the particular defendant whose indictment they are writing about.

Read Orin Kerr's analysis. It is thorough, and fully documented.
Why do you ask silly snide questions?

Tell me what is fundamentally wrong with screenshotting an interface, playing with it a bit, coming up with something you like then turning it into code?
Let me just re-size this button with rounded corners in Photoshop...
sign in w/ google or fb? no thanks.
> Supporting iOS 6 and 7 visuals at the same time just means your app looks out of place in both versions.

If you're using the native UI stuff, it will, generally, look native on both versions. If you're doing your _own_ UI, of course, it gets messier.
what do you mean by 'retention'?
This is yet another reason why startups should avoid Silicon Valley. Years ago, the investment climate in SV really was different than elsewhere but that has now changed. Not only are there tech VCs and Angels in other US cities, but they are found throughout the world. You might still have concentrations in particular places, for instance in Canada most action is in Vancouver, Waterloo and Toronto, but that is a far cry from the days when SV was the only place.

Best place to start a new company is where you are right now. That is what Atlassian did and when it made sense for them to be in a different place, they just moved. Second best place is any city where there is a concentration of tech industry but that could be in Vancouver, Berlin, Moscow (Skolkovo) or London (Old Street). You have a choice.

And if your business is growing and beginning to have a local impact, and you are senior management there, then you really should start thinking about how you can improve the local area for everyone, which is a traditional activity of larger successful companies. Spend money on civic projects. If you need better bus service, lobby for it rather than sidestepping the competition. Politics is a different game from business and if you fail to recognize that and act appropriately, then you deserve the brickbats that will be thrown at you.

I'm reminded of when IBM was the big bad boy, and Microsoft was the cool new upstart. Then Microsoft became the bad boy and Google was the cool new upstart. From the sound of things, Google is now sliding into bad boy territory.
Each blue-eyed person observes 99 other blue-eyed people in the tribe, thus reasoning that he/she has blue eyes on the 100th day. However, each brown-eyed person observes 100 blue-eyed people in the tribe, thus reasoning that he/she has blue eyes on the 101st day (however this does not happen because on the 100th day all the blue-eyed people commit ritual suicide.)
In the case that there is at least 1 member of the tribe with blue eyes, all the people with brown eyes can see his eye color. So they satisfy the question of who the traveler is talking about with the blue eyed member.

The blue eyed member doesn't see anyone else with blue eyes.
I tried using Inkscape after the news broke about Adobe not continuing with Fireworks but couldn't get used to it. Maybe I need to try it again, or get a Mac (I currently use Windows) as there seem to be more options for iOS.
"Ellis Act evictions, used to eject all tenants from a building to clear the way for a sale, soared 170 percent in the last three years."

This statistic is incredibly misleading - the absolute increase was only 73 evictions. [1]

“From Google buses invading the neighborhoods, to the evictions of elders, to the very real effects of speculator-fueled evictions, the tech industry’s reaction has been shameful,” said Tony Robles, an organizer with Senior and Disability Action who joined the Oakland demonstration, in an email.

This can also be read as "Large companies pay employees too much money and provide too many benefits."

[1] http://www.chicagonow.com/getting-real/2014/01/san-francisco...
Yahoo Sports Gets iOS 7 Redesign, Gif Creation Tool
What if instead of building warehouses, you offer to outfit most local stores with helipads / charging stations and POS data interchange so that orders from amazon can be fulfilled via local stores that then load and launch drones?
If you're only looking into weight loss/gain, then yes. Both are terrible choices as a diet, though. The latter will provide more nutrients, so we can call it 'healthier', but you will lack important ones still, and significantly undereat if you are an adult male of average weight and height.
Actually Congress is the only group that can make laws. The Executive and Judicial branches are only supposed to enforce and judge constitutionality of said laws. Nothing those two branches do SHOULD be considered law. However, Congress has allowed the Executive branch to have wide latitude in determining rules (FAA, FCC, EPA, etc) that are, in effect, laws. And that is a problem.
> Ellis Act evictions, used to eject all tenants from a building to clear the way for a sale, soared 170 percent in the last three years.

For some context, that's an increase of 73 evictions per year (from 43 in 2010 to 116 in 2013[0]). Of course, 73 in the absolute doesn't have the same ring to it as 170%, so it's clear to see why the data is presented the way it is. I think it's rather disingenuous and makes that particular problem seem much dire than it might really be.

