skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is much more like a loose federation of nearby townships than it is a city

I'm finding this same pattern in the Bay Area too (moved to Mountain View last spring). Does this match your experience? I've never explored LA.

In any case, the many-small-town structure is kind of disorienting coming from a another city with a central, lively downtown, but I can also sort of see an appeal that the locality has. People who live in e.g. Mountain View or Palo Alto or Redwood City feel like they have a nice, small-town "main street" nearby in a way that most suburbs don't. Done right, small federated towns are not necessarily a bad way to scale. (Putting housing-density issues aside, of course; Mountain View in particular has a really nasty supply-constraint problem now that more and denser apartment buildings would go a long way toward solving.)

That said, there are things that you can't find in your own town, so you rely on the regional federated structure for those things, and then you have transportation issues because (i) it's less efficient to cover the decentralized area with mass transit than to build a spoke-and-hub system around a real downtown, and (ii) regional political coordination to build/improve systems like Caltrain/BART is much harder when you have a distributed governance structure. (Does LA have similar problems with coordinating city governments?)

So I think I prefer the 'single big central lively downtown' model better but both models are interesting, IMHO.
Considering that just about all JS code running out there is likely non-free (except pure library demos usually), one could just run NoScript if they really wanted to block such code without losing out on much. It also seems like replacing non-free applications with free counterparts is quite a bit more complex in such an environment because it'd still have to interact with the (typically) non-free server infrastructure. Not to mention that doing so might actually be (sadly) illegal.
It's a weird privacy model to try to reason about. Your anonymity depends on how many contacts your _contacts_ have. If you have a thousand contacts you may have no idea who's posting the secrets you see, and you might feel more anonymous as a result. But that's a mistake, because if any of your contacts has only a few, they can probably identify you.
I think the point is that he didn't know there was a lock. His closing argument seems to be that when you're writing muli-threaded code, you have to not only think about what your own code is doing, but also about what all the library and system calls you use are doing. Which is one of the many reasons multi-threaded code is harder to write than single threaded.
über likely also has a legal claim against Uber for infringing on their rights and marks. Clearly Uber has confused the market if this smaller business is having to handle hundreds of callers trying to reach Uber.

Massive infringement lawsuit with actual + punitive damages is probably in order. Would likely be poetic justice, at least.
Safari on Mac now supports MSE, on which there are multiple DASH implementations. Safari on iOS is behind, but it's not hard to guess where it's going.
According to Steam it works in the Steam Client, Google Chrome, and Safari: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6730-TOA...

If they just say 'Safari', it probably doesn't work on iOS at the moment. But it should work on your Mac unless an extension/addon is interfering.
This must be the most valuable article i read on ideas. Maybe you have read it, but if you haven't, it will help. It has helped me and my co-founders a lot. Good Luck!

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Hire a process server to deliver a letter to your cofounder. Be polite about - just say that it's important that the two of you talk. Either they should come back and work with you, or the two of you should part ways.

Imagine what might happen if you _don't_ break up, and your company is a success. Your cofounder would sue you for their share.
I'm having fun with this, thanks for posting it.

I'd love to see reports of basic genetic genetic properties of the population. What's the variance in fitness within each generation? This turns out to be the key factor in the rate of evolution [1], assuming that one defines fitness the way that geneticists do.

Also, estimates of the relative strengths of mutation, selection, and drift would be nice, as would options for distinguishing between hard and soft selection. These sorts of diagnostics and options could really improve the method's effectiveness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem...
The interesting thing for me is how Uber frame their method of evaluating drivers as better than taxi industry regulation.

Obviously a single incident in itself doesn't mean anything but if there is significant percentage of incidents it would indicate that the vetting needs to be changed.

It reminds me of the airbnb story about an apartment getting trashed that got a lot of attention here a couple of years back. It ended up spurring airbnb to launch a range of changes to make the service safer for users. If we had buried that then the changes may never have happened.
the presentation or site engineering that went into the story is really great! it's wonderful to see data design used to enhance rather than distract from the story.

as far as intimation/subtext that suburbs are ultimately good, i disagree BUT i'm really appreciative of how the article is laid out in terms of substantive content.

glad it was shared.
I have heard that rumor as well. Interestingly, HN's description of story flagging sounds nearly identical to Reddit's (informal) description of downvoting (presumably referring to both stories and comments):

If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.

