skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's 100% they can be held liable if they refuse to comply with a judge, but I don't believe they're guilty by assosciation, thy have to follow a similar procedure to DMCA, do they not?
I think people need to come to the realization that real estate purchases by super wealthy is nothing more than a ponzi scheme.
It does indeed catch it

$ go test -race -bench=.

...

WARNING: DATA RACE
Write by goroutine 4:
sync.raceWrite()
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/sync/race.go:41 +0x35
sync.(*WaitGroup).Wait()
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/sync/waitgroup.go:120 +0x16d
_/home/twirrim/monte.GetPiMulti()
/home/twirrim/monte/monte.go:56 +0x23a
_/home/twirrim/monte.BenchmarkGetPiMulti()
/home/twirrim/monte/monte_test.go:17 +0x62
testing.(*B).runN()
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/testing/benchmark.go:119 +0xc0
testing.(*B).launch()
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/testing/benchmark.go:207 +0x1ba

...

And so on.
I don't think this is going to happen unless self driving cars become the default model and drive costs down so much that each trip is the equivalent of close to the fare price of a bus ticket.

A tank of gas costs me currently about $20-$25 (Prius) while a recent ride for roughly 13-15 minutes cost me about $20 which definitely doesn't outweigh the value of owning a car trip wise.

Additionally it ignores the overall convenience of owning a car for transporting things like grocery, etc...

As someone who does use Uber and Lyft on several occasions, it's at best a supplementary service for my needs and as I'd imagine, many others
Like most things Bitcoin-related, it caused a big splash and then kinda just faded into the background, while much more mundane and incremental developments plod along.
There are recruiters out there that fall into the later category. lookahead.com.au is a great example of a company that doesn't spam, doesn't pressure and doesn't lie.

I've known the founder of the company for about 5 years now and he is well respected within the communities he operates in (Ruby on Rails, iOS, DevOps, etc)
Having GC does not mean that you need to surrender all of control. You just need to know which operations are allocating memory (consing) and which are destructive. In Common Lisp you often have both variants available - like reverse & nreverse.
Very cool. I love Kuru Kuru Kururin! (shame about the complex name and the awkward acronym :P)

Another strategy that I'm wondering if the author explored is to use basic colour detection to find the edge of the map, the orientation and speed of the stick. It might be that it changes too often or is non-unique (the game is very exciting and colourful...).

That way, the 'bot' would not ostensibly be cheating, it would not have access to information that a human doesn't - it would just have the benefit of perfect motor skills.

Hacking in and reading RAM is brilliant, though.

edit: Thinking about it a bit more, I suppose you're not really gaining anything by knowing the map ahead of time; you can map it over time by traversing; and if I recall correctly there is a way to detach the camera and look around.
http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/
> If I am the owner I would probably think otherwise.

If you're the owner, you're the one setting the goals and timelines. If your team seems to easily meet your expectations, then yeah, you're justified in pushing them a bit. But if they can't keep up, you have to make the choice between hiring more people or easing the expectations back to where your existing team can complete the tasks. There is a third option: push harder and expect more from your workers, but the tradeoffs from the short term productivity increase is just that - short term - and detrimental to your business in the long run.

More specifically, if person A can get `N/2` tasks done in a week (where N is the average velocity), and person B can get `N * 2`, reward person B, set up a performance plan for person A, assign out tasks appropriately, and move on with life. If you really need `N * 5` output every week and have four employees, hire another employee. Don't keep giving person A N tasks and expect persons B, C, and D to do their work plus person A's.

EDIT: Formatting fix
I think publications write about "Anything Cats" simply because they know that alot of people will read and discuss the articles.

That being said, my cat doesn't like to sit in a box but she does enjoy an open sock drawer or suitcase.
The Canadian Government's archaic and embarrassing security screening application
I'm familiar with that.