[0] http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47...
Please don't. Nothing good can come of it.
GIMP... and enjoy the coffee.
This is one of the things that made me really see the value of free software.

I did verify experimentally that the Eurion constellation alone doesn't trigger photoshop's image rejection algorithm. I think it would be fun to distribute a bunch of images that false-positive the digimarc algorithms, just to mess with people.
I was reading stdio.h and stdlib.h yesterday, because I wanted to know the macro definition which prevents multiple includes. The code seems a bit 'organic', like it was cultured in a petri dish.
This isn't just a cosmetic thing; it makes it substantially easier to perform an operation (in this case refreshing) and to see the status of that operation.

Don't bet on UX enhancements ever going away, by the way; people come up with new things all the time. Pull-to-refresh didn't come from any platform vendor; it came from a third party Twitter client.
This is a perfect time to apply Holmes' "bad man theory of law."[1] Sign the agreement AND disparage them all you want. Sure, you could wait the two weeks and cash the check first to be extra cautious. After that, what are they really going to do? People like to imagine being dragged into court to determine whether disparagement (whatever that means) actually took place. The author even says the disparagement has to be untrue. That doesn't sound like anything any company wants to litigate. Can they cry and scream and say you broke the agreement? Sure, but so what? Their remedies are few and far between and you are long gone. If you really want to cover your end, just get a job first, then disparage away. Happy disparaging!

[1] http://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm
I understand that there may be a need of that in small projects

I've did both: having a design than translation to HTML and people that could do both

There's an advantage to someone that will focus only on the design and another that will focus on only translating that to HTML/CSS/JS namely, that someone that can do both very well is rare

But of course, if they can do the design and a basic html/css of it usually can move the project faster. You will not have the greatest design or greatest html/css but it will usually arrive at a good solution
>The government should not be in charge of what my children can or cannot read in my own home; I'm in charge of that, thank you very much.

You are naive if you really think this has ever been the case.

First, stop your misdirection. this is not about reading, it is about viewing. If the only pornographic material that ever existed online was written material, this sort of thing would never have happened.

Second, try to give your young kids porno mags in your house and if work ever leaks out - lets see what happens.

The in my own home argument never applies when abuse or mistreatment is occurring. Showing your kids content that is inappropriate for their age (as deemed by a consensus of society) has always and will always land you in trouble. The internet never changed this nor should it have.
They are perfect logicians. It is not especially generous to think they can count (that is, if there are 100 blue eyed members, they can each count the other 99).

If each blue eye can see 99 others and nothing happens on day 99, then they know what has to happen on day 100.
Apple's new Mac Pro: the 5-day review
Ask HN: What Stops You Watching A Film Online?
I'm just about to launch an animated film that's likely to appeal to the HN audience, and I'm currently thinking about my funnel to the film.

Help me out with this: you've just seen an ad / a mention of a new fantasy animated film.

What STOPS you watching it? What thoughts do you have that make you go "nah, can't be bothered" or "I don't think I will watch that"?

Note: I'm talking about expectations or fears here BEFORE you start watching - "It'll be very worthy and arty" or "it'll be too long" or "the acting will be bad".

Please be as honest as you like - I won't be offended!
I wasn't a reader of your blog previously, but from the sidebar I take it to be about optimising your activities and effort - work smarter, not harder, that kind of thing. So really I'm guessing that an audience seeking those kind of tips is going to be mildly surprised or discouraged by an article which, in the first few sentences, basically seems to say "work all the time, every chance you get." - Chances are that such content is the absolute opposite of what your audience came for and is expecting.

Some way down you do then introduce the idea that time is precious and it should not be wasted "consuming low quality content" - and not saying that your blog is low quality at all, but this sentence does plant a very powerful seed. Don't waste time with things you don't want to read or which are not interesting or relevant to your interests.

The combination of the two could be a one-two punch, at least for some people. If people have not enjoyed the article, the immediate reaction may well be to "unsubscribe now."
Pretty much anyone that signs up gets an invite these days, but if someone's interested, I do have a few invites to send out.