Of course, HN doesn't have downvoting for stories (unless that's a feature I have yet to unlock), while reddit has downvoting as well as reporting (with options for spam, vote manipulation, personal information, sexualizing minors, breaking reddit, and other). I had been operating under the assumption that HN flagging was analogous to reddit reporting, but it would appear that HN flagging is intended to be more analogous to reddit downvoting.

http://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
Technically, your comment is also against the HN guidelines. And so is mine (the very one you're reading right now). I think none of us are adding anything to the discussion.
The first thing to determine is what your culture is, and then define what it means for someone to fit or not fit that culture. It's not whether you like the person, which is a mistake that a lot of companies make. Write it down - your culture isn't something that you should be ashamed of. Is your culture really "aggressive people who speak English well"? Would you put this on your website? Once you've defined your culture, filtering against it becomes much more clear I think.

Some core cultural values that I think all companies should share are honesty, integrity and accountability. Is the person willing to admit times that they made mistakes? Do they take ownership of these mistakes? Do they allocate credit to others when talking about their accomplishments (important for everyone, doubly so for managers)? Do they complain about former companies and coworkers? Do you feel that they blame others frequently? Are they upfront about their work history and experience? Is their resume honest - if you ask them about a project they worked on, do you find out that it's not really what they wrote? These are all cultural questions, and grounds to accept or reject a candidate on lack of culture fit for. These things should be explicitly important, and should be actively interviewed for.

Other grounds could be development philosophy or work culture. These are some examples:

- Perhaps you are in a shop that has a heavy focus on extensive unit and regression testing, and you meet an otherwise strong candidate who thinks that testing is important, but largely overrated.

- Or perhaps you're an established team, working on an established codebase, and you find a developer who largely prefers to rewrite software over maintaining it.

- Or perhaps you are in a team which has periods of high stress due to the nature of your business or organization, and you meet someone who doesn't work well under pressure.

- Perhaps the role requires someone willing to stand their ground, and you meet someone who seems like a pushover. Or perhaps the team already has some strong personalities, and you don't want to add another.

- Or you could be a company that values work-life balance, and meet someone who thrives on high pressure jobs.

- You might be a hectic new startup, and interview someone who prefers to have a clear career path, well defined tasks and meticulous tracking of issues and work (although seriously consider such a person, as they might just organize your lives)

- Or you have the reverse - someone who sees issue tracking as needless bureaucracy, in an organization that has a a fair amount of it.

However the danger is, unless it is defined, it becomes arbitrary. Realize that you are racist, you are sexist, you are ageist, and you are biased in a million unfair ways that you don't even know. Everyone is. And so having an arbitrary and undefined filter such as "culture fit" runs the risk of exposing those biases.
He didn't criticize just anyone. He criticized antirez. Google him. :)

Good work on this, btw. I'd be super ashamed to release the one I wrote (I was in university at the time, though that's no excuse).
You touch on many things I have thought about for years :)

I think the Mountain View / Palo Alto / Sunnyvale area mirrors the San Gabriel valley structure pretty closely (with Palo Alto ~= Pasadena, Menlo Park+Atherton ~= San Marino, Sunnyvale+Mountain View ~= Glendale+Burbank). So in that sense they are similar in one particular region.

On the other hand, LA downtown is surrounded by confederate townships. San Francisco is in some sense a city on a hill. Similarly, there is nothing like the Venice / Santa Monica / Malibu cluster providing "coastal" political influence to the city. There is no way that, e.g., Pacifica or Half Moon Bay would ever be able to be first class citizens in local politics the way that Venice/Santa Monica/Malibu are in LA politics.

Continuing the contrast, the LA area doesn't really have anything like the East Bay.

I could go on and on, but I will leave it at that for now. I do think that anyone who thinks they have an opinion on LA, but hasn't lived there, should take a moment and think that maybe it really is different from their expectations or previous experience of large cities.

Edit: one could, I suppose, say that Long Beach is, in some sense, analogous to the East Bay. They are parallel in an economic and social class sense, but I still think the East Bay is much more of a cultural component of SFBA than Long Beach is of LA Metro.
While a comment is, strictly speaking, something submitted, the guidelines page seems to use "submission" to refer specifically to story submissions (note the headers "In Submissions" and "In Comments"). If my interpretation is correct, then my first comment, your reply, and this comment are not in violation, although yours is factually incorrect. :)
It's part of the deepening relationship between Google and Wikipedia. Google is using Wikipedia content to flesh out its search results, in exchange for access to the free work of thousands of unpaid volunteers. Sergey Brin's recent $500,000 donation to Wikipedia seems like a bargain compared to other costs of data collection.

It's yet another reason why you should stop giving Wikipedia money http://newslines.org/blog/stop-giving-wikipedia-money/
Bare minimum, don't visit news websites of any kind. They're designed to attract clicks and be sensational and make you think it matters. Really, almost no news story has any impact on your life. You would be exactly as happy and able to live your life without knowing anything about the story.

