skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with your dumb decision to go for whichever one with the higher paying. Both companies are extremely large, extremely pushy and extremely boring.

If you ask me what would be the difference between joining the two companies, I would say not so many people know about Palantir, but Facebook is well-renowned all around the world. Facebook could add a lot to your future resume.

After all, employees in the IT industry are flowing between companies pretty quickly. If you regret joining Palantir, I think you are always welcome to come back to Facebook, and vice versa.
It'd be fantastic if an industrialized nation devoted 5 or 10% of its GDP to revival. We've been suffering dearly from a lack of aggregate demand for nigh on a decade now. A massive medical bubble would hardly be worse than a housing bubble for backfilling demand.
I'm well aware they are technically neither private nor secure. But for users who don't want their parents / school / employers to have an easily accessible record of their communication, Snapchat is an improvement on Facebook (see http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/), if one defines a security failure as "parent asks question about facebook post".

User perception of relative privacy has lead Snapchat to the point of having a large user base and significant funding, i.e. it demonstrates user demand for privacy. The quality of Snapchat's product is another matter, but they now have the resources to be private and secure, if they so choose.

TextSecure is doing good work in private messaging, hopefully their iOS version will raise the bar for everyone.
Electron microscopy of a ram chip shows no difference at all between one that contains a bunch of data and one that is empty.
Sci-Fi nerds who have read Niven's "known space" stories, particular those in the Gil the ARM timeframe, might not be so interested in the corpsicle method of travel into the future.
> see if you can figure out which route is actually quickest

On this question, there's a balance between possible maximum speed, and reliability. If I want to go to point B, the quickest possible route will often be made by stringing together a serious of improbable connections. For instance, the route could rely on taking three infrequent buses, with little leeway for transfer between one and another, on the assumption that they won't be slowed down by traffic (or just slow customers, stopping more than normal, etc). But if an app sends me along this route, and one of the buses is behind schedule, and I miss the connection, that then becomes a big problem. So there definitely is good sense in prioritizing frequent bus routes to some degree.
Prior art for US patent application 20140196008 'IMMUTABLE OBJECT TYPES'
The Fun-O Dylan compiler highlighted text for performance didn't it?
Heh...

Visit Downtown Houston... then compare it to Downtown Detroit... I think you would rather be in Downtown Detroit.

I live behind the gates on Sunset... and I'm sitting in the Museum District as I type this. So don't misunderstand me... there are a lot of nice places inside the 610 in Houston. Downtown is not one of them however.

I'm a Houston guy... but I have to say... if you ever actually visit Downtown Detroit, you will find it is MUCH more clean and attractive than Downtown Houston. It was a visit to Detroit that made a lot of people around here kick in to redo or demolish a lot of the eyesore abandoned towers in Downtown Houston. There are just too many of these abandoned buildings in Houston's Downtown right now... so it's slow going.
My university threw up captchas the semester after something like this was made.

Luckily, they implemented their own auto-zen rolling wait list and notification system too.
What restrictions are there that keep regular Lua from being able to run this?
I find just trying to sleep for twenty minutes can be rejuvenating enough for a powernap. I can't fall asleep on a whim either.
Britain Poorer Than Alabama? Not Quite
Sure, it's expensive to live in San Francisco, which is why only people who make a lot of money can or should live there.

It's like Beverley Hills. Nobody complains (or at least if they do, they don't get publicity) that it's unfair how expensive it is to live in Beverley Hills; if you can't afford to live in Beverley Hills you live somewhere cheaper.

An unfair comparison perhaps, since Beverley Hills has been super-expensive for decades whereas San Francisco has recently gone from fairly expensive to super expensive, meaning there's a lot of people who could previously afford to rent in San Francisco who no longer can. But that's life, and that's the risk you take if you choose to rent rather than buy.
Have had a lot of positive feedback so far from everyone who bought Traction. These guys are addressing the #1 white hot point of pain startups are facing today.
Read this carefully: I used to think this way as well. This thinking lead me to the exact wrong strategy for naps.

There are many stages of sleep; stage 1 through 4, and REM sleep. These, it is hypothesized, have distinct physiological functions. Most importantly for this discussion, waking up out of each have very different effects.

Waking from stage 1 sleep makes you feel immediately refreshed, and people perform better immediately have tests of mental acuity. This is also true of REM sleep; additionally you often remember dreams.

Stage 2 is also good. A good 30 minutes afterwards, you will feel better rested, and your mental acuity will rise; for longer than from stage 1, but it is a delayed effect.

But if you wake up out of a deeper sleep cycle, you get 'sleep inertia.' Mental acuity plummets. You feel poorly rested and ill.

The problem:

The body is often not even aware that you are sleeping in stage 1 sleep. You are in a different physiological stage, but you may not have lost consciousness.

