skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do yourself a favor and don't call yourself a CTO. It makes you sound silly in front of your customers. Call yourself a Founder.
'Internet of Things' demands more Web addresses, Internet founder says
Props for giving back.
I believe california will buy cars that can't pass the smog check for $1500 for low income earners and $1000 to others.

http://www.smogtips.com/vehicle_buy_back.cfm
You don't notice it when you are used to it.

Pre '75 there was nothing to control oxides of nitrogen, which smell pretty awful, and combustion was never clean enough back then to control volatiles and hydrocarbons. I think all they had were secondary air injection, which was prone to failure and subsequent removal

You may not remember the smell, but do you remember the color of the L.A. skyline?
I did this. I advise against this.

I had money saved up, and for visa reasons had to spend a year outside the USA. Seemed like a perfect time to indulge in some risky ideas, especially those which were a little idealistic.

It ended up being incredibly depressing and I got very little done.

It's hard enough to build a product when you're in a startup or a smart team. In my opinion it's nearly impossible if you're going it alone. And unless some of your friends have an exactly coincidental amount of leisure time or extra energy, you probably won't make progress.

It's especially bad if you're taking on something that you think is good for the world, because now you have extra pressure, but no extra motivation.

Plus, things that are good for the world tend to be products, and not just tools. Those are harder.

I know you, the reader reading this, are exempt from this, and you're an island of personal productivity that needs no human inputs. That's how I used to think, too. Or at least, I told myself that I was more capable than others who said the same thing and who similarly failed.

The main problem is that you think you're freeing yourself from distraction and you're just going to have 100% of time to work on something. But in the process you might also free yourself from people to tell you you are overbuilding, from customers to tell you you're doing it wrong, from the social interactions that make the day brighter. And you might feel the urge to keep it all behind the curtain until The Great Unveiling. This has the effect of making all your small progresses, in the meantime, feel useless. Success recedes further and further away, and human emotional feedback loops don't usually work in those situations.

So I suggest if you're going to use your money and time this way:

- Take on something small. REALLY small. Then cut it to 10% of that size. Then release it. Iterate if it seems to be working out and building a community.

or:

- Be very young and with enough privilege to not have to worry about debt. You have leisure time, few expenses or commitments, and extra energy, and so does almost everyone you know.

or:

- Make sure others are invested in your success and have a commitment to it that's at least in the same order of magnitude as your own. A funded startup is a wonderful way of focusing commitment like this, and ensuring that you have to talk to people all the time. But there are other models.
just went through their code. Currently not possible
How did the author couple enjoyment with nonproductive?

It seems like the opposite considering he's advocating working on an idea for no pay, which is something you'd only do because you enjoy it and can easily be seen as being productive.
Am I the only person who doesn’t give a shit about our government having a Chief Data Scientist, a CTO, and every other tech-related position? After what Snowden leaked to the world, the government, including some of these who the government has hired, are trying to convince us to spend a year or two working for the government? They’ve straight up lied to the American people about their capabilities. Why should I want to work for them if scrapping that isn’t within my power?

Also, pushing more people into community college isn’t inherently a good idea. Are people still unaware of the higher education bubble?
Hire someone way more talented than yourself. Be upfront, that you want them to write good code where that is consistent with the goals of the business and that they will have to live with the pain of the existing code base until there is a good business case for radically changing the code base. The hope is that the good business case will be such strong growth that it all has to be thrown away to make room for the wheel barrows full of money coming through the front door.

Be an example for your hire. Don't own the code. Emphasize that the hire should not own the code either. Emphasize the business goals are the goals and code is only a means of pursuing those goals. The code is not an end in itself.

It will be tough to hire. It will be tough to deal with the existing code for the person who is hired. The goal is that the right person will get it and the wrong candidates will filter themselves out.

Good luck.
Looking forward to Virtual Reality MUDs!
Pseudo Democracy
The fact that 100 new cars go by without a trace is evidence that the regulations work, no?
One kid is on the way -- and yes, I have no idea how children are going to affect our lives! I've considered going in two totally different directions: I might go for a high-paying full-time job so that my wife and I can pay for a nanny and all those other modern affluent child-raising tools, or I might try to go full-bore stay-at-home Dad changing diapers and raising the kids to grow their own food in the backyard and make their own clothes. More likely I'll muddle somewhere in between, but I want to go into it with as many options as possible, and a clear idea of what we want for ourselves and our kids.
In North Carolina the worst offenders are actually exempt from emissions test. Vehicles made before 1996 and diesel vehicles don't have to pass any sort of emissions tests.
A recruiter for mc10inc.com reached out to me and told me about their business which is exploring something here. Small wearable electronic stickers that are flexible and waterproof. I suspect that type of tech would even allow the all important 12 point ECG monitoring without the typical discomfort and immobility associated with the current method.
cgroups were largely written by members of the Borg team.
I didn't think of this yet and I had hoped there was wifi and not bluetooth - but in the end I don't think this would be a deciding factor, despite me having Bluetooth off since I first had a laptop that had it (2004).
Addendum: I am not particularly interested in smartwatches, but I wouldn't mind one.
The Gaia space observatory has a gigapixel camera. It contains 106 CCD sensors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28spacecraft%29
You can see your company's Slack stats here https://[your-company].slack.com/admin/stats
For example at work we noticed a high number of DMs (> 80%) and we're trying different things to bring that number down to promote more transparency, collaboration, and opportunity to impact decisions across the team.