Anything truly important you'll hear about from other people. If you want, get a subscription to the atlantic or something where they have long form articles that are well researched and most importantly... delayed from the events. The delay puts things into a perspective that makes it much easier not to get drawn into feeling a need to "keep up". The story, if it's worth knowing about, will still be a story in a month.
I'm starting to see more and more Cortex-Ms with DRAM interfaces. STM32F427s added them to their FSMC peripheral (their new discovery board has 32MB of DRAM actually).
HN should discuss whatever it discusses.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_picking#Legal_status

e.g. in the UK you can (apparently) buy and own them, but carrying them around in public counts as proof that you were intending to commit burglary, no other evidence needed.
Hardware
Any hardware people out there? I wanna open a hardware thread to talk about
+1 for Trello, good for personal use.
Non-interactive zero knowledge proofs for fun and profit
Uber is a bunch of sketchballs and a bunch of sockpuppets flagging the story is totally within the realm of plausibility.
I haven't looked at the specific source, but I can't imagine there's anything preventing this from being modified to run as a Web Worker on multiple threads.
I can verify that they do pay very close attention to HN posts and when I previously disclosed some internal info they attempted to stomp it down very rapidly.
In its own hilarious way, this could be closer to truth than most of the stuff here.
For me, the fear is not of dying, but of permanently losing the potential to ever experience any aspect of life again. It's an unsettling thought that I will never be able to experience fun, laughter, love, or success again. I won't have ideas, I won't hope, I won't dream. My conscious mind will simply join the eternal void and cease to exist.

I really dislike the idea of not only having no experiences, but never even having a chance of having any experiences again. I'd like to believe there could be some kind of afterlife, but I think it's overwhelmingly likely that there isn't one.

That's the only thing that frightens me.

There's also the aspect that I'll never be able to experience the undoubtedly amazing inventions and innovations in technology, food, entertainment, etc. that will sweep the world in the next few centuries and millennia. Many future humans will lead lives we could never even begin to dream of, and I won't even be able to observe that from afar, let alone actually participate in it.

Another fear of mine is that I will have just barely undershot the window of biological immortality. It's very possible I've missed it by 200-300 years, maybe even 100 years, which on the grand scale of human history and the universe's history is exceedingly small. So close, and yet so far.
> It's a legal distinction.

No, its not. The article lays out precisely what the FSF's policy on triviality is, and it has no relation to any criteria in copyright law; that's not to say that "triviality" might be a good common-language term for a real consideration in copyright law that relates to whether something is an original work of authorship subject to copyright law, but to the extent it is it has nothing to do with the "triviality" at issue in the article here.
Now all...dead

(not sure if that was the obvious intention)
It's entirely relevant. First, it's related to Uber's international expansion, which I believed was covered on HN very recently. That story was pretty weak of "intellectual curiosity". This kind of story could doom them in certain markets. It also relates to how Uber's business practice of keeping drivers at arms length when compared to taxis may impact the quality of the experience (this is a crazy extreme example).
Great stuff. Bonus karma for "w/r/t" and Trados. A few thoughts:

Risk is also a big part of shareholder value. Some stockholders may want exposure to an operation in the company's industry that isn't highly correlated to the market en masse, with higher risk and possible reward. (This is akin to the VC outlook, backed by redemption rights to pull the plug on any would-be "lifestyle businesses". It also sounds in Trados.) Others, including insiders, may have no way to diversify portfolios that are very heavy in the company's stock, and so prefer less or different risk.

You hint at this by your comment on short-termism of careerist managers, and implicitly by picking stock price (rather than, e.g., book) as value. The trouble with market value of securities is that potential purchasers are diverse in their risk appetites and so value diversely. A buyer and a seller might meet at a price by very different calculations. A price of $x per share doesn't mean that all prospective buyers would value the security at $x, or even that all current holders value at $x. Increasing $x by taking risk that's at odds with shareholder A's portfolio needs doesn't benefit A like it benefits others who need that exposure, especially if A can't efficiently trade for a more suitable substitute.

With respect to acqui-hires, I've seen enough variety and change to wonder whether I've enough firm ground to park a generalization. I've yet to hear of a structure that's purpose-built for locking in people so VCs can extract ransom on acqui-hire (perhaps using debt?). In terms of hired employee talent, there isn't much in the way of leverage against the at-will nature of employment and acqui-hirers' willingness to buy out options and sweat equity. Especially in a state like California that doesn't enforce many non-competes, that raises the question of why the hiring bother with acquiring at all. All sides involved---VCs, companies, and personnel---may be eyeing other benefits. As an entrepreneur (or an investor), "acquired" sounds much better than "abandoned". Talent likes to walk a bridge, rather than take a leap of faith, and keep good teams together. VCs would rather have a runner, but as dogs go, it's not so bad to put more of "your people" in a large company with cash to spend. It may be easier to buy with stock or options than justify an out-sized compensation plan award to existing employees. All the deals I've seen seem "personal" in these kinds of ways. Maybe the personal touch is the real story. Maybe it's just what I've seen and heard.

