skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I showed some of these to my daughter in middle school and we both found the submissions hilarious! We then had a talk about about trolls and the internet and how we could implement a meme-creator for Minecraft pics.

Edit: our fave so far: http://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/view/115
Musk's response[0]:

> A casual reader of stories about the Gigafactory might assume that the $1.3 billion number in the headlines means that the state wrote Tesla a huge check for that amount. In fact, Tesla has received no money from the state at all.

0: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/house-always-wins
Fair enough. It's plausible - I have a few of the Samsung (unlocked) at roughly that price point, but they were cheap enough that I didn't bother to shop around.
Did you read this article, or some other one? There was no mention of TARP.
I would worry about relying only on specific countermeasures like explosive detection. You can only build detectors like that for attack's that you can imagine; it's always possible someone is a bit more clever and comes up with a unique/lateral attack.

With extensive surveillance and AI good enough to interpret body-language with a high-degree of accuracy, you could have a very general detector; as long as the person knows they are being malicious, I bet it'll generally show up in his/her body-language.

Which of course opens up the possibility of having patsy's who don't know they are carrying a bomb or what-not and so have normal body language, so specific and general detection mechanisms are probably going to be needed...
There is a difference, but it's not necessarily large for deep drilling. Once you start drilling large diameter holes deep into the ground, you have to shore up that hole to prevent it from collapsing in on itself. For wells or expiatory holes, water or slurry is used, but that's not an option in this case, so there will need to be a casing involve. Installing that casing so that the pieces line line up perfectly is a complex endeavor (not impossible, it's been done, just not straight forward as "drill a hole")
Native advertising, maybe?
The argument in this comment is nonsensical. The UK's civil rights scheme is significantly different from that of the US. The US and the UK do not in fact introduce surveillance bills in any kind of synchrony. The US funded Tor, and continues to fund the security of Tor and tools like it (that might be news to you; take my word for it, though: it's an overt, deliberate, and important program). And appeals to "that's how they do it in the UK" or "that's how they do it in the US" are more likely to alienate voters than to garner support.

This reads more like free-association than truth-finding. But, good job for working SOPA into it!
I thought this was going to be about pretending to be a larger company. For years my mom pretended to be my dad's secretary when people called his work number and he wasn't around, bringing the size of the company up 200%.
I just finished a small Amiibo test with 3 Yoshis
A really dumb question:
Would it be usable for running some kind of virtual machine, like ubuntu in virtual box or vagrant?
UK government move to link web users with IP address given cautious welcome
Hrm. It's hard to say that your good example isn't better than the bad. but equally, as an upcoming programmer one should be aware of options, pitfalls, and also attitudes of programmers and how to balance them against their own experiences, desires and perspectives.

So, I think you wrote this for the wrong audience. Instead of targeting programmers (who are notoriously opinionated) you might have a more effective message if you directed it towards the upcoming programmers themselves. Understanding that you will hear such opinions a lot and how to properly cope/respond is far more effective and useful than trying to change the language of programmers everywhere.

That isn't to say there's no value in bringing this type of behavior to light and offering a better way, but I think giving those who are more fragile about it some resilience would have better reach.
Microsoft turns to robotic security guards to watch for trouble
How does Go's syntax compare to Pascal and other C contemporaries?
Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones
It's helpful to start from K&R Appendix A8.6: "A declarator is read as an assertion that when its identifier appears in an expression of the same form as the declarator, it yields an object of the specified type."
Theresa May is the Home Secretary in the UK government.

Its not clear what they are going to do about NAT or open wifi access points.
The image here of all the states falling over themselves to impress the popular kid seems straight out middle school, and I don't see much for the supporters of Tesla or the state to be proud of. The fact is that if all of these states had just told Tesla to screw off and not offered anything, the factory would be built in the most economically efficient spot in the US, boost the national economy, and provide jobs. And if Nevada didn't win this factory, it would win the next one - without paying $1.4B to do it.

Instead, Tesla used their outsize market influence to shake down the state for as much cash as possible. In the absence of these payoffs, states would have to compete on 'business-friendliness' by changing their tax structure or building permit process - improvements which would be good for all businesses. Instead we have one set of rules for those at the top of the pyramid and one set for everyone else.
>It was an ultimatum that was forced

Actually, revelations from the ongoing AIG trial are proving otherwise.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/aig-bailout-trial-rev...
G.M. ‘Bullied’ Manufacturer Over Poorly Designed Part, Email Says
You seem to simply be scanning the DOM for keywords. The first site I happened to try contained the word "gay" in one of the headlines, and surely enough http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay is also blocked. Doing this on the client side through javascript seems hopeless btw.
What line from a book has stuck with you?
SJWs are just like militant vegans who would destroy a fur article of clothing even though it was made from a bear that died naturally in the wild solely because it's fur.