Department-channels (#backend, #web, #ios) can get pretty chaotic with multiple threads getting discussed concurrently. I can see how a topic-channel (#android-release-process) would help you swarm more efficiently. But, making it private and inviting only those you think should be there seems counter to the goal of transparency and "swarming".
Maybe you could originate these topic-channels from a general channel with "@group, we're swarming on #android-release-process" and make it public.
The courts need to make it easier to handle these type of things. One of the issues mentioned here was standing which made it hard for the ACLU to bring cases against the Government.
The worst thing has to be the fumes. Anytime I walk by a nail salon, I hold my breath. I can't imagine being in one all day, every day.
Why Is Swing Called Swing?
Thanks for writing this. Circles of concern vs. influence, and optimism (as insightfully described in the article) are concepts that I have been practicing for years, attempting to teach to others, and have profoundly changed my life.

People reference 7 Habits so often but the things that are typically mentioned (the actual "Habits," per se) are not the parts that I found most life-altering. For me, it was the philosophy:

-Character vs. personality
-Abundance mentality
-Responsibility = Response + Ability
-Principles vs. values (and natural law)

Actually this is the only summary I've found which hits on what I believe were the most important parts of the book: http://www.slideshare.net/shaludhamaniya/seven-habits-of-hig...
I think you're reading more into what I've said so far than what I've actually said. In no particular order:

Adjust for demographics and that difference tends to go poof. Some time ago, and I should really check up on this, it was said that if you subtract the South, the rest of the US is pretty much normal. Being from the cultural South, I can believe this.

Decreasing homicides is not the end and and be all of what I consider to be a good society. The U.K. approach of outlawing effective self-defense per se, in the courts in the '50s and legislatively in the '60s, has resulted in a lot more overall violence, with innocents getting a lot more victimized. No thanks.

The history of genocidal slaughters of disarmed peoples in the 20th Century, which started with the Armenians in Turkey 100 years ago, ought to give pause to those desiring to disarm peoples.

A lot of Americans have a taste for freedom that doesn't seem apparent in much of the rest of the world; well, aside from all those who try to move here. I wonder why...?
The point is it takes time to eat the car away, in which time the car begings to pollute more
Also: http://www.flightradar24.com/
National flip from predominantly male to female happened around 1950, just after WW2.
Not with the ACA... now if you retire and only have income you draw from your investments, you pay a low income based rate even though you may have significant assets.
@andyl We are working on getting a linuxbrew recipe working. There's shouldn't be anything blocking this from working on linux systems (assuming Python 2.7 is installed).

In the meantime you can try the manual installation method listed in the README:
https://github.com/facebook/pathpicker/

@itsbits Why do you say that? curious if you found anything
Does tmux still have no flow control? Just compare how tmux locks up when you `tar xfv linux-4.0.tar.xz` and screen doesn't. None of the knobs to control output throttling helped. How do you get around this problem?
When flying under Visual Flight Rules, one is not required to file a flight plan.
* do you work alone?
* what metrics did you look at earlier and will look at going forward to justify starting to build a new app?
Also an unpopular opinion is that some people (I am not one of them FYI) think mass surveillance of the population is a good thing. It can be hard to understand that position, but there are people who believe mass surveillance, security theater, and the like really are protecting them and that it is all for their own good.

As long as sufficient numbers of these people exist there will be not shortage of people who are not ashamed to staff the government agencies implementing these things and the private companies that support them. Some will even see it as a duty.
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Swimming - easy to get into a pattern, almost meditative in a way.
I have two of those dongles (there were abouto $10 each) and living by the airport don't even need a particularly good antena do dump ADS-B messages out to the console.
True that Neovim won't be preinstalled, but for ops all I need is basic editing and the ability to leverage my vim muscle-memory.
Embed.js-jQuery plugin to embed emojis, media, maps, tweets, code and services
GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks
Tensors are most definitely not just multidimensional arrays. (this is a pet peeve of mine)

Tensors have geometric meaning just like vectors (just like vectors are not just single-axis arrays). It would be too long to delve into the geometry (especially if it is abstract "geometry" like the geometrical space spanned by the songs in the Pandora database or the space spanned by the faces in a face-recognition software). Instead I will try to give an example:

You all know what rotating a vector means. All the components change in certain way, but the geometrical meaning of this object is preserved in some sense. This is not true for some arbitrary list of numbers. Well, a tensor is just a more complicated geometrical structure that still has very specific rules governing what its components can be and how they can change.

