skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason Kansas City was selected was supposedly because they were the most willing to give access to utility poles and let google dig up streets/alleys where necessary to run the fibre. I don't know if that's the case with these more recent expansions, but i suspect it is.
You paid Google so they could have access to all your email data?
No vitriol from me, but I do want to try to change your perspective a bit, and it starts with this:

The world is what you experience.

Start with HN: reading HN too much can really warp your views on what the tech world is like. HN tends to feature political topics and young tech companies that are good at marketing. But that's far from what's actually going on; it's even far from what YCombinator is doing. For instance, there was a post on the YC blog just yesterday about a really neat thing that a YC-funded biotech startup has done (http://blog.ycombinator.com/one-codex-yc-s14-wins-the-cdcs-n...) -- and it was posted to HN and went basically nowhere. So, be aware that HN is distorting the tech world a bit.

Along the same lines, you only heard about Dennis, the owner of Klippers barbershop, because someone took the time to sing his ballad. Before January 19, you probably didn't know he existed. Well, there are a lot of people out there, just like Dennis, except nobody's written about them yet.

One of the things I appreciate about my business is that I meet such a wide variety of other businesses and people all the time, and it helps to re-adjust how I see the world.

For every "github announcement of some two bit project with a catchy name and a super nicely designed logo but only an initial commit of a blank page", I bet there are at least two github projects that have gone unannounced that are labors of love by some developer somewhere just trying to improve something. For every "[company] with two people, non-technical co-founders looking for a ‘first hire’ at a terribly low salary and with 0.05% stock to create their ‘vision’ which will surely ‘change the world’", I bet there's at least two companies full of really smart people who have been fighting the good fight to actually change the world. (My go-to example for this is always HN's own daniellefong, of http://lightsailenergy.com/, which YC declined to fund years ago.)

We have arduino and Beagleboard and quadcopters and all kinds of fun things now, and kids love them, and these represent "toy computing" in exactly the same way that the Commodore did when I was young -- only now the computers can fly, swim, crawl, and roll.

I think your advice to avoid crap projects is good, but ... even then, I think that helping people cultivate "a job is just a job" attitude might be better. Go to work, do a good job, get paid ... then go home and do what you really love. The part of crap work that really screws people over is that we invest so much of our self-worth in our jobs. You can "keep the love for the tech alive" at home, and still work for the "get rich quick types" -- just make sure you get paid.

I guess I'm not feeling very curmudgeonly today. I don't think a few comments from a few people that are unhappy with the way their parts of the world has turned out actually means things are all that bad. Things actually seem pretty good to me still.
You are correct that the founder's Y chromosome should be the same as his father's - barring tiny mutations.

The "founder" is defined like this:

You notice that a large portion of men in a population share a Y chromosome. The chromos are not exactly identical, due to the natural rate of mutations. You determine the amount of mutations, from the existing population, that would make all those Ys converge on the same chromosome back in time.

Knowing the amount of mutations, and knowing the average natural rate of mutations, you can calculate the time - let's say 1000 years ago. It then follows that 1000 years ago there was a man who had lots of descendants - and this is the "founder".

In the "career" of that chromosome, there's a natural bottleneck right until the "founder's" generation. After that there's a sudden expansion.
a) yeah, but if coinbase and bitcoin are successful, that won't be true for long. I'm sure those guys are hoping Wall Street money will start coming in. If the bitcoin price spikes again, they may then have to stop being insured, which is worse than just not having it. Still, fair point.

b) Why unreasonable? Because only a really foolish person would keep a humongous amount of value stored on an exchange. There just isn't any reason to use an exchange like a bank exept laziness. The only exception here would be market makers and maybe big-time day traders who actually have a reason to keep a ton of money on the exchange at all times. Of course, those are the most valued partners/customers for an exchange. I would think it would make sense for Coinbase to make deals with such people to give them "priority" in case of any solvency problems, or to ensure them somehow on an individual basis, but I don't know for certain that that is legally viable.

