skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC is actually seeing an uptick in companies abandoning the insanity of Silicon Valley and the West coast and moving to NYC and places east. And, what with NY state's recent incentives to start a company there, I would rather be based in NYC than SF Bay. IMO, NYC has a much better overall culture than SF and proximity. There is also the echo chamber of the SF tech area, which I abhor.

I have, over the years, toyed with -- and still do -- the notion of moving to Brooklyn or perhaps further out into Long Island. Love the place. Home of the best pizza outside of Naples to be sure.
A salted hash would completely eliminate any ability to look up accounts by email address, since you would have to hasn't the email against the salt for every account in the database until you landed on the correct one.
Not going to try to defend the actions police or anything (I think the protest is for a good cause), but one piece of info I think is valuable:

Mob mentality is dangerous. There is a thin line between a "peaceful protest" and a riot. If you have seen other protests that have turned into riots (like in France where several innocent shops got destroyed in an anti-Israel protest), or in England where the riots got way out of control, you know what can happen. Its a few police trying to keep a huge crowd in control - and it is a scary job. Unfortunately being well-armed makes the crowds even angrier.
hahahaha, awesome!
There is already the need to support alternate input mechanisms in the form of accessibility and keyboard navigation.

Creating UI widgets that work well everywhere is a non-trivial task that is frequently underestimated.

What this really highlights is the need for high quality UI toolkits which abstracts these details. If a developer is complaining about supporting mouse and touch, then they're most likely missing out on many more details and should be using some pre-built components instead.
FDA loves to talk a good game about independence, but they are far more driven by political trends then they'd like to admit. Case in point: in 2008, the Democratic house jumped up and down about the under regulation of medical devices and diagnostics. FDA Warning Letters (a big deal that largely prevents a company from releasing new products) to device/diagnostic companies doubled the next year.
> delivered through a shell company

You lost me. Suppose from here, where I am, in the US I set up a foreign corporation, and it buys a nice house in NY State. I move in as a 'renter'.

Then too soon the IRS notices that I am living high on the hog, e.g., in a nice house, but paying very little in income taxes.

Similarly if the garage of the house has a half dozen 'super cars' worth $1 million or so each. And maybe the interior decorating of the house is drop dead gorgeous, cost $1+ million, which the IRS could notice if they could can inside, maybe with a search warrant, or even just interview a maid I hired to run a vacuum cleaner, and then get a search warrant.

So, the IRS and their lawyers start after me?

Okay, maybe I pay a 'fair' rent for the house and pay it to the offshore company. My understanding is that that doesn't work because that company needs a US branch office that has to file US taxes. So, the IRS could get my banking records and see the rent checks I paid. Okay if could arrange that somehow the US branch office made $0 earnings each year so that it owed no US taxes, maybe.

Or, maybe I 'work' for the US branch office, and they pay me a salary, and I pay my rent to them. Hmm. But the rent would have to come from ordinary income, after tax?

Or, use part of the house for my business and pay part of the rent as an ordinary business expense from my pre-tax revenue? Maybe for a little of the house, say, a home office, that would be okay with the IRS, but that leaves maybe the other 90% of the house the IRS would insist that I pay for in some sense out of taxable ordinary income.

Or maybe be an employee of the US company and hired as a 'house sitter' keeping the house safe and, thus, don't pay rent? The IRS might just tell a judge that this whole setup is tax fraud and let me have an extended 1 on 1, in person, tutoring session with Bernie Madoff?

Or maybe the US company could sell me the house for, say, $1000, and somehow I would convince the IRS that my little house, that cost $10 million to build, is something a person paying so little in taxes could afford? I could get the IRS and a tax court judge to agree with that?

Maybe I'd like 2000 acres of New Hampshire woods around the house. Okay, maybe the US company buys the woods as an investment and lets me and my kitty cats make some use of the woods, the stream that flows through, the lake from a dam on the stream, etc.?

I guess basically I'm lost on how I could live in a $10 million house and still convince the IRS that am within the law.

Or, maybe a corporation owns the house but has a lot of debts otherwise so in total is next to worthless, and I buy the corporation for $1, keep the $10 million house, and do something, somehow I don't mind doing, about the debts of the corporation. E.g., maybe my business loaned the corporation $10 million that the corporation used to buy/build the house. Then the corporation is worth essentially $0. Then I buy the corporation for $1. I keep the house. For the debt, my business calls that a loss.

I'm trying to understand.
The true genius of Facebook is it's practically impossible to not use it, even if you're not signed up. If anyone mentions you, or happens to post a picture with you in you're in it.

