skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm sure you're an idealistic kid that thinks green is good

I am the engineering manager for the Australian branch of one of the world's largest oil and gas contractors. I graduated with 1st class honours in mechanical engineering, and have 25 years of work experience. Idealistic - yes, thinks green is good - yes, my career notwithstanding. Kid - I wish...

>However you really don't have the slightest idea about the motor that's in the Tesla ... ... There's a lot that goes into converting DC battery power to AC

Actually, I have a pretty good idea about both of these things. A really very good idea in fact, helped a bit by my visit last week to the factories that make high speed AC motors and inverters that drive them.

>knows that ignition=starting

Dude, just stop already.
Why would it "astonish" you? There's probably a sound business reason behind it. It's a small software house, just some guys trying to make a living.
I appreciate your opinion and I think it's very valid. Again, expect an interface for volume control to the player in the next day or so.
Blood moon tonight But it is cloudy :(
Deep learning is the state of the art on image and sound data. It's taking over natural language processing as well.

Neural networks work well because they can learn complicated functions from the data. With image, sound and maybe text, the data has structure that can be exploited by NNs. Convolutional neural networks take advantage of this.

So instead of learning "pixel 4,773 correlates with the output", we can look at a smaller number of image patches and learn "features" from each patch that correlate with the output. We can go further and create multiple layers of these. Each small image patch extracts some features which are used by the layer above it, and so on to the final output.
I think building more upscale condos/housing will attract even more money, and there will be a positive feedback loop, so the housing will become even more expensive. This can be observed in Manhattan.
Does NASA manufacture CPUs? I was under the impression they just buy radiation-hardened CPUs from large corporations.
All instances of BE are due to openssl bignum math. When serialized in bitcoin messages, ordinary ints are LE because it's just simpler (all popular CPUs are LE today). So it's a bit of a mess with endianness, but entirely possible to be done by a single guy, just because of the openssl and CPUs.

Author of CoreBitcoin, objc implementation of bitcoin.
The law in question is the Arbeitnehmererfindungsgesetz (Employee Invention law). Also, there are a few subtleties:

a) You have to do that if you intend to charge money for the invention during the time of your contract. You can quit and then start using your invention. Just don't do it while your contract is running (this avoids you building a competition to your employer).
b) The employer has to immediately patent or copyright the work and give you a compensation for licensing it.

This is really rather a forced license contract.
987 – Fibonacci 2048
The register button does not work with my Firefox OSX 28.0. Works with Chrome.
You are reading that wrong. Having 3.x support does not imply lacking 2.x support. In fact, I believe all those libraries support both 2.x and 3.x.
NASA to conduct unprecedented spaceflight experiment using identical twins
This was submitted earlier today, but didn't get much traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7586285

The full title (which doesn't fit in 80 characters) explains the story better:

The inventor of everything:
How an egotistical genius convinced Silicon Valley to
invest hundreds of millions in his shoddy science

It's an account of how Mike Cheiky, the founder of Cool Planet, has an almost uncanny ability to repeatedly raise large amounts of investment based on pseudoscience that doesn't ever pan out. It's one of the most negative pieces on a company that I've ever seen in print.
>Is it guaranteed that this fork will be used in OpenBSD?

It already is used in OpenBSD. The changes are being made in the OpenBSD source tree.
DevOps Saved Healthcare.gov
tl;dr poor people don't want to be forced out of their homes or have their affordable local businesses shut down, and rich people want to make/keep a lot of money (partly by pushing poor people out of their homes and closing their affordable local businesses)

From my perspective SF does not have a housing crisis. They quite obviously have a culture crisis. Two opposed socioeconomic groups are at war, each trying to push the other out of the city. Housing remains plentiful, though obviously not affordable. You want to make housing really affordable? Introduce a large drug trade and a couple dozen gangs to bring up the mortality and crime rates, and you'll see those housing prices rocket downwards.