You usually are in this stage from minute 5 onto minute 10. And in stage two up to about 15-20 minutes. After that, you can fall into a deeper sleep; which waking up from is very problematic.

I used to set my alarm for 30 minutes. I'd way up, feel even more tired, and set my alarm for 30 minutes again. This was ruining my life.

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tl;dr

Even if you don't lose consciousness, you can still be 'sleeping' and a nap of 20 minutes will greatly help you feel healthy and well rested.
Of course, if you start charging an American customer different monthly rates for different levels of utilisation (i.e.: quota or average percentage utilisation), they'll protest about having some imaginary rights taken away from them.
You might be able to find an in-law unit of questionable legality at that price.
That's why the title say "America's emerging market", not "the best emerging market ever". You're commenting on an article called America's emerging market and complaining about the fact that America's emerging market is in America.

Think about it.
I think he would prefer something like "until we meet again, Hal."
It sounds from the language used ("he did not want his vital functions supported any further but should be allowed to cease functioning and promptly be cryopreserved") that he didn't regard this moment as death at all - merely pausing his life until a) ALS is curable and b) we have the technology to reawaken cryopreserved people.

To him, all that was worth announcing here is the cryopreservation.

Who's to say he's wrong?
Mental Image:

A huge furnace powering a black box labelled
"Citymapper Development." There's a ramp up to an
opening in the front of the furnace. There are two
grunts with full-body jumpsuits that say "Citymapper
Employee" on them. They are heaving humans into the
furnace.

I'm sure you are a great team, but that was the silly mental image "we need more humans" gave me. ;-)
it's not that women are more aggressive, it's that they're perceived as more aggressive relative to expectations (by both male & female managers).

also, it's much more acceptable to challenge a woman's authority than it is a man's. when all you want to do is get things done, this social norm slows you down. you have to explain, persuade, and butter up your peers more as a woman. this is just one way that these subtle biases can lead to divergent outcomes (seeming to be less effective and successful in this case).
German consumer organisation “Stiftung Warentest” tests browsers
I lived in Beverly Hills from 2010 to 2012. I paid $1300 for a really nice two bedroom apartment. It's not that expensive there.
Two weeks ago, I put in my two weeks notice with no real plan
Most things have spoiled O Fortuna for me (though I've never watched the X Factor).

When I listen to Carmina Burana I usually skip to track 2.
Ask HN: Is there a hidden riddle in the unabomber's manifesto?
Ask HN: Best way to understand systems theory and system dynamics?
I'm beginning to work with people very fluent in systems theory and dynamics and I need the shortest way of understanding the concept at least to a basic level

Dear HN, ¿Can you recommend me any book/publication?
I have noticed this occasionally on weekends, when the luxury of a nap is more practical. I'll have a small late-morning coffee, feel cozy/sleepy, then nap briefly and wake up refreshed. Seemed crazy at the time. I'd guess you need to feel somewhat tired for this to work (and I am able to fall asleep quickly).
For those who have trouble falling asleep quickly I recommend good earplugs, a quiet place where you can nap undisturbed and a dark opaque towel or cloth with which you can cover your eyes and block light completely. Given that, there's little to prevent sleep once you've settled in.
I don't see the problem in sampling only professional women when the hypothesis is whether professional women are rated differently than professional men. It would be problematic if this hypothesis was tested with a sample from the overall female population. Non-professional women don't have reviews to be useful to the study. What you described is an explanation for WHY they are rated different. It doesn't discredit the study methodology.
I wanted to try it but it doesn't seem to support San Francisco! What kind of app doesn't start with San Francisco, let alone not even include it :)
Freedom of speech and surveillance are very different things. The crucial part of surveillance is that you're being monitored on what you say, fairly routinely. Whether or not the authorities take exception to what you say/who you speak to in private communications is another matter, which qualifies only the nature of the surveillance society, not whether it exists.
Transporation is a commodity. I don't care about Uber or Lyft's brand.

Can you get me where I'm going? Are you affordable? That's all that matters.
TLDR is: Distributed (as in DNS) directory with append-only entries keyed by hash-of-email and third party replication/validation/logging.

Discussion of spam implications at https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000727....

Widespread encryption could be a recipe for Google (as the largest of the proposed directories) sliding in an identity reputation scheme (eg. based on location / communications history) and brokering it as a service.
Yes, I understand what you're driving at. But wishes, horses, beggars. This is a scam, pure and simple in the long term with decreasing chances of probability either one of the following things will happen: people will stop believing this and rationality will reassert itself, people will continue to believe until we run out of resources to preserve all the vitrified corpses (it's essentially a graveyard without the benefit of decomposition and filling up billions of dewar flasks with liquid nitrogen is not the most rewarding job) and then it will be time for some tough decisions on how to clean up the mess, the last person on the planet will attempt to cryopreserve themselves in the faint hope that maybe one day in the distant future and hopefully before the sun runs out to power the fully automated planetwide cryogenics facility aliens will discover planet earth and will revive us all or miraculously someone will figure out how to restore all the preserved people in some substrate or give them new bodies (never mind the details here) and will successfully deal with all the social upheaval that will cause (luxury problems).