And a counterexample: the Christoffel Symbol is a multi-dimensional array that is not a tensor.

P.S. It is true that it is a very common abuse of nomenclature to call all multidimensional arrays "tensors".
It's Payback Time: A Crash Course in SaaS Metrics
GetSocial Product Updates – May 2015
Huge improvements to Flickr's search and automatic uploads
I didn't offer advice but judged you.

I judged you as I did to help make comments on HN suitable for having critical, rational, constructive and respectful discussions.

My basement is your comment.

And, being "well positioned" is not necessary for giving reasoned advice.
Engineer asks Quora which job offer to take. CEO replies: not ours. (Zenefits)
How long does an old car with bad emissions have to last before it's worse than the environmental impact of replacing it with a new car?
Show HN: Containerfactory.io – GitHub repo to docker image
Entanglement Between Photons That Have Never Coexisted [pdf]
Feelin’ Good about Equity
The Texas Deep Frying Champion
There's always a critic.

I think it's important when considering lists like the ones you've linked to examine the dates these structures were built. For its time, the Hoover Dam was the largest in the world, but isn't simply the dam itself that represents an impressive feat of engineering. The work that went into diverting the Colorado River was (and still is) probably one of the most remarkable efforts undertaken, with the likely exception of the Three Gorges Dam. Either way, it's important to remember that this was a structure started in the 1930s. The age, materials available, the material science known at that time, and so forth are the reasons structures remain important samples of architectural engineering long after they've been eclipsed by more modern developments. Hence why it's difficult to tell if you're genuinely curious or simply levying unwarranted criticism against categorizing the Hoover Dam as a "marvel."

In other words, it's in our nature, for whatever reason, to continue building structures that grow ever larger, require greater understanding of materials--better materials, too--and shadow efforts of the past with new, more impressive, modern designs. However, that doesn't supplant those past efforts simply because they've been outdone. Otherwise, we wouldn't still consider the Great Wall of China one of the world's wonders (which in spite of our present technology still remains an incredible structure mostly unsurpassed by modern efforts).

You could also examine other answers to this same question if you don't find my response convincing [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+hoove+dam+an+engineer...
Since, for whatever reason, I enjoy tracking flights as a hobby, here's a couple of extra tidbits:

1) If you are in the right area, Flight Radar 24 might actually give you the equipment for free. See here: http://www.flightradar24.com/free-ads-b-equipment for info.

2) It is unlikely that even aircraft that the government desires to be secret will stop broadcasting ADS-B anytime soon, as one of the major usages is avoiding mid-air collisions when airplanes are in airspace shared with commercial airliners. Secret surveillance planes might be unpopular, but they'll only be headline news if they were to run into a 757.

3) ADS-B broadcasts won't be required for all commercial airplane traffic[2] in the US until 2020. As such, there's still quite a few airplanes without it, particularly those that airlines plan to retire within the next five years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc... [2] IIRC, the actual regulation is a requirement for ADS-B on all airplanes flying at 10K feet or above.
Work at a YC Startup v2
Because Uber doesn't believe it has to follow local laws/regulations regarding transportation services.

Have fun blowing that VC money chaps!
> How did the author couple enjoyment with nonproductive?

By considering "use of free time for enjoyment" too narrow. Supposedly because he thinks that "meaningful" is distinct from "enjoyable".
Really any of the modern battlefield surveillance and situational awareness systems could theoretically be turned to the purposes of mass surveillance of civilian populations, given the motivation and resources.
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Not every gunshot has a victim (or is intended to).

[Edit: I misunderstood]
It is known, kind of an axiom.

While I don't have access to Dillon's finances, his personal site http://www.backplane.com gives some hints:
BEST Internet was an incredible successs successs [sic]
These days most of my attention is focused on the The DragonFly Project

______

He isn't the only one, many open source developers contribute because they want to do it and not expecting any monetary compensation.
Yeah, the lack of feedback (and not being embedded in a motivated team) is a very big downside. In my case, I responded by distancing myself a little bit from focusing so much on success at the one "big" thing I was working on, and focusing more on enjoying curiosity, exploration, etc. The app I've created probably falls in the "tool" category more than "product", and I spend (waste?) a fair amount of time psychologically prepping myself for marking it as a failure. On balance, I still feel like it's been a good move for my life, but of course the experiment is ongoing...
Can anyone throw some light on what google is doing with tens of thousands of machines in these clusters? Are they hosting crawlers on them?
I wish it was possible to have screen-like bindings that don't require explicitly defining them all so that you don't have to unpress Ctrl each time. In screen you can press C-a c quickly but for that to work in tmux you have to add this:

bind-key C-c new-window
You're absolutely correct, although I do all my terminal work locally in tmux as well (and often nest any remote work in a secondary remote session).