SJW != progressive. SJWs are the ones who ruin it for normal people who want to make things better. They're like boneheads in relation to skinheads. Skinheads were blue collar, pro-average-person advocates. Boneheads then co-opted the style but replaced the peaceful intent with neo-nazi diatribe and conflict.

By suggesting that people should stop being the bully or victim, I'm saying that they should be conscious of their own misogyny (or similar thoughts/actions) or learn how to make positive changes rather than being angry and mob-like all the time.

Extremism is a dangerous thing.
JPEG 2000 isn't actually better than plain old jpeg.
I wonder how the original "Barbie" lady would feel about how negatively-stereotypical and cliche these books are...
What emacs communities exist?
He leaves out the part about how they unsuccessfully tried to demand such a payment with the old "I'll just take my toys and leave" play.

>Then Musk talked to Sandoval about two weeks later, and the deal was suddenly off. Musk had changed his demands. He now wanted a staggering $500 million in cash upfront instead of some of the tax abatements. This was simply impossible for Nevada. The state didn’t have that kind of money—its entire budget is just $6.5 billion—and it wasn’t about to write a half-billion-dollar check.

>For a second time, Nevada’s team braced itself and said no. “The conversations got pretty darn tense,” says Hill. “Tesla was not happy.”

>The company made its pique apparent: On July 23 it shut down the grading work outside Reno, abruptly sending 240 construction workers home. O’Connell explains Tesla’s attitude this way: “Okay, fine, if it’s not going to work in Nevada, we’ll take our shovel and go somewhere else.”
“dockerizability” is better than “dockerized”
The effect gets totally ruined on the demo page where the HTML5 and CSS3 shields are used which have their own light source. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/prMIIOQ.png
I think DBus is a great technology, and that this article is terrible. What I was saying is that "binary format" really doesn't mean anything.
Then that's a poorly resourced and underused rapid transit system. A heavily used subway line can run trains every 3-5 min during rush hour (and on some lines, ridership is high enough that they'd run them even more frequently if safety allowed); a bus route, every 2-3 min; and commuter rail every 10-15 min. Even at 3am, my nearest subway line runs trains 2-3 times per hour.

Unfortunately, underutilized transit options are subject to a vicious cycle wherein it's impossible to justify running more frequent service for low ridership, and lack of frequent service suppresses ridership. Once you do have a strong public transit culture, it builds on itself and makes investment in frequency an obvious choice (not just for convenience but because you need more buses/trains to fit more passengers!)
IMHO DBus suffers from the kind of overengineering that's been endemic in Desktop Linux in the last few years

It's not just Desktop Linux; I've noticed the overengineering trend in basically... all software. There's many contributing factors, probably one of the biggest being the second-system effect ("there were some problems with the old way of doing it so let's find a new way that fixes them - and all the problems that could possibly occur in the future, whether or not they may actually become problems"). I think YAGNI needs to be applied far more often than it currently is.

The solution to complexity should not involve adding more complexity.
I think I fixed the "some protected videos" last week.

If not, please share me a YT link.
I can confirm that. And I can confirm that investors are unable to tell if a B2B company has actually already found a product/market fit or not.

But I have to say that there is a part of investor responsibility too (at least in France), by using the risk taking tax breaks on the fund and then refusing to invest it with people who have not yet found the right product/market fit, everybody is incentivized to lie about their development stage. And in B2B you can lie buy presenting revenue generated through selling professional services.
I read this article. They mention TARP, they just never called it TARP. The whole premise of the article is based on the activities of a regulated bank, which has everything to go with TARP.

> They mention:

- Goldman Sachs became a regulated bank

- Which in turn allowed them to partake in activities that were allowed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

- Also that they were not a 100% on the validity and asked the Fed's to confirm if they could continue their business

> What the article fails to mention or is unclear about is:

- Goldman and Morgan Stanley were forced to accept the TARP

- A condition of TARP was that they had to immediately become a regulated bank (again not by choice)

- They complied with everything that was clear under TARP immediately and months/years before their counterparts

- They closed off their highest money making departments

- The so called windfall gain/Gift of the crisis/unfair advantage is something that is permitted under another law, which Goldman asked for clarification on

So yeah, read the article, if you did not notice that this was about TARP, it wasn't your fault, this article is constructed very very poorly and leaves a lot out and glosses over the anything else that may cast a doubt on their headline.
On the next page the author talks about ways to bulletproof this by avoiding latches and to use hysteresis to ensure that the debouncing is perfect. Not perfect in the sense that it always gets the state right -- it might register a button press when none is there if there was absolutely horrific EMI, or it might not register a button press that is too short -- but perfect in the sense that there are no undefined states. That's the point of hysteresis; you can't fake it out. If it's in the no-mans-land between decision points, it defaults to whatever it was previously.