Concerning alignment in start-ups, I think it's worth pointing out that a lot of language goes into aligning those involved, resulting in potentially many series of diverse equity securities, plus notes and other instruments in between and all around. Everybody wants to get rich, sure, and when people are getting rich, even board meetings can be fun. Nothing like a new-money down-round to remember the house is built on fault lines.
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Initial traction seemed to be punctuated by relatively high-value leaks from silicon valley, which earned it attention from SV media. More broadly, "leaks" trends towards cyberbullying. A perfect example of bubble economics, with the value of startups being largely based on how they feed the startup industry, not the economy as a whole.

I thought it was a bad sign that the founders pocketed $6M 6 months post-launch. [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-founders-pocket-6-mill...
Uh, you can't just drop in 'random_r' in place of 'random'. If you do that, what will happen is that you'll get the same sequence of random numbers in every thread, making the whole multithreading exercise useless!

You have to be sure to seed the generator differently in each thread, before calling 'random_r'.
I first experienced anxiety about the inevitability of death (or non-existing ever again) when I was sixteen. Grew up on atheist family so I never had the comfort from religion.

These are some of the ideas that have helped me along, in case is useful for anyone. Take what works for you, ignore the rest.

1- Don't spend too much time thinking about it. Your time is short, it is silly to waste it worrying. You cannot do much about it anyway.

2- Death is the price you pay for living. Be grateful that you had the chance. It is truly a miracle that you are even alive.

3- Enjoy life and leave a legacy. It can be as simple and as important as the way you lived your life. Your example.

4- All the evidence tells me that there is not an afterlife. But I still save a little hope. There may be things that are unknowable. May be on the form of your 1) area. So, who knows.
With your opening, I can't help but `s/Watson Analytics/Personal Computing/g` in my head.
Investment fund fees matter
[flagkilled] Uber Confirms It Is Assisting Police in India Following an Alleged Rape (techcrunch.com) [1]

This only has 1 upvote. Why would it have N^F flags?

"Flagkilled" must be something else or who knows?

[1] Link is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711222
very cool and i will use it - i just fear its gonna be slow, stuff like this really shines when its done in c++ or hand optimized asm. i like the fact its only 1 file i need to include. gj.
I beleive by 'peeking into the queue' he means, is the only way to see the messages by receiving, or can you inspect the list of messages yet to be received without actually calling receive?
I assume your complaint about the article length is that life is short, time is fleeting, and the 20 minutes you'd spend reading the article can be better put to seizing the day. Carpe diem!
That's true, that sparked the $1m insurance policy iirc.
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> These jokes perpetuate a meme that makes Nigeria poorer.

That's absurd. 419/Yahoo-Yahoo and corruption are a big problem there. That makes Nigeria poorer, not jokes.
Gets to ~97% in the first few minutes and then takes a long time hunting for very small gains. I was hoping to see more dramatic improvement after the first couple of minutes as well, but I was amused by the thought that followed after my evolving image failed to look successively more like a Mondrian.

We were told early in public school that we share 98% (or some such very high number percent) of our DNA with our simian relatives. I always was amazed at how just small a section of the genome was responsible for such amazing diversity among primates, or even mammals in general.

Seeing the wild differences that result in these images when you're given 3% of leeway between generations really helps me appreciate the vast number of individuals in our species!
I rock climb because when you are in fight or flight, you don't think about anything but that next hold. It lets me reset and turn off everything else for a short time. Participating in endurance sports gives me time to think to myself and prioritize/concentrate what I want to do during the rest of the day. A list of daily goals helps when I'm really overloaded.

I also don't watch TV and I've removed most infinite scroll apps from my phone.
Huh, no wonder he's from Uttar Pradesh. The BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan (although much better now) and Uttar Pradesh) will keep dragging India down to medieval times.
Not sure why they are excluding older entrepreneurs (18-29 is the required age). I went to UofT, I'm in my mid-30s and in the Toronto area .. I get excluded from the whole Waterloo ecosystem, and programs such as this one. What I have around me is Mars, which doesn't make sense to me. Frankly, there seems to be a better tech culture around Ryerson (again, targeted at their students) than for my alma mater. We have Mars close by but as you can tell, I don't see how it benefits fledgling entrepreneurs.
Let's see... Having your personal info recorded because of a startup's security flaw is 100% suitable content for HN, but getting raped because of a startup's security flaw is "rubbernecking" a "gender issue".

People like you should be banned from banning HN stories.
...and madvise hardly does anything.