So in my point (b), in some ways, I'm vindicating what you are saying. But still, for the vast majority of people in bitcoin-land, there is no reason to have more value stored in Coinbase than what you need to do whatever you are doing.

For example, for me personally, if I transfer $10k to Coinbase, I'm not paranoid enough to be worried about their offline coins being insured. And I wouldn't transfer a large enough amount of money to really impact me financially regardless. At least, not all at once; if I really wanted to do that, I would do it in stages.
Insurance is designed to cover loss in case of accidents, natural disaster, etc.

You can't say your homeowners insurance won't cover you because your house burned down because you were cooking and you aren't a world-class chef.
This site has given us more signups than Product Hunt + Venture Beat combined - and this is only in the past few hours. Total traffic so far - 12k.
Have you tried Zepto[1]? It's ~9kb gzipped, and is compatible with a lot of jQuery's API. I've found that for a lot of the stuff I used jQuery for, it's mostly a drop-in replacement.

[1]: http://zeptojs.com/
This is why using the word "own" and the concept of "property" in general when applied to these things is folly.

The user is still the copyright holder, which is what's usually known as "owning" the content.
I'll be the first to admit that I've heard a lot of irrational arguments from people trying to advocate or disprove a particular religion. But you're saying that because you've only heard or explored irrational arguments for theism or atheism that all arguments for theism or atheism are irrational. Your argument is irrational.
GHOST Glibc Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Affects All Linux Systems
Fighting back isn't free. They have to upgrade infrastructure, and send out new modems. This means they are only going to fight if they have to.
In a word, quality.

In a few more words, the product appears to have been designed with user needs in focus more than the others, and the end product is closer to solving them. The article reveals some of the ways they've achieved that. Furthermore, it goes beyond simply meeting user needs into a superlative user experience that also exceeds expectations. It's not too complicated: a big part of their success is that they have created a better product in the eyes of users.
Even better would be to turn on an option for a user to show/hide political posts from the site all together
> such as changing data in sibling components

[Cursors] can help a lot with this problem. As far as sibling/child components know, they own the state, but they're really using immutability helpers to update a larger encompassing state object.

[Cursors]: https://github.com/caseywebdev/cursors
It would still be an improvement.
Hahah yeah it's way easier to navigate a smartphone than it is to operate a key
I find it pretty funny how no matter how many times we're shown that unsafe languages blow up on all sorts of code by all sorts of programmers, anyone would still try to defend the language.

FFS in this case they even found the bug and fixed it, but didn't notice how it could be a vulnerability. So even with eyes directly on issues, we (human programmers excluding djb) can't seem to get it right.
lodash v2 offers an Underscore build that aligns its chaining and other API with Underscore providing a full drop-in replacement. However because lodash is a superset of Underscore those using the Underscore build lose out on additional methods, optimizations, & cross environment fixes.

Over the last year Underscore has align more & more with lodash’s API so the need for a separate Underscore build has diminished. If you still need compatibility around some of the edges you should leverage modules in lodash v3 to supplement your Underscore use until the time you can drop Underscore completely.
> Let's also mention WHY those spending cuts were demanded: Because Greece was on the verge of bankruptcy[...].

That, while true, leaves out the quite important fact that Greece was only on the verge of bankruptcy because they bailed out their banks. One can nicely see that on charts displaying the debt/GDP ratio: While high for quite a few years, it was more or less constant. The bailout was the one factor that created the explosive dept growth. Now it gets interesting: Whose money was in these banks, invested in high risk/ high yield projects? Mostly investments of european upper class/upper middle class (because small Greece had an even smaller upper class). That's why so many German banks like Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank and the now defunct Hypo Real Estate hold so many Greek government bonds. By bailing out the Greek (and Spanish, Irish etc.) banks the European population indirectly subsidises the risky investments of its own upper class. That's also the reason why the austerity measures are so inconsequential: While pensions get cut and hospitals closed, profiteers like Germany have no qualms to sell German tanks and submarines worth billions of € to Greece (the German submarines alone cost 3 billion) [1].