The same applies for Google, where if you happen to be in the background of a photo which isn't shared but gets uploaded to G+ quietly as a backup of an Android phone (which they do by default) then Google (and by extension the US gov) know where you were, as per their demo at I/O about 3 years ago.
For what it’s worth pointer-events:none; is a completely different thing: it’s cribbed from SVG and has nothing to do with MS’s spec.
Ten reasons to use Clojure for your next project
In 1962 Time magazine printed a version of the quotation credited to Einstein in “A Letter From The Publisher.” The phrasing used is still distinct from the common modern version [AETM]:

In fields of specialized knowledge, we aim to render an account that is plain and simple, yet does no violence to the difficulty of the subject, so that the uninformed reader can understand us while the expert cannot fault us. We try to keep in mind a saying attributed to Einstein that everything must be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
From a glance, I am unsure whether this is a clinical laboratory tool or a research laboratory tool. Any guidance?
For someone who is interested in doing small town law or public interest law, what do you think about the much more affordable online and correspondence law programs offered in California?
IBM Big Data and Analytics site
Particularly, the same kind of threat to other accounts belonging to the same person exists with username/password combinations as with email/password combinations; after all, people reuse username/password combos as much as email/password combos.

So, the same general class of people who you endanger by not storing email/password securely are endangered if you stop storying email and just have username/password.

And a lot of that class will have emails that can be quickly guessed by appending one of "outlook.com", "gmail.com" or some other popular free-webmail provider to the username, because if they reuse usernames and passwords, its quite likely they do it on their mail site and that they have a webmail provider. So while what Euler has done clearly has a significant convenience impact, it has negligible security impact.
San Francisco has no right to compare itself to New York. None at all.

New York has a legitimate demand problem, seeing as it's the capital of the world.

California has an artificial demand problem due to NIMBYs who corrupt zoning boards, oppose reasonable development at every turn, and live in the past while paying lip service to "building the future".

(It also has a problem with corrupt/dirty foreign money swelling into the housing market, but that's an issue in New York as well.)

New York has solid public transportation. You don't need a car if you live there. People bitch about the MTA, but it's remarkably cheap compared to having a car anywhere in the US, and remarkably convenient considering how much access it provides.

San Francisco is a city where you need a car, but can't afford it. Parking costs are so bad that many garages post their 15 minute rates (often around $3.00).

New York is hard-core urban and owns the positives and negatives that comes from it, and New York runs itself. San Francisco companies are run from the suburbs-- specifically, from an office park called "Sand Hill Road" in a stretch of land that really ought to be reclaimed by the cows and orange trees, because the people living there are contributing nothing but additional work for the sewer system.

Manhattan is what it is, take it or leave it. (And there's nothing wrong with leaving it.) California is fundamentally dishonest and hypocritical, because it's full of people who pretend to be liberal but are, in many ways, worse than the Manhattan old board when it comes to elitism.

New York isn't perfect. There's a lot that's badly designed or unpleasant about it, but if you compare it to the cataclysmic mismanagement of California at all levels, it's a breath of fresh air.
The Pentium: An Architectural History (2004)
I can't even begin to understand how a rational person would think this.

Someone is going to launch a missile from Russia to the United States.. and this person needs a whiteboard with a crudely drawn line to DC and a blast radius drawing to help him do it?

I don't even have to read any of the text to know this is ridiculous.
If you simply read his essay, there are actual real world instances of being worse off because of using encryption. This isn't some super-theoretical navel-gazing going on: it actually happened, multiple times.
It's really tough to say. Some people have awesome math degrees, some people only do it casually, some don't do it at all.

Keep doing the problems until you get stuck. Then learn, then solve a few more. Repeat as long as you're happy with your progress. I wouldn't put a number on it.

In fact, do some easy ones in a completely new language!
Image does not mean anything when you are entering a business that is already super competitive, and is amongst the most highly regulated industries. Suppose they actually do get direct to patient testing going, what is to stop Quest/LabCorp for doing the same thing for cheaper? They have massive volume and price advantages.
What are you trying to do with it?

1. business app

2. micro-controller - check out arduino its cheap and theirs a free development studio. example for controlling steppers and servos etc.

3. games

4. phones
What I would really love to see in a solution like this is the ability to automatically rebalance shards (like moving data between shards when adding new instances).

Sharding can be achieved quite easily on the application level, or by using one of the few available proxies. On the other hand, re-balancing is not easily done yet.
Seeing that Google doesn't want to add anything to its browser that is not essential and will not penalize performance, this was obviously not going to make the cut.

Pointer events would be nice, but using a polyfill isn't so bad. Even if they implemented pointer events, we would still have to implement a polyfill for backwards and cross platform compatibility.

For those of who complain of standards, look at the CSS Regions standard. It's dead and the only browser that has a strong implementation of it is Safari. Other examples of non implemented or partially implemented standards by the browsers: SVG animations, Server sent events, CSP, CSS filters, CSS Images Values and Replaced Content (i.e. cross-fade() images), Intrinsic Sizing, Media Capture and Streams, CSS Masking and Clipping, Web Speech API, CSS Clip paths, User Timing API, the list is endless.