You're right that any long chain of latches could end up metastable and screwed up. But this technique doesn't use latches, it uses multiple reads on an analog input which is interpreted digitally (but not an ADC) to preclude the possibility of any kind of undesired behavior.
On any decently sized site where you expect a user to visit multiple pages, you would load the optimized JPG on the first load, but also detect whether WEBP is supported, and if so, set a flag that will load WEBP for any additional loads.
I'd be happy to contact and otherwise help out updating that Yclist; hadn't seen it before but there are a lot of older URLs that aren't working. With the corp name (if it's possible to find) for say, California, you can look up the organization and see if it's still active, etc.
Virtually no security jobs require clearance (and the few that do aren't great), but the good ones do need you to be comfortable with software development.
> compensates for a mish-mash of inefficient and insecure technology on the backend side of things. . . no matter how optimized and clean the back end is (relative to OS X)

I'm not sure that's really an accurate characterization of OSX. In terms of security, I don't see where there have been any great number of exploits attacking the kernel (XNU) or userland (mostly FreeBSD) layers. Recent high-profile vulnerabilities like heartbleed were hardly OSX specific. I'm also not sure that those layers can really be called inefficient relative to Linux. Mach was a great deal more modular in terms of separation of concerns as compared to Linux (good for cleanliness/security, but never had great performance). However, with their XNU kernel, they seem to have made some of the same tradeoffs as Linux with respect to pure microkernel separation of concerns.

OSX has also done, in my opinion, a good job of rethinking parts of the traditional Unix infrastructure that needed rethinking. Check out JKH's talk about FreeBSD and potential future directions, and see how much that is informed by his experience leading the Unix technologies group at Apple (for the record, JKH was also one of the cofounders of FreeBSD, so he's not exactly a slouch): http://youtu.be/Mri66Uz6-8Y

I'd say the biggest reasons OSX never took off as a server OS are 1) licensing 2) coupling to Apple hardware 3) most of Apple's value-add is for desktops, laptops, and smaller portables--in other words, not compellingly better than other free nixen on the server 4) other nixen focussed on integrating the Chef/Puppet/Docker/virtualization/etc tech that you mention makes life for sysadmins easier.
More likely, they would end up buying from a Chinese supplier, and the US would miss out on all that business. And two decades from now, China would be the center of the electric car world, instead of the western US.

And perhaps the extra expense and inefficiency of overseas manufacturing would've stopped the electric car industry from getting off the ground at all.
Speaking as an American, he seems to have that stereotypical European pessimism about human nature, which is a big turn off to me.

(I realize these stereotypes are just stereotypes... I mention them here because they seem to fit well.)
At first glance, I don't like the Swift custom operators. They are not intuitive and seem there just for the hell of it.
Seeking advice about relocating
I could use some advice about relocating.
For background, I live in a medium large, very nice midwestern city that’s highly rated for being a great place to live. I have a nice house, a spouse and young children (infant and 4 yr old). I make a good living here as a senior engineer (web ~90k). For the last 2 years I’ve turned down invitations to interview with several highly regarded, established names in the Valley. I’m 40 years old (but appear 5-10 yrs younger). The job options where I am now are limited to a handful of small start-ups and very large financial/insurance (where I’d stagnate). I’ve worked hard and had great luck. I really like where I am now (medium sized, well-known company) doing app development in a rich problem domain, under a great manager, team, stack - you name it. Our Business is finding it’s way through some rapid change though (layoffs, etc), and I’m not sure how much longer the current environment will last. I feel like in 3-5 years I will regret having passed these invitations up.

Reasons I haven’t made the move:
1. My son has a serious health condition. It will likely require a major surgery in the near future (3-6 months). We have great insurance and get great care from a well-respected hospital 20 minutes from our home.
2. My wife’s job is great, but it’s tied to the area. Financially, any increase in salary I might make out there, wouldn’t make up for the loss of my wife’s income and the increased cost of living. Longer term, her earning potential much greater than mine.
3. I love where I live. I grew up near NYC. I’m doubtful I would enjoy the same standard of living & quality of life I enjoy here, there.

I feel like I have some options here for the next few years, but I’m losing sleep over it now. What would you do in my situation?
Good site tho you might get in trouble over the anonymous mailer functionality and endup with ips being blacklisted or your service being kicked of from Digital Ocean which you seem to use.
But would you have to pay tax on your limited company's turnover both in the UK and then subsequently in Spain?
sounds like a job for a package manager ;-)
You can try teamviewer though it's pricey
Yes this is the approach Tcl took, 20 years ago.
I hacked my best friend
The comparison to gm is misleading because their valuation is crushed by a $71B pension liability. It's estimated to be underfunded by $27B.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/07/why-general...
Good point; silly me for not noticing that the article is actually about a list of things that it doesn't mention.