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/greece-military...

edit:typo
Wow that is epic. I got to the bottom and saw there was a show trimmed parts notice making the list even longer.
It seems like Slack highlights any mention of your handle regardless of whether its prepended by an "@".
Here is a gist which contains source code for testing if a system is vulnerable: https://gist.github.com/koelling/ef9b2b9d0be6d6dbab63

e.g.:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/koelling/ef9b2b9d0be6d6dbab63/raw/de1730049198c64eaf8f8ab015a3c8b23b63fd34/gistfile1.c > gistfile1.c
gcc -o ghost-test gistfile1.c
./ghost-test

not vulnerable
Proximity cards themselves are secure, but usually the thing that opens the door isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bttr7fEfxiE
Why is this acceptable? Digging up bones to identify a man who has been dead for 400 years seems pretty disrespectful. What is the real motivation here?

When I die super famous and having made a profound impact on history, please let my body decompose in peace.
Raleigh-Durham, Austin, and to a lesser extent Provo, are definitely regional tech hubs.

Another interesting observation is that all four of the new cities surround Chattanooga, TN which has had municipal gigabit fiber for years now. I wonder if that had anything to do with Google's decision-making process.
Nice to see this appear on HN!

For info the author also released an impressive serie of very tiny intros ranging from 64 to 256 bytes which can be found on his personal site : http://olivier.poudade.free.fr
Twitter hacking exploit
I uploaded this yesturday but the program wasnt working for some people so i fixed and updated the link.

Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxfH3F9O5Zw

Direct link; http://ge.tt/8OS3WN92/v/0
Yes and no.

Genghis Khan actually rose from a modest station in life, unremarkable by that time and place's standards. But you're right that it was a family thing - he had lots and lots of descendants, about half of which were male, and these descendants inherited some of the high status of their father, and therefore also had lots of descendants. And so on over generations, until the status faded.

It was a family thing indeed, but it started with one man, and that man was Temujin, a.k.a. Genghis Khan.
The comment you're complaining about downvotes looks to be at +33 right now. The downvote situation is always in flux, which is one reason why the HN guidelines ask you not to post comments complaining about being downvoted.

I'm going to detach this subthread and mark it off topic now.
I've been toying with mercury, which is similar to React/flux, and had the same dilemma as the parent. It seems a bit strange to use a really light weight library like mercury and then throw jQuery into the mix.

I also checked out superagent and it seems to have a good amount of dependencies. I was thinking of simply wrapping XMLHttpRequest with the promise lib of my choice.

This link seems relevant...
http://youmightnotneedjquery.com
I agree with gist of the article, but the following passage is unclear and could use elaboration:

"Phone calls: I schedule almost all phone calls, except for ones with high priority people. This high priority ones interrupt whatever I’m doing or get done on a drive to and from the office."

Does this mean that if he does a phone call, he's usually the one who schedules it? And how does he determine who is a high/low priority person? Is his assistant a control point in this regard? Does he generally refuse inbound phone call invitations? Do people in his company know not to send him phone meeting requests?
I never knew Carmack was such a delinquent badass. And he's still a sports car hobbyist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L51eoUFp_YA
Inbox (by Google) has that.
Here is the TV lineup for Kansas city Google fiber customers. Looks like they have all the local and traditional channels. Then add-ons like HBO for $20/month.

https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/channels/
Perhaps you're not color blind enough. :-) I'm much more than mildly color blind and I can distinguish the legend items just fine. Certainly more so than most graphs/maps I see.
> More to the point, who cares?

Did you forget about the entire city of Philadelphia? 14 inches predicted, < 1 inch actual snowfall.