If you would rather live in a city with plentiful, affordable housing - 16% of which is abandoned or unliveable - come on over to my side of the country. You might want to bring a car and some pepper spray, though.
Thanks, great comment. I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed when a small company brings out a great software product, and I find a topic with lots of complaints related to its price.
IMHO, this is indeed a much more of a real and clever usage of the clock in screenshots. But since its not related to the brainchild of Apple or Steve Jobs, your observation is most likely to languish in the comments section of this article rather than the front page of Hacker news.
>How about adding "completion of our manpages"

That is pretty much a given. OpenBSD considers deficiencies in documentation the same as deficiencies in the software.

>or "making our website less shitty"

OpenBSD developers have nothing to do with openssl's website.
I know that there are lots of heavyweight folks who swear by Zookeeper as both a reliable and powerful tool, and for good reason. Unfortunately the docs can be fairly inscrutable, even for experts, and it typically requires the maintenance of a separate cluster of Zookeeper nodes.

So I like that etcd is a fundamental component of CoreOS, with these features:

1. Written from scratch in Go
2. Implements the Raft protocol for node coordination
3. Has a useful command line app
4. Runs on every node in a cluster
5. Enables auto-discovery
6. Allows CoreOS nodes to share state
TSR #184 – Asus PC Gamer Party and More
The Asus PC Gamer party was awesome as well of the Wolfenstein party. Titanfall, Call of Duty, Infinite Crisis and League of Legends are mentioned as we drove back to the hotel. Andrew, Greg & Christina also talk about their experience at Boston’s Chau Chow City and more!

Many thanks to Tiffany Marshall and Frankie for the PAX tickets because without them we wouldn’t be able to create the memories we did this year. Also shoutouts to Billy Nichols, Karen P. Rivera, Maylene Garcia, Andrew Flores, Diana Lora, Erika Michelle, Dual Shockers, Hip Hop Gamer, Karl Brown, Antwand Pearman, Greg Laporte and Nerds Clothing.
Very interesting, that Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" is introduced in this article:

A lot of other VCs and founders are also digesting Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the 21st Century.” With more than 200 years of data, it chronicles an inexorable rise in inequality that was punctuated in the middle of the 20th century by the Great Depression and World War II followed by 30 years of evenly-spread prosperity. Ultimately, it advocates a globally-coordinated tax on wealth.

I know that it's taboo on HN to get overly political, but I think because of Piketty's work we should talk about it (particularly, because Piketty's new piece is so groundbreaking [1] and incredibly well-backed with data). What do you guys think of his "global wealth tax" -- tax on capital (including real property), in the context of the new SV riches?

[1]: The book is being received as "the most important economiscs text of the decade" by a lot of high-placed economists, etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Cen...
you have all my respect! wish more people stood up for what they believed in.
Windigo victim speaks out on the ‘stealth’ malware that attacked
this tl;dr misses the import part: "Homeowners have a strong economic incentive to restrict supply".
if only they could do that to the foxes they have hunted.
36 maps that will make you see the world in completely new ways
A kernel is a program that provides services to userland programs. I reckon printing "my first kernel" is hardly a service to any userland program.
Thanks for the advice, did not know this.
The Narrative of Starbucks
That's always the best choice. Here's the paper itself: http://life-sciences.biu.ac.il/files/life-sciences/media/nna...

Searching on the title and appending 'filetype:pdf' for Google will often return a preprint or a copy from the authors' institutional website.

As for the content - wow, amazing work. I'm no biotechnologist but this seems like the gateway to an algorithmic approach to medicine. I wonder if it could be turned around to measure intra-cellular processes and send out signals by producing nonreactive chemical tracers...oh yes, it's addressed on page 4.