EDIT: Whoops sorry guys apparently they expired a few days ago, but if you sign up on their website, you should get an invite in a week or two.
Illusion vs. Reality – A Story of the Human Mind
Your mind can't tell the difference between fiction and reality. Here's how it all works inside your brain.
Isn't it still cheaper and easier to dispatch a bike messenger from that small warehouse instead of a drone?
The foolish war against song-lyrics websites
ICANN needs to lower their price per domain. I don 't
think they originally thought so many people would
buy a domain? Or, just got greedy?
Generate a song about anything
If person A calls person B a "reactionary", then that only really tells you something about person A.
> Using tech services isn’t like using a toaster. It’s often an act of faith. Logging into Apple, Facebook, Google or Square products requires confidence that those companies will treat intimate information in an aboveboard manner, including your contacts, communications, location, medical history, shopping preferences, surfing habits and more.

Time and again that faith has been demonstrated to be severely misplaced. If a "backlash" against the tech sector leads to fewer people thoughtlessly handing over their most private lives to giant, amoral entities, then so much the better.
> If there’s any ‘growth hack’ that worked well for us, it’s been product integrations with successful companies. Early on, we looked at other companies with whom we shared mutual customers and with whom a product integration would be mutually beneficial. We built integrations with New Relic, Datadog, Pingdom, Librato, TempoDB, Heroku, and HipChat. Now, our signups love the fact that they can hook their status page up to their their existing tools with only a few clicks.

Lesson: integration and playing friendly with others is huge for B2B.
Are you really asserting that employers who don't ask leavers to sign gag-clauses usually pay zero severance??

On the contrary, I assert that severance pay is normal with or without the gag-clause. So the employer has put the "value" of signing agreement at zero.
Note: this is satire. Not the good kind of satire, but satire nonetheless.
Here are some of the steps that I use to unsquash the binary Commotion images to make changes:

1. Find the PARTs

2. Extract them

3. unsquash: unsquashfs -d image/ squashfs.bin

4. Make the changes.

5. squash: ~/code/commotion-openwrt/commotion-openwrt/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/mksquashfs4 image/ squashfs-made.bin -nopad -noappend -root-owned -comp xz -Xpreset 9 -Xe -Xlc 0 -Xlp 2 -Xpb 2 -b 256k

6. pad: ~/code/commotion-openwrt/commotion-openwrt/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/padjffs2 squashfs-made.bin 64

7. mkfwimage: ~/code/commotion-openwrt/commotion-openwrt/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/mkfwimage -B XM -k kernel.img -r squashfs-made.bin -v XM.ar7240.v6.0.0-OpenWrt-r36682 -o openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-nano-m-squashfs-factory-DR2-tn.bin

If you are modifying a sysugrade image:
Extract 0-1048576 (bytes): that's the kernel
Extract the rest: that's the squashfs

Put them back together with
( dd if=vmlinux bs=1048576 conv=sync; dd if=squashfs-made.bin ) > openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-sysupgrade-DR2-custom.bin

These are just my notes. Feel free to contact me if you want more information.
There is another way.

In London a group of businesses got together and lobbied government for better bus service among other things: http://www.londonriversidebid.co.uk/our-achievements/

For that matter England has http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/about_us which lobbies for improved transport all over the country.

You want to disrupt the old way of doing things? Setting up a private bus service is not disruption. The initiatives linked above are true disruption. They are all about doing government differently.
> Additionally privatization is usually pretty efficient.

By some measures of efficiency. It also means that the military can't do in-theater activities they used to do. They can barely cook their own meals anymore. That said, they have no real role in the manufacture of systems other than as customers and future maintainers, that's where the private industry belongs. State-side, many bases are guarded by private contractors who had (for a time, this changed) the physical fitness requirement of having a pulse. Aircraft maintenance is a combination of public (military run depots, mostly staffed by a combination of civil servants and contractors) and private (NG or Boeing or whoever run facilities). Both have issues, but the latter is quite effective at lobbying to continue to get their incentive pay even after destroying an aircraft [1]. I'll note, FOD damage occurs at military run depots as well. But they don't get their incentive pay for destroying an aircraft, they risk being put at the top of the next BRAC list.

[1] http://defensetech.org/2012/01/27/a-basic-mistake-that-trash...
In the discussion of C++ constructors, someone usually (IME) says something like, "now remember, it's not a real Foo until the constructor finishes!" because the invariants haven't been set up yet. That could be where the misunderstanding you mentioned comes from.
Semantics, Modules And Testing: Why (And How) I Test Internal ...
Every article like this is yet another reason not to start a business in bat-shit crazy San Francisco. Its advertising for Seattle, New York, Austin, Chicago, etc.