Not to mention that IE and Firefox seem to be very slow at implementing any CSS styling related properties like CSS filters, masking, shapes, 3D CSS transforms (Firefox struggled for a bit and now IE is 'struggling' to implement them fully)
it seems that you have to manually edit the URL to m-pentium-1-2.html and so on for the other pages.
You do realize it increases the attack surface of locks in general right?

(In case it's not obvious, this is sarcasm using the same reasoning as the article.)
Yep, -ms-scroll-snap-points is also a different thing.
>as a way to avoid thought.

no. It is a way to avoid liability, an insurance of a kind. Property owner would get his property confiscated if he knew or had reason to know about an illegal activity happening on the property. Trying to apply "thought" would expose her/him even to larger liability in case of a mistake. Thus blanket reporting of anything is the best liability minimizing strategy.
Computer screens are also not optimal for collaborative discussion.
If you're looking for more up-to-date information about Titan's capabilities then check out these posts.

Titan underwent major changes to optimize in-memory operations. Here is some up-to-date info on that:
http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/11/24/boutique-graph-data-with...

IIRC, the euranova benchmark doesn't discuss scalability. This post does:
http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/05/13/educating-the-planet-wit...
Tom Hanks just released a typewriter app
Riots like these happen because people feel that society is fundamentally hostile to them - that it is trying to kill them. And so it makes perfect sense to attack society in general. Cops, shops, news vans...whatever. People fight back when they are under attack. It's a natural response, and suppressing it only causes it to build up and erupt.

You don't prevent riots like this with tanks, you prevent them by having a healthy society. And ours is seriously ill.
Ask HN: Your favorite HTML/CSS tools, tips and tricks?
Personally, the Chrome Developer Tools[1] are invaluable for debugging and playing with CSS styles right in the browser. The Pesticide Add-on [1b] is great for debugging CSS because it simply puts boxes around everything. I also use SASS preprocessing [2] to massively improve my development speed and sanity with CSS. The nesting they allow fits right in with a developer's mindset. I'll also throw the Bootstrap Framework [3] in there because it saves tons of time (until you get to a certain complexity and start fighting it) with producing good-looking pages.

That said, I still go down long rabbit-holes trying to figure out what's not working properly and feel like workflows could definitely be improved. What tools or processes do you use to debug or develop more efficiently that you couldn't do without?

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools
[1b]: http://pesticide.io/
[2]: http://sass-lang.com/
[3]: http://getbootstrap.com/
Waiting for Gojal
I've looked at the book, there's when I checked his figures and they seemed to disagree with reality.

So, electricity is about 1/3 of total energy. The 15% figure is the latest one for the last quarter of 2013[1] (PDF, see page 13). That means that (according to Prof Mackay) 5% of the UK is covered in renewable electricity generation.

No, it's still not.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Depends on which issue you want to talk about. As that family was worried about, all the discussion has moved away from that boy's death to the protests and rioting. I would almost bet few outside of Ferguson will remember the kid's name in a week or two.

On its own, it looks to me as if one cop went berserk for some reason of his own. It had nothing to do with the police department or Ferguson. Some people are trying to make it out to be white cops picking on black people but, if that were true, you would hear of stories from that area all the time and you don't. Yes, there are tensions between the police and some in the community but, be aware, Ferguson is not The Hamptons.

No one needed to die over this. The cop apparently went berserk. However, this was more than just some kid walking down the street. As minor as this sounds, people walking down the street, blocking traffic, is something of a major issue in Ferguson. People are always complaining about this in that area. It's a real problem. Perhaps this "If I told you once I told you a thousand times!" incident is what finally set him off but this was HIS problem, not that whole department's problem or anything to do with Ferguson.

What I'm trying to say is, the REAL story is "Cop gets fed up and goes berserk" not "White cops murdering black kids".
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Here is my linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/siddarth-dhanasekaran/13/412/75a
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Right, which is why I said

> figuring out what the original email should be hard (if not impossibly hard, depending on how they hash it)

I mean, passwords are way more sensitive than emails, especially given that many people re-use them. So, how you hash passwords is more critical than how you hash emails (which is rarely done, I guess).

On the other hand, there is no reason to not have the same level of protection for emails, if you are already following best practices for passwords anyway (PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt etc.).
Some nice changes in this release. Having built-in TTL on edges and vertices would have simplified several different system's I've worked on.
So this whole thing is about me? I wasn't aware I was personally involved.
Titan provides both graph analytic (OLAP) and graph database capabilities (OLTP). For more information, please read:

http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/05/13/educating-the-planet-wit... (cluster-sized graphs OLTP)

http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/11/11/faunus-provides-big-grap... (OLAP engine)

http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/11/24/boutique-graph-data-with... (single-machine sized graphs OLTP)
What is with the Zen prefix? Zenefits, ZenPayroll, and now Zen99 - all went through YC and all do benefits/payroll/legal administrivia.
Well said. I couldn't agree more.