I wouldn't say it's poorly written, it's just that isn't not the article you want it to be.

In what sense were Goldman & MS "forced to accept the TARP"? They were both free to choose bankruptcy, were they not?
I see the whole process as Musk hedging his huge bet on attaining mass-market sales for the Model 3. He has brand equity along the lines of an Apple and he's leveraging that equity to the greatest extent he can.

Lower operating costs for the factory means lower manufacturing cost for the cars means greater sales and/or profitability, therefore, increased chances that Tesla succeeds in becoming a major global automotive force.

Very appropriate that this bet be made in Nevada.
There's also http://p3rl.org/JSONY which is explicitly "JSON re-imagined for configuration files" by myself and ingy (the creator of YAML).

The key win for us is that all JSON is valid JSONY, so you can use the human friendly syntax for hand editing but still just dump out a JSON object into the file if you're generating the entire thing from code.
He's using it as a tool to think about the implications of space colonies - with the major point being that he believes that space colonies must implement some level of high fidelity individual tracking and monitoring for security purposes / that people would likely accept that loss of privacy for various reasons.
Great article. Amazon is able to produce a more reliable datacenter by creating network gear specifically for their use case. By focusing on just want they need, they can get rid of all the bloat, complications, and expense in general network systems. The more simple the system, the more reliable. Another reason general computing will all shift to the cloud.
This Week in Science – 23rd Nov 2014: Fantasy vs. Reality
Sorry for being pedantic but I think you meant 100%
Or maybe the factory just wouldn't have been an economically viable project and wouldn't have happened at all.
Any West Wing fan will recognize the futurist's "whine" as attributed to Leo McGarry, the president's chief of staff:

Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future it was promised...
Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly
the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore.
Technology stopped.

Josh Lyman: The personal computer...?

Leo McGarry: A more efficient delivery system for gossip
and pornography? Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the
Moon?
Alright. I didn't realise that I was talking directly to one of the designers of dbus, which makes some of the things I said unnecessarily harsh and perhaps even personal. Apologies for that.

I have to ask, though - why engage in a thread like this? Clearly, dbus is successful, it is being integrated into the kernel, it is used all over Linux user space by now and whatever flaws it has are clearly not impeding its use. So why bother arguing about the spec on HN?

I could sit down and discuss what an improved protocol might look like, but I don't even know if I agree that /any/ protocol that does what dbus does is the right approach, and either way, this is not the place to do so.
Thank you for all your contributions! Can you update that article to use video_id = self._match_id(url) and _VALID_URL = 'https?://...' though? We've also added a fair bit of "official" documentation at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#addi... .
Once again, Goldman proving that they are masterful in the practice of regulatory capture.
A Black Week for Uber
Also while I enjoy his writing, I feel it's in bad taste to submit your own stuff. It seems pushy.
If business is slow, don’t cry about it: Jennifer Dary, founder of Plucky
sounds like textbook negotiation tactics
Why do I get the feeling that you are not being quite as honest as you should be about your affiliations? You have commented on multiple financial article submissions in your past comments [0], including multiple Goldman Sachs articles. It's hard to take your immediate defense seriously, when you attack an article attacking the industry (possibly the company) that you work for.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bushido
I've yet to see any evidence that Go is all that fast to compile, but whether it is or not there's simply no way that the syntax will be what makes a difference vs C.

Compilers like GCC are "slow" because they do a lot of work. To see a good demonstration of how fast C compilation can be, consider Bellards TCCBOOT [1] which boots into a version of TCC that then compiles a Linux kernel and executes it - the compilation took a reported 10 seconds on a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 in 2004. When testing against the then-current gcc 3.2 with -O0, TinyCC was about 9 times faster than GCC.

There are certainly things about C that makes fast compilation tricky, but it's not the syntax (abusing a text based pre-processor instead of having a proper module system being suspect #1)

Even so, last time I looked, GCC stood up fairly well agains the Go.

[1] http://bellard.org/tcc/
That comparison is either dated or biased. Linux supports more hardware, supports many filesystems, and is definitely version-controlled. The GPL vs. BSD license discussion is political and has no place in a comparison like this, IMHO.
His course on ML made me interested in ML field and drew to coursera.
Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server
It amazes me how Canadians and Americans love the royal family, yet the whole point of North America was you had access to land and could escape the crushing serf-like structure found in the UK.