Joey's apparent resistance to simply splitting out 'parallel' to its own package is ... disappointing. His final comment (regarding other utilities in upstream and switches) is non sequiturs and red herrings.
The Cult of the Coffee Cup
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. That said, I think you're overstating the negatives of many cities.

Seattle? Full of Amholes.

I worked at Google, which is similar to Amazon. Most people weren't assholes. A company can have a really negative culture (most large tech companies do, and I'd include Google insofar as it has stack-ranking, the 18-month rule, and internal-mobility issues) and still have 60-70% of the people be decent, admirable, even fun to be around. Trust me on this. Stop stereotyping people by their company; these "change the world" startups really aren't superior to Google or Amazon or even Goldman Sachs.

New York isn't ruined by Goldman Sachs and Seattle isn't going to be ruined by Amazon.

Chicago? Too cold.

Overstated. Today, it's beautiful. Actually, the average winter day is quite nice: slightly below freezing (great for cross-country skiing, winter running, etc.) but not unpleasantly cold. The coldest winter days require long johns. It really isn't bad if you know how to dress for it.

I won't claim that the climate here is as agreeable as San Diego's, but for a climate north of 40 degrees, it's fine. The coldest days are very cold, but the winter is not as cloudy as Seattle's, not as long as Europe's (mid-late March is actually spring), and not as stormy (in winter) as New York's.

North of 40 degrees, you're going to pay one way or another in winter, whether it's the clouds of Seattle (or Europe) or the cold/snow of Chicago or the 35-degree rain of the East Coast. Personally, I'd pick dry cold and semi-frequent sun.

San Francisco? Too poor, dirty, and it'll take them at least another 50 years to build out modern-day infrastructure (high density housing + transit). And that's only if current levels of local government corruption don't increase.

I'm not going to defend SF. It's a nice place to visit and its topography is incredible. The weather isn't bad. However, it's not a great place to live, and it's already been compromised by foreign money laundering. And, unlike in NYC, that has spread out to the suburbs (Silicon Valley) as well. There's a lot of scumbag money propping up Palo Alto.

All the other people who failed out of life and moved to Austin seem to like it just fine.

That's a crappy characterization of a place, if I've ever heard one. I found Austin to be alright. Remember that 50 years ago, California had the stigma of being where "people who failed out of life" ended up. Then they took over entertainment, technology, and agriculture.
The Future of Work – Robert Skidelsky (2014) [video]
Ask HN: How to keep motivation despite growing bureaucracy?
In recent months I'm confronted with news like “How Ideas Die in the, Contemporary Organization” [1] and especially “Booming University Administrations” [2](also based on an FAZ article [3]), am fighting against the ARD ZDF Beitragsservice, who try to force me in paying horrendous sums for products I do not want and do not consume (no TV, no radio, no internet @ home), and a large load of bureaucratic processes in teaching and organizing a conference in the halls of academe.

As an academic in my third year into my doctorate I'm losing motivation to pursue interesting things, as a gigantic load of bureaucracy consumes more and more of my energy…

How do you going despite more and more administrivialities? How do you stay motivated while feeling as if you are the protagonists in Kafka's “The Trial”?

--

[1]: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/beruf-chance/arbeitswelt/how-ideas-die-in-the-contemporary-organization-alf-rehn-13353150.html

[2]: http://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/01/booming-university-administrations/

[3]: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/forschung-und-lehre/verbesserung-der-arbeitsbedingungen-an-unis-13354907.html

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
One of the things that irks me about current US policing is that police use tactics which imply they have more authority than they have (e.g. administrative subpoenas, demands for information, demands with withhold information, etc) and never (that I know of) get into legal trouble for doing so...

In fact in the current system such demands are not only legal but are rewarded. Police will call the resulting evidence "voluntary" even if the company had no idea it was volunteering anything (and thought, often because they didn't hire a lawyer, it was required).