I have always loathed California. It all seems so fake and far reaching, while NYC, as you say, is brutally honest in what it presents: lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Good luck boring subways, tunnels, and right-of-ways through mountains, sand dunes, and silt! Buses are the only reasonable answer and much more modular to adjust to changing demands as years go by.

A traffic system that programmatically prioritizes for public transportation, along with traffic citations issued by camera and automation (sorry) is what we need.
Make Fast IT work for you
Google Math Bug? 1 MB in KB
X86 internals for fun and profit (54m video)
Did you happen to read the article linked from this OP's? TLC changed its tagline to "Everyone needs a little TLC", more or less explicitly jettisoning any association with "learning"

http://qz.com/239882/american-cable-tv-has-now-reached-total...

Remember when you could watch music videos all day on MTV?
The riots and burning occurred before the police in riot gear showed up. Not after. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/attacked...
One of the things I always ask about at the end of an interview is what the next step in the process is and what the time frame for that step is. If you feel that things are moving slowly you can send an email to the recruiter. Thank them for their time during the interview, say you're still excited about the position and then ask.

I've interviewed at Google for a software position in the past. Their process typically takes a while but they have a lot of flexibility. Shortly after I started interviewing I received another offer. I told my recruiter and she was able to fast track the process. I think I went from the initial phone interview with a recruiter to on site in about a week.
Swift Strings – Literals, Initializers, Concatenation, and Interpolation
There are at least some sunscreens with ingredients (such as titanium dioxide) which will help reflect some UV light. I suspect it is the combination of absorbing molecules and reflective materials which will make up a better sunscreen.
That's an oversimplification of the differences between San Francisco and New York. To begin with, it's a lot easier to travel between boroughs in New York than it is to travel between cities in the bay area. The coverage and availability of the public transportation system is much better in New York (the MTA runs 24 hours). In addition, the bridges are shorter and thus easier to bike or walk over. The length of the Bay Bridge is a kilometer more than the combined lengths of the Brooklyn, Manhattan & Williamsburg bridges, all of which connect Brooklyn & Manhattan. And that's without even mentioning the ease of travel between Manhattan & Queens or Manhattan & the Bronx.

And there's also the lack of new housing development in San Francisco that is a function of public policy. There is tons of new housing going up in the affluent parts of Brooklyn and the prices are rising in spite of that.

In short the bay area structurally is not fit to be as unified as New York is for citizens & commuters and San Francisco has policy changes it could make to accomodate the rising population that it has not taken.
Delight: What Silicon Valley's Favorite Word Says About Tech Priorities
This, all the way. Gotta disagree with you here, Ted, and I note you changed your position a bit in the later post: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/in-defense-of-opportunis...

For what it's worth, I had to use https: to check that from my phone because my provider uses a HTTP transparent proxy (otherwise known as a man-in-the-middle!) - and it's down. (How very unfortunate. Perhaps it should know better than to try and parse my traffic.) And you had a certificate signed by your own CA, and that's no real bother when the link was http: in the first place. I was only able to read your blog because you used OE. Poetic.

But I know that every connection I make, GCHQ is a passive MITM on at least one hop. That's more pervasive than a coffee-shop Wifi - and they can inject things into plaintext traffic, too.

You think DANE's going to be a problem? I don't think so. It's at least as good as domain-validated certs with a CA - which isn't very good, but it's a reasonable minimum. It helps with pinning.
We changed the title to the HTML doc title because it is a tad less baity.
I work in the LIMS space and most of our clients that would need this are third-party analytical services laboratories. There is no reason why this couldn't be adapted to the clinical lab, but I don't have much experience in that area. Thanks for the question.
Ferguson, a war zone or U.S. city?
For those interested in Titan 1.0 roadmap and the evolution of the Titan OLTP/OLAP story. Titan will be implementing TinkerPop3 API http://www.tinkerpop.com/docs/current/ ... Currently, Titan 0.5.0 leverages the Faunus Gremlin compiler (http://faunus.thinkaurelius.com), but with TinkerPop3, TinkerPop3 provides an OLAP compiler for Gremlin that will make things easier for Titan as well as other graph computing engines implementing the stack http://www.tinkerpop.com/docs/current/#traversalvertexprogra...
Am I alone in really enjoying my college experience? I loved going to sporting events and the ivy colored buildings. Say what you want, but my Fraternity years were amazing. I would be sad if my kids were not offered this experience. This just sounds so sterile and robotic to me. Maybe not replace, but possibly to supplement for those which want the traditional option.
LISP, using Peter Seibel's book "Practical Common LISP": https://cmdev.com/isbn/1430242906