How long before we see biological botnets? Fascinating stuff.
So if I believe I have the right to drive really fast and I think the laws need to be changed; but you believe I shouldn't have the right to go fast, does that mean that you believe I'm a second class citizen for believing I shouldn't have a right that I believe I should? Seems a bit like a logical fallacy and a strawman. Regardless of where you or anyone stands, let's at least frame the debate right. No one thinks that LGBT people are second-class citizens. To frame the debate like that is an appeal to emotion (also a logical fallacy) and ultimately fruitless, as it avoids the real debate.
Which could have been implemented in a better way, e.g. Dylan does dynamic dispatch with multi-methods without requiring me to type [] everywhere. A real pain in non US keyboards.
This is denied by the AYM. And it's also shown that that account is opened by AKP trolls.
Just pack up and leave the damn place already.

Sorry to be blunt, but that's how "supply and demand" is really supposed to work. If Seattle supplies the same quality of housing for half the cost of San Francisco, buyers/renters should flock to Seattle, thereby reducing demand in SF and eventually causing SF housing prices to come down until the market finds an equilibrium. Trying to lobby for "below-market-price" housing is always going to be a losing game; the only long-term solution is to make the market price lower.

Unfortunately, competition among cities to attract residents is not like competition in other industries. A lot of people are stuck in a relatively small geographical area their whole lives due to employment, their children's education, various kinds of emotional attachment, and the sheer difficulty of uprooting themselves from a familiar neighborhood. This creates a captive market, severely limiting the effectiveness of inter-city competition. And of course, whenever there's a captive market, there's somebody who profits from it. In the case of SF's housing market, entrenched neighborhood groups and "below-market-price" renters enjoy benefits at the expense of newcomers to the city. Perhaps they actually deserve those benefits. Still, it's unfair to everyone else.

But there's one group of people who can afford not to be bound by the usual excuses that keep people stuck in a captive market. That's us, the techies. We don't need to be in any particular city in order to write code. Most of us are young and don't have kids. Few of us have any "root" in the Bay Area, so we couldn't care less about being uprooted [1]. There is no reason for us to be a part of San Fran's captive housing market. We can pack up and leave, all 8% of us if possible. That would be "supply and demand" doing its work.

Of course, there are a few problems with this proposal, including the fact that there really is such a thing as social networking of the offline kind. The Bay Area undoubtedly has one of the best tech "scenes" in the world. But I see it as a problem that needs to be fixed, not merely an advantage that we're free to exploit. HN, for example, requires everyone to move to the Bay Area, perhaps for a good reason. But in doing so, they directly contribute to, and exacerbate, the hideous distortion of the Bay Area's housing market. It's like mandating that everyone meet at a particular Starbucks. It makes sense when everyone you want to meet is already a regular of that Starbucks, but when the manager of Starbucks begins to take advantage of its captive clientele, you should seriously start considering an alternative.

Remember, the only vote that the market respects is a vote with your feet, i.e. a realistic threat to do business with a competitor.

[1] Disclaimer: I've lived in at least seven different cities in three continents, and harbor no particular emotional attachment to any of them. Apparently I'm incapable of developing an emotional attachment to geographical coordinates. But I must confess that I kinda like it that way.
Google to Buy Titan Aerospace as Web Giants Battle for Air Superiority
it is easy to be free while you, a super-predator, are alone in the forest/mountains. Being free while surrounded by fellow super-predators is a much tougher challenge, requires much more neuron connections firing just to stay afloat.
I think he thought that he would be much better in his new role, but one he found out that he needed to learn some stuff that were new/difficult, he just gave up and started to make life worse for everyone else.
I have been wondering the same thing. This link suggests that there are problems with NaCl preventing adoption, and puts forth a repackaged alternative called Sodium:

http://labs.opendns.com/2013/03/06/announcing-sodium-a-new-c...
Yes, because [] was a pre-processor hack back when Objective-C was invented and the compiler was actually a translator to C.

A means of gathering the code, dump it into a series of objc_msgsnd, without doing much of real compiler work.