Small companies in particular who don't have a staff lawyer, and who don't want to spend a thousand dollars in fees to check an incoming request, are particularly susceptible. Even if they do have a lawyer on retainer, that lawyer may not specialise in this type of law.
Mapping the Ideological Marketplace (2012) [pdf]
Author here.

Oh. HN frontpage. That's cool I guess.

Well I have plans for today, so I'm sorry that I won't be sitting here defending my article.

However if you hit me up on twitter at the link at the bottom or email me at my listed email address I'd be more than happy to respond and debate this piece in due time.

Cheers!
Reid
> As nonresidents, they pay no city income taxes and often receive hefty property tax breaks.

This strikes me as the problem. Why should these people, or for that matter any extremely wealthy homeowners, get property tax breaks?

Indeed, this article makes an excellent argument that high surtaxes should be imposed upon ultra-high-end real estate, and that the proceeds should be invested in infrastructure, public education, and/or tax breaks for the bottom 90%.

The usual counterargument against incresing tax rates at the top is that it will drive some of these taxpayers to take their business elsewhere. Seems like a win-win to me.
Well, you could just have a higher tax on residences not used by someone as a primary residence. Or basically give a tax break/rebate when someone claims it as a primary residence. Which NY already does, actually.
SnapPass – SnapChat for Passwords
> Where can i find more information regarding this.

The C++ standard, of course :) But if you prefer some lighter reading, either http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/mutex/mutex/unlock/ or http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/mutex/unlock explain what happens, in slightly different ways. I usually prefer the cppreference version, because it uses terminology from the standard more consistently, but there is no harm in reading multiple explanations about difficult concepts like these :)

I'd repeat the explanation here, but I think you'd best be served by reading one of the two links above.
link doesn't work for me. hug of death?
That is nice illustration of premature optimization. Instead of thinking "Lets parallelize", one should measure and find out what causes performance problems. Should one choose to go down the parallel path, it's a good idea to test if hyper threading degrades performance. In my experience it can be expensive use more than the physical cores.

edit:
Another issue is that I really dont like when people present speedup in %. How should 540% speedup be interpreted? It makes more sense as a ratio, so we find sequential/parallel = 10067483333/1583584841 ~= 6.36. So the parallel version achieves a speedup factor of 6.36.
Running Android Studio on a Chromebook (C720)
The protocol isn't open source. It's a cli layer over the messages app so at this point there's no way to "host" it somewhere.
I thought Chicago was hilarious - it's the only place I've lived where two people can walk in opposite directions and both still have the wind blowing directly in their faces.
Are how emails different from private messages?
I guess it depends on the work place. I work at an enterprise (>1000) sized corporation and I've torrented stuff without hearing about it. We also use bittorrent internally to help bring servers online.
You can achieve this effect in any common language with a Makefile.
A recent article used "Uber" as a verb, and poorly at that, and my comment upon the linkbaitiness and poor organization of the article got several downvotes.

It wasn't about Uber directly, to be fair.

And, of course, my comment parent to yours is being downvoted as well.

(Which leads roundly to the question of the purpose of the downvote: To flag? Perhaps. To disagree? Hmm, perhaps actually writing a contrary or critical comment is more constructive. Other? Not sure. As I've stated often enough herein, I never downvote, I don't believe in it, I believe it serves no useful purpose (flag abuse, end of story), and believe that upvoting the good is sufficient to bury the bad. But I digress.)
Very rarely, when someone makes the point of announcing that they're leaving, do they actually do anything but stick around to watch the fireworks, or continue to troll through puppet accounts.

Many of icantthinkofone's comments are complaints about how Hacker News doesn't meet their standards, meanwhile they've made two submissions - very little positive effort to improve the community. If they were serious about leaving, they wouldn't stick around to gripe as much as they have.