The city is practically a ghost town today thanks to a botched weather forecast. Tons of businesses and schools closed preemptively because they were predicting massive snowfall totals with what seemed like absolute certainty. According to meteorologists here, it wasn't about whether or not we were getting snow, it was about whether we were getting 1 foot or 2 feet.
Dell Updates Linux-powered Developer Edition Portables with M3800 Monster
> they can't think their way out of a paper bag

Can you elaborate on this? Is this based on first-hand experience, media coverage, or some other source?
> I'm a very cynical person overall, but I love where we are. I have a supercomputer in my pocket that can get just about any piece of data I want instantly. (I was video chatting with a friend while walking my dog the other day! And it was no big deal!) I can also play scrabble with someone I've never met in a country I'll never visit 10,000 miles away. If other people want to keep track of which celebrity slept with whom, so be it. But I'm enjoying life like never before, and it seems like most of what I can do is accessible to most people (at least here in the US).

I'm not down on talking about dogs or playing scrabble, but does doing these things online instead of in person really improve your life? I mean, you're not actually learning about this person's culture by playing scrabble with them, or seeing life through their eyes. The internet enables these facile interactions between people. Again, it's fun, but it's at best equivalent to things we could do before. I play Scrabble too, but I don't think that playing it on my phone with someone 10,000 miles away is any better than playing it with my neighbor. If I couldn't play Scrabble on my phone it would be no loss to me.
I noticed they use a Bloom Filter based on ip address to prevent people from voting multiple times. According to the implementation[1] it uses a 256-byte structure and limits the total number of votes on a post to 142 [2] (more than that and the false-positive rate > 0.001). This is stored as a sqlite BLOB on the same row as the comment.

But if you're limiting votes to ~142 anyways, you can just store the exact ip address of every voter (packed in the BLOB at 4 bytes each) and it would only reach up to double the space (~560). But since the overwhelmingly vast majority of comments won't get nearly that many votes, you'd actually be saving space compared to keeping a bloom filter for each comment.

It seems like an overengineered and unnecessary technical complexity.

[1]: https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/isso/utils/__ini...

[2]: https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/isso/db/comments...
Howard Lefkowitz Shares Insight About His New Company
Because you're talking about a few cities affected, while the incumbents have a very large number of them in their markets. Waiting to get the names, and changing only those, allow them to keep milking cities where google fiber is not coming (which is most of their market).
Relevant AWS thread https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=170359&ts...
Thanks for your patience. It should be working fine now!
But the problem is a problem of planning for uncertainties. Let's say you know its 50/50 chance of a "bad storm" and you have to make a decision to flip the "emergency prep" switch. You now have four possibilities with associated costs. (and that's a drastically simplified analysis)

With the right data, you can come to some level of statistically optimized set of decisions, but that won't ever completely eliminate the instances when you turn on emergency actions, but the storm doesn't follow up. It merely minimizes them...

Really, if all these private and public entities care about the accuracy of forecasts, maybe they should have made more noise when NOAA programs were being gutted during the budget process and long term decisions were being made about satellite programs... I can't imagine what the handwringing will be if the satellite coverage gaps come to pass. Maybe we'd actually learn that certain investments in common needs actually pay off quite well.
I love this idea. I used to use an electric mattress pad to have a nice toasty bed to get into. Combining that low-tech device with motion sensors and wifi connectivity is outstanding.

Just the ability to automatically log when you go to bed and when you get up is nice, from a lifelogging perspective. Add the ability to have a much more accurate picture of when you're asleep and when you're awake than any wrist band could provide, and couple that with the alarm functionality. Very neat.
wow they _still_ haven't shipped the original crowd funded one? after the third or fourth pushback, i cancelled my order and haven't even bothered to look.
> You'll notice that the inflection point in this story was #3, when some people got rich. The "culprit", therefore, is not making tools that allowed "the masses" access to programming; it's capitalism.

