skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and in a few years if not already India, and then... and then...

so the issue becomes, how to insure they use good refrigerants because we sure as hell cannot deny them the right to refrigeration. Sorry, your too late isn't going to work.

the only real alternative if this issue is believed to be a real problem is to reduce the CO2 cost from other sources, namely the generation of the energy used to perform refrigeration and other tasks. However even that isn't going to add up to much against the fact that more transportation is coming online in all these countries - meaning cars and trucks using fossil fuels.

so how do you get an agreement with economies who wish and will grow?
I don't think it is the old phone which is slow and which causes people to search. It's the new phone which is slow. People get disappointed, and search. This explains why spike does not appear during announcements.
Orwell is one of the most self reflective and critical thinkers I have ever come across. It would appear as if he had almost no ego. Our own Spock.
This made me think of an article I read years ago about evolving circuits (albeit digital ones) on FPGAs: http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/evolvingaconscio1453
Difference between OOP interfaces and FP type classes
I don't know too many women who are "scared" of joining the tech industry. I do know plenty who have run into the buzz-saw of social, cultural and educational disincentives (not to mention downright ugly sexism) that render them them either poorly-positioned or unwilling to do so.

I think your heart is in the right place with this guys, but it trivializes a really serious problem.

+1 delete

After deleting, I suggest you (and everyone else for that matter) donate to one or both of:

http://www.ncwit.org/
http://anitaborg.org/
Excercise calorie calculator
I find it very unlikely that you've given this a thorough cost-benefit analysis. For one thing, automobiles were invented after alcohol but before breathalyzers, and we got along more or less just fine without having to put a bunch of people in jail for having alcohol. I see no reason why legal marijuana use would be much different.

Additionally, it's self-evidently not "all about safety". That's insane. If so, why let anyone drive at all? That's another option - there's no test for if you are driving tired, but that provides similar levels of driving impairment to alcohol, plus there's already quite a bit of illegal use of marijuana. If we ban all driving, no one can kill each other with cars, problem solved, and there are no safety implications here, because driving is not critical to your safety. Police, ambulances and firefighters can still use their vehicles, because safety is the only thing that is important.
If you like that then you will love this project I have been working on.

https://github.com/polysome/evolvable_motherboard
Does anyone on HN do anything because they actually have a passion for something regardless of its profitability, or is the horrible stereotype of doing whatever makes a nickel every 1000 clicks really true?

If you care about the radio station and have a passion for it, continue. If you're only in it to make a buck, then just forget about it. The last thing people want to read is "Sorry, I'm going to be closing this because it didn't get the traction I needed. But this journey gave me a great learning experience, so keep watching this space for my next startup!"
Quite trivial in idiomatic Scala:

case class Goal(count: Int) {
def apply() = Goal(count + 1)
def apply(s: String) = s"g${"o" * count}$s"
}

object Goal {
def g() = Goal(1)
}

Non-idiomatic shorter answer:

case class g(p: String = "go") {
def apply() = g(p + "o")
def apply(s: String = "o") = p + s
}
I actually prefer it vs. frowning on it for the record ;)
Germany introduced a similar law over a year ago, some german news organisations want 11% of Googles world wide gross sales as compensation! They also argue that Google isn't allowed to delist them because of its market power. Theire chance to win this are probably almost zero but they will use that to get a better law next time.
Its interesting, I'm near your age (31), and had lots of friends who smoked pot then and now. I can count on one hand the number of people who on the surface appear to have smoked themselves stupid. They however never stopped with pot, and were most likely clinically depressed. They got hooked on a cycle of anti-depressants, adhd meds, harder drugs (ecstacy, etc), and alcohol. So I would guess that pot really had little bearing on their outcome, perhaps softened the blow the demons they were battling caused them.
What do you mean watch out? Isn't "improving on an exhaustive search of all possibilities (perhaps with some smart pruning)" a way of saying global optimization? Unrelated, great job with JuliaOpt, if that is you.
There were some (a rare few unfortunately) who would be thrilled to talk about the projects they had done professionaly and were really proud of. They would talk in great details about how perfectly designed their asset pipeline was, the paradigms they had put in place, etc. No matter what the project was, if they were excited to tell you about it, it was always a great sign.
I don't agree with gp's dismissal, but the point about gps and coarse location was that continuously updating gps (for full 3m resolution) would be too taxing on the batteries -- not that gps resolution was poor.