I don't think flouncing deserves much civility, particularly as a response to a pronouncement that this place isn't worth someone's time.
this is a sad day for the internet. Maybe hn seems like the only site left for us low bandwidth people. Another site not loading...
Hi, op here, I'm actually working on a hosted solution right now making use of a set of physical Macs and fast user switching. Hoping to have something to show for it in the next several weeks!
ANyone know of way or an app to search your iMessage threads?
Wow, this got downvoted?

For why?

Perverse pleasure aside, I really do not understand the criteria by which some apply their downvotes.

(Upvoted you in sympathy, don't believe in downvoting, etc.)
It's maybe to point out some of the irony of "Hey, let's accept another proprietary blob from Adobe" when it's not even needed anymore now.
"any language should be able to generate the exact same optimized assembly as a manual C++ vector iteration"

This is absolutely, massively untrue. If you try making compilers sometimes, you will see how very hard it is for compilers to be sure about anything.

For example: Are you calling a function anywhere inside that iteration? Is this a copying collector? Could anything that function does (or anyone it calls) possibly cause a GC, or cause us to be confused enough that we can't tell whether a GC might happen or not? Then you need read barriers on all your operations in this function, i.e. your iteration is going to be slow.

"Also, if your data to work on is being streamed in, having to make the choices in managing the allocations & uses of std::vector buffers is much less useful than having the system heuristically balance in a more managed environment."

Also absolutely, massively untrue. Your application knows more about its use cases than the generic systems it is built on (which must handle many many different kinds of programs). Because your application knows what is meant to happen, it can make much better performance decisions.
The page starts playing an annoying sound loop from the instant it loads. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
Why isn't there a centralized black list of addresses that are known to have received fraudulent orders? Just like with IP addresses that are known to have spammed.
In which case it's their job to push back on "above". They are particularly well suited to writing up a business case which says in a thousand words of manager-eese (and with lots of dollar figures) that "we need more people to finish your projects on time". Simply pushing back on you with "I have to work within the constraints set from above" is the manager being lazy.

Note, this is a subtly different response from "We will have to do more with less", which is manager-eese for "I've been shut down by my managers". That said, in either case you should probably be ready to jump ship (though in the second case, your manager will probably be willing to give you a good reference).
you could host it by using a ton of macs :P
That's a crappy characterization of a place, if I've ever heard one.

It's a fine place, but nobody thinks "You know, I'm going to become a tech billionaire then live in Austin for the rest of my life."

It's a fallback city. When you realize you can't make it in SF or NYC or other collapsing-under-wealth locales, Austin looks like a safer alternative.
You get a round of funding, or you have X in revenues. That's all you have. There is always more things that you want to do with your product than that amount of money will buy. That's not a failure of management, that is physical reality. You can't change physics, even if you are a manager.

Sure, there are plenty of cases where management has unreasonable expectations. I'm not talking about that.

And it is often not a 'management' at all. I have side projects I'm working on. I can watch TV at night, or work on the project. I have a limited budget (time) and if I don't spend it on the project, the work won't get done. It's my equity, it's my labor, it's my project. If I'm rested and able to work, but choose not to, well, I end up with less as a result.
"Because another factor which invalidates the suicide theory is that Ettore Majorana had taken his passport and a sum of money with him." [1]

Majorana left with the entire contents of his and his brother's joint savings account and five months salary cheques (previously uncashed). Sounds like he had plans, monastic or otherwise. Sciascia's essay was produced as a radio play by the BBC years ago (possibly decades ago) and struck me as plausible then. The possibility of a fission weapon was inherent in a lot of the detailed work on the nucleus in the late 30s. The Bohr-Wheeler semi-empirical model is just that: fit a polynomial to the known properties of the radioactive materials available and you have your yield...

Is there an Italian speaker with access to the original here who can render a slightly more idiomatic translation?

[1] Leonardo Sciascia The Mystery of Majorana, Tr Sacha Rabinovich, New York Review of Books Classics, 2004
Yeah, I'm talking about the month or even multiple month level. Also, our company's culture is similar to your last statement - get your work done, and please don't kill yourself. Work/life balance is important to us.