Liking the plugin you wrote!
The only other thing I would add other than hire someone more talented than yourself is to ask a friend you really really trust who has good tech skills to help vet the candidate. You can do the behavioral questions, but you should have at least one representative who can ask the right questions.
Well yeah, it's definitely the site; one of the replies to my original comment managed to identify the piece of JS that's doing it. Using a JS-blocker (or inserting a bit of JS into your developer tools to blank-out the offending function) would do the trick.
Drone innovators and policy makers have to work together
> 3. I'm saving the link to reference the HN graphic in future.

There's something to be said about the similarity between first-page of HN and your typical "look at how awesome our lives are" facebook feed.
>Thank you Snowden. Fuck you NSA.

While that's amusing, it's an imperfect summary of the problem. DOJ had the Patriot Act in a drawer before 9/11. The Patriot Act wasn't read in full by any member of the Senate before it was voted on. And Section 215 was grossly reinterpreted, by both Bush and Obama administrations, according to that section's author, Jim Sensenbrenner.

It's said NSA doesn't have a moral compass, it's basically the components of a chess set. It just does what it's told. So really some criticism goes to a lazy, unimaginative, or ignorant Congress for not fully understanding the Patriot Act and how administrations (especially the more suspicious elements within them) would interpret and use Section 215 to give credibility to what they want to do. And more criticism goes to the FBI for telling the NSA to engage in bulk collection and FISA court for permitting it, and by extension the president (both of them) mainly for leaving this program on autopilot and also defending it.

A task for historians, is to what degree each president really actively defended bulk collection and believed in its appropriateness, vs what was politically possible with the expectation a future court would become involved in unwinding something that president really didn't approve of but merely accepted.
There are many education pathways to a good career. The traditional 4 year college after high school is only one of them. It's great to see real examples of these different pathways.
Or that heartbeat detection system used in Nepal by NASA.
What about coups such as the US overthrow of Iran in 1953? [1][2]

Both seemed to be democracies at the time. A coup is not a war, but it isn't peace either. Is it the lack of a big shooting war? Or the power imbalance between the overthrower and the overthrowee?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...
I was thinking: "rent"
TLDR. Keep an healthy diet, and exercise. Sleep enough.

Im lucky to have a gym 10 meters from our office, so 3 times a week i use my lunch ti go to the gym, and eat afterwards something light at the office, i try to go jogging twice a week on to of the gym.

Try to eat a fiber rich diet, if you choose to exercise. And never pass breakfast. Its important, the most important meal of the day.

Now for the mental part, here the most important thing is to sleep. Dont watch TV, read a book instead.
You can't protect against this. Any confirmation messages are subject to the same problem. Look up the FLP paper for proof.

This is really a user interface problem; your user needs to think of a transaction during a network outage as being in an "unknown" state rather than a "succeeded" or "failed" state.
Perhaps we should all look forward instead of back, you know the way did with fucking torture.
Technology, and those who fully understand it, is absolutely vital in not only efficient government, but in efficiently monitoring and regulating it. You'll see the difference when trying to FOIA/FOIL an agency that gets it versus one that doesn't.

There's a lot more to technology and life than spying.
Smart Bullets
Is it possible to create a (cheap) non-firearm device that mimics gunshots closely enough to fool the system?

Would be fun to put dozens up all around, on slow timers.
The problem remains the same. No point in worrying about what name you attach to the solution.
Even though I have good web engineering/devop skills I am thinking of using PaaS hosting even more than what I did in the past.

I was looking again at AppEngine (I used to use it a lot years ago, then stopped) but a recent AppEngine deployment of a small web app my daughter asked me for (to keep track of what books she has read, with some data import options) but I ran into a strange case where the beta search APIs worked fine in local dev mode and not in production. I spent some time tracking down the problem, then realized that PaaS hosting was supposed to SAVE me time.

Anyway, I have been waiting for Heroku's new pricing plan. I just set a hobby project to "free" mode and will deploy a few low traffic web apps to Heroku using the low cost $7/month tier and see if that fits my needs - definitely worth a few month test. I am mostly concerned that my $7/month (plus database) apps never get swapped out and the performance is good given that I may only have just several thousand requests a day (low traffic). I would expect Heroku to lower the resource priority on a $7/month app that used a lot of resources.