Don't think that applies if parent was using google maps to navigate, though -- how useful would navigation be without correct and updated position? Not to mention wi-fi location, correlation with plus posts/check-ins etc...
Malcolm x never called for racial violence. Ever.
To add on to the "Tell me about a project you are most proud of?" question, having gone through different stages from burnout to re-kindling of the hacker within, I can see it measures attitude well, which is crucial. For aptitude, however I would go a few layers deeper. "What was the toughest problem you have worked on or solved?", "How did you solve it?", "What did you learn?" the choices of problems tell you as much if not more than the answers about where the candidate's passion stands. Are they vague or specific? Do they use industry terms or are they self taught? What types of issues make their eyes spark? etc. If you are hiring entry level people, passion is most important, but if you need to have people who hit the ground running in an area, nothing beats a nice rigorous interview, with some code writing involved, in addition to your question.
It's a greenhouse problem just based on electricity consumption -- leaked refrigerants merely compound it.
Yes, those open questions could tell you a lot about how the person communicates as well, even though I was very careful as the context of an interview is always biased towards people who are extraverts.
The ruby non-solution seen here:

https://github.com/eatnumber1/goal/blob/master/non-solutions...

is actually doable if you parse the error.
This looks great! Can you submit a pull request? These things are coming in really fast and its way easier to take that way.
What kind of crappy walls let the sounds of washing dishes through

American walls do. As a rule, American residential construction is prefab housing; the exterior walls are chipboard with (usually) wood siding, sometimes brick veneer, the interior dividing walls are sheetrock. Floors are wooden, too, a soundproofing layer between the floorboards and joists is not standard. You could not get brick construction if you wanted to. Not too far from my apartment is a well-to-do part of town. Someone is building a new house next to the golf course there, and the half million dollars that that fellow paid for his new pile still gets him nothing better than chipboard and sheetrock. Apartment buildings are constructed in the same way. With the wrong neighbour, an American apartment can be a gigantic horrortrip.

The poor quality of construction in America goes a long way to explain the allure of suburban living. There is a wide air gap to the neighbours and you have little road noise on your cul-de-sac. It also explains the suspicion Americans have against proposals for high-density housing, they expect construction quality to be poor.
I don't really get it.

IOS8 brings indexeddb to ipads; at that point it pretty much runs everywhere, just use indexeddb.

Its a pretty decent async API which supports reasonably complex queries (better than get-by-key like this), and has a (basic but working) node implementation to run unit tests against. (see http://caniuse.com/indexeddb)

Why would you use this primitive api?

Supporting older browsers is great and all, but if you dont get anything over it except giant cookies, why bother?
This only adds the ability to copy keys with momentary access to your keys. Anyone with sustained access to your keys can just take them down to the hardware store, so this doesn't really change the "spurned lovers" equation.

I don't see why the other people would want to break into my house if they weren't interested in stealing my things or hurting me (and if they are just breaking in to like, hang out in my house, that's a bit weird but not really something to lose any sleep over). If they do that habitually, I think they'd find breaking into the house without using a credit card to buy a copy of my key is quicker and less risky than using KeyMe. I am not particularly worried about the extremely rare threat model of being my non-criminal friend or coworker's first break-in, where they decide opportunistically to break into my house because I left my keys somewhere and they know they can easily make a copy of them at a kiosk.
I agree with this. The current problem with nuclear waste is mostly political. We don't actually want to bury that stuff to far away, because it's a valuable source of fuel once we have the political will to use it. Current plants extract only a tiny fraction of the usable energy from their fuel.
I object to the tone of the piece suggesting that one particular style of living is better as it is clearly preferential outside of any objective measurement (ie: GDP/person, CO2 emissions/person etc.).
Apple buys Nintendo
Show HN: CommitCal – View your commit history in calendar
But it requires eval-ing a string literal instead of actually having g()("al") as an expression itself
I am not saying that racist views are acceptable. I am saying that racist views only matter if the racist is in power. You can't be racist in any meaningful way, such that your racism affects large parts of society, unless you are in power. That's all. Who cares about a powerless person's racist views? They are of no consequence. There is no redefinition of the term 'racism' involved. What does matter is if the congress, the police, the judges, etc are all white and consistently act on racist views.
I believe at least that "internet history" has been featured in legal proceedings (arrests/trials) -- I'm not sure if there have been warrants issued based on getting search history from google. I'd love to hear more, if anyone has a reference either way.
Ask HN: What was that site where people review your site?
A while ago someone had a Show HN where people would record their voice and their screen while reviewing your website or product.