If the voting in this thread is any indication there are a lot of believers.
The problem is more like Silver Line Metro charging people to ride the metro to the business district station, and then charging them more when they want to leave the station to get to the business district.

The landlord is charging me rent for the property I'm living in, and then charging me more when I have friends over for dinner.
Scientists are recording the sound of the whole planet
I don't know about the other stuff, but Microsoft hated having to use the VP8 codec instead of h.264 (even though it adopted it later on in Skype).
New proof-of-work schemes in crypto-currencies should ideally have optimized implementations from day 0, to prevent the situation described in the article where some people can mine much more efficiently than others.

To this end, I offer several bounties for my Cuckoo Cycle proof-of-work scheme, which David has helped refine,
and which has yet to be deployed by any coin.

See https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo for details and a whitepaper.
Two techniques from my experience:

- 'walk back' in your mind to center yourself away from forebrain activity and visual activity (this is a visualization technique)

- cover your back with something insulated and/or warm. The less your back is staying tensed against chill air, the more physically relaxed you can be. I have a Thinsulate-filled sleeping bag that I use like a throw for this as it reflects body heat better than a comforter. Sleeping on a sofa, up against the back cushions, and noticing how it was good for naps, was what alerted me to this one.
If they went through the trouble of overhauling WebRTC, did they at least add better end-to-end security to it?
Ask HN: To work at Google or a Startup?
My career is at a crossroads and I would really appreciate the community’s insight and experiences.

I’m 22 and graduating next year. I’m currently an intern at Google in a business development role. It’s likely they will offer me a role in the AdWords sales team which would interest me but having spoken to existing people in the sales team, I am beginning to think it’s not for right role for me.

My passion, however, is in startups and I’ve dreamed of moving to the Valley to join a startup and soak up the entrepreneurial spirit and network among the people I have read the blogs of for so long. In the past I’ve worked at a fast growth tech startup in a European Incubator (business development) and loved the challenge and the fact I could make a big impact.

Do I take the ‘ok’ role at Google for a few years and enjoy the perks, stable pay, and brand recognition? Or do I follow my dream now and join a startup in the Valley? It’s hard to turn down Google (my parents can’t understand why I would even think about doing that) but I know I’ll end up in a startup anyway so I feel ‘why wait’- join one in a years time.

It’s important for me to move to San Francisco- I feel I need to experience it at least for a few years. I’m interested to hear your thoughts based on your experience on what would be the best way for me to develop my skills out of college. It’s a tough life decision and I really appreciate your insight and advice.
How are the purposes unfortunate? I see the connection between the cryopreserved often being smart folk, so that in the future at some point it might be adventageous to revive them for their intellect, but...

Consider that by the time they can perfect the nanotechnology to repair the brain damage dealt by the freezing process, they will easily be able to genetically engineer a near maximally capable brain. Why not just genetically engineer humans that have high cognitive potential than try to reintegrate those so long dead they cannot function in this futuristic society?

It won't cost them much to revive people, but I don't expect the preserved to be sought after for their intellect.
You may not be able to find one at that price any more, but I know plenty of people who pay that since they're protected by rent control.
Blinders. You're thinking of blinders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkers_%28horse_tack%29
"There is also a one-time payment of $34.95 per Library to receive a Steward’s Packet of support materials and 1 official charter sign and number for your Library."

For that amount you can get 20-30 used books at a library sale to stock your little library.
I'm sorry, my point was specificaly about the US which has an almost religious relationship to its right of speech. Something that, to my knowledge, doesn't exist in Europe for various historical reasons.

Thanks for the interesting facts about UK though. Although i don't think the internet has changed the nature of any state. Countries that abuse internet surveillance now probably abused phone wiring and police investigation on individuals before.
hypothesis is whether professional women are rated differently than professional men

The point is that you can't know whether they're rated differently (by different criteria) or actually different.
I have found that a Provigil/Nuvigil nap works wonders. Take a Provigil and take a nap. When you wake up you'll be crisp morning-fresh.
Some part of the city you don't want to live in.
Entire animals can freeze:

http://www.livescience.com/32175-can-frogs-survive-being-fro...
Is it illegal to send unsolicited emails to companies?
I am interested in helping my friend get the word out about his tech blog, and one way would be to send an email to tech companies telling them about it. But is it illegal?
If it's that hard to fall asleep, then you don't need a nap. Problem solved. Depending on their job, diet, exercise, age, etc., some people just really really really really need a 10-15 minute nap in the early afternoon to get through the rest of the day. The need comes over you quickly, and you either do it or spend the rest of the day struggling to stay awake and focused on your work. I don't think anyone is suggesting that people who aren't actually tired take naps.
Because their client base is enterprise, their goal is naturally features in that area rather than technical leadership for the community as a whole.
According to the comments, it's the SF metro area including Daly City, Hayward, Oakland etc which drops the price quite a bit
It's nice to see a thoughtful critique/comparison (dev on iOS gmaps here). Interestingly I don't think anyone who works on iOS maps lives in a citymapper-enabled city.