It's both.
I think it might be based on location (UK here), it doesn't link directly to a page in any browser I tried.
If The Social Network is a movie then I don't see why the story of Id Software couldn't be a movie.
I like it because it captures the fantasy of every script kiddie from my generation.
Well the #1 thing for me is that the majority of IPsec functions are in the kernel and don't require that a userland daemon be running (which OpenVPN requires). Beyond that, I've just found that, while a bit more arduous to configure initially, performance is far superior and stability is better than OpenVPN.

Beyond that, pretty much every router out there supports IPsec, so if you're needing to integrate with other non-pfsense hardware, IPSec is often your only option.
> I've been tracking the new downvoting trend for the last week or so. Seems there's a lot of accounts downvoting everything that doesn't coincide with Western Government sensibilities.

I'm not sure what new downvoting trend you're referring to, but I'm pretty sure there is no new anti-anti-Western-government trend on HN.

There's a strong cognitive bias toward seeing one's own views as being treated more unfairly. But as far as we can tell, there's nothing so systematic in voting behavior on the site.
> They're based in the US, they have good investors, but still fundamentally similar to Mt. Gox.

I just don't agree with that. Those two things make them fundamentally different than Mt. Gox. The other fundamental difference is that they are not run by Mark Karpeles. I have to believe Karpeles is an exceptionally immoral/careless (or something, I'm not exactly sure) person, not anywhere close to the average.

But there is definitely some validity in what you are saying. I mean, nobody should trust to any bitcoin exchange more than they can afford to lose.

> I also want to thank you for the interesting conversation. Much appreciated!

Same to you!
You're completely right. Regardless of who's to blame, the result was school busses in ditches and all sorts of other fun.
> Google looked at Seattle's NIMBY laws regarding utility boxes on sidewalks (each requiring a lengthy community approval process)

Which is good, as sidewalks are for walking, not utility installation pads.

In much of the UK outside conservation areas BT has powers to install cabinets as it sees fit. Combined with utility poles there are now some pavements on my town impassable to prams.
What do you mean? Their product delay was minimal compared to lockitron (~2years!) and they kept everyone well informed regarding the delay(same can not be said for lockitron). Their refined shipping estimates in light of delays were also spot on. I could not be happier with how Soylent handled things, while I would NEVER purchase anything from lockitron again.
Thank you for sharing this. Do you mind telling us a bit more? How do you earn money? How are you spending your days?
I dunno, Nashville's got the AT&T building, heck Google put it squarely in the shot and images for this rollout, seems almost like a message, though it is pretty iconic in a city with little other skyline.
Seems like a complement to protobuf -- kythe describes code, protobuf describes data. Neat.
Here's an idea for a web plugin: it takes displayed colors that you have difficulty distinguishing and moves them in color space, to the point where you can distinguish them.
Yap it's tested in IE6 & full support. https://saucelabs.com/u/lodash
Whatsapp Web shows that too. https://web.whatsapp.com
This is certainly a move in the right direction and I'm glad a startup is caring about its employees like that.

"What is your startup's parental leave policy?"

In my country 6 months leaves (with full payment) are mandatory for mothers. Mothers also gain job stability soon as they get pregnant and cannot be fired due to their time off. I live in a 3rd world country and it really blows my mind developed countries allows such short leaves. In my company we give the mandatory 6 month leave, we also pay medical bills if there are any and 12 month health insurance for the baby (some employees choose their own insurance plans, some don't cover pregnancy). There is an option to give only a 4 month leave, but it's very expensive and most companies don't even consider that.

I'm a father of one (and expecting the second). I think 6 months is not enough. Yes, paying salaries for employees on leave adds costs, but this is diluted in the company cost and there are tax breaks over it.
We actually have a page dedicated to the behind-the-scenes stuff that should answer your question: http://icecomm.io/how-it-works
This is very cool. For the next assignment, work in a Duff's Device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device