I can't remember the name of that wonderful site, and I am currently in need of such reviews.
Just doing my part! ;-)
I took a risk leaving school and now I need help
HN has always been one of the first things I've checked when I woke up. I know there is an amazing amount of experience and intellect here.
4 years ago, I applied to Stanford as a direct result of reading (here) about getting out of our comfort zones. I was living in a Bureau of Indian Affairs dormitory for high school students when I got the news that I was accepted. This was a huge deal, because statistically I am part of a demographic the comprises the bottom 1% of the income spectrum here in America.
But I left Stanford after a year, partly because it was such a huge change, but also because I wanted see if I could succeed on reservation I grew up in (the Navajo Nation). I'm now 22, and I can say I used what little I had to try to make a difference.
I've made mistakes - one of which was lying to my peers about leaving because I wasn't prepared for the change that Stanford demanded. Another was not asking for help when I needed to. And, finally, I didn't pursue a regular job when my family demanded it. And now, I don't know what to do.
I have about $20K in debt - student loans that have already been deferred, money I used to buy a computer (pretty much the only thing I own), and medical bills from a year of battling cancer. And, as of today, I had to get out of my step-parent's house because it was not a good place for me to be anymore.
I am at a park in the next town over - a town that tends to be particularly disdainful of Native Americans wandering the streets. I don't know what I am looking for here on HN. It's always been a source of encouragement to me, especially in those times that I felt the most uncomfortable or hopeless. I've learned a lot for living on a reservation where the nearest IT-related job is 100 miles away - and it really is thanks to you.
I merely believe that he was not reasoning when making this mistake. That's all "unreasonable" means.

Given the rest of the story and his replies, I'm also inclined to believe that the mistake was ultimately due to lying to himself about the importance of bookkeeping and how fast funds should have been spent. But even absent that, "unreasonable" is a totally reasonable word for this.
We've had the good fortune of not destroying our civilization in the last 150 years (we have tired very hard to do so), so that proposition doesn't hold much value.

Consider how we figure out what sites meant 1000+ years ago... We dig them up.

Doing that to a waste disposal site would be phenomenally bad.
To be fair, you cant just 'standardise' on something without feedback.

A polyfill for a new API implementation + feedback + people using it is probably the right path to take towards standardising.

eg. If no one uses this much, dont bother. If lots of people do, push for it as a standard.
for those playing along at home, the app he used to break into his neighbor's home is called "my neighbor gave me a key to their home".

if we are willing to call this a "break in" then the app is not the operative concept, it's the social engineering that enabled the guy to give you the fucking key.

might as well have written about the shoes you used to break in with.
There is an interesting bit in there about China hoping to reduce waste as a % of the food supply to sub 10% in different categories (meat, vegetables, etc). This is a critical step if they want to be able to continue feeding so many people, especially as the population ages, and there is a decline in people working agricultural jobs in China.

I think this means there are a number of logistical opportunities for tackling the chinese food market (better delivery systems, food service redefined, catering services). Whoever takes these challenges on will likely start targeting the high end of the market.
at the rate we are going.. we wont be around by then. Has someone mapped a extinction 'curve' rate? Factoring all the eco/nuclear/virus threats?
To answer your question, I worked for another year for that company and must have done about 100 interviews with that method. It wasn't perfect, but I found that it gave better results than the other stuff I had tried. Also, I found that the more I would bring the person in his comfort zone, the better appreciation I had for their qualities as a programmer. Also, that one question would always lead to a 30 minute discussion about their project (hobby or work). I would of course ask a bunch of other questions, but it was on the things they were the most comfortable with. I didn't have to ask them if they knew this or that, they would tell me all that they knew and we would discuss it. And wherever there was excitement, there was an indication of a good hire.
Also add

g(s: String) = "gal"

to handle the case of no 'o's.
This is why I use 2 factor on my front door.. Mainly fingerprint backed by a code or key.
Noting is 100% safe..but I prefer ease of use in making a decision.
Maybe, maybe not, but that doesn't really mean anything in the context of this discussion. Most of the world doesn't have decent public transportation, in part because it's difficult and expensive to create decent public transportation, and in part because public transportation isn't a great fit for where most of the people of the world live. Unless you're suggesting that everyone should be relocated to arcologies so we could all give up our cars, the fact of the matter is that public transport isn't always an option, and may not ever be an option for anyone who doesn't live in a hyperdense urban area, which most people would consider to be hell on earth (not me, but I have an affinity for big cities).
It seems Rupert Murdoch did this with NewsCorp about 5 years ago, and the decision seems to have been reversed since then: http://www.ibtimes.com/rupert-murdoch-vs-google-google-wins-...
Pretty sure 11-3 is Grand Junction, CO, based on the highway signs and the mountains in the background.
The fatal attraction of FRP
I have had numerous positive or neutral experiences with cops, and a few bad ones (including numerous tickets and getting arrested, but in all cases I earned those bad experiences). Overall, I would much much rather have cops than not have cops.
See any given DMCA takedown request for Google to filter search results. There's more than 1.5m to look through.

https://chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi
Coincidentally, California issued an arrest warrant today for a man with TB who refuses to stay in a hospital. The state does have the power to make personal health issues criminal.

http://www.hngn.com/articles/37165/20140725/homeless-man-wit...
Maybe I am stupid but I still don't get it after reading. What do they mean "physical"?
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Available
Have you seen YaCy? It's a distributed search engine project that's been running for several years. You can start using it to search and crawl right now.

http://yacy.net/en/
> Legal logging is a bigger threat.