Couple of points that might be helpful if the writer reads this:

- you can switch off the shake-to-send feedback (it even prompts you to do so if you dismiss it a few times without leaving feedback).

- I'm not sure how the Citymapper UI in scenario 2 (getting directions from a->b) differs from using the directions search screen in googlemaps (reached via the little button with arrows next to the profile button). It presents the directions search screen immediately and would cut down the time in that scenario drastically. (But I guess if the person writing the article doesn't know about that button that's rather a UI smell. I wonder how many people don't know that our things that don't look like buttons are buttons?)

- Scenario 5 is also fixed by using the directions non-button, your previous searches show up in the zero type suggestions there.

I am however going to try and convince the powers that be that Citibike integration is a must, so I can have a holiday to new york.
Nice! Do you have any plans for a transition to Material Design ?
> people will stop believing this and rationality will reassert itself

Those are two very different things. Rationality will not reassert itself (has it ever been asserted? :)) because human existence is probably not compatible with pervasive rationality (i.e. rationality in humans is limited to very narrow scopes, usually those that don't scare us or induce other strong emotions), but people will stop believing this and start believing something else, or -- many won't believe this to begin with because believing in cryonics contradicts their other beliefs. If cryonics were compatible with, say, Christianity, then the resurrected would be really pissed for being dragged out of heaven. In fact, this contradiction with other, far more ubiquitous religions and most of all -- the contradiction with people's income -- will keep cryonics a very exclusive religion (like Scientology, only for geeks rather than Hollywood actors), so we need not worry running out of room in that particular, cold, cold heaven.
If one factor isn't so terrible that is overcomes all advantages of a wealthy educated society, can you really consider it a hindrance?
Hal was one year ahead of me, and the next dorm room over at Caltech. Hal was scary smart - but you had to get to know him for a while before you'd find that out. He was completely unpretentious, just a regular guy.

And a great person - I never knew anyone who had anything but good things to say about Hal. It was a privilege to know Hal.
Is there any downside to doing this? It seems like there must be a reason why the adenosine signals that it's time to sleep - like your brain actually needs that rest to recuperate properly after activity. Does a "coffee nap" (or caffeine in general) lead to increased fatigue once the effects wear off?

Although I guess to some extent if you're going to ignore the sleep signal otherwise, there likely isn't much harm in feeling alert while doing so, except inasmuch as the alert feeling causes you to tax your brain more than you otherwise would.
Google trials drone deliveries
Andy Rachleff has advice about this: "go work for a big company and learn how the best of breed does it, then go start something when you know how and are ready." There are a few caveats to this:

1. Make sure you have a great manager who will help you learn, expose you to good experiences, and support you in your career
2. Join a company where you will be doing something where you learn a lot. Google is a mixed bag for this from what I understand.

I specifically didn't follow this advice. I graduated (from grad school) and started something immediately, but I do believe roughly in the mantra: "if you aren't sure if you want to do a startup, you probably don't want to do a startup."

My advice, if you go to a big company, though, is to extremely aggressively save. Live like you would on a startup paycheck (or less). If you get used to sweet benefits and a big paycheck, it will make it much harder to leave and start something.
Inside Google’s Drone-Delivery Program
When I tried this as a teenager I ended up having lucid dreams.
This article lacked the power to tell if the effect (ie, different language in reviews) was correlated to their gender or because of a selection bias in the people studied, eg because of a possible difference in the distribution of personality types in the field from each gender.

It's possible that there's a hiring bias, and reviews are being done fairly, but show biased results when naively studied because of the underlying bias.

This is what makes social statistics hard, and there are many faults in studies involving gender that fail to account for possible confounding effects in the data.
Project Wing: Google's Secret Program for Delivery Drones
At least - unlike Scientology - it only messes with their brains after they die.
Inside Google's Drone Delivery Program
That sounds interesting - good luck with it! I'm sure there's a number of interesting aspects to the project that would make for some interesting blog posts
I thought that mp3 was not transparent at any bitrate for certain percussive sounds? There certainly are several other lossy formats which are though (e.g. AAC, vorbis, opus, musepak).