There are languages with Smalltalk semantics without forcing me to type @ and [] multiple times per line, a pain in non US keyboards.
Which they would hunt whether captive or not.
I love the Mountain View burrowing owl reference. Here's a '96 usenet news article I posted about the endangered burrowing owls I would bike past every day in Mountain View. It just happened to be right where SGI was about to build their new HQ, and is now the heart of the Google campus. I had just moved to Silicon Valley from Canada when I posted this....

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.birds/vPvrRW_fVX...
very good replacement and deceptively advanced.
Got it. We will be implementing volume control. Look for it in the next couple of days :)
Going off-topic but IMO, I personally don't think of Hitler as more influential in changing the course of human history than Albert Einstein. The rise of fascism and Nazism, and the occurrence of WWII was a direct outcome of the results of WW I. I believe most of those events would have transpired, even if Hitler was at the helm or not.
The reason to live in SF is to take part in its vibrant culture. That's why people live there and take the busses to the boring parts of the peninsula.

There is high demand for what the city offers.

There's also high demand for face-to-face meetings with people to assess and establish trust. There is no replacement for that, and why experience tends to cluster together, whether tech here, or entertainment in the South.
Very interesting read indeed. They guy seems to be trying to sell perpetuum mobile. I am amazed that large, well known companies invested in him. Did they failed to do proper research?
Ask HN: Travel opportunities for software developers?
Just out of curiosity, are you aware of employment opportunities for software developers that require a lot of traveling?

For the sake of it, let's say the time spent "far" from home should be between 30% and 70%, preferably another country, with the possibility of changing destination every once in a while.

AFAIK these positions are usually offered to technology evangelists or people revolving around conferences and such. I would be more interested in something that still allows actively coding (or at least being very very close to a coding environment) as a main task.

I'm also not counting the "get a remote gig, then travel to Thailand" thing, I'm just focusing on opportunities where traveling is a real requirement of the job itself.

I know I might be asking the impossible, but sometimes I read comments on HN that literally open me an entire new world, so why not trying.

Thanks!
> This has a ton of great information and background but could definitely use some splitting up and organizing

Page length issues seem to bother a lot of people.

I wrote a long one-page web article myself recently, and everybody said it was too long and needed to be split up and organized.

So I split the article at the section headings into separate web pages.

Everybody who had complained earlier said that my "reedit" was now much better. But really I didn't make any change other than splitting it into separate web pages.

Now, I do understand the value of paragraphs, spacing, and section headings. It's much easier visually. But I never understood the distaste for long web pages. (Obviously, it should be related material, like a story.)

It seems that some readers prefer 5 separate web pages (that must be read contiguously) rather than a single page with five section headings. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I prefer the single page.
> Switch the LGBT issue for race and you'll know what I mean.

Wow.
Piss off? How nice of you.

Anyway, you did drop a bunch of claims with nothing backing them up in your first post. Am I supposed to google myself a comprehensive knowledge of our energy crisis to argue against some random person on the internet just because they say they have knowledge about it?

You basically retorted a fairly well developed article with "I'm an expert and this is stupid. There's a good possibility a lot of us will die in the next 50 years because our use of fossil fuels is way higher than our supply. I'm not going to actually list any of my expert knowledge though..."

I see in a post above you gave a good response, so thanks for that. But I don't see why you feel my response was unwarranted. Just because you say you know a bit about a subject doesn't mean people on the internet have to take your word for it. Perhaps you read my comment a bit harsher than I wanted, but that is a hefty article and an even heftier subject matter to brush off with the half a paragraph you originally typed.
I dont drink coffee either - I just dont like the taste.

The incredulous looks I get when I mention that I am a developer and I dont drink coffee are enough to continue to not drink coffee.
or in enterprise IT "No one ever got fired for buying IBM"
For 100% certainty yes, but like a murder (or any other crime) no one witnesses, a circumstantial tie to a bitcoin address is theoretically possible. Though that doesn't seem to be the case here.
The only other codebase I've seen that's remotely as hairy as OpenSSL is GCC's gnarly mess. (I've heard it's improved since I looked a few years ago.) And that's notoriously engineered to be difficult as possible to contribute without giving back; I can't imagine what OpenSSL's excuse is. Any sane programmer would have cold sweats even if they understood the implementation because it's so difficult to figure out and verify what the fuck is going on internally with any speed.