I'm in a similar situation as you, one of an upper echelon of devs and while nothing is ever official sometimes increasingly there are people "under" me on any given project. So because of that, the tasks that I'm holding in my mind and have deadlines for tend to be longer running - not the typical 4 hour sprint ticket.

If I was fresh out of college and simply pulling stickies off the queue I'd likely have a different take on things. In those situations it's literally just a matter of doing something and moving on to the next something. My personal experience these days is different, it takes a little bit to shift gears and move on to the next thing, it's not as simple as simply grabbing a sticky.
I've had sudden radio silence so much, even after talking to them on the phone. I don't understand because sure they wasted my time, but now they're wasting their time too!
This is just recognition of the fact that productivity is divorced from # of hours at the office, or # of hours spend "working'
Are you suggesting that any nation-state should have the ability to remove any domain name in the world from the ICANN registry?
Actually that is exactly the case in a library of mine[0]. Its not a bug of my code directly but due to non-POSIX compliance of Linux that triggers only with multiple threads (setuid does set the uid only for the executed thread and not for the others of the same process - unlike the manual page and POSIX states). Its a cornercase but I also explicitly raise the GOMAXPROCS in the test case to trigger it[1].

[0] https://github.com/sarnowski/mitigation

[1] https://github.com/sarnowski/mitigation/blob/master/mitigati...
Would you say that is true of ClojureScript as well? If not, what sort of differences are there in ClojureCLR?
https://flexibits.com/chatology

This looks solid
Seems like you should probably never run the tests with -race. Is there a downside from that being the default?
> Really if anything, EME is about security for vendors, not users.

EME as originally conceived is about security for vendors, yes. But Firefox and Chrome, which take their roles as user agent seriously, made sure the spec is one that they can also implement securely on their end. This is a ridiculously huge improvement over NPAPI.

Browser plugins can restrict your freedom in two ways:

1. They can monitor and restrict what you do with the content you're accessing through the plugin.

2. They can monitor and restrict what you do with ANYTHING ELSE IN THE BROWSER OR ANYWHERE ON YOUR COMPUTER.

EME-restricted video can do 1, but cannot do 2. This is not a complete victory for freedom, but it's a significant step forward.

Most of us do not live in a free-software utopia where we have direct control over every part of our machine from the firmware on up. (Although I have a lot of respect for the people who are trying to get us there!) Even if we're running a free OS, we assume, against our better judgment, that the firmware is doing only what it should be doing. If it's not, then it throws the rest of our freedom out the window.

Sandboxing EME allows us to ensure that one non-free part of the system, if we can't get rid of it, is restricted to doing only what it says it can do. This is a lot better than the status quo for any mixed free/non-free system (including free OS/non-free firmware). It's not quite the same as getting rid of it or making it free, but it's certainly not nothing.
We work five days a week, one of which is shared so we can talk. Which five days is up to the person.

Of course since I'm a cofounder I work pretty much 24/7 but such is life...
Töltött paprika – Stuffed pepper
Stuffed peppers - a simple and tasty dish that has a culinary aesthetics and amazing taste.
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First come first served. And if you leave your squat unattended, someone else can take it.

The point is to incentivize rich people to put someone in their building. Not to divy up unused buildings among the homeless.

There are tons of details that would have to be worked out with this idea. But luckily many european nations have been allowing squatting for decades, so there are lots of case studies, and legal examples to draw from.
And what did you do with emails with important information? Do you have a way to track this info?
> That's just stupid.

I will point out your "don't mine if you can buy them cheaper" is nearly logically equivalent to op's "some miners are suspending operations instead of continuing to mine", especially when considering op said "they may lack the fiat" to pay for electricity or coins (assumption).

Negating something you agree with, even in part, might be a sign of cognitive dissonance: http://www.geekceo.com/entry/bitcoin-s-polarization