This is common misconception, which should be true, but in fact isn't. Environmental crime is rampant and highly profitable. Interpol estimates that 50-90% of rainforest logging is illegal:

http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Environmental-crime/Proj...
The actual bug report was pretty decent. This email, not so much.
A bandgap circuit subtracts log(A.x) and log(B.x) to get a ratio log(A/B) that is independent of x (x>0), and to achieve this topology by evolution is a striking result. The question is whether one would trust the resultant topology in the absence of a known pattern. This is not casting a doubt on the evolutionary algorithm, it is more about the quality of the device compact models and the ability of the circuit equation solver to capture subtle instabilities and starting problems.

My guess is that today's compact models and solvers are both good enough for us to contemplate a 'Turing test' for analog circuit design.
>>it worked for Ghandi.

Yet it was Ghandi himself who, when asked if his peaceful tactics would have worked against Hitler, said, "probably not."

I'm not suggesting that white people are literally Hitler, but simply that there's a time and place for everything, including peace and violence. And I say that as someone who has never called for violence on anything ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs
Do keep in mind that hotel doors are anything but secure, regardless of the kind of lock. It doesn't even take a sophisticated exploit to unlock the door, just a simple metal gadget.

http://shop.riftrecon.com/products/under-the-door-tool
So, suppose that before putting the cap back on a 2 liter soda bottle that I have just used to dispense soda, I were put my lips around the spout, suck in, hold that position for as long as I can, and then blow out, and then put the cap back on. The idea is to try to fill that gap in the bottle with 5% exhaled CO2 instead of 0.04% atmospheric CO2.

Would this significantly delay the flattening of my soda?
Here's my C# solution that uses no global state, and features a cool (I think) variadic lambda.

using System;
using System.Linq;

class Program {
static void Main() {
Console.WriteLine(g("al"));
Console.WriteLine(g()("al"));
Console.WriteLine(g()()("al"));
Console.WriteLine(g()()()("al"));
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue.");
Console.ReadKey();
}

delegate dynamic Goal(params string[] args);

static dynamic g(string suffix = null, string prefix = "g") {
if (suffix == "al") return prefix + suffix;
return (Goal)(a => g(a.FirstOrDefault(), prefix + "o"));
}
}

It was a fun exercise. I found that creating a github pull request was not such a fun exercise, and took about 10x longer than the actual task at hand. Perhaps I could learn to do it more smoothly with practice.
What motivation could you imagine I would have in order to ruin someone's day? Ask Laszlo.
Well, this is Wired we're talking about. You can't expect their writers to go to much more effort than walking upstairs to their apartment.
Only tangentially related, but: It would be interesting to consider physical(ish) methods of federated authorization.

Hand the valet a key fob that you've enabled for use within a 1 mile radius and two car starts?
Prior Army EOD (7.5 years) (ATO for you Brits) and HN participant reporting in.
MontageJS Extends Spirit of Cooperation
If you have 2 factor authentication at your front door, you in no way prefer ease of use.
One thing stands out when you try playing with evolutionary systems.

Evolution is _really_ good at gaming the system. Unless you are very careful at specifying all of the constraints that you care about you can end up with a solution that is very clever but not quite what you had in mind. Here power consumption is the issue. If you tried to evolve a sturdy chair you might end up with something that is 1mm tall. or maybe a fuel efficient car that exploits continental drift.

For circuit simulation there are a bunch of potential pitfalls beyond power consumption. I think you would probably need to do multiple runs with components of varying values within their specified precision. I can see evolution getting some sort of benefit by exploiting the fact that two identically specced components behave _exactly_ the same way. Something that would not happen in real life.
Nice link-bait on the headline but for most people the only thing preventing an intruder is a very thin piece of glass.

Also, does KeyMe, et al, really not email/notify you when a dupe is made?
I think passion projects are fairly common. This one has been on the front page all day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8085213

Seven years of dedication and hasn't made a penny.

You can easily find many more examples. It all depends on the circumstances of the person and whether they're in a position financially to dedicate their free time to a project.
This is by far one of the creepiest things I've seen.
> Software failure is costly and impactful. Why not aspire to levels of completeness and rigor comparable to civil engineering?

Completeness and rigor is also costly and impactful. There's a tradeoff to be made there. Additionally, it's easier to be complete and rigorous in civil engineering when the inputs are easier to model and predict.