Documentation would help, but a good cleanup would make provided documentation much less necessary. Crypto may be difficult to understand, but with clean coding practices and formal verification (even on an audit workflow level) would be a much better investment, IMHO.
Programming Better Health Care
Also, it works well in Japan and for Toyota in particular because of the lack of labor mobility there. And I don't just mean Japan's general lack thereof; rather, I'm pointing to the fact that (1) in Aichi prefecture, the only major Auto maker is Toyota (whereas Hamamatsu and Tokyo regions have several), (2) selling a house in the countryside (which the surrounding regions of Toyota city is) is always a money losing proposition in Japan, making a long distance move very difficult, and (3) once you are an employee at one of the Toyota Group companies, you cannot change jobs to another Toyota Group company.

The "Gods" that you nurture will stay with you for perpetuity (or retirement) under these conditions.

disclosure: I was a researcher at one of the Group companies.
Nothing more than a fancy discussion forum.
PayPal never had the speculation appeal! PayPal, Venmo, Dwolla, Stripe, Balanced, Ribbon, Square, and others are all great services. They change the world in different ways - I buy with credit cards at Farmers Markets now, Stripe saved endless developer hours simplifying integration, Dwolla offers even lower than Bitcoin cost for accepting payments, etc. Bitcoin fans should learn from Elon Musk - the guy is a genius and, yet, he is a lot more humble than the average satoshi hoarder with a quarter of a Bitcoin waiting for the price to hit $1M apiece!

The technology never matters as much as the community! The Internet was created by nerds, not speculators!
When I do code reviews I read the tests first. How can you review code with no tests?

By reading it, running it in your mind, and seeing if it runs the way its author expects.

Tests are ideal, but they aren't the only way to specify the correct behavior of code.
> lack of node recycling for lists

Adapter#getView[1] has been around since API 1, which is used in ListView (as well GridView, etc.) to recycle view nodes.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Adapte..., android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup)
Downvotes for this are unwarranted. This is a plausible mechanism, even if it's wrong, and should be engaged with.

The key thing is the margin for "even more expensive". Fundamentally, yes, development makes cities more valuable / expensive, in aggregate (after all, that's why cities exist in the first place). The key thing is how many units that value is spread out over. If you tear down a slum and replace it with $1M condos in a supply-constrained market, rents will rise.

But, there are a limited number of people who can afford to buy 7-figure condos, and it is possible to build enough housing to saturate that demand all the way down the curve. If you're actually able to tear down a single-family unit and replace it with 4-unit low-rise apartments, and rent / sell them at a decent price since people want to move into the city, and all your competitor landlords can do the same, you'll see more units, more total dollars going to landlords, and lower prices per unit.

The key thing is to make it cheap to build. Excessive regulation of the kind the article talks about often does the exact opposite - they make it so you can build, eventually, but it's only worthwhile if you can be sure of extracting large rents. Even worse, the high value of land & rent in a supply-constrained environment puts a lot of vested interests in keeping supply low, in a vicious circle.

A sure sign you're trapped in that vicious circle is if developers have "community engagement" and "affordable housing" dollars to throw around.
> every individual behaves in their best interest

Daniel Kahneman says this has been proven false in his book Thinking Fast and Slow.

It think it is wrong on two levels. First individual's "perceived best interest" is often very far off of their real interest. Second, individual, and not only a few edge cases, are often not behaving in their best interest, even if we consider it to be their "perceived best interest".

Kahneman listed the three attributes of humans modelized as "econs" in the most common economic model: They are rational, selfish and their taste do not change over time. All three are obviously wrong.
As a Linux fan who has been hearing good things about FreeBSD, will this work out of the